skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This means systemd needs to live on an unencrypted volume though, right? Seems like a bit of a weakness given how much systemd can actually do.

I went with LUKS1 which grub can unlock.
Yes, exactly. It'll be pretty unlikely that raw API bindings can be made safe (even for APIs that just take raw integer handles - you could double-close one and cause corruption/etc).
Yeah this is my exact sentiment. It took a lot easy things and made them require more boilerplate overhead. I'm sure its great for some use cases, but I've never encountered them. I actually like the idea of having a more consistent way to administrate the system, and for some thing systemd does great. But it also involved a lot of real head-scratcher decisions. (What problem was binary log files trying to solve?)

And screw unit files. Is there a helper utility to write and place the unit files for me? That would make me actually shutup about systemd.
It is entirely due to Prop 22.
> Try dealing with something of consequence, like killing your former self (as in: the person in that point of time-space which carries the mutable signifier of “yourself” which is younger than yourself) or giving yourself a kilogram of gold from the future, which I think would violate the law of preservation of energy or whatever.

You can make up impossible scenarios without time travel too. Like someone that shoots themselves (lethally, thorough and immediate) and then a month later they go out to lunch and eat a ham sandwich.

The ability to write out a scenario doesn't mean the scenario is possible.

The theory is that "I go back in time and kill myself" is just as impossible as "I kill myself then a month later eat a ham sandwich". And for largely the same reason: both scenarios violate causality, so the universe can't be shaped that way.
The "no" is entirely intended.

I think the Dems ran on a manifesto, now they hold power they should deliver. Not compromise. We've had zero compromise from the republicans for decades. Even when it's in their interest.

Obamacare was a let down exactly because instead of writing a new, decent system the Democrats kept giving away bits only for the republicans to still refuse to support it. That's how they ended up with RomneyCare. Which was still opposed by republicans and which they tried to repeal and complained was forced down their throat.

The republicans will cry no matter what happens. They'll call it partisan when a democrat is appointed majority leader. I don't think the Democrats could appease them if they impeached Biden and then all committed group suicide.

So here we are.

Ironically we actually agree about a centrist coalition. The issue for the last 20 years has been that when the Democrats take a step towards the right, the Republicans take a step even further to the right. They don't get closer together, they just debate far right vs far far right.

I actually think that a taste of their own medicine is long overdue and might be the only thing to bring to back to the table and make a real centrist coalition possible.

I'd say I'm an exhausted centrist. Or a cynical one?

Sorry this is a bit extremist. I've been burnt before...
And all kinds of manual prefetching instructions built into the CPUs (for compilers to use) and prefetching algorithms & predictors built into the CPUs too!
Even just "go to memory location X+Y, load the value there, set X = that value, repeat N times" would allow fast linked list traversal, as well as doing various high-level pointer chasing faster.
WebSockets, HTTP/2 and gRPC bidirectional streams for Cloud Run
Lol those companies literally gave up a part of themselves for (among others) those ads. Not saying it's not a good deal, but it's not a free lunch either.
If only it was a matter of choice rather than a very planned uberization of the workforce.
I genuinely feel bad for talented people that get suckered into deals like this. Obviously some do if recruiters try and do this.
I have used Hover for years. I don't really do anything too complex with them, but I have no complaints which is basically the best endorsement I can giver for a domain registrar.
that, and the instacart business model is only feasible with large VC infusions (so yeah access to capital) and via externalizing other costs of doing business (living wage, insurance, benefits) to the social safety net instead of providing such services to their labor.
I am confused at which stage this is happening.

Is this after the bootloader, after initramfs but now systemd-cryptsetup is loaded and unlock the first disk?

AFAIK when I do my first disk unlock, at that point does systemd units get loaded including systemd-mounting.

Those mounts can already already mount/unlock encrypted secondary disks, based on the keyfiles stored on the now decrypted disk. So what exactly in this case is the advantage of any of this?

EDIT: Also, is there any discussions over ftpm support? Last I checked TPM2 was ok, but ftpm (which most intel/AMD now using) are a bit flaky in regards to support.
Right. And by the time there is halfway decent support for first gen M1s a new generation will come out with a ton of new breakages.
an interesting point which begs the question of what is a threshold of intelligence required to lose interest in a species. and if intelligence isn't the only parameter, what are the others? predation is an obvious one, curiosity comes with a form of intelligence, what else is there?
There are some memories supporting basic in-memory operations. For example: https://mosys.com/products/blazar-family/be3rmw-bandwidth-en.... This supports operations like read-modify-write within the memory device itself. (I have no affiliation with this company.)

The barrier to adoption of this is not technical, it's economic. Memory industry has focused on making the highest capacity and lowest cost/bit products. This drives high manufacturing volume which drives economies of scale. Memory products with integrated functions are inherently niche, and therefore do not have anywhere near the market size and economy of scale. Designers have decided (historically) that it is cheaper at the system level to keep the logic operations within the CPU and use a "dumb" commodity memory, even though this necessitates more bandwidth usage. (It's a complex engineering trade-off.)

With logic performance continuing to scale faster than memory bandwidth, at some point an architecture that reduces the required memory bandwidth (such as computing in-memory) might start to make sense economically.
Satoshi did actually see those limits and discussed them in the early days on Metzdowd and Bitcointalk.org. But he covered his bases and allowed for both big data centers and/or layer 2 architectures to solve that problem. I’m don’t recall if he expressed a strong preference for one over the other, though.
awesome, many thanks!
It's a different use case - use Chocolatey to manage native windows installers - it's more like brew casks.
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> My understanding is they receive liability protection because they have no real editorial control,

Your understanding is wrong. They receive liability protection for editorial decisions as a means of removing the disincentive for them to exercise editorial control that would otherwise exist.
Fastmail was down
> no expensive administrators overhead

Just this alone would be huge.

Places of higher education should be places where active learning and the exploration of thought is encouraged. Nowadays the education environment is very much conformist - there's one right way to think.
The article loosely hints at this context, but provides no evidence either way.

Looking at Instacart revenue / margin numbers, they hit profitability _for the first time ever_ in April 2020 alongside the COVID pandemic. Further, margins are CRAZY THIN - meaning maintaining profitability is really difficult in an environment of increasing competition from Uber / Google, among others. (Ex: Uber bought Postmates, as the latter had similar margin difficulties.)

My read is that this type of move was planned as an option for Instacart for a while, and Prop 22 maybe pushed up the timeline slightly.

EDIT: not sure why I'm getting downvoted. I know the article tries to build this narrative as much as possible (without even mentioning Prop 22) but then doesn't even provide the financial details that show that Instacart has really tight margins - and if they're trying to IPO, at this rate they're going to stumble there.
> The article doesn't link to the Tucows Downloads Archive, for whatever reason it only links to the archive.org homepage.

> Here's the direct link: https://archive.org/details/tucows

> It also appears that the archive wasn't manually reviewed; some items are just screenshots, and others are unrelated to software at all.

I'm really glad they went through the trouble of even doing that. They didn't have to.

A lot of it's probably only good for nostalgia, before it's totally forgotten without much loss; but as someone who recently spent a bunch of time trying to track down 90s FTP site mirrors chasing a vague memory of a game, I appreciate it.
What's the problem though? systemd is included in quite a few initramfs so nothing inherently has changed here.
That's what Miracle Morning (great book) suggests you do. Wake up early and get your personal affairs and goals done while everyone else is sleeping. Less distractions in the morning too!
Also the recursion limit.
Not OP but this looks amazing. I'm very excited that this product exists.
Reusability creates a lot more complexity vs just cruise missiles. Current generation US attack subs have multi-purpose tubes that can launch underwater drones, etc. So they are designed for some flexibility, but the main use is just tomahawk missiles.
The point is that companies are eliminating full-time employment roles for employees and replacing them with roles for contractors. That means there are less full-time employment opportunities for W-2 employees, and an increasing amount of roles for 1099 contractors.
Which is exactly what I suggested in my original comment :)
There is indeed as far as I know some evidence that we are early bloomers https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2015/news-2015...
Half of the stars might be 9 billion years old, but for heavy emelents fo form, you need already certain conditions like neutron star mergers need to have occured. Our galaxy might be just old enough for that.
Yet another reason for them to do this. Not just a GUI for Rust, but the only accessible one. It really is a solid strategic offering to bring Rust developers to their Windows platform. But IMHO developers who do are trading tomorrow for today.
You can almost always find the file in browser's developer tools (the network tab). Screenshots are terrible for this purpose because you end up with either huge PNGs of JPEGs, or JPEGs with an extra layer of compression artefacts.
> I'm not sure the "claim" you think I am making. As for increased infectivity, that is at the core of what is understood to occur in ADE.

>> In many cases, binding antibodies increase cell infectivity.

^ This is what you wrote. It is unsupported. ADE is rare, and it has not been observed with this virus.
"In other words: these employees would have lost their job regardless of their union status"

10 unionized employees out of thousands isn't enough critical mass to count as a union for the things that matter. The power is in numbers.
This only matters if you care about propiretary platforms like Windows and Mac. And you should not care!
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25862291
If they know they are hosting CP, are they legally responsible for it?
Initramfs I believe. `systemd-cryptenrol` would probably just be a binary like any other and wrap `cryptsetup` which is on your initramfs.
I think this is a great explanation.

I suspect there's a cognitive dissonance in the open source community because 1) the line between what is hardware and what is software can be fuzzy in the case of firmware and 2) hardware products usually get a free pass to be completely secret in design. Traditionally the open source community hasn't cared about buying proprietary hardware designs. Probably because there was pretty much no other option!

Although open source hardware is slowly becoming a thing... it's performance is generally perhaps 10% of the top performing product out there, in any area.
You can even setup SSH to the bootloader to unlock LUKS if it reboots.
I really never saw a convincing argument for why substack would go any other way than platforms before them.
They're all liable to the same market pressures. Easy as that. If the paperwork of a company doesn't specifically rule out certain changes to occur upon incorporation, don't rely on those changes not occurring.
For those, like me, who get excited by this note that there are restrictions on the Unicode categories that are allowed, see the supported characters¹ and gory details². It is often enough to write math-y code in a usable way, but occasionally you'll find you can't use the character you want.

¹ https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#id...

² https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3131/
This is how a lot of people used Linux on PowerPC macs in the early aughts. It set them up for larger projects on IBM hardware and the goofy risc engineers got to walk around looking cool because they had a powerbook.
I don't see a reason why not. If it's an original copyrightable work one would assume that the author can grant rights to others or the public.

IANAL and the legal system is sometimes strange, but there is no obligation to register yourself as a copyright holder.
I don't do a side hustle, but I do have side projects (for my own edification). Things that help:

- If it's work related, i.e. my math studies related to my astrophysics related work project, try to flow into it after work. I'm probably already in the right mental frame and have the motivation (something in the project was stymying me or piqued my curiosity).

- If it's not work related, take a break, preferably something physical. I used to run after work, now I row and do some bodyweight exercises + yoga (I'll run again once it's not below freezing with ice on the sidewalks). This exhausts me physically, but creates a complete break from my work. After a shower, I feel refreshed, and can get to whatever it is I want to do.
> WSL2 is so freaking good.

I am on WSL1 two things hold me back from upgrading

1. How's networking? I go on and off VPNs quite a bit.

2. How's cross system access to files especially performance wise? I edit with phpstorm for windows, I share the files with Slack also windows, I access the same files with WSL git, LAMP stack and more.
They have to check a recursion limit, for one.
From what I understand from these comments, it sounds like Instacart is going to leverage labor at union staffed stores, like Kroger, to fulfill on its business opportunities.

This seems like a clever form of arbitrage, or shall we call it, disruption?

Is this the new frontier (or perhaps I'm just late to the game in understanding it) where larger online businesses (like Amazon) shift away from full time employment (with the costs associated with it) and let some other "local" or "brick and mortar" legacy businesses try to keep those employees with living wages and healthcare employed while those same "frenemies" (purchasing from them, but also competing with them) avoid those costs?

I spoke to an accountant friend the other day who works for a local independent grocery store. They are really trying to keep their low wage workers on payroll, despite having revenues cut in half because of COVID. Everyone is shopping at Amazon+WholeFoods. If those workers lose their jobs, will they be homeless? I don't think consumers care or think about them, even though they might be their neighbors.
And no tail-call optimization.
> I mean, yeah, you owe dues. How else should it work?

It's a bigger problem in non Right to Work states, where you can be forced to join the union (and have dues taken from you).

In places where joining the union for their benefits is voluntary I don't see the problem.

There are also places where you don't have to join the union, but they still take some of the wages (at a lower rate than full members) for nebulous "benefits" the union offers. Those are especially contentious because not all the employee believe they get any benefits at all.

The US should shift to the European model where multiple unions are available at each employer, and they compete with each other for membership. I believe joining a union is required there, they don't have any non-union jobs, but a European union is not the same as a US one.
Unfortunately the operating space is monopolized in every jurisdiction with strong barriers against new entrants. Regulatory capture is so thorough at this point it will probably take an unforeseen externality to generate any disruption.
Screen readers, despite the name, don't do OCR, they access informations provided by the GUI toolkit (which is one of the vastly improved area in GTK 4 Afaik).
Good luck raising money to start a co-op.
There's a bunch of oddities in Python, e.g. recursion limits.
Biden does not have the power to do this unilaterally. A treaty is supposed to be ratified by the Senate with a 2/3 majority.
Facebook (testing?) removing messenger from main webpage
Spanish beer brand launches ad with deepfake of dead flamenco singer
Maybe his house burned down and he had failed to keep offsite backups. Maybe he never made backups in the first place and his hard drive failed. People make all kinds of mistakes, sometimes very costly mistakes.
If you read the linked bug, isn't that exactly what's being proposed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1678083#c3
Counterexample: the nascent Google employees union is taking 1% of total comp.

That’s pretty ambitious when the employees are Googlers.
Even if that's true you really don't want to run a Windows box as a build server - licensing and security and all that.
I'll grant that I agree this is probably true for low-skilled labor where supply is high and interchangeable.

I don't think this is the case for low-supply, high-skill labor (ex: doctors, engineers, etc.) as well as certain low-supply trades (HVAC, welders, etc.) Then bargaining power can properly counteract any such forces.
Somebody's law (don't remember whose): Organizations tend to preserve the existence of the problem to which they are the solution. That is, unions often try to protect the union's interest, not the members interest.
You can do multiple lines, just not multiple statements:

>>> f = lambda x: x * \
... 20
>>>
>>> f
<function <lambda> at 0x7f8b69f2c6a8>
>>> f(2)
40
Their labour can absolutely be that valuable due to how many customers you are effecting with a single hour of work - it's sort of the same principle as athletic stars - paying outrageous salaries to athletes is probably the least bad way to do things (it's certainly better than the companies just pocketing lots of cash).

That said, I think this is only achievable because of how relatively young and greenfield software is - the industry hasn't existed for more than a eighty years in any real sense (and arguably didn't really begin until things moved from academic to commercial in the seventies or so) and thus a lot of software can add massive value to society while doing relatively simple things. I think in a few hundred years all the low hanging fruit will be gone and software development will be extremely different from these wild-west days but right now yea - the value you can produce for a business can absolutely justify pretty ridiculous salaries.

I think the important counter point for humility here is that those folks aren't particularly special, maybe a 700k architect is a literal genius at the peak of their career, but there are other folks out there that are just as creative and making 80k. Maybe we just need to think of the strange wage imbalance in development as being as fickle and arbitrary as celebrity - could that actor at the local playhouse have been the next Jennifer Lawrence if only they'd gotten cast for the role? Quite possibly, but luck wasn't on their side and passed them over.

I'd say that people that command such high salaries are certainly worth it (in the cases I've seen at least) but they have also benefited from some fantastic luck in their career progression - they could've been someone else and be earning far less for the same set of skills.
You criticize his post for only include some of the background information, yet yours includes none of it. If you're willing to call out the former for being misleading, what of the latter?
Complete ad here: https://youtu.be/Yewm6TfLZ3Q
I think the point is that this still eats into CPU <-> memory bandwidth. Offloading could let the CPU use that memory for better purposes, especially since the stall is from memory access anyways.
Spoiler: Tail-sitting vertical take off and landing aircraft.
Unix libc is also unsafe, but the Nix crate mostly built a safe, Rust-esque interface around this and abstracted most of the types so that they are safe.
It would be great if it would link the music to a graph of information about the songs, bands, individual performers, composers, recordings etc.

There's a project that makes this data available as linked data: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/LinkedBrainz
For instance, try to imagine a new emotion that is not a composite of the emotions you have.

We know animals have emotions, and they mostly map to our emotions. With less related animals likely having less related emotions to ours (like the emotions of a tuna fish compared to a chimpanzee).

Now, try to map the emotions of life-form that from a completely different tree of life from ours. Their version of emotions may not even be mappable to anything like we can ever experience or imagine.

Emotions are pretty core to our understanding of the universe and ET may have emotions so radically different to ours that their view of the universe is not understandable to us.
I think the bigger worry will be for all existing users of the OSS version (like myself) that it's being essentially being put on life support (FAQ 7, and "leveraging a newer and more robust secure networking software stack [...] well beyond the limitations of the current stack" about Plus in FAQ 5).

Hopefully the "free for home use" proposal for Plus (FAQ 11) will happen.
You're right -- my last statement was a bit too much of a leap. In this case I wonder if it would have even mattered if a significant percentage of the workforce was unionized.
Reminds me of the time that I read in a book about the Louvre it would take 3 days to see it all. So I booked for 3 days and it’s true : together with the book it took me exactly three days.

It’s important you always choose what to see, otherwise it becomes a blur.
If someone created a Twitter account impersonating (not parodying) a Government or Government Agency, would people anticipate that Twitter might remove it?
Oregonian here. We saw that and said no. 65+, educators, then all others from the last update I saw. Also, retail is open and workers aren't considered essential-that's just wrong on so many levels.
Same. Get a morning routine going. I read The Miracle Morning on a recommendation of a friend, and now I wake up at 430am to start my routine then go straight into my side hustle before "showing up" for work @ 10. Think about it like this: The best hours of your day are the ones in the morning when your head is clear and you're all stocked up on willpower. Those should be yours. The leftovers should be for whoever you're working for. Not the other way around. The most difficult part for me has been making sure I'm in bed by 9pm.
To a certain degree, it's not impossible that museums are either competent enough to recognise talented artists early, or so powerful that their buying itself is the signal that makes an artist.

Either way, it's at least theoretically possible that they could finance themselves by, essentially, savvy investment in artworks.
Sure, but safe wrappers can be written around unsafe APIs.