skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where I sit. I like systemd as an init system. I find its syslog replacement unneeded overreach, and its DNS server absolute insanity.

So when asked if I like systemd, it's a loaded question. It's great but absolutely sucks, both.
I wonder if the elasticsearch fork takes off will that put a dampener on these new selfish source relicenses. Like, I think if these companies want to not have competition with this software now its popular, its pulling the ladder up behind them a bit, and they wouldn't have reached their level of usage that being competed against by cloud providers is a problem. It's more honest to start out with one of these licenses than build the audience then relicense/
A cancelled Xbox 360 remake of GoldenEye is now playable on PC
This is something I suspect is happening at a wide scale and will only create resentment. I like to see Apple investing in things like the Propel center in Atlanta and a new coding program for kids and teens in Detroit. Ibram Kendi asserts that Discrimination can create Equity. That may be true in the short term, but will it be a permanent solution?
so, because it it only protects people from dying... its not good enough?

What fresh hell in standards is this?
If we could turn Covid into "common cold" level illness through vaccines THEN DO IT!
It just hit all time highs ($0.087), so relatively speaking yes.
Well, no one’s perfect. I’d rather take a risk and get a little hurt than be totally safe all the time.

The last time I was in the ER was due to falling off a skateboard and needing stitches in my chin. I was trying to learn to skate, at 45. My son got me a skateboard for Father’s Day. I always wished I’d learned to skate as a kid.

Pry 50% of my ER calls are due to bike wrecks. My wife always says the day I buy a motorcycle is the day she buys a black dress and veil :D
I don't think the trilogy portrayed modern (21st century) China with much positivity, or in fact much thought at all. Most political interactions (other than flashbacks to the Cultural Revolution era) are happening in an alternate universe, so that the author can avoid making unnecessary political remarks - just like Captain America never mentions Bush or Obama, even though he's fighting for America against Nazis.
> This sounds like a case of a free plan makes sense when the target for the free plan is someone without purchasing authority looking for leverage.

Well, that. Or somebody with leverage trying to reduce risks before jumping into a platform. Or somebody evaluating the options before deciding. Or somebody just making something the quickest way possible, leaving slow decisions for later...

There are many cases that fit the same sequence. They do impose different requirements on the free tier, but I don't think you'll ever measure them well enough to discover what is what.
Do you really find it absurd that someone is saying they feel like they have a well-known, widely-documented privilege?
I haven't had all on his list but I have had many. Of those my top therr are honey crisp, opal, and sweet tango.
My Dad helped enable one of these "after the war" meetups.

His older brother was on the USS Phoenix, a US light cruiser that was in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. His brother survived that, but eventually succumbed to sickness in the war and died.

My Dad started digging into the history of the ship later in life, and learned that it was ultimately sold to the Argentine Navy, where it became the ARA General Belgrano. The Belgrano was sunk during during the Falklands War by the Royal Navy submarine Conqueror with 323 lost.

Wanting to keep digging more, my Dad got in contact with a man who had been on board the Belgrano, and they became pen pals.

And digging more, he eventually struck up a friendship with a sailor from the Conqueror as well, and they too became pen pals.

And then he got the two of them to start talking to each other. It took a while to get them talking but it ended up being very cathartic, in particular for the British sailor, who had felt great guilt for what they had done. All three still share letters and emails to this day.

There's a PS to this story in a way. Ever the digger my Dad also got an introduction to a gentleman who was a Japanese pilot at Pearl Harbor. My Dad eventually flew to Japan to meet him.
It's almost like every tweet in existence should automatically entail

- not valid investment advice
- not valid medical advice
- not valid tax advice
- these numbers aren't real
- these words aren't correctly used
- these aren't really words
- not valid science advice
- not valid portrayal of human relationships
- not valid portrayal of reality
- does not form a valid philosophy, treatise, or even a single coherent thought
This feels like it's spoken from a position of not having watched an AFL game.

It's not at all like soccer because the number of players and size of field make trying to just keep possession and slow the game down a much more difficult thing to do (it is attempted sometimes). AFL also has 4 breaks (for the quarters), unlikes Soccers 1 for the half.

I find all three entertaining to watch, but I don't thing the "breaks" make NFL a "better" experience. :)
And yet they do anyway. Netflix contributed network code to FreeBSD. In so doing, they took code they had developed and handed over the maintenance to the FreeBSD team.

I think this is the biggest incentive companies have for making contributions to open source: they don't want to pay engineers to keep maintaining their own patches forever.
Social media is just pushing the narrative of mainstream media at this stage.
you can do both, but generally when you take on serious tech challenges it humbles you. As an example, I used to work on Amazon S3, and that was a humbling experience. Unlike a lot of people that bounce after a year, I stuck it out for 3.5 years which is the shortest term on my c.v.

Now, part of my time there was massively refactoring a critical service to maximize test coverage, reduce memory footprint, improve reliability, measure new things, make the system more durable, and introduce new features. It was exceptionally serious and difficult, and if I made any mistake then the internet would effective go down.

After the fact, yes, I can be boisterous because I did serious shit without fucking up.
The licensing agreements of BSD make it more likely to be taken over by corporations, not less. Copyleft is a feature of Linux, not a bug. From a practical level, BSDs have also way less driver and software support than Linuxes. Outside of FreeBSDs network stack being better than the Linux stack, I can't see a reason to use BSD over Linux unless you want full proprietary control over your platform, which most times you don't need to make lots of money, at least to that degree.
This post has aged poorly as Tom Brady wins his 7th Super Bowl, in his first year with a new team.
> DNS over HTTPS is by itself bad enough, and highly criticized with good reason

The criticisms of DoH seem to be around removing the ability of third parties to snoop on your DNS queries. Am I missing something here?

Like, yes, some of the use cases outlined in the linked wiki article [0] are arguably legitimate (parental controls, cybersecurity identification of C&C nodes), but then we quickly move into murkier territory (ISP blockages due to government mandates).

Preventing MitM attacks is an explicit design goal of DoH, not a side effect.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS#Criticisms_and_...
Does anyone know why some of these apples don’t brown? They have obviously been bred that way, but how can they not oxidize?
Fresh cortland are amazing!
I found it would fail allocations in kernel on 32 bit too.. making me a bit uncomfortable.
Recently came across this beautiful paper [1] about embedding graphs in hyperbolic space. Graph embedding algorithms for euclidean space are flawed because you essentially need to add an additional dimension for every node. Of course there are techniques you can use to reduce the number of dimensions by graph clustering etc, but fundamentally the dimensions scale with the size of your graph.

Hyperbolic space, on the other hand, enables you to embed hierarchical information in a single dimension due to the curvature itself (yes this is hand-wavey mainly because I still barely understand it, read the paper). This is very conducive to embedding graphs, and especially structured graphs (or trees).

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00545
Sci-hub has the pdf of the original in Comm. of the ACM under the DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/68814.316006

Has a nice Far Side too.
> Kind of makes me wonder what the trust numbers would be if the media outlets weren't increasingly becoming echo chambers.

See also this:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-...

Compare median Republican and median Democrat in 1994 (earliest year in the data, pretty close together) to where they are in 2017 (the latest year in the data).
That was the capitol building of California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1967#May_2,_1967_(Tuesday)
There's a big space between "implying he's doing it for financial reasons" and "reporting on the presence of a financial interest". It would be worse reporting to _omit_ the financial interest rather than include it.
Yes, I know who he is, but he didn't change as much as you try to represent - China is still under the full control of the CCP. It's like Martin Bormann would take control over NDSAP, denounce some mistakes made by overzealous comrades, announced some modest reforms, and proclaim the new era - while NSDAP is still in control of Germany.

> No other nation has transitioned out of communism smoothly.

China didn't either. Unless by "communism" you mean whatever Marx meant as the ultimate point of history - classless moneyless post-scarcity society with no property and no suffering and basically paradise. Obviously nobody transitioned out of it at all because it never existed. If you mean actual society built in China, it didn't transition out of anything - it allowed some modest economic freedoms, under the tight control of the CCP of course, but the idea of state-controlled centralized economy which is subject to single-party rule and complete absence of the idea of any individual rights is firmly in place.
I wonder if Lisa Su is more broadly changing hearts & minds, or just written off as an anomaly.
I've been using Linux as a daily driver on laptops for about the last 12 years. I mostly do backend service development, having code that ultimately runs on a Linux server, so it's been quite easy for me to adopt.

I would have installed BSD on one of my primary dev laptops by now, but there's one huge software compatibility missing for me:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker
Docker's currently broken.

It's not that I need something-like-Docker, which BSD absolutely has. It's that I need straight-up-Docker. I also write a lot of books, the last one having the reader run applications in Docker and run various services from Docker, so it's important that I'm doing something on my Linux dev laptop that isn't too different than my readers who seem to be mostly on MacOS.
This doesn't work in Safari :(

But it's very fun in Chrome! :)
Well, this is kind of the goal right? When a group of people isn't obviously less-represented, then they won't be targets of D&I hiring. Call me an optimist but maybe by 2030, or 2040, the racial makeup of tech companies will be much less distinguishable from random selection of local demographics. Then sure, you could phrase that as "nobody is diverse", I guess.
A very useful thing that I automated recently is changing my router’s MAC address and subsequently rebooting the modem. For my ISP (xfinity) this has the amazing benefit of getting me a new IP. For a home connection, your IP is the easiest way to track you. Yes VPNs exist and are better (depends on provider, latency, blahblah), but if you don’t mind your ISP seeing your traffic and instead just want to avoid an IP representing your identity, it’s a very easy way to accomplish this.
longstanding use != intended use
I do! I am currently in the very early stages of creating a VR-based language. I believe that if we can represent programs more intuitively to our spatial, visual, and tactile senses, we can unlock more programming potential in more people.
Exactly there was absolutely no need to invoke "whiteness" for the corruption to apply to anybody. Even simply saying "corporations/groups/etc" would have sufficed and may even have been more potent. Instead the article just ended up polarizing the audience on race lines. Sigh!
this is not an argument, this idea that non mainstream is better is harmful , you could and should use bsd over Linux for real argument like loving the idea of "monolithic os", the problem whit the Linux foundation (one or all), or the problem of abundance nesting in most of Linux but it inst about being mainstream, they still exist project whit difference approaches some less orthodox, or non corporation, i think Linux have more robust ecosystems, the thinks works out of the box is a and approach who let people let in the ecosystems like corporations, example if you don't want systemd make a distro(share it please) or use one of the already existing once LTS or rolling realizes approach.
You can use KDE with BSD, and KDE supports HiDPI.
Does it actually work? As of ~5 years ago Mac OS X would report that it had changed the MAC address without actually having done so.
Nothing says that you were guaranteed a gain. Crypto is so volatile that your gain could have just as easily been a big loss. You should not regret what you could not have known and or controlled. It's very unlikely that most people will get out at the top of an investment. So, your sale was a rational choice.

Also, everyone that sold when you did are also feeling regret of what could have been. It's a fantasy, no one knows the future.

There are better ways to use your time than to regret a fantasy.
My gut would be yes.

Note: be careful the lasers in disc drives can be quite powerful. So protect your eyes.
The trial in question was conducted on younger people who generally don't get severe cases, so they have no evidence either way on that. However, the trial showed that that the vaccine appeared to nearly completely ineffective in preventing infection:

> Nineteen of the 748 people in the group that was given the vaccine were infected with the new variant, compared with 20 out of 714 people in the group that was given a placebo.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/07/world/covid-19-coron...

The sample sizes here are small and the results have not been published, so it's too early to draw any major conclusions, but it certainly doesn't look great.
Here is the Wikipedia article about coal seam fires, apparently
there are over 1000 active fires. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire
> Or to put it another way, tit-for-tat only works in iterated prisoner's dilemma. If an encounter with aliens is more like a single-round prisoner's dilemma, we're in a bit of a bind.

The only way the dark forest scenario is not an iterated prisoner's dilemma (albeit an odd one) is if no information about the encounter can leak to subsequent first encounters.

In other words, if you're going to eliminate anyone you encounter with a preemptive first strike, you had better hope that you have the means to prevent your victims from sending distress calls and warnings so no one ever hears about your actions before they encounter you.
I think that's just the key reason why interviewing isn't for everyone. It's hard for me to emotionally step back from a candidate without zoning out entirely and delivering a bad interview experience.
The question I looked for an answer to: What is the frequency that her colleagues interview at? If she is 2x per week, are all the other engineers also interviewing at that rate? If not, why not?

Diversity starts from the input stream. Are the recruiters sending a significant % of non-white & Asian male candidates and they aren't getting hired? Or are they simply not fielding those candidates?

I've been hiring embedded SW as well as EEs for 4 years. We're a small firm but out of 8 adds to the department, I managed to hire two women and promote one to engineering internally. I can say we have that preference (for under-represented candidates), but it remains the case that the vast majority of resumes are white and Asian men.
Seems weird that every post is in image. Yes changelogs with text would be challenging, but you can't search/etc images.
It's 2021 and we're still complaining about systemd.
The leaked internal slides from Intuit are really disgusting [0][1].

From the article:

> Internal presentations lay out company tactics for fighting “encroachment,” Intuit’s catchall term for any government initiative to make filing taxes easier — such as creating a free government filing system or pre-filling people’s returns with payroll or other data the IRS already has. “For a decade proposals have sought to create IRS tax software or a ReturnFree Tax System; All were stopped,” reads a confidential 2007 PowerPoint presentation from an Intuit board of directors meeting. The company’s 2014-15 plan included manufacturing “3rd-party grass roots” support. “Buy ads for op-eds/editorials/stories in African American and Latino media,” one internal PowerPoint slide states.

I'm always stunned and disappointed at how easy it is to game the American political system. I say that with great respect for this country and the freedoms it affords me, but those freedoms mean little if skullduggery like this goes on.

[0]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6483065-Intuit-board...

[1]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6483061-Intuit-Turbo...
systemd isn't an init system and doesn't pretend to be one [note] - it's OS middleware with ambitions to becoming a distro unto itself. The systemd project assumes responsibility for numerous aspects of the system that have no technical justification for being under the same project umbrella. You might like systemd-homed, for instance, but it doesn't really have anything to do with the functions of init. Calling it an "init system" is like calling KDE a "window manager".

[note] It describes itself as "a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system" - although in my opinion that implies more modularity than it posesses.
https://opensource.google/projects/pdfium

Seems to be derived from Foxit.
Trial periods just don't capture people the way a free plan does.

I would never have transfered my task management to todoist if it was only a trial. It's a fair amount of effort to switch over a large chunks of how you function. I'm not going through that effort only to find out the product might be okay, but not enough to justify a subscription, at least not initially: Starting off often means you grow into using it more, more often, more features. A 30 day trial doesn't leave enough time for that.

Then there's word of mouth: A free plan I use regularly will be much more top of mind when talking to others.

Also bootstrapping: It's all well and good for an established SaaS business to not want a free plan, but plenty of products might never get to that point if they didn't bootstrap with a free plan first.
So does this mean that the mRNA vaccines are probably going to be like flu vaccines, where they have to predict which variant will dominate each season and adjust the doses accordingly?

Can other options like the adenovirus-based or J&J ones be expected to cover a broader spectrum of mutants?

(And why are so many people downvoting these questions? I'm genuinely curious, and I really tried not to offend any sensibilities, but did I say something wrong? Oh god why do people always hate me so much? Is it possible to say or do anything right anymore? Maybe it's time to quit social media...I'm out, y'all are cruel.)
This is awesome! I'm glad you coming up, keep going, don't forget where you came from.
It has to do with equity, and the narrative is that if everyone had opportunity then things would be better.

This the beauty and the paradox of diversity. It's great that we have such a wide array of possible activities to excel at, but it's a tragedy that not all activities are well rewarded by "the system". A great tragedy is the sheer number of activities can cause some people to shuffle between them until they find the one they may have any hope of excelling at (assuming it is even possible or if they have the energy to do it by the time they find it).
Hello my friend

List of public DoH Servers: https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+Test+Serv...

Simple guide for DoH over Tor: https://github.com/piskyscan/dns_over_tls_over_tor

I don't consider 10+ public, free DoH servers as "quite limited".
Any time i see the term "bloatware" I know I'm dealing with a poser.
> Another good example of a title that tries to conflate two concepts and ends up being nonsense as a result.

You must have really struggled with poetry in school.
And it is relatively inexpensive.
If he had really done six hours of cardio per day he'd likely disappear and have no muscle.

I suppose if you spend all of your day in front of a computer, you'll have difficulty understanding what the human body is capable of on its own with enough time and discipline and you'll just assume everyone is taking shortcuts. Najani isn't some special case; he's a prototypical example of "easy gains" that pretty much any guy can get with a year of dedicated training and diet if you're focused on muscular appearance rather than muscular performance. (For those who understand the lingo, this means he focused heavily on large fast-twitch muscles which grow quickly and easily, at the expense of the slow-twitch and medium twitch muscles that would relevant for most athletic performance.)

Members of the military routinely do 12+ hours a day of physical exercise, including hours of cardio, and yet none of them have problems disappearing (and only about 2.5% of military personnel use steroids). Triathletes, similarly, can spend 6 hours a day or more on exercise.

Cardio doesn't consume muscle unless you combine it with starvation. Muscles are the last-ditch choice of fuel. On a proper diet, cardio burns glycogen and fat. And if you're as fast as Pratt was when he started his that exercise regime, you've got plenty of fuel for hours of daily exercise, no steroids or hormones required (except for the ones your body generates itself in response to exercise and diet).
Another one liner you can use for macOS:

sudo ifconfig en0 ether $(openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//')

You can always get your original MAC address from About This Mac > System Report > Network > Locations > Hardware (MAC) Address
For me it only worked in Firefox, neither Chrome nor Safari.
The dominant strain of Covid in South Africa is different and existing vaccines are far less effective at countering due to changes in the spike protein which these vaccines target. The effectiveness against this strain is not 60-80% as it is against the other strains but below 50% which was the standard the WHO chose as a acceptable vaccine.

South Africa has limited health resources and spending them rolling out an ineffective vaccine when they have orders for the Johnson and Johnson one coming next month doesn't make sense.
Yeah, I went into the article expecting some damning link where the CIA has been planting questionable information into major media pieces, instead it just sorta seemed like a handful of journalists being somewhat sloppy in talking to the CIA.

There didn't seem to be any real substance to it.
Everything in our system is named <purpose><number>.<location>, but that is because everything is set up automatically by provisioning systems that way. We have thousands of servers in hundreds of data centers, so it the only time you ever go to a particular machine is to debug something.