skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
54% of employees thought selecting that survey option is the one mostly likely to increase the odds they would be given flexibility in the future.

The headline of the press release, “More than half of employees globally would quit their jobs if not provided post-pandemic flexibility, EY survey finds”
is a complete lie, even the next sentence of the article
“More than half (54%) of employees surveyed from around the world would consider leaving their job post-COVID-19 pandemic if they are not afforded some form of flexibility in where and when they work, according to the EY 2021 Work Reimagined Employee Survey.”
contradicts the headline
As long as Tether maintains the peg on exchanges you can cash out, this is no different than cashing out directly via Tether
What's your goal?

I don't think committing crimes as an expert programmer is a rational choice with most utility functions. Do you really want to make 10x or 100x as much in exchange of your peace of mind? Given that you're probably a top earner already? And that's already taking it from a purely selfish point of view.
>I’d even go as far as to question whether his career advancement was enabled by this behavior.

If it was then he's perfect for corporate America and fully deserves his position.
the systemd stars-to-issues ratio is worrying to say the least
Or even use Flash to do the rendering. There even was some library to do this for you.
Well yes and no. I like the good parts of SystemD (not the parts this video is talking about).

For me there are 3 things that SystemD gets right:

- no shell scripts for service configurations

- no forking services (no need for daemon mode anymore)

- logging and service management is tightly coupled (this is arguably good with some bad parts, required CPU for logging with systemd is not great)

And the rest is just pure madness.

- DNS (but whyt?)

- NTP (but why????)

- system limits (seriously, da f???)

- pid 1 should be a very simple service (More: https://ewontfix.com/14/)

I have spent 25 years on Unix, so I guess I understand the concepts.
Here's his twitter: https://twitter.com/dbasch

Jokes aside though he is right. Twitter is cancer and other social media isn't any better. It was thought to give us common people a voice but these days I'm wondering if our situation might be ever worse than before the internet.
Surely a great opportunity for him to change tacks: now he should claim how he made the story up and how much it helped boost his image - the “exaggeration” is a great story in itself.
One option is to use PoE. You can have one PoE switch at your router and power nuc's or mini-pcs.

Looks like there are a few nuc specific options: https://shop.poetexas.com/products/gbt-nuc You could probably find slim DC power bricks.
(I understand if you don’t have time to engage on this, but if you have time for one more response I would appreciate understanding this better)

Why is that chain a generic ideological tangent? My argument is that one sided political ideology has come into every level of WA state’s government, and it will therefore find its way to whichever government groups implement municipal broadband. The same political side has shown itself to be intolerant of free speech/differences of opinions on certain matters. So for those who stand on the other side of controversial and current topics like those I listed, they may need to be wary of this development and how it might be used against them, since the Internet is so fundamental to exercising our right to speech today.

From my observation censorship, tracking, surveillance, government control, and so on are regular topics in HN. For example there have been recent articles on FLoC, Tor, privacy issues with WhatsApp, cryptocurrency,
and various decentralized services. To me it seems that these topics involve politics and ideology, which are almost inseparable from the existence of a technology like the Internet. This is why to me my comment feels directly related rather than a derailing tangent. Do you see it differently, and if so what’s the nuance I’m not seeing?

> We've had to ask you about this multiple times before.

I acknowledge you’ve mentioned this to me a couple times before. I thought I had adjusted, and have tried to engage on a number of different topics here. I’m just not sure what I’m supposed to do at this point to not be characterized in this way. It feels like I am being asked to not participate or to artificial skew my participation a certain way (avoid certain topics or not introduce certain opinions). I saw from your search link you previously mentioned a burden of the minority view, and the need for patience. So is this something that I could discuss if the tone were different or if I explained my train of thought in a lengthier, more thoughtful comment?
That's just ignoring the intent part.
> The mining of Bitcoin only happens once in human history, so all things considered, this should be compared with the mining of all the gold or other precious metals, again, throughout human history.

"Mining" is an inaccurate term that draws a false analogy between cryptocurrencies and physical resources. At all times, the energy expended by proof of work must be proportional to the value represented on the shared ledger, or else there would be an incentive to perform a 51% attack. The energy expenditure is the goal, and the block rewards are the incentive that drives that goal. As the block rewards decrease, either Bitcoin becomes vulnerable to attack, or the transaction fees increase to drive the energy expenditure instead.

"Mining" implies that a resource is gained by the energy expenditure, which is fundamentally incorrect. The transactions are validated by virtue of energy expenditure, in order to gain the right to apply an update to the ledger.

> Mining may or may not consume a lot of energy, but the amount of transactions remains the same.

This is a true statement. The amount of transactions remains the same, capped at 10 per second. A pitifully small number that cannot provide any use at scale. If every person on the planet used Bitcoin, each person could be involved in a transaction once every dozen years or so. Get your paycheck today, and you can buy groceries next decade. Sounds great for a "currency".
There are better tools for this, they just aren't in common use unfortunately. Had this been written in Glow, both this bug and the bug that followed where another 7M was stolen would have been compile errors.

This is just the consequence of people developing code in languages that provide little to no protection against their various footguns. At the very least we should expect to see some additional tool on top of the language that can reason about the correction of the code.
For something which the authors seem intent on forcing down everyone's throat whether they want it or not (genuinely you can find quotes of Lennart claiming he wants to make it more difficult to not use systemd or that he wants to "gently push" people towards it) it's not really surprising. If their only goal was to gain adoption based on the merits of their software while not intentionally making themselves intrusive nobody would really care.
What happens if you don't pay back a DeFi loan?
Why take the risk of a maintainer saying fuckit and pulling in the rest of systemd since you're already using their utils?

It's just one of those things where it's better to stay away.
> About "Weighted by time and memory"

fyi https://web.archive.org/web/20010124100400/http://www.bagley...
The signing key is what allows for upgrades that still gives you access to all of the data from the app; if you have an app with a pin code that is protecting a signing key or a password database, this means Google can now help people upgrade the app without it being an official upgrade from the source you chose. You might try to argue that Google can already just change the operating system out from under you in similar situations, but that forgets that Google doesn't actually control Android: the manufacturer of your phone is the only person who can ship updates for your phone (not Google). Even mitigations focused on this behavior for just Google's store are disappointing, as the current signing key approach is designed to better support multiple competing app stores and platforms: your app, as distributed for every device by ever vendor through any store is signed by the same key... that's what makes it "your app". It should be the case that the app is end-to-end encrypted through any store and that any store is then able to securely upgrade the app you for from any other store... this all is eroding that as it is giving Google too much power over authenticity.
No it is the old people that don't understand the systemd project is exactly the Unix philosophy
International Day of Light: The first successful operation of the laser
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I wondered what Gustavo Arellano's take would be on this:

https://twitter.com/GustavoArellano/status/13939665012967055...
From the FAQ Page:

>What about Ripple/IOTA/...?

>As with Proof of Stake we are aware of no existing, alternative protocol that has solved the problem of distributed consensus. Usually these approaches have resulted in some form of centralized authority becoming an important factor in the security model.

>Of course a centralized systems can achieve a far greater energy efficiency. Here we want to compare only distributed systems and their properties.

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Everyone should know by now that Ripple is a company not a blockchain.
And the XRPL is fully decentral with no authority at all.

See XRPL.org
Well, not just water. Tibet is a high plateau overlooking the Chinese plains. It's an obvious entry point for a land invasion into the Chinese heartland. Xinjiang is a mountainous and desert region with a similar role.

I know why they're doing it, it's just cynical for the locals.

Similar story for Korea, if you're a great power, wouldn't you move the possible battle like a few hundreds of kilometers away from your capital? You would.

It would still suck for the locals.
I'm just curious, how would you suggest they debug and maintain support for that hardware, without even owning that particular device? It seems like anything they do would just be a wild guess as to whether it actually works or not. In my experience with this specialized datacenter hardware, if people want any of this stuff fixed (in userspace or in the kernel) it usually falls on the hardware vendor to hire some developers to fix it and upstream it, or at the very least donate some hardware to the upstream project so they can test properly.
Well ... first, what's described in the article isn't that smart. It's actually dumb.

If we describe these code-as-law thingys as 'dumb contracts' it is crystal clear that 'YES' this is a dumb contract and any sane judge presented with one may well decide to give the participants exactly what they deserve, just like paper-based 'dumb contracts.'

The key innovation here is that we've gone to the remedy residing in programmer malpractice, rather than attorney malpractice. Which in turn, when it becomes obvious to all involved, hopefully will have a chilling effect on any smart programmer asked to write a 'dumb contract.'
Not an expert in solidity but from my limited experience EVM and smart contracts have really different approach when it comes to computation.

two things that come to my mind:

- There is really no random() function due to need for determinism

- Space vs. Time complexity is distorted, the gas you pay for instruction vs. byte is really different economics compared to AWS EC2 instance/hour etc.
I built a graphical logging tool called Llama logs. Mostly because I thought it would be cool to see a live diagram of a cloud system I was working on. Also because webgl has been a hobby of mine.

https://llamalogs.com/docs/what
It doesn't take guts to own up when you've already been caught and it doesn't make up for the peoole that were harmed by trying to keep the secret.
Interesting. I didn't realize this was a supported option, but the Gentoo wiki also seems to agree with you [1], so I may need to walk back some of my frustration around this.

I still have concerns that having a shared codebase makes it easier for interdependencies to materialize later, but if they've managed to keep it as decoupled as is claimed here, then I'm pleasantly surprised, and also annoyed that the communication around this issue has been confusing enough to lead me to an apparently incorrect conclusion.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd#The_udev...
Here's a Java program that spins up 1 million virtual threads: https://webtide.com/do-looms-claims-stack-up-part-1/
Just throwing this out there: This could be a killer competitor with Apollo[1] if you optimize the UX for desktop/iPad.

1 = https://apolloapp.io
I doubt as many people keep track of the negative effects of ice cream as much as the recent moral interest of Bitcoin. I don't blame people though, for whatever reason, American moralism is on the rise again. It's going to be a dark decade.

Just a couple negative effects of ice cream that I could think of, put in similar morally leaning terms as people talk about Bitcoin on:

- ice cream is violence against animals because it is part of the dairy ecosystem which forever keeps cows in a lactating state even to their own detriment [1]

- ice cream contains high fat, calories, sodium, sugar and dairy components which contribute to obesity and a higher death toll [2]

- ice cream impacts the environment because it requires large dairy farms, in order to be cost effective, packed with lots of cows which produce their own green house gases [0]

I very much dislike the abundance of moral arguments. In debate a moral argument requires you to offer no alternative to solve the problem, just dictate what something should or should not be and some supporting evidence for why. In my view, a moral argument should be one that occurs in your head and is the catalyst for developing a paradigm that is better, not one you bring to the debate floor or at very least less often than we see them in debate today.

Some links:

0: https://foodprint.org/reports/the-foodprint-of-dairy/

1: https://freefromharm.org/dairyfacts/

2: https://www.foodbehind.com/risks-of-eating-ice-cream/
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>then put congestion charges in place

That's less about removing congestion and more about clearing the roads of poor people to make room for everyone else unless you pay road toll as a % of income and assets.
Using microservices created frustrations when doing smaller changes over all or most of these repositories. These changes where often small and predictable. Like fixing the builder name in a travis file, adding a pull request template or just some minor renaming refactoring.

All of these where easily scriptable, but I needed a way to run it everywhere. Hence multi-gitter was born.

https://github.com/lindell/multi-gitter
In most cases it's bound to your collateral so if you don't pay back or the value of the collateral dips below some level, the loan is automatically reclaimed from your collateral.

A lot of the loans are 1:2, 1:4, or greater depending on what the currency it is being traded in is. If your total collateral dips below that multiple of the loan, you forfeit the value of the loan from your collateral plus some penalty fee.
As a side note the Plano headquarters for Frito Lay is beautiful. People from neighboring employers are commonly seen taking walks on their nature paths. The best part are the wild orchards of persimmon trees giving off tons of fruit like unwanted tree trash that ultimately coats the ground orange.
That doesn't really make any sense, libsystemd is just a library with some fairly generic functionality.
People said similar things with: AI, torrents, VR/AR, quantum computers, memristors, drones, chatbots, distributed social media, Internet of things, self-driving cars, robots, dapps.

Some of these technologies managed to produced something useful. On the other hand, I cannot use crypto to anything but speculation.
Oh completely agree. FWIW it was a digital odo/spedo on a Lexus.
We changed the URL from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language. Please don't post Wikipedia links when the original source is easily available!
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> - no shell scripts for service configurations

Other than "sysvinit based init had horrific shell scripts with 100 lines of repeated nonsense", given that almost every alternative to systemd which still uses shell scripts needs around 2 lines of shell per service (including the shebang) what exactly is the issue with shell scripts (if all they do is run a wrapper which sets up the environment of a program or the program itself)?

> - no forking services

When I used archlinux these were extremely common and I used archlinux as recently as last year.

> - logging and service management is tightly coupled (this is arguably good with some bad parts, required CPU for logging with systemd is not great)

So runit handles spawning a log daemon before the service is started to ensure all log entries are kept and comes with a really simple yet extremely powerful log daemon (but obviously you can use almost anything else including cat if you want). It manages to integrate logging tightly into service supervision while being maximally flexible and decoupled. What do you think about this?
This is the paragraph that justifies the headline:

> Already, the cost of discharging a 100-megawatt battery with a two-hour power supply is roughly on par with the cost of generating electricity from the special power plants that operate during peak hours. Such batteries can discharge for as little as $140 a megawatt-hour, while the lowest-cost “peaker” plants—which fire up on demand when supplies are scarce—generate at $151 a megawatt-hour, according to investment bank Lazard.
Checks out. They aren't in the business of truth telling. They are in the business of booking speaking engagements. I guess just like with news opinion and analysis pieces they use "click-bait" story summaries and pandering content to attract an audience..
One past discussion:

The Awful German Language (1880) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18147467 - Oct 2018 (311 comments)

But there are plenty of other threads where commenters have referenced it. For fun here are some:

Ghoti - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23581841 - June 2020 (239 comments)

On Truth and Lying in the Extra German Sense - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20232136 - June 2019 (52 comments)

German for Programmers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109371 - Feb 2019 (253 comments)

Shavian alphabet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17844526 - Aug 2018 (113 comments)

English is weirdly different from other languages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14450379 - May 2017 (115 comments)

Why the German language has so many great words - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266465 - March 2016 (158 comments)

How language gives your brain a break - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002595 - Aug 2015 (40 comments)

Why God Hates German Words - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2826507 - July 2011 (66 comments)

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1097258 - Feb 2010 (69 comments)

Writing English as a Second Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055465 - Jan 2010 (26 comments)
Tip: you can run and host your own GitHub Actions runners.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...
Instead of switching, I'd rather users, developers and other big tech companies lobby the government to force Apple to open up. Especially now that they're rapidly climbing towards having the majority market share of all phone users in the US.

When 90% of US youths use an iPhone [0], you know that Apple will have the greatest majority soon. Then, their despicable and obvious market controlling tactics won't be legal anymore. The legal attacks we're seeing right now in the US and elsewhere are just the beginning. I'm very much looking forward to Apple getting knocked down a few pegs legally.

If you want to help out with this cause, please keep talking up Apple products! The more users we get on that brand, the better.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27164923
Most solar is now produced in China, at 71%+ as of 2019 (and only grown since then I imagine). If we’re talking national security, that is a concern too.
We've since changed the URL. A Wikipedia article about another article that's easily available is not a good HN submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27177026

Side note - in all the many times Twain's essay has come up on HN (partial list at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27177031), I don't think I've ever seen a case of a German speaker taking offence at it or even reacting defensively. That's impressive! That is not how flamebait usually progresses. In most cases, the title would be enough to get hostile reactions, and the text too, despite that it's obviously in good fun and that only a serious student of German (and master humorist) could have written it.
For the crypto currency layman this reads like an article from some other weird parallel universe.

You get the idea that the article is talking about money but the details seem crazy like a dream.
> most countries don't have the land to produce enough plant-based calories, and have plenty of meat-based calorie production.

Citation needed. How can a country have enough land for plants to feed pigs and cows that humans will later eat, but not enough land for plants to feed the humans?
Shifting demand from roads to trains seems like a good thing. But just closing roads without good public transit seems like it would be pretty bad for the economy.
A perennial topic of Hacker News seems to be browser tabs; yet another post about the topic appeared on the front page earlier this weekend, if I'm not mistaken. While the exact cause of all the consternation is still up for debate, my attempt at a solution has been the application of the Unix philosophy[1] to the problem. I've made a browser extension and a couple of accompanying host applications[2] that allow the user to interact with browser sessions as files, and I've been very satisfied with the result. I'm looking to implement some additional functionality, namely around auto-saving and streamlining moving tabs between sessions, in the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

[2] https://github.com/paysonwallach?tab=repositories&q=amber
Climbing the rungs of the charlatan career ladder, like Tim Ferriss.
> Because that would not reduce code duplication.

I don't want to call you out for making a disingenuous argument, but it was either subsumed by systemd for code duplication reasons, or it wasn't?!

Duplicate code, could be refactored out to a shared library, that could then be incorporated in both udev, and systemd. That would mean, anyone looking to incorporate udev into a system, could do so without depending on libsystemd.

Instead, it would seem udev code, has been subsumed by libsystemd (in your own words) - which would appear to the sceptical eye, as a power play on the part of red hat - to force other distributions into using libsystemd, which would logically end with them also using systemd itself.

> I don't know if you have ever worked on any of the low-level Linux libraries written in C [...]

Yes, I have.