skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not talking about flat earters. I’m taking about tech companies picking election winners by “fact checking”/suppressing stories that make their chosen guy look bad.
https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2020/05/02/0/ is a 2020 post from the same blog, pointing out that these issues basically remain unaddressed. But again, this is not just some "anti-systemd" talking point; the pro-systemd side also acknowledges this! They just think sysv-init was even worse.
> The electric company probably needs to know usage for billing. Microsoft does not need any information about Windows users for the product to work.

Honestly, it's amazing you can say this with a straight face? You don't think Microsoft needs to know which parts of its product crash or not, and are used or not, in order to deliver a well-working product?

I don't know if most of you here work with large-scale products, but Microsoft has no the luxury of going to every Windows user personally and asking them how's Windows and what you want more or and less of. That "conversation" happens through telemetry.
That's a list of crap food, which might be what was meant. However, if you compare the ingredient list for a seemingly identical item, the ingredients (contents or quantity) will many times differ between a dollar store and elsewhere.
This is mine. I spent quarantine greatly upgrading it from its previous design from roughly 2007 (old.ptable.com) which itself was a great upgrade to how it looked in 1997 (https://web.archive.org/web/19990208231647/http://www.dayah....). It uses no frameworks or libraries and has a payload size of ~64K if you use an ad/tracker blocker, and that includes all the property data and WebGL orbitals rendered from the Schrodinger equation on the Electrons tab. Fully keyboard accessible with arrows/tabs. One controversial feature is fit-to-window that uses some elaborate CSS math (no JS) to keep the size fixed as you switch from topbar to sidebar or turn Wide on/off.

A lot of functionality is hidden, which is why I have the 100-second demo video: https://ptable.com/demo. Would love to hear impressions or feedback as staring at it for months has blinded me to first impressions/annoyances.
In general, I would agree with you. However, I would prefer the developed countries to put this into action first. That's because I don't trust the Indian government. The government here has an odd combination of instilling too many regulatory hurdles, and very lax enforcement of safety policies. By that, I mean, the company pays a little bribe, and the government looks the other way.

We have plenty of arid, otherwise unusable land within easy reach, and solar farms don't interfere with the environment in such places.
This is true, though there is there is one strong philosophical reason to prefer accounting for the energy as being stored in the fields themselves: it makes the theory "local". I.e. for energy to go from A to B it's got to travel the distance between them (it does this through the fields). The idea locality is a central part of relativity and for this reason theories that are explicitly local (i.e. have fields to carry energy, momentum, etc) rather than implicitly local (have apparent action at a distance) are preferred.
"old news"? That's still double the price compared to 2019
> UK plugs are the best plugs.

Wonder if anyone ever arrived in the UK feeling the same way..

> (The requirement to have a fuse in every plug is a necessity for UK ring mains, but makes the things even bigger than they otherwise would be.)

Yes. It’s much too bulky to be acceptable anywhere where people aren’t used to that size (nor would anyone accept fuses in the plugs I think. Unsure about switches at sockets).
>This is not someone "looking in the window" this is two parties (you and the company providing some service or product to you) needing to exchange data so each can do their work properly.
It's even worse. I can see the person looking through my window. I can close the blinds.
At OS level I don't have that chance. I can't constantly monitor the outgoing traffic and I can't check the consequences of every update.

>Those "privacy standards" you cite that have existed for centuries... that's not a thing. It seems to be based on falsifying the history and present of how humans organize and govern systems out of ignorance. Data gathering IS the "normal".
Ever thought that you and parent live in different countries with a different value for privacy?
Even a "simple" thing like a census in Germany led to Constitutional Court ruling and the establishment of a new right, that of informational self-determination. And that was in the eighties and it was about a census in the form of a total survey to be carried out door-to-door by civil servants or agents of the public administration.

Now you private companies fathering more data more often than ever before. So it's worse, calling that "normal" is strange.
We just didn't get Starlink in Placerville, because we are surrounded by 100-ft tall trees. So we are still stuck on microwave links. (ATT ran fiber to within yards of the house more than a decade ago, and never lit it because the FCC allowed them not to. They pocketed the $half-trillion the FCC let them tax landlines for to build it, though.)

But it is good news that Pville is in a served area now. Where did you find a prairie in Pville?
China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover
But running out of the box with no tweaks includes Gold, Platinum and Native which is far more than 50%.

I'm less about trying to imply that Linux is "crushing" Windows and more about it being seen as a viable option (i.e. " not a million miles away").

I think I'm against out of hand dismissal, which your post and the post I responded to are without qualification or balance.
> we still find it more uncompromisingly important for our source code to be compatible with a Teletype ASR-33 terminal and its 1963-vintage ASCII table than it is for us to be able to express our intentions clearly.

D is a fully Unicode language - comments can be Unicode, the builtin documentation generator can be Unicode, even Unicode characters in the identifier. I've been tempted to add Unicode characters for operators many times.

The trouble is the keyboard.

I've seen many ways to enter Unicode. I even invented a new way to do it for my text editor. All awkward and unsatisfactory. No way to touch type them, either.

What is needed is a dynamically remappable keyboard, with a configurable display on each keytop so you know which letter it is. Nobody is going to remember what the remapped letters are without it.
Select any property to see trends visualized in color. Select the color boxes next to Minimum/Maximum to customize those colors.
believe it or not but the ₀ (u2080) is not allowed in Python, it's not for a lack of trying :)

for some reason the entire Unicode "No" (Number, other) category is not included in the admissible character list for identifiers
This type of defense is totally disingenuous. You refered to this website as "SV's boys club", and now are arguing you are just being "pithy".

I neither live in SV nor am a boy and that doesn't have any impact on the value I get from this site. The fact that the majority of users are from the US and hence some articles have a US focus is also unsurprising.
>Ethnostates are immoral.

Following this logic you may also believe families are immoral.
perhaps both of these are pretty non-issues

I'm from Poland - Chernobyl was not as bad as it looked
I dont know about Fukushima much

storing the waste? lol it's so small amount and the planet is gigantic. Meanwhile coal, smog cancer, oil and wars behind it, saudi arabia killing people; yemeni genocide happening now - '2021 holocaust' as I could even call it

all above is much better than small amount of radioactive trash
Is Coinbase also a case of not your keys, not your crypto? What would be the best way then to have your keys and your crypto? I never really understood the whole crypto storage stuff and how to approach it.
The Tanenbaum – Torvalds Debate
Agreed.

One point is that processes other than root cannot start services on ports < 1024. That was a sensible precaution computers where big and multiuser, like in a university setting.

However, with single-serving services (e.g. in vm/container/vps/cloud), there is no need for it.

BSD lets you configure it with a sysctl option. But Linux defends that option like it is still 1990.

On NixOS, I patch it like this:

boot.kernelPatches = [ { name = "no-reserved-ports"; patch = path/to/no-reserved-ports.patch; } ];

With the patch just as big:

--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@
#define SOCK_DESTROY_TIME (10*HZ)

/* Sockets 0-1023 can't be bound to unless you ares uperuser */
-#define PROT_SOCK 1024
+#define PROT_SOCK 24

#define SHUTDOWN_MASK 3
#define RCV_SHUTDOWN 1
Here are some quick insights until OP does his blog post.

For a high-level breakdown of the files changed:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=focu...

681 files were changed, with the most being C/C Header files.

The file age is interesting as it shows 175 files were changed over a 2 year period. And you have about 279 files that were probably just imported and never touched again or were infrequently changed. Note renaming files/directory can skew this number.

And if you are looking for a heatmap, you can look at

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=comm...

The superscript value <number>v besides the file/directory indicates how many versions there are. So the higher the version, the greater the focus. In this case, the kernel, include and fs directories saw most of the activity.

In the future, I will gray out files that no longer exists on the latest tree, but for now you can look at the year beside the files/directories to get an idea of when they were last touched.

And here are the top 20 most frequently changed files

path | revs
-----------------------+------
kernel/system.c | 151
kernel/proc.c | 128
include/sys/syscall.h | 124
kernel/exception.c | 120
include/kernel/proc.h | 95
Makefile | 90
kernel/main.c | 80
user/shell.c | 69
fs/inode.c | 67
winix/sys_stdio.c | 60
README.md | 53
driver/tty.c | 52
kernel/sched.c | 49
kernel/clock.c | 46
winix/wini_ipc.c | 45
fs/fs.h | 44
winix/mm.c | 44
fs/makefs.c | 42
winix/sigsend.c | 42
init/init.c | 41

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of the tool for the links above and there is a bug where the menu will say 45 days window but it is a 5 years window.
Thanks to the paradigm "write once, publish everywhere".

As a publisher who recently redesigned one of our websites, using the hamburger menu across devices and screen sizes was strongly considered. It is very annoying on larger screens but these represent such a small traffic share that it is what it is... We still did not go ahead with that, but it was close...
Green white oak, especially, can do some cool stuff. I imagine you could do a porch with lap built and grain matched construction and get a "tensegrity" bonus as stuff dried; but ive never seen that trick done with anything more complicated or smaller than house siding.
Counterpoint from Kenji:

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-real-french-onion-d...
I guess this new title holder is because Jack Ma got disappeared and took a big hit after he called Chinese dictator Xi Jinping a "clown" for his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
It's not as good as the evangelists make out, it's not as hopeless as the detractors make out.

The "news" is that in the last 5 years it has gone from "absolutely not viable for gaming" to "good enough for a lot of people".
Exercising. In my 20s I barely exercised, certainly not reliably for any extended period. The longest stretch was while I had a roommate who was a former Marine, about 6 months. The man was a beast and I felt like a slug when I realized I'd played a video game for a few hours while he'd been out weightlifting and then running 5-10 miles. And that was his second workout of the day.

At 31 I'd gotten to 220lbs which, on my frame and at my activity level, meant obese. So I started walking a 5k trail near the office 3x a week. After a couple months I started jogging it (C25k style but not the actual C25k plan). By that point being out there was just routine, so why not run it? That was 8 years ago, and other than some stretches of time where I was recovering from an injury (so far only one caused by exercising, an impinged shoulder, the rest were caused by other things like car accidents) I've been a reliable exerciser and runner since.

A habit I broke was video games. I'd play games until 2-4am and then be exhausted the next day. In retrospect, they were a way of keeping my mind occupied while I was suffering from severe depression so I wasn't really alone with my thoughts. Then they became a routine or habit even after I'd recovered from depression, but were still negatively impacting my life because I was still putting in the crazy long hours. Mostly I substituted other activities like running or exercising generally, reading, spending time with friends socially, or more productive uses of the computer like programming. Exercising actually helped a lot because I was simply too tired most days to even consider staying up late playing a video game, even if I was enjoying it I had to turn it off and sleep because I was dozing off.

In this case, it was mostly the realization and acknowledgement that the video games were consuming too much of my time (and health) that led to a rather rapid change in habit. The various time fillers changed over the years, but I dropped video games practically overnight.

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EDIT to add

Journaling. I've tried a few times, and largely failed. I've found it helpful especially for dealing with stressful periods or depressive episodes. Just expressing my thoughts on paper gets them out of my head and the "dwelling" stops or is reduced which reduces my overall anxiety level or elevates my depressed mood a bit. But, like many people's efforts at dieting, I only did this for a period when I needed it and then stopped. When my mood worsened it "snuck up on me" and I'd have to rebuild these helpful routines.

I, recently, started journaling with a 5-year journal that only offers 5 or 6 lines per day. It's more of a log, but this also makes it easier to keep up with. I don't want a blank entry (at worst I fill it in a day late). This makes keeping a long form journal somewhat easier to maintain since it doesn't need to be daily or some other regular period, it can be weekly or even monthly, or following a major event (something deeply impactful to my life or my friends or family for instance).
Yes, you are right, most of the cost is still outside of nuclear island.

But the single costliest part would still be a reactor, despite it itself being a small part of the plant cost.

Turbines may've been more expensive than reactors for gigawatt scale plants decades ago, but large steam turbines went down in price considerably exactly because of mass manufacturing.
The problem is that cat is out of the bag. There will be much more potentially dangerous stuff which will come out in future. There is no stopping it....like it or not
1992:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI
When it comes to networking fundamentals I can definitely recommend "Computer Networks" by Andrew Tanenbaum[0].

[0]: https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Tanenbau...
First of all, that's generically false. Almost every new housing unit in this world should use triple glazing. It's just great insulation and it will reduce both heating and cooling bills and you know, climate change and all that jazz.

Secondly, NZ, OK, maybe it won't need even double glazing. But aren't AU summers super hot?
The notion of "authentic" food is a manufactured marketing gimmick.
There is always variation present, even from household to household, but for marketing purposes we now like to pretend that some particular food is always prepared exactly in this one way, with no room for deviation at all.
This is nonsense.
When I saw the red dot on my wife's Lenovo laptop I immediately thought 'that looks like an IR pass filter.' if a company wanted to have a bypassable privacy slider they could have an IR cut filter behind the lens and an IR pass filter up front. When the bypass needed to be activated the IR cut filter could be moved out of the way (this happens automatically on night vision security cameras, so it's not farfetched).

I don't think they would actually use the bypassable filter in everyone's camera, maybe just political dissidents, but having the red dot be the standard would make it less noticable when a bypassable filter is deployed.

We just slide it half way, then there's no irritating red dot and the camera is still covered.
Good luck getting access to the top 0.01% for a mentor
They somehow got by for years before telemetry was an option; the answer is mostly testing, focus groups, and user studies, along with intentionally-provided bug reports.
We use poetry after pipenv stopped receiving updates for a while. Pipenv was just insanely slow at dependency resolution after a certain number of packages that we had to abandon it. Poetry gets the job done for us.
For most things absolutely- I’ve had great success with proton. There are a few holdouts, especially in the VR space where Windows is still unfortunately very necessary.
I find it hard to believe we can’t figure out why it tastes different.
Indeed, they've either moved on or grudgingly accept it, even if they don't like it. Same thing happened with solaris, aix, hpux people who had to learn to accept linux as being the way of the world.

I'm sure many people - especially developers who use OSX all the time - love systemd. That's fine, but people won't love systemd, just like solaris people learnt to accept linux.

I'm also sure not everyone loves it. Some have moved on, some haven't but now tolerate it, they've spent the time to cope with it, maybe it's costing them more time every day than pre-systemd, but it's not big enough problem to move on. That's just life. I'm sure some people didn't like it when program manager was replaced by the start button in NT 4 either.

It seems that systemd fanboys just can't acknowlege some people don't like their new world order, which is rather sad in itself.
The point is that the replacements being talked about, systemd-resolved for dns, systemd-timesyncd for ntp, and systemd-networkd for whatever else you would prefer to use for network config, are not a mandatory part of systemd. You can use systemd without using these other components and it will work perfectly well with whatever other services you want to use for dns, ntp, and ip networking. These other services are not dependencies of GNOME, either.

People are conflating systemd itself with all the optional services it comes bundled with. I don't even believe resolved and networkd are enabled by default, at least not by the vendor. Whether a distro enables it depends on the distro.
> You don't think Microsoft needs to know which parts of its product crash or not, and are used or not, in order to deliver a well-working product?
How about asking the user and testing before delivery of the product?
MS outsourced the test to the users and enforces a feedback for their faults.
Imagine doing the same 40 years ago.
A company employees enters your home to gather data about faulty products. You do know how many private data is stored on PCs and smartphones?
Do you know what people access this data?
They are cooperating with the Tether scam, so they are a scam too.
> even on the install guide and the github readme for the server you don't mention XMPP.

Sure, and I don't see a problem with this. It's irrelevant information for an install guide.

It probably should be in the readme (which frankly needs an overhaul). However if someone is looking for an "XMPP server" then there is a good chance that they are not in the target audience for Snikket. I happen to also be a developer of Prosody, the XMPP server software Snikket uses. Prosody is an extremely flexible and customisable XMPP server, and most Prosody users love that about it. But a Snikket server is totally opinionated, preconfigured and exposes minimal controls to the admin.

> Does that mean that interop with XMPP is not a feature one should depend on?

It's a feature you can depend on as much as you can depend on it having e.g. video calls. Removing it would have a negative impact on the project.

Replacing it? If there were alternatives and they were interoperable, sure, maybe. Matrix is probably the only alternative that comes close to that, but it has a way to go before it could meet our needs. I consider a switch from XMPP very unlikely.

> Is Snikket a XMPP app, a XMPP service, a XMPP fork or is it not XMPP at all despite being based on XMPP software?

It's an app and server that implements XMPP. It's not a fork of XMPP (we actively participate in XMPP development).

One final thing to note is that Snikket projects, while using standard XMPP, will focus on pushing XMPP forwards, and prioritise this over backwards compatibility with other projects in the XMPP ecosystem. Example: a couple of XMPP clients don't do encrypted calls yet. Snikket calls are encrypted always. We won't compromise on security or usability in the name of backwards compatibility. Related projects such as modernxmpp.org are part of this mission to keep XMPP moving forwards.
At 31, I completely cut sucrose, lactose and almost all carbohydrates out of my life.

Took someone telling me to think of carbohydrates like heroin before I realized that the strong desire I have not to become painted as a drug addict could be reframed as a reason for me to give up carbohydrate consumption
Lots of e-ink screens are monochrome. There was recently a thread here about a big one that seemed intended for desktops. I often use my phone in monochrome for various silly reasons.

I like having my code coloured, but if the colour was part of the code I'd lose the control I currently have. I'm not against that in principle, but if it was done in a way I didn't like it would really put me off.

The best uses, imho, like rainbow brackets, are applied after the fact. It would be a nightmare to have to match red brackets to red etc.
I had to google what you were talking about and I agree, that is terrible design! It infers the total opposite of what its purpose is.

A little Ghostbusters symbol - even in red - would work much better.
ISPs and carriers in the US have no problem deploying 5G nationwide. If only the first strand is expensive in a fiber deployment, why duplicate work by not installing residential fiber at the same time?

Also in the US, the availability of high speed, low cost fiber options versus slow, expensive copper can be accurately guessed based on nothing but the median home price in a neighborhood. When fully occupied apartment buildings lack fiber but not the townhomes across the street, "population density" is not a satisfactory explanation.
Roblox is both a creation/building tool and a minigame building/playing tool.

Both of my kids love playing minigames with their friends, but don't build anything. Minecraft scratches their building itch for the most part.
CRISPR is highly targetted AFAIK and read. Unintended effects will actually kill it or slow it down.
I found this series to be very useful: https://www.practicalnetworking.net/series/packet-traveling/...
"Cash are only used for scammer and fraudster." More true in today since most person have used a credit card and phone paying. Any tool with anonymous means can also have uses for bad person. But is not any excuse for banning, good person can sometimes not want to make a public purchase.
Yes, the Diku codebase was recently updated to Diku3 and a web socket version of Valhalla is currently running.

https://github.com/Seifert69/DikuMUD3

http://www.valhalla.com/

I think the current populations are quite low in game.