skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
chroot is a system call that assigns a limited view of the file system to a process. In particular it makes it so that the specific directory will appear as the top level directory to the process.

Some people like to run for example FTP servers in a chroot so that users have access only to a specific directory and its subdirectories, rather than being able to browse other files on the system.

FreeBSD also has a technology called jails which is what you’d rather use for containerization.

Anyway, previously you had to be root (the Unix admin user) in order to use chroot. FreeBSD now implementing unprivileged chroot means that regular users are able to run processes in chroot as well.

So for example if you were a regular user on a system, you can now create a sub directory in your home directory and run an FTP demon chrooted to that directory and bound to an unprivileged port, and then you can give someone else FTP access to that directory without them being able to see the other files in your home directory, keeping your private data private from them.
We should recolor the pieces with neutral colors such as #d3e6fa (because green and yellow have connotations).

And remove the obviously sexist Queen (why stronger than King?) and King (why should it decide when the game is over?).

Rook is shady as well.

And so on. As Aristotle said: "once we look close enough, we will find someone offended".
I always think that these interactions should be modeled as: upvotes as ‘I want others to read this’, and downvote as ‘I don’t want others to read this’. I believe your intended behaviours (I like this or agree with this or find it interesting/irrelevant, doesn't contribute" and not "don't like this/disagree) also fit the aforementioned model.
>> Declaring the cause must be food competition or climate change seems a bit hasty?

It's not a declaration, but a hypothesis that attempts to explain the observations according to prior knowledge. It "will now be investigated in more detail" to try and disprove it. That's bog standard scientific work.

What's hasty is the easy dismissal of the opinion of experts on a subject most commenters here are probably unfamliar with (interspecies interactions between non-human primates) and the attemps to find an ulterior motive of some kind of political nature, in comments in this thread.

When did HN become so anti-science?
It's not related, but it will give you a link there if it doesn't have the page archived.
Did they touch a black monolith right after?
1. Planned maintenance in the middle of the night. Even Amazon and Heroku need to do it sometimes. At least we had a forced Postgres version update recently which was 30 minutes of downtime.

2. The latency within AWS is easily as high as US-EU backbone latency. Also, most web apps these days need 2000ms to load all the tracking and advertising crap, so 100ms location latency are negligible in comparison. Plus for most real companies, you'll have one website per country anyway. One server for .com and one server for .eu
The ML antivirus detections are out of control.
This made me think of Engine cooking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_cooking
I think using a combination of vote rank and number of comments is a good compromise. Reddit is one extreme which is a pure vanity contest while things like traditional forums or chan boards where ranking is purely based on bumps from new posts is another. There's no reason not to use both, and by adding biases we can tune it to a particular community. Too much of a circlejerk we can increase the influence of the comment rank, too many flamewars and we can increase the influence of the vote rank. You could even vary these parameters based on the time of day, for example one forum I was part of some time ago would vary enormously based on what parts of the globe were awake.
In Nassim Taleb's words, the decisionmaker doesn't have "skin in the game" e.g. they won't be punished or shamed when the decision turns out badly.
The best thing Twitter could do is announce that it was all a big mistake and the are shutting down the company and deleting all tweets and accounts.
> We quit that after screensharing was super low quality compared to Zoom

Zoom's screen sharing is really far and above all others. The quality is razor sharp (framerate suffers but who cares about that when sharing a terminal or document), the collaboration features are amazing (scribble on the content), it has so many useful niche features (draw on your ipad/iphone).
> Eh, many wooden sets are light and dark woods.

Ah, but one could argue that the colours of light and dark wood are closer to the skin colour of humans culturally classified as "white" and "black" than are the actual colours white and black!
> This can't scale to a platform as large and as broad as Twitter.

I think this is the answer to the whole conversation about building communities on-line. That is: quality communities don't scale.

As I elaborated on here[0], I think the factor that enables high-quality on-line communities is active moderation - and that doesn't scale. The workload grows in proportion to the userbase / discussion volume. So, if we want a high-quality platform "as large and as broad as Twitter", we'll have to do it the hard way, and employ proportionate level of active moderation.

On a tangent: looking from this angle, the failure of big on-line platforms is just another example of the modus operandi of big tech companies: they do the easy 80% of the work, ignore the remaining 20% that's hard and most important, and then defend themselves by claiming "scale is hard". Other well-known examples of this phenomenon include counterfeiting problems on Amazon and Google's nonexistent customer support.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917125
> Sundaland is now sea between Indonesian islands, reaching up along Vietnam and out to Taiwan (thus not an island), all the way up to Korea (thus not a peninsula).

Err, no. Sundaland only refers to the area south of Indochina. The northern limit is at approximately 9'N according to Wikipedia.

Northern Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, and even Japan were connected to mainland China during the last ice age, but none of them except the southern tip of Vietnam had anything to do with Sundaland.
>clearly the a author wants his message read

More likely the author wants to be paid for his work. If he wanted to offer it for free there are plenty of alternative platforms to publish on.
"Totalitalgorithms" (Totalgorithms?) captures the spirit of these algorithms. They seem like bugs but they're actually undirected, organic features of a total technocratic political system that is rapidly coming to dominate life in our modern societies. The filters will be tuned but not fixed because they aren't broken. They're part of what Tocqueville described as 'soft despotism':

"Thus, After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_despotism
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In Groovy, dynamic dispatch is used. It's the runtime types that matter, as my example makes patently clear.

EDIT: to make it even more obvious there's no difference:

class Fire{}
class Water {}
class Grass {}
class Ice {}

def eff(Fire f, Grass g) { 'burn' }
def eff(Fire f, Ice ice) { 'melt' }
def eff(Water w, Grass g) { 'grow' }
def eff(Water w, Ice ice) { 'freeze' }
def eff(a, b) { 'undefined' }

// hide compile-time types
Object fire = new Fire()
Object grass = new Grass()
Object ice = new Ice()
Object water = new Water()

println eff(fire, grass)
println eff(fire, ice)
println eff(water, grass)
println eff(water, ice)

println eff(ice, water)

Prints:

burn
melt
grow
freeze
undefined
Let me check. According to similarweb, dnevnik.bg is number 39 in the country and capital is not in top 50. There are more than 10 other news websites with higher engagement. At the same time the top 3 TV networks still support the previous government.
The one counter-example I can think of for that is https://forums.rpg.net - it's quite a large community, and has been around for something like 20 years. The moderators are very active in the forums themselves, and they've learned from their experiences over time. It's not perfect, but as the community is still large and thriving, even in the Reddit/Facebook/Twitter era, I'd say they're doing a good job.
The thoughts of someone who thinks "Western society" is where it is by being conscientious of how they consume and preserve resources for future generations, and is apparently unaware of "Western society" eating other societies' marshmallows.

Another option is they are intentionally ignoring "Western society" consuming other society's marshmallows to make them seem more deserving of their spoils, and others more deserving of their lack of spoils.
There's a registry (or group policy?) tweak to turn it off for good.

It was absolutely necessary on my 2015-era laptop, especially in the era of WSL1 where every Linux-side file operation caused a Defender operation - made a huge difference running test suites, git operations and so on.

I've tried to leave it on my new laptop (esp on WSL2 where Defender doesn't get a look-in) but I can _smell_ when it's slowing me down.
Good point. It would have been more accurate to state that we were surprised at how much people used the app! Over 40% of employees that have access to our app use it! Also, we were surprised by how high user retention is.
Ah cool, I thought this was for directional velocity, not rotation
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> It doesn't help that the state senate (like all state senates) is designed to over-represent rural areas.

I don’t think this has been true since Reynolds v. Sims almost 60 years ago. Since then state senates have been pretty pointless (just small equivalents of the lower houses) and really should be abolished.

In California, for example, it’s just a mechanism for assembly members who want to stick around beyond their term limits to have a chance at another couple of terms. As I understand the problems of term limits I probably shouldn’t complain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kpatch

Allows you to patch the kernel without reboot.
If two candidates are equal and the tie-breaker is that one ran a side project in their spare time, is that not an immediate disadvantage to the otherwise excellent, hireable candidate who didn't have that?

Meanwhile, if you ignore the side project, that candidate isn't disadvantaged as a result. They're just given the same consideration as the other candidate, not more and not less.

How you choose between the two at that point is perhaps more difficult, but the playing field is still level. The single parent still has a fighting chance against the person who has the time and money to do extra work for themselves.
Weak family aka divorce revolution is a radfem idea, see e.g. Barbara Ehrenreich in "Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex" (1986) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385184999/

"Independence, even in straitened and penurious forms, still offers more sexual freedom than affluence gained through marriage and dependence on one man".

https://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Marriage-Destroy-Lasting-Lo...

"Marriage is disappearing as a cultural norm in America, with disastrous consequences for the social and economic stability that depend on it".
Spanish here, can confirm.
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I second this. I like "silent" new tech, which doesn't need to introduce dozens of new "concepts".

- containers focus on what you can do, easy to understand and you can start in 5 minutes

- kubernetes is the opposite, where verbose tutorials lose time explaining me how it works, rather than what i do with it.
What do you mean by adapter? Adapter from what to what?
It's a strawman argument.

I don't think people are against space exploration.

When a dude alone can finance a space program it creates two moral issues:

1. How come a guy who make people pee in bottles have enough money for this?

2. Should space exploration be privatized this way.

Of course, you can see no evil here, but that's different from caricaturing legitimate arguments.
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On many linux distro's you can already do this with user namespaces:

$ mkdir rootfs
$ docker export $(docker create ubuntu:20.04) | tar -C rootfs -xf -
$ unshare -r chroot rootfs bash
# ls
bin dev home ...

Very often when you use chroot you also want unprivileged mounts, in particular overlay mounts if you don't want to mutate the underlying rootfs. You can do that with mount namespaces: `unshare -rm`, but you need Linux kernel 5.13 (or a distro with a patched kernel like Ubuntu) to allow unpriviliged overlayfs.
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I'm also of the type "Give me a project and I'll build it. Ask me what I'd like to build and I'll have no idea". I'd love to see this list (or part of it), I have no idea what it could even look like. Mind sharing?
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The first time I loaded it, a "Please subscribe" popup came. I could click cancel, but underneath the banner picture there was just links to other articles. After coming here looking for the archive.is link, reloading the article fixed it.

I was ready to make the snarky comment "This is what I want to say: Pay $1 for 6 months subscription!"...
Oh interesting, http://web.archive.org/web/https://news.ycombinator.com also works, didn't know that.
Reddit is diverse. I hear a lot of “Reddit is toxic”. Or that “Reddit is the best place”. Both are correct. It is not only about the majority view. It is mainly about which subreddits you pick. I am not a massive Redditor. Yet, for some time, I opened r/MachineLearning daily.

Some subreddits are/were highly toxic (e.g. the infamous r/incels). Some other are full of vulnerable life stories you won’t find anywhere else. People won’t post them on their public FB feeds; not everyone writes anonymous blogs. Any coverage of such topics by journalists (if the topic gets ever covered) is likely to focus on a handful of cases, be biased and heavily edited.

For an example from Reddit, see “Trans people of Reddit, what was something you weren’t expecting to be told, find out, or experience when going through your transition?” (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4g1pgu/serious_t...).

Another subreddit with not so much majority view is CMV:
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/.
It is heart-warming (and mind-stimulating) to see people open to changing their minds. Compare and contrast with Twitter, where there are no enough characters to express a more nuanced argument. And views are usually pushed down one’s throat (if they ever leave a bubble).
I don't see how lack of infrastructure isn't caused by the debt they had to pay off. Infrastructure takes extremely long to build up and lasts usually pretty long.

Also I find it peculiar how the damage incurred by the Duvalier family was not mentioned directly in the article.
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I'm using longhorn, but it's been cpu-heavy.
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>/r/ukpolitics - Similar to above, slightly quicker on the banhammer.

I'm really sad about what happened to /r/ukpolitics. Back when it had 20-30k subscribers it was genuinely full of political anoraks and I'd often feel I'd learned something because you had the full spectrum represented there. They'd argue but people tended to know their shit a lot more, and obviously rubbish arguments were much less common. It's far more successful on paper now, but it's also enormously less interesting for me.

Maybe I'm just not the intended audience any more, I'm the sort of person who'd rather see an anarchist and a Thatcherite get into a verbal knife fight than the beige, very mainstream discussions that go on there now.
What exactly is the same? I just checked and they look different.
I saw a lot of people that used to be an office secretary, took a ‘data science bootcamp’, and now list themselves as Data Scientist on LinkedIn.

It’s a virtual world, a veritable mmo at this point. You pick your class and role and no one can stop you.

There are kids one year out of college that cram Leetcode and make more than decent developers that worked for decades.

It’s a wild world, I wouldn’t trust shit, certainly not titles.
Cash helps marginalized people in the society everywhere, not just in china. But China specifically has a (large?) number of North Korean defectors, all of whom really need to avoid being found out or they will be sent back to NK. I imagine those people rely on cash to survive.

It's the same elsewhere, be it UK, US or Germany - illegal immigrants rely on cash to survive, as they usually can't just open a bank account with a card. And yeah, some people will always say that it's actually great that illegal immigrants can't access those facilities, after all they are illegal. But I think that's a very cruel view of the world, people in various hardships will always exist and cash is the only fallback that exist if the official banking system rejects you or is inaccessible for you. And it's not just illegal immigrants - people have had their bank accounts closed and placed on some kind of black list by mistake before, how is that going to work if cash is removed entirely? It's already a big problem in most societies, as for instance employers in a lot of places aren't allowed to pay you in cash - so even if you are 100% legit and work a normal job, you suddenly can't be paid legally, even though cash itself still exists and is legal.
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I mean, there are of course good moderators (I've surely seen some), but unless they already happen to exist in the community it is extremely hard to put good moderators to the existing community. It is even harder to discover good moderators anyway.
Having more meat at less cost, among other foods, seems to be a plainly plausible cause for gaining weight.

Pollution, obesity, etc. are externalized costs of satiety.
Exactly. This is a terrible idea. This is exactly the opposite of what we need as a society.
Not so much a non sequitur as an abductive reasoning; your parent post has inferred prehistoric flood as best explanation for Atlantis myth.
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For one, it might be harder to attract investments from Europe or the US?

People generally invest and hire people that looks similar to them. It shouldn't be like this, but that's a very common thing to see.

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From Wikipedia:
"Race is another defining factor of Dominican–Haitian relations. The ethnic composition of the Dominican population is 73% mixed race, 16% white, and 11% black; while 95% of the Haitian population is black."
What about neither?

> 1 glass of [fuel] is enough to power a house for 826 years…

We talking 8 ounces? What if I'm extra thirsty?
Is there some evidence to support this being a purely right-wing phenomena?
Its is hypervisor-ish as of now more like a vm monitor.
bdist_rpm isn’t equivalent to the Dockerfile above. It can be made reproducible with a few changes (locking the upstream image to a hash, locking the apt package version), but that’s likely overkill. Because when it breaks you’re not in for a “world of pain” at all, you just have a failing CI for an hour.

I take it from the lack of an answer to the question that the equivalent non-docker packaging would be much more complex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_gratification#Stanford...
An alternative to unshare is also bubblewrap (https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap) which also sets up a new namespace. You can build up your own new filesystem by binding existing paths into the new root and then run a process within it:

$ mkdir -p root/bin
$ cp /bin/busybox root/bin/
$ bwrap --bind root / /bin/busybox sh

BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3.3) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/ $ ls -l /
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 2 1000 1000 60 Jul 22 11:07 bin
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I have no experience in hiring and can't really talk about it from my experiences of applying for jobs, but this sounds a bit weird to me, essentially telling the person reviewing your CV: "I've been focusing more on side projects than on my previous jobs, that's why you should consider me for this _job_".
If you're qualifying for a true senior position, and if you haven't done something outside of work in the decades of your professional experience, it's a bad sign. If by "senior position" you're thinking something that can be done by a 25-year-old with over 5 years of experience in a specific product, your resume is already on the discard pile.

I recruit a lot of work-term students (and have filled a few senior positions in the past). I always look for side projects. I always check github accounts for unmentioned side projects. Side projects tell me more about who the applicant is than a resume does. I hire people, not resumes and not previous positions of employment. Folks who are interested and enthusiastic about their field are better to work with.

Honestly, it's pretty rare that anyone lists a side project on their resume, so it's not absolutely required. When it's there, though, it usually makes the interview better ("tell me about your side project") and it's often the difference between getting an interview and not.
So, will Twitter ban single-sided up or down voting in accordance with their agenda, similar to how they have start preventing users from even "liking" a tweet?
"Confidential computing" uses Medium for blogs.

"Confidential computing" uses a cookie popup that only has "save" and "accept all" options, with "analytics" enabled by default.
"am I the asshole" and idiotsincars are pretty normal places where people can politely disagree; MurderedByWords and Politics are political echochambers and that territory brings a bit of toxicity like black-and-white thinking, but I would only call "justiceserved" particularly toxic.
If Haiti had, say, vast oil wealth but wasted the proceeds and you compared it specifically to Norway (who have, all things considered, responsibly handled their oil wealth) then sure. But I cannot see what resources or wealth representing the "marshmallow" that they are supposed to have foolishly, greedily gobbled up.

It doesn't make sense, it's just someone painting the Haitians as a short-sighted and reckless people (which I believe is untrue) without giving any reasons why they believe this.