skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the key fragment:

> I was perfectly happy with systemd myself. I did empathize with people who didn’t like it for whatever reason, but it was clear to me that every Linux distribution except for one or two would be switching to systemd eventually. And I felt that I was pretty good at prognosticating, this kind of thing. So I was, if Debian can’t make the obvious decision without all this much drama, it’s too much for me.

His way is thinking is basically the same as of all Systemd supporters. "I see no problem, it is obvious, everybody is doing it so we will do it sooner or later, anyway."

But this is not, and never has been the point. The crux of the matter was very technical[0]: by gluing GDM to Systemd, the Systemd developers made it very difficult for distributors to support other init systems. They basically forced everybody to switch, and Systemd was not bug-free - it gave sysadmins around the world quite some work, and in some cases, also caused unforeseen problems.

In hindsight, we can see it was unnecessary. Devuan should never have to exist. Debian is offering some support for System V init now. All this drama was completely redundant if someone had not made one controversial architectural decision. Yes, we would have probably transitioned anyway - but on our own terms and at the time we could choose. And Joey would probably be part of Debian still.

[0] Maybe it was also political, but this is beside the point and doesn't change anything.
Ada had to target lots of (relatively) bespoke systems, especially DOD systems. Even in 1980, while new systems had 8-bit bytes, that wasn't guaranteed on the existing systems where JOVIAL and other languages Ada was meant to replace were used.

For the bit twiddling stuff, it does work with the modular types, at least now. I have no clue when it was added.
Off the top of my head "flying vehicles" and "body preservation" are well-attested in many other cultures (Ancient Egypt; Mayans) that I'm 100% certain had neither. You are for sure reading too much into this.

> And even if it is hokum

I 99% believe that you think these things are real; I don't know if you're a von Danikenite, but you sure talk like one.

> If there is no evidence to either support or refute it

There is evidence that there's no evidence: we've been digging holes all over the world for centuries, looking for raw materials -- quadruply so, very recently, in the Indian subcontinent. If there was a civilization capable of supporting space-age technology, we'd've found it by now.
I am not sure what this actually proves.

In any system without definitions or constraints the natural preferential default is a least common denominator. In contrast in systems with an inherently high risk or danger a minimum acceptable competence is readily defined and a minimally preferred competence becomes preferential.

A more important question is what does this actually matter? Most people also tend to overwhelmingly prefer agreement and cultural fit in contrast towards diversity and most employers actively work to challenge such.
If Teams is any indication, do you really think Loop is going to be much better?
>Pfizer’s vaccine at several sites in Texas during that autumn, speed may have come at the cost of data integrity and patient safety. A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial

While concerning, this was only a few sites in Texas.
This is fundamentally a case of "The prisoner's dilemma" played at the global level. Its in everyone's best interest to stay silent (cut down or stop emissions) but no one is going to do that.

So my philosophy is: enjoy it while it lasts.
Most likely his processor. That’s what’s holding me back on a 2 year old i7.
Fair enough, but if you have a galactic empire, some sort of fast travel is needed.
Most websites aren't businesses. How do you vote with your wallet to decide you accept that a website slows down ? Even when a website is a business, you pay for the whole service; there is no competition on uptime alone.
As other pointed out, this is the list of non-goals they cleared out to make a minimal viable product.

Though I'm thinking "fixing something that fundamental after the fact is going to suuuuck".
It's not as simple as you think: consider headless setups.
Maybe or maybe not. It depends a lot on how the chip's boot ROM is designed.
It is so hard to tell people about using Linux, how great it is, it's free, etc, and then you get to the name part and it's called 'fedora'.
Most technical developments only unconsciously reflect their social contexts. And in most cases those are the greater needs of corporations. E.g. C and Javascript. Rust is deliberate about tying its social context to its technical development.

Much like open source, esp.the Linux kernel, used the social contract of legal licenses and information transmission to enable a cooperative world, except Rust foregrounds as a social movement and demands traction through technical superiority. It's an innovator in community standards. "You want quality code? You'll have to abide by our social rules." Its founders have read some philosophy. Similar to how every Linux install means less corporate power and less invasion of privacy, every Rust conquest such as this represents a threat to dissolve the entrenched hegemony of competition and individualism. See: https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct
> Define: weaponry.

If activists can define "infrastructure" as social programs, they can define "weaponry" as end-to-end encryption, cryptocurrency, or just websites that express perspectives that they dislike. We all lose when people play language games like this.
I am confused why people are so outraged at the idea that some part of selecting people to work with may be based on whether you get along with them.

People are social beings. Part of working together comes from feeling like you want to cooperate. You could have someone who is incredibly smart and clever as your business partner, but will you really feel like you want to go the extra mile for him/her? Do you have to watch your back constantly? Do you have the same goals in life? Does every interaction drain energy from you?

We come from families, social structures. We have people in our families who are incompetent but we love them. It's not unreasonable to think that some of this behavior would continue in our work worlds.

"Diversity" in the trendy usage today, for most people still doesn't trump whether you want to work with someone, and that hopefully doesn't have much to do with race/background/gender/etc. I say hopefully of course, and helping people overcome or not be prejudiced that some characteristic correlates with ability/desire to work with them, is an important thing to do.

But forcing people to believe that someone's <x> characteristic is more important than whether you want to work with them is a recipe for dissatisfaction and backlash against people who insist that it should be so.
A few years back I met a woman at a bar, flirted, got a number, and went on a date. About 30 minutes into the date she brought up politics, and was on the opposite side of the spectrum from myself. That didn't change that I thought she was funny and was interested enough to flirt and set up a date. We just mutually agreed that we had no business dating, had a laugh, and finished out the night together with the understanding that we could have a good time despite the differences that wouldn't allow for dating.

Online media attempt to amplify these differences to the point of rage because there's money it in.
what am I looking at here

EDIT: it has been explained to me: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/10/30/5tb/
Then why didn't the state of El Salvador settle on bottle caps as their new currency?
Why is fish not considered meat? I'm genuinely curious
Side effects from vaccines almost always occur within a few weeks of getting them, if they occur at all. It would be exceptional if side effects occurred months or years down the line. It’s obviously not impossible and I don’t want to give the impression that I think it is, but it’s just not considered a likely outcome. Plus, anyways, we know that SARS-CoV-2 is far more dangerous in both the long and short term.
This has been working for months (but behind flag in Chrome); what's your problem with that?
Personally I went through a lot of the same considerations and the indecision and flip flopping got quite tiring.

Eventually I just simplified things. Living in a property you own gives so much more for your money compared to what one could afford at the same level renting. And on a long enough timeline crashes have had minimal impact. Many of those disruptions would affect the financial markets too so unless you’re extremely conservative leaving the money in stocks is not very safe either. I’m not renting for another 5 to 15 years with a small place and a nosey landlord jacking up rent regularly. So I bought.
Does that apply to PXE or the Mac equivalent?

I wonder how they will run their diagnistics in the Apple Store if they can't boot their diagnostics tool.
>... but people should focus their negativity on the belief and not the person holding it.

The person holding it, and voting accordingly, is responsible for denying other people happiness; responsible for saying, "You are different so you don't get what I have".

I've no problem with someone holding a belief, I have a problem with people who can't just let others do what they want. Think that it's wrong and they'll go to hell? Then let them get married and go to hell. It's their choice, not yours. Mind your business.
Interesting, maybe there's something up with my config. I also run a default setup but the backend is a macintosh, so that may be related. It would be really nice to have it magically reconnect!

I actually use tmux in combo and don't see any color issues that I notice. I wonder if it's something about the colors in your tmux config?
> the idea that you should view housing as simply a matter of supply and demand and not consider any externalities is an abominable position

Comrade, I am speaking about "how it works" not "what would be really nice if..."

> Income from residential rentals is taxed at the same rate as ordinary income, the kind you get from actually doing something.

I can tell you have never owned an apartment or a house. The amount of money and time that goes into maintaining a property, managing risk of bad tenants, etc is really high. Not to mention property taxes which is likely something you've not heard about (or, at least you don't mention that in your post when talking about the tax burden.)
> my very religious teacher said the flood story in Gilgamesh added to the validity
> of the Bible since it is another historical account of a large flood.

You very religious teacher was not alone. At the time when Gilgamesh was first translated, this was the prevailing thought.
You might be interested in `HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP` and `HOMEBREW_NO_CLEANUP_FORMULAE`. See `man brew` for details.
You could in the us too. However that soon stopped as solid state became reliable enough to rarely need repair.
Do you consider the README on Github a "product feature page"?
Run on OS Login
aka the most dangerous programmers are at the "intermediate" skill level

beginning coders do not understand how to create complexity or are just afraid of the pointy tools

expert coders don't need to flex, understand the downsides of more code outweigh the upsides

it is the intermediate developer who will pave the road to hell with "nice to have", "patterns", "abstractions"...
They don't mean the words literally. As you point out, there's no consistent and clear definition. What the ml5.js license actually means is that the creators will harass --- at first socially, then maybe legally --- members of their political outgroup who use their software. It's not conduct they're prohibiting, but aid and comfort to the enemy tribe.
On Linux, .NET does write ANSI escape sequences to stdout for you. ConsolePal.Unix.cs (Pal in this context referring to 'platform abstraction layer') does the work for you behind the scenes: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/10eb1a9ff1c09de4a2a1f...
I move a lot. I’ve been in big houses and small apartments the last decade off and on. That’s why mesh or beefy (think I can make that term stick?) doesn’t matter too much to me right now.

My most important devices are always hardwired, but I still have WiFi needs.

WiFi 6E would be best but not at the cost of great 2.4 and 5Ghz performance.

I’m not opposed to mucking with networking, I’m technical, but also I can’t do it all the time. I’ve got day jobs. I mostly want to spend a sufficient time setting it up and then mostly leaving it alone besides painless firmware updates.

Thanks for your answer. I’m going to give Ubiquiti another look despite the concerns.
Squid Game crypto plunges to $0 after scammers steal millions of dollars
When I hear recall, it makes me picture having to bring my vehicle in to have work done on it. There really needs to be a new name to better describe an over-the-air software update.
> If you read the bible at face value it has pretty basic rules of society.

Specifically, the portion of the Ten Commandments which instructs how to relate to other people (as opposed to relating to God) is just as relevant today as it was when written.
What's your dilemma? If you're gonna live there for 10 years, get a large utility out of the house in general and also owning your own place, then just go for it.

If you're buying just to buy, then hold off.
There’s a lot of implications you’re making, like a frozen beef patty is never higher quality than one that is from a butcher. Your examples aren’t convincing.
dupe of this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29080561
No cap, but the device receives the lowest priority on the tower.
That was a major impetus for this video, IIRC. The "MongoDB is web-scale" video went around Google about a month before Broccoli Man and some enterprising Googler figured they could use the same software to make a satire of Google's internal tools.
A note on the mortgage: I understand your aversion to debt, but choosing a shorter duration mortgage can increase the probability of default, even if it shortens the time to the point that you are debt free, because for any given amount of cash reserves you have it shortens the runway you have if you lose your income.

As long as mortgage money is cheap, the most profitable course of action is to use the 30 year mortgage, but keep a large chunk of money in reserve and invest the rest in the market for the long term. And never allow yourself to not be well-cushioned.

Debt gets people in trouble when they use it to get things that put them on the edge, where losing a job causes them to miss a payment. For people who stay far away from the edge, and are good with money, it's very profitable.
This is pocket change on the scale of monthly crypto thefts/scams.
I think they're really trying, but just slightly missing the mark. They're raising a lot of ideas that aren't in the book, but are actually relevant to the concept of psychohistory. Things like the group think exhibited in various factions, many of the characters grapple with the way society constrains their freedom of action. The identical genetics of the emperor/s raises the question of the relevance and nature of individual identity.

I think they actually do quite a good job of integrating all these themes of freedom, social constraint and inertia, personhood and destiny. The first book doesn't really do any of that, so in doing so the show is diverging dramatically from the story of the first book. Nevertheless given psychohistory they're all interesting questions. Later books do explore various implications of psychohistory, but I don't think it's viable for a show to wait x-many seasons before bringing in these themes.

The problem is the actual story is a bit sluggish, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt because I can see what they are trying to do.
Maybe. Still this constellation creates demand for Bitcoin. And demand creates value.
> Once again Apple is showing how to do things stupidly.

To be fair if you or your company are dumb enough to buy these devices your probably also of a mind to take it in for expensive repairs.

Its perfect business logic from the fruity chaps.
> disingeniously manipulating public opinion

This is code for promoting viewpoints that the creators dislike.
I'm a huge fan of Arch. Not only can you quickly search for packages, but the packages are actually maintained and kept up-to-date. With Arch, not only is the software usually up-to-date... even if it isn't, it is easy to modify a PKGBUILD file—but they actually provide a package search on their website.

Even Ubuntu and Debian allows you to search packages on their website, but not Fedora. With Arch, when you search for a package, you can immediately see how the package is built as well.

Yes, Arch is not a distro for people that just want to run Linux with a bunch of out of date software. It is for people that want to take some building blocks and create the perfect distro for them. Unfortunately, the choices can be confusing at times, but it has been well worth the effort on my part to find out what software works for me. Once you do that, just keep a list of the packages you install. If you need to reinstall, it is easy enough providing that package list to pacstrap.
> characters that are dull speaking boxes walking around saying script lines.

You need to re-read the books. While the overall ideas and plot is good, the details and dialogue are terrible.
That's where I am currently. I don't mind working and enjoy it often times, but I don't have need to work for financial reasons. Finding ways to serve as an advisor/consultant doing meaningful work less than full time is REALLY difficult in my experience.
Absolutely untrue elsewhere. I sold two houses in PA without them ever appearing on the MLS, which is a privately run, privately owned database. It might also be untrue in CA, but I can't comment on that.
This reminds me of Dave Cheney speech "Solid Go Design"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zzAdEt3xZ1M
"Pocket listing".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_listing
Yes, cryptocurrencies are good if you want to finance illegal activity. However, since the vast majority of people are unable or unwilling to become international fugitives like Snowden, cryptocurrencies aren't especially useful as a way to post freely on twitter while retain your money against seizure by a hypothetical dystopian government.
I've ended friendships with people that could not be civil over our idealogical differences, despite my indifference about the differences. Many get sucked up into what's online and let it lead them offline. It's sad.
Intending to support it but never testing it would be a surprise. If I were designing laptop hardware I'd probably spend a lot of time booting it from external media as part of the design process. It would accidentally be the most tested feature of the hardware aside from maybe turning it on.
The alternative is to knowingly let people get infected. Almost everyone will get exposed. The vaccine is safer than infection, both in the short and long term. Saying “they got away with it” makes it sound like a conspiracy.
>Am I missing something?

Yeah, it would be just plain weird to ask for that contact information after a decade of tacit friendship on Facebook.

Not only that, but if I did ask for it, and got it, it would still be wrong before I ever needed to use it. People move and change phone numbers and email addresses quite a bit.
You sound like the kind of person who'd gladly own slaves if they could get away with it.

You'll forgive me if my ethical standards for myself require a somewhat higher bar than "got mine, fuck you".
I find Gilgamesh deeply moving. Near the end of the epic, Gilgamesh embarks on a quest for immortality, impelled by grief over the death of his friend Enkidu. After travails and adventures, immortality escapes him, and he is consoled with the following verse:

"What you seek you shall never find.

For when the Gods made man,

They kept immortality to themselves.

Fill your belly.

Day and night make merry.

Let Days be full of joy.

Love the child who holds your hand.

Let your wife delight in your embrace.

For these alone are the concerns of man."

(Tablet X)
> As a startup you're start to think if you made a big mistake choosing Ruby , even if it's easier to build something, being so hard to find affordable developers offsets every advantage you had.

I think many Ruby shops go out of their way to be clever. Many apps can "color within the lines". By doing so, you can hire mid-level devs in any language and tool them up on Ruby. Way too many apps have been built in a manner where the employer has no choice to hire senior Ruby devs.
> For the story certainly looks incomplete.

Quite the opposite. Modern stories (mostly) have happy endings. But Gilgamesh - like life - ends with (the prospect of) death. That is as complete as a story can be.
Azure Container Apps: serverless container service for running apps at scale
Maybe because mongodb had been out less than a year in 2010?
Sure, but they aren't required to accept any offers. And the odds of a private buyer making a better all cash zero contingency offer than an institutional investor is pretty slim.
Ah well, Manjaro was a blessing for me, so much that I donated to them as well. It feels like the best of both worlds - I don't have the motivation to install the system from scratch, but I'd like to use AUR.

Oh, and as others have said, upgrades are quite a YMMV thing, Manjaro upgrades haven't broken things for me since the last few years.
Well, be careful there, too. "Revoke" means something specific in contract law. It sounds from the way you're talking that you're trying to use a more everyday definition of the term to understand this contract.
I prefer Brave to either of those.
Ask HN: Best Keyboard for Programming in 2021?
This question has been here a while ago. Are there any new interesting keyboards? What is the best keyboard for a software engineer?
It has improved a lot in the last few years, but a few things to point out:

* It's slower partly due to the sheer quantity of metadata. This metadata can be quite useful sometimes but whether it's worth the price can be debated.

* It's slower partly because DNF is transactional and is keeping track of the changes made to your system. This allows you to do things like view the history of your actions, rollback entire package operations, roll back every operation since $date, and so on. And also it can tell you whether any given package was installed directly by the user, installed as a dependency for something else, which repository it came from or whether it was installed directly from a file, and so on. All of that is super useful for auditing and recovering from screw-ups, but it means the package manager is doing a lot more work.

* The default # of parallel package downloads is a little low. It gets a lot faster if you bump it up a bit.
The SSDs of 2015-2017 macbooks start failing and they are soldered on the board. I have a 12" that I can only boot from external now otherwise the device would be dead. With the M1 models you don't even have the chance to do this. Apple won't even change the failed ssds they will sell you a new logic board for the prize of a new machine. It's infuriating and the only reason I won't buy a machine until they make user replaceable storage the norm again.
> the market can remain irrational longer than [you] can remain solvent

This deserves to be stated on its own.
As soon as they make it possible to install free firmware such as coreboot.