skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Took my son to ER about 2 months ago. We were the only ones in the lobby when we came in. There were very few patients, most rooms were empty.

Granted that’s only one data point here.
Linux via Unix: Do one thing, and do it well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

Systemd: Not that.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670980 for an example.
If homed makes it into the major distributions I'm done with mainstream Linux.
Basically, systemd is a big binary that manages the system.

That used to be many discrete programs and shell scripts and files.

There is a lot of philosophy to consider from there.
It used to be process 1 was init, and it forked/exec'd everything else typically from /etc/rc (this elides over a lot) -its the first binary the kernel runs. Everything else stems from the birth of user process number 1.

Fork/exec is the lightweight process inheriting of open i/o and memory state with copy-on-write which made Unix a joy to work with. It's a delightful mapping of kernel and userspace into complex inherited tree of processes sharing that origin state (or not. You can close it all down, change things.)

systemd is a complex mega binary which parses control files and subsumes several functions. It's big. It's not small like init. It's not fork/exec simple it forks control processes and monitors children and does a lot of work some daemons did themselves (getty, inetd) but others didn't do. And you get to monitor things. It's not unlike launchctl on OSX or other platforms. And after all /etc/rc is now 5 or more/etc/rcX.d/ complex substates of states to look for scripts, SAT solver complex dependency stuff between semi arcane shellscripts... blah.

PRO: everything is now much more consistent

CON: greybeards like me hate it (beardless btw but meh) because it's complex
If TeraTerm would add sixel I'd be really happy since it does almost everything else I need perfectly.
Being able to seal credentials for services like TLS keys to your TPM is extremely dope. I welcome this feature a lot.
https://stockevents.app

~5000$/mo

An investment tracking app with a unique view of things (events).

Started just before corona, since I needed something like this myself. Turns out a lot of people were searching for something like that. The fact that many other investment tracking apps are either ad ridden, slow or have a bad ux helped as well.

Technical:

- App flutter

- Backend go

- Database postgres

- Hosted Kubernetes on GCP
Oh, I'm not commenting on the overall effect. From what I understand, international trade absolutely did get more complicated.

On the other hand, though, it gives the UK a bit more freedom to set its own laws and make its own agreements.

VAT laws that are actually designed to collect VAT, for example, plus we finally have a UK-AU FTA!
The more expensive it is the better it will have to be relative to free alternatives though.

Is it that you're doing a large amount of compute per search which yields better results but higher cost per search?
Looking back at the books I read, I read a lot I'm pretty lukewarm on. But a few that stuck out:

* Chronicles of My Life by Donald Keene. If you ever read much Japanese literature in translation (at least before a particular era) you'll recognize the name, and Keene's life was fascinating. Breezy, fun read.

* The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. I was skeptical, and had unfavorable views of this book based on impressions I'd formed by reading reviews, but once I read it and gave it a try... she was totally right about nearly everything she wrote and it literally was "life-changing." I got rid of a ton of detritus and ultimately going through the process of purging my things gave me the boldness to accept a job offer on the other side of the country and take off. The process also drastically changed my shopping habits -- I simply buy much less than I used to, not out of a conscious desire to be "minimalist," but out of recognition that I don't necessarily really want things all that much (though thinking about how much trouble it was to throw things away doesn't hurt).

* California: A History by Kevin Starr. About all you could ask for from a one-volume history... nice little primer to my new home state.
If I still haven’t beaten the game of life or cracked the buried treasure chest or rescued the sultry wicked smaht blonde princess from the tower of doom thirty years from now safe to say it isn’t happening and I’ll just seppuku. But until then I’m going to drink tea in cafes and mumble about nihilism.
> This is not a revolution I can get behind.

Read again my very first comment. It does not need to be a "revolution" to be useful. As long as it is can be really useful to some people some of the time, it is already valuable.

> After talking to a lot people, I don't think any self-respecting creator online wants to exist in that space for any longer than they have to because it's rife with scams.

Sorry, that is BS. Plenty of "self-respecting" businesses and people are willing to work just for the expectation of money through advertisements, why wouldn't they work for micropayments?

And again, the idea is to have another option, not to have an all-encompassing solution. It does not have to be a binary choice.

> Again you're changing the discussion to the customer, not the market operator.

Markets do not exist in a vaccum. The whole point of credit cards is that it makes the transaction easier/faster/cheaper for the consumer, so of course you need to look at the solution as a whole.

> the network itself and the miners (or whatever) is still the middleman

No, the network does not charge a proportion of the transaction costs. They provide a service. Do you count your electric company and your ISP as "middlemen" between you and your Amazon purchases?

> I still fail to see what the actual practical benefit of crypto...

Welcome to 1995: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gipL_CEw-fk
how can you search 'with privacy' / anonymously if it is tied to an account.
#physics:target #section-1,
#physics:target #section-2{display:block}

then wrap the sections in <div id="physics">
I hate touchscreens in cars, but I'll give Tesla the fact that their touchscreen is a modern screen that's not a complete piece of crap to interact with.

When phones can run at 30 fps and have no noticeable lag, it's infuriating to switch to a car which stutters on some ugly, unnecessary graphics and takes 0.25 seconds to respond to a touch input. Not to mention the whole "you're supposed to be driving a car" aspect.
systemd is a cuckoo bird that found the perfect nest, init. Not-a-hero.
> Become the internet's villain.

This is not about the problems systemd solves, but how they solve them and how they act while solving them.
Mine scaled to about $800/month this year (from $200/month in the previous years):

Escape Team, a printable escape room
https://www.escape-team.com

All revenue is generated via in-app purchases, and it is about 60% iOS, 40% Android.

People download and print a mission PDF with all the physical cut-fold-and-draw puzzles, then the app offers a $1.99 in-app purchase to unlock the audio narrative/gameplay for that mission. Most revenue comes from mission packs, which are $6.99 for four missions.

I am doing zero advertisement, if just works by word of mouth. I think that is because the game is a very fun and social activity. I also see hundreds (!) of custom missions being created for Christmas in the Mission Editor, there seem to be a lot of escape room-savvy Santas this year.
oh, it arrived today. nuts
Do you actually think that correlation proves causation? Wet streets cause rain?
Life in London, or the day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom in their rambles and sprees through the Metropolis by Pierce Egan.

I read this book for the second time this year, the two hundredth anniversary of its publication. It was a bestseller in the nineteenth century and led to many spinoffs, but nobody seems to read it anymore. A scan of an 1869 reprint is at [1]. The Wikipedia article is at [2].

I don’t know if this is a good book—the characters and plotting are thin, and the obsolete slang and topical humor make it difficult to read—but there seems to be a premodern masterpiece of postmodernism lurking in its self-referentiality and its dense, rambling prose. Even the footnotes have footnotes [3].

[1] https://archive.org/details/tomjerrylifeinlo00egan/page/n9/m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_in_London_(novel)

[3] https://archive.org/details/tomjerrylifeinlo00egan/page/64/m...
I'm not convinced crypto has failed to be a value store or an effective means of currency and these "arguments" don't really talk about the meat of the problems crypto faces.

1. Regulation is pretty much the defining factor in cryptos status as a "real" currency. It's never going to be legal tender without legislation.

2. The idea that the value of a dollar is intrinsic or demonstrable is hilarious. The gold standard is long gone and the petrodollar is a doomed idea that fluctuates wildly. Economics is neither predictable nor rationale, because humans are not. See: gamestop.

3. The amazing derison on the subject. Only America could develop such a polarizing narrative about something fairly mundane.

4. I work in fintech in a part of the world that's still developing. The banks should be scared of crypto and banks such as Monzo. The key quality here is ability to react to a market. Crypto is not as quick as cash but it's MUCH faster than inter-bank transfers (st least this side of the world).
Still slow to turn on and off, still makes me pick an input device 100% of the time on startup (not remembering my last selection), still crashes occasionally, still 40% of menu items are advertisements for various services.
Zen Garden is a great demo that shows what you can do with the self-imposed restriction of "you're not allowed to change the HTML", all your styling fits into a single small self-contained CSS file and you only need to style an article, navbar and some side panels but this doesn't make it a good approach for styling highly custom responsive designs for single page apps that have many UI components when working in large teams.

Experienced developers that understand CSS well have tried for years to make the Zen Garden approach work for complex cases but solutions like e.g. Tailwind and Bootstrap (where semantic HTML tags should always be used regardless) have been invented and risen in popularity as they scale well to complex cases. It's not because developers are lazy, don't understand CSS and aren't aware of current (and always evolving) best practices.

When screen readers and search bots will still understand the semantic HTML tags no matter what styling approach you use and you don't need swappable themes as a core feature of your site, why would you impose the restriction on yourself that you can't modify the HTML as you're changing the styling if you find it comes at a cost to development efficiency? Your docs and data are usually going to be stored and marked up in JSON, XML, Markdown, a database etc. then transformed into semantic HTML so you're still keeping data and presentation separate in this sense (and styling this core content of articles and blog posts is the easiest part of styling), but why try to separate content and styling further than this?
Not seeing how this could be clickbait or even misleading. No one had to intend anything, and there doesn't have to be evidence of drivers doing anything. The NHTSA is investigating to see if they have to enforce some laws, and that made Tesla pivot.

Also the rule seems to be that you can bring a distraction into a car but you can't build the distraction into the car. Which seems totally reasonable to me. I mean, even after Tesla got rid of the games, passengers can still play any non-Tesla-exclusive game on their iPhone, so it seems like no one is really harmed.
not to mention the new problems it introduces
systemd-networkd will now automatically configure routes to addresses specified in AllowedIPs=. This feature can be controlled via RouteTable= and RouteMetric= settings in [WireGuard] or [WireGuardPeer] sections.

Wow, that’s a pretty significant breaking change that I’m surprised to see (and one I don’t really agree with; there was reasoning behind not doing that in the first place). This is going to bite most users already using the WG functionality if they don’t realize when upgrading.

I really hope apt will notify users about this when upgrading.

sd-boot gained the ability to change screen resolution during boot-time, by hitting the "r" key. This will cycle through available resolutions and save the last selection.

Neat!

Overall I learned to stop worrying and love the systemd, especially systemd-networkd. The maintainers can be impressively responsive in acknowledging and fixing reported issues.
I think my favorite was Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky is very good; I think the biggest challenge is just getting used to Russian names, which is exacerbated by the typically large number of characters. But if you're willing to brave that, I don't think I outright disliked anything of his I read.
I wish I could say the silence of nobody caring was deafening, but it's being drown out by the sound of our leaders marching us toward destruction.
(I am really happy paying the App Store/Play Store the commission, by the way, as they handle the global tax management - I wouldn’t want to send a tax report to every country in which some user made a $1.99 in-app purchase…)
Let me ask every single web developer a straight-forward question.

If huge tech companies like google, facebook, airbnb etc are unable to make fast websites... then why should we use their frameworks and tools?

I really feel like the emperor has no clothes here and it's insane for smaller companies to try and ape them.
As someone who has learned Linux/Unix just the past few months using a systemd based distro, I find it a breeze to use. Great documentation, FOSS, and really easy to pick up. I just don’t understand why there is so much dislike thrown around when that energy can be focused elsewhere on truly bad behavior/software. And from my understanding, there are distros out there that don’t use systemd for those who dislike it that much. It’s really perplexing to me as someone newer to the community.
Privacy and anonymity are not the same. We do not claim anonymity although if you read our privacy policy you will see that it is very close to it (as we do not log searches at all, so it it not possible to tie them to a user).
So where does that leave Locke, Smith, et al?
You make a valid observation. However I doubt that most Systemd haters are champions of commercial bloat. If I had to generalize, I'd assume that they dislike both.
Oh I saw that! It is amazing! I recommended it to a friend who is in the right situation :-)
Manufacturing Consent is a good one -- the thesis sounds straightforward enough, but walking through it feels like having one's third eye opened.
Again, what is with this mentality that can only think in extremes? No, someone who is just starting with crypto should not be thinking about estate management. But someone just starting with crypto should not be putting so much money into it to even worry about that. They are - by definition - just starting.
I agree. That doesn't make it OK to deceptively remove context from a quote.
Yesterday I learned that it has its own alternative to NTP: systemd-timesyncd. Quite a big dose of NIH.
Solaris's init/service/network management is/was just as complicated and it was definitely still UNIX.
We've looked into this quite a bit actually. Auspost did work out the cheapest, at least initially. However, Auspost's recent price increase was particularly painful. Children's books have fairly large dimensions, so our pricing is largely dictated by parcel size, rather than weight.

I can't remember whether this factored in, but we are ourselves reasonably remote. Technically Melbourne, but not really. So I think the typical advertised rates aren't always accessible to us.

It doesn't help that Auspost recently implemented some sort of automated parcel measuring/weighing and it's incredibly wrong. We use the exact same box for every single delivery, yet we randomly receive bills to our business account claiming we've underpaid postage due to the odd parcel supposedly fluctuating in dimensions, by over 10cm in some cases!

Needless to say, we will definitely be revisiting this again. Will for sure check-out Sendle again. Thanks!
The Low-and-Slow Approach to Food Safety Reform Keeps Going Up in Smoke
> And let me ask a question, if systemd is crap, why does every major distro use it? If it was truly crap then surely the distro builders would use the alternative?

Because it's tightly coupled to everything (particularly to the few profitable parts of linux - most open-source is maintained on a shoestring, so it's pretty cheap to take control over development of even vital low-level infrastructure). This is how systemd bypassed the bikeshedding problem of there being half a dozen replacement inits but no clear consensus, with the result that everything relied on a lowest common denominator. But it's toxic for the long term, because it undermines the whole point of using linux if you can't swap out pieces or maintain your own forks of individual components.
Hands down The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't [0]. The subtitle might make you think this is a gotcha book about "wrong thinkers" but it's really a practical guide about how to improve your own thinking. Bought several copies for Christmas presents this year. I'd run across it a few times online and dismissed it (based on the title) as yet another Gladwell-style fluff piece, but Scott Alexander's review [1] sold me.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Scout-Mindset-People-Things-Clearly-e...

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-scout-...
the ESC (VSC) comes in the next gen of accord, but lots of circa-2000 vehicles have VSC (every make has an acronym) The technoilogy reaches back well into the 1990's. You'll find plenty of safe, well constructed vehicles.

VSC/ESC/TCS/VDC & etc. is like ABS as it uses the same wheel speed sensor, but instead of pulsing the calipers to prevent lock-up, it reduces the vehicle's engine output to prevent wheel slippage.

Its pretty good (especially in snow) but nowhere near as critical as good quality tires or ABS unless you drive like a maniac. Most of those older cars are still gonna be good in a crash, if you need some extra peace of mind consider a Volvo or an S-class MB for the crash stuff.

ESC/VSC is scattered around vehicles well into the 1990's.
SystemD has something of a reputation for being a bunch of arrogant young engineers making fundamental changes to the long established status quo in order to solve clever problems that range from tiny-minority-edge-case to non-existent.

It’s an absolute classic anti-pattern any industry veteran would recognise. Your new-grad engineer, top of their class and incredibly smart, spends two weeks rewriting a core system in Idris without telling anyone.

So accordingly, I was delighted to see the following:

> [files in] systemd-homed home areas are now internally owned by the "nobody" user and dynamically mapped to the UID used locally.

> This makes migrating home areas between different systems cheaper because recursively chown()ing file system trees is no longer necessary.

All that to save a chown -R if I screw my drive into a new PC (or rebuild the current PC around it)?

If I move it to a non systemD system, you’ve just added the need to chown -R all my files because the new OS says they are all owned by nobody.

I don’t even believe for one moment that a recursive chown of 100k files takes any appreciable amount of time. Certainly not when it’s a one off. (5s for 66k files on my crappy VPS just now.)

In any case, the nobody user is a blunt but useful instrument for running daemons as a user that does not own any files. I don’t really want some janky daemon to run as a user which has write access to /home/gorgoiler.

[I have some guacamole prepared, to spread on my inedible but soon to be eaten hat, the moment someone links me to a diff showing the author of this change as Alan Cox.]

[Update: The hat and condiment survive, author is one L Poettering: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/cf5115f6e531c65bbb...
This would be a great Tell HN.
Yes, much of California is green this time of year and yellow-brown in the summer.
>there is no type that is the equivalent of List<?> in Java.

std::vector<void*> ?
I get the impression that startups get something like a 10x multiplier in kudos, stock options, chances for a next round, (pick your reward) etc for signing up a new user than for a repeat visitor logging in. The former means growth; the latter doesn't. Hence it's always easier to find the signup button than the login button.

Fucked up incentive structures like this are why we cannot have nice things.
Did it after years of lurking and finally feeling like it’s worth it. This was in response to the application in question requiring authentication from the get go.

Ultimately it’s laziness, but dealing with authentication is annoying and I can’t be assed to do it for something I’m not already valuing
You mean systemd timers?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Timers

They were always there, and they work much better than cron in my experience (you're not forced to use cron expressions because it supports things like human-readable time formats; they can randomize startup times, which is useful for backups; they can put additional constraints (like "start only if network is available"); and they can actually be controlled from a single place (systemctl list-timers) instead of cron files that can be spread across multiple configs and directories in /etc/cron*, and pretty much every single user profile).

It's a tiny slice of functionality and it makes a lot of sense to keep it in the service manager.

Try harder next time.
Bad Blood was a great one, though one that makes you feel like there's a deep rot at the heart of the American elite.

I haven't read that Keefe book but I really enjoyed The Snakehead.
consistency ftw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29670751

gimme open-rc or gimme death

actually, sysv was fine too

open-rc solves the parallel-startup desire for people who want a faster boot and doesn't hide logs in binary formats which can only be interrogated with specialised tools - my primary reason for leaving Debian-based systems that I'd used for 16 years was having systemd forced on me and trying to deal with how to read good old system logging, not to mention 5-minute shutdown times, slower boot on the same machine than with Ubuntu's upstart or with open-rc.
I confess that I found the Iliad a bit ponderous, but the Odyssey is just a rollicking good time.
Lovely article and such an interesting way of creating single page apps. I never knew about this usage of the :target selector.

I think a major issue with this approach is just practicability - I'd want to write my content in something like markdown and we will anyway need JS to convert the markdown to HTML.

I have also been interested in making SPAs, my my way is more traditional. Using javascript for the stitching. But only Vanillajs. I don't use any frameworks and bundlers for my SPAs. In fact right now I am working on a simple blog: http://rishav-sharan.com using just HTML, Vanilla js and Tailwindcss.

If anyone is interested in my approach, I have an article detailing things there, or you can just read through the source. Its un-minified and fairly readable.
Easy solution. Use progressive compression for images and set loading="lazy" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Laz...
In the Chinese reverse merger fraud of the late 2000s/early 2010s there were hundreds of bogus companies that walked off with at least half a trillion dollars. Roughly 10X the size of the Madoff fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Hustle