skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Immortality Key by Brian Muraresku. It’s a cool look at lesser known side of Western civilization, namely estatic spiritual experiences.

Even if you don’t agree with the author’s conclusions, it’s very well researched and a fun read.
Yes, exactly. I expect Grindr to alter its service for users in Norway or block them entirely (hence the "for all practical purposes").
Some folk decided that whiteboard interviews are broken, and the more enlightened way is to pay candidates to work on more representative tasks that take longer, and pay them for their time. GP is exploiting one of the failure modes by treating these interviews as paying gigs.
What do you mean "jump ship"? There are plenty of Linux distributions that still let you choose.

Genuine question though: why didn't Lennart and his gang just fork some Linux distribution for their ideas? Why invade everywhere else instead? Anybody ask them that?
literally depends on page speed for revenue.

Turns out, this might not be true at all.
No need to drag Unicode normalization into it; don't require strings to be normalized. Normalization is only relevant in very specific contexts and you don't want to pay for it elsewhere.
I really don’t think having timers is the best example of this. systemd at it’s core is a resource monitor — a tool that sets up and babysits different types of things — processes, mounts, sockets, scheduled tasks, devices, etc. and manages the dependencies that exist between them. It fits right in with the other stuff.
The Book of Why by Judea Pearl was good, and informative, and left me wanting to find a good textbook on the subject with practice problems so I can apply the concepts in my real life causality problems. Unfortunately it seems the textbooks on causal inference aren't quite designed that way, and I may need to learn R before proceeding.

It's already a well regarded title, so perhaps you've read it already, but Never Split the Difference was a pretty good book on negotiation, focused on navigating the emotional barriers to a mutual agreement. I'd put off reading it because the title sounded trite: "focus on win-win situations!" but really the book is about defusing conflict, and persuading people to agree to things already in their best interest, not brainstorming outside-the-box solutions to things.
I can see using Mutt as a knowldge-capture system: email notes or links to yourself, or to a designated notekeeping address / alias.

But how do you incorporate workflow into this, particularly task-management for both one-time and repeat tasks?

(I can think of a few possibilities. I'm interested in what you're doing specifically in this regard, if anything.)
I love Algeo! I've been using it for years. Well worth the money. Neat to bump into you on HN!
A 20-year-old car still has computers in it. 3G is 20 years old as well.
Hi,this sounds amazing. If you have to to post, do you have any advice how what level design f competence is required to analyse a business like these before buying?
Also how did you find the businesses.
these are just edge cases that get a lot of media coverage. By in large, people in tech, law, finance , etc. are making a lot of money and while being ethical and hard-working. The fear that society is overflowing with opportunists who are just looting the system or getting by without work, is overblown. I understand the author's frustration, but incompetence, favoritism, lying (except perjury), and nepotism are generally not crimes, and very few people are able to get by without doing the necessary work. Also, plenty of non-famous people also engage in shitty behavior too but it's not newsworthy.
Excel+Sheets taken together even >1.2% :-)

And 3 respondents answered they use their own custom language :O
I'm not sure people appreciate how many hours of "hacks" are going to disappear nearly overnight when real time ray tracing becomes common place. Things as conceptually simple as "soft shadows" have multiple manifestations and implementations, and require dozens of hacks to pull off believably.
is this the same borrowing concept as Rust?
Thanks. I have read Three Men in a Boat and I enjoyed it. I started reading Tristram Shandy a long time ago but couldn’t get into it; I should give it another try.

Speaking of unread books, this year I compiled a list of fifty nineteenth century novels that nobody seems to read anymore [1]. I’ve read a couple of them myself, and they were reasonably entertaining. Maybe others on the list are as well.

[1] https://blog.archive.org/2021/07/14/forgotten-novels-of-the-...
Immune by Phillipp Dettmer. It explains the second most complex system in the universe in enough detail to understand it.
Up until 2019 or so the key fob remote start will work forever without a subscription. But for the newest cars they are saying once your subscription to the app and remote service stops, your radio key fob based remote start will stop working also. Some of their models only get support for 3 years, after that it is $8 a month
Administering hundreds of linux servers is my job and has been for the past 20 years. Fixing bash scripts left and right was a nightmare. I love bash, but not for this. The right tool for the job and all that. Systemd made my job la lot easier. So yes, I do think Lennart does a great job.
That’d result in a fork for the major distros.
Yes I think you're right!
Having users that want to return is objectively good. We've just taken this to the wrong conclusions.

I strongly suspect that this has to do with attribution and shallow "data driven" choices - there is a heavy bias towards things that are easier to measure. Especially in startups with limited resources.

Measuring retained users regardless of anonymous/known state is very hard and lossy. So the nearest easy to measure analog that is often picked is logged-in users and we start the fucked up cycle you mention.

Similar things happen around all metrics that have to do with retention. We know that a better experience through higher performance and better UX is likely to create happier users that return... but we cannot prove it (easily) so we focus on optimizing other things.
Take the best coder you know, take their bugs-per-line-of-code rate, and multiply it by 713,364 (systemd *.h *.c)
What ModernMech said. I think what that other often downvoted user said made a lot of sense and that he's wrongfully being downvoted, so I wanted to talk to him in private and share our experiences. There is nothing wrong with that.

Also, "users here are very tolerant of that" — I'm sorry, I have to disagree with that hugely. You say I'm "suspicious" because... I have repeated behavior of being suspicious? That's a circular reasoning.

Also, this "repeated behavior of being suspicious" actually means "repeatedly having a different opinion about China". How is that being tolerant again?

It is exactly because of this that many people don't dare to post alternative opinions about China on Hacker News -- for fear of being socially ostracized. By chance I happened to encounter a few people on Twitter who turn out to be one of those so-called "bots" on HN, and they told me they posted anonymously because they fear the shit that will land on them (downvotes, accusations, more) if they post with their main accounts.

There is nothing suspicious about not answering about a subtopic. I can say things when I want to and not say things when I want to as long as I don't break any rules. I also don't answer about Hunter Biden for example, and I don't have to.

I already said many times before why I have a different opinion and I post so often about it. I am Chinese and I am fed up with the lies, propaganda, villification and manufacturing of war consent. There is nothing suspicious about speaking up when you think there is something wrong in a community.

In fact, I assert that the only reason you think such behavior is suspicious is because you have been too influenced by anti-China propaganda. You and the mainstream media have such a warped view of China in your minds that any message that deviates from the mainstream view automatically looks preposterous or fake. But here I am, a westernized Chinese who posted nearly nothing about China for 20 years of my Internet history, suddenly posting about China after having witnessed on the ground in early 2020 how many lies the media told about China and COVID (and as it turns out, many other topics as well), and being shocked and enraged at that. With a non-westernized Chinese citizen you can still say "oh but he's being censored/forced/brainwashed". As a westernized Chinese I have free access to information on both sides and I understand the western viewpoint very well. As a software developer who has developed stuff that hundreds of thousands of sites around the world uses and who has helped numerous clients, I have demonstrated my ability to do independent research. If there is anybody qualified to have a legitimate opinion about this topic, it would be me. So maybe you should seriously consider the possibility that, no maybe I'm not suspicious, it's you that may be wrong and that I may be right, and that the truth is in fact so far from that what you believe that the truth looks suspicious even when it isn't.
Also happening on an international level with countries ignoring climate change?
Completely agree, Japanese parts are more expensive than Western parts ... but then, having driven Toyota for most of my adult life, and now having switched to a domestic brand: They just do not seem to NEED as many replacement parts.

My Toyotas were built like tanks, they were virtually indestructible, in over 15 years, I had one major repair that I needed a shop for (and that was related to the seatbelt). Now, with my Ford (and arguably in homeoffice, meaning I do not drive that much anymore), it feels the car's more in the repair shop than on the road.
Reading this the following comes to mind: Wow systemd breaks important things and solves non-problems, awesome, I love systemd!
Ideas:
(0) build on the Matrix protocol (and get 2) and 3) almost for free)
It might work to fourier transform first (although likely will kill performance)
Great comment, thank you!

I've been thinking about a similar approach.

> I partnered with the guy who helped me build a fence to start a landscaping company.

How did you identify him as a reliable candidate for a business partner? Would love to hear more. Thank you!
I read this probably 6 or 7 years ago- thanks for the reminder! I should read it again.
Scala 3 has an optional non-null compilation mode which will turn Null into a separate type not subset of every class. In my opinion it is a much more elegant solution than Kotlin’s.
I thought this was going to be some philosophical, existential question, instead it’s “it takes a lot for a huge civilization to survive”.

But maybe Zion is ready for it? Maybe they’ve been prepping for the last 100 years.

I’d say yes, with one caveat, that they all get the choice to take the red pill or the blue pill. Some people would probably just rather be enslaved and secure, than free with hardship and danger, and it seems wrong to force it on them.
> 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.

You can, though? And many distros do by default.

Don’t like systemd-boot? You can replace it with grub.

Don’t like systemd-networkd? You can replace it with networkctl. Want to use it but prefer to handle Wireguard tunnels with wg-quick? Fine!

Don’t like systemd-resolved? You can replace it with dnsmasq.

Don’t like systemd-cryptsetup? systemd won’t care if some other system takes care of your LUKS partitions.

Etc, etc.
Thanks. This is actually what has put me off doing it. I don’t want an unsafe thing in my house! Also its the type of engineering problem i hate most - one where you meed to monitor 24/7 and all sorts of things can give you down time, but you cant really make it perfect because that would be too expensive.
Simplified setup, many variations possible

DNS: nsd or tinydns

listens on 127.8.8.1

query example.com @127.8.8.1

custom root.zone with wildcards

answer example.com IN A 127.8.8.2

Proxy: haproxy

listens on 127.8.8.2, returns user-provided certificate

replaces URLs, etc.

forwards to 93.184.216.34, verifies server certificate

To generate certificates, I wrote a "mkcert" script years before the one written in Go that is now being promoted by someone working for Google. That company's web browser has the majority share of users. Alas, that browser is unreasonably hostile to user-provided certificates for local addresses.1 Hence this is probably not a setup that is appropriate for everyone or every situation. For recreational web use, I like to manipulate and inspect traffic, this is more lightweight than popular alternatives (mitmproxy, etc.), so it works for me.

1.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7580508/getting-chrome-t...
Designing data intensive applications by Martin Klepmann. The best engineering design book I’ve read in my 20 yrs of experience.
This release should have my small fix for a pet peeve: if any local filesystem failed to fsck, the system used to go into emergency mode even if the fsck entry was marked "nofail" or "noauto". It contradicted intuition and documentation. It came up rarely but was frustrating to have the system broken until you were physically there, even if you tried to avoid this exact behavior.

Now the system boots anyway, just as it would if the filesystem was entirely missing.
> you used to be able to fix something and have it stay fixed

No, I used to patch bash scripts, patch the deb package, deploy to prod, then have to do it all over again when the init script changed upstream in the distribution. Now I just have my configuration management change the options I need in the unit file and never touch it again, so now I sleep while unattended-upgrades works for me.
This is a case of the Broken Windows Theory.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/broken-windows-theory
Side note, the word "marmouset" used to exist in French at some point in time. This house in center-Brittany is called "Maison des marmousets" after its sculptures: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_des_Marmousets
The red-brown of South Africa (and I guess Argentina and Australia too) are basically midway points of their lush green regions and dry desert regions.

South Africa is as green as neighbouring Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) in the east and south coast and almost as arid as the Namib desert in the far north west.

I suppose that's stating the obvious but still interesting. And could probably add some comment about how this shows the dangers of averages of any heterogeneous data.
More like replace a working system with a more unreliable one with stability problems (and prioritize more features instead of fixing it) and more resource usage, then push for its adoption, then complain when you get hate.

Now yes, it gives you more functionality, but it was a pain until it got there. Systemd was just Pulseaudio all over again (except now in init, so if it breaks your whole system can't boot).

Now, yes. initd is jurassic. Systemd got stable eventually and has gone beyond it. And this is more complicated than it seems. But still, it's the attitude that made things hard.
Can you elaborate? Systemd also uses text based config files... how did you calculate the "breaks" percentage? I've been using Fedora with Systemd since a few years now. Nothing that broke was Systemd's fault in any way.
Fantasy nerd.

Rhythm of War, book 4 in Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. Love most stuff by this author.

And in response to Amazon making a Wheel of Time tv show, rereading that. Pleasant experience, very nice to get immersed in this huge universe.
The Coddling of the American Mind was a good read for me.
I think the article has some flaws because it seems like the point of the article seems to try and link the sentiment given to people who commit deliberate unethical/corrupt behavior to non-deliberate and otherwise less-fortunate people, which I think is a bit of a disingenuous argument.
I'll have a look at your sources then.
Clubhouse is not a public company, at least not the one the OP commenter is talking about.
You have so many of them. How much time do you use for customer support? I'd like to publish multiple apps, but I'm afraid that customer support will take all my time.
The could have pushed the cost/revenue to users. I'd pay for ad-free & 3rd party client support as a user. Make the only free to use app the official one that shows ads.
The ending line was a home run. Fantastic ending to a fantastic book. I read it a month ago, and it would be my favourite fiction of the year if I didn’t also read The Grapes of Wrath this year.
It's not like the other distros had a gun pointed at their heads when they chose to adopt systemd.

I still wonder about my original question though. What's so bad about homed?
The movie with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon (with a cameo by the guy from Black Books whose name escapes me despite having seen him in person and I’m too proud to look up atm)
is a good skimming if not worthy of being called an abridged version.

NB: Dylan Moran
Judging by time spent, saas pegasus feels less like a side job and more like a full time job
Projects with 100+ tracks are not uncommon. Sampler/rompler of a single virtual instrument can play 10+ sounds simultaneously. Playback of an orchestral score with virtual instruments can easily go over 250 simultaneous sounds, so just a real-time playback (without any additional processing) would already be a challenge.
I personally think our modern lack of community here in America is driven by two things:

1. The Suburban Experiment in America [0]

2. The decrease of church membership throughout America [1]

I can speak to my second point a bit more in depth. Churches historically were centers of communities and social places. And as time moves on we as a society are (rightly so) becoming very suspicious of religion and churches in our lives (I grew up _very_ religious but I no longer am).

In my eyes, modern 21st century Christianity is very very different than it was even before the 1960s. It seems the cultural ideologies have shifted from service oriented to worship oriented. In my evangelical church the focus was on putting Jesus (the symbol) higher than literally everything else in your life in order to achieve "eternal salvation" in heaven. The main focus was just believing that Jesus came back to life after being crucified was the only way to get to heaven. There was less focus on service, empathy, and equality. People are leaving in droves because of this. I can go on about more changes that I've noticed, but I'll spare details.

We need to build new in-person social centers that are not built on mythologies and symbolism but instead more focused on society itself like the churches of old were.

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/14/ameri...

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/248837/church-membership-down-s...
Land can and does move without registering the deed (in most US states). There are dangers in failing to register, but it isn't manditory. Doing so will certainly reduce the legal headaches, but the fact that a land right is not registered does not make that right unenforceable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_(real_estate)
This dog-eat-dog "if you don't steal, you won't survive" endemic level of corruption and ubiquitous legal broken windows is IME not uncommon in shitty third-world countries (of one of which I'm an expat) where scarcity leads people to prioritize their own needs over common decency and consideration towards others. The "everybody else is cheating, this is the baseline" attitude always felt wrong, but, just like the article said, you were made to feel a fool if you didn't participate in it. The US felt like a place that, while not immune to cheating, had strong social and legal norms around it.

The most recent phenomenon of this kind I can recall was people lying to vaccination centers about having medical conditions that would help them skip the line ahead of everybody else. I was and still am vehemently opposed to lying about that, despite having been told numerous times that the government would have just thrown the doses away if nobody used them up by lying about their status. Again, you were made to feel a sucker.
Is Lennart/Red Hat meant to be the internet's villain? Perhaps that's the view of a small minority.

I for one am very grateful for Lennart/Red Hat's vast contributions. Leading modern Linux.
As mentioned in the article, “A growable language” shows us that a programming language has to evolve. I think Java does an excellent job of not including everything and the kitchen sink right away, but wait a bit for the hype to die off and usually implements new features when they are worthy, often in a superior way. This “last mover advantage” was even part of the initial ideas behind Java.
Here are all books I read (this year so far I read 50 books):

https://books.j11g.com/search.php?log=3

Three books from 2021 stick out:

- If This Is a Man by Primo Levi. I would urge everyone to read this. This history should be known to everyone.

- Defying Hitler (the story of a German 1914 - 1933) by Sebastian Haffner. Masterfully written autobiography that explains the rise of nazi Germany more than any other history book I ever read.

And one more for the HN crowd:

- The hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz. Often tipped, but it really is an insightful book, and a fun read.
I agree with what you're saying. But I think there is a certain level of risk where the "average person" can experience negative effects. Society, by definition, is comprised of average people. Until something is likely affect them, they don't care much about it.

In my personal experience this applies to politics, climate change, trust in institutions and many other "big" concepts. People I know tend to be fully focused on their families, their careers and their hobbies. Anything that won't materially impact one of those things is trivia.

This seems to be true of most humans, throughout history. I don't see mass adoption of any system that solves the problem of trust until regular violations of that trust impact the median citizen.
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. It's a great read, and I learned a lot about the early years of the US. It's also the book that Lin-Manuel Miranda used as a reference for the musical, so I watched the musical for the first time after reading the book, and it blew me away.
I'm looking forward to reading this. I listened to this excellent podcast with David Graber's coauthor, David Wengrow about the book and the fascinating discussion really hints that this will be a good read.

https://srslywrong.com/podcast/242-the-dawn-of-the-dawn-of-e...
What does a large body buy you that you con't get by accelerating directly?

An interstellar craft orbiting a Rogue Jupiter ... doesn't have a planetary surface to land on, might benefit by available material from the giant itself (most notably hydrogen gas, a potential fuel, energy source, and component in replacing water). There might be captured moons affording other materials (mostly lighter elements presumably). There might be a slight gain in being able to gravitationally slingshot to or from the giant.

Otherwise, going it alone seems generally more advantageous.
That's important of course, but the cached code will have to be refreshed when there's a change (could be done partially with code splitting), so how long the cached data lasts depends on how often the Search page is updated. For Google that probably isn't happening daily, but it could be very often. Hopefully Google have split out the hot code that changes a lot in to a small bundle so the rest can sit in the cache for a while.
Yes, I use a lot of APIs. None of the very expensive ones tho. Finding good financial data is really hard. :-/
fixed size FFT (eg length 64) can be made scary fast.
If in the USA - what is the situation with hospital bills? Knowing that a day in the hospital can cost thousands, I wonder how people manage to pay for a month of intensive care.