skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't actively hate systemd, but the distros I use these days (Void and Alpine) don't use it, so neither do.

I'm generally a fan of simple systems that don't do much controlled by simple text files. Maybe systemd is way better at runit for more complex workloads than a desktop or a simple server. But maybe it isn't. The intersection of people who like systemd and have tried runit is probably quite a small one!
Apologies dang, I regret the post. Quite right pushing it to the bottom where it rightly should be.
For people who own FSD, is it actually "getting so good"? Last time I checked with Tesla owners I know, the verdict was mainly that it just wasn't reliable enough and not worth the price. I know Tesla has been putting some serious focus on this area, so I'm curious to know if things have changed.
I know people like to pick on this. And I know that it is a factor.

But this seems so incredibly reductive.

“80% of teens have iPhones? Must be the blue bubbles. RESEARCH DONE.”

There isn’t a single other reason kids might like it? This is literally the ONLY reason? Did you even talk to a couple of kids?

I’m not denying iMessage is powerful. It sees incredible usage. I don’t know what the numbers are but it wouldn’t surprise me if they would put Facebook to shame (on a message/post/attention basis).

But couldn’t anyone do a deeper dive than the first thing that comes to mind?
What's wrong with irssi? Why's it not listed here?

EDIT: disregard, this is a list of updates, and irssi had no updates
Now you’re tracking users, undermining one of their USPs.
If something were to be proposed as a systemd replacement today, I'm pretty sure I'd treat it with a lot of skepticism. I likely would use arguments the sysv folks made like "why fix what isn't broken" etc.

Excluding the kooks angered enough to send hate mail to the systemd developers, I can understand the old criticisms and aggravation from sysv folks. I was front and center as a relatively new user of Fedora at the time systemd was adopted. While I was familiar with sysv, I wasn't attached to it. I also found sysv a lot more confounding and obscure than systemd in the early days, even though the transition did have rough spots. But I'm definitely attached to systemd now.
Trial by Combat Between a Man and a Woman in medieval Germany
It's funny, many years ago when Bitcoin was relatively new I and a number of others pointed out that there is no particular reason why it should have any value, since there is zero barrier to creating your own cryptocurrency and therefore supply was effectively unlimited (and thus prices should decline long-term). Various unsatisfactory answers were given at the time, and since then the USD price of Bitcoin actually increased very significantly. Yet every time I see something like this, I immediately think back to that argument -- these alternative "tokens" or "coins" or whatever people call them are simple to create and seem to require minimal promotion to start attracting buyers. I wonder if we will eventually see this space become so crowded that those early objections wind up playing out...
Cringe.

The US was a colony to the UK. Singapore was some shanty island town that even Malaysia did NOT want to take in because how bad it was.

Just like you cannot have a fit body without exercising, you cannot become a prosperous nation without hard work and a predictable rule-of-law. There is no way around it and to blame "colonialism" is nothing but empty words that will help no one.
It clearly doesn't mark Avira as virus so it is not adequate.
That's the figure responsible for my "less than 1%" statement and I'm not even sure how accurate that estimate is. Honestly it makes no sense to me.

> The index is built on the premise that miner income and costs are related.

> Since electricity costs are a major component of the ongoing costs, it follows that the total electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network must be related to miner income as well.

> To put it simply, the higher mining revenues, the more energy-hungry machines can be supported.

So BTC price shoots up all the way up to nearly $70k. This means miner profits will also increase proportionally since they get paid in BTC.

The problem is they try to correlate energy consumption with miner income. Profits are up so energy consumption must have risen proportionally as well? I'm not sure I buy that. When BTC prices rise, profits must be higher and therefore the costs will represent a smaller percentage of miner income, not the constant 71.44% that's apparently assumed by this study.

The way they estimate the minimum energy consumption does make lot more sense.
> The best part was the emails I'd get. Wow.

I've never been more curious. What sorts?
How to grow, manage and begin a crypto community
The issue isn’t with mRNA vaccines. There are conventional vaccines for COVID used in other countries like China and they’re even less effective. It seems to have more to do with respiratory viruses or coronaviruses specifically.

I also don’t know of a time in history where a vaccine was developed for an emerging disease as opposed to one that was already endemic with a lot of natural immunity around.
Do you think more miners will join if Bitcoin gains more adoption? Their is a cost to even find out if decentralization (through blockchain) is even worth it.
that's great because the unix philosophy is pretty much a PITA as soon as you get out of grep | cut | tail | tee. I definitely don't want "unix philosophy" for operating system management, that is the wrong tool for the job.
Foreign-born children in Japan struggle to enter universities
I can't directly speak for the autonomous groups of people in loose orbit around https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/ who can be labelled the apes (I know for sure there are other groups but this is an easily accessible one), but what I've observed:

Goals:

Elimination of FTD's, period. Market participants who FTD regularly are ejected.
Information symmetry between blob & retail - true regular reporting on short positions, Swaps, other derivatives. Teeth for this.
Increase in reporting penalties to be less than a cost of doing business.
T+3 Settlement to T+0.
Widespread usage of implementations like IEX to eliminate profitability of low-latency arbitrage.

How:

Routing orders through IEX
Exiting brokers who are simply bad for retail (Robinhood)
Withdrawing equities from the DTCC accounts and broker dealer system as a vote of no-confidence (GME recently stated 5m+ individual had directly registered their shares w/ transfer agent as of Oct 31... and put it on their 10-Q, making them only company I'm aware of to have done that in past year).
Suing brokers/applying regulation pressure to those who don't allow basic rights (direct share registration from europe)
Actual monitoring of which brokers are dipping their hands in their customer's cookie jars (see: Fidelity a couple months ago suddenly posting 10m+ shares available to borrow in a very illiquid stock. Where could those have come from? Customer's cash accounts? Oh, it's not *lending*, it's *posting as collateral*? etc)
Signal boosting for existing, honorable efforts: Dennis Kelleher @ https://bettermarkets.org/ / Susanne Trimbath
Awareness & localized support of legislation
Filing FINRA complaints, getting in touch with compliance officers, actually watching & asking.

The beauty and confusion here is, you just have a lot of people learning and teaching each other. Over time, they learn more and do more things.

I'd say probably most valuable at this point in time is the mixture of identified and pseudonymous journalism increasing financial literacy/awareness of just how... pardon my french, fucking bad, the existing incentive structures are w/r/t regulators. Good example: https://upsidechronicles.com/2021/09/05/how-wall-street-shor...

Suspect most valuable long-term will be the mass direct registration of shares in individuals book names rather than beneficiary ownership through a broker. If/when the apes have directly registered all available shares, 1) any significant amount of continued trading volume in lit markets is fraudulent and you have a slam-dunk legal case. 2) GME could legally exit participating in the DTCC and move onto a crypto-run automated market maker which meets all of the above goals. Any synthetic GME positions floating around would have to be immediately and forcibly closed, and there's a lot of material research on how the real number of shares floating around might be on the order of magnitude of 1 billion. Big problems for the blob.
A similarly related topic would be log4j debacle and the lack of common awareness of it's features before being used as a vector for exploitation.
From a good SO answer, see https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/16493/difference-b...

"A confidence interval gives a range for E[y∣x], as you say. A prediction interval gives a range for y itself.".

In the vast majority of the cases, what we want it the range for y (prediction interval), that is, given x = 3, what is the expected distribution of y?. For example, say we train a model to estimate how the 100-m dash time varies with age. The uncertainty we want is, "at age 48, 90% of Master Athletes run the 100-m dash between 10.2 and 12.4 seconds" (here there would be another difference to point out between Frequentist and Bayesian intervals, but let's make things simple).

We are generally not interested in, given x = 3, what is the uncertainty of the expected value of y (that is, the confidence interval)?
In this case, the uncertainty we get (we might want it, but often we do not), is, "at age 48, we are 90% confident that the expected time to complete the 100-m dash for Master Athletes is between 11.2 and 11.6 seconds".
This assumes the environment is completely predictable.

If you know the strength of every link in the chain with perfect accuracy, and you know that the only potential cause of failure is too much weight being placed on the chain, then the only link that can fail is the weakest[1] one because no other failure can happen before that one.

But really you need to design for the idea that various things might happen. Someone else gave the example of a person choosing a link to cut with bolt cutters. The person's choice is what's not predictable in that example.

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[1] And if you assume it's not possible to have two links that are exactly as strong as each other.
I miss Systemd inside Docker containers so much. IMO, for an app, "one-process per container" is a huge pain and very messy. I have a massively popular software to back up that claim: https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker

I use phusion/baseimage-docker[1] right now, love every bit of it. Having the database, web server(nginx) and the java backend all in one place works beautifully.

The only pain point is having to write `runit` scripts for startup and shutdown for each service, hence the wish for Systemd inside containers.

1: https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker
I didn't mean it to be 'if that ever happens', if that's how it sounded, just that when it does, they've surpassed what Dr conveys in a way, so it's not necessary to distinguish doctored professors from those that aren't.

It probably also contributes to this that it's achieved more readily in the US, 'professor' conveys a much more senior position in the UK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_the_United_K...

(Although not at Cambridge any more, according to the section above that linked.)

I recall a few having email signatures that also mentioned their equivalent US title, perhaps having had trouble being taken seriously enough in transatlantic collaborations, I don't know!
If only most of the cost was folding it (and if only Elon Musk's solutions somehow changed all the problems to fit them).
Antivirus companies are universally scummy anyways. But this trend is going to continue for regular software
See https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS?id=2d...

Color me as part of the anti-systemd crowd, but i still got to support it on machines where i didn't get to choose.
Wait, how does that work when the cars are stranded along 100 miles of highway in the snow?

They Fast DC charge this line of stranded vehicles 100 miles long from what, exactly?
There was a post here recently about how 87% of US teens are using iPhones. As somebody who was a "green bubble" in the past I can see how peer pressure inflated that number.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29817807

I do agree that defining a market as "cell phones for teenagers" is a bit disingenuous but I definitely feel like there's something really unfair about not having iMessage for Android. The green bubbles are basically a marker of not being part of the in-group even if you have something more expensive than an iPhone.
Those are externalities, not service costs.

In strict accounting terms, yes.

But in practical terms -- the cost offloading that is inherent to BTC is so blatant and direct that it barely qualifies as an "externality" (and only in an abstract, technical sense).

The gist of the GP comment was, in essence: "Isn't BTC nifty because it can do all these things, and it costs basically nothing to run." When in fact the exact opposite it true. And in fact there are still countless people running around trying to downplay its true cost.

If you can’t admit the nuclear bomb was an engineering achievement

I will accept that the bomb was "an engineering achievement". But I'm not going to get out my pom-poms try to lead the room in a cheer to the effect of: "The Bomb was an astounding engineering achievement that keeps the world safe for democracy, and at minimal service cost".
Right, but NOVA said that running out of fuel ended Kepler.
If anyone wants to create an open source printer I think they would get some sizeable backing. I would take anything that can print text onto random A4 paper and takes reasonably cheap ink. There's not so much already in this space [1]. Just keep the goal simple and achievable.

It's way too dangerous, but I often pondered a "zero ink" solution that burns text directly onto paper. Essentially a high-speed laser engraver. I could imagine given heat and fuel, you would want to limit oxygen, possibly by pulling a vacuum.

I would also like to see what a modern take on a dot matrix printer could be like.

[1] https://www.appropedia.org/Open_source_Inkjet_printers
Didn’t emacs get developed on ITS or Multics? Seems Unix just imported it, but your point still holds.
Not true. Apple might actually have a larger marketshare in Japan than it does in the US, but absolutely no one in Japan is using iMessage.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/ios-more-popular-in-japan-and-us-...
In my opinion this is the way to go, documentation close to the code but still indexed in a real knowledge management tool. That's one thing that we are building at Dokkument, but I would be really interested to know more about what you have done, especially how those files are then indexed on Confluence
Do you have more info about retrofitting classic cars with EV technology? This is a very neat concept, but I’ve not got the best Google-fu to break into this domain, it seems.
I would save your time. The "apes" are bagholding on a pump and dump. The reason they want "systemic change" now is because the fortune they promised GME investors would make has never and will never materialize, and the only way to continue evangelizing is to sell the stock of a failing physical video game retailer as your ticket to some kind of brave new world.
> Rust is much less of a problem for anything manufactured this century. Suspension is pretty cheap to fix, it cost me <$2000 to get my entire front suspension replaced a while back.

I'm guessing you don't have below freezing temperatures, and roads sprinkled with salt every winter? That's the real suspension and car chassis killer.

I've also heard that it's similar near seas (or oceans), where non negligible amounts of salt from the sea are present as aerosol in the air.
Hoops, Groups, and Feedback Loops
It’s buzzword bingo with the aim to inflate the writer’s ego and intimidate the reader. This stuff happens all the time when insecure people get to write things.
Unironically published by a newspaper that puts royal family drama on the lede.
I don't know about HP, Ive sworn off HP since Corina brought it to the ground.
Nuts too!
Without bitcoin I would still advise putting savings in stocks, bonds, a little precious metals maybe. I don't see bitcoin as savings as much as a currency or insurance policy against all your material assets and bank accounts being seized and/or stolen.

>that can be transported out of the country.

There's a lot of value in this though, no? The 10k limit on undeclared financial instruments held in your personal custody through customs and KYC/AML laws in banking mean crypto fits a big void that was previously much harder to fill.
Any Stack You Like
Agree. A replica wouldn’t have to be sent to L2 for that matter. Pretty sure a lot of science could be done with even a slow trajectory leaving the solar system, if orbiting something else is infeasible.
> Academia is all about prestige. You gotta let them have it, it's the main thing they care about.

That couldn't be further from my experience, I almost always emailed 'Dr Blah', because it just seemed correct to me, but they'd sign off 'Tom' (or whatever).
A rudder would work to counter any torque from the solar wind, and can be used to orient it.
It's lacking a maintainer, so didn't have any changes to talk about. I pointed to an active fork called Neırssi instead: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...
For the init system, the most common predecessor was a combination of sysvnit and "initscripts" (a shell script for each daemon on your system). Writing the init scripts was simple for the most basic cases but quite complex for complete, bug free case coverage. A big appeal of systemd for packagers and sysadmins was the relative simplicity of unit files. Now we just have to fill out a simple boilerplate INI style file for most services.
No, you cannot, even though people constantly try.

You really need to use all the data for countries that are reasonably western/developed (to avoid Africa with a much younger population and less testing biasing everything). It's all available and there are no valid excuses not to. As I never tire of pointing out, Swedish people aren't aliens and nobody claimed they were before they inconveniently proved the countermeasures weren't warranted. If you use all the data (from developed countries), Sweden ends up way ahead, which is conclusive proof of many things.
I used to do this, especially with patch releases. Just bump the version and hope the build passes. My mindset has gradually shifted over time though.

These days, it's more a case of updating one thing at a time, and doing the research up front to see what I'm gaining from it or if I might as well stay on the current version. No point updating for the sake of it.

That's 5-10 minutes of up-front, preventative effort that might otherwise become hours of reactive firefighting, and as much time spent on damage control, if it got into production unchecked.
>Since the original "hidusi[.]com" domain was down, we needed to host our version of side.html. Hosting a file is easy, but how do we make the Word document use our domain instead

What's interesting here is the author just didnt host their own internal dns infrastructure. Editing the file is simple in it's own way, but I guess coming from an operations side I'd have setup a DNS and http server to handle it.
I use Apple Maps too, daily in fact, but only if I know a specific place I'm looking for and I want to get there. What I meant in previous comment was say "milwaukee tools Inverness" to see what shops are stocking them locally so I could possibly go pick them up rather than ordering online. These sort of searches are still behind Google sadly. If I search for "Screwfix Edinburgh" that's totally fine.
Here is an alternate method for an audience that uses a terminal. It might be -D on mac, can't remember.

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echo 'c29tZS5lbWFpbEBzb21lLmFkZHJlc3MK' | base64 -d
Well, it's pretty simple really - I'm not a big fan of financialisation. I think it's done some pretty serious harm to the world - even many libertarians, simple minded though they may be, have the good sense to point out that wall street is bad. Now I don't really blame you personally for day trading or buying gold as a store of value or whatever, but it isn't helping your argument that bitcoin is doing anything good if it is literally just "wall street but with massive energy costs, less regulation, and full of even more scammers and financially illiterate".
I use catgirl for outgoing IRC servers and sic for bitlbee.

Catgirl is much simpler than IRSSI but it doesn't support TLS'less connections.

On the "Slack has superseded IRC" wrong supposition... IRC was already declining from the AIM/MSN days and then Whatsapp/Telegram nearly killed it.

But, as Usenet, it's still widely used on geeky niches. it's the de facto medium for technical questions for programming or computer/networking stuff.
There is space between breaking your foot while kicking a filing cabinet and formal review processes.

I’ve been straightened out, for example, by a reasonable explanation of what I did wrong.
What exactly is the difference? Censorship for the purpose of protecting business interests is still censorship by any reasonable and honest definition. Even moreso considering the history of copyright law and its relationship with censorship regimes...
i think the more common thing is discovering this when you’re at the negotiating table
If you have a second, I'm curious to learn more about your head scratching experiences with JVM. I want to make a program that I can trust will still run the exact same (bug-for-bug compatible) many years in the future without maintenance. One approach is to make it completely bug-free using a formal verifier for a strict formalization of C, but this is extraordinary effort and there is no guarantee that bugs in the stack of garbage my app sits atop and the libraries I call (SDL2?) will cause unwanted user observable behavior. Truly bug-free is actually stricter than what I really need; I just need exact bug-for-bug compatibility so that my bugs always are deterministic. It seems with the JVM at least, the bug-for-bug determinism is really good (except when it obviously isn't and can't be, like thread scheduling, network communications, ...). For client GC there is a low-latency guarantee and people seem happy. Have you found the Java GC is not all it's reputed to be? There are so many huge companies with billions invested in Java and its bug-for-bug compatibility, I think it could easily still be around in a 100 years along with COBOL and is a safe investment for individuals who value longevity above what is trendiest and shiniest.
Using Docker for Game Dev
Web the RIPper
> double the data

Yes, but the data has diminishing returns as well.

The real value in a second unit is having a backup in the event of a total failure of the first. But that's a hard sell to the taxpayers who fund these things.
The official Arch stance seems to be "You should have read the blog before updating", and I enforce that by updating maybe 3 times a year at most.

I think I'm just used to the installer. I like doing everything by CLI. Ubuntu is always trying to push something odd like Snap, and I think Xubuntu is defunct. The Ubuntu installers are very opinionated on what kind of desktop they want you to have.

One of these days I'll just buy all the ThinkPenguin stuff and go to FOSS-only Debian with xfce. Debian has a great installer, too. Then I'll turn my desktops into cattle-style systems where I blow up the rootfs once a year for full system updates.