skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't point the blame to the garbage truck, but I agree with your description of it as scare-bait. I would gladly accept random 25-second delays from the fire department in exchange for eliminating the 30~40k American deaths[1] each year due to traffic fatalities.

[1]: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...
Since the coins only have “value” for the airline, the company could just store them in a centralized database and write a program for users to authorize trades.

The only benefit of crypto-coins is that if the airline were to go bankrupt, the coins would still exist and could be used as any other crypto-currency. And the value would probably crash anyways.
It's true and it's almost a vicious cycle: Because the cost of being without a phone is so high, people are unwilling to let strangers use their phones in case they run off with it (or drop it in a puddle).
Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware
Tempo, a lightweight timestamp decoder for macOS
> The question is: why break the onboard updater in the first place? And all those other features?

Because none of those features are irreplaceable and/or crucial to run a perfectly fine workstation.

> if you want to replace everything because microsoft is bad and can't be trusted, then start by replacing the kernel.

Unless Windows kernel phones home over some covert physical channel which is undetectable by tools like Wireshark running on a separate gateway (and secretly supported by all routers in existence), there's absolutely zero need to replace the kernel when all said phoning home can be stopped with a properly configured firewall.
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If you do that, college loans will be given only to the risk-free people. It's good for the country that some people go to college and fail to become wealthy off of it. That's why the government got involved. It's wasting human potential, and keeps poor people poor.

So it's not simple. Realistic solutions that promote the country as a whole involve balancing different goals. One of them is avoiding the way colleges use the loans to increase prices without increasing education.
Many people do not know but Newsom's ex-wife used to be Kimberly Guilfoyle: https://www.kqed.org/arts/13885405/kimberly-guilfoyle-used-t...

Now, I don't vote based on character to a certain extent, but Newsom has both: Terrible policies and a terrible character.
Acutane? I remember having a conversation with my doctor as a teenager about it, and even he wasn't sure about cause and effect.

Does the medication cause depression? Or was the person already depressed due to having acne so bad it needed medical treatment? Either direction seems reasonable to me.

That said, he was careful to who he handed it out to, and we decided against it.
Autonomous car didn't seem to fail to notice the fire truck, just that it arguably took the wrong course of action by yielding to the right instead of reversing into the intersection.
If you are building internal apps for delivery over a fat pipe to known clients, consider advocating for a much simpler front end that can dramatically reduce the complexity.

You don’t need SPAs when virtually any client has a guaranteed 10Gbe connectivity to the server room one floor down… basic MVC with server round-trip will provide indistinguishable performance for basic data-entry CRUD apps. And you can sprinkle Vue into those parts where you need on-the-fly context switching without losing what’s currently being worked on.

Plus, if it’s more of an industrial environment with thin clients and low-end mobile devices, a non-SPA front end will likely prove to have superior performance anyhow, as these kinds of devices won’t have the oomph to effectively lift an SPA anyhow.
Oh, I shoot stills on Sony equipment, so I just use good old SD cards. And film when I need high resolution ;)

I agree that RED is cost-prohibitive for individuals that aren't running a business because of things like the 500% markup on SSDs. That is always the risk of a proprietary ecosystem; kind of like how you can buy 128GB of RAM for your PC for a few hundred dollars, but the same RAM in an Apple computer is $1600. That's just the price of "we guarantee that it will work", and for business use, it makes a lot of sense. For consumers, it kind of sucks, because you feel so close to being able to afford something really cool, but you just can't make the math work.

I do understand the pushback; people want to pay for the impressive sensor and not the mind-numbingly-boring SSDs, but they want to make money on both. I am not sure that's strictly consumer unfriendly, but just how they do the financial engineering.
I haven't been on lichess in a while, but I do remember being very impressed by the software.
This is what it boils down to. Systemd has been solving problems that all distros have been facing.

Unlike most Linux development, they haven’t focused on what their devs want to do (which for much of Linux is repackaging Ubuntu with uglier skins, and Ubuntu itself is a repackaging of Debian/Gnome), but rather, are solving problems that distros are actually facing.

The consequence of that is that nearly every distro goes with the systemd solution, and it’s this popularity that leads to people complaining that it’s being forced upon them.
An hour each day?!

It must be hell for anybody on your team having ADHD. If it's remote they probably drone the meeting out and play solitaire or something I guess.

Also, the cost...
Because for basically every new thing it replaces, it causes problems that the thing it replaced didn't have, and Lennart Poettering often pushes back against fixing these problems.
I would just call for them and let them use speaker phone.
Magic Doesn‘t Happen, Especially Not in Business
The service is making them available. You have to pay a premium for this service. If it wasn't for scalpers, then you (probably) just wouldn't get one, unless you're waiting in line for the store to open.
Apple fixes the problem by just raising MSRP by $200, automating the scalping and allowing Apple to capture all of that price difference.
> systemd is monolithic as opposed to the old Unix philosophy of small, simple tools that compose

Isn't the typical Unix kernel that most users interact with a giant monolithic program with some runtime modules but mostly compile time configurability? I think this goes all the way back to the original Unix kernels.
Now that is really stretching the definition of a car - I can't imagine why anyone want one over an E-bike or an electric scooter.
Much like many cities - NYC included - are seeing people leave because they are no longer tied to wherever they had been with remote work, we're also seeing many people moving here specifically because they can work remotely from NYC.

Available rental inventory is almost nonexistent right now, vacancy rates are at the floor. Much of our new development is exactly the kind of new amenity building that folks in the high-earning tech remote worker crowd often seek, but its still not managing to keep pace with demand. There's a shortage of inventory for virtually everyone except the billionaire class (not that they occupy much of the market in absolute terms).

I've been in NYC about a decade an even in pre-pandemic years that most folks agree were much more stereotypically booming and I can't ever remember a housing market that was so frothy.
I've tried to reproduce #76318 as best as I could (using a fork of the CE version of GitLab). https://github.com/zegl/gitlabhq-cve-test/pull/1

Codeball did not approve the PR! https://codeball.ai/prediction/8cc54ce2-9f50-4e5c-9a16-3bc48...
Real estate is leveraged - often times in the US 33:1. Stocks aren't.

You also have to factor in that it's a hedge against inflation on rent, and that part of your rent payment is going to principal, and that your mortgage interest is tax deductible.

If you think the average return for the S&P 500 unleveraged beats owning a PRIMARY RESIDENCE on 5:1 leverage, when your marginal tax rate is 45%, and interest rates are 2.7% on a 30-year fixed... I guess time will tell, but it is INCREDIBLY unlikely.
That's because leadership is failing.

The correct response of leaders is to ignore wealthy citizens attempting to prop up their multi-million dollar 3bed4bath properties and let them know, "We're going to zone more areas for residential development, sorry. 2500 square foot homes shouldn't be $3 million in any area in America."

And all these rich liberals - and they are liberals - use the same bullshit line over and over, "I'm all FOR affordable housing... I'm just afraid it'll change the character of our neighborhood."

Bull. Shit. You. Lying. Fuck.

You thought you'd be able to set up your grandchildren for life because you chose what was a relatively sleepy, and honestly kinda shitty, city back in the 1970s. Fuck you and fuck off.

What they're really afraid of is that some politician who really does give a shit about the city will come along and upend their apple cart and their 50 year old brownstone will only be worth $1 million instead of $7 million when they die.
>> dated, a little wrong about some things, but not insane (like _Applied Cryptography_ is).

Why is "Applied Cryptography" insane? As an interested bystander, I'm curious to know more.
>There were a lot more sudden deaths in football in 2021 than in any other year.

This is the part that is wrong. There not more sudden deaths in football 2021, there are just more entries on the wiki page for the year 2021.
Between 2014 and 2018 617 players died according to the FIFA SDR, but the wiki page is rather short for that years.
Option C, you don't sell your product on an open market an actively prioritise some customers over others.
27% of the people in DC work for the federal government. If you're looking to criticize people for living off of tax dollars, there's a lot less honorable ways of doing that than working a 9-5 in an underpaid public service job.
This example is what we're discussing, e.g. the article.
Let’s be generous and say 50/50.

But look at it this way: one was a vehicle with no driver present in the seat, and the other was a vehicle in which a driving agent is never not present. A human driver in that situation should not spend longer than 5 seconds figuring out and implementing a way to safely let the fire truck pass. The Cruise car took longer.

If a human were present with two working eyes and ears and armed with good judgement, they may never have been blocking the way in the first place because a fire truck in SF is blaring it’s horns while it charges to the situation it was called in to answer so it is entirely possible that seeing the garbage truck parked up ahead, they would have opted to not even continue driving because that looks like an obvious choke point for an emergency vehicle trying to pass. Alas, I cannot reasonably expect that kind of situational awareness and judgement from an average human driver so maybe that’s also too big an ask from Cruise.

Also note this from the article:

> The fire truck only passed the blockage when the garbage truck driver ran from their work to move their vehicle.

So in the end, the Cruise vehicle was not the one which allowed the fire engine to pass but a hurried garbageman moving his truck after getting back in the driver’s seat. 50/50 may actually be too generous to Cruise here.
I'm in Oakland and I'm not in SF all the time, but it does feel like Market St. / the Financial District is the most affected post-pandemic, but the rest of the city feels like it's as popular as ever. Lots of SF residents I know in tech are working from home but are still living and enjoying the city.
"For a modern personal computer", systemd is pretty much spot-on what you'd want.

On the other hand, if you're running a bunch of fast-scaling containers/VMs, and just want init to (re)spawn one (or a handful) of processes, then step aside as quickly as possible, sitting there quietly, reaping zombies - TFA has this page:

https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Init/#standalone_...

And there are other alternatives as well, such as:

https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init

https://github.com/krallin/tini
I think it is like old car vs modern cars.

Old cars are finicky and you need to keep maintaining it. But people know how every part of the system works, and they can repair it with a duct tape and a piece of bent wire.

Modern cars are full of electronics and don't break as much.. until the do. And then you need all new tools to repair them, and those tools are much harder to use, especially if you are used to old cars.

(I myself spent plenty of time on pre-systemd systems. I can tell you wonderful stories about apache children cleanup, and debugging failed startup at scale. I use systemd all the time now, and don't miss rc.d a bit)
Many USA states allow up to 26000 lbs (11800 kg) on a regular driver license. (Which is awarded after one casual road test when you were 16 and each state thereafter accepts your prior license as proof of skill). Commercial operations like Amazon delivery intentionally order trucks right up to this 26K limit to avoid having to hire CDL holders (commercial driver license) and follow DOT regulations.
Also the AI researchers behind these innovations don't want them to be used in this way. And I can't blame them.
Building and running WRF on a Raspberry Pi (2021)
So you meant there are more entries and not more sudden deaths.
It brings Linux closer to Windows in philosophy. Systemd is building a coherent large codebase (albeit modular) that solves all the problems, as opposed to Linux userspaces old philosophy of having a collection of "expert" tools, where each tool or project did one thing, one thing only, and did it really well. Then the system was a collection of such expert tools.

The collection of expert tools naturally aren't as well-integrated with each other, so on a system level the solution might look a bit spotty. But every function is thought through and works really well. Plus, each tool is useful on its own, which makes the system very configurable, introspectable, and hackable.

The "one big codebase that solves all problems" approach might appear more stable all-in-all, but it's a fundamentally different approach where you no longer have a bunch of expert tools, but rather a large collection of mediocre software components who's only real purpose is to be integrated with each other.
Yes it is an impossibly high bar, and no they will not persistently get better unlike humans until they develop fully generalized AI.

It's so an easy to just say human drivers aren't as good, but it's not grounded in any reality.

Just take voice controlled assistants for example. We've made pretty big strides on them, haven't we?

And yet an entirely unmotivated teenager who's doing badly at school working a 7-Eleven outperforms voice assistants by several orders of magnitudes, through the sheer wonder of context clues and general intelligence, no matter how dim you want to assert that teenager to be.

I am proud of my voice assistant when it properly understood that I wanted to indeed set a timer for 50 minutes instead of 15 minutes, while any person would immediately understand what I mean even in a noisy environment just from why I'm setting the timer, and even fuzzily adjust their behavior based on what continues to happen.

Anyone who claims automated cars can fully learn the arbitrarily complicated physical situations they have to navigate around is either disingenuous, or does not know how computers work.
> SF is nowhere near as bad as some of the roughest parts of the Bay. Not by a longshot.

You’re absolutely right, but compared to other global cities SF often looks comically bad, and certainly has the appearance of decline. No fundamental reason it can’t rise again though.
Related:

Without Systemd - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14875452 - July 2017 (49 comments)

Without Systemd - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9515125 - May 2015 (88 comments)
I agree with you.

But even the Manifesto has some points that make it impractical in many circumstances.

To stick with a single example: is it safe to favor customer collaboration over contract negotiation when dealing with high budget projects? Changes in requirements, delays, reprioritizing in client's side, those are all things we know that may happen. How are we going to deal with them after you favored customer collaboration, and that collaboration doesn't exist anymore?

Agile requires Trust. But trust is a fluid thing, and we must cope with its fluctuations.

The client is cooperating? Good, let's get a bit liberal about some rules, but let's keep monitoring the situation. The team is mature enough to self-manage? Good, let the team manage itself, but keep an eye to see if things are still running smoothly as the time goes by.

The biggest problem of Agile is that it takes Trust for granted and assumes that every single stakeholder wants the project to succeed, and shares the exact same definition of success.
Nice knot! I agree with the others, I use the taut line hitch frequently, but this is interesting and looks like it will get easier to tie after a few times. Then it has a pull tag for a quick release.
> At a media tour of the new Gigafactory I was told by the PR people how much Musk liked my (softball) question about how he felt achieving his Gigafactory dream.

Wait. You were asking him a softball question, presumably to "reward" him for the access he gave you. That's how it works.

So why are you then making a point of bringing up he's winking back when you wink at him? It sounds like you're playing the game, enjoying it, and when something goes wrong you go spill the beans that a game exists.

I don't think this is naivety as someone else here mentions, it's something much worse.
No, the threshold for genocide is actions like erasing whole cities off the map with zero regard for civilian life, and mass kidnapping of children.
The only clear outcome from the LinkedIn case, afaik, is that scraping publicly of accessible data is not a federal crime under CFAA [1]. There are still plenty of other civil ways that someone can sue you to stop scraping their site: breach of contract, trespass to chattels, trademark infringement, etc. And they can do so over and over again til you're broke. OP is based in Italy anyway so I have absolutely no clue what does and doesn't apply.

I'd like to point out that, while HiQ Labs "won" the case, that company is basically dead. The CEO and CTO are both working for other companies now. So I think the bigger takeaway is: don't get yourself sued while you're a tiny little startup.

[1] https://www.natlawreview.com/article/hiq-labs-v-linkedin
Why would I want to use this over my cloud providers or the several open source stacks commonly used?
medicine is like being a mechanic for the human body. You are mostly doing the same thing every single day and the rate of change/innovation is extremely slow.

Science also moves extremely slowly. You can spend your whole life studying one aspect of one molecule.

Investment banking might be soulless, but happiness ultimately comes from relationships - friends, family, and community. The most precious commodity we have is time and making a lot of money can generate a lot of free time.
No - that's the one it seems economists recommend.

Politicians go with what panders to their base, not with what economists recommend.
Frankly because of the extreme arrogance originally displayed by Poettering and his cronies, in the vein of Apple-style "you're holding it wrong" when people would raise valid criticisms of some early systemd warts.

Nowadays systemd is pretty good and not deserving of the hate it gets, but early on the opposite was true.
Broadly, systemd was trying to do two things at once:

- be "opinionated" software

- supersede all other software in its category

Very few other free software projects have tried that combination.

I think it might have been be possible to do without angering large numbers of people if the developers had been significantly above average in both technical judgement and the social aspects of developing free software.

But the systemd developers weren't either of those things.
Lots of people complain about its complexity and how many lines of code it is, making it very difficult to audit; it "goes against the UNIX philosophy" because it tries to do too much.

No dog in this race, so if someone wants to correct me, feel free to.
Another thread from the TechCrunch transportation editor: https://twitter.com/kirstenkorosec/status/153027887741036544...
There are alternatives to [very many] individual core competencies of systemd. Obviously a direct alternative to a kitchen sink such as systemd would be just another kitchen sink, so there's no such thing like that, that I'm aware of.
That argument falls apart when you realize that the same people adopting the "shall not be infringed" stance also "back the blue" and vote in favor of the physical mechanisms of tyranny. You can't simultaneously argue that guns are necessary to fight against a tyrannical government and then turn around and approve of things like probable cause, qualified immunity, civil asset forfeiture, increased surveillance under the auspices of border security, and increased funding for police. The argument is intellectually dishonest coming from 90% of the people who make it. If they were really interested in "liberty" they would be in favor of ending the drug war and the laws associated with it, but they aren't. They just don't want to admit that dead kids is a price they're willing to pay to keep their fun toys.
Definitely the suburbs around the major cities. 40 minute walk to the nearest store does seem unreasonable.

2 hours to bus to work or 15 minutes to drive.
There are, we are not as dependent on it, and you can bet that the absolute majority of people could live on car-sharing and cab-hailing systems, which would mean that 99% of the "self-driving" problems would go away.
I'm just stating a common traffic law. If you're driving, and an emergency vehicle is coming at you with it's lights on, you yield.
Then there will never be driverless cars on the road, because that's kind of a requirement to gather knowledge to build capable driverless vehicles.
Those that have "made it" are moving out of SF and the young and hungry are moving in. SF has seen a wave of Gen Z inbound recently. I'll take that trade anytime.

"the number of rental applications by people who fall into Gen Z (defined as those born between 1997 and 2012) have increased by 21% in the past year. Meanwhile, as we just discussed, rental applications from every single other generation have been lessening. Millennials, for instance, saw an 8% decrease in rental activity...

Between 2020 and 2021, people who fall into Generation Z were filling out 21% more leases nationwide, as compared with the year before. When that search is narrowed to San Francisco, Rentcafé says those 20-somethings had a 101% increase in rental applications. They now make up more than a fifth of all people looking to lease in SF."

https://sfist.com/2022/03/22/san-francisco-is-getting-younge...
Most of these are the usual suspects in capital-intensive industries (energy, transportation, telecommunications), but a few of these are taking their place due to acquisitions.
Yes, for average business people in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Not unusual for adults to have them, uncommon for students and children to have them.
Sheer...human...curiosity. When everyone can afford a comfortable lifestyle, what else do you think humanity will do? Drink themselves to death? If that were true, we would already be long gone.