skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar experience, though only now am I faced with the existential crisis that "2013" is going to be "a decade ago" in a few months. My Arch Linux install started life as a VMWare Workstation image. It made it through two major init systems (sysvinit -> systemd), different audio subsystems (alsa -> pulseaudio -> pipewire), different WMs (gnome2 -> kde4 -> i3 -> sway), three filesystems (ext3 -> ext4, ext4 -> brtfs -> ext4, then ext4 -> zfs), several different versions of VMWare Workstation (7 through 14 I believe), different storage substrates, etc. It's also lived on three different uArchs (AMD Bulldozer c. 2012, Intel Skylake c. 2016, and Ryzen c. 2020) but VMWare abstracted most of that away, of course.

Eventually I got fed up with Windows and decided to `zfs send` the install to a real disk and booted it on bare metal. It has been my daily driver since then for the last 2 years or so. (I did drop into the Arch installer a last year to unfuck my bootloader while trying to get rEFInd & ZFS Boot Menu to work, but that was just building a new initramfs; I haven't run "pacstrap" since I built the image c. 2013.)

The flexibility this operating system has provided me with is nothing short of amazing. I do have to say though: since switching to Wayland + the in-kernel AMDGPU driver, I can't remember the last time my system was rendered unbootable. (Excepting the one time I tried to change my bootloader, but that's user error.) In hindsight I feel like the vast majority of Arch's reputation for breaking systems is overblown, and the blame rests mostly on DKMS + NVidia's proprietary drivers.
None of those are AI-generated (therefore don't have the potential massive automated scale) or auto-play.
It's a measurable metric but so is the ratio of pisces to aquariuses in congress. The question is how does that metric affect things you actually care about? Like sure it's weird that Bezos has the wealth of a nation state, but am I personally harmed by that? Perhaps in some theoretical sense a more equitable distribution might lead to some improvement but when you compare it to things like climate change or rogue ai it doesn't seem like much of an existential threat. So long as people are living longer, happier, healthier lives with new opportunities they did not have before, we're on an upward trajectory. It may not be the best of all possible trajectories, but it doesn't have to be.
If not more!
This actually surprises me quite a bit.

There are a lot of very expensive facilities on this list. Ones that I would not want to put much equipment in if I was at the scale I presume Digital Ocean is at.

But maybe it's a factor of organic growth and starting each region small, then having to grow into it. You can often get space for like 1/3rd the cost of Equinix but with a lot less services and maybe less quality. Equinix makes a very nice datacenter but you sure do pay for it.

If I were building a CDN or an edge compute product like Fly.io or Render, I'd certainly have a facility list that looked like this, because I'm charging a bit of a premium for excellent connectivity to population centers. Though I'd do some kind of managed hosting first until I had the scale to even get into collocation.

But for a bulk cloud provider I'd try to only use these facilities for things like network POPs, DNS services, CDN, etc. Then lease fiber to another facility that was a lot cheaper for the bulk of my compute. But that does take a certain threshold of scale to get there, and a longish planning horizon to make it happen unless you're growing at insane rates.
I have this impression that casteism can commonly exist in people that are otherwise progressive and non-racist, is that true? I once had a pen-pal that worked for the UN that at some point told me that she viewed the caste system as a "useful way to organize society". I was rather taken aback since that viewpoint didn't seem to comport with my other impressions of her.
> which is technically possible to implement, but the team has not gotten around to implementing it for years.

My understanding is that they did in fact implement it, but then ripped that code out before the release.
The parent comment said 'recently surrounded' as to say it happened last week.

As far as I know, nothing of this sort of happened.
> you are implicitly saying that you'd be ok with products being sold in the full knowledge that they would autonomously kill tens of thousands of people per year.

Which is the status quo for both cars and a bunch of other industries (pharma, tabaco, alcohol, fast food, the list goes on). Nothing is ever perfect (though many things don't have "death" as a potential failure case) but you are only looking at the downside and ignoring the lives that would be saved.

I don't think many families think "Well our Bobby died in a car accident that would have been preventable by technology but even if he had access to it thousands of other people would still die even while using that tech so we are ok with him dying".
Of course not. Nobody ever has "We're building the next mass surveillance system for totalitarian regimes" on their company's vision. They'll have "We're building a next-gen face recognition pipeline for airport security" instead.

But that doesn't mean the totalitarian regime won't be 10 times as likely to jump on that technology than the airports, that the company is blissfully unaware of this fact, and that money won't talk in the end.

But it also doesn't mean you shouldn't work on anything because everything can be used for bad as well as good. Otherwise nobody would do anything.
Trainline.com is for buying train tickets in the UK/EU, doesn't require any signup at all. Pretty good.
That is what happens if you have CI systems that doesn't cache sufficiently aggressive.
already a done deal
It's telling that you didn't actually address my point.

See, isn't innuendo fun?

Telling of what, precisely? If you think my point is false, please do say so. If you think my example isn't accurate, please say so. If you think my example is accurate but not a good analogy for the original discussion, please explain why that matters when I'm refuting a claim you made that is also not related to the original discussion.

Don't just slather on innuendo. Make arguments consisting of assertions of fact, reasoning from those asserted facts, and conclusions drawn from that reasoning.
River deltas evolve in ways that have no regard for real estate values.

Sediment builds up and constricts outflow until water finds another way through.

Levees and channelisation redirect sediment.
Have you considered that by not allowing that product to be sold you are indirectly responsible for any extra deaths caused by human drivers?
Arch isn't some small LFS niche distro anymore. At a certain point, you have to embrace at least some small amount of usability, or at least not reject PRs to add it. I found it quite embarrassing when one of the most popular distros out there had a worse installer than deb or slack from 20 years ago. That's not 'oops we forgot', it's not 'it was never really a priority' that's blatant user hostile elitism.
We do get a lot of rain and there are a lot of low areas. It was mostly "bottomland" before the woods were cleared out. Back in 2016, it basically rained for 15 straight days and flooded huge portions of north and east Baton Rouge. The past couple of weeks (start of August) have also been relatively wet, so that's likely why you're seeing excess water right now.
Hence digital will never be able to recreate the same continuous spread spectrum of auditorial frequency band and outcompete the analog in power consumption.

The trade off made by digital hearing aid manufacturers is you will only get “passable” hearing experience instead of par excellence … all this so that your battery life is merely 1.8x longer.

I’d take quality over battery life: makes a difference in distinguishing between V, P, Z, D, E, T, G, and C. But I’ve had to elect to take the one-way to CI because of total loss.

In short, all digital hearing models choke on high frequency range.
> Government corruption is rarely the main, or even among the main causes of oligopolies

I really think you're going to have to support this claim, because in my (admittedly US-centric) experience it is the only cause of them.

Sibling comment describing the US telco oligopoly talks about corrupt government behavior directly.
As promised 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31730221

Perhaps accelerated by the vulnerability 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31298435

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Implemented for npm 2.5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573578

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PyPI's transition was summarized a month ago on LWN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32111738

which linked the discussion I was originally looking for, where a project owner considered potential downsides: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037562 and a response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32061428
The Sense of Logging in the Linux Kernel
I meant users/customers, not employees.
The whole Mars colonization thing is absolutely a con, because there will never be a Mars colony, and Starship would in any case be wholly inadequate to the job of establishing one.

Even O'Neill Can Donuts make more sense.
You just described half the software development jobs I've had.
Most importantly, smaller. Segways are Huge.
I am currently running Fedora 35. I haven't reinstalled since at least Fedora 21 (maybe older, I can't quite remember)! Every 6 months, I do the standard fedora upgrade and keep on going! This reminds me, it is time to update to Fedora 36!
> Here DPD is best, they give you a 2h slot several days ahead and then a 1h slot on the day of delivery.

This must be a joke! DPD (DPDgroup, or whatever) is borderline incompetent.

I'm on vacation, and I needed a laptop. It was shipped from Germany ... after sitting somewhere for days. Then no information for 4 days on their tracking site. Then more information but I never had even an approximate day they would attempt delivery (let alone a 2h slot).

Said laptop is now returning to Germany, because DPD couldn't be assed to inform me they had a local partner in the country I'm visiting, or collection points, and because their local partner (owned by DPD, so corporate separation is no excuse) didn't feel like attempting delivery more than once.

It's not like they couldn't contact me: they had my email + phone + cellphone. They just didn't try (no, there's no mail in the spam folder).

I left them message on their website multiple time - it never had any effect on the "ballad of the laptop".

I've heard it from other people before, but now that I've seen it myself, DPDgroup is so utterly efficient that in comparison even USPS is a paragon of virtue at every level.
But helping mute the airforces of Russia and China
Feels like something the query planner should do to me… I wonder if this works on PG too, recently had some performance issues exactly due to large offsets :)
I feel like the lack of an MFA alternative is what keeps me from dumping my smartphone entirely.
Just want to reply to my own post here to add that most people don't realize that the Cirrus SR22 is the world's best selling single engine piston aircraft and has been for the past 20 years. And it's wholly owned by the Chinese government. I'm aware this is a different market, but I want to illustrate how we're losing our lead in some critical areas, while we focus on creating solutions looking for a problem.

Incidentally, Boom is 5 minutes from my office here in Centennial, Colorado and where I fly out of KAPA. I'd like to see innovative US aerospace companies succeed, but I feel like these guys are chasing the wrong idea.
I've recently purchased a monitor with poor HDR that I knew was not worth any cost premium, and I'm using it with an operating system that still has to get basic HDR infrastructure in place. I do not feel like I'm missing out. Other stuff is way more important in comparison, and no matter what you pick, there will always be tradeoffs to make.
100% agreed.

I've spent quite a bit of time modifying deb source files and rpm source files to do upgrades/downgrades/patches.

I could never start from scratch in making a package. I'd be so incredibly overwhelmed by all the different options and obtuse syntaxes and level of background required.

Writing a batch script that installs everything into a `$pkgdir` directory is so much easier to understand and get started with. And if you publish to the AUR and have some small issue, someone will eventually show up and tell you what's wrong with your script.
I do use a smartphone, for calls, chats, camera, navigation and sometimes music. But I deactivated Safari and uninstalled all other distracting apps.

I lived a few years without one, but it was hard to keep up with friends and so many companies require a phone for 2FA. Extra devices for camera and navigation do add up in cost in space.
Try doing 24 hours, with a 9 month old.

It was not fun.
This must be new, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.
Yep. Also don't have a smartphone. Also experience coercion due to it.
> As for strong/weak, I think it's a bit more fluid because I can't seem to find a set definition that everyone agrees on.

Yes, I've been looking into this lately, and the terms are messy. People tend to use strong to mean "strict in ways I like" and weak to mean "permissive in ways I don't like."

Division is a good example of this ambiguity. It always results in a float, so if you divide two integers, even ones that are evenly divisible, you get a float, so that's kind of a conversion, right? But on the other hand, I don't think a function that was defined as taking two integers and returning a float would be considered an implicit conversion, even if it were overloaded to also accept various combinations of float and integer.

Gary Bernhardt has a good discussion: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/compendium/types?share_ke...
That is what I am trying to say. It is not feasible. There are less airplanes or pilots compared to all cars and drivers out there. You can't have the same standard
Especially in the edge / embedded space, MLEng will imply more than just doing ops.

Stuff to do could include:
- Getting a network architecture to run.
- Applying optimization depending on target arch (pruning, quantisation, custom cuda kernels, etc).
- Integrating models (rule of thumb: a product is 95% ordinary code, 5% is ML related).
- Constructing benchmarks, monitoring
I don't know that it's elitism so much as not an interesting problem to solve. Like a lot of software, it's straightforward to automate the easy parts of an installer. But for it to work reliably, you have to account for so many corner cases and that it can become tedious and take a lot of dedication to get right. I think most Arch maintainers would rather spend their time working on Pacman or system stability issues that benefit themselves rather than new users.

I think most people who want easy access to Arch just go with Manjaro, which is close enough and gives you access to the AUR.
Exactly what came to mind
There's no obvious wrong except from your point of view and you provided no evidence to prove the wrong.

I'm not making personal attacks, you are. There's a language barrier which prevents you from reading what was written with comprehension. You're obviously not native English speaker and I'm sure you skimmed the text before replying. I wrote nothing that's an attack, I can't read the text for you and I can't know how you read what others write as I'm not inside your head. All I can tell you wrote nothing about the original article, you jumped at a person and wrote that they write nationalistic lies. That's an attack.

I just wrote, politely, that due to barrier present - this might not be the best site for you to use and that there are others out there that are in-line with the way you communicate and topics you're interested in discussing.

Outright attacking someone about "nationalistic lies" without even knowing their nationality implies you assumed the nationality, identity and intent. That's not something smart people do, therefore - why not fly to your flock?

I'm unsure what offends you, I did not make you not smart. You did that yourself.
What the hell was an 18-month-old child doing in a test vehicle?
I haven't used Go, and Gorm is new to me. I've just looked at it (with 15 years of AR experience, and a couple of EF), and it looks quite a bit like EF to me. In your mind, what makes it significantly better than EF?
TL;DR: I'm not sure I'd call this objective, it's written by an Manticore person. Manticore: Can parallelize queries to the same shard, has faster ingestion than ES, has faster start up, has beta support for Kibana, uses galera for replication.

Looks promising, I'd love to try it.
> Bike commuting always seemed to me like a niche white thing

Hopefully someone can find some more recent data on it, but as of 2009 [1] the demographics of cyclists in the US mostly matched up with the demographics of the overall population, with a couple of exceptions:

white:

- % of bike trips: 79%

- share of population: 75%

black:

- % of bike trips: 10%

- share of population: 12%

hispanic:

- % of bike trips: 8%

- share of population: 15%

asian:

- % of bike trips: 3%

- share of population: 4%

So only hispanics were notably underrepresented, with white, black and asian people being pretty close to their share of the population, and while there was a minor overrepresentation of white people at the time, it was trending toward racial parity (in comparison to 2001 data), and over a decade later I wouldn't be surprised if it's even closer.

For income level, the poorest quartile was overrepresented (31%), but the other three quartiles were pretty close (21%, 23%, 25%).

So with cycling being far less common in the US compared to other countries with safer infrastructure (0.6% of people bike to work in the US [2] compared to 27% in the Netherlands [3]), you're not going to see many cyclists, and since white people make up a large percentage of the population, if you see a cyclist, there's a fair chance that they'll be white. But as the country becomes more diverse (and hopefully more people begin cycling to work), hopefully that perception will fade, and hopefully the trend toward racial parity for cycling continues.

1. https://grist.org/biking/2011-04-06-race-class-and-the-demog...

2. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/05/younger-worke...

3. https://www.government.nl/binaries/government/documenten/rep...

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Was the same way in the jQuery days with equating it to JavaScript.

It's a compliment to the tech of how useful and prevalent it is.
GB is the more neutral term, UK is pushed by the Conservatives and nationalists/royalists
My preferred distro journey went: Mandrake -> Gentoo -> Debian -> Gentoo -> NixOS

I rage-quit Gentoo the first time (2002ish?) for Debian when stable portage got a broken version of gcc, making it very hard to recover. The second Gentoo was by far the longest, maybe 2003 through 2018? I'm 4 years into NixOS now and very happy with it. I actually run into issues with switching to new release channels almost as often as I did the few times I experimented with Ubuntu, but it's just so much easier to work around these issues by mixing-and-matching packages from different channels[1] that it just doesn't bother me.

It also got me to love systemd. Configuring systemd units (especially timers!) with nix is so much more ergonomic than the bare files that I pity anyone who has to do it by hand.

1: 95% of the time it's already fixed in unstable, the other 5% of the time I pull in the version from the previous release channel.
are you sure? it sounds like the exact same playlist on every station with the same owner in the same market with such little care about the content in the playlist but only based on an algorithm.

so maybe AI === brain dead corporate owners?
I was trying to find out if you could really discriminate based on freckliness and before my attention span terminated I found this interesting list:

https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/employmen...

[Edit/spoiler: does not cover freckles!]
Maybe "no true Scotsmxn" etc
There are a multitude of factors here, but the big one is that the office provides a space to regularly socialize with peers that I'm not directly related to through blood or marriage. The concept of a "third place"[1] is downright foreign where I live, likely because for most people in my community that role is served by the dominant church.
Interesting. Does Gorm have anything like Linq? autocompletion of queries? Compile-time validation between code and schema?

Once I disable Entity Framework object cache globaly (AsNoTracking), it becomes close to the ideal db toolkit for me.

I see a lot of strings in Gorm docs. Those are probably not checked during compilation. This alone differentiates Gorm and EF quite a bit. https://gorm.io/docs/create.html
> Another example is installers. Writing a basic installer for a single machine is easy. Writing an installer that covers any machine is very hard. Writing an installer that covers any machine with any configuration the user might want is impossible.

This is a cop out. An installer doesn't need to cover every option a user might want. An installer only covering popular options/configurations is only a problem if the installer is the only way to install the system. If it's just an option itself during the install there's no issue. The weird corner case can still be handled manually while more common options can be handled by an installer.
I think the seduction of going phoneless stems from the idea that because taking a few steps along this axis (using social media less) improved your life, then running all the way to some logical conclusion (not using a smartphone at all) will improve your life further.

I think this is a flawed temptation. Perhaps you would be better off finding the middleground that maximizes your life like exercising the self-domination of not pulling out your phone just because you are in an awkward social situation.

Just tank the situation with full conscious attention like a badass instead of escaping.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32483243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32480971
The parent of your comment wasn't talking about non-white people feeling discriminated by whites.
If you don't accept that cars may be sold that cause slightly fewer deaths than the Ford F-150, what's your argument for accepting that the Ford F-150 is sold?

(Or, if you will, substitute any other concrete existing model of car for the one I named.)
I generally agree. Cybernetics is a Google term (which is ironic given the theme) that’s a way into the body of research after that general yuck feeling OP has and also covers part of the topic.

But I agree with “all this” is something more than just Cybernetics. What central field ties up all those genres I listed? I haven’t found
one yet. The lack of a central field for it, at least from what I can find, paired with this growing into a very legitimate monster of a problem, is a risky combination.

It’s manifesting in weird ways. Disgruntled engineers, disgruntled Uber drivers, disgruntled life-by-QRcode users, anger at sort of dystopian govt ideas via tech. A central field would help move towards a solution.
That would be pretty surprising. Explaining the CMB, among other things, without a Big Bang seems hard.

It's cool that JWST is providing interesting data though, eventually this will shake out into some great improvements in cosmology and maybe physics.

For now this type of article seems like it just wants a clickable headline though.
It’s not that it is or it isn’t. The US legal system is based on precedent so if there’s little history of previous cases where this was decided then it’s very hard to know how it will go in court.

Everyone loves citing precedent but nobody wants to be the first one to try and set it.