skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I end up dealing with differences caused by this all the time.

I'd say the biggest issue is that the one benefit I'm finally reaping, and apparently mentioned (badly) at the time, is the one benefit that all the mentions of merging explicitly disavowed as impossible and that dinosaurs like me should go and Bury themselves.

Namely, separate /usr partition made readonly. Serving readonly FS or shared FS for systems has been harder with unmerged /usr because of /etc (among others).

However, the arguments for merging that I heard were "nobody does separate /usr anymore you dinosaur", "nobody wants to share filesystem between multiple system instances", and finally from the proposers themselves, "split / and /usr mean I have to keep track of where I'm putting files in RPM depending on whether they are early boot or not, boohoo".

So recently I've been working on building a customised Gentoo, based on ChromeOS/CoreOS/Flatcar changes which tells emerge to use /usr as target... And for the first time in forever I have use for merged /usr and it's an use that was ridiculed when merged /usr was proposed (but use that was explicitly (ab)used by Solaris, btw)
> The main issue is it’s terrible PR for Apple to be sending $1000 bills to people who’ve been mauled by bears or gotten lost in the mountains, many of whom wouldn’t be able to pay anyway.

Just hook it up to Apple Pay.

“Pay $1000 to make an emergency call”

/s
Right: intractable, but much smaller than other problems.
Another great American brand reduced to a logo on a crappy Android tablet.
Ah yes, the old organ switcharoo.
The house of wires was discontinued. They are lords of a rotten borough.
Yep. And as stated by others upthread those houses are mostly designed to last about as long as OSB does under normal conditions.
The Apple Watch charging routine works best with 15-20 minute spurts when available. I will wear it to sleep, and charge it when I wake up for less than 30 minutes as I ready for a run or gym session. Then I charge it again while I shower. I never worry about battery life unless I travel.
Outlook Web App has been pretty great IMO. Way better than desktop and way better than Gmail. Just my opinion.
Hitler, mao and stalin can all go jump as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sure they weren't pure evil either but sometimes people deserve the label.
> If you think Steve Jobs was just some lucky huckster you will never ship a great product

Help build, perhaps. But never command, ship or sell. It's one thing to recognize a skill in someone you do not have. It's another to fail to ever see it.
Modi brushes aside US sanctions, immense potential for India-Russia partnership
I hate the trend of calling licenses "free" and "open" when they're anything but. I wish the FSF or OSI could use trademark law to put a stop to that, or better yet, that the definitions could be directly added to the law like Champagne and Parmigiano-Reggiano.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0479879 <- This is the one.

"Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade

1982's Video Game World Champions share their philosophies on joysticks, groupies and life."
There is a widespread belief in a simple explanation among Googlers: device makers test against iPhone. Whenever Apple strays off spec, they'll choose to be compatible with Apple's implementation rather than the standard.

TBF, can't blame them. Apple has pretty much a single stack. Android is about as fragmented as the PC world.
We do; you just aren't looking.

Its REALLY important to note the macroeconomics of our current climate. Tech is so, so, so rich right now. There's so much money flowing around that we just brute force our way through every problem. Cruft doesn't matter. Too crufty? Hire someone else to do that cruft. Split that cruft off into another team, that's growth and now my title is Director. Woah, don't touch that cruft, that's my cruft and I'm a Director, I'll die on my paycheck to defend that cruft.

Conway's Law: organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure.

A Correlate to Conway's Law: in capitalist systems, an organization's communication structure is a mirror of its macroeconomic climate. Rich economic climates breed excess.

I'd posit that if you normalized the Y axis on the graphs "amount of time employees at tech companies spend on paperwork" and "the US M2 money supply", they'd correlate pretty well over the past thirty years. If you take the position that's a coincidence, or that the correlation doesn't imply causation in this case... just wait to see what happens to all that previously critical paperwork, pushed by previously critical people in indispensable roles, when the latter graph flatlines or inverts.
>If you’re not guilty then you have nothing to hide. The bedrock principle of our legal system!

Out of curiosity, which system are you referring to?

It's not the system in my country[0], so I'd like to know so as never to move to that place. Thanks!

[0] FYI, the bedrock principles of the legal system in my country are embodied here:

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text
But in a tag sense, not a content sense.

Automatic resolution followup would be interesting. If you read an article about a new research result, you should get an followup on how it came out, months or years later. If you read about an arrest, you should eventually get the case disposition. If you read about a new product, a followup when there are substantial reviews after customers have experience with it.
I think it's great that people create new languages. It's fun and a good learning exercise. For this language I'm very unclear on the scoping rules, and the dynamic environments look quite hard to reason about. I can't imagine ever using the language, but I'm pleased the creator is exploring some off beat ideas.
Miami, NYC, Austin
Extracting useful power isn't really the point of ITER; the main thing is to operate the machine long enough to produce useful data that everyone else can use to build reactors that aren't based on technology that's several decades out of date.

I don't think ITER would be dropped because of renewables. Even if we had enough energy to power our civilization, there's always other things we could do if we had more. Civilization collapse could put a halt to ITER, but another possibility is the project could be dropped because someone else beats them to it and they don't need to finish this expensive machine just to find out what everyone already knows about magnetic plasma confinement.
Whether or not I agree with your interpretation of that clause (I am choosing not to analyze that too deeply), the vast majority of my code isn't on GitHub because I uploaded it there... it is on GitHub because it was open source and someone else--someone who uses GitHub to manage their projects--uploaded it, whether as a mere fork or as a legitimately derived work. If you were right, and this did matter to their legality, this would thereby mean 1) that Copilot's database is already tainted and 2) that I guess GitHub isn't actually capable of being used to host GPL projects at all (which I doubt is the intention).
They can use the computer sim for many other things.

Not to mention they don't have to hire or coordinate any cyclists.
The Maginot Line held.

Germans in Czech tanks went around the end of it, through Belgium.
What would you do if you can across an array of ants that were spelling out simple mathematical formula on the ground?
You'd be surprised how common that is with MBTI. Check out the subreddit r/mbti, and specific ones like r/intp etc etc.
What's next, no advertising video games since GPUs use a lot of power? This is insane and terrible for freedom.
Which company is the best software company? I used to have an answer, but don’t anymore.
The post states:

>"He noted it could take as much as three years to phase out all legacy products due to contractual obligations and will also take time to convert all MPLS services to more modern VPN architecture."

I'm curious what would be considered a "more modern VPN architecture" here from an a service provider point of view? SD-WAN?
Yeah, he (Poettering) intends /usr to contain everything needed to _run_ the OS, with the launch handled by initramfs.
He had multiple years and plenty of time when he was sound of mind.
That's fine. Just don't tell everyone that your kid is "self-made." Tell them what you did to help them as you did just now, and that not everyone is so privileged.
I think parent meant the interview reflects how the job will be, not that it reflects how every other job will be.
This myth however was inverted by people pushing for /usr merge on various media platforms at the time.

A common example of "what's wrong with split /usr" that was pushed was things like dropping pci.ids database in /usr/share and it being required by code mounting /usr, and that mounting / and /usr separately in initrd was a wasteful complexity.

In fact, today is the first time I have heard of reasoning that supported /usr on separate partition and I thought it was just an inversion done later by people who noticed possible benefits for some extra initrd complexity (btw, dracut and systemd oriented initrd scripts are stupidly complex. Including generating systemd units by text templating in udev rules as part of dracut boot process. Wtf)
Same for me, this article is just poorly written, and also author's argument is poorly constructed: instead of making one point clearly and tersely, author is attempting to make many bombastic ones. It's unbalanced and hyperbolic and I can't take it seriously.

Also, this unnecessarily long and hyperbolic style of writing is exactly what undergrads have been trained to produce in college in the humanities for many years imo.
"Have to" is ill defined. On paper they could say "leaving the Soviet union was a terrible idea, we want back in" but many have lived experience of living under soviet (or soviet-allied) rule and hated it. On paper they could give Russia a ultimatum of "withdraw or face open war", but Russia has more nukes and they may well still function. Boycotts are the current choice.
That reads deep, but then it might also be an iPad keyboard test since it's dated in 2010, the same year iPad was introduced.
Lisp code tends to have fewer delimiting punctuation characters than most algol style current languages. I think people tend to dislike languages that have only the minimum necessary, because it's easy to misread code then and redundancy helps compilers catch mistakes as inconsistent syntax.

But there's always Forth for the the lighter taste in delimiters: https://github.com/TexTerry/forth-examples/blob/master/pasca...
Damn, imagine if we were in a world where there’s a multitude of opinions? Crazy right?
Create ASCII (and UTF) animations in the browser. Can embedd (via JS) into any website, export as animated GIF.

https://animasci.com/
The point of "crypto" was to get nerds rich. (The kinds of nerds who had the knowledge and technology to run financial networks, but not the institutional pull to use them.)

In that sense it worked splendidly as designed.
I don't know that would be representative of the potential gap between us and them. We seem pretty far from faster-than-light travel or whatever other thing would allow them to visit.
Not for the "vast majority", but they are quite popular even for non-techy users, thanks to commercial VPN providers buying ads on YouTube and even offline. Narrative: if you don't use a VPN, hackers will steal all your data and your money. The apps from these providers are easy to set up. Even my mom asked me about it, it's surreal.
#4 you mean "brake" not "break", right?
Anyone smart knows centralized exchanges should be avoided. DEX are a thing.

It's simple, and I don't know why people are confused. New technology (value-neutral) comes around that promises decentralization. Grifters come into the space with a bunch of centralized garbage (stablecoins, CEX, etc). And "idiots" (I want to be respectful, but it's hard to find a better word) throw away the technology along with the bathwater. Result: enjoy CBDCs and the government being able to institute transaction taxes, implement negative interest rates, and freeze your bank account at will. Good thing you didn't get scammed!
Damn? Not only all of that, but he also seemed to piss in your coffee this morning.
It's the standard upgrade method on most deployed desktop/laptop linux, a certain Gentoo derivative known as ChromeOS, and from there it's also common update mechanism of Google COS (default for GKE nowadays) and Flatcar (not sure if Fedora mangling of CoreOS uses it anymore as they reportedly use rpm-ostree)
Not just older folks. As a dev and tech enthusiast, even if I dig into technical bits of many things, at the end of the day I want something that works, battle-tested, and reliable. (okay a few failures in past years like keyboard failures, but still better than competition)

Apple just gives me that.
It’s long been known that an average person on a bicycle is a more efficient translator of energy per gram per kilometre than any other machine or animal, but this new research suggests that a cyclist shielded from the wind is even more energy efficient than, say, a hang-glider.

What are they counting as the input energy for a hang-glider?
thx, this interview seems great. Jim is a cool dude.
I don't see it as intractable. We already have two ways to do that at scale. One is proven (the fission reactors), the other one is proven but not in an actual fusion reactor yet. Iter will have such a blanket for tritium breeding.

Intractable in my mind sounds more like something that you don't know how to even start.
Dropped is dropped is dropped.

Continuing to spend up until then diverts money from other things not best dropped.

Confining plasma does not suffice to get you power generation.
Ask HN: Why aren't all taxes bonds?
Wouldn't it be great if the amount they tax you they eventually give it back to you with interest?
It def woke me up multiple times
Agreed. I found that its suggestions constantly break flow as you’re now evaluating something that was pushed on you.

Beyond basic algorithms and boilerplate code completion (which would arguably be better implemented via better intellisense than ML), it was basically zero help.

Even in the areas it helped, time to eval mostly equaled the time I would have taken to write the same thing manually.
My read of the marketing materials is that it supports the "Find My" feature which you can use to share locations with friends/family?

This is really a killer feature for me as an outdoor enthusiast who hangs out in places with no reception every other weekend. I'm also a weight weenie and really care about how heavy the stuff I carry is. I'm going to keep an eye on how well this works in the field for sure.

I've been considering a Garmin InReach Mini, its roughly $350 for the device and $300 for a satellite subscription for 2 years.

If the satellite messing works well, this phone just added $650 worth of value for me on top of a regular iPhone. Basically, it doesn't matter how much a continued subscription will cost after year two. I'd be completely happy to buy a new phone in two years just for this one feature.
> MacOS is a commercial OS that happens to have a Unix substrate

I am not sure what you’re implying. There always have been a lot of UNIXes that were “commercial OS”. Historically, the free branches of the UNIX family tree have been way out-numbered by commercial distributions.

> but does not tend to show it too much

That does not really matter (besides the fact that the terminal has always been there). The fact that there is a GUI shell on top does not change the architecture of the OS.

> The Unix part is an implementation detail.

These days, UNIX is a certification. Otherwise it refers to the architecture and origins of the OS, from the initial AT&T UNIX. The only purity test is the certification.

> It is not marketed as a Unix workstation, much like Android phones are not marketed as Linux handhelds.

How it is marketed and what it actually is are orthogonal concepts. It is UNIX, whether this annoys some people or not.
Only if you point the thing directly at the satellite. And if you’re doing that, one imagines that you want to be ‘tracked’.
Current primary energy is ~35TW. Total insolation is around 150PW

5W/m^2 or 0.5% is enough forcing to be catastrophic which puts us roughly in the 20x current consumption or 2100-2140 range if we don't stop growth.

So yes. We're in exactly the same position now WRT heat as we were when scientists first started warning about greenhouse gases. Ironically switching to PVs and starting the transition was an option then too even though the first commercial PVs were thought to be thermoelectric.

We can all live well, but we can't all live in an air conditioned uninsulated mcmansion with a 9 tonne electric suv each going everywhere via highway and throwing out half our appliances which we move by truck every year.
The B5 Curse. The popular belief is that an unusual number of the actors have died, and many of them in abnormal/unfortunate circumstances. His character seemed older than most on the show (but Jurasik wasn't, I just learned). Plus the actors for his two closest relationships on the show have died.
100% for a few decades. Sorry, I thought was was implicit.
Indeed, they undermine their own argument that it has utility: "People naturally try to sort themselves into work that they are good at, where how they think works best." So why then would an employer need to know your allegedly accurate MBTI, when your application for the job and presumably effort in developing and maintaining the necessary skills already indicates that you're applying to the work you're good at?
On weekends I kick back and do whatever I feel like. Time to recover, not to drain the bucket even more.
Sparse array fallacy. You can't make a phased array too small and have high directionality-- you lose all the power in the side lobes. This one's underlying physics.
Will have to try. Strange Apple refuses to put NFC in macbooks.
> independent of any third party

You need third parties to cash in and cash out, so no.

> Can you imagine the US's response to digitally interlinking with China or Russia?

Before the internet we had the phone network, and before that the mail. Both of those are more interlinked and more open than the internet is today.
Myers-Briggs did not discover the idea that people have different personalities and different strengths and weaknesses. Nobody is questioning this.

Like Astrology, Meyers-Briggs is a specific system of categorizing personality types with a lot of lore about how the types interacts. There is no evidence that MB is any better than astrology or the theory of humors or any other arbitrary categorization for this purpose.

Btw is your comment implying that only certain MBTI types are able to become musicians or pilots or engineers? Because that at lease a falsifiable statement which is quite interesting.
This is totally not true, at least last time I checked 2 years ago when I decided to make the jump from the large email providers.

email systems are retarded. They throw all kinds of acronyms, apps, subapps, etc at you. Why isn't there just some damn app that you can to to a website, click on download and install, and it is up and running? Everywhere I read, I was cautioned it was difficult because you always have to upgrade security with new patches, for example. Why are they even bothering me with this knowledge? Why would I have to do it? Can't people doing email apps figure out how to continuously update everything so I don't have to think about it?

I simply do not have the time to figure it all out. I have other responsibilities taking up my time. I have a computer science degree, and have worked on all kinds of apps, but I can't figure the stuff out, how is somebody else going to do it "easily"?

I've always thought someone could automate the entire thing, but no.

And so, I got tutanota. Less than a minute for getting an email up and running. It should be that way to self-host, like any other app in the world. I didn't choose proton mail because it was WAY more expensive. I have multiple emails, and don't want to use aliases, heck with that. So buying multiple emails is WAY more expensive on Protonmail.

If there is a simple one-step email hosting app, they sure as hell hide it very well. Because believe me, I looked.

For those who want to explain why, I have a computer science degree. I can sort of guess why. But the reasons don't interest me. I just need a one-step self-hosted service. End of story.

I'm not mad or bitter. I'm just being direct at outlining my experience and frustrations. But I'm ok now, not frustrated anymore. Except when I think back on it....like now. :)
Yes, and like "crypto" it's also solving a problem nobody wanted to solve.
Affordable nuclear recedes further with each passing day, as costs for better tech continue on down.

Each dollar diverted from renewables build-out to nukes brings climate catastrophe incrementally nearer.
I've been considering a Garmin InReach Mini, its roughly $350 for the device and roughly $300 for a satellite subscription for 2 years. This iPhone ... is quite compelling in the face of that.
The OS promises not to touch /usr/local other than to set it and its subdirectories up. This allows two things:

1. /usr/local is usually set up to take priority over /usr, so if you want a newer C compiler or whatever you put it in /usr/local but keep the system compiler in /usr because you might need it for an OS patch or something.

2. If you see an error from something in /usr/local you know not to bother your OS vendor about it because it came from an outside source.

It's largely the same theory as /opt, except stuff in /opt shouldn't link to any libraries in /usr while stuff in /usr/local can (stuff in /opt should be self-contained).
This is going to make tattoos of Chinese characters even worse than they already are :-D
This is typical in the art world - crime lord or otherwise. Art is often kept in freeports - storage facilities that exist outside of the realm of domestic taxation. This allows the artworks to be sold without incurring taxes or customs. Many artworks pass through owners who never actually physically lay eyes on them, and many pass through multiple owners without ever physically moving.

For a lot of people who transact in art, actually looking at the art is not at all the point of the exercise. Speculation on the art is the whole point. These things are effectively fanciful, convoluted, tax-dodging securities instruments, with only the most cursory nod to the appreciation of art.

Which, y'know, is awfully reminiscent of something else in recent memory...
The Risks of WebAssembly
You are completely correct if we attempt to continue exponential growth. The limit is under a century away at historical energy growth rates.

10 billion or so people can live at current average western levels without it being a problem.
Check out the compatibility first, but for quite a long time as a student I was using bargain bin laptops. Usually the components are common/old enough to work out of the box with Linux. If you're happy with performance, it's... ok.

The hardware improved enough that as long as it's got 8gb of ram and runs... You should be fine for minimal dev work.
I'm not too surprised. The people with the highest highs often have the lowest lows.
Google does: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completio...
Huawei EulerOS is a UNIX-certified Linux distribution.
FYI, you still have "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consec tetur adipis elit " in the pricing page.

Also, the ideas page has lots of weirdly low quality stuff (eg heath ledger joker does not look like heath ledger, baby yoda does not look like baby yoda, Totoro tattoos are generally bad, etc.). And then there are things like this: https://www.tattoosai.com/tattoos/62ecce4651c8873ccf2bbe67

The pricing model of a one time payment is also quite weird... I get that this is a quick project so it's not polished, but as I would not start charging for it.