skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels to me more and more like you need to be rich to afford living without bartering away your personal information.

I'm getting to be middle aged now, and have noticed a fatalistic attitude towards this by gen Z; kind of "it's impossible to maintain privacy, so I might as well milk my loss of privacy for all it's worth."

And I'm wondering now if that's not completely correct.
You've reminded me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Freedom_Project

https://github.com/LibraryFreedom/tor-exit-package/blob/mast...
Also they are ending support for unmerged-usr (/usr/bin and /bin as different directories). On one hand, here's Redhat (and Pottering) using their position as dominate service manager to bully distros and software into adopting their views of the world. On the other hand, systemd has been a great step away from fragmentation in distro-land.
>The system takes a lot of time

That's the secret sauce right there. A lot of people have been short changed by mass education where memorizing facts passes for learning. Much like taking notes by hand is better for you because it forces you to slow down to your hand's speed.

There's no way to learn something other then spending significant amounts of time busy with it, using tools, building or fixing stuff, collecting data and drawing conclusions etc.
If you are interested in learning more about the history of UAPs and claims of NHI abductions I suggest checking out the YT channel Eyes on Cinema. Some of the hypnosis recall videos on there are terrifying.

https://www.youtube.com/@EyesOnCinema

"Barney Hill's highly disturbing hypnosis session regarding his alien abduction experience in 1961"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0er29WQITo

I also see a lot of interesting stuff on https://twitter.com/richgel999
He might even be on HN!

Additionally listen to some of the interviews with Professor Garry Nolan. There is a lot of nonsense and grifters in the UFO world, how do you know this or that isn't a disinformation campaign? It's hard to know what is genuine and who is just trying to sell their book or promote their podcast. Garry Nolan once said something like UFOlogy is not a science and to seriously study the UAP phenomenon it would need to become a serious field of scientific investigation i.e. creating a journal scientists can submit papers to for peer review. I would avoid people like Steven Greer or the History Channel's Ancient Aliens.

I have always been a "show me the evidence" type person. I was an atheist since I was really young. I hope this comment helps anyone who is curious about learning about this subject. I'm not trying to convince you aliens are coming to Earth or "make you a believer".
I think this is likely the correct theory too but to hand-wave it away as "discredited" and claim that it also downstream "discredits" anyone who refers to the video is rather mealy-mouthed. Which appears to be the same type of behavior you ascribe to Grusch & co.
The Grid, Part IV: The Hard and Soft Paths of Energy Strategy
> It is likely that all of the chips in all of your devices never saw any direct human contact until they arrived at Foxconn or wherever.

Bonding is not automated AFAIK.
I just wonder how compatible the firmwares are. Haven't found anything about flashing Kobo firmware (Tolinos use Android) on Tolino devices, so all the cool hacks may not be feasible :(
Yes, oups... I always mix them up
If people are not getting rentals for the Airbnb, hence the revenue collapse, that means they don’t have the cash to pay the mortgage. So the house will have to go to the market, and that will depress housing prices, and that will scare people, who will sell their houses, further decreasing prices.
Ladybird sure thinks they are going to.

I’m curious how successful they will be.
It's not tangential. You clearly didn't read the post. The complaint is about RedHat controlling their content while this author is doing the same. It's simple hypocrisy. So your news guidelines don't apply to my comment.
I assume someone will introduce a compatibility shim, either at the systemd layer itself, or by running the software in a container.
My fear is that software will stop shipping with an init script option because of this. I really need to stop using Linux sooner rather than later.
"Among other things..." Like speeding? Like traffic-light cameras, this will result in unintended consequences at scale. But hey, more data!
I think something shown in the ideological hand here is that the tax hikes are framed as regressive tax hikes. You can make up a significant portion of the gap by adopting the sort of progressive taxes we had pre Reagan.

There's also probably substantial savings to be had by moving to a single payer healthcare system which I think we should expect in the coming decades - support creeps up every single year.
I think it really depends on what your needs are and what stage of your company you're at.

The main thing I'd look for is whether:

- Do you know if your customers or businesses use the new features you build?
- Do your teammates understand what's happening inside of your product?
- Is it easy for you to know who your best users are?
- Can your customer success quickly get a sense of the health of an account?

If there are problems in your company that could be solved by an easier to use analytics tool that more people could use more often it might be worth it!
But Meta has had a lot of cool open source projects over the years. React, cassandra, graphql, etc
The fuck? 1400sq feet is not a tiny home. That's the size of the house I live in.

Also for barely more than that, you can just get a manufactured home, that comes with walls, power, carpets, insulation, plumbing, cabinets and bathrooms.

These tiny home things are all a joke, they're not cheap, and never have been. It's kinda like these people building container homes. Sure they're cheap to start, then you start putting in all stuff that makes it a house, and lo-and-behold it becomes as expensive as a house.
Yeah I think we all saw it coming. At least kdbus didn't happen.
Some people in the comments are implying that Visa is acquiring a competitor. But Pismo is a core banking & issuer-processor API vendor, not a Visa competitor. Competitors of Pismo would be companies like Episode Six or Paymentology.

Through this acquisition, Visa is expanding their offering to include core banking and issuer-processor APIs, so they are doing vertical integration.
It would only be prohibited from receiving funding if it wasn’t reported to the relevant Congressional committees.
Good to see Airbnb revenue collapse: bad hosts, last minute switch, hidden charges, late charges for damages, scams, etc.
Seems Firefox hates it for some reason
Ranking Industries by Their Potential for AI Automation
It's just as well. There isn't any software on my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling distro) machines that still only has sysv scripts. My Debian 11 router had some (nginx IIRC) but those went away when I updated it to Debian 12.

The more impactful change to me is the one mentioned a few lines down, about `systemctl --user` getting `CAP_WAKE_ALARM` so that user-privilege programs can set timers to wake up from suspend. As it mentions, GNOME Clocks has wanted to use systemd timers for a long time, and it's the de facto alarm program for Linux phones running GNOME / Phosh. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-clocks/-/merge_requests...
(This happened 2017~2018)

It's so interesting to hear this one, I interviewed with them because I had some random linked in notification, I use their product, I wanted to be a part of it and I worked on a similar proprietary platform with live tv. Loved that work.

From the job spec, I was maybe over qualified but it was Plex, it's sitting in my NAS, remote servers phone and tablets, purchased multiple time from their odd monetary system with iOS.

It's a great product I was happy to get behind. The interview process was non-existent. One person spoke to me high level, maybe 20 mins, I imagined an intro to the interview process, I was happy in my job to not worry, I wasn't looking, it was plex in a random linkedin email, after a week I get a call.

"Everything great, we are excited etc etc, when would be good to talk to some of our 'engineers' ?"

Organised for 15 days ahead as I knew there was a release coming (a release for who I worked for) earlier so wanted to be fresh.

12 days passed with no feedback.
I email the whole CC of email to confirm.

No response. To this day. :)

Flaky. Amazing product but bad business choices.
I really do feel bad for the employees in this case because if they're even half of me, they wanted to do some good work.

Edit: Clarity context - And grammar.

I would like to point out too, within those 5 years they could have changed. Hired better (seems not)
Oi, it works on the Kindle Touch too? The website just mentions Kobos.
From the perspective that minds are very complex things (which is not a very controversial proposition), it would not be at all surprising to find that human-like minds unavoidably have a high φ. Unless the measure can differentiate between minds and other complex things that score as highly, however, this would not be particularly interesting and it is hard to see how it would get us noticeably closer to understanding minds. Thus, Aaronson's identification of structures capable of arbitrarily high φ, yet not displaying higher-level consciousness (such as being self-aware and having a theory of mind) is indeed a significant problem for IIT.

If proponents of IIT object that it is only an assumption that these systems are not conscious, they should be pleased that Aaronson has given them a way to empirically evaluate their thesis!
Wrong title - this is James Cameron's speculation based on unnamed sources.
I guess for the people who don't live in NYC, an explanation is needed. Subways in NYC are dirty. Like hell. And lots of homeless people ride them. A subway car with one or a few homeless people in is not pleasant to ride in. From the olfactory point of view. And sometimes from the safety point of view too.

But there's some improvement too. About half a decade ago subways stared to consistently stop between stations. You would stay there between stations for multiple minutes. Almost every day. This was discussed here on HN [1]. Well, one way or another, this stopped being a problem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16577171
Good correction. I hope we ignore NJ. Maybe we can make an exception for buses or a subsidy for the path train. Driving from NJ is such a mess
Probably not when the NSA accesses your camera through some hardware backdoor.
The future sucks.
And if Airbnb is that the same price as it’s IPO, I wouldn’t say that’s a good thing either.

it is not unheard of for stocks to stay flat for a long time after going public...a lot better than going to $0 like those SPAC disasters.

Yes, more than two cities exist, but there is such thing as an economic contagion that can spill over into other markets.

or it's also likely at any given time that some cities are doing well and others are doing poorly
Because the bytes are all random, UUIDv4 is sorted randomly. So whenever you insert a database entry with a new UUID, it ends up getting put in some random memory location.

In practice, you often want to select database entries which were inserted near each other in time. Ex: you would like to select the most recent entries or entries within a time frame. Even when selecting entries by other information, entries inserted closer to each other in time are generally more likely to be related.

Fetching entries near each other in memory is faster, so it would be nice to insert entries sequentially in time; we want entries inserted near each other in time to be located near each other in memory.

This is what counter-based indexing does: the database has a counter which increments on each insertion, and the current value becomes the inserted entry's id. But the problem with counters is when the database is distributed and insertions are happening in parallel, and you definitely don't want to sync the counter because that's way too slow.

UUIDv7 combines a sort of counter (Unix time) with a randomly-generated number. The counter bytes are first, so they determine the sort order; but in case 2 entries get inserted at the same time, the randomly-generated number keeps them distinct and totally ordered.
I think this “driving is a right” is true of America in general but not as much in NYC
Thanks for the tip re trust manager and kudos for cert-manager. Works really well.
Indifference... or lack of knowledge. I've conducted hundreds of interviews and it's interesting how many people know their O notation and how they can write code that theoretically is "efficient"... but performance is in the details and in knowing the stack top-to-bottom, and most people just don't know that. And the real problem is that they don't know what they don't know.

You'd say that code reviews is where this stuff should be caught, but unfortunately, code reviews are performative in most cases or the reviewers also don't know / care about these details either.
yeah, they should've charged money for it lol
I don't have the statistics handy. I think the issue turns on average speed. Not maximum possible speed, but average speed in practice.

How do these averages compare? If the ebike is a lot faster, then I would expect the differences to cause problems, since both are traveling in the same lanes.
I'm going to be dead serious, they look like something my great grandma would wear.
> step away from fragmentation

Not really, it has increased the number of people using alternative init systems like OpenRC, Runit, S6, etc.

Before SystemD, SysV was even more mainstream than SystemD is today.
I mean real-world money, correct.

It does, and like you said, it attracts a specific kind of user. Not for everyone.
They claimed they did support price caps the HN launch thread referenced in this new press release. They got a lot of praise for it in the comments back then.

> Max monthly spend: unexpected traffic spikes happen, and the thought of spending an unbounded amount of money in a month is really uncomfortable. You can configure fly.io apps with a max monthly budget, we'll suspend them when they hit that budget, and then re-enable them at the beginning of the next month.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857
If you're already on a PIP then your manager simply doesn't believe in you.

Using the time to look for a new job is 100% the correct action
Lennart Poettering is now working for Microsoft.

is he still working on systemd?
When they refreshed the Calculator app in the same way as Notepad, I went on a bit of a rant and "took it apart" with tracing tools to see where the computer power was going.

The problem is that modern package management tends to "drag in" unnecessary dependencies, each of which has to be loaded, remapped, virus-scanned, CRC-checked, etc...

The new Calculator was loading NVIDIA libraries, Windows Hello 4 Business Password Recovery helpers, and a decent chunk of a web browser.

Why?

1. Calculator gained some basic graphing capabilities, so it calls some DirectX functions, which call NVIDIA functions, which... drag in hundreds of megabytes of game driver garbage, including Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) circular logs that NVIDIA uses to spy on you. Err.. I mean "improve software quality".

2. It uses web requests (e.g.: currency conversions), which might need to go through a corporate proxy, which might need authentication, which might need Windows H4B, which might need a self-service password reset.

3. The aforementioned web requests use HTTPS and HTTP/3, which then drags in QUIC, a bunch of cryptographic libraries, CRL checking, Enterprise PKI policy, etc...

The hiccup is that all of this "work" is being done by the Calculator app itself, not the operating system. The OS just provides the DLL files, it doesn't pre-cache them in any meaningful way any more. These are all user-mode libraries, so each application has to load and process them in full.

Even in web development, you get the same effect. A small web site in ASP.NET / C# might have been 500 KB in the past and would load in milliseconds and then take 50 MB of memory. Now? If you add the new "session state" plugin, it drags in Azure SQL support, which needs Azure Active Directory Authentication, which needs OAuth, which needs JWT, which needs a JSON parser, which needs the new UTF8 decoders, which needs the new Memory/Span code, etc... That 500 KB app instantly bloats to 350 MB and takes 10 seconds to restart!

In NT4 and 2000 authentication and web proxies were "ambient" services provided by the OS, and much of it was in the kernel or pre-loaded and shared by all applications.

Summary:

The transitive dependencies of user-mode libraries are always processed in full. There's no compile-time "trimming" at this level. There's no try dynamic loading any more either, "dynamic" libraries are loaded statically because of hash-verification and anti-malware checks. There's no sharing any more to avoid DLL hell. All of the above also breaks the older optimisations where code was paged in dynamically.

The result is that it is "so easy" to write code now, but impossible to make it launch fast.
Music notation is like any natural language -- i.e. super fucking dumb dumb dumb, and yet, uniquely, it lets you communicate precisely with other musicians, which is awesome.
Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads
Even a bacteria are many orders of magnitude more complex than just molecules. We have hypothesized possible intermediaries, but there is a sizeable gap in the complexity of what we know for a fact to have existed in terms of molecules and what we have observed in living cells.
You could jump to Gentoo + OpenRC
Banked on free, ad-supported content, then the ad market stumbled.

I don’t know the solution for Plex. I haven’t agreed with all its decisions, but I use the product every day and get enormous value from my lifetime subscription. What would induce me to pay monthly? I am not sure, but it wouldn’t take much. Pitch me, plex.
Interesting, I use `map` all the time and `for` rarely. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you as I see this as more of a style preference.

The map approach feels a lot more functional to me and is easy to chain. The `for` method feels a bit awkward. But that said I much prefer Ruby to Python. If I had the opposite preference, I'd probably like the `for` in Elixir more.
This is correct!

There is no per-month cost, opening account is free.
Curious to know how long this VPN can survive in China
The present kind of does as well
I think Akuna Capital (or one of the other Chicago HFTs) is using a JVM based stack as well.

High Performance Java is definetly a thing - it just takes a lot of tuning.
This is awesome, I was just asking ChatGPT if it would make me some midi files.
Or have a look at all the distros that don't use SystemD!
That was an awful piece of journalism where they ignored multiple factual corrections after spending days with me.

Even met the family and made fun of my work on my sons autism which shows what they are like.

How many companies preseed get a 4,000 A100 cluster dedicated built from AWS etc?

I wrote a reply anyway as this stuff makes me sad

Happy to reply to any issues you may have here too

https://emad.posthaven.com/on-setting-the-record-straight
Thanks for the insight. My script targets a solo dev such as myself, but crafting icons is always superior.

As a designer, the way I recommend to do it is not by tweaking icons but by having a specific process separating design from deliverables. Define branding language, come up with your symbols and marks and mascots and their use guidelines, and then prepare deliverables based on that. Icons intended to be used at extremely different sizes (16px vs. 512px) and in different contexts are different deliverables.
It's also common for the track bikes to reduce sloshing
I run both Plex and Jellyfin on my server. Plex is a little more polished but I don't see how they can sustain a business. Mainly use Plex but Jellyfin is not far behind and good enough if Plex goes belly up.
You're not providing arguments for the thesis that their products are bad. You're providing arguments for the thesis that their products have gone worse than they were before. However, with all the ads and stuff that we don't like they still provide a lot of value for their users. Personally, I no longer use Windows, reddit or Facebook for these exact reasons — to me, these products no longer provide value. But I don't pretend that my tastes are shared by everybody else: a lot of people actually don't care about ads, they don't care about the fact that reddit is closing the API and they like the shitty memes that facebook is putting in their feeds.
In what way? Hearing from the source directly?
Omg this is like sex on pizza.
To make money, people agree to sit at a desk nine hours a day.

Water wet.
Is LLVM piggy?

It may be big, but at the end of the day it will produce some fast binaries if fed the right thing.
I wish this guy would shut up already, he doesn't have some magical inside info on the investigation and neither does 'the community' he referenced. Responsible members of said community are withholding this sort of judgment and sensationalism because they're professionals, not Hollywood attention... you know.
Well, I'm not sure about Interac Email Transfers as I have not used it. But I have not seen something change up finances here in Brazil as fast like Pix during my life - it's extremely flexible and efficient.

The rollout was structured in a way that pretty much every single bank in the country started taking up Pix payments with no friction, so you can send money to almost everywhere. Aside from that, you can setup emails, mobile phones, random hashes, and Brazilian ID numbers as Pix keys to transfer to and fro.

And yeah well, the mobile-friendly UI is a thing because most bank apps here have abysmal desktop UIs and I would go as far as saying they have (pretty much) given up on developing those to focus on the mobile user base instead.
I have seen the orders and there simply isn’t enough looking at inference demand
So is mine, and they made several successful trips which (among other things) makes me think that carbon fiber could be an appropriate material for a submarine. Metallic hulls would also implode catastrophically if not well designed.
This is a very narrow perspective. We've only been around for ~200,000 years, only began to take flight 120 years ago, and flew to the moon around 60 years ago.

There are billions of habitable planets in our galaxy alone, a good percentage likely harbor intelligent life, and that life could have easily established civilizations that go back millions of years. Should they have developed tech, even at our pace, they are cycles and cycles ahead of us.

What would stop them from throwing "shit at the wall to see what sticks" to survey surrounding systems, given that their costs of and ability to mass manufacture cheap space traveling drones would take little resources? Would they even care that much if what they built wasnt to perfection, as long as it got the job done? What if there are still anomalies that they just put up with and could careless about accounting for because the losses are so minimal? What if the ones piloting are throwaway biological drones that they can just rebuild or grow? What if their ethics forbid them from interacting or interfering with developing civilizations? What if there's are agreements/laws among a collection of civilizations?

Additionally, there have been attempts by people to get this info out for decades, and what's being brought to congress' attention is that people have been murdered by governments and private organizations to keep this under wraps and to continue public disinfo to keep the ridicule going.
Anything after iron is likely to have formed in supernovae, which would've been more common with the much more massive very early stars.
> probably

> probably

This is a useless article with no facts.