skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certain sites are absolute murder. A single wikia (now Fandom) tab or new reddit tab left open can sometimes bring a browser to its knees. I've seen google mail do the same when they screw something up.

edit: That is, I think people sometimes attribute the lag they're experiencing to the number of tabs they have open, when only a handful of their tabs are to blame.
Terence Tao on LLMs: Embracing Change and Resetting Expectations
I think the bigger problem is that the rider covers more of the era; if you were able to get even 1.5kW off a small vehicle like that just leaving them outside would likely be enough to recharge enough battery for the journey back (if living close enough).

...but having electric bike/scooter just connected to charger is far more practical way to do it
Lenovo Yoga 370 on GNU/Linux: technical companion article
You can replace Vancouver with any other city and your post would remain the same. Again, go touch grass and plug out of reddit, that shit isn't good for your mental health.

Vancouver is a WONDERFUL city by 99% of the world standard, that's why so many people CHOOSE to live here. Just like Canada is an amazing country.

I've been in Vancouver for 10y now, have lived in many other cities across the first world and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. It has its challenges like any other city
> the tech-savvy ones will find a way

That doesn't sound like good design to me.
As far as I know, plugging into init is the responsibility of the person packaging the software for a particular distribution. If a package for your distro is not available and you're just compiling from source or downloading a standalone executable, you have to write your own anyways. It might be different if I were an experienced bash scripting guy, but I find chucking the path to the thing an "ExecStart" line a lot more straightforward then writing a script that parses arguments and calls start-stop-daemon and all that.
My personal favorite encoding is base58 aka Bitcoin address encoding. It uses characters [A-Za-z0-9] except for [0OIl]. It is almost as dense as base64, "double clickable", but not (as) predictable in length as base32.

It was chosen to avoid a number of the most annoying ambiguous letter shapes for hand-entry of long address strings.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding
> Utah views EV drivers as tax evaders because they don't buy gas

That's because they kind of are. Road taxes are often use-based, where gasoline is the way they extract "use" taxes.

EVs also wear roads more than gas cars do, on average, because of their higher weight. And it's not linear wear per pound, either.

This is going to require a significant shift about how states and cities think about their road maintenance budgets and the taxes required to sustain them. A lot of states are going to, predictably, get this wrong.
Quite generous of you to assume the aliens are only (the equivalent of) ~150 years ahead of us. Would the ancient Egyptians have had as much success reverse engineering an iPad as some Victorian-era scientists?

It seems the crucial element (pardon the pun) is that they wouldn't know what to look for. The Victorians knew enough about chemistry that they could figure out the material composition of various components. And we similarly know how to enumerate all sorts of chemical and physical properties of any exotic materials and objects we might come across. But it's all based on our own patchwork model of the physical universe, which has plenty of gaps we know about, nevermind those we can't even imagine. We don't know what we don't know.

If we assume aliens are visiting then it's almost certain that their technology is thousands, if not millions, of years ahead of ours. And if we assume that follows an exponential curve (which may not be a valid assumption - we really only have ~200 years of history upon which we could base such a supposition), then it follows that their technology would be indecipherably complex for us to understand.
The cool thing about Linux is you can start your own distro where like minded people can contribute.
He made the commit that added this deprecation notice

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/7474097d51907c5cc1...
I'm curious which countries aren't mediocre by your standards ?
How is a SysV init script different than systemd starting that exact same script on the same system?
(Gas taxes are a relatively small fraction of roads funding, for what it's worth.)
But Gentoo switched to OpenRC, Debian forked to Devuan, Arch forked to Artix: all these main distros were using SysV and now a part of their users are using an alternative system.
Kids had it rough. Especially when they were totally dependent on their parents for new titles. Today, kids with a real computer have countless games available plus whole ton of crappy f2p mobile gaming options to keep them going between birthdays and christmas.
It's amazing how nosey Utah is. They want to scan your DL to find out who's buying alcohol, they're demanding id based age verification for watching porn online, and apparently they want to enforce monitoring on your phone+car.
It's a valid point.

I mean yes I was a bit terse, but really? your initial "hot take" so to speak aligns with where modern architecture has got to: He was revolutionary, he was iconoclastic, he was also a bit bombastic and he didn't live to understand the consequences of some of his theories which are a-social and demand cars more than the 15 minute city goals we now look for.

I really value some of his stuff. At a distance even the towers can be impressive, and people still love the Marseille complex, and his church.

A point made in the article is that not everything he did was on mega-scale. It wasn't all Brasilia and Chandigarh. He helped launch modernism and I live in a unit with floor to ceiling glass wall-windows, and a flow from the outside into my living spaces. Bits of his design sensibilities, Gropius, Mies Van Der Rohe are in that.
Another thing that people often get wrong is that they think of these financial systems as "just" services. There's a lot of human work involved.
Assuming the data is only ever used for its stated purpose and not anything else…
I'm with you there. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a nuclear renaissance, but it's not a guaranteed thing. Not by a mile. As for mass transit, how can you achieve that? That's a boring, but so difficult problem. If you take any mass transit from NYC you will not reach 60 miles in an hour. Most often you will not reach 40 miles in one hour. How do you fix that? And NYC is by far the most connected city in the country. What about the rest of the country? Fixing mass transportation in the US is an NP-hard problem.
Because it will one day be “invented” again as a “scriptable init”
Sense is much less upfront to install - it is able to detect most large loads just by looking at the overall current and voltage going into the house via disagregation. It works pretty well!
National Geographic Media is more than the magazine.
Do cheaper cars really lead to lower liability premiums?
I continue to be baffled by people objecting to systemd. I know some people just don't like it and that's fine, people make alternative distros without it. You're not alone.

But I just have to ask, even if it sounds condescending (I'm sorry- but I really am just honestly baffled-) has anyone who complains about systemd actually written a unit file vs an init script?

I have used init scripts, I have written init scripts. I hated it. Every program needed it's own little way of doing things and writing an init script for a daemon was a hassle of bash scripting and copy pasting.

Now you can get so much functionality out of literally just an ExecStart with a few lines of boilerplate. It's beautiful. And all your logs are in journald, which for me get scraped by a single promtail config into Loki. And systemd's structured logging means I get a lot of metadata available by default for filtering and tagging.

It's just swell. And it's free software!
Thank you!

It’s absurd right? Democracy is great —- as long as it’s not in the workplace! That would be madness!

It’s a long hard road here FWIW so if you’ve got the stomach for it I suggest trying to build one.
This reads like an article from /r/ABoringDystopia that showcases, among other things, technology that was suppose to improve people’s lives is actively weaponized against them.

What worries about this from a consumer level is that the insurance companies are not required to disregard old data. If you got a speeding ticket or other minor infraction, it will eventually drop off of your driving record as far as your insurance is concerned. Which makes sense and seems more fair because you are not necessarily the same driver you were two years ago. My concern is that they will keep this data in the aggregate and indefinitely penalize drivers with insurance rates that don’t actually reflect their present risk during a policy term.
Are there any major distros (or even minor distros) that haven't committed to the /usr/-merge at this point? I know Debian has been having issues, but for the most part that decision has been made.
> and "low rolling resistance tires".

also called "dying in motorcycle accident"

> Someone above linked a solar car, which went roughly the same distance, significantly faster.

On a significantly straighter road, in significantly sunnier place than "trip across the europe"
People often equate terseness with readability. When context is gone from short term memory, terseness is a pain in the neck.
So just to clarify, if someone is even half as good as you, they’re still pretty damn good?
Ah Nostalgia. Makes me miss the simplicity of WYSIWYG tools. These "responsive" auto-format CSS/DOM driven things are turning me grey, requiring whack-a-mole tuning & debugging. Most our users are not even using mobile, such that most that complexity is WASTED. I don't know who or what it's "responsive" to, but it's not my code. Must it be convoluted? Geezer thing? I dunno. I wanna git on the WYSIWYG lawn, where is it!
The headline seems quite disingenuous when the article is based on a study that puts the adoption rate of these surveillance technologies at around 14%.
In Romanian and Italian too.
I once spent a month shopping around for such a thing. My team made a big analysis spreadsheet and we went through the various API's with a fine tooth comb and presented our top three to leadership.

They subsequently went with one we had never heard of. Rumor had it that it was owned by somebody on the board.

So that's n=1, corruption 100% of the time.
No, mine was over $340. The fee for my Civic was ~$100.
It's just catching up with other big cities. Owning a house in London/UK, SF/US, SYDNEY/AUS etc. has been out of reach forever. Canada has a lot of challenges, as have other countries.

Mediocre, rofl.
Yeah, agreed ... but[1], in purely financial terms, we are leaving money on the table, right?

Just because an accountant can burn two hours a day waiting for the computer, doesn't mean that we should burn those two hours.

I think that most of the tech stack is there technology-wise, just not aesthetic wise.

If you are happy with how UI widgets looked an behaved on Windows 7, you can have sub-millisecond startup times now for many apps. Trouble is, people would rather wait and look at pretty things than have an uninterrupted workflow.

[1] You knew there was gonna be a "but", right? Why else would I respond?
> and is even more likely to start a business than a native.

That's too far fetched. They're more likely to start a company in their own country than Canada.
If the startup script "hasn't been updated in a long time" and you're scared of breaking it, why would you update the operating system to whatever FUTURE version actually drops support for SysV scripts?
Bleed air is (on any airliner except 787) what you are breathing in the cabin whenever the doors are closed and ground AC equipment is removed, so your post was implicitly about bleed air. It’s the air that is “pumped into the cabin”.

Exhaust and oil fumes both get into cabin air through non-normal situations. They’re not “pumped in by airlines”, and suggesting that they are (or that they stopped for a while and then started again thinking nobody would notice) is sensationalist and incorrect.
And yet, I don't see many women turning down decades- or life-long spousal support when they walk away from a marriage (no-fault divorce remember) that they're no longer happy with. As a population, statistically, they certainly do want to be provided for at someone else's expense.
Interesting, I have a Samsung TV but I'v never even considered running Jellyfin as a native app. I keep the TV off the internet so it can't be a spy box. The Chromecast with Google TV is so affordable and so great, I just use that everywhere. To be clear I'm not telling you you're wrong for wanting to do it on the TV, that's a personal preference, I'm just sharing how I do it in case it helps.
I feel validated. I wrote about this very problem before and came up with something similar
https://dev.to/nhumrich/why-i-dont-like-uuids-5d9n
How do these apps work, in practice? The article states:

> If you’re at the wheel focused on the road, but someone in the passenger seat is changing the music on your phone, the app may think it’s observing distracted driving and count it against you.

Is the app running on the car, or on the user's phone, which somehow detects that the user is driving a car? Is there some way that a paired phone (Bluetooth - or maybe this is a feature of CarPlay / Android Auto) can tell a car that it's being used?
Canada is the 2nd or 3rd country that pays more for SWE in the world, what are you talking about ?
There have been huge improvements to the transcoder over the past couple of years. I think on-demand subtitles was also a relatively new feature which is huge over having to download them yourself and finding out the subtitle track sucked and having to delete that one and download a different one, and then woops that subtitle track was the same as the first, have to do it a third time.
I'm a holdout on this tech for privacy reasons.

Wonder how self-incriminating that is - at some tipping point of adoption, not opting in becomes THE negative signal.

Outside regulation to limit retention and prevent misuse of data is there even a longer term option here?

Perhaps I should capitulate early and save more money.
Then, did you really learn about the past?
> No one had done that, but that’s the general theory as to why South Africa developed nukes.

No, it was for external use; that’s why when there was a clear internal existential threat, instead of using the weapons, they dismantled them and the program to prevent the successor regime from having them.
I moved to California recently. Bay area. It's sort of a crazy state. I'd say it's the closest thing in the US to anarcho-capitalism. You have billionaire towns that normal people aren't even allowed to enter (Atherton), right near massive homeless encampments where the laws simply aren't enforced. You have a bunch of well off tech workers living with a massive underclass (and I don't understand how this underclass affords to live here). Waymo cars sharing the streets with sketchy, fully tinted, modded out Honda and Toyota sedans (seriously, what is with these?).

If California really is the future for America, it confirms what I've long suspected - it's gonna be a lot better to be rich than poor in the future.
> Well...debt generally has to be paid back, but unlike people countries don't get old and retire.

They actually do. Japan is currently starting to retire now... to the point that there are fewer of them today than there were last year. The demographic implosion.

We're not that far behind them.

> Countries have an unending supply of new taxpayers being born every year.

This seems unlikely. In every western nation on Planet Earth, the fertility rate is going down, quite quickly, with no indication that it will plateau. There is no indication of how circumstances would have to change for it to rebound. There may be none, but if they are, they're likely the sort of circumstances unlikely to be found within the conditions we're discussing (improving economy, higher wages, etc).

There is a finite supply of new taxpayers, a relatively small one, and there is no evidence that it is unending.

> There's no hard limit to how much a country can renew and restructure its debts.

Like when Zimbabwe just prints new money with more zeroes on it? We'll all be starving quadrillionaires?

Sure, games can be played. But eventually people catch on that it's all a game, and they weren't ever going to win it. And then they stop playing... not because they don't want to, but because they can't anymore.

> Only the market's belief

You're using the word "belief". Is this a joke?

Belief is an important part of scams and cons. Is this a big con game?

> through the issuing of new state-backed bonds.

Who would ever buy another treasury in the circumstances we are talking about? I just asked what would happen when the government can't make good on the already extant treasury notes.

Saying "they'll sell more treasuries to pay those back"... am I just too dumb to get the joke and everyone here on Hackernews is laughing at me?
> AWS built an incredibly rare dedicated compute cluster completed in August 2022 to the requirements of Stability. The 4,000 A100 cluster has dedicated capacity on a single spline which optimizes performance and is one of the only ones there

This wording really doesn’t help your case. It sounds like a total exaggeration.

Link to the AWS case study that highlights this relationship, or absolutely anything than just repeating “we are one of the only companies to have AWS buy a million GPUs for us and let us use them and it’s one of the only ones in this part of AWS’s network. Source: trust me bro”
Why not use base-31 and (optionally) more characters? (Or go upper and lower or add a symbol if you had to stay with a fixed-size and base-32 for some reason)
Simple answer: work for a bank.
Seem to just be moving to freelancers.
OP was responding to this:

> IPFS or torrent are the best options for distributing data

And suggesting that IPFS is not a good option for distributing scientific data due to its complexity.
I guess, if folks Plex keeps bowing their heads to investors, and not really focus on the values which they started the company with, things may end up going south for them in the coming months.
I feel as if the problem in media, film, and television today was brought about by the anticompetitive behaviors of tech giants encroaching into media.

Amazon and Apple offer nearly free entertainment that they subsidize at a loss. Vertical media companies are trying to compete and are thus attempting to mimic the streaming model.

This is an unwinnable battle. Disney and NatGeo can't compete on price. HBO / Warner / Discovery can't either. They're being forced to awkwardly consolidate and cut costs to stem their losses while they try to serve the same customers.

Streaming is ultimately a game of throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks. You can't charge a big premium for sludge content, especially now that it's a commodity.

Summers full of prestige drama and blockbusters have been replaced by shovelware Bird Box sequels and shows that get launched and canceled in one season.

It's disappointing.
How many birds died?

Did any of the activist bother to count?

No, seriously: What's the actual, measured impact on wildlife instead of "what if" scenarios cooked up by people who've never set foot in the area?

Did anyone compare the impact to hurricanes that regular hit that area?
It's already time for this week's "California (and especially the bay area!!1~) is doomed" article?
I also never understood the disdain for it. I feel like 15 minutes of reading about systemd keywords and I was on my way to making some very usable and reliable systemd scripts.

I don’t use sysv init anymore but I don’t feel like I ever fully understood those scripts.
> no so good when the code is in a library that called from the motor controller for a forklift holding a pallet over your head

There should be a mechanical fail safe. The Therac-25's first important difference from prior hardware was that they removed the physical fail safes because hey, nobody will write a program that's incorrect. Yes they will, and it killed people - so stop designing hardware which assumes unreasonable things about software. With an appropriate fail safe if the code panics, the forklift locks up, maybe there's some sort of mechanical reset needed - this is annoying but nobody is dead.

When the firmware in your elevator freaks out, which isn't even a rare occurrence, nobody dies because the hardware people don't trust that firmware. If you let the firmware control it directly, you'd be lucky if anybody used them because they'd be too dangerous. I've watched Third Year undergraduates in electronics learning with (toy) elevators how to write real time software and they were not good at this. The toys were designed so that they weren't damaged when (not if, when) the students smashed the elevator into the top or bottom of the shaft and still kept the motors running.

> My concern there is that because bad things happen the C program has the error handling,

The example we just looked at is common, and in fact the C program doesn't have error handling, it's just ignoring the error because caring about errors is more trouble in C so why bother.

> The kind of experience I've had with rust code isn't a case where the c-analog is yolo

You're going to have to give a lot more details. It's so easy to YOLO in C that it's harder to think of cases you can't just YOLO than cases where you can. C loves functions where if your inputs are invalid you get invalid outputs, which you can then blindly supply to another function where likewise the invalid inputs result in invalid outputs. YOLO all the way.
You clearly haven't been following the Canadian tech market. Salaries have been SKY ROCKETING the last 3y in Tech. Very reasons:
- Due to COVID and people being able to work from anywhere/choosing Canada. As as well
- Companies tired of US immigration system
- etc.

100k for senior was good 5y ago, nowadays 300-400k is very doable
I keep threatening to write a GUI IM app that has 90% of what people use slack for, and make every action (other than waiting on the network) instant.

Too many people are arguing that things like Slack and Linen are performing as well as could be expected due to the functionality they are providing.
Even if you're rich it's difficult.
Not only exhausting, it's also damaging one's social life, since preserving privacy is often making one the odd one out.
Yeah that smells like it. It's like excuse me, whose computer did you think this is?
Can jellyfin reverse engineer the server so it works with plex client?
still using init scripts on OpenRC.
The data collected here is just as likely to be misused as data that's collected that doesn't lead to any societal benefits.
> So maybe the browser should intentionally slow things down when using the device-specific previews to mimic real-world behavior, instead of just changing the window size? :)

I pulled up Chromium's DevTools and I do see settings for throttling in the device-specific previews. Whether they're actually used by developers is a different story.
sysv init scripts are more complicated than just a list of commands to run to start the service. They have start / stop / reload functions and express dependencies. The sysv generator handles all of those. Like this jank: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/08423f6d30f5db045b8a...

So it's not as simple as "Just write a .service with ExecStart=/etc/init.d/whatever start", but it's also not too complicated, especially if someone forks the sysv generator and keeps it working like I said in another comment.
Then that clock started ticking years ago, so factor that in to your decision to do business with us --- the hour approaches, and quicker than you once thought.