skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling it a "grift" may be harsh, but "Havana syndrome" as a result of some kind of Cuban sonic super-weapon that happens to have the same noise as some local crickets was definitely an enormous stretch. That plenty of people played along with it to the extent that bills were passed allocating funding for the treatment of these people might not be a grift but it's certainly something extremely peculiar. With US healthcare in the state that it is, I get that some people might need to be creative to get treated so I can't exactly blame anyone (nor get mad since I don't pay US taxes).
The idea of VyOS is awesome: have your configuration all in one place, apply it atomically.

After using it for several years, the implementation is clearly lacking. It seems that the maintainers are overloaded, because contributions to fix minor issues, or add config options get ignored in my experience. As a result, the configuration is missing some nice options in the IPv6 space (so-called tethering), and it's still using iptables for packet filtering. It's also rather hard to roll your own, with your own modules: the module system is rather hard to use.

Not to mention the lack of interest to roll out a version for ARM.

My next router will be based on NixOS, and will attempt to recreate the awesome UI of VyOS.
I led a large (50 people+) platform org - Organizations struggle with modern backend systems and cloud, and find themselves in a cyclical loop of hiring, reorganization and reprioritization. I just wrote about it here a few days ago: https://klo.dev/evolution-of-cloud-infrastructure-and-platfo...
Some people don't want simple and comprehensible. They want to run unnecessarily complex scripts in black terminals with green fonts. Let them be, somebody has to operate all the remaining PHP web pages out there.
replace twitter.com with nitter.net
Main question I have is who is the target audience? If you're making this for work teams then it seems an app would be necessary. If you're making this as a burner line it seems there are cheaper options.
I don't think its even necessary to pick up the wire. The newest vacuums use cameras to try to avoid common obstacles, but the image classification is so rudimentary they get stuck anyway. Having the common sense to stay away from the end of the cable is all the robot needs to not get stuck.
What's because the Walmart opened? If you're saying that Walmart's crush local commerce, then close when it's in their business interest to do so (they'll just have to drive to the next Walmart anyway), then that is also what I was saying.
> every employee had a zombie like appearance one or the other way, demotivated, sad or emotionless looking, slurping slowly through the shop.. like employees super abused or completely lost and aimless. Nowhere else, even in cheap fast foods or similar I got that, why?

When I worked there, the job felt pointless. It's a neverending pile of meaningless work that you can never make progress on. You're disrespected by customers, paid little, and know you're really just a cog in the machine. I didn't show up for work for a week before I quit. Nobody noticed I was gone and they were as surprised when I quit as I was that I wasn't fired. Every time I clocked in, I was hit with the feeling of purgatory. The useless drag of another day-- all for the benefit of -- ?
What I mean is that he cared about things beyond making money. Early Walmarts were good places to work for and shop at. They were genuinely good for the communities they came to. And they didn't have enough power yet to dictate insane terms to their suppliers either. Back then, they were way better than the alternatives like Kmart and JCPenny's.

I say this as someone who grew up in rural Minnesota (a town of less than 10k), and when Walmart came to my town it mattered a lot to the whole town.

But this stopped being true by the mid-90s (about ten years after he died).
Peak oil was supposed to happen a decade ago (maybe more?). It ain't happening. Adjusted for inflation, gasoline is as cheap as ever.
mobile phone ui often use touch gestures, is this properly handled through the browser?
There was no embrace step; systemd served to replace sysvinit with a new way of doing things, supporting sysvinit scripts for backwards compatibility only.

There was no extend; systemd's sysvinit scripts didn't have features which are lacking from the original sysvinit in an effort to cause the proliferation of sysvinit scripts which only work with systemd.

EEE is a very specific strategy. It's not the general concept of making a new system to replace an old system.
I've worked in a small consultancy where we'd use our personal phones to talk to clients - mainly using Whatsapp. It was hell, since there was no way I could get away from personal messages during work time and vice versa.

This would've been something nice to have at that time - I would be able to, without having two phones, have personal and work related Whatsapp numbers on seperate places (but still accessible when needed).
systemd's been the default init for every major distro since 2015[0], and has existed as a project since roughly 2010. I think ten years of support for the predecessor is probably good enough. This is just a warning anyway.

Lennart also didn't start Pipewire (which as far as I know, has been happily accepted by almost everyone?) and while I was just as annoyed at PulseAudio breaking my sound setup back in 2008 I think these days it's a bit remiss to keep bringing that up as an argument. At least not without talking about how a lot of the issues with it was due to Pulse revealing bugs in the sound card drivers.

[0] Going by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Adoption and yes I'm only counting Arch,Debian,Ubuntu,Fedora,SUSE,and RHEL as the major distros. I could see an argument for Mint or Gentoo in there, but most of that table is honestly pretty useless (I still have my Knoppix floppies as coasters, but I really don't care about whether they've adopted systemd at this point)

EDIT: mild edit, sorry it was Wolvix I have as floppies. Knoppix was only on CDs and I'm not sure where mine went.
I wonder if we will see more privacy focused action by Apple on its App Store in the near future.

With them being forced to allow for 3rd party app stores, they will go all in on trying to convince people that their App Store is the one for privacy and safety and that people are risking their privacy and safety by installing another App Store.

By having to compete against other potential app stores, they are incentivized to lean in further into privacy to set themselves apart.
That's worse. We have one that has such a delay simply due to lag, and it interrupts you as you're starting whatever you're trying to attempt.
Ah fuck. It’s fedora silverblue. Typo
> can us that money

Can ask?

Can use?

Can what?
That is fascinating. I wouldn't even show up for an interview if they told me to prepare for that kind of exam. What kinds of companies are these and where are they located? Sounds like an interview designed by an omega nerd nightmare boss.
Do's and don'ts of valuing biotech companies
This is already the case according to The Guardian. Imagine solar panels that generate 200W/m2 at night when it rains.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/13/rain-or-...
Depends on the interview or the level but I prefer open-ended situations like "imagine a local small business that sells widgets. They want a backend that keeps track of inventory and a frontend that displays widgets and prices to customers." Or whatever the idea is. Some candidates only need that much and begin asking questions, designing systems, writing code, whatever they want. Others need more guidance and I'm happy to continue defining how this app should work or how big the audience will be or any other details. To me it's about exploring their experience with the whole process holistically and letting them dive into their subject matter expertise naturally. From this idea, there is no "completion" of the exercise as no one is actually going to write a backend and frontend in 45 minutes.

But I think you learn an enormous amount about an engineer here. How will they use this time? What will they focus on? The details they choose to spend time on, how did they turn out?

I've seen Principals take the whole 45 minutes on system design asking extremely detailed questions and building a system far superior to anything I would have engineered myself (interviewing up level). I've seen Jrs hash out a simple database structure in 5 minutes in a comment block and spend 40 minutes writing a simple react app that shows this hypothetical data. Obviously this principal wasn't hired for their front-end knowledge and this Jr wasn't hired for their system design, but still, very valuable to see how they do it.
Agreed. This type of service is ripe for committing fraud. I'd be very very careful about the customers you serve
I've been on the Internet for 25 years and only got robbed once, and even then, the credit card charges were reversed so it didn't cost me anything other than the annoyance of updating some accounts once I got my new credit card number.
This article is pure corporate propaganda.

Walmart isn't good for small towns no matter how you look at it because they turn entire small town economies into a line item on a gigantic global multi national's ledger. And once done, there is no going back.

They build a new store and then sell at a loss to bankrupt the competition. They can do this because they have billions of dollars in reserve and are subsidized by other stores. How can local businesses compete? Once they all go out of business and there are no choices left Walmart is free to raise prices and recoup their losses and more.

Then there are the jobs. Low wage, dead end. They create the new working poor where you can't survive even with a job so you go on government assistance as well. Subsidized serfdom.

And to top it all off, if they aren't profitable, they won't hesitate to close up shop and leave a smoking crater in the economy of that same small town that is near impossible to recover from. There are no more small business and it's near impossible to start them again because local employees have been subsisting on starvation wages.

Sure, if you ignore all the horrible realities of the Walmart lifecycle, it sure is nice that they provide a convenient way to buy lots of cheap garbage!
Nostalgia is so powerful. I'm fully conscious of it and yet I still couldn't resist losing 30 minutes to this without even realizing it. Spent some time channel surfing 1997, which was a fairly pivotal year for me.
Every season seems beyond insane.

However, let's say you make some common mistake like leaving the engine filled with gas during the winter (assuming you're in such a climate). How would you go about getting it fixed? Assume the carb is gummed up -- it's a $10-20 part, plus labor, plus the hassle of finding a small engine repair service to fix it, dropping off, and picking up. It's this vs. going to the Walmart website, clicking a button, and having the lawn mower show up at your house in a day or two.

I always bias towards maintenance and repair but there are tons of people with no knowledge of how to fix something and no desire to learn to. With services costing more and more, buying new is often a more appealing choice, sadly.
Normal visas tend to involve far more bs and expense than ESTAs.
There's a difference between maintainer and contributor. Canonical is now the maintainer of LXD, but I think they would still accept contributions from the community. I've contributed in the past to some projects from Canonical, I hope they continue accepting contributions.

The main point I see here is: LXD is not a community-driven project anymore. LXD now follows what Canonical wants/needs, not necessarily what the community wants/needs.
No. It’s great, replacing and unifying a whole collection of random tooling you otherwise had to cobble together yourself.
It's been a while since I had an anthropology class. If I remember correctly, it's really tied to how harsh the environment was. So natives in Alaska had to hunt or starve. For equatorial people, the stakes were much lower. There was an abundance of alternatives.

One way to look at it, how much art did they produce? Lots of art? Food was probably pretty easy to come by. Scratch a line on a log? Those folks worked _hard_ to survive.

I'm sure there were lean times for everybody. I'm not trying to say you or parent poster are wrong, I'm saying it's a big world, and all of those things and more were true for somebody, somewhere.
Why not make panels that do both?

Also make them harvest energy from the wind at the same time somehow.

“Come Rain or Come Shine”™
Cap'n Proto 1.0
Interesting:

>The proprietary method we use is called De Argumentenkaart® (The Argument Map). The process of visualizing information forces people to structure their thoughts.

I would argue that there's nothing proprietary about a Pro-Con argument map. Think Kialo.com, and dozens of others already doing that.

I would further argue that argument maps do not encourage conversation of the type where one learns where others are coming from and, possibly, learning something new.
I don't think it's essential, but it's probably helpful. I also haven't looked for jobs in a long time, but interview a lot; it's unusual, through not unheard of, for a candidate not to have one (I don't think it counts against them with us, but I'm sure it does in some places).

Also, if I did find myself in need of a job, and didn't have anything particular in mind, I'd probably start replying to the recruiting messages I get on LinkedIn.

I think you can turn off the notifications; it notifies me for messages but nothing else. I assume I configured that at some point.
Unit files seem like a good idea. Does systemd need to do everything it does in order to gain that benefit?
Shit like CSAM is illegal pretty much everywhere though.
Please, iPhone users are paying on average $1000+ for their phone.

The median iPhone user in the US is making $53K a year (https://www.marketingdive.com/news/survey-iphone-owners-spen...).

And most people in the US are neither starving or homeless.
When I was a kid I ran a lawn service, and I got all my engines out of the trash.

When the mowers are cheap, it's rational. They get the lawnmower out of the shed the first time in spring and it won't start, it would cost a significant amount to get it fixed, and they have to waste your time and wrestle a dirty lawnmower in and out of your car. So they buy a cheap new one and throw the old one away.

Paying someone is still more expensive than doing it yourself.
Ithaca is a special case as it's essentially the main town outside of Cornell University.

Not all small towns have a major research university or other dependable benefactor around - most of the small town representatives can easily be bought/bribed by a major chain.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Can you express it more clearly?
so then you're saying it's an execution issue, not a flawed concept.

a lot of people are giving Martin flack that the idea sucks when the reality is they're implementing it poorly or inappropriately.
https://nitter.net/mattjay/status/1684623084228136960
A critical part of Worldcoin is its association with AI hype:

https://news.google.com/search?q=Worldcoin%20ai&hl=en-US&gl=...

> Investors are recognizing the opportunities presented by AI-based projects that leverage blockchain technology.

...Of course, this is total nonsense. But perception is everything for crypto IPOs.
also what is the guy doing with his mowers that they only last a year? my dad neglects his mowers pretty badly and it still runs fine 10+ years later. only issue is the dull blade.
Grew up in a small town, couldn’t disagree more. But what you’re describing is a vacation town, many small towns have become one because of the proliferation of second homes: there aren’t enough people around in the week for stores to justify staying open.

But not all towns are like that.
Ditto, much success with systemd here.

The 'overreach' people complain about exists for a good reason. Services need mounts/networks/etc to actually do their job reliably.

If people could discard the 'nyeh' sentiment, use recent releases, and actually engage with the system, they can only find more reliability.

What was once tailored in scripts for each service/job/whatever is now provided by the system

It's about clearly laying out dependencies. Not a lot more.

The only bad experience I've had with systemd is on Ubuntu 18; where I've been forced at work. It's common for systemctl daemon-reexec to be needed, to resuscitate it. It's woefully far behind.
You generate the secret keys beforehand in your wallet, and then only link them (in zero knowledge) with the iris hash.[1] , [2]

If we're going to be critical, let's at least understand how it works first.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1684939802083282944

[2]: https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html
Yes, but it also assumes that the orb is perfect, and never hacked or reverse-engineered to generate completely arbitrary quantities of these keys. You're putting an awful lot of trust in this for a 'trustless' system.
> But when it comes to sensitive information, promises aren’t enough. And the very people who insist that you trust them are the ones who should command the most suspicion.

It's the age-old rule of thumb: never trust anyone who says "trust me".
Dwm – Dynamic Window Manager
TBH it's hard to blame anyone for considering starting new cryptocurrencies. BTC/ETH have stuck around despite everything and remained at non-trivial prices. The "identity verification" step really just turns it into a club to join and that's still marketable in the world of cryptocurrency.
Wouldn’t it be better to have some underground cistern and as water flows down it passes through a turbine? A roof solution will generate a tiny amount of electricity.
Certainly! It can also be difficult to distinguish between being genuinely liked and politely tolerated because of being "good to have around".

I mean init systems, of course.
Lawnmowers nowadays are coming with "engines that do not require oil changes, ever!!!"... Either the lawnmower industry has deciphered the code to create frictionless moving parts and unoxidizable oils, or maybe the cynic in me is right in thinking that they just want you to throw away your perfectly serviceable lawnmower every couple years and buy a new one.
Care to claim something substantial and contribute to the discussion in a non-trivial way?
I'm ok not having a unique or customized first startup experience if it means I get to safeguard my privacy.
Wal-Mart, uniquely among large stores I've been in, makes me feel bad. I don't remember this being the case, say, 20 years ago. It seems to have worse over time. I think it's the lighting and design, though I'm not sure exactly what about it. Walking in instantly makes me miserable. Probably doesn't help that shoppers and workers alike all look sad, constantly (but how much of that is because the store itself is doing that to them?)

Also, nobody in them seem to know how to exist in public without constantly being in the way. Wal-Mart has an uncanny ability to feel crowded while not actually being crowded. I don't get it.
Blades need sharpened, gas maybe needs to be drained, are there other fluids that need take care of? Do I need to oil bits, are there bolts that I need to tighten?

I could spend hours learning to do this, and then buying the tools and materials to actually do the maintenance, plus the few hours of effort of actually doing it. Walmart has several mowers listed under $200, I can see why someone would find it not worth the time/effort/money to maintain a mower and just buy a new one. Hopefully, they are setting it out on the curb with a sign that says free for someone that does find that tradeoff worth it.
You wpuld be surprised to see how people abused these functions.

If you don't trust me, just look at the web. How it lost the cache for static asset; visited link css; popup window, etc
How does it do that?
When I think about it, I have to agree.

It would make for a fast mental shortcut in preparation. For example: you need to move an item. How much does it weigh?

Grams… ok, pocket

Kilograms… might need to put it in the trunk.
https://generalsemantics.org/resources/documents/gsb-65-wils...
Not OP, but...

Framed as team events, challenges, building exercises, etc. most companies will allow short frames for them. It's all in presenting superiors with a cost analyses that speaks to them in their native language: Profit/Loss/Excel.
I agree although I still run systemd. I run both Debian (with systemd) and Devuan (a Debian fork with anything systemd removed). The reason I still run a systemd-less fork is to not forget that Linux still works fine without systemd.

Linux is not systemd.

I did actually write systemd services and I'm not sure the "convenience" warrants what Microsoft (and Poettering) are doing to Linux.

The only one true savior we still have is Linus and, so far, Poettering still hasn't found a way to control the kernel's development.

But Microsoft/Poettering already won PID 1 on most distros/installs and, although I run systemd on several machines (including servers), it is not good that PID 1 is lost. It simply isn't.

Even if there were no technical objections (but there are: gigantic attack surface, lame binary logs, bugs regularly tagged as "not bugs" because Poettering feels like they're not bugs, etc.), it's still a huge problem how this gigantic squid spreads its tentacle everywhere.

Anyone finding it totally normal that the person in charge of PID 1 works for Microsoft is totally delusional.

People should at least acknowledge there are reasons to be concerned about that.

And whether sysvinit scripts do actually suck or not has nothing to do with PID 1 being controlled by someone working for Microsoft.
We all know that the average mobile ad is for games targeted at whales who will buy loot boxes and gems.
very interesting, I wonder if they picked up on my demographic and kept pestering for reviews and feedback when I let it out regarding my price experience shopping there and noting explicitly the lack of inflation increase I had seen elsewhere at the other stores I frequent. I definitely contributed a data point to these reports referenced above.
I've been applying too. I've landed tons of interviews about 40 total. Did them all.

All failed but one. It's definitely harder than before. Much harder.

I got failed for the most trivial reasons. There were interviews where I passed and did all the tasks required and the interviewer gave me positive signals like "good job", "talk to you soon" and boom the recruiter told me I was rejected the next day.

There was one where I made it to the final round onsite. Everyone liked me in the onsite. Schooled the technicals with code that worked first run and they canned me because behavioral. One guy (the director who I wouldn't even be reporting too) didn't like my reasoning for wanting to work at the company because I focused on my interest in the technology rather then the mission.

Like literally I just didn't talk about the mission... a specific thing and that was it. Besides that 4 out of 5 people during the final interview told me "talk to you soon" and one told me "I hope we see more of you in the future".

So yeah it's harder, brutally harder not just on the screening but even up the pipeline. I would say my resume is impressive enough that recruiters still contact me and I can make it to a first technical.

I think the people who are getting hired the most right now are people with connections. Who knows who.
Could theoretically put a wheel/turbine in downspouts from the roof.