skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lower-class = can't

Upper-class = won't

The word "picky" demonstrates the social wrapper in action:

lower-class "can't eat that food - I'm scared of it / it might throw off my digestion / not be worth the price"

is disguised as the upper-class "I could eat that but would rather have..."

to save face.
Catania fire that shut down the airport 'started by printer cable'
oh my bad
like <1% of people are realistically burning 4000+ calories in a day
I don't get how anyone can call something with an eternally-fixed quantity a currency. What's the plan for when it starts appreciating and people stop spending it and start hoarding it?
Is there a good systemd book to learn it all?
and another electron app...
But TOR isn’t really any more decentralized than the internet; and it might even be less decentralized due to exit node contention. Decentralization does not seem to have anything to do with TOR’s relatively slow speed, nor does decentralization seem to have any “thermodynamic principle” of slowing things down, right? The extra complexity of TOR is precisely the thing slowing it down, by design. (Well one of the things, scarce bandwidth is another - there have always been calls & pleas for more participation in order to increase the network’s bandwidth & capacity.)

We can’t exactly compare Netflix to an unnamed slow torrent of your choice in any fair or reasonable way given that Netflix is something like 15% of all internet traffic and is heavily optimized. The fair comparison is using BitTorrent to download a file compared to a direct http or ftp download from the original source/host - and for that BitTorrent usually wins handily in my experience. Plus I’ve definitely seen some popular torrents download much faster than anything Netflix has ever served me, in terms of bytes per second.
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27194284
I really hope Chrome becomes paid software, the fallout in my immediate family is going to be glorious.

On a less cheeky note, I’m all for breaking up Google but the reality is that outside of this small tech circle nobody cares. People like the current system and they have no problem with web DRM either because if anything it might benefit them (no stupid captchas for example).
This is really well said. I’ve been trying to articulate this point for a long time. I think the boundary is between things that are temporal or bounded by real time and space vs things that are time independent and state based. Oracles always suffer from this problem even if the authoritative representation is another digital thing. For example the whole NFT url swapping thing. Similarly this comes up in version control a lot when your code depends on things that are unversioned, the commit state may be idempotent but the application is not.
Argument Map Restricting Encryption (2021)
I find systemd amazing, and worlds better than sysvinit. I'll be happy to never admin a sysvinit box again!
> It’s literally a 2 second process, and it’s meant to provide transparency into what the developer is doing.

What transparency? Almost every app in the App Store uses UserDefaults, and the only allowed reason to use it is, literally, "CA92.1". How is that transparency?

> That seems entirely beneficial to users.

How, exactly?

> Sorry that being honest and taking a few seconds of your time is such a heavy burden.

The dishonest developers will give the exact same "reason" as the honest developers. It's security theater.
PostModern Computing – a cautionary tale of the internet [pdf]
CentOS Stream changes have to go upstream first so the whole community (including other distros) benefit from having changes go through CentOS Stream. Downstream rebuilds of RHEL never contribute anything back to the community, since they are just rebuilding RHEL packages.
Yes, Target seems to explicitly use warmer lighting and earth tones. Walmart is flourescent light and shades of blue. It's awful.
This also parallels with developers complaining that they can’t have a direct relationship with customers.

I don’t want a direct relationship with developers. I don’t want to go to their website to subscribe or to cancel my subscription and I don’t want to give them my credit card information.

I want to be able to use “Sign in with Apple” and not give them my real email address.
Tor is surely the answer to having your activity be anonymous to companies, how else would you achieve that?
Microsoft's AI shopping announcement contains hallucinations in the demo
Target does this too. It’s common in most supermarkets nowadays
Im sure there are but not really aware of what they are. The one that I can think of is putting some downward pressure on asset prices when the market knows that a lot of wealthy people have to sell off assets somewhat quickly.
There is a certain degree of that for sure. These people really see themselves as “destroyers of worlds” when in fact they are becoming a but amusing in how they try to inflate their importance on the scene.

But the sense of urgency cause by the supposed incoming terror, destitution, and despair seem to indicate these people would almost enjoy seeing it happen. Notice how their marketing doesnt focus as much on the benefits as it does on the drawbacks. It’s as if they _want_ the negatives to come to fruition and some sort of radical change to happen as a result of it.

Maybe i am reading too much into it and giving sam and the other folks at openai too much credit, but the idea that they might be accelerationists is so crazy that it might actually be fact.

Why else would you go above and beyond to build products that you yourself claim can be extremely harmful, they require radical change, other than you wanting for that negative outcome to happen so that you can achieve said change?

Didnt the person say or write somewhere that he wants to solve inequality? And since ai would drastically increase inequality by extracting work from the masses and selling it for the profits of the few at massive scale doesnt it is logical to believe that he’a aiming to prove a point. Speeding things up, cause social upheaval, that leads to social change. The definition of that ideology.
Large multinational banks are particular offenders here. IIRC, the rough equivalent grade for a Big Tech(TM) senior in JP Morgan (or maybe Goldman? one of those) is VP. Staff is MD or something!
Can we all just take a moment to laugh at the fact that all of this complexity is, roughly speaking, the evolution of AUTOEXEC.BAT?

(Pedants: I know AUTOEXEC.BAT not a direct ancestor of systemd, but it's a close cousin and serves the same purpose: run stuff when you boot.)
Studies find little impact of social media on polarization
That arxiv link to the paper is also the same guy I mentioned in my twitter reference. Subbarao :)
If privacy is really private, and not merely a promise from a benevolent entity they won't look at your details, not that they can't, then you will always find in your company those who need privacy because they are hiding from all of society that hate them. Even if we were to go 100,000 years into the future where morals are entirely different and alien to modern day ones, if privacy exists at all, you'll find it most popular among those whose behaviors are the most morally repugnant to the futuristic society.

Privacy is good even when you have nothing to hide, but it is imperative for those who do need to be hidden. The ethical issues I generally see people concerned with are ethical issues with privacy itself, not a specific implementation.
Simply amazing. And I thought I was wasteful. What happens to the old mowers? Does your friend sell or give away his old mower?

I almost feel like our way of life (artificially cheap) is going to hit a brick wall once gas stops being cheap (peak oil).
You might consider it enshittification because it's not as cute as "Main Street" but in rural and impoverished areas Walmart brought affordable necessities -- like much cheaper groceries -- and real quality of life increases for people who otherwise would have simply had to do with much less. The lower prices that Walmart is able to offer actually do matter and have a material impact on people who are not rich.
It may be a mistake, but does it that make it a "syndrome"?
I'm surprised they care. I can't speak for all "people of affluence who want to save money", but personally I feel that everything about the experience is catered towards a person who values small discounts a lot more than their own time. the inventory is barely organized and I have to walk all the way around the store before I even find the right section. it's even harder to find a human employee who might know where to find the thing I'm looking for.

target isn't a whole lot better, but at least they have more staff wandering around to ask for help. I'll pay an extra 20 cents on my megapack of paper towels every time if that gets me out of the store faster.
(Read the above as if it was Tom Swift saying we should eat babies.)

Edit: John.
It can also be really bipolar, depending on philosophy. People tend to be extreme in either direction. You get zealots or the code is terrible.
You don't understand. Both the departments in Walmart and buildings in a town are roughly oblong when viewed from above, so they're actually the same. Also, aisles meant to convey you between those departments are like roads conveying you between buildings. What more evidence do you need? /s
An application that deployed 50 years ago and never updated would not run on 64-bit processors and would not be able to use the TCP/IP protocol suite. 50 years is longer than the average lifespan of any physical hardware component and it's not clear whatever drivers you had from back then would support any replacement part you could still find.
I would imagine these could ultimately be combined with solar.

insert why not both? meme here
In the UK it would probably look a lot better, rainforests as well.
Middle aged, diagnosed with ADHD about 15 years ago, been in the industry for 25 years.

Not saying my way is best, but this is how I do it.

ADHD is nothing to be ashamed of, and IMO you have as much right to accommodations as somebody with no legs who uses a wheelchair. However, you couldn't pay me to mention ADHD to an employer or prospective employer. It's too stigmatized, and also it's just plain nebulous -- even if an employer is supportive, your manager can't intuit and extrapolate the behavioral health needs of individual employees based on their diagnoses.

How do I best tell prospective employers I might need
some accommodation in this process?

During the interview process I don't mention ADHD or accommodations at all. Best advice I can give here is to either (a) just grind Leetcode until you feel comfortable with it? (b) send your resume to a kazillion places and just bail if the interview process involves some kind of live coding exercise you feel that you'll struggle with. Or, alternately, just do it anyway with zero pressure and maybe you'll surprise yourself. You will get better at live coding and interviews with time.

Once you have the job, I still never mention ADHD ever. What I do is just ask for accommodations that I need. I never worked at a company that really gave a flying fuck if I took my laptop to a spare conference room so I could code in a quieter and less distracting environment. Helps to tell your team where you'll be so it's not like you disappeared.

But from a tactical standpoint I would at all times urge people to think in terms of solutions (specific coping strategies and accommodations) instead of labels and craft your employee/employer relationship accordingly.
Latency is actually pretty reasonable once you're connected. Connection times are where most people really feel the slowness with Tor. For example, chat and SPA's are pretty snappy over Tor.
I think systemd is quite good.

For those who doesn’t like it: There are other service managers out there. IMHO the most sophisticated alternative is s6-rc.

It runs on both Linux and *BSD.

https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/
I want my cake and it to boot fast too.
> Master's degree in theoretical computer science / artificial intelligence

Yeah, that’s definitely not your standard coder.

Previous thread where he posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26768550
> I think Haskell has the right approach here.

I dislike that I can't instantly see which parameter has which type, but I suppose it's the only way to support currying and point-free.
The Role of Kiwifruit in Supporting Psychological Well-Being [pdf]
You're only arguing the punishment for taboo violation isn't harsh enough.
> almost every employee had a zombie like appearance one or the other way

For what it's worth, in my area (a midsize Deep South city; the customary environment for Walmart), I don't see this. But it is also a city experiencing some amount of growth with a viable future. Starting pay at my local Walmarts are the same as starting pay at a McDonald's or any other entry-level retail job.

I'm curious, where were the Walmarts you visited? I've been to "sad" Walmarts like that, and in my experience it correlates most strongly with the general sadness of the town -- places ravaged by the opioid epidemic, with few jobs and no hope in the residents' hearts.
I understand much better. Thanks. So this is much more programmer extensible and possibly get data from other sources (not just unstructured data).
I simply don't get the outrage/criticism against this part of systemd. Instead of having to play around with `start-stop-daemon` and whatnot, a simple service is just these days:

```

[Unit]

Description=my app

[Service]

Restart=on-failure

User=webservices

Group=webservices

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/my-web-service

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

It couldn't really be any simpler.

There's also https://github.com/gdraheim/docker-systemctl-replacement# for anyone who needs a "lighter" alternative for tests in Docker.
General question: what do most people here dislike about systemd now? Binary logs? Logind? I mean this out of general curiosity. I’ve used systemd a fair amount and I don’t really fight it, but I’m not in love with it or anything.
Quantum Tech Intended for National Security Is Testing U.S. Alliances
If we're talking Linux desktops, I've heard Xfce referred to as the Debian of DEs, and I have to agree.

Fairly slow incremental changes over time, and no real surprises on a new release.

It's incredibly boring, but in the right way.
I think this is more a statement about the Detroit auto scene being objectively behind other areas. Yeah age discrimination plays a part but in this case it's actually justified as opposed to just being cheaper.
Moral ambiguity is a competitive advantage for the business too. Holding back "progress" turns you into a cost center in a real quick way and that's something the business wants to avoid.

Who do you think did better for Uber, the person who pointed out that it was technically illegal, or the person who pointed out that they could make a lot of money before the legal trouble materialized?

I've been at a company where that happened and the people who focused on data accuracy and brought that up in debates around prioritization got cut for not moving the business forward. As I got told, "if the customer is shown what they want to see (and they have no other source of information to compare), does it matter if it's accurate?"
As someone who just recently spent a wistful afternoon looking at listings on Pinside, this price barely even seems crazy. It's a bit different since pinball tables have all the mechanical bits and bobs, but still.

Owning a Medieval Madness table has become one of my "boy, if I ever won the lottery" fantasies, and will likely remain that way.
It's curious to frame this as an intentional act rather than an inevitable, natural stage of capitalism.
If you can’t make a product that convinces enough people to give you money, that seems like a you problem
Alternate link: https://archive.is/rL9PB
Can a Chromebook be private? What are the good practices you follow?
yah, it's a much more cluttered and crowded experience. The demographics who shop there too are lower class and bring with them less attuned social dynamics and courtesies and other subtle etiquettes that are desired when out in public. People who are oblivious to blocking things, looking past you while they cross your path and cut you off with a shopping cart, being loud or verbally obnoxious, at times unbathed, etc etc. A certain class of folks would rather bubble themselves from such experiences.
Ask HN: Why Have or Haven't You Bought a Developer a Coffee?
I see the buttons across git repos and blogs but I've often wondered how effective they are
There are better ways to achieve the same goals as Worldcoin.

https://rollup.id/blog/rollup-id-the-open-source-privacy-fir...
At my previous company we regularly had need for shared numbers that callers would not know were shared[^1]. We tried using Twilio/etc for this, and it sometimes worked, but we ran into issues in some cases where the systems we were using the phones with banned the use of virtual numbers. I don't know how these systems determine that numbers are virtual, but doing so appears trivial and mostly correct with US/UK numbers.

So, question for Cophone, do these phones have a "real" number, or a virtual number? And, perhaps a follow-up, are these VMs with a virtual network stack, or are they physical devices with a real physical SIM/eSIM/modem with screen sharing?

[^1]: This sounds nefarious, but we essentially partnered with a lot of retailers, and needed to interact with their customer service and operations departments who were a long way organisationally from those who signed the partnership contracts, and with little scope for deeper integrations. The lowest friction option was to pretend to be a completely normal customer rather than explain our special case setup every time. Fun fact, this is why we used a gender-neutral name on the postal address, so that anyone from our company could call up and claim to be the recipient.
An Extremely Simple React Starter Kit
My brief googling suggests this is not so in the UK at any rate.

>Some trains, such as the famous "Flying Scotsman" in the United Kingdom, were able to reach speeds of up to around 90 miles per hour (145 kilometers per hour). However, this was not the norm and most trains had a top speed of around 50-60 miles per hour

They are quicker now - 130mph, 80 mph is normal
The older I get, the more I appreciate receiving nice socks as gifts.
What kind of frustrations has systemd caused you? I know there are a lot of very valid criticisms of it, but the only time I’ve experienced actual frustration is when I’m fighting with the timer syntax that I can never seem to memorize.

Besides Nix, it’s the easiest way I’ve found to declaratively define a system that just works.
Honestly, I don't know. I don't see enough of the "not close, easy rejection" type resumes, I see things after they've been filtered. But I'll see if I can get an answer to that question.
Wiki edits are already public. How would a git repo be better?
I’m not sure if you’re knowingly ignoring the OPs point or just ignoring it.

Buying two lawnmowers is vastly more wasteful (to the world, not to your pocket) than buying one and maintaining it.
This is great. Appreciate the minimalist straightforward design.
beyond init and udev script cobbling, I've recently plunged deep into networkd and resolved for the heck of it, discovered networkctl and resolvectl in the process, and it's been a very pleasant experience so far, making easy things trivial and hard things easy.
Open ML Considerations in the EU AI Act
That's not really fair. systemd does a lot more, and with good reason (among other reasons: there are many, many economies that can be made when "booting" and "managing" services happens in the same hat)
Not so great for childbirth, infants, elderly, those who do get sick, etc
Yeah, you just don't know what real food tastes like! Stop liking things I don't like, you can only like things outside your means!
This comment is accurate and should be at the top
This happened in 2008 too with the housing downturn. Part of the store boom I participated in was fueled by that growth.

The problem is they can’t manage to keep most of them once the economy bounces back, and growth slows significantly (their top line growth was only 2-4% per year for most of the 2010s and they still aren’t profitable on e-commerce)

Maybe since inflation is a different beast it will capture more consumers like this, we shall see
Personally I'm much more annoyed by taking control of how I partition my fucking drives.

Yes, I know why. IBMHat makes me like FreeBSD more with every power grab.
this drastically depends on where you live and what the restaurant scene is like. you’re describing corporate chain restaurants.

cities with food scenes still exist.
You've missed out then! I grew up in a town with a thriving Main St (Davidson, NC) and loved every minute there. The great coffee shop, diner, drug store, bookstore, library, ice cream shop, and gift store all come to mind. Its popularity was an outlier when I was younger, but since then I've actually seen other local towns with formerly dilapidated main streets turn it around (Mooresville for example). Walkability is in huge demand, and these older communities are some of the best options in the region for that.
I live in a small town. It's great! There's a Walmart in the next town over.
Yes, but just as before, you need multiple dipoles since there are multiple frequencies. Digital allows multiple channels where we had one analog.
Totally, but what do you do with mobile devices that needs it? I use iOS with iPads and iPhones, so buying Affinity (which works great on an iPad with a Pencil but also has software for quick edits on a phone) makes a lot of sense to me. They provide value, so I paid for them.

This, not simply "doesn't have money", is the thing about mobile apps that it feels like most people in that most things a user wants to do on a phone don't actually need an app, and if they do it's probably because they're buying something or talking to somebody and neither of those are categories that need more entries with a lower security barrier.
Flash Museum
Torrents disagree ;-)
> Wow, thats rich coming from germany. Studying american “propaganda” in schools that is. I dont understand why the anti american sentiment is so prevalent in that country.

Why do you feel attacked by students learning about American propaganda? Why is it "anti American" to learn about this topic?

> Do they resent the us for fighting against them in ww2? Or for calling out their initially treacherous attitude towards the recent war? Although somehow germany appears to have the same attitude towards all other countries, including those in europe. Wondering if they understand that there will eventually be backlash.

You seem seriously agitated. Is the whole world supposed to treat America like a child, never mentioning bad things and only ever talking about positive sides?

Have you ever seriously sat down and looked at American propaganda, especially during/after WW2? It's a fascinating topic. I hope you realise that German students also learn about German propaganda - it's not something you do because the country you're learning about is evil, it's something you do because it's part of reality, and students should learn to critically think about reality.
FWIW you can add your own caching logic with Workers, if the CDN for some reason doesn't do Range. The Cache API exposed to Workers is quite useful.
Absolutely no relevance. And even if there was, I'd like to see a business where having to take an extra fifteen minutes to reference an algorithm textbook is the difference between success and going under.
I have no idea what launchd is.
Thanks for the input bro.