skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. (for anyone else, of course that "of course" was sarcastic)

In particular, Winston Churchill noted that the way to succeed in the politics of his time was not to stand there with elbows out, opposing the world directly, but to first (a) align along an axis of mutual benefit, and then (b) push along orthogonal axes to more subtly carve out your own best deal.

(as to yc-related responses: it's probably just my cluelessness about yc other than as hosts for this wonderful wainscoting)
systemd is bringing Linux feature parity to Windows NT in the mid-90s. That's 30 years ago for those of you keeping score at home.

Funny the author mentions Solaris because Solaris has SMF and other systemd-similar tools.

Linux pre-systemd looked like a kernel duct taped to a bunch of random thrown-together shell scripts... because it was. A sorry state of affairs that a bunch of very stubborn people were afraid to let go.

The simple fact that configuring networking out of the box is completely different on every distro and sometimes within distros depending on which tools were loaded, in 2024, is simply insane.
I don't think you should. I just think that the in-between is quite worthless. Why not have fully WFH and full RTO companies for people to choose from according to their preferences? I realize that's not the subject matter of the article.
Thanks for that link, it's a very convincing presentation that very clearly explains the shortcomings of getaddrinfo.
I have a feeling I'm looking at Comic Sans... and the idea that Comic Sans might actually be a really legible font dawns on me. I don't know what to believe anymore.
They haven't bought 23andme. but there is overlap, Anne was the former CEO of YouTube and wife of Sergey Brin
Why should it? Self driving is vaporware until it isn’t. Once it exists it changes the cost benefit analysis for the future, not the past. People need to stop buying things that don’t exist yet.

Same goes for “AI-ready” iPhone 16s. Either I can use the AI or I can’t. Once I can, I will consider buying it.
Can you give some examples of implementation that are hard to understand and use?
Isn't China the one country that actively sets up their own police forces all over the world? Aren't there numerous Canadians of chinese origin that China has abducted? I see news articles of Canadians being arrested for assisting China in these abductions fairly often lately.
Good to see it has moved so much from just JavaScript being the main target. I like the small scheme portable idea a lot. For those requiring just a minimal scheme this works.
The plan was always that DNA could be use for medical research, which is enormously valuable.

And given that 23andme currently has a market cap 1/20th DJT (Trump Media & Technology Group Corp) -- a firm that makes less revenue than a variety store yet has huge losses -- I wouldn't really say it's "worth so much".
it does seem like a purely escalatory move. wounding but not killing 1000+ of your deepest adversaries, slow clap... I'm sure Hezbollah will give up now that their pagers are destroyed.
And yet they set thousands of them off no matter who was nearby.
"data breach"
Debt Assignment, Slavery and Privity of Contract
She (the CEO) has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. Intentionally driving a company into bankruptcy for personal gain is a massive breach of that duty and opens her up to all kinds of legal trouble. So I would think that's a very bad idea.
Yeah after thinking about it a bit more it does make more sense to me. The primary gap I had was, as you allude here:

> You can use a copyable anywhere you’d use a non-copyable since there is no restriction.

Effectively copyable always conforms to non-copyable, just not the other way around.

And the compiler effectively automatically notates literally everything with Copyable, so you need the explicit (& ~Copyable) in the function definition so you're still able to define functions within a ~Copyable protocol that have Copyable semantics.

It's very in the weeds, and I still don't like it (I would have preferred NotCopyable since the ~, especially next to the &, directly implies something like bitwise operators), but I guess custom ownership is itself very in the weeds and you will have to think about it hard no matter what approach is taken. I would have expected custom ownership to be fundamentally incompatible with Swift, but clearly it's here; I should probably read about it more so I have a more clear understanding.

(I also didn't realize & was extant syntax).
Why don't more people use Linux
I've fixed a lot of problems on a lot of systems and never needed to recompile systemd. The majority of them I've fixed by editing text files.

What kinds of problems are you hitting where you need to recompile systemd?
C++ has a lot of things I would call new-fangled, in addition to many old ways of doing things, with no good ways to settle on which iteration to use so devs can avoid learning all of them. And some things simply require templating nightmares to work at all.

I would also not use "rock solid" in comparison to how easy it is to hit undefined behavior.

Used all over and easy to find jobs, yes.
The summary at the end is pretty overt, but I like it.
Yes, this is exactly my impression too.. the code for opentelemetry-js is over engineered and adds a scary amount of dependency code. There are quite a bunch of libraries which I'm not sure what they do and in which scenarios I might need them. The documentation is not very helpful either. I look forward to someone implementing a opentelemetry-nano package with only the minimum stuff needed and allow me to choose extra support for my dependencies or an easy way of adding my own wrappers.
I advocated for no such thing. I'm just asking why I should choose another career, one which necessitates RTO, because I'm an extrovert.
Looks great, always good to have some innovations in this space. I think that they nailed it with the support for Android apps ootb. Otherwise, I need to have two devices.

> Install and run apps from F-Droid, Aurora Store and other sources

I wonder if the "other sources" include the Play store, if not what the experience sideloading will look like.
But that's systemd the project, not systemd the init system. You don't need to use any of those components to use systemd, which has no dependencies on them. Those services can live and die on their own merits.
Did your relative?

I'm not a geneticist so I could be totally off the mark; but, to my understanding, the painful part is that is a big disclosure right there
not sure if it is 'production ready' and how does its performance/size go comparing to c++/rust/swift, in the end though, it's the ecosystem that matters.
With the GPLv3/AGPLv3 versions, it is still OK to break the proprietary parts. For the LGPL in general, you have to be able to re-link, so that isn't OK I think.

https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
Someday they will say the same thing about music. :)
How does a Bay Area tech site, when Bay Area tech has sooo many individuals who originally came to the USA as students but then couldn't go home due to tiananmen, have this kind of 'enlightened thought' on China, day in and day out?
why limit this to YouTube? it should work on any body of text, is that right?
Upstart and OpenRC both came years prior. As a matter of course anything which was self contained and standardized could have allowed interoperability. Systemd just actually convinced everyone to standardize not least because its integration with other parts of systemd provided both a carrot: standardization and simplicity for distro maintainers and a stick: the extra work required to use only part of it or especially if one used none of it and was expected to both write ones one unit files AND integration with stuff like gnome which was and remains the most popular singular GUI.
Hilarious to watch Zoom return to office in the last two years.
Not necessarily. Just because the government is collecting everyone's DNA doesn't mean they're gonna create a slick web app for showing you your ancestry results.

That's like asking why the DMV isn't competing with Google for revenue...
I've heard about SwiftUI just some months ago, and was initially excited about the demonstration in WWDC, so I started to pay more attention to it. Now I've been reading comments on how it doesn't handle well more complex UIs, but haven't really read anything in depth. Can you recommend any resources on that?
As far as I know the existence of the graviton is 100% up in the air, not well accepted either way.

But yeah, particles in energy levels gravitationally bound to a black hole in a similar way electrons are electrically bound to a nucleus.
Isreal is doing just fine, drumming up dissent, based on it's behavior alone.
I just tested macOS Sonoma 14.5, and splitting a multi-key keyboard shortcut across multiple keyboards causes the shortcut to not be recognised.
Lead-Free Solder and Flux Testing – Finding the Optimal Combinations
On paper Swift has a lot going for it. In practice it's easily the worst devx out of the modern languages. And SwiftUI is still so full of bugs and performance pitfalls I'm actually quite pessimistic about the future of native apps on Apple platforms.
Required ADS-B and collision avoidance tech is another. Many lives could be saved, instead they mandated fire extinguishers in all planes which have likely saved zero lives.
Some of them don't do this though, which suggests it isn't a defining feature. The only "user input" in many cases is a click, which doesn't need to be collected and marshalled. The definition also includes "controls" no user input at all, such as when "onload" is the trigger, which I guess might be controversial, but the onclick controls are definitely controls and sometimes the click is the only input.
This is beautiful, thank you! I always wanted something like this. My vision was to have a 3D joystick in my left hand to navigate the space. I'll run it as my daily driver and will try to contribute and discuss over at Github.
Why is this published on their Investor page, against the reigning CEO?
This is probably the biggest impact tbh. I wonder if the US public would support these actions if it knew it was going to come back on them with longer TSA lines.
Gen X’s arc was going from Reality Bites/Wayne’s World slacker grunge culture into the stultifying white collar Office Space of the Matrix and then disappearing from the zeitgeist entirely after 9/11 made Fight Club’s ending sort of real.
Until you look at the cybersecurity industry players. Many big players are based in Tel Aviv
I created a throwaway account just for this.

I actually hired, and we later fired, a couple of 'engineers' from Unit 8200. They were technically quite weak, and when Oct. 7 happened, I wasn't surprised at all. If this was the cream of the crop, the defense community should seriously re-evaluate the efficacy of the IDF.
I stand corrected. Well maybe the board took a day to get together and draft the letter. One of the board members Neal Mohan has to stand before a judge in Google's current anti-trust trial. No doubt he has no time for this stuff.
There were and are other options other than systemd and SysV years prior in fact. OpenRC and upstart predate it and s6 was not much later.
This line really highlights what I find to be unworkable within the situation:

> Brendan Barnwell was also concerned that, based on ""the tenor of the comments from the moderation team/SC/PSF board"", the decision essentially comes down to: ""'If Person A does something and Person B interprets that in a way they find objectionable, it is automatically (or at least by default) Person A who must accept they are in the wrong.'"" But that is not fully reflecting the code-of-conduct guideline of ""'being [respectful] of differing viewpoints and experiences'"", he said. Sometimes Person B needs to rethink their interpretation too.

It doesn't take much imagination to see how that could be abused.
I used to live on beacon st in Brookline. Every year the marathon was a nightmare. Drunk people on my stoop. Trash everywhere. It was wicked cool to see the old timers and charity runners running even after it got dark. Would always give them a big cheer as they came by.
I use C++ at work but am glad I didn't learn it before. Yes it's a good language for what it's made for, but there are so many features that anywhere you work, you will use it differently from how you used it before. Better to learn it on the job imo.

Just getting good and greasy with Python and JS with all the typical libs has been more rewarding for me. Nobody taught me, but it was useful.
If the board is resigning, and the company is selling DNA kits, running a telemedicine operation, selling pharmceuticals online AND developing cancer drugs at a 180 million dollar market cap...

It's quite possible there was no plan at all...
They can ship as much trash as they like, so long as it doesn't become my problem.

Those components become my problem when the distributions I choose to use choose to adopt them, and then I have to work around them.
It's mandatory that they have to disclose this
I was equating terrorism and and virulent anti-semitism and violent suppression of women's rights, gay rights, free speech, and democracy with barbarism. Israeli Arabs are happy to live in Israel. If you have a better word, I'd be happy to use it. Barbarity?
Ok, please share more! Who responded and who didn’t?
So sad that Blackstone bought ancestry.. newspapers.com is a really nice tool for researchers (and most things that get touched by PE end up enshittified)
What do you mean “transfer pricing is illegal”?

Transfer pricing is a normal part of business and done all the time and is legal.

Presumably you mean “hiding profit through transfer pricing is illegal”?
Do we know whether or not they embedded gps tracking into the bombs?

I would think they would have that ability, not just to avoid a horrible accident like blowing up a plane, but also to gather valuable tracking intel on a terrorist organization.
Still shamelessly (mis)applying pedantry

“A new HTTP LSP…” reads like a new protocol being introduced, which is inaccurate, hence my original complaint.

Try this on for size: “A new HTTP…”. Sounds weird right?
She founded the company 18 years ago. Google invested like <$10 million at the beginning and pulled out just earlier this year.
I don't like systemd, but I don't like s6 either.

What we need is something simple that uses something easy like unit files. (Though I wouldn't choose the systemd unit file syntax.)
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Anne's sister Susan, who died a month ago of lung cancer was CEO of YouTube. Susan was the person who advocated Google acquire YouTube in the first place.

Google was founded in the garage of Anne and Susan's childhood home. Anne was married to Sergei until he had an affair.

One of the board members of 23andMe is Neal Mohan who is the current CEO of YouTube.
It's a shame Python has a strong anti-FP stance with crippled lambdas. And an OO system that looks like it has been bolted in, compared to Ruby which is essentially a Smalltalk with Perl-like syntax and some Lisp influence.

These two issues would have been quite easy to fix and would have led to a completely different development experience. Python had a good implementation with a nice C FFI (CPython) right from the beginning, whereas Ruby MRI had lots of efficiency issues with long-running computations. IMHO this is one of the reasons why Python won. Building a numerics stack on top of MRI did not look very promising.
A member at an old makerspace needed extremely powerful custom glasses in addition to very large monitors, he had heart surgeries, diabetes, and probably other conditions I'm forgetting.

If I remember right, a teen he had an electronics related job that involved a lot of washing parts with some kind of nasty solvent with definitely an OSHA violation kind of safety.

It's unknown how many of the problems were directly caused by that, but he believed many of them were likely related.

I'm not a chemist, and I'm not a big fan of taking risks, so I just stay away from anything with chronic toxic effects if I can. There's usually very little benefit other than minor time savings anyway, outside of crazy specialists stuff.
My concern now is another nation-state actor who manages certain large international supply chains doing this on a broader scale against widespread western targets. Your comment on it being a pandoras box is quite profound.
SEC regulations
The rights your passport gives you + the legal and embassy protections given to American citizens. Like the American civilians held in Russia that Biden recently traded Russian spies for.

You still have access to vote absentee, as well as collect social security benefits.

You can use US bank accounts and other institutions.

You and your children have the right to return if you ever desire it.
An amazing article about Prince, and about the documentary the 9 hour documentary that I hope one day we'll get to see.
Systemd-resolvd is started by default on my Ubuntu distro v24.
You cold e-mail CEOs and get a >70% hitrate?
I gotta try this more often.
It's not necessarily EEE. Maybe it's just that the old wheel sucks. They want a better wheel and so they reinvented it, hopefully better this time.

The corporations making proprietary software are not the only ones who have that attitude. I've resolved to make all my free software Linux-exclusive so that I can use Linux to the fullest. The Linux kernel is packed full of exclusive non-portable features that very few people take advantage of because they're obsessed with portability, POSIX compliance or whatever. I think that's a waste.

Portable software is usually sucky lowest common denominator software. We should not limit ourselves to whatever glibc offers.
Yeah there's a reason people go to all that effort with React Native to avoid writing Swift code or dealing with Apple's UI frameworks, and it's actually a reasonable approach for the majority of apps.
No submodules however.
I’m not convinced that IBM’s ecosystem and business model is more complex than, say, market leader AWS.
The settlement is way lower than what it could have been. The settlement should be seen as positive news for the company's future, not negative.
I have fought this battle for my entire career. The problem is, incentives are tough - often senior engineers on ops teams have built the system on duct tape and bubble gum, and have a very specific and unobtainable knowledge about all the quirks of it which frequently involve a ton of manual, esoteric shit to resolve without a lot of know-how.

Part of how I’ve made myself useful as a consultant sometimes in my career is by insisting on a strict set of processes that break down and identify bottlenecks like this. It’s almost always ops, it almost always can be automated, but there’s “no bandwidth or budget” to fix the problems so they expect superheroes to constantly save the day by pulling absurd hours or by inventing genius solutions that management buys into.

For me, as an IC or sometimes as a consultant, I try to chip away. We spend X minutes a week doing Y thing manually. what’s the easiest thing we can do to reduce X? and then slowly introduce whatever arises out of those processes, and then slowly “eat the elephant” one bite at a time.

when people come into a big messy manual legacy system they often, imho, make the mistake of wanting to tear it down and recreate it from scratch. having done several cloud architecture/IAC refactors in my career, I can tell you its definitely a way easier sell to management and other teams to whittle away at it than to recreate it entirely, and i think that’s also what the video is poking fun at. There’s always skeletons that your perfect solution will run into. Processes, standards, and monitoring will expose these dead bodies, but it’s not a one shot solution and I’m immediately skeptical when anyone proposes something in this space that is. Every situation is a snowflake.
The follow on sequel was a bit hit-or-miss though. :(
Covid-19 rates oscillate every six months in the US, new study shows
I doubt those 2,750 all have minor injuries. That's 2,750 targets, a lot of whom probably now now have missing fingers/hands, a chunk missing from their leg, face injuries.... Aka major injuries from having a small explosion on their belt or int their pocket. It's going to be 2,750 probably major injuries that will take a long time to recover from.
This question on StackExchange[0] has the same issue, and it looks like Karabiner-Elements[1] has an option to fix the issue (though I haven't tested this myself).

[0]: https://superuser.com/questions/707225/how-can-i-combine-the...

[1]: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
Unfortunately, there aren't any concrete examples (unless I skipped something accidentally), so it's hard to tell what exactly is meant as "does more" or that it doesn't "stand out of the way" etc.

Yes, systemd services can do a lot of things. Except that before rc scripts did all those things, but without any unified and standardized primitives. systemd provides those for a lot of common use cases - and that's how it ended up doing so much - because our rc scripts used to do that. systemd actually does less because unit files are not scripts (but one can hook any external program in a lot of places, if they need to).

Also, as I understand it, systemd isn't a single piece of software either, it's a whole project with a bunch of semi-autonomous pieces, tied with common conventions and assumptions. It's difficult to define the scope for an umbrella project, and I believe individual pieces all have their scopes relatively well-defined.
If they could have done that before, what was stopping them?
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> It's an operating system that demands more of you than does the commercial offerings from Microsoft and Apple.

This has become less true as time passes. I installed Debian Stable on one of my relatives laptop, configured web browsing and stuff. Hasn't heard anything in years. Whereas my mom who uses Windows will routinely complain about her computer becoming too slow. When you factor in that Windows actively leans towards clear user hostile behavior, I just struggle to see why someone would bother. Granted Macos is a completely different story and find myself recommending it more and more. As long as you are comfortable paying your way out of problems at a premium, that is.
resolvd was running by default on Ubuntu 24.

I was struggling with it while trying to troubleshoot a VPN connection because resolvd automates resolve.conf into a generated file from several other files and will overwrite any other functionality trying to add resolvers to resolve.conf, like an internal VPN company resolver for example.

Why is systemd even touching DNS?

Seems a little outside of it's scope.

This is kinda crazy to me personally when I found out resolvd was doing this.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/systemd-resolved.s...
Thank you so much for your feedback! I'm thrilled that you enjoyed the show and that it gave you those Douglas Adams vibes - that's a huge compliment.

I really appreciate your thoughts on the packaging and pacing. You've made an excellent point about the episode structure, and it's given me food for thought. The idea of shorter, more digestible episodes is intriguing, and it's something I hadn't considered before.

I initially chose the longer format to dive deep into each topic, but I can see how it might feel repetitive for some listeners. Your suggestion of ~7 minute episodes could indeed make the show easier to consume and fit better into people's daily routines.

I'm always looking to improve, so I'll definitely consider this idea for future episodes. Thank you again for your constructive feedback.