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Totally agree. At least on KDE I really don't notice any difference in performance and always have both installed.

I use Firefox 99% of the time though. I think it is something about the tabs that I like better but it is a minor difference and purely based on personal taste.
Title should be "Belgium approves four-day work week". Without the "work", it is incorrect, even if it could be guessed.
Ever since a high school current events class, I have questioned the motives of the media. This was circa 2008 after the stock market crash. The common question of "why is significantly more negative news highlighted than happy news?"

What matters to me is the truth. In times of FUD(fear, uncertainty, doubt), the information dials are all set to 11. It's an absolute firehose of all the above. It's less misinformation to me, but rather too much information.

The internet does not make me feel better informed. I feel more informed when I read books or scientific articles from credible authors, not opinion columnists. The internet makes me confused. Confusion gives me FUD. FUD makes the truth hard to decipher.

Although debate and dissent may help get to the truth earlier, only time will be the judge. It's unfortunate that we live in the present and can't have the truth earlier, but that's just life for ya.
If “the current internet” is centralisation and company control, then I don't want to contribute to the betterment of it. So this sounds like a win-win.
It wasn't even really decided. Like most current worker protections, it was arrived at through struggle between industralists and the then still powerful labor unions.

They won the 12 hour workday, then the 10 hour workday, then the 8 hour work day and that's when the unions were defanged.
I've seen this before, and it's funny and decent advice. I got awful sleep most nights in college, just because I'd stay up too late, not even to get work done, just screwing around with YouTube and such. Sleep is huge.

Take later classes if you can. You might think that toughing out an 8am class isn't too bad, but I've done this to myself three times (seriously didn't learn my lesson). The alternative is to go to bed earlier, which can work, but there's a lot of fun and friendship to be had at midnight on a Wednesday sometimes, that's what's so interesting about university.

I involuntarily slept through a serious chunk of my Vietnam history course since it was 8am is a dark, cool room. Adjacent this that anecdote - figure out how to apply the 80/20 rule (paredo distribution) to school. Most things follow it, and school is no different. That Vietnam class I was barely conscious for? I learned how to read a book efficiently and got straight Bs on everything. For me, I was completely fine with Bs in a gen-ed class that didn't take much of my time. It let me put my effort towards my CS classes, where I really wanted to do well.
In France, it is the case but strangely what we hear and read on the news is often the case of homeowners being unable to access their homes[1] or having tenants not pay their rent and not being kicked out[2].

Either way people will use the system to their advantage.

[1]: https://www.bfmtv.com/immobilier/un-proprietaire-dont-le-log....

[2]: https://www.ladepeche.fr/2021/11/12/temoignages-loyers-impay...
I believe that they actually meant more like NIST/FIPS compliance type stuff so that big orgs that have to meet certain certifications will know if they can use your product or not.

EDIT: for example: https://auth0.com/security. SOC 2 is a big one.
I actually thought the landing page was pretty good. It describes the product reasonably well and is very clear about "why pick us". I agree because of the crowded market it is in it needs a very comprehensive comparison section to help people decide why them vs other established solutions.
The problem with this kind of comment is that it's hard to know what direction you are travelling.

If you used to deny climate change was happening, then denied it was a problem, then denied it was human caused, then denied that there was any alternative and so on, then your opinion now is still some kind of progress towards objective reality.

If on the other hand, you started with the consensus reality of qualified scientists and have now regressed into this opinion which seems just like negative energy directed at necessary change then that's a bad thing.

The former seems more likely though, or maybe that's just the optimist in me.
If the value of employees scaled linearly with time, and you can employ people profitably, why wouldn't you employ an infinite number of people and make an infinite amount of money?

Clearly some tasks are more like an endless thing that can be mined at, while others are more like you are paying for the availability of some expert. Since people do a combination of both types, the proper compensation for 80% of time should be somewhere between 80% and 100%, depending on the weight.
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function (2013) [pdf]
engr.blog – Hacker News for technical blog.
"Your need for success diminishes with wealth"

Depends on your definition of success. One's need of work to pay the bills might decrease with wealth. Yet one's mindset may change to not consider themselves successful until they attain some higher thing (like a big house, fancy cars, expensive vacations, etc).

These founders you're talking about, are they also choosing to live in expensive areas? If they change their definition of success, it's possible they could do different jobs or live in cheaper areas.

It's all about the definition.
Yes, I realize now that my comment could have been interpreted as actually running the generator inside. NEVER do this. Outside only. What I meant to say in a more clear way is that if you intend to use the generator to power items inside your home that you should use a generator with low THD unless you are only using your generator for something like operating a heater or furnace.
As a poor kid who recently failed to get a startup off the ground, I'll second this. It may have been hard to pay rent, but I knew I could have a 200k base salary whenever I needed to give up. "Getting by" is just not something a reasonably talented engineer in the U.S. ever has to worry about, no matter their background.

Other motivators are required.
For ML training, where you repeatedly open the same files over and over again, the NFS 'close to open' coherency protocol (where every open() and close() is a round trip) is not a good fit. Once we support NFS delegations, this will become a lot faster, but local training data set will very likely continue to be faster (we have ideas on this though!) Given that ML training uses very expensive instance types, a local file system is the way to go for now.

ML inference on the other hand is a use case that we've specifically targeted with this update, and it should work very well. Many of our customers do inference using AWS Lambda, directly connected to their EFS file system.
Bangle.io – Note taking for the next decade
Actually, I think your view is the revisionist one. I have lived my entire life in big corn country, and I can tell you that without question, ethanol production was billed as an energy play. Note that the blending standard for ethanol in gasoline requires nearly twice the ethanol required as a direct replacement for MTBE as an oxygenate. This is to guarantee a market for ethanol produced from corn.
All things being equal, obviously, having money makes things easier. That doesn't mean that children born to rich parents can all be successful entrepreneurs. And it doesn't mean you need rich parents to be successful.

But even aside from money, rich parents are likely to know more about business and can teach you. And if you believe intelligence is (at least partly) inherited, it's easy to argue that smart parents are both: more likely to be rich and more likely to have smart kids.
No. A smart person can always get a well paying job and still be considered successful by his peers or family.

The son of a wealthy family may think going to Google is the same as failure. He has the money to try over and over again and does so because working for someone else is like being a sheep.
Commercial UNIXes would have kept leeching BSD code rather.
> The google stack is very convenient, and it's 2022, I'm not going to start hosting my email server, but I'm in need of a foolproof and long lasting solution to online identity. And I've started by purchasing a domain name for 10 years and having a 'catch all and forward to gmail' rule setup. So I can just forward it all to somewhere else in case I lose my gmail again. But what if I get reported on my domain name? What if that gets suspended or blacklisted too?

I imagine that's less likely to happen? Otherwise I'm on the same boat :D
>Any questions?

Yeah, so in the example, what does that engineer get for going above-and-beyond and being more effective than most of your team? Because I see that she's doing a lot of critical work, but not a lot about what she gets for putting in that effort. That doesn't feel very motivating.
I don't think they can simply block the trade routes - surely people can route around it. In any case they protest against not being allowed into the country with their trucks, so either way the trucks wouldn't be running?
Yes the NULL RPC does nothing and should give a baseline for measuring the round trip time. I'm surprised that it doesn't give the expected results. Your test case is going through the kernel, not sending raw RPCs across the wire. There are a lot of moving parts in the filesystem layer.

I implemented direct RPC calls for other RPCs like GETATTR but only for NFS version 3, and EFS uses version 4. Unfortunately the design of version 4 is a disaster from a protocol perspective. The designers wanted to enable multiple operations in a single RPC, but that's not supported by SUNRPC. So to maintain backwards compatibility they only implemented 2 procedures, NULL and COMPOUND. Everything inside a COMPOUND RPC is opaque. Well it's possible to construct but not with the standard RPC toolchain, so I never got around to it.
It's "closing" because, from memory, they're selling junk real estate. In the US, the end of a real estate transaction is called closing, beyond which it's (mostly) irrevocable.

Hence Baldwin is effectively saying "get to the end of the transaction."
Ever read something and your gut tells you it's complete BS or at least a gross over simplification?
Yep! Exactly.
> What thing of value changes hands between us that could be the 'consideration'?

By HN standards, I am obviously a high-net-worth individual with a total karma count of 2619. Interacting with me, a Public figure in the context of our community, is a privilege given that I can't interact with an arbitrary amount of users in a given window of time. Since I am offering you this interaction free of monetary charge, the terms of interaction can be considered a reasonable way to protect my interests, productivity and daily life as a high-net-worth individual user of the site https://news.ycombinator.com.
Ask HN: Userscript to sort replies to a tweet by likes/retweets?
I'm surprised one doesn't exist yet. Does anyone have one already?

I'm considering making one.
Make money with open source software
I don't say it very often but I'm going to say it again now:

I'm dirt poor. I have been for at least a decade and was homeless for nearly six years of that.

I also have nearly six years of college and my mother's mother came from a low level noble family. They sold the title when they fell on hard times so I'm not nobility, though I finally realized in recent years the conservative "dress code" I was raised with sounds like what I've read about the rules the British royals are expected to follow.

Currently, my failure to make ends meet gets blamed on me and any complaints I make about my gender being a barrier to effective networking, etc, get routinely handwaved off dismissively like I must just be doing something wrong.

I imagine if I ever get successful, people will rewrite their perception of me and focus on the privileges I've been fortunate to have.

No one is a monolith. We all have both good things and bad things in our lives.

It's useful to get some idea of how it was really done as a means to help you figure out how to find a path forward. Money per se is never the whole story.

Plenty of people from monied backgrounds do not become the next Bill Gates.

I would like to think the human race has finally achieved enough that it's possible for us to provide some basics to everyone so most people have maneuvering room and choice in how they live their life. But trying to talk about that seems to get me branded an SJW or something when similar interests from millionaires gets viewed as philanthropy or something.

There's a huge bias in the minds of most people that filters things in what seems a strongly classist fashion. I have yet to find a way around that.
> If you are so cheap to the point of asking to get your data harvested, chances are you never going to be a high-value customer.

But if you are so dumb as to not know your data us harvested, you are a great gullible idiot, er, I mean customer.

I don't think logic holds any water. There is no rational 'free market' reason you can't sell your data, it's just logistically too difficult to deal with millions of individual 'sellers' istead of paying $supplier to get all of it at once.
Am I reading the website right that it has 3GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage? There's no way that has the RAM or IO performance to run general desktop programs.
I love the idea frankly, just signed up, and I'll link to it over on Qvault. Some feedback: I need some basic filters, nothing too fancy:

* Pay range
* Location
* Title

It would be nice if all that was handled by the search, e.g. "golang engineer USA 170k+" but I'm not sure how to make that simple AND intuitive
With a kick-off for sustainability advertising, Super Bowl LVI has its moment seeing an +100% increase in green advertising. Plus three ways to hold media accountability.
Now he is enjoying Android.
NFS workloads are typically metadata heavy and highly correlated in time, so you can achieve very high hit rates. I can't share any specific numbers unfortunately.
GitHub?

https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...
Employees can and do work part-time. What a silly 'diss' lol.
> Firefox is indisputably the best mainstream browser available available today outside of Tor for privacy, adblocking

The thing is, while things like privacy and adblocking are important, they are passive defensive features made necessary by others; they aren't things that make you feel good, they just make you feel less bad about certain things. When an extension could customize your browser exactly the way you wanted, that was exciting; when TreeStyleTabs felt integrated into the browser, instead of taking several seconds to load and feeling bolted on, it felt like an amazing part of _Firefox_; when mouse gestures worked reliably on every page, including new tab pages and plaintext-mime pages (really, sort this out Mozilla! No reason other than bad coding for extensions to not work on text/plain pages), it felt like a part of the browser, like Firefox was super-charged.

These are the things people can get excited about, and so gets people to show them off to others and recommend it. It's hard to talk about how this nuanced privacy feature is better for X complex reason, in casual conversation; much easier to demonstrate how you're able make the browser fit you like a glove with customizations A, B, and C (and it's more psychologically natural to want to show off positive additive features, too).

> and (even with the decline of functionality) extension support

Extension support, yes, but in terms of actual extensions, it's a yes-and-no situation. The thing about this and other customization that Mozilla doesn't seem to understand is, it's not enough to have "better" extension support, it needs to be "better enough" to overcome the difference in popularity between Firefox and Chrome, and hence the difference in availability/motivation of addon developers.

I still use Firefox as my main browser, but the extension support is not "better enough" for me anymore (see issues mentioned in the first para above), and so for the first in time actual decades, after switching from IE6 to Firefox back in the day, I'm considering switching or partially switching to another browser for my daily use (and have been doing so little by little, with Brave and qutebrowser).
So when scientists talk about evidence of life on Mars, or the possibility of life on other planets, they don’t have a scientific definition for that?
(Finally) Fired Google
New Zealand passes law banning conversion therapy
Big Chocolate in shambles
Came here to say this. Office hours serve many purposes.

I remember going to office hours for homework guidance. I've also gone and been the only person there and delved deeper into a subject than an undergrad class normally would with leading experts in the field that otherwise might not give me the time of day

If you don't have a schedule conflict, try to go to office hours as much as possible!
What a stupid domain choice. WARNING: It is not sufficient to replace first char in domain. You must also TLD.
Depends on what you mean by food security. We're guarenteed to have enough food without crop subsidies. We would just import a lot more than we export. The government seems that as a national security risk.
One of my recent project requires a fast awk implementation, and I tried frawk and got surprised by how robust it is. Although eventually we chose https://github.com/noyesno/awka for better native awk script compatibility, it's still wonderful to see a project incorporating recent advances of programming language implementation into the ancient awk.
Like https://mermaid.live/ ?
Thank you for calling out on-call responsibilities in your job listing. Too many job listings today fail to mention that _very significant_ responsibility.

I enjoy working with distributed storage systems, but I don't think I will ever carry a pager for one again. I wish the industry could figure out how to separate designing and building such systems, from giving up your nights and weekends to operate them.
Are we seriously debating whether having access to more money helps you in business? Via proxy by reddit post none the less.

Yes, some people in the world have access to opportunities that others don't. Not all 8 billion people on the planet have the exact same set of circumstances. This isn't controversial or even interesting.
Authorisation does not equal capability. Bitcoin has no privacy so I see how use of it could be trivially tracked and punished. With a private cryptocurrency like Monero it may be feasible to do anonymous crowdfunding; recipients have various ways to cash out into usable currency albeit with significant inconvenience
Yes, and then you used the word “coup.”

> I was being overly generous in my language by implying that they were just calling for the government to voluntarily resign when in fact they are asking for a non-constitutional coup.

People use words to invoke the associated connotations. When people accuse truckers of asking for a coup, they are deliberately drawing a comparison to this: https://www-gannett--cdn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.gann.... It’s an attempt to demonize and dehumanize political opposition. By drawing a comparison to armed insurgents, the point is to justify disproportionate government responses. This tactic is common in Bangladesh for that purpose. Sad to see it happening in North America.
I actually don't use ad blocking. If there are ads and I don't want to see them, then I don't visit that site again. The site has chosen their business model and I can choose which sites I want to visit.

I also like buying things that I might like, so seeing ads (and ads that are targeted to me) isn't necessarily a bad thing to me.
There's a saying in Mexico: 'rich granddad, millionaire father, miserable son'. Meqning that as families take money for granted, they dont learn what's needed to generate it.
To be honest, in Italy this issue was solved during ww-2 time, a bunch of commercial newspapers from far-left to right (we couldn't have far-right back then, of course :D, we still can't but people has forgot and so we have now, but they can't really read and write), created a cooperative called ANSA (https://www.ansa.it), that is no opionion, no controlling point of view, just facts as they happen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenzia_Nazionale_Stampa_Assoc...)

If you force Fox, CNBC, CNN to create an agency of news reporting where each one oversee the content created, in order to be as objective as possible, then I think the society in US would benefit

In Italy those newspapers do money by selling copies containing the premium content, which is like reports, opinion articles, more in depth opinion articles etc, which people is still interested in, but for news and facts then ANSA is the source of truth
> Regulators will at least force them to allow alternate payment providers

Yes, but the 27% apple tax is separate from the payment providers.
Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory – Lex Fridman Podcast
Motivation is nice, but building something new and novel requires skill and being on the edge of the right social/environmental phenomenon (timing).

The skill development part requires free time (to learn and practice) and access (to computers, tools, people, etc.)

If we're talking about creating just any kind of business, then sure hard work and determination are enough. If we're talking about outlier success stories in tech, then privilege is almost always a component of the story.
Some people refuse to look at the truth. Then again, it should be assumed that a random person, more often than not, actually cared and spent some time thinking or learning what most people take to be true. Throwing conspiracy theories to see what sticks is a lazy form of destructive behavior. Pointing fingers at people who don't explicitly disprove your claims, whether or not you know them to be true, is just a continuation of the same.
Handling user input with structured concurrency
Staying afloat makes it sound like it's somehow overwhelming and I don't think that it is. There's a service - you can probably afford it; if you can't afford it, you can almost certainly go without it. Make up your mind about whether it's worth it and move on mentally, it's really not a big deal either way.
> Life in general is sales

Life in a society... where people are divorced from all material realities and only interface with the social... but that's not life in general. There are, for example, wars.
Games don't optimise for "clean code" or maintainability - they optimise for speed and cost. Of course in a perfect world it would be all of those.

- Former game developer
I also lost access to a previous gmail account - I changed my password with a random generated one, and god (and a google engineer) knows why, I lost access. No amount of appealing would return my access, even if I was wiling to show my national ID card and stuff.

Anyway. About your plan with the email server. We ran such a thing for an organisation in Romania. You'll be surprised how many times our emails ended up in Gmail's spam folders (other providers too, but gmail runs an especially harsh algorithm for spam filtering), even though we had DKIM, SPF and all that jazz setup. You will most likely be locked out of most people's reach, unless you use one of the largest providers. So maybe government regulation is the only realistic way out.
That's a very important topic! I try to buy discounted/yearly stuff and only the most necessary. Thinking about it, I have spotify, protonmail, netflix, swapfiets (a bike subscription), PSN, domains, headspace, welltory. Quite a lot. I already cancelled endel because it's just not worth it. I think they are accepting that most people won't subscribe, but it's enough if a portion of active users pay more. I think this will solve itself somehow. You already see an uptick in movie piracy and it will continue I guess.