skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the first author on their uptime report pretty well. He is an honest person. Most of the stuff in this report seems like reasonable concerns (the CEO, Bacon, Preskill, buying from Honeywell) but comparing to Rigetti seems out of place. Quoting from IBM and Google people (some of whom I probably know) seemed a bit much too.
Yes, but you are effectively turning your box into a single user system. And that's fine if you are happy to work that way, but the origins of the directory structure is of course in multiuser UNIX. As a sysadmin, I would not want my /bin /sbin exposed to everyone. In your example I question the security implications of being able to run those binaries outside of root anyway (esp. in a professional environment) if you have your box exposed on a network.
Simple solution: threaten to sue. SEPA transactions have to be done within a banking working day by law.

Now if you transfer on a Tuesday and the bank is closed on Wednesdays - tough luck, they're allowed to take till Thursday.

But there's always the option of doing an "instant" transfer if you're willing to pay extra.
Canada is proper screwed. Median sales price across the whole country is 2x the US. Plus Canada doesn’t get 30 year fixed mortgages.

I’ve already seen people pissed that when they renew their 5 year mortgage the rate is higher than 2 weeks ago.

In the past month the rates have gone up and the ‘burbs of Toronto are seeing double digit percent decreases. Gonna be fun to check prices in 6 months!
Also have a look at SINDy (Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics) by Steve Brunton et al.

https://youtu.be/NxAn0oglMVw
Will We Ever Shake the Polaroid Picture?
Bitcoin should have aimed at being disinflationary rather than deflationary.
At the end of the day FIFA the game makes a lot of money and EA could easily afford that extra half billion. They chose not to pay because they are greedy themselves. It's just business.

Somebody else will probably still end up paying for that valuable license, since most of the value of these games is in the name. A lot of console player only buy 2 titles a year: Call Of Duty and FIFA.
Longer and more familiar tokens that don't all just look like piles of meaningless letters make it so a non-math person can follow it right up until they start taking about booleans. They totally lost me there. But I'm impressed that they explained it in a way that let me even get that far.

After that it starts not making sense without prior knowledge.

I vaguely remember something about there being no data other than functions, so I assume the values of true and false are represented by functions represented by birds?

What does a doubling one of the words have to do with an OR? I'm assuming that when you pass one of these birds to another bird, there's something special happening, and the mockingbird is no longer just repeating a value, and there's some kind of function composition happening?
I should add "assuming everything works at it should" at the end of my comment.
I think some comments here are responding to the fact that OP uses work life balance in an odd way.

What I believe is being discussed is something different. It is having meaningful work.

For many people, life just isn’t fulfilling without productive achievement. And for many, career is the space where productive achievement is pursued.

Think about how a single 30 minute video meeting can drain all your energy for the entire day. This can be so much worse than long hours or stressful deadlines.

When people talk about work life balance, they tend to talk about x hours doing A, B, C.

But, even if cliche, the quality of these activities is what determines the level of satisfaction, of fulfillment.

You can spend 4 hours a day with your spouse but if your relationship is terrible and you bicker the whole time, is this good work/life balance?

It won’t feel like it.

I applaud OP for seeing on some level how precious each year of this limited life is, and making a self-aware choice about how to spend some of them.
Same here, also UK. Yes stops at public charging stations are longer than stops at petrol stations, but then I pretty much never "fill up" outside of home. So I have already saved hours and hours that would have been spent on filling up a normal petrol car - if I now have to go and wait 30 minutes at a rapid charger, that's still an overall massive saving compared to an ICE.
I agree on the start-stop thing. You need to stop doing that :) I used to get DVDs through the post from LoveFilm and would nearly always watch the movies through to the end, even if they didn't seem great in the first 20 mins. Often I would be glad I stuck with it as many movies are a "slow burn". With streaming there is a constant nagging doubt that I'm missing out on something better and should jump ship if a movie/show doesn't grab me immediately. One way out of this is to force yourself to stick with your choice or do something else (like read a book!) ... that works for me.
I'm curious why one would want a "system" or a "library"?

I run a SaaS which has a feature system. Every plan has a set of features. There are additionally feature overrides for users. Checking if a feature is available to a user is a set membership query.

With a couple more lines of code I also generate my entire pricing (plan comparison) page, so that each plan shows all available features.

Not sure where a library would provide any value, there is barely any code for this (I mean, it's Clojure, so it's very succinct and expressive, but still).
Exactly. Even in the short term, there are some very worrying behaviours in AI systems which have real consequences. For instance:

* Some researchers recently built an AI system to generate low-toxicity molecules as candidates for medicines. They realised if they changed their system to maximise toxicity, it designed thousands of toxic molecule candidates including the VX nerve agent (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9)

* When GitHub released their Copilot AI code completion tool, it could autocomplete things like `API_KEY: `

* AI models used for decision-making in hospitals and courts frequently exhibit extreme racial prejudice (eg https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6)

* and many many, other examples

There's a real sense of utopianism and not much consideration of misuse even on a very short timescale. Even if you don't think AI will become an existential risk in the future, there are enough problems caused by misuse of current systems that it warrants attention.

All of the money I've seen flowing in the AI safety EA space has been put to extremely good use - $30k to a YouTuber making videos on AI safety who introduced me to the field and is my go-to for explaining topics like alignment (what you want vs what you say you want), grants to extremely productive AI safety researchers, grants to fund educational bootcamps and scholarships, etc.

(Disclaimer: I'm an EA aligned person myself so I'm fairly biased!)
> If we reduce every job to a stack and HR advantages, then motivations get relegated to second place.

Simple collecting and displaying data does not force anyone to change their motivations. Price transparency does not reduce profit margin both ways. It helps allocate resources from overpaid to underpaid (this does not mean it makes all prices equal). The concept of price also factors in quality of life at work, but that is difficult to translate to a number. But workplaces known to have bad quality of life at work do have to pay more and/or accept lower quality labor.

> Obviously, there is also the dark aspect that HR margins are also (and mostly) when some becomes dad and is stuck in his job, location and skills. Then, the company unduly profits.

This has nothing to do with price transparency. It is a consequence of supply and demand.
Still a good counterbalance to the company and its investors, who are similarly not a neutral source.
> I'm not sure what you're taking "so that her children come out" to mean

I took it to mean that the children are born prematurely. In any case, it doesn't say "so that the bundles of cells come out".
And both the content of system32 and SysWOW64 is actually hard linked from the side by side folder (WinSxS), hence why this folder is usually half the size of the Windows folder.

It's the Windows way to abstract system folders and provide binary compatibility across architectures. I'd much rather have ld.so.preload and multiarch than this hard links mess though.
The video gaming series isn't not more widely known than the governing body otherwise EA wouldn't have paid half a billion dollars year for year just for the naming rights.
It's Google's fault, since they let sites backdate themselves and take the date as gospel. Luckily it's not all that widespread/deliberate, since backdating your site is basically asking Google to downrank you.

I'm sure Google must keep track of things like date of first index, but if they do they don't expose it.
The Philosophy of Zero to One: #1
Also checkout the "rule of 72" if this stuff tickles you. It is also a rough estimate that gets used in place of more complex formulas. (Actually closer to 69/70 but 72 makes things cleaner)
The article is paywalled, but maybe it's an act of protest against the general idea of status symbols?
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't binaries in /sbin and /usr/sbin statically linked as opposed to no requirement like this for files living in /bin and /usr/bin?

I always thought the rationale was that if statically linked binaries are on different partition they can be used to recover the system from a failure.

Edit: files in /bin are also statically linked, and I am unsure about what I wrote above but vaguely recall something like that
the bitcoin bond was worse than the existing el salvador bonds in all ways.
I.e. you could have bought a normal bond and bitcoin spending the same amount of money and having strictly better returns in all circumstances.
And reportedly, nobody bought them[0].

I am not sure that emission scared investors, if anything, had someone showed up to buy them, it would have been free money fo the government.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/el-salvadors-bitcoin...
> since most of the value of these games is in the name

People will buy the EA football game, the name does not matter.
I've seen a lot of results dated 2001-01-31 that were not published then. I'm guessing it's a default somewhere that gets incorrectly picked up.
This puzzled me: "Projects need multi-team cooperation to succeed, so you have to do a lot of work up front to get everybody pulling together. But it makes projects fragile."

The suggestion is that teams are atomic, that projects are scoped larger than what teams can do, and the bag-of-teams for a given project is volatile - because teams are seeking the highest reward projects. What's missing for me is an organizational cadence where projects pitch, teams shop, and then all commit for some period of time and then evaluate in phase.

Maybe that approach is too static. It is interesting to think about teams independently managing their committments as bandit experiments inside the org.
Ad41 is a virus.
> Also, anyone find it sus that these massive selloffs are happening exactly in the middle of the night for the US east coast?

Not in the slightest. Time zones exist and it only goes to show that maybe a lot of tokens have been held oversea. The (crypto-) world doesn't just consist of the US, let alone the US east coast. If some (institutional) investors in Europe or Asia decided to liquidate their assets, that's exactly what you'd expect.
> This is what I will never understand about most established tech people, they see all the widespread misery and poverty in SV and they still have the capacity to feel sorry for themselves for not making X times more than 'that other guy.'

As opposed to who exactly? The system is based on greed and maximizing profits/salaries/status/whatever. Are doctors/lawyers/financial people not behaving this way? Some doctors earn around one million USD a year in the U.S, that's money that makes insurance more expensive and unaffordable for everyone.
> I was extremely wrong about that and it turned out I needed all 28 pages to explain DNS.

You may need more as time goes on and IETF piles up one RFC on top of another: Herding the DNS camel (2018), https://www.ietf.org/blog/herding-dns-camel/

> I will say (as a disclaimer) that these pages aren't as cohesive as I usually like my zines to be and they definitely do not tell you everything you need to need to know to own a domain.

See also Bert Huber's Hello DNS, https://powerdns.org/hello-dns/
what do you mean no?
> capacity to weight ratio

AKA "specific energy", usually measured in kWh/kg or MJ/kg.
A lot of the downsides you listed apply to house-buyers, not homeowners. If you already have a property, deposit size doesn't matter to you. Price increases are only a positive - it's the bank that's losing out.

While you may pay more in property tax, I'm sure the savings on your mortgage interest more than offset any tax increases.
> Hypothetically speaking, would forking FreeBSD or a nix to use a simpler folder structure be feasible?*

Not only feasible but it's been implemented a few times over the years. The most notable being GoboLinux[1][2], which is nearly 20 years old.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoboLinux

[2] https://gobolinux.org/

> I was thinking "just symlink /sbin with /bin", but there would probably be conflicts

Given how long /sbin et al have been around, there would always be some edge cases. However it is still possible to do. GoboLinux uses symlinks to achieve LFH[3] compatibility while still having friendly directory names. ArchLinux also just has one bin directory and uses symlinks for compatibility:

» ls -l / | grep bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2021-12-07 02:41 bin -> usr/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2021-12-07 02:41 sbin -> usr/bin

» ls -l /usr | grep bin
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 110,592 2022-05-06 09:23 bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2021-12-07 02:41 sbin -> bin

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
A real concern. I suspect the chain of trust is already undermined by states to a large degree. At least that should be assumed if secure communication is required.

Still, policy decision like this should be rejected and used as an example of bad policy crafting in the future. It isn't the first deed of UvdL on this topic.
Thank you for saving me a click. The current title is quite misleading and legitimately made me wonder if it was April 1.
The split is even stronger on NetBSD, where /usr is the base OS and /usr/pkg what's installed by the user through pkgin (binary packages) or pkgsrc (ports).

Likewise, the system configuration goes to /etc while the userland configuration goes to /usr/pkg/etc.

All it takes to factory reset a NetBSD system is an rm -Rf /usr/pkg.
Right? https://bit.ly/3FBA2fD
>Third, many of them work fine and are quite useful without root

It's more complicated than that - many can do a subset of useful things without root.

Often they can read things as a normal user - things like `apt` or `sysctl` can show you information about your current system, but will only be able to change it as root.

And even something like "shutdown" might be usable for a locally logged in normal user on a systemd system - or it might not be, depending on local configuration.

Finding things that actually always "need root" for everything is kind of hard, even discounting "print help" as a useful thing in its own right. And if you only came up with "chcpu" and "switch_root"... would you really want to have a top-level directory just for those? Plus the historical location for some things is in /sbin, so moving them out has a compatibility cost.

Tbh I find the only winning move here is not to play. There are so few binaries that are actually only useful to root that they don't really hurt in tab completion, and they could always grow non-root accessible features.
Why hypothetical, Gobo Linux[1] has already done it. Or if you want to just hide (rather than replace) the traditional Unix hierarchy from the user, you get macOS (inherited from NeXTSTEP).

The problem is that the actual benefits a pretty nebulous, so it's probably not worth the effort (and drawbacks of using different conventions than most others *nix users).

[1] https://www.gobolinux.org/
I have no strong feelings about this other that that 'EA Sports FC' is a horrible horrible name.

The only thing I can think of is that they want 'EA Sports' as the main brand opening the way for other sports 'EA Sports Tennis' or whatever. But 'FC' really? What's that?
The Problem with Silicon Valley Medicine
I had a similar experience - when I felt like things were moving too slow and I didn't deliver a lot I was much more stressed out. My manager and team was satisfied with my output but I couldn't shake the anxiety that I wasn't doing enough!

Ironically for me I went the opposite direction, now working at a large tech company I have more than enough work to fill my plate. I am no longer worried about not doing enough:D
New Zealanders are moving to Australia because the the wages are 30% high and the houses prices are lower or the same.
> Firstly, the EU produces directives and regulations; it doesn't produce "laws".

Even in legalese these are one and the same. And we have proposals like this regularly, so when is the time to get involved? Not that I would recommend that to anyone if I look at the state of the EU.
I am not arguing about the other governments you mentioned, I am arguing that it is simply incorrect to use "size of government" as a measure of how "left" a country is, particularly when using the US as an example. The US is notorious for having very bad safety nets while disproportionately investing in military, both of which are hardly causes favoured by the left.
This is a standard based on false framing.

Sure, part of the job being satisfying can be that you actually need the money so doing it means you provide for your family. While still craving that the job be intrinsically satisfying.

As a thought experiment, can you imagine hunting being more satisfying to a person than eating a farmed cow? Maybe it satisfies some innate desire to hunt? Maybe they like they challenge?

Now could you imagine that same hunting being far more satisfying if they are hungry, or if their family needs the food, than if they already have access to infinite food?

Similar for job satisfaction. Many people might be most fulfilled when doing something challenging where generating work product directly translates to meeting material survival needs.
Skepticism is not "expressing some contrary opinion". It is a rationalist discipline, very much rooted in logic. A true skeptic will do one of two things:

- put forward sound arguments why a specific viewpoint or presented fact could be wrong

- reserve judgement altogether

Expressing a contrary opinion is not in the skeptic's playbook, because it would be self-defeating: they would be making the same categorical error as they're arguing against.
She's says that she works for RT - she doesn't hide that.

And its not like the Western governments/media are presenting impartial news. Although, that is what they would argue.

So, yep - that was the point. Hear about what the other side is saying. This may allow you to have a more informed opinion.
> it will never pass

I'll take the Patriot Act for $200, Alex
I have a list of Vim learning resources here, including interactive sites: https://learnbyexample.github.io/curated_resources/vim.html
Can't wait for PES 2023 then. Fuck FIFA (both the game and the ORG)
'In Australia, homeowners’ average debt as a share of income has swollen to 150%' - does this mean the monthly repayments are 1.5x the monthly income of owners? The number of > 100% debt as share of income is wild if I'm interpreting this correctly - how is this not indicative of a swathe of imminent defaults?
I don't think regulation alone will solve it.

Let's not forget the massive Madoff ponzi scheme in a highly regulated space...
I implemented a registry once, where plugins in an app could store data. It was kind of horrific.

Text files are great for config because you can version them and they tend to be somewhat self documenting. And with no registry you can use very useful patterns like one file per object.

One of Linux's nastiest things, that is mostly fixed now, was things like hosts files and fstab, individual files responsible for multiple objects that are likely to be "owned" by different packages. Now most things have a config.d folder or something so you can use multiple files.

Registries take away the ability to represent things using the file hierarchy and manipulate it with common tools.
FC probably stands for "Football Club", as it does for a lot of actual football clubs. But I agree it's a bad name.
Most people live in apartment buildings, with tens of cars around the same building. I doubt at-home charging will be easy to scale - at the very least this would require major grid redesigns in most cities.
Note that while this is a formal recall (as defined by law), the method to fix it is via OTA updates (which is not what a layman thinks if it heard something about a recall).

NHTSA's Safety Recall Report: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCLRPT-22V296-9024.PDF

Tesla's letter to NHTSA: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RMISC-22V296-1470.pdf

NHTSA's acknowledgement of Tesla's letter: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2022/RCAK-22V296-6974.pdf
Truly worrisome to see Sweden at the top, but definitely not surprising.
For the app version of YouTube, double-tapping the right-hand side of the video area will jump ahead ten seconds. Not exactly an automated jump but this works well for things like VPN ads in videos.
I wake up, read a little bit in the bed.

Than I stand up, with my cloth from yesterday, go to the bathroom and brush my teeth.

Then I get to my desk, log into my Mac and do same defaults: reading my mails and answering them, reading slack, checking the support Jira board, check what meetings I have and then I start to think what I need to do.

I do something (start to finish) then read some hn etc and do the next thing I need to do.

Lucky for myself: I already have to do a few things every day and have to have plenty of useful meetings so when I slack of I already did things.

Doing support (internal only for systems we ran) is often enough seen as being very helpful and it also gives a good excuse to be less able to concentrate for a long time on one task.

Doing the default things every morning helps me to get into the headspace of work.
Yes. And another benefit of /usr vs / was that is was simpler to read only mount /usr than r/o mount /.

Why do you want to do that? Well, when you have a machine with virtualization you can share the /usr partition across all instances, physically. Which makes a lot of sense if you want to virtualize hundreds of Linux guests on one physical box: you memory map the /usr partition in hypervisor ram, you share that ram across all guests and wham you have snappy fast virtual machines with low physical footprint.

That was actually done, e.g. on IBM mainframes running "your personal web server" for thousands of users in one single mainframe. Fun times.

And only when the root partition could also be mounted r/o, with just an individual /etc, and when large partitions became doable as /, only then it started to make sense to abandon /usr

The split made lots of sense back in the days.
The FC stands for Football Club.

The move is actually an excellent one, because FIFA is a corrupt organisation whose main purpose is to syphon funds out of clubs, fans, and countries into the pockets of their morally bankrupt leadership.

EA should've done this years ago.
This isn't a debate about the merits of that. Europe has a lot of problems with human trafficking in general but this is about information control. And the strategy to get that realised with emotional topics was correctly predicted decades ago.