skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the value in having a bin vs sbin split is in keeping system binaries (daemons, root-only tools) off the user's path

I think it's nice to be able to keep admin utils out of an admin's PATH when the admin isn't intending to use them.

It's much less interesting to me to keep daemons and such out of anyone's PATH if running them can't do much, though usually those things really belong in a libexec directory and should be exec'ed intentionally only.
> This whole thing is absurd because in Oklahoma it's perfectly legal to purposefully abort a 17 week old fetus (for now).

A fetus is not a play thing with zero moral consideration. You can put your dog down at the vet given appropriate circumstances. That doesn't give you the right to abuse, neglect, and kill your dog arbitrarily.

Marshae Jones never went to trial, the prosecutors dropped the case.

Katherine Dellis went to jail because she threw the body of her dead child in the garbage bin. It had nothing to do with how the baby died (miscarriage). You can't just chuck dead family members into a dumpster.
AWS Lambda functions have a local temp directory. I have successfully used that in the past to store state.

In my application, I had a central worker process that would ingest state updates and would periodically serialize the data to a MySQL database file, adding indexes and so forth and then uploading a versioned file to S3.

My Lambda workers would check for updates to the database, downloading the latest version to the local temp directory if there was not a local copy or if the local copy was out of date.

Then the work of checking state was just a database query.

You can tune timings etc to whatever your app can tolerate.

In my case the problem was fairly easy since state updates only occurred centrally; I could publish and pull updates at my leisure.

If I had needed distributed state updates I would have just made the change locally without bumping version, and then send a message (SNS or SQS) to the central state maintainer for commit and let the publication process handle versioning and distribution.
I am glad to see scoop called out in the list of installation methods. I use scoop and like the idea behind scoop. Applications should install in my user_profile when possible and should only require sudo when it isn't possible.

All new application in $current_year should install as $current_user_scope by default. I hate how applications (looking at you, Google Chrome) try to install a scheduled task to keep itself updated. All of this should be up to the package manager. If I want to update the client application, I will do so myself.
I was in the same boat, wanting to migrate away from Jekyll+Liquid. Very glad they released this.
If your company allows it and it will probably be at a discount.
Do we have any numbers for how many Mexican-Americans are of this descent?
You can also just install it with winget
In early America, you string up with your fellow ammino acids in the primordial soup
I know that depression callers are a dime a dozen, but I follow someone who's been extremely prescient from the 2020 correction, their team was calling for 4000+ as the S&P was hitting 2200, and they are calling for a big bear market once we hit 5500. So the tech stock sculling didn't take them by surprise but they're looking for a big correction starting fairly soon.
I think it's powering nest hub max, and perhaps other home devices as well.
Google announces AlloyDB, a faster, hosted version of PostgreSQL
Yeah. Job-hopping tends to top out around L5/L6, in my experience.
Perhaps someone with closer knowledge of USA finance law can fill me in - is there anything legal preventing Coinbase acting as trustee for customers as beneficiary? Surely that would avoid this situation (though there are probably commercial considerations why they don’t want to do that).
Really? It helped me. It was nice for me to have someone else acknowledge that the emperor was in fact naked. The emperor transparent clothes in this situation was the suggestion that offices aren't horrible places to be. Take the IBM book of songs, for example.

I would like to emphasize that I agree with you (and my original comment): Therapy is a cheat code! It will make your life immeasurably better. Everyone should do it!
How do you figure? The price of gold today in USD is up 4.4% of where it was from the highs 10 years ago. That's not indicative of a fiat currency rapidly losing value.

If you consider the price of gold today vs. where it was at its lowest point over the previous 10 years (USD had most value, just before Trump took office) then gold has gone up 42.76% (meaning the USD has lost considerable value since 2016). You can look at the charts and see when the trade war started with China and see when the Pandemic hit. Even so, since Biden has been in office the USD has been gaining in value (as measured by gold) and given the action of the Fed last week it will gain even more value (in fact that's been the financial news the past few weeks - the USD gaining value). Again this doesn't support the claim that fiat currencies are rapidly losing value.

I'm getting my information on the price of gold here - https://goldprice.org/gold-price-history.html
I usually lose interest at this point but enjoy the early game.

I suffer from the same problem. I love these games. I've played Civ 1-5, Alpha Centauri, Master of Orion 2, Master of Magic; all quite extensively. Every single time I get bogged down in the late game. I automate my bases/cities/planets with all of the available automation options and then try to wrap things up as quickly as I can but it always takes longer than it should.

I agree with you that the number of choices you need to make in the late game is overwhelming, and many of these choices are trivial, but there's an additional problem: you are often so far ahead of the computer AI opponents that it feels like you'd have to make some huge mistakes to give them any hope at all. It can then feel very frustrating that you're so far ahead but must still go through the whole song and dance to finish the game.

What these games really need is a diplomatic option for you to demand they surrender to you completely and become a client/puppet of your empire. Furthermore, the AI should always accept this offer if they can see they have no chance at defeating you in a war.
Yes. It is always about what they don't tell you in these keynotes that is more interesting rather than what they are already announcing on stage.

The only exception is the last announcement which is them trying to re-enter the race for AR/XR glasses which again some thought they gave up.

This acquisition is the reason why they are trying again: [0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/google-acquires-north-augmen...
I don’t like to gush over any leader and stop stuffing words in my mouth. I’m stating the “era” (2000-2010) keynotes were super fun, original and exciting. W̶h̶a̶t̶’̶s̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶m̶u̶c̶h̶ ̶h̶o̶s̶t̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶? (You've edited your comment, thanks).
"Any technology they list on their resume is 'fair game' - they had better know it, and if you have direct experience in a niche technology that they list, grill them to see if they are being 'honest'"

Such a strange stance for MS to take (IMHO). I've got 20+ years experience in lots of different languages and different technologies. I've been looking for a new job and have been brushing up on skills for interviewing. I just don't think it's possible for me to be ready to be grilled by a current expert on 15+ languages that I've shipped high quality, production code. The flip side is to only list the three I can take a grilling on today on my resume? It seems like a pretty short sighted approach. Maybe they have moved on in this stance?
>"Build a service/program to a spec via take home."

The problem with this is that the company has no skin in the game. Sadly flakey companies and recruiters are prevalent enough that it's not at all uncommon for a company to ask you to complete their "take home" assignment and then never get back to you. I've had it happen enough that I would simply refuse this now. I think if a company wants you to spend 3-4 hours on their take home project they should pay you for that time.
On the other hand, if you know what you're doing - and that is surprisingly little to know, it is a lot easier to land a 737 in MSFS2020 than a Cessna. ILS almost feels like cheating.

(But then, I'm a self-designated FlightSim enthusiast with several thousand hours of documented simulated flight time over the last 20 years, so ...)
You can google "bayanihan philippines" on Google Images and also see some impressive photos of people moving houses.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bayanihan+philippines&client...
I think every nihilist has the "epiphany" you're implying.

My point is that any service job/Amazon warehouse/construction job is generally stressful, has unproductive meetings, and callous bosses but this is not my bar for "toxic". I'd raise that a bit higher to apply to Activision, Goldman, etc. where there's a level of malice.
The FAA and industry are researching this as an option for future a/c due to pilot shortages.

A ground-based pilot would assist multiple a/c pilots on various tasks and planning and would be able to take over in an emergency.
if expensive gas is the reason you're walking instead of driving, gas is too expensive
probably best it stays there

my nest hub reboots most times I go to try to use it
Holy smokes! Reading this over, I'll bet there were more than a few injuries among the groups that practiced it.

Imagine sending your kid off for a fun weekend and then watching them come home Sunday morning with an acute elbow injury from an arm bar...

Scouting was dangerous enough without that stuff. You could get lost and even die in any number of unexpected ways. I watched a friend take a full swing of a wood axe to the top of his head. It didn't make any of us stronger or more interested in the outdoors. Plus everybody told us the Eagle Scout looked amazing on a resume when you become an adult, but they didn't mention that it could have the complete opposite effect depending on where you're applying...

Edit: I see the typical pro-danger, pro-learning-through-injury realism-posturing replies, but these quick takes are inappropriate for beginners, which merit-badge-earning scouts definitely are.
> As an interview question, "What's your favourite language?" is only interesting if you don't ask it having a "correct answer" in mind.

It becomes interesting when it's naturally followed up with "why?"
It still sounds insane to me, I've made an assumption anyone with a $1M home (or above) is either carrying much less via down payment or is in the $4-500k / yr range.

Most responses on an assumption that, inflation adjusted, housing prices only rise. For many areas this is not true, the bay might not be one of them, it is probably even more localized for the areas that are more protected from downturns.

From your example, a house would be around $5.5k/month before maintenance / capital costs on take home of ?12-14k?. Seems rough, especially if one of those salaries is lost or degrades.

It is all perspective though, we're used to lots of space and size. My normal is other people's insane.
> And the Chinese had this cool smiley computer interface where you rated the chinese immigration official for their interaction on the spot.

TBH I think I would click the smiliest smiley in any foreign country
I like Top Gun on NES. It is better than SEGA's G-Loc and as fun as Afterburner.
That’s awesome news. Started looking it integrating jest today but we use vite, so this is a very timely post!
Good riddance. If you survived on cheap cash burn and never bothered to shore up the fundamentals, well, the free ride is over now, kiddos.
The force of FAANG.

Wait it's now MAANA?, MAAAN? and given Disney basically replacing the business of Netflix is it MAAAD now?
Wow. This is great!
A merge needs to be done carefully for backwards compatibility.

You could move all the things in /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, then leave behind links (symbolic or hard).

Since everyone ends up having /bin and /usr/bin in PATH, this merge makes a lot of sense from a performance point of view.

Merging bindirs and sbindirs is a touchier topic. Many things in sbindirs should have been in bindirs all along, and many should move to libexecdirs, but some should stay behind so that privileged users can keep sbindirs out of PATH when they're not wearing an admin hat.
Ask HN: HN submission disappeared even if I have show-dead enabled?
Google announces AlloyDB, a faster, hosted version of PostgreSQL (venturebeat.com) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344517

https://i.imgur.com/L3gl9jX.png

It just shows a blank page if you visit that URL...

Is that censorship?
It's not merely "gushing" to be excited about new technology breakthroughs. And Musk, through his companies, is actively delivering today on Starlink, Tesla, Dragon, and Starship to name a few big ones. This meme that he's "all talk" is easily disproved for any honest observer.
> Do you think React will survive without Meta?

I do. The ecosystem is strong and if handed over to a foundation like the OpenJS Foundation it has a better chance of evolving. From my perspective, React is what FB/Meta needs, not necessarily what the community wants. There is no oversight or governance which is concerning given that many developers make a living off of React.

For an expanded explanation see YouTube/KTQVBXb0uPM?t=328
I used POPFile!! It was awesome.
I’m curious how much you’ve actually customised it. Does the docs source still have a resemblance to markdown, or is it more of a react-like DSL by now?

Job sounds super fun by the way :)
the bias you detect is actually the bias of the changers; from experience we learn that the people who agitate for change are overwhelmingly likely to not look into the reasons things are the way they are.
Most software frankly isn't really important. It might make or break a company, but that's a pretty limited fault domain; humanity will be fine.

This post is about something that is glaringly more obvious & important than that. The pressure here is immensely real, the need & overwhelming desire to do better, to make it good is flashing in bright neon signs to me, is extrinsically vital. I don't see any of that recognition written in to your privilege-call-out. To me, it's really hard hearing something so vital to the entire technology world (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wasm&sort=byDate shows 32 submissions in the past 22 days, and misses all those posts using "webassembly" instead of wasm) is a poorly supported train-wreck, rampant with infighting, with garden-variety shitty management not doing much to support this vital endeavor. The typical salt-of-the-earth engineers being left to their own devices & expected to just chug along is not a "normal" I'm comfortable with for such a vital cornerstone of modern technology.

You're making this out to be a story about software development & privilege. But I have a very very very different view of this as a much more indicative tale, of how core common capacities humanity is building have a very hard time making it along. I think we all have challenges, for sure, but this is a work that so much hope & aspiration is pinned upon, that so much else is launching upon. Focusing on dis-empathy for the individual is not my take here.
A sitting president with millions of followers has a lot more power to create actual harm via some random tweet than some random teenager with 3 followers. How is this not obvious?
Well, they are also benefitting from it, right? Its a symbiotic relationship. They get huge marketing PR from it.

Billionaire also donates million of dollars....
It's a phrase Greenspun uses a lot on his blog, mocking excessive concern with gender pronouns. (In between a lot of interesting content, he constantly bangs on about 2 topics: how dumb he thinks liberals are, and how US divorce law discriminates against men.)
> gambling addiction

The whole point was that it was explicitly said that it was not an addiction! Yet, you still want to punish.
I use pandoc. My build script is under 100 lines of JS
Step 1: Create fake currency
Step 2: Lose fake currency
Step 3: Ask for bailout from your high risk speculation
Any word on pricing =)?
Yes, it would be very helpful.

My instructor encouraged me to buy MS FS, pedals and a yoke.
The landing was beautifully smooth — an impressive feat by any measure.

The best video of it I've seen so far is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fQkJGbRcA

Another perspective is at 1:24 of this video: https://youtu.be/k1n85oiLqUc?t=84
Seems like wayyyy too many people on this thread are confusing "racism" and "prejudice." https://www.aclrc.com/myth-of-reverse-racism
> Last years the amount of death by flu was like a half of the amount of deaths by covid-19.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappear...

“The U.S. saw about 700 deaths from influenza during the 2020–2021 season. In comparison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates there were approximately 22,000 U.S. deaths in the prior season and 34,000 deaths two seasons ago.”

Your math is off by several orders of magnitude for the US. I expect for the world as well.
California pays for NATO?

Other states might end up having similar tax rates, i was just curious what made Californias so high. If that is mostly federal income tax then never mind!
> However these days, app stores have proven their massive profitability, so web tech on par with native apps threatens that income stream.

Does it? Of the millions of apps in the Apple and Google app stores, can you list a few that were pulled in favor of web-only distribution once web APIs made a web app possible?
Glad to see an explanation for why they bypassed cargo. I had wondered about that when the PR was posted as it didn't contain any documentation for why they were going off the beaten path. However, I'm a bit confused at the reasoning. Because a solution felt sub-optimal (vendoring an optional dependency), they went the route of invoking rustc directly? That seems a bit scorched earth especially when they later talk about needing another dependency offline and instead of vendoring both they instead worked around that in a different way.
What data is it?
or "ex etera"
House of Medici
Being racist against white people isn't a "thing" because they're the predominant group. You mean prejudice.
And if there isn't, I'm curious if there are other US exchanges that are structured in such a way (acting as a trustee for customers).
While I do not condone the actions of this guy - I have little doubt he could have landed the plane, given the proficiency he has shown. Unfortunately, after landing, life in prison awaited him. In a way, he was tasting the freedom of flight, for the first time, and for the last time. It has a certain poetic touch to it.
I once accidentally changed my AIM screen name to my password. Apparently all it took was clicking on your name in the buddy list.
> What’s with so much hostility?

There's a popular and cynical meme that people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are just marketing bullshitters that don't actually do anything useful. It's laughably false and easily disproved. And yet it seems to comfort cynical/pessimistic/unhappy/ignorant people, of which many exist, and so it prevails.
> Google Pixel is blatantly copying the Apple product portfolio, from custom chip designs to now Airpod Pro clones.

Google relentlessly copies every other company in the industry, and it's been going on for years now.

>You can look at Google’s entire portfolio of launches over the past decade, and trace nearly all of them to copying a competitor: Google+ (Facebook), Google Cloud (AWS), Google Home (Amazon Echo), Allo (WhatsApp), Android Instant Apps (Facebook, WeChat), Google Assistant (Apple/Siri), and on and on and on. They are stuck in me-too mode and have been for years. They simply don’t have innovation in their DNA any more. And it’s because their eyes are fixed on their competitors, not their customers.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/why-i-left-google-to-join-gra...
Not sure I would say it is specifically a case of neoliberalism but just a great example of what happens when a smaller/medium sized company with a single founder with a vision grows and gets taken over by the classic capitalistic fat cats. You can see it in many larger companies product lines and timelines - they start out and build a good reputation and give a shit about their employees and then eventually grow to a point where they just have an endless drivel of product lines and production lines.

Have not heard much about aerochemicals but that certainly sounds interesting (although probably insanely expensive). Personally I think the realistic approach is to focus (currently) on making textiles that are extra durable for better longevity so that even if the original production method is not perfect we can at least keep using it indefinitely or get it resold on the used market.
Ah, the german coast guard!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY
There’s failure and then there’s incompetence, this seems to be the latter.
Is it inevitable for Terra (LUNA) to tumble to zero dollars?
> dismissed at the top levels.

The issue, IMO, is the only accountability C levels face is from either a board or stock prices. Otherwise, nothing they do has any real impact on them personally.

Another major problem is the effects of their decisions are long delayed. Do something that slows development to a crawl and you still have a functional product for years (even if you can't add new features to it). Tying the original decision to the impact on the org is hard, and even harder since whoever made that decision isn't likely to want to take responsibility for it.
Folks...

[Not an English native] Isn't that a little too informal? Bugs Bunny came to mind.

Is "ladies and gentlemen" somehow out of fashion?
Flightgear did that with the airbus.
Regenerative agriculture. Get rid of the feed lots and create a nationwide system throughout the farmland so that after every few years, all the land will have had cattle grazed upon it, adding nutrients back into the soil.

It's absolutely insane that Regenerative Agriculture was not mentioned once in this. There are farmers that have figured out ways to make their farmland fertile again. These practices just need to be expanded.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
E.g. in Germany the side costs are much higher then in the US. E.g. the cost of paying 80k€ salary is much more then 80k€ for the company.

But in the end the main reason is SV/FAANG.
I think Apple, Samsung and Google should give up on this whole iPhone 13 and Pixel 6 naming and numbering scheme and stop pretending like it is going to be an exciting brand new product every single year.

They should name them more like cars where you can always expect there to be the latest revision each year, but you never expect it to be something completely new that you need to upgrade to.

We need the iPhone (2023) and the Pixel (2023). You would just say you have "an iPhone" and if for whatever reason it is necessary you could say it is a 2023 model.
Are you sure paying customers are only paying because of the pro features?

There's not enough info to make any assumption, but often times companies want the convenience of a cloud-hosted solution and/or want to pay for support/priority fixes if they go the self-hosted way.

What I'm trying to say is that at your stage managing a single codebase instead of 2 might be easier, and perhaps your paying customers will be exactly the same. You should validate/ask them.
setting this up as a choice between accepting climate change and living in a cave is the most destructive thing one can do here. yes, there is alot of adaptation that's going to need to happen, and we should have started decades ago. can't promise that the price of coffee won't go way up. no one is going to live in a cave.
Amid Bay Area housing crisis, tiny bunk bed 'pods' offered for $800 a month