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The problems with fork in the face of threads are caused by threads, not by fork. Fork was there first, and it is part of a system that is designed and integrated well.

Threads were bolted onto Unix in a hamfisted way, breaking more than just fork. For instance, threads broke relative paths, requiring "at" functions like openat to be invented, an ugly stop-gap measure. Threads were badly integrated with signal handling too, another example.

Blaming those existing mechanisms is purely an emotional argument, from the perspective of being infatuated with threads.

The design of threads (coming from various efforts that became POSIX threads) came from such an infatuation: the desire to get any kinds of threads working at any cost, while ignoring the global state that exists in a Unix process, and the need to make a lot of it thread-local, or at least optionally so.

A thread-local working directory or signal mask would have caused difficulties in hack thread implementations that used user space scheduling or M:N (M user space threads to N kernel tasks).

The situation we have today largely comes from the initial reluctance to accept the fact that each thread has to be an entity known to the kernel; the belief that user space threads are viable into the long-term future.
No, but if the endpoint worker was from the source country (not the outsourced country), then the arrangement would fall foul of anti-tax-evasion legislation in most countries.
The realistic action is to expect everyone to behave like professionals. Your boss doesn't get to police what you think, but he can, and absolutely should police what you do at work.

'Bring your whole self to work' is nonsense. If your whole self is at odds with acceptable workplace behaviour, it should stay at home.
Where is the hit piece?
That's the same argument as saying food is only 4% the economy. Try taking food out of the equation and see how the rest fares.
System updates are pretty frequent if you’re on a developer train.
OK sounds great to me so what are the downsides?

For example a navigation app itself could still collect and use the data itself, but couldn’t sell that to a third-party. A geofenced application could be woken up by the system when I entered the region (say OmniFocus reminding me that I could stop in and pick up a prescription that is ready — I would be explicitly asking for this to happen).

So what great functionality could I miss out on if this became law?
What do you mean by "missing"? It seems like there's an implication that I'm not picking up on...
Maybe I am giving him the benefit of the doubt, but I read it as the exact opposite.

I read it as him saying: the argument that "why can’t white people identify as black and say the n-word" is a troll argument, made in bad faith, and is disruptive to work culture and productivity, and people making that argument have no place in their culture.

I arrive at that conclusion because the heading starts "What are they upset about?" They are upset "whether someone can identify as a different race and be allowed to use the N-word." I dont really think someone parading against wokism would in good faith argue that somebody can identify as a different race. They would only do so facetiously. Three tweets above it, his SYN flood DoS analogy makes its pretty clear he is against people derailing good conversation with in bad faith arguments.

As an aside, I'm honestly a little concerned that basically every other commenter arrived at a different conclusion. We are all all over the place. Is our ability to connectively parse tribal language, in a consensual way, really this broken? Is what he wrote really that cryptic or unclear? EDIT: I guess he is the facetious bad actor.
Also more reddit videos on YouTube
I skimmed the paper and will read it fully when I get home.

The methods section seems to focus on processing and analysis of glue properties. Is there anything regarding cultivation and harvesting of the berries? I wonder if this could be scaled in a way to compete with existing products.
The $10,000 number is a little too high.

I'd say it's easy to start spending and keep spending the bucks if you're aiming to duplicate a conventional print run from a large press, with no expense spared, but it isn't necessary.

Sites like Canva will take care of cover art, and print on demand presses like Blurb let you start with a very reasonably priced short run and will hook you up with a variety of distribution networks.

You can quite literally publish a professionally packaged book for a few hundred dollars or less.

There's also Amazon, but I've never tried it so can't comment on it.
Hmm all of Africa having a growth rate of 2.54% isn’t really as bad as I was expecting. Seems to be dropping year over year as well.
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I admit I might've got the details wrong. The gist of the anecdote is the best response he had to me wanting to do impactful work was, "some people who didn't even go to this school were a part of something you've heard of ten years ago," which I didn't find terribly compelling.
That sounds like rugpulls waiting to happen.
> People don’t go to church picnics anymore, but many don’t really go to anything else either.

I suppose that raises the question of intrinsic motivation. Perhaps some people aren't very interested in partnerships and absent the social structures like religion that actively push them into prescribed partnerships, they might just prefer not to pursue them. I'm not sure that is a bad thing.

> And in recent years we have discouraged approaching people in the workplace. I think that’s the correct thing to do, because work should be kept separate from personal life.

The workplace is still a pretty good place to meet potential partners if you have the right social skills, social awareness, respect, and tact. Often it's just the initial introduction that happens there, and people find they have other common interests outside of work where they get to know each other better.

It's much more challenging if you don't have the social skills to navigate what is appropriate or inappropriate behavior at work. For such person, having a family or community organization assisting can help, or people like the old world match-makers.
I kinda wonder what is not easy about saying no to such things?

"Oh man I really want to blow a lot of money on a tv ad but I'll just not." That sounds pretty easy / more of a personal motivation than anything else.
That's pretty cool but I don't ever go to those sites. I guess that's a +1 for me!
The first line on that page is literally "don't doxx yourself for work". You are only informing your employer of a few vital stats. The employer keeps that information private. There's no death threat involved.
I am suspicious of that "can't afford a $500 emergency" number that is thrown around.

It apparently comes from a survey [52] which says:

"53% could manage an unforeseen expense of $500 without worry"

What that actually means isn't directly stated - but people read it as "half of Americans can't afford $500" which isn't what it's stating.

https://www.personalcapital.com/assets/public/src/2022-Wealt...
How do you know the beliefs of a coworker? Do you ask them extremely probing questions? I think I have a right not to be interrogated at work.
I mean, you can get a job cutting grass at your own pace for $4/hr if you want.
I think the work they do in the series Severance was like this. They were in some gamy looking interface and had no idea what they were actually doing but got good at doing it and apparently it was important
Just from my side once we switched more to delivery we are driving a TON less.

We used to go a few cities over for some thing, whole foods for example not in our city so we'd go over to it to grab some stuff, then to target for a few things etc etc. All that driving has evaporated - we are cooking at home more too.

"i'm pretty sure you know it."

Please cite something rather than ascribing a (false) view to someone else. I don't know your "fact" because it seems like you are lying based on my direct experience.
Why is it so hard for people not to be dicks? I manage to go to work every day and avoid harassing my co-workers just fine. Avoiding offensive language is not difficult unless you are an inherently offensive person...
What about the health and location data that is already out there? How would that be handled, can it be sold, exchanged, or does it have to be destroyed?
You might be talking about AMEX Savings? I remember when it was 1.70% before the pandemic. That almost beat inflation!
consider three things:

1. market consolidation. A lot of cashflow-negative tech companies are going away.

2. automation. This is still out there, but eventually industry will find a way out of the software swamp.

3. competition. At some point, the US and China are going to square off. Instead of WW3, an agreement will be hammered out that likely results in Chinese tech companies getting back their access to US markets. And, the world is very busy graduation devs.

add these up and its buh-bye to the golden age of dev comp, its more amazing that it has lasted so long

devs in the future will make less than tree trimmers
No, it's not really a surprise when you step back and think about it—the core purpose of cryptocurrencies is to provide for immutable, "trustless" transactions that cannot be refunded or disputed. Instead, these transactions are based only on technical constructs (passwords, private keys), rather than social constructs (signatures, invoices, remittances). Additionally, the internal controls that are designed to prevent one rogue employee from doing anything are much more extensive and mature in the finance industry, since it's had longer to develop them and doesn't have to rely on purely "automatic" technical factors. "Compromising" a traditional finance employee's account might be embarrassing for their employer, and may result in the leaking of trade secrets or other sensitive information, but the actual financial loss is going to be very minimal.
What is the reason for the one-way video requirement?
Ask HN: Would you deal with CSPs when building audio- Chrome Extensions
Some background:
We are a seed stage startup, we built a chrome extension that allows u to record audio messages anywhere, it gets transcribed, some ml stuff. Then u can share the link, if the other person also has the CE they can play it wherever they find the link. Of course, we also have a web app that does normal messaging app stuff.
Register for testing: https://app.getvoiceline.com/6b29fbc80d

Question: We have some problems with CSP violations. Some pages like StackOverflow don’t even prompt the user for microphone permissions.

Others, like Twitter, allow specific media sources. As long as they still allow blobs, we can work around that by sending the blob as a stringified message over the chrome messaging and rebuilding it in the DOM to then play it. Github and Gitlab are much more restrictive.
IMO google should allow chrome extensions to change certain aspects of the CSPs, after all, you want to transform your browser experience with the extensions.
It works well on the major co-working tools like gsuite or notion, but we would really like to bring it to more engineers and the websites they use.

Did any of you deal with similar constraints before?
I used to work at a dating service pre-Web. I was in the thick of the data, so to speak, and noticed a lot of trends which haven't really changed.

1) Men ask women out a lot; women only rarely ask men, and when they do, they tend to all be the same guys. They really converged.

2) Women rated the importance of their preferences higher than men do, at almost every aspect.

3) When someone says, "Oh, women would never actually judge men based on ..." assume the opposite. Income and height were always in the top five.

4) Despite pushing people to match on commonalities of interest and psych stuff, it was the "chemistry" factor that dictated who got asked out, who accepted, and so on.

5) It was in no way egalitarian and always tended toward "grim and depressing truth about people." All of this has only been accelerated in online dating.

Tempted to see if those old floppies survived and if I could retrieve anything in dBase III or whatever it was. I'd still have to find a document stating what those referred to. Sample size wasn't too bad, a few thousand ... The thing is, I could do all that work, and the people who don't want to believe that people are like that? wouldn't believe it anyway. They'd just look for confounding variables and reasons to dismiss.
Show HN: Soliciting post placement on Hacker News
Hey, HN -- I just received the following email and I'm not sure what to do about it. Obviously I want to discourage requested-posting like this; is there some structured way that we can do that? One of the things I love about HN is how high the signal-to-noise ratio is relative to...pretty much the rest of the internet.

I wouldn't ordinarily call someone out like this, but I want to innoculate HN against this sort of thing.

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Hey doches,

Not sure if it's conventional, but thought I'd ask anyway.

Would you be open to posting about my product on Hacker News?

I understand that similar to Product Hunt, HN gives higher priority to users with higher karma. I usually keep up with recent discussions via RSS feed on Feedly, but almost neve post. So I thought I'd reach out to someone that has authority.

My product is called Popupular and it helps embed just about anything into a popup via a Google Chrome extension.

[rest of email truncated]
not dreading it, but we do have a couple of older photocopiers (with no fw updates) that won't let us do things like add emails to the address book without IE
How does Hinge correct for the ratio problem? If women can only like a finite number of profiles, doesn't this further restrict the supply of Women Likes?
Looking at ethereum difficulty as an indicator it looks like current global mining is down around 11% from its peak, to where it was in mid-April.
M2 Geekbench
Plasma crashes are not uncommon even with Intel graphics using a GPU driver in the mainline kernel. I don't see much "everybody's got different hardware" excuse with such a configuration; the GPU (and wifi, etc) drivers being in-kernel is 90% of why I bought this computer.

Autohide panels is something Plasma seems to particularly struggle with. Sometimes the panel will start spazzing out, flickering and neither appearing nor disappearing, before finally crashing completely (and sometimes not coming back until I manually(!) restart plasma shell.)
>We all know that one guy who does well despite not being physically attractive.

I actually don't. I keep seeing these meme constantly repeated and I actually made a list of unattractive males... and they, mostly, have never had luck with relationship. Physical attractiveness is very important, whatever the consensus du jour say about it.
No. Which is why I would ask them to submit a resume, interview them, do reference calls, check their Github, check their social media, etc.

I would hire a pseudonymous programmer. I probably would not hire a pseudonymous programmer with zero history or reputation accrued to their pseudonymous identity.
Some coupons are just worth it. A guy in the 90s figured out he could get millions of frequent flyer miles from a few thousand dollars of pudding.
Just as a curiosity what is the counter to this troll argument? Philosophically speaking why is one obvious and the other unthinkable?
The answer is more pageservers. Right now we have 1 to may relationships 1 page server many tenants. But one tenant one pageserver. We will shard pageservers and make it many to many. The good news is that pageserver workload is constant space so it's relatively easy to schedule. Unlike query processing workloads that have joins and those are not constant memory space.
You also need a robot delivery robot as well as an underclass of cheaper foreign labor.
Just like "two programmers can always achieve in two months what takes an entire month for a single programmer", the one we imported from sciences "a short week programming can save you many hours of thinking", and other similar famous phrases, this is true when it is; when it isn't, it's false.
Would this not be accounted for already by citadel etc where can I learn more
Sadly I wasn't able to watch it lift off. I enjoy watching the Airbus models, esp. the Airbus Beluga XL over Hamburg, Germany.
This appears to be out of date. Watts Bar 2 [1] is completed and operating. Summer 2-3 were cancelled [2]. Sounds like Vogtle is getting close to coming online [3]

1: https://www.tva.com/newsroom/watts-bar-2-project

2: https://www.chooseenergy.com/news/article/failed-v-c-summer-...

3: https://www.southerncompany.com/innovation/vogtle-3-and-4.ht...
Thanks for sharing! I didn't know that. That's actually very interesting.
Prob 60-70% margin over what is costs us.
No, that's not how Hacker News works. Karma is essentially meaningless after 501 karma and does not affect post placement.
GPU ray tracing tutorial – 10 articles
The last article of the series on BVH construction, ray tracing and GPU ray tracing (using OpenCL) is now complete: 10 articles cover the basics as well as advanced GPGPU topics.
Bill Gates says crypto and NFTs are a sham
It looks like Ubuntu Core lets you disable automatic updates for snaps: https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/refresh-control.
I don't think it seems like 20/3200 are saying "Using the N-word is negative", but rather that they are unhappy with the company internals overall. Could be because of that, could because of a lot of reasons, some of them being outlined in the Twitter thread. But to suggest that those people are the ones unhappy with using the N-word and the rest being neutral about it, seems to extrapolate a bit too much from the thread.
How do they pay the check?
https://intelibilia.substack.com/p/18-crypto-wages-day
Just common sense. Russia has vast resource-rich areas in Siberia that with global warming would become habitable. They have relatively few large coastal cities (compared to the US and Europe). And the Arctic sea being clear of ice year round would open up a shorter/faster shipping route for China-Europe than the current one through the Suez canal.

Edit: Also to address your question about whether there are others, I'm Finnish and have strongly considered buying land in Lapland as a long-term investment (thinking grandchildren+ here).
Even the UK can't do it, the US never will. We implemented metric where it made sense, but forcing consumers into new units just because we think it would be cool if the whole world used the same measurements... well, that's a hard sell.
Apple's Backup Plan to Stop Antitrust Legislation
USPS actually works well with Amazon, because amazon sometimes uses them for last mile.

Somehow Amazon seems to basically deliver to the local post office, so stuff still shows up quickly but then the postal carrier brings it with other mail. For very small packages in particular this seems somewhat common where I am.

Again, this is is efficient. Amazon skips the part where USPS struggles (ie, Amazon can get something moving on their network at 2AM on a Sunday), but on Tuesday the local carrier still puts it in my box.
And of course, remember that the base of VSCode is Chromium. Pretty hilarious in the scheme of things.
> It shows how far we've fallen that at one point we ran electric wires and telephone wires to people's houses but today we can't run a simple strand of fiber.

It's less "can't" and more "won't". CenturyLink and co. make a lot more from reusing and overpricing very expensive 5Mb DSL instead of rolling out fiber, and whenever the fed wants to push fiber rollout, they take the funding and "may not meet" deadlines[1].

Same reason some ISPs ask some for hundreds of thousands of dollars[2][3][4] when they're "out of reach" from their network, even when the house nextdoor isn't (can't find that one now). Sometimes that amount is for cable or DSL, not even fiber.

Disclaimer: I'm not American, but I followed these US telco stories for a few years.

1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/centurylink-fron...

2: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/man-b...

3: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/want-...

4: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/jared...
Are thermal batteries unproven? I thought they were at the "available for purchase from Siemens and GE" stage of development.
I don't think his tweet is saying SWEs don't deserve 400k. He's saying some business models are not viable at that price. So in relation to his tweet that's not wrong. If your medical business needs to hire doctors for 20k/yr to be viable then you don't have a business. At the end of the day that's no different than a child saying they're going to start a money tree business so they can just pick money off the trees and be rich. If you can drive the cost of doing business and your inputs toward zero almost any business idea could theoretically make a profit... but real markets are not so accommodating.

In relation to your question: no, 400k/yr is not overpaid. Software is an extremely scalable business where the marginal cost of every copy beyond the first is nearly zero. Lots of companies selling software (or relying on custom software as their competitive advantage) make far in excess of 400k off each engineer's labor. Plenty make millions per engineer, even after subtracting all other costs and non-engineer compensation. Companies don't pay 400k, 800k, or more to engineers out of charity. They do it because it is profitable.
What do you think about this pricing? Is it fair?
OK but that's not much related to work time laws, that's related to work pay laws and market conditions.

The benefit of squeezing away the lunch break isn't important to an overall job.
Systems >> databases for the engine. We also need fullstack or product engineers - modern DevX requires good UI. We also hire SREs and support
Well it's not just your employer who knows your legal identity at work. It's potentially the entire organization, and more.
In this metaphor, the postdoc is the Lamborghini, the speaker is the employer bemoaning the difficulty of acquiring a postdoc/Lamborghini for an unreasonable price point, and the $4000 is the unreasonable price point.
I wonder how this will impact SimpleTax / WealthSimple Tax folks. I absolutely love that product - which is a strange feeling to have for a tax filling software ;)

BTW, there is another thread about the message sent by the CEO regarding those layoffs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756507
If you're not going to include supporting evidence, then why make the comment at all?
Do you feel like a wealth tax starting at the 50,000,001th dollar of 2% until you get to a billion is "gutting all accumulations of wealth" or would harm the average financial independence strategy?
No, very quickly everyone would know the hospitals that charge way more than the others, and not patronize them.

Emergency services are only like 5% of costs, anyway [367]:

> The percentage of U.S. health spending attributable to the ED has increased from 3.9% (CI, 3.9%-3.9%) in 2006 to 5.0% (CI, 5.0%-5.0%) in 2016.

So the other 95% is more flexible. I know when looking at birthing costs they could vary wildly but it didn't really matter because who cares, they're all in-network anyway.

[367] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Goes to show the accuracy of the google info box!
How do you differentiate against Google's AlloyDB, Cockroach Serverless, and fly.io?
That's rather uncharitable. They most likely just want to get some usage data. It's ignoring the privacy concerns that come with GA, which isn't great, but saying they have no morals is more than a stretch.