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by jefftk 2y ago
I think the key problem is that mapping from FUSE requests to inotify events requires information that only the FUSE daemon has. For example, lets say you open a file with O_CREAT. Whether this should trigger IN_CREATE depends on whether
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> I prefer copyleft licenses, because they ensure that the end user has access to my code Now that so much software (the majority?) is used over a network standard copyleft licenses (GPL etc) no longer ensure this. If you want that yo
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I'm sure it varies by dance and region, but at least in the Northeast the contra community is doing well! Lots of new dances, lots of people of all ages, and the group I help organize is well above our pre-pandemic attendance.
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Note that a pound of gold is 12 troy ounces, while a pound of feathers is 16 avoirdupois ounces. So one of my favorite pedantic bits of trivia is that an ounce of gold is heavier than an ounce of feathers but a pound of gold is lighter tha
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As both a reader and a writer I disagree: * A blog post is a snapshot: what did the author think at the time they wrote the post? If they change their mind or learn more, they write a new post and link forward and backwards. I know how to
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I wonder why they pegged at 1.96 instead of 2?
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What matters is the difference between how the world would be with your actions and how it would be otherwise. Would you also say "so you're saying it's ok to be a member of the Nazi party who runs a munitions factory [1], QE
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The post you're linking to is not arguing that you should become a tobacco exec, it's arguing that 80k has not sufficiently made the case that a tobacco exec who donated all their income thoughtfully would still be causing net har
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It wouldn't work because being a tobacco exec is just really harmful: https://80000hours.org/2016/01/just-how-bad-is-being-a-ceo-i... Anyone who could do that job has many far better ways they could apply t
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> It's dangerously close to the EA belief that it's actually OK to be a ruthless exec for a tobacco company, because you can do good things with your money that you wouldn't be able to do if you quit the job. That's
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Sorry, which conversion? If you mean OpenAI, it's not clear that what they are currently planning is illegal. If they do it correctly, the non-profit is fully compensated for their stake in the for-profit.
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There are solidly legal and solidly illegal ways to do this, and a range of options in between. My reading of what they are doing is that it is pretty far toward the legal end of this spectrum, and the key question will be whether whether t
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They are explaining how they see what they are doing as compliant with the law around 501c3s, which it arguably is. And they are putting a positive spin on it to make it less likely to be challenged, since the main ways this could be challe
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The key thing is that assets of a 501c3 are irrevocably dedicated to charitable purposes, which is not the case for a 501c6. If the NFL had somehow started as a 501c3 before realizing that was a bad structure for their work, the standard ap
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The NFL was a 501c6 trade association, not a 501c3 though?
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There is recourse, in that a 501c3 is limited in what it can do with it's assets: it must use them to advance its charitable purpose. In this case the OpenAI board will attempt to make the case that this approach, with partial ownershi
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"We are turning our non profit into a for profit because we want to make money" isn't legal. To make this transition in a way that maximizes how much money they can make while minimizing what they lose to lawsuits they need t
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the non-profit will hire a leadership team and staff to pursue charitable initiatives in sectors such as health care, education, and science Whether this is good depends enormously on what these initiatives end up being.
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> Elon Musk strong claim to get a significant portion of the equity owned by the non-profit, given his sizable investment when a contemporaneous valuation of the company would have been small Sorry, what's the path to this? Musk&#
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> It's hard to adjust for increases in housing costs by buying cheaper housing I think this is mostly not true? You can adjust for housing becoming more expensive by changing your consumption patterns, just as you describe with f
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> proprietary databases (which granted SO also was)* StackOverflow's database was public and shared at the Internet Archive until recently: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange They've now moved it o
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Some things in the "basket of goods" we use to compute inflation have gone up more than others, and housing is definitely one of them. You can compute exactly how much by dividing https://fred.stlouisfed.org/serie
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You're adjusting for inflation twice. The numbers I gave in my comment, and in the chart I linked, are after inflation adjustment. Here's the equivalent chart without inflation adjustment, which gives the (incorrect) impression o
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> Median incomes are stagnant But they're not? Adjusted for inflation, median US household income is 18% higher than fifteen years ago and 32% higher than it was thirty years ago: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/serie
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> It'd be weird for evolution to struggle so much on trying such a simple concept somewhere. While "building it backwards" sounds simple to us, it's not simple at all in evolutionary space. Evolution operates over a
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> that sort of thing must happen frequently in nature Individual chiral molecules can happen naturally, sure, but not entire organisms. From the report: In a mirror bacterium, all of the chiral molecules of existing bacteria—proteins
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That's not what Open Source means. The development team not being willing to review your pull requests does not limit your freedom to use sqlite in any way.
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2022, per https://x.com/danluu/status/1503512394126938120 I wish Dan would put dates on his posts!
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> driving from Ventura, down the 126 to the 5 to LAX That's a lot simpler than what Cruise showed in their video. Dealing well with pedestrians, stopped cars, cross streets, etc are a significant challenge.
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Unfortunately I think a lot of people seem to have taken Ankaios' joke as an actual claim about the research. (ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388734 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4238

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