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The critical issue with disk is no longer capacity, but seeks.

For interactive and high-demand (reads, writes) performance, it's head contention and waiting, often for seconds, sometimes for minutes, swap and read/write capacity to come available, which argues against HDD.

There's a space for HDD in archival and warm- and cold-storage formats (increasingly displacing tape). But in consumer and office equipment, the case for HDD is all but dead now.

Rather you'll see shared storage in the form of NAS and SAN systems, increasingly in the SOHO space, and increasingly as commodity systems.

A key point is at about the 500 MB - 1 TB capacity point. Storage allocations for desktops and laptops has not been increasing over the past several years, but instead the price point at which SDD substitution is viable for 0.5 - 1 TB storage has been falling.

As someone who still recalls buying his first, SCSI, 1 GB drives some 20+ years ago, paying a premium for them, and thinking that would be enough storage for anyone, the question of "how much storage is enough" is dangerous ground. Much of what used to be excessive when considering GB storage is accounted for by vast text repositories (I've nearly 30 GB of articles alone on tablet storage), and the amount of information which can be stored in text and video formats.

But the need to have multiple TB of that nearline for general work doesn't seem particularly strong. The trend of the past decade has been not predominantly large laptop, desktop, and workstation systems, with larger and faster disk, but in handheld and mobile devices, in which storage allocations remain minuscule (I was surprised earlier today to see that Android devices now ship with 128-256 GB storage, Apple's iPad is available with up to 1 TB), and for which spinning rust is both a power and reliability liability.

Seagate may find its prediction optimistic.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/15/20805994/ups-self-driving...

There's a video out there of the UPS truck driving 90 minutes end-to-end without interruption by the driver or engineer who are along for the ride.
The free software movement campaigns for freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for freedom and justice. By contrast, the open source idea values mainly practical advantage and does not campaign for principles.

If you read through more of the article, it becomes clear that the difference in viewpoint has actual real world impact on the type of licensing practices that result.

Promoting a particular principle or ethos matters because it is like the DNA of the idea. Different DNA gets you completely different results.
This is a clear slippery slope fallacy. In this particular instance, all they had to do was not defend pedophiles, blame victims, and repeatedly engage in misogynistic behavior which literally drove women out of their discipline for decades.
> it is still demonstrating superiority on just the one problem of simulating itself starting from any initial condition, no?

It's the "any initial condition" part that is hard. You cannot put a cat, or even a small molecule, in any one of it's possible initial states, let it evolve, measure the outcome, and get reliable answers. (If you could, that would make it a computer! That's all a computer does, assuming the initial states and evolution are rich enough to, e.g., be Turing complete.)

> The computer is programmable, but the way supremacy is demonstrated is orthogonal to its programmability

The fact that the problem posed by the challenger C is "run an arbitrary quantum circuit" is in fact directly connected to the programmability.
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The hiring vs mating issue is perhaps simpler than you picture. US federal discrimination law only applies to companies with more than 15 people. If we regularly married 15+ people at a time, we might very well put legal restrictions on your mating choices. The more personal the decision, the more agency you get.
Yeah, I wouldn't put anything under a "GPL or any later version" for the time being.
The first scene in Blade Runner 2049 takes place in a 'protein farm'. The farmer grows parthogenic worm-like creatures in pits filled with some sort of nutrient goo.

Parthogenic means they can reproduce asexually, and they're all clones of each other. Indeed, the few animals that reproduce like this can do so extremely fast.
Waze doesn't tell you what speed to drive. It just gives you a direction, and you're literally at the steering wheel. If you're breaking any limits, it warns you, quite loudly by default.

However, it does give a reasonable ETA based on real world traffic conditions, and that's a good thing - if today on some street everybody's driving at 10mph then it doesn't matter if it's because of a traffic jam or unsafe icy road, Waze won't send me there.
Fair market competition is not possible if one actor is in a monopoly position.

And I am curious to read what economic theory says about competition over a free product. I mean, I understand their revenues come from advertisers, but they are trying to get users, for free, like if it were a market competition. I wonder how much this model holds water in that case.
There's also the beauty in the point of Free Software: it's for freedom. This means it's okay that others profit. It's about you having power. That means you have the power to profit too. All you gotta share is the code for what you distribute.

I like free software not because no one is making money. I like people making money. I like it because I can change it.

That's important and everyone who gets upset simply because people profit is not necessarily on the same side as me. I don't want communist shared ownership of all things. I want the power to modify and run my software. That's all. It is actually like free speech. I want it for those who aren't like me and those are who like me.
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All this cloudy talks brough back some of my memories. Here is one story from 90s. I was called to save the fate of newborn TELCO who could not produce bills to customers in time and were running out of money. The company they hired to do it tried to generate that enormous print file that had to be sent to a printhouse using some scripts on Oracle (there was a lot of heavy calculations involved there). So basically they were doomed to fail. The end result is that their scripts would run for a day or two and then crash.
So I took a notice that on their main floor where they had operators there were like hundreds of client care PC stations. So I wrote a little orchestrator and the processing server app that was placed on every workstation. No scripts, all native executables. The orchestrator would pull list of current accounts from a database split it equally by the number of available server apps and submit those partial lists to servers. Servers would then extract needed data from database into RAM do all the calculations, generate partial print file and send it back to the orchestrator. The orchestrator will merge those partials and generate complete print file. The whole thing took like an hour or so, do not remember exactly. Everyone was happy except one tech manager who did not like that it was implemented in language X instead of language Y. Obviously he was told to shut up and get lost. Getting 22 million dollars was way more important.
What you're saying is disingenuous at best and gaslighting at worst. Just because you apparently have a very generous budget to throw at a problem doesn't mean everyone else in the same space does. I really struggle to see what the point is in making such a comment about other people's financial situations, and I would hope you can either justify making such an inflammatory remark or walk it back.
Yeah, that's not good, but also for something of that scale 10 years is not much.

Remember, oil is thought to start as the remains of previously living things.

By the definitions some people apply to supplements or medication, it's "natural".

Just too much, all at once in one place, and possibly some elements normally found as traces are excessively concentrated, eg mercury.

Given enough time the localised impact will diminish, as with all hygiene related concepts, it's all about dilution and/or dispersion.
I often run screen sessions inside tmux if I need to ssh to remote machines. tmux is beautiful and I say that as a screen veteran.
"an unrelated private message board?"

Was this an unrelated private message board? I was under the impression it was on a mailing list at MIT.
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I guess my job application to this company is redundant.
Your characterization of these nationals aside, what makes you think any of them even know what “dish” means in this context?

Sincerely, a Malaysian Chinese who’s seeing this slang for the first time.
Another alternative is emacs server.
> His contributions are overstated, as is the benefit of Free Software, generally, as compared to more permissive licenses.

That's certainly what companies which made their fortunes out of taking software out of the commons and turning it into products want people to think. Enough programmers don't want to be turned into unpaid employees that copyleft licenses have substantial uptake.

Also:

> OSS predates Stallman, and will outlast him.

... refusing to see a distinction between OSS and Free Software? Neat rhetorical trick.
This is true for freeways and possibly multi lane arterials. It's absolutely not true for small neighborhood streets, which seem to be the shortcuts at issue here.
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I think that GP's position is tenable if the tyranny comes slowly. Sure, a country-wide armed insurgency is hard to beat. That's relatively uncontroversial. If most people are comfortable as the water boils around them, however, then the armed insurgency is not going to be country-wide.

I think that argument has some basis in history (e.g. Nazi Germany), where the tyrannical government slowly got worse and worse without major internal revolts. On the other hand, there have been times where the people snapped and revolted all at once.
pandas keeps turning me off, even if I feel like I ought to like it; I feel like I never really know what is going on, and the syntax feels like a domain-specific-language tacked on top of python, and it just doesn't sit well (my opinion!). Besides... some of the functions have an insane number of parameters, e.g.

pandas.read_table(filepath_or_buffer: Union[str, pathlib.Path, IO[~AnyStr]], sep='t', delimiter=None, header='infer', names=None, index_col=None, usecols=None, squeeze=False, prefix=None, mangle_dupe_cols=True, dtype=None, engine=None, converters=None, true_values=None, false_values=None, skipinitialspace=False, skiprows=None, skipfooter=0, nrows=None, na_values=None, keep_default_na=True, na_filter=True, verbose=False, skip_blank_lines=True, parse_dates=False, infer_datetime_format=False, keep_date_col=False, date_parser=None, dayfirst=False, cache_dates=True, iterator=False, chunksize=None, compression='infer', thousands=None, decimal=b'.', lineterminator=None, quotechar='"', quoting=0, doublequote=True, escapechar=None, comment=None, encoding=None, dialect=None, error_bad_lines=True, warn_bad_lines=True, delim_whitespace=False, low_memory=True, memory_map=False, float_precision=None)

I use R happily enough, and MATLAB too for that matter. Maybe, some-day, I'll see the pandas-light.
One of the downsides listed when you don't use tmux is that you have to type your password for each terminal you open to the remote machine. Does no one use ssh-agent?
As someone who only vaguely remembers NPR from their childhood, my primary association of NPR is with their podcasts. And those things are full of ads. So I initially found this post very confusing.

I guess in the past there might have been something called NPR which did not have ads?
You can still visit Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid's ranch cabin today just off Ruta Provincial 71 in Cholila, Argentina. Here's the location on Google Maps:
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I wonder if it'd be feasible to proxy only the DNS requests over Tor. Maybe set up your network-level DNS proxy to route upstream queries through a Tor tunnel to a different DNS-over-HTTPS resolver. Perhaps even have the DNS proxy cache DNS records and proactively revalidate commonly used ones to avoid most of the latency overhead of Tor.
FWIW, not having to go into the details of how to find the antiderivative of an some mildly complicated function was a huge boon in my physics class.
One of the things that really soured me to working as a biologist was being told the data we collected would not be allowed to be made freely available, as we originally proposed and was accepted in our grant proposal. Instead it would be locked away in a government database, available for a fee despite the data being collected using tax dollars, after we'd been working for over a year and a half on the project and had gone throught two funding cycles, on threat of our grant money being withdrawn.

It was after we found an endangered species in an active mine site. It sucked. We'd built an open database easily accessible online, we used open street maps to display the data and had built a bunch of custom layers, we were also working with another group that wanted to add the data to their open database. In the end though none of that happened and the work that was put into making it was wasted and everything was given to the government and locked away.
So this is a little nuanced. It's true that quantum systems collapse on "observation", but that doesn't actually mean "observation by a sentient entity". It could really just be any interaction with the outside environment. (This is why qubits have to be kept incredibly well-isolated.) We don't really fully know exactly how this collapse works, and related speculation is generally classified under the measurement problem [1]. But it's true that one of the key points of Schrödinger when proposing his thought experiment was that the notion of measurement or observation was not fully defined under the Copenhagen interpretation.

Side note, it's not that the cat is observing poisonous gas, but rather, that a Geiger counter is set to detect whether a radioactive atom decays or not and triggers the release of some poisonous gas if so. So, classically, Schrödinger's cat would be either alive or dead 50% of the time, not 100% dead. There are plenty of alternative ways to reconcile this classical view with quantum mechanics. Perhaps the simplest and most well-known is the many-worlds interpretation [2], which states that both events occur, just in different timelines, and we don't know what timeline we ended up in until we open the box. (Of course, it is ridiculous to speculate as to which timeline "we" end up in before the experiment is carried out, because the people in both timelines would still be "us" - this can get awkward to think about.)

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
The real way to do this is using differential forms so you just have matrices that you read off. Using the appropriate metric and the normalized form you don't need to memorize anything (see section 5 of https://www.math.arizona.edu/~faris/methodsweb/manifold.pdf)
I really wish there was some option to pay for ad-free NPR podcasts. I do this with a few others via Patreon, but some quick Googling didn't find anything similar for NPR.
On second reading, I have but one trivial gripe:

"Enormity" implies moral reprobation, so it's a poor way of describing the significance of a computational discovery.
right, and there were several places that built foot powered chargers. actually, i remember thinking that whoever actually built that handcrank did it more for the novelty value than to actually solve a problem.
Didn’t know about this. Where can I read more about his behaviour around women?
I got my license in Canberra, where I had the option to skip the driving test by doing enough hours with a qualified driving instructor. It was a big contrast to my previous struggles to get supervised drives with friends and family.

I had picked up a habit of going much too fast around every corner, because the owner of the car I was practicing in insisted that it must be done that way. She did it because that's what her brother taught her. The real instructor got rid of that bad habit very quickly.

It's a bit more expensive, but honestly it's so much quicker to get good and less stressful that I recommend it to anyone who has the option.

People lie in the log book, too. So I don't believe many actually do the 120 hours they claim.
Wow. Terrible. Hope she wasn't put off computer science / IT by that.
First, there's a deterrent effect. 300M guns (not spread out evenly, it looks like there's a power law distribution going on) is simply not ignorable. Nor is the culture that has them ignorable; these people are significantly better prepared than the usual resistance minority . . . the kind that has been know to hold out for decades against really well funded, state-sponsored opponents.

Doesn't mean they're on your particular side, though :-)
It's not that far-fetched; they read off motor neurons in the wearer's arm, not the brain.

Same principle behind this prosthetic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk1NkWl_W2Y

It seems to work well enough for demos:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17433516/ctrl-labs-brain-c...
> The complaints about stallman aren't a matter of thoughtcrime, they're a matter of entirely inappropriate behavior, not just once but repeatedly, over the course of decades

Indeed. A lot of people leaping to his defence have only a very surface-level understanding of his past record and think the accusations are something new or recent.

Nobody expects the people who change the world to be perfect, but it really doesn't do to defend people based purely on their reputation. It's unjust to let influential people off the hook just because they're influential.

Please note: I'm not pronouncing any opinion on whether his condemnation and dismissal are justified.
Good point. I'd like to see one of the absolute numbers in addition to the ratio; otherwise the cynical interpretation (which is kind of the appropriate interpretation for PR speak) is, "So the American-made portion used to be 1% of the cost and it's now 2.5%, eh?" (Or 1.25% if the MSRP has a constant ratio to the parts cost.)
Pip gives you whatever the default build is, but for numpy they build optimized builds into wheels for almost every platform. https://pypi.org/project/numpy/#files For anything else, you have to get into the details of how it is built and what the options are which is going to depend on the specific package. Building numpy yourself is not beginner friendly, you have to know a ton of details about linear algebra packages.
I had a problem on a test that asked to track a somewhat convoluted series of recursive calls. Being lazy, I reimplemented it in TI-BASIC and just ran it…
I think Hyundai/Kia had self driving systems in development for the past, what, 5 years? Kia debuted its DriveWise in 2016. So they don't start from scratch.
If I had a de-platformed individual every time they made a comment someone took offense to, I'd end up with an animal farm. Definitely, his comments should not be overlooked, but intellectually benching someone because of what they've said is not how you handle these types of situations.

Furthermore, his leadership qualities depend only on his ability to lead a group towards a goal, which he was doing swell at.
It even had Dropbox integration and Lua scripting!
> My former boss always said that all devs worldwide should get the fastest machine possible for development but should be forced to use their own software on a 386. :-)

I appreciate this thinking, and have always thought that web developers should be forced to test with lynx on 9600baud dialup. But I'm just a wee bit sadistic when it comes to web developers.

"No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering."
100ms of unneeded latency IS NOT nothing (except for some limited use cases). Anything user facing shouldn't be slower than it needs to be.
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The specific person I'm referring to has lost any goodwill from other interactions I've had with them. I don't trust their statements.

And like I said, I would have personally paid a 50% increase, or for an ala-carte support package, but I doubt a 50% bump is actually necessary. One which doesn't push the board out of people's price ranges is probably feasible. Remember that we're talking about $2-3K, for the cheapest option with the simplest loadout. Customers already have disposable income. These are not priced like consumer hardware.
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Tried getting SAM to work on OS X, no luck, lots of pain.
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Am I the only one who doesn’t care about this kind of tracking stuff? Like I really don’t care, is there some reason why I should? I feel like the worst thing that can happen is I get shown more relevant ads. If I use Adblock then it’s irrelevant, but if I don’t then what’s wrong with having targeted ads? A court has already ruled an IP address is not a person, they don’t really know it’s me, it’s just a construct they created that they think is me.
Takes me back to the days of my HP 50g.
I think it is analogous to fusion. Fusion definitely works (the Sun and hydrogen bomb) and power generation is a predicted use of fusion in the future. That doesn't mean we have known path to fusion for power generation.

To extend the analogy, quantum supremacy is like fusion for neutron source. There are commercial fusion devices to be used as neutron source.
Let me supplement the above.

The word "user" was used to mean an SSH client.
I make soap and as far as the occupational hazards go, I rank the chemical burns further down the scale from the endless Fight Club references.
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Most things that get years of speculation and press never come to fruition
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As a non-US resident, I offer you a different viewpoint: Comcast or Verizon don't have any market presence in the country where I live (AFAIK at least), but the other big tech firms that you mentioned have a lot of influence.
It really does seem that he's being defended purely based on some cult of celebrity. HN would vilify any other group for doing the same thing for anybody else.
Streets have many purposes. They allow people to access their homes. They provide parking. They are bike routes, walking routes, scooter routes, running routes, skateboard routes, and driving routes. They are sometimes even places kids can play, or at least where parents can feel safe biking with their kids, or where one can easily and safely cross the street as a pedestrian.

Not letting vehicles cut through a neighborhood street means the street serves one fewer purpose, but it means it serves every other purpose much better than before. Maybe it's worth it for some streets, maybe it's not for others. But your statement is a bit like saying you shouldn't need to pay taxes to maintain a school because you're not allowed to drive through it.