skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beware of two things with tape. They often have a VERY low storage temperature. I lost $5k in tapes with a minor AC problem and the room only got up to 115F for a bit.

Also keep in mind that capacity and bandwidth often assume 2.5x compression of pure text, which doesn't seem like a common scenario.

The article compares SSDs to tape is silly, access times are in the minutes when a robot is involved, and many minutes of you are swapping trays. Why compare to SSDs with that can to 50k IOPs and up?
How will you update the bank account with an immutable data structure? You need to mutate the balance somewhere.
I really love the whole story, especially the idea of the domain name being like the "starter sentence" in a creative writing course. Much has been written about constraints enhancing creativity.

In addition to the constraint of the domain name itself, the author also spent $17,949 (taking 6-9 months to repay) which would help constrain them to focus on just this one idea over that time.
I would say that you're barking up the wrong tree. It's really about cost of investment vs return on investment. 15 tonne robots still cost too much to build, transport, run, etc. Therefore, they have no competitors, because everybody else did the same napkin math but realized it wouldn't work.

That's not to say that something like this isn't possible, the size simply needs to be reduced. Remove the human from the inside and then your robots can also deal proper blows.
works great on giant uncompressed database backups though
I personally see value in it and could even see myself as a customer, at least to try it for 6-12 months and see what it's like. Sounds like a good way to meet other young people with a bent towards tech

That said, I don't know the details of the program so can't speak to its practicality in this instance. But considering it's wework, there's opportunity for a good vertical there. At its face it seems like sound corporate strategy
You're not sacrificing anything. Or specifically having a long term, offline tape storage does not prevent you from having short term, online, versioned file/block storage. Different use cases.
Don't get your hopes up. There's trillions of barrels of oil resource in the Green River formation (Wyoming, etc)--more than the reserves of the rest of the world combined. It's very unconventional (oil shale/kerogen), but I've seen some estimates that say it's no more expensive to extract than tar sands oil (once you start developing the resource).

We're going to have to do this the hard way, as the other poster mentioned. Decide to keep it in the ground.
Super short version: Keystone appears to be the Google auto updater service. It has a bug that causes it to unlink /var, and since that's sort of an important piece of the OS, its absence breaks stuff.
I had a room full of servers, many with 16-36 disks per server and had an AC failure. Things turned off as planned, but it hit 115F for a bit. None of the disks died, majority of the tapes did.
That fairy would need to use some seriously arcane magic to make such a device not bend and tear like paper too. Although I don't think that would bother Apple much at this point.
Compared to all those crusty old Kubernetes operating systems that popped up in the '80s and '90s, Talos is a breath of fresh air!
> People act like healthy, competitive, transparent markets just appear out of thin air, but they are an artificial creation of government.

Thanks for this insightful comment. I never fully considered it, but yes - all healthy, competitive markets exist as a result of a government that fosters them.
> Where did you get the gear?

I never ended up using it personally, but when I was considering it, used gear on eBay was top of the list.

> How cost-effective is the overall setup compared to spinning rust?

For personal use, it is not even remotely cost-effective unless you are a data hoarder. The cost of the drive is simply too high. Also keep in mind that the drive can become damaged or need servicing.

It only makes sense if you are dealing with e.g. large quantities of video. The article cites a minimum 140TB where tape becomes cheaper but this involves some dubious decision-making.

> How is driver support in popular operating systems?

I have only ever used tape with Linux + custom software so I can’t speak of software support in general.

> Is there more you'd recommend taking into consideration or learning before jumping in? Especially beyond the obvious realities of extremely high latency, of course ;)

The obvious reality to me here is that it just doesn’t make sense unless you’re in spitting distance of a petabyte. The only thing I can imagine someone doing personally is video, and it would have to be a lot of video like some kind of long-running documentary project that you are producing in your spare time.

The other factor is to be more paranoid about mixing tape generations than the vendors suggest. Ignore the specs and stick to same-generation media and drives.

Efficiently writing to a tape means filling e.g. a 20 MB/s write channel for LTO-6, or 750 MB/s for LTO-8. Can you sustain 750 MB/s? It’s not so easy in practice. You throw away tape capacity if you get buffer underruns.
I love that scenario.
We have added an API to help with the practical issues in removing SSH. In doing that it has also opened up interesting opportunities in automation that we are currently fleshing out.

The difference here is that Talos is purpose-built for Kubernetes. What that means is that we will pour resources into automated upgrades paths for our users. Tighter integration with Kubernetes, where we envision a self-healing system that makes use of the Kubernetes and Talos APIs to make decisions.

Also the things I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21066732
It's not about compression, but total storage capacity.

Imagine a disk. It has two sides and a certain surface area, as well as a certain density (bits per square in/cm). A standard 3.5" HDD platter has a bit more than 4200mm^2 of surface area (having been unable to quickly find the dimensions of an HDD platter, I grabbed the dimensions of a floppy disk from the standard) per side, or a little less than 10000mm^2 per platter; I'm being deliberately rough with the numbers since all we need is an order of magnitude.

Imagine a tape. It's long and thin, and can be rolled up. An LTO-8 is 960m long and 12.65mm wide, for a total surface area of 12,144,000mm^2. Tape has a lower recording density than HDDs (LTO-8: ~20Kbit/mm * 6656 tracks, or ~128MB/mm^2 compared to ~1Tbit/in^2 = ~185MB/mm^2 for a HDD), but more than makes up for it with its length.
Yeah, and batteries and electric energy will actually get cheaper as a result.
Sure, or just datadump | gzip > /dev/tape or similar. Tape loves to brag about bandwidth/capacity and then hide the assumed 2.5x compression in a footnote.
I wonder if the 300MBps figure might also be with compression.
Sorry, but Linux hasn't gotten anywhere in a long while. They were trying something that may have worked (Ubuntu + Unity), but this just looks and feels like a toy still. When it comes to GUI and user experience, let's face it, there is a very very TINY market left for Linux. I am a software developer for a very long time and had been running QubesOS as well as most popular distros. Of those QubesOS is the clear winner, since it looks pretty much as sad as any other Linux but at least it gives you something you can't get anywhere else: Security.

As much as I hate Windows and MacOS, they just both run circles around Linux when it comes to graphics, GUI design and user experience and that is why they have such a big market share. It's this old delusion of some Linux fanboys that Linux would spread around the globe if the evil Apple and Microsoft would just allow them. There are few people who CAN use it and much fewer still that are willing to use it as a desktop system.
Exactly this! As a full stack web dev, Manjaro has given me exactly everything that I need with way, way, way less work and less hassle than any Mac or Windows machine I’ve ever used in over 20 years of my programming career.

Almost every piece of software that I really need to use was in the package manager for one thing. It’s also made being a developer fun again because I feel like I’m actually in control of my desktop OS! I can make it do whatever I want and have been doing just that for over a year now on 3 different machines. I have it on one work desktop, one home desktop and on a laptop, a beautiful and cheap 15” Acer/i5 unit with 16gb, expandable up to 32gb of RAM if I want... and the desktops are 5 year old HPs both with 32 GB of RAM and i7s that run circles around macOS on the newest MBPs due to things like it being a sane nix environment and not having to jump through hoops to be productive…

I also set it up for a couple of my coworkers and they love it too. Furthermore we occasionally do some ASP.net and SQL Server work and have had no problem doing so right on these same machines was nothing more than Docker and Azure data studio.

Honestly the only thing I’ve ever needed a Mac for is to compile stuff for iOS and I’ve been doing that for years already. Mostly because I just can’t stand the UX on macOS...like at all. So before Manjaro, I’d mostly stuck to Windows and virtual machines or Docker. But I had been trying desktop Linux on and off since the late 90s and this is the first time it ever stuck. I think it’s also because it’s not that hard to make cross platform apps anymore as it used to be when all you had was C++.
How I learned to stop worrying about incidents and love on-call
> Last excuse I saw was "we need to scan for subtitles". Yeah, right.

Yeah, that's not even a valid excuse! Once a user manually selects a file, the macOS sandbox also gives an app access to any "associated" files like subtitles, automatically:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

(search for "subtitle" on that page)
The biggest bargaining chip a renter has is the ability to leave. If the housing market is functioning correctly then renters should have the upper hand and these issues don't matter.

Nobody is "kicked" out because nobody has an intrinsic right to live in a particular neighborhood. Arguing such a thing is in complete opposition to a free market.
Atlassian’s Incident Management Handbook
Could you show me an example of modern feminists trying to suggest that consent can be withdrawn retroactively? I find your argument that people can now be credibly accused of rape because their partner misjudged their wealth to be unrealistic and in bad faith, and I have not seen any evidence for it.
Like the Lenovo Yoga Book?
More subtly, here's an example of a hidden race condition in JS:

async function totalSize(fol) {
const files = await fol.getFiles();
let totalSize = 0;
await Promise.all(files.map(async file => {
totalSize += await file.getSize();
}));
// totalSize is now way too small
return totalSize;
}
It's a small part of their article from the print edition posted online.

You seem to willfully feigning ignorance and splitting hairs all throughout this thread.
A poke at fighting games with game theory
Curious how Purism handles notifications..can it be as efficient (and hopefully scalable) as GCM/Firebase? Wish I knew more about the details, and would love a non-android phone (already use a KaiOS 1.0 Alcatel Flip) that has real, if even basic, functionality.
Dear Sweet Baby Jesus I want a thicker MacBook Pro that WORKS. I literally do not care about millimeter or two. I care very seriously about a quality keyboard I can type on.

My 2016 MBP is the worst Mac I’ve owned, and my first Mac was bought in 1989. And I don’t feel like I can upgrade because I’m unwilling to pay for more of the same crappy design. It’s embarrassing.
To this - surely this would be part of any psychological testing done to screen dispatchers for suitability, no?
GP stands for grandparent.

In case you need an explanation: in the context of a forum, the parent comment is the one you are replying to, and the grandparent comment is the one your parent comment replied to.
It actually started from "Kosher lines", special subscriptions provided by MNO, with intentionally limited service (blacklisting phone numbers for calls and text, as well as blacklisting websites).

Once teenagers started buying their own subscriptions, it was decided to move the blacklisting into the HW - hence the kosher phones.

Fun fact: since the Jewish orthodox community is relatively poor, yet a strong "buying force" due to their big number, they were able to negotiate very low rates with the MNOs. To prevent secular people from taking advantage of these rates, the Kosher Lines include big fines if used for incoming/outgoing call on Sabath...

For more info: the translated page from Wikipedoa - https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
I'd absolutely support a carbon tax to capture such externalities (which would increase the purchase and fuel costs for all cars, but proportionally less so for electrics), but I don't have the personal luxury of spending the additional money for electric car - I'd just drive my ICE car less.
On Controlled DeEntanglement for Natural Language Processing
Yep. Exactly why. Seems silly since it doesn’t really care for types in the first place.
Well, in practice you're presumably using a database, which has transactions in the API you're using.

But to answer your question, in functional programming (also frequently ReactJS, if you use libraries like Redux), you don't mutate the data structure. You create a new data structure based off the old one.

Am I misunderstanding your question? Just because you use an immutable data structure doesn't mean it can't be updated.
Things that are called Talos from a basic web search: 1) Cisco's security group, 2) an energy company, 3) an Elder Scrolls character, 4) a cryptocurrency, 5) a high school website, 6) some sort of data science thing, 7) body armor manufacturer, 8) a recurring Marvel Universe character, 9) a biochem program, 10) a secure IBM workstation, 11) a beer dispenser, 12) a Swiss management consulting firm, ...
Blowing through most MIT courses is quite an achievement. Can you share any ways to learn that have been particularly effective?
Book was in 2005. Simmons made a bet that oil would be $200/barrel in 2010 and lost (it was $80 in 2010).

It's almost 15 years ago now. Eventually the Saudis will run out, but this book failed in its prediction of imminent collapse.
> Can you sustain 750 MB/s? It’s not so easy in practice. You throw away tape capacity if you get buffer underruns.

The drive doesn't pause while the buffer fills again? Considering the price of the drives, I find it very surprising that they don't do that.
> "The only news is that Amazon is big enough to self administer it."

But now there's no protective layer between the employee, their personal data trail and the employer. I would suspect that for some diseases / consitions this situation is going to discourage employees to seek care.
An example of a deadlock that continues the bank balance analogy:

A transfer funds method that does:
1. Lock account A
2. Get balance and check
3. Lock account B
4. Debit account A
5. Credit account B

If the two accounts transfer to each other at the same time, you can get:
1. A->B: Lock account A
2. A->B: Get balance and check
3. B->A: Lock account B
4. B->A: Get balance and check
5. A->B: Lock account B -- deadlock

One solution is to always acquire locks in the same order and release all of them when you fail to obtain one. You can do this in the transfer example by sorting by account ID (so always lock A before B).
[Shameless Plug] A summary of the evergrowing NoSQL and NewSQL market: https://medium.com/open-factory/nosql-newsql-a-smorgasboard-...
Much like with Uber, I have no sympathy for the employees and in fact I would take a lot of convincing to hire anyone who had more than a short stint at either.
You aren't following.

Before that law if a worker saw a company that was unionized they had every right to not take that job. If the job decided to unionize while he/she was employed, that worker also had the right to leave. There is no "force" at play, at all, no matter what reason.com or breitbart tells you.

That lawsuit was about enabling free riders with the ultimate goal of kneecapping unions. Arguing otherwise is silly.
Unless I'm missing something, the principle you find objectionable is generally legal, widespread, and uncontroversial. In point of fact, the NSF requires grantees (and their scientists) to follow many requirements, and imposes penalties upon them without due process. Movie distributors force the same things on Netflix and their employees via partnership contracts. An umbrella organization like Boy Scouts imposes membership conduct requirements on its independent affiliates and their members.
I was following along OpenTechLab [0] as they tried to reverse engineer a real CPU used in HDMI repeaters. The instruction set was already partially reversed [1], but gaining code execution allowed a small stub to be written to infer more based on before & after register states.

[0] https://opentechlab.org.uk/

[1] https://github.com/v3l0c1r4pt0r/lkv-wiki/wiki/Instruction-Se...
They do on newer watches, like the Forerunner 945 (which I have). https://www.garmin.com/en-US/legal/idtermsofuse/
Last time I checked no job was mandatory in this country. If a job is unionized, don't take it.

Sounds pretty simple to me.
Apple making thin laptops was great, it moved us away from these giant thick things we had for so long. But this obsession with thinness is crazy now. They are chasing tooo thin.

I used to love my old Macbook Pro Retina, great keyboard, great laptop.

I'm on Lenovo's team now, it's keyboard is superior in everyway. I do miss the trackpad but I use the keyboard 99% of the time, and I like the nipple.
Did anyone ever figure out what Amazon Glacier uses? They only publicly talk about using custom software to "optimize the sequence of inputs and outputs"...[1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/
"A university is a business."

This is a massive false equivalence. For one thing, most of the "employees" in your metaphor are eighteen to twenty-two years old. Not to mention the fact that students are regularly put through the ringer and expelled on the first accusation. It's hardly akin to the "repeat offense" scenario you outlined in your first example. And comparing being expelled for an alleged sexual assault to being asked to leave a resort for rude behavior? Come on.

This is a different situation than anything you described. Universities have much more of a guardian and stewardship role than an employer, and rape is a fucking crime. It should be handled by the mechanism we've created to handle crimes, i.e. criminal courts of law.
Please no. I want the 2015 or earlier MBP keyboard back.
Been here ten years, and cycling to work is a nightmare. Between every shop owner spraying down the sidewalk with a chemical bath into the street. Then pigeons bathe in it and take flight when you pass. Ensuring you get wet. There are public restrooms everywhere. It's just nonsense to have to deal with. Almost all the banks have studded areas outside to prevent camping. It's been referred to as "celebration of bum culture."
So there is software on a medical device concerned with users copying a Billy Joel CD?
It'll be interesting to see where this goes. Vox Media has built up some really good brands and I'd hate to see this drag them down. Odd that they aren't folding related publications, as they're definitely going to have some competing internal publications until they do. Makes sense for the employees though, probably, to retain their own editorial style on each side of things
I could only find the first edition online sans $$$, but ISO 9241-4 Keyboard Requirements said “The key displacement shall be between 1.5 mm and 6.0 mm. The preferred key displacement should be between 2.0 mm and 6.0 mm.”
I don't think there's any formatting that is better than simply prepending quotes with a ">".

Formatting may improve such quotes that already begin with ">", but the problem is that people come up with their own inferior solutions instead of simply using ">". For example, some people try to use italics which are hard to see, hard to distinguish as quotes, and don't even render as italic on some of the HN native apps I've used.

If ">" was good enough for decades of email and usergroups, it's good enough for HN. No, your quotes in this one post doesn't need anything different or special.

What HN needs is a simple formatting-help blurb when writing a post to set people straight once and for all like reddit (or res?) had/has. The first line of it, if I wrote it, would be "Prepend > for quotes, prepend four spaces to format code."
Yeah, people think bike helmets are miracle devices like seat belts, and that it’s a moral failing not to use one, but they sadly don’t provide that much protection.
Of your account that plays with the aid of a chess engine and the one where you play unaided.
After a few weeks of diving into it, the point is that you can scale from tiny 1 pod, to huge enterprise Google-scale infrastructure.

But realistically, you don't need all that bullshit when you're a startup or even a large company making 7 figures.
They need to bring back the 2013 Mac Pro with upgraded silicon. The thing is a beast in a good tradeoff between portability and power.
“Windows has gotten good enough”

As someone who took a job using Windows after 4.5 years away from it, I completely disagree.

I hate windows with a passion, and it’s part of the reason I’m looking for a new job.

I’m not saying it’s not good enough for some, a lot of things in it still suck.
The wait for 1.1.1.1 with WARP is over
Maybe their goal is to eliminate mechanical keyboards, replaced with nothing more than textured glass. Have to train out an entire generation to get there.
Google wins privacy case: ‘Right to be forgotten’ applies only in EU
Tesla starts monitoring data use ahead of starting to charge for connectivity
I was interested in this when I saw it posted recently, but I don't have the money for it, so I'm definitely interested in getting into the beta. Where would I even get the code though? Twitter? Reddit?
I looked for something like this several months ago (before Apple announce the feature would be in iOS 13). All I could find was the original Swype keyboard, which I’d downloaded years before. It’s no longer available for download by new customers, and the competitors all require full keyboard access, by my research.
I wish these sales-type pages had a "click here if you're an engineer." The page would contain a buzzword-free, straightforward explanation of what the product's purpose is, what its major features are, and what interfaces are exposed for control and flow.

I have passed on countless products when evaluating solutions for having very flashy sales pages with no actual description of the product itself. "Improve your ROI! Decrease Downtime!" aren't features, per se, but potential benefits that can only be determined if the product is a fit, and I can only determine fit if I know that the hell it does.

/rant
> Is Tape worth it for a movie collection?

I doubt your movie collection is large enough that tape would be cheaper. A single tape has about ~50x the capacity of a Blu-ray Disc, but you need to buy a lot of tapes before the whole setup becomes cheaper than HDD.

> I don’t think I will see any benefits of the compression…

Ignore the compression, it’s garbage.

> …the prices seem comparable to just buying a 8TB HD…

By “comparable”… tape is clearly cheaper per byte when you compare prices, it’s just not so radically cheaper that it changes your life.
China's rideshare app identifies verified Communist Party drivers to customers
No, they stop, rewind, and accelerate again, causing massive mechanical wear.