skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i learnt not to trust wd passport drives.

I have a completely unusable 2tb drive at home that for some reason only gets detected by macbooks, not from windows or linux pcs.
You're making the same mistake. What did they use, spears? Can't you make spears from wood and stone?

I guess you must mean swords, but I feel that the subtext of your comments is humble-bragging how obvious these things are to you.

See my comment to your sibling comment by neuronic.
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If it's not open source how do I confirm that for myself?
"so things move a lot faster if you're not spending CPU on graphics."

Thats why most have a GPU and that is why there are graphic engines, who do the rendering only of what is needed and produced by the simulation. So no, unless DF uses the gpu for simulating which I doubt, better graphics will not really affect simulation speed, if done right.

But yes, that is much harder.
How to easily add sentiment analysis to any application
Distributed load balancing!
I don't understand why they use libc for functionality that's specific to each kernel. A standard C library only makes sense for the POSIX stuff everyone follows. Even then people run into incompatibilities in practice because of implementation-defined or undefined behavior or bugs that have to be maintained.

In my opinion, Linux is the only operating system that did it right. The system call binary interface is clearly documented¹ at the processor architecture² level so it can be used from any language. Since everything in user space is replaceable, people could actually get rid of C and rewrite everything in Rust (or anything else) if they wanted to.

¹ http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html

² http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html
Considering the few lines that are mentioned as libc devs turning down feature requests, maybe they've tried.
"Justen Noakes: So when did we start looking at the coronavirus? Probably the second week in January, when it started popping up in China as an issue. We’ve got interests in the global sourcing world, and we started getting reports on how it was impacting things in China, so we started watching it closely at that point. We decided to take a harder look at how to implement the plan we developed in 2009 into a tabletop exercise. On February 2, we dusted it off and compared the plan we had versus what we were seeing in China, and started working on step one pretty heavily."

Read the article. It is rage-inducing how much better a single grocer did than the federal government with all of its resources. January. Talking with counterparts in China. Executing on existing disaster plans (federal response had one, but ignored it https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-n...).
It all depends on your background in PDEs. I think the undergrad physics curriculum is pretty weak relative to some engineering disciplines here and Jackson is what really exposes this.

Coming from Nuclear Engineering I thought it was fine.
Not going to happen because of the virus. Could happen if the politicians don't remember to keep the economy functioning.
If anything, my experience is the opposite. If people slip into old habits they are reminded to keep a distance by the presence of a mask.
> I'd pretty much give up all my civil liberties

Okay, but you have not right to do the same to other people's civil liberties.
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Sure; the Ranto [0] explains why this is a poor way to build a language.

[0] http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/index.html
Probably born of thinking of housing as basically a manufactured somewhat disposable consumer good. Something like Levittown was probably not that far off.
>The per-capita rankings are very sensitive to small populations. I think these 9 should be considered outliers:

I agree.

Time will tell about the final rankings.

But, the US health-care system is far more robust and creative than many of these other systems.

Health-care COST is a legitimate debate. But, at the end of the day, when it comes to care, you are generally far better off in a US hospital than one of the others.

In any case, we shall see...
Nope. In fact, it would be good advertising for Star Wars.
Chaotic Terrains of Mercury: A History of Planetary Volatile Retention and Loss
The URL listed for "Repo activities" is identical to the one for "User activity", and seems to actually be for the latter: https://github.com/:user.atom
It's weird to see so many words that I already "know" from the Tokipona language just because I'm Finnish and lived a few years in Poland. The words in Tokipona have of course a "wider scope" in their meaning, but here's a few I spotted scrolling through a Tokipona dictionary [1]:

"Kala" is a fish both in Finnish and Tokipona, "nena" is a nose in Tokipona which is "nenä" in Finnish, "sina" (you) is "sinä" in Finnish, "nimi" (name) is the same in both languages, "noka" (leg) is "noga" in Polish, "ona" (she) is the same in Polish. There's more that I'm easily able to remember like "linja" (line in Finnish) which has a similar meaning in Tokipona, not to mention numbers like "wan" and "tu" and words like "mama" (mom) and "mani" (money) etc.

[1] http://tokipona.net/tp/janpije/dictionary.php
Yeah if you've ever used NFS you're well acquainted with this scenario lol
Actually this is exactly what fake news is, putting facts in different spotlight, and let people to reach wrong verdict: (also it is called propaganda)

Even when reading the article, author is going between two sides, but considering headline and sub-headline, it is obvious it is at least clickbait and biased.

- "Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account"
+ "This sort of data transfer is not uncommon, especially for Facebook; plenty of apps use Facebook's software development kits (SDK) as a means to implement features into their apps more easily, which also has the effect of sending information to Facebook."
+ "I think users can ultimately decide how they feel about Zoom and other apps sending beacons to Facebook, even if there is no direct evidence of sensitive data being shared in current versions,"

- "Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all."
- "That's shocking. There is nothing in the privacy policy that addresses that,"
+ Zoom's privacy policy says "our third-party service providers, and advertising partners (e.g., Google Ads and Google Analytics) automatically collect some information about you when you use our Products," but does not link this sort of activity to Facebook specifically.
Gini coefficient is a very blunt measure of inequality. You could have two countries, one with more equality, but a lower standard of living for the middle class and one country with higher inequality, but a much better standard of living for the middle class.

The 2nd (with higher inequality) is obviously preferred.
FYI, I liked the points you made. However, personal insults ruin discussion and lower the quality of the forum, so I downvoted this comment.

I can certainly relate to getting fired up at foolish comments on the internet! It's tough sometimes... heh. Cheers, I hope you have a good day.
It’s literally nothing more than a piece of firmware. WD is fairly aggressive about market segmentation, and firmware differences (or settings) are a big part of that.
What Are You Waiting For?
writing zeroes is absolutely future proof
At cruising speed the Concorde was as efficient as a commercial jetliner of the day. The issue was they had to be subsonic near land due to noise and in that mode of operation they were extremely inefficient.
When I disassembled one portable SSD, it was exactly that: ordinary SATA 2.5" drive inside enclosure with tiny adapter.
Physical distancing prohibits all non-essential travel, much of which would have happened by motor vehicle.
I think gok refers to the American (and others) ban on supersonic flight over land, which significant restricted the routes Concorde could fly.
I disagree, sometimes presence of something (even if free) can add more work for someone else.

For example imagine that you maintain a popular application, you start receiving issues that your application doesn't work with musl. You try to fix it, but musl doesn't provide a reliable way to detect itself. You try to submit a patch but it is rejected.

You absolutely have right to complain, lack of musl would prevent you from wasting time on making your application work with it.
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This also hurts my app (https://afinestart.me/) because the free, no-account-needed version stores users' bookmarks in localStorage (only the web version though, the extensions have their own, more persistent local storage).
It's a regular 2.5" hard drive, but the motherboard has a USB <> SATA bridge and some glue logic on it already, probably to save space or costs. [0]

There's no SATA connector so you can't salvage the drive or the enclosure. But there are SATA test points so you could wire it that way in theory. [1] [2]

Toshiba does the same, I found out the hard way after prying open one of them to salvage a hard drive for my PS4

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP4l_L81NKw

[1] https://forum.acelaboratory.com/download/file.php?id=999&mod...

[2] https://forum.acelaboratory.com/viewtopic.php?t=9174
So the goal would be that everybody is an "investor", but nobody works and produces any actual value?

That doesn't even pass the smell test, and is just an excuse for people to not seek justice, as is calling that "moaning".
A while ago, I was using Lua as a scripting language for my games but wanted something between Lisp and Python, a language which would run on a VM to be able to export only the bytecode, and to be able to code in a lisp like syntax.

And ArkScript was born. I wanted to keep it tiny, under a megabyte, with a few keywords to do everything.

I think I can say I achieve what I wanted to do, now we are working with a small team to improve the code, the documentation, and the standard library. The language is indeed small and fast (even if we can do better, and I'm still seeking for more speed), with immutability (with 'let'), and closures (note that we can read the data captured by a closure easily, as a small object, through for notation: object.field).
When you talk to disks via smartctl, the tool reports the specification versions they support. There's a ATA Version and SATA Version field for SATA disks. I was unable to get details on a SAS disk, but it was identified as a SAS drive successfully.

These standards probably define mandatory and optional commands to certify disks as compatible with these specs IMHO.

If the command is optional, then it's OK, but if it's not, then there's some bug fix what WD shall make.
Previous article about how Waffle House handles supply chain issues in the face of disasters. It's practices are so good, the federal government uses the Waffle House Index to help gauge impact of disasters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105662

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
I deployed a VPN+PiHole on a micro ec2 instance for use from my iOS devices. Works great. First i installed pihole and configured, then used this https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup to setup the vpn. Took about 30 mins. Works great!
Pairs well with a USB barcode scanner.
Have you ever tried dd'ing fom it? It is slooooow.
Can you say a little more about SJG? I've heard the name and been meaning to read something of his, but never got around to it. Would appreciate a good rec!
> What if the entire piece of media is really short and 10 seconds is most or all of it?

If the creator cared, he'd make it longer. Seriously, why should a 5 second movie be worthy of major copyright protection?

For example, if I wrote a 100 line computer program, should that be worthy of copyright protection. I'd say "no".

A creator of a 10-second movie should consider it advertising for his skills, and hope and pray people copy it and use it all over the place.

I've also made my code Boost licensed, which is equivalent to "no copyright protection". If people use it for whatever, I figure it's great advertising for my (very expensive) consulting rates.
Why Don't Microcontroller Manufacturers Fix Silicon Bugs?
Have a look at data: URI technique we developed to avoid Apple/App Store altogether for critical apps:

https://coins.github.io/secure-bookmark/
The fundamental point (r>g) is irrefutable.

It may be possible to claim that inequality does not matter. In the absence of poverty that may be possible, but when the richest country in the world (USA) has a health system that leas out ~20% of the population and one of the poorest (Cuba) has a gold plated health system, that is a hard claim to make.
> "[the Labor Theory of Value is] an idea long since thoroughly discredited."

that's quite a claim to make without any backing ("everything is nothing" is not particularly useful).

i've read some of the main critiques [0], but none thoroughly discredits it. yes, the critiques show flaws, but not fatal ones.

so what's the fatal flaw?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_the_labour_theor...
Not writing the data in the first place is future proof.
I know, I've studied it. But I gave up because no one else cared to learn it with me.
> After looking into folders, I found some interesting files. I won’t go through them here but I want to mention just one of them: [$ cat etc/ssh/authorized_keys]. Maybe an engineer from Huawei (I assume z00163152@HUAWEI-627FB9A3) who owns a specific DSS key, can connect all HG253s routers without needing a password, who knows?

Who knows indeed?!
I'm trying to remember why, but the JVM backtracks for a couple of different scenarios.

wasm can still lazily load code, right? "Static" in that situation is a little fuzzy. You can't make wholesale changes to the types already loaded, no, but the behavior out at the leaf-nodes can be altered by a new leaf showing up.

Some assumption or inlined conditional may be wrong or simply ill-advised once new code arrives.
I think this one is even-handed and generally well-regarded:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/06/24/book-review-capital-in...
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> It's not the packaging that is wrong, it's the product concept.

Only if the article is blatantly lying about it tasting the same.
medicare part d doesn't allow the government to negotiate prices

The gov't can't negotiate prices, but the private insurers who manage Part D plans absolutely can.
I was using diff eqs in mechanics a semester before taking Diff EQ, and this was following the standard course.

In my experience, learning them through the lens of physics (which I had a more intrinsic understanding of) actually helped.
Well there's that moment of panic where you aren't sure if it's a group of goblins or goats.
Can we please stop it with these mystery meat titles?
Normal or abnormal it's worth thinking about about the conditions that make it arise and how to support that condition of more widely shared prosperity - otherwise I think we get stuck in a local optimization peak or worse imho.
SCSI standard only mandates WRITE SAME command support for host managed zoned block devices, so unless the drive reports as one it is within spec.
Its really hard to go back and look objectively too. The movie Philadelphia is now really hard to watch because of the aggressive homophobia, and yet that is how most of the US felt about gay people at the time. It almost seems unrealistic in how blatant and evil it was - yet nobody watching it at the time would have felt that way since those sorts of conversations were happening in bars and workplaces everywhere.
There’s a compiled etymology list here, for those interested.

http://ucteam.ru/toki-pona/
The (potential) security issue is that the operating system fails to clear disk space, possibly incorrectly assuming it has actually been cleared.
Apart from under-sizing, there are other issues with fake SD cards too. For e.g. with a crappy controller, you can lose data on the sd card during powerouts, or because it reported that the write was successful when it hasn't finished writing, or it can have silent corruption over its lifetime, etc, etc.
If those companies go under they take a lot of jobs with them. It seems more efficient to prop them up instead of making direct payments to the employees who would have lots their jobs.

Especially since a lot of the companies are only asking for loans, not handouts.
Your blog has been a really exciting corner of the internet for me the past couple months. Thank you, big fan, keep doin what you're doin.
I think this is a false choice.

As Bill gates said, we can't say- "Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner. We want you to keep spending because there’s maybe a politician who thinks GDP growth is all that counts"

The truth is that it seems our choice is relatively simple:

1) Allow the virus to spread rapidly, overload the health system, kill many people, until herd immunity is reached.

2)Do partial shut down measures, some partial efforts at testing and contact tracing, let the virus continue for a long time, and more slowly reach option 1.

3)Do strong shut down measures until the virus is able to be controlled by a strong testing+contact tracing regime.

Iran (seems to have?) chosen option 1.

Italy started with option 2, and will hopefully move into option 3.

Option 3 is the only acceptable option that doesn't destroy the economy and health systems.

Unchecked, 10 cases of this virus will turn into 100s of thousands. That is the same with 10 cases in March, or 10 cases in May or 10 cases in any month.
When a Pandemic strikes, it is to be viewed like a war time event. Many people are going to be losing jobs - and there will likely be a recession later, which is slow and painful.

However, this is the time to unite, and to stay together and work solutions out. Essential supplies like food and medicines have always been a priority of the Indian government traditionally, and here's the other half of the picture: https://www.wsj.com/articles/india-to-spend-22-5-billion-to-...

I would advise people to do their research than feed into BBC's opinions masked as news.
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COVID-19 is like packing a year’s worth of risk into a week or two
Some, if not most, USB2 to SATA/SAS bridges also allows passing these commands. smartctl can talk with most of the bridges to pass-thru commands, at least for SMART purposes.

Seagate's 3.5" Backup Plus Hub drives mask the disk itself intentionally to show itself as a different, generic Seagate device, probably to prevent people from messing with the disk settings and identifying the disk itself.
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Yeah, I rotated my 34" monitor and nothing changed. ;-)

It's just some stats by country (for COVID-19 infected/deaths), with a bit of animation over time. The rotation seems totally unnecessary.
Yes, the frame rate seems to cap out at ~15-20 fps, and captured images really don't play well with Discord in most cases. I usually open then re-export with Gimp when posting to Discord, which isn't a great workflow.
This is why I'm not a C++ programmer, whenever I look at C++ I am amazed by how complex it is.
I'm a bigger fan of Dr Birx.
> Open borders is anti-capitalist because it allows labor to move with the same liberty as capital, so it can help reduce the ability of capitalists to find deals.

Except like so much with socialism, the reality and the hypothetical are in stark contrast. You are arguing that in theory, open borders allow for laborers to take their value to wherever it will benefit them the most. But in reality, it not particularly easy for an individual to pick up and move their entire lives, especially when we are talking about distances on the scale of international travel. So the workers who are willing to move end up being those with the least to lose, meaning those who do end up moving are those willing to settle for less.

Say Mexico and the US opened their borders tomorrow. Do you see American laborers taking their skills to Mexico en masse? Or do you see Mexican laborers taking their skills en masse to America? How do you think the value of an American laborer is affected when the labor market gets flooded with supply, many of whom will likely be willing to work for less than their American counterparts?
why do we need to JIT the munmap code? Can we not just call munmap(2)
My graduate E&M course was actually taught out of Schwinger, which I thought was quite nice. I would never recommend it as a first run through E&M.

Jackson's problems are more technically difficult than, say, Purcell's, but how much of that difficulty actually helps with understanding E&M?
> wonder if educated elites being merely oblivious or totally asshole about working class concerns.

I lean to "oblivious" argument. People inherently see things through their own experience.

Back in the 80s I took some classes that tried to break through the bubble (especially funny that it was MIT where I like to joke "if you don't arrive arrogant they'll beat it into you").* This was just before the CMC machine tools arrived so we were working on WWII surplus Bridgeport mills and the like. And we were sent down (literally in the basement of building 35 IIRC) to work on them under the supervision of the folks in blue who were all polite but also unstinting in their criticism (in my case -- I deserved it!). After a few sessions of this, in lecture we were reminded that "you'll be up in the air conditioned design shop sending prints down for these guys to build. They may only have a high education but they are at lest as smart as you guys, often smarter. If you send something stupid to them you'll hear about it". It was a good lesson.

* This is actually an exaggeration: in my experience nice people continued to be nice. But MIT does have quite a few jerks, not all of them intentionally so.
That's been my experience as well. People call it different things. I have met some that are down right religious about the name and chide you for not using their term, but in the end it is the same thing.

I have had people try to explain to me how they are different, but when you remove all their BS, it is the same thing.
That's correct, thanks for the clarification :)
EDIT: I fucked up an edit and can not re-edit. the quote is supposed to be.

> Just the other day a crowd lined up down the block in front of a video game store to grab a copy of a newly released game which was available to download

I was trying to update the satellite internet part of my comment to say that downloading a large game can cripple their connection for the duration of the game download. I blame my cat (Nope. my bad :-p)
Nobody should be making 76k a month when millions of hard working Americans are barely making 1k a month /s
Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/IFWOU
Yelp autogenerated GoFundMe campaigns for some businesses without consent
I did the same but with JabRef, it's a great and simple piece of battle tested software. Highly recommend it.
A healthy and growing economy with low unemployment is a boon to the poor, sick, and alcoholic. The entire purpose of pursuing a healthy economy is that improves the quality of life for the citizens. Continuing to hold this position now is not hypocritical.

There is always a tradeoff.

The virus will kill X and reduce the quality of life for Y people. The economic disruption will kill Z people and reduce the quality of life for Z2.
Controlling arguments without shell often still leads to RCE though, because a lot of software has some flag that runs some command

https://0x90909090.blogspot.com/2015/07/no-one-expect-comman...
Warby/Harrys/Allbirds founders back Yaguara
Does anybody sell standalone SLC drives these days? I was bummed when Intel stopped selling theirs several years ago.
Seeing that libc is undoubtedly already loaded in memory as a dynamic lib on all systems, that doesn't make much sense. Moreover kdb+/q links to libc, and it has very good performance and memory usage.