skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is mentioned somewhere in the article, I haven't read the whole thing, but its important to elaborate: SMR is only in-place on WD Red drives between 2TB-6TB [1]. Everything smaller and larger than that uses CMR, and SMR isn't used on any other 3.5" drives beyond their budget "blue" drives. This is now cross-elaborated on their Amazon (US) istings; their 2TB-6TB Red drives are in a totally different product listing [2] which says "SMR" in the title (versus their CMR drives [3])

I don't like that they hid it. If they want to keep SMR around for their 2-6TB Red variants, I think they should reclassify those drives with another "color" and not certify them for server applications (WD Pink?)

[1] https://blog.westerndigital.com/wd-red-nas-drives/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Red-4TB-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B07MYL...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Red-12TB-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B07RQ...
I see it this way:

As a manager you are responsible for your department those responsibilities dont magically poof away because your on vacation. If you have successfully set up your team/department in a way that you can "go dark" for your time off (e.g. no need of your knowledge, and proper key teammates can step in for you to interface with other teams/departments) then great, otherwise you should expect backlash if something goes wrong.
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Hello,

last week, I create a tool for macOS/iOS/watchOS/iPadOS/omgOS developers who use Xcode for better productivity. This is made for touchbar users who want to improve their workflow and use shortcuts they were not able to find as well as get to know some shortcuts they do not know about. Thank you for all feedback and maybe your support :)
See also Black Swans. If you call out 200 possible Black Swan events, and 1 comes true, people will call you a genius and ignore the 199 that didn't happen.
Just the admin taking snapshots in case he has to roll back ;)
Apple bull suggests DuckDuckGo purchase
It keeps the community healthy though, and you still get to consume high signal content.
I think it's probably a strength of science that at any one time there's at least one person yelling about the dangerous of any possible event. It's also a strength that, as in the case of the LHC, the people who were shouting "this will cause a black hole" were drowned about by the ones who were being more realistic.
It's definitely a nice feeling to call everything you don't understand a waste of time.
If you build a tool for coders, you will most likely find coders who are willing to help. And if you build an (open source) tool for graphics, you will have no problem finding designers who are willing to help for free (speaking from experience).
I tried python data science and got mostly advertising for training courses. How do you pull the content? List of sites?
The article briefly mentions the reason for this: Kanji. English has 26 letters which are all fairly distinct from each other even when written by a chicken on LSD.

Japanese has on the order of ~2,000 characters you need to know just to graduate high school, plus thousands more to read newspapers and advanced literature, and more still for names, places, and so on. Memorizing the stroke order isn't as important as some instructors make it out to be, but it can matter when trying to decipher hand-written Japanese and serves as an additional clue as to which maybe 10 ambiguous possiblities the writer was going for in a particular character.

Extending it to English seems kind of silly to us, but if the students are already taught about stroke order, and use it as a tool for memorization in their native language, it makes some sense to apply the concept to English.
It seems that SHARD is a term used already in 1988, meaning "System for Highly Available Replicated Data"

Source: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14914487445955020...
No I think in Japan they do it just to keep consistency with stroke order requirements for their other writing systems. They don’t want exceptions.
The Magical Container_of() Macro
Not unusual but a little interesting that your boss is explicitly asking that you be available during holiday. And I don't think it's unreasonable for them to ask.

If I were you, I would see if you can work something out with your boss that's agreeable to both of you. Maybe it's fine just to glance at the emails for 5 or 10 minutes in the whenever time window is convenient, with no expectation of action until you actually are back to work. If that's no good enough (i.e. they want you explicitly looking at your emails for a set window) then try to see if there's some other form of acceptable recompense in exchange for you to be working on holiday, for example extra pay to compensate for the fact that your giving up some vacation time to do work.
30 is young, you'll be fine.

The tricky part (for me at least) is the memorization. After 20 years of working in a field where I can look up everything I need to know, suddenly I had to commit thousands of data points to memory to pass a test (then promptly forget the data afterwards). It's an archaic system.

Anyway you'll have to find a way to memorize and regurgitate. If you can do that, the rest is just common sense.
DuckDuckGo was down
DuckDuckGo isn't returning search results?
Here's an acquaintance of mine playing with a musical Tesla coil and a propane blowtorch:

https://youtu.be/M91AYp3_x5k?t=122

He also has some small tabletop-sized coils that are really neat:

https://youtu.be/li3rGKFfQ1A?t=18

And here's the Ghostbusters theme at one of their performances while spectators are standing inside the cage:

https://youtu.be/bTkjgBRiCsE?t=2198
Only advantage over freenode I see: some archive/search (usually not good)
Whales play a crucial part in natural iron fertilization of oceans, because they go deep underwater to eat a large amount of krill, which are iron-rich, and deject near the surface, because they need to breathe. Their dejections fertilize the phytoplankton which lives near the surface. Because they need to move between deep and shallow water, and because they travel over large distances, whales act as nutrient pumps for the ecosystem.
Doesn't change my point.

Running 64 threads on the intel cpus is slowing them down vs running the number of real cpus they have.

and as i said, since they limited the test to 64 threads even thou one of the cpus has more then 64 vcpus, ("to be fair to the arm processor") the moment they saw the final graph, they should have done the same thing in reverse, to be fair to the intel processor. Otherwise it just reeks of selective methodology application.

Of course, as you said, the real answer is they should not have limited the test to 64 threads. that doesn't match real workloads where the number of threads would be set to the number of cpus or vcpus.

Instead they should have done single threaded, tests with both processors maxed out at max(intel vcpu, arm vcpu) threads on both, as well as one where they set each to their respective max, as well as repeat with the real cpus number.
I think the time for sitting around singing kumbaya has passed. It's time to start acting, because if we don't this planet is fucked.
Yes, no one is perfect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCdrFYm5b8
Under-the-hood of test runners (e.g. Mocha)- Fundamentals found in a test runner
So it's not bad because the US is doing it too? Or, maybe, the US doesn't respect the privacy of its residents either.

Taiwan started taking action before the first case had even been reported. And yes, they do deserve credit for that.

Sweden's response was also effective, given that the virus had already spread widely across Europe by the time the politicians woke up. There is some variation in the way cases/deaths are tracked between countries, but when you look at All Cause Mortality it's clear that Sweden is right in the middle of the pack, and they accomplished that without the massive externalities (both human and financial) of a lockdown. That's a success, but yes, Europe should have responded aggressively in Dec as Taiwan did.
Totally unacceptable ask in my opinion, for reasons many people have touched on. I would also add that even from the company's point of view, it's a bad deal to ask you to work. The peace of mind you get from taking an unplugged vacation, and also from knowing that your company wants you to fully enjoy that vacation, is going to make you happier and more productive when you return to work. It's going to make you trust your company and think that they have your back as a human being. In the end this is going to be worth infinitely more than the two or three emails you would be expected to answer that week.
Thank you. We've updated the website. It's a simple landing page now, and I hope it works better now.
The article mentions power by wave energy. I could not tell from the article if this is real or hypothetical. It sounds like a good idea but I have not heard anything about this. That is a constant source of naturally occurring kinetic energy. I did find the following on Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power

As a Texan I heard a lot about potentially tapping wind energy from floating turbines off the Galveston coast but have not heard about this in practice while the wind farms in west Texas are exploding in volume.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Texas
No. But I would like it if, for national infrastructure projects the UK would be a bit more assertive. China's approach is too far the other way.

And being able to build hundreds of miles of high speed lines for single-digit billions of pounds/dollars tells you everything about wages, and compensation for home owners on the route.
I'm sorry that you've been trained to think this way by current corporate culture, but this is not okay and it has nothing to do with choosing to swallow the manager pill or not or whatever that was supposed to mean.

People should be allowed to have a vacation. Full stop. No conditions.

It is a strength to want W/L separation, not a weakness.
That is maybe the most informative one-word comment I have ever seen. Thanks.
A Single Div: open your web inspector
For Japanese characters, stroke order definitely affects how easy it is to draw a correct-looking character, so it makes sense to be picky about it.

But for English, it simply doesn't matter as much. It's not like they use the same kind of drawing input to look up words in an English dictionary, either.
Hey tsomctl, sorry for the inconvenience. We've updated the website. Removed the autoplay. I hope it works better now.
FWIW I think that unless the value is immediately obvious without experiencing it directly a demo is helpful but ultimately inadequate. I think you'd want something like the Reddit onboarding model, where you can use the service anonymously to an extent but eventually are compelled to create an account for some other value-add that it turns out you really want on top of the thing you were using anonymously. For Reddit that's things like being able to comment/post (or collect karma I guess) or being able to personalize the content by including or excluding specific subreddits from your "feed".

In your case maybe that's something like you can view other people's (anonymized) nano-news feeds, or feeds on specific topic you know to be popular, but you need to create an account to create a custom feed or more convieninetly aggregate feeds or whatever.

I don't really know where you are trying to go with this though, and you've thought about it more than I have, so maybe I'm missing the point. But that's what I think I would do.
Connecting Native Android APIs to Emacs
Stroke order is an important part of writing in Japanese culture, with conventions. They aren't random. It is reasonable to a come up with a similar stroke ordering system for learning other languages in Japan. Calling them silly and pulled out of her ass is dismissive to the Japanese culture, the teacher, or the students.
The reasons behind this type of planning are interesting, but I wouldn't read too much into them. I've sat in on this type of wargaming before, and generally the workflow is as follows:

Military think-tank identifies a situation for which where there is no modern war plan, a situation which could possibly happen if global circumstances change.

Think-tank writes up a detailed notional scenario describing the world in which that situation could occur and hands it off to military leaders.

Military leaders present it as a war game to their staff, assign different units to different sides.

Military staff proceeds to generate plans to win their side of the 'war', possibly executing maneuvers in mock battles or training events, and write up lessons learned and battle tactics and strategies.

These write ups are compiled into "war plans" and codified.
Bamber doesn't mention anything at all regarding Kit's ex-girlfriend leaking it. It reads more like social engineering by the guy, Ken-somebody, who digs it up.
Came here to see if I was crazy. Should be an interesting post-mortem, I wonder if someone dropped the production database...
I might. Certainly, I’d love to see what you did... sounds fun!
I wonder if they have a status page?
I see where you're coming from.

My use case is this: as a data scientist, I start new code bases all the time. Each project, simple experiment, data analysis, etc. needs its own cleanly separated dependency environment so I don't end up in dependency hell (I have 12 conda environments on my machine right now). Conda allows me to handle these environments with ease (one tool and a handful of commands -> as detailed in the article). With conda, I also have my data science Python cleanly separated from my system Python.

Of course there are other tools that can handle this use case. But pip alone won't do the trick. I don't like to have three separate tools for this (pip + venv + pyenv).

When I put something into production, I naturally want to keep using my conda environment.yml and have the same environment in dev and prod instead of switching to pip + requirements.txt, which might introduce inconsistencies.
Wow, they must be having a pretty bad morning
What I can answer is my plan once I achieve what you have: spend half my time contributing to open source projects and the other half writing fiction.
Double donations to racial justice organizations
all the more reason for me to be terrified about some of my comments and commit messages... lol
wow, they are third in search engine usage, not sure whats going on!

[EDIT] removed the metrics due to downvotes! check below for traffic information and how much is lost..
Heh, I tend to use HN comments as inspiration for writing blog posts. This one's now at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2020-06-08-haskell_strings.html
Why would anyone do that? I don't see neither a gameplay advantage for doing that, nor a technological one. Is there any applications that could take advantage of that which I am missing?
My thinkpad runs Linux and everything works exactly as intended.
Right :D.

Sorry for the inconvenience. We've updated the website. Removed the autoplay, scroll should work fine now. I hope it works better now.
I've seen business owners of startups picking specific days to communicate like every Wednesday during a holiday. If you're worried about checking your mail all of the time you just as well could've kept working.

It's your decision ultimately but if it was a nice company otherwise and I could check in only once per week or in case of a "the house is on fire" emergency I probably would accept it.

Also make sure the days they ask you to check in are not counted as days off.
>I think that's a metaphor

Maybe we could consider it purely metaphorical, if there hadn't been a rash of arsons across the US in recent weeks.
There used to be rules for the hand you write with, too. Left-handed writing was forbidden, and didn’t work well, anyways when using a dip pen that wasn’t specially designed for left-handed use.

I think the Japanese obsession with stroke order has its roots in writing with brushes and slower-drying ink. If you use them, stroke order will affect what letters look like more than when using ballpoint pens.
It's now at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2020-06-08-haskell_strings.html
Even the conversion magic doesn't work (eg "1cm in inches") which one would assume is a separate system
All I know is that I would not want to be the one who had last committed to production.
I looked at status.duck.com or status.ddg.com and both timed out so if they do, it's not there.
Where to Blog
Recipe results are still coming through
sorry, I was referring to coup-watching the US.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23412986

I'm seeing military and a majority of the media as not being with the White House on "dominating the battlespace". Am I missing other power centers? (I think the Fed would prefer to see some emphasis on addressing the pandemic)
Seems like other type of searches (images) still work.
As well as bangs, which give a different error saying to email ops@duckduckgo.com.
Can confirm, from Switzerland.

I was quite confused why my query for a well-known brand name was returning nothing. Bang queries still work.
I'm thinking AI...
+1 for Bulma. I usually do custom design for anything customer facing. But I've been very happy with Bulma for a couple of internal dashboards where design wasn't important.
Econometrics Should Always and Everywhere Be Bayesian [pdf]
The "no clear goals" part makes it really hard to satisfy the rebels to the point that they stop the rebellion, too.
Roads for Success Navigating Docs: a year of learnings working on docs at Gatsby
Without items being registered on the blockchain, there is no way to know how rare or common something actually is, so there is no way to accurately price it. So everything from weapons and armor to gold, ore, reagents, crafting supplies, furniture, housing, etc. Without items being registered on a blockchain, sure you can have gamers throwing down $20 bucks here and there, but you're never going to have university endowments and state pension funds allocating some of their investments into virtual items.
People "vacation" in radically different ways.

For some people, a vacation is just spending all week at home playing video games. Others will just sped time at a B&B or visit family. For them, checking email is not a big deal.

Other people are way more active and want to go camping, surfing or something else that gets them away from their phone/laptop. For these people, checking email is unreasonable because it interferes with their plans.

The two types of people cannot understand the other side. One of them thinks "Why can't you spare a little time in between checking Facebook and Twitter to check your email?" The other side thinks "Who wastes a perfectly good vacation by spending any time on Facebook and/or Twitter?"
Has this ever happened with another large search engine?
My side project is a blog and I use social media and SEO mostly. I also share my content to relevant groups (ie Facebook groups, Linkedin groups) and forums. I did some paid ads too, mostly od Facebook, but invested very little money so it didn't bring much traffic.
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Have a nice day
If true, that would be logical and fair.
Tesla battery supplier Catl says new design has one million-mile lifespan
Interestingly it looks like image search is still working though
Image search still works for me. Odd.

Edit: strike that, only for some entries. Must be some cache?
What a tough time for the devs. Troubleshooting at such a scale must be a nightmare
They're back. So that lasted about 4 minutes..
Possible Problems at Robinhood
People are saying this is normal. Normal doesn't make it right.

I would check what the local laws for you are regarding this, but I would personally say "no". Work with your team to make sure they know exactly what they need to work on and clear the path of anything that may get in their way, then go enjoy your vacation.
A lot of people notice my "incorrect" writing style if they watch me (even for a moment). I start my O's from the bottom and go clockwise for example, among other differences for many other letters. I was definitely taught how I should be doing it, but my brain just wanted to do it a different way. I got some bad marks on some writing tests, but once that part of school was over, I was left alone for the most part.
There was a great article (link on HN?) about check cashing and payday loan companies in NY. Many people who for whatever reason don't have a bank accounts so they use check cashing places as a bank to cash a check.
No it’s not, it makes perfect sense for Chinese based scripts. And it works, look at their literacy rate.
I dont think Ruby would ever be able to compete in that space. Even Hashicorp, the company that was born out of vagrant left Ruby and Chose Go.

I am thinking someday Crystal post 1.0 would be able to put up a fight in that space.
I usually post on my social channels, as well as on reddit and Hacker News to try and get some momentum.
Most answers are about backend/infra etc but i'm going with client side apps and especially Flutter(Dart) + Android Studio. In 30 minutes, tops you have a production-ready environment to develop mobile (and soon web) apps.

- flutter doctor: checks your Flutter installation and shows missing platform dependencies, if any.

- Dart is a very nice statically typed language with a decent standard library.

- Flutter has A LOT of prebuild components for almost everything you need and makes it easy for you to build your own by composing existing ones.

- Built-in code formatting tool (dartfmt) and testing framework

- flutter.dev has everything you need to know in one place.

- pub.dev is a central place for all packages. dartdoc generates beautiful API reference pages for all packages on pub.dev and you can use it on your own packages as well.

- It works on all devices, all android 4.1.x or newer and iPhone.

I think it's the best tool if you want quickly build a nice looking user interface.
If you are so critical to the company's operations, then can you deduct 3 hrs every week from the PTO you are taking? ie, if you are taking off 40 hours, then only log 37 hours PTO taken, because you're expected to work 3 hrs a week? Not ideal, but at least you will preserve your hard-earned PTO?
Vue Js ( https://vuejs.org/ )
Fast, reliable, and good attention to detail.
Amazing execution by Evan (https://twitter.com/youyuxi)
Still broken for me.
where did you get this number from?
It still works if you're hungry: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=food&ia=recipes
DRY vs. Damp in Unit Tests
So get involved in something. Demonstrate, join a local activist group, volunteer, vote, change your lifestyle drastically. Pointing fingers over the internet isn't helpful.
You can't actually use the visa to actually come or go. So at best it's a form of tax avoidance.
The Latin alphabet does have historical developmental stroke directions, not by rules but by what's natural and possible using the historical Euro writing tool — a broad-cut reed or quill pen. In this sense the Japanese stroke order for Latin letters is wrong; you can't push a reed pen to write an ‘O’ that way.