skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read somewhere recently (might have been here, I don’t recall for sure), that one of the problems with the recommendations from Backblaze is that the drives change constantly and there can be variations over time in manufacturing. You could buy something today that has the same model number as what Backblaze bought 6-12 months ago, and it’s not really the same drive.

They’re still my preferred resource for this, but it’s not without its caveats.
These are mostly false analogies.

I don’t know enough about Architecture to point out the fundamentals that you should be making parallels to.

For novels, typesetting is an incredible false analogy. You need to learn how to communicate via writing on a technical level before you can write creatively (e.g stories).

Back to the shot at agile, I would not expect anyone that never dealt with deadlines or technical scoping to manage timelines for either of those things.

If someone doesn’t even know how to write a game loop, they are going to move on to game design?

If you look at a movie, some
of your bad screenplay writing can be fixed via casting. Imagine not having any hands on experience with the process, but alas, you move on to movie director because you took movie directing 101. It’s insane, design is a holistic process that requires a lot of exposure.
This has 200 comments while the unveiling of the first working prototype of neuralink got a grand total of 15 upvotes. Hackernews has officially flatlined.
people have been working in offices for a few decades. Before that they worked in factories, before that they worked at home, either in the field, or in the shop in front of their house (roman times).

Whether it's permanent or not depends on how much energy has been expended to switch habits. Once people settle in a new routine, there are some benefits of remote work that are simply irresistible and probably irreversible (such as taking back control of time).
> you would need much more SATA ports on a machine

Why? There are 16TB SSDs u.2 SSDs on the market. That is comparable to top-of-the-line hard drives in terms of bytes per port and much, much better in terms of bytes per volume.
But then you need the datacenter operator to use the same generic drives you would. Backblaze is the only one who publishes results for the drives they have, which are more or less close to what a prosumer would pursue.
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You have no legal business relationship with a service you've signed up for with no exchange of funds.

Yeah, no. Peace out dude, I'm done here.
No, my suggestion is that there are no blockers for doing things right.

I suspect you are under the impression that work hours are standardized.

Nurseries don't open aligned with people's work hours, and people have to show up late and leave early as a result already. People have commutes and might also need to drive far to reach nurseries. Night shifts exist, and bakery employees show up at 5:30 AM to prepare for opening at 6AM, as the bakers go home after having baked during the night. The world isn't 9-5.

Indeed, maybe you'll be pushed out of the lucky zone temporarily by such a change, where others get pushed in. Work hours are organic, and nurseries follow suit. This is true regardless of the choice of hours, so pick the one without hacks.
Subtract the $15,000 fuel deposit for the Mirai. The price will come down at scale.
But it allows downloading and executing interpreted code. See paragraph 3.3.2 of Apple Developer Program License Agreement.

So you can have significant portion of your app in say javascript, which you can update OTA.

E.g. react native apps have most of their functionality in js and can use services like code push to update themselves without app store and it doesn't violate Apple ToS.
You can't post like this here. Please read the site guidelines and stick to the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

Lots of further explanation at
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
As a user, I hate it when a program tells me I need to press “retry”! You’re the computer, you retry, and keep trying until I ask you to stop.
They have this famous one - http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf
(https://dev.to/xowap/10-rules-to-code-like-nasa-applied-to-i...)
E-mail is a hard problem to solve, and I'm honestly really glad I do not have to manage it day-to-day myself.
Do apple pay 30% tax in any country? No they go out of their way not to pay 30%. So why should developers pay 30% to apple?
I find it very hard to browse all these comparison sites. For example i need a very simple question: whats the very best SSD i can buy 1TB for under or near $500. So much confusion, especially Samsung with all the EVO and PRO and numbers and whatever models sheesh.
I've been a paying customer for years on their shared server plan ($15/mo) and I've had terrible customer service and lots of emails marked as spam (e.g. to my Mom) due to a bad reputation of the shared box. I haven't migrated out of laziness and inertia.

This article and the fact that other comments mention that SendGrid is seen as spammy is the final straw and I'm going to migrate. What paid email senders do people recommend that aren't excessively marked as spammy by gmail, etc.?
You totally missed the point. You need more land for renewable. It won't be the rainforest now. But it will be something else.
>Go, Rust, and Zig make it impossible to interrupt most blocking syscalls, because they automatically retry on EINTR.

This is not true of Rust. Some of the convenience wrappers (std::io::Read::read_exact, etc) on top of the basic primitives (std::io::Read::read, etc) do retry for you (and explicitly document it), but not "Rust" as a whole. The primitives map one-to-one to calls of read/write/sendto/recvfrom and bubble up ErrorKind::Interrupted to the caller just fine.
I suspect this 9->5 is more 'by convention' than an actual fact?
For me, I am not that productive before lunch and have to push myself, but on the other hand I can easily be productive in the afternoon and evening.
Bay area employees have a strong incentive to return to the office, since a major shift in location of their companies will lead to a major shift in their compensation, fast. It's likely that the rest of the world , cash starved, will move faster to embrace remote. Inevitably it seems in the medium term even bay area will be dragged along.
If we can read your mind, we don't need to ask you to do anything, we will just read all your passwords and do everything ourselves.
If they don't say it's good, and they know deep down it's not good, in what sense do they support it? Again, I'd be interested to read up on it if you have examples in mind, but every "free market capitalism" person I'm familiar with agrees it'd be great if everyone had electricity and nobody was homeless.
You can probably do the same things with both, but Flutter is more geared toward applications, where Dear ImGui is more about putting GUIs in places where the GUI is secondary, such as games, creative tools and other graphic-heavy apps.

Here's what Dear ImGui's readme [1] says:

> Dear ImGui is designed to enable fast iterations and to empower programmers to create content creation tools and visualization / debug tools (as opposed to UI for the average end-user). It favors simplicity and productivity toward this goal, and lacks certain features normally found in more high-level libraries.

> Dear ImGui is particularly suited to integration in games engine (for tooling), real-time 3D applications, fullscreen applications, embedded applications, or any applications on consoles platforms where operating system features are non-standard.

Basically: I wouldn't put Flutter inside a graphics heavy video game. I also wouldn't use ImGui for a social mobile app, or something like a business app that requires accessibility.

[1] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
A few other terminal based spreadsheets:

Visidata https://www.visidata.org/

Oleo https://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/

Teapot https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/
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Yeah, guilty. Still not sure if it practically matters. Do they really need to adjust brightness every day?
Yeah I’ve heard the same - also in contrast to the relative uselessness of early detection of prostate cancer, finding early colorectal is actually actionable and important.
> Immediate mode is popular in video games because in most games the screen is re-rendered on each frame.

That makes no sense though because while you still need to re-render each frame, you do not necessarily have to waste rendering time on GUI each frame when GUIs are mostly static, why not just render the interface to a framebuffer and then simply draw that when composing a frame and only re-draw the framebuffer when the GUI changed/played an animation frame?
Because you'd still know everyone who went to a specific site because they'd be sending you unique hash. Even if you ignore that, you'd know what clusters of people all use the same sites, how often and when.
Was it not your fault?
So what, we should disbelieve all conspiracy theories by default? In the rare case it happens to be true, it'll probably be too late to act upon, just like COINTELPRO and MKULTRA.

We can assign the possibility of Q being true without actually taking a side and acting on it. I can say "this is both compelling and unlikely to be true, but as I long as I don't have to act on it, it doesn't matter if I believe in it or not". We can let the evidence over time build a stronger case for it or destroy it.

The only reason I can see not to do that is if it introduces unacceptable consequences in the meantime, as the article is suggesting, but it seems like the reporting against it is ridiculously cherry picked and disingenuous. There's probably a much stronger case for stopping BLM as a organization at the moment, but I don't think I've seen an Atlantic article suggesting that.

For the time being, Q seems like a harmless movement. It would be a red flag if Q denounced a group of people without justification, but Q has been pretty specific about the things and people it denounces, and if things go according to Q's plan the people it's denouncing are going to have their chance in court .
JuliaCon 2020 was awesome The virtual experience is better than physical
Let's not kid ourselves here, an 8 hour work day takes up a ton of time when you factor in cooking, cleaning, and attending to other chores. Maybe you even have to take care of another small human too.

It is incredibly disingenuous to think all you need is a little time management and all will be right in the world.

Sometimes it takes a couple hours after a full days work just to recharge and focus deeply on a task again.

Lets not forget about the physical and psychological impact of shorter days in the winter time too.

Sincerely, a hardened in the trenches 10 year vet.
What scares me about Q is what the narrative enables. If Trump overthrew the institutions of democracy, and had his enemies killed and jailed, then all Q would need to do is whisper is that the cabal has been defeated, and all the Q-adherents would cheer.
I just checked and was somewhat surprised to learn that AutoSpaceLikeWord95’s behavior is actually pretty well specified:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/documentformat.o...

I’m sure there are still gaps in the specification overall; I don’t actually know much about it, but I believe competing implementations have trouble reproducing the exact layout of Word documents, which should be possible with a good specification, and is mostly possible with HTML.

But I don’t see anything wrong with that particular attribute. Backwards compatibility is important.
Devils advocate: reddit can be just as useful as HN (or more so) if you only interact with subreddits you have a deep connection to.

I used to often see niche, really interesting stuff on there, although I haven't used it much lately. The Frontpage is pure garbage though.
I'm not trying to make you do anything. You are free to do as you please.

And so am I. That includes letting you know that I don't like the way you treat me and wish you would leave me alone.

So far, I haven't asked the mods to intercede. But with you doubling down on asserting your right to harass me, that is likely to be my next step.

Please, kindly, leave me the hell alone. Justifying downvotes is a violation of the guidelines. If you just followed them, we wouldn't be having this argument.
Building storage-first serverless apps with HTTP APIs service integrations
So, wait. Apple forbids Facebook to be transparent about why something the customer wants to buy costs X. That's akin to saying the government would not allow you to disclose sales tax. Informing the customer with transparency about a sale should never be illegal.
I would think people hated going to the office when offices were bland and isolated in remote locations. Cities are heavily adapted to separate work/office locations. They 'll adapt to remote, like they always do. People will need to invent new ways of life.
Ah I can see that now :)
how I hate this kind of reporting

3 people complain on reddit and it's now "[COMPANY X] under siege"
You'll like this: https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotdep12/workshop-program/...
All I know is "How to be a hacker", "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", and "How to ask good questions" all had a rather large impact on me.

I didn't know about any of his other views.
in theory, that is the responsibility of the markets.

but when you have a duopoly there is no one to decide the correct %, and we start to not have a functioning capitalist market.
But usually you missed them for a reason. They just aren’t directly relevant to you.

... but I made a technical decision because of an idea on hacker news.

You should have researched that decision outside of hacker news. Less aggregate time spent.
If you don't need a decent school zone, can confirm.

38 minutes from downtown. 3 acre wooded lot. 1900 sq ft house (currently refinishing full basement). $135 when I bought, probably $200 now. In the process of selling a much more expensive intown house, because there's no point.

The biggest things suburbs need to do these days is revolutionize malls. Tear up all the parking and retrofit empty store space into community-centric things people actually want.

Big box -> co-working space, as new anchor tenant.
You are mixing up traditions that are optional, voluntary and more role play than anything else (as if it was common that a Western man in a Western country would ask the father of the bride to be instead of her; it's, for some people, a formality after the couple has decided to get married, and everybody plays their part) with state law with heavy punishment.

Similarly: it's tradition to say "until death do us part" in marriage vows, but essentially nobody means it, divorce is common.

"There are crazy drops in a sea of sane people" != "There's a sea of crazy people, but I've seen a sane drop or two".
You might be able to, but not every consumer can. You're presenting a fundamentally different argument than a business changing which provider they use to collect credit card payments.
How about every few days just actively search for HN topics that interest you? That's what I try to do.
https://hn.algolia.com/
Conferences lend themselves very well to remote attendance. Especially big conferences, which are mostly too noisy, too distracting.
Q looks less like NSA spying and more like the McMartin Preschool trial. It made no sense in the 1980s and it makes no more sense in the 2020s.
The CSO said:

> "... 2FA for customer accounts is the right thing to do, and we’re working towards that end ... This is part of the reason we acquired Authy ..."

Cool, it sounds like they're making a effort to implement -- and require -- 2FA... oh wait, FIVE YEARS have passed since then!
If you run a service that can be abused like this, you're going to need objective account abuse metrics to warn you before these things happen. Specifically you're going to need a Russian speaker to prowl around on Russian forums buying your own hacked accounts, so you can figure out the market price. If accounts on your system are selling for ten cents, might be time to reflect on account security.
So, how is it different from other bs those folks used to believe in?
Wait, you mean the small timers can't afford $15,000 for services like Return Path?

The entire thing is a protection racket. There are super expensive services that can get you onto those same whitelists.
This goes well with https://llis.nasa.gov/

"The NASA Lessons Learned system provides access to official, reviewed lessons learned from NASA programs and projects. These lessons have been made available to the public by the NASA Office of the Chief Engineer and the NASA Engineering Network. Each lesson describes the original driving event and provides recommendations that feed into NASA’s continual improvement via training, best practices, policies, and procedures."
You can get that "proper education" and be pretty secure financially by your late twenties. Yes, in theory our biological peak is somewhere between 27-30 or so, but it's not like everybody "made it" by thirteen in Seneca's time. You aren't even finished growing until your early twenties.
> Have clocks at home which automatically sync the clock.

I'd say not. Your computer has a clock in it, yes, but it's unlikely to be your main method of telling time. Same for any smart devices you have. There's several analog wall clocks and several digital alarm clocks with battery backups in my house; none of these sync the time. In comparison, there's only 4 rooms with computers in them, and these are usually off or on screensaver. The time on a computer is small and only shown in the status/menu bar, making it hardly convenient to check from the doorway. Smart speakers only respond to their owners, and require stopping what you're doing to hear a response.

The average user on HN is far more likely to have such devices than the average person in general; most of my friends have at most one such devices in either their living room or bedroom, and that's it. Half the people I work with wear and use a wristwatch at work (_not_ a smartwatch).
huh? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24311152
The comment I was responding to seemed to be proposing it.

I don't know about India, but in the US, there's been a major debate about whether govt can force platforms to retain posts and several attempted lawsuits over it.
Identifying infants with low risk of serious bacterial infection via AI
These are all great life lessons for anyone, not just for young people. I have used all of these on myself before and I probably need to be reminded about number 5 once a month.
I archive github repos, for my own purposes, into my rsync.net account:

ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/freebsd/freebsd.git freebsd"
Our prior probability for most conspiracy theories should be low, and we should update our probabilities in an approximately Bayesian way.
Solving real-life problems using serverless technologies
...said the guy published on the newyorker.
I run IT for my organization and I am seeing a lot of phishing emails from Sendgrid. I haven't counted or done data analysis for proportion, but it's enough volume for me to really notice it.
A tax is a compulsory payment levied by the government on individuals or companies to meet the expenditure which is required for public welfare.

So, it is a tax.
This is very similar to what's done today for car batteries in most of the US: you pay a deposit or core charge when buying a new battery, and it's refunded when you return the old one for recycling.

https://batterycouncil.org/page/State_Recycling_Laws
I'm actually an applied mathematician, so no.

You don't want to understand things? You don't care at all? All that matters to you is making that better widget? Meet that deadline?
I don't think there are enough of them to outweigh the rule of law. I would drop Q in an instant if it operated outside of the courts.
Too big to fail also was meant to communicate the vast amount of effort, time, and money that would be involved in rebuilding the financial infrastructure if indeed it had collapse, not to mention the immense short term pain and suffering that would occur in the interim.

A SendGrid sized void could be filled in a matter of weeks to months by teams of highly motivated engineers looking to fill a market gap. The cost of starting up there is virtually nonzero (compared to say, starting a bank), and the regulatory burden is virtually nonzero (Email regulations are arguably some of the most clear and concise).

All that to say, drawing a comparison with the "too big to fail" bailout of major US lenders is, frankly, silly.
> I wonder though - is there sufficient data out there to make a good article with the same title?

Isn't that almost exactly the purpose of Backblaze's HD stats?

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
This library has functions such as add_button() that can be used to create a hierarchy of widgets. From this, I suspect that the library is not fully operating in immediate mode, but perhaps it uses some kind of mixed mode?
> Even women's employers get a say, there.

No, they don't. They can neither force nor stop a woman from getting pregnant. "But she might not get the CEO job when she's having young children" isn't "giving them a say".
For starters, this library may not be suddenly killed off.
Exactly. I'm am very sad to read the grandparent comment. It's not pleasant that anyone could be so misguided, and especially to see such lunacy on HN. It's not incumbent on anyone to continually engage with and point-by-point knock down Q: bullshit can be generated much faster than it can be fact checked (putting truth at a structural disadvantage), and engaging in this stupidity confers it legitimacy it doesn't deserve. I am despondent for humanity, that so many of us are so (1) easily confused (2) incapable of actually doing their own research (instead castigating people to "do their own research", which if they did in any reasonable way would show the absurdity of belief in Q) (3) related to 2, so commonly projecting their own flaws and insisting they are those of others. I hate being a misanthrope, but there's no way to be informed nowadays and not be deeply disappointed in our species.
The worst chair in the world is the American high school/college desk+chair combo like this one

https://www.schooloutlet.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/Screen...

The people making and buying these place are committing crimes against humanity.
+1

As soon as I heard the stuff about satanic rituals and drinking babies' blood I immediately thought of the McMartin trial. Sorry to hear you were caught up in the SRA mass hysteria, hope it is not still affecting your life.
Interesting to get experiences from people who lived in that era.

For those of you interested in the subject I remember enjoying reading this essay also covering the topic in a cohesive way: http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-...
Those libraries use retained-mode, which is the complete opposite of immediate-mode that Dear ImGui uses.

So they're geared towards different things. I posted an explanation here about the difference between retained and immediate mode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318437
The situation in the US is exceptional. To put it mildly, US big corporate media would prefer that the current government executive be someone else, and their reporting is guided by that animus.

This creates an appetite for alternative sources of information, even if those sources are of very low quality.
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