skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
7200 RPM drives indeed have faster access (in terms of seek latency) and higher sustained throughput but, heat and power is not simple variables as one might think.

Especially RED drives are marketed for NAS systems (from home to SMB size). When a drives are installed into a closure, things like power and thermal budget comes into play.

NAS boxes are designed with strict limits and if they cannot cool themselves (and the drives) off or cannot supply the required power to drives; data corruption, performance/life span degradation may occur.

In extreme cases (with large storage arrays) calculated overall power budget can skew and may cause blackouts in some parts of the data center. There's a presumed ~2W difference in power consumption between 5.4K and 7.2K drives. We can safely install 60 of them in a 4U enclosure today. If we add 4 enclosures to a rack, that creates a ~480W difference, which is a one HPC server or 2-3 low-load, 1U or 2U servers. This is indeed significant.

While some of these drives are in MyBook enclosures, REDs may end up in very different places and may cause problems. In that case, head or spindle noise is not even the smallest concern.

If we're talking about noise, continuous (spindle) noise is much more degrading than head/seek noise. For me, even benign noises like USB fans have much more noticable effects after the day than mechanical keyboard noise for example.
What if it's a serial killer from a reputable family? You might as well end up marrying a serial killer.
Transparency: A Multi-Factor Authentication Affair
A closer look at what transparency looks–and could look like. Is transparency binary? Where do we draw the line between transparency and privacy?

Perhaps we are born with it, no?
Matters for CAD but rendering these days most are just piling machines full of gaming GPUs and rendering on CUDA.
The dots in 3d are certainly the best-looking solution of the ones they mention, but most likely also significantly slower than a texture-based approach. It makes their website extremely janky for me when scrolling, on an upper-midrange laptop.
> You don't need to refute anything if you can describe the process yourself.

So you're admitting that you don't know what it is?

Are you or are you not a Mac developer who notarizes and distributes Mac software?
> I'm betting on the tooling to stay backwards compatible or with minimal changes in the codebase

This is actually why I'm pretty bullish on things like RoR, Laravel, et al.

The sheer speed at which they go to a new version that breaks BC is actively making the web less secure. I've lost count of how many times I've found a new client with this software that's been working for years but suddenly broke, only to realize it's on an OS that's EOL, using a version of the framework that's EOL and a version of the language that's EOL. And now it's my job to bring it up to speed.

And typically the hardest part of that? The 3rd party dependencies that are either abandoned and don't support the newer versions of anything, or have moved onto Python 3 and no longer support Python 2.

It's why I vastly prefer something like asp.net core. I know in 5-10 years the code will probably just work with the latest version, and if there's an incompatibility, it's going to tend to be relatively small.
As someone who is sensitive to bright screens, lunar is something I use everyday. Thank you!!
With one guest from CNN. The same news org with the longest track record of actual fake news. Come on.

If there's anything to learn, look at multiple sources both censored and uncensored. Cross-reference if you need to. Don't trust one single source and don't believe anything you see or hear on the internet.

Not this webinar.
Government bans, even the US one, certain kinds of speech like death threats and such.

In Pakistani people do not consider the American way of dating as acceptable, and consider it a harm to society as a whole. Individual behavior affects society. There's a reason criminals are in jail.

Governments ban things for public interest, and it is in the wider interests of the population that such apps be banned or regulated liked banks so everyone gets a chance like they do in real world. Many governments optimize human happiness, family over money and raw GDP numbers. It might come as a shock to you, but not for the people of Pakistan. They're not for sale under hyper optimized algorithms that suck the soul of the people.
B only applies to relatively wealthy, childless people living close to where they work.

A is a straw man. There’s no innovation there. We need to redesign roads so that they are invisible and uncongestible. We either have to do personal air travel, which we don’t have the power density for yet or underground which is looking more promising. All people moving cars need to be electric and self driving. A car should be like a universal elevator, just get in and push a button.
That’s the best option, 0 time dedicated to piloting your body through space and you’re able to live anywhere and work anywhere.
NSS on Windows for PostgreSQL Development
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... but nice URL.

edit: Something went wrong with getting media devices.
> genocide

That's a big word do you have any proof other than military thinktanks rehashing the same old nonsense?

What's a good estimate on how many have been tortured, raped and murdered? (To use your words)

When the US still has more people in prison predominantly of one race (not per capita either, gross numbers) it's perhaps a good time to talk about the systemic imprisonment of black people that no one seems to flinch about.

For all the talk of Uyghurs literally no Western country is taking them in, do you see the UK or US lining up to take in a million Muslim separatists?

It's yellow peril all over again. Why is the UN human rights commissioner repeatedly refusing to visit the region despite getting numerous requests? Why are Muslim Western allies visiting and finding nothing extreme that matches the constant media bombardment we receive in the West? Our Western aligned Muslim allies are literally signing multicountry letters to the UNHRC saying that it's all a media beatup and yet no one here really wants to talk about that.

Are we really going to base all this on evidence from the people that insisted Saddam had weapons of Mass Destruction and that justified a 20 year war that resulted in millions of deaths mostly civilian? Do you honestly trust them this time aroundor is it _different_ this time?

https://medium.com/@jerry_grey2002/abc-four-corners-tell-the...
Here's a solid read from an Australian policeman who cycled through Xinjiang province, nothing he sees lines up with the rhetoric you'll find from internet commentators who have never been to China.
you do understand that the only difference is a fixed waiting time vs. a randomized one.

Meaning you still wait the same amount of time on average, just have a bunch of "that was quick" and "wtf. I'm waiting for 4 hours" thrown in there. Not an improvement if you ask me.
As an American: tinder is awful here too but I think that’s just because dating is hard.
It's actually worse than that, because public schools typically teach the government-approved version of history. It's not until much later that, after digging into multiple alternative sources and triangulating what is likely a more accurate story, does one realize how much of the history you were taught was distorted or omitted.
It might be embarrassing to admit but I use 'threads' as my bookmark service - if something was engaging/striking/funny enough for me to comment on, then I want to come back to it.

At some point I will write a thingy to go grab all my old comments but for now HN is more useful to me than pocket / delicious etc.

It turns out to be a useful heuristic - the mental process that says "I should store that for later" fails far more often than "that is something I have something vaguely useful to say about".
> If you're in a web startup, software won't last 3 years, the next team will systematically rewrite.

I have an old man rant about that actually... that rewrite is typically unnecessary if you actually use discipline when developing and learn how to read code.

I once took on a CakePHP 2 app and another developer asked me how in the world I got into, and understood, the framework so quickly. My secret? I read the CakePHP 2 source code. So many developers learn how to do that very well.
If you do not have any objective measures then what you have is a cult.

By any objective standard - suicide rates, lost days of work, self harm, substance abuse, murder, etc. - we are worse off or no better today than in 1960 when we were supposedly emotionally stunted and oppressed. Every extra dollar spent on psychology/psychiatry since then has been a waste.

That's not even touching on the crisis of reproducibility that has made a mockery of the entire field and put it somewhere between catholic confessionals and recreational drug use in terms evidence based outcomes.
Nah, you just lack imagination.
Is this really right?

"The danger of not setting a CPU limit is that containers running in the node could exhaust all CPU available."

My assumptions have been:
1. cpu request tells you how much cpu a pod gets MINIMUM always, independently of how much other pods use it or not
2. on GKE you can't request 100% cpu due to google reserving cpu for the node
3. if you have hard limits, your cluster utilisation will be bad -> we do remove cpu limits due to this.
Because education is a lucrative business.
Location: Europe
Remote: maybe
Willing to relocate: to Germany, yes
Technologies: Python (scipy, numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc), Linux, PHP/CSS/HTML/Postgres
Résumé/CV: email me
Email: hn@p8y.org

I am starting my job search after earning a masters degree in cognitive science. My main interests are machine curiosity and attention, and human-computer interaction especially with AI systems. My ideal work would be in helping to design AI-related products with interaction and usability as a high priority. I would also be interested in work that involves designing and implementing intelligent systems taking inspiration from human cognition. I am a competent programmer including some ML, though this is not my expertise; I have ideas about developing curious agents. Finally, I would also be willing to do work in UX with dumb systems as well. I have built many websites in a previous career, and I would definitely be willing to consider bringing my more advanced understanding of human cognition to UX design if the fit were good.

My strengths are a) problem solving in novel areas, b) good team collaboration, and c) clear communication skills.

I live in Europe. I am looking to return to Germany and need visa/work permit assistance.
Opportunity is opportunity, but you’re not building a viable long-term business and you can’t guarantee anything since you don’t own the underlying B2B SaaS.

The provider could pivot and remove the fundamental functionality you require and you’re instantly out of business.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to license/white-label the B2B SaaS, or joint-venture with them so they have some skin in the game, and you have some guarantee of continuity? If this is an option, make sure you get an option-to-manage or code/data escrow agreement to protect you in the event they go out of business.

The only other solution I see is to duplicate the functionality they offer over the next year and then jump to your own version, but many SaaS have a no-clone clause in their user agreements stating that you agree not to duplicate their systems.

If this is how you want to go, make sure you own the domain they are coming to so that when the time comes, you simply redirect your DNS and you’re up and running.

Just remember, until you own and run the entire system, you don’t have a business... the B2B SaaS has a side business they don’t know about.

Cheers
+1 for Gollum. It's lightweight, runs well in Docker, plays nice with other mechanisms for editing the files, and generates everything based on Markdown.

You can use any standard Markdown editor to manage the contents of your wiki, not just their web interface. Is great if the wiki is your source of documentation for your homelab, and need to reference it in the event of your homelab going down completely, with the raw material being just Markdown.

Post-commit hooks can be used to automatically push changes to another location (e.g. a self-hosted Gitea instance running on another host, or Gitlab, or anything else you fancy like just a file store on another host)

EDIT: to note, my primary mechanism for editing my Gollum wiki is their web interface, but having the means to use any other method too is also grand.
That’s weird, works well for me. Fresh domain maybe...
Read Bernays (or Creel Committee reports, if you can find any) on early twentieth century anglophone use of working clique-by-clique in the social graph to understand why graph databases and the plumbing of targeted marketing are ideally suited to $POLITICAL interference.

Consider also https://opendatacity.github.io/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html

Remember the Maine!
For what it's worth, phyphox also has an android app. It's pretty good; my favorite app to play with on a flight
If you write a package and you use pip to install and test it, pip will install the requirements according to what is requested, by default the latest acceptable version.

If somebody else installs your package at a later time, pip will again install the latest fitting versions.

This install will be different from your install, or from other installs other people made in the meantime.

If a newer version if a dependency breaks your package because it has a backwards-incompatible change, your package won't work - and it will not show up in your testing because pip sees the existing, already installed packages and will think they are new enough. So, you'll find "it works for me".

A good examples are packages like python-opencv which break on python2 because the versioning implies they are backwards-compatible but they (or their given dependencies) use syntax which is not supported by python2.

And these things tend to snowball quickly because the number of packages which other packages depend on tends to grow exponentially, without a real upper bound.

And while there is lots of annoyment and cursing about package managers, I think a huge part of the problem is a cultural issue in the python community because people accept and create libraries with backwards-incompatible changes without marking that in the version numbers.

Obligatory link to Rich Hickey's brilliant talk on how to do it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
> "The ‘control show’ I mentioned above plays into this. Give men a way to fight against each other, with tokens. A common tactic is to have guys buy into “teams”, and whichever team tips the most, wins ..."

Did I just learn something about two-party politics?
> What are you talking about? That's basically the process.

How do you know?

> But you'd only have some inconsequential pedantic details to change.

No, the writer completely misunderstands the entire purpose of the process, and consequently just makes up details about what the writer thinks ought to be happening. It sounds like more of a hypothetical than actual knowledge.
A win for GCC - for sure. Not sure why that would be a 'huge win' for Rust at all.
Hairdressers and car mechanics? Really? :o
Also, full screen doesn't work in iOS Safari. It was supported but that support was removed several years ago (I want to say 2014, but may be a little off).
That's the way it works pretty much everywhere in Europe in my experience.
I believe the name is a play on

a) romanization of the Japanese pronunciation of PC ("personal computer" -> "PersCom" Japanese abbreviations of English tend to concatenate the initial syllable of every word, and "n" and "m" end up sounding very similar).

b) "parser combinator" would have the same abbreviation in Japanese
Completely agreed with you there.
That said, when I was 16/17, our school let us choose between a few activities (ball sport, racket sport, running sport or "other" - gymnastics, swimming, rowing, archery, horse riding). Had I had those options rather than just soccer aged 7 instead of 17, I would likely have been far more active in the years in between.
It also says 50-150 websites.

I regularly visit maybe 5 or 6? The rest tend to be random links from reddit or HN, I wonder if visiting a site like that once and never again is enough to help with that identification.

Another thought is I think it's obvious that if it's a site you log into and the URL has an identifier of some type then it's easy to identify you and that's why schemes to hide the URL could also be a privacy issue.
Location: Poland

Remote: Definitely YES

Willing to relocate: It's possible

Technologies:

- HTML5 & CSS/SASS/LESS

- Python

- Clojure(Script) and Functional Programming

- SQL

- JavaScript, React.js, Gatsby.js, GraphQL

- Git/Github, agile workflows/SCRUM

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18fhmZUswR8xwyVukXhAfonn2...

Email:
trzemzalska.ewa@gmail.com
Reminds me of a few years ago when I was admining some Solaris 10 servers at a company. Prior to that I had only ever used Linux and FreeBSD. It was interesting to me, even though I was already used to there being differences between Linux and FreeBSD, to interact with something that felt like an even more remote evolutionary branch of a species of creatures. (Though at the same time, things like ZFS and DTrace come from Solaris, so it's not like it is actually all that remote to FreeBSD. Likewise, Solaris Zones are kinda like Jails in FreeBSD.)

I came to think of this because of what you wrote. Prior to using Solaris 10 I had always used to write "ps wwwaux" always, both on Linux and FreeBSD. But on Solaris 10, in order to get roughly the same info, I had to instead type "ps -ef".
It's lower than it could be since only the most recent 30 favourites of the top 10k members are included.

But still lower than expected.
> I’ll bet it’s less neon and flying cars and more boarded up retail shops and government sponsored troll farms.

No technological advancement? Has the CCP indicated that they'd prefer a stand still on that front?

I'm sure the future will be different as is expected when a large power claims its place. Whether the losses will be in the West or primarily in the Third World will be a major question. So far, the Chinese seem not too much into large scale empire building, but primarily exercising control over "their backyard", similar to Russia in Ukraine etc and the US in Latin America. But that might change, of course, if they ever become the most powerful nation with a similar margin over the rest as the US has enjoyed for the last decades.
What is it about Tinder that brings on these flame-wars on HN?

It's almost like those who question Tinder's moral neutrality and innocence in its impact on society have a point...
The Python Guide for Beginners
Why use website-specific favorites instead of browser favorites? Isn’t it inconvenient to have bookmarks siloed across different websites? My browser bookmarks work on any website, are synced across devices and backed up automatically (Safari), and are easily searchable and organized via folders or tags.
Construction is fundamentally a business of optimizing for minimum cost within the law. Taking the foreign companies and making them operate in NYC would get you the same result as the local companies because the root problem is decades old laws that more or less serve to create regulatory capture to benefit the members of various unions and trades organizations.
Problem is that homework is always forced.
I enjoyed the Switched on Pop episode on Lo-Fi. I don't listen to it a lot, and I didn't know much about its origins, but I'm a big fan of J Dilla and Madlib, who they cite as major influences on the genre.

Strong rec for J Dilla's album, Donuts.

https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/why-lo-fi-is-the-perfect-...
Among the things you mention “killing infants after they are born” is illegal in all western countries I am aware of.
Very well summed up.

In addition, same set of questions can also be asked to people who've recently left the organisation.

I'd use the following criteria to filter ex employees:

- Reliable 1st/2nd level connections

- Folks who have shown stability in the past (generally stick to jobs for > 2 years)

Obviously, they'd come with biases. But, talking 2-3 people should also help reliably gather broad culture patterns.
Should avoid listening to evidently disgruntled folks.
The problem isn't translation, it's input. Keyboard is designed for serial 1-dimensional input, formulas are nested trees. The approaches I've seen are:

- OCR a handwritten formula (unreliable but the most convenient)

- make the user write serialized code and show it as formula (basically this submission, but also latex etc. - misses the point)

- force the user to design the formula tree with some graphical editor and fill it with values and identifiers later (office suites do this and it's such a pain to constantly switch between keyboard and mouse)
How big is a neutron star?
Any mention of "unix" and "war" needs to include a reference to www.groklaw.net, a website set up as a focal point for a community defense of unix and linux. A must read. It is in reverse order, with newest articles at the front so I recommend starting with this link: http://www.groklaw.net/index.php?page=482

It is also a remarkable example of a website that provides value to the community, a service and a piece of history.

If you are interested in the idea of what different social platforms provide/afford (Zeynep Tufecki's Twitter and Tear Gas) this is great example of what could be done.

[edit for typo]
1 is correct, 2 is partially correct, and 3 is not correct.

It is absolutely true Kubernetes will reserve the amount of CPU you request, although it will also allow you to exceed that request if you attempt to and there is free CPU time to service you. 2 is correct in so far as Google run daemonsets on GKE which themselves have CPU requests and limits, and thus there will never be a node which as 100% cpu free for you to request. 3 is simply incorrect - it may be true that for some combinations of nodes and workloads it is not possible for the Kubernetes scheduler to bin-pack efficiently, but for large clusters with diverse workloads this should not be a problem.
I don't use it and use bookmarks instead, but if you just look for points https://hn.algolia.com/ works pretty well.

Spoiler: Steven Hawking has died.
The UI sucked and the app sucked. I’m glad google did something because the previous state of atrophy was unacceptable. It would have been nice if they simply maintained their services, but replacing them with equivalent ones is acceptable.

Here is a list of the tiny sliver of the total bugs that I had experienced and knew off the top of my head six months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22184669
The Conet Project: Disc 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S5Xbb9_kVA
Once upon a time (still in this century!) it was so hard to have voice conversations via the internet, people were willing to pay substantial amounts of money to the phone company to reach someone on a different state.
> That's just plain wrong.

In theory yes, in practice no.

If code doesn't run in 1 of 2 the browser-engines we currently have, I would consider that a major short-coming preventing me from using it in production.
When do people usually start work in the UK?
Book Summary: Fooled by Randomness, Taleb – The role of luck in life
If you have alternatives to cleaning hotel rooms, it would be. There aren't any for most that work there though. If they didn't make money on Only Fans, normal jobs are still available, and if you make next to nothing, even cleaning hotel rooms might be a step up.

My impression is that many of those that make very little (on the platform, in relation to the top stars) make enough in relation to their time input that it beats cleaning hotel rooms or waitressing.