skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at 4k random reads at queue depth 1, Samsung is superior. But worse on writes. I'd go with faster reads, since that impacts load times.

The 7GB/s is meaningless unless what your disk does is move huge files around.
Is 2024 enough time to achieve this? I'd love to see this happen.
In the meantime western powers can fiddle with elections or support cruel dictators in the rest of the world without ever encountering the tenth of the level of indignation Assange rose against himself for leaking Clinton's (genuine, not disinformation) emails.
"At Area 120, we work on 20% projects 100% of the time."

It literally just has no backing by Google's corporate or business goals.
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The irony being that the FAA bent over backwards to make it easier for Boeing to certify this aircraft, and they’ve probably done more damage to Boeing than anyone could’ve ever imagined.

Turns out competent safety regulation matters, who knew?
It varies by state but evicting someone is not the "just show up and kick out the tenant with threat of violence" process that many comments seem to be operating under the assumption that it is.

It's a lot easier to just leave when the semester is almost over, you find out your roommate was maybe pocketing your rent, and the landlord shows up and says "I don't want to rent to singles any more. I've got a family moving in on Monday." That one had ripple effects in my life for years even with the highly undesirable safety net of moving in with family on short notice.

I also know how much damage a bad tenant can do to a property -- graffiti, smoke damage, pet stains -- on top of not paying rent.

I can see why people get pretty heated about tenants' rights, but I've also seen how badly both sides of the transaction can behave. Sometimes eviction is the best course of action for both parties.
It's quite possible it has been recently. I saw it linked a couple places in this thread.

It appears to be up now though.
Does anyone know if Firefox supports --app= type mode yet, like Chrome does? I want to fully switch to Firefox, but I use Chrome's app mode all the time.
Hydroxychloroquine as pre-exposure prophylaxis for Covid-19
Thanks. I didnt know that. So would people call chinese texts also as kanji?
Mattermost integrations: Sending and receiving data with outgoing webhooks
Maybe that’s true, but this is why I never use any mozilla features to store important data such as passwords - suddenly the project is on the last leg, and shortly thereafter the last leg is cut off life support.
How many lines are in the 700GB file? What percentage of the file does the first 300M lines take up?

At work, we have lots of 20-30GB text files that gzip down to 14-15% of the original size. If this 700GB file was similarly populated, a gzip of the whole thing would be 100GB or so. Doing a tail piped to the gzip command would work.
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Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist (not to say poisoner) who oversaw a lot of CIA’s dirty work, must have believed in what he was doing, because he lived long enough to regret it (and turn to advocating pacifism and good works).
I am replying repeatedly that many of the comments are factually incorrect and how evictions actually work - that police are there at least in my state to monitor the process - and people seem to disagree with the facts (witnessed by all of my gray replies) and no one has cited anything to the contrary.

I guess I am arguing against some type of narrative that I don’t know about.
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Problem is, the concentration camps are just as real as weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
How is invading China rational? America can't even bother to decouple financially. In what world is it rational that a country lets its allies commit genocide in Afrin and Yemen, yet boldly stands against someone else.

Good luck invading China when your planes melt in the rain and your boats are constantly running into each other.
Apart from pulling the plug on products at random, why I'm sceptical is because this hasn't been introduced / used internally widely.
Think of it like a product Google created, say Cloud, but doesn't use it itself. Oh wait. It doesn't.
Back in the day I would definitely be one of those early Google adopters, just to try the product. I don't bother anymore
> Ironman adds a lot to the game, you can't savescum from a risky missed shot, and actually start to be really afraid for your guys.

I don't savescum... but I've had a couple of bugs or glitches with the reboots that I'm afraid to start an ironman game and not be able to go back to a previous turn.
Google should be inspired by their more nimble competitors! Their main problem is not offering Tables as part of G Suite where it would boost their offerings in the office productivity space and deliver a more complete and coherent strategy. That is, if they are really commit to Tables and are ready to offer proper corporate support and maintenance...
So, in other words, it sounds like changing the culture?
Imagine in an alternate world, it is 1937 and America imports most of its products from Nazi-run Germany, because they are better at producing them at lower cost. There have been persistent rumours of mistreatment of Jews, particularly on the periphery of their empire, but the reports are disparate and refuted by the Germans. Every year more and more evidence is mounting of German nationalism and forced labour, but surely it's just exaggerated and it will all just work itself out in time?

What is the rest of the world to do? Do people have the appetite to give up their access to cheap goods?
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Forty-six per cent of the world’s population depend upon rivers originating in Tibet, including the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween and Mekong rivers.

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ixjuq2/china_for...
Chrome has had this forever, right?
This is cool, but does stock AndIodine not work out of the box with raw UDP mode where you live?

The local xfinitywifi networks in my area work with raw UDP. That being said, I've been to some areas where the local xfinitywifi networks did not, and it reverted to DNS tunneling.

I'm also curious who you are using for a cloud provider, as many throttle/block inbound traffic on udp/53 to prevent DDoS attacks against improperly-configured DNS servers.

As for commercializing/publicizing this, I wouldn't recommend it. Judging from the effective MTU of xfinitywifi hotspots, it seems as though the gateways broadcasting xfinitywifi are establishing an IPSEC tunnel to a local Comcast-operated server. It would be trivial for them to shut this down in one fell swoop by transparently redirecting all outbound traffic on port 53 to an internal resolver.
They mention the goal of using cheap manufacturing techniques but it seems like all those USB connectors make the thing really awkward. Does give it a cool Borg vibe, though.
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You must be pretty good at whiteboard interviews.

I can pick up new technologies quickly and I am a good developer (at least my manager says so) but I can never come up with elegant solutions like this to what I call a whiteboard problem. This is the exact reason why I fail at those whiteboard interviews.

Any suggestions for me?
I'm surprised it isn't there from the start, but some flexibility to sell this into organizations which have other suites is probably valuable for getting a hook in. My guess would be that they'll move it into the bundle at some point, but if it fails they might be able to avoid the price of long-term maintenance.
It's an effective word for manipulating the emotions of the reader, and neatly sidesteps the HN prohibition on clickbait titles by putting it in the domain name where it can't be corrected to something less manipulative. I don't necessarily think that it was malicious, and given the parallel to the Google site of the same name, I can't really object strongly, but it's still uncomfortable to see a domain name wielded in service of that outcome for any topic (even the original Google one).
> Military recruitment posters were also plastered everywhere, as it is a form of employment in a region with relatively few alternatives.

China would love a propaganda coup involving Tibetans in their military like America's Navajo code talkers in WW2.
any particular reason why you say that? I haven't looked into the gen4 drives, but looking at the anandtech storage bench, their gen3 drives are enjoying a comfortable lead over the competition. the 970 evo plus matches or exceeds the transfer rate of its competitors in most tests, and has significantly better performance consistency when the drive gets full. the only problem is that the additional performance is not always worth the additional price per GB.
Holy shit, it's ~$265. I didn't realize SSDs (M.2 ones no less) came down that fast. It was only a few years ago that the price was ~$1/GB.
I looked into coding PDFs once. Then I closed my MacBook (Pro) and went for a long walk into the ocean. I think I almost got to America, but then I turned and swam back again. Turnd out I had just fallen asleep and had a nightmare. I was actually just working with regular text files, and everything was fine.
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no commits in 5 years, from reading the issues, this seems like a more maintained alternative https://github.com/evhub/coconut
1)From the historical perspective internal conflict within China would be the deciding factor.

2)India isn't dovish or shy about confronting China.

3)The PLA is comprised of mostly only-sons and hasn't been deployed in a real conflict.
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This feels like a strange and expensive way to solve this problem.

1. Why do you need a graph database? You could almost certainly keep the entire thing in memory, who has >16GB of infrastructure?

2. 500+ dollars a month for a service that I'll use very infrequently?

3. I feel like all I actually want is something that takes CloudFormation and gives me a picture, for free, in a python script on my laptop. But ok, fine, what about things not in CF, and other metadata sure, but then see (1) and (2).

If this were, say, one dollar a month (or serverless) and the infrastructure was totally abstracted away I'd be a lot more excited.

edit: OK so (2) isn't really their fault, since this isn't an AWS service, but still. And 600 bucks isn't that bad for many companies, I just think there's a bit of a pricetag shock on this one.
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I get an occasional request for new features maybe once a month. If I can add them in a few minutes I do, otherwise I tell them it isn't supported and won't be. So basically, no.
Are Bus Pirates still being produced? If not, what fills the same role in the toolbox (device multi-tool and rapid protocol testing without code)
>missing from this article

These things are always conveniently missing or deliberately misreported for manufactured consent. TL;DR: there's no clear evidence of coercion, also no evidence of no coercion, but China bad so ergo it's coercive. Western media: it's forced labour despite forced labour not being mentioned at all. But that's expected with another Zenz media push:

https://jamestown.org/program/jamestown-early-warning-brief-...

Conclusion: In both Xinjiang and Tibet, state-mandated poverty alleviation consists of a top-down scheme that extends the government’s social control deep into family units. The state’s preferred method to increase the disposable incomes of rural surplus laborers in these restive minority regions is through vocational training and labor transfer. Both regions have by now implemented a comprehensive scheme that relies heavily on centralized administrative mechanisms; quota fulfilment; job matching prior to training; and a militarized training process that involves thought transformation, patriotic and legal education, and Chinese language teaching.

Important differences remain between Beijing’s approaches in Xinjiang and Tibet. Presently, there is no evidence that the TAR’s scheme is linked to extrajudicial internment, and aspects of its labor transfer mechanisms are potentially less coercive. However, in a system where the transition between securitization and poverty alleviation is seamless, there is no telling where coercion stops and where genuinely voluntary local agency begins. While some Tibetans may voluntarily participate in some or all aspects of the scheme, and while their incomes may indeed increase as a result, the systemic presence of clear indicators of coercion and indoctrination, coupled with profound and potentially permanent change in modes of livelihood, is highly problematic. In the context of Beijing’s increasingly assimilatory ethnic minority policy, it is likely that these policies will promote a long-term loss of linguistic, cultural and spiritual heritage.
It also makes you wonder: If this isn’t part of GSuite, then where does it belong in the Google organisation?

If Tables is just it’s own thing, not related to search, GSuite, GCP or ads then it’s already dead. At some level it must suck to know that you’ve created a culture where people don’t even care to try out your new fancy gizmo, because they expect you to abandon to quickly it’s simply not worth investing you time in. Or does Google not know that how they’re perceived?
> 3) Fibre to the cabinet then Fibre to the exchange (FTTP)

FTTP doesn't bother going to a cabinet at all since there would be nothing interesting for it to do there. GPON splitters are low maintenance and so you can just throw one up on a telegraph pole or bury it.

Yes this means that an era of street cabinets gives way to an era in which it's just telegraph poles or the network infrastructure disappears entirely, buried in the street.

> Cable TV is a minority thing in the UK, maybe 20% of TV owning households.

This may well be, however over 50% of UK households could buy their Internet service from Virgin (the Cable TV company) and get DOCSIS over that coaxial cable, they needn't choose to buy television service (although of course Virgin would like them to do so)
Of course.

Of course if you are the wife of a violent man that regularly beats you up and you refuse to prepare dinner tonight, you know you're probably gonna have a bad evening.

Of course you are seeing the point I am making here.

Of course.
I have sshrug for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, and mdshrug for when I'm sending it somewhere that has markdown ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯.
For Windows users, 'WIN + .' does this also - however I've found some differences from the emoji graphic shown in the popup, to the graphic actually pasted in the application.
Nope. It is a country by country basis and requires permission from the CCP. Without it they can blow the satellites up that are sending these signals into China.

From [0]

> The Chinese government would have to agree to let SpaceX build antenna dishes, or ground links, to send and receive data to and from the company's spacecraft. But that nation routes internet access for its 1.37 billion inhabitants through "the Great Firewall," a censorship technology that blocks foreign news, mentions of citizen uprisings (like the Tiananmen Square Massacre), or anything else Chinese officials don't like on the web.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-internet-satellite-co...
I really enjoyed it to but agree with GP that it falls down. Initially, he sets up a system around our pattern matching, biasing, etc. but as the book progresses I felt it got more and more hand wavy. Lots of the examples didn't really fit the plot of his system but he implies that the system still holds. Also, lots of the studies like the marshmallow test have failed to stand up. We take a single study of proof when it is usually no more than an indication. The conclusions are really just a data point. Perform the same test 100 times with different scientists and participants and look at the data again. Instead we take one test and cut the data to fit and then publish.
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The thing to remember is that most people's workloads do not tend to improve much from a slow but decent SSD to a fast SSD. Workloads just aren't often large and sequential enough. You can find lots of benchmarks of actual things on youtube/google, and things like boot times, game/app load times etc barely change.

For people who do need fast, large sequential operations, I'm sure it is amazing though.
Nah the way to do it today is to create internal struggle and division based on fake news and manipulating people
$10 a month! This does look really useful, and seems like a smart move: I like AirTable, but if they integrate this into gsuite then I'm way more likely to use it for random things.

Interesting to see it being paid though! The free tier seems very limited for a google product: 1000 rows, 100 tables, 50 bot actions... paid version is $10 a month. 1000 rows won't be enough for anything serious - so they must be really betting on people paying. I guess that's also why it's not integrated directly with GSuite?
This thing serves no purpose if the movement and lights are seemingly random even if they are based on "brain waves". There's no cohesiveness to what it's doing based on the "data". It's just tech for tech's sake, and the result isn't quite as stunning as the creators want us to think it is. It's a nice build, but that's practically where the interest stops for me. Also, it's not a "dress" but more of an exoskeleton. Sorry I can't really spin this any more positively than I did, but it's my honest opinion.
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This. I love the preamble about the author being in tech for awhile and 10 years at Goog as if that gives any credibility to a blatant rip off.
So are the Anvil tests the only ones that do substantial random read/write? These benchmarks seem opaque.

Last I really dug into SSD benchmarking, sequential was usually quite gaudy for a lot of SSDs that were seeking benchmark placement, but the real advantage of SSDs over HDDs was random access and IOPS.

IF this is such a massive improvement, is this mostly due to:

- PCI bandwidth utilization?
- 8nm silicon?
- controller algorithm/efficiency?

It's my impression that controller algorithms have peaked after the first couple iterations of consumer SSDs, so we'd be left with either bandwidth or silicon.

And how less durable is 8nm cells, since flash at a theoretical level becomes more fragile with each node shrink?
There is no evidence that the startup is doing anything differently than landlords have been doing legally for years.

After you go through the eviction process, you schedule someone from the sheriff’s office to monitor the process and you get some day laborers if you don’t know anyone personally.

The other startups are in danger of civil penalties and fines. If you go into your own rental property and evict someone illegally, you personally can be charged with trespassing, assault, criminal threats, etc.
For how long? AirTable is a core part of some professional workflows, I wouldn’t trust that with Google.
A frenetic but enjoyable piece. I think the biggest counterpoint, though, is that the fundamental, supposedly-earth-shattering contradictions, hardly matter in the current tech/finance economy. Tech stocks at the worst are essentially savings accounts, so a viable business model has become optional.
Don’t know about the shipping OS, but Fairphone 2 is still receiving Lineage OS 17.1 (Android 10) updates:

https://download.lineageos.org/FP2
Area 120 is definitely not a bunch of random people coming together. The projects there are fully funded and do have corporate backing. They launch separate from the rest of Google, with the positive end result being absorbed by another team into a fully supported product.
Or if you're running an analytics database, where table scans are the norm.
On my MacBook Pro 2015 I would have needed the dual thumb drive and SSD cables (unless I wanted to use the faster TB2 port, then I needed a third cable), an Ethernet dongle and still some converters for the Lightning EarPods. But disk speeds would be lower and my power cable wouldn’t be universal.

I do miss HDMI as well. I have an adapter somewhere but I forget about it until I need it
Yeah its really great. Makes building the pc easy too, no cables. Just pop in in the motherboard.
>Han supremacy has all the markings of other supremacist movements and will unfortunately need to be confronted.

Are you willing to sacrifice your life for the freedom of Tibet? I am not
> That's why we built Tables...as part of Area 120...for experimental projects.

Yeah I’m going to pass. This will just be deprecated in the near future.
Absolutely no way I'll be touching this. The second we have it integrated Google will deprecate it.
Eventually some great news!
If it’s not going to work if JavaScript is unavailable, I would suggest either adding it dynamically with JavaScript, or else omitting the href attribute so that it’s not a link; this could be paired with hiding it, or just giving it attributes like title="JavaScript is required for this link to work" and style="cursor: not-allowed". (Maybe aria-hidden="true" too.)
I think it's been longer than that - I took a look at the receipts for a PC I about five years ago and the 512GB SSD was ~$220 at the time.
You are aware that most people know perfectly well how to use VPNs?
I generally think state secrets have grown to encompass far too much. I don't care whose favor they in, I think we classify far too much and it concentrates power and takes it away from the people.
Reminds me of this comic https://goneintorapture.com/post/183584817776 and other variations I've seen of it.
I wold like to see a version that allows forms to be signed
To be fair, does that mean anything?
Han supremacy? Laughably absurd. Just because some other cultures have a history of thinking they're better than everyone else doesn't mean that every culture does. Accounts of what China and the West thought of each other survive from the era of Marco Polo. The Chinese thought of Western Civilization with equality and respect. The West's opinion on the Chinese? Barbarians.

Every country has its bigots, but suggestions that a country that just came out of hundreds of years of institutional racism from the Qing and then the British opium wars has a deliberate agenda based on race supremacy just sound like projection to me.

Confront the mirror.
Why is Firefox spending all their money and goodwill on a piece of technology that should be done away with?

PDF is a dork. It's an accessibility nightmare with no obvious advantage over simple ordinary webpages. Somewhere in the comments below, it is mentioned that supporting PDFs is a non-trivial piece of technology. May be! Even steam engines have non-trivial technology under the hood.
https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1308394609421279232?s=21

Quote from Edward Snowden:

“CNN badly misreported this.

A) This is not a settlement; I didn't agree to it.

B) The judgement from this censorship case is not enforceable while I am in exile, but I've never had that much money anyway.

Better headline: "US could gain up to $5m by pardoning Edward Snowden."”
> Hmm, MS buying Obsidian was sad news, mainly because their titles became inaccessible on Mac/Linux.

Don't forget inXile. Still waiting on that Linux version of Wasteland 3.
Textbooks with pretty well. I’ve learned almost all my math and science from textbooks. The concepts build on and reinforce each other.

I imagine this is harder to do for the class of books he mentions which don’t really get built on or reinforced except when you try to recall them to a friend.
That's actually legal in my homeland. There are specific conditions (e.g. personal use without economic goals) but it's generally OK. Note however that this applies to downloading from a server where the transfer goes one way. Torrenting would constitute copyright infringement as it is a two way transfer and counts as sharing copyrighted works.