skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hard drives have a bad habit of not turning on after being off for a year or two is why.

So push the "ZFS Scrub" button every 6 months.

Don't store hard drives. Store a NAS. The entire freaking computer is stored as a unit. Every few months, turn it on, push "ZFS Scrub" to double-check the data, and you're set.

BluRays also degenerate over time unless stored in proper UV-sealed conditions / temperature controlled conditions. Everything requires a degree of maintenance and checking. The question is how to best automate that checking process.

Hard drives are read/written to at 200+ MB/s, making these maintenance checks much faster. They're also bigger, which means no need to manually insert / remove disks from drives. This entire process could be automated from a "Wake on LAN" packet and a few clicks from any terminal (phone, computer, whatever).

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I dunno. I'm looking up these BD-R XL drives you're talking about: its like $30 per 100GB disk or something. That's an obscene price for so little storage. I guess if all your data fits in one of those disks its fine, but... I got some archived movies and stuff on my NAS (50GB per Blu Ray). Needed to store some of my video editing files (so I need the original data that matches with my video editing files).

The real data of importance of mine probably fits in a BluRay. But then I won't have all the other stuff I've saved up "because I can" on my 2x 5TB NAS (Mirrored, so only 5TB of storage).
I didn't see anything about an app in the op's comment... I started thinking about how to create a social hub where you can just go and exist. Like men's clubs that used to exist, but without the sexism and classism. A clubhouse where you pay some kind of membership fee and you get unlimited access to books, movies, a lounge, a bar, a few games leagues, some mild gambling, etc. Being a queer woman with a disability, I would start by making such a place explicitly inclusive to people like me.
Space colonization.

Where's that moon colony we were promised?
Now you have three or more problems.
True, on hard drives, the controller board will eventually fail. The solders might decompose or the circuitry might fail. Then you’re left with a platter full of randomized bits.

But on tape, the controller mechanism is separated from the storage medium. The controller mechanism is inside the drive readers itself, which will eventually fail.

So for both, it’s a trade off. They’re both going to eventually fail.
Nagas are pretty well in hand I think
> You can do the dumbest things and it still works out. Your computer will never go up in flames even in the most bug ridden C code base.

...and that, unfortunately, explains the quality of a lot of software and the low entry bar for the industry.
Quoting random tweets from the public as opinion in news articles (from arson to zebra rearing) has crept in to all news outlets. "Over the garden fence" reporting.

Fear is winning.
To highlight where we're disconnected, my phrase:

"cases that use these instructions will be compiled by Xcode"

does not imply that Xcode comes equipped to translate user-provided code into these instructions; however, by use of Apple frameworks, Xcode could still regardless output binaries that use these instructions, without needing to provide us any manner to do so ourselves.

I suspect most people aren't compiling framework-provided binary code into their binaries, using static or whatever it's called these days and so I believe those usages will end up reserved for the frameworks — but since someone is certain to try and consider 'the binary output of Xcode' to include any frameworks referenced by it if it supports their point, I'm taking care to cover all possible cases where output of those instructions could occur without a translation phase using LLVM or etc.
That’s an effective way for recipients to always be “unhappy” with the bounty.
Not bad, could be edited and make for a good young adult book, style reminded me of "Code Orange" to some extent and of course of "The Last Question"
> For the most simple CRUD apps, there is almost zero business logic.

Sure, which is why there is no reason to code them specifically at all as unique applications. Instead, the domain isn't the business domain of a particular application but far more general, and then you code something like PostgREST in Haskell where the domain is mapping between database and API calls, and solve the problem generally, and define specific applications just with database schemas.

“Domain logic” is only “business logic” when you've decided you need a bespoke app built for a specific business problem, which makes sense when you have a complex business problem, but is simply wasteful when you have a problem for which a general solution already exists. It's like asking who is the best designer go go to for a one-off custom car for perfectly average daily commuting use: you've chosen from the outset an inefficient solution to your problem.
Similar to the difference between "is not" and "ain't".
My notes:

1- Competitions should not reduce security for the speed.

2- We need a portfolio of winners, not one winner.

3- Put the experts onto the selection committee.

4- The world has a limited number of cryptographic experts capable of carrying out, and willing to carry out, "public" security analysis.

5- The design of DES takes 17 man-years works and 6 years R&D by IBM and NSA.

6- Narrowing the encryption problem to a single, influential algorithm might drive out competitors, and that "would reduce the field that NSA had to be concerned about".

7- NSA primary mission has always been signals intelligence.

8- What if NIST/NSA know a weakness in 1/10000000 elliptic curves?

9- F^^k publish or perish.

10- We need Boring crypto, crypto that simply works, solidly resists attacks, never needs any upgrades.

djb is top expert in high speed cryptography. He was writing a book[1] on this topic, but I can't find his book. What happened to this book?

PS. It seems he prefers Serpent to Rijndael!

[1] https://cr.yp.to/highspeed.html
Was Bulldozer better on Linux?
Where the hell are they growing tea in NZ?
I'm primarily experienced with cetaceans, primarily the behavior of bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales. Have you had encounters with parrots? I have not and I am curious.
Perhaps have the option of charging say 2 cents if somebody calls you. An exception list would allow friends and family for free. Phone spam is a growing problem because it's too cheap to robo-call millions of people. If spammers have to pay more, they'll cut down. Plus, money is easier to track. Same for email: we need e-stamps.
Tokamak Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWYnbYsp3i8&t=2s
https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk
How did you get to see the Caltech makerspaces if you weren’t a student?
The PS4's Dreams Game Is Hurting from a Lack of Players
> Any sensible time handling solution will truncate instead of rounding.

It's not a "handling of time" its just a display. And its extremely sensible to round to the nearest displayable number instead of rounding up or down, because this minimizes the error in the displayed number. And that's what you are interested in, conveying as accurately as possible what the current time is.
The title is misleading, it should be "average rent in SF downtown ... " .
I have been monitoring craigslist/zillow for the last 2 years or so in finding of a good deal, that I eventually found. Yes, it took that long!

I noticed that although apartments stay listed for months,
their price hardly drops; at least in more residential areas.
Eventually, some will lower by just as little as ~$100 after
~1 month of listing.

I think landlords prefer to keep the units vacant rather than
adjust the rent. They think/hope things will go back as they
were next year. Honestly, I would not be surprise if they do.

Though, they perhaps confuse stock market with real economy.

That said, newer, remodelled, bigger (+office) units go almost immediately.

The average old SF dump stay listed longer. No surprises there.
I suspect the macOS license precludes this.
Game Boy Advance, especially the SP, was the greatest handheld console to me.

Had rechargeable batteries that you could charge by plugging in (back in those days, as a kid, it was a game changer), played all your existing library of game boy games, amazing folding mechanism and portable, small size and of course a great library as well.

Perfection.

And as I say that, the Switch has proven to be an amazing challenger to the crown as well. I’m old and don’t use it as much, but I recognize it’s ergonomics and ease of use. Very well done.
> Is there a name for this?

It seems to go by negative and positive duties (or rights, or obligations) in the literature.
The closest we have come to this type of experience in the online space was IRC.
Ok I'm guessing this is super naive, but holy cow someone sell me a home robot. Ideally something with a good enough arm to load small things into the dishwasher, or at least unload onto a surface, open the front door, get the mail, put shoes where they need to be, pick up socks, dust/mop/broom, mow the lawn, fold towels, fold clean clothes from a basket, replace toilet paper, clean toilets, scoop out kitty poops, and maybe make the bed. God what a timesaver that would be. I'd pay small car prices for something like that.
Especially when the non-techy solution is the really fucking hard work of putting yourself out there and developing true and meaningful relationships.
I would love to play random EXE files from the internet but I don't think that's the way to go.

Open source would be more trustworthy.
People who set out to invent "better GUI tools" always eventually realize it's no the specifics of the programming language used to build them that's hard. It's high level things like state management.

iOS doesn't even have a stable answer to React, yet. The problem isn't JS/CSS.
Yeah but all of us in this thread already know that they're different people, so we're primed to come to that conclusion. However with no prior info, short glances and casual checks, they absolutely can be considered to "look the same".

Anywho this is a prime example of why you need humans that aren't involved in a situation to be in the loop to augment the facial-recognition algorithms. Enable them to view clean, high-res, zoom-able versions of the source images and then have them make the final call. Heck, if you're worried about bias, assign the task to a panel of people from various ethnicities, or maybe just to people of the same ethnicity as the involved person.
"minimally happy" is spot on.
I suspect that's not going to happen until we have a set of accurate species-specific cognitive models. The hope with SETI is probably more that we can find something smart enough to be able to communicate with us. As someone who lives with a handful of parrots, my experience is that the sort of communication you're talking about is insanely difficult.

It's common for birds to learn a few (human) words in context of an action (names / contact calls, food, waste disposal, etc), and it's common for someone who lives with birds to learn what their different types of calls generally mean (contact calls, distress calls, etc). Interestingly, parrots do seem to exhibit many emotions found in humans (anger, fear, happiness, sadness, love, jealousy, etc -- I suspect these are common among social animals).

If you think of language as a way to externalize our internal state then a prerequisite to understanding and communication is the ability to translate that state into something the recipient can contextualize. The difficulty of communication then increases with the difference between the party's respective inner states.

For human-human interactions it's possible to start from nothing and learn to communicate effectively in a couple of years. For human-parrot interactions, we can literally chatter to each other all day for 50 years and we'll never develop anything more than a cursory grasp of each other's languages.

On a more cynical note, were we able to properly communicate with animals it would force us to confront some uncomfortable things about our food supply chains and treatment of the planet in general. Parties that benefit from the status quo aren't really incentived to change that.
>Call me old fashioned but what's wrong with having a regular git repo anywhere you want with all of your dotfiles and them symlink those files to where they need to go?

Well, that's what you end up with. Stow just automates the "symlink those files part".
Yeah sure, but we should also be aware that the wealthy do not want these taxes, and will use every means to ensure they are not enacted. This includes spreading FUD about their implementation and results.
In fairness, you can open any box of tapes and assume the media will be badly damaged XD
My country, unfortunately, already has this, though it's not fully automated. Cameras will take pictures whenever they detect someone breaking traffic lights. The license plate is read off, and a ticket is mailed to the car owners's house.

I think someone still looks at the pictures right now for 5 seconds before sending it off, but that won't last for very long.
Is this project's name a pun on "gnusto"? That's the spell in the Infocom game "Enchanter", which copies a spell into your spellbook.
You grow all of your own food? You don't eat any food grown by any person except yourself?
> That was a link to an obsolete LTO-2 drive. If you’re using LTO-8, which is the current generation, you’d get a 10-pack of 12TB tapes for around $500. Noticeably cheaper per byte than hard drives.

But it looks like the cheapest drive on Newegg for that is $3,299.00: https://www.newegg.com/p/2BM-0046-00001

> In other words, if you have more than about 120 TB of data, then it is cheaper to buy a tape drive. I think any comments about whether tape drives are suitable for home use are really comments about whether you are interested in the use case of people who need to store >120 TB at home.

> If you are running a YouTube channel as a hobby, or you run a side business doing videography for weddings, the tape drive starts to sound a lot better. The 120 TB cutoff might be around 300 hours of video, which might be only 50 events.

No dispute there, but I think most >120 TB home use cases run into the question of if it's even worth it to keep the data (raw/uncompressed). For most people, the answer is probably no, and curation/compression makes far more sense. For instance, I don't think it's even typical for wedding photographers/videographers to store their final product indefinitely, let alone the raw footage for a re-edit. You can keep a lot more events in a lot less space if you're only keep the raw footage for a few recent events and the 15-30 minute final edit for a year after it's finalized.

> And let’s not forget that if you have 120TB of hard drives, you’re in the regime where you start having to buy multiple machines.

Not if you swap disks as offline storage.

> As for longetivity—I don’t have the data handy. If you are storing data on tape, you need to migrate to newer generations of tape, as old generations become obsolete and unavailable. If you are storing on hard disks, you also need to migrate because hard disks eventually fail (even if they are not powered on).

Honestly, the theoretical longevity is the only aspect of tape that appeals to me, but like you said enterprise tapes will end up being like these enterprise optical disks in a fairly short period of time, so you're regularly going to have migration legwork to do or your data's effectively toast.

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1236524992709316608
I think I might disagree with #3. I find that having arr[-1] point towards the last element of the array can hide accidental off-by-one errors. It's also a bit weird how the arrays are zero-based if you access them normaly but one-based if you access them backwards. IMO it's more consistent to make the negative indexes behave the same way as an out of bounds access like arr[arr.length + 1]
oh I agree with you entirely, but the fact that pro-2nd-amendment nutters (the idea that there isn't an established militia in the US is clearly absurd) are pro-police in cases like this is what makes me particularly mad, and why I brought it up.
> Things like road surfaces that don't need to be replaced every couple of years,

I remembered this article where they discuss self-healing materials for use in road construction: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/4/15544156/potholes-self-hea...
New SF Bay Area Free Music Promotion Site
>Right, but when you unlink it from your home directory, the file still exists in the git repo.

That's a feature.
Mercifully, there was no requisite simpleton analogy like "that is the equivalent of stacking VHS tapes to the moon" or some idiotic thing like that.
There's no problem with overpopulation, globally. The population is forecast to max out at around 10B. The problem is that a small section of humanity use a completely disproportionate share of resources. We also have a consumerist culture that keeps upsizing our desires, often in banal and wasteful ways. E.g. SUVs and blow-up lawn ornaments.

EDIT> I would say that advertising is a worse problem than overpopulation.
In addition to legal barriers there are also technical ones. You have to run a scrub job to delete all data by prior tenants on a change of tenants. That job neccessarily has to overwrite the entire SSD and thus adds both wear to the device as well as takes time (around 30-60 minutes according to [0]). The SSD is soldered onto the PCB so it would be hard to replace it with something virtualized (or smaller that'd take less time to overwrite).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25562532

So you won't be able to rent out one device to dozens of tenants per day who each use it for ten minutes or so while ensuring inter-tenant isolation.

Last, those Apple rules might as well be non-enforceable legally, but Apple might still retaliate by e.g. removing apps from their store that were uploaded by tenants of those EU companies.
This is how one disciplines naughty toddlers.

So now it’s a good thing for a strict nanny state to tell us how to get to our candy. What’s next? A whack on the knuckles?

Altho’ this does seem like a very English thing to do. (Ok. Now say that again with an Etonian inflection.)
For security reasons, I recommend that people not answer this question.
Calvin, I know little about Montreal. They use rubber tires and I have only ridden it twice, it is quieter than steel on turns. It may be dirtier? These wikis will give you most of what you want.
Below Bloor Street it is fully underground. North of there a mixed bag - open where there was ravine land, underground where the cost to buy houses was excessive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_subway

Yes, As Sinclair intimates - conflict occurs = breakfast, lunch and dinner....
reddit works like this if you get downvoted and only get to post every 10 minutes. it tells you you have to wait 1 more minute, and then a minute later it tells you you have to wait 59 more seconds, very counterintuitive. gets me every time when I have a post typed out and it's putting me on timeout for going against the grain (like e.g. suggesting that mob justice is bad)
Ave atque vale. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/950886281/reginald-foster-wor...
Most of my affiliate websites are below 150k place in Alexa, so I could bet there’s plenty of them in those stats.
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From the article:

"A quantum computer, however, can sidestep the brute-force calculation by simulating the quantum process directly — allowing bosons to interfere and sampling the resulting distribution."

Uhhmmmm... it sounds to me like they are performing an experiment and measuring the results.

It's not a simulation if you actually perform the physical experiment.

This seems a bit like saying "A hurricane will simulate a hurricane better and much faster than a supercomputer".

Umm, true enough, I guess. But can you make a hurricane do anything useful besides just being a hurricane?
> we can be certain that there hasn't been any contact

Conspiracy theories always find a way. Someone can believe that 5G causes COVID (and equally inexplicably, 4G doesn't) can believe this is still part of a cover-up.
Premium-feeling laptops that aren't Apple machines.

Yes yes, I get the economical barriers. I'm past caring. It is so incredibly frustrating to look outside the Apple ecosystem and feel like the entire PC industry is content to sell the bare minimum of quality (outside of Gamer hardware, which looks obscene - but I get that it's subjective).

It's a horrible business idea on the numbers and nobody would do this, but if some lunatic out there wants to blow the money, build and sell a laptop at whatever price point you want that:

- Supports CoreBoot

- Isn't a rebranded Clevo shell and has close enough fit and finish to a recent MacBook. Read: No. Plastic. Case.

- If there is ever the phrase "panel lottery" uttered about your machine, you've messed up.

- No logos, or throw them on the underside like Purism.

- The screen has to be relatively close to the MacBook in brightness + viewing angles. Give me an option for a glossy screen.

- Trackpad must be glass. You won't get close to the MBP trackpad on the first or second pass, but try.

- Go for some crazier vertical integration ala the M1. I don't care if it blocks upgrading certain parts, since I consider the industry to move fast enough that I won't _want_ the machine anymore in 4-5 years.

- There is no need for touch of any kind, nor the ability to flip the screen or anything. Just make a damn laptop.

- Edit: high quality boutique feeling support. I don't need an Apple Store equivalent, but at least invest in this.

I get why Apple can do all of the above. I would pay literally twice what I pay Apple for a competing product. Currently, every laptop that I try feels like stepping back a few years.

The upcoming Purism Librem 14, in terms of images, feels like it could _feel_ close - but I'm not impressed with their other products so I'll believe it when I see it. I remain shocked that System76 hasn't bothered with this.

End my rant about this industry, I guess.
To a degree, but I also think this will be changing over time as more and more innocent people are found to have been convicted on false statements used through coercive lying tactics by the police.

For example, in this case police threatened to arrest the mans wife if he didn’t confess to killing his child (a new trial was ordered): https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/02/20/police-can-lie...

But they went on to say it was still acceptable to lie to suspects... I imagine this murky area of the law will eventually say that police cannot lie to suspects. The Central Park Five is mentioned in that article and is a blatant example of police lying to coerce testimony and then putting innocent children in prison.
No CCC Congress this year but rC3 online
That violates the 3-2-1 backup rule.

3 copies, 2 different media, 1 offsite.

I've seen large orgs do what you're saying and lose nearly everything because one bug took them out completely.