skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compact flash cards do in fact employ wear leveling. Though there may be some very old cards which do not.

I have a few systems running 9front from CF. I also use CF cards in IDE adapters to replace spinning rust disks in retro systems. (edit: typo)
I just spoke to a very interesting lobbyist on the plane about how what’s really going on is there is a race between Facebook and China to own the global digital currency market. And fb is trying to tie all their 3B users under a single payments.
Nothing better than a website that starts playing sound as soon as you open it!
Or we can all delete our social media and keep those nasty thoughts to ourselves.
They used to rely heavily on AWS and Azure, but they've moved a lot in-house now.
There are a few addon boards (for $15-30, most shipping after the new year) that take the CM4 that extra mile: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/iss...

I'm most excited about a few with mini PCIe or M.2 slots on the bottom.
Apple has a self host cloud division as well as AWS according to news reports. Unclear if they run on Linux but it seems likely they must, even a bit if using AWS. Theoretically they could probably upload custom AMIs with macOS.
The security here means it's been made by the Russian government to be used by the Russian government. The supply chain is domestic and supposed to be more resistant to a potential adversary, so the resulting hardware is usable in sensitive (natsec) matters.

That's why the author wasn't able to obtain one before: they simply never bothered releasing it for non-government use.
I reformatted this into a reasonably readable online version: https://gist.io/@llimllib/58812e1ee1d7fa5196b2afc46a566ff6
> What I don't agree with is that this bad. These are minor inconveniences

The positive externality is even more minor. You are suffering for no good reason.
And in some good news on that front, the eMMC storage on the CM4 is twice as fast in many cases as older generations of Pi CMs, as it uses the full 8 bit eMMC bus. It's finally faster (for random IO at least) than any microSD card I've tested.
To a large extent the equation is already flipping. Solar and wind are getting cheaper every year and will decisively beat fossil fuels on a dollar per watt basis eventually.

I believe we need to go faster than what is economically feasible because according to the IPCC we are on track to a +4C world by 2100 where a +2C change will already lead to catastrophic consequences for civilization.

Government regulation and individual altruism is necessary, but not sufficient, to solve the emissions problem. There are other tools though. Government incentives can change the economics to make necessary changes happen faster. For example California's cap and trade system has enabled new business opportunities, which reduce climate change. There are companies that make money by gathering old refrigerant and incinerate it to sell carbon offsets because of cap and trade. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/kwhnz8b
20 sq m is roughly 215 sq ft, not 400 sq ft as mentioned in the post.

215 vs 700 is a very different story from 400 vs 700.
I really dislike it when EPS is discussed as if it's a different metric to P/E.

It's like claiming some deeper insight from the area of a square vs. its side length.
Subtraction makes sense here as you are trying to find the excess yield of equity over dividend.

A yield of bond: 0.5, equity 4 vs bond: 1, equity: 4.5 doesn't change his argument, but changes the ratio significantly.
Russia’s SolarWinds Attack – Schneier on Security
The problem isn't at all soil or nutrients: those are cheap and make up a very small fraction of the final mass of food. Instead, it's energy required to power photosynthesis, turning them into delicious calories.
Early in the pandemic I bought a bidet, not wanting to compete with the demand for toilet paper. Since then there has been a huge decrease in frequency of plunger use in the house. Once you get used to it it generally seems like a big increase in quality of life.
I'm pretty sure most humans are nice to each other because they enjoy it and feel obligated to be nice, not for reward nor fear of punishment.
Please make your points without personal swipes. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence—it's quite interesting. There was no need to spoil it with a personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Has anyone considered investing in emerging markets overseas?
The markets over there should be more akin to the "golden age" in the west. I looked a bit into it. In general you need higher risk tolerance and I was disappointed to find that stocks often under performed compared to US tech stocks. But maybe still a wiser investment in the long run.
From all my testing, it looks like the maximum throughput you can get on the entire PCIe x1 gen 2 lane on the CM4 is about 3.2-3.4 Gbps.

But that's still better than the current maximum of 1 Gbps over Ethernet, or the ~3 Gbps I have tested through a USB 3.0 card.
I think that there are a couple effects here.

One is that $15/hr is a dramatic underestimate of the opportunity cost for many of the people who would otherwise be eating out. Minimum wage in Mountain View & Sunnyvale is $16.05/hour. My wife & my salaries, if converted to hourly, would be several hundred / hour. We cook at home because we're salaried and so don't actually reap that opportunity cost in cash, and because the transaction costs of finding a restaurant, driving to it, and waiting for food dwarf the food preparation time (indeed, if we're already in the car near food we're far more likely to eat out). Which brings me to...

Transaction costs for meals out are really high, largely because of the automobile. Restaurants in the U.S. are spread out, with large amounts of parking that the restaurant owner needs to pay for. Because you have to hop in the car to go elsewhere, you're far more likely to wait for a table rather than find a less full restaurant. That means restaurant owners need to build in waiting space (more rent), and host staff (more labor), and carefully predict staffing needed (more labor). It means patrons waste time waiting for a table, and then ordering, and they're locked into their choice of restaurant once they show up, which means that they're more inclined to research options carefully before picking where to eat.

I visited my in-laws in Taiwan last year, and the food culture & economics are dramatically different there. Restaurant meals out are the equivalent of $US4-5. Most restaurants are what we'd call fast-casual: you walk in, the menu is posted behind the counter, you order, get your food, and sit down at a small number of tables. When you're done you wipe up your area and bus your food yourself. The whole restaurant is usually family owned & operated; there might be 3-4 employees total. If the place is full, you walk next door to the equally-good restaurant there. ("Destination" restaurants like Din Tai Fung do exist, and they charge American-ish prices of $20-50/plate.) This is all within walking distance of your apartment, so when you're hungry you take the elevator down, walk outside, and find someplace, with minimal search or transportation costs. As a result, there's a big culture of eating out, and most people have just a kitchenette and don't use it for many meals.
When I was there, a variety of brands of hardware, mostly running RHEL. In fact running OS-X in datacenters was verboten, and eventually limited to a couple of small racks running on their own network segments where you could put in a mac pro if desperately needed to.
I've definitely seen a difference between college students who are there because they are paying their own money to make an investment in themselves and kids that feel society owes them a degree.

Congratulations on having a plan, following it, and then paying off your education. It is good to hear people saying that when so many stories are of people who never had a plan that are now complaining it is too hard to pay off all the debt they took on.
Redistributing crops for free means creating a catch-22 situation guaranteeing they will never have local farmers.

Why be a subsistence farmer or cash cropper when the local market is flooded with free food?
> It's a large part of their Mac user base.

Is it really? Lots of devs use Macs, yes. But compared to the sheer number of regular, non-dev users, that has to be tiiiiny.

I found lots of stats on the internet about what percentage of developers use Macs, but none about how just many Mac users are developers, so it'd be fascinating to see that number of anyone can find it.
AAA = ?

Anti-Alias Something?
It sounds like upper management said no to the server market years ago and doesn’t want to sell a “server”. But they’ll happily sell you a Mac mini to build a server farm.
Public schools did not drop out of the sky by surprise. We, as a society, intentionally created them because private schools (which predate public schools by hundreds of years) were not meeting society’s needs.

I think the scale of public schooling is not widely understood. A bit over 56 million kids attended school in the U.S. in fall 2020. Of those, almost 51 million attended public schools—-almost 90%. Private schools cannot take up that volume; they never could. Again, that’s why we created public schools in the first place.

It’s not so different from why we created public roads, even though private versions already existed.
WorkBoy: Lost Game Boy Add-On Found After 28 Years – Game History Secrets
- With Apple stuff, I try to trade it in or dispose of it, due to the non-user-replaceable lithium ion batteries inside them.

DO NOT KEEP UNUSED APPLE EQUIPMENT IN YOUR HOUSE.

I used to keep my Apple gear around, but I had an old iPad in my dresser drawer and one day discovered that the battery had expanded to dangerous levels and was close to bursting.

I don't feel like having my house burn down, so I get rid of old Apple stuff ASAP.

- With PC gear, I tend to keep it around and use it for Linux stuff until the usefulness vs wattage no longer makes sense.
In other words no one believes these companies are as valuable as they are. People are seeking somewhere easy to grow their money.
Incidentally I've noticed the voting bouncing around in this comment but you all should be hammering it, it is a supremely dumb comment (WireGuard will never be FIPS compatible, but Curve25519 is obviously not why).
> He then peaced out of my life but that part stuck.

I guess he decided raising his child would cut too much into his savings rates.

I don't disagree with his stance descriptively, but if we embrace it, it means committing ourselves to an amoral, spiritually impoverished future.
The fact that Shiller had to come up with a new metric to rationalize exuberance should be worrying.

"The time had come, as in all periods of speculation, when men sought not to be persuaded of the reality of things but to find excuses for escaping into the new world of fantasy."

– John Kenneth Galbraith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Crash,_1929
I support rent control fully, but it does nothing to lower rents. It keeps them the same, at best. It's a way to protect current tenants, which is good, and we should support, as an "ownership-lite" model of residency.

But it's only one, very small, tool in the arsenal to make cities work for the people. It must be accompanied by robust protections to new people as well. The flaw with rent control in isolation is that it assumes that people never move, are never born, and never die, and that cities never change. In order for rent control to be a useful tenant protection, it must be accompanied by robust rebuilding when more people need to live in the city.
I've heard brains have a "plasticity" -- so they adapt to whatever activity you do most. I guess this makes me think that if you do more high-quality reading, your brain will naturally adapt.

My problem is I tried to increase my retention, which for me meant stopping and thinking about what I'd read. This obviously slowed down my words-per-minute -- but I do feel like I developed good recall. Maybe the trick is learning not to sacrifice one for the other.

About limiting distractions: I switched from reading on my Kindle to books. Having one dedicated hard copy of a single work which I'm committed to reading sort of "re-frames" the activity. Sometimes (before the pandemic) I'd go off someplace peaceful where there were trees and empty spaces, and then break out my book.

I also decided it was more important that I enjoy the act of reading every page than to focus on how many books I finished. Maybe another approach to your problem would be to re-visit your original question. I'm hope I'm not being dismissive here, but what is it that you're trying to accomplish with a higher WPM? (It seems like at least some of that could be accomplished by, for example, freeing up more time for reading, even at slower speeds.)
> Because Apple really doesn't care about anything to do with developers.

Are you serious?

Apple's single biggest event of the year is a developer conference. They aren't putting on week-long events for video editors.

They also provided a bunch of Mac minis to Mac Stadium for OSS developers to build on.

They added virtualization to the M1 (it isn't on the A series) and have HyperKit built into the OS is all specifically for developers.
Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone
The archive on the website looks stale but the newsletter is still active by email. The latest newsletter was Issue #534 emailed on 2020-12-19.
> He said he couldn't hang out at a library because he didn't have a library card

But at the same time his plan for changing his life was to start going to the library. :)
Why should it be illegal? From a US perspective, I don't think selling words/ideas should be illegal in most cases--especially just because it could be used for doing something illegal. For instance, there are books which describe chemical processes for synthesizing methamphetamine (https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Methamphetamine-Manufacture-U...). But they are not illegal, because if they were it would infringe upon freedom of speech. Deciding what can and cannot be sold/published is a very authoritarian path to go down. It is better to just outlaw the criminal behavior.
It will be very interesting to see how Norways coastal highway project turns out.[1] They plan to bridge and tunnel some massive fjords, some >1km deep, similar to the Straight of Gibraltar (~900m max depth). Plans are in the works for floating pontoon bridges as well as submerged tunnels. Depending on which solutions they choose and what their findings will be, if it works out when built an actual road/train connection between the continents could become - at least technically - feasable.

[1] https://www.vegvesen.no/en/roads/Roads+and+bridges/Road+proj...
Ask HN: Is there a note taking app you're 100% happy with?
Is there any app you're happy with 100%? I just can't find anything that fully satisfies my note-taking experience.

1 - Evernote is too buggy, and it feels like every editor does different things, there is no consistency to it, and it seems so old and outdated

2 - Notions web clipper sucks, doesn't pull italics correctly or numbered lists and app takes too long to load up...

3 - OneNote has no sorting capabilities and can't clip .webp
From experience, the small (but not sole proprietor type) firms are owned by people whose community is other small firm owners. They're almost a landed gentry of store and factory owners in rural America.
Thanks. I will unflag.
Any two player game will work, tic-tac-toe, fences, checkers, tetris. I particularly enjoyed a programming competition that involved a real time tank battle, like "combat" on the atari.

Any game that's grid based with a fixed number of states works well, either turn-based or real time.

You can do a double elimination bracket like a sports tournament, and can be done on a spreadsheet or whiteboard.

For more than two players at once, you could try snake, hearts, or poker.
I-5 interchange in WA lets motorists drive on the left side of the road
They tried, but it's just not their DNA. Apple isn't a B2B enterprise company, they're a B2C consumer company that, as a side effect of their consumer success, ended up with a decent number of devices in enterprises. But they know they can't, and don't want to try, to win against the big entrenched enterprise players.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-apple-had-to-kill-the-xser...
>It's sometimes hard to get a grasp on the old-world way of software development if it's not something you grew up with.

I lived through that, the first PC I used had DOS with 5'25" floppies.

On 3DFX, it was a mini-GL in firmware, low level. Glide somehow looked better than the later games with DirectX, up to Directx7 when games looked a bit less "blocky".

>For example Linux 24 years ago didn't have a package manager

Late 90's Linux is very different from mid 90's. Slackware in 1999 was good enough, and later with the 2.4 kernel it was on par on w2k, even Nvidia drivers worked.

And I could run even some games with early Wine versions.
Aren't you hungry when going to bed?
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

This gives more context: https://wptavern.com/what-is-full-site-editing-and-what-does...
Zuckerberg hospital? What a fucking hubris.
I don't understand the significance of this.

Could someone who does add some context?
If your take away from "the world seems to be becoming less and less livable for most" is "I need to get on the side of the abusers as fast as I can", you might want to take a hard look at the person you have become.
>There's a fundamental unfairness in putting in work to make your local community great, making it so good that rich people want to live there,

Actually that is a the result of an incredibly skewed tax policy. Prop 13 means that the government cannot derive any significant tax income from residential property. It is forced to allow commercial property because it brings in tax money. This means you will always have more commercial property than residential property. Land owners want this because it raises their property values. The government wants this because it's the only way to fund itself.

When you look at the reality of what you are doing you are actually incredibly selfish. You are creating jobs and moving them away from rural places but at the same time you are not building enough housing so that people can live near those jobs. You do this because you want the value of your property to go up. Then once those people are coming because you moved all the jobs to your city you start complaining because they want to work there.

There is this misconception that it's "rich people" who want to live there when the reality is that those people only became rich after they arrived in your city. It's you who created them.

>, and then being told that the community no longer has room for you because the rent is too high.

Well, that's exactly what you wanted. You wanted more jobs meaning more people but you did not want more housing which means someone has to go. If you call this unfair then you have no one to blame other yourself.
We Found the Factories Inside China’s Mass Internment Camps
No. I agree the article is not well written, and I think this is a case where the author is not the best placed to communicate the issue in a convincing way, he has literally been personally defending thousands of individuals directly affected by the manufacture of PFOS, so it's understandable how the subject is an extremely emotional one for him.

The parent's principle is in fact quite applicable in this case due to the lack of arguments presented along side facts and explanation, but that does not justify over generalizing it to argument from all committed people.
It's not about the percentage of users.

Developers fuel their platform. Without developers MacOS and iOS are nothing. Apple knows this.
I think SF has already taken the hint that they can outsource their residents to Oakland.

Residents strain the city budget via things like public schools. Businesses put money into the city budget via gross receipts taxes.

SF wants the businesses but is very happy for residents to live elsewhere.
Lets tear your argument to pieces:

> At the height of Chinese export economy, manufacturing sector "only" accounted for 400M jobs.

Based on highly doubtful statistics, and methodology. It might have been a double digit percentage lesser than that.

> There was also less automation then.

The total ratio of labour per output of light industry for lion share of goods did not change since eighties.

> The takeaway is world demand is not sufficient to uplift even a majority of Chinese population to barely middle income status.

This is the sole ultimately true point.

> There simply isn't enough global demand or resources for every Chinese to live as well as the west.

A moot point with resources. We have enough of pretty much everything as extraction technologies improve. The only natural resource we may ran out soon is wood..., ammusingly a largely renewable one.

> Manufacturing is increasingly automated,

No

> China is rapidly integrating industrial robots to retain industrial base.

No

> Even when those 600M can work wages cheaper than Vietnam or Bangladesh. Pending focus on neglected interior development, maybe they will at the expense of rest of region trying to replicate export led development.

Again, no. Chinese establishment don't give a flying .... about those 600M Chinese in inland provinces. Why would they? Why should they? They didn't even at the time when the digit was a double of that.

And the Chinese business, it has largely no interest working with middle age, expensive to train, and largely unruly social bottom feeder workforce.

They will rather go where they can get prime rib workforce for cheap. They need malleable young workers who are well schooled, trained, have low demands, no family to feed, no health issues, and are cream of the crop of their part of the social ladder. And yes, they need them in tonnes, and rock bottom prices on top of that.

China largely ran out of high quality factory employable workforce.
I liked the formatting style. However I could not make the syntax formatter work and the spaces combo didn't any difference. The indentation always use 4 spaces.
Careful, citizenship can still hide double allegiances [0]

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/former-raytheon-engineer-...
> I can feel my body producing enough melatonin

Could you describe what feeling you’re referring to here?
The hospital administrators insisted. He made what was clearly a mistake in letting them use his name after giving $70 million to the hospital his wife did her residency at.

Benioff Hospital would be unaffected, but only because it's in no way run by SF.
Holy shit. I remember reading about the Prenda Law saga on Popehat[0] awhile back, but I had no idea that these guys had actually been convicted. 14 years in prison for one and 5 years for another!

[0] https://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law/
Interesting that this is even possible from prison.
The amount of extra money you can make, and by extension the value you create, by entering the workforce four years earlier dwarfs the value created by the four years of restaurant work.
High budget. Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industry)
Children choose to save dogs over humans, adults chose 1 human over 100 dogs
How can you say that when the evidence is drastically against you? Even in this thread it was pointed out that gross water usage is down for decades across the state and especially in the cities.

This is clearly positive given that just a few years ago we were on the brink of water rationing, even with these measures in place.
Did you get a checkup? I had loss of sense of smell 4 years ago, some bacterial infection of paranasal sinus, treated with antibiotics. What I mean, maybe initially you lost it due to Corona, but some bacterial superinfection keeps it away.
MIT has a few courses open these days for sci comp and BLAS optimization https://mitmath.github.io/18337/ in Julia