skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always, this thread is full of FUD instead of facts.

You are spot on with your 1% statement (which could be as little as half that, due to rounding). The percentage used is base on the figures set by the manufacturer. It is the one used in drive warranties. Also - worth pointing out that it doesnt mean the drives stop taking writes at 100%. This counter actually goes up to 255 (per spec), where 255 means 255+. Its literally just for life "expectancy".

Some people saying to ignore that and to look at TBW. They simply dont know what they are talking about! No discussion around the nand type on these drives. Is it SLC, MLC, TLC, QLC? or is it one if the hybrid modes, such as pSLC, or iTLC which act like the higher categories? This can mean the difference between <1k and >100k+ P/E cycles.

We simply dont know what the OS is doing. I know that I can have WAY more applications open (and remaining responsive) on my 8GB M1, than i could my 16GB i7. It doesnt feel like traditional swap - so maybe its not. Maybe its way more aggressive, suspending entire applications to disk in the background - taking advantage of the massive bandwidth to make the UX better at the cost of drive writes. We simply dont know.

From following the original thread, the vast majority of people reporting 1% usage since launch. There are a handful with higher usage than that. We dont know what these people are doing on those machines, but its evident from the figures that that the writes generally scale to the amount of ram on the machine. 8GB machines generally seem to be a lot less usage than 16GB. Maybe these people with HUGE amounts of writes are running a memory hog like chrome, which consumes all available ram on the machine, and which is paging when they background it. Some people reporting 8hr daily usage since launch with 200 drive power on hours (drive hours arent same as uptime, as drives can be suspended for power saving), others reporting 800 for same "uptime". Clearly it is due to the workload.

EITHER WAY, the "percentage used" is definitely the figure to go on, because only the manufacturer knows exactly what NAND types they are using (unless someone wants to enlighten us?) as well as the wear levelling algorithms on the controller.
So I am being asked to self-censor by "the community"? Was this comment downvoted because we're not allowed to talk about downvotes? But the topic is downvoting.

I'm genuinely curious and believe there is a better way to treat users on the internet other than handing out wrist slapping rights to everyone, and permitting petty downvoting without recourse or discourse.

I am not trolling, not spreading propaganda, have no hidden agenda, my analysis is fact-based, and I care. I may not be the best at it, but I try to make my points as accurately and respectfully as possible. But none of that matters.

I'm dead.
Reports and witnessing of UFOs are not something that started happening only in recent times. And by recent, I mean the last ~80 years (which is far longer than the 10-20 year window). You can find examples - stories and depictions of UFOs - throughout the history.
Driver's seat would be on the wrong side, so in for the US we'd need to import cars from places like SA that are right hand drive.
Homebrand really looks like someone went the extra-mile to make it look cheap and cost less.

It's the kind of design you would expect at a government facility lowest bid kinda thing.
Mine was a galaxy a50. (Non-flagship).
You say "the first 2" yet those were hand picked by the post author among the many, many posts on twitter reporting 1%.
Jup, that's how it went with me. Read first hyperion, then had to dive into keats because he was such a central figure - in a sci fi book which måde me just more so curious.
Sad to hear these stories. For me, Fry's was the opposite. I wouldn't call them experts, but they were more knowledgeable than the competition (Best Buy, etc). Also, no other place in this city that has some of the components they would sell. Now the only option is to buy online.
Part of the market niche segmentation is that non-USPS carriers are banned from the 'dregs'.
The marketing material for the display used in TFA shows a video being played at (almost) acceptable frame rates with little ghosting, for what it’s worth.
Apple better come to my house and fix it here or just bring me a new laptop. I'll take a normal intel at this rate. I don't have the time for them to monkey around with it.

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)

Critical Warning: 0x00

Temperature: 29 Celsius

Available Spare: 100%

Available Spare Threshold: 99%

Percentage Used: 2%

Data Units Read: 18,188,656 [9.31 TB]

Data Units Written: 23,776,092 [12.1 TB]
Taiwan exists as a country because of the US’ refusal to let them take it.
I’ve been on Upwork as a buyer for years. It’s tremendous for getting great talent on a short term basis. Top rate I’ve paid I think is some close to or just over $100/hour, so it’s definitely not just for low-end stuff.

I’ve learned (the hard way) about being very, very clear with deliverables and expectations. Based on the average response I get on Upwork, it would seem the median buyer is much more susceptible to contractors blowing smoke. So one has to be careful.

But overall, as several hundred thousand dollars client over the years, it’s been a godsend.
How specifically, do the commission fees work on a per contract basis?
> Demand doesn't bring prices down. Or not much anyway.

In my experience in the display industry, the main driver of price is cost and the main driver of cost is volume. If a customer puts in a signed escrowed order for a million displays lilke what Apple did, then processes get scaled, factories get built, and per-unit prices go down.

That my understanding of how 6" matrix E-Ink displays went from costing thousands of dollars per display when they were being built in low volumes of hundreds of displays to costing sub-50 when they were being built for Sony, Amazon and others in volumes of hundreds of thousands of displays. The same is true of the LCD industry and the OLED industry. The same is true of the cellphone industry.

> And with patents competition is impossible

I can't understand what exactly you're talking about. Is this the E-Ink-is-expensive-because-of-patents trope? I've asked before whenever I see this trope on HN, what specific patent are you referring to? Patent thicket? This extraordinary claim requires evidence. I go to SID, never heard anyone claiming this kind of stuff. Tonnes of competition but physics, featureset, costs, volume, customer demand gets in the way. It is why even well funded companies like Liquavista-Amazon and Mirasol-Qualcom didn't make it.
Yeah, what I dislike about Upwork is that after they take thousands of dollars from me for their service, they still want me to pay for applying for new work.

I’m the one that spends time filtering through their cluttered job list, I’m the one trying to convince people to hire me, I’m the one doing the work, they process the payments and they still milk me massively. Eventually I deleted my account and went working just on Toptal.

There I have no idea how much they earn from my work but at least I get dozens of offers every time I become available.

I think Upwork just has to deal with too many disputes on low budget jobs and because of that their processes alienate high earning devs.
You are thinking of this (owned by Kroger's):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Food_and_Drug

Similar logo, but different store, although they do share an origin.
Yes, I remember, thank you! That's how I got started with go-fuzz.
And this is Exhibit A on why I don't want any computer I spend a lot of money on to have a non-replaceable SSD. Inevitably, it will turn into a brick, or at least a poor excuse for a laptop that only runs off external drives.
Systemd, which handles DNS configuration, literally defaults to Google's DNS resolvers (giving Google each and every server that your computer tries to contact, and allowing Google to censor or redirect you elsewhere).
> I think the three greatest living language designers are Niklaus Wirth, Anders Hejlsberg, and Bjarne Stroustrup.

Andrers Hejlsberg is an interesting choice because of how uniquely excellent and influential he has been at his particular niche of what I'd call "last mile language design".

How anyone not suffering from Stockholm Syndrome could think that Stroustrup would come before all of, say: Kay, Goldberg, Ungar, Steele, Kelley, Hoare, Moore, Kernighan, Ierusalimschy, Figueiredo, Hewitt, Kowalski, Virding, Williams, van Rossum, Liskov, Omohundro, Dolstra and on and on is a bit hard for me to understand personally though -- but maybe these are just my biases speaking. There is no doubt his work has been highly impactful and (unlike say, php or perl) has been and continues to be the tool of choice for many of the world's top programmers.
I find her articles a bit too long and flowery as well, but I personally enjoyed reading the first story. And for some reason people on HN seem to like it.
It should animate the text while unfolding, but, other than that, there's no need to know what was unfolded. You just click what you don't know and eventually read the relevant info!
This is a decision that the Microsoft CEO gets briefed on, and can veto, but largely an independent subsidiary doing something like this doesn’t come from the mother ship.
> It is absurd to expect that they would backport support for an _entirely new architecture_, a monumental engineering effort, to previous versions of macOS.

What they could easily do, however, is to release a new version of macOS which is not more locked down than historical versions.

> If you are going to claim that Big Sur is more locked down than the previous release, I'd also like to see citations about that.

Snow Leopard didn't have Gatekeeper. Things are clearly going in a particular direction.

Also, inconveniences are "more locked down" or else you could argue that nothing is ever locked down because all you have to do is find a security vulnerability and jailbreak the device.
One of our largest chains here in Germany (REWE) has 4 house brands with many overlapping products in each.

"ja!" (yes!) is the cheapest and looks cheap. Next is "Beste Wahl" (best choice) which is more expensive and followed by "Bio" (Organic), again slightly more expensive and obviously organic. Finally, there is "Feine Welt" (Fine/Tasty World) which has the highest prices and more specialty items.

The designs of "Beste Wahl" and "Bio" look about equal, "ja!" clearly looks cheap and "Feine Welt" looks fancy: https://i.imgur.com/YA9VTyZ.png

edit: And before REWE bought them, we had a chain called SKY. When they introduced a new, very cheap, house brand the internal name was "Aldinative Produkte", a portmanteau of our discounter "Aldi" and "alternative" ;)
Moving Day: When All New Yorkers Moved on May First (2017)
I used to have a Toshiba r500 with a transflective screen, it was kinda great outside but kinda crap inside, the viewing angle was abysmal.
No! I always loved browsing the isles at Fry’s, awesome memories.

I’d been asking the network engineers at my employer to set up a rack of routers and for months and the response was always no, too busy, can’t get parts, etc. So I bought a bunch of $2 Ethernet cards and a passive hub from Fry’s, wired it up with bright red Ethernet cable, told them I had a network now so they could take off. Four hours later a guy comes by with a hand cart full of the unobtainable routers and is ready to install.

Another memorable tale from Fry’s - one of my peers bought a CPU and managed to smoke it first try. He returned it to Fry’s and picked another off the shelf, got home - it was the same CPU. He returned it again, got another CPU off the shelf, got home - same CPU again. Third time he went and got a CPU off the shelf first then returned the old one, and was then able to go home and finish his server build.
The pre-soaking is supposed to help with digestability (I can't find the exact name of the substance it removes) a pressure cooker of course cooks it faster but it is not very convenient (also you can cook them without a pressure cooker - pre-soaking helps with this as well)

But yeah canned beans are easier. There are also some vacuum packed ones

"Canned doesn't taste as good" you still have to season them
It’s percentage of available wear, not space.
That's fascinating, my father works in Australian mine sites and I can't wait to tell him about this. He wouldn't be a potential customer, he'd just be fascinated as I am.

I love that this is borne of a real world need for an industry not initially related to software, identifying cross-industry problems is what a lot of founders have trouble doing because they don't have much exposure to other industries.

Applying software to other industries is what really gets me excited. Do you mind me asking what city you're currently operating from? Good work identifying the problem and building a solution, good luck and I wish you all the best.
But do you believe in evolution? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgk8UdV7GQ0
Wow that's really cool - thanks for sharing. This almost makes me want to get a new 3ds! I just have an old one. But I can't think of any other reason to upgrade. These days I'm living on the switch :)
Do you have reason to believe this was endemic to the whole company, or could it have just been your store?
Well, yes. For decades rural routes have been served using Right Hand Drive Jeeps built for export markets (Australia, NZ, SA, etc.)
Ask HN: What email tool do you think everyone should be using?
What tool do you use that you feel is a must-have when you're doing email?

I'm referring to services such as Front, Superhuman, Calendly, aliasing, parsers... How do you use it?
They just wanted to weed out small time freelancers. The fee is 5% for >$10K customer-freelancer relationship... My average fee is about 7-8%, or about 10% including what the customer pays.
Trader Joe's is Aldi's chain, right? Do you have Aldi too in addition?
I think everything that can be costed does. After all, human lives have a well established value now. Why not the environment they live in?
> a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

The Google definition is the same definition that academics use. Exactly the same.

The sibling you references is correct - "privilege already had widely used emotional connotations that made it an insult to call someone privileged." but it's not academics that implied that meaning onto it.

Also, can we have a discussion about these academic concepts without immediately ascribing "political goals"? We're talking about specific sociological concepts. Can we stick to that instead of ascribing subjective "goals" to people's research or ideas?
I'm a bit hazy on details. Their commission is per-client. If the total payment between the client and freelancer is less than $500, the commission is 20%. It gets lower to 15% and 10% when you earn more. But it never teaches zero, and that is in addition to payment fees. You pay a fixed fee for withdrawals, or the bank withdrawals offer 3-5% low rates compared to market currency buying rates.
Well, it seems I have 100 € rebate fo the Pixel 4a 5G. Now that the charging works again, I'll just wait, no need to replace the perfectly fine phone I have for now.
I’ve always been curious, if you’re working on a really complex system with lots of disparate services (or even if you are using a managed database like Spanner for example), what does your development environment look like? Do you spin up containers for all the services? Run a compatible RDBMS instead of the managed database? All my experience has been with systems that can be set up locally - how do you go about developing/testing/debugging without that?
I hope you're that forgiving by default to all leaders who's organizations / countries make controversial decisions, and aren't just being a Microsoft apologist.
This is more or less how I got into programming, I just liked games and wanted to make mine! By the time that I had started to be skilled in writing code, I realised that I found it more interesting to build the foundations (graphics, physics, logic, AI, all those systems) compared to the game itself. It bothered me for quite a while that I didn't manage to finish anything very substantial (a lot of small jam games and whatnot, nothing commercial), but eventually I reconciled with the fact that I'm just interested in building the engine, not the game. And that's all fine!
> The repair bar employees would regularly rifle through customers’ hard drivers and keep the juciest pictures

Pretty creepy. And this is from a well known company/establishment.
Rocket League Changed My Son’s Brain and Why You Should Play It Too
I was confused on most examples I got because they started in the middle of a block comment. That's clearly wrong, but was it an artefact of the presentation rather than the generation?
I've been using aliasing pretty heavily. Currently I'm relying on Fastmail's built-in aliases. You can use your own domain and set it so that a wildcard *@yourdomain.com works. It helps me do more filtering than I would with Gmail filters (using sieve rules).

I'm curious what other people here have as their email tooling.
This makes me a little sad. I owe some of the fun and great learning experiences I had in my earlier days to Fry's.

Here are some memories I have from their Austin location that started around the early 2000s - a time when I was transitioning away from being a music major and just starting to dabble in programming and pc hardware:

- I had a basic Dell desktop that helped me through college. Back then, base models came with around 512 MB of RAM. It got awfully slow, and Fry's helped upgrade it to 2 GB of RAM! I was amazed at the difference that made.

- I always had fun browsing their isles. During one of my first trips, I came across Linux distros they sold via CD; those introduced me to Linux nearly two decades ago. I eventually became a full-time Linux user, and have been ever since.

- I bought my first mechanical keyboard from Fry's after feeling what it felt to type on display samples available on shelves.

- Back when I had a DVD collection, 25%-50% of it was likely from Fry's.

- I still have a PHP 4 book I bought from Fry's. It introduced me to my first PHP and Apache install. I remember the fun I had working through that book.

- Eventually, the vast hardware they used to keep in stock got the better of me. An old friend made the trip with me to help me buy parts I'd need to custom-build a pc. And over pizza and beer, we built my first desktop together. It replaced my old Dell mentioned above. I've built every one of my desktops since then, some of which used hardware from Fry's.

- And for a time, anytime I convinced myself I needed additional storage or a faster CPU, I immediately looked forward to going to Fry's.

Those may not sound spectacular, but I think others in this thread will relate to some of them. Personally, what I valued the most, in hindsight, was having a place I could go to and physically experience or navigate paths of my growing curiosity in programming and pc hardware.

The Fry's in Austin is still open, and I'm aware of it's barron nature, but even so, I might make one last trip.
> independent subsidiary

I hope you will forgive me if I refuse to believe in such a thing having worked at large companies (non-Microsoft, tbf)
> Maybe they are suspending entire applications to disk in the background

This tactic of suspending unused tabs has MASSIVELY reduced by browser memory usage. Originally with "The Great Suspender" then built into FF natively when I switched to that. This should be used everywhere.

It's seriously game changer for some like me who keeps open 100 tabs.
tradeogre but they told me it is classified as high risk
Hopefully cryptocurrency payments is an option. ZK-Rollups now enable Visa scale throughput for payments on Ethereum so crypto is primed for widespread usage.

Linkedin could stick with USDC, which is an FDIC insured USD-backed ERC20 token, to avoid the volatility associated with crypto-assets, while providing a more seamless globally accessible alternative to the legacy banking/payments system.

EDIT: privacy is still a big issue though. Linkedin's payment graph would be published to the blockchain with no obfuscation, which would undoubtedly create significant liabilities. Privacy is data and computationally intensive, so ZK-Rollup throughput capacity would decline from 3,000 tps to 300 tps with confidentiality added.
Yes. But that's what market places are for, to reach out new customers. If you have a relationship with a client for more than 10K, why continue to pay 5% on top of payment fees?

They messaging software is not very useful, and time tracking feature is hostile for many.

A more comparable feature would be for the client to pay a fixed fee to post, and allow them to work outside upwork.
Even the picture hurts my eyes
> And, generally speaking, anyone who you could hope to convince of your point can smell this from a mile off.

The kind of folks who can "smell" parroted points are reacting emotionally and viscerally, yet seem to think it is others that cannot make cohesive/rational arguments.

More and more I see that there is no hope to trying to convince these people of anything - they've already made up their minds about these concepts and are not interested in having their minds changed.
This is the best article on software (and a bit of hardware) architecture I’ve read in a long time.
It's not a difficult problem to cost though is it, if we continue on the path we are on and destroy all biodiversity, we'll have killed the planet that sustains us and the side effects will quickly destroy our civilization. Thus the cost is infinite.

We can't survive without other life on earth, and life on earth dies without enough biodiversity.
The plan to mine the world’s research papers (2019)
I doubt it's anywhere near as loud or jarring as the current USPS trucks.
The Dreamcast was an incredible platform. I've owned most console systems and nothing compares in terms of innovation during its time.

I remember the VMU memory cards that allowed you to call your plays on NFL 2k to remove the issue of your opponent screen-camping and guessing your play. Or to care for your Tamagotchi.

They created a second-screen experience so early. Did anyone else do that before?

Games like Soulcalibur remained very relevant into the next-gen. People still, in 2021, yearn for football like we saw with the 2k series. And while I still have nightmares of how far some my buddy's LE could dive-sack my QB, those were some great memories and great gameplay.

Also loved the portable Sega Nomad during road trips but especially the CDX which was a portable CD, Sega CD and Sega Genesis player. Would you take a look at that thing? [1] A 2lb portable CD / game system. It's beautiful.

I mowed my parents yard listening to tunes on that thing and later played Lunar. An incredible story and game where you couldn't just level up and beat it easily. They programmed the bosses to level up in relation to your level. Seems so simple in retrospect but it made for a rewarding finish and perfect game.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis#/media/File:Sega-...
Man, I didn't expect that to be 36 pages long. Crazy amount of patents.