skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 3.5 year old 8GB MBP:

Available Spare: 79%
Available Spare Threshold: 2%
Percentage Used: 15%
Data Units Read: 251,550,023 [128 TB]
Data Units Written: 228,761,896 [117 TB]
> Of course, it was embarrassing to have a cart full of that stuff as everyone would know you were poor.

I don't mean this to pick on you personally, but this sentence sums up so many problems with consumerism, advertising and it's ability to make us overpay. You don't look poor because you get the white label, you look financially responsible, unwilling to pay a branding premium for essentially the same product. Especially with things like corn where no one could differentiate between the white label and name brands.

These days the off brand labels have there own special stores like ALDI, which is even better because you don't have to fight the distraction of a dozen brands of the same thing.
> iOS [...] can run a full Linux userspace today!

Presumably you mean iPhones/iPad/etc hardware rather than the iOS operating system? Although I guess there are VM tools for iOS now?
This reminds me of my homebrew days making custom Guitar Hero 2 tracks. There was a great modding community (scorehero.com) around. This was before DLC was a thing, so if I wanted more content, I had to make it myself.
thanks that is really great perspective
Very cool! Is exporting the model as an FBX or in glTF on your roadmap?
Does happiness mean harmony or does happiness mean expression?

Therein lies the philosophical difference between the US and China.
Not to mention, the minute you open up the brain the situation is entirely different than when things were functioning in state. It's like figuring out how a functional car works by analyzing a bag of seemingly random parts and loose scrap metal. Biology is difficult science.
Shor's algorithm can be used for solving the discrete logarithm problem significantly faster (digital signing), but the miners are safe, so only a soft fork is needed.

Work is on the way to standardize a quantum-safe digital signature, but it takes years to get the best solution, and right now there's no time pressure.
"To be less white is to: [..] break with white solidarity"

All other forms of ethnic solidarity are encouraged, so how viable is it for whites to act as enlightened aracial individualists?
16gig model checking in with fairly heavy usage since late November

Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 1%
Data Units Read: 11,700,881 [5.99 TB]
Data Units Written: 38,044,983 [19.4 TB]
> It's just unfair to make yourself feel good by supporting these programs when you don't have any skin in the game.

The worst part about rent control is that there is zero accountability. Politicians pat themselves on the back for "lowering" prices without actually solving the underlying problem. The problem will only get worse over time until it becomes unbearable.
If you're in the USA - Snug Safety is a great option for seniors living alone who are not ready or don't want a Life Alert necklace.

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It must not be difficult to reach ~2K karma using a GPT-3 comment bot in a few days.
I’d really like some more convincing, actually — do you know this to be true, or does it sound like something we ought to be able to do in 2021?
And the top-level was seemingly referring to Gao by referencing the $80k in back rent.
All fines should be scaled to the net worth of the offender. It is not fair that a fine that would ruin the poor is treated by the rich as a game.
By spin around I mean keep turning around in your dream when you feel you're loosing it/waking up, don't close eyes in the dream but in reality you're lying down with closed eyes (without spinning)! :)
I think you are romanticizing the idea of a liberal arts degree. To put it shortly, engineers, certified mechanics, HVAC folks and other never have to go to such means to justify the existence of their educational programs. Only when we are talking about true liberal arts, do we see people wax poetic about everything other than the usefulness of the subject material.
Can't this easily be a userspace app overwriting a logfile or something thousands of times over? Spotify is rebuilding a cache in the background every minute, or some audio editing app misuses a sqlite database and it's writing the same stuff every second etc?

Any app/program can write to the disk. Why this is being framed as a hardware/OS error?
You've been down voted for technical inaccuracy.

I'll up vote you until someone opens the chip package and replaces or upgrades the ram.
If it’s the govt stopping you from collecting rent then the govt should make you whole.

This isn’t market risk. This is govt fiat that is causing the financial troubles.
A more in depth version, originally in Spanish: "Freddie Figgers, the baby who was dumped and is now a tech millionaire", BBC Outlook, February 20, 2021, from BBC Mundo via Google Translate:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https:/...

And the podcast which I just found (haven't listened to it yet). "The broken computer that unlocked my fortune."

"Abandoned at birth, Freddie Figgers became a tech prodigy. When his beloved adoptive dad got Alzheimer’s, Freddie invented a shoe with GPS tracking that led to his fortune."

09 February 2021, 23 minutes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p096h1fx
In what way /is/ this letter the first step in this direction?

> "But this ... this attempt at shutting down of opposition communication"

... is completely imaginary? A member of Congress writing a letter to Tyson Chicken asking what steps they took after the COVID incident of placing bets on how many workers would get infected, is not something you can reasonably turn into "this attempt at shutting down food production". It's not like these are secret backroom letters with threatening content released by whistleblowers to embarrass the senders, these letters were announced by official press release[1].

There is no attempt at shutting down of opposition communication in writing a letter that asks questions to which the media company can reply "we don't censor content". Do Anna Eshoo or Jerry McNerny have any unusual influence over funding or licensing (etc.) decisions for Cox, Alphabet, AT&T, Dish, than any other Congressperson, in a way that would make the letters carry more weight than their content suggests?

[1] https://eshoo.house.gov/media/press-releases/eshoo-mcnerney-...
> Speech can be well-regulated, just like other constitutional rights

Broadly, the opinion of SCOTUS has been that speech cannot be regulated outside of very particular circumstances, and those circumstances have, in general, been shrinking over time (from undefined to "clear and present danger" to "imminent lawless action" to clarify that "imminent lawless action" really means right now, and not just relatively soon)

The Fairness Doctrine isn't a regulation on speech, it's a regulation on use of government licensed airwaves.
It's becoming tougher to work for ethical companies, specially in Tech. If it's not the company itself, it's the shares of its mother company in another one.
> Understanding how you got to the goal -- encoding all the fumbles and disoriented thoughts right in the commit history -- that can be a genuine benefit to the reader.

Disagree.

Sorry, but I'd rather be rather inclined to read commit history like this: (whether it's reviewing others' code or my own at a later time)

- Add functionality X to function y()

- Fix a bug in y(): ...

- Fix a bug in z(): ...

than

- X

- oops

- fuck, typo fix

- do it another way

- ok, y is fixed now

- another typo fix

- it has a bug, fix it

- z has the same bug

- typo fix

Whereas the latter can be quite common during dev cycle so as to keep it to yourself. It's not about 'pretending' at all.
> 1% of the drive's capacity has been used, which means that in about 16.5 years (2 months * 99 / 12) their drive will go readonly.

Makes me wonder if the engineers at Apple decided it was an acceptable trade off.
As someone who has lived in dictatorships and now lives in the US, I don’t see the point to your (rhetorical?) question at all. I’ve seen firsthand how much more relaxed people become when they don’t need to constantly worry about government informants (I’m from Tunisia).

Of course, for the vast majority of people, living in a poor democracy is objectively worse than living in a rich dictatorship.
What's the problem of helping people insulate themselves into an echo-chamber? Increased polarization, diminished empathy for people with different values, greater social-sorting, lower trust in institutions, and plenty of other problems.
> Two examples: XML and JSON are bad re-inventions of S-expressions.

What? This sounds like you read something that was true but you’ve misunderstood and regurgitated.

XML is absolutely S-expressions, JSON is absolutely not. How in the heck is JSON a reinvention of an S-expression?
It seems rather naive to believe that Jack Ma disappeared due to mild criticism of the Chinese government's financial regulation policies.

ANT group has financial network power that can challenge the Chinese government's control over the country. In the future, if the power is unchecked now, it definitely can challenge the Chinese government. I am not casting a judgement whether that's right or wrong that a company has power like that. I'm just denying that Jack Ma's insignificant comment is what got him in trouble. What got Jack Ma in trouble is truly existential threat ANT group may pose down the future when a single entity fully controls financial activities of the entire Chinese population.

Compare to that, a bunch of idiots storming the capital building, is just that. A bunch of idiots storming the physical building. It's no threat. American regime barely was tickled by such an incident. It's embarrassing, but nothing significant will come out of it other than amazing leverage for the left to use. So props to that.

In comparison, Jack Ma and the ANT group's current and future influence in China is actually significant, lasting and potent, that can even rival Chinese government.
NumPy 1.20 has been released
There are some prominent books on anti-racism. I haven't read them myself but that's where I would start.
I’m there if they do. They are in their 90s and do not leave their home without me, as I provide transportation and support.

If your use case is different, it’s easy to action off of door sensors, geofencing of their phone, or similar.

Good question!
prefix "Ask HN:"
Yea, my MacBook Pro, 2018

Percentage Used: 2%
Data Units Read: 84,461,830 [43.2 TB]
Data Units Written: 69,369,816 [35.5 TB]
Host Read Commands: 2,125,724,765
Host Write Commands: 1,440,781,009
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 117
Power On Hours: 1,253
For standard graphs, there are plenty of simple libraries built on top of d3 or just pure javascript. Use those. D3 is for when you want to create something custom or complex.
This sounds like such a nightmare. Why would anyone subject their team to this?

“You know how stand ups can feel like a waste of time? What if we made them waste even more time? Managers will love it.”
I've had noise issues from apartments in cities for decades, a mix of being easily bothered by music and noise from other people, and people loving to play loud music at home. Most of my friends seem a lot less bothered, to the point that they can mostly ignore it.

Not sure if it's cultural, due to individual environmental conditions growing up, or biological. I'm starting to wonder if it's biological because I'm also a light sleeper.
Fuzzing is still very relevant in Rust. It tends to find panics rather than segfaults, but that's still bugs.

https://github.com/rust-fuzz/trophy-case
How is a core Java class deprecated?
If they use a walker, look at WalkWise (a Smart Walker Attachment). It can alert families via the mobile app if the walker doesn't move for a while, tips over, or doesn't move in the morning. While we want people to wear LifeLife or other emergency response devices, studies show they are only pressed in 20% of falls. WalkWise provides a second line of defense, passively. Plus, you can look at long-term trends or see short-term declines in activity that could be illness, infection, etc.
Disclosure, I am the Founder/CEO of WalkWise (peter@walkwise.com)
The entire drive 8 times over per day? That can't be right. With 8 hours of usage per day, that's 70 MB/s constant writing. Really?
How do you centralized your authn, your 2fa provisioning? How do you ensure that your cloud native apps have access to the auth backend without risking exposing the wrong ports on the wrong vpc?
Dispo app – what you should know
At a very basic level: RISC instructions take up more space because they do less individually.

That said, very little of most RAM usage is the actual instructions running. It's mostly data.
Yeah, some publications (esp NYT) hate linking off-site because it loses them reader-time.

For the app: https://www.blockpartyapp.com/signup/
Oh nice I'll check out your list
It's worse - if someone has a loud party late at night or plays music loudly and you ask them to turn it down, you're the bad one for imposing and butting into someone's business.
hey just curious are these podcasts related to tech in someway
I mean, the ownership of property - particularly land - and the use of that property to derive one's income is exactly what differentiates the working class from the ownership class. Landlords are pretty unambiguously in the latter; rent-seeking is not work.
I'd be willing to bet that in looking deeper you'd find it's Spotify doing the lion's share of that.
You might like to check out Chapter 2 of "The Art of Prolog"; it has enough information to tell you how to make a bare-bones prolog interpreter.
So it's looks bad on my Macbook Air M1 16GB:

Percentage Used: 3%
Data Units Read: 47,004,809 [24.0 TB]
Data Units Written: 47,469,528 [24.3 TB]
Host Read Commands: 153,293,725
Host Write Commands: 218,787,006

It's been in-use for two months only and I haven't even compiled anythig on it and all my usage was: light gaming in few 2D games, Firefox and some films.

UPD: it's 256GB SSD model.
what kind of audio books do you listen to
My 50 days old 16GB MBP:

Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 11 039 001 [5,65 TB]
Data Units Written: 8 341 136 [4,27 TB]

That would mean ~87 GB per day, every day. I have about 200 GB data on the drive; that would mean rewriting almost half of it every day.

I don't use it that heavily.

For comparison, my 2015 MBP has 37 TB written. Since 2015 and about the same usage pattern.
Scientists create new class of “Turing patterns” in colonies of E. coli
Now you're just daring someone like Louis Rossmann to give it a go. :)
Adding the option of authentic speech merely broadens the Marketplace of Ideas. No one could curtail inauthentic speech; no point in even trying.
Stop being glib. We are talking about a person whose job was stated in the article, not some hypothetical rags to riches tale.
Most people (60%) don't care because they find everything they need on the Chinese internet anyways.

25% of the people find it a nuisance, but don't speak out against it.

5% of the people actively use a VPN to circumvent it.

5% of the people oppose it out of principle.

5% of the people actively support it because they think it's a way to prevent "information warfare" from the West.
People are somewhere on the scale of greatness. At some point it becomes harder and harder to find replacements that will be able to get that job done. People are very capable to steer projects into failure.
I still have 3 of these in a closet here, my 2001, 4032 (purple screen!), and a SuperPET 9000 (I think 9001 was the model number - Edit, nope, was a 9000)

Got the 2001 first at the age of 12 and taught myself to code by looking at listings of games then buying magazines. Machines like this made the barrier of entry to coding very low and appealing. The rest as they say is history and started a long career at the keyboard.
I primarily use social media to remain connected with my old friends and catch up latest trends.
Yes. And generally no, they don't.
True. There is a picture of a wheel in front version in the article, which is what made me think of it.

I do have an irrational desire to take a Polaris Slingshot for a drive, though.
Thoughts on the “Metaverse?”
Proof That Few If Any Dollars Back Any Stablecoin – They’re All Tether
"I’ve gone through coinlib.io‘s data regarding crypto’s money flows. Meaning, the trading volume between many pairs on may exchanges.

In this case, i’ve gone out of my way to highlight Dollar flows. Specifically, Dollar flows into and out of Tether and other stablecoin, notably BUSD and USDC – supposedly audited.

Tracking the trading between crypto and fiat, this turns out to be patently false. If there was organic trading between dollars and stablecoin, there ought to be alot of outflows, considering Tether is the gateway to pretty much every crypto at this point. With a $928 billion marketcap across the crypto space, there should be atleast billions of flow in dollars, especially with a circulationg supply of 24,7+ Billion USDT.

We find that there is almost none. The entire trading volume between USD and USDT is no more then $20 million. EVERYTHING ELSE is Tether, perceived to have the same value as a dollar.

This includes all other stablecoins. [...]"
I definitely agree that THE PEOPLE have a lot in common. Almost everyone all over the world just wants to enjoy life.
Speaking for myself, this is the first time I've heard of multiple modules in the same chip. Hearing about it now and knowing generally how dies[1] are manufactured and packaged into ICs it's an obvious thing to do, but yeah never crossed my mind.

[1] dice?
A Russian meets up with an American.
"We have freedom of speech," the Russian says. "I can post that Russian elections are falsified on social media."

"What's the big deal?" asks the American. "I too can write that Russian elections are falsified on social media."

Original: https://youtu.be/gNXpa0M-UdY
This may be related:

I had to switch off Time Machine on MacbookHD (main disk) by excluding it from the Time Machine preferences, and reinstall the OS to erase the previous copies it had made, all ~400GB of it (on my 499GB disk)... As the user, I was not asked for permission to allow Time Machine to use up to 80% of available disk capacity. It was backing up so many copies of the data until I noticed I had left only 8GB of free space and I only noticed because Quicktime screen recording started crashing due to insufficient disk space. Basically, the decision by Apple is to use up to 80% of the available disk space to save copies of the data on that disk without user permission, and because it checks and reconciles the amount it's using every so often you can easily end up with 0% free capacity if you e.g. record a lot of videos in between.
You haven't felt the (light) weight of San Francisco history until you've trod upon the creaky steps of City Lights and caught a glimpse of the "Books Not Bombs" sign caught in a dusty sunbeam in a high corner of the store next to a black and white photo of Lawrence in one of his many hats. His influence and reach echoes through the years calling all of us to account and measure up.
That video (which has nothing to do with biology, and is related to discussion and arguments, the thing we are doing now) is 16 minutes long. Are you seriously suggesting that with 16 minutes of reading biology I will know:

* What is aromatase and what is the relationship between an overexpressed aromatase and excess body fat
* What is estradiol and what is the possible reasons for converting testosterone to estradiol
* What is the negative feedback loop in the hypothalamus and what is the interactions between estradiol and the hypothalamus' negative feedback loop
* What is GnRH and what causes the lowering of my GnRH
* What is LH/FSH and why is it obvious that low GnRH causes a lower LH/FSH
* How are these related to fertility

All of this in 16 minutes?

IMPORTANT:
To be honest I am willing to read (obviously more than 16 minutes) to learn about this stuff, as you can see in my comment, I'm asking for something to read! a link to a place that explains these. Even if it takes more than 16 minutes. Of course, I'm sure somewhere on the internet these information exist. But just writing a claim without any citation, is not helpful.
The equation is (months machines was used for)/(percentage used). Assuming you've used the machine for 2 months that comes out to 200 months or 16 years left. I suspect you won't care by then.
The PlayStation 2 is actually one of the original reasons I got interested in the computer engineering space. The EE chip is a sort of who's-who of optimization techniques - hardware decoding, vector processing, VLIW architecture (for the VUs), memory bandwidth tailored to keeping the huge amount of functional units busy with a constant stream of math to do.

At some point I got a port of Debian (BlackRhino GNU/Linux) running on my PS2 - slowly, off a USB 1.1 thumbdrive, as I lacked the hard drive / network card adapter. Never got too far with it owing mostly to lack of the network, but in spite of being a 1999 console, it ran X11 at 1080i just fine.
What about lying to the feds? It's a felony. Who gets to decide was was the truth?
> Just like every other VC, YC's successes are a small fraction of the investments they make.

You said "just like every other VC." So, if it's a global phenomenon that's true in every segment of the VC landscape, why bring it up as an argument against YC? This entire thread is about venture capital, so I doubt you're trying to make a point about bootstrapping or something along those lines.

I think what you're trying to say is that getting into YC is not a guarantee for success, but nobody ever claimed that. The odds are stacked against you either way, but the YC cohort's odds are way better than those of comparable startups that either didn't get admitted or never even applied to YC. If you want to debate this point, then let's see a substantive argument. Here's mine: YC's estimated IRR is 155% [0] (and this is an outdated number that doesn't include the recent IPOs). In comparison, the top ‘quartile’ of funds since Web 1.0 have returned about 20% IRR [1].

> Demo days.

I can't really do much with this response, but thank you nonetheless.

For everyone else, if you're contemplating applying to YC, I would refer you to one of the many discussions on HN where people presented actual math on when YC pays off and when it doesn't. For example, in this thread [2], the top comment links to a spreadsheet [3] that says if you want to raise $1m without YC, you should be able to get a seed valuation of $6.5m or higher, otherwise it's less dilutive to go through YC. Naturally, if you want to raise a higher amount, the threshold gets higher (eg: for $3m, the crossover valuation is $9m). Not to mention other value-added benefits, such as access to the Series A program, thousands of potential customers, etc.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-Y-Combinators-IRR-or-estimated...

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-IRR-achieved-by-ve...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24616649

[3] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kxOBF0CPhcktmgFvAZtY...