skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said I'm not an expert on the HDD market, but I have seen some stuff so here's a bit of perspective. The hyperscalers are more than 50% of the market. They're each big enough that price distortion from their own buys is a real concern that they plan for. (Note BTW that these are often left out of analysts' charts, because leaving them in makes it harder to see patterns among the rest.) More than half of what's left is sold to businesses, with most of that going to companies big enough to build and run their own data centers (including supercomputer facilities). And then, finally, all consumer drive sales account for something less than 20% of the total.

Yes, size does matter a lot for those markets. If you want performance use flash. However, again, size per drive is a red herring. What matters is the capacity you can fit into a system, whether it's a laptop or a server. Having that much capacity present as a single volume through a single interface is simply not ideal either for performance (which might not be the same goal but still has a lower limit) or for reliability. That's all I've been saying. You're better off combining multiple lower-capacity drives, even if you can get by (at least for a while) with a single larger drive. Serious video folks and even gamers have known the advantages of dual drive RAID-0 or RAID-1 for years.

> where the main product is thin drives, it takes only a small amount of engineering effort

What you're now suggesting is no more than what I suggested nearly a day and several posts ago (look for "drive manufacturers could help"), which you and "others" took issue with. Yes, drive manufacturers can and should make those thin drives, and then sell multiples packed into a single enclosure like we already have today. The fact that it's multiple physical drives could be more or less transparent. The transparent version would be cheaper and offer the system designer more flexibility. The non-transparent version, akin to existing HW RAID or even multiple platters today, would be a bit easier to conceptualize for people not used to thinking of enclosures and spindles and platters and heads as separate things, but it would be a bit more expensive (controller plus memory as part of the package) and not necessarily better.

In short, using "drive" to mean both the package with connectors on the side and the piece(s) of oxide-coated metal inside it is sloppy, and leads to wrong conclusions. Once you realize that higher density creates more options than "every limit the same except for higher capacity" then it quickly becomes clear that 120TB on a single spindle isn't the best use of that technology.
Subjectively speaking, I would happily pay thirty bucks for a native alternative to Docker Desktop. I find the UI gross and disruptive.
Pandas does seem to be on the out if I'm being honest, and thats coming from someone who has invested heavily in it (backend for my project http://gluedata.io/). JMO

I would happily adopt Polars if the feature set is expansive enough.

Pandas is great because its so ubiquitous but I have always felt that it was slow (especially coming from R).

One thing that is weirdly terrible in pandas is data types. The coupling with numpy is awkward. Its so dependent on numpy and if pandas isn't moving fast numpy isn't moving at all. I'd be curious to see how Polars handles this. e.g. Null values, datatimes etc.
Wouldn't be better to call this "cheat sheet"?

macOS already has sensible defaults, that's how people who have no interest in dealing with computers can use their machines for years with no issues or servicing(unless a latte is spilled over the keyboard).

Then, you can customise behaviour for some specific things to fit your workflow.

The problem with diverging from defaults without putting much thought on it is that if you don't use it frequently you forget about it and when weird bugs happen it gets very hard to debug because a common issue with a straightforward solution may no longer apply to you and you have no idea why since you cannot make the connection because you don't remember changing it.
NFTrustDilemma tests trust in a trustless ecosystem
Some of these are not what I’d want, but sprinkled among them are some really cool gems
Not many, but I switched banks two months ago and doing it online made it trivial.

I didn’t say each point was of equal value or frequency. I was just trying to list some benefits for someone that asked.
Polish consulates everywhere have also switched to an online-only appointment system, you can't visit if you haven't got an appointment(except for emergencies), you can't book an appointment over the phone, you have to use the website.
I for one definitely think the whole world should set their timezone to Brussels.

Seriously though, I like not having scrollbars everywhere, I use two fingers for right click on the track pad, I do it without thinking, if I turn off natural scrolling I get incredibly confused.

Some of the stuff I can get behind, like this

# Enable full keyboard access for all controls
# (e.g. enable Tab in modal dialogs)
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleKeyboardUIMode -int 3

I get annoyed when secure keyboard entry turns on and doesn't turn off properly in iTerm as it messes up Dash's snippets.

I'm sure this is the sensible defaults for this one really picky person, and it's interesting to see all the choices, but I would definitely advise against someone running this on their workstation blindly.
I haven’t tried a VPN yet, but I have heard of some possible quirks due to how the networking is handled between Windows and Linux in HyperV

Edit: Im switching from Fedora to a WSL setup for work in the next week. Ill report on issues I encounter in that migration. I suspect VPN will come up because one of the key reasons im switching off Fedora to Windows+WSL is due to corporate VPN requirements.
Why wouldn't this be something worth going after? It's a pinnacle example of the overwhelming bias the highest traffic news outlets have. They shut it down even before the laptop was investigated.

If you remember three years ago the talking heads were chanting 'believe all women' in the middle of the Kavanaugh hearings despite the overwhelming lack of evidence. The double standard has to be addressed.

Greenwald has a lot of controversial views, but this isn't one of them. An objective press makes for a better society.
Empowering Social Justice Organizations
I felt that the "Still not happy?" section at the end was a bit clearer. You can roll a ball up a hill and have it perfectly perch at the top. If you film that and run it in reverse, it looks like a ball just sitting there, then deciding for no reason whatsoever to roll in some random direction. It breaks no laws of physics; it's a valid solution.

The energy of this works out, but I'm not sure that momentum does. The article doesn't mention the word. When you roll the ball up the hill it goes from having momentum to having zero momentum. That momentum went somewhere -- into the hill (or the planet that the hill is part of). If you run the tape in reverse, you'll see that there's a tiny, tiny push from the planet.

So I think that the conclusion is not "Newtonian mechanics is indeterminate" but "There are no immovable objects". If you had one you could indeed make asymmetries, because it would violate the conservation laws. You just need to be really, really careful about tracking all of your conserved quantities.

If you do, I'm not sure you actually can get a ball to perch on top of a hill like that without some friction. The ball will exert horizontal force on the planet as it rolls, putting it in rotation. That rotation will make it impossible for the ball to completely come to rest. The situation won't be symmetric, reflecting the asymmetry of the ball having horizontal momentum in the first place.

Which makes me wonder... what is the point of this article? For the reader to find the hidden asymmetry? Or is this journal article by a historian and philosopher doing invalid physics to make an incorrect epistemological point?
There is a great site with a large collection of the music from keygens. http://www.keygenmusic.net/
There's something odd about the man they claim was a "super nice guy" who opened the package and then called the police.

That package wasn't addressed to him. The mules would have their (fake) name on the package so they can ask the FedEx driver "Do you have a package for Crystal?"

So that AirBnB host who opened a package that wasn't really such a "nice guy" after all.
I wasted so much time trying to make non-terrible animated ANSI art with TheDraw. I remember the first time I realized I could run it in 80x43 mode instead of 80x25 mode and my mind was completely blown.

I also remember what a pain it was if you wanted to change color schemes. Especially on an animated piece. I had a BBS animated main screen that originally was red and yellow and at some point I decided bright blue and green would be more “3733+” and I needed to step through it character by character.
Scientific Taxonomy Constructed the Myth of Race
I think you're misreading the history. For years, Twitter refused to ban basically any world leader, including the US president, despite many calls for them to do so and many tweets that would've gotten you or I banned. But events 2 months ago rendered that stance untenable. So now they've gotta come up with a new one, since they don't want the rule to be "special privileges, but only for leaders who Twitter, Inc. happens to like".

It's very likely that whatever new policy comes out of this will involve restrictions on other nation's presidents.
I love procedural composition. I got my MFA in the early 90's in electronic music and there used to be WAY more of this happening in the 60's, 70's and especially in the 80's (with MAX on Macs) than today.

Clever that he exploited artefacts of the DSP to create the drum sounds. That's kind of how old cheap CASIO keyboards work, by filtering glitches. Sweeping tight filter on you DSP is a trick modern electronic music uses to create a sense of variety in a repeating line. The melody generation is similar to how a Sample-and-hold waveforms create "melody" out of a random feed forward.

I remember when Nibble magazine used to have a 2-liner contest at the end of every issue for who go do the most with 2 lines of Applesoft Basic. Beagle Brothers even released a disk of 1-liners, which were really impressive.
>but I can't bring myself to buy something that doesn't work.

Doesn't that also describe most stocks that do not have dividends? What is their tangible value?
I don't think there is anything as good as iTerm. ConEmu is not bad.
A few months ago I had to go fetch a simple registration form. Usually a matter of like 15 minutes at rush hour.

Due to the pandemic, they had strict rules and required me to first book an appointment one week later for a specific time slot. Reserving that time slot was only possible via phone call.

So I basically had to wait a full week for a one-page printout with a stamp on it. Should this be possible offline? Yes, but why not save most people the drive and waiting times if this could also be done instantly via a simple digital signature?
Sorry, I'm not making the connection to what OP was saying. Can you expand? Does Voice of America pretend to be a domestic news source to the areas it broadcasts?
> Auditors and reporters should audit the end-result

I mean, sure. It's just that it's really hard to know how we got to any given end-result. Hey, we see a guy who is really having problems getting services for his kids from the state. Investigation time! Oh, it turns out he's got a bunch of money but he just doesn't want to spend it on his kids. So the reason why he's not getting the services is legit.

MEANWHILE

A guy isn't getting services for his kids AND we see that his forms are all in the trash outside of the statehouse. And there's Jimmy from the service department emptying some more filled out forms into the trash. Ah ha!

If it was an electronic form, then Jimmy could just hit delete (maybe even accidentally) and we would never know.

The point of paper is to make it harder for people in government to get away with not helping. Yeah, ideally we would investigate everything, but we just don't have the resources for that. Forcing someone to throw away paper into a basket is a shortcut to help people investigate.
I ask, because there's currently a kerfluffle in my town over a killing where the local talk radio folks are claiming that local news is "covering it up" despite it being front page news on all of those news outlets.

Your example sounds a lot like the "Black people hesitant to take the vaccine" thing from a few months ago, which got a bunch of recent coverage about how they're not actually hesitant, and that Republicans are higher on the hesitant list. (https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/poll-50-percent-of-unvaccina...)

This is a pretty common thing; "they aren't covering X, which I heard about from this article in the media..."
When something is so localized like that I immediately wonder if it isn't a genetic susceptibility. I still suspect that high death rates of covid in northern italy we'll find out was some hereditary susceptibility, especially since the elderly in those communities are less cosmopolitan (less genetic admixing)

Aside from that I think it's irresponsible for me to comment much on it since there is so little information in OP.
Agree.

Example: default-expanded print and save dialogs (panels) is nice. I always find myself manually expanding those.
Objective-C: https://web.archive.org/web/20210118051718/https://github.co...
> “I am really sorry about this. Ultimately, I am responsible for the content that goes on my channel and I should have done more here,” Rober said in the statement, adding that this was his first prank video. “I can vouch that the reactions were genuine when the package was taken from my house. Having said that, I know my credibility is sort of shot, but I encourage you to look at the types of videos I’ve been making for the past 7 years.”
That's hilarious. I had a customer in a computer store (decades ago) ask if I knew where to find Juarez. Given we were in Houston, it wasn't an unreasonable question so I asked, "Juarez...Mexico?"

"No, like wah-rez...the illegal software downloads."

"Oh...right. N-no." Setting aside that I'm not into giving out professional "how to break the law" advice, I was just completely baffled. I figured "warez" came from "softwares" that were being distributed. Never crossed my mind to pronounce it phonetically.
Eh, it was one king. Only Legitimists consider Louis XVI's son to have been king, and his death was from illness (perhaps hastened by neglect), not a formal execution.
All of which largely became unimportant when they introduced the "Tell me what you want to do" search box to Office programs. Blessed be its name.
Yep. The story about large corporations being totally nationeless is a pure fantasy. For example, just a couple years ago Fiat-Chrystler decided to move production from one of its best factories in Poland to one of its worst (in terms of quality and costs per unit), located in Italy. It made zero sense for the business and was only made as a favor to Italian politicians.

In more general sense, all global companies have some originating country and most of them keep the HQ and most of the high-paying jobs there. They expand to other countries mostly as a cost-saving measure and they have zero loyalty to them, while they have a lot of loyalty to the mothership.
What I don't get is if they need 80 man hours of work per worker unit at current staffing levels why don't they just employ more workers? Seems more like culture and hazing than actual productivity. And no, I don't believe that banking is so complicated that supply of qualified labour is the limiting factor.

That said what is it that these entry level bankers actually do for 100 hours a week?
Did you try to do something like that - moving a government office into digital world? What is your personal experience with this?
> I just don't see the advantage over traditional "offline banking".

You must live somewhere with an extremely temperate climate.

SUBTEXT: If you live somewhere with things like "snow" or "ice" or "Winter Storms" you'll change your tune once you begin to seriously worry how slowly you'd die after you break your hip on a sidewalk that's more snow-covered ice than concrete.
I'm not seeing your point here.

Do you like this? Not like it? Why?

I feel like this is exactly the type of feedback they're asking for.
You setup a virtual machine then?
Allow only doctors to do them along with the consent of the patient and/or family responsible for care decisions, doesn’t seem that complicated to me.
These have been extracted from the "dotfiles" repo and made into a standalone project: https://github.com/kevinSuttle/macOS-Defaults
I miss dial up BBS...
It already exists. If the user agent sends a Do-Not-Track header, the HTTP server will know the user has made their lack of consent explicit. This knowledge is available before the web application even gets control. There are no excuses and no ambiguities.

All courts have to do is request server logs and look for this header. If it's present and the company is found to be violating people's privacy, they are obviously guilty and should be condemned and fined.
> Only at the conditions imposed by the IMF. Usually that means the state has to steer away from anything that could be profitable and focus only on what is not palatable to foreign capital.

Im going to need a direct example please
Offtopic: Most might be thinking fully FLOSS is something that's only happened in software, or powerless hardware. But the thing is server and desktop grade powerful and fully FLOSS hardware with PCIe 4.0 and DDR4 ECC memory are available right now to customers and businesses. Not as powerful as AMD. AMD will never be open though. It's not x86. POWER9. FSF RYF certified.

https://www.raptorcs.com/

#talos-workstation on freenode IRC to chat with users.
Instrumental variables analysis for non-economists
Money Simulator
Can I call for the death of someone on this platform?
I tend to find acceptance of neonatal circumcision and declawing in the same societies.

To me it's pretty simple; unless it's medically necessary you don't do anything (in the context of irreversible medical procedures) against a creature's will. Be it human or otherwise.
Yes, that occurred the first time, unknown to Mark. The Misleading versions were all removed from that first video. This is the 3rd version of the glitter bomb and the 4th video related to the effort.

Is a really interesting watch, if for no other reason than the explanation of the phone scam end-to-end.
> boot into windows so I could partition the HD to install linux

There's your mistake. Partitioning works just fine from the installer, or if the installer provides any live environment on the second virtual console, with gdisk or parted.
Your response was less constructive then the one you replied to, not only did you fail to adequately explain what is wrong with asking a platform to be a place for free speech, but you failed while using truly reductive decisive rhetoric that just serves to make someone dig into their position instead of being open to hearing why they’re wrong.
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but Microsoft did recently release a new terminal: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk...
This is actually what we’re trying to build towards :) Our first products rely on the policies that company’s put together themselves, but we’re building towards tools that they could use to show more convincingly that information written in policies is actually put into practice.
Not sure. It is difficult to believe he is working with all those authorities, given he is getting people to activate a remote spy device that shoots out something that could potentially cause blindness. He is blurring out some people, but not others. Maybe some lawyers could review the video and calculate his legal risks, assuming this is all legit. The cops are not blurred out, so I suppose we could just call them and ask. It is at least entertaining and maybe it will stop a few people from falling victim to these scams. The scams are for sure a real thing.
Ecto is a real unsung here of the Elixir ecosystem. It's a joy to build queries and changesets through composable data structures, and to know exactly when they're going to be executed against the DB. I miss it deeply whenever I'm working with a different ORM.

If anyone is curios and wants to get a high level overview, this conference talk by Darin Wilson provides a helpful intro to the patterns Ecto uses that differ from other popular ORMs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQxopjai0CU
As long as I can block third-party cookies by default, I'm content to let the website I'm on set whatever it wants. Firefox is moving in the right direction with total isolation, including caches, to prevent Spectre-style timing attacks, and I only hope that Chrome will follow suit.

"Clear cookies on departure" feels like it goes too far -- I do want the ability of the site to remember my login, etc., as a default thing, and once you open that door, they can link any browser identification to whatever they want on the backend; cookies just give an easy way for them to not talk to their own backend, but introduce no new security or privacy issues as far as I'm concerned.
From the Reader:

> Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!
I offer data, not a conclusion. And it's data that is well-timed, given the statement.

What do you think?
Japan seems to do pretty well. There seems to be a culture there that the person above is talking about. But far more important is they allow the kind of hostels and low cost housing that has been regulated out of existence in a lot of modern countries and cities. For instance, cyber cafes and capsule hotels which are as cheap as $10 a night are extremely popular with the poorest Japanese.

However if I were expecting to be homeless soon I would wish to be in Finland.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...
> let radicalized employees ban anyone they want

> never release details of how the censorship algos work

> spend lots on PR firms and lobbyists in the hope to get your product nationalized as a utility

> ban a United States President

> already possess a bajillion recommendations in your tweet database about what to do

> ask anyways to create the illusion of group participation and community building

ok twitter
Ha my buddies and I have this debate. BNW to me is scarier for a couple of reasons: 1) it's more likely to happen 2) it will happen and you won't even realize it: there's no mustachioed man that is the antagonist.
I doubt they just created a law for this and just walked away. According to this [^1] news article made in 2019, of the 62000 cases of euthanasia there were 15 that might not have been what the patient wanted. In only 3 of those 15 it seems that the checks were not properly conducted.

[^1] https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2301148-euthanasie-arts-voo...
I grew up with a Spectrum and later Atari (st 1040, not the 2600), and the accompanying copy parties and sneakernets.

(Hoping the statute of limitations have past.)

It was to the point where I thought that the demo music and loading/menu screens before games were official, and I'm nostalgic for that part of it as much as the games themselves.