skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like SSD failure has little correlation with hours running, and more to do with TBW. Would be nice to see some read/write totals on these stats going forward.
I have to say, as a kid, all these games and movies were much more harmless than the news.

The news had actual blood on the streets, from real people who had actually died there, real violence, real panic, real bombs and real war. If you shut off the TV, it does not go away, it's taking place somewhere out there, in the real world. A game is a joke in comparison.
Not in the diamond industry. But, most diamonds are etched with a serial number. GIA etches a report number you can look up online for instance. Similar to a VIN you could probably google it and see if it's been listed/sold elsewhere. Unlikely though as the turn around on diamonds is very low.

The easiest way is to determine through the setting. Styles change. If it's a setting from the 50s that isn't made anymore it's probably old. If it's a setting from a company that is < 10 years old it's got a better chance of being new.

Diamonds are not damaged when swapping settings. They are often removed and reset if a prong breaks for instance.

Most people just don't want to buy from estate sales or auction. So, jewelry stores will do that, clean it up, put it in a new setting (or leave it as is), and resell it as 'new'.
> This is also why things like the healthcare system, transportation network, and postal system shouldn't be run for maximum utilization/efficiency under normal load: if there isn't any slack in the system it gets real ugly when things get squirrelly.

A couple years before the pandemic, the counties neighboring mine (where I lived at the time) cut out most public medical services (mind you, these aren't free, just publicly funded, people still paid for them). There wasn't enough money for a private hospital to bother so this was a critical piece of infrastructure. They kept emergency and urgent care clinics in each county, but directed people to the other (more populated, higher income) counties like mine for many services. Last year was not a good year for those counties as people were now being shuttled 40+ miles if they needed to be treated (at a hospital) for COVID.

Lean means cutting the fat, not the meat. They didn't just cut the fat and meat, they cut to the bone. This is when organizations find themselves in trouble and fail their clients/customers: eliminating things they don't think they need because they're "underutilized", only to discover later there was a sound reason to have that capability to begin with.
eBPF is really a game changer, with pixie making this technology easily accessible. When I saw Pixie able to inspect all the SQL Queries, Redis Traffic, and Service to Service communications...without any custom instrumentation. I was floored.
The greatest HN comment is obviously cperciva's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
It's also a 'number of acquisitions' vs. 'value of acquisitions' argument.

If you had to guess the 'value' of TurboTax, The Microsoft Office Suite, Macromedia, Instagram, YouTube, NeXT, Pixar, VMware, etc. etc., you'd probably find that the good M&A outweighs bad.

It's just that bad M&A happens a lot can be really bad (AOL Time Warner).
After using esbuild and experiencing fast builds, I'll never go back to tools written in javascript/typescript again.
Still looking for a home for AI/ML and they're saying its part of Testing.

Not sure I buy it...
Indeed. Although I'm mostly aware of the American equivalents of British terms, in this case it caught me off guard. Seeing the headline I had no idea what it was talking about, and I thought it might mean "fish sticks" as in fishing using spears! I wonder what my American counterpart might have thought if the headline used "fish fingers" instead... maybe that the article was about the unlikely evolutionary success of vertebrate fingers‽
> Sort of like we already have flying cars. They're called "helicopters".

you cannot drive helicopters on the road, they are flying but not cars
«This is peak absurdism»

Pros of making this whole thing an NFT:

• Capitalizes on a craze to save lives. Consequently, this will almost assuredly be more successful at raising money than if this had been organized as a traditional campaign with donations through credit cards or PayPal.

• Very low friction. Any of the many lucky crypto millionaires can bid in seconds. No need to convert crypto to fiat and all associated hassles.

• The highest bidder will own cryptographic proof of his donation to Noora Health. Other bidders will have proof of their intent.

• This may motivate other non-profit to seek donations through NFTs.

Downsides:

• Contributes to increasing the NFT craze ?

• ???

There are many things you can criticize about cryptocurrency, but this Noora Health NFT probably ain't one of them.
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Thanks for that link. I have not seen a ScreenSavers clip in many years. I loved that show and watched it with my father. Everyone was in love with Morgan. What a strange, brief time when cable television could have a show dedicated to the internet and computing.

I wonder where Leo Laporte is now.
Have you validated the idea?

Run it by anyone in the industry? As the saying goes, good ideas are worthless, bad ideas are worth 10x less.
There is a name for a relationship that begins without sex. It's called a business partnership and I can assure you they don't involve diamond rings.

Give me one reason why a man would enter a sexless marriage.
LOUDNESS WARNING! Sounds like a square wave at volume level 11.

A downvote for this? It nearly blasted my ears while listening this on in-ear headphones after listening to "Chiptunes on the ATtiny4".
Is there any surprising data? I'm not surprised it records destinations entered into satnav for example. I mean that's a fairly common trick in TV shows.

> MSAB claims that this data can include “Recent destinations, favorite locations, call logs, contact lists, SMS messages, emails, pictures, videos, social media feeds, and the navigation history of everywhere the vehicle has been.” MSAB even touts the ability to retrieve deleted data, divine “future plan[s],” and “Identify known associates and establish communication patterns between them.”

I seriously doubt my car has records of my emails, pictures, videos, and social media feeds even though it has Android Auto.
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For some reason your comment reminded me of something I read about the Simpsons. Every single episode, no matter what, they're always a family in the end. I think what is missing is more television programing that aimed to be an aspiration to others in their community. The Jeffersons, Andy Griffith, even to include The Wonder Years.

Perhaps has another commenter noted, the writers would first have to understand that dynamic, and to do so would be a major shift at the moment.
Two key reasons:

1. You want to acquire the existing users of their software.

2. Buying them essentially stops progress on your competition. Let's say you don't buy them and instead decide to write your own software that does what theirs does. Maybe it takes you a year to write a program that does everything theirs does today. In that year, they've also made a bunch of progress, so you're still behind. If you have enough resources, you may be able to catch up and overtake, but they have the advantages of greater expertise, userbase, and lead time. Because of those advantages, it's often cheaper to buy them.

In general, companies don't like to compete. Competition is spending resources to simply cancel out the expenditure of your competitor. Zero-sum games like that don't make you richer. Companies naturally prefer to be monopolies, or at the very least cabals. That way they can fully exploit their product area and can control prices as much as they want.
"Does it take into account the additional co2 that fishing boats emit?"

Yes.

"Unlike previous studies that have largely overlooked the downstream processing activities associated with Alaskan pollock, this study examined all the components of the supply chain, from fishing through the retail display case." [https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/01/mckuin-fish.html]
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> If you're this worried about being tracked, you can always choose to turn off cookies, JavaScript, and maybe try the ToR browser.

Half of the internet doesn't work without JavaScript these days, the rest barely works on TOR because of the likes of Cloudflare.
Yes but Americans don't receive an influx of media from other countries. Conversely, American media is everywhere and has saturated the globe, so I think the stereotypes of Americans are far more common.

I don't really have any European stereotypes other than broad generalizations like Belgian people like chocolate and Germans like beer.
I don't agree. My French is good enough for talking to French canadians ( native dutch).

And even french have trouble understanding the Quebec language.

Some that learned it never use it, so they forget it though. But they don't need it professionally.
Mark is actually an old school AOLer and AIMer and used to program CC chat programs and punters.

http://patorjk.com/blog/2013/04/09/was-mark-zuckerberg-an-ao...
The difference is that a single $150k/year programmer can make software that replaces an unlimited amount of $40k/year secretaries.

Software scales - that's why programmers have such high salaries (which are usually only a fraction of the value that they're delivering anyway).
Gov't is going to try and break the big ones up, and stop M&A's as anti-trust sentiment warms up. Startups will become much, much harder to benefit from. The cost of capital is going to go up and make it harder to fund-raise, and people will get much more judicious about what they invest in. If your company isn't tied to some other industry or sector of the economy and is a tech company, just consider if your business can survive on its own for the next 3 - 5 years.
> in complete denial of the difficulties (heavy regulation, safety critical, deeply powerful complex network of stakeholders, super complex badly understood domain)

The last article I read about it cited rather mundane reasons for it ending up unused. Things like not even supporting the data formats used by hospitals that served as cutting edge users.
Sure, but I'm not going to sign up without trying the product first.
I know how OSS works. I just think the transition from being a community-oriented project, to one that will create a lot of value for a small group of people, will be interesting to watch.

They certainly deserve any and all success, I just wonder how those decisions will be made.
My impression was that it was conceptually flawed. It made commitments on performance that seemed naive, and did not solve a significant problem many gamers were having.

As a gamer, I enjoy having a high-performant system, and am ok paying for it. If, as a kid, I couldn't afford it, I would just play on console.

The idea behind centralized GPU rendering was just a recipe for lag, high data usage, and content lock-in.

It just never made sense to me.
>This could also indicate that states where Covid-19 had a bigger impact responded by enacting stronger mitigations. What makes you prefer your interpretation?

You can say that but there's no data that supports this at all.
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no, it depends

if it is to do things only just for yourself, the nobody gives a shit

if you work on a team, and do things with other people, then efficiency is your friend, same for performance by default

thinking the opposite is lying to yourself, worse, it is very selfish, you basically waste everyone's time and ressources
It was never really all that common. It was mostly done in the Middle Ages, when cities were really space-constrained due to the need for city walls.

It phased out during the Renaissance; when they failed they were rebuilt without houses. Remaining ones, like the ones in Venice and Florence, have been kept around more as tourist attractions than real sites of commerce.
These are very cool devices that I would buy to play around with but, I don't really understand the idea with a hingeless flat screen. That can promote a very bad posture if used on a table as one needs bend the neck to see the screen. Sure, these could be used in handheld mode but how much can you type with thumbs only before you want to use more fingers??
Out-of-control Chinese rocket falling to Earth could partially survive re-entry
> Factory work is better than subsistence farming.

Working in a 1900's Chicago meatpacking plant may have been better than subsistence farming too, but the alternative to working in bad conditions isn't going back to farming, it's improving the working conditions. Big tech has NOT done 100x more than anyone to push for better working conditions. If they really wanted to provide good, first-world working conditions in their factory, they could do so. Yes, their costs would go up, that's what happens when you stop subsidizing consumer products with labor abuse.

> Yes. Improved margins are what allow wages to rise. Inefficient businesses don’t have the money to pay employees more. Apple retail stores pay on average 18$/hr vs the 10.50 a mom and pop might be able to afford to pay someone.

Is the Apple store representative of all retail? And further, with Apple's massive stack of cash in the bank, shouldn't they be paying their workers even better? Are they not a big part of getting that premium margin for apple?

Further, that doesn't seem like a better or more efficient deal for entrepreneurs. Should we be happy that most independent electronics stores have been replaced by branded stores and Best Buy?

> Yes. Software distributors used to pay 50% to retailers.

More bad faith arguments huh? I guess you mean before the internet, when they actually had to ship physical medium and deal with retailers? Keystone pricing is pretty standard in that setup, and at least you had a broad choice of distributors to pick from. There is no justification for the high fees or the lack of distribution options in 2021. It's almost pure profit for the landlords.
Thanks for adding that, will edit it into my post.
IMO the key with eventual consistency is making it known which bits are currently known to be consistent, and which are still in flux. I realize that this is vague, but how that works depends on what it is you're processing and how much time it takes for consistency to emerge.

If you're doing any kind of Important Reporting on eventually consistent data, you'd better make sure that you either know you're only including finalised data, or that there's a big fat warning with error bars.
True, they'd have to learn how to use arguments with spaces in the shell -- but this won't necessarily happen near the time they add mcd to their .bashrc, which may lead to frustration with customization, and stifle the desire to learn. Something to be avoided when it is simple and easy to do so.
I think the better question is, 'why does it matter?'. We all at least have the illusion of free will, even if everything is predetermined. Effectively it makes no difference to our perception and experience.

Looking at psychology, in general we see people who feel like they have agency in their lives are happier, and people feeling like they have no agency are depressed. Our agency allows us to do great things, like spearhead interesting projects or just make our lives better with our choices.

Some people will link free will to the conscious experience, but I don't think that's quite right. We all know that we are 'aware'. But being aware, experiencing life consciously, doesn't make a difference to whether we are watching some great cosmic play being preformed.

In fact, the way things happen in life, all things being the made up of cumulative events from the past, it be strange if things weren't predetermined. To me personally, a bit of hypocritical belief is necessary to continue acting out the play.
This question is answered literally on the front page of their website.
> showing her how much you care by spending a bunch of money on something special

If this is what the other person expects out of a relationship it's time to jump ship ASAP.
Someday I'm going to take those numbers and try to see how the AFR varies with the age of the drive. I expect 8 year old drives to have a higher AFR than 3yo, and 6 month olds to be somewhere in between, for example.

And then, we could compute what the life expectancy of a given model is given how long you've had it (just bought, few years old, etc)

It'd be fun to compare those across vendors and drive models. There's maybe even enough data at this point that some of the numbers might be meaningful! =)
Any chance of a Thinkpad-style trackpoint at some point in the future?
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Maybe Stadia is just extremely location-dependent, but when I tried both services via a (very stable) VPN, xCloud felt a lot smoother and with less latency (when comparing the same geo region). Both were worse than GeForce Now though (which doesn't require a VPN but around the same latency).

They're also adding xCloud support for your purchased games at some point[1], a bit like Geforce Experience's Steam-linking but for Xbox owners.

1: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/11/14/expanding-project-xcl...
I told him we didn't have a computer. That didn't register at all, he still tried to get me to install something, somehow, despite my insistence.
> I have no doubt that Rome will massively increase the producitvity of thousands of companies and developers

I would like to see that measured.

My suspicion is that many developers are already too reliant on tooling and that reliance harms productivity rather than improves it. Bundling those tooling concerns eliminates some operational costs associated with a plurality of tools but increases dependency upon the tool.

This problem is not a technical problem (as in how do I solve a problem), but a cultural problem (as in what is the proper way to solve a problem). It comes down to the difference between a product focus (what do we ship) versus an operational focus (what do we work on).
Yeah, if it’s more then you’ll probably want to feed tee’s stdout to /dev/null.
Oops, yeah, it is quite loud.
There’s a class of adult baby food that fish sticks fall under. It’s food that’s conceptually shaped for kids but adults have no problem eating this stuff with a straight face. Wendy’s nuggets look like chicken feet.

I think as we figure out how to make protein alternatives that taste like meat, we’ll see a small rise in adult baby food, things shaped like a slim jim, etc.

Then we can finally fulfill our prophecy of being adults that wear children’s winter jackets and eat food that’s shaped like toys, and just really come full circle with the aging into infancy.
It depends on the product. But software has stronger the ecosystem effect and data lockin more so than any previous technology. Think facebook, youtube, Windows, office, apple ecosystem of products. They have two market characteristics: 1. People need to be on the platform that others are in 2. Once you are in you it's hard to leave. Both creates tendency for winner takes all economics. And I think many people knows this. Part of the reason why software companies since the 90s have higher valuation than other industries.
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The myth that Amazon “sold their excess computer capacity” has been disproven for years.

Just think about it. If Amazon had excess computer capacity and sold it to other companies, what was it going to do when it needed that excess computer capacity? Kick others off?
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I actually think it is easier to watch as a teen 5han an adult. I watched it a lot with my buddies when I was younger, it was one of our cult movies.

Today, as an adult and a dad I dont know if I could watch the kid murder scene.
A true classic, thanks for reminding me of this article.

If I remember correctly, the "hacking manuals" section is what inspired my reading for much of middle school. I wonder how many other 12-year-olds turned in a book report on Neuromancer to a horrified teacher because of this post?
If it's true that "Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term health", then who exactly is the target audience of this article? Corporations have not cared about "long-term health" since the 80s. CEOs and CXOs and CYOs and Senior Vice Presidents play musical chairs both within and between companies in a neo-feudalistic Game-of-Thrones-style competition for titles, where companies and their various divisions are just pieces. Decision-making happens via primarily the Principal Agent Problem and is focused on what makes me, personally, look the best and give me the best chance of gaining a better Title in the next quarter. Eating up all available slack is one of the more mundane ways to cannibalize the company for your own benefit. Long-term health of the company? Who cares!?
The maker has been advertising the product like crazy and even though they have been told this already has yet to change the name.

So more then likely expect this to be taken down in the next few weeks.

I would expect a C&D from a lawyer company any day now, and more then likely they will ask for the domain as well. Since ACPA will classify this as "cyber squatting" since you are charging for the product.

You're also reverse engineering which is a gray zone as it is AND charging for the result.

So I wouldn't be surprised if instead of a C&D they just went straight to lawsuit.
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You've created a progressive transfer system.

Whether those transfer payments are via taxes, payments, or services is not essential for the goal.

If you encode it in tax rates, you are subsidizing behavior that you are trying to deincentivize via taxes, which is unfortunate.

The idea of LVT or other taxes on externalities is to tax behavior you want to prevent. That's why we should tax the capture of land, the pollution of the environment, adding traffic to a transportation system, etc. That's why it's unfortunate to tax things like "making your house nicer" or "converting a parking lot to a veterinarian office" or "hiring another employee". You wouldn't sent checks to someone because they let their house decay or they fired someone, so why would you give them a tax break?

The point of the transfer system is to help people who need help, right? Not to discourage things we want to happen.
Again, thanks for answering! :)
I'm planning on donating 100k packets of chewing gum to starving children.
But so would converting to one of the other five religions...