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The concerns in the paper motivating the locality rule really only apply to low-end consumer SSDs. Enterprise/datacenter SSDs and high-end consumer SSDs all carry plenty of DRAM for the FTL, so they don't suffer as much penalty for poor locality and it's really only worth drawing a distinction between sequential and non-sequential access.

I also don't think it's common for SSDs to use the kind of hybrid page/block mapping FTL that the Aligned Sequentiality rule is about. These days, if you want a SSD that cuts down on DRAM costs, you want the NVMe Zoned Namespaces feature.

The problems that the Uniform Lifetime rule and Grouping By Death Time rule are concerned with can be handled explicitly with features like NVMe's Streams directives, or Zoned Namespaces.

Overall, this article doesn't seem to have aged particularly well, and I'm not sure it was that useful and relevant even in 2017.
Well they were interviewing you for a job not having a chat at a meetup or at the pub. I don’t think it’s an indictment of your interests rather if you “get” the question they’re asking you
Of course they shouldn’t be allowed to sell complete phones but selling screens is good.

For an interesting contrast, look at the automotive industry, where (with the exception of perhaps some newer companies/models, like Tesla et.al.) there is a thriving aftermarket which is so complete that for certain models of cars, you can likely build an entire powertrain and even rolling chassis using zero original parts. Entire engine blocks, internals, transmissions, axles, suspension, brakes, even frame rails, can be bought from the aftermarket. Of course a lot of these parts are enhanced and marked with different manufacturer's names, but the OEMs themselves have in general not minded and sometimes even encouraged the aftermarket.
What advantages (in terms of CI setup) does that have over using GitHub.com?
While possible, high frequency microcontrollers and better capacitor technology (especially extremely low esr hybrid electrolytic capacitors) allow much better efficiency than was previously possible. Component costs have been driven down by wider adoption of inverters too.

Electronic speed controllers for brushless motors are one area you can really see this too - they are amazingly compact, efficient, and high power now.
Internet was made for people but without google it would be unusable for most. People don't care about technology or freedom they want free (of charge) email and dumb-proof websites.

Also getting politics into this is the exact opposite of decentralization.
> So much crass dismissal of anything not monetized.

And yet, so much of what is being monetized these days is being built on top of technologies that their creators gave away for free.

Off the top of my head, I can think of three very influential technologies that their creators (initially one person) gave away for free:

- The world wide web

- Linux

- Python
You mean the steady stream of "here's the iPhone killer" clickbait? Yeah, it's the same shit with anything Tesla ships.
Rendering "just some" lines is easy. Rendering nice lines is hard. OpenGL is a pretty low level abstraction, don't expect to get the same kind of stuff for free as you do in Canvas or the DOM.
It's just savings -- it's cheaper and easier to update software buttons than hardware.
Make a website Anna there some marketing copy on there
Only when the startup is preemptively considered the category winner and valued at multiples of the century-old companies (for some reason).
>The ideal interface here is really good, interactive voice. Hands-free and eyes-free.

Let me guess: your native language is American English and you have no "weird" accent.
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If the lab theory is true it's a collaborative Chinese-US f** up. So unlikely this is purely driven by anti-Chinese prejudice.
When the pillars of some derivative blockchain have collapsed, how will we be certain about which download is the untampered version?
Why would Tesla have better access to batteries than other carmakers? Panasonic is not the only one making cells and it's not a given that Lithium-based batteries will even be the way to go forward.

German carmakers for example are heavily invested in solid state batteries that have the potential to outperform Lithium-based batteries in almost every metric and are allegedly already performing well in the prototype phase. If this pans out, Tesla invested billions in building factories for old tech.

There are too many variables to predict who will be the clear winner.
> a giant ball of random objects that keep getting bigger, and more and more random crap just sticks to the ball

Plus every now and then there's a reset where it all goes back to a tiny cohesive start before the chaos begins again.
> "instead of just, like, putting individual buttons there."

A touch screen is cheaper, because they can re-use the same hardware between different vehicles rather than having to design/build/assemble a slightly different set of physical buttons for different models with different features.

It also allows for the interface to improve/evolve over time with software updates, something that Tesla has very much taken advantage of. Tesla Model S's from 2012 still get software updates with new features from time to time.
The frunk is the game-changer here. A fair amount of easy-to-load, secure, waterproof storage, in the exact same external package as the gas version. But only possible with an EV. This, more than anything else, is what will pull people to the electric version. Maybe not today, but give it a few years, as people talk to their electric F-150 owning friends.
The article like you pointed out is comparing apples to oranges. I could use 0 bits of memory to count if I’m able to accept 100% error to take the extreme case
Running on linux, with software I can to a fairly large extent control, I beg to differ. This is also the default, and not some crazy power-user iptables/proxy filter shenaningans either.
The subtle utility of existing in the real world.

It never stops to amaze me how of all places people in here are so blind to it.

Game should recognize game, especially on HN. The way Musk operates and Tesla finances scream that this is not unlike your run of the mill startup whose survival is 50:50...but of course the founder and CEO is doing media blitz after media blitz to promote the company and get a better valuation for the inevitable equity raise.
Why does anybody care what you do during your free time as long as it:

- is fun

- doesn't hurt anybody (except possibly yourself)?

Go write books, programs, plays, scripts, go do sports, go do drugs (responsibly), go drink, go play board games or online games, just do it. It's your life, your body and your decisions.
Tesla isn't a car. What model are you talking about?

Roadster is definitely a low volume luxury car. The S and X are also high-end with many high-end features. 3 and Y are mainstream models.
When the backhoe takes an accidental bite out of the fender, you can order spares for the Ford. That is utility.
People are not wearing masks in the face of a pandemic when experts tell them to. How well would calming down the public work (by authorities and experts) after a seemingly nuclear/biochemical terror attack and false claims from a terror organization?

The imminent reaction of "let's get out of here" in the face of danger was not what I was referring to here.
Thank you
Good point about the source of my worries about weakness. At the core it's about living up to who I aspire to be. Moments of 'weakness' are like sliding back from that towards the lazy instant gratification monkey.

I have the same problem of connecting with people because of not showing weakness or complaining.
Excellent! Glad to hear it.
If you haven't read any Virginia Woolf, I strongly recommend Mrs Dalloway. Just an incredible novel and more approachable as a starting point than, say, Orlando.
I have an accent that Americans would consider pretty weird. Siri has absolutely no problems with it. Google Voice isn't bad either. These things are pretty internationalised now days, and will only get better in the future.
That YouTube link appears to be broken for me.
Besides the cost cutting, keep in mind that the employees that don't have to manually count are not getting fired. They are providing more and better client services.
The main problem is "persistent storage". In k8s, a PVC/PV is probably close to the right answer, but in general that gives you a file-system view of the storage, not a block-device view, which for some databases might matter).

Also, in general, that persistent storage is (generally) not locally attached, which means that (some) file system interactions may have unexpected semantics. Now, with a DB, you're probably only going to have the PV attached on a single worker node, so most of that will actually just work.
You mean the bit about pirated software? Nope. Just a classic feeder line Apple gives to developers as a scare tactic. 30% is likely a heck of a lot more than what a canned c&d letter costs to get a pirated app removed from a trusted/authenticated app store variant.

Truth is Apple doesn't want competition for their large cut of "advertising/distribution" revenue.

If I develop an app for my existing customers and I want to support their device (Apple in this case) I have to agree to give Apple a 30% cut. Apple wouldn't have provided any direct service here for an unlisted app. I'm willing to host it and provide any merchant and billing support for it. I told my customer how to install my app. Apple's App Store wouldn't be providing any "distribution" services as it were (which as I understand is where historically the 30% rate originated --for that they should be paying for all my hosting and logistics).

I want to pay $100/year for Apple to verify my identity and make sure I'm not malware. That's all. In this universe I really don't even have an interest in using their closed-source compiler, or have to keep up with their programming language, but I do it cause it makes the numbers work.
I'm a bit confused about the conclusion. Seems to me the cited reason have mostly in common the fact that a centralized system is easier and faster to evolve, and that private companies have more focus on pleasing the widest audience ("use this product because it is made by a for-profit organisation" isn't a thing).

It is indeed political, but i see it more as a need for distributed systems governing bodies to improve rather than for regulation of centralized ones.
Tell that to my Siri, who thinks I am constantly asking for "Obama lights".
thanks for the interesting perspective

I think my realization was that it's not about 'who I am' but rather about what I do. So the breakthrough was not caring how an action affects my image (e.g. appearing weak) but rather as a learning point (e.g. more tired indicates a problem that should be diagnosed).
I worked at a startup about 10 years ago, and it was probably the most bureaucratic place I’ve ever worked. I was the 3rd employee, but my stock was negligible - incidentally the company wasn’t very transparent about this; When the offer was made they said, we’ll give you 5000 shares which sounded like a decent amount. I asked how many shares were issued and the guy replied just 7 million, but the important thing is how much each share will be worth (still 0). This is in London where this is probably quite common.

The sad thing was it was one of the most interesting places and domains I’ve worked, and if the company launched while I was there, it probably would have been acquired (like all our competitors). The founder was quite innovative but think was scared to launch and had a new idea/approach to market every few months. Eventually I lost faith, and being expected to work late every evening knowing my options were tiny killed all motivation.

As the author said, I calculated the expected value, decided it’s no longer worth it and left. The moment that changed my outlook was when they decided not to approve my leave (I had already booked and didn’t expect any issues since I had mentioned it in conversation a few months before). If I had stayed, I would haven’t enjoyed all the travelling and experiences I’ve had, earning more and working less.

The company is still going, and probably a long way off from having any exit. A few months after I left, some incompetent recruiter tried to hire me for my previous role at a £30k increase in salary.

Having said that, I would definitely join an early stage startup again, if the work was interesting, but would expect at least 1% and decent salary next time.
Fascinating list. I wonder if the dWeb will simply become the Internet whereas the current ‘Net will be referred to as the “Olde Internet.”
I am just wary of people badly reinventing an old idea with different names and trying to sell it as the next best thing since sliced bread. And since this is Hacker News… So far I’m not seeing anything other than names that would differentiate this from already-known paradigms.

(And by the way: pre-sliced bread sucks.)
If you want to mess around with small fast drives with high endurance relative to their capacity, you should consider the less outdated Intel Optane Memory cache drives, which are also far faster than ancient 3Gbps SATA drives.
Yes, as I said. If you can't have a spectator do the counting then I think most magicians wouldn't refer to it as ACAAN.

In your video the person counting is definitely not a stooge (he's a celebrity named Alistair McGowan).
> This is true, but it's important to consider that you could squeeze several billion of these processors into the space taken up by current CPUs.

You're implying that parallelization can make up for the slower clock speeds, which is true but only for some workloads, and then the system is constrained by bandwidth to get instructions and data to the parallel cores as fast as possible.
> "Is this going to make you any money?"

Well, statistically speaking, neither will the commercial project, no matter how useful.

It's too bad interesting but ultimately useless projects hold so little weight in interviews. But I don't know if it's clear cut that they will be less profitable than commercial projects, which fail more often than not. Expanding your skillset may be more profitable in the end.

I've been thinking of pivoting to useless myself. With projects of some commercial potential I have to have a novelty budget, usually ending up with Node.js and React because as boring as the stack is you can always Google a problem and have the solution handed to you on a platter. But so far none of them have made me any money. They have given me some business experience, though, but I get even more pushback from highlighting or trying to apply that in my day job. They want a good little worker bee, not someone who will be gunning for any business development positions.
How about fast, electric acceleration?
> A touch screen is cheaper, because they can re-use the same hardware between different vehicles rather than having to design/build/assemble a slightly different set of physical buttons for different models with different features.

Any savings will be lost by one class action lawsuit or mass recall. Touch screen is the wrong interface when lives are on the line.
Isn't that the whole point of encouraging competition?

Companies get slower as they grow, more entrenched in doing what they already do.

A young contender comes along and changes the market (pretty much overnight), and the old company has to adapt.

I think it's great to see the massive old companies making the fight to stay relevant if they're not doing it through underhand means (lobbying for restrictive legislation etc).

It's a win for the consumer. Infrastructure becomes commoditised, there are more options in the market, prices go down, things like build quality become selling points..
Novel and inspiring. Thank you!
Cool, this is an interested perspective, thanks for the read. It was really good to get all that information. After reading that I'm more inclined to believe you with regard to operations on US citizens, and those done by the domestic LE/intelligence/security agencies.

I suppose a few other counterpoints I have are how I heard numerous times that Trump wasn't briefed into certain things because people in intelligence thought he might loud mouth about it. And secondly, I think the scope for discretion, noted by your, "it's the decisions that intelligence officers and the contract employees who support them do on their own initiative - that, and things that are done under the aegis of foreign governments." is actually pretty large. Especially when you consider that large multinational corporations might be contracted. I suppose I'm talking more about defense/security related tech programs, and less about actual intelligence operations, tho I threw in that obvious example to make a point. I'm prepared to accept that's how it used to be but no longer is with regard to the latter at least.

But on the technology/science side, I'm less convinced black SAPs have full-spectrum EB oversight. Does the EB really already know everything that goes on at Los Alamos? Nevada Test Site? Or various defense corporation facilities worldwide contracted and funded at least in part by the US government? I definitely think there are some people who have a large picture, but I don't believe it to be EB, unfortunately, as I said at first, for "democracy" :( ;p xx

How many layers within layers might those companies and programs have, where they are receiving funding and technology and not filtering the general picture back up to EB? I think there's a definite possibility of that, for sure! :p ;) xx

I'm going to go read a bit more about Awlaki, Church, Title 50. Thank you again!! :P ;) xx
I saw those on ebay but the connector was weird also I don't need more speed, these machines will be behind 2x separate home 1Gb/s (up and down) fiber...

Another thing I had to consider was power since I plan to back these up with lead-acid batteries for power outages. These drives draw 2W when active... so that is 18W for 8x (512GB) DB drives and one OS drive! Compared to the 25/32W of the 8/16-core motherboards that's alot... but mechanical drives are insane on electricity, up to 10W per drive!!!

But good point, do you know what connector tese use?
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The Roadster does not exist.

Model S competes with low end german cars when it comes to luxury, but is priced on the same level with S-class.
>None of them have any altruistic motives either, so I can only conclude that they either don't want my money or they're really bad at what they do?

That's a non sequitur.
Perfect that was exactly what I missed. Thanks!
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I agree - it's been about 55% in favor of a lab leak for over a year amongst people who follow the origin story, and has increased recently with the former US officials talking about it, and the disclosure that the original doctors criticizing the lab theory as all being WHO staff with links to WIV.

There has been no info contradicting the lab theory.
Interestingly there does appear to be a plateau or drop just below $100k.

I wonder if this is around the transition point between being fairly well off, but still salaried and reliant on the salary, to being independently wealthy (or at least, the prospect of achieving independent wealth). Highly paid but salaried people are subject to all sorts of politics and power games, and there's always the prospect of losing it all.

Observing the people I know who are truly independently wealthy, the thing they have that no salaried person has is control of their time. Even if they're nominally employed, it tends to be in a flexible manner. That control over your life is a step change in well being.
Why is an advertisement on the top spot on hacker news? Clearly as it has gotten more popular, the need for filtering has gone up.

I mean, it is missing any technical background. This is a basic puff piece of content written to promote their site. This should never have gotten on the site.
Some luxury cars are fast, not all fast cars are luxury cars.
This link was helpful to me to get started. https://athensresearch.gitbook.io/handbook/learning-at-athen...
> The Roadster does not exist.

I see you're very familiar with Tesla.
People use GitHub to store all kinds of useful crowdsourced documents.
Plus gas is usually cheaper in Rural areas (at least where my son lives in North Dakota/Minnesota area)
It’s a store of value that regularly goes down double-digits, a digital currency that costs well over $10 for a single transaction, and an inflation hedge that swings wildly. Like does one BTC buy me a Tesla, a Pinto, or a bicycle in 12 months? I can be quite certain what $50000 USD gets me, despite all the claims that fiat is unstable and inflatory
Yeah, the electric lotus elise is totally a luxury car.
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People buy trucks for emotional reasons. The utility is there to help rationalize the decision.

If you're a two car family you can now make the case that you should buy an F-150 as a commuter.

Throw in the $7,500 tax credit and these things are going to sell like crazy even if the before rebate sticker price is $50,000
At the application level (E.G. a database storage layout) even for zoned namespaces the GENERALIZED principles seem logical. Even in the old days for tiny 512 byte sectors the seek and re-write time for a partial update likely influenced designs. Today I consider myself lucky to get storage with 4K sectors and I recall seeing rumors that game console SSDs would ship with far larger erase blocks.

I would prefer all storage came with interfaces and common access protocols for utilizing the raw features of the device directly. An enumerate of raw permanent storage addresses (possibly read only, write only in one packet, or write via write-zone promotion), (readable?) write buffer locations which can be promoted to long term storage, etc.

That might be NMVe 'streams', which I haven't read about yet. A quick search result makes me think they might be close and could have evolved there, but weren't there 2 years ago. https://www.anandtech.com/show/14543/nvme-14-specification-p...
I’m talking about marketing.

Just look at both websites. Ford is like a laser focused on the truck as a work vehicle.
Overly negative take: hopefully one of these days the people who try to turn their pets into "social media influencers" will be seen as animal abusers :)
Mailcoach [1] is another self-hosted email marketing tool. It isn't tied to SES and can be used with Postmark, Sendgrid or any other SMTP server.

Initial price is much higher than Sendy, but Mailchimp recently also added a drip campaigns feature.

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How has he not functioned as a human?

He's been successful, given tremendous amount of money and support to the 3rd world, and VS Code wouldn't have existed without Microsoft :)
Obviously inflation dropped 10% since Friday.
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