skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Not 100% sure what you are replying to, and not sure what you meant by "safer", but this may help:

I'm replying to the whole of comments on this article. The write amplification problem goes up as the number of "free" sectors/blocks goes down. Many solutions have been presented that don't allocate X% of the hard drive... but I'm not sure than any of them let the hard drive's SSD controller know they aren't allocated.

For that to happen, the OS has to have TRIM support, AND the block in question has to be on a volume that the OS is managing.

My worry is that if you have a blank partition, it's not being actively managed by anything, and thus isn't going to be TRIMed, and thus the SSD doesn't know the blocks are free for use.

Thus, leaving an unpartitioned area isn't going to help.
What versions of Android have a toggle to allow USB OTG?
To clarify, in some jurisdictions in the US, businesses cannot represent themselves. Which is a travesty for companies like this guy, who doesn't even have that as an option. I don't actually know about patent law, I just have had an experience with a frivolous lawsuit for a low-ish dollar amount that it would cost more to defend than lose. Because we couldn't represent ourselves, we just had to let it go to default judgement.
Having hired many folks for cloud engineering positions we never hired anyone with a certification. Experience was a better predictor of success.

What is it you want to do? is the certification the best path to reach that goal?
Tesla heats and cools the battery pack so that it lasts longer, and they generally have much less range loss. Mine is 6.5 years old and range has declined from 265 to 260. I have 60,000 mi on it.
Not only that but in any road accident the bigger participant is automatically the guilty party. So huge trucks are very very careful while grandma with her trolley of vegetables trundles merrily along.
> in much the same way that it would be hard to take a poorly-dressed person seriously

The sooner we can get over this obsession with people dressed "nicely" and instead listen to people who know what they are talking about, the better.

Any monkey can wear a jacket and tie. I hate that society automatically elevates well dressed people the way it does. To me it only signals that they have money.
Nothing spectacular, really. After 20 years of working at several FAANGs, you just tend to move up the ranks to senior/staff-level positions. You also build a reputation that can follow you around the industry as people you've worked with also move around.

Once you're pegged for a Google L6/Facebook E6/Microsoft 67/etc. role, there's a lot that those companies are willing to agree to in order to get you on-board vis-a-vis Google L3/Facebook E3/Microsoft 59/etc.
If you don't get the boundaries between the various services right, the effort is going to fail spectacularly.
Dealt with something similar. Talk to a lawyer, they’ll tell you to settle.

It sucks, but when you’re small that’s how this works. Fighting these could be a multi year process that costs tons of money and may require you to personally show up in court. Do you want to bet the future of your company and spend hundreds of hours of your life fighting this? Or do you give them a few thousand to go away?
I don't really have any complaints about using deterministic builds for non-security reasons, but the number one claim most proponents make is that it somehow prevents backdoors. Literally the first claim on reproducible-builds.org is that build determinism will prevent threats of violence and blackmail.
You're presuming these people have assets to invest.
I kinda prefer this designation, because it's a way to distinguish "desktop linux" from servers and embedded.
Was about to say this same thing. I feel like it has a very poor band association in my mind.
ModernCloud: A browser-based serverless platform that is fast and open-source
How does it compare to Zerotier? They seem to be in the same market
Hi, everyone! ModernCloud is now open source. ModernCloud is a browser-based, batteries-included serverless platform that let's you build your endpoints and functions in minutes. We don't abstract away your functions like other platforms do, and we don't have our custom configuration in place, we use terraform. We'll soon have Github integration where you can sync your code and terraform configuration.
Depending on what state you're in, yes, it may very well be enforceable. If you'd like to test those waters, more power to you. I wish you luck.
That's fair. I think I agree with that characterization.

I think if this excluded users who turned off iCloud sync, I'd have no qualms about it, however; the tradeoffs seem ideal for giving users a secure recovery mechanism. But users who have turned off iCloud may not want this functionality, I agree.
Nope. Nothing complicated. Just a very common part that plugs into another very common part. I wanted to buy from him to keep everything period and authentic.

The part was $x. His minimum purchase was $y+shipping. I told him that I was happy to pay $y+shipping for the single part. But he then insisted I also buy completely unrelated items $a and $b, which would have increased the price well beyond $y+shipping.
Argentina for one.
I've never worked with a lawyer before. How do I pick one? Should I pick one in my state - Nevada? Should I post the case details here? I guess I was hoping someone on HN had a connection or is an IP lawyer themself, as I have no idea how to pick a lawyer and no idea how much this could cost.
OP would have to spend tons of money and hundreds of hours fighting this, then still have a nonzero chance of losing and going out of business. Always easy to say that someone else should fight it.
ECMAScript is the standard of JavaScript.

Node.js is a program that can run JavaScript progams as command-line programs, and includes its own library of functions such as file system, cryptography, compression, HTTP(S), etc.

The other stuff you mention I don't know, but hopefully someone else does and can answer your question.
There doesn't have to be something wrong with it, it's all down to the implementation details. For one, possibly extreme, example of how it could turn out badly, look at countries like Qatar and how they treat their second class workers.
By the way, this is the equivalent of smuggling malicious source code into the Linux kernel. Look what worked better, security-wise.
> At the lowest extreme in age, there are lots of kids and teenagers who are simply puzzled by the whole notion of gender roles, or the prospective changes of puberty, and will happily tell you that they kinda-sorta don't feel like they belong in their gender, especially if so influenced by unscrupolous trans-activists.

While it is true that other maladies of adolescence can be miscategorised as gender dysphoria, it's also well-understood that gender dysphoria is something that is not absent in children and adolescents. When genuinely dysphoria, this is something that is strongly evidenced to occur absent any external influence. A simple example here is older adults reporting dysphoria extending back to childhood, in eras where the existence of the condition was simply unspeakable.

> One might think it obvious that pursuing transition in these cases is ethically unconscionable given that the vast majority of those kids will be totally fine afterwards, but this is a surprisingly controversial POV in the 2010s.

Because one must be careful not to be biased against inaction or toward natural design. The consequences for ignoring the issue in children can be as devastating as inappropriately treating the issue. Diagnosis here can admittedly be a serious challenge but thankfully there are options in-between "ignoring it" and "full permanent transition", which is why my personal opinion would lean toward reserving anything permanent for the most serious cases (i.e. ones involving self-harm), and allowing gender-dysphoric children to "socially" transition, which amounts to little more than allowing them to pick out their own easily-reversible name and clothing style.
You're correct, and thanks for pointing this out.

It's been a while since I've had to set up a new Mac, so I completely missed this :)
Just ignore it. By acknowledging it you're engaging with them. They're looking for low hanging fruit.
You may want to reach out to some of your competitors and try to find the lawyers they used (especially the dismissed ones). If there are any court records they may show this.
https://www.google.com/search?q=china+babies+sleep+on+their+...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/06/30/c...

The WaPo article is very illuminating re: how Chinese babies were raised. As it was published almost 30 years ago, those babies are now established Chinese adults. Makes you wonder how much they're shaped by how they were reared.
Millions of new items in Amazon warehouse marked 'destroy'
Bad idea for the sake of discussion: Why not represent yourself, make the whole process as public as possible (marketing to offset the cost of time), and do everything you can to asymmetrically use their lawyer's time? Even if you end up settling, they might come to the table a little more eager to get it over with
Yes we indeed are agreeing.
Real life experience with whichever.
generating electricity will also create waste products. i'm not sure that part can actually be avoided. biological systems can repair themselves (within limits) and make use of a wide range of energy sources. silicon based life certainly sounds interesting, but it would probably end up being a lot more biological than you're expecting.
I'll inject a related question here:

Does anyone have experience with the LOT network [0]?

If so, is this useful, recommended or advisable for small startups?

As for the OP. I wonder if joining LOT at this point might have any value for you.

Political: The patent troll industry is yet another example of how much our politicians have failed us. I see them as scam artists who would be bad car sales people and ambulance chasers had they not gone into politics. All they care about is votes. Everything else does not affect their fitness function, therefore, they tend to ignore things that are actually important to real people.

[0] https://lotnet.com/
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How databases handle 10M devices in high-cardinality benchmarks
Would OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi have met your RAID and sync needs?

I keep eyeing OMV but haven't splurged on running a NAS with multiply-redundant drives separate from my application server; currently it's just an RPi4 as a docker host, with rsync keeping two USB drives in sync with each other.
This was Leah Betts, I expect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Leah_Betts

One of the many sources of hysteria around drugs in that period of time, and from the wikipedia it looks like it wasn't just anti-drugs campainers who exploited the situation; alcohol companies fearing competition had a go too...
The case details does not detail an asking amount. I could post the case details here if people think that's a good idea. I suppose it's public information anyway.
That's not compression if you can't use the dataset. All you compressed is the proof.
It never fails to amaze me how seemingly impossible it is to get a web development firm to just write:

<form>
<label>Full name: <input type="text"></label>
<label>Date of birth: <input type="date"></label>
<label>Zip code: <input type="text"></label>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

And then sprinkle a little CSS on top to make the colors match the client's theme.

It's really simple.
Counter point: Motion blur is a simple form of low-pass filtering (in the time direction). You need some kind of filtering to prevent shutter artifacts (think video of a spinning wheel), and that stays true even at a million fps.
Thanks! I made a sequel and released it on Xbox 360 and iPhone a long time ago, but let the code atrophy for a while. I finally resurrected it and started cleaning it up and improving it a couple of years ago, but at one point decided to do the 2D->3D conversion and ended up rebuilding it again.

Trying to figure out a way so potentially hundreds of viewers on Twitch can play along with a Twitch streamer, essentially joining a team and voting for where to place their tile, or just play like normal. Had to take a break working on it recently (job hunting), but I hope to jump back into it after I get settled at a new job.

I need to do a newer update video (you can play a full game now, more focused on adding menus and streamer support right now), but you can see kind of what I'm doing with the third game here, if you're curious. There's videos of Proximity 2 in action on my channel as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IAx9fsBuus
We automatically convert user generated images to WebP if feasible and then use the <picture> element to display alternatives (the original format as the fallback). I'm pretty sure that this might be a common pattern.

Browsers could allow a selection of all sources provided by the picture element (this would also include differently scaled variants based on media queries) in a download dialog.
Oh nice, it seems they learned from the JPEG2000 fiasco and released this with an open source license.

https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/blob/master/LICENSE
When not sounding like a Linux distro reminds me of 6to4
You start by having someone tell you about man -k. That, plus playing (typos → error messages → more words to look up) is probably sufficient.
I think numbers might lie a bit there.

If the function of education is to provide an even starting point for kids regardless of their personal environment, it stands to reason that in places where those personal environments are worse you'd need brutal amounts of resources, since you'll indirectly be covering for parents' neglect, psychological issues, and other factors that should have been handled somewhere else but are being stuck in the education budget. If you see it under that scope, absolute numbers might not tell you much.
Why does a USB C port mean you don't need ADB or help with a cracked screen?
This ^

Fighting it means legislative changes, not falling on your sword hoping you put a dent in their impenetrable armor.
Then by definition you are not receiving security updates. Android sandboxing obviously helps here, but it’s still not a sensible position to take in the general case and definitely not an idea you want to give to your less technical friends or family.
Why does JPEG XL affect the image quality even in lossless mode?

I just compared the original tiger image to the lossless version for JPEG XL but there's some small changes that it makes.
It probably depends on how much you need to store. But if you need ongoing backup that will get larger and larger then the answer is probably "No".

I back up my family photos and other important files to Amazon S3 using Restic. My 150GB of data ends up costing me about $1.50/month. I could get the price down lower if I use, say, the Infrequent Access storage tier, but at that price point I just can't be bothered to deal with it.

A free tier often isn't worth it if you have to put any time into thinking about whether you'll exceed the limit. I'd just go with a cheap pay-as-you-go service and not worry about it.
After Pathfinder someone from NASA wrote a book about their new "faster, better, cheaper" approach to missions. Usually you can't have all 3 but they managed to get lucky. That made it particularly amusing when the book and concept were getting popular as the next 2 missions were failing.
I never expected there would be so few comic readers on HackerNews!

This "LOW KEY" shirt depicted here was worn by the Marvel character Loki in the very recent Marvel comic "Loki (2019) #2". This depiction of him was WILDLY popular, especially the second-printing variant cover by Babbs Tarr: https://twitter.com/babsdraws/status/1166461271396507648 & https://www.midtowncomics.com/product/1883000 which still goes for $20 or $30 on eBay, very uncommon for a modern second printing of anything.

This has nothing to do with the Norse mythology or Neil Gaiman's American Gods novel.
I did AZ-900 and AZ-204. Thought they might look good on a CV. Passed both on the first try.

The use is debatable. There is definitely a gap between the certificates and the real thing. Had some issues with the first components, I added to the cloud. OTOH you get to play with the Azure Cloud and get some practise and you can get around better than without the training.

In terms of preparations, the MS Learn platform is a really good start. You can complement it by browsing some dumps that are freely available on the Internet
I think the OP might have been speaking more toward the people who feel the need to take their dog everywhere. Things like carrying them in purses or bags, sneaking them into stores where they're not allowed and having verbal or physical altercations when challenged, getting documents (fake or otherwise) certifying they're emotional support animals to take them on planes, and the overall making them a part of your identity.

It's not unlike the anti-maskers or anti-vaxx people presently during the pandemic. The difference being that current circumstances (i.e. the pandemic) are causing society to challenge those people and their behaviors but aside from Airlines banning emotional support animals, there really isn't anyone questioning the crazy dog people.
Lossless JPEG transcoding making images 20% smaller is nice, though you can already losslessly shrink many JPEG files by up to 10% by using https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim/ and making them interlaced.
"... either forget about it or..."

Will forget about it. Not really that interested in wireless anyway.
No, rents are too low to be profitable (a $1 million apartment will only rent for $2k/month), and renovations decrease the value of the property (in China, you’ll often gut the apartment and redo the interior after purchase). They instead keep the apartments empty in the hope of selling them for a profit later.
Awesome platform with cutting-edge features
Even Bill G doesn't own a lot of Microsoft stock. They (the super rich or most likely their money advisors) know that diversifying will bring much better yields and safety.
Usual disclaimer: I am not an attorney.

Have they actually served you with any notice, potential licensing terms, legal documents of any kind? For clarification, are they a NPE (non-practicing entity)?

Anyway, I've worked on pretty much every side of the patent system in the United States (assuming you're there). While I (fortunately) haven't been presented with your exact scenario I suggest:

- You need to hire a patent attorney immediately (it doesn't sound like you have one).

- Get them up to speed on the situation.

- They can advise you on what to do.

The advice I've been given in the past essentially boils down to:

1) Have your attorney immediately respond with a letter containing any/all of the following: likely prior art, issues with their patent, why it doesn't apply to you, any circumvention measures you've taken, etc, etc.

2) Meet their terms. It sounds like this probably isn't a viable option for you.

#1 serves several purposes:

1) Letting the other party know you have a patent attorney.

2) You (and they) understand the landscape and have a prepared response.

3) You aren't just some naive rube that will be (that) easily intimidated.

4) If they're looking for a quick rollover, settlement, licensing terms, etc that won't happen here.

For you it sounds like most of this will be a bluff.

Ideally they'll move on to a different target. However based on what you've described they sound very aggressive and well funded so that's probably not what will happen here if it comes to that.

As you probably know these kinds of things often come down to who has the last dollar and it sounds like that will be you.

The worst case scenario is you end up with a judgement against you and the cops show up and seize company assets. Don't mess around with this and let it get to that.

Good luck.
> What are the odds that a pandemic randomly starts in a city that has a virology lab which studies just that kind of virus?

There have been many escapes from labs over the years, at least dozens of them. There has never even been an outbreak as a result. In fact, every single pandemic, epidemic and outbreak, every single one we know about since the dawn of time, had its origins in people living and working close to animals. Every. Single. One.

What are the chances that this time it came from a lab? Nearly zero. It is /possible,/ but the odds of a pandemic originating from a bio-lab are vanishingly slim, especially when there is a wet market as a smoking gun. Lab breaches and escapes happen, but they have never caused any trouble.

The problem always has been people living and working too close to animals. Of course this pandemic, like every other pandemic, epidemic and outbreak, ever, originated the same way.
Most state bar associations have a website where you can search for whatever specialty you might need. You can also talk to your investors for advice, or ask around your community for recommendations.
I would point out that is literally what ccache (and Google goma) does, but doesn't require deterministic builds. Instead, it records hashes of preprocessed input and compiler commandlines.

They don't make any security claims about this, it's just for speeding up builds.
You are correct those are some reasons why geolocation based settings are bad. I think that the Accept-Language header should be used to select which of multiple languages to use. It is OK for the site to include overriding functions though, including URLs and cookies, in case the Accept-Language header is wrong or if you want to link to a specific language for some reason.
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Like many said contacting a lawyer is a good idea, also consider joining the LOT Network, it's like protection against patent trolls by sharing patents.
That doesn't sound good either.
I don't know, if I'm going to eat somewhere at a huge markup I just don't want that annoyed "Ugh, ANOTHER one?" face. I don't chat and much less flirt, I just make an order.
It's not uncommon to have the waiter vent at you (unprompted) because they got a degree and only managed to find work as waiters. It's just a lot of negativity for the high prices and not worth it anymore for me.
Supreme Court rules against NCAA on education-related benefits for athletes
That's the wrong way to do it though.

You can't just have a free for all mentality when building APIs. The platform has to be there first.

Everyone's API should just need simple descriptive json files and then a client can be generated to consume that API easily. Everyone can declare those json files and it would work everywhere across the business.

This free for all with no standardization is bound to be a disaster.
Too many complaints that they downloaded a picture from the web that their image viewer can't open maybe?
Front-end web developer learning pathway
Another way to look at it:

For a low-wage earner today, the choice is:

* Don't work, get $300/week
* Work, get $400/week

Depending upon circumstances, many find the former option better.

But UBI is proposing an option like this:

* Don't work, get $300/week
* Work, get $280 + $400/week

With this kind tradeoff, many more will chose latter option.
Treat with care. I've seen people follow this advice and get severely burned out because neither the student (working on a subsection) nor the advisor (working on a larger project) was as interested in the topic of the thesis as both would be if a separate topic was chosen.
Do you have issues with lower than normal (135-140) serum sodium levels?