skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a similar thing in civil engineering. I build bridges with no safety factors, and when they collapse, I see exactly what safety factor was needed. That way, the effort of figuring it out in advance is never wasted.

Edit: The above was (clearly) sarcasm. Although in real life, I do the similar thing with log messages - I always tend to find out what log messages I needed only after I debug a problem. I wouldn't frame it as a virtue, though.
My experience matches this. I have converted a guest bedroom upstairs into my office but I can't sit there all day and work. I go down to the living room after lunch and also work from the back porch whenever I can. I have a desktop PC but I barely touch it.
Surely it can go both ways though; if everyone believes everything will naturally get better forever there's absolutely no reason to act now to bend the curve for the better.
Node 14 won't compile natively on arm64 right now. Though I do understand it's installable with Rosetta.
Backblaze does actually have caps, even though they don't publish them and they throttle even though they say they don't.
The 13” is the base Pro.
Very nice project. Much better than dealing with the raw tables/curves from Fair-Rite which seem to have been photocopied again and again over the ages.
It's probably not very important 80 tb.
Chips aren't made out of vacuum tubes any more, you can't "fix" a transistor
I'm saying that government doesn't have your health in mind, whether it be the vaccine, cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, health care, etc. They laugh all the way to the bank.
> Plug a computer into a monitor

… and get only 30Hz on 4k ;)
No, we can't agree. I find the noise of useless comments or documentation can make it much harder to understand a codebase. Sometimes less is more.
I'm actually using Xbox gamepass for a lot of stuff.

I doubt this will work well, unless M1's can emulate windows at native speed.
I once worked for Boeing Computer Services, a now defunct part of the Boeing Company. (And this was decades before the 737 MAX, thank you.) I wrote a computational grammar of English, which together with a LISP-based parsing engine developed by another employee, could parse a lot of English into phrase structure (this was before the days of statistically learned parsers). The grammar was based on a theory called Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, an off-shoot of Chomsky's work. I made a lot of use of a grammar of English published by one of Chomsky's students, which described a number of interesting grammatical structures.

Boeing eventually monetized our work by stripping out all the interesting constructions to arrive at a version of Basic English grammar, and used it together with the parser to ensure that authors of aircraft manuals conformed to that Basic English, which in turn was supposed to make the manuals more understandable to non-native English aircraft mechanics. It was still in use the last time I checked, a decade ago.
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I suspect one could fill an inner tube with a soft silicon used for mold making, I wonder how it would compare?
Also as other people have noted (most notably Fred Brooks and Linus Torvalds), having comments (or documentation) about architecture and data structures is also very helpful.
Yea, fair enough. I am generally migrating in that direction, but probably a bit slower than you.

Looks like a handy cable.
If you extend the definition of the word or phrase to apply to everything it is meaningless and might as well not be used. That is not how I am using it.
Space travel in itself is fairly straightforward. It's getting there and keeping the meat bag alive that's the hard part.
Obviousness is not obvious. It requires an incredibly deep level of subject matter expertise to even make that determination.
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I always find things like this pretty fascinating. Some salt miner from 3 millennia ago kindly took a poop in his mine so that present day scientists could discern he liked a good Roquefort. Just so cool to be able to figure this stuff out from so long ago.
I'm happy for you and your dad, and for our country - we need little victories, and this a big one for everyone. The science part has to be uniquely thrilling, though. Your dad's in a wonderful place in space and history.
Fixed everything they've broken in the past 5 years then added a notch... They haven't had a perfect machine in years, and the trend continues.
Removable ram wouldn't change anything in your story presuming the entire board is fried. Anyway, $30 + labor is a deceitful way to put it. The labor in your story would be 100s an hour and would probably fail to actually fix the issue most of the time.
Classic Chesterton’s Fence.

https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
Definitely not. Documents grow stale the second you write them, and are often furthermore wrong or misleading. I allow API documentation when it's separated into a different place from the code, but I do not tolerate documentation intertwined with the codebase itself.

Code is hard enough to read without active sabotage taking place, I do not allow PRs to go through if there is documentation in-line with code. The developer must pull it out, and almost always, it can 100% be replicated through better function naming.
I didn't really use them for voice calls myself.

I readily admit that I might just have been extremely unlucky, I don't know. I really didn't like having to throw headphones away just because they simply wouldn't turn on anymore so I'm just very wary of spending money on these headphones right now, especially since Sony WM-1000s are hovering at a similar price point and my experience with those has been very positive: almost 3 years in now and the pair of mk2s I have works perfectly.

If the battery was replaceable, even by professionals, I'd be far more likely to consider getting a new pair just because I miss them... and really, It's kind of a shame because the form factor and general operation of AirPods is really lovely, in my opinion. I was at first ready to be disappointed because they looked very similar to the wired ones Apple used to include with their devices which were awful, but I was very positively surprised.
If they did, it definitely wasn't at 30. I was getting 90+ on my budget rig.

But no, I don't think they did.
Yeah, I was trying to keep it simple, but you convinced me to edit that line out for correctness. Thanks!

Their patent was invalidated in 2017. Here's why:

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/25/cafc-affirms-invalidit...
What lessons did we learn that led to this being so highly regulated like it is? Why can't people do what they want with their money, in essence?
> Also, an insanely long identifier (which then appears everywhere it's used) is far worse than a short one with a single explanatory comment at its definition.

Also, when you think about it: long identifiers are properly understood as a kind of comment.
If they do, it's so high as to not matter for any reasonable use and quite a few unreasonable ones.
Since we can't ever reach most of the universe, that means we'll probably have to simulate it to ever explore it.

Which means we're probably being simulated right now. Hm. Let's hope they left `sv_cheats` available.
good for him for making something cool looking, but dang this is sketchy.

modern tubeless systems are so nice that i never worry about getting a flat on my bikes, and unlike this thing, I also never worry about them coming off of the rim, even at high speed through corners/over roots and rocks.

they stop holding air as well after a few months and i squirt some more sealant in and it's fine again. for any bike that sees real use it's hard to beat.
* provided that we can't overcome speed of light limit
If something is being sold at a loss, why should the purchaser feel bad about it?
Some 'personal unlimited' type plan is allowing this behavior and if the company is concerned with it they can change or terminate their product.

What if the whole point of the personal plan is "hopefully they can be encouraged to spend +$x with us"?
Leary was just the fall guy – Nixon sent the field back decades. The narrative about Leary's damage to the psychedelic movement is massively overstated.

Here is a relevant discussion between Michael Pollan and Hamilton Morris about this: https://youtu.be/XvMArmwI10Q?t=2744
There was only a 15-year transition period away from a seriously technically inferior architecture (for both performance and security.)
Switch out Cloudfront for Cloudflare. Or put it in front of it, if that's what floats your boat.
It’s not ironic, new releases of MacOS always coincide with the release of new hardware.

And it always follows the announcement of the release at WWDC around July.
Environmentalists argue Peter Thiel’s NZ lodge will destroy lake landscape
I'd be nice to see the other side of the Smurf board. There's a dearth of passives on the top side.
The most-likely explanation for the discrepancy between the methods is systematic uncertainty. I think it will be a rather spectacular surprise if the refined beam measurements continue to disagree with the bottle measurements a decade from now.

If the discrepancy persists, then there really will be a problem.

There is plenty of theoretical speculation, especially in the last couple of years, about what such a discrepancy, if true, might mean. Again, it would be a real surprise, but if neutrons have another decay pathway other than the known one, then the bottle method measures the total decay rate, while the beam method measures the electron/beta-decay rate only.

The emerging state of the art, should this discrepancy persist, will become experiments that measure both channels simultaneously.
I mean... This isn't that far from how some civil engineering is done. The bridge you drive across is not the first pass at said bridge. And much of what makes safe structures today came from accidents years ago.

I get what you intend. That we can also learn from the experience of others.
Makes a lot of sense, although in the end it only affects others on the same level in the hierarchy rather than those higher.
Mopidy is also a good option. The iris frontend is quite nice. I’ve been using it with icecast to send streams to my chromecast devices, but it also works well with Snapcast.
Well, they've been features of special ASICs that just happen to be on the GPU. Video decoding is not really suitable for CPUs (especially since H.264 or so) but it's even less suitable for GPGPU.
There's an infamous comment on the Dropbox launch that addresses this better than I can, but I can't find it. Suffice to say: yes, I'm aware there are solutions I can put together that are more work than I care to do to maybe save some portion of $65 a year. Putting those snapshots on Drive would tear through (expensive) space fast, so I'm not sure it's a savings. Backblaze provides incremental backup for my entire SSD. Even more if I ever fill that empty bay. I don't even pay for Drive since few things I do benefit from syncing, so this would probably cost more and be worse.
Good list, Caspar Weinberger stands out as a Washington insider, the exact type that are in the wink wink nudge nudge club. Holdeman, was too toxic to protect.
According to the "foods of England" website (http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/beeftea.htm), beef tea is

"The clear liquid from beef which has been boiled until fallen, strained and skimmed of all fat.
"

You can find a recipe online.

And "beef essence" is just meat extract

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_Extract_of_Meat_Com...

"Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, established in the United Kingdom, was the producer of LEMCO brand Liebig's Extract of Meat and the originator of Oxo meat extracts and Oxo beef stock cubes. It was named after Baron Justus von Liebig, the 19th-century German organic chemist who developed and promoted a method for industrial production of beef extract.

In 1847, Justus von Liebig developed a concentrated beef extract in hopes of providing a cheap and nutritious meat substitute, Extractum carnis Liebig, for those unable to afford the real thing.[2] His method was to trim the fat from the meat, break the meat into small particles, boil it with water to form a liquid of 6-8% solids, and then stir it over low heat, until it was reduced to a paste of 80% solids."

https://store.belgianshop.com/syrups/1414-oxo-beef-meat-extr...
Nobody but yourself knows what this is off hand, but thanks.
wouldn't that just be beef soup? Tea basically takes something and soaks it in hot water for a long time. If you are using meat products i assume it automatically become soup (since thats basically what soup is)
I personally think patents should only apply to significant investments. Anything that could be mostly explained in an elevator trip should not be patentable.

Rounded corners should not be patentable. The latest ARM core design should be.
Is this person one of them?
There has been an M1 fork of Tensorflow almost since the chip launched last year. I believe Apple did the leg work. It’s a hoop to jump through, yes, and no ones training big image models or transformers with this, but I imagine students or someone sandboxing a problem offline would benefit from the increased performance over CPU only.

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2020/11/accelerating-tensorflow-...
The dongle life is just so very shit. Is there anyone who prefers a dongle to a built in solution?
Like backgrounds in a video game - always visible, never reachable.

Perhaps the remaining % are also unreachable and we're just falling for the illusion :D
> The overriding point is that hunter-gatherers made choices—conscious, deliberate, collective—about the ways that they wanted to organize their societies: to apportion work, dispose of wealth, distribute power. In other words, they practiced politics.

I am genuinely glad we are progressively leaving the "ancestors were dumb" narrative. It seems to have been a long and slow process, I fully root for it.

Side point: this article is primarily aimed at promoting a (long) book, so readers are expected to enjoying reading for reading, and will appreciate the author's effort to lead them through a syrupous long ride, I guess. This reminded me I don't belong to that camp.
Just to add to it:

If you decided to travel to the furthest galaxies you could reach, at some point even they will move beyond the reach of Earth as space expands. To colonize them means to exile yourself from Earth permanently.

Traveling through an infinitely expanding universe is like traveling into a permanent headwind in every direction.
it has a notch
As I said not something I could reasonably expect or that Apple should reasonably have done. Just another set of changes to make/stuff to buy.

In practice I’ll probably mostly just deal with for a while by carrying a hub with me.

Of course I have a ton of other things I’ll home but that’s easier dealt with using various usb hubs.
"The opening screen of T’Rain was a frank rip-off of what
you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no
guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel."

From reamde, by Neal Stephenson, 2011.
It's mind blowing to imagine that the observable universe is bigger than 90 billion light years, space-time expanding at multiple times the speed of light.

If expansion keeps accelerating, then at some point gravity won't be able to keep the local cluster together and even those galaxies will drift away, then star systems, then planets, then matter itself will be torn apart until atoms and particles and quarks are destroyed. A dark future awaits indeed.

Something in my mind tells me that there must be more to it, the careful balance of universal constants that allow for matter and stars and life to exist surely would not allow it all to be destroyed forever in the end...
If you have a 30k mortgage on a 60k home by selling all your assets you're 30k up, whereas the other scenario has you at zero. Net worth would arrive to the same conclusion, so I don't see net worth including wealth to be a bad metric here.
If this fact makes you uneasy just know that 100% of the universe's galaxies, except the one we are currently in, are already unreachable within your lifetime.
How long does the author take to get to the point. Ugh... And honestly, the point isn't all it's made up to be. Mostly a, well... OK.
So for fun I decided to see how cheap you could actually do this in a reliable way. Cheapest gb/$ for a good widely available drive is a 6tb refurb enterprise drive around $110. For this many drives I'd want raid 6 (especially refurbs), so you're looking at $1650 pre tax.

As a public company there's no chance backblaze will let this dude keep ripping them off.
> Assuming you have an hardware DMA ring buffer for I/O that is directly mapped in userspace, the only thing that is really needed is to write the operation type, size, disk position and memory position to the ring buffer, update the buffer position and check for flush, doable in around 8 CISC instructions (plus the slowpath), so around 100x inefficient.

This type of thing is not measured in instructions anymore, it's measured in off-board operations and latencies. Cache misses, latencies to poke MMIO and get back interrupts if necessary, DMA transfer to complete, device access time. In this case it seems the hardware is theoretically capable of about 12M so the core mostly be just waiting for that.
I'm sure it depends on needs. I have gigabytes of raw photos, videos, renders, stems, asset packs I can't count on being available from the original source, etc. I never need to access it on other computers, so they're not synced to services that charge a premium for space for the value of syncing, but I can grab a file outside a synced folder from the Backblaze website or app in a pinch.
I think you have to have a more stable goal of the software for literate to work well. But I think most software can be more stable than folks think it is.

Don't get me wrong, some parts of code can easily go through a lot of churn. Hopefully, they would have been confined to a single chapter of a literate attempt. Same as they were hopefully confined to a module or package of a project.
What hobby has 80TB of data?
Derek Lowe did a "Things I Won't Work With" on FOOF. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

He mentions Streng's work.
The subject’s book “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” was so poorly researched and argued, it’s one of the few books I’ve returned to Amazon in the past two decades. (“A History of Interest Rates” by Homer & Sylla, remains the definitive history of debt among humankind. Originally written in 1963, I’d been hoping to find a modern update to the subject matter.)

Similar to this article - lots of claims of greatness, but never actually gets around to using facts to build the case.

“All hat and no cattle” as they might say.
An opinion that may be contrary to some of the other replies here. Don’t feel bad about it. There is a commercial (and capitalistic) contract between Backblaze and you where it provides a service for a payment. Both ends are keeping up the deal. If Backblaze deems your usage as “abuse” (many companies use unpublished soft and hard limits for making such decisions), it will let you know and give you options. Your main concern should be having some sort of alternative if/when Backblaze tells you that your contract with it cannot be supported any longer or if Backblaze has such poor business sense that it has a lot of customers like you and goes bust (the latter is unlikely).

Also consider that many other users may be using far less than what $60 could buy for Backblaze.

Even if Backblaze is suffering a huge loss on account of your usage, the fact that you commented here about it and indicated that there haven’t been any repercussions is a marketing message for the company treating paying customers in a decent way.

I’m sure people on r/datahoarders (Reddit) would already know of use cases like yours or may be thrilled to know of it.
I'm not even sure what virtue you're trying to signal here. Just because someone used the limited funds they had available to obtain the software and educational resources they were interested in, they've exercised some sort of inappropriate privilege?

Isn't that the whole idea behind college? Spend money to learn cool stuff?
Lots of propellant. Electronics.
Aerodynamics.
Materials engineering.

Like making a great cocktail really.
why? it was never going to matter to you. any of us here will be outliers if we even make it to orbit
A counter argument on Gobekli Tepe (which dates to 9600 BC) to the thesis of David Graeber is:

“Over time, Schmidt believes, the need to acquire sufficient food for those who worked and gathered for ceremonies at Göbekli Tepe may have led to the intensive cultivation of wild cereals and the creation of some of the first domestic strains. Indeed, scientists now believe that one center of agriculture arose in southern Turkey—well within trekking distance of Göbekli Tepe—at exactly the time the temple was at its height.”

From: https://thisviewoflife.com/blog/complex-societies-before-agr...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

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They have recently found even older settlements like Boncuklu Tarla that even had a sewer system that was over 11,800 years old:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/archaeologists-unearth-anci...

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-temple-found-in-ma...

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Meanwhile they seem to constantly find really old "city" settlements in Turkey today:

https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahin_Tepe
They wouldn't have existed in this form then. Open chip market has very different needs, and SoCs are designed accordingly.
I was just pointing out that nuclear power plants don't pollute the planet with radiation. Coal plants do.
You should be using consecutive years.

And it may very well be that the sale of grandpa's fairy farm spans over two fiscal years.
HelpScout does this too.
I got MuJoCo for free as an undergrad and I'm pretty sure all I needed was a .edu email address.
Fun factoid: Japan is the world's largest market for 7-11, and Japan's 7-11 (officially Seven & I Holdings) bought the US operations back in 2005.
did they actually provide any evidence for this "teaching signal" in the brain?

I'm sure neuroscience community would be very interested in such discovery.

Otherwise this seems like another model looking for the proverbial nail.
Strange that there's an accommodation "pod" but no blood transfusion yurt.
This doesn't gel with my experience at all. Yes, past MacBooks weren't necessarily integer scaling (with this new display the default setting and what most people use will be though as far as I understand), and non-integer scaling is not ideal. But on my last two MacBooks at least the screen is visually plenty sharp, and looks way, way, better than the regular-DPI external monitors I still have (whether the external monitor is connected to the Mac or a Windows PC). And above all, my experience with Mac is that high-DPI has actually worked from the beginning, whereas on Windows I still have some apps that break if the scaling is not set to 100%!

Even right at the start, old apps would look a bit blurry but would still at least be in the correct proportions on macOS, whereas with the Windows scaling a lot of stuff just wouldn't work!
Video editor keeping raw footage around? Or if they're on hn, maybe they're a data scientist who loves big datasets and cannot lie.
"If you were the inventors of Google Earth you'd have invented Google Earth"
If anything, based on these numbers the email increased their sales. I highly doubt there’s an actual causation, but personally speaking having a CEO take a stance I agree with would have made me check out their product.
Chmod600 was trying to refute the headline, which talked about wealth. If he used income metrics to refute it then he is wrong. He was using the incorrect data set and applying it to the article, so the objection is correct.
Just When a Data Scientist Has It All Figured Out, the Rules Change