skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>we need to take into account the carbon cost of storage. Since this doesn't exist, it is an unknown.

NY appears to have plenty of hydro from that graph. It's not all that hard to close the sluice gates and open them later.

Grid scale batteries are also cost competitive (as of the last 12 months or so), though they wouldn't be as cheap as hydro for dispatchable energy.
>Living in a property you own gives so much more for your money

This isn't true everywhere. Prop13 in California for example means that a long-time owner can rent out a property at below market and still make money since they're paying near-zero property tax. Both the renter and landlord come out ahead.
That's kind of a radical position. People shouldn't take photos of crowds in public places? You want veto power over that?
That looks like a how-to book, not a why book.
you can auto re-attach the tmux session or create new one with something like this in your bash_alias or bashrc.

# tmux auto attach or create new session
[ -z "$TMUX" ] && { tmux attach || exec tmux new-session && exit;}
i think it just means to put 5TB of data online
Here's an older thread on the cable: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7794520

This was pre-2013. So perhaps the proprietary connector was a reaction to the cable?
You're forgetting that SSDs use virtual addressing so writes are distributed relatively equally over the whole drive. Even data that is written once and never changed logically will probably move around on the SSD due to garbage collection. The virtualization algorithms are kept relatively secret, but I assume good SSDs will move full unchanged blocks around occasionally to distribute write load more equally on the physical blocks.
VLC runs well. I uses this as an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNxAg4SK7LM

MPV on 360 deg videos is a slideshow.
All these neobanks end up bought up by the terrible necrobanks and then they deprecate their services. Never again. Never ever again.
Genuine question: How many are written in Rust?

Maybe it's more "See, Rust can, too!" type software?

Footnote: I have not done extensive research, hence the question.
I've been looking into Graduate school for years and decided I won't go back in the US mostly likely and will head to Europe. Our system is designed to take advantage of PhD's as labor for the university system.

It's too extractive for what it's giving back.
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Peerspace is hiring a software engineer with 5 years of experience to join our team who has relevant knowledge in reservation systems, two sided marketplaces, transactional ledgers, and payment gateways.

Technologies:
- Clojure
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- Mongodb - query patterns/indexes/oplog tailing
- Postgres
- JVM - tuning/debugging
- Google Pub/Sub
- Elasticsearch/lucene
- Kubernetes/containerization

https://jobs.lever.co/peerspace/b71af18d-380c-48ea-9a9c-3f96...
That makes sense!

In that rare situation, I typically use tab completion to find the remote file. However, I bet that would SUCK on a high latency or low bandwidth link, where sftp would be just fine.
> I did empathize with people who didn’t like it for whatever reason

This is a pretty clear indicator right here that influential people weren't listening on the issue. Any time you state "for whatever reason" is a clear sign you don't care for their reasons.
They're not going to shut it down. They're just doing to deny access to you and me, and sell it to cops and despots.
Fiscal cushion. If an emergency comes up, rather than having no money to pay for it, you instead can cover it, and just pay a little extra each month going forward until you recover.

That said, I don't think they exist in the US.
> Housing will always be expensive in one way or the other, but you can make it cheaper and more plentiful. And that should be the goal.

When housing becomes an investment, the goal is to get that sweet ROI which generally means working to restrict the supply of housing to make prices rise. Lobbying is a high-ROI activity.

And housing doesn’t need to be expensive. Japan is a good example. It’s only expensive because we instituted policies that make it an effective investment vehicle when it’s a necessity in life. Many cities outside the US have policies in place making property taxes very expensive for an investor who doesn’t live in the house. In particular many countries prohibit foreign investors from purchasing real estate without a local intermediary who is legally responsible for any shenanigans.

The free market works well for many things, but there are areas where the motive to create artificial scarcity create some dystopian outcomes (see also healthcare). We have to ask ourselves as a society if our belief in the free market is strong enough to accept the societal issues (crime, mental health, etc) that have been proven to come along with unstable housing.
Given the licensing of ZFS, and the friendly nature of Oracle, I suspect Fedora/Redhat/IBM et al will never ship with native ZFS support.

This strict adherence to licensing matters certainly saved IBM's ass in SCO v. IBM in regards to IBM's work on JFS for Linux.
Nope, Ryzen 3500u with integrated graphics :)

There were quite a few issues with amdgpu that would get fixed in certain kernel/video driver updates, and broken in other ones.
Less activist, more puritan priest trained as a new institutional clergy.
> and hell lot to loose by lying this straight face among employees.

And if, in a year an employee speaks out and leaks that FB never deleted the data? What would happen then? I don't think anything would happen, they wouldn't lose much, and no one would be too surprised.
Yes, if you have anything of even moderate importance on a computer, not backing up is foolish and will eventually result in loss of data. If plugging in an external drive and letting something like Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner run from time to time is too much trouble there's even options like Backblaze which makes automated incremental backups entirely transparent and effortless. There's no good reason to not backup.
> The SSD is reasonably considered to last the "lifetime" of the product

Except for simply running of out drive space.

So if you want to buy something and have it last 5+ years you need to spec it out from the start to have way more drive space than you think you'll ever use.

Or else when it runs out and you really need that extra space you're forced to upgrade everything in order to get the extra space since you made an initial mistake in specing out the machine when you first bought it.

(I also strongly question the idea that un-removability provides much better lifetime over simply removing the spinning parts. That seems of questionable benefit to the end user, while taking upgradability away creates planned obsolescence that increases someone's financial metrics at apple and takes away consumer freedom).
I agree, performance hasn’t changed much. But they’re relying on old motherboards which are way more fragile.

How often does your mother use that computer? Did the performance matter to her at all? Even if you swapped it back to the old i5 with the SSD I doubt much of a difference would be noticed.
> my eyes hurt when reading an e-reader

You are not supposed to get eye strain with e-paper. There's no light source. I mean, newer ones have 'backlight', but you can just turn it off. For me it's good because I can make the font bigger, so less eye strain.

Also, at least for a kindle paperwhite (older 2018 model, I think), it's very slow to do anything on the internet, so I never used it save for checking the next volume of a book on the amazon store.
> This setup has a benefit; namely, it is now impossible to brick the system with a bad BIOS/EFI flash, and you'll never need to use a hardware SPI flasher to recover.

Apple-branded SSD module failures are pretty common. Bricked BIOS/EFI images are not.

I've been supporting Mac users for two decades and the only time I've used a hardware SPI flasher was when I needed to pull my firmware image, modify the EFI bootloader to include NVME drivers, and flash it back. It wasn't hard. I attached a clip to the motherboard that connected the chip to a Raspberry Pi.

Seriously, my first mac was an LC. I've never seen a Mac brick itself doing a firmware update.

I had to do that because my Apple SSD died about 5 years into owning the system. That system uses an m2 PCIe port but it's a weird pinout. Apple doesn't sell parts, the local apple authorized shop wanted $250 just for diagnostics, the only thing on ebay were used drives of the same and, and only one company makes an overpriced replacement aftermarket drive for Apple's weird pre-NVME pcie storage connector and they have compatibility issues, underperform compared to much cheaper standard NVME drives, etc.

Thankfully, you can plug in a standard NVME drive via a $10 adapter from ebay.

I was back in business for a fraction of what a used 512GB Apple drive would have cost me, with twice the storage and even more speed over the already fast Apple module. But I had to pull NVME drivers from a later revision of the system and flash them to my ROM.

What pisses me off the most in the whole thing is that Samsung and Apple designed the drive such that when it runs out of write cycles, it completely fails; it doesn't even show up on the PCIe bus.

I'm typing this now on that very system, which is now almost exactly 8 years old. Do you think there will be 8 year old T2 macs? Not if they see daily use.

Repeat after me: user storage for a computer should never be permanently attached.

> This kind of failure (high voltage parts close to low voltage ones, close to liquid damage prone areas, without any underfilling) is documented by Louis Rossmann.

> It is, however, not always feasible or possible to entirely prevent.

It is 100% feasible/possible to entirely prevent.

Don't permanently attach storage on non-mobile devices.

Use conformal coating, something Apple could definitely afford to do with their profit margin on these machines. Even if they just coated the high voltage stuff. In fact, there's no reason T2 mac owners can't buy a can of conformal spray off Digikey or Mouser and do it themselves.

Don't put high voltage components near low voltage ones; especially ones that have user data and are non-replaceable. There's a reason Apple used to have a board for the DC input.

Every T2 mac has a finite lifetime before it becomes completely useless scrap thanks to SSD wear. And it's even worse for the M1 people because reportedly they do a great job of wearing out their SSDs.

This isn't about boot flash reliability or tiny increments in security-for-user-privacy. It's about slowly walling everyone in. Every new update of MacOS, every new hardware update - has put another brick in the wall.
Wow, kind of funny that Xtranormal now lives on in the few viral videos that were made with it.

Here's where the company is now (the original domain is used for something else now):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawmal
Or: These are really good points for a visibly-user-facing post-alpha service, but isn't it a bit overengineered for an experimental internal service whose clients can tolerate the risk of occasional downtime?
We won’t know the actual effects until they happen, and we won’t know how people change behavior until they do. But there’s so much momentum behind the current order, it’s easy to see temperature rise (and associated climate volatility) zooming past the thresholds that are causing worry. Those ships started sailing a long time ago.
> What exactly are these "peer bonuses"? Is it real? Is it what I think it is?

Each month, you can nominate another employee for a small bonus. This is designed to be given to coworkers who have gone above and beyond what was expected from them.

> Do people actually use them as bargain chips?

From my experience it's so over-the-top absurd that it would be difficult to have someone interpret such an offer as anything other than a joke or a meta-joke.

https://blog.bonus.ly/a-look-at-googles-peer-to-peer-bonus-s...
Imagine about to do a meeting, 30 second commercial comes on about some restaurant, well let's go get food.

Side note, at least now it's easy to make your own video setup, providers like Twilio/OpenTok, so... pay or set it up/pay yourself idk.

I get it though, it's like YouTube vs. Vimeo... costs money to facilitate that magic that just works/have the audience.
the privacy has been broken once you've been photographed without your consent.

The same features for name association can be done offline once the picture exists. Just show people the picture, and see if anyone knows who it is
Same, though Google doesn't enable it for users in different countries. It's weird to be able to automatically share photos with a partner with face recognition, but then they can't reciprocate for some reason.
WebRTC can support it all they want, but to a first approximation, Multicast doesn't work over the open internet, so it won't help outside of corporate videoconference (which generally runs OK, because corporate networks are mostly wired and often overprovisioned or easier to provision than homes)
NFT Platforms Have Found Their New Worst Enemy: Twitter T-Shirt Bots
> road expansion is a response to increased demand from increased population, either through density or sprawl

Though it's the road expansion itself that often leads to more sprawl.

It's worth noting that congestion in mass transit leads to better service. (Well, if you have a halfway competent transit agency, anyway.) More riders leads to more fares leads to more frequent service leads to getting you where you need to be more quickly.

Road congestion doesn't have the same effect. Maybe it's a toll road in which case you have some increased revenue, but often it isn't - so congestion is typically net negative for drivers.
Ask HN: Ecom data pro's: How do you do product research and competitor analysis?
To any ecommerce professionals / data analysts here, could you help me out with some ideas?

I've been working on an ecom market research related product for my own use for a while that I'm now thinking others may also find useful when its ready. It would be super helpful to get some feedback on this topic in general from relevant professionals to validate my thinking so far.

Can I ask:

Do you currently do (or would like to do if able) some kind of bulk or automated product research / competitor analysis / ML involving search engine data, ecommerce marketplaces or direct competitor website scraping that provides measurable practical value?

What do you find the most useful about these activities and what kind of questions are you specifically trying to answer? Is this usually an ongoing regular task for you or just done occasionally as needed?

What kind of data or insights would be practically valuable to you if you could discover anything you wanted to know about your niche, search engine "keyword landscape" (organic, paid (Google PLA's) or other SERP features), specific competitors or their products, marketing assets etc, anything at all related to your entire online market.

What are the biggest market research & analysis related problems you struggle with right now either due to existing solutions being none, inadequate, too slow/complex or too expensive.

Finally can you recommend any related tools in this area you use currently that you consider invaluable must-haves and why?
Hoping to find something interesting here I'm not already familiar with :-)

Thanks in advance!
Facebook had its own meme: "Pusher I need a hotfix"
Then clue me in. A Windows 10 user wants or needs some functionality in Windows 11 but their machine isn't compatible. Instead, they switch to Fedora.

Doesn't that imply Windows 11 and Fedora have some required feature that Windows 10 lacks?
Netflix Games
Again, that's supply and demand. In NYC there was a demand hit when COVID started and there were great deals on rent. That's gone away because people have sort of come back.

My point is purely logical - the way to get rent down is to either increase supply or decrease demand. If crime, etc gets bad enough, demand will drop and rent with it. The argument you're making (implicitly) is that things haven't yet gotten bad enough for people to move out.
This looks awesome. How difficult would you estimate migrating from ActiveAdmin to Motor? (beyond CRUD stuff ideally... i.e. we have quite a bit of custom code into various actions, screens etc)

ActiveAdmin serves us well, although shows its age, and recently it feels a bit abandoned (don't want to say anything bad, it's a tremendous piece of open source and we got a ton of value from it).
I'm okay with it requiring an e-mail address, that's easier to be universally accessible, as long as your e-mail provider is sane and doesn't require SMS confirmation to login.

Phone numbers, for most people, only work within a certain part of the world and aren't easily accessible worldwide.
If you watch the video, it doesn't matter. It's just something they want to serve.
Why would internal tooling mean anything to you? And why would GCP knowledge be useful in any way?

Its fairly simple to extract the gist of what these systems from the script.
> So no, what damages NAND does not damage the rest of the board. The more you write and swap to flash, the faster it wears out, taking your Macbook down with it when it dies.

Except as explained by the parent, when the SSD dies on an Intel Mac it can be recovered via Internet Recovery via EFI.

Only way to brick that it is to have a bad flash onto the EFI ROM.

On Apple Silicon when the SSD dies, it cannot be recovered as the firmware is also on the SSD and remains bricked which that is that.
We have that in Michigan. Non-homestead property taxes. All it does is make apartments more expensive for renters. The cost is just passed on to the renter.
In the USA at least, there is no legal expectation of privacy on a public street. So, for news reporting purposes, you can publish photos of a crowd in public. However, as soon as you step onto private property, this changes. Even at places like shopping malls and stores, the owner of that place can take your photo for security, but cannot publish it, and it is not kosher for photographers to take photos of customers in these settings and publish them without getting a signed model release form the subject of the photo. Likewise, a photographer should get explicit permission for any other private spaces such as homes.
This is the weirdest take on so many levels.

Like, in my filter bubble, I never saw any of that hype/doom. I saw Zillow and a few others making home buying and selling attractive and more efficient because it made the assets much more liquid. One of the most unattractive things to me about real estate was how long it takes to convert it back to cash, compared to other kinds of assets.

The second is that Zillow's $2.8bn position isn't a problem even for Zillow or for the real estate market. There is simply not enough information to suggest its a bust or about the folly of trying to corner a market and there is more information to say that its just reached their corporate risk tolerance. For example, the article doesn't mention anything about the delta between buying price and price they are trying to sell at. Is it 2% off, 5%, 20%? And secondly does it matter? Zillow issued $4bn in corporate bonds at like 2% interest rate to do whatever they want. They've spent half of it on houses and still make revenue. That's nooooooothing like someone overleveraged on a mortgage 20:1. This isn't even 1:1 leverage, its way less. This is a complete nothingburger and that's before we even know the difference in value of their purchase price and new listing price.

$2.8bn or 7,000 homes, is barely a dent in this several dozen trillion market.

"The youth" is still not going to be able to afford anything, no matter if some institutional investors buy this bit, or if there was a fire sale.
Oakland has a crew of Pothole Vigilantes that fix potholes, Batman style: https://www.potholevigilantes.com/

Motto: "IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THE GOVERNMENT DID ITS JOB.
UNTIL THEN, WE ARE HERE TO FIX OAKLAND’S STREETS"

What "helping their local government become less terrible" might mean in this case I have no idea.
New York phased out their last coal plant already, so they've moved onto the nuclear+renewables+gas stage and are only tweaking the mix on their way to 100 zero carbon.

(Also "dual fuel" basically means gas, but with the ability to burn other stuff if they get into shortages, but its basically a last resort, its 99% gas)
I don't think human nature favours that, because we were originally tribal, and we possess the capacity for empathy. I think capitalism promotes sociopathy.
Have you asked your coworkers for advice?

One thing you have to accept is that there is a problem with the way you communicate. People would not be going to HR if you were as unemotional as you think. So seek out advice and honest feedback from your friends, your coworkers and your family. Maybe you can find an expert in communications that can point out what the flaws are and how to correct them.

But DO NOT sweep this under the rug. There is a problem here, and it sounds like no one wants to help you fix it. That's probably another indication that there's a pretty bad problem.
This is where open source can shine. Contributors must maintain standards but can work anywhere.

From a logistics and utilitarian human need standpoint we don’t all need to go down to the market square and debate over commodities now. Office life whether it’s university or Google seems to want to replicate that obligation.

In the US everyone is theoretically given the same privilege under the law. Why is there a clearly manipulated free market?

We’re not to the point where the machines work without the people. That we have to accept a few billionaires views on how the world must be organized is as ephemeral an obligation as following the churches take on the Bible.

Let’s do for people what they’re doing to the monetary system; they use math to carve up a fiat supply, an infinitely big little number in a database at this point… let’s use each persons atomic being as our value store. Let’s use math to carve up the finite one reality in a more responsible way to that value store.

Instead of Paul Grahams meager four quadrants of conformity, why not 300 million+ unique political agents afforded equal conditions under the law? Why does he stop at 4? I don’t have to accept that math as meaningful.

Inflating their worth is effectively government sanctioned quota on the masses through deflated buying power.

Oops, we’re all mathy now.
Apple SSD module failures on portable Macs are quite common. A buddy has a computer repair shop and they do brisk business replacing them. Mine failed about 5 years in.

SSDs are wear items. Especially when they're quite full, it is very easy to blow through spare writes and brick the drive.