skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not that poster, but I also use tapes.

One may save about $14 per TB by using tapes instead of external HDDs (which strangely have become cheaper than internal HDDs).

In order to recover the cost of the tape drive, you need to write about 200 TB.

I have about 50 LTO-7 tapes, i.e. about 300 TB of compressed archives, so I have recovered much more than I have paid on a LTO-7 tape drive, 5 years ago.

Nevertheless, even if would have written only 100 TB, I would still have bought the tape drive, just for the peace of mind, because after the optical discs became too small I have used HDDs for archival storage, but after a few years in cold storage they become unreliable. If I had not stored duplicates for each HDD, I would have lost a lot of data.

Of course, someone who needs to archive just 20 TB or even 40 TB of raw data, can buy just 2 or 4 HDDs and store each file on 2 HDDs and that should be OK.

For 100 TB or more of raw data (i.e. 200 TB, when counting the redundancy, because also for tapes you should store at least 2 copies, preferably not in the same location), tapes become cheaper.
Indeed. Popular materials for this "envelope" are nylon fabric or mylar =)
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In better managed cities, keeping sidewalks and bike lanes free of snow to the point it doesn't bother anyone is not difficult. It doesn't work in NYC, for example, because of, you guessed it, cars...specifically parked cars.
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Meanwhile Lancet reports over 600 thousands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_cas...).

So about 600 thousands well documented extra deaths attributable to US forces - because without US invasion none of that would happen. How does that compare to Uyghurs, which are - differently from their bretheren in Iraq - not being systemically killed off?
so crypto doesn't count for supply and demand or what are you saying?
You are technically right, but Nat comes from Microsoft's acquisition of Xamarin. He definitely is not a lifelong Microsoft employee.
Where does this end? When will people be satisfied? When we all remain alone at home in silence, masked up and living through VR goggles in the Metaverse?

It's becoming harder and harder to claim what's happening is all about "health".
This is what makes standups shitty. I couldn't care less to know if you are still working on something.

If that's all anybody ever says, then I'd agree. But, in practice, with my team, there might be one person with nothing much to report, but several others who needs assistance, want to demo something they've built, are ready to transition something to QA, or something else. If you aren't getting any of that in your stand-up then the team is "broken" and could likely use an open conversation about the meeting's purpose and value.
> for someone studying vector calculus properly

If you can’t invert vectors, you aren’t studying vector calculus properly. ;-)

Differential forms are a half-baked formalism.

Unfortunately I don’t know of any great undergraduate level geometric calculus textbooks. Ideally there would be something like Hubbard & Hubbard’s book (http://matrixeditions.com/5thUnifiedApproach.html) written using GA as a formalism.

Hestenes & Sobczyk’s book (http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/html/CA_to_GC.html) is a hard slog, and not appropriate for an undergraduate audience.
There seems to be a lot of confusion in the HN community about Nat originally coming from Github. He was already a Microsoft employee at the time Github was aquired.

That confusion alone speaks books on how well Microsoft integrated Github under his tenure. Kudos.
Popping the stack so to speak before embarking on the next ____.
Lol your 150km loop captures Ottawa, Montreal and Kingston in Canada and Watertown/Plattsburgh NY.

All of these are about as apples to oranges in relation to geographic ties to Massena as you can get.

Between Massena and those places is a whole lot of nothing for a couple hours.

That's like saying there is some meaningful geographic tie between Bethlehem, PA and NYC (133km), or that "Unity House, PA" is not remote because it's 143km away from NYC and its 8.4mil residents.
That is a tiny sample.
"They went the extra distance to get a permission/license from the US government specially to offer full Github to developers from Iran."

Wait, that's a thing ?

We get a signup from Iran about once every month and I always, apologetically, send a personal note saying that I wish we could provide service to them but ...

You're saying rsync.net can legally provide service to Iranians with ... some paperwork ?
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MX Keys. Can't go wrong with Logitech.
Standup has a known time that you can plan around, and makes a spot to put all those short bits of info in one time, so you can avoid being interrupted and context switching when it's not standup
Exactly. Tesla is 100% trying to keep you safe on the inside while disregarding safety on the outside. Just look at the Cybertruck, pedestrian safety is clearly their last thought.
In my physics courses we would routinely talk about 6 dimensional spaces when discussing position-momentum space, also we would sometimes refer to two dimensional objects like a moebius strips as "1-dimensional".

> also, if we're using that definition, does that mean I have a 7D SSD?

Maybe. You can use whatever definitions you want if you feel it's helpful. However, based on your description, if you're using a single bit as a dimension, you should figure out how many bits the the dimensional information encodes. As it stands, it's not clear what you're counting as a 'dimension' in this context. Also, normally we think of degrees of freedom as being independent of each other (hence the claim to 5d in this example). The charge information would normally be thought of as a single degree of freedom, so you'd have a 4d nand disk.

One reason it is helpful to think of "a dimension" as an independent degree of freedom, is that it becomes a parameter you can focus on improving. So if you say "Well what can we change, or make more precise?", the answer for the nand case is "Well, we can't easily add another spatial degree of freedom, but we can improve our stacking to improve how much we can pack into the vertical dimesion (but we're limited by Job's obsession with thinness). We can improve our measurements of spatial resolution, which will affect 3 of our dimensions, but not the charge. We can also improve our charge resolution. Let's figure out which one is cheapest to scale."

Now granted, sometimes tweaking one parameter affects the other, so they aren't strictly independent. You can pack a lot of charge on a NAND, but as the other dimensions get smaller, you start having increased difficulty with leaking.

Anyhow, I think there's more here than you're giving them credit for, even if they are guilty of tooting their own horn a bit (shocking).

But yes, the article presented here would be greatly improved if it gave examples of how to classify existing technology using the researcher's dimensional classification scheme. It's a common scientific writing tactic that I'm surprised was not used here.
Not being able to get to your account when you lose the phone; having to run extra software.

But also, frankly, I just don't trust Google to implement this correctly, given their track record. Google sure employs a lot of smart people, but the quality of their products and services is generally crap.
His blog seems to be excluded from archive.org, but I have found archived copies elsewhere. I don't want to link directly but you can find it with a little searching for his "Evolution for Windows" blog post from 2005.
The past week I've had a few family members and friends need tech support thinking they had been hacked (had ignored the email telling them about the change over) issue is they don't have a 2fa application. If they follow the instructions they download the google one which doesn't do backups and they don't trust authy or think the m$ one wont work with a google account. Scanning a QR code is something some can do but not all. The issue now is that even though they were using an insecure account they always had the ability to get back in - but now if they lose their phone and are signed out of the gmail apps for whatever reason thats it they're locked out forever!
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There’s a real danger that if we filtered out everyone who doesn’t see the value in meetings, we’d have nobody left to write any code. ;) I suspect all programmers are prone to this in varying degrees, and in decades of experience in companies of many sizes I’ve never seen a counter-example. I have absolutely wrestled with preferring less talking and more coding and felt at many times like I was wasting time in meetings, even though my mindset has shifted over time to see the value in communication that brings team alignment even if it uses up some of my time and attention.

In my first job in CG films, there were 1-hour dailies twice a day that I was expected to show partial progress. And it might take 30 minutes to render & prepare for it every time too. It could use up half my day sometimes, and I fought with the producer about it. I was writing code to control crowds that wouldn’t be ready for weeks, so what was the point of showing every day, or of being present only to watch other people’s updates? There’s a balance for sure, but years later I feel like I was in the wrong, and I see the value in showing partial work often. It’s because people often don’t agree even when they say they do, language is way too ambiguous. So a planning meeting once is never finished, you have to keep agreeing on the goals over and over with tangible results until it’s finished before you actually know if everyone’s in sync.
Can I find one on Zillow? :P
There is also a Fennel[1] that builds a LISP on top of Lua.

[1] https://fennel-lang.org/
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I'd say from knowing people who live in boston and chicago the answer is actually mostly not. Especially in boston snowstorms are typically catastrophic and shut down life until they are cleared out which might be quite a long time.
If any of the Luau devs are watching this, please flesh out the metamethods. I'd switch almost everything to Luau if they were improved.

They're the biggest PITA right now as designed in PUC-Rio, and I see that while you've improved upon __eq, other metamethods are still lacking.

In PUC-Rio, boolean equality operators FORCE a boolean result, regardless of what you return. Ideally they would allow returning any result type, which then can be coerced to boolean later (e.g. by an `if` statement), just like the arithmetic operators do.

Further, `__neq`, `__ge` and `__gt` do not exist. They should.

The lack of a proper metamethod design means that binding to e.g. Kiwi[0] is impossible without some incredibly fugly hacks. It has been a long-standing annoyance with Lua in an otherwise beautiful little scripting language (that I use frequently).

This looks quite nice - lots of attempts in this space but nothing that attempts to match Lua to this degree.

[0] https://github.com/nucleic/kiwi
Bitcoin mining incentivizes the plentiful production of cheap electricity. This will make it so that there are no such thing as power shortages in the future and push us towards a Type I civilization on the Kardashev scale.

Bitcoin mining reduces the risk for energy generation projects, because they no longer need to worry about who will purchase the extra capacity.

Bitcoin mining can act as a load-balancer for the grid – spin down some machines if there is high demand, spin up machines if there is low demand.

There are so many benefits. It is unfortunate that there is a serious lack of understanding on this website.
Israelis don't see the US as a bully. I have never heard of this viewpoint, Israel has settlers, it has borders, and if it chooses to change its borders the US won't be the bully, it will be a battle with the other countries in the middle east. I don't get any of your points, you are complaining about money that Israel takes and how its coersive, so you don't have to take the money?

Trump moved the US embassy to Jersusalem, and the US gives billions of aid to Israel. What is your criteria for "antisemitism"? If accepting the capital of Israel, giving money, military aid, is your definition of antisemetic it dimimishes Nazis activity if you group aid into "bullying" and "antisemitism".
My reaction to caffeine is very strong. Can you tell me anything more about genetic sensitivity to caffeine? Did you have it tested/determined?
I recently re-discovered the existence Choose Your Own Adventure books (https://www.cyoa.com/) and will be gifting a few to my niece and nephew. I am hoping that it will provide some nice tech-free entertainment.
As someone who has used both in production environments under various workloads, I can, without a doubt, tell you that Clickhouse spanks the crap out of TimescaleDB.

The only use case where TimescaleDB is more useful is the ability to mutating/deleting single rows but even there, Clickhouse offers some workarounds at the expense of a little extra storage until a compaction is run similar to VACUUM.

Clickhouse is to TimescaleDB what Nginx was to Apache.
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To my understanding it’s not so much a fork of Lua as it is a complete rewrite in C++. They’ve created their own custom VM and everything. The closest version it has parity with is Lua 5.1.4, with a few compatible features from 5.2 and 5.3 backported.
I'd also like to express my interest in US dedicated servers. I really like the pricing of your EU offering it'd be great to have something a bit closer here besides OVH!
"Individuals can actually choose to work for places that pay livable wages."

This line of thinking would explain why one business with higher wages has an easier time recruiting and retaining employees than a business with lower wages, but I really don't understand this argument for a nationwide lack of hireable people.

Is someone better off making $12 an hour or $0 an hour? Unless they've found someone to subsidize their life (relatives, governments, charities, etc...) earning nothing makes their life worse off than earning a lower wage than they might prefer.
> This is a widely held misconception. Mammalian genomes contain about 50% of their DNA as repeated sequences, and although there are people who can imagine uses for those sequences, there is no evidence that they are required or even evolutionarily advantageous.

If you remove noncoding "junk DNA", you alter the higher level spatial configuration of DNA. Histone winding changes which promoter regions are accessible, gene dosing is altered, binding affinity and kinetics change, etc. These are dynamical equations you're dramatically altering.

Non-coding DNA also likely shields against several classes of random point mutations, base substitutions, transposition, etc. preventing cancer and cell physiological disease states.

It's also important for maintaining alignment during crossover.

If it truly served no purpose, it would be gone.

> The idea that modern higher organisms have been "optimized" so that every part is essential

Essential is the wrong word here. Relying on every part for survival would put us at risk. We have plenty of built in redundancies to support degradation, failure, and loss of multiple systems and functions.

I get your argument, but I still disagree. At the species / population level, we have been optimized as wholesale organisms as best as development and body plans will allow. Everything not subject to pressure will get washed away.

Despite our vestigial tails, the coccyx supports our weight while we are seated. As I postulated before, the appendix probably has a net positive function in supporting gut microflora and our "junk DNA" plays a role at the molecular level.
> I'm not sure what the data means to you.

wages for labor in the US have stayed flat or decreased overall, since the late 1980s.. these figures are competitive for high-tech or other specialized work. The roads are not only not well-maintained, this is a top-10 worst city in the US roads place.. so wages+benefits go up and yet the work result is worse than comparable other cities
One question of great relevance is the change in the statistic implied by the article's title over the past couple decades, and the projected change in the decades to come. Is this Moore's-law-esque? If so, eventually, these concerns will be trivial. Is an asymptote approaching? If so, this metric becomes increasing relevant and crucial.
So neat, as someone actively studying Chinese, it's super cool to see Chinese characters and their role in the history of almost every other Asian country.

I suspect if I ever gain a solid command over Chinese, I might move on and try and learn a bit of conversational Japanese and Korean as well.
There's also Cython "The most widely used Python to C compiler"

https://github.com/cython/cython
This is plain wrong. You're protected against verbal and sexual harassment by law, you're protected by various labor laws, and you're protected by various company policies. Irrespective of what classes you belong to.

In this case, the voicemail is evidence that can be used to establish a wrongful dismissal (your jurisdiction may vary) if the employee is fired outside of the company's termination procedures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_dismissal
Meanwhile, I'm constantly realizing that something I remembered didn't happen in Slack or Email or the issue tracker, but on a call, so now I have to hope I thought to take notes, in the moment, and then go find them, when calls are basically the only thing I ever have to take those sorts of notes for, and they're infrequent enough that I'm not so great at consistently remembering to do that (I'm working on it, but still, for god's sake, say it in Slack unless it's impossible to, which is almost never).
If you don't like it, don't engage and move on.

Plenty of other comments to read here.
Yes, you are right. Stackoverflow is one of its data source.
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Hyper pure quartz for photovoltaic solar is limited.
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I grew up deep in Reagan's America in the 1980's and it was a paranoid, wretched time and place to be a child. The absolute worst thing about the Trump years is they reminded me of growing up in Billings, Montana.

Trump has nothing as far as destruction of this country compared to Reagan. You want to trace the end of the American Empire -- put that blame on Reagan and his acolytes first.
I highly doubt it. Most of the time with these forks they change/remove core language features instead of compiling down to plain lua.
That is concerning. I've heard that PSA can be produced in other parts of your body but at very low level, not enough to pass the threshold of concern. If the spikes are high and the test is reliable then there could be something lurking in the body somewhere. The other answer also suggests it's difficult to diagnose where the cancer (or tumor, etc.) is located.
Your comment unfortunately captures possibly the best summary of the current dominant HN culture I have seen.

And yet, I get the feeling just by being straight about it, you also come close to breaking some HN guidelines about not insinuating bad intentions, etc… I do think you have done it in a way that is pretty reasonable though, so hopefully it's not a problem.

Sure wish it was not this way. One, I wish it wasn't all about "I am very smart" and two, I also wish we could talk about this stuff without risking being reprimanded.
I'm in support. I've often had to editorialize good titles due to the limit.
and it didn't make sense to me then either! They'd have to build out massive fleets of cars and technicians... at the moment they're really just managing contractors and do simple background checks and car inspections... much less overhead than maintaining a fleet.
> For the load expected for pulling data from a simple redis cache, is an M1 actually the most efficient chip?

I think that's a good question with no trivial answer, there are certainly boards which consume significantly less energy than that and can serve traffic (using nginx and static content you can serve quite a lot on a watt or two, per https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is...), however if you factor in the need for actual CPU...
"What happens if that phone is destroyed through some sort of accident ..."

I don't think that's an issue at all ...

I don't care about the phone - all I care about is the SIM card. If the SIM card is destroyed, your provider can issue a new one.

I guess if the 2FA mule was destroyed while I was traveling that would be a real pain but ...
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Aside that Nat came from Microsoft, they made already tons of changes to GitHub. Both for the Enterprise and for the public open source.

I do not see any indication about that being bound to a contract. They are also promoting the chief product officer which indicates that he did so far a good job. Which means, we can expect that they continue like they have done in the last year.
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I don't think that matters in the context of what's being discussed here.

If there were any retention contracts that came with GitHub acquisition, that probably didn't apply to him.
Those numbers don't really tell the whole truth; federal spending has increased almost monotonically, and the changes in deficit mostly indicate phases of the business cycle when they left. See this chart:https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/04/what-does-t...

Clinton for example, left at the peak of the DotCom bubble, and was bouyed by capital gains tax revenue, whereas Bush left during the Great Recession.
This has been my experience with ClickHouse as well...that is, you can basically close your eyes while writing the schema and still maintain to get extremely impressive performance.

That being said, ClickHouse also has a ton of clever levers you can pull to squeeze out better performance and compression which aren't used by default, such as using Delta/DoubleDelta CODECs with LZ4/ZSTD compression, etc. Not to mention, MATERIALIZED VIEWs and/or the relatively newer feature MergeTree Projections[1]

[1] https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/engines/table-engines/mergetr...
Wow, now that's even more impressive.

Makes me wonder if there's anything useful to "upstream" to vanilla lua here, or if the VM deviated too far.
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> Is the magnitude of the mess, multiplied by the number of engineers, worth the creation of an entire readability certification process? I don't think so.

And that's an acceptable trade-off for a different sized company. Google arguably has the biggest centralised codebase in the world, and simply has different requirements.

As other have said, most of the overhead is from attaining readability, not the requirement itself.
Thanks! I'm still very new to the CNC-space, so I'm currently exploring different bits. So far I've only bought some low-cost flat end mills from Amazon, but I'll probably work my way up to higher quality when I've used it more.
Depends on how poor their heath is. I am not sure if you remember, but they said that everyone should get vaccinated so they can prevent the most vulnerable from getting sick.
I'm mostly wondering, what does this have over regular Lua, especially now with 5.4?
Portable as along as the the OS is UNIX/POSIX, got it.

Then Interface Builder or Visual Age for Smalltalk are back into the game.

Ah, must be performant as C, then Interface Builder is still into the game.

Just remembered about Visual Age for C++, which I forgot to list, and also fulfils the UNIX and fast as C requirements.