skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were IBM drives in a QualStar XLS connected to systems running FileTek StorEdge. I don't remember if these were Fuji or Sony tapes, but I think Fuji, branded Fuji.

We did have shoeshining issues in testing, but increasing the amount of caching fixed that. Never heard of any throughput issues in production, but .. .edu so you know how well we monitored. That was a software issue anyway.

I think it was LTO5 era, but I don't rightly remember.

The IBM dude who handled all the hardware support would take a look at everything, nod, and replace the drive. I took him out for beer once and that's when he told me about the issues with the tapes. I left for greener pastures before that was solved, but it was going on for a good year.

Maybe he liked the food trucks outside the building, or maybe it was cheaper for them to replace the drives than actually help us fix the problem. Anyway, thanks for the insight! Glad I don't work on hardware anymore.
All lies aren't equal.
I don't see how Joe makes them money. My understanding is that the consumers he brings make them money, so maybe same thing.

Either way, it's bad for the consumer. It's the people using Spotify themselves, and Joe Rogan for signing with them that made this potential censorship possible by allowing themselves to be walled off.

Neil Young hasn't lost. He's kicked off the anti-free speech war on Podcasts. It's always been coming, the messaging has been clear: the far right operate with impunity and spread hate and disinformation on podcasts, and it's uncensorable. This has to change.

Once the king goes, everyone is fair game. That's why they are after Joe, and it isn't going to stop.

I highly doubt Joe doesn't end up back on an .RSS feed hosted by Gab servers before the end of the 2024 election.
This is crazy, no wonder a lot of people in there are turning to cryptocurrencies, particularly stablecoins.
It helps dispersing jobs like backups. If you have 20 servers, your backup storage is not hit by them all at the same time. Even better, because it takes into account how long it runs, if two servers hit it at the same time, the reduced performance will automatically spread the server that took longer behind the other. That scheme reduced the needed capacity in network and CPU of our backup servers a lot.

If it ran every hour, all servers would either hit the backup store at the same time or you would have to manually disperse them. Randomized Delay is great if you want to avoid this problem with short running jobs but it doesn't work well when most jobs take 10 minutes or more and the delay becomes larger than the timer's repeat interval.

So in that case, using a "run every 60 minutes" scheme is a massive advantage that reduces coordination needs.
Somehow I get the feeling that most Java haters never had the pleasure to deal with CORBA and COM/DCOM or MTS.

So those newcomers never got the point why many of us actually enjoyed using Application Servers.
The Coleco Adam home computer also had tape drives which were random-access seekable block devices. 2 tracks with 128 1k blocks per track for a total capacity of 256k. Coleco called their tapes digital data packs. They were standard compact cassette tapes with some additional holes. If you drilled the appropriate holes you could use standard tapes instead of paying the Coleco premium.

CP/M required booting from a block device and as far as I know the Coleco Adam was the only computer which could boot CP/M from a tape. Once booted to CP/M the tape drives were treated just as floppies.
> Balkanization is the fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or states, which may be hostile or uncooperative with one another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkanization

Applying this to a government you will have one where you have a lot of separate agencies that are hostile, uncooperative, and don't want to follow any unified standards.
If you don't understand the hate, listen to people more carefully. But I think you actually mean: "I understand why other people hate leetcide, and I think their emotions are invalid". At least own your argument
#deleteFacebook

Dumped everything single FB app and life has been way better!

That is all
kinda but not. The problem with spinny disks is that you have allocate space for them. You can't quickly swap out drives to take offsite.

Whats grand about tape is that its still faster to dump to your library, eject the magazines and store off site.

Whilst you can do that with HDDs (think snowballs but bigger) its a lot more expensive and error prone.

Tape serves a purpose, but thats pretty niche by todays standards.
The acolytes of MMT?

Sheesh! How come anything touching on "what is money" gets goofy immediately?

Most of the world's monetary systems have been run under Monetarist theories for 40-ish years. Theory is now entirely at odds with observed realities. New theories gain ground.

National debts "exploded" a long time ago. Japan's exploded over a generation ago and most of western economies "exploded" 10-15 years ago. Except these explosions aren't explosions. Central banks continue to decree whatever interest rates they want, with no market pushbacks.

The monetarists and goldbugs have been screaming "inflation" constantly for 25+ years. That does not mean that their theory of inflation (national debt) is true. It isn't.
Also, insisting on only having non-gmo does not force other people to drink non-gmo stuff.

refusing to vaccinate or wear masks, means that if you get sick, you will make others sick
Being "over the barrel" implies that Apple isn't more than willing to work with the CCP; Apple is a willing partner here. Corporations are sociopathic AIs, they have no concept of morals and no qualms about making the world a worse place in the pursuit of profit.
thanks, lots of good pointers to follow up on, though I suspect there is a load of terminology who's precise meaning is more context dependend. For example the wikipedia distributed operational system [0] entry does not seem to really apply.

Turns out somebody did build (some version of) kubernetes cluster on rasbperry pi [1] so I might get to the bottom of it :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_operating_system

[1] https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-kubernetes-cluster-on-ra...
That's because of your ISP, not the client. You could send mail by telnet in less than a minute.

If you meant early-mid 90's, that's true.
Congratulations on the sale of a lot of people's trust for 8 Million dollars!
Solving Fibonacci-like problems in constant time
Yeah really, when I finally found a reason to get interested in higher level math, I then realized it built on much knowledge from my 12 years of school that I neglected to care about to learn, all further down the chain of abstraction and further away from my problem to the point where it’s no longer interesting again.
They have a history of defaults, but mainly gov. corruption

Crypto fans like to compare to the US, but there is a key diff: the work ethic.

Money printing + no production = stealing + inflation + defaults

The US has the production and work ethic to compensate so far
>Because there are very few regulations that can effectively capture the intent of the rules instead of "tick boxes" that might or might not mean very much.

So HIPAA fines a company up to $50,000 per patient when a data leak occurs. They don't have to regulate how to secure the data, they just have to establish a fine with teeth requiring that companies secure their data with punishment when they don't.

Of course if congress would apply HIPAA rules to everyone's data and actually enforce it, data leaks for the most part will stop.

https://www.hipaajournal.com/what-are-the-penalties-for-hipa...
Let's say Young gets his wish and GMOs are banned worldwide. Do you still think nobody will die?
Your source uses the word "correction" once (in searchable text), #18, about the detail of whether the Republican opposition research into Trump actually hired Steele, when (according to your own source) instead they hired the firm that hired Steele, but he didn't actually join the project until Clinton took over payment. It's good that it got corrected, but it's hardly something significant.

Your source uses the word "warrant" in one section (in searchable text), #12, where the reporting was accurate in that warrants had been issued. Whether the warrant should have been issued is a different question.

You'll note I qualified searchable, because I have no desire to read the entire massive text of bullet points, although I did try to find relevant ones and your best example. I did try to scan it for other corrections (because this site believes in "text in screenshots), and they were all either minor [0] of they were correct reporting [1].

[0] Example: All 17 intelligence agencies didn't say X, only the agency who coordinates information between, oversees and synthesizes their information did (and the big three of CIA, FBI and NSA)

[1] Example: Report on Day X, Government investigating Y. Report on Day X + N, Government investigation into Y turns up Z. Sometimes the Z is "nothing". You know, or the warrant reporting example above.
It's a combination of factors but, basically: Populism and its mania with expending more money than what it generates in stupid ways.

An obsession from a big part of the society to sustain obsolete and uncompetitive industries with state money just to avoid "losing jobs".

Draconian taxation for productive and competitive industries (Ag mostly, IT affected too). Slow, confusing and corrupt bureaucracy requiered for starting a new bussines.

A hecktonne of social assistance that barely keeps the persons from starving but don't provide real social ascension.

Obscene subsidies to electricity and natural gas (think about rich people warming their pools during winter).

Sorry that I don't provide raw numbers, I'm in my lunch break and really don't want to sour it.
> When orchestras started doing auditions with candidates anonymous and behind screens, they ended up hiring a LOT more women and minorities

The number of women increased, not so much the number of minorities[0].

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...
My metagame is guessing my friend's guesses.
Profit > all (of which morality and public good are members)

This is the reward system we've set up for companies, and things along these lines will be the outcome as a result.
No reason to remove that word. Here are data for 2 doses of mRNA for effectiveness against Omicron infection. Follow the red line from figure 1 on page 27 of the PDF. Over time, it is 0%.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.07.22268919v...
> 100 meters square

I think that might take a bit more than 154 km of yarn.

Presumably you meant 100 square metre. :-)
If you only want to make 80k, you definitely don't need to grind leet code. I've never done a single jot of leetcode, I make that much doing SQL and stats.
> What makes software engineering so special that we need a different interview process?

The combination of absurd profitability (of which the tiny slice allocated to employees still seems like a lot) and a complete lack of any actual objective measure of quality.

Because there's no way to really test whether someone is good at programming other than hiring them and seeing how it goes, and because there is an effectively limitless amount of money to spend trying to organize a "solution" to this problem, and because learning enough about each candidate to make a properly educated guess doesn't "scale" enough for fast-growth companies, senior management has plenty of room and lots of incentive to look like they've got it figured out.

For some, this is following their creative whims; for most, it's "do what FAANG does because it must be working, look at all the money they make."

Anyway that's my opinion on it. If I ever have the power to change hiring at any large scale, I'll probably follow my own creative whims and make it even worse.
I bet most STEM related people could work out how to produce lot or trig tables with a little thinking. I wonder if the ancient Greeks would appreciate those.

Edit: It turns out they could produce their own for trig functions and wouldn't have been all that impressed by the log table because they didn't have logs.
Is it just me or do the sliders lose focus after the slightest change?
This prevents me from dragging the slider to different values using my cursor to view the changes smoothly.
Zfs is king imo. Brtfs is the more liberally licensed oss competitor and Refs is the m$ solution.
Ask HN: Hacker claimed ownership and then deleted my Facebook Page of 50k users
As an update to [0] and [1], the scammers have now completely deleted my page of 50k subscribers.

I am devastated. 10+ years of building a heavy metal community, gone like a puff of smoke, just like that. And Facebook still hasn't replied to a single message. I hate to imagine what would have happened if I was an actual business...

I am reaching out to the HN community one last time. If anyone has any advice or can help me talk to an actual human being at Facebook and restore my page and ownership, please get in touch!

(or if not, at least vote / comment your own frustrations or horror stories below, to help get my story be seen by such a person, if you think this post deserves it...)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706571
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29876423
Which claims? The claims that Japan used Ivermectin (already proven false)? Or his other claims that have been debunked thoroughly by more serious people?

Thanks for providing your opinion on the article, it's a good gauge on how his fans see things.
Cannons were cast however and musket barrels aren't. It's unclear you could make the barrels thick/strong enough to be useful. (At some point, you end up with something probably less useful than a refined bow design.)

In general, with these scenarios, another variable is do you just wake up in another time or do you have time to prepare, maybe have reference books/artifacts, figure out what you can do given technology and material availability, maybe learn the language, etc.
rule-based programming is a slightly different take than procedural programming, and can be quite a bit more expressive and efficient to evaluate than procedural for the right kind of problems.

'make' is pretty good example, but 'package manager' might be more relevant to people. instead of having explicit control flow you have rules that say 'this is the case if these other things are the case', and they get triggered to evaluate implicitly (and recursively).

variables and values in declarative languages are implicitly quantified to be sets of objects, so we say 'for all X where' .. instead of '_the_ X where', which makes it similar to SQL.

actually there you go - pretend this is an embedded database - that's clearly useful, except with a better query language.
"Did Young really think that Spotify would drop Rogan over him?"

I don't want to speak for Neil Young, but I imagine he knew for certain Spotify would choose Rogan. But there's no such thing as bad press right? He knew he could force them to publicly take a position and now here we are all talking about it. Mission accomplished by Young I'd say.
Rogan outed Mencia as a serial joke thief, which undoubtedly hurt Mencia's career, but I'm not sure that counts as cancellation.

For example, one would not fairly characterize Hannibal Burris as "cancelling" Bill Cosby's career by outing him as a serial rapist.

If Young was outing Rogan I would have no objection. But all of the behavior by Rogan that Young disagrees with happened in public, for anyone to see. Young is not exposing any new information.
https://jcs.org/tagged/mac
Instead of getting good at 1 big tech job making 300k in 20-30 hours a week you get good at 2-3 and make 800k+ in 60 hours a week.

Though I think the actual best way to optimize labor-to-income is F500 Cloud SRE via B2B contract, but its hard to have to balls to pivot to that after spending so long perfecting SWE interview skills.
> How do F/OSS developers ensure their work never ends up being used by the DoD for any purpose whatsoever?

Simple: stop being a F/OSS developer, and only license your non-F/OSS software to the organizations you choose.
> Robbers in Italy or debt collectors in Egypt often stripped the clothes off their victims’ backs,

With regard to debt collection, what is interesting is the Bible requires that cloaks that were taken as collateral had to be returned by sunset so the person could sleep in them.

Exodus 22:26 - If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in?
...or a tool for CV-drive development.
WaPo always seems to support leftist political forces in South America, even where there is no parallel domestic narrative in the US. For example, they supported Evo Morales in his bid for a fourth consecutive presidential term despite the Bolivian constitution limiting presidents to two consecutive terms.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/26/bolivia-d...
There are two aspects here. In order to implement a quantum algorithm, you need a minimum number of interacting qubits, which the article calls a qubit depth. All of these qubits must be entangled with each other in order to achieve any quantum speed-up. Below this number, your quantum algorithm simply can't be represented on the machine - it would be like trying to multiply two 128-bit numbers on a processor with 2 8-bit registers: you simply don't have enough working memory to do the calculations you need.

An extra complication for QCs is that you also need error correcting calculations in addition to your base calculations. So, if you want to multiply 2 128-bit numbers, not only do you need at least 256 (q)bits of working memory, you need some additional number to correct for errors in the calculation - and with currently known error correcting methods, you need A LOT more.

That's why the article is giving a minimum number of qbits for the Bitcoin calculation: 10^7 physical bits, which represent a measly ~2000 logical (perfect) qubits. This is the minimum number you would need to keep entangled for your your minimum clock period.

We are currently at 10^2, and even getting to 200 is a research-level task; 10^3 is far away. Once we get to something like 10^7, we may be able to start thinking of parallelizing at the whole machine level.

Even still, it's important to understand that quantum algorithms have, as far as we know for now, an exponential advantage over classical algorithms (note: this only applies to certain algorithms, NOT any algorithm). This only applies as long as you are running in the quantum regime. That is, if a particular quantum computer can resolve a problem for N components in 1 minute, and a quantum computer of double the qubit number can finish it in 30s, 2 QCs of the first type will finish it in something like 59s, since they will not benefit from the exponential quantum speedup.
Humans have been working with glass for a really long time. I wonder how hard it would be to make a microscope and kick off germ theory and antibiotics and such back then.
> Most of the world's monetary systems have been run under Monetarist theories for 40-ish years.

Argentina's monetary system hasn't.
For sure, but most of those multi-line boards running on top of DESQview typically maxed out at 2-4 nodes per machine. In comparison, MajorBBS could handle an insane 50+ nodes on a single machine running DOS, as the BBS software implemented its own event loop and multi-tasking. The company behind it (Galacticomm) sold specialized hardware so that sysops could hook up all those modems to one box.

OS/2 never became very popular in the BBS scene in my area, at least by the time I got into the scene (~1993). My impression is that it had mixed success in the BBS world as a whole. For one data point, I do know the author of Synchronet invested a lot of time into a native OS/2 port and then his company promptly went bankrupt!

Later in the 90s, BBS software started to be ported natively to Win32, including some commercial options: Wildcat WINServer, MajorBBS WorldGroup v3, etc.
> A sequence of checks to arrive at the root cause of the problem can be represented as a path in (preferably balanced) binary search tree.

Yes, probably everything in this world can be represented as a balanced binary search tree, who knows.
> Yes, you wouldn't be building a steam engine with the tools of Greek artisans in antiquity, not even the ones who built the Antikythera mechanism.

Sure you could. The antikythera mechanism shows more than enough skill and precision to make a small one. It might only be a toy for the rich though. I'm not sure if you could afford enough metal to make one large enough to do useful work, and even if you could the fuel required might kill it (coal wasn't really available at the time, though knowing it is useful might be enough to find and use it). The metals of the time where not up to a modern high pressure (and thus efficient) steam engine, but a large low pressure steam engine is perfectly possible.

That said, water or wind power would be a much better invention to focus your efforts on. I'm not sure how much of that they had though.
The federal minimum wage has increased by approximately 2,400% since its inception, nearly double the rate of inflation.
I'll tell you why. I read clickbait about molecular biology when I was a teenager (quite some time ago) and ended up thinking that biology was far more advanced than it really is. it took me decades of training to understand that publicly, scientists are more optimistic and likely to overstate the quality and applicability to their results. It would have helped me a lot if the original articles about gene therapy had said "this is a very risky technology and it's likely it will never be approved because people are terrified of side effects"
I used to think it was my fault that I struggled to draw things with Bézier curves but then I took a look at the resource packs for a game I respected (which had a flat art style that would have been a good fit for vectors) and found that my favorite character designers didn't know how to draw anime characters with Bézier curves either.

That is, no matter how much art you know or math you know it is awkward to draw things with Bézier curves and it's a bit of a tragedy that NURBS and other curve families that are more intuitive to work with haven't caught on.
I can't speak for Sweden, and I don't know why it happens anywhere, but a lot of smokers do inexplicably fail to see their throwing cigarette butts on the ground as littering. I know people who are not, generally speaking, assholes, and would never otherwise litter, but think nothing of doing this.
> We need a credential that counts as passing a technical interview

So we could call that a degree? And have institutions that specialise in testing for it? And because some of those institutions will be better at measuring this, we could rank them?

I thought most people complaining about the current approach didn't like this one either.
excellent point. and no one seems concerns about volatile lithium batteries in their ear canal
There was no vote in the sub, that was on r/wallstreetbets earlier this year. That's actually how this should have been handled, but instead it was all mod-driven.
Yes the World needs more clickbait that takes to actual learning resources, not people-ish articles, property porn and other horrors.

"Is this is the best XXX algorithm in the world?"
"I have tried XXX low-level programming language and it's amazing!"
"We went to the Science Museum and met XXX"
"Top tips to enjoy working late at night on subject XXX and YYY"
"Why STEM studies makes you look more sexy than XXX"
"15 ways to look good while loving maths & physics"
"You won't believe why the Riemann hypothesis was right!"
"The 6 thing to do when banish Economics teacher fatigue"
"Can't focus on XXX? Try this, it works!"

etc, etc, etc.
No github then?