skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flash storage is incredibly complex in the extreme at the low level. The very fact we're talking about microcontroller flash as if it's even the same ballpark as NVMe SSDs in terms of complexity or storage management says a lot on its own about how much people here understand the subject (including me.)

I haven't done research on flash design in almost a decade back when I worked on backup software, and my conclusions back then were basically that: you're just better off buying a reliable drive that can meet your your own reliability/performance characteristics, and making tweaks to your application to match the underlying drive operational behavior (coalesce writes, append as much as you can, take care with multithreading vs HDDs/SSDs, et cetera), and testing the hell out of that with a blessed software stack. So we also did extensive tests on what host filesystems, kernel versions, etc seemed "valid" or "good". It wasn't easy.

The amount of complexity to manage error correction and wear leveling on these devices alone, including auxiliary constraints, probably rivals the entire Linux I/O stack. And it's all incredibly vendor specific in the extreme. An auxiliary case e.g. the case of the OP, of handling power loss and flushing correctly, is vastly easier when you only consider some controller firmware and some capacitors on the drive, versus the whole OS being guaranteed to handle any given state the drive might be in, with adequate backup power, at time of failure, for any vendor and any device class. You'll inevitably conclude the drive is the better place to do this job precisely because it eliminates a massive amount of variables like this.

"Oh, but what about error correction and all that? Wouldn't that be better handled by the OS?" I don't know. What do you think "error correction" means for a flash drive? Every PHY on your computer for almost every moderately high-speed interface has a built in error correction layer to account for introduced channel noise, in theory no different than "error correction" on SSDs in the large, but nobody here is like, "damn, I need every number on the USB PHY controller on my mobo so that I can handle the error correction myself in the host software", because that would be insane for most of the same reasons and nearly impossible to handle for every class of device. Many "Errors" are transients that are expected in normal operation, actually, aside from the extra fact you couldn't do ECC on the host CPU for most high speed interfaces. Good luck doing ECC across 8x NVMe drives when that has to go over the bus to the CPU to get anything done...

You think you want this job. You do not want this job. And we all believe we could handle this job because all the complexity is hidden well enough and oiled by enough blood, sweat, and tears, to meet most reasonable use cases.
I think you got date incorrect?
Wim Hof is a party trick for children.

Pranayama is a science that's thousands of years old. It's much better to go directly to the source than some bastardised commercialised western version:

http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1903sciencebreath....
Get a sleep test. It turned out that I had severe sleep apnea and using cPap has been god send. I rarely dreamed before cPap, but now I dream almost everyday and dreams are vivid too.
The TV adware industry is reprehensible. All major brands do this. I think I’ve disabled it on my TV but don’t think just changing vendors will help.
While this doesn't address your entire comment, keep in mind that a lot of the current safety we're experiencing is due to the government assuming a monopoly on violence (and what violence it is! Tanks, fighter jets, nuclear weapons even).

The web has no government, therefore nobody has the monopoly on violence or the ability to suppress others' capability for violence. It's no wonder that it's closer to a warzone than a neat, ordered Information Superhighway with cultured faux-50s-future cars powered by clean energy.
Russia being unable to sell gas is the sanction. Your point that it cuts both ways doesn't seem to dispute that.
Remember like a week ago when the Germany navy said the idea that Russia wanted to invade Ukraine was nonsense?

Fools.
I find "Photographie" all the time, most prominently in photography-related organisations and publications, so that might be carried over from old times before 1996... when "Fotografie" was already a valid variant spelling.

I never read about "Delfine" or "Spagetti", though.
Next in line, let's hope it's Elite Dangerous: Odyssey!

Brilliant when it works and very beautiful, but with odd bugs and reversions that indicate that their internal source handling system is a mess or the code is made of spaghetti.
Hello. It seems to be blocked by NextDNS. If the domain was just registered that will be the issue. It will work after a while.
As a minimum, some states have longer.

The UK has 6 (or 5 depending on part) years statutory consumer protection, and so didn't have to change anything when the EU brought in the 2 year period. I believe Ireland was in a similar position at the time.

We did end up changing stuff for the initial 6 month 'reversed burden of proof' protection
SuperMicro 5019D-FTN4 (or 5019A-FTN4 if a little low power Atom CPU would cover your needs)
Imagine driving a large heavy vehicle to a hex in the center of the grid: way too many turns.
“Happiness is a cookie that your brain bakes for itself.”

https://youtu.be/8mixT5_U0hk
6502 is nice to program in assembler. For a compiler it is an atrocious platform to support. The limited stack, the 8 bit limit, the zero page idiosyncrasies, the
page crossing bugs (some corrected in 65C02), etc.
Z80, while also full of adhoc-isms is a much more pleasant target for a C compiler, only just for its 16 bit register and stack.
Is it established that consciously thinking more uses more power? On a CPU with no frequency scaling nor power levels it doesn't matter if you do useful work or while(true) - it takes as much energy to do both.
A game's function is to be entertaining, so if the customer is entertained then the product can't really be said to be broken.
That's right.

The only way to deal with this is to accept that the only calculus these companies make is a calculus of tradeoffs.

Then make sure that the tradeoffs are correct.
What would you call the historical majority black Apartheid? Not "reverse racism" surely.

The term is just bad.

In this case, it could be called "race quotas" or something.
Window.js – open-source JavaScript runtime for desktop graphics programming
Please keep the original title. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Here the meaning was changed (500M vs 500B). I see 10 submissions where words were cut making the title unreadable.

It's fine to cut titles if they're too long. But changing for example "SpaceX loses 40 satellites to geomagnetic storm a day after launch" to "Elon just lost 40 Starlink satellites to" cuts information and introduces Elon Musk while the article is about SpaceX.
Non-Planar 3D Printing by Bending G-Code
That is also a way to make the body warm but I think the case is to do it somehow voluntarily and not as an emotional reaction that prepares your body for flight/fight.
I’ve noticed my most successful friends are also my happiest friends, and vice versa. I never knew if it was correlation or causation, but I generally find I am happier myself and perform better if I surround myself with other people like that. Negativity is contagious, so I try to avoid it.
What did he look like?

How tall?

Did he have any speech impediments?

Obviously "happiness" is not the reason he is so popular, since "happy" dorks are openly mocked throughout culture (at least in the USA) if they aren't physically attractive, and loved (Henry Cavill) if they are physically attractive.
Not sure if that answer is in any way helpful, but I learned to ski as a kid (like the typical kids skiing course every winter, progressing one level at a time) and did one week of snowboarding when I was 15 and then not much more. Then life kinda happened and I'm 32 or 33 and while I had forgotten most things about skiing (and it hurt my legs) but snowboarding (on my basic bad? level) has been fine since then.
Awesome tip! Thank you.

Here's one, to remember the order of "square brackets then parentheses": "Parents are always right".
I use Primera printers for a lot of color label requirements. Epson also makes a line.

My app works with both thermal and color printers. Give it a shot and let me know if you have any questions or issues.
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum
It's time to drop drag-and-drop architecture diagramming tools
...and even if most people here have heard of survivor bias and selection bias, they still ignore it.
Regarding tall people in the workplace:

https://dilbert.com/strip/1992-08-27
Hmm, I wonder if all these connections can be used to see if someone is watching live TV without a licence.
So you're saying the germans will drive german cars designed in germany but made in China.
> because they are putting the personal needs of some employees above the personal needs of other employees.

If a company stays remote because you do not personally need social interaction at the office, what has just happened?

Your personal needs have been put above the personal needs of other employees.
No Privacy: Cloning the AirTag
https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-10-06
>the one thing you always hear is skiing is far easier learn than snowboarding, which is largely true.

What people usually say is skiing is far easier to learn than snowboarding, but harder to master. I think what people generally mean by this is that on day 1, you'll pizza-ing your way down the bunny hill/green slope and maybe even easy blues if you're fairly athletic. But pizza/french fry technique only takes you so far. At a certain point, you'll need to learn how to carve, ski parallel, hockey stop etc. to truly feel in control on steeper slopes.
It's not like paying for YouTube prevents Google from hoovering up your data and using it for targeted advertising. Sure, you won't see the ads on YouTube, but you'll see them literally _everywhere_ else unless you use that adblocker.
There was a drive which used the rotational energy in the platters to generate electricity enough to write out what was in the cache.

I wanna say it was IBM.
After several years of use, I wanted a battery replacement for my 1st-gen Retina Macbook Pro, so I brought it to the Apple Store. The device was old, but still supported, though far outside even the Apple Care window.

I was told they they should normally be able to do this replacement, but they didn't have replacement batteries available. After mentioning I could just leave the device with them until the stock became available, they went off into the back for a few minutes.

When they returned, they said they would accept my years old Macbook as a return for its original purchase price and I walked out with a brand new Macbook Pro essentially for the cost of the tax.

I cannot imagine getting this service from any other computer vendor.
Good pun of Brecht's words, but how do you connect both here?
they make good nvme's
Was coconut oil manufactured and consumed in large quantities before industrial age? Was it a staple of local diet? Were people there healthy and not unusually prone to various diseases and not overweight? In some island nations being overweight was beneficial for travel and times of scarcity. So tradeoffs of their diet might not fit us so well as it fitted them.

Plant fats consumed with their respective plants are probably tolerable, because your stomach has limited volume. Only after they are squeezed out do that you can have oil out of 20 kilos of plants in each single meal then it might not suit your body.

So let me restate the question.

Do you any plant fats that were extracted from plants before industrial age and used as a staple meal ingredient by themselves?

Olive oil is one. Is coconut oil the second? What else?
Small correction: RN uses their own custom JS engine Hermes.
> But the point about new tech being risky, is entirely fair. If something's still exciting, it's probably a good idea for the risk-averse to avoid it.

Seems like you're saying a person who bought a thousand euro phone and couldn't get it repaired under warranty after a month of mild use is "risk-averse" if they dislike that experience.

Would a truly non-risk-averse person be overjoyed by this experience or see no problem with it? Would they accept it as the price they pay for being an early adopter and see no reason to complain? I'm confused.
Interesting. I'll admit this isn't my area, and as a hymenopterologist I'm really only an interested amateur in any case; I will say that I've never observed any wasp to be obviously dismayed by my camera flashes, and only once even by my presence - a bald-faced yellowjacket who was surprised to find me inches away upon emerging from a flower where she'd been nectaring, and circled my head a few times before zipping off about her occasions.

But then, on the other hand, I'm not really interfering with them, and certainly not attaching a semi-permanent tracker - the most you ever see in that direction with wasps is a dab of paint on the dorsal thorax, as with queen bee marking, which if perhaps not perfectly innocuous is still certainly much less intrusive than the devices typically applied to mammals and in this case at least to birds.

Can you cite the claim that the subjects of tracking studies typically find the trackers innocuous?
TSMC 3nm Yield Problems May Derail AMD's CPU Plans
The sad thing is 99% people mean "honored" of the the (opposite of humbled) when they say "humbled" ("I'm so humbled to be recognized by the best by so many people"), but here was a rare case that "humbled" fits.
The Fundamental Obstacle to Netflix’s Games Strategy Is One of Its Own Making
I'd potentially use it when starting a new cross-platform project but the biggest psychological blocker for me is that it's.. Google. How can I be confident that it's still around in a year? Two years? Five years? Will it survive (and thrive!) on its own in case Google decides to pull the plug?
You would think, reading what you wrote, that when we walk into ghetto elementary schools that we see little kids sitting there dull, insipid, and sullen who don't do well on basic tests of learning, (even if perhaps they aren't well taught how to read). This would be a completely false assumption.

There are plenty of people with hereditary wealth who are otherwise very ordinary, and not particularly happy, too.
Happening in golf now too.
Germany continues to buy the same amount of natural gas from Russia as before, except half of that gas will now have to continue to go through flaky, expensive, thieving middlemen. What a great plan.
I don't think this is remotely fair. Or true. It sounds like you have an axe to grind.

Your own link speaks of multiple health benefits to hyperventilation and cold exposure, and of studies with multiple Non-Wim participants, even while coming across biased itself.

As well, Wim constantly advises people clearly and consistently not to practice in water more than an inch deep by themselves. Constantly.
Someone will write an article on how it's a power move to scale your Zoom background to make you look taller.
The accreditation process was already halted, so nothing new has happened. Nord Stream 2 will eventually deliver cheap gas to Germany.

This is just political theatre. Wait till Russia stops sending gas through Ukraine and paying Ukraine billions for the privilege (a move that can be easily justified from the Russian side as 'counter sanctions').

Then you'll hear the Germans scream XD
The default is 'disbelief', yes. At least with grand claims and when no clear plausible mechanism of action, etc. etc. is proposed.

As to whether 'bullshit' is justified, I dunno. I just see that as being a bit blunt phrasing-wise.
Ideas to optimize your SaaS for international sales
Many do, including me.

But I really try to be realistic and frankly can't see Flutter being truly more popular.

But just because I favor React Native over Flutter doesn't necessarily mean that I'm biased and there's no truth in what I'm saying.
20% is a baseline figure for proportion of calories that go to the brain. If only you could warm yourself by running 3DMark!
~$0.001 USD is the current cost for gas on Polygon for a transaction. If people have to pay credits to tweet (even this little), I would expect the quality to increase.
I don't see them calling the practice bullshit, just the claims.
I briefly had a Samsung fridge. Total garbage. Impossible to clean without breaking stuff. Made weird noises.

I have two theories.

1) Ignorance.

Samsung's fridge team had never seen a fridge before. Certainly had never used or owned their own fridges.

2) Spite.

Samsung's fridge team harbored a deep visceral hatred of all things fridge related. They despise each and everyone of their customers on a personal basis. They hate their occupation, their employer, each other, and themselves and work overtime to covertly sabotage all work products.
You can’t copyright AI-created art, according to US officials
Absolutely, what was negotiated was the budapest memorandum and the paris charter.

What treaty are you referring to?
The mechanism is:

- a rich kid wastes 3 years on drugs and partying, gets caught once or twice, gets bailed by parents, moves on to do something productive

- a poor kid wastes 1 year on drugs and partying, gets caught once, it snowballs from there, recovery is very hard if at all possible
This reasoning implies that it's the continuity of a single screen which makes that device capable of being folded inwards.

This is in fact completely backward: a continuous deformable surface has all the problems of two exactly adjacent but discontinuous surfaces, with the additional problem of providing relief for the fold.
My old boss said he used to ask people in interviews if they were "lucky" people, until he decided it was too risky on a religious discrimination basis. "Lucky" is approximately the same as "happy" here.
I went snowboarding last weekend with my brother-in-law and niece, she was asking about the differences between skiing and snowboarding and my brother-in-law said “Skiing is easy to learn but hard to master, snowboarding is hard to learn but easy to master.” I thought that was aptly put.
Realistically, unless you're browsing log files or some globbed together generated code, I would lay money that 95% of usage of programmers editors are under 2000 lines.

If you're optimizing for a 2 GB apache log, you're probably focusing on the wrong thing.
WOW. Thank for the tip! I will also do the same and abuse warranty to get new devices.
That sounds like a felony abuse of Python. Despite, wasn't perl originally a tragic attempt at such language? :)
> EDIT: some people say that in the EU they cannot lock you out of warranty for rooting the device, because non hardware modifications are not cause for warranty removal. But I haven't tried that, so I don't know.

Even if it’s not allowed in Europe, IIRC, unlocking and tripping the e-fuse comes with a new boot screen with a huge "unsecure device" that you can’t get rid of. And you are also definitely locked out of device encryption and Samsung Pay.

So even if warranty is not void, you are paying it by not being able to resell your phone (at least at a normal price).
Hof is only mentioned in passing in this particular essay.
>For anyone interested: Ignore the negative reviews.

Most of the negative reviews are not only perfectly legitimate but address structural issues in the game not fixable with quality of life patches and the adding of a bunch of new weapons and cars, one year after the release of the game, which by the way were never lacking. This game has so much cut content that some quests feel like a demo version and main characters like Adam Smasher (a primary antagonist) behave like an afterthought with barely no presence, feeling as lifeless and predictable as the rest of Night City.

The excusable tragedy of Cyberpunk it's that it miserably fails to deliver in every different aspect it touches, excelling in none of the many ambitions it had. The unexcusable part is its unplayable console release, that felt like a borderline scam.

>It has a great and challenging story

Disco Elysium or Pathologic 2 have memorable stories; Cyberpunk is a painfully mediocre experience at best, in my opinion.
Yes the GP comment was about their Dart support in Chrome that never went mainstream, then they cancelled it. My comment about TypeScript was an overall view on the ecosystem. Even Angular abandoned Dart.
They may have been the gold standard, but not anymore since the GTA remaster release last year... that was so bad they had to apologise for releasing it.
> You didn’t answer his questions though?

Ok, I'll answer you, but you won't like it.

> Why is it fair to penalize someone for the color of their skin?

Because it's already happening in real life... It's just not codified anymore, or it isn't codified in obvious ways (see crack cocaine vs cocaine).

So this "penalizing" is just evening the scales.

> I thought the whole point is to make things better for people?

You need both the carrot and the stick. A dominant group rarely abandons its position willingly.

Eisenhower had to send freaking paratroopers to enforce desegregation in schools.
I got custom fit ear plugs a few months ago. Normal ear plugs tend to fall out during the night, are less comfortable and block out less noise.

They really seem to help.
Where do you all get your tech news from?
I generally browse here because it seems to highlight the most interesting articles in the fields I care about. I am curious though if anyone uses a specific news aggregator and why you like it.
I think a totally new alphabet would be more easily accepted by people than a Latin spelling reform, which would see a ton of backlash around the uncanny valley and social stigmas.

A new alphabet (like Hangul), could take a long time to adopt fully though, and there’s nothing wrong with that imo.
The antiwar declaration supported by the authors in their About page is signed by a bunch of Russians and refers to Donestk as a "republic" but Kiev as not one, (just a "government"), so don't consider the analysis as particularly unbiased. Read the manifesto critically if you want to know where they are really coming from.
Pterosaur fossil from Scotland is largest Jurassic flier ever found
It's to decrease reliance on Russian gas. If Germany is almost entirely reliant on Russian gas then they cannot impose serious sanctions on Russia without Russia shutting down the gas supply.
I find it funny that your definition of "getting it fixed" is throwing the whole thing to the garbage can and giving you a brand new one. It fixes your problem, but I wouldn't exactly call that fixing the phone.
> What are now called mosaic tiles will give a very different result because they make a square grid, more like pixel art.

Surely that’s why we call it “tile mosaics” rather than “mosaics”? Though some of the islamic tilework is really nice, it used “generically shaped” tiles but not square ones resulting in beautiful patterns (whose regularity could be broken up by playing with tile colors) e.g. zellij tilework.
It seems that a proper scientific mindset would declare something neither true nor false until a study is done.

That's true but it doesn't mean what you're implying it means. You're suggesting that saying "We don't know" means there's an equal probability that the thing will turn out to be true as there is it'll turn out to be false. That's not what skepticism in science means. It's entirely valid to say "The chance of this being real is 0.01." and then use science to prove it it's false. You might turn out to be wrong, and that tiny chance shows that the science was worthwhile, but most of the time you'll just end up showing that your intuition was correct.
Off-topic: 10K MRR sounds like a lot for 200K downloads. What is your app and how is it monetized, if you don't mind me asking.