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> The smallest iPhone starts at 128 GB.

The smallest iPhone sold now is 128 GB. The iPhone 5C, sold in 2015, had 8 GB internal storage with no expansion options. 439 MiB is a full 5% of the total storage capacity of the iPhone 5C, completely ignoring the amount reserved for the OS that's completely unusable to the user.

The logic used here hurts lower-income people and contributes to climate change by encouraging poor use of device resources -> shorter device lifetimes -> more e-waste and wasted energy.
> They do this because of the isolation, not in spite of it.

Yeah pretty much. This is also my schedule, I've always preferred to be alone 99% of the time, and for the past 20 years I've had a romantic partner and zero interest in developing any other strong social relationships.

The real downside is that you have very limited sunlight hours, so I have to be sure to take a nice long walk outside while the sun is still up to keep my brain happy.
Is there a non-Facebook mirror? I find that many people oppose even viewing posts on Facebook these days.
Some people use 2FA because the service they're accessing requires it. Some people use 2FA for work accounts because their employer requires it. Using 2FA doesn't necessarily indicate savvy on the part of the user.
Does life flash before your eyes? Brain scan of dying man suggests it’s possible
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KYC won't work on anything related to sex work, and most of the people uploading videos to these websites are semi-professionalized to sex work now. KYC doesn't work because sex work is largely illegal in most countries or states/provinces.

> The point is not to build a totalitarian internet with one world government user registration: it's to correlate accountability with scale.

You can already do this with PGP. You'd just need an operator/vendor who values confidentiality but also can handle the overhead of managing identities from a systematic viewpoint.
There's a long thread about this on their official forums and that is basically their argument against it. And it's true that there's a high likelihood I could forget this second, rarely used password.
If you’ve been following the Ukraine crisis at a distance, you may not have realised but Twitter is one of the key battlespaces right now. For the past weeks organisations like Bellingcat and hundreds of individual researchers have been tracking Russian force movements, geolocating videos of convoys, identifying equipment and correlating this with reports from all over social media. These people have put together tweet threads thousands of tweets long, which is an invaluable tool for transparency and radically reduces deniability of those operations, by an aggressor who has claimed not to be preparing an invasion at all. Such open source intelligence is relied upon by international aid organisations, media, even the UN.

Presently they are engaged in a whack-a-mole of false flag operations created in an fumbling attempt to manufacture a pretext to begin a large scale invasion of Ukraine. This has included shelling separatists’ own infrastructure to blame Ukraine; cutting together training videos with explosion audio from somewhere in Finland; recording fake helmet cam footage of fake cross border raids; and now posing corpses who have clear signs of having been autopsied already in burning vehicles and claiming it was Ukraine setting up IEDs. https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1496418900107579396?...

Now, they have most likely provoked a mass-reporting campaign by Russians, and Twitter has obliged, generally with 12 hour suspensions or account lockouts. The researchers are given notifications with the “Reason:” field blank https://twitter.com/oalexanderdk/status/1496452673008279552 . It seems as though something has tripped an automated system, and these people cannot for the life of them get through to a human.

If you or anyone you know works at Twitter, these researchers need your help. 12 hour suspensions may seem bearable to you, but in this conflict, that is enough time for everything to go haywire while the observers are locked away.

Some more links:

https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/149640967257162547...

https://twitter.com/intelcrab/status/1496521974138519556?s=2...

https://twitter.com/walterlekh/status/1496517291349057537?s=...

An apparent leader of mass-reporting: https://twitter.com/bvasylchenko/status/1496536608778108928?...
I don't see how that is a counter example. You are using crypto as an investment asset, not as a currency.
And then the user deletes that file, and it's not a part of a file anymore, but is still stored somewhere on a disk.
If app sizes trend down, it might serve the users well, but it would depress iPhone sales as fewer users would need to upgrade storage.

Which one do you think Apple cares more about?
I use a 32GB Android.

A significant fraction of that 32GB is taken by system crap, so a GB makes a difference.
35% yield for mobile SoCs sounds...crazy low? Is that normal for mobile SoCs or are Samsung's fabs that inefficient?
Estonia does that too. Job posts are required to publish a pay range and it is very useful to help decide if a job is financially interesting or not.
You'd have to exert the same amount of energy to clone Bitcoin ...

The cloner would have to exert the same energy to mining that Satoshi Nakamoto did/does --- zero. Others will do this for you.

But thanks for pointing out the absurdity/weakness of Bitcoin and one of the reasons why it fails as a currency. You do know there are other options for cloning.
> Though the issue is the "if it isn't constantly maintained at bacteria killing levels"

How is this any different from a soup that was started hours ago?
"The UX for the user would be, for most non-game apps, identical."

In theory, this is true. In practice, it's just hit or miss. I think it's just hard to maintain web across all the different platform and screen sizes. It's probably due to the fact that an iOS developer specializes in one platform and most web development shops will have to support all platforms.

"If Apple would allow web notifications"

I do not use apps because of notifications. I use apps because in general, the performance and experience is much better.
Caddy is used by large enterprises and is processing hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue per hour at one company I know of. You can definitely use it for high volume sites.
Benchmark sites really need categories like speedruns. The finish line is something like "takes a dynamic input and gets the right answer". Then you have categories that do it under some additional constraints:

any% (most languages call out to pre-written machine code, probably)

language% (anything possible using just that language)

idiomatic%, casual%, singlethreaded%, memory%, compile-run%?, safe%? etc.

Then at least we'd be able to argue about which categories a particular benchmark result would apply to, and separately argue about which categories matter in a particular domain.
My first programming-related job was for a company that handled instructor evaluations for colleges. The UI we showed to the instructors when setting up their evaluation questions for their students included a demo table showing some fake courses. Rather than something boring like "Calc 101", "Bio 201", etc, I decided to go with themes/settings from the Alien movie franchise, so there was a table like this:

> Instructor, Course Name, etc

> Ripley, Interstellar Ore Hauling

> Ripley, Terraforming 101

> Ripley, Criminal Justice Reform

> Ripley, Military Bio-Weapons Projects

It stayed up for a few years until my boss made me change it because one of the instructors got confused, complaining that they didn't teach any of these courses.
The pop-sci version of Moore's law, where old programs run magically faster on new hardware, has been dead for a while. Shrinking the size of a chip now has issues with current leakage, so the energy savings from shrinking aren't as easy either.

Moore's law is only an observation, so we'll see if these new devices extend Moore's law in hindsight. The way forward for faster programs does seem pretty clear though: more parallelism. That can be using vectorization, using more cores, or using coprocessors.

How programming languages address parallelism is very important now, much more important than back when the pop-sci version was true.
I once flew United and, like the author, didn't realise this until I was on the plane for a ten hour flight. Downloaded the app for Android. I opened it. I was immediately ip-blocked for having a rooted phone, which was then kicked off the network and couldn't get an IP address. United cabin crew then started trying to sell me an iPad loan for the duration. I read a book and vowed never to fly with them again.
And here I am feeling unsatisfied about the ~20MB size of the app I’m responsible for. I haven’t seriously tried to cut its size down yet, but aspirationally I’d like to cut that in half.

Probably doesn’t make that much of a difference in the long run, but I have a theory that smaller binary sizes increase chances of any given user being up-to-date, thus increasing the percentage of the userbase that’s running the latest version at any point in time. iOS tends to pull updates while charging, and so an app that’s 10MB is more likely to get updated during a brief charging period than an app 50x as large, especially if the user in question has a slower connection.

It also makes for smoother troubleshooting when the user can pop into the App Store page for your app and have the app updated almost instantly.
> Without monetary policy

You are the enemy.
Just for some perspective, the entire installer package for the Shareware version Doom took up about 2.39MB of space. This included the EXE and all art assets. The installer for WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS) was about 3.6MB. The full on-disk footprint of Microsoft Office 95 was less than 100MB, including all documentation, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

I'm not entirely convinced value-per-byte is a measure of software quality that a lot of users care about, but it undeniably trends down every year.
I could already grow mdraid and reiserfs forever ago.
boreal means in the northern hemisphere. so it means that the meteor that killed the dinosaurs hit the earth when it was spring in north america.

Different species are more or less vulnerable in each season. Species that were hibernating at this time had a better chance of survival and in general species in the southern hemisphere did better because it was fall there and it was a less critical time for most species.
The First Rocket from Mars
> Try saving for retirement. At 2% inflation (the target rate), after 20 years you'd lose 1 - (.98 ^ 20) = 33.2% of the purchasing power of your savings.

People shouldn't be holding dollars for retirement. People should be investing in productive assets. Its not good to have society's wealth locked up in paper notes or shiny metals hidden under a mattress or buried in the backyard.
A slight nuance is if Russia has only one customer for it's gas and oil, then China may feel they do not have to pay the going market rate. It depends if Xi thinks he is a charity for Putin.
sounds impressive. anyone complaining about price has clearly never looked at pimax headsets lol
We all hate debugging unnecessary and pointless code.

But over the very LONG TERM projects I see with Easter Eggs tend to have had developers who cared more about the project and were having fun, which leads to an overall higher code quality. (Your own experience may be different).
Depends if you want to boot from it, IIRC.

Your kernel has to have compiled-in support for the filesystem of the drive you store your kernel modules on.
White House invests $35M to tackle rare earth supply vulnerabilities
I have been keeping an eye on SimulaOS for sometime and I am glad that they finally have a real hardware!
This is awesome to hear! I'm actually one of the founders of Emerge Tools (mentioned in the blog post), we work on helping teams just like United fix problems like this. I had actually tweeted at United in April of last year letting them know about these issues: https://twitter.com/jshchnz/status/1379154466872549377

If anyone at United wants help, happy to chat! josh@emergetools.com
I love JPDB, it's cool to randomly see you in the wild!

I can't personally use JPDB (due to my own niche learning strategy, not a flaw in JPDB), but I desperately want to be able to consume the underlying data. It's just that good -- the data that you've curated is unbeatable. If you ever provide a public API, I'll join your Patreon in a heartbeat.
I removed my comment since it wasn't being constructive here, and I realized it was off-topic for this post.

I'll leave with this: I'm a super introvert who works from home, so I took my difficulties as possibly me needing to take a break.

I actually track Rust quite closely since there's a lot of neat and innovative work coming out of it, and I hope to join the community since it seems like many have had a lot more positive of an experience.
Conveniently ignoring lightning payments.
Wow, such detailed deductions are possible about the day of the impactor, I had no idea. I really want to put Hell's Creek on my to visit list now. Fascinating and, for Nature, very accessible article.
Interesting.

It would have been nice to add a calculation of the energy required and CO2 produced to manufacture, transport and install that roof.

I feel this is an important metric that is generally ignored in these conversations. And yet, it is crucially important in order to determine the true outcome.

That said, I understand just how complex this input can be to obtain. You can’t reduce it to a number per window. That’s not how it works.

In order for someone to produce those ten (or whatever) windows somewhere in the order of twenty companies must exist and operate constantly. Aluminum mining and processing, steel production, extruders, paint/coatings, chemicals, oil/petroleum, fasteners, cardboard and foam packaging, forklifts, trucks, CNC machines, computers, etc.

The point is: These companies don’t exist just for the 42.5 minutes it took to assemble and pack the windows. In order to be able to buy ten windows, they have to exist whether or not someone is buying that model window or not. The energy required and CO2 produced comes from the combination of all of these factors. And, yes, this is hard to estimate. Yet the numbers are very far from zero.

It’s like saying you are going to go live in a tent on a small island to reduce CO2 emissions while ignoring the car ride, flight and ferry that get you there and the freighter that delivered your possessions.
I did have the start time stamp, but the HN s/w strips off what it thinks is an irrelevant parameter.

Yes, actual video with start index:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFWT2oPhf1w&start=1928

Thank you.
I use ABAD1DEA somewhere in UUIDs in experiments/examples & proof of concept code/data.

DEADBEEF shows up regularly if you work on projects that have only a seven-segment display.
Thanks for the bug report! For anyone else who is following along, the issue is tracked here: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/48460
What's the problem with just leaving it simmering non-stop? No chance for spores to develop then.
yes, I might have this although I'm not entirely sure. I'm in the midst of a 1 week holiday (at home) and where I usually had to wake up at 8:30 am now after just 5 days I'm already at 1 pm wake-up time, just naturally. I always enjoyed the evening hours and the silence it brings with it (not just audio but also visually), these are the hours I feel most at peace. Why cut them short by going to sleep at midnight? ... well because I have to wakeup at 8:30..... all in all maybe I should be a night watch and live my life like my rhythm dictates. (I'm an introvert, too, but not sure why this connection should really matter)
> Porn is almost as unavoidable as ads

Where are these ads? I never see pornographic ads in my daily browsing.

> The dopamine response to seeing porn is similar to crack (4).

That doesn't prove anything about harmfulness. I think it was already obvious that humans are hardwired to be attracted to sex. Nothing in these links suggests that this response creates to an addiction similar to hard drugs.

> Pornography is categorically more dangerous to society than ads, tracking, and privacy invasions.

I don't accept that based on your sources.
If anyone wants to build a scalable ANN-index with single-stage filtering (i.e. not with the builtin vector index which does post-filtering), I suggest people try binarising and splitting their feature vectors, or using something like Product Quantization (PQ). Both approaches will return a list of fixed terms which can be indexed in Elasticsearch as keyword and then searched with a simple "terms" query.

Big fan of what Pinecone is doing, but I have too much invested into Elasticsearch/Lucene at this point in time to be considering anything else really, and with Elasticsearch I get everything in one box, including things like n-gram accelerated wildcard searches.
> * Is there some useful interactions between 3D visualization and high-quality small-text rendering? If you have good VR/3D developer stories, then this can work.*

Yes, I want to see a CAD application where the user is looking at a complex CAD model in 3D, with labeled parts and everything, and usefully interacting with it. Typing commands, grabbing and turning the model, etc.
The top 10+ subthreads are all positive - I think I had to go all the way to #18 to find a negative one. You may be falling prey to the contrarian dynamic: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Exactly - badness of waste is non-linear. An application that's 4x as large as necessary is more than twice as bad as one that's 2x as large as necessary.

A candy bar which is 5% packaging and 95% candy by mass is alright. A candy bar which is 50% packaging and 50% candy is horrifying.
2yrs ago I would've said people scolding others for using obvious humor was just a meaningless activity of busybodies, but the way many people have responded to the pandemic has really opened my eyes. It turns out these were people who actually wanted to control speech and dictate what can be accepted as truth despite their inability to identify what the truth is. They are a great evil and have destroyed people's trust in truth finding activities.
Yep, and with our headset we'll have full background replacement. We've tested it internally with two off the shelf cameras but it's not public yet.
once you get too greedy it can introduce competition.
Xpls: The Crossplane Language Server
You can create a separate user and use a Yubikey to gate access to it, so access would be through your primary 1Password account (where the pass is stored) + Yubikey. I have multiple accounts to separate things out that shouldn’t cross pollinate.

A 1Password feature for it would be neat but I think you’d end up in a situation where there was always risk that the primary account could be used to gain access to the sub account in some way. I’d argue the best way to tackle this would be to assume 1Password itself is an attack vector and have an encryption key stored on a separate device and so what is stored in 1Password is encrypted (by you) can only be decrypted with your physical key.

Basically, if you can’t trust your digital self, you definitely can’t trust 1Password.
It does feel a little like the author's searched really hard to find people that fit a theory that nocturnal lifestyles and introversion are linked and struggled to find many good examples. Hardcore introverts, of course, might not be the people most likely to volunteer to answer personal questions. But also, there are a lot of ways to minimise social interactions that don't involve unusual sleeping schedules (and a lot of nocturnal jobs that are intensely social, or people working antisocial night shifts because it's the best job they can get rather than because theyre averse to social interaction)
Creating a Tesla Light Show
CloudFlare works so well for so many use cases it's hard to justify not using it. I previously used it to get to my internal home network using the standard product and IP range whitelists (plus some additional secrets).

I currently have it running on top of some ancient legacy appengine apps to clean up domains/URLs, add a caching layer and keep my costs at basically zero overall (workers doing a little bit of work as well).

I'm tempted to ditch Google's legacy free workspace product using the email forwarding as well.

It's like Twilio: there just isn't anyone near from a competitor perspective. As long as they keep improving, they are so far ahead it's their game to lose.

And just to clarify: I do everything on the free tier.
OP said production use. Can you define production use then?
Fastmail is also mostly a wrapper around web views (but then again, so is Hey)
you didnt factor in the mobilw bandwidth to download this oversized crap constantly. with 1gb plans in mind how many downloads a month do you get to instagib a plan like that? and for what, no actual patch notes ever?! at least most apps dont hard lock you out when they detect being behind
A link back to the post so folks who haven't read it thoroughly can follow along: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-...
Without diving into specifics we'll never know of course. But consider the opposite: would good decisions positively or negatively impact their business? Would they prevent them from achieving their mission or focusing on other things?

I can think of how bad decisions could negatively impact their mission and focus:

- App is slow and buggy, pressuring users to choose a different service altogether

- A much larger support staff is required to handle customer issues

- Bugs are painful to address and require weeks or months to resolve

- Developers spend more time fixing bugs and less time working on features, resulting in delayed features and an increased team size to allow more parallel development
I think the danger here is that some bacteria can produce toxins that are dangerous to humans that won't be destroyed by a 10 minute boil.
> I have a filesystem with an absurd number of tiny files in it. I host a statically rendered wikipedia mirror. Tens of millions of gzipped html-files with a filesize in the range 1-5 Kb.

> ReiserFS is the only filesystem I know that deals even the slightest bit gracefully with this thanks to tail-packing.

Are there any newer file systems that cope with this use-case?
Ling is a woman :) I once asked her for advice about a website I was developing and she very kindly gave me some very detailed feedback.

You can probably guess what her advice was and I will always regret not having the nerve to follow it.
Yeah that's also why I stopped using it. Why didn't they just fork it and change the name? I don't get it.

FWIW at some point it also had quite severe stability issues. I'm sure those were solved but that might have contributed to the fact why there was no effort to fork it but instead people went with ZFS, XFS and eventually ext4
They tried it for home desktop ~10 years ago and had to back down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service
Bought for 15B. Net profit in 2021 was $1B. It'll take a while to get their investment back. Not sure I'd call it a successful acquisition.
It's also hard to maintain two entirely separate apps in two entirely different languages for two entirely different platforms/APIs, all while giving up nearly a third of your CLV to a rentseeking middleman.
Similar article by same author (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901051
I might have been a little off on the reason, but they really did remove Easter eggs: https://web.archive.org/web/20171123041231/https://blogs.msd...