skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a SSD intentionally dumped data and self destructed at a set time, that would be disastrous for the brand.

Other than "intentionally" (which we cannot know and makes no difference to whether you lose your data or not) that is literally what these SSDs are doing, and no SSD brand has been destroyed over it.
USA did the same in the name of anti-terrorism, after (possibly) blowing up their own twin towers. If I were an USA citizen I rather give my information to a Chinese company than to a USA company, since at least the Chinese can't raid me if they don't like me.
> Why aren't their countries desirable as well?

See e.g. National IQ and Economic Development: A Study of Eighty-One Nations, by Lynn and Vanhanen.

There is a superlinear relationship between average IQ and GDPPC.

Research precludes a predominant causal relationship from GDPPC to IQ (e.g. via Flynn effect); all that is left is that population intelligence causally precedes GDPPC.
> Why do people borrow to buy a car?

Cheap financing close to 0%, and long term contracts. In fact, financing on new vehicles is far far better than financing a used vehicle. Why would anyone vinance a used vehicle? Because even used they cost more money then most have in their bank.

Used cars require repairs, meaning they require a place to do these repairs or extra income to cover a mechanic. Also how does one recover from vehicle related downtime in a car centric society? These things should be priced in.

So, how much money does one need to get into a used vehicle and how much safety net do they require? Mind you, during covid car market flipped on its head, new cars were (and still are) 3-6-12-24 months wait, and used car market saw a massive increase in prices.
The answer is always “it depends,” but I think if a date time is a UTC timestamp, such as a record of when an event happened, then with random sampling, it shouldn’t matter? It’s just a timestamp. The amount of information it contains might include location, might include timing to other events, could be correlated, but… on its own? It doesn’t need anonymization. Likewise the sequence of events, should be safe to use.

I get that you can look up or de-anonymize an event by its timestamp and the same is true of ID numbers. But it’s worse for ID numbers because these are often permanent and re-used for multiple events.

But yeah, the risk in anonymized data is that it’s never truly both anonymous and useful. Truly anonymous data might be considered junk or random data.

Anonymized data has some utility purpose to fulfil. Perhaps “realistic” analytics is required, or you want to troubleshoot a production issue without revealing who did what to engineers. So you anonymize the fields they shouldn’t see, and create a subset of data that reproduces the issue…?

Anonymized data is almost always a bad approach compared to generating data from algorithmic or random sources, but sometimes we need anonymized or restricted data to start that process.
The paper itself is a chuckle fest (as are many Intelligencer submissions) and concludes:

> The goal here has been neither to challenge nor to confirm Darwin’s and other researchers’ observations of greater male variability for any given species or any given trait, but rather to propose an elementary mathematical theory based on biological/evolutionary mechanisms that might serve as a starting point to help explain how one sex of a species might tend to evolve with greater variability than the other sex.

ie. Such a thing may or may not be true, but if it were true there is a pachinko machine that can create that effect.

Of course, more generally, if you posit a distribution, there exists a pachinko machine that can recreate it.

What's telling is that this paper appends two runs of empirical data sets:

A.1 Primary Research Studies Supporting the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis

and

A.2 Primary Research Studies Not Supporting the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis

so they're not even backing a horse in any race, just stirring the pot for a giggle .. via 30+ pages with references.
Visa overstays are a “bigger problem” according to whom? Could someone reasonably consider illegal border crossings a bigger problem because they involve completely unvetted people, as opposed to visa overstays which involve people who were at least minimally vetted in getting a visa?
> Car financing is a good way to build credit before buying a home.

I've heard people say this, but it's never made sense to me and sounds like something the loan industry has convinced people of just to sell more loans. Is it actually true?

Every time I've gotten a mortgage, they seem to just care about my income and whether I've had any missed payments on credit cards or other bills before.

And credit scores aren’t everything. Even with an >800 and money in the bank, after my startup was acquired, I couldn't get a mortgage because I didn't have any income I could show them.
> Why do people borrow money to buy a car? Why not save money, maybe invest in something safe(ish), and buy your car in cash,

Financing for new cars is often available at rates that are so low, you'd be completely foolish to pay cash.

> preferably used?

Yes, the amazing financing is certainly one of the incentives for buying a new, rather than used, car. That's why the manufacturers offer it.
> We did zero maintenance other than brake fluid check and tires in 3 years. This experience is typical.

That's nothing special these days, look at the maintenance schedule of a new Toyota Corolla, except 3 oil changes (and that's only in the US where this is done ridiculously often) there's nothing ICE specific on there...
It's addictive, based on what I've observed, mainly because of the pandemic we're experiencing... If people were actually able to go out and meet others in real life more and perform live (with less Covid risk) the deceptions on social media effectiveness and celebrity status would be more glaringly obvious... And app usage probably wouldn't be as high as it is.

The platforms have all been highly opportunistic upon captive audiences since the pandemic began, and they probably know their days are numbered I imagine.
+1, I switched to OPNsense about 11 months ago and could not be happier. Once the dust settled I also changed some of my small buiness customers over and it was a smooth experience.
Exactly my thoughts when reading the article. A bad micro-benchmark that puts everything in bad context as a result. I have numbers on the impact of logging from other articles that show a significant impact, but nothing at this scale.
Medicare Could Have Saved $3.6B on Generic Drugs
One theory is that churros came from the fried Chinese doughstick youtiao.

The habit of eating raw fish in Japan probably developed indigenously but many of the words the Japanese use to describe sushi and raw fish came from China which to the surprise of many has a very strong food culture of eating raw fish and meat up till the Ming dynasty in
the 14th century.

Look at what confucius wrote in the book of rites 2500 years ago:
食不厌精，脍不厌细
(you'll not get sick of good food, and you'll not get sick of kuai(raw fish /meat) that is sliced thinly.)
or
脍，春用葱，秋用芥
(kuai, eat it with spring onions in spring and jie in autumn. jie is a chinese mustard. )

The chinese probably adopted the habit of eating raw fish in the past from people from southeast asia.

And while sashima is almost certainly developed indigenously in Japan, the predecessor of the modern Sushi in japan (fish preserved in rice) is most likely developed in China.

Food history is so interesting but largley neglected.
Thanks for the idea, how do you kickstart this everyday?

My process is finding other similar projects or content through a very simple feed (opening a new tab on phone or browser) or a notification on e-mail/app of a feedback or help message.
Builds everything from source and most packages have flags ("USE flags") that control in which way the source packages are built (e.g. remove unneeded package dependencies). The other potential benefit is to compile with better optimization than generic packages.
Repurposing several of the initial drives with later purchases (or exchanges) might be another option.
Would you give a couple examples?
In many C/C++ optimizing compiler, this is replaced with `counter = 1000;`.

I have no idea how java handle this.. Does the AOT compiler do any optimization? Would this defer to the JIT?
If I could pay the annual fee in monthly installments then I definitely would find the breakdown helpful, but usually annual plans that are given monthly segments still require a full payment at the beginning of the subscription.
> I didn't interpret "don't make it to trial" as "100% settle" - my initial assumption was that they got thrown out instead.

According to the source the OP cited, the vast majority settle (according to the source's source, it seems like 10-20% are thrown out.)

They list the primary reason that cases settle isn't a question of deep pockets. It's that the plaintiff's attorney makes a case for the jury amount to be $X-$Y dollars and Y-X is a small enough spread that everyone would rather just settle the case than go through a jury trial when they are 90%+ (I made up that percentage) in agreement. That is, when they agree the defendant owes $XXX +/- 5%. Why waste the time on the last few thousand when they can split the difference and go home?

Meanwhile, if you're considered about regulatory capture, a jury and not a bench trial seem better. For what it's worth, the US system totally lets the judge decide the entire matter if both sides agree to waive the jury. It seems like that's the case in ~25-33% of cases that make their way to trial.
Yes, but the methodology is completely broken. He uses microbenchmarks on a JVM which can eliminate these instantly. It's inconsistent with findings from other logging benchmarks (especially the last bit).
Sure, but college attendance is very high now and wasn’t back when we had a “more informed electorate”. Educational achievement is not a catch all for actually being a thinking and critical person.

Also, not everyone has equal potential, and the people who do have it may not want to use it. Having many trade paths, not just elite ones helps our society to match achievement and desire. We certainly need the full spectrum and should encourage the development of more choice.
This is awesome. Great idea. Plot these on a map. Maybe seamless affiliate links to make money?
I am curious which 8-bit machines you thought were good, if the c64 wasn’t.
Trump ally Bannon reverses course, says he's willing to testify before panel
Your argument, like many people made at the time this started, is purely technical. It only considers the virus itself to be the thing needing to be solved, rather than considering second-order effects.
Right idea on why it’s wrong, but it’s even worse than that! The kilobyte, say all 0s, represents the state of an entire multiverse.

As my comment below, it’s maybe a couple dozen atoms, in perfect conditions (the conditions are again absurd) so this is some definite jiggery-pokery and let’s focus on what they got right? (Ie, how many states a kilobyte can take)
Usually the volume isn't assumed to be finite. Sure there is the observable universe, but I don't think many models prohobit atoms from living outside of it.
Lol, I was wondering how long I'd have to scroll to find an accurate definition of kilobyte.
Surprisingly few HN submissions under either term:

IBM Deskstar: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

IBM Deathstar: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I mean how is it social media for the person if they don’t use any social aspect of it.
Also rolling release/upgrade instead of the usual scheduled release.
It's particularly sad in LA because LA used to have the best public transportation in the world.

https://www.amazon.com/This-Pacific-Electric-Stephanie-Edwar...
Maybe to take their one-time/limited stimulus payments, and then repossess when people can no longer pay?

I'm sure if they felt that they wouldn't be able to repossess, they wouldn't be nearly as incautious in extending the loan.
>Are drivers taking off and refusing at the moment of pickup in SF?

Yes. Although usually what they do is call first and ask where you are going to.

I've absolutely had times where I've had them refuse either after I got in the car, or they don't unlock the doors until I tell them.
This implies, to me, that there is significant raw sewage being dumped into the Thames upstream of London. That is, in a word, disgusting. Get your shit together, UK. Quite literally.
Has no shooter etc been linked to tiktok usage? I assume it’s just because tiktok is newer and it has a more specific demographic
Despite not being on other social networks, simply by being on github so long I've been subversively included in a social network. I think it was always poised as a social network, but with the featureset at the time I did not perceive it that way, so it felt okay, but now increasingly it doesnt. The gloss is turned up so high we've lost focus of the code
They’ve made multiple movies/series about WeWork. Where is the movie in Uber??? Take my money! Show me the Kalanick!
I still like Perl as a single-developer language, because of its freedom of expression. However, this is also why it is not that a great language for teams. As I see it, the decline of Perl isn't so much for the language being "bad", but for how the industry has changed, especially when it comes to how projects are generally handled.
It would be awfully useful to know what the baseline from which the 5 & 17 fewer reductions are based on.
I use gists for this task (https://gist.github.com/)

It would be nice to have something like what you describe that can authenticate via email though for more confidential things.
I need a plumber. And I don't care what plumbers in Vietnam charge, because I need a plumber here. And if everyone I know made twice as much money, we'd still need plumbers, maybe even more so, and we'd just pay more for them.
Fascinating.

I wonder what the equivalent headline would be today. Which hardware or software technologies are currently blasting away, but if you look at the cutting edge, are actually obsolescent?

I'm going to get buried for this but, even though I have been a JavaScript programmer for many years, in the software side I think it's JavaScript, and even further a few years after that, web browsers.

I see web assembly as a compelling target for many types of applications on the backend, or blockchain etc.

I think that _could_ also eventually translate into momentum for standards for i/o devices for web assembly.
By and large, the problem is unfortunately the reverse.

If you have resources, your government ends up either an corrupt, nepotistic authoritarian hellhole or a corrupt, nepotistic socialist paradise (until the oil/gold/diamonds/gas run out, at which point it becomes a corrupt, nepotistic authoritarian hellhole)

Most countries have the problem of corrupt, nepotistic governments that look after the insiders at the expense of the rest of the population - subsidies for their mates, tariffs on overseas imports the help your friend but screw an industry, etc. The simplest way of avoiding the most destructive consequences of bad governance is often to just remove the government from the equation.
Back when we only had TV, we weren't sharing videos of ourselves twerking, crying, and doing illegal, controversial, or questionable things as children with the entire world... Things are different now in many ways.

This drive to post personal content to the entire world (in order to be popular) is pretty harmful, lasts potentially forever, and can be devastating to reputation for children and even adults in years ahead...
Ubisoft seems like an outlier on Steam. The way many of their games just launch UPlay, which then does its own downloading and ownership check is very strange and awkward.
Cut down the scope as much as possible to get the core functionality working

Originally a lot of my ideas were standard SaaS websites but I later realized the core functionalities that I wanted to build can be accomplished by simpler things such as userscripts or electron apps
Utility shutoffs are a big one.
Many great generals avoid battle, because their goal is to prevail in the war - they seek strategic rather than tactical victories. Roman general Fabius, for example, led Hannibal on a dance around Italy (and away from Rome) but every time Hannibal got close Fabian would march his army into the hills, where Hannibal's superweapons (war elephants) were useless.

This greatly irritated Fabian's compatriot, Varro. When he was given command of Rome's legions he marched boldly into battle, with 80,00 men. 70,000 were slaughtered and most of the rest taken prisoner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae
Does art cease being art because the artist created plates and created 100 prints before it wears out? Is that less art than a painting?
not sure where you are checking by most indicators they aren’t . and we have plenty evidence porn is harmful
Appreciate the driver insight here! We often play off “the good old days” before tech took over industry X.

Nice to know history isn’t all roses and sugar in reality.
Loans are assets. It’s free valuation.
I can get a car loan for 0%-5% interest rate

In most market I feel you can safely earn at least an ~8% return if you invest fairly conservatively.

Why would I forego an 3-8% return on my money by paying cash for an asset that's just going to depreciate?
First, we still need plumbers, painters, and tradesmen of all sorts.

Second, not everyone is equipped to earn a PhD by significantly advancing our knowledge in a useful field. In fact, the majority of people are not.

Third, the demand for degrees — due to the idea that everyone must go to college, and misguided subsidies to make that happen — already far exceeds what colleges are able to supply while still being achievable by the majority of their customer base.

The result has been degree inflation, cost inflation, and a huge number of useless workers with useless degrees unable to pay off their crippling college debt.
His job was to sell 8 but computers so that may have influenced his viewpoint or what he wanted to say on the record.
Sorry but I don't see how Carlsen is model level at all. He's nearly actively ugly how his jaw sticks out like he missed his orthognathic surgery as a child.
>Even though the Linksys WRT3200ACM was released back in 2016, it’s still a solid and well-supported option for OpenWrt – unless WiFi is your primary requirement.

>Since the Panda PAU09 N600 works out of the box, the only thing needed to enable the WiFi access point is a working hostapd configuration: [75+ lines of config for something that "works out of the box"]

>One pitfall here is that Docker likes to mess around with iptables, leading to WiFi clients being unable to communicate with the internal network. In order to fix this, another drop-in configuration is needed:

>Update: Because I simply couldn’t get it working with this rule, that was suggested in the Docker docs in first place, I eventually gave up and used a jackhammer to fix it: [...]

I see wifi is still a shitshow in the libre world. Running entirely free software is a laudable goal but the above sums up why it's never going to be mainstream. All that fuckery for previous generation .11ac?

No thanks, I have a zillion other more important things to do with my time.
For the same reason that if an open-source project hasn't had any github commits in a fee months, people on HN call it "abandoned". A new logo signals to people that the company is active, their products are being updated and evolved, and they're not stuck in the past. Imagine if a company reverted back to the logo you remember from your childhood. You'd think they were regressing backward also.
I don't think GP was speaking about the technique but rather alluding to the uselessness of the mandates.
My first read was that there were more open source repositories on Github for each new type of car, and I was like, "actually that sounds awesome"
I went through buying a house a couple of years ago and it was really true. That my credit score got dinged because I paid off my loan early was a real head scratcher, but it was on the credit reports I pulled.

Ya, not having income is a blocker, but you also need to take care of your credit score. I basically had no credit score because I was out of country for 11 years (and..unlike new immigrants, they don't give Americans a benefit of the doubt here), so credit cards and an auto loan was really important when I came back (not having had a car for 11 years made my insurance premium go up, also).
Yowch. The old "stagger your drive replacements, stagger your batches" thing might not be quite as outdated as we'd like to think...
This is by Bari Weiss
Maybe the humans themselves are just an iterative algorithmic carrousel (several algorithms rotating along a main loop),

Doesn't it feel like that when you see your day to day routine? Like a fancy hamster, just running through biggers wheels.

Maybe GPT-3 is quite similar to us, an outcome of a internal processes inherent to some of the internal human baseline algorithms. Like art, statues maybe. A modern monument.

It could be like The David, but a little more interactive, quite similar to humans in every aspect.

Alive, self-conscious? maybe not, but that's not bad at all.

It could be something new, even more interesting than a quite repetive life-form (mostly boring), fully subsumed in life long repetitive loops.
This is comparing to generic drugs from one specific company, based on the notion that the specific company is capable of providing a cheaper generic drug in a situation most favorable to the drug maker (a bulk purchase). It doesn’t actually go into if the generic will actually be a suitable replacement for each patient. For people with complex health needs, like the over 65+ folks on Medicare, it makes total sense to be on precise, non-generic drugs. I’ve known plenty of people with complex health needs that cannot take the generic, for whatever reason. Hell, I know people with needs like ADHD (a single diagnosis, not a complex health case) that cannot take a generic version.
Luckily Europe has endless resource of renewable energy. And that is peat. Finnish peat fields alone surpass oil reserves of Norway. Also money-vice. Gas generation from peat is simple process.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas: possible rolling blackouts from 2pm – 8pm
Mostly less stable governance, often with less protection of private rights (though obviously most of these countries are just poorer as well).

If you have no assets, it’s also far easier to make money in a rich country and move back rich, rather than the reverse.
Note: this is less than one half of one percent of total Medicare spending.
I tried to use cash to purchase a new Honda CR-V from the dealership in 2019 but they wouldn't let me. When I spoke with the manager, he explained that the dealership made more money off the loan than they did from selling the vehicle. Maybe things have changed since then though.