skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming you’re looking for physical HDD advice. Most opt for a b-tree with the data stored in a scan optimal extent - large enough that the data can be read with a sizable disk spindle efficiency (shoot for 75%+, which today equates to around 16MB on random reads), while maintaining the metadata in a higher cache tier. Typically RAM or SSD. Recently Log Structure Merge arrangements have become more common, but the decision to use one over the other is based upon the read/write ratio, with LSM being favored by write heavy workloads.

I’d recommend reading up on WAFL filesystem design. ARIES. WAL.
The real race horses of this space today are on HPC file systems. Check out the Top 500 file systems. The new Chinese file systems have some impressive metrics, beating the Intel ones significantly. I believe the Chinese ones are taking advantage of RocksDB (LSM).

At a higher level, the outer diameter of an HDD is significantly faster than the inner diameter for sequential reads/writes. The LBA addressing starts at the outer diameter. Typically systems will maintain access metrics on their data, and relocate the hotter data to the Outer, and colder data to the Inner.

While accessing the drive, optimizing for reads, using an adaptive prefetch algorithm will maintain sequential disk access patterns without wasting the time of the head dwelling over data that will be discarded.

If you have a battery backed write back cache, you now have the luxury of optimizing writes to the disk. To maintain optimal disk write performance, you’ll want to maintain your writes in an ordered manner, and present them to the disk with a high queue depth. Ideally you will take advantage of HDD queues, and send latency sensitive reads to a higher priority queue, or head of queue.
Additionally, with write back cache, you have the opportunity to enable write cache on the HDD. Each HDD vendor/model have slightly different write cache handling mechanism, so I’d recommend testing.

I’ve been impressed with PingCap’s use of some of the new algorithms. Check out their YouTube architecture overview talks which provide details on exactly which papers/algorithms they’re using.

If your goal is to use Shingled Magnetic Recording drives, these optimizations become even more complex, with best practices not yet fully defined.
i cant access the article, anyone know where they got their funding?
> a criminal charge is "these guys are threats to society and should be thrown in jail". And the latter has a very high bar to meet for corporations, because corporations rarely have the capacity or mental state to actually meet that bar[0].

Let me get this straight. Corporations should require a higher bar, because they have no ethical sense?!
That doesn't rule out DKIM, which only requires the `From:` header's domain to list a pubkey and the email to include a DKIM signature from a matching private key.
SPF is the one that regulates which hosts a domain's outbound SMTP servers are on.
This is my conundrum: what gives me happiness to motivate me to make money is having the liberty and luxury of time for my creative interests. Part of the reason having a day job with health insurance likely got me more guitars than playing the bar scenes for the same 15 years.

If I was independently wealthy - basically same monthly income or debt free then part time fun gigs - I’d be amazingly productive, not waste away on the couch with Netflips.
Not in the list of the best, doesn't mean that the airlines aren't 'good' or 'good enough' though. Does America need to be in the list of best things for everything?

It's just an airline. A lot of these airlines from other countries operate a lot of flights in the US, who cares about their country of origin?
It's not, its because it reached end of life, and the date we could've done something about it was ten years ago.

I'm as pro-nuclear as you can be, since at least 2017 but especially since i've read about it, in 2019, but let's not blame nuclear failure on "green energy" when it's not. Nuclear tech have been abandonned by the general public and the politician since the 90s, and especailly after fuckushima, was faded by the society.

It has nothing to do with green energy. Maybe Greepeace is at fault, but this is probably one of the most corrupt environmentalist NGO anyway, so i doubt serious people listen to them.
Maybe you're being hyperbolic, but the catastrophic engine separations in the Stratocruiser were due to propeller failures.

http://enginehistory.org/Propellers/B377Props.pdf
Fed Finally Vanquishes Stocks from Asset Allocation Throne
No, the primary IP address cannot have its MAC address changed.
Scary, especially in light of the coming winter. This does seem to be ignoring some positives though - German putting some nuclear shutdowns on hold and France is looking like they might get their fleet back on track by beginning 2023 after they sorted out their corrosion issues. UK just fasttracked fracking (sigh) and sizewell C nuclear plant seems to have gotten the go ahead.

Quite unfortunate that the writeup is on twitter though. To fix their broken UX you need threadreader and that in turn is broken too: "The table below"...nope no table. Videos broken too. So now you get to cross reference two broken platforms just to figure out what someone is trying to say. sigh...
Interesting! Thanks for the clarification.
Pretty sure it's mask ROM. IBM indicated the only upgrade means was to replace the ROM card.
> Unfortunately the components just degraded really quickly for me...

How long in months was “really quickly”?
Joe Rogan's Podcasts Analyzed via AssemblyAI, HuggingFace, and Steamship
Stack:

* Transcription: AssemblyAI

* Language AI: OneAI, AssemblyAI, and Huggingface

* Database: Steamship

* Deployment: Steamship

* UI: Streamlit
> The answer is because it's easier to attend to something that has a deadline, than to do something limitless and unstructured. It can also be more daunting to attend to the things we feel confident doing, than to the things we are unsure about.

This is very similar to John Cleese’s lecture on creativity -

“Because, as we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.

And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do, than to start on big things that we're not so sure about.”

It’s a good talk if you’ve never seen it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
They're easier.

I tried to get rid of scrolling through social media, and it led me to do more chores and training.

My flat is clean and I get fitter, but I didn't read more books of finish more projects.

These routines don't require much thinking, so they're as easy as scrolling and end up to be the go-to tasks I do when I want to avoid wasting time on my smartphone.

But it would be fantastic if I could frame more productive work in a way that makes them easier. I just don't know how...
176 children between the age of 4 and 7. So I guess some of them also believe in fairies, think that the light in the fridge is controlled by a tiny man living in the door and don't know how electricity gets to the house.

This is stupid.
Wow. This is great. How do you guys know these extra features of HN? Is there a site map of HN? So maybe one can explore the other pages that are not linked from anywhere on the homepage.
> I’d be surprised if Garmin were all that much better at putting GPS in a tiny housing than Apple.

Given Garmin’s long, long history as a manufacturer of (often very small) GPS devices, I personally wouldn’t be.

(I also know for a fact they do mapping better. This summer I was in the South of Italy and only Garmin accurately distinguished between small public roads and long private driveways while both Google and Apple royally messed this up.)
That’s why to use the 3-2-1 method[0].

[0]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
What have I ignored and what have I taken uncharitably? I’m asking for specific laws that you would enact that would help the situation. You have not provided any and you’re now attempting to derail this conversation.

Every scenario you’ve presented Ive disproven. Remember this was started when it was said that food truck operators can become felons.

Further what site guidelines have I violated?

I want specific laws you’d enact to resolve the issues as you see them. Can you provide them or not?
Saying “zero humans left alive is a likely future” suggests you are basing your perspective based on fear and ideology and not science. Science of course tells us that climate change will risk higher sea levels, increased erratic weather, etc. but this is so far away from your preposterous notion of zero humans left alive. This is the danger of politicizing science.
That’s a pretty bold statement. The null hypothesis is that there’s nothing in the body that cannot in principle be emulated in silico to whatever precision necessary.
> You cannot trust any cloud provider to properly maintain your data

I trust any cloud provider a lot more than my lazy self.

> and external storage is becoming cheaper every year

Sure, but electricity isn't. At the current price in the UK it seems like running a small NAS would be 10 GBP per month, more than most online storage solutions.

That is without counting the initial investment of buying the NAS, the cost of maintaining it (if I have to spend an hour a month on maintenance, that's $1000+ a year of time wasted), the footprint of the NAS, the noise, the heat, etc.
Like Slashdot.Org?
I'm not sure that "Bloom himself" had much to do with v2. It was published two years after he passed away.
Doesn't mean he wasn't somehow involved, but he wasn't listed as an author of the v2. I could be wrong though.

Also schools weren't harping on the layer of the taxonomy named Understand - that's just not a good measurable verb to use in an objective.
When choosing a verb, you ask yourself "How will you know they Understand? What will it look like?"
It was my understanding Amazon does in fact do this for most instance types, it's why the amount of RAM and other resources scales with CPU core count.

There are exceptions though in the very small "burstable" etc instances, like the micro etc.

EDIT: Seems I am wrong.

"Each vCPU is a thread of a CPU core, except for T2 instances and instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors."

From: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...
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> with no way of knowing what's changed

You can just hash them locally or use AI to identify modifications.
I don’t understand framing the evils of the modern world as “capitalism” when every other economic system exhibits the same evils. Like what’s the proposed alternative? Communism? A fascist command economy? Every alternative is measurably worse on even this metric.
My Apple Watch seems to get things wrong differently depending on the shape of my route. I often train on a track that I exactly know the lap distance for, and if I do a 10 mile run the watch will usually tell me that I’ve run about 9.5 miles. Which I kinda presume is due to the location sampling rate cutting distance off the oval shaped track. But every marathon I’ve run with the watch, it puts the full distance about .5 to .25 miles before the finish line.
If someone believes that climate change is an existential threat this would seem to be a utilitarian no brainer.
My family has five phones, one 13 mini, and the other four were all Sept 2018 releases (iPhone X variants). They all work fine and I’ve been able to easily replace batteries on the four-year old phones, a side button (drop damage) and a screen (drop damage).

None of those repairs were difficult nor expensive (the side button was fiddly to get to, but still easy, just tedious).

I expect we’ll get close to 6 years from the iPhone X’s. That feels like it will be more than competitive with the typical Android phone.
Just had a friend have the work done an hour out of Sacramento for the price I mentioned. I’m aware of the California tax, but $15k wildly deviates from the median unless your utility is requiring a service entrance upgrade under concrete.
Also can't serve advertisements if the end user is offline.. even if the app otherwise requires no Internet connection (e.g. solitaire, sudoku, etc)

There's no financial incentive to add extra error handling code in this case.
Even without opening the command prompt, the mere presence of drive letters are a particularly embarrassing relict from MS-DOS.
> This is an indication that Google underestimates the value of data stored by users.

That becomes apparent if you ever had any issue with a google product. There's no way to resolve issues outside of canned answers from "AI" systems and public forums.
CIA doctor hit by Havana syndrome
I was thinking also of this:

> If life coaches make their living by pushing us to do what we know we ought to, for a Puritan, the whole community of brethren was the coach.

Has this person even heard of "The Scarlet Letter"? Or know anything about Puritans using stocks, whips or brands on sinners? Or mutilating them by cutting off ears or boring holes in their tongues.

When I think of "life coach" I don't envision someone branding me or cutting off an ear if I don't meet this weeks "life goal"
I tried to find some statistics on this hit came up empty.

Here’s a recent example.

https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2022/09/09/lawsui...
Guile is severely lacking in manpower, people on the mailing list have talked about possibly improving the situation; but it's difficult to get any major movement going.
Extreme wealth inequality is much easier to solve than Global Warming. It's a political problem , global warming requires politics + policing + enforcement + technical inventions + technical application.

I'll worry about climate change once extreme wealth inequality has been solved. It's pointless to worry about it beforehand given how they are on a completely different scale of complexity. You gotta crawl before you can walk. If you can't even crawl then there is no point worrying about your gait looks like.
Great Twitter thread on how weird our time keeping systems are:

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1572260363764400129
Nope. Sure doesn’t appear to be chronological or newest order.
This is more to play around and show off themes/plugins or test different PHP versions.

The database also runs on the client in wasm (sqlite).

But it's utterly useless if you want to put a blog online as it only runs locally in the browser and nobody else will see the posts.
How on earth can you predict that rust will be stable in 20 years?
The poor and vulnerable people in places like Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, etc. receive generous welfare and assistance from the government to not starve and freeze to death. They'll be fine.

In Eastern Europe, not so much.
https://mycelial.com/

It is another distributed SQLite database solution, with emphasis on making an offline-first focus.
Catching up with the light that left Earth 2000 years ago may be a challenge... you'll have to hurry!

Unless someone has conveniently left a large mirror 1000 light-years away, so you can stay home and watch the reflection?
It would be useful to look outside the US for both the opportunities as well as the limitations. I was recently downvoted for defending cars (EVs) and I was talking from a european perspective where public transport is very developed. Nevertheless there are limitations and always will be.
At the same time, it's interesting to consider whether the CFC ban would have been politically possible today. I honestly don't know, but it seems likely it would have been turned into a bludgeon.
Draw out the connection a little more. You'll need to write a full paragraph to explain yourself.

Everything I'm exposed to in my daily life is an artificial environment mediated by fossil fuels. All my food comes from an artificial environment mediated by fossil fuels. Running out of fossil fuels would be (will be, really) a catastrophe.

How do you think the environment figures in to this? Or are you using a definition of 'environment' that includes the artificial bits that humans constructed? In which case, sure. Everything is the environment so all problems affect it. But the so-called climate crisis is still not a top priority.
Even then, how would the database state be shared between workers? It's a local sqlite so there is just one in-process instance of it.
At least one user on that thread is reporting it’s fixed. It’ll be interesting to see if all do.
Love this! I hadn't seen it before. A year or two ago I gave my personal website a similar brutalist style, but it's frankly a lot more hacked-together than this because I didn't use some of these clever CSS tricks. Maybe time to refactor...

(Site is my username dot com if you're curious)
I wonder why Hacker News even needs links to popular news media sources, which already can be easily found elsewhere.
> In case you're tempted to fall for this rough classification of modern sins and a revival of old ones, think again

Or, do a basic google search on Puritans and their punishments ...
We are a telecom services provider - SMS and SIP-based telephony - and moved everything to Arm, without a hitch.
Backblaze B2.
Well, you have control over the direction it tips. That's the idea behind top heavy being more nimble.

That said, you have more experience than me: I don't regularly run with 30kg nor walk with 45kg. I'll try your way one day.
The future tense seems better here. This will (almost certainly) be available in C++ 23.

In the context of Chromium, this slide deck, that means in about 2026.

So if you're starting a three year degree next week, and you already know Google will hire you for the Chromium team straight after because you're the perfect person for that, you won't be writing std::print() calls in that codebase yet 'cos that's too early.
2.96 exists, at least in the RedHat world.

$ rpm -qi gcc
Name : gcc Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 2.96 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 110 Build Date: Fri 12 Apr 2002 10:30:47 PM UTC
Install date: Thu 20 Jan 2011 03:34:36 AM UTC Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com
Group : Development/Languages Source RPM: gcc-2.96-110.src.rpm
Size : 8389509 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://gcc.gnu.org
Summary : The GNU cc and gcc C compilers.
Description :
The gcc package includes the cc and gcc GNU compilers for compiling C
code.
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
Hmm. I highly recommend a three way redundancy as others have mentioned. Put a copy in the cloud or store your harddisks somewhere else.
The real solution, which decades from now will be the eventual common-place, but no one dares to imaging the possibility today is that when languages deprecate a feature, the compilers deliver code-mods that migrate your code-base perfectly.

But people are afraid of going that route because of the bad press around Python 2 / 3. We need a new generation of developers that don't remember that.

Today, there's already static-code analysis tools that automatically migrate entire code-bases to use new language constructs. The technology is there. It's the people who lack imagination to make it happen.

Once it becomes commonplace, a large % of developers will care very little if some obscure feature of C is dropped. They'll just enjoy having a more streamlined language with all the legacy crap gone.
That's why "Environmentalism without Class Struggle is gardening" (Chico Mendes)
The author seems to be suggesting that people are spending time on routine tasks that are somehow not mandatory. All routine tasks are mandatory. That's why they become routine, become a part of a person's routine, and have the highest possible priority. Most of them relate to survival and hygiene because we have not yet escaped biology. Others are things like filing taxes which are made mandatory by our society.

What is the author suggesting people do? Be wealthy enough to pay someone else to take care of those tasks when possible? Suffer by leaving those tasks un-done, or done to a less than satisfactory level? What tasks exactly is the author de-prioritizing?
I refuse to play monopoly because it’s a horrible game.
Possibly but I was stuck using windows at the time.
No, it's you choosing to cherry-pick it because I said "fucking". Grow up.
R12 and R22 phaseouts cost money, required some equipment changes, stocking of multiple refrigerants, all of which represent varying levels of sacrifice to solve the problem.
Some people seem to get offended when others have fun the ‘wrong’ way.
Why not both.

A backup in one place isn't a backup. The 3, 2, 1 rule and all.
The "why" and the "how" here: https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/wordpress-in-the-browser/
> What is your procedure for distinguishing between neuroticism and awareness? Accurately calibrated concern and ignorance?

I'm not a psychologist, but AFAIK neuroticism is a personality trait. So my hypothesis would be that people for people who score high on that trait and maybe have some other problem in life, diving too deep into what's going wrong in the world could lead to anxiety, helplessness and depression.

And yeah, if such a person then walks into conspiracy theory territory, we'd have "heightened irrational neuroticism".

On the other hand, if someone is mentally stable and well informed, has a positive outlook on the future and adopts a vegan/ vegetarian diet for good reasons, that's great.
This is great for the "I want a CMS but don't want to run a server" crowd.

Oftentimes I run some CMS in some private network and then deploy a static build somewhere else
Tabs versus spaces is an interesting one. I was 100% convinced spaces were the way to go. But then ~1.5 yrs ago made a lang with tabs and it was a lot easier to work with in a spreadsheet IDE interface. I'm in the midst of a big refactor of one of my upstream libraries so that I could at least make it an easy thing to switch to tabs if they are indeed better.
If you break this down into "light" and "darkness" and define darkness as just the absence of any light you can see where the depression comes from. Think of a lantern in a dark room. You are in the center of the room (the star below) the half way point between the lantern and the end of the room. So any step you take toward the positive direction, you are now surrounded with MORE darkness.

+
/ [+3]
/ [+2]
/ [+1]
*
\ [-1]
\ [-2]
\ [-3]
-

i.e. start caring about animals and that's great, that's positive, but woah, at +1 you have more darkness now than at the zero point.

Matias explains this well at 8:06 mark:

https://vimeo.com/664874546
However, the environmental constraints change and the amount of scientific knowledge also changes(and hopefully improves) over time.

Therefore the heuristics turned into rule book will inevitably become harmful eventually.

Also keep in mind that the rulebooks did not produce anything close to any ideal personal outcome. They always produced the ideal societal outcome that would preserve the existing structure of society. If said structure meant you were inherently harmed, your personal ideal was subordinated to that.
I think that already exists. You get some base amount with hookup fee and the rest you pay extra for
My friend relies on his implausibility detector quite a lot. He never takes care to calibrate it though. It’s leading to a rift in our friendship.
Ask HN: Xcode users – how do you make it more usable?
I’ve come from JS in VSCode (with loads of extensions) to Swift in Xcode.
In XCTest, I miss the red and green diffs between expected output and actual output.
In Xcode itself, I miss the ability to perform code refactoring easily (extracting code to new files etc - more than just extracting to new functions).
I also miss linting / prettier.

What tools and plugins for Xcode do you all use to make developing Swift in Xcode faster and easier? General Xcode hints and tips welcome.