skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also seen people say that and to instead use "blkdiscard -sz" but that also does not write to specific blocks. I still can not find a definitive source saying that shred is not able to write to specific blocks on a SSD and it is not clear to me that wear leveling actually prevents shred from writing to specific blocks. But I agree that I have seen people say this repeatedly on StackExchange, ServerFault and Reddit.

Either way one should also use filesystem and file level encryption for sensitive files and encrypt sensitive attributes inside databases. Swap must also be encrypted as it may contain sensitive data. Datacenter bad-drive mishaps do happen as in not shredding the physical drive as a few government and military agencies have recently been embarrassed by.

I do agree with pinkorchid that ultimately drives should be destroyed physically.
great article, but:

"And the natural Tesla-owners among the wealthy progressive set are less prepared to overlook Mr Musk’s libertarian antics at Twitter"

banning journalists and parodies he doesnt like == libertarian, got it!
It sucks.

In my case I got a dysfunctional cell phone LCD assembly and seller said I could either ship it back (would cost like half the cost I bought it for) or they would refund me 40% of what I paid. The system to contact the seller has technical measures to prevent you from conversing in Chinese even though that is obviously what the seller is most comfortable with.

I think it's fine if you're either buying nonelectronics or buying in bulk but I will not use it for purchasing electronics again.
I think this is an IT Crowd reference ;-)
Neat. Really struggling to justify any sort of upgrade my side to be honest though. 3700x is still plenty fast. Maybe when 4K gaming is a bit more mainstream…
> Now that self driving cars are many decades away

So when I see these driverless cars in my neighborhood with no one in the driver's seat, is that just my imagination?
But just think of using a VPN, then submitting the ID of a teacher ...
I am growing really frustrated with the legal options.
Buying DVDs / Blurays is not an option.
Delivering the media takes days, the DVD menus are a real pain to deal with, binge watching is a chore due to constantly having to change disks. Old TV series often cost a small fortune when the DVD box set for one season costs almost 50€ and there are 9 seasons.
Streaming was fine for a few years, but it's beginning to erode really fast.
I'm definitely not going to pay for a bazillion subsciptions.
If it's not an in-house production, you can never rely on a specific show or movie being available just because it was yesterday.
And the quality of in-house productions is constantly going down.
But should you happen to actually like that new Netflix (or whatever) show, the chance that they'll leave you hanging after 2 seasons before any story arc came to conclusion is really high.
So yeah, I'm growing increasingly frustrated and piracy is beginning to look really attractive again.
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No, I'm saying that my dad gave me this exact lecture in 2009 but in reverse—he said that the problem with the right is that they play nice while the liberals will do anything it takes to take power and accomplish their goals. Literally the exact same thing that you're saying but in reverse.

I think what it actually is is that there are factions within each group who match your description and it is hard to see the faction in your own group because you agree with them.
Would be interesting to see how contracts in HFT are going to change. From what I heard, when some specialists (e.g. hardware folks) are changing jobs, then the firm is likely to lose an "edge" as competitors will have access to similar technology/knowledge. Garden leave helps to mitigate this effect.

If non-competes are banned, then TCs are (probably) going to rise even more.
This is like arguing water is dangerous to drink as it contains hydrogen, which explodes.
You must have missed part of the huge hype bubble when Musk claimed that Teslas with FSD would be "appreciating assets" because owners would be able to rent them out as robotaxis when not using them. He said they should be worth up to $200k because of that, and also this p2p robotaxi fleet would make Uber and all taxis obsolete. If FSD was actually full self-driving, then the idea makes a lot of sense.

Yes, Tesla customers and investors believed it because of the personality cult of Musk, but there was an actual (albeit wrong and likely deceptive) business proposition that gave investors a reason to value it as being worth more than all the other auto makers put together. That proposition depended entirely on FSD being only X years away and that Tesla would produce the best FSD product.

https://electrek.co/2019/07/16/tesla-cars-worth-100k-200k-fu...
So we don't necessarily have to believe her?
Because it does not cause harm. Alcohol, tobacco, cars, and guns etc do.
I've had to show my ID to the bouncer, but he never wrote down my info.
Neither had I. Probably the right decision to terminate it, likely loses several million dollars per year or more.
Imagine the 9950x, that can be a good reason to want to upgrade them.

I'm on a 3900x and 2070 Super. I mostly reduced using the desktop when I got the M1 and M1 Pro devices. I now use it remotely from another room in the house.
I'll hold out despite the temptations, and only update in 2-3 more years from now.
This is significantly different than the Texas abortion law. That law allowed anyone in Texas to sue if they were aware of an abortion, essentially deputizing the entire populace as bounty hunters.

If this law only allows those who actually can argue that they suffered damages (i.e. minors or their parents) to sue, than it's not really much different than other civil tort laws.
Honestly I think this all is Melinda's doing. If he hadn't got married to her he'd still be a raging piece of shit.
Pretty much the same, although I'll not get spotify, I can still buy albums DRM free and know my streaming provider won't then remove them.

Games, always, although I only have a console now, but PS Plus I found to be a very good service, I rarely buy full price titles unless it's something exceptional, otherwise I just wait for something on sale.

I have netflix, and that was good for a while, But now with all the streaming options with exclusives, I can't be bothered to juggle my subscriptions. I tried apple TV for a bit as I got a free offer, but they had about 2 shows I wanted to watch and despite the subscription, it's still seemed to be pushing me to "buy" things (I think being allowed to use the term "Buy" from any of these services is downright fraud if they can remove it anytime they want)

plus the one I seem to consistently want is HBO Max which isn't even available outside the US
Children need to learn to be gritty if they are not born with it.

Overly generalizing here. All things in life is either instantly gratifying but in long term harmful or initially grinding but in long term joyful. How are children supposed to know something will be fun 10 years, 20 years down the road? They either pick up from parent/peers/school or us parent imposed our version of "later it will be cool" on them.
Currently running a research lab and this fits with my anecdotal experience of what ideas and approaches are considered fundable by the NIH and NSF.
They should be legal, but expensive. If it is so valuable to companies that their workers not leave to work for competitors, they should be required to pay 100% salary for the non-compete period.
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Nice link.

The first step is informing citizens when their streets will be cleared. In dense, downtown neighborhoods, most people park on the street and their cars need to move. No parking signs get installed block by block and notifications go out through the city-maintained snow removal app, InfoNeige (equivalent to InfoSnow in English). Municipal lots are opened up with free parking, and as one final warning, tow trucks blare a siren before hauling away any outstanding vehicles.

NYC is a long way away from this I think.
None; never heard it before.
They'd hire for a different role and "transfer" the person.
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There is so so much content out there that I'm content just to watch the little bit that's available via Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. I don't watch multiple hours per day though.
We are already seeing SSDs with over double the read speed and ~70% more write speed. You don't see how that could make a difference? Even with 128GB of RAM on a workstation there are a lot of data sets that do not fit.
I think primarily it refers to the cache being physically located above the CPU die, yes.

It's worth noting that AMD also uses FinFET transistors, which are physically 3-D [0, 1] (compared to MOSFET transistors, which are planar / 2-D).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_field-effect_transistor

[1]: https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/amd-demonstrates-2016j...
Micah Lerner who publishes a popular Systems Papers newsletter used it. Now he's on substack.

https://twitter.com/micahlerner/status/1608249534676885504
I am intrigued by the V60 cross country, but it seems that it's one step behind the various XC (40, 60, 90), in terms of hybrid engine, etc.
The US develops more therapies, drugs, and treatments than the entire EU despite having a fraction of the population.

Europe benefits from the US doing that for them and then paying low prices that don't cover the costs of drug R&D.
This has been my experience. One employer tried. With the help of a labor attorney, I told them that if they wanted to enforce the clause then I would voluntarily withdraw my acceptance of a new job offer and then avail myself of the courts.

Burned a bridge, of course, but it took them about 20 minutes to decide I wasn't worth the hassle.
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>Like it or not, the chances of winning an election highly correlate with advertising budgets,

This is just BS/lies at the local level.

Moneyed PACs aren't fighting it out over councilor, selectman and planner positions for random suburbs.

Pretty much all the money these candidate dispense is either self raised or comes from an official political party who don't really doll out meaningful amounts to these elections
This is a level-headed point, and I appreciate that you acknowledge the changing nature of porn, which some commenters in the thread deny, saying that it has "always been there". Are the effects on society visible? Maybe yes. How do we know that it is unrelated to the epidemics in depression, social isolation, reduction in physical/social activity of young adults, etc.

Maybe it is completely unrelated. But before pushing something so radical and artificial on everyone (as you say, possible 24/7 binge on porn) shouldn't the burden of proof that it is not harmful be on those pushing it?

Also, significant number of people report porn-addiction and decreased personal quality of life due to it. If this is the self-assessment of so many people, how can it be dismissed?

The track record of other types of superstimulation at a society level (e.g. sugary food, drugs) is not good.
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I know it's personal preference but I think a good number of people don't know they will be fine without 15 buttons on the steering wheel or 10 different buttons for climate control. I haven't missed any of that moving to a Model 3.
Bentonville's core is vastly different from the surrounding suburb/exurb/metro area which is mostly 0.5+ acre lots built in confined subdivisions connected via 4-8 lane arterial stroads - typical American car style suburban planning. The damage is done, retrofitting this development pattern to suit cycling over F150 throughput is just not something that will be achievable in the Bentonville, or the greater US.

I live in Kansas City and there is a valiant effort happening here to put in meaningful cycling infrastructure. There are bollard protected lanes from downtown out to the inner ring suburbs, additionally we have a residential grid that would allow safe cycling around town, but the new lanes are going completely unused. Visit the KC reddit and look at the vitriol being spewed - 'why are my tax dollars being wasted on this', 'i cant park', 'it ruins business'... These are the people coming from our outer ring suburbs where cycling is just not an option - they can't even fathom a place without cars.
it's too much work for entertainment, that's the whole problem. We as users, shouldn't be doing anything clever to get our content. I have 5 streaming services, and sometimes I hope from one to another, searching for a movie to find out that no one of them have it. Then going to google and find out that the movie is hosted on a different streaming service. No fun.
In the age of Onlyfans and most stars starting to directly represent themselves, this seems a difficult stance to defend without a paternalistic world view.

Should we also ban sports cars, alcohol and trashy romance novels?
Do you feel the same way about other forms of child sexual abuse? Like for instance if a kid gets abused only one time is that about the equivalent in your mind to them eating one piece of chocolate on the scale of things which can have long term effects on their life?
Contrast the present situation with the cold war. The society union may have sometimes gotten western parts which theyd use for various purposes - most famously tractor factory equipment and Mainframes. The same was true for us acquisition of titanium. However the idea that either military would rely on the other blocks parts would have been insane. Trade was not normalized, and tracking the majority of shipments between the blocks was a tractable problem. These jelly bean parts have huge supply chains that just happen to be extremely efficient.

I wonder how close we are to a world where global conflict becomes impractical simply due to a lack of parts.
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I do the same thing as the parent commenter, I pay for service, but will move from one service to another based on content and what I've watched.

Funny that the proliferation of streaming services has just decreased the duration of my subscription to any one of them.
I think Maryland does this?
First of all, I'm not ok with incest in principle. However, they stated that they are talking about incest between adults. Nothing to do with abusing children.
Nepotism can provide an alternative explanation for prisoner exchange even if the actual task was literally busywork
Tesla's range advantage exists primarily in advertising. In real world tests it ranges from barely higher to moderately lower to equivalent competitors.
Thank you! But if you read this word, what can it mean? Are there any associations with identifying data leaks?
Matlab was honestly my foray into more advanced programming, coming into it with engineering. It was refreshing and so cool to see my programs visually. I do miss it.
The form factor of a motorbike has been around and more affordable than a car for a century now. I don't think it's the type of engine that makes the majority of people in the developed world prefer to spend substantially more money on vehicles which are considerably more stable and crash resistant, enclosed from the weather and with room for passengers and cargo. If they get e-bikes, they tend to get them as well which might reduce electricity use but requires even more batteries.

And I say that as someone that's managed 18 years of adult life without owning a car or motorised bike living in a country with one of the densest (but still entirely unsuitable for most long distance journeys) rail networks around...
This is a pointless distinction. All car companies are tech companies.
>Apparently valuable enough to do a prisoner exchange for.

You don't do prisoner exchanges because of the valuable contributions of that agent, you do prisoner exchanges to ensure future contributions by other agents.

>I also doubt the quality of the optics in Russian satellites.

They're just fine. What kind of quality do you think they need to hit a power plant with a missile? Most of their missiles aren't that precise anyway.

There's only an extremely limited set of circumstances where drone footage of power infrastructure could be useful.
They aren't supposed to store the ID. Instead just a "has_verified=true" sort of flag.
Our system is setup so that the government - even elected via a democratic process - can't trample over certain rights.
Lol @ this being an FTC proposal. Whats next, OSHA limiting your speech at work?
Even if the market can remain irrational for a while, in the end it very much remains driven by expectations of growth and revenue.

"tech" as it's called benefits from a non-linear scale factor: serving one more person does not directly correlate to a static increase in cost, it's more derivative in nature (cost increases onefold with each order of magnitude). Add to that globalisation for free. That's how you can expect more growth and revenue from a "tech" company than from traditional industries. Service has an almost 1:1 relationship, manufacturing is kind of in the middle, where you benefit from scale but still need to purchase matter, and time from people to build stuff.

In that way tesla is not a tech company. To build an additional tesla you need more people and more robots. You need to purchase steel, lithium, leather, etc. You need to ship that Tesla. Growth doesn't come to them at a derivative cost.

As an investor you might judge that they might have better software, or better cars, and ride a wave of electrification that other manufacturers don't, which justified a higher price because their potential for growth is higher. That's not entirely true anymore, everyone else is producing electric cars now, at prices that are often cheaper, so their advantage is not that big anymore.
Data Exfiltration and Betrayal? "If I sign up for this service, will my ID be Leaked?"

Based on "WikiLeaks", perhaps your brand is News Leaks based in Indonesia?
For the first 6 months I basically didn't worry too much about diet, except getting more protein and working extremely hard on my two workouts (which has since expanded to 3 workouts a week).

What happened was I put on a ton of muscle, and actually lost some weight... in the end I was 12lbs lighter, which doesn't seem like a lot but with the amount of muscle is EXTREMELY noticeable.

For me, seeing my body get more stronger and more muscular was a revelation, it's really fun to see the growth in those areas, much more than suffering to get "skinny fat". So now I'm actually working 4-6 week stints of weight loss into my program where I target 2lbs of fat loss week, while keeping the training intensity high (with lower volume to combat fatigue) to maintain the muscle I have built. I'll follow that with 2-3 months of maybe a slight surplus in calories to build (which comes with some fat gain). A few cycles of that and I'll be golden :)

From a health span and longevity standpoint, having lean body muscle is absolutely crucial for aging, and it's something I plan to not stop doing, even if I fall off the nutrition wagon completely, I'll at least be increasing my bone density and muscle mass which will counteract a lot of whatever bad food habits I'm doing at the time.

The cool thing about muscle vs just pure weight loss, is that muscle isn't super hard to maintain once you have it. The amount of stimulus you need to keep the muscle, especially in an energy balance or surplus environment is surprisingly small it turns out. So to me it's much more rewarding than a crash diet that can be completely erased and then-some in a matter of months.

I wish I had this frame of mind a long time ago, it has personally helped me tremendously.
Ahh, my first PC after jumping ship from the Amiga like a filthy traitor, but having to accept facts that Commodore was dying and PC taking the market by storm. During the 386 days I honestly think it was still so immature for gaming that the Amiga still felt better, but by 486 and when I switched there was no longer a contest although PC was still unfriendlier for games with the AUTOEXEC.BAT/CONFIG.SYS and Conventional RAM acrobatics. It was funny, PC at this time felt like powerhouses but ancient at the same time, coming from the Amiga. Ancient powerhouses! It's like they had recently discovered 16 bit sound, like... what...

But anyway, I jumped on board with the 486 DX2/66 which was the bee's knees. After a year or two, I overclocked it to 80 MHz to run Duke Nukem 3D or Quake or whatever for a _very precious_ +5 fps or so because your framerate was often in the 20 fps range. Made a huge difference. So 20% clock speed was big! I even upgraded to DX4/100 during a weekend of tinkering with my high school friends for another +20% and at that point FPS games of the time ran pretty well indeed! As well as the recent Windows 3.11 of course which was starting to feel like nothing special! Damn that computer was really fast! I topped it off with a Soundblaster AWE32 and MIDI music sounded amazing too with its software soundbanks.

Following this I went to Pentium 133 MHz, and it feels like the world of computing changed less and less following that. Things got more convenient as the x86 architecture won rather than having a smorgasbord of viable home computing options, but also a little bit more boring.
The Planet of the Dogma Crusaders?

I can say that it was probably a lot less bad to see Phoebe Cates topless than Clint Eastwood killing a bunch of people when I was a kid.
Still, complaint argument parsing is an important and undervalued skill, POSIX or not.
their sales indicate otherwise
So why does Paramount+ feel like it was put together by attention-deficit badgers relative to YouTube? Just age of software and years spent on polish?

Because there's basic fit-and-finish crap in that player that drives me positively bananas (things like "Doesn't remember your close-captioning setting" and "Doesn't let you change the setting when ads are playing"). And that's disregarding the 1 out of 50 times it fails to do the Chromecast-dance and leaves the Chromecast or the mobile device in a wacky state requiring software restarts (to their credit: that's down from approximately 1 in 10, so I've seen improvement there).
Courts overturning regulations like that is exceedingly rare. The doctrine of chevron deference means that, in the absence of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, it is the prerogative of executive agencies to interpret their own mandate as they wish.
> Executive decrees or questionably legal actions of government agencies are fundamentally bad - but have become commonplace and a necessity of life since Congress is fundamentally broken.

Two wrongs don't make a right. Everyone involved should remember that the US is a federation of fifty states that share sovereignty with the federal government, and that nothing stops the various states from enacting their own noncompete bans in their better-functioning state legislatures. They can even do that in cooperation with other states, in order to accomplish the goal in a harmonious manner; see the Uniform Commercial Code for an example.

I don't see gridlock in Congress as an example of it being fundamentally broken. I see it working as intended, since only few matters have such broad agreement among the people in all fifty states that Congress should decide on it for the whole nation. In fact, the fewer things decided on in that fashion, the better for the country as a whole.
The Russians want to take land and kill Ukrainians en masse. Ukrainians insist on not giving up their homes and marching, hands bound, to the execution basements. When you say "push for a peace agreement" to finally achieve this vaunted Peace In Our Time, where do you propose to find middle ground? Which Ukrainian towns and cities are you okay to allow to be ethnically cleansed so that Dastardly Military Industrial Complex is left with fewer defence contracts?