skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had the same happen to me with Toshiba MicroSD cards. I ended up returning them.

I also bought a Transcend 128GB USB stick, which i unfortunately did not return (yet). I have communicated with Transcend support and they said it was an issue with partitioning and filesystems - which is wrong, because the tools i use show the capacity at a lower level. They kept stubbornly repeating these statements.

I may end up returning it which shouldn't be a problem even after almost 2 years because the defect has been there since the beginning.

Here's what diskutil has to say about it:

% diskutil info /dev/disk4
Device Identifier: disk4
Device Node: /dev/disk4
Whole: Yes
Part of Whole: disk4
Device / Media Name: Transcend 128GB

Disk Size: 123.7 GB (123718336512 Bytes) (exactly 241637376 512-Byte-Units)
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes

For comparison, i get this for a Lexar 32GB USB stick:

Disk Size: 32.0 GB (32008830976 Bytes) (exactly 62517248 512-Byte-Units)

You can clearly see that more than 4GB are missing on the Transcend 128GB stick. It should be around 119.2GiB (128GB) but it is 115.2GiB (123.7GB)
They've clearly learned from politicians in naming things so that the unaware and easily convinced will think it's a good thing from the name alone.
I absolutely love the concept behind the site.

I'd like to submit all the sites that disable copy/paste on their password entry, especially if they have stringent password content policy.

My randomly generated 10 word passphrase is more secure than your password policy, but I don't want to type it in by hand, you donkey.
Ah, Church of England problem.
* already existing clients

* already existing SOPs and MOPs. Way easier to integrate or copy something that works than building it from scratch

* already existing systems -- ordering gear is still weeks or months out for us, plus no need to engineer or setup a new system as above, way easier to integrate or copy than starting from zero (in a business sense, anyway)

* lingering brand name recognition
That's totally true that you're playing a City Planner so you might end up exposed to concepts usually only a City Planner really cares about. However my impression (and I might be wrong!) was that Americans were more aware of these things than those of us in UK. Like I literally thought that the light/medium/heavy residential, commercial and industrial "zones" were just a thing Will Wright came up with to make SimCity work (though I know in reality it's more complex than painting a little square block blue, green or yellow)

I read the rest of your comment and nodded along approvingly, but I don't have anything else to add other than that I also liked fiddling with existing towns and cities in these games. In SC2k I really loved the scenarios, free-form citybuilding is definitely good but to have a specific constraint and a goal was a really fun challenge.
While I think you are right along I'd like to offer a different perspective of what's happening. A lot of what you've said is true-- candidates have changed over time, people are caring less about the company, and the general conscience has definitely shifted towards lesser company loyalty.

We, especially Hacker News's readers, workers in tech and tech-adjacent roles are very much a small percentage. If you've read older books, especially autobiographies, biographies, and journal-like books you'll likely see that the following:

> This whole trend of optimising everything to the max without caring for people is going to create an employee base that is completely disillusioned about their role or prospects or what's their best strategy for life.

already existed even before during the great industrial revolution. It's very much related to human nature I think. On another point:

> Any company needs some people who care about what they do. But these are in shorter and shorter supply every year, it seems.

Surprisingly, there ARE a lot of people like this, the biggest problem I've found (having been in the hiring seat) is their competence and skills do not match what the companies need and are looking for. This is also correlated to why outsourcing has become such a big part of large companies today. Not just the cost benefits. Unfortunately, a lot of companies don't invest into training and investment and likely if they already are, they cannot get employees to commit because of wages (financials for both the company and employee).

> It is no way to have a productive employee base.

We are still largely far away from this and likely why cities will still be playing a big part of greater economic change even amidst remote work. I even might venture to write that we have yet to truly see one besides what currently exists akin to Silicon Valley, MIC, and adjacent employee bases.

Anyway, I lost my train of thought now. Feel free to discuss
ME Bank is the best:

- Must be all numerals.

- Be 7 to 20 digits.

- Cannot have the same number three times in a row.

- Cannot have four ascending or descending numbers.

- Cannot have the same number appear more than five times.

- Cannot have pairs next to each other if the second pair is one number higher.

- Cannot be the same as 8 previous ones.

It would be fun to work out mathematically how much they're limiting the password space with these rules. I'm also not sure what "Cannot have pairs next to each other if the second pair is one number higher"; is that referring to consecutive pairs of numbers, or pairs of consecutive numbers, e.g. 7788 vs 7889.
What is the performance problem?
Cars are one of the few industries Japan still holds the crown of, but if past track records in other industries are anything to go by I expect that a changing of the crown is only a matter of time.

Anyone who is familiar with computing history should know of Japan's practically disasterous fall from grace in nearly everything related to the computer industry. I've also seen that exact cycle of falling play out countless times in their other industries.

I'm sick and tired of Japan continuing to lose and eat dirt, I would be ecstatic to be proven wrong. But Japan just doesn't have the mindset to (re)win customers in the 21st century.
Show HN: Live feed of jobs opened in last 24 hours
I've been following the recent layoffs and it made me curious how quickly companies would publish new job openings post-layoffs.

For example, Twilio 2 days ago announced they were laying off 1000+ people, and here they are opening a staff software engineering role a day later. I can't draw any reasonable conclusions, but I thought it was interesting data.
>If you asked the person in the street "should companies be held to absolutely strict truth in advertising for quantitative claims", once you explained what it meant (!), I'd warrant the vast majority would agree, yes they should.

This overestimates support because you're vague on what the policy actually is, so everyone thinks that it's going to be their preferred variant being implemented. See: the brexit vote which got a majority vote for "yes", but in reality the none of the individual proposals got majority approval.
My take on this and other stories like this is that you really should never ever use a company like Facebook as a vital component of your business. There have been so many stories about this, just browse Reddit forums and other sources for experiences with Facebook's Kafkaesque advertising manager, for example. It can work for years and suddenly your account is cancelled. It's fine to use such companies and their services as one leg of a business with many legs, but never rely on them solely.

This is just a matter of common sense. The same applies to Amazon, Youtube, etc. Even if they're fine now they can and will unilaterally change their conditions and employ algorithms with false positives. Your business can become the victim of algorithmic discrimination and plain old bugs anytime.
How do you learn about the ones you don't know exist? The first thing it asks is what I want to do, and I couldn't seem to get past it before getting tired of talking to a bot.

Me: I'm a software engineer.

GPT: That's great! What kind of career change are you looking for?

Me: Something that pays more

GPT: That's understandable. What kind of industry do you think would be suitable for your skills and experience?

Me: I'm not sure. What are my options?

GPT: There are a lot of options for you. You could look into industries such as finance, healthcare, technology, or even consulting. Each industry has its own unique job positions and opportunities that might be suitable for your skillset. What kind of job position do you think would best suit your experience?

Me: Well, technology of course

GPT: Great! There are a lot of different job positions in the technology industry that you can pursue. Some of these include software engineer, web developer, systems analyst, and more. Do any of these sound interesting to you?

Me: I'm already a software engineer...
one side is speculative vapourware tokens, the other side is prayers and hoping you're not flagged by algos.
I do have friends who do a lot of ban dodging. Even things like signing up for accounts and then selling API keys to banned people. It's less work than donating blood and pays better.

LLMs are probably a new tool in spam, astroturfing, sexual harassment, etc, so this might just be an excessive response to something recent.
" four fiber optic cables were severed by an excavator on Tuesday."

An excavator. One.

That's not diversity. Diversity would require cables cuts at two separate sites.
Right. I'm not even sure the interconnect is IP-based. It could very well be a legacy X.25 network. A quick check of Wikipedia says that X.25 is still used in the aviation industry. Routing X.25 over 4G probably involves adding a layer to encapsulate in IP.
They also support compelled speech in 2023, when it comes to pronouns, etc.

https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1449545013684146176
It looks mobile optimized to me on iPhone.
So is it a good or a bad change?
> HN isn't much better. I've emailed them asking for my data to be removed, as is my right as an EU citizen and dang simply refused saying it wouldn't be fair to other users. As if that overrides the law.

Please read this in good faith: If you want your data gone, why do you keep sending more (posting)? Is it about retention time?
Also continuous or intermittent audio status indicators.
It's always so baffling to see people on HN not understanding that the sole purpose of business is to make money, lots of money.

It's always so baffling to see people on HN parrot this line as if it was fact or truth, when it's far from either.

Yes, there are lots of businesses that exist only to make money. But there are millions more businesses that exist for other reasons. And, no, I'm not talking about non-profits. Kelloggs, for example, was founded to improve the nutrition of people at a health retreat.

The whole moustache-twirling moneybag-hoarding billionaire thing used to be a cartoon, because it was so misaligned with the reality of society. But in the Silicon Valley bubble, this has been turned on its head and elevated into some desirable goal, as if the only way to judge a company's value is by dollar signs. It is not.

(It wasn't even Silicon Valley that started this flip. It goes back to the 80's, as parodied by the character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street.)
Android has the NDK now, it can run native code with only tiny headers of java to launch it, plus ART compiles the Java anyway as I understand it.

Regular Linux could be tweaked, but I think it would be way easier to start on Android and add all the missing stuff you want for a server, than to start on Linux.

Regular Linux still uses a bit more power, and they don't have any kind of container+sandbox that works quite as well, on account of the very tiny userland API that requires containerized things to bring all their own libraries, making them like 800MB a lot of the time, can't really run more than a few apps in 16GB of cheap slow flash like that.
The telephone, the internet, and crypto share one thing in common. Each technology improves on the next in terms of its ability to facilitate fraud.
As such, I was initially a crypto skeptic, but after studying some of the more interesting crypto projects, I have come to realization world must evolve
Bitcoin maybe, but what's wrong with USDC? It's US-based, regulated and audited. Is this a case of guilt by association?
They are consistently at the top of reliability rankings. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...
Oh, and if you have a maximum password length, I don't trust you with my data.
Thats a good point, its not about convincing yourself you've done _everything_ you could. Theres almost always the nuclear option of quitting. But its about choosing your battles appropriately and giving it "enough" of an effort to say that you gave it an honest attempt. Hopefully then circle back and try again next time. Assuming an org that isn't completely off the deep end of toxicity and politics, things do get slightly easier over time as people respect that you are fighting for the right things and are generally correct in your analyses.
It's risk avoidance. It's easier to screw over some small-time operations and deal with the consequences then it is to be exposed to a potentially malicious one. I'm sure there's a formula where anytime suspicious activity is detected it's weighed against the size of the business. If it's small, they shoot first and ask questions later.

It's not always an option for small businesses but the best mitigation is to sign an agreement. Instead of just using the standard pricing agreement on the front page, ask for a contract with few years commitment and maybe a modest discount on fees in exchange. They now have a legal obligation to allow your business to function.
This reads as if someone was throwing darts at the board with random rules.
Yep. I have a storage server, also with a 5750GE, 128GB ECC memory, 40Gbps (QSFP+, passive DAC), EIGHT 16TB drives off a modern HBA, two 2TB NVME SSDs (mirrored) as a cache/ingest tier, a SATA DOM to boot off of, and a BMC (which alone draws 3.2W).

132TB raw storage organized into 16TB and 64TB ZFS volumes, plus the 2TB ingest/cache tier. Can saturate 40Gbps up and down.

43-44W at the lowest idle state, about 55W with just the 16TB volume spinning. Though with all the memory and the cache/ingest tier, it doesn’t spin up often, and often it’s mostly spinning up just the two-disk volume. So most of the time it is completely silent — not even a fan whirr.

And that provides the bulk storage and backups (plus pushing offsite) to the PCs, a six-node Pi cluster, and those 9W virtualization servers by providing iSCSI volumes. Also lets any new device PXE boot, and if a device has no OS and no configuration, the hardware will self-install, then self-configure after the first boot. A lot of work, but very valuable experience that paid off at the day job.

A lot of VERY deliberate hardware choices to drive power consumption that low, and probably two weeks measuring power consumption of everything. Something people fail to realize that 10GbE Ethernet is rather power hungry if you’re using copper, but if you’re using fiber or (ideally) passive DACs, you can eke out lower latency, better performance, and drive power consumption into the ground. It matters when you consider you pay for that power consumption for 10GbE copper at every single RJ-45 port in the chain between the devices. You can pay < 10W for all the devices in a 40Gbps connection (four ports) with passive DAC, but with copper it’s more like 40-42W.
Good thing Europe doesn't produce cars any more.
If a company was truly worried about paying unemployment, they would never bake that into an employment contract. If they aren’t worried about paying unemployment and they want you to RTO, it doesn’t matter what your contract says about your location.

That is a basically a feel good for you, it would mean literally nothing to the company.
You’re a genuine non-profit so you’re eligible for special PayPal rates amongst other things. Do you have an account manager or is this a PayPal account you set up self-service with no prior PayPal human interaction?

Unfortunately, while posting on HN can resolve Stripe issues, it doesn’t help with PayPal. You need to find a human advocate within PayPal (especially difficult if you’re not already connected with any humans there now that you’ve been suspended).

Start planning for this to not be resolved, because it rarely is. Financial account shutdowns are very rarely reversed. Start making alternate arrangements, preferably with a company that can allocate a human to you who understands and supports your use-case(s) — financial service relationships should always have humans involved if they’re integral to your business. I’d recommend contacting Wise (formerly TransferWise) to see if they can meet your future needs.
I really hope the password isn't being sprintf'd into a buffer somewhere...
This doesn’t add up. Be suspicious without further information.
No, this really happens. Even if you repartition them they will not have the usable bytes they are advertised with.
> I dare say that "actual storage less" (and other equivalent phrases) are now past the point of covering for the discrepancy.

I think the original reason for that disclaimer was due to filesystem formatting, not for the GB -> GiB discrepancy or providing less usable bytes on the block device than advertised.
today i had to update my work password

to do so, requires 2fa push to okta

the push didnt come through

so i opted to insert the code manually

i opened the app to get the code but it was showing the push notification from before

i click yes to authorise, it gives an error and reloads back to same notification

i click back manually to try and get the code, it shows the code for a millisecond but then goes back to notification

restart app few times, no luck

i will try tomorrow again to update my password
On the contrary, the cloud is mostly CO2 and soot, trace phosgene (breaks down faster than vinyl chloride), and HCL (reacts with everything; is probably fully absorbed into the environment right now).

There is a recommendation to clean the soot and vacuum, but otherwise no major alerts regarding the cloud of burn products that I've seen. They burned it on purpose to turn the vinyl chloride and other chemicals on the train into less harmful byproducts.
+1 on this, I'd add if you ever do try to do it in a non-technical industry/business and use your technology/software experience as a means to create more efficiency for the business.
The most absurd example is the US government TreasuryDirect[1]. No password input box to provide your password. You have to use an absurd virtual keyboard abomination. ProTip: Go into developer tools and just paste your password into the value attribute for the password form field.

[1] https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/treasurydirect/
Pretty sure Jern og Metall (Metallurgy union) would not have accepted competition at that workplace at that time. :)

> I massively prefer the work-life balance and workers protections high union participation has created in Norway over the UK

Sure, though it comes at a pretty significant cost in terms of efficiency and of the ability of the more productive part of the workforce to generate income for themselves.

Over time, this kind of setup tends to lead to loss of competitiveness, often resulting in fewer jobs / layoffs, lower salaries or to requiring the rest of society to pay subsidies, trade barriers and/or for consumers to pay more for their products.

Case in point would be Norwegian agricultural unions.

And maybe worst of all, a society dominated by unions may cause some of the most productive citizens to seek better opportunities abroad ;)
Don't think it'd be about deep focus, but definitely spiritual.
A very large number of STEM PhDs are entirely publicly funded, with no relationship with or obligation to industry whatsoever. In my discipline, close to 100% of PhD students are sponsored through normal research grants and it pays for the entirety of their graduate education.
https://commission.europa.eu/live-work-travel-eu/consumer-ri...

I think that it would be normal to go to your national regulator first if that's an option.
When the power dynamic is one where one party is a multibillion corporation with tens of thousands of employees and the other is an individual, I would almost in every case call the individual the victim.

Simply put every business will behave in this manner eventually if not subjugated by monetary penalty of state regulation.

That or you can scurry around every year to a new provider as the company you're doing business with is bought up by monopoly movers in the market leaving an ever decreasing pool of choices.
What issues are you having? I've tested on mobile.
Do you use it through an app, or web browser? I had the same situation. Always from safari on iOS.
You should use a local-storage password manager, like KeePass.
He's likely subject to California law, though. California residents might get a different answer to such a request.

https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

> Right to delete: You can request that businesses delete personal information they collected from you and tell their service providers to do the same, subject to certain exceptions (such as if the business is legally required to keep the information).
Good idea, maybe a future idea
The way to stop this practice is to return them rightaway.

Unfortunately most consumers aren't smart enough to even notice it.
Your forgetting that his baby - Stack Overflow - allows you to use multiple logins for the same account, so you wouldn't depend on say Facebook.
If Linode on Akamai follows the Slicehost on Rackspace model, the product will only last 3 years or so.
Right, x86-64 offers eight extra register names† (r8 through r15). If you choose to go from x86-without-frame-pointer to x86-64-with-frame-pointer you gained 7 register names which is huge.

This makes the case where that one extra register name makes all the difference much rarer, arguably turning it from "I demand a compiler flag" to "Let's just hand-write the machine code for this one very special routine if our performance data suggests it's worth it".

† Internally a modern CPU has far more actual register, to enable a feature called "register renaming". But we can only talk about them using their canonical names, and x86-64 adds eight more of those.
good luck with your next endeavour
and Hacker News creates a special system for keeping Musk news off the front page.

in general probably a good idea, because it's always something with that guy and his fanbois, but this has implications and it's weird that lesser-voted stuff is on the front page.
Ron Amadeo is so relentlessly critical of Google I've stopped reading his articles. Overall I find coverage on Ars to be pretty good but he really seems to have an axe to grind.
Depends on how independent you want to be at that point. If your account is frozen for the purposes of persecuting you then there's a non-zero chance you may want to go to ground or get out of the country entirely. Being able to grab a bag containing the necessities and a wad of cash is very important in that scenario.
It’s best not to overthink these things. Consider human history: Why are royals better than commoners?

The hierarchy is a human creation, that governs a human world. If biological consciousness is at the top, then that’s just the way it is. The hierarchy isn’t built on justifications. It’s designed that way by those who wield power. A change requires the challenger to seize power.
It's definitely noticeable beyond a certain number. I like to say it's partly a human nature thing. There's some theory/law/term for this where the minority (whether negative or positive) ends up operating as majority and influencing business decisions.
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