skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't really talking about SMR though, just some protocols they had that are now being re-used. I'm talking about Zoned Namespace SSDs (ZNS).

Let's go back in time almost a decade. A bunch of smart people had figured out that the cumbersome Flash Translation Layer (FTL) on SSDs made it really hard to get expectable & consistent performance. They were building possible specs to try to directly access each flash block, to be able to fill them up as they saw fit & clear them out as they saw fit. They wanted direct access, with far less work juggling complex data-mappings done on the SSD itself. Two examples of Open Channel SSD works: https://openchannelssd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ http://lightnvm.io/

Note the huge banner on the second: "Zoned Namespace (ZNS) SSDs have replaced the work on OCSSDs, and is now a standardized interface." Everyone realized that the protocols we had for Zoned Storage were basically adequate to get us what we wanted. We'd just make a lot of 128kB or whatever sized zones on the SSD, and let people manage them themselves.

Currently this means opening blocks & then appending to them. There's been outstanding hope, in the future, that we might go further and allow more random write patterns, but still with the same contract of no over-writes (just clears).

That work seemed like it was ready to go in 2020 & 2021. SSDs were supposedly sampling/becoming available. https://blog.westerndigital.com/zns-ssd-ultrastar-dc-zn540-s... https://semiconductor.samsung.com/newsroom/news/samsung-intr... And that was reaffirmed again a year latter. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-and-western-digita...

But here we are in 2023 & there's still no Zoned Namespace SSDs (ZNS) one can purchase.
I've been teaching CS at the high school level for 15 years and the biggest pain point has been breaking kids out of the way they've been taught to approach learning. Since everything is so test focused, what they learn in most subjects is to get a decent grade they need to read, regurgitate and expand using a predefined set of keywords. Test questions are predictable and formulaic.

Then they get to CS where anything code based requires them to tackle a novel situation and to actually think things through logically, and they panic. They're not used to breaking down larger problems into sensible parts or taking those and creating new solutions. Basically, they don't understand how to iterate on their design and slowly suss out an answer. I usually spend the first months teaching Python and showing them the process of problem solving with code, walking through my thinking each time and how I'd use my resources to find what I need.

The only subject which comes close is math, and it's far more obvious what methods to apply and the steps are better defined.
Yup. Every time people talk about maximizing "engagement", they're talking about manufacturing addiction in users. The solution is the destruction of the business models that require addiction. Make technology to block ads or just straight up make them illegal. Make personal information a huge liability.
> everyone wants to be on the largest one

Nah, everyone wants to quickly discover what's happening, and it's made easier by going to the biggest. Discoverability is a problem that the fediverse has to solve without congregating to the same place
I appreciate your helping out a fellow user! but that's not the convention for Ask HNs - those are supposed to be text posts, not links, with a question being posed by the submitter. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
>I wonder if regulation is partly to blame:

You mean the regulatory burden that the EU single market was made to fix but yet still exists?
The Metaverse, Zuckerberg's tech obsession is oficially dead. ChatGPT killed it
Manna (2003)
I totally agree with this which is why I never talk to automated voice systems on the phone. I only press numbers and won't verbally communicate with a computer.
I have never watched his show but roughly understood it to be more of the kind of low-brow sensational fox-news stuff. I do belive he's a smart man though. I'm very interested to see the direction he goes with this, if he does something principled, or if it's just some tabloid news. I'd love to see an intelligent right wing opinion show, and I think he's up to the task, I don't know if it's the most profitable play though.
You had it right the first time! Submit the link, then submit your question as a comment in the thread. The title should be the article's original title.
Drats!
Companies are so capitalized nowadays that this doesn’t work.
Apple would have covered the screw up and blamed it on you, telling you it would be a great idea to buy a whole new laptop.

And it they would release a new and fixed version they would announced as if they had created a new form of life.
I absolutely agree. Calling such things Modern Authoritarian Practices is more descriptive but it’s simply not what caught on making the meaning less clear.

Calling internet censorship etc fascist is a natural evolution of things, but IMO somewhat dilutes the idea. Creating an out group and book burning are part of the playbook, but public spaces have always had some regulations.
Can't wait for the 12th gen beta firmware to finally be released, I've been holding off for the ~6 months its been in beta because it sounds like a failed install can brick 2 of your USB ports
Even after disabling crash reporting, auto-update, relays, discovery, etc, it will still connect to the internet. It's actually very difficult to make it behave.

The only solution is to blank a few URLs in the configuration for things that can't be disabled. Then at first sight it seems to work... But you check your firewall logs a few days later and what do you know? Some dropped connection attempts.

Still, there aren't many alternatives that work as well as SyncThing, so you gotta pick your battles...
Our datacenter at $dayjob retired our last spinning rust drive way back in 2017.
Backups are done over the wire to dedupe-enabled targets 600km away; dedupe restore times are shit unless you use all-SSD there as well.
What you've described is more complex than managing one app with feature flags.

And it's still undetermined whether Apple would be required to host your app on their App Store once you've decided to run your own store. Which means you would be losing a major distribution channel.
I don’t know what your network is like but the bloated web is still extremely fast for me
Fitnotes: Gym Workout Log
Many parents in the UK are very strict about knives and forks, to be fair. Usually in my ham-fisted experience in frustratingly inverse proportion to the likelihood of serving peas and other small vegetables and grains as opposed to easily tackled lumps of beige and gloopy-sauced beans.

And, in the UK and China and elsewhere, some parents are, evidently, decidedly not.
"The only downside is that there is no good iOS app."

That's a dealbreaker for iOS folks, though.

I hate the mission creep Dropbox has embraced, and would definitely consider something else, but I need access to my stuff on Windows, MacOS, and iOS. Anything that doesn't hit all three notes isn't a contender.
> And yea, on reflection, it probably wasn't, like, above-board to have kids working with live animals in school?

How will children learn to care for and appreciate animals if they don't interact with them? I think, rather than "not above-board", it's vital.
And if the LLM is the explainer, it can lie to us if 'needed'.
Hey Mike, I applied for a sde job. jieyu...@gmail.com
Taiwan Will Defend TSMC from US Bombing in the Event of a China War
AI and humans aren't the same thing. Even if we do anthropomorphize AI.
SEC’s EDGAR database has the filings available to everyone the moment they’re released. It will take you 5-10x longer to press F5 than it takes a bank/hedge fund to have a bot ingest the news and trade off of the new information. Even if you could ingest the information instantly, your orders will be slower than the people who are co-located within the same data center as the exchange, or the folks who set up private microwave relay networks between Chicago and NYC.
"The old American WASP culture that dominated the prestigious corners of the academy up until a generation or two ago was very big on honor codes and they were largely adhered to including for things like take home tests. Now it appears everybody, including the descendants of the people who used to take honor codes seriously, considers them to be for chumps and will take any angle that they can."

I think that's very romanticized. The high crust was always doing what it took to get ahead. If cheating was the best way to get ahead, they would do that. Them following honor codes is just self-serving propaganda. Nowadays more people are realizing how f...ed up the system is and cheat too.
That's the standard for drives that are at end of life, having exhausted their rated write endurance. Those aren't the drives anyone would use for a cold storage backup system. Drives that have only been written to a few times will retain data much longer.
Completely tangential, but Yangtze Memory/YMTC 232-layer NAND flash that was supposed to be used in iPhone 14 is on fire sale due to US import restrictions, to the point that some speculates that YMTC will be gone soon.

The point is, DRAM-less 2TB M.2 NVMe disks are at $80 right now in select non-US markets. This is mere ~5x HDD, and slow as 4Gbps on writes at worst conditions.
American Dynamism
One of the numerous other DAW's on the market? It's less about the cost, and more about the fact that it's a subscription.

If I had a subscription for every company that I own audio plugins from, I'd pull my hair out.
This surprised me. I talked recently with someone in the industry who says private jets are booming.

The global fleet of private jets has more than doubled in the last two decades, and more private flights were made last year than ever before, according to a thinktank report published on Monday. Greenhouse gas emissions from private aviation have increased by nearly a quarter since the pandemic, when flying of all types nearly ceased in many countries for an extended period.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/private-jet-sa...
As a fellow thinkpad user, i feel you.

However, given the sad state of modern thinkpads (soldered ram, nothing’s upgradeable etc etc) i think you (we?) should really reconsider if the trackpoint is worth the hassle.

I’m certainly reconsidering… I’m waiting for amd and 16” version reviews.
Eight things to know about LLMs – Swizec Teller
I don't think it has necessarily to do with burnout, or even with the more general notion "city-dwellers feel detached from nature so they romanticize it". Apart from that, there is also the entrepreneurial spirit (as well as the hacker spirit) of wanting to do things yourself, either because you think you can do better or because you want to decrease your reliance on others. And those are very well represented here.
Depends how your company is set up. Some people can't run tests locally and just push commits to have some magic run the tests online.
In fairness you can now run doom on a website so webpages have become more capable as they’ve become more bloated

http://browser-doom.io
The recent issues with Samsung's SSD's don't help with those feelings I'm sure. I have a WD-Black 1TB SSD in my system that I built in 2018 and I used it heavily all day long and I have not suffered any issues from the SSD. I also used a MacBook Pro from early 2013 and only recently sold it still going strong with it's SSD (proprietary). I read recently that some HDD were starting to have reliability problems after a few years.
In which I ask the machine to distinguish violet from purple
Spiral notebook also works well and neat seeing all your progress on all them pages.
I hate literring so much. Would be supportive of anything to curb it, up to and including Judge Dredd.
I do this too! Feels weird keeping code in sync between machines aside from git, but it works really well.
Jane Street, Jump Pull Back Crypto Trading over US Regulatory Uncertainty
NBOMe was super popular in the early 2010s. I'd be willing to bet that on my college campus 90+% of "LSD" was some sort of NBOMe during that time.

No idea what's going on nowadays but plenty of gray market LSD analogous will test positive as LSD (Al-LAD, Pro-LAD, Eth-LAD, 1P-LSD, idk what else is available now). I wouldn't be shocked if people get those without realizing.
I like the game itself - it feels well balanced when you are playing single-player mode with built-in cards only.

But creating your own cards is an INCREDIBLY frustrating experience. This is a robot I tried to create (sumbot):

"This robot's attack, speed, and health are the sum of the attacks, speeds, and healths respectively of all other robots in play."

It didn't understand the words: "are", "sum", "speeds", "healths", "respectively".

Very restrictive dictionary and grammar. It pissed me off at a deep level and I probably will step away from this game.

Maybe integrate with an LLM (such as GPT4) to accept card descriptions?

It seems I can set an arbitrary cost for my cards? How do you balance the game when it involves custom cards?

One strategy would be to give each player a deck consisting of their cards and the opponents cards. So if someone made a really imbalanced card, they would have a 50-50 chance of having it used on them.
One of my all time favorite apps got an update and I just wanted to share it with the community. I've been using it for 8 years and logged 1152 workouts as of today.

Just a heads up, it's only available on Android.
Iirc they’re supposed to start shipping to italy and spain this summer.
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Green tea, lemon juice, bit of salt, chilled gets me that hit. Not diet coke, specifically just sodas in general.
the opposite of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious friends
It’s Time to Build for America
And why aren't they doing it at 3am
I thought they dropped the suit 2 years ago... https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/11/apple-settles-law...
Amazon Is Being Flooded with Books Written Entirely by AI
I’m always amazed at the staff numbers for these kinds of projects. I’m glad things are going well for them, but that really seems like a high employee count for such a simple project.
This is such a big deal. People don't realize that AMLO is basically Mexican Bernie Sanders, but tougher and farther left. He's not some blind supporter of American Hegemony.
I agree that 100 is a good starting point, or even less.
DRAM-less 2 TB m.2 NVMe drives are <$80 in the US market as well https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CDM2HSS. There are a couple such drives in this price range, even from companies like Intel with their 670p.
I'm interested in these topics, but I don't speak German and absolutely hate camping. Burning Man is a big no for me because of the camping aspect alone. I don't want to have to step off a plane and figure out how to buy a bunch of camping equipment in another country, haul it to a rural park where it looks like there is only a limited bus service, and then figure out what to do with it before flying back. Is this event not for me? It's OK if not.
"This one time in band camp ..."

If I had a dollar for every scientific insight that was preceded by some pop culture meme, I feel like I would have at least a few dozen more dollars.
> And let's not get started on AirBnB and their "cleaning fees".

at least airbnb lets you see it in the total price now. used that heavily last time I was travelling
He totally did have it right the first time. :) I'm not sure the timing exactly but I think I posted, came back, & was like, oh no, it's wrong/bad now!
Unfortunately for Taiwan, it doesn't have the ability to prevent the U.S. from destroying TSMC's factories with: long range cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, PGMs, or special forces. But that wouldn't be necessary to deny China TSMC.

> Last year we reported on TSMC Chairman Mark Liu, who told interviewers that, “Nobody can control TSMC by force.” He reasoned(opens in new tab) that, “If you take a military force or invasion, you will render TSMC factories inoperable.” But, explosives wouldn’t be needed, according to Liu, as TSMC's fine-tuned operations would simply crumble as its real-time connections with the outside world evaporated. However, we should remember that China’s motives should not be measured against business rationality. Instead, its policies may be colored by a leader seeking glory, destiny, a legacy, and so on.
MySQL: Quotation Marks
Look at figure S21, "results don't meaningfully change" can be a result of an effect not existing, or a result of the authors failing to have sampled enough black people for results to meaningfully change.

While sample size is low, it sure looks to me like the black population stayed closer to the black confederates than the rest of the population.
It totally sounds like a random line employee. Partner Relations Manager just means they interface with external customers. Senior just means they probably aren’t a new grad. It’s a regular old line position.
Well, they also continued development.
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https://archive.ph/e3y64
Also, the village of Macondo where the story is set is something quite like the Garden of Eden out of the Book of Genesis, which might qualify as the oldest work of magical realism in existence.

https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Biblical-Allusions-In-Gabriel...
Everything is serial.
I highly recommend checking out rich to replace stackprinter and tqdm from the article (and do a lot more)

https://github.com/Textualize/rich
> In most applications IO is random, even if it's a log file.

I am all ears... how are log writes random?
Negative zero is very, very annoying because it means that many floating point identities flies out of the window. x + 0.0 != x, x * 0.0 != 0.0, etc. It makes it much harder for the compiler to optimize arithmetic. Thus, at least some SIMD circuits do not follow ieee754 to the letter because it would result in performance degradations.
> The agricultural system doesn't need to break down in order for us to realize it's deeply damaging and unsustainable. Ideally we'd realize this and change our ways before breaks down — that's why permaculture exists.

I'm pretty sure the systemic fix isn't going to be everyone having their own backyard plot.

> You're confusing permaculture with prepping.

Well, if you're talking about "98% of the US population would starve" that's absolutely prepper talk.
It's even worse than that since the experiment is based on appearance, but claims it's about race, and race is a social construct. The labels "black" and "white" in the western world are practically meaningless today. "Mixed-race" people are increasingly common, or at least recognized, and the phenotypes associated with "white" and "black" have always been present in people around the world without necessarily having much if any European or African ancestry.

EDIT: and similar to what another comment said, this ignores all other notions of "race" besides "black" and "not black"
Thanks & apologies. I was trying to respect the desire to leave it as an Ask HN, but where we are now seems like a better fit & you're of course right on the FAQ. Thanks again.
Heh, that didn't occur to me. Indeed, that's a cause for celebration!

If they had included such goals, though, I'd be likely to stop donating money to them.
I've been using it for a couple of years. One problem I have is that the idle cpu usage goes up to 10-20% after a while on my Mac. Drops back to ~1% after restarting the app
> No author has the right to prevent me from discussing a book with someone.

a lossy compression function is not "someone"
> Distance learning, due to covid, greatly exacerbated this.

It may have been a push, but it didn't create the desire of cheating. Those who cheat on code submissions will do that even if they are in person.
People willfully stuck in the mud/dragging us into tarpits: "we haven't budged."
And many Irish were enslaved in America as well.
> During the event, we introduce a version of GPT that has been trained on the complete works of Plato and other esoteric texts, and invite attendees to ask deep questions of Plato. Our AI generates new dialogues in response, offering a unique opportunity to explore the value of dialectic between AI and esoteric philosophy.

That is brilliant. It's so refreshing to hear of Neoplatonism and Hermetic Philosophy, not just for historical study but as a living stream of thought and inspiration. People seem to forget that the roots of science is magic.
That would be fantastic. Thunderbird's search is indeed pretty much worthless.
To me it's a dealbreaker for iOS. iPhones are just toys that don't get real work done.

I take a photo with with my phone and it's synced to my Linux desktop in 1-2 seconds.
> Updated infotainment is a feature of a new car.

The whole point of the android and iPhone car thingies is that is not the case. New features no longer require buy a new car, you just get the free software update with your phone, and get whatever new features your phone hardware supports. Maybe you eventually get to the point your phone can no longer provide all the features of the OS update, but if you really want the new features a new phone costs substantially less than a new phone (even the stupid expensive top end ones).

That's why everyone is going "wtf" about GM saying "we're punting android and iOS car APIs". It's not just that car companies don't have a good track record of software design and UI, it's that they don't have any motivation to improve any car after it has been sold.
The Inverse Cramer ETF (SJIM) would be right up your alley.
I would love to go the framework route, but they need to offer screen options. We are in the OLED age, why not offer the option?
To illustrate: In a DOS or terminal interface, a date field usually expected a certain format, made that format obvious in the UI, and you'd type the date with probably 6 keystrokes (numbers) (and it'd probably jump the focus right to the next field if you needed to enter more). And likewise, good software would find a reasonable way to fit everything possible on one screen.

With 'modern' web-based business software, most of them implement a date field with a pop-up mousing widget. You may or may not be "allowed" to type at all, or it may not be obvious how to, and you might need 47 mouse clicks and 15 seconds to enter a DOB in the 1970s. And screens are usually not laid carefully out at all, so even with small amounts of info on the screen, there may be plenty of whitespace, necessitating scrolling back and forth constantly.

A phone number field, likewise, may throw errors for using or not using the "expected" punctuation. Etc.

Stuff like that would be considered an absolute failure in the old text interfaces but it's the norm now that UIs are clunky and inefficient.

PS: None of this would be difficult in the web stack, it seems like the "UI/UX" designers (when they even exist) care exclusively about aesthetics.
One SDK combining all ML SDKs
Maybe Thunderbird will spin off a light, snappy little web browser with excellent quality-of-life features and a no-nonsense UI.
Only the very best drives hit >200 MB/s in 4k write (even with DRAM as cache) and for 4k mixed not even Optane drives get that high.
> Now it appears everybody, including the descendants of the people who used to take honor codes seriously,

Aka the ignorance of youth/rejection of experience.
I happily use Home Assistant + Sonoff ZigBee Bridge PRO + Zigbee2mqtt + other integrations. It is a fully offline vendor-independent solution.
Building communities is not easy. I have already experience organising local meetups and it takes time until people understand the value of being part of it. I do not have rush of growing the number of members, the idea is to start it simple and see how it goes.