skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I wonder if SSD firmware still needs to mature to the point..."

This is a major issue, I've had almost brand new SSDs fail catastrophically without warning. In one instance I'd gone to great trouble to create an organized data disk for archiving and it failed just as I was about to back it up, and nothing I did could get it to even recognize the SATA interface let alone give me access to the data.

This is most annoying, first, why does the interface have to also die when something goes wrong with the memory? Second, can't the firmware at least tell us what's wrong with the memory? (Given the interface is essentially the smallest part of the drive's real estate it's unlikely the bit that fails, similarly the firmware would be second smallest—even then, why isn't redundancy built into drives for these two vital components (two of each)?)

So what's going on? To maintain the integrity of our data we not only need these issues solved but also we need to know much more about the architecture of SSD drives.

As users, we ought to pay much more attention to the fact that much of this problem stems from the inordinate amount of secrecy SSD manufacturers adopt. We really do need some new manufacturer to come to market with a drive based on data integrity, its selling point would be 'it's open, here's what we do and here are our tools to help you recover your data'.

There's also the longevity problem that needs resolution, I've put SSD as backups into storage only to come back several years later to find the data missing.

As it is, the data on HDDs is ephemeral enough, but relying on a 'well' of electrons trapped in 'glass' is not only risky but almost foolhardy. If it had not been for the speed and convenience of SSDs we'd never have contemplated using them in the first instance.

Before we scrap HDDs we really do need much more reliable data storage than SSDs, especially so for archival data. It remains to be seen what eventuates, but whatever it is it should be based on a technology (physics) that's inherently reliable and stable, crystals for instance.
I just hope its proximity to an LED screen doesn't confound the response of the userbase to it. I think there's a lot of people, including myself, who would like an affordable e-paper screen that's at least A4 size and an OK refresh rate. But if users say that they "don't need an e-paper next to my monitor", hopefully Philips and similar companies don't draw the conclusion that people don't want e-paper.
Google Bard available everywhere but not in the EU
he's missing the point

Firstly, I don't write to think. Its too fucking slow. having had shit hand writing, I've never used the written word as a medium for working stuff out. I suspect a sizeable minority of people don't write to think.

However, When I do write, the words I use are deliberate and compact. This is because writing is laborious and slow.

The real risk is the death of nuance. At a gross scale the example is this:

"Forgive me father for I have sinned" is logically the same as "Sorry daddy I have been bad". However the nuance is fucking miles apart.

Unless you are good at proofreading (spoiler, its a skill and is never taught properly) you are going to have a bad time.
My experience has weirdly been the opposite.

I got a job at a crowded and noisy casino. During some big events it was so crowded I had to walk sideways through crowds in the slot machine area. And very loud due to slot machines and people talking, yelling, screaming if they win.

Eventually I realized as I conversed with my co-workers we didn't need to yell and I could hear them 10 feet away. Note we did also use CB radios too but no mic just open speakers blasting which added to the noise.

I found out it is called the Cocktail Party Effect. It seems to be a learned skill that comes with time but it isn't something you naturally have. Ironically I probably now have hearing damage too working in that loud environment.
If memory serves, I was once told by an IP lawyer that during the time period when you have a patent pending (regardless of merit) some unscrupulous types then leverage that face to juice their valuation to potential investors.
I hope this drives down ePaper prices.

Philips Monitor 24" + ePaper: $600

Mira/Waveshare ePaper only: $600

I've been looking for a RaspberryPI4/Linux and prices are crazy (Currently use a small $100 IPS display).
Eyemoo Color RLCD Epaper Tablet
They (the students) probably accepted it, and signed an informed consent.
If they do that for long enough though they go out of business. There is not really an equivalent to going out of business in government, or at least the bar is much higher for it to happen (I.e. violent revolution).
the more the web is controlled by the big tech, the more it will become a feudal space
Functional features slowly trickle in after many years.
I'm waiting for Quaderno 3nd gen this year (Have a Remarkable which is too small)
This is the effect of the censorship-industrial complex:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/censorship-industrial-co...
The model would work, it just needs to be properly implemented. I guess it's hard when YouTube etc. keeps people accustomed to not even rock bottom prices but completely free stuff.
A neat tip I learnt about for Kindle recently: you can email a PDF to your unique "send to Kindle" email address and put the subject line "Convert" and it will re-flow the document so it's resizable and easy to read on your PDF. Messes up images a bit sometimes, but so far it's been great for reading PDFs.
I wonder if there might be grounds for any users to sue based on the publishing of their personal data online and misrepresentation of the product and its security features.
Yea or you can just write C++ or Rust and honestly... See some advantages in doing so from a maintenance angle. Dynamicly typed languages have some pretty serious shortcomings. Scientists are smart people, they just need some training to learn to use those tools or to work with someone who can help them do it.
Yes, it sure is!

I recommend to listen to this podcast episode that gives some insight into the state of Ruby & Rails:

Don't sleep on Ruby & Rails (with Justin Searls)
https://changelog.com/podcast/521
So that it gets cached by the browser?
> Parts of it are fine, the Air Forces are likely fine too.

He didn't say parts of it, he said much of their military.

> But the ground forces has been completely destroyed

You've mentioned 35.5k-43.5k KIA losses for Russia up to March this year. Are you suggesting that these numbers comprise the complete ground forces?

> I like how you never answered my question of why Russia is using T62's if its ground forces aren't being devastated?.

I thought that was a loaded question you weren't expecting answers for. Is there anything in T62 that make it, in your opinion, unworthy on the battlefield? It's another piece of useful artillery equipment after all. If the things you say are true and they no longer produce it, why not using the existing stockpile that had been taking space and maintenance effort at past peace time? Is it the only model of tanks they've been using since, well, the time you claim their ground forces were completely destroyed?
sounds like you're avoiding paying creators and just making up 'rationales' for continuing to not support them. if you're unwilling to support creators and unwilling to participate in creator economy and creator platforms by watching ads - then don't participate in all parts of that creator ecosystem - don't watch their content. creators participate in it by putting their content out there. but you're selectively picking what's most beneficial to you, and watch the content while refusing to compensate creators for it in those ways, intended by the platforms, and by creators themselves, who intentionally enable monetization of their content. good for you, but the 'virtuousness' of 'not participating in platform racket' isn't checking out.
Fern leaves and cauliflower curds are not fractals (2012)
Since developers can just decide to rewrite a code base because Java is not a shiny new language.
Fetus
Ye there should be a 10 column table with:

Gallons of milk in my grocery store.

Lbs of potatoes of X species.

Feet of 2 by 4s to X spec.

sq inch of flat in Dallas.

Hours worked for a white collar clerk.

Etc. "Inflation adjusted" dollars are not quality adjusted really.

In the same way a economy class ticket is a worse experience than in the 90s, e.g. a chicken is a worse chicken too.
> Whether that's "purely capitalist" or not

It's not. It's got nothing to do with capitalism, pure or otherwise. In fact, I think there's a case for saying that the US state is both very large and highly invasive in people's lives both in, and outside, the USA. And that's a very un-capitalist trait.
I am an erstwhile PHP apologist. Having come back to PHP after a long time away (not really by choice), I can confirm that the language has improved significantly since PHP5. PSR was a huge success in a lot of ways. However there are still a few things that prevent it from being my language of choice.

First off, there is a surprising number of core behaviors you'd expect from a modern web application that there isn't a clear go-to for in the PHP world. Does anyone know of a well maintained library for publishing and consuming AMQP messages asynchronously?

PHP is still limited by living inside of the context of the request. This has an effect on certain types of application-layer caching, and makes for a poor model for backend scripting.

You also still need to interact with multiple layers of dependency management -- from os packages to pear packages to composer libraries. Configuration can be messy, and many projects still aren't containerized.

Finally, while the language has evolved, many of the projects that use it have not. The longer lived the PHP project, the more likely you are to encounter the exact paradigms that make it so hard to work with. Other languages have benefitted from a much greater percentage of their lifespan being supported by ecosystems that encouraged keeping your dependencies and the parts of your code that exercise them up to date.

That being said, it's great to see that there is a path for starting new projects with a modern framework. But I would have said the same thing about Zend or Symfony, and those seem to have fallen off for reasons I don't know.
By that definition of fraud (asking investors for cash repeatedly to not run out before turning a profit), many unicorn-status companies are fraud. It takes a long time to become profitable and I don’t see a problem if it’s not said that the company is.
There will be ways to circumvent this and if I need to write one myself.
Twitter's encrypted DMs are here – but only for verified users
How does it compare to Trufflehog?
Whether to use them or not. Petty endless debates over their benefits and drawbacks. Literarily for as long as i worked with php devs in all teams there was someone debating this pattern. As php is not strongly typed these can help with data type validation, can perform some logic when setting values, while others say it’s inefficient as thats an unnecessary method call, or that no logic should be performed in them. Some prefer to use magic functions instead of setters and getters others are against it because it makes the code difficult to maintain, some say they should only be used for data entities, others want to use them for every property, some prefer them because you can rename properties while maintaining external accessors, others against then because of consistency, some argue over what naming convention is best, some want to persist data in some type of storage when making updates, some attach observers to them and so on.

Bottom line is that the language being so flexible, unassuming, and swamped by needless features almost everything can be debated the point of exhaustion.

Python, being more straight to the point and not overkilling oop allows for more focus on doing what matters: business logic.
Google Registry introduces .zip TLD
I used to use a remarkable but these days I am happy with an iPad. It's not e-ink and I use it only for reading and annotating pdfs and taking notes.
However, the writing experience is great.
It sucks because I have many ideas for software which could use that pen/paper experience but i don't want to develop software for the closed iOS environment.
I wish there was a Linux tablet/distribution with good touch support and this level of pen/paper writing experience.
Honestly I still think it's the wrong tech for this use case. I would much rather see a come back of monochrome transflective displays.

Give me an A3 size, monochrome, 4k resolution, transflective LCD, at 30fps, that I can scroll through text naturally and read with external ambient light. That to me would be the perfect 'reading' 2nd monitor.

See the old 'Pixel Qi' displays as an example of this tech.
No.

If Telegram was a social media company with algorithmic content recommendation systems, you could argue it was penalizing one side in favor of the other one. If that was the case I'd agree with you but it's not the case. Telegram is a messaging app, like signal and whatsapp. Its users are the ones doing the influencing, not the company itself.

The election is already over anyway. This episode is just Lula and his people making good on his campaign promise to "regulate" the internet by censoring it.
I've got youtube premium, nebula, curiositystream and I subscribe to various youtubers on floatplane.

And I've got to be honest – youtube premium is not really worth it. All the other services have high-quality content, because they're designed from the ground up for paying users.
I love that this has more upvotes than things like, Google releasing full 3d models of the earth for public access.
We're at a crossroads–navigating the intersection of AI and creative writing
I posted something else a day ago more focused on the fivehundredwordsaday website, but I'm more interested in the topic of this post.
Actually we do e.g. in ISO TC22 SC31, as part of Automotive Ethernet.
I help with an open studio event. We maxed out last weekend at about 350 visitors per minute (about 30%Wordpress and 70%custom php symfony pages) on shared hosting. We have a cdn helping with images and such.
FWIW This is @whereistanya, writer of The Staff Engineer's Path.
Former Biden admin disinformation chief sues Fox News for defamation
To be fair, after the explanation, I see it as a reference to Trump's narcissism and insecurity, which could be understood as more than just a petty joke.
I could use it. It seems to be better than a normal phone for reading pdfs or for web browsing or games. But the price is insane.
Oh I use 'unminified' for that. Even though someone deliberately wrote minified code rather than automatically, so sometimes people disagree. Maybe 'ungolfed' is better.
It's all tradeoffs.
touche. Exactly so, just like how every political system going forward will be "democratic". /g
Yikes. Is there a static analysis tool for Ruby (along the lines of MyPy or PHP Stan) that could have caught this?

Also, out of curiosity, are all of those tests hand written, or is there some generation in there?
That too, but the existence of this page: https://docs.flutter.dev/data-and-backend/state-mgmt/options on the official site it's an indication that something's up with state management.

The existence of the Stateless vs Stateful widgets, the "class YourState extends State<>" classes, you can't put a stateful widget inside a stateless widget and a range of many other things that aren't at the top of my mind right now.

Of course that are valid reasons of all of this, of course there are "other better ways", but when a large part of your user base wrestles with this for years, it really doesn't matter how smart and correct you are because it is in fact a problem.
So real wage decrease, CEO probably gets a few Million increase anyway
Why would anyone want to use Twitter, of all things, for discreet communication?
Appreciate all the hard work, great release. Can't wait for wasm, macros, and inline classes. Macros will be such a game changer, avoiding so much boilerplate you have to go through today.
And the marketing website of many others. It’s not a joke. Pure real life.
There’s still time to turn this thread/site around! Let’s keep it positive! “I’m looking forward to having reached the bottom; only up from here!”
Also true of the shortening attention span
Simple, Marketing creates demand.

The vast majority of the population doesn't need the kind of computing beast they are using, but it is what gets sold to them. Everybody in society gets a phone and the vast majority of them are technologically illiterate, it's absurd to think that organic demand directs direction in the phone market.
TLDR: I think electricity costs of HDDs will come down rather than HDDs go away because the gap between flash and tape is so large on both performance and $/gb. Optane is a different story.

I can see drives switching to 5400RPM or even more complex stuff being developed like variable rate (like write out at one rate RPM but only go up to 15k RPM for reads when there’s sufficient traffic and park when idle) to conserve energy. Additionally, by looking at what data is cold and “defragging” in a distributed fashion, you could arrange for entire host machines attached to the disks to shut down. I would imagine that the electricity hog is the machine itself rather than HDDs idling with their heads parked and thus you’d see more savings that way.

Re Optane I agree not all Pareto frontier niches survive just because they exist but Optane is different here because it’s not a strict Pareto frontier. It’s more expensive, used more electricity, and has less capacity than SSDs. The introduction of NVMe made flash performance competitive enough with Optane that there wasn’t much to maneuver (https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-980-Pro-NVMe-P... - granted 3 year gap but I think Intel wasn’t necessarily able to sustain continued performance improvements and could only really improve $/GB). Intel also failed to invest SW to take advantage of its byte addressability by reducing RAM usage through XIP although not sure how big of a difference that would end up being.
Looking at US vacation times allowed for workers, you can't go away for the summer without working remotely.
Hard to pretend this is the actions of a few bad apples when the US still won’t join the International Criminal Court [1], going so far as to threaten retaliation if US officials are brought before an international tribunal [2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...

2: https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...
Ye well I agree that it has become cheaper to fly. I just don't think it is a 1:1 between the ticket price tag change and the value for me change.
Microsoft's org chart makes this pattern evident: https://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/2011.06.27_o...

(that's not the original source for that image, I can't remember where it came from originally)
It doesn't even seem to support DP chaining. Does that mean you need two available usb-c ports on the pc?
I agree it's possible to use C. Arguably C still lacking a better way of including files is a limitation of C as a language instead of only a complain on the preprocessor.
It would be interesting if we could create some sort of digital Suica Card, where someone can load their eSuica up and whenever they visit a website that's in on the plan they can view the website without ads, without needing to subscribe, and the site would automatically charge like 3 cents (or whatever) to their card.

Maybe Brave works like that, IDK, I don't use it, but I would like to see something like that in Firefox.
Sort of related, I was reading a biography about Ford and after a fire at their factory in 1910 or something, they rebuilt it with "fire walls". Fire walls! Of course our term is borrowed from history. I was surprised. :)
For about 18 months after WWSUL was published, you couldn't meet with a BBN sales rep without getting a copy pushed into your hands.
Sounds like a synonym for untrained unlicensed psychotherapy.

If you read around the malpractice that happens with regulated therapists that have oversight and reporting requirements, you will be deeply sceptical about the absolute weapons that sell themselves as "coaches" and such. It's a great way for scammer to access incredibly vulnerable people and create exploitative relationships. Please seek help through reputable medically endorsed regulated providers.
Apple does not support Draco Compression on USD [1] which still sucks & any glTF you are seeing was converted using one method or another. An interesting way to hackdoor open 3D immersive standards is this project using [2] App Kit.

And anyway this all might be moot if Apple announces support at WWDC June 4th with the xrOS

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/realitykit/validat...

[2] https://launch.variant3d.com/
Thank you. This was a great morning lul
The Executive Keeping Tesla Rolling Isn’t Elon Musk
> totalitarian democracy

I just don't see how that makes any sense whatsoever.
Well, that's what happen when you get the extreme-left to run your country.
Claiming the cold is the proximate cause of death while you’re dying of COVID seems like a poor analysis
I found that rtings.com was the only site with enough detail to completely nerd out and find the right monitor.

My Dell - https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/ultrasharp-u2720...
My Apple - https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/apple/studio-display

On the top level, the Dell is a better monitor overall, and even rated better for Office Use.

Then you scroll down to the brightness & reflections sub-scores and it's not even close. A+ Apple vs C to D- for Dell.

Every review you read will tell you how overpriced and mediocre the Apple monitor is. Then you go to a more detailed site like rtings & filter for high brightness & reflections ratings.. you don't end up with many other options. Pretty big gap in the market.

I encountered this when shopping for TVs - OLED can give you much better blacks while QLED can give you might brighter brights. So which tech you go with depends on if you have a bright sunny living room or a dark basement home theater. Do you watch TV during daylight all Saturday, or after dark weeknights night, etc?
Directories to post your AI App
Reflinks and copy_file_range() are just landing in OpenZFS now I think? (Block cloning)
AccuBattery is an Android app that gives battery usage statistics and more detailed readouts from the OS w/r/t battery condition and charge/discharge behavior.

Their help portal has a research summary explaining their sources (the most recent of which is from 2010, so battery tech has likely improved in some respects but it's still a useful reference point): https://accubattery.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/210224725-...
I think people are annoyed about the idea of having to know R, Python and Julia. So we stick to our guns with Python even if Julia is possibly better. Heck, if I'm ever learning another language, it's Janet then Rust. Or Type/Javascript if life ever throws me thataway. To paraphrase: stop trying to make Julia happen.

Also the Julia community is lovely, but R folks are so smug about tiny things like (the admittedly very fine for its applications) ggplot2. Also: have you heard SAS or Stata users telling you they can run neural networks using their built-in matrix languages? Yes we can! Yes we can!
Tried to add, got a permission error.
Have worked at a few places where PHP was dumped on because “it doesn’t have threads”. The dumper-folks were also noted to be for spending most of their time trying to fix threading issues (Java, usually). Saw this in person twice, have heard similarly from other colleagues over the years.
If you don't care about logging into Reddit, you can try Libreddit or Teddit as read-only frontends. Bonus is you can use them without JS if that's a concern to you. Libreddit especially works better on mobile IMO

Of course these will probably only work until reddit changes their API, as they announced recently