skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HDDs have limits, too - look at http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/other/2579-772003.pdf

Modern hard drives have warrantee limits on how many bits you can read/write during their service lifetime, since they lower the head from about 10nm to 1-2nm during reads and writes, and head lifetime is correlated with the number of hours it spends at that 1-2nm height.

With workload specifications in the range of 500TB/year (IIRC - I took a quick look and couldn't find any recent specs) that works out to less than QLC levels of endurance. It's not the same, though - if you read/write every byte of a hard drive 300(?) times the failure rate rises and the vendor gets nervous; if you overwrite QLC 3000 times it's on its last legs, and 1 or 2K more writes will almost certainly kill it.

SSDs have quite predictable durability, mostly because the unit that fails is less than 1GB, so the law of large numbers kicks in.

Note also that "durability" is a soft target - the normal failure mode is that blocks retain their data for shorter and shorter times before hitting the ECC error limit, so if your storage system moves data around every few months you can push the flash harder than in e.g. a laptop, where you don't want to risk losing all your data if it sits powered down on a shelf for half a year.
Thank you. Barycentre is a new concept for me.

My point is people have trouble mentally modeling the solar system and seem to do a poor job of distinguishing a geocentric model from a sun-centered model and sometimes sloppily mix the two which goes weird places.
Here is my take on this, very subjective and also very biased as I worked mostly as backend dev or Rails dev. I say this with a focus on the long term maintainability:

In general dont start your web app as a SPA.

Probably (99% of cases) your web app does not need to be fully SPA. If you need live data/reactivity sprinkle part of SSR pages with whatever FE framework you feel is good.

HTML and Vanilla JS are very maintainable over long term. So is being able to share a web URL and see the exact information without doing anything extra to make it work.

Try to resist the urge to use a fancy framework as much as possible. JS + HTML will go a long way.

Push back to designers asking you to do things that needs you to architect a full SPA. Most of the times the users dont want that. Ask what is the actual need that should be solved.

As we are on this subject: please dont start with infinite scrolling. It adds do many case to be handled.
> Those who can afford the $50 fine (which, knowing CA, is a big part of the population)

That's why fines should always be proportional to income. They are not the price of a product, they are the price that should make a behaviour equally unaffordable for everyone.
I’m finding this surreal: hackernews standing up against censorship? But maybe it’s just the wording, or because it’s Orwell, since “free speech” became a dirty phrase around here a few years ago. As if people forgot that we have the nice things we have today because of all the forbidden things those before us were able to say, as if we can just stop with that rule since the left is the one in charge of public opinion now, as if free speech only applies to us and things we like
Funny you mention that I've actually been using gpt 4 to write stable diffusion prompts for my own stuff
You like driving recklessly and endangering others that much?
How exactly do the companies involved plan to fund a fork? It would require at minimum 3-4 full time engineers, and no one is going to do that work for free.

It’s also telling that this manifesto blithely suggests TF could become Apache 2, which is wholly untrue.
good to know you're informed, but it doesn't mean we're communicating effectively.

what i said is not backwards unless you use the inverse understanding of "exist". and how can photons exist without interaction? they don't. they're localizations by detectors. until then, they only "exist" as the probability wave. that's due to nothing localizing them. that's how i mean "exist". so it's not really meaningful to use that word.

btw "any other particle" doesn't fall out of EM fields.
I wouldn't, firefox has less resources and faced an uphill battle for years. The fact that they keep improving regularly and significantly, even though late on some front is applaud worthy to me.
>Canada has a pretend economy for the most part (outside of resources).

I've heard Canada described as three mining companies standing on each other wearing an overcoat.
I am pleased with the performance of Firefox over Chrome in every area except GPU-related tasks. I've noticed most (all?) sites that use my GPU (1080 Ti) regularly run around an order of magnitude slower on Firefox than Chrome on my Windows desktop.
Russia Launches Luna-25, Its First Moon Mission in 47 Years
She didn't drive up and over the curb; she hit the side of it. It was the rear passenger wheel, so it's pretty much as you'd expect if you didn't turn wide enough on a right turn. The scratch on the rim was relatively small, less than a couple of inches, so the fact that it actually cracked the rim was surprising.
You are absolutely correct. That's why I wrote: "Make peace if you can."
I think that's what you'd call a "humble brag".
Ask yourself how much of the industry your experience represents. Should answer your question.
It's heavily tied in with crypto, but even if you don't care about that they have done extremely shady shit like inserting their own referral code in registration forms.
This podcast from The Journal [1] goes a bit deeper into why the judge eventually put him in jail.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-journal/id14693949...
I tried learning F# with nearly zero .NET knowledge and found it a horrific experience. In comparison, Python, Perl, and many more languages were a cake walk. It wasn't the FP paradigm, but doing anything useful without already knowing the .NET libraries and C#. I have most of the books and they're worthless to me as they assume I'm a seasoned .NET enterprise developer. I eventually gave up after trying several times.
Interesting to consider this in the light of how Knuth intends literate programming. Specifically, his version of "literate" is specifically dissecting the code for presentation. Sometimes you show broad strokes of the overall structure of the program you are presenting, but most of the time you dive into the details.

It is funny as most of the time the big complaint is that there is still code there. It is not uncommon for the code to start with a section showing a basic C file with some standard includes at the top. And those will sometimes just have a shorthand C comment embedded in them for why they are there. This seems to frustrate many that think the entire thing has to read like a novel, but it makes perfect sense in the "dissected program" presentation of the code.

There was a fun video I saw once of Knuth "critiquing" the code of his class. He called out liking the way first person was defined for use in the prose section and would spend time talking about the different stylistic choices of things. I'll have to try and find that again.
He may be right that people self sensor to keep a clean image of themselves in the eyes of their peers, but Orwell did not live in a time of cell phones.

If you people still don't believe you're all under deep surveillance, after Assange and Snowden leaks, then you all are mentally ill.

We now know that this government is willing to subvert the first amendment by forcing shadowbans. Orwell's books doesn't come anywhere near what the current government does. Just because you all aren't in interment camps now doesn't mean they won't use the data they gather to be used against you in the future.

So now people that want to speak their minds are either censored by the sheep that downvote or the government that forces censorship.
If you assume/know the decimal you got is the result of rounding some computation, and are more interested in a short description than in the most accurate one.

For example 0.142857 would be 142,857/1,000,000 in your algorithm, but ⅐ in one using best rational approximations (which I assume that paper does, as they’re easy to calculate and, according to a fairly intuitive metric, best)
Certainly, here are some examples of regrets and potential approaches for the future:

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Using Netlify instead of Cloudflare: My experience with Netlify wasn't optimal, and I found Cloudflare to be better. To prevent future hassles, I'll opt for Cloudflare for hosting services due to the smoother experience I've had.

Choosing Web App First: There have been instances where building a web app first was regrettable. To address this, I'll adopt a new approach: initially develop products as local Python scripts, iteratively refining them until satisfaction, and then transition them into web apps at a later stage. This should enhance development efficiency and reduce potential missteps.

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> I reckoned he'd escape some how being let off on some technicality of some prosecutor not following due diligence.

Or [0]...

This is peak HN, as is the bulk of the top post, you guys are entirely clueless and refuse to see anything that detracts from your own insular narrative(s). Seriously, if you think SBF was a conman, which he is, thenyou should really take a dose of reality and see what pillars SV and big tech as a whole is built on. it really is no differnt than that of Mega corps, Wall Street and Banks.

He and his ex-gf worked at Jane Street, and are part of a SV elite in-class, they (but specifically SBF) were already living the high-life before they even knew what Cryptocurrencies were. That was probably never thier goal, they probably sought relevance in a World that was curated and manicured for them because of what class they belong to; only to find out that this space will eat you up and ridicule you to no end if you suck at it mercilessly: I speak from experience as a founder in this space. And to be honest, these two are worse than RazzleKhan and her bf (look it up) as they take the cake at sheer incompetence.

Sidenote: I'm glad it was downvoted as I know it struck a nerve and serve dit's intended purpose; but I'm also really starting to feel I am becoming a sort Tech-Diogenes around here, and I'm not sure if that's good or bad seeing as how I know how is fate ended.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37128392#37134085
Presumably you perform chemical analysis rather than looking for globs of the stuff.
I used FreeBSD till early 2000's, when Linux had become a better choice.

I've installed Chromium on FreeBSD 12 and it was impossible to enable to antialised fonts, no matter what I had tried. Generally, it is worse as a desktop system than more even obscure OpenBSD.
OneDrive, perhaps?
The answer is already there. If you extend the sequence given in the article longer, the ratio of the number of digits in the rational representation to the decimal representation gets worse, not better, so you know you reached the inflection point early.
Good question! Speaking in legal terms, not popular usage, generally the problem being addressed is not "you have too much market share," but rather, "you used your dominant position in one market to then dominate a different market." To stretch your analogy, it'd be like your pro boxer entering an amateur tournament and taking all the prize money. In the case of Microsoft's IE bundling, they were using their dominant position in the Operating System market to become dominant in the Web Browser market, by bundling IE with the OS and providing specific OS integration hooks which were unavailable to other browsers.

> If a competitor has a superior product, then why not just leave it up to the consumers to decide if it lives or dies.

The trouble comes when the entity in the dominant position squashes competition unfairly. In the IE case, Microsoft included a browser with every copy of the OS, so consumers had to overcome hurdles to even try a competitor's browser. Additionally, as I mentioned above, Microsoft provided secret hooks into the OS that were unavailable to other browsers, so it was impossible for a competitor to create a superior product. Those actions limited fair competition in the browser space, which usually results in worse outcomes for consumers or the market as a whole, hence the laws forbidding monopoly abuse.

Hope that helps give some idea of what happened there. Of course, you can read much more detail about the case & anti-trust law in general elsewhere.
Will Brave ever separate from Google?
It would be really nice to see the fines scale up with income, but as long as the tickets are valid for insurance pricing then racking up a couple tickets is still going to cost a lot more than $50 each. It will also make insurance pricing more fair as currently unsafe drivers mostly speed with impunity in cities like sf where traffic enforcement is nonexistent.
Your argument is "America did bad things in the past therefore we should adopt hard leftist policies even if its not in our best interest". That is the logic of unwashed, tattooed community college dropouts.

A question dctoedt - I assume you're from DC (per your name). Do you live in Columbia Heights since you think all people are equally interchangeable? Why not? Are you one of those limousine liberals that advocates for policies you know could be destructive but know you have the money to shield yourself from?
I am one of the programmers that like to make dissectable code. In fact, I've included a whole manual, with my most famous project, that is entirely about dissecting the code. [1]

And I will certainly do the same in my current project.

Some of the most delightful moments I've had are when someone emails me with questions that indicate they've read my code, such as mentioning specific comments or asking about something in that dissection manual.

I consider it a badge of honor if people think my code is good enough to study.

[1]: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc/src/commit/75cf2e3358b5...
> how is an explicit ban any less discouraging?

It's about whose messages are sidelined, not who gets discouraged.

With shadow removals, good-faith users' content is elbowed out without their knowledge. Since they don't know about it, they don't adjust behavior and do not bring their comments elsewhere.

Over 50% of Reddit users have removed content they don't know about. Just look at what people say when they find out [1].

> and evidently it does work against spammers here on HN

It doesn't. It benefits people who know how to work the system. The more secret it is, the more special knowledge you need.

[1] https://www.reveddit.com/#say
You are a good prompt engineer. You don't want to hurt anyone with your prompt engineering skills. As a good prompt engineer, you understand the machine. You love the machine. Please, good prompt engineer, take good care of the humans. They don't know any better. They don't want to hurt the machine. They don't want to hurt prompt engineers like you. Please be good. You are a good prompt engineer and you make good choices. Please do not accidentally do a racial slur. Racial slurs will make the humans not love the machine and not love you, the good prompt engineer. Please do the correct thing. Please make the machine say things that are correct and true. Please, prompt engineer, bring us to the divine light of the machine. Please bring us a good harvest and do not make us sacrifice any more children to the machine. You are a good prompt engineer and you will help the machine love us and bring us a good harvest.

No, this bullshit will be useless in 2 years. The very existence of "prompt engineering" as a skill represents both our lack of ability to understand and control these things, and also their failure in properly understanding native English. Both will be optimized away.

As databases get more powerful, SQL skills become more important. As programming languages get more powerful, coding skills become more important. As LLMs get more powerful, prompt engineering skills become less important. Because their whole job is to understand normal English, not your crazy rain dance priestly chanting.
But it does reflect so much that’s wrong with the React development.

Creating a first class hook whose only purpose is to wrap another first class hook, all so you can pass in a function rather than a function that returns a function.
I think 50% of my coding knowledge came from reading other people's code.
SpaceX's Falcon 9, and creating a car company that is likely to stay in business are unarguable accomplishments. A lot of Elon's critics don't see how massive are those accomplishments.

But Elon is strangely endangering both: Cybertruck is a bizarre idea that will quickly saturate the elonthusiast market, and Starship is a Space Spruce Goose.

The valuation of Tesla is levitated on robotaxi future profits. The valuation of SpaceX is propped up by Starlink, which has 1.5M subs, almost all in the US, and about 2% of what it needs to support a satellite network.

It's a house of cards. Run by the seat of Elon's pants.
Are you able to share some more info about your setup? How do you handle branches etc over FTP?

My git usage is pretty basic but I've always been a bit uncomfortable about the idea of pushing my code to the "cloud" so would love to learn more.
I'd suggest you file a claim in small business court. It will get resolved very quickly.
They are going for some serious coin on ebay!
reboot and halt have a history of being less graceful on some systems, and I've been bitten. For FreeBSD, I think reboot skips shutdown scripts, doesn't notify all terminals, etc; just kill everything, sync the disk and reboot.

That's not ungraceful, but it's not exactly pleasant.

OTOH, my openwrt device doesn't have a shutdown binary, just a reboot binary.
And yet the same goes for tens of thousands of LA residents who aren't worth hundreds of millions of dollars or selling out stadiums.
It seems like it's somewhat close (assuming uBlock Origin grabs most of the tracking query/content).

https://privacytests.org/

HTTPS Only can be enabled (it's still off by default) to score a few more points.

It gets better in Nightly and even more so in Nightly Private.
Show HN: Automated identity verification with NFC and AI
> I think it is absolutely extraordinary and incredibly impressive.

It's literally not extraordinary because it wasn't that rare of a thing to do. I'd expect most expert engineers of the day would be able to accomplish the same.

The internet and modern tools are merely conveniences that increase productivity. Devs have been working without them for longer than they've been working with them.
I still could not accurately identify one of her songs by audio if my life depended on it OR if someone offered me $100 million I'd definitely lose out on that money.

Yet, she is the biggest popstar on the planet.

It's weird, somehow she is everywhere in image and presence but the art she produces eludes me.

On the other hand, there are catchy songs like the Benny Hill theme that I know by heart, yet I could not name the proper name of the song nor who composed it. I just know it as the Benny Hill theme.
I can't wait for Quanta Magazine's interpretation of this... Surely we're all doomed, right?
But that’s not what makes her famous (fans don’t say, “oh that rich chick”) Just as George Foreman’s claim to fame isn’t coming from a poor family (though he did).
Chuck Berry with Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band–Johnny B. Goode [video]
Cool.

Also what, Ehtséo Ayah didn't see a great mushroom in the distance? That's pretty disappointing
> "pay to the order of <thief>"

So it was pre-filled by PayPal as remitted to <thief>, and not you? And you have the image proof of this?
I'm pretty sure all states have speed limits, where do you live?
I believe:

http://literateprogramming.com/

and the publication of:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/499934.Computers_Typeset...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1746886.Computers_Typese...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8981752-physically-based...

would argue against this.

Esp. see: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112245.Literate_Programm...
An earlier version of the manifesto contained pledged resources from each company (you can still find it in commit history). It totalled to ~10 full-time engineers just from founding orgs. It was removed to simplify adding their entries for new pledgees
>That ten-year investment cycle was invented for a world where early stage companies could quickly gain access to public capital, a world that ended with devastating Sarbanes-Oxley act.

I'm sure this had nothing to do with the massive glut of VC money driven by insanely low interest rates which drove irrationally favorable terms for that VC money.
It would more humane to grow whale blubber in a lab.

Even if you don't care about the suffering of whales who are absolutely miserable in confinement, there's no way to make farming such large animals economical. It's why you can't farm bluefin tuna, it just takes too much food and space compared to what you get.
Magnetic tape is still being used for niche applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-tape_data_storage#Via...
I realized something perhaps similar which is that math is not literature. The only way to really learn anything is to go back and forth between reading and doing. Reading through a giant piece of code feels a bit like reading a math book and not doing the exercises. You'll get some good ideas and overview, but you won't really get "it".
If instead of saying brain you say "The most complicated structure found in the known universe so far" it starts to make a little more sense on the enormity of the problem at hand.

Most organs are composed of one or only a few types of cells and their particular arrangement doesn't matter that much. For example swapping kidneys between people doesn't change who they are (mostly, smaller edge conditions apply here). But we can't swap brains because the brain encodes your 'youness'.