skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of a single HDD is (very roughly) constant, regardless of capacity; the price of an SSD is mostly determined by the amount of flash. In other words, you can cut an SSD in half, but you can't do that to a hard drive.

Flash replaced mini-drives in iPods when the price of "enough" flash (2GB or so) dropped to that of a mini-drive.

SSDs replaced HDDs in laptops when the price of a "big enough" SSD (256 MB?) became competitive with an HDD.

Every reduction in flash cost after each transition was a win for the vendor, since they could keep storage constant and reduce the price. (unlike HDDs, where the price stays constant and the amount of storage goes up)

In each case some users (over-represented here) wanted more storage, and vendors didn't care, or were happy to sell more flash for a price premium.

Enterprise systems aren't single drives, but I believe they still have a concept of "enough" - if the savings from HDD are marginal, or the performance loss from concentrating data on fewer and fewer HDDs becomes too much, they'll switch to pure flash. Anecdotally that's already happening. (also, to be honest, another driver is probably because people like to spend their employer's money on high-tech shiny things, which often pays off better career-wise than saving money)

For the Googles and Amazons of the world there will probably never be a value of "enough", and HDD won't fade until the IOPS/TB ratio becomes ridiculously bad. Maybe not even then, as HDD may still be the best way to store data for a few decades.
> FirefoxOS was developed at Mozilla from 2011 to 2016, before any cut back

It absorbed resources and focus, which resulted in the browser stalling development, which resulted in shrinking marketshare, which resulted in less money from the search deals, which resulted in the ongoing job losses.

> you have to understand that [hard realities of the mobile market that everyone knows already]

I don't disagree, but: none of that was new or unexpected when going in. That's why a lot of people thought FFOS was hopeless: because breaking the mobile duopoly is so hard, by then it had already claimed a giant (Nokia) and seriously humbled another (Microsoft). The play for the "developing market" and low-end devices was hopeless and misguided. We had just seen Nokia dying while trying to hang on that same market... There was a lot of wishful thinking in all the strategic moves, and unsurprisingly they didn't pan out.
The compilers job is to turn source code into machine code. You are still writing human readable source code. I am not suggesting we start writing everything in numeric machine code.
I wonder if it is partially lip syncing. Apparently when Celine Dion was performing nightly in Vegas she mixed lip syncing in to her performances to give her voice a break.

(I don’t have a source on that, just something I remember hearing years and years ago)
I don’t think anyone is disagreeing. But that’s not what “claim to fame” means.
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I use Firefox fork as main because anything else is worse on QubesOS. Both WebKit and Chromium have scroll lags, while Librewolf is smooth almost as on bare metal. I don’t know what’s the difference on normal websites, but I can use it and there are almost no lags on it when running few VMs on 8GB RAM.

Android variant is actually shit, but it’s getting only better. It’s much faster now than 5 years ago. Hopefully they will improve it further.
> The activity state, CPU and memory usage is displayed so I don't need to run a separate command.

https://github.com/crazy-canux/awesome-monitoring

Check out Netadata + Nagios

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36944388

Check out this as well

systemctl list-units | grep my-service
I find your assessment odd, since Docker itself is basically a third-party tool to manage cgroups, namespaces, and filesystems. I suppose it's another in a long line of what are essentially marketing failures on the part of FreeBSD...
The parks are a very particular thing, obviously oriented towards children. But recently some people have been talking about how they might offer "live experiences" that go beyond that.

Disney just shut down the Galactic Starcruiser, a two-day immersive Star Wars LARP experience which was weirdly mis-marketed as a hotel. Adrian Hon has a long, interesting writeup on it and suggests that future versions could be much more successful:
https://adrianhon.substack.com/p/star-wars-galactic-starcrui...
How about Rich men North of Richmond?
The most controversial creature in linguistics [video]
>Their broken website refuses to let me add a bank account for withdrawal,

It would be interesting to find out more about this. Somehow I thought you had to have some other account (checking, credit card) linked to your Paypal balance to even get started.

If you had it to do over, would you have tried some other way to get access to the money (such as transferring it to a friend's account, or using to to pay for something, etc)? This question is just a practical one; I agree that after paying $1.50 for an advertised service, your result should have been better.
I'm happy to hear that, it's just that the opposite is generally true for the vast majority of people as actuarial tables indicate. Nonetheless, I wish you health for many more years!
As I see it Hashicorp has failed to create a viable business model in an environment where there isn't unlimited perpetual VC money. Now they're at the stage of giving up and simply trying to shake down those who have managed to make better business models.

It's usually not a good idea to be near a company flailing like this since who knows what their next rent seeking approach will be. A company with nothing to lose is a dangerous partner to have.
>> Taylor Swift doesn’t understand supply and demand:

> I think that's a poor reading of Swift & her team.

My read of Thompson's piece was that he agrees with you. He quoted Patel to say that he (Thompson) agreed with him (not her) back in 2014 but later learned that this reasoning was wrong -- too shallow and too net-boosterist.
Given the graph starts in 1880: I see you, like myself, are anticipating substantial life extension technology.
> "I got it really for reading..."

Why are so many people saying that it is a downside that the Remarkable does not do well at something it was not intended for and was never intended for?
How do you deal with testers who try to report non-issues or really minor issues and expect to be paid big bounties for it?
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These are all things that the average user doesn't even know exist

"Power users" aren't most of anyone's user base. The vast majority of people use chrome because google told them to, because google IS the internet
I'm so tired of this bullshit narrative. Same argument gets played for Elon Musk. How many millions of attractive white women from affluent parents are there out there trying to excel? Are you really going against that and take away the tremendously focused effort she's put forth for 20+ years? Taylor has taken huge risks and had her share of failures along the way. I remember her playing at fraternity house parties when I was in college.

It is such a harmful fallacy to reduce someone's life work life you have done here.

Im in the "fathers and daughters" camp that Ben Thompson talks about, where over the last ~5 years, Taylor has produced a body of work that is broadly appealing. I enjoy it. My daughter enjoys it. I personally cannot stand Swift's earlier work, seeing as it was written for teenage girls, that makes sense, my daughter loves it, and she cannot stand my weird 90s rock, so we compromise on Swifts new stuff. What Taylor Swift has done, shifting her musical appeal without abandoning her fan base, is super impressive and potentially unprecedented at this scale. Maybe Michael Jackson or Elvis level of mastery of entertainment.
Im just a simple country chicken (in that I know nothing about academia). Explain to me why there isnt more competition in this space? Arent these just high falutin' blogs?

I get that each has built industry specific social capital, but what makes it so hard to establish a new platform?
You may want to check out iocage for managing jails. It has not had a release in a few years but it is maintained.

https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/iocage/
We've got a 100PB tape robot. It's not dead, although it's close enough that almost no one noticed when a patent dispute meant that you couldn't buy the highest density tapes for a year or so.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted just for asking a question, but my guess is that this process is actually damaging the chemical bonds or somehow breaking off any protective oxides so that all of the PFAs end up reacting with the other minerals in the soil so that they change their composition to something that is less dangerous, sort of how sodium and chloride, both potentially dangerous or deadly elements on their own, can combine into table salt which is an essential substance for life.

I would like to see a deeper analysis of what is found in the soils after the PFAs are broken up to make sure they haven't just changed one dangerous chemical for another one though. If they are being converted into a harmless salt, then great.
> And they are all terrible.

For other Chromium-based browser users, Tabs Outliner is great, more powerful (but with a steeper learning curve) solution.
It is not only a privacy issue, "certified by entrenched gatekeeper mega-corporation" is a nightmare for user freedom. The first ones who will be impacted are the minority who root their devices and compile their own software, but in the long run there are detrimental effects of a monopoly at the gate, like the ease to implement surveillance, censorship and drm, that will apply to everyone.
I like to distinguish between Programming and Software Development, even though I don't have precise definitions for them. Programming is what you find in code samples and books and tutorials, where the code is clean is readable, and is what most of us fall in love with. Software Development is all about diverse and messy and malicious inputs and outputs, and the code is filled with the hairy edge cases[0], and it is not fun to read, but it is what most of us get paid for.

0 - e.g. the classic https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Linux accounts for:

82% of the smartphone market

90% of public cloud workloads

62% of the embedded market

99% of the super-computer market

The first figure alone makes it more relevant to the general population than windows or any other OS.

Let's see, 55% of all web traffic is mobile devices so that means roughly 45% of all web traffic comes from linux-based smartphones.

And that isn't counting things like Chrome OS, or linux desktop browsing, which account for another 2-4%

So roughly 49% of all web traffic is literal user-facing linux devices, and 90% of the websites they are browsing are served by linux servers...

So yeah, if anything linux is probably the most important OS in existence right now. Definitely not obscure..
> The HN crowd is not your average layman - it's largely well read and educated people.

It most certainly is the exact mixture of people as you’d find elsewhere. The only difference is they’ll (we’ll) foam at the mouth over something vaguely tangential to tech vs. some other topic.

Here's a recent example of the type of take you might find here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37113312
s/this/gui/, sometimes gboard makes bizarre auto corrections.
> how has the situation improved since then?

"Nobody will join your IPv6 network if it can't talk to Google, CNN, etc."

IPv6 networks can now talk to Google and CNN, for instance.
Haskell in Production: Verity
I really appreciate that, and I do think it's right of you to at least make the attempt.

That being said, I don't expect this attempt to work and I fully believe that a fork is going to be inevitable. I also think a fork is an amazing opportunity to standardize the language and prioritize the features developers want.

It isn't just about the license, but the way that Hashicorp has maintained the Terraform project. The github insights show that they don't have nearly as many people working on it as I would expect, and most of them are split into also working on Terraform Cloud. At the same time they don't work with the community that well- there are open issues and pull requests that just get ignored as Hashicorp clearly doesn't see value in open source contributors. This isn't just a Terraform issue either- my company had to move off of nomad due to the lack of development and support (as well as broken features).

I have strong concerns about the future of these projects in general beyond just the licensing. An open foundation that had multiple companies involved would by definition need to find a way for those people to collaborate together, and once they do that it makes it easier for them to invite community collaboration. So while I do appreciate that it is a drastic step, I think it's one that would also be far better for the ecosystem and project as a whole.

That said, maybe this is the wake up call hashicorp needs to fix these problems. If you provide five FTEs that basically doubles the size of their Terraform development team (they have more people working on it than five, but those people are split into other projects), and once they start working with other groups maybe they'll work with the community more as well. I'm not holding my breath though.
Of all the places I'd expect negative reactions to this, I'm shocked HN is one of them.

This is automation of a dangerous job that is expensive to pay the labor costs of. That's our thing, folks! That's what tech is all about!

If you think the speed limits should be higher so you can drive faster, fine, but that's completely orthogonal to the point here.

Better enforcement of road laws, fewer police deaths from road accidents, lower cost to achieve these goals. I see this as entirely beneficial.

The only people complaining are the ones who want to disregard road laws because they don't care about the danger they pose to others, and like that there's barely any enforcement.
I think I remember while reading about Carl Barks that it was through comic books, right? Maybe that is another differentiator.
Marcin here, co-founder at Spacelift. We are open to fund 5 FTEs, feel free to reach out to us via the pledge page if you're interested in OpenTF becoming your full-time job.
I wouldn't call Nature or Science a crown jewel of research publications at this point. I can't remember the last time they published anything decent in a field I (or someone I know) is familiar with. In fact, the articles I'm thinking of ended up being retracted or refuted pretty quickly.

Being published in them is a good way to get social media karma though. Some people even manage leverage the article to get a tenured position somewhere (often to their future students' peril).
I'm insulted that EA/Longtermism is associated with nerds in this article.

Before there was EA/Longtermism, nerds explored a tree with 10^150 branches of possible futures and places where other civilizations in the universe might go. Post Yudkosky the rich and powerful, the beautiful people, the sheeple consider one possible branch to the exclusion of all others.

EA/Longtermism is a cult. It's a symptom of the decline of traditional religion and it is all the more telling that so many people involved claim to be militant athiests when they are really some mixture of Teilhard de Chardin (God is at the end of the universe) and a Cthulhu cult.
Seconding this. If you are a private company that makes cameras for this specific use case, it is in your best interest to pull numbers out of your ass to place more cameras, therefore making more sales and money on maintenance and/or service fees.
How did you get a PayPal account in the first place without having a bank account attached?

That was a requirement for years
> Unfortunately, most of this material was only released in unofficial forms, often on low-quality MP3s and often with some random dude shouting over the intro.

If that's the art form as it was experienced, do archivists need to make a "better" version?
That quote in the article is from Bill Simmons, who was born in 1969. So, it’s probably not that.
Awesome, would really appreciate your feedback!
You could also check out libjit: https://www.gnu.org/software/libjit/ . I've not used it before but know it exists. Essentially you pass your bytecode in and the library handles turning that into machine code and everything. So that library would handle the loading and unloading of executable memory for you, you would just have to handle translating your rules into the libjit bytecode.
> was that the primary goal?

Yes. The reason Britain and France declared war on Germany was that Germany invaded Poland and Britain and France had treaty commitments to defend Poland. (They also had treaty commitments to defend other Eastern European countries, which they decided not to honor when Germany invaded those countries before it invaded Poland, but that was because their governments erroneously believed that Hitler would stop invading countries if they appeased him.)

> I thought the primary goal (of the Allies) was to defeat the Axis powers because they were directly attacking the UK and USA.

Germany never directly attacked the US. (Japan did later on, but that was on their own initiative; they never discussed any overall war plans with Germany.) And when Britain and France declared war on Germany, Germany had not attacked Britain or France either. As I said above, they declared war when Germany invaded Poland.
> I don't think it explains the degree to which right-wing politics has become optimized for ignoring real threats and inventing fake ones.

You're assuming that they believe in the same sets of "real" and "fake" threats, or at least prioritise them similarly.
I don't follow, does being poor give you a right to ignore the speed limit?
>> Specifically given a set of functions that basically map {State -> Actions} given preconditions, transition functions (heavily paraphrasing STRIPS[1]) can a correct and optionally "realistic" plan be generated[2]?

Maybe, but the results would be unreliable. And if there's one thing that Good, Old-Fashioned, automated planning and scheduling is good at, that is reliability.
I think it's an artifact of (1) being an all-day-meeting-person, and (2) the majority of work-product being present in PPT form.

(1): Taking notes in PowerPoint is sensible if you want an entire conference room to be able to read the notes, as they are being taken, from their seats, and without any fuss about font sizes and so on.

(2): Additionally, since the final "product" will be a PPT, having the notes already in a PPT file means you get to skip some copy/paste steps.

It's still a bit silly and a bit of a cargo cult in the online-first world, but I get how it happens.

> Not OneNote, not Word, not even freakin' Notepad.

Hey, I'll take PPT brain damage over the even worse brain damage that causes some orgs to do everything in a buggy ass Salesforce version of google docs... give me MBA brain-rot bullet points over MBA brain-rot fancy versions of five paragraph essays any god damn day...
Just a nuance: the true number one hiphop radio was always génération 88.2 :-P

SkyRock even has rock in its name.

Just being playful :o)
If you have lots of useEffects and the code is confusing, that just means you're not writing your code well. I've architected and shipped multiple react projects that generate min 100M + USD in revenue, so I'd say I'm well versed in production react. It is weird, sure. All web technologies are kind of weird. But it works great for large web applications.

Keep your functions small. Re-use is key - whether its hooks or components. Keep state sane by writing small functions that handle a couple state items internally, or create a parent state using context around a group of components.

React gets a lot of hate, but most of it is unfounded. It is just a tool. I see people write 800+ loc react components and wonder why it is "so confusing". The problem is obvious. The goal of using any technology is to make money, nobody cares (end of the day, just being real lol) about any of these esoteric practices that happen under the hood with effects, etc. Write good code and most problems disappear.

Unless you're working at Meta on react, or you have some burning desire to build tools like this (and honestly only <5% of devs who contribute will contribute something meaningful), there's no reason to pick so many fights with these tools.

Just use it by accepting its features and limitations, and craft your UI project well enough that it is maintainable and keeps printing money. Anything beyond that is a waste of time/effort.
That's exactly my point.

I never said I haven't heard her music. What I meant was that I cannot properly identify her particular music.

Like I said, if I was in a game show scenario, maybe I could guess that a song is hers and win the money, but if you gave me a multiple choice and you put in songs with other artists who sound like her then there's a good chance I'd lose.

Recognizing, isn't knowing.
> Taylor Swift's claim to fame is that she is an attractive white woman from affluent parents, who is both highly malleable and a very hard worker.

You're clearly missing something, because she's many orders of magnitude more successful than nearly every other attractive white woman, etc. No one falls up from mediocrity that meteorically without unique expertise.

I encourage you to write a song on an instrument, and play it at an open mic; you'll remember those annoyed and disappointed faces forever.
I'm seeing this already with how they're handling the new right-click contextual Search feature being moved to open the results in the new "Search sidebar" rather than a new tab. This was supposedly able to be disabled with the flag "Search web in side panel" (there's no option for it in the preferences), however if the completely undocumented "CSC" flag was left at it's default then it overrides any other flag to force enable the feature. You can see the consequences of this decision to this very day in places like /r/chrome with users complaining that disabling the feature flags isn't working.
I think if you take highly malleable to mean "can seem relatable to a broad swathe of people that she actually shares little in common with through a very American white bread vanilla mix of folk and pop" then that part of the comment is pretty accurate.
I would argue that Electron webapps shouldn’t really count towards the browser marketshare. If would be nice to have a Firefox version, but it doesn’t matter precisely because the end user is not choosing the browser - the company pushing the product is. And let’s be honest: nerdy HN users aside, Joe Schmoe has no clue Teams is a web app running in an emasculated browser at all.
In a city, porch piracy is a non-issue if you live in an apartment building with a lobby. You can open the door to the lobby remotely.

I wonder if a remotely openable porch-side "mail box" would find a market.
For me it's clear, that if these ideas don't grow in popularity then such a society will not come to existence. Then this movement is mostly a counter to various authoritarian tendencies and it functions mostly in small scale experiments and in fight against oppression inside other structures.
This is exactly what it used to be. Check the history of IMDB for the best known example. We are just more aware of the issue these days because of cases like that in the past.

At least on this occasion the site is explicit about a licince it expects user submitted content to be covered by rather than the user just assuming (unless they've not bothered to check).