skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having been responsible for several multi-petabyte storage projects, my experience is that TCO over a 20-year archive lifespan (LTO's design spec is 30, but boundary-pushing is not a good idea in the long-term storage game) is much lower for tape. Indeed you can't generally get reliable parts and support for disk shelves beyond about seven years, which means a full-solution refresh at least twice as often as with tape.

Most of the time the right answer is most of the storage in tape, with a couple of petabytes of disk in front of it to deal with hot data. Even in that circumstance you have to carefully manage the disk storage and filesystem or you wind up with client devices too new to access the supported fs version, another problem that basically does not exist with tape.
It’s more correct than not. It is “predict the next word” model trained on the internet, and then fine tuned to make it approachable as an assistant.
My brother went through this program. He got his GED and some practical skills. Overall it helped him get on a good track and get into the trades.
I host all my new projects this way:

- Hetzner 41 EUR bare metal server (AX41-NVMe)

- k0s for single node kubernetes cluster

- I push all my apps to that same cluster, I have pre-made helm charts so it's super easy to get a new app up and running

- if scaling requirements increase I will move to a fully fledged kubernetes cluster.

- Backups to Digital Ocean spaces (S3 like storage)

I have a separate VPS with DigitalOcean where I run self hosted gitlab instance (again backups to S3). It's quite expensive, but I didn't find the time to migrate away yet. There are a dozen more things I tried self hosting (supabase, sentry, posthog, ...) but stopped because free tiers they offer are enough and the hassle is not worth it.

Tip: Kubernetes is a massive headache to get started (so don't), but once you get past that stage (expect to spend a few months) it becomes quite nice.
>lifetime cellphone use, or about 17 minutes per day over a 10-year period, is associated with a statistically significant 60% increase in brain cancer.

You don't have to look at anything cell phone related to figure out this is bs.

Just look at brain tumor statistics, age-adjusted incidence rate of malignant and/or non-malignant brain and other CNS tumors has been decreasing.
Your analysis ignores cooling.
Are we using the same Confluence and JIRA - I don't see it being slow as we use cloud.

Only times when it was slow it was long time ago when it was on premise and business always skipped upgrading any servers so admins had to run it on tight rope.
Microsoft’s AI recommends the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination
"Don't change everything at once"

Sometimes one big change is better than constant small changes
I’m frankly amazed at how much you do on a bike. I’m not sure the average person could do as much, but color me impressed.
> Well, not at Apple. I was there from 8 to 8, to catch the shuttle.

Hmm? More reality distortion field?
The emancipated one has been added too. I ran into issues in the 2000s being emancipated but with FAFSA still looking at my parent's incomes.
I have almost the same way:
Redhat 5 -> Mandrake -> Gentoo -> FreeBSD -> Slackware, and finally Debian Etch in April 2007.
I've been using Debian for the latest 16 years and am very happy with it.
> This content is not available in your country/region.

Come on what decade is this? So stupid.

https://archive.ph/sEqtE
“Green smoothie cleanse” causing acute oxalate nephropathy
>Given the increasing popularity of juice cleanses, it is important that both patients and physicians have greater awareness of the potential for acute oxalate nephropathy in susceptible individuals with risk factors such as chronic kidney disease, gastric bypass, and antibiotic use.
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Man's Search for meaning by Viktor Frankl
You can add two numbers. If the operands are signed you just need to check the operands before the addition to make sure you won't cause an overflow.
A little more reading..

"All extinct mammals dated in this study have last occurrence dates older than 13.00 ka, with a modeled extirpation time estimate across all taxa of 13.07 to 12.89 ka [using the Gaussian-Resampled Inverse-Weighted McInerney (GRIMW) extinction estimator"

Even tighter bound than my comment and still a tight fit around 12900. Figure 1 in their paper shows this as well.

In other news, there was recently a "comprehensive refutation" of YDIH (pre-print) that a fave of my, Martin Sweatman, takes a good look at.

A lot of this debate comes down to careful dating, error bars, etc.

https://martinsweatman.blogspot.com/2023/08/debunking-hollid...
I’m not sure. I am a cynical person, so I am naturally repelled by these tactics. And by now, I’ve learned to get too attached emotionally to my tech or products. I’m not sure where and how these lessons can be taught to young employees to be.
And yet, for some reason, ancient humans decided not to eat all the elephants.

No, it was climate change.

The last, small population of mammoths that survived until 4000 years ago on Wrangel Island never came in contact with humans. They died because they were ill suited for the climate they lived in.
> ... Books contain static prose ...

Very tangential, this reminded me of a puzzle that has been very rarely solved.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/10/literary-puzzl... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29972370 )

... and apparently another run of the loose leaf edition is to be published soon.
I don't know if you've heard much about Tokamak Energy; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak_Energy

I think they have a good shot at commercial fusion by 2030s. The REBCO magnets reduce the size and complexity of the machine massively.
Oddly, Brexit is a benefit to them; JET employees can no longer go work for ITER if they want a pay and lifestyle upgrade, but they can go a few hundred meters down the road.
The whole idea of using crypto is decentralization, centralizing it defeats the purpose.
This will accomplish absolutely nothing.

Make a green grid then we can stop having these silly discussions.

Burning all that coal for electricity is the real problem

“The coal fleet grew by 19.5 gigawatts last year, enough to light up around 15 million homes, with nearly all newly commissioned coal projects in China”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/coal-burning-capacity...

But like the drunk searching for his keys under the street lamp, …

But hey, if you can start to find megatons of co2, like with bitcoin, then you might be onto something.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/crypto-b...
When you call something "My Computer" it immediately springs to mind "which one"? Whereas "This PC" is more straightforward.

It's subtle, and wouldn't make a difference to you or I. But to your average every day user I could see the second language being better.
Much. To me, the thing that really needs to be more realistically considered is interplanetary (not interstellar) trade. Lightspeed-grade goods and services (media, data) have one "cost," and inorganic atomic-structure goods and services (gaseous/liquid/solid matter) have another "cost", and organic biological matter — especially living matter — will have an even greater cost still.

Getting information to Mars will be far cheaper in energy and currency than getting a crate of parts there; and that will be far cheaper still than getting humans or their biological foodstuffs back-and-forth.
Very timely for me as well, have been having tough time with my partner especially about how unfriendly and critical I sound, even though my intentions are for general improvement and well being around home.
> A medicine the FDA as of today admits can be a treatment for COVID

This is not accurate. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fda-admit-ivermectin/
Maybe you're just not reading any of it?

Ten days old: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interacti...

NYC, specifically: https://abcnews.go.com/Awards/rising-sea-levels-affect-new-y...
I recommend not reading it. It made me a less happy traveller.
No, my issue is that people are implicitly or more often explicitly saying that folks shouldn't be allowed to make decisions for themselves or be responsible for their actions until they're 25. The progressive infantilization of people troubles me. That you have to spend a third of your life in this state is ridiculous. It is also self-fulfilling. People only stop acting like children when you stop treating them like children.
On desktop, the extension "Control Panel for Twitter" will let you "Replace X branding changes", it's great.

https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-twitter

You can also hide the idiots with the BlueLiteBlocker extension

https://github.com/BlueLiteBlocker/BlueLiteBlocker

Makes Twitter a bit more like it was before idiot in chief took over
You don't put everything in README.md for the start - once file gets long enough no one will read it the same as bunch of confluence...

Links? Parent poster just mentioned he was putting relevant links in JIRA tickets - to work on a feature dev has to open the ticket anyway but suprise-suprise they were not clicking the links.

How on earth README.md links will help in such situation.
The market is pricing in future growth. You can say the market is incorrectly evaluating the potential return, but it's hard to argue that Tesla and SpaceX aren't going to cash in on that potential. How else should the market be treating companies with obvious high growth potential?
SLS is needed only because they were not allowed to adopt on-orbit propellant transfer. With rockets like the Falcons, propellant (which is most of the mass needed to get something to the moon) is launched in smaller quantities and accumulated.

What sort of future in space do those advocating SLS imagine for us if moving a liquid from one tank to another is too challenging?
"Starve the Beast" wasn't about efficiency. It was about reducing revenue without even bothering to think through to deal with that on the spending end. It was the governmental equivalent of a parent quitting their job because "we spend too much." Heck, that was the exact metaphor Reagan used in the debates (except he made it about a kid's allowance). It made very little sense on the surface, and that was because the motivation was focused almost entirely on reducing the tax rates for the wealthy.

They offered a bunch of insane justifications, including the famous "voodoo" "trickle-down economics" idea that if you cut taxes for the wealthy enough, they'd use the money to boost the economy, thereby raising tax revenue, so everybody would win. Absolute bullshit, but it's been seriously spoken of for decades like it's an actual thing with some sort of economic or mathematical backing.
I note that the megafauna extinction was done by people of all races and creeds, long before capitalism existed.
There is a certain myth that pre-industial peoples were in a more balanced relationship with nature.

While less powerful technologies and thus more direct dependence on natural processes and cycles made people more atuned to nature, the broad pattern seems to be one of unhindered consumption (deforestation, hunting etc) the impact of which was limited only by the relatively small population size.
>> The good news is that the Rust project has recently agreed to write a specification, and has a budget to hire an editor for it.

This is awesome to hear. Following that issue . . .
SplITS: Split Input-to-State Mapping for Effective Firmware Fuzzing
IMO people way overthink this. The range of acceptable amount of water is large, you don't need a formula to calculate some exact amount per person.
Would be interesting if the myth of Dragons breathing fire was because we used fire to kill the largest/scariest megafauna.
We get minor brush fires in the spring during dry spells and I have seen fire watchtowers (mostly abandoned) all over the northeast. But nothing on a giant scale in my adult lifetime.
A funny thing is that this can go N layers deep. At a previous job we had a DSL which was very well specified, pretty straight forward, and had been written by an exceptionally brilliant engineer (who was even still at the company!). We had two backend services that would operate on that AST in a query context and in a streaming transformation context, and they shared the parser, compiler, and typechecker. The problem was that the engineering team was so fragmented and lacking in stable technical leadership that a large part of the engineering team had no idea about how these things worked, so on every project they were constantly going "Ooops, I created a feature which has its own intermediate representation with slightly different semantics so reuse is impossible". It was super hard to deal with and stuff was constantly being invented and then thrown out because it couldn't be extended.

The only thing worse than creating a compiler is being unaware that one already exists and creating a new one on top of the existing one.
> What black magic do you have to cast to get devs to look at the documentation?

That's not how documentation works (in my experience). Ignoring documentation is fine (perhaps I don't need documentation to get things done?). The problem is having the need of documentation and find that none exists; that's the real issue. If there's no documentation, as an engineer I have 2 options: a) read the codebase, b) ask around. Whatever option takes less time and is more accurate wins (and take into account that the code may contains bugs, so the code is not always a reflection of the intended business use cases... on the other hand no-one may know what the codebase is supposed to do).

Documentation is like having a fire extinguisher: hopefully you won't need it most of the time, but if in that single occasion that you need it you find none, well, imagine.
> If they get rid of the German entity and keep only a Luxembourg entity, that may no longer apply

If that was the case, I’d bet 10$ that the german government would intervene and block that. Germany is all for free market until its their stuff in sale.
Plain brain tumor statistics: age-adjusted incidence rates have been decreasing decreasing over few decades.

Their research: about 17 minutes per day over a 10-year period, is associated with a statistically significant 60% increase in brain cancer.
Yep, I wonder the same
If you're looking for a complex fantasy series that will occupy you for a long time, I cannot recommend Malazan Book of the Fallen enough!
> A TCP connection has exactly two endpoints.

Stop, you're hurting the NSA's feelings. :P
It might be cleaner to use event.code instead of event.key that way non-QWERTY users don't have to play finger twister. Unfortunately, Safari+Firefox don't leave a way to then determine the correct letter to display until after the user has already pressed the key which makes the initial "press this" a bit more difficult to write as you have to put a picture in the message clarifying you mean the WASD area not literal letters. Chrom* has an API for resolving the character outright though.
Private Equity needs to be regulated into oblivion.
my search says falcon has launches humans twice. Am i mistaken? that doesnt qualify as "regular basis"
Yeah, it's usually all good until there are cubs.
So then buyers aren’t getting houses at the same monthly payment at a much lower purchase price than otherwise.
Only because SLS has so far failed to qualify to launch a human.

SLS was on the schedule to launch humans several years ago. However, failing to qualify means that NASA can NOT ask them to launch a human
As someone who has ADHD/Autism and identifies as neurodivergent, I found it specifically helped me unpick some ways that the way my brain works has created bad habits.

Note: I listened to the audiobook! The anecdotes about incredible learners (such as various language experts, the stardew valley dev as well as various other skills) was also really interesting.
SUSE S.A. has been owned by this very same private equity company since 2018. In 2021 one fifth of the outstanding shares were offered to investors at the Frankfurt Stock exchange.Now that fifth is being acquired by the same private equity company.

If there was any turn "to the dark side", surely it must have happened 5 years ago, not today, right?

Edit: Apparently time flies faster when you're bad at math.
The entire idea of “AI Safety” is coaxing the LLM to align with the creators belief system. So these results are entirely unsurprising.
> I can turn them on/off remotely

I'm 41 years old and I've never in my life wished for the ability to turn a light on/off remotely. When do you use this?

> plus I've got some lights automatically tied to sunrise/sunset

Other than a porch light, what lights would you want to turn on/off at sunrise/sunset?

> And I've got a whole bunch of lights which I can turn off all together when going to bed.

Every room in my house has a light switch located at the entrance. I just flip the switch off as I'm passing it.

Do you just live in a house with bizarre locations for the light switches?
> Is that not based mostly on faith, next to some superficial indicators like "majority of scientists", etc.?

I believe it should be the same rule of thumb we are accustomed to using elsewhere.

If we have a computer security question, we will defer to the people who have dedicated 30 years of their life to mastering computer security. Whatever their opinion is, it's statistically more likely to be correct than whatever opinion I have after 2 weeks of "research". Likewise for astronomy, neurosurgery, being a pilot, and any other complicated area of study. I can't fly a plane, I can't operate the LHC, and I don't know anything about vaccines, so in all of these areas I need to outsource my opinions, to an extent, to the people that know these things better than everyone else. It's not perfect, and we can call that imperfection faith, but I can't think of a better approach.
I assume your preferred browser is lynx, or maybe you just pipe curl into emacs?
How about

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.11283...

?

That's a simple application of machine learning algorithms you might find in scikit-learn. Here is a special issue of another alleged "predatory journal" that is full of papers on the subject

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/E18K759...
Take airplane safety: plane crashes, cause of the crash is thoroughly investigated, report recommends procedures to avoid that type of cause for planecrashes. Sometimes such recommendations become enforced across the industry. Result: air travel safer & safer to the point where sitting in a (flying!) airplane all day is safer than sitting on a bench on the street.

Building regulations: similar.

Foodstuffs (hygiene requirements for manufacturers): similar.

Car parts: see ISO9000 standards & co.

Software: eg. memory leaks - been around forever, but every day new software is released that has 'm.

C: ancient, not memory safe, should really only be used for niche domains. Yet it still is everywhere.

New AAA game: pay $$ after year(s?) of development, download many-MB patch on day 1 because game is buggy. Could have been tested better, but released anyway 'cause getting it out & making sales weighed heavier than shipping reliable working product.

All of this = not improving methods.

I'm not arguing C v. Rust here or whatever. Just pointing out: better tools, better procedures exist, but using them is more exception than the rule.

Like I said the list goes on. Other branches of engineering don't (can't) work like that.
You shouldn't need a bus because the plane is at the gate. Stairs might be an issue for some but anyone that does not want to go down then back up stairs can wait and go out the front through the jetway.

As others have pointed out, this method works great in many other countries.
My understanding is that Fly.io also started using Nomad but ended up running into big reliability issues at scale across many regions. I'm curious if you all are using it differently or haven't gotten to that scale yet.
Wait until you learn about the biotech industry, they often go public with no revenue. I don't think there is anything wrong with this though, markets are pricing future growth, which may or may not materialize.
What does that have to do with you pontificating on events that aren't actually happening?
SMB/NFS?
Yeah may not be an issue for you either, was just curious if you had any experience. I was considering FastAPI for a big production app and that was one concern/issue I ran into.
Drink when you haven't peed for a while or your last pee was yellow. This is actual advice given to athletes and it's pretty effective IMO.
And by the lack of our present day very powerful tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvester_(forestry)

That sort of thing can level a whole forest in a very small fraction of the time it took to grow.
Why Not Scrum?
Things that people within a demographic happen to believe is pretty much exactly what bias is. Bias isn’t like… a bad thing. Everyone is biased toward their own viewpoints.

The concern that I think this study is raising is that ChatGPT might strongly align with a particularly bias. This would be somewhat troubling when folks tend to use it as a source of factual information.
There are usually 2 plays tech PE does:

1)Expedited vendor lock-in: Figure out who is locked into the software, make the software maximally shitty/maximally costly so that these people would still not switch and then make money off the cost savings/higher prices and hope to make up investment.

2)Off market prep for trade sale: SUSE could be interesting for someone to acquire but a competitor/strategic buyer can't afford to buy the company and do the reorgs needed itself as it would tank the share price too much. The PE firm buys it, does the reorg off market and then does a trade sale of a reorged company to the buyer, but only now SUSE is way better as an acquisition target.
As a Mac user, I think Ollama is amazing. Thank you! :). Is there any chance that functionality could be added for fine-tuning (e.g. document/text file uploads)?
I think about these tools upping the lower threshold of what is an acceptable entry level for creatives. Being decent isn't going to be good enough to be hired, because if you settle for decent, an AI powered tool can do it for you. Any "bulk content" job (aspiring journalists writing bullshit pieces, photographers honing their skills while shooting b-roll, etc) is going to die.

Maybe it's fine that only the few naturally talented and self-taught creatives can find work. Getting better through labor might not be an option in the future.
Also related to the "secret projects" culture there. Being high on the hierarchy doesn't matter to secret project roster. Security is that key to how Apple operates.
> It is not possible to do a fair comparison of launch costs between Falcon 9 and other platforms without knowing the true cost of Falcon 9 launches.

I don't know why you're so obsessed with cost. The only thing that matters when it comes to commercial providers is price. And SpaceX, (as far as I can tell) stands alone among the medium-heavy lift providers by providing a price directly on their website.

Of course, for government launches the government typically wants extra services, which does boost the prices different levels for different missions (I think the Europa Clipper mission is particularly expensive for example). But all of those missions are competitively bid, and SpaceX tends to be the low price bidder, so those extra fees seem like they're probably pretty reasonable.