skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whichever option makes the most people keep their devices for the longest would be preferred, but we simply don't have this data because virtually no manufacturer provides parts. If repairs are so expensive that people avoid them, you have failed to help Earth. If repairs are so shitty because the parts are bad, so people end up having to buy more parts or just never repair again, you also failed. Ideal scenario, manufacturers being forced to provide all parts at close to cost plus distribution, the Fairphone way (or better). If non repairable phones are still deemed necessary because repairable ones are too expensive, then we also need a repairability score on all devices like in France.

> I would argue that having these devices live for close to 10 years in someone else’s pocket, even if a potential repair was a bit more expensive is more important.

I didn't understand the point you were trying to make. Why would my phone go to someone else's pocket?
I'm still looking for an affordable external tape drive.
There's RDX but their tapes seem a lot more expensive per TB.

e.g. LTO 3TB costs 30 EUR
RDX 2TB costs 265 EUR
FWIW, the DNA was 100% sequenced. However, a proportion of that data that came back from the sequencing machine was too similar to each other, so it was impossible to assemble it into a coherent full set of contiguous chromosomes.

Imagine it like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, except that the picture on the front of the puzzle has lots of repeating motifs, so you end up with multiple pieces that look identical. You won't be able to tell how the whole thing fits together, but you can assemble the bits that are well-behaved and unique.

Modern technology gives us larger jigsaw pieces, which allows us to distinguish between almost-identical parts of the puzzle better. But I would note that the project linked did a huge amount of sequencing using very expensive methods to be able to resolve the whole thing.
Nearly 2M excess deaths followed China's sudden end of Covid curbs, study says
https://archive.li/6MqO2
You can disable enemies in the game setup, no mod required.
That's been the case for nearly a decade. It's what Reddit is, dopamine-via-upvotes, and there's no easier way to get upvotes than make uncreative dad jokes. You're free to move to the offshoot communities as the people that have chosen to split are unlikely to do "average Redditor" things
I'm disappointed that it doesn't have a web browser so that I can run os.js inside of os.js inside of os.js inside of os.js inside of os.js...
Yeah, they say Che Guevara got taken out because he used his one-time pads more than once.

I've seen "Web3" advocates who think they need to fix the "terrible UI" for it to catch on. In my recent Fediverse adventures I've come to see that decentralized authentication looks like a good foundation for distributed services but that key management is a bitch. The slogan most people will endorse is "give me convenience or give me death" so they will fall back to some system where "they" can reset your password. You might trust Facebook to only reset your password if the police have a warrant, and the same for mastodon.social, but the administrators of little Mastodon servers have proven you can't trust 100% of them 100% of the time.
I wonder if you'd get some mileage from my https://p3rl.org/Object::Remote module (or at least stealing the ideas therein ;) - it effectively applies https://p3rl.org/App::FatPacker on-demand over the wire so the remote code can use any (pure perl) module you've got installed locally without needing to be able to write to the disk.

(at https://shadow.cat/ we use it to investigate things on new customers' platforms with only an ssh login and a perl core install as requirements, along with as an ad-hoc "I need to run this on lots of machines without being intrusive" tool)
It's weird how tape size just seems to increase steadilyin a smooth curve to roughly match whatever hard drives are doing. It makes me wonder sometimes if they had this tech all along, but it was better just to slow roll it out so they could sell multiple generations of hardware. I guess only the material scientists at these companies know what's really going on.
In a similar vein, my favorite is Windows RG (really good edition): https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/27549
You might as well be searching for articles on how climate models predict a total collapse of all life bearing capability in 6 months...

They misrepresent the culture that led to the space shuttle disasters to push a catchy statistic and somehow try to compare that with a 35 year old rocket design that isn't even supposed to carry crew, let alone nuclear material, and that's supposed to reflect on rockets that are rated for nuclear material?
Apparently not on mobile. Had to switch to desktop to see it!

(Looks like its on all pages..!)
An adjustable vector probably doesn't qualify as an "array" in the Java sense of the term: it's closer to an ArrayList. However Lisp is perfectly comfortable making zero-length simple-vectors, which are arrays in the Java sense.
> Of course housing was both typically smaller and much more cheaply built in 1970

My experience (Texas) is that homes built today might be larger but are FAR worse quality than ones even built in the 90s, let alone the 70s or (heaven forbid) the 20s. In England the same was true but on a much more extreme curve, and without being larger.
I've falled out of an e-scooter and landed on my feet so I just kept running, I'd have eaten the ground on a bike
Where do you add that? into the water softener?
Quite large scale. Last time I priced tapes out they were more expensive per TB than hard drives.
The prism goggles experiment is interesting, however is the effect of perspective ruled out? When looking between the legs the eyes are closer to the ground compared to just looking ahead while standing up, which could possibly explain why farther away objects look smaller.
I dimly recall reading about single used clay-based cups. Lowest tech FTW.
Pretty sure it's not immune to bit rot.

Have any data to back your claim?
I think it's this one:

https://www.mediastorehouse.co.uk/fine-art-finder/artists/un...
We backup 1.5 PB of data per month to tape; What alternative solution would you suggest given 'cloud' in all its guises is too expensive?
If that is the case that’s a smart move on their part, not a month goes by without someone doing that on teams.
Could be worse: After coming under Nazi control in 1938,[6] the agency had its headquarters in the same building as the Gestapo.[7] (Wikipedia)

I don't know; reading this article gives the impression that they've been persistently plagued by corruption and authoritarian influence, and not merely in the past; current head is from the UAE.
Show HN: I'm sharing my girlfriend with the world
Why the first European paintings of Australian animals look so alien to our eyes
Love when game companies just employ their best modders rather than fighting against them.
What did anyone expect? That they announce "check yourself before you wreck yourself"?

For some reason that South Park episode comes to my mind where Bush is trying to convince the world that 9/11 was done by the US government, but he has a hard time convincing others...
The use case is a return to "dumb terminals." Many "Enterprises" already go as far as they can with remote desktop and VPNs but lots of enterprises would love to issue an employee a device that runs the entire OS remotely so that the device effectively becomes just a terminal and 100% of employee generated data stays within the origination's servers and networks. I'm not saying that this makes for a good employee experience, but it's a use case.
How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview
Yes, setting between Hydra and Postgres (tuned) are somehow aligned. But what Postgres (tuned) also creates are bunch of indexes (https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/postgresq...) which adds around ~50GB of extra storage.
I am not searching for evidence for you.

Every conspiracy kook says the same thing. They repeat the same talking points and claims as everyone else. When you ask for evidence they can't give you any. They tell you to find it yourself. That's not how it works. If you claim something you give evidence or expect people to dismiss it.

untested 'vaccine'

That's the one with 12.7 BILLION doses given that ended the pandemic right?

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
If you need the following:
- Storing petabytes of data without requiring any power. Hard-drives are cheap but each one will require quite a bit of power

- Having the data be offline, ie, not available to an attacker which somehow managed to take control over your network

- Having the data be in a physical format which can be easily put in a safe or in the back of a car when there is a risk of flood or fire

- Having data on a media that won't regrade over a period of say, 10-30 years. Hard-drives tend to fail
After having helped on a lot of tape storage implementations, I get why it's useful for quick estimates on backup solutions.

Compression really is a game changer when you're over a certain amount of data you need to protect, and backup technology does some really clever space savings at basically all stages, making it hard to find a good and easy metric to help sell to management. It's a lot easier to tell management:

"These tapes hold 50 TB of production data, and we have about 45 TB in production. Backups and restores will be faster, we'll have fewer tapes to manage for backups"

than it is to explain the different types of data you need to move to tape, the expected compression ratio, etc.

That being said, I do agree they market it too much and it gets confusing, as it should only be a reference for implementation and quick calculations.
RDX is diskbased, not tape based (that is the D in the name)..

https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/storage/disk-storage-systems/remov...
It doesn’t look like the moved away from gVisor due to security reasons.
“We were able to achieve these improvements because the second generation execution environment is based on a micro VM. This means that unlike the first generation execution environment, which uses gVisor, a container running in the second generation execution environment has access to a full Linux kernel.”
A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control
ANC voters will stay if they are unhappy with the ruling party - they will not be voting for the DA.

I reckon the moonshot coalition pact will be able to squeak by if it holds together but that assumes the turncoat opportunists and backstabbers in the "Patriotic Alliance" is kept out of it.

We at a breaking point right now - outside of the Western Cape things are falling apart literally into shambles.
There are so many fascinating things about languages. Here are a couple:

- Toss people together who don't really have a common language, and they quickly evolve a pidgin, which is a very simplified kind of language that lets them communicate. Over a couple of generations, the pidgin evolves into a full language. This has happened repeatedly over history, often through things like conquering or enslaving other groups or nations.

- Isolate people, and they quickly develop their own dialect. Continue the isolation, and the dialect will diverge into a separate language. Dutch is an evolved German dialect. On the other end of Germany, Swiss German is much the same, but isn't quite regarded as its own language.

As another comment says: it really makes no sense to suppose there was one, unique, proto-language. Evolution is a gradual process, and the complexity of communication will have evolved just as gradually. Likely, different tribes will have had different communication patterns. Interbreeding, warfare and slavery will have mixed things up occasionally, but there will surely have been many different dialects and languages.
Big government already has a hundred ways of getting your SAT score, for example from the admissions department of any public university in the country. It's everyone else you should be worried about. A potential employer, landlord or bank pulling your teenage SAT score without your consent and judging you based on it is a scary but very real prospect.
Dr.Bokeh: DiffeRentiable Occlusion-Aware Bokeh Rendering
Erlang tuples are contiguous in memory for primitive values https://blog.edfine.io/blog/2016/06/28/erlang-data-represent...
Sure, let's pollute outer space, earth isn't enough.

Can't wait to see the reaction when one of these barrels inevitably hits something important to someone.
What's interesting was that back in 2019, they gave access to students' data for 47¢ per name. One of the biggest customer of this was JAMRS, a military recruitment program run by the United States Department of Defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Board
I think it's interesting to consider in evolutionary terms: "what's the tradeoff?"

Why is there the proportion of Methuselan species that there are? Why not more, or less?

One simple take is old age is adaptive: the longer you live, the more chances to mate, the more offpsring, the more likely that your genes survive, perpetuating it.

One simple counter take is old age is not adaptive: the longer you live, the more your learned skills (or "maturity bequeathed survival" in the species where it's hard to say they are learning something), permit you to steal resources from the young, lessening the chances of survival of all offspring, on average. (you may take issue with that implication but you can also see how it is true, or better yet come up with another counter take!).

A second simple counter take is each generation lives longer so there's less evolution.

I think that in a species that learns, has a big brain, and is already adaptive, it makes sense that it will try to live longer because it's primary survival advantage comes not from its evolutionary legacy but from its accrued learnings (one may dispute that, or get pedantic and say "but without the original evolution you couldn't have the accrued culture", but you can also see how it's true), so even tho it's not "evolutionary"-based adaption, it's "self tinkering"-based adaptation. The longer you live, the more you learn, the better your chance of survival. Even if not evolutionary, you "Beat the gene", and make your culture, (and yourself, and all Methusalan individuals in it) more likely to be alive...rather obviously I guess.

So if we do come across aliens from such a species (like us, or orcas, or other big-brained, learning species, but more advanced), then it's likely they live a looong time. Unless they got fussy about some ethical issue with doing so, and decided against it. But any ethics involved seems unlikely to be proscribed by a constraint on energy capture / resource usage...as that would likely be one of the other characteristics of such a civilization, by virtue of us having been able to encounter them, it seems they were already able to master that. So it's highly likely that they live a long time.

So maybe, those "longevity gap" situations that people are so fond of agonizing and preaching about...are already the case on a cosmic scale, and the present race of humans are currently the beneficiary of the "less fortunate position".

Interesting to think tho, has the first child been born that will be the last generation to face death?

I'm reminded of two verses:

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

and

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
Thanks that was useful to know. It feels like software markets have been moving from best solution to those with either distribution (MS/AWS/GOOG) or those with marketing. It's thanks to posts like this that keeps the market "honest".
Why do you need any conditioning for irrigation water?
Sounds like you interpreted that in the worst way possible. I challenge you to reply reading in the best way possible.
I am big fan of Salvatore "antirez" Sanfilippo [0].
I encourage a look at `redis`, `kilo` and his other GitHub projects.

[0]: https://github.com/antirez
Step one: move to a place where the municipality does not claim ownership on the bedrock.
By Radical feminists I assume you mean what the mainstream culture calls TERFs? If so I think that's a good point, and funny how both the DEI enforcement officers in HR and the countercultural elements putting stickers on bus stops call themselves the same thing.
You could bypass that with a domestic wastewater treatment plant.
Parody or not, I wish I could apply for citizenship at Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong
I'm not making an argument for Ludditism.

I'm making an argument that we need new laws, different than the current ones, which are predicated on current supply limitations and scarcity.

And that those new laws should redirect some profits from models to those whose work they were trained on during the temporary dislocation period.

And separately... that lobotomizing our human artistic talent pool is going to have the same effect that replacing our human journalism talent pool did. But that's a different topic.
Interesting, but I don’t understand how it is better than regular captchas for this task

Maybe captcha serving itself can be DDoSed, because of the image size?
Think about tape as an archiving tool, rather than a backup-and-restore tool.

(The three major tiers are A: I accidentally deleted a file or directory yesterday, so I need to get a copy from snapshots; B: the machine I was working on exploded, so I need to rebuild it and repopulate it with my data; C: archive for some need in the far future)

Suppose you have large quantities of data that you need to preserve for legal reasons -- it's always legal reasons, unless you are in academia or similar -- but you will not be accessing much. That's when you use tapes.

For most other purposes, you want a snapshotting filesystem or an offsite filesystem made from those snapshots.
the bulk of tech foresight - Metaverse, Gargoyles, Earth (Google Earth)... I think it's foundational. the fact it lagged several years behind the sprawl trilogy, mirrorshades, or schismatrix, etc isn’t relevant imo

Edited to be more polite - my intention was not to be rude or uncivil.
We're just not that good at managing AI yet.

Current agent-based systems are little more than toys ... but this situation is improving very rapidly.
While I haven't used the equipment here, I own a number of consumer- and low-end professional-grade thermal imagers. Resolution and NETD differ, but I expect the overall behaviors are similar.

They're remarkably good at not letting point sources blow out the image. That's a very important performance parameter, since often you're not concerned with the hottest point, but the parts immediately adjacent, so you can see how heat is flowing through the device being inspected. A lot of investment and IP goes into this -- since the hot spot _will_ heat the imaging array, and on older imagers it would cause streaking if moved, modern ones do extensive thermal modeling of the array itself to try to cancel out this effect, all baked into FPGAs so it can be done in real-time. They're very good at it.

A very naïve implementation may have auto-scaling for the color palette, in which case a hot-spot would skew the palette and make cooler stuff hard to distinguish, but that would be a total amateur mistake. Setting the palette to highlight human skin temperature is like step 1 of any such operation.

Insulated umbrellas, or just big aluminized-mylar space-blankets, would definitely play havoc with the image. An AI people-counter trained on the image would probably lose its marbles, but a human looking at it would quickly understand what's going on and make some educated guesses. It's very hard to hide your thermal signature for very long, which is why thermal imaging is so important in warfighting.
The author is a member of the Rust team. https://nnethercote.github.io/about-me.html

Their blog posts are also posted multiple times on Hacker News by different identities.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nnethercote.github.io

Seems odd that this wouldn’t go into an official Rust blog when you’re a member of the team and instead published on your personal domain and blog.
Site must have received an HN hug of death, so not sure what method it reccomends.

There's a (university research group?) called WOT that uploads videos to Youtube with different low cost/low tech techniques, my favorite one being with a hand drill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQRhsoSCXvg
Wikipedia Will Survive A.I
We can't all agree on what best means.

It can't be objective since we are humans.

HN guidelines and moderation are doing a decent job of promoting interestingness in general. I don't think upvotes are a reliable indicator, but maybe they are as close to good enough as a system can be.

Depending on timing, you see great topics flying under the radar. Likewise, "poor" posts regularly prove to be quite popular. But then again, this is also subjective.
Yes, but otherwise, there is no permission required for a peaceful assembly.
I have seen similar commitment from other indie developers. For example, one of my favourite games [1] (which is something of a cross between Factorio, Simcity and OpenTTD) has been available for that "early access" on Steam for 4 years (like Factorio was).

I suppose that means in the developer's opinion, the game is not quite ready -- they wouldn't sell it to someone who expects a complete game. Caveat emptor. Fair enough. In practice it has been playable and enjoyable (at least by me) since first listed on Steam in 2019. New features and more polish come every few weeks, and it's coming up on 1.0. I don't know if they'll keep supporting it well after that, but it's clear to me they want to sell something good and complete, however long that might take, not just something profitable.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources... (Windows only but runs great under WINE)
Historians and linguists generally agree that Sumerian, Akkadian and Egyptian are the oldest languages with a clear written record. All three are extinct

Umm, what? Coptic is a (barely) living Egyptian. It is close enough for us to have deciphered hieroglyphs, hieratic, and demotic, at the old, middle, and late stages. Yes the Greek on the Rosetta stone helped but Coptic sealed the deal, particularly with transliteration. Thus I would say using the term “Egyptian” to refer to any particular language with obvious stages and then saying it’s dead when you have a stage still spoken is absurd, and does a great disservice to linguistic communities that need help. I expect better from a publication as “woke” as Scientific American. Copts and their language may not be thriving nor reviving but news of the death of the Egyptian language is a bit exaggerated.
> It would be comical if it weren't so dystopian

Dystopian? It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality. Why insist it's something imaginary?
TSMC is already having issues in Arizona as the local air-conditioning union wants them to employ locals but they need specialists from overseas and not folks who only know about office and home HVAC systems.

Where are the tradeschools in the US ???.
The average age of a plumber/joinery tradesman ???.
I do the same! Using it for non-serious things just adds an extra level of irony. Funniest example I saw was "This is not a place of honor" on the back of some booty shorts
Article is clickbait/ragebait. They're not sending your scores. If you do a search for colleges who accept scores in a certain range, your search parameters are tracked, just like any other search parameters.
People done stupid things before :) good luck
That assumes there are as built plans. I live in an area of the US with a lot of old houses and there certainly aren't as built plans for 100-200+ year old houses or a string of permits for any substantial work.

(Well/septic tend to get more scrutiny at a sale but the status of old renovations/remodels in general are often pretty opaque.)
I watched the footage and was expecting facial details / recognition. But none of that.