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Ask HN: Info on Modern NonStop (a.k.a. Tandem NonStop) Architecture
I've always found the NonStop systems interesting. I've read the Tandem Tech Reports. The report on the 'NonStop Advanced Architecture' by David Bernick et al. is the most recent detailed paper I could find.

I haven't been able to find any detailed information about how CLIMs fit in compared to earlier NonStop systems.

I know CLIMs are a standard(?) 1U server running a custom Debian Linux, but do they serve up a raw volume of storage? Has the Enscribe filesystem been "ported" to Linux? Do they run a portion of the Disc Process?

Any pointers to info, or a paper would be appreciated.

Alternatively, please tell me that this all Dunning-Kruger level questions that don't even make sense.
Bitcoin is wealth in the cloud. There's immense utility in being able to digitalize your wealth, including higher mobility and, since it is a decentralized network, assurance that it won't be inflated, confiscated and that you will have the freedom to transact it with whoever you want.
Recent studies confirm earlier works that show that household political views strongly influence teenage mental health.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/548381/quality-parent-child-rel...

[2] https://www.carolinajournal.com/report-conservative-parents-...

[3] https://ifstudies.org/blog/parenting-is-the-key-to-adolescen...
What matters is whether the suggestions are actually good, not where they came from.
I'm pretty sure that "removing the free soda/coffee/tee/biscuits" is an intentional action to reduce headcount. The effect it has on productivity by destroying morale is vastly more than the money saved. I noticed this at my very first job (a govt. owned company which had to remove a bunch of perks because of bad media coverage of an unrelated scandal, because the "optics" were bad), and I just refuse to believe that the "people in charge" (generally; the MBA suit and tie crowd) are too dumb to understand this.

It must be intentional even if nobody admits it, and it's a way to drive out people. Ironically, it also drives out the people that know they have better options, while you're left with the worst workers who are desperate and don't think they can get another job. But they don't care as long as the headcount target is met, and they can get that performance bonus.
That issue on GitHub isn't locked. You could ask them about security implications on it.
Has School Become Optional?
not sure why this is being down voted. as someone who worked "internal recovery" at banks in the 90s, you'd be surprised how much stolen money is not reported anywhere

if the law was iffy for freaking banks then, imagine how it is for btc
If they diverge, an arbitrage opportunity will appear which market participants will jump on.
It is big but not that insane. Think about it: these probes are accelerated with a 100GW laser, they are not getting more energy. So cut the middleman and shoot that 100GW laser at the planet directly.

On Earth, we get about 1kW/m2 from the sun. So 100GW is what we get from a 100km2 patch of land. So, all the energy from the system is enough to turn night into day for an area the size of a medium sized city.

Of course, it is not a continuous beam, so it would be more like an explosion. It would be nuke-sized if it wasn't for losses, but obviously, there would be losses. But the thing is, we are not destroying planets with the energies we get from a 100GW laser.

Edit: Also, at these speeds, the probe is a bunch of high energy particles causing nuclear reactions along their way, things like chemical bonds don't make much sense. There is an XKCD What-If about relativistic object hitting earth. Not the same scale, but it may give some idea of the physics involved. https://what-if.xkcd.com/20/
That article makes a helpful distinction, thanks!
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
I want a CIA coffee mug so bad
I downloaded this and played around with it a little.

I’m a little skeptical of something that ditches traditional music notation for piano roll, doesn’t offer any ways to reorganize sections of your song, and then gives you a bunch of tools for key signatures, modes, polymeter, and microtonal music. I’m trying to think of a programming analogy—it’s like checking out a new programming language that has dependent types, higher-kinded types and monads, and a borrow checker, but no strings or integers.

It’s really easy for those of us with analytical, mathematical minds to go diving into the more esoteric parts of music theory. Set theory, microtonality and alternative tuning systems, esoteric scales and cataloging all these different scales—but then you fuck up the basics or miss them completely. I noticed that the “major” scale is only available under its more esoteric name, the “ionian” scale, and then there are five different versions of locrian to choose from, not counting the ones outside 12-EDO.

https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-sequencer/blob/develop/Res...

Even with all these esoteric features, there is no such thing as, say, Eb. There is only D#. As programmers, we really want to normalize all our data so that it’s represented in exactly one way, but as a musician I like having both sharps and flats around. They’re convenient and make the music easier to read.

This is a neat tool for playing around with scales and tunings, but it seems like absolute hell to try and write music this way.
ChatGPT being used by bot accounts on Twitter
Wish I could find a job where I don’t do this three months in.
> I'd challenge people who hold negative views on Bitcoin to name some other systems for which this holds true.

Pointless challenge, those aren't good qualities. Also money is worthless, unless you like looking at pieces of paper depicting death national heroes, it's worthless, don't understand why are bitcoiners fixated giving money value.

It's just meant to be traded not hoarded. It had a value when it was pegged to gold. Rich people have companies, real estate, airplanes, art, jewellery, bonds, but relatively little money.

Anyway, literally any other cryptocurrency share these properties. Some even technologically better, yet completely ignored.
There’s nothing fundamentally destructive about climate change. It’s the pace and scale of climate change which is potentially catastrophic.

Ecosystems experience “disturbances” all the time. Trees fall. Animals dig up plant beds. Extreme fire and ice kill flora and fauna. These “disturbances” aren’t truly often destructive though: they encourage succession and biodiversity. Seed banks and migration allow new life to be expressed and fill the disturbance.

The problem is when disturbances are coming so fast and on such a wide scale that migration can’t keep up or the seed bank is destroyed. In such a situation, biodiversity and overall living mass can nosedive. You end up with a desert which will take millions of years to come back to life.

In the power plant example, the heat “pollution” likely killed off or drove off some species within an area. But it was isolated enough that surrounding ecologies and latent genes could fill the hole, and in fact drive succession and biodiversity further forward than it had been. That’s fine and good, and not true “pollution” in my mind. Or at least not the bad kind.
https://archive.ph/bDVdy

LONDON—The U.K. government has taken the rare step of proposing a law to overturn hundreds of convictions of people running post offices across Britain who were found guilty of theft or false accounting, an attempt to rectify a miscarriage of justice that has dragged on for decades.

Between 1999 and 2015, some 983 convictions were brought against people managing post office branches across the country, after faulty accounting software mistakenly showed money missing from their business accounts.

The convictions devastated the lives of hundreds of postmasters and postmistresses—who were self-employed and operated local post offices like a franchise—many of whom were driven into bankruptcy and some of whom ended up in jail. Four died by suicide. One postmistress was jailed while pregnant. Others spent their savings trying to make up shortfalls in their post-office accounts which the accounting system, called Horizon, erroneously flagged. Some 60 have died before having their convictions quashed.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday that legislation would soon be presented to Parliament to ensure convictions are scrapped and compensation is paid, in an unusual move that would see Parliament overturn decisions made by the courts. “This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history,” he said.

From various sources:

https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/en/horizon-scandal-pages/...

The Horizon system was first introduced from 1999. Prosecutions in which Horizon evidence may have featured took place between 1999 and 2015.

Is Horizon still being used?

Yes. There have been several versions of Horizon since its introduction in 1999 and the current version of the system, introduced from 2017, was found in the group litigation to be robust, relative to comparable systems. But we are not complacent about that and are continuing to work, together with our postmasters, to make improvements.

We will be moving away from Horizon to a new IT cloud-based system that will be more user-friendly and easier to adapt for new products and services. This is currently being developed with the involvement of our Postmasters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67921298

Calls grow for Fujitsu to pay for Post Office injustice

She is angry the Japanese-owned company, which developed the software at the heart of the affair, is still winning government contracts 20 years after the problems first arose.

Fujitsu said it was sorry for its role in sub-postmasters' suffering.

But there is a growing chorus calling for action over the firm's role.

No-one from Fujitsu has been held to account for failures with Horizon, the software it supplied to the Post Office. The firm has not paid any compensation to victims and has continued to win government contracts for its IT services worth billions of pounds.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but psychedelics occasionally create traumatic experiences for people. They can also worsen or trigger depressive episodes.

The stories you read online are largely the result of selection bias from psychedelic enthusiasts. The idea that psychedelics can only produce improvements or good experiences is an internet myth.
"People want you to do well but not better than them."
I have recently tried out using GPT4 and other LLMs to help with writing documentation in another language (I speak, read and write it good enough for daily tasks but technical writing is a challenge). I tried it mostly out of the pure fact that many people who knew me at the workplace enjoyed my documentation and code comments because they kinda reflected a comedic / frank nature of what was going on in the code/program. However, it always struck a nerve that my writing while not native or technical brought enjoyment but the need to provide quality technical documents was something I always felt. So, instead of having a co-worker take time to explain what parts of my sentence were non-technical or could be clearer an LLM is more than happy to tell me so I can write better. I feel that when it comes to linguistics LLMs can help those who need to communicate at higher levels get better with less proof-reading required before publishing. It isn't the machine translation of yesterday and it won't replace human interaction but it certainly in my case helps to make my sentences more nuanced to the native audience.
Ordinary consumer electronics can tolerate far higher G forces than the human pilot can. A standard technique is to simply liberally coat the electronics in epoxy resin, but that's only really needed for things like the guidance electronics in artillery shells.

E.g.: Here's a drone reaching nearly 13 Gs, which would incapacitate or even injure a human: https://imgur.com/SHbDK2l

One recent change is that modern electronics uses mostly surface-mount components, which are not easily dislodged by g forces. Older electronics used large discrete components with wire legs (capacitors, inductors, etc...), which had a tendency to bend back and forth and eventually break off.

However, tender requirements aren't changed just because technology has moved on. The paperwork must be completed as specified! The vendors must show that their new technology that doesn't have these problems includes solutions for problems only present in old technology! Etc...

This results in 20-30 year old technology being used in new warplanes rolling off the production line today.

But rest assured, it's being done properly, with all the correct paperwork filled out! Everything in order.

Meanwhile, for the price of one of the two cooling fans on that monstrosity, I could buy half a dozen embedded processors made with silicon-on-insulator technology, which is also rad-hard, and have a 5-way system with majority voting and a hot spare... still running off a battery and cooled passively.
Running an app store for consumers just seems wayyyy off course from their stated goal of building AGI. Running any kind of two-sided marketplace with paying customers is quite a big undertaking, I just can't see how this is the best use of their resources and attention if they want to pursue their mission.
My daughter isn't allowed to watch Home Alone by herself, but she's allowed to watch it with either my wife or I. Parental Guidance.

But neither my wife nor I have any interest in Home Alone 2 being in our personal profile Suggestion lists.

And when my wife is trying to bring up Home Alone 2 to watch with my daughter, she doesn't need my daughter seeing Naked European Romance Drama showing up in the Continue Watching.
I meant that currencies that etfs :)
> Drugs and gambling do not hurt others.

They ruin families, neighborhoods, cities.
We settled on Chakra (https://chakra-ui.com/). Although we also abandoned our ambitions of a Next.js migration, so... I guess it didn't really end up mattering all that much anyway.
You don't seem as curious as you say you'd be, framing all criticism as hostility or simple antagonism. I don't think you've considered what you're missing not trying to understand why people don't care about bitcoin.
Micromanagers love structure and process. They'll give you more structure and process and management than anyone asked for.

There's nothing special about structure and process that makes it immune to micromanagement.
What does that mean ? Most wealth is in the cloud, you don’t need Bitcoin for this. I don’t have any paper stock certificates.
The article doesn't say who gets the proceeds of the fine. It's a fairly important piece of information since it is conceivable that the countries that were hurt by the corruption may not see any of it.
what codec are you suggesting is better, and how much better is it? unless encoders have wildly improved, alac's from apple is not better than flac. ape and wavpack seems to do a bit better, but not much
> Enough sunlight lands on the Earth every 2 minutes to power humanity for a year [1]. ~500-600GW of solar will be deployed in 2024 globally, and we are accelerating to 1TW deployed annually [2].

Enough sunlights lands on earth every two minutes to power humanity if the whole surface of the planet including ocean was fully covered by 100% efficient solar panels. How is this even remotely relevant when we don't have close to the material needed to achieve that coverage and the efficiency of panels is famously extremely low.

The deployment in 2024 is - as usual - expressed in "theoretical max power". Which is nowhere near the actual throughput, and of course orders of magnitude higher than the "when I need it" actually delivery. Again; big numbers don't mean big results; real life scenario matter here, theoretical best is far less relevant.

Additionally, quoting "pv-magazine-usa.com" on this subject must be some kind of silly joke considering that it could as well be named "lobby-webiste-with-a-clear-political-agenda-to-push-for-photovoltaic-and-prove-it-also-cures-cancer.com" and no-one wold bat an eye. Similarly, other HN comment written by yourself usually don't count as "sources" for statements.
There are many other reasons people pirate, it's not all about convenience and cost. Personally I would never pay a cent to Disney again, because I do not like them and do not want to support their business. A lot of people would not pirate anything if they could pay the creators directly, without the questionable middlemen.

The good news is that many of the problems can be solved with a single solution. Bring back pay-to-own, make it convenient by having marketplaces where you simply pick and payments are done automatically in the background. Give artists and creators the ability to self-publish on the platforms. That in turn will bring down the cost, because now the money goes directly to them.

What's that you say, a team of hundreds of people has worked on a movie? That can all be baked into the token if payments are handled by a smart contract and they can each get their exact percentage with each sale.

Seems a lot fairer for everyone involved. It will also increase quality again, or at least give a boost to productions people want to see. The issue with the current model is that viewers are not directly voting with the wallets anymore, the studios do it for them. That will not stand, there is a growing disconnect between what these corporations produce and what people actually want to see. You can hear people complain all over about how the quality of movies and TV shows is declining. The subscription model is flawed, sooner or later it will die.
I do wish the filters were better though, they're really not very good, just basic cellulose. They're mainly to catch big stuff like pet hair. Nowhere near a HEPA.
I didn't know this much about filters before.

Let's look at 2 situations.

One is you are running the same air through the filter all day.

The other is you are using a vacuum cleaner that is sucking up dust from the floor and pumping out that air.

I assume in the vacuum cleaner case, you are better off with a higher performing filter since you need to trap that dust on first pass through, whereas with the filter that is circulating the air all day, you get a "second chance" to capture a given particle?
> Drugs and gambling do not hurt others.

Please spend like 30 seconds of analytical thinking trying to poke holes in this. It's remarkably easy to disprove. The challenge is what if anything we choose to do about the harms that they can cause.
Reminds me of the number 23. Critics kind of panned it but I think it’s entertaining :-)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0481369/
Thank God for your last quote. The nightmare of the police or whatever reading even what you don't think about would be total. Hopefully they will not find a way to make it work on uncooperative persons any time soon.
Slippage in the price of cabbages at my corner market? I don't think so.

There's very good evidence that as the finance sector grows to be a larger portion of the economy (which it very much is compared to 50 years ago) that increasing inequality goes along with it, as the profits made in the finance sector are mostly rent seeking from the rest of the economy. You could also interpret it as a private tax on all other economic activity.
A man behind the CIA gift store, the country's most secretive swag shop
https://archive.org/details/statisticsofdead0000rich/
Sure, but there is difference between "racist things happen" and truly systemic oppression at the state-level like it was in the U.S. when Black people didn't have equal rights, or during South African Apartheid. Israel just isn't like that. And neither is Texas.

But if one truly believes that there should be no such state as Israel (i.e. it was illegal in the first place and shouldn't have happened) — and there is "only Palestine", "from the river to the sea" — then yes, I get how one can claim that Israel is an apartheid state.

From this perspective, Israel would need to grant full citizenship to all Palestinians automatically (essentially becoming Palestine under Hamas rule, or something worse). And since this isn't happening, they label it apartheid. So, it ultimately becomes about the very right of Israel to exist as a state. And here, I just can't understand how one could deny the Israeli people their own country. Isn't that just rooted in hate?
> I'm really not a coffee connoisseur by any meaning of the word, but even I know that what comes out of a k-cup machine is brewed coffee, not espresso.

No, that's his passphrase
https://archive.ph/ov0wF
I don't suppose that too many people are terrified of these things, but many (including me) find them mildly unsettling. I imagine trypophobia is similar in that sense.
> Why would I trust someone who doesn’t work in or on computers in computer security?

I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm deeply familiar with this field. I know very much what I'm talking about.

> The same argument can be made for literally any new technology

Asimov pointed this out a long time ago. This is the first time our technology has had the ability to replicate and modify itself for its own benefit before we started engineering it. As somebody who's engineered viruses, I know how easily something like COVID could have been a lab leak without any malicious intent.

Let's say we engineer a better nitrogen fixation pathway and give it to a microbe to help crops. What happens when that microbe washes into a nearby stream, river, watershed and then discovers its better off without our crop. What's to stop it from giving the nitrogen to the water around it, causing algal blooms, oxygen starvation, and dieoff? Preventing its spread would be impossible and could lead to the destruction of freshwater ecosystems. This is just a mildly-plausibly hypothetical, but I also know there are active experiments like this in the United States right now, in outdoor test plots, and the safety in place is just people like you and me who are 'policing ourselves'
They produce financial services. Miners have cash flows from the transaction fees.
For the judicial system’s behavior to result from capitalism would imply that our economic policy is baked into our foundational doctrine. I was just pointing out that capitalism did not beget our legal system.
GBTC has two problems:

1. fees are absolutely insane
2. it doesn't actually track Bitcoin price

A proper ETF which aims to be competitive might be much closer to actual BTC ownership
As someone who has attempted to license a paid Half-Life 2 mod, there's a pre and post-"Hunt Down The Freeman" era. From my understanding working with other licensees, it was so bad that they no longer want anyone working with their IP.

Valve doesn't work with the mod community anymore; they've pivoted hard into only working with UGC creators, which they do not consider the same.

Free mods can continue to exist, but it has to be within their walled garden, and done in ways that they approve of, and they offer no support or guidance. Even for licensees who have blessed support, they no longer have a dedicated Source Engine contact and haven't for years, or even over a decade(?).

Anything that is non-Source is a non-starter.

Most professionals have moved on to working with other IP or developing their own. Frankly, I'm surprised anyone does anything with Valve's stuff anymore, or they're too unfamiliar with working with Valve that they don't understand that their era of absorbing mods and turning them into full-fledged in-house IP is over and they don't treat fans the same way they did in the early aughts. The staff has changed dramatically and Newell himself appears less engaged in the company all together.

Seemingly, you can't get anything done at Valve, or working with them now. There are isolated teams there that work on hardware or existing legacy IP that generates cash flow from UGC work, but that's all Valve does now.