skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In terms of power for an equivalent amount of storage the SSDs require much more (SSD and HDD use about the same amount of power).

O RLY?

Toshiba X300
4TB 16TB 10TB 8TB
Operating W 6.81 6.91 9.48 8.41
Idle W 4 4.03 7.22 5.61

Samsung 870 QVO 8TB
Operating W 2.4/3.3 (R/W)
Idle W 0.045

> But you're talking transient spin-up power of course which is significant and might require an external power supply which costs money

You need an external PSU for 3.5" HDDs because they require 12V and 5V. 870 QVO only require 5V.

> The physical space required is not significantly different

Come on:

3.5" HDD: 26 x 147 x 100 = 382200 mm3 (Toshiba X300)
2.5" SSD: 7 x 70 x 100 = 49000 mm3 (Kingston A400)
382200 / 49000 = 7.8

870 QVO is listed as "100 X 69.85 X 6.8 (mm)" so essentially the same

> Random IO bandwidth doesn't matter at all when you're putting it at the end of an ethernet connection to an rpi.

Ah, yes, because everyone is only doing sequential IO to NAS, like you?

Sorry, but you arguing here in a bad faith and without even a bits of a basic knowledge.
This is actually quite insane if you consider that this is intended to be tame language.

"The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred. The Board also concludes that Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul, particularly in light of the company’s centrality in the technology ecosystem and the level of trust customers place in the company to protect their data and operations.

The Board reaches this conclusion based on:
1. the cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed;

2. Microsoft’s failure to detect the compromise of its cryptographic crown jewels on its own, relying instead on a customer to reach out to identify anomalies the customer had observed;

3. the Board’s assessment of security practices at other cloud service providers, which maintained security
controls that Microsoft did not;

4. Microsoft’s failure to detect a compromise of an employee's laptop from a recently acquired company prior to allowing it to connect to Microsoft’s corporate network in 2021;

5. Microsoft’s decision not to correct, in a timely manner, its inaccurate public statements about this incident, including a corporate statement that Microsoft believed it had determined the likely root cause of the intrusion when in fact, it still has not; even though Microsoft acknowledged to the Board in November 2023 that its September 6, 2023 blog post about the root cause was inaccurate, it did not update that post until March 12, 2024, as the Board was concluding its review and only after the Board’s repeated questioning about
Microsoft’s plans to issue a correction;

6. the Board's observation of a separate incident, disclosed by Microsoft in January 2024, the investigation of which was not in the purview of the Board’s review, which revealed a compromise that allowed a different nation-state actor to access highly-sensitive Microsoft corporate email accounts, source code repositories, and internal systems; and

7. how Microsoft’s ubiquitous and critical products, which underpin essential services that support national
security, the foundations of our economy, and public health and safety, require the company to demonstrate
the highest standards of security, accountability, and transparency."
Integrating Compressed CO2 Energy Storage in an Integrated Energy System
Some merchants reject cards with higher fees; i.e., Amex is not accepted at some merchants with lower margins (i.e., grocery stores).

It would be impractical for merchants to accept some branded cards and not others. Imagine "we accept "Chase Premium One" card, but not "Chase American Airlines" card." Very confusing for consumers. If it's a whole category, like Amex, it's easier to refuse it (besides, low income consumers are unlikely to have an Amex card).
GPUses
As an "unlucky" person, I can't help but wonder: what about an alternative version of the experiment where the newspaper contained the big "This newspaper has 43 photographs" text - followed by 44 photographs?

(This "unlucky" - or perhaps "paranoid" - mindset has, frankly, made me a damn good programmer and debugger.)
It was when I was working at HP/HPE/DXC (I don't remember what it was at the time), I don't remember what they used.
In theory if the people used the in-car travel planning features it shouldn't have been a problem, but if Hertz wasn't telling them about that then you could have a very stressful experience.
How would rust help you when you're executing jitted code (ie assembly)? The fizzbuzz code would run in rust but the event handler would still be unsafe jitted code.
> The money extracted by the credit card companies and Visa causes merchants to raise prices for everyone regardless of whether they have a rewards card or use a credit card at all.

Case studies indicate otherwise.

Dodd-Frank Act postulated what you stated, that higher fees result in higher prices for consumers ... and if you lowered the fees for the merchants, merchants would lower their prices (to pass along that savings back to the consumers).

But studies have shown otherwise, and merchants did not lower fees.

https://www.cutimes.com/2015/09/03/durbin-failing-to-lower-m...
I don't get why you're being so hostile.

Nobody is asking you to cry for Tesla owners or feel bad for them. If anything, this is more of a Tesla problem to solve as it reduces the likelihood of those wealthy buyers buying another Tesla in the future as it's another negative data point to consider.

People want to know what they can expect when making a huge purchase. When the pros outweigh the cons, and I would say worse than average depreciation is a pretty big con, then buyers will look elsewhere.
Maybe we’ll see decent PPPoE performance from PFSense in the future then - had to move to OpenWrt as PFSense has a single threaded implementation
> There is an urgent need for smaller, simpler software. When something is too big to understand, then you can't take it apart and make something smaller out of it.

And the first step is stopping the practice of adding 6 extra layers of container/vm/etc abstraction on top of everything making it infeasible to debug or understand.
Can't this be rewritten in plain English as "unsophisticated (dumb) people don't know how to use credit cards in their own interest?". Isn't that just the free in free market?

Why is a principled objection to a paternalistic state intervening to protect dumb people from making bad decisions seen as unethical? What entitles dumb people to such protection?
Yeah, I think this is a joke, but only because it's a big change announced on April 1; it reads pretty serious. Especially the part about how TrueNAS already made the switch - that was my first though on seeing the headline.
Many industrial applications are x86
I think I remember reading in an interview with O'Bannon, likely linked from hn when he died, that he came up with the idea for Alien after experiencing a cinema audience in terrified silence through the elevator scene, instead of the intended laughs. Something along the lines of "if I can't make them laugh but make them fear without even trying, what if I do try?" If there's and truth to this story, Alien is quite literally a remake of a Dark Star side story, just pivoted a bit.

Never heard about that Jodorowsky angle before, thanks. Must be the most influencial movie that never happened.
Ah thank you, I must clarify! I was terribly and unintentionally ambiguous earlier.

I didn't mean earlier members as in people who joined HN in the early years, rather I meant the people who tend to react and comment within maybe the first 30 minutes after a post/comment.

I actually find the early members (as in the early 2010s and before) to be among the best. I have no idea if they are downvoters or not, but some of my favorite conversations on HN have been with these users.

As far as sourcing, definitely take with a big grain of salt because this is also purely anecdata that I've noticed from spending way too much time on HN, both repeatedly having my own comments downvoted initially while (usually) rising up over time, and observing the same phenomenon on many other people's comments.
I will clearly state which payment methods are free and which ones the customer will pay a conveniance fee or recieve a discount if they use. I will clearly show the customer at checkout what their total is with their chosen payment and shipping (if applicable) options would be, and give them the opportunity to change their selection. It is about customer choice and convenience. You are welcome to shop somewhere else that bundles these expenses into the price of the item and givea you no choice in avoiding them.
There are invasive and non-invasive BCI capabilities, and their ranges vary. E.g. Neural Lace is a surgically invasive BCI capability. A dry electrode EEG cap is a noninvasive BCI sensor.

If a noninvasive BCI capability can write to a brain, is it a Directed Energy Weapon? And so I suspect the applications maybe limited. Certain states don't even allow video biometrics in banks, casinos, or prisons FWIU.

IDK much about eye tracking.

I know that there exist patients with ocular movement disorders like amblyopia/strabismus/exotropia and nystagmus. The equitability of eye-tracking only interfaces is limited if they do not work with eye movement disorders, which are more common than not having at least one hand.

If the system must detect which eye movement disorder a patient has in order to work, is it 1) doing automated diagnosis, which is unlikely to have 100% accuracy; and 2) handling sensitive PHI Personal Health Information without consent, and 3) capturing biometric information without consent.

I understand that (when people have consented), eye tracking experiments yield helpful UX design research data like UI heatmaps that can help developers make apps more accessible.

Practically, how do you turn off the eye tracking component and use the app without the fancy gestural HID; and if one is suddenly distracted by something else in the FOV, is there unintentional input?

/? awesome eye tracking: https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+eye+tracking

awesome-gaze-estimation:
https://github.com/cvlab-uob/Awesome-Gaze-Estimation

Community response to a benign opt-in art project that merges eye tracking data from viewers might be ethically studied in estimating viability of a competing BCI HID approach.
In this case it's because they are Dutch people writing in English.

English education in the Netherlands may not place a strong emphasis on the correct use of apostrophes and plural forms, as these are often considered minor details compared to other aspects of the language, such as vocabulary and grammar. In Dutch, apostrophes are not used for indicating possession or contractions, and plurals are formed by adding -en or -s without an apostrophe. This difference can lead to Dutch speakers incorrectly applying their native language rules when writing in English.

In most cases, Dutch plurals are formed by adding -en or -s to the end of the noun without an apostrophe, e.g., "auto's" (cars), "huizen" (houses), or "boeken" (books).

However, apostrophes are used in Dutch plural forms in specific cases:

- Abbreviations: "cd's" (CDs), "tv's" (TVs), "pk's" (horsepower)

- Letters: "a's en b's" (a's and b's), "x'en" (x's)

- Some loanwords: "pizza's" (pizzas), "taxi's" (taxis), "baby's" (babies)

In some cases, the apostrophe is used to avoid confusion or for readability, especially when the plural form might be misinterpreted, e.g., "foto's" (photos) instead of "fotos" which could be read as a different word.
I can't wait to see the responses on Happy 418 Day.
Totally agree. This aggressive stance about xz suddenly is not even helpful to anyone. xz has been and will always be my preferred compression algorithm for times to come, despite this pitfall of really insane levels of social engineering.
I feel for the author having burn out and such, but in all fairness, xz is one of the best compression formats of today's time and still going.
I'm in the West and it's surprisingly easy to find hotels with chargers. Granted, they tend to be hotels like the Hilton or Marriott.

Some states are generally just better about it as well. Nevada, in particular, has pretty excellent charge infrastructure in remote locations.
Interesting observation. I'm not convinced it's because it's referring to a group per se. In that example, I think it's the "the" which creates that sense of other-ness. Contrast:

Jews are a growing demographic in America

The Jews are a growing demographic in America

The first seems neutral, while the second seems critical. With the latter, I get the distinct impression that the writer has negative views of Jews and doesn't count themselves among that group, but with the former, I don't get any impression either way.

Here's another example. "Study: Blacks in U.S. remain at higher heart disease risk than whites" (https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2021/study-blacks-us-remain-h...). This sentence feels neutral, at least for a headline, and not dehumanizing of either black people or white people.

At any rate, my belief is that playing semantic games doesn't help to improve peoples' empathy. I think whatever empathy exists was already there, and semantic games are at best a filter to detect which people were empathetic already, and which people were not. Unfortunately, this filter has a high false-negative rate that mis-classifies empathetic people who just can't keep up with ever-evolving language trends.
I run a quote/clip from this movie in my cybersecurity classes

"Doolittle I do have a malfunction on this readout, but I can't
pinpoint it exactly.

Don't worry about it. We'll find out what it is when it goes bad."

Basically the entire history of software engineering in a nutshell in a
1974 movie.
Retailers like Peloton delay paying vendors, signaling 'financial distress'
When efail came out, I wrote a blogpost about the security risks of HTML mail.

It is really amazing how problematic all of this is, despite its widespread use. The HTML mail spec is really old, and contains almost no security considerations.

HTML in emails can only be a subset of HTML to be secure. But nobody has ever defined what exactly that subset is, so everyone does whatever they think. And unsurprisingly, this leads to an endless stream of security flaws.

See:
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/894-Efail-HTML-Mails-have-no...
Predicting a higher monthly price for us - doesn’t feel like an improvement from this current customer’s perspective.
Vercels hosting is ok. I prefer cloudflare and AWS but vercel is still best for next.js first class support. Especially on newest versions. For instance, server functions currently don’t work on cloudflares nextjs hosting. There’s some discussion about it on discord and GitHub. However, once something becomes the new fad and takes over from nextjs, I’m not sure what vercel will do.

Also checking the vercel page, they have so many investors, how do they all expect a company predicated on a JavaScript framework to be around in 10 years.
They can take either; waiting for confirmations is only a matter of reducing double-spend risk.

In practice, seconds after a transaction has been signed and broadcast, it is already very unlikely to double-spend. Miner incentives are such that the first-seen transaction is the most likely to be used. A delay of a couple seconds is sufficient to account for network-propagation lag.

You wouldn't do this for high-value transactions, but there's some threshold where real-world risk is lower than the convenience of a fast transaction, and that threshold is reasonably high.
Not many people want to drive a car that has been used as a short-term rental, because they're a guarantee for needing a replacement clutch and engine at least

Well, obviously not in this case. Battery health would be the only real concern, I suppose, and that hasn't proven to be an issue so far.
Depending on the specifics on what do you mean: Truenas.
proof: https://imgur.com/a/vqSeU8c

Sup people, it’s P4x, proof above. just hearing opinions from everyone. Great so far and giving me lots of ideas. I’ll be in and off here in general so feel free to ask me any questions or throw out any comments. Just don’t be a dick about it and i’ll answer :).
Reminds me of Regina Spektor's style.

And some of the generated phenomes actually just sound like stylistic auto-tuning. I kind of like it.

I'm sure many have already observed this, but I think the thing that most artists fear from AI is not that AI will be able to produce works on parr or superior to human works, but that most people won't care enough to value the difference.
So would this mean that with a few more transmitting and receiving antennas it could have comparable resolution to lidar?
Where is it problematic? On PCIe 4, you can run a high end graphics card and multiple SSDs over PCIe no problem. Bandwidth is not an issue there.

If you're doing some server stuff, then maybe. But for normal consumers it's not an issue.
These should help.

Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Seventh Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Strategic-Missile-Guidance-S...

Tactical missile warheads
https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Warheads-Progress-Astronauti...
they’ve been popular for a while in latin america
I wish marketers realized that as a developer, and a senior one at that, I have no say in what software my company pays for. I have a daily flood of messages from salespeople on email, linkedin, even text and calls asking me to "try out <hot SaaS product> for your team", and I get frustrated trying to explain that no, that's now how things work at corporations beyond a certain size. A simple software license or subscription that will make me significantly more productive in my daily works takes several rounds of approval from different departments maybe lasting months, and is more often than not denied. And this is for something that costs $10. I am not going to get them to switch to your CRM.
And, if you inundate an area of wilderness to create reservoir you have to also count the lost carbon capture of the growing plants, and the significant methane emissions of the now dead and rotting plant matter under the water. In dry deserts this may be negligible, but the mountains where people most want to install hydro projects are generally very forested.
>this will normalise death

Death is normal. You are going to die. I am going to die. We are all going to die.
If you think about it, any response you get is a "200" by that definition since the server successfully gave you...something.

The browser usually has no special handling for most response codes, so serving a 404 page with a 404 status code is fine/expected and lets things (browser, scraper, etc) respond appropriately. I don't think the browser treats it specially but if you were scraping, you'd obviously want to ignore that result.

It is frustrating to work with APIs that return something like
200
{
meta: {
status: 404
message: "field <x> not found"
}
}

and browsing is no different.
A big part of a car rental's business model is selling off the fleet after a short amount of time. Except if the rest of the world is anything like car country Germany, then there is basically no market at all for used EVs. Well, given Germany's traditional tech xenophobia, it might not quite be as bad in the rest of the world. But even without Tesla's price cut that is mentioned in the article, I'm not sure whether this part of the traditional business model would have upheld after changing the fleet over to all electric.
V8 is a runtime for JS exactly like the JVM is a runtime for Java and CLR is for C#. Which means that whatever sandboxing V8 needs, the JVM and the CLR would need it as well. I don't know what makes you think that the JVM and the CLR have already solved the problem, but not V8.
Early look at hurricane season calling for more storms than it's ever predicted
Add to this: transparent pricing. Most developers I know are highly allergic to "Call for a quote!"

For enterprise pricing, this can be unavoidable, but a ballpark is nice. Or say you can offer steep discounts in the right situation, and have me call to discuss.
I had a similar debate with coworkers about returning 404 when a DB webhoook query found no rows. It added extra complexity to client code trying to figure out if it was a bad URL, bad query, or just no rows.
>Questioning the spear’s phallic, murderous logic,

How many more years before the ideas of Freud are so removed from common usage that we no longer have to deal with their detritus.

I figure another 20-30.

on edit: maybe irritating me more than normal as I recently listened to a podcast where it was all about how, despite nobody believing Freud anymore, he was just so important and central that all ideas related to his incorrect ideas.
I had high hopes for https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ternio-blockcard-wi... but it was just too much hassle to keep transferring in money

While looking up a representative link for that, I also saw that it appears Venmo is in that game, too: https://www.cryptovantage.com/best-crypto-credit-cards/venmo...
they’re fucking delicious

- P4x
i seem to recall you wrote a sort of 16-bit assembler in machine code consisting entirely of printable ascii, except for a couple of places where it had to use printable ascii instructions to modify itself to add instructions like int 21 that couldn't be done that way. but that was a different one, wasn't it?
Don't know what part of the shadowban Matrix you're looking at, yet I did not see a single nipple in 10 pages of image and model scrolling with Woman selected as the highlight choice. Vaguely a let down after that much NSFW warnings. (Obviously, many that are meant to create "porn" images. Although even those looked mostly like upskirt anime generators).

Notably, a LOT of beefcake and partially shirtless male imagery on normal search. Also, quite a bit of "psst, this is really furry imagery"
This was not a pump and dump, it was merely poor performance.
https://archive.is/Y5cQZ
JetMoE: Reaching LLaMA2 performance with 0.1M dollars
Awesome!

Vercel gets a lot of shit for its pricing, but man from a developer experience standpoint, they are impossible to beat. As a developer first, devops distant fourth or fifth, it's such a pleasure when I get to work in the Vercel ecosystem and I'm happy to pay extra for them to keep improving the experience, but this reduction is welcome :)
There are Prisoner's Dilemmas everywhere.

Many jobs require a college degree as a blunt filter for employee quality. Now that more and more people have that so it's been devalued. You now need specific majors or to come out of an elite college to get the same advantage that used to be conferred by being a college grad. Colleges talk about affordability but many colleges spend big on recruiting star professors and new facilities to compete in the rankings and alumni donations arms race.

Car traffic makes not driving dangerous so people are incentivize to drive. SUVs make driving a sedan more dangerous during crashes so people choose to buy bigger cars.

Marketers race to the bottom on ever more annoying, numerous, and louder ads. People block or mentally tune out ads which feeds back into advertisers pushing the envelope to get noticed.

If ransomware victims did not pay it would become unprofitable. But each business is rightfully concerned about mitigating its immediate business interruption.
I can definitely do something like that. Didn't cross my mind that it would be necessary as, well, it is a JSON string with the log message anyway. But if that's somewhat interesting, I can definitely look into that.