skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to see they are still available.

The wide variety of controller/memory combinations makes it quite a moving target.

This is the "mass production" software that makes it possible to provision, partition, format, and even place pre-arranged data or OS's in position before shipping freshly prepared drives to a bulk OEM customer. On one or more "identical" drives at the same time.

For USB flash thumb drives the same approach is used. Factory software like this which is capable of modifying the firmware of the device is unfortunately about the only good way to determine the page size and erase block size of a particular USB drive. If the logical sectors storing your information are not aligned with the physical memory blocks (which somewhat correspond to the "obsolete" CHS geometry), the USB key will be slower than necessary, especially on writes. Due to write-amplification, and also it will wear out much sooner.

Care does not go into thumb drives like you would expect from SSDs, seems like very often a single SKU will have untold variations in controller/memory chips. Also it seems likely that during the production discontinuities when the supply of one of these ICs on the BOM becomes depleted, it is substituted with a dissimilar enough chip that a revision of the partitioning, formatting, and data layout would be advised, but does not take place because nobody does it. And it still works anyway so nobody notices or cares. Or worse, it's recognized as an engineering downgrade but downplayed as if in denial. Wide variation in performance within a single SKU is a canary for this, which can sometimes be rectified.
I mean.. there are a few countries that have problems with Iran and have the means to do it.
The "stealthy" civilization has ceased to be stealthy, in this case. Launching an attack of any kind defeats the purpose, if anyone but the fully-wiped-out target can see. Your example suggests that a stealthy, hostile civilization isn't possible.
If you spend over 100$ per hob for a basic induction stove you're being ripped off.
Truthfully, that's what we did. It's not that difficult to run a 220v. You can even cap off a gas line and run in it it's place. The biggest problem you might have is needing to rewire part of your electrical box to make room.
Or waited for a moment where it could be made deniable.
People shop for cars every five years? That is more like every 15 years in my family.
In the US, the regular message app (which is to say, the one you’d use to send an sms) automatically goes through iMessage if you send from one iPhone to another. The bubble turns blue, but I think most people just think of it as “a text,” generically, other than weirdos who are too into messaging protocols.
> I have not seen anything that an induction stove cannot do as well as a gas one.

Char peppers for peeling.
What is the point of the linked source? Afghanistan was a war zone for empires just like everywhere else in this region.

Who do you think financed the taliban to fight russia?
As someone who has been raised in a rural area next to Iberian Lynx, I can confirm they wouldn't dare to kill anything larger than rabbits.

As for chickens, they tend to stay away from human populations. Foxes and genets are most likely the ones to prey them. And like you've said, thriving Lynx populations keep foxes at bay.

Either way, other than some killings made by wolves (those do make a dent on a herder's living) and wild boars just making a mess, no one in my hometown was ever stressed by animals doing their thing.

If anything, they were relieved mother nature was healthier than they had thought. I often see that it's important to say this part out loud: those in rural areas care about nature. Hunters included.
They are pretty remarkable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pr...
Why not? I can replicate a book in a foreign without understanding the language?
Wow TIL, thanks!
It's an interesting paradox that certain essential life skills cannot be taught in high school. Any teacher who for the day's lesson wrote on the whiteboard "How not to get ripped off by your car dealer/real estate agent/loan broker would have reason to fear consequences from some kid in the class whose parent works in just such a job.
> We don't even know whether other human beings are conscious, man.

This isnt an interesting path outside the paradox of proof. We are fine disregarding that there are truths that are unprovable in math... I think we need to make that leap in this realm as well.

Concisousness is also probably a bad term, concepts like sentience and sapience need to be the ones we are talking about. We might get to one, long before the other...
More Evidence for the Gravitational Wave Background of the Universe
But what if I do all my cooking in aluminum woks?? What then?
You are declaring it to be a fact that science is flawless. Defining something to be true by definition can certainly cause it to be appear to be true (read some forum discussions among even smart people on the internet if you do not believe this), but it doesn't guarantee that it will be.
Slack protects your data when using machine learning and AI
Or maybe some Zero7? https://youtu.be/WARduxeYwns
> part of the reason they don’t lower rental prices is because it’s hard to increase it later

At least in the US this happens due to rent control rules. When the landlord knows that once they lock in a renter they won't be able to raise prices much for an undetermined amount of time (what if the renter decides to stay there for 30 years!), they have an incentive to make the starting rent as high as possible.

If they knew they can raise prices when needed, they could afford to lower prices in a downturn knowing they can raise later.
You might like Animal Well
Why does everything on the internet look the same now?
Meanwhile, the BBC is saying "Iran president helicopter in hard landing".

Does that seem like the BBC is well into new-speak territory these days?
I love my slightly smart tiny TV
Is it possible for SSD firmware to act “progressively” from SLC to MLC to TLC and to QLC (and maybe PLC in the future)? E.g. for a 1TB QLC SSD, it would act as SLC for usage under 256GB, then MLC under 512GB, then TLC under 768GB, and then QLC under 1TB (and PLC under 1280GB).
At least in the UK, almost all the induction hobs on the market have touch controls. Not having a knob per ring is a massive issue for some users.
Somehow it's always helicopter crashes. Important people die in these crashes all the time. It's cuz they're unsafe, not malicious intent.

The Indian head of military forces, the Leicester city billionare.... those are just a couple off the top of my head.
Walking is truly great, but it's not uniquely magical.

Most of my best ideas have come on long drives. I believe that driving has a lot of the aspects of walking that lead to the ability to have ideas. The activities themselves (the need to avoid running into other cars while driving or tripping over something while walking) seem to involve just enough distraction to keep you from falling into a rut of repetitive thought, while still enabling a state of free thinking that you can take quite far into a subject.

As for the time I could spend walking daily: I meditate daily for half an hour in a Buddhist tradition. And the rest of the time I could spend on daily walks I spend instead on medium-intensity aerobic exercise, which does more purely medical good than walking does and also is more associated with delaying age-related cognitive decline. (I need to add more HIIT which would help even more.)

On the other hand, my wife and I are also planning a 2-hour hike for later today. Because walking is great. It's the weekend, and we can give ourselves that.
I don't think they've sold enough units in Europe to automatically qualify. Also wouldn't be surprised if games consoles have a dedicated carveout for the foreseeable future.

I'd expect the online stores on those consoles, and the resale of digital content, to be impacted well before running other OSs on consoles that didn't ship with that feature.
We're remodeling a rental and having a gas stove is a big plus versus alternatives. Electric is poor for cooking and induction requires new pots and pans.
A floppy disk MIDI boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10
I have to say it looked amazing. I just wasn't able to play it at the time because I only had a 386sx and it really required a 486.

By the time I upgraded to a Pentium (on the weird cpu board) the game was already old news.
Efficacy is also going to vary with usage. I've got a 900CFM fan, but I can still smoke up the kitchen pretty badly if I sear on the front burner, even with the fan on high. However, if I use the back burner, even with the fan on low, the air stays pretty clear.
Wok stir-frying.
Induction (not electric coil) stoves are still somewhat rare and generally much more expensive than a gas range (2-4x) in the US.
The other being the Ayatollah, given his history of constantly shuffling around people in power from different branches, and not tolerating family members in politics, in order to prevent stable institutions (or family) overthrowing him...
:mind-blown:

i knew about "preconditioning" for SSDs when it comes to benchmarking, etc. didn't realize this was the why.

thanks!
Seems like this would be easy to test around the asteroid belt, and pretty much doable with today's technology.
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I got the first of the three in a high school book dump, and liked it so much I bought the trilogy. Still one of my favorite reads.
Really, we should be tired of central banks lowering interest rates, that would solve this and many more coming problems.
If you can smell the smoke, it does not. Wood smoke is incredibly bad for humans. I believe there are some modern wood stoves that seal very well and can prevent combustion products from leaking into the dwelling, but that isn't the case for like 99% of wood fireplaces in the US, at least.
Yes, they can decide not to renew or extend a lease often with 30 days or less notice.
I think most people just get a stove with two induction and two coil electric burners, so you don't need new pots.
Induction requires a specific type of pots and pans. When we switched to induction we were pleased that we didn’t have to buy a single item to use our new stove.

In other words it really depends on the cookware you have today - it may require new cookwar, but it may not.
A trend I don’t see people noticing is how much better and cheaper electronics is getting in recent years and how much that will change the world. Cheaper induction cooktops being just one of many examples, going from a luxury item to an everyday item is enough to largely squeeze gas out. I don’t like to see it being done via legislation, better off leaving it up to individuals and insurance. Let it die a natural death without making it social signal.
There was NuBus, that did not have any adoption within i386. It was used by Apple and at least one Unix vendor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuBus

SPARC also had sbus, but this is likely later than your window.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBus
This isn't really meant to replace therapy to be honest, it is more meant to be a stop gap between appointments for therapy if that makes sense.
I couldn’t see I’d they reported cfm.

I have a 1200 cfm good and there is no chance anything below has any chance of escaping.
Maybe school curricula changes faster in Australia, but in the USA by the time LLMs get into the textbooks, and enough teachers get trained to motivate students, either AI will have turned us into paperclips, or the LLM craze will get taught as a modern Extraordinary Popular Delusion and referred to as the Third AI Winter.
Hmm, I wonder why `-pattern_type glob` doesn't work on Windows. Perhaps it is something that could easily be programmed into the source code?
I went the opposite direction: convert C-64 files from "Doodle" format to IBM EGA format https://www.kmoser.com/sourcecode/VIEWC64.MOD
The point is that we treat certain things like high blood pressure as a primary issue instead of a secondary one. Instead of addressing something cholesterol, which can often be a lifestyle issue, more emphasis is placed on just taking the statin.
The memory cells are identical. The peripheral circuitry for accessing the memory array gets more complicated as you support more bits per cell, and the SRAM page buffers have to get bigger to hold the extra bits. But everyone designs their NAND chips to support operating with fewer bits per cell.

Sometimes TLC and QLC chips will be made in different sizes, so that each has the requisite number of memory cells to provide a capacity that's a power of two. But it's just as common for some of the chips to have an odd size, eg. Micron's first 3D NAND was sold as 256Gbit MLC or 384Gbit TLC (literally the same die), and more recently we've seen 1Tbit TLC and 1.33Tbit QLC parts from the same generation.
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The Bletchley Declaration (2023)
That's a pretty handy way to let radical Islam off the hook.
I have a vague sense that mathematicians take some pride in the uselessness of their discipline, even when it's the exact opposite of useless. Maybe because the more useless the mathematics appears to be, the more it must be motivated by the pure love of the subject?
Fire it directly towards the sun, let it de accelerate with solar sail.
Israel likely involved. Looks like things are only just getting started between them.
Yes, it probably helps, especially if you crack a window. The article claims 3000 sq ft dwellings do better than 800 sq ft dwellings -- this will be entirely due to the concentration of the gases. A hood that expels interior air and draws in outside air can't hurt.
Where are those available? I've not seen any ranges in the US like that
How could you be deciding what's for dinner, if the decision takes so long that all the food has rotted, your body has died, and the continent is now in an ice age? How could you be learning something about your observations of the night sky, if the suns had burned out before you knew they were there at all? Our 'conscious awareness' is the awareness of the environment around us in a timeframe where it stays approximately the same; when something changes too quickly, an explosion, a car crash, we have to wait until the environment steadies before we can think about it. If an insect zips by too quick to see, we never become conscious of it. We can be conscious of sound but not radio waves. Is it possible to have a consciousness where everything zips by too quickly for it to notice, where it has no senses to learn about what's around it, it's not-conscious of anything?

At that point, the XKCD person moving the stones on the beach is doing a bit of a Searle's Chinese Room; "look, these stones I'm setting into positions I chose to represent some knowledge I chose, which I'm moving in patterns I chose, are echoing my choices back to me in ways I chose to interpret!".
The cost savings are taking time to percolate through the system, people are still anchored on the higher prices. It is electricity, it’s not like more expensive electricity is any better. Cheap appliances are getting really good. Once people find out they’re getting ripped off they should hopefully let go of their anchored price and look for bargains. It just takes time.
> A swarm whose members are in known spatial positions relative to each other, having state-of-the-art microminiaturized clocks to keep synchrony, can utilize its entire population to communicate with Earth, periodically building up a single short but extremely bright contemporaneous laser pulse from all of them. Operational coherence means each probe sends the same data but adjusts its emission time according to its relative position, such that all pulses arrive simultaneously at the receiving arrays on Earth. This effectively multiplies the power from any one probe by the number N of probes in the swarm, providing orders of magnitude greater data return.

This sounds unfeasible. They have no way to keep station from what I understand, the interstellar medium is relatively empty but there will still be some drift over the light years. Having all of these independent craft synchronize and overlay their signals precisely enough for it to be receivable on Earth seems implausible. Can you say hella attenuation? I'd like to see some numbers...
Even the quoted excerpt shows they are effective? But maybe less effective than you might want ideally?

> Implies higher quality (capture >75%) range hoods help significantly but so does opening a window.

Opening four or more windows, which is a lot.
My point is that renters don't want to figure that out themselves generally.
> Facebook Messenger is my only way to remain in contact with some people.

This is always an exaggeration. You mean to tell me there are people out there for whom the only way to get in touch with them is through Facebook? They don't have a phone number, SMS, an E-mail address (note you need an E-mail address to sign up for Facebook in the first place), a postal address, and ears for word of mouth conversation?

I found Facebook to be the easiest company to voluntarily avoid. One day, about ten years ago, I simply changed my password to a random string and threw it away, and that was it. It was scary at first (FOMO) but ultimately it didn't even slightly affect my social life or ability to keep in contact with people. I told everyone what I was doing and that I would not be accessing the company's products anymore, and we just switched over to other means of communication. No big deal.
That was a very widely-held opinion at the time.
> kept releasing the original Super Mario Brothers (a beloved game from almost four decades ago) bit-for-bit on other devices, maybe with better graphics, they'd be irrelevant idiots today

But they do that all the time. New Super Mario Bros had like 5 different releases across multiple platforms with little to no changes. Hell, the entire SMB lineup is basically the same game with a new gimmick and fresh graphics tacked on every release.
I guess the difference is that there are not several independent communities praising you as the most attractive man on earth?
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It's of course not the only thing in my portfolio, nor is it even the main security in it. Parking all the money in a single stock would be an extremely bad idea indeed.
Not every school is in the US, bro.
Reading from sqlite databases can be as fast(or even faster under some conditions) than just reading in files. It's hard to beat for lightweight applications, and should you find you need a little less lightweight storage as your ap evolves, well, you are already using SQL to there is a clear upgrade path.
I'm writing from a US perspective; we generally don't buy ranges per-hob (or call them hobs). Stand-alone range + oven is the rule, and that combo runs from a few hundred
(basic gas or electric) to a few thousand dollars. You can get a single counter-top "hot plate", but good luck finding a decent 1500W induction hot plate.
imho. (!) no :))

1. write something to syslog is really easy ...

2. prometheus pushgateway is more or less a REST api call (with JSON data)

just my 0.02€
Libraries pay authors for their copies.
California has the second highest electricity prices in the US. I’m paying $0.42/kWh and up to $0.53/kWh. Paying for more electricity is non-negotiable.
Windows Preview has integrated native support for tar and 7zip archives
You can stir fry with induction (I just did so last week).

You do need to preheat the wok a bit longer, though, to make sure the sides are hot.

That said, gas or a wok cooker will undeniably work better.
Why the hell would anyone need "AI" for emoji and channel recommendations? Who is working on this garbage?
New battery-backed induction stoves from Channing Copper and Impulse Labs are meant to eliminate the need for an electrical upgrade...

https://www.batterytechonline.com/trends/why-a-battery-assis...

> One barrier to their widespread adoption, however, has been that they require a 220-volt electrical hookup, which means for most buyers the cost of an electrical panel upgrade on top of the price of the stove itself. But now a startup called Channing Street Copper Company has created a battery-assisted induction stove that can be plugged into a standard 120V outlet.
Blowtorch it. I have one for crème brûlée.
I owned an S3 local bus card of this type. It was my first computer purchase after college graduation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuBus
Can you say relativistic corrections hell? "Over lightyears" means it takes literally years for these things to coordinate moves with each other, to say nothing of post-launch coordination messages from Earth.
Video Consoles are a semi-luxury product, not essentials to modern society like smartphones are.
This isn't a model trained on the books, it is the complete text of the books themselves with the label "dataset" slapped on it. Calling it a dataset doesn't make it not piracy.
Are you sure it's really a 900CFM fan? A lot of cheap fans on amazon claim they are high CFM and when you look at components, are like 400 at best. High CFM fan will run you at least $2k to start.
It's theoretically possible, but in practice when a drive is getting close to full what makes sense is to compact data from the SLC cache into the densest configuration you're willing to allow, without any intermediate steps.
This has literally nothing to do with Putin what are you even talking about? You are justifying the Romanian invasion of the USSR and their collaboration with the nazi state. That's fine I guess, it just makes it hard to play the victim card. Again, this is about events that happened before Putin was even born. It's not Russian propaganda to say that Romanians were complicit until the very last moment when they decided to switch side in 1944.

You're also just saying stuff that doesn't even make sense. Can you give me a source about splitting up Romania, as in that Romania attacked the USSR because they wanted to split it up? Also, if you're saying that both the Nazis and the USSR wanted to take Romania, why did they ally themselves with the nazis? It's as if they were on the nazis side for more than that!

Also, remember that the USSR wasn't just Russia. The Romanians also killed thousands of Ukrainians while invading the USSR. When you invade a country, you get what you deserve when said country fights back. Like Russia is having now after attacking Ukraine. In your weird point of view, Russia would be the victim because they had no choice or whatever due to alliances, right? That's how you're justifying the fact that Romania attacked the USSR in 1941 lol
> Funding: This work was supported by HT LLC grant 1255423-1-UAGYN.

Can someone help me find who is "HT LLC"? Just attempting some cursory due diligence, but I was unsuccessful locating them.

I found one HT, LLC as "Electric Supplies Manufacturers" at BBB, but I want to make sure it is the correct one.

https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/saratoga/profile/electric-supplies...
'Scary': public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify
By your analogy, isn't the abolition of references from prior landlords similar to getting rid of the (uber/lyft) passenger ratings?
You can use Steam to stream over the internet. You have to enter a pairing code once on the remote machine, but after that you can play anything, you can even add a "non-steam game" to stream any application you want.

I do this all the time with my powerful work computer at the office while I'm at home. It works surprisingly well, actually.

The only shitty part is that they removed the ability for you to download a new game on the remote machine from your local steam client. The only way to do it now is with the steam app on your phone.
IBM mainframes used to be sold in tiers where the cheaper machines would implement more of the instruction set in microcode than the higher-end ones. I imagine even the top end had some amount of microcode kicking around though.

> a hardware virtual machine

Otherwise known as "a machine" :)