skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is a backup, you don't need it to be powered up and available 24x7.

So the question becomes more like "how long does an average hard drive last while powered down and still reliably be able to power back up and be read?".

I'm fairly sure that is a lot longer than the single digit years that'd be the probably answer to your question.

I wonder if there are useful guidelines for long term storage of powered down hard drives? My gut feel is the major failure modes would be electrolytic capacitor failure, bearings sticking as the lubrication ages, and obseleting of the interfaces. I wonder how hard it'd be to find hardware that'd read my Mac SCSI hard drives from 25 years ago?
Where did I ever say that?

I thought the last paragraph of my previous post made it pretty clear that I rather specifically don't think that.
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders what was accidentally copied into the archive that powerful interests want removed and if this is all smoke and mirrors while they make that happen.
I was going to disagree with you (and I sort of do about password managers and storing 2FA in them, but I also unlock my password manager with a yubikey).

But, doesn't a DB compromise mean that the attacker would have the TOTP seed as well? It can only increase your account security elsewhere, but also not re-using password prevents the IA leak from hurting you elsewhere as well?
Inventors could just license their inventions, no need to produce themselves or transfer them.
I think it's certainly incorrect (having known lots of people on both sides of that number, there are far far more below). Another comment thread suggested that startup equity is being taken at face value, which might justify the number but is totally ridiculous
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/supported-versio...

> The only current officially supported version is the last major release of WordPress. Previous major releases before this may or may not get security updates as serious exploits are discovered.

> …

> Security updates will be backported to older releases when possible, but there are no guarantee and no timeframe for older releases. There are no fixed period of support nor Long Term Support (LTS) version such as Ubuntu’s. None of these are safe to use, except the latest series, which is actively maintained.
Wasn't that for the founders being able to focus on the moonshots and pay there while making Pichain CEO of Google, so they don't have to deal with that day to day? (Which then was ridiculed relatively short after when they made Pichai CEO of all Alphabet ... or was that just him passing the probation period?
> How long does an average hard drive last? You'd have to spend that 700k every that many years (plus the extra bits you mentioned). Quite an operation actually

You'd have to spend a lot more, because with that many drives, you need redundancy now.
Electing a president via popular vote would give populous states disproportionate influence over the country compared to other states. That is important because the president could do obnoxious things against the best interest of any particular state, especially ones with less influence. The stuff happening to your home state is way more relevant to your life than your political party or special interests.
All that doesn't mean that you have to consider artificial boundaries that you yourself have introduced for convenience when deciding on the proper boundaries for what constitutes a "unit". Not every instance of code reuse makes for a good unit to test.
The problem is brainwashing.

The formula is this: YOU learn all by yourself what all electable candidates say they want to do. YOU figure out all by yourself which ones LIE. One lie is enough, if they do it they keep doing it.

And then YOU chose which election program you want to vote for.

Ideally you chose what is best for the country but this is rather challenging for people. We can forgive them for being stuck thinking only of themselves.

Why would it be perfectly obvious if one is ordering food but not for elections???

Food might taste bad and you might get food poisoning. A bad choice doesn't mean years of suffering.

Does one not look at the menu card? Or do you ask your mum what to order? Do you roam around the restaurant looking what other people are eating? Do you order what CNN is screaming at you?

If people scream at you from all directions that you should order the snails in garlic butter, does that mean you will never have to look at the menu the rest of your life? You can just eat snails every day, everyone else is eating snails every day???? Why are you not eating snails?? It is the nr 1 most sold food! Don't you want snails to be the nr 1 food?

Then the restaurant switches to the cheapest worse possible snails because people will order it anyway because other people will order it.

Is this a display of good taste?

I hate apple but I buy iphone because they are good enough for what I need. I might get an android phone some day. They are good enough too.

I did actually look.

With elections no one is looking. People have no idea. Non of them! There is not one journalist who knows anything.

For each million voters one or two have watched a single video from a candidate other than the top 2. A video by a 5 year old on tiktok gets more attention online than the entire list of election programs.

I could see logic in getting advice from an expert on something or from your mum but if they know absolutely nothing about the topic?!?!

The voter is therefore brainwashed into irrelevance, she won't influence elections in any way.
> Ultimately, most TV manufacturers have zero interest in spying on you.

Then where did ACR come from, and why do more and more TVs ship with it nowadays?
No, an HN reader would need the full weekend
The linear scaling is valid to show how strictly L-shaped the curve is but a log scaling would show more detail in the middle and an income histogram would show how much each percentile of the population has in aggregate.

Would also be interesting to compare to other countries maybe Norway one of the most egaliterian and a poor country like Sudan.
Turning everything into an ideological battle is so exhausting, why is crap like this still happening.
The big problem is that DRAM is extremely secretive about their processes, and they largely don't do that well for logic.
I hold the phone to my left ear, but that has nothing to do with ear preference. It's because it feels more natural holding it up with my left hand (which conveniently leaves my dominant right hand free for doing other things).
So you interpret "is there any part of the Wordpress cluster of organizations that do not ultimately answer to Matt?" as being a YES or NO question?

I interpret it as a request for information about what is Matt's role in the ecosystem and I was gathering information to share about that.

However, if you are not interested in factual information, the answer is:
YES, there are various parts of the the Wordpress cluster of organizations that do not ultimately answer to Matt.
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> The DoJ could also seek to force Google to share users’ search data with rivals

This is a bit scary. Hopefully this would not be retroactive, and only apply to searches made after the enforcement date?
Pretty sure I saw a direct link posted to it on here not too long ago.
While the DoJ is an executive department, it is notoriously independent. Google is one of the biggest lobbyists in D.C. Trying to predict anti-trust actions by lobbying activity is naïve to the point of being counter-productive: it can be better, in many cases, to fly under the radar. (Exhibit A: Andreessen Horowitz.)
Sad but true. Definitely a lot of elitism here as well as anti-union.

I'd happily remain on my butt at a computer even if the trades started making double my salary. They are sacrificing their bodies for this theoretical higher wage. They deserve it in my eyes.

But of course, that's not how a lot of "smart people" think. "I can life boxes, why are they paid more"? Big difference between lifting a box, and lifting boxes for 20,000+hours for a part of a career. Life is short as is, I will try to make the best of it.
A "corporate money Death Star" is looming over the 2024 election
> In just two cycles of spending, crypto corporations now rank second in total election-related spending over the past 14 years—the entirety of the Citizens United era. They trail only fossil fuel corporations, which have spent $176 million over that same period.
No, that's not what I am saying. Nice try with the leading question though.
What is a ransomware attack? (and 11 famous examples)
Doesn't that depend on where you live?
Some people on this planet add such negative value. What does this clown hope to gain, apart from costing us all an incredibly useful shared resource?
Excessive use of external bindings in a closure can make it hard to reason about lifetimes in cases where that matters (e.g. when you find out that a huge object graph is alive solely because some callback somewhere is a lambda that closed over one of the objects in said graph).
Chris Done is male, is there some reason you're misgendering him in addition to making some extremely personal and out-there ad hominem comments insinuating various reasons not in evidence for why he posted what he did?

What's the play here?
Potentially allowing you to choose which mount? Then again, the model might need adjustment to allow the proper distance for the selected mount type.
What do you mean? Of course they will be taxing future transactions. Thats how we get congress with no empathy for people without a small loan of a million dollars.

Alternatively they nepo-inhereit a company and they fight for lower taxes that they should pay. So they indirectly tax the middle/lower class more becsuse they basically take money from the government.
I wonder if a Magisk module could be used to upgrade these fonts on rooted phones.
I was amazed how many people fell for this.

It's just obvious. To make a 1sq km area of sunlight, you need a mirror at least 1sq km in size - in practice, probably far more. This idea is so absurdly implausible it concerns me anyone over the age of 12 believed it.
The Python code is missing an import for ttlib. I'm assuming this comes from fonttools, but there's no easy way to know that for sure in Python.
At this point, why wouldn't you just use a nested block?
True hackers probably have a special place in hell, but, in a good sense.
I actually own the 20th anniversary Dilbert collection, but it didn't come to mind. I probably have acronym-blindness from encountering too many.
Ironic, given that the apostrophe is dying out in English.
Really shows thr empathy of the world once a community talks about the other-group. That Sinclair quote rings true here.
For archival, if you use tape, it comes out cheaper (~225k) and ought to last longer (~30 years).
What if the clown is actually someone hired by one of the many enemies that IA made during the years?
I don't know why people do things without thinking them through, but they do. Regarding trouble, I don't think we've covered anything here that wouldn't be asking for trouble.
> I'm unsure why this article is so upvoted given how vapid the content is, but it does have a snappy title, I guess.

rust, sqlite, htmx... there is a small list of techs that always get massively upvoted on hn, whatever the content or quality of the article.
My dad's PhD is listed on Google scholar, but not digitalized. Although I never read it (I don't understand it) I would like it to get preserved. All universities should provide digital copies of their students bachelor's and masters thesis as well as PhDs. Data storage is so cheap these days
Very odd that this author seems to be conflating Unicode with fonts? I assumed since android is “jvm by another name” it would be utf-16 internally, just like the jvm. Encoding and decoding utf-8 is no problem. But this author is lamenting the incomplete fonts available in google project noto.
It's funny when people mention Go as the gold standard of not adding features to the language and Rust as ever-changing when Rust hasn't introduced any major changes in at least 3-4 years and Go introduced a major paradigm shift in how people structure their code (generics).

Before you start replying with "Rust introduced X" - ask yourself - is X extending an existing feature slightly or does it introduce an entirely new concept?
The article addresses this. Referring to the origination of the formal index, "The restaurants eventually became a key feature on a color-coded map that his team provided to help the public and local officials identify where storm damage was most severe."

It's not FEMA's job to develop knowledge about coming storms anyways. NOAA does that. FEMA coordinates the preparation for and response to a disaster
> They still don't let you serve data to the network from a normal filesystem, you have to let their system ingest all of your stuff so you end up double-storing data or you have to give into everything being stored as inscrutable binary blobs.

I don't understand this part. What data would you have to give them? Why can't it just live next to your stuff on your OS' filesystem?
Yes, you can fine-tune using plain text completions. You don't need structured conversations unless you want conversational abilities. Plain text works great if you want the model to generate text in a specific style or domain. It all depends on what you're trying to achieve.
Not a lot of people just how much voter data is available out there and how easy it is to check if someone voted and their party affiliation.

On a side note, if folks are interested in US politics humor/election party card games, I'd also check out democrazy.com
Sure, and like other targeted ad buyers being sold bullshit, you simply take it for granted that the data you get is accurate. Meanwhile, looking through my SMS history, I have 8 texts from this week addressed to either my grandmother, who is 86 and recovering from a stroke, or her last boyfriend, who is dead, telling me about GOP candidates in Nevada. I have never lived in Nevada. She no longer lives in Nevada. He no longer lives at all. I haven't voted since 2004. If you're just going to go by my "mood affiliation" or cultural leanings or whatever, voter or not, I'm sure as shit not a Republican. Thankfully, Nikki Haley finally stopped bugging me when she dropped out.
i could buy an alphabet soup, add in some cereals, mix it up and throw it on the table, knowing it would end up looking indistinguishable from rust code.
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If there isn't a reliable way of knowing whether its failures or its successes are the exception, I can see why this is a frustrating issue. Especially since both positions of for and against the approach ultimately have the same aim. The only real solution I see is solid data, but for something this complex and multifaceted that doesn't seem likely to happen any time soon.
and then your gc will leak it. Rust programs are not only safe but CPU and memory efficient.
For the same reason CPAC would have a banner saying "We're all domestic terrorists". Dark satire. Whether you find it appropriate or funny is an exercise left for the reader.
Before I moved from my very cheap birth country to the entirely-not-cheap area known as Toronto, I thought along these lines and was concerned that my standard of living would be the same or lower. However, surprisingly, I found it to go up a lot.

- Real Estate did take up a larger % of my budget, but it was nicer

- The globalized products are only a small % of the budget but they're relatively much cheaper so I can have more/better/both

Of course this doesn't mean expensive cities are perfect or even good. I later moved from Toronto to Alberta and it's night-and-day better. Of course the lifestyle is different and some might not like that.

There's a big qualitative angle so you can't really compare these things on a spreadsheet, but more after-tax dollars is almost always better.
Where are you getting that hygrine is found in nightshades? The authors of the paper specifically say it's only found in Erythroxylum and I'm not finding any references in my own research to that specific chemical being present in nightshades.
That seems to be the work around.
He or she is still a clown. What difference does it make who hired him or her? At an individual level one can always disagree to do things that only destroy value.
The map needs better coloring, as most of it is in shades of green that are hard to distinguish. Also "Not enough data" should not be colored as the lowest pay range.

Also why is Greater Denver Area in the middle of Nevada, and leaking in Wyoming?

And some numbers are wrong Missoula Area says $190k median, but linked page says $123k median
Your Homebrew may not be configured to pull only the runtime dependencies; as others in this thread have mentioned, it's pulling in all those dependencies becauase it's building "eza" (or something, perhaps one of "eza"'s few transitives) from source, which brings in quite the list, including openjdk as you saw.

Homebrew can accidentally end up configured to do this in a number of ways. Some of these may no longer be issues; this list is from memory and should be taken with a grain of salt:

- You might be running an outdated homebrew.

- You might have homebrew checked out as a git checkout, thus missing "brew update" abilities. "brew doctor" will report on this.

- You might have "inherited" your Homebrew install from a prior Mac (e.g. via disk clone or Time Machine), or from the brief transitional period where Homebrew was x86-via-Rosetta on ARM macs, thus leaving your brew in a situation where it can't find prebuilt packages ("bottles") for what it observes as a hybrid/unique platform. Tools, including your shell, which install Homebrew for you might install it as the wrong (rosetta-emulated) architecture if any process-spawning part of the tool is an x86-only binary. More details on a similar situation I found myself in are here: https://blog.zacbentley.com/post/dtrace-macos/

- (I'm pretty sure most issues in this area have been fixed, but) you might have an old or "inherited" XCode or XCode CLT installation. These, too, can propagate from backups. Removing Homebrew, uninstalling/reinstalling XCode/CLT, and reinstalling Homebrew can help with this.

- The HOMEBREW_ARCH, HOMEBREW_ARTIFACT_DOMAIN, HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN, or other environment variables may be set in your shell such that Homebrew either thinks the platform doesn't have bottles available or it shouldn't download them: https://docs.brew.sh/Manpage#environment

- Perhaps obvious, but your "brew" command might be invoked such that it always builds from source, e.g. via a shell alias.

- Homebrew may be unable to access the bottle repository (https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/), either due to a network/firewall issue or a temporary outage.
> I was going to disagree with you (and I sort of do about password managers and storing 2FA in them

Note I'm quoting HIBP's advice from the email they've sent me! I'm absolutely not recommending to store one's 2FA secrets in the same place as the password!

Even if one uses 2FA for the password manager, it stops proving "something you have" in addition to something you know and you're one unlock away from malware vacuuming it all up. The point of 2FA is to be on a separate device you need to have on hand

Of course, the same logic goes for a password manager in the first place, but password reuse is a big enough problem that (for most people's threat model) it seems to be a net positive. 2FA tokens don't have that reuse issue
Молодец, and thanks.
In many districts, your vote for US House and Senate seats largely doesn't matter, either. For many people, those are the only elections they are thinking about when it comes to November.

Senate seats are elected state-wide, so they largely go the same way as the presidential vote. If you're in a deep-red or deep-blue state (i.e., nearly all of them), your individual vote isn't going to make a difference.

House seats are district-specific, but:

a) the re-election rate of incumbents is over 90%
b) districts are often drawn to lock-in control for a specific party

State senate and house seats are often no better.

However, much to the credit of the sibling response, there are all kinds of local and regional races as well as ballot initiatives that are important.
Well, if the entirely of that list is as awesome as those 3, then it's a good list to be.
No answer in the article. Oh well.
Arbitrary lines on maps are arbitrary. North & South Dakota are far more similar than north and south California.
> "Reproducible build" is a term used to refer to getting an exact binary match out of a build.

I'm not sure what makes you think I failed to understand this. Allow me to quote myself

>> It is fair to say that the "aim" isn't about reproducible software, but it is a direct consequence of the software being open source.

But also, my entire point is not really about the reproducible build aspect. It is that if we're going to draw an analogy then the training and data IS the source. At worst, we'd say it is the build instructions.

But maybe I don't understand Open Source. Is it still Open Source if I provide the source code, an Apache License, but the code is in my own custom language (for fun, let's say it reads like brainfuck) and I have no released the compiler? Maybe some people would call this Open Source, but I imagine it would ruffle a lot of feathers. Is there really a meaningful difference between that an a binary? If it does fit "the letter of the law" it most certainly does not fit "spirit of the law". It is the spirit of the law that matters, because it is the whole fucking point.