skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, no. Not unless you're still running ancient sub-1TB enterprise drives.

It turns out that modern hard drives have a specified workload limit [1] - this is an artifact of heads being positioned at a low height (<1nm) over the platter during read and write operations, and a "safe" height (10nm? more?) when not transferring data.

For an 18TB Exos X18 drive with a specified workload of 550TB read+write per year, assuming a lifetime of 5 years[2] and that you never actually read back the data you wrote, this would be at max about 150 drive overwrites, or a total of 2.75PB transferred.

In contrast the 15TB Solidigm D5-P5316, a read-optimized enterprise QLC drive, is rated for 10PB of random 64K writes, and 51PB of sequential writes.

[1] https://products.wdc.com/library/other/2579-772003.pdf

[2] the warrantee is 5 years, so I assume "<550TB/yr" means "bad things might happen after 2.75PB". It's quite possible that "bad things" are a lot less bad than what happens after 51PB of writes to the Solidigm drive, but if you exceed the spec by 18x to give you 51PB written, I would assume it would be quite bad.
It's defined in the document I linked.
And yes, it's a well defined fact.
Hamlet says "to be or not to be", implying it's simply a choice. I choose to be!
> All they did was write a blog post about an interesting technique. They could literally read the patent application and write a blog post about that, assuming the methods are the same.

Okay, change "sue" to "prevent from creating a marketable product without paying a royalty to the patent owner in return for having provided nothing of value." The point remains.

> What percentage of your actions are based around making the world a better place, instead of personal fulfillment or gain?

Many harms are unavoidable, but I make a point to at least not go out of my way to make it a worse place, for example by filing software patents. The company I work for provides financial bonuses for filing software patents, and I will never participate in that program. (I've even tried to convince the lawyers to license our patents similar to Red Hat's open patent promise, because they claim they are intended only to be used defensively... but no luck so far.)
The Folly of "Faculty Deans"
> figuring out what IP went into what model output is just too hard

Check out this one cool trick companies found for skirting copyright restrictions.

Lawyers HATE them!
This is really something cool, and it is exactly what I was looking for. To give a context, I worked on some data science-inspired studies [1] about LoL, and the future research direction is to provide a formal modeling for the games and analyze them through it. While I had a little success by getting aggregated data from websites such as uol.gg, the granularity is not fine enough to do very interesting analysis.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103516
Looking for feedback about my app? What do you think?
Looking for feedback about my app? What do you think? How would you improve it? App here - https://www.wiser5.com. thanks!
Have you used it? I use it for both hands free and read later. When I'm on a webpage I just use the safari share sheet to send it to ElevenLabs Reader and then just listen whenever I have time.
“737 of Theseus” is my new favorite aviation phrase. Right up there with “unscheduled disassembly event”.
Show HN: Too old to apply to YC but I made this anyway
LégalEd for the Masses

Title links to actual app

Here is the demo video to show you around the interface

Self funded on scraps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIwsPz0mKAU
The screenshot section in the README seems to be empty. Would've been interesting to see that. There's many tools that do similar things like https://github.com/ankane/pghero or some tools here: https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai
Blog post author here! Please feel free to ask me any questions directly in this forum :)
I really miss Foobar2000 on Linux (I've tried it a few times with Wine, and was never impressed vs. running it natively on Windows), so this looks like it might be just up my alley - especially since it has custom tag support.
I could be wrong, but I think the easiest way to think of this is to consider how much extra memory programs took when compiled with 64 bit pointers over 32 bit ones. Suddenly every pointer takes double the memory. Which, sure, isn't a huge deal if you don't have a lot of memory allocations. But, if you do, it can add up.

Places it would likely impact more than you'd realize is in higher level language arrays where each item in the array is a pointer. For similar reasons, many datastructures can be coded such that each "pointer" is an array index instead.

So, extending all of that, what if you could make your pointers even smaller than 32 bits? If you know the addressable need for where the pointer is used, there is no reason you can't go smaller.
DetSys, once again, building a moat.

I really do not like how this approach depends on their seemingly not open source backend. Nix needs tools like this, no question, but I'd hate to see it get adoption through a way that isn't reproducible by anyone. It looks like it could be a repeat of the Snap store problem - interesting tech, made unusable through de-facto dependencies on proprietary services.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018034
ps: the white paper is old, I think head heights were 2nm back then. I'm pretty sure <1nm requires helium-filled drives, as the diameter of a nitrogen molecule is about 0.3nm
In Europe in general you are entitled to access all data a company holds on you. I don't know if that specifically extends to Tesla telemetrics but I can't see why not. You can get all your data from Facebook and Google. So I don't think this is so impossible.
>> How about you share information about these "vast amounts of waste"? That would certainly help us discuss them!

> You can gaslight all you want.

A request for evidence is gaslighting? That's a fucked up position.

1) No reasonable person should take Elon Musk's word on what is waste and what is not.

2) A lot of essential things look like waste to ignorant people who don't understand what they're looking at. For instance: "SpaceX blew up a lot of rockets. Cut that huge waste of money, and send the work to Boeing!"

3) Like everything, a lot determinations of "waste" depends entirely one's point of view. For instance: is space exploration pure waste or an essential activity for humanity to learn more about the universe?

> Sorry, but the burden of proof is on you and those like you to prove that, for some reason, the US federal government is the first government in history to not be wasteful.

The burden of proof is on you to prove a gaggle of twenty-something "engineers" working overtime can parachute in and make good decisions, or even understand what they're looking at.

Honestly, DOGE seems like a distillation of some of the worst and most annoying aspects of software engineering psychology, given extraordinary power (e.g. pathological levels of Engineer's disease and contempt for others).
Most people don’t like hearing their own voice (how it sounds like in reality, not in your head).
That's fine, but there are no use cases in the US. If we are boiling water, it's for food, and we're doing it on the stove, just like the way everyone else cooks. In the US, there is no use case for a specialized water boiling appliance.
I think it's probably just a large file, as I remember thinking the same thing but it was loaded when I returned to the browser tab with the readme later on.
I meant local AI.
I've discovered I can run JavaScript in the browser and I've got a job :(
What webserver did you write for your secure system? What OS did you write to run it on? What boot and CPU firmware did you write to run the OS on?

It’s dependencies all the way down.
There are very few companies actually committed to it. For most it was a recruitment tool, but now that the culture has shifted they have no use for it. Now that it's a liability they won't fight for it.

Which is what most of the marginalized people I know said from the start. I hate that they were right.
> Strawberry is better for me but still kind of janky

Strawberry isn't the most solid program (a few times a year, its search hiccups and gets stuck for a few seconds), but it carries the torch of Clementine's UX - which is my ideal music listening experience.
This is a great idea. LLM workflows are not nailing native apps right now; given Apple’s slow movement, it seems like you might have a little bit of a window here.

Couple comments - have you played with Aider’s architecture mode? I think your workflows would benefit from it.

Right now it looks like the UI expert specs something and builds it, and then it asks for follow up.

I think the right dev flow working with a product dreamer involves UI mockups, then follow up questions, then implementation, with checkins — combining the idea of the architect with a “Product Manager” role is what most people need to get an app out.

Second thought is that I think you could see value with a bunch of custom prompted flows later in the app process: “do you want to take stripe payments?” “Do you want to add referral tracking support?” I’m not a native app dev, but I imagine there’s a bunch of CI, Firebase, other integrations that are best practice type things. Automating this as well would be really useful, and provide value and some lock in for your customers. To expand on this, you might make the basic option use your API access to these providers, and upcharge them. They could always implement their own if they want to move away, but the default path would get you some billing off every app that grows.

Another random idea would be ‘appifying’ a web site as a simple flow for the user. This feels like it might be even faster for the average person as a way to explain what they want, and would feed a lot of technical and visual direction straight into your workflow at the same time.

Anyway, good luck! I hope you guys get traction.
I work for a national construction company. You saying "construction not done diy = bad quality" makes you an absolute clown dude, just stop. There are guys working here that have been tradesman before you were born. The arrogance to say you can do it better is astonishing.
Hi. There are a couple free ADS-B platforms left:

https://adsb.fi/

https://opensky-network.org/
github, https://github.com/amelielabs/amelie
Mine is to run a Tailscale node on a tiny ec2 instance. Not only enabling ssh but direct access to database instances, s3 buckets that are blocked from public access etc
ZFS is like magic.

Every time I think I might need a feature in a file system it seems to have it.
Someone gives you two kilos of cocaine, doesn’t tell you what’s in the box and tells you not to open it while you transport it across the border and when you get your the other side someone will pay you $20000.

You get caught by the DEA. Do you think it’s a valid defense “I didn’t ask what was in the box”?

Say the drug dealer you delivered it to got caught and then told authorities you delivered it to them, do you think you would have a valid defense?
Such vim/emacs configuration aficionados are engaging in a hobby, some under the pretense that it'll make them more effective, but many simply for the fun of it.
This would be useful as a fingerprinting technique for corporate/government leakers.
You could dump all the data over a matter of weeks, then you’re sitting on a treasure trove that will pay out over 5+ years.

You could sell it non-exclusively to every data broker
yeah but I can't build anything for them without the domain expertise in German immigration or some other domain. too far removed from the problem
Would be excellent if Apple would use Pixelmator technology in their standard image editing components across Keynote, Pages, etc.

Alternately would be great to finally have a Preview.app with better editing options.
> or if it was a lucky guess

It’s like guessing 1/2 or 2/3 on a math test. The test authors pick nice numbers, and programmers like ”hello”. If the way to encode the secret message resembles other encodings, it’s probably that the pattern matching monster picked it up and is struggling to autocomplete (ie backwards rationalize) a reason why.
Same. We lost everyone in US office due to attrition and never hired anyone to replace. Now all the development is done in Poland.

Small org, no low-performers, no layoffs. Same result as everywhere else.
This will make discourse.nixos.org explode again. It happens every time Determinate System publishes something.
the date formats in the Timeline section trigger me for some reason.
Seagate has always been the "you get what you pay for" && high replacement availability option, at least since the Thai flood and ST3000DM001 days - they kept shipping drives. It was always HGST > Toshiba > Seagate in both price and MTBF, with WD somewhere in between.
Of course MCAS was disclosed to pilots, the idea that it wasn’t is ridiculous to the point of absurdity.

Boeing has gone off the rails, but the general lack of nuance in the common narrative about their failures is really over the top.

MCAS is how a fundamentally different plane behaves (in most cases) like a normal 737. The fact that such a system exists is described, and disclosed, in minute detail to pilots when they get their mandatory training on the 737-MAX.

The specific name wasn’t used in the training, and that’s where this ridiculous narrative came from.
Ah my bad! I just read the "We don't currently support Apple Silicon" on the official website, but I didn't realise that only pertains to GPU support.
I say it's easier today, if you keep it simple. Everything I did 20 years go still works, or works better, or became simpler to do, or is now built into the browser or the language or what have you.

Like this little PHP script I had to spit out custom gradients before CSS had them, it's weird how fondly I remember that... it wasn't even special or complicated, but it was my grd.php and I used it everywhere :) And on some old pages I never got around to replacing it, I'm sure! Once it works, it just works.

Stay away from frameworks and pre-processors, but also study them (!) and make your own and you'll be fine (that is, you will have a lot less pointless churn). If in doubt, don't put sensitive info on it and don't allow visitors to. There is so much you can do where security really literally doesn't matter, because it's just something cool to make and show people.
This is factually not true. You fill out a single form on their website and get it less than a week later:

https://www.tesla.com/support/privacy#data-provided

There’s tons of anecdotes of people doing this very easily online. Good luck getting data this easily from any other major manufacturer
This country was founded specifically to have a small and weak federal government. The states were supposed to have more power. Now the federal government continues to grow and grow, it's like a cancer.
that means the lean startup method is dead because if you need to come out of the gate with a polished product, you need to build for a while before launching
Just curious this seems like simple digital Steganography or maybe even even the same as Shannon's boolean gate work. Do you think the patent is defendable in court?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Ah, you are right. I'm on a slow connection right now and it's a 22MB gif.

(https://github.com/nexsol-technologies/pgassistant/tree/main...)
https://speechpulse.com does fully local audio transcription. The UI and settings are not the most intuitive, but it works fairly well and they are making constant updates.
How is Wasm ignoring prior art? Like what mistakes have been made that were already known about before? Genuinely curious.
People need a “why” to what they do. Generally “I do what I’m told because that is what the process says” doesn’t scale as well as “we are here to get airplanes where they need to go”. The narrative doesn’t have to be outlandish, in fact unrealistic stories give narratives a bad reputation.

What you do need is a simple why you are coming to work that is beyond “to get a paycheck”.
My bad. I misread the official website:

> We don't currently support Apple Silicon, as there is not yet a Kokoro implementation in MLX. As soon as it will be available, we will support it.

I thought that meant that it didn't support Apple Silicon in general, but they were just talking about GPU support.
Love this. I had always referred to this concept with the rallying cry: "'offline' is not an error"
Let’s say I have article 20 article articles of two minutes length each. On the iOS app, there are no next buttons and it does not automatically play the next article. If I am on a long drive, or I am running for two hours with my phone in my bag, I would need to reach into my bag and open the app every time and click the next article. If I I don’t like the article I am listening to, there is no way to skip to the next article using integrated controls on a Bluetooth device. These features already exist on apps like Pocket.
I have the opposite experience. Intellij works well, fewer crashes and no ai crap that gets in my way. Too many developers rely on shitty ai crutches and you can easily snuff them out because their code is shit.
Not affiliated, but I'd guess it doesn't have a "bot" account join the zoom/meets call
Without one of these rigs, you would not be able to do much at all because of the limited PCIe slots in the host. "not much" here means render times into the hours per clip to even longer. With the external chassis and additional cards, you could achieve enough bandwidth for realtime playback. Specific workflow would have been taking Red RAW camera footage that takes heavy compute to debayer, running whatever color correction on the video, running any additional filters like noise removal, finally writing the output back to something like a ProRes. Without the chassis, not happening, with the chassis you can do realtime playback during the session and faster than realtime during rendering/exporting.

Also, these were vital to systems like the MacPro Trashcan that had 0 PCIe slots. This system was a horrible system, and everyone I know that had one reverted back to their latest 2012 cheese grater systems with the chassis.

There was another guy I know that was building his own 3D render rig for his own home experimental use when those render engines started using GPUs. He built a 220v system that he'd unplug the dryer to use. It had way more GPU cards than he had slots for by using PCIe splitters. Again, these were not used to draw realtime graphics to a screen. They were solely compute nodes for the renderer. He was running circles around the CPU only render farm nodes.

People think that the PCIe lanes are the limiting factor, but again, that's just for getting the GPUs data back to the screen. As compute nodes, you do not need full lanes to get the benefits. But for doubting Thomas types like you, I'm sure my anecdotal isn't worth much
If you didn't make it to the end of the article, there's a GoFundMe to help with care for Jake and Bess's daughter, Athena: https://www.gofundme.com/f/secure-a-bright-future-for-bess-a...
Can the evaluation tax be quantified in some way? In other words, how big is the problem that this solves?
The other meeting note takers usually have a bot join the meet to take notes, that seemed a bit strange to me.
> Sapling supports cloning, pushing, and pulling from a remote Git repo. jj also does, and it also supports sharing a working copy with a Git repo, so you can use jj and git interchangeably in the same repo

As a minor update - sapling now also supports the .git on-disk formats so that you can use git and sl interchangeably in the same repo
Ask HN: What open source projects need help?
Continuing aaronbrethorst's idea of a "Who's hiring" for open-source projects.

(copied from his thread)
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Please include: Project name and description (if not widely known); Tech stack; Areas needing help (DOCS, CODE, DESIGN, etc.); Level (BEGINNER-FRIENDLY if applicable); Email address or other means of contacting you.

Ground rules:

Post only if you maintain/run the project

One post per project/suite

No commercial recruitment

No thread complaints

Developers: Only reach out if you actually want to contribute.
> Threat actors buy vulnerabilities that fit into existing business processes

Selling crazy stories to the media is as old as time.

This vuln would give you a lookup table from email->YT

SELECT * FROM table WHERE email LIKE “%.gov”
Sounds perfect, I'm so pleased you and your family were able to have this. I'm sorry for your loss, but hope this pleasant passing brought you comfort.

My father (83yo) died a year ago - just before Xmas. Most of the family got to see him the day before he died and he was in good spirits as we were all preparing for xmas together. He woke about 5am and asked my mother and brother for help getting to the toilet (which was unlike him). Once he was back in bed he rolled over, let out a sigh, and my mother thinks that is the moment he passed. 30 minutes later he was cold and couldn't be revived. I am still sad I wasn't able to say goodbye while he was conscious and always imagined we'd be talking to him in the period of his death - but equally, dying at home, in your own bed, seems so comforting and comfortable.
I have never moderated /r/rust.

I haven’t been involved with the Rust Project for years, I speak only for myself.

I said that I feel for Hector, he’s clearly hurting, and that I hope he feels better. I’ve said I don’t want to pass judgement on if what he did is right or wrong, because I’m trying to stick to facts here. I’ve said that I don’t think what he did was particularly effective.

That’s not making excuses. Hector’s actions aren’t the main point of this story. It’s not even his patch!
I think the magic is in the context of Unicode. Which also makes it almost twice as ridiculous from my point of view. Because it seems to be doing exactly what unicode is meant to do.
> That invaded Vietnam, that split up Korea and bombed North Korea,

Note. The split was done by the Soviet Union and the US.
There’s not a “bot” that needs to attend the meeting and show up in the list of attendees thus giving away the recording of the call. Otter.ai, for instance, shows up as “Otter” (or another name) on a Zoom call when it is recording and taking notes.
You aren't necessarily wrong, but this is almost the definition of privatizing the reward over public risk? The grants his companies received were just that, grants. And without those grants, his companies would have likely failed.
Firefox, though some variant like Librewolf is better. Firefox is packed full of bloat nonsense garbage nowadays.
I replied in another comment here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43009065.

When I've posted this before, the main objections I've got have usually been from the perspective on individual developers, or stuff like "you can't actually share a ton of code between front-end and back-end". That's not my primary point (though there are some places where it is nice to share code, e.g. input validation that you may want to run on the client for user experience/performance reasons but then that you also need to run on the backend for security reasons). The biggest benefit I've seen is in team dynamics which results in bugs getting fixed faster and new features getting added faster because it's easier for team members to "cross" backend/frontend boundaries.
ISO 8601 was set in 1988:

https://xkcd.com/1179/
Current grad students sometimes ask why I never publish. Mostly laziness, to be sure. But also, if I’m going to spend months polishing up a paper, why on earth would I subject it to the academic publishing fiasco when I’m not an academic?