skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I’m interested in an easy backup-out-of-aws solution."

rsync.net has 'rclone' built into the environment[1] so it is trivially easy to call rclone, over SSH:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/some/bucket /rsync/account

... and perform arbitrary data movements into, out of, and between S3/glacier/nearline/gdrive resources. Your "out-of-aws solution" contains ZFS snapshots, on any schedule you like, so you can just do a "dumb" sync to rsync.net and handle the retention with the snapshot schedule.

Also, the snapshots are immutable (read-only) so your data gains some protection against ransomware and other threats like accidental deletion.

You should trust us with your backups because we've been doing this since 2001.

[1] https://rsync.net/products/rclone.html
> Social media use was tied to loneliness as well, with 73% of very heavy social media users considered lonely, as compared with 52% of light users.

That’s ~20% more loneliness from heavy social media users!
I can give an anecdote. I needed to design a load testing system that would ramp up to an arbitrary number of users of certain types, over an arbitrary amount of time.

Rather than just make a loop and increment every so often, I made the system output it's "plan" for the user ramp, and a second component execute the ramp plan. We had a bug in the calculation which we were able to see easily by reading the "plan." Without this step, we would have been unsure if it was the calculation of when to add users, or the implementation of adding a user that had a problem.
And we all know that the rest of the EU will be more reasonable in their implementation.

Except that Germany is one of the biggest political forces in the EU, and what they're doing a lot of the rest will be pressured to follow...
I'd certainly pay a fixed price per month for unlimited searches. I think Google knows that won't work so they don't offer it. Or they couldn't ask the same price that they get selling your personal data?

They do offer Youtube Premium without ads but the search engine space is really different. Microtransactions are not here yet.
Is there any other entity that operates these sorts of radomes? On a regular commute of mine, there is one owned by the federal government that has no sign out front [0], but it's not listed on the JSS page [1].

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/KHTP7vruKvGyqQu66

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Surveillance_System
...their 3T jack really is a phenomenal deal.

https://www.harborfreight.com/3-Ton-Heavy-Duty-Rapid-Pump-Fl...
I didn't say it was someone random but it's from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It's a non-profit, which is good, but they do other things so getting press for the Doomsday clock is highly beneficial for them.

I'm not saying they update it _just_ to get press but I'm sure they highly enjoy the press they get every-time they touch the thing.
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That is why you need to read and not just skim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

United States v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001),[1] was a noted American antitrust law case in which the U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining its monopoly position in the PC market primarily through the legal and technical restrictions it put on the abilities of PC manufacturers (OEMs) and users to uninstall Internet Explorer and use other programs such as Netscape and Java.
Despite the similar setting, Stellaris is a very very different game, almost a different genre. MOO focuses on almost Risk-style gameplay and combat and does an excellent job at it. Stellaris focuses on roleplay and economy management (and some mid-late game issues prevent it from being great IMHO).

It's telling that Stellaris's combat system offers less control than MOO's and that it has no spying. Another good example is the approach for diplomacy - the latest DLC won't have a UN victory condition like MOO but it will have the ability to issue Resolutions.
Most self-help books do ship with an executive summary, conventionally written on the inner cover and in online descriptions. "This book contains a great self-help tactic but I won't tell you what it is" doesn't exactly drive sales.
> They then told the students to go up the hallway to a different room where there would be another test. What the students didn't know was that the test was actually in the hallway; the time it took each participant to walk down the hall was measured. It turned out that the students who had been exposed to the "elderly words" walked more slowly down the hall. Attendees might be inclined to call that "absolute crap", Brady suggested, but it is not, it is repeatable and even has a name, "the Florida effect", because Florida was used as one of the words associated with the elderly.

I haven't ready widely on this, but from what little I have, most attempts at reproducing this and other priming experiments have failed.

(see, e.g., https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-..., https://replicationindex.com/category/priming/ and https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/reproducibility-crisis...)
The usual "registrar lock" is the clientTransferProhibited status you see on domains... that's easily removed by social engineering the registrar.

"Registry lock" is serverTransferProhibited, the kind where both your registrar and the main registry need to agree to transfer the domain to another registrar. For instance, you can buy a .ca domain from any registrar, but you need CIRA's compliance (the issuing body for all of .ca) to enact a registry lock. This explains it a bit better: https://cira.ca/ca-domains/optimize-your-ca/registry-lock

I'm having trouble tracking down how to do this for a .com though.
Sorry for the unclarity -- when I was referring to resources, I meant physical resources like oil, energy, and metal.
Nobody is even suggesting eliminating radar. ADS-B is primarily for aircraft identification, not terminal area location information. A side effect is that it helps with airborne traffic information for airplanes without radar or TCAS.
YEs.

Switched to DuckDuckGo a few months ago and haven't looked back, the results pages are much cleaner, like the old Google results.

One blatant issue with Google (& DDG still often does not get right) is the search for a specific busines - using the exact business name and sometimes even town - I expect their listing to be at the top. Instead there's piles of Yelp & listing pages, and I often cannot even find the actual Item for which I'm searching - sometimes have to go to the indexers, hunt for their posting of the intended [website], and go that way.

Opportunity for someone to get it actually right...
Related tweet by Jason Fried about Basecamp result placement:

"When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached ad."

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1168986962704982016?la...
This is boss. Thanks for sharing. Also going to throw out a recommendation for pgAdmin - useful for querying and doing admin stuff.
In this analogy the "cable customer" would be the ad purchaser. I don't know enough about that industry to know if the analogy works, but just saying.
How is there an ethical future when we don’t yet understand the hard problem of consciousness? How does one know if their manufactured neural net is self aware?
Kind of absurd to be concerned with regulating maybe-conscious brain organoids when our species murders 55 billion definitely-conscious land animals a year and eats them for pleasure, eh?

If consciousness is the line you draw in the sand there are much bigger problems to solve. At least research on organoids would have some value to offset the suffering it might cause.

I am not an advocate of letting perfect be the enemy of good, but I do not think it makes sense to invest any effort in this when it is just a drop in an ocean of suffering we create - the only drop with the potential to actually help our species move forwards.
This actually seems like it has potential application if they could be safe enough. As we get the last drops of power efficiency out of Moore's Law, we might end up being able to get a useful amount of compute out of a tiny amount of energy. This could enable things like ambient sensors that never need replaced. Shower a country with a million microSD-sized soil sensors that run for decades and you have a real-time agricultural monitoring system.
From Geostationary Orbit yes, for other orbits it can be the opposite.

Satellites in lower positions actually have to maintain their orbit due to orbital decay. Because Geostationary orbit is so far away, there's a lot less decay.

For example SpaceX's starlink only has a lifespan of 5 years, and this is because of their low orbit.
Oh for sure! When I worked as a contractor I worked with many departments but even the groups I worked with didn't represent the entire department they were in. But it was a very common theme with every single one that I worked with.

I'd love to see some data on FOSS usage across the DoD but that type of audit is likely impossible.
How so? I believe that police officers need to do this after particularly bad encounters, for example. (In fact if you search for "police psychological interview" you'll find hundreds of pages and even YouTube videos showing "how to pass your police psychological exam.") So it's definitely not illegal, at least not across the board.
Confused, how do you get a registry lock then? Do you have to email your registrar? Why is there so little info on this? Or is this the same thing as clientTransferProhibited that is often provided?
Would pair programming with frequent pair rotations be better than Code Readings? It seems you get all of the value of Code Readings, but throughout the entire process.
Initially we’re not planning to support multiple schedulers via WebWorkers, but the runtime has support for multiple schedulers generally speaking. Since the compiler can target other platforms, we didn’t want to artificially limit all targets due to any particular target limitations. As far as Wasm is concerned though, once browser support for SharedArrayBuffer returns, then we’d be looking to take advantage of multiple threads.
Apparently if SMS verification fails, it can fall back to a phone call where a robot reads you the verification code. This means you could set up Signal with a landline, Google Voice, Skype, or Twilio.

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/signal-tutorial-second-p...
NTFS is a file system, which WSL 2 still runs on. WSL 2 is much better, but NTFS is still dragging it back. I hope one day, Microsoft will make a leap and introduce a faster file system or a proper support with good drivers for ext4 or something like this.
> We use snapshots for regular backups, and have implemented a solutions to share and copy snapshots to a different aws account.

How do you do this if the db is encrypted? Or rather, how do you restore from the encrypted backup in the second account if the master key in the original account is somehow deleted without anyone noticing and intervening before the deletion becomes finalized?
I think a better question that isn't asked is the following: Has Google created a market for ads where non would exist if they simply provided only organic results?

By this I mean that it's possible the main reason Google Ads are useful for companies is because Google has reinforced a sort of negative Nash equilibrium by allowing competitors to squat on organic results by purchasing ads against those better results. I.e. So the best organic results lose user share & clicks because Google lets competitors set ads against them. Given this situation, those targeted by their competitors have no choice but to try & outbid their rivals. Meaning Google Ads are only useful to companies because they exist at all, and assuming minimal gaming of the organic results system with SEO, both companies and users would be better off if there were no ads and the best most relevant results won out on their own merit.
Wow. Some random person was able to move a domain to their own account simply by whatsapp ing the registrar, telling them that they had bought the domain and were having trouble moving it.

That's it.

It makes me realize that Google's no humans policy -- is it a policy? -- is actually a strength here. My domains purchased through Google are safe from social engineering because, well, there are no humans to contact to ask them to manually move domains.

(p.s. That is not some kind of dare to hackers! I am not suggesting you prove me wrong.)
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This sounds like a story that has grown to cover some need.

They can't have shoo'd him away for too long, the Navy started working on it in the 1940s and had one in use by 1953.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Mi...
Ask HN: What are examples of ambient Software?
I was reading the Wikipedia page for Ambient Music[1]. There's a few sentences I found particularly interesting:

"Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. A form of instrumental music, it may lack net composition, beat or structured melody. It uses textural layers of sound which can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality."

"[Brian] Eno opined that ambient music "must be as ignorable as it is interesting"."

What are examples of software that you think embody these qualities?

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music
Highly recommend Shape Up by the basecamp team:

https://basecamp.com/shapeup

It's free. It's good.
Agreed. I found the referenced article[0] far more useful as a guide for how rather than why.

[0](https://kickstarter.engineering/a-guide-to-mindful-communica...)
> Sure, but we know the flu is deadly and relatively communicable and we certainly don't take this level of precaution.

We know exactly how deadly the flu is (i.e. not very), how to prevent and treat it and we can accurately predict how it will spread.

The coronavirus is a zoonotic disease, a virus that jumped from animal to human this doesn't happen every other day. Most of these diseases are very deadly, much more than your regular flu. We also don't know much about it or how to prevent/treat it.

So again the reason why we take a lot of precautions is that a lot is unknown about this virus and its effects.
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So 1 gram of perfectly pure carbon-14 would produce theoretically 4mW essentially continuously, or 35Wh per year.

I think that’s pretty neat. There are bursty low energy communication devices which could perhaps work with that power budget?

The problem is, nothing in the world actually needs to stay on for 5,000 years. So the alternative of using a 100x cheaper battery that just lasts 6 months or something is going to be hard to beat.
Why do people care about "valuable things"? Status
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Yes, Lumen has a scheduler and does preemption the same way the BEAM does.
Great, thanks -- will take a look at this.

The challenge with RDS in the past has always been getting the data easily and scriptable into an S3/etc bucket to start with. This might be a good enough solution.

Restore would be a pain, but at the point its needed the pain would be acceptable.
That was my hope originally but I’m not so sure now. It seems the current government believes a lot of their own rhetoric.
More like they said they wanted to get off the elevator June 23, 2016 and the other people on the elevator prevented them from getting off one way or another for 1,317 days until Jan 31, 2020.
“2020-01-24 Application status is Abandoned”
The transcript & slides on a single page: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

Regardless of Clojure's ultimate fate as a language implementation, I suspect that the magical combination of `Epochal Time Model + Persistent Data Structures + Pure Functions` is fairly future-proof.
I tried. Friends didn't stay. In fact even I am myself not very keen on the existing implementation. I love the idea and the protocol but UX (on all the platforms) and the onboarding are really cumbersome. I don't ask anyone to go to Signal because it's centralized like WhatsApp, Fb.
Are they required to tell you? I've been to more than one restaurant that said "sorry, we don't take cash" when there was no signage to inform me of this fact.
Not new - Patent application from 2004, marked abandoned this year.
Age of Empires 2 is an interesting case where the original versions had cheater AI, and the subsequent re-releases have taken the time to examine competitive meta and create new difficult AI that plays fair based on actually competitive tactics.
I recommend the podcast "By The Book" if you're fascinated by/interested in the self-help book genre. The hosts select a self-help book, try to live it to the letter, and report their findings.
Hahaha! Nice! Exactly the reaction I was hoping to see.
I'm really glad that that helped you.
Apple gives its employees free iCloud space though, what if his stuff was backed up into that?
That definitely seems possible, but I feel it might be harder to implement at an organization that wasn't already doing a lot of pair programming since in my experience pairing elicits almost philosophical support or opposition. Maybe you could start with readings and work up to pairing if it felt like the right transition?
MoO2 has some dramatic improvements (races, leaders, better AI) but also some dramatic drawbacks (planet micromanagement). An MoO1.5 - with the MoO2 improvements but more MoO-style gameplay would have been awesome.
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That has been exactly my experience with a very minor event a few years ago. The bills kept coming at random intervals for about 18 months, some for a few tens of dollars, one or two for hundreds, others for literally $0. I just had no visibility into it and honestly would only be half surprised if now, 8 years later, I received a bill for $17 for procedure AU8-QB-12 from department CO9-s4 (and the bill would mention that my insurance paid the other $872)
> If this really is wisdom, it does not follow that it takes 300 pages to communicate. But I suppose the propounders have to make a living somehow.

The article makes the point that the wisdom really does take much longer to communicate - a nugget of wisdom like ‘accept yourself’ seems trite when taken alone, but the examples (presumably filling the other 300 pages) are what makes the advice actually sink in.
Sure. It just took a bit of getting used to, but could be the reason why a lot of casual developers looking at the language have the impression that the documentation is poor.
I used them in college in Chicago ~ 4 years ago and we have 12+ outages in a single year, several of which took multiple days to resolve, and we never got close to the speed we were paying for.
Agreed it was a pretty poor read, no matter how many emojis the author uses. The linked material is a bit better. [0]

[0] https://kickstarter.engineering/a-guide-to-mindful-communica...
Google Domains does have phone/chat/mail support but I still would like to believe that their security practices are solid enough that they wouldn't fall for this most basic of social engineering attacks.
Sounds like it might be a good pick as the energy source for an extremely long haul interstellar probe?
His other papers are all in solid-state physics. He's a real scientist playing around outside his domain, discovering a well-known result, and writing a fun letter about it to a low-impact journal.

All of which is fine. It just requires a bit more context than the headline yields. If this had linked to his blog, it would make a lot more sense.
It is no where near the same. 60% according to this article which was the top post in DDG search. Compared to 92.5% to general population. Stop spreading lies.

>In upstate New York, the outbreak has spread through insular communities in Rockland and Orange counties, where vaccination rates in some schools and day care centers is at 60%, according to New York state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker. The state’s overall vaccination rate is 92.5%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Source: https://forward.com/news/national/417390/measles-is-hitting-...
Censor them! Off with their heads!
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This is more of a list of "why" you do code reviews rather than how to do them. In my opinion the way to do code reviews is to be didactic. The point is not just to tell people that there are problems, but to explain why they are problems so that the developer can learn and avoid making similar problems in the future.
(Disclaimer: I work for AWS.)

Can you tell us more about the use case? I'm not sure I understand the need here, or how it might improve your work patterns.

Also, note that this is an export feature, not a backup/restore feature. Aurora already has native backup/restore: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
You can argue specific strengths and weaknesses, but Stellaris is, by any financial or sales metric, an A-list hit.
Paying for the full snapshot and not just the filtered data is a bummer
Nice list but for me missing the most difficult pieces

- while giving a review, how to not focus on superficial details but instead really take the time to understand the problem and the solution. Making sure you can really understand why things were done the way they were and thinking about whether things could be made more clear, performant, follow best practices more closely, etc

- when receiving a review learning that people are reviewing it your code not you, learning how to look forward to reviews because they make your final product better

Would love to see advice on the really difficult bits of code review
Been a while since I touched Clojure but at the time nothing beat light table's insta-REPL. Anything replace that, or any insta-REPL come close to replicating that experience for any language?
I imagine a significant number of companies rolled their own solutions to dump to s3 already, so this is no less secure.
There are two major issues for me with IdeaVim (although I still use it heavily): no support for language-specific maps and no way to work with arbitrary actions. I can work around both of these by using a scripting host and writing kotlin/clojure to deal with the actions I care about, but it's a bunch of work.
No, premiums don’t increase. The ACA prevents insurance companies from considering medical history when pricing insurance.
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"Restore would be a pain, but at the point its needed the pain would be acceptable."

I can't speak specifically to this, but I will point out that you can just as easily run those 'rclone' commands in reverse, to move data from an rsync.net snapshot out to (insert cloud):

ssh user@rsync.net rclone .zfs/snapshot/1dayago/bucket s3:/some/bucket
Right, because these companies are spending millions of dollars on R&D for new technologies that will only ever be used along the US/Mexican border.

How about being worried because it's inevitable for this technology to be deployed elsewhere?

And that's just one of the obvious problems.
Probably because the manual management of these requests is relatively expensive.
I'd like to frame this question as "What percentage of people have left Google for other better SEs?" I'm curious to see that number climb.
Brain-Inspired Computing for a Post- Moore's Law Era