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Ask HN: What's the best (basic/cheap) backup solution?
I have very simple needs: I want to ensure that, in an extreme case, (e.g. my house burns down) my files (not covered by web services) can be retrieved.

So let's assume a TB (or a few in the future), with slow regular upload, and very rare DL access. I want to minimize cost, but also effort in sync (assume limited technical expertise).

What's the best option?
He controls a 313 billion dollar fund that includes the country's internet access, cell phones access, the state run broadcasting and the banks. What would corruption look like when you already control everything? Putting people in prison for criticizing you, because they do that.
I don’t know why you’re disagreeing when you’re making the same argument. If you have the money, you build your own thing, which is better.
Lee Kuan Yew died in 2015.
OnlyOffice's developers are... Questionable. Referring to this: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/805
I don’t get why people keep using desktop office apps.

Google docs is more than enough for everything I’ve ever thrown at it.
To be honest, I didn’t follow the link, but that quote sounds totally tongue in cheek. Maybe the author is serious, but it reads more like an article from The Onion.
If you create a gun and people keep shooting themselves, you add safety features if you care about people not dying. If you build a car and people keep crashing and dying in them you add seatbelts. If you create a lock-in that causes bullying and teenagers having a hard time fitting in, then maybe there is something you can do if you care about them?
Anarchist political theory has been associated with "hacker culture" since at least the '80s. I don't consider myself one, but it'd be wrong to say that it isn't apropos.
One thing that is overlooked by the authors, is that libreoffice now also has ribbon with icons similar to Word. I'm still pretty happy with libreoffice writer, however excel is still king, calc is just horrible. Try to make anything a bit more interesting than a line graph, 2 axis's you'll get stuck quickly
I do not use GitHub because their political views do not align with mine. And what does politics have to do with programming? I do not know, you have to ask them, they are the ones trying to bring politics into IT.

I just self-host Gogs, GitLab, Trac, cgit, etc. They are independent of each other, of course. :) Different teams, different needs. As far as my personal projects go, I just self-host cgit, and I accept "pull requests" through e-mail. It works.
pps: I thought about this international-law example while i was reading Bolo'Bolo (by PM, free access). It's a really funny and thought inspiring short book. Its development on productive and economic relationships is really nice.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p-m-bolo-bolo
You forgot

- runs natively on the OS the author is using, unlike MS Office which only runs on Windows and Macs
Microchip XC16, broken in a few places but functional and definitely allowed for .c files.
Well my signup screen (first thing the user sees) has a background photo of a night life party to set the tone. Maybe I should make it darkmode themed to set the tone more but I don't want to discourage people using this to meet up for coffee. I strongly agree though, lots of hard work will be needed to be put in culture.
I used to work for a company that made simulation based corporate training games. All the data was modeled in Excel and served as a database to read from and write back to during runtime.

The frontend was written in Flash. I was the sole frontend developer for one of the projects in this space and the backend had always amazed me. The Excel sheets were nuts :D
I like the idea that git is named after the guy who discovered it.
I've had the opposite experience with K8S and docker in general. What was once pretty much always failing deployments, keeping software up to date incorrectly, K8s and docker in general keeps the burden of keeping a site running at an all time low in my lifetime of development. Like from teams to just 1 guy.
I would recommend listening to this article on the podcast feed. Love the site.
Five ways to be a better radio or podcast host
It's good time to mention that there is a lichess HN chess group: https://lichess.org/team/hacker-news

Although it's been a little dead since last time. I have been thinking of reviving it but lichess notifications aren't very good at least the forum system. Many people don't login to their account on a regular basis so it's easy to miss them.

An an email based invitation system seems better. What do you guys think? Is anyone interested in maintaining a sort of a club for HN members so we could include everything like open source experimentation and streaming place [0] from a few days ago?

0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24333474

Edit: Started a substack. I will head out now!

https://hnclub.substack.com

https://hnclub.substack.com/p/lichess-tournament-next-weeken...
It gets even more muddled when you consider they mention the following: "While Google Maps’ predictive ETAs have been consistently accurate for over 97% of trips, we worked with the team to minimise the remaining inaccuracies even further - sometimes by more than 50% in cities like Taichung."

Are they essentially saying that they lowered 3% inaccuracy to ~1.5% in Taichung? (And nevermind the fact that 51% is described as "more than 50%"...)

Of course this type of work is fascinating. Getting from 97 to 98.5% accuracy is far far more difficult than getting from 95.5 to 97%. But I don't enjoy the fudging of the perception of results.
Hierarchical use of force is replaced with community use of force. In anarchism people have to take individual responsibility. There's no point saying "someone should do something about this", you're someone, do what needs to be done.
www.foodio.network is the url
Parents are literally making the future of a society and of humanity. They deserve more slack than single adults.

Parents with more time off will (could) have better educated children and thus make life better for everyone.

Taking care of kids isn't a luxury it is something everyone should see as a fundamental human goal.
Not a good example because being discontent with c++ for loops is how we got https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/ranges (which imo is a good addition to the standard library)

But yea, not while you're trying to ship.
What you're describing is actually why it's labeled a "high-level" language. As noted by Brian Kernighan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2Hsvxaf8M

Now that there are languages that are higher level, people want to imagine that C is a low level language, when it actually isn't.
And, of course, when you dump, market makers need to also dump to reduce their exposure.

There's a potential for some seriously crazy non-linear feedback.
Yes, please see PEP 458: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0458/
> If your neighborhood votes for the opposition party you lose funding for things like public transportation.

Not for public transportation, but yes, it's not a secret that opposition-held constituencies get substantially less public funding: https://www.ourclassnotes.com/post/cipc-funds-which-town-cou...
Thanks for the correction. I was unaware.
> And that’s really what advanced mathematics is all about: clearly communicating otherwise intractably complex ideas by letting the symbols do the work.

I agree, and I think you nailed the point perfectly.

The point that the article misses completely.

Thank you.
I'd like to know why this isn't standard today.

I don't like the typical moldy latex paint.
You're right that you can't just count the number of postulates naively because there is generally not a well defined way to do so. A great example is the one you give: three laws of motion vs one law of least action. However, if I told you that it was possible to reproduce all of mechanics with only the first two of Newton's laws, then surely you'd agree that there wouldn't be a need for the third law and in that sense the new system of postulates would be simpler.

In other words, because MWI is obtained by removing a postulate from the usual formulation of QM, I think it's fair to say it's simpler. If, instead, MWI had been obtained by formulating all of QM in some other distinct framework where there was no mention of wave functions, measurements, or the Schrodinger equation etc, and it had one fewer postulate, then yes I would agree that you can't arbitrarily say that it's simpler.
They also improved importing and exporting in the latest version if I am not mistaken.
Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (2015)
While your interpretation of the phrase is interesting i think there is something as to much interpretation.

Reimplementation of existing software (what all those projects aim for) doesn't work that well with an iterative process. It might be one of the things where a waterfall like approach is appropriate. The requirements literally don't change.

So it doesn't make sense to maintain 3 different waterfalls (or a 4th if you count Apaches efforts) and people working together (not that manly) would have a better chance catching up the monolith that get's copied.

I find the saying on point.
Ubuntu, just apt install or whatever it was

The development of the frontend is a bit messy, but you'll manage
Indeed plague has been endemic to the us since the california plague of the early 1900s

But it’s curable now

https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html
Page rank is probably one of the more clever names out there. I didn't realize at first it was named after the founder, as it's a good description to how it works.
Wait that's not just something seablock and factorio made up?
What I like about it (at least for my usage) is that you compose functions like they were command line tool. That's some unique ergonomics right there (regardless of its cons).
C++ Modules Might Be Dead-on-Arrival
Yeah, you kinda have to drink the whole koolaid before it clicks. It’s great when it does though.

It only clicked for me when I started using NixOS (on my primary laptop in my case) rather than just Nix.
Punishing the Outliers
> Does Disney allow lewd content on Disney+ or at Disneyland?

They have the equivalent store-brand label for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchstone_Pictures
Not that different than the Republicans passing a tax bill in 2017 specifically designed to increase taxes on Democratic constituencies.
I remember being told to watch out for side effects when switching from an SSRI (Trintellix) to a RIMA (Manerix), which is essentially a de-fanged MAOI. Younger psychiatrist kept pushing for the brand-new SSRI, I kept pushing back. Never mentioned anything else despite my attempts to open the discussion, and my own research (and in fact, experience thanks to darknet markets) over years.

Eventually "agreed to disagree" (I hate this expression), I moved on from that place where I was stagnating in pain, and found a sensible knowledgeable psychiatrist who happens to be much older, and we made the switch.

It's hard to understate how much of a change that was in my life. I try not to be bitter about any fresh new psychiatry grad on the block, but I really hope they get their shit together as a collective and observe what their own patients (and their older peers) seem to know better than them.

No matter how much tyramine I ingest (which is supposed to be a no-no on MAOI/RIMA) the worst side effects I suffer can't even get anywhere near what the SSRI would TYPICALLY do to me.

On Trintellix: morning headaches, being unable to have any caffeine, becoming lactose intolerant, frequent cramps and diarrhea. Depression very very mildly alleviated. Transition period when stopping the meds: 2 weeks. Cost of monthly refill: $110 CAD.

On Manerix: some cramps if I ingest gigantic amounts of tyramine (I'm french, I'm talking cured meats+cheese plates and red wine bottles in the same meal). Could be back to coffee and milk with no headaches nor cramps within a couple weeks. Depression mostly alleviated. Transition period when stopping the meds: 2-4 days. Cost of monthly refill: $30 CAD.

Oh and the kicker? Manerix is actually one of the few antidepressants that actually has a chance to "increase libido" as a side effect!

I'm glad someone wrote a good article on what I've been hoping to articulate in different places over time, thanks for the share.
I also abandoned Ubuntu, and after various adventures in distro land I now use Debian Testing with Xfce.
> Government offers a partially subsidised health insurance plan. But you have to apply and pay for it yourself.

Small correction: MediShield Life is compulsory and automatic for Singapore citizens and permanent residents.
Which is the priority?

> we will have lost those manuscripts forever.

You do realize that starvation results in millions of lives lost forever. That’s why I donate to food & local water/well charities Today. Manuscripts can be photographed and transcribed later.
Here you go: https://wiby.me/

Oh, and also: https://millionshort.com/

Edit: added second link.
To answer directly to your question, it depends on the platforms, some podcasts choose certain platforms to allow comments i.e. Joe Rogan is on Youtube so viewers/listeners can submit their comments.
TCL/tk has some rough edges.

But compared to most GUI toolkits especially anything cross platform, it’s really nice!
> Google docs is more than enough for everything I’ve ever thrown at it.

Please correct for your sampling bias.
TI Extended Basic (for TI 99/4) [pdf]
I would find it kind of satisfying if Waymo solidly won the self-driving race. It would be a triumph of solid engineering over unreliable "good-enough" solutions.
This might just be the psychological aftermath of the Japanese bubble.

Land prices in Japan was insane in early 1990s, and then it burst, losing almost 60% of the value. it doesn't get that high without people believing it will appreciate - and now they don't.
Without a public commitment from apple to make this possible, what reason is there to assume this is going to change?
16 bits with hardware sprites. Used to write games and rudimentory physics-engine (canons shooting, that sort of stuff) for it in highschool. I still have mine!
> Shanghai is the biggest seaside city

The name is much older than the size.
Canonical has been doing this sort of thing for a very long time, they way Ubuntu tough was designed should have been enough to make most people abandon them.
I went from MS word to Google Docs for writing professional reports, and there is no comparison. For basic stuff, Google docs is fine, and they definitely have a better model for collaborating on a document. But docs feels 90% done - it is missing advanced formatting, copy paste integration with other Google products, and many other little things like that that make it challenging to use as a professional tool.

I could go on at length about all the stuff I didnt like about Word (especially collaborative editing on sharepoint, there have been some disasters), but at least it feels like a professional tool vs. the proof-of-concept feel of Google docs
I think people rationalize. Stealing from faceless corporations who treat customers poorly is OK. Stealing from people who are “too rich”. People who “need to be taught a lesson.” People who create a narrative of their own victimhood.

I would say about the SEO affiliate marketers, that they would tell you that they’re no different than other marketers, they just operate in a specialized space.
This really needs a "new here? here's how to use this tool!" tutorial. It's no doubt super cool, but how do you actually use it, without first clicking random things until "something does a thing"?
Looking at India/China from 1950 on, it doesn't seem democracy has any game in this.

It's all about economic policy.
While I don't know what formatting issues the author was referring to, they do exist. They are typically the product of people doing wonky things in order to format documents in a particular way that looks fine on their own computer, like embedding tables in tables. There are also features that LibreOffice supports in a different way (e.g. multiple page layouts within a word processor or spreadsheet document).
Something about lidar being doomed to fail.
These are a lot of the challenges I know I'm going to have to figure out. I'm screenshotting this because it's actually a really good explanation of what I need to be working on. I just launched and I couldn't cover all these problems right away in my MVP, but I plan to cover all of them in the future. Thanks!
Meh, everyone knew they couldn’t do it. The sensor array is too limited and they’re leaning too much on ML.
Headline is almost certainly clickbait. While yes chess is increasing in viewership, 4,313 average viewers is hardly taking over Twitch’s 15 million daily viewers. Chess is currently the 29th most popular game on Twitch: https://sullygnome.com/games/30/watched
QuantumScape, battery company, launches an IPO
Oh thank god. I thought the point was going to be that naming things after people was discriminatory to women and minorities.
I am not fat, so fuck anyone that needs health help or insulin for diabetes.

I don't smoke, so fuck anyone that needs lung cancer treatment.

I don't drink so fuck anyone that comes to ER with alcohol poisoning.

I work out, so fuck anyone with back/wrist/whatever problem from being sedentary.

I have friends and go out, so fuck anyone with depression/anxiety.

I have a car, so fuck anyone that takes a bus/metro.

I have two working legs, so fuck any ramp for wheelchair users.

I have enough money so fuck all the old people (and younger ones getting there) on social security.

Fuck, I am strong and crazy enough, so fuck anyone that thinks they should be able to walk at night and not be beaten up/robbed. Fuck them right? How much do you even lift bro?

Being selfish is the number one problem in the world today, the lack of empathy, understanding of others situations, is bringing this world to a dark dark place, and unless we (or most of HN readers) understand that and be in a privilege position to try and change that, we will see everyone going even more into a dark path,
I wonder if they meant his son, Lee Hsien Loong, the current prime minister.
> 0ne of the pieces many articles discussing Singapore miss is actually the quality of the people in the Government officer corps. This i think makes a massive amount of difference in that a lot of what's planned in infrastructure and processes is much better thought out and executed than in other countries. It's the equivalent of the 10X programmer philosophy.

> This is achieved largely by the government sponsoring the most promising/brilliant students to study in top Western universities and offering them quite competitive pay packages to join the government.

Some of the scholars, yes. I interacted with some scholars during my university time, and I thought that some of them were, in my opinion, not very smart outside of academics.

There are many in the civil service that perform the bare minimum for their position — it's not easy to get fired from the civil service, and they're content with minimal career progression.
It’s too bad society couldn’t be more realistic, and sacrifice some productivity instead of just pushing the work around. Central banks printed trillions of dollars in a matter of weeks (incinerating some currency value) to keep the economy alive, this is no different. We’re still collectively optimizing for the wrong metrics.
Here we see the classic tension between synthetic names and natural names.

The best discussion I've seen of this topic is in the 1st chapter (which is fortunately freely accessible and concise) of this excellent programming book:

https://leanpub.com/elementsofclojure/read_sample

Relevant excerpt:

> Most natural names have a rich, varied collection of senses.3 To avoid ambiguity we must use synthetic names, which have no intuitive sense in the context of our code.

> Category theory is a rich source of synthetic names. ‘Monad’, to most readers, means nothing. As a result, we can define it to mean anything. Synthetic names turn comprehension into a binary proposition: either you understand it or you don’t. Between experts, synthetic names can be used to communicate without ambiguity. Novices are forced to either learn or walk away.

> Conversely, a natural name is at first understood as one of its many senses. Everyone understands, more or less, what an id is. In a large group, however, these understandings might have small but important differences. These understandings are refined, and gradually converge, through examination of the documentation and code. At the cost of some ambiguity, novices are able to participate right away.

> Natural names allow every reader, novice or expert, to reason by analogy. Reasoning by analogy is a powerful tool, especially when our software models and interacts with the real world. Synthetic names defy analogies,4 and prevent novices from understanding even the basic intent behind your code. Choose accordingly.
I’m in a similar situation to you. I use Google Docs as my primary office suite and occasionally switch to native Microsoft Office when I need to edit a complex or macro-covered Excel sheet. Google Docs is very convenient, free of frustration, and quickly improving. It also integrates nicely with the other G Suite apps.

I think a lot of the free software people prefer to avoid proprietary web apps made by companies that they view as poorly aligned to their beliefs. Also, performance is a valid reason to avoid web apps.
Google docs requires a google account. Getting one of those has become very difficult and I’m not convinced having one is a net benifit.

For individual developers I’m also not convinced a spreadsheet is an improvement over sql + maybe some python scripts where you would use macros/charts.
Your argument can be applied in the same way to the current economic system in the US (capitalism). The free market capitalist system has the shared presumption that free markets are efficient and will allocate resources effectively. This shared presumption is unrealistic in that same fashion, since entirely free markets are not possible (market manipulation, monopoly, etc...). No reasonable anarchist will say their solution solves all problems, but they would argue their ideal society would be better and would solve problems we are faced with today.
What appears notable there is that Singapore's leaders used detention not mass murder for political control, unlike most dictators and Communist countries.
The ones with women are jarring. I wonder if future generations will see how we treat children the same way.

>Simone doesn't want to cook breakfast for her husband, a lobotomy and Thorazine fixed her right up.

>Little Timmy doesn't want to do homework for his parents, Adderall and gender reassignment fixed her right up.
I think a python implementation of flow is in the toolz library as compose_left. I find myself often using the similar pipe function.

- https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#toolz.functo...

- https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#toolz.functo...
> (ever noticed how the space bar is much easier to hit than a comma, you enlightened dynamic language devotee? Size does matter).

This author makes so many good points about key ergonomics with languages. I’d love to see more research into this, and the results being incorporated into languages.