skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a net worth of over $300 million.
manicures. i can 100% do it myself - heck im even really good at it. but i prefer the relaxation it gives me when someone else is pampering me
> I've been generally happy with Time Machine's stability, but this is getting me a little worried.

For the longest time, I backed up my MacBooks with Time Machine to a NAS.

Seemed to work fine - Time Machine was successful and I was able to browse previous versions on the machine being backed up without an issue (browse history of machine A on machine A).

Then one day I was planning to wipe a MacBook and do a clean install - figured I'd confirm I could browse my backups made on machine A on machine B before I wiped A. I spent over an hour attempting to open the sparse bundle (w/ Time Machine and manually) and just couldn't do it - kept loading forever or giving me errors about volume verification among other things[0].

> I guess now's a good time to looking into Arq (or similar)

Like you, I decided to take a look at alternatives. I'd previously played around with Arq (v5) and it looked awesome - stable, well-documented, etc. Well, by the time I actually needed an alternative to Time Machine, Arq had released v6 - earlier this year[1].

Unfortunately it appeared to be bug-prone (not great for backups!) and lacked ANY documentation (one of the great things about v5 was the in-depth documentation, particularly around backup format). Users on the subreddit[2] weren't thrilled and you can't purchase v5 licenses (and TBH I wouldn't recommend purchasing software that isn't supported anymore).

Within the last week or two, Arq has released a second major version within a year - v7[3]. Feedback appears to be better, and the author has acknowledged mistakes, but TBH I'm wary. Definitely not adopting two-week old software as my primary method for backing up.

I've been playing around with Carbon Copy Cloner[4] more recently.

The ideal goal would be bootable backups to a disk image hosted remotely but that doesn't appear to be possible[5] - so I'm resigning myself to file-based instead - no bootable disk image, but at least I'm a little more confident in my backups? And a single "file" (or image) becoming corrupt doesn't blow away the rest of my backup ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I'm all ears.

Edit: Probably worth noting that in this case machine A was running 10.14 (and HFS) and machine B 10.15 (and APFS) - but I'd imagine 10.15 should be able to open a 10.14 HFS sparse bundle without an issue.

[0] https://pastebin.com/Le6Q407e

[1] https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/arq-6-more-power-more-securit...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/Arqbackup/

[3] https://www.arqbackup.com/blog/next-up-arq-7/

[4] https://bombich.com/

[5] https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/i-want-back-up-my-whole-mac-time...
That's quite different from an actual insider, not just a random with a tip.
And in binary, the bits just shift, so same thing to remember
The price increased. And this increase occurred over the span of a century, not a decade.
Good tips!
The ones who eke out $1400m get museums named after them. The failure here is to make enough to buy an ownership interest in the law.
They did if you go back far enough.

We are talking compatibility on a protein level.
It's about buying it with insider knowledge that the quarterly earnings call would be positive and lead to a rise in price. So the intent is to sell that stock when you know the price has gone up to guarantee a return. The issue is the knowledge they used to make that decision was not public record.
> In most contexts I’ve experienced, the professor’s research and the student’s are more or less one and the same.

A PhD is an individual research degree - ideally you’re supposed to be working on your own ideas not someone else’s.
I'm using the latest Firefox (81.0) and am not seeing the warning.
Sure, you can choose to filter out certain things from your reality. Eventually you'll get railroaded because you failed to factor in certain things which someone whose able to adopt a realistic frame of mind would've captured.

If we look at WW2, you see Neville Chamberlain, the optimist, pursuing a policy of appeasement giving Hitler the benefit of the doubt and proclaiming "peace for our time" after signing of the Munich agreement. Meanwhile, Churchill, a realist, realizes that Hitler is not going to stop until he's dominated all of Europe.

So who do you prefer to be in this story, the naive optimist Chamberlain, assuming everything will be okay? Or the realist Churchill who recognizes the threat, and takes the necessary evasive action.
Worse than that. The grim reaper is competent.
YouTubers are not. Their much hyped youtube notification api is buggy and broken. There's just 3 events you can subscribe to - only 1 of them works.
I really like TM as well, and find it quite useful. It’s like incremental backup on steroids. But I don’t feel it replaces a “snapshot” backup system.
Yah, this is really poor. I know they have the auto-generated form, but it's far from 100% and a lot of words have a lot of domain specific nuance that it takes a person in that field to disambiguate.

They should think twice about bringing this one back. There may be some extra burden on their end too with violation/sabotage contributions showing up to contend with as well.
That's not really how it works. Percentages only matter when you have other options that have similar return rates. 1.4M on 14M would be pretty good too.
That button doesn't work in Chrome, which almost certainly means it doesn't even work in Microsoft's own browser (since Edge is Chromium-based now)
We have the exact same thing here, we just call the points “dollars”
O365 makes sense if it's down all day, since this is a leap year, after all.
(1) Most don't want to be quants. It's a soul-sucking no work-life-balance career path. You're getting paid better, but it's a hyper-abusive work environment.

(2) Quant hiring is super-competitive. most physics students wouldn't get jobs. A lot of quants are physicists, but the converse isn't true.

(3) And students? Not so much. Quants like to hire Ph.Ds or possibly ABDs.

Ones who are ALSO good programmers can go the CS route, but most aren't. You need to do basic programming to do physics, but not industry-grade software engineering.
yes, this video is excellent
And they probably do, until they get caught.
Probably complied gladly. They don't want folks insider trading either.
Ya, I think that is definitely important. You need to get started with something that can give you quick feedback.

I remember one of my first little qbasic programs could output colors on the screen with different tones as it changed. It was probably 10 or 15 lines of code and hitting that key to run the program on a loop was like a little drug high. I was hooked and I could see the endless possibilities of what I could create by just modifying what I already had on screen.

Had my first foray into programming been a terminal and a book about C, I most definitely wouldn't have stuck with it.
You forgot taxes. Everybody pay taxes.
Sort of true, but alsorts of issues can leap in unannounced and shoot your plans in the foot. You can prove in covid now but was it priced in in January, February, March, definitely by April for the majority.
What about people who can't read the article because of a paywall. They like to comment, too. Or the tangents that routinely happen having nothing to do with the article.

I believe the heading is part of the article. It is the first thing the reader will encounter and the author is trying to get us to read more. It requires that the author put some thought into it. Unless I am missing something, the statement about "raw text" reflects how the author actually believes readers might feel.

You're essentially asking me to ignore the author's statement about being "tired of displaying raw text" and try to interpret some ambiguous sentence at the end of paragraph 1. I am not tired of displaying raw text. He assumed wrong. There's no retraction or contradiction of the statement about "raw text" in the article. As far as I can tell, it was not "clickbait". The author actually believes reader are "tired of displaying raw text".
This is an interesting play and a signal that Google wants out of the app store game.

Keep in mind Google is supposedly opening up Android to better support third-party app stores.

Essentially, these two changes will motivate major apps like Netflix, Fortnite, Spotify, Tinder, etc to leave the Play Store next year (before the deadline).

They may start their own stores (like Epic), but they could also be available as exclusives for a major new, third-party Android app store (probably already in development). In turn, more app devs will jump ship and the Play Store could be a ghost town by the end of 2022.
Ask HN: Early Experiences with Software QA
Tell me about your early experiences with debugging and software QA. How do you feel about software testing in the past versus how software testing is handled these days? Were the old ways better? Or are they simply old? If you think they were better, why? What is there about software testing in the past that should still be used today? What is there about software testing in the past that should be left in the past? I'm writing a story for the Functionize blog, and I'm interested in your QA stories.
I imagine if you get caught once, the SEC is going to audit everything you've done and find most occurrences of insider training. Theres a 5% chance for each of those occurrences and you're going to owe a lot if any are found.
Monitoring crowd-sourced captions on political videos and monitoring for abused/slanting the wording sounds like a Hard Problem, in a political minefield of language nuance.
Divorces, too. A family member was applying to med schools, and during one of the visits there was a boast of a >100% divorce rate among students. Every married student who entered that program was divorced by the end, as were some who got married during the program. To have such a stressful program is bad enough, but to boast about it as a sign of prestige and dedication is even worse.
Uber's software runs worldwide: $1m of developer time for Uber has a much wider impact and reach compared to spending $1m on developer time for Arro, which has a much smaller reach and no guarantees of an RoI.
The major shift occured during the 1960 compared to 1940. What kind of prestige occurred in computing during that time that elevated the status of programmers?

The period when computing was originally a female-dominated field is quite known for something else. It was the world war 2. Men was sent to the front line and there existed a major lack of labor resource. Ballistics calculations and cryptography was very labor intensive, and unsurprising a lot of those position were then held by women.

Comparing the job market during the second world war with a few decades later does not make much sense. Still I am interesting in hearing what kind of prestige was given to programmers that supposedly triggered this change in the job market.
Pup, command line tool for processing HTML
I hire voice actors for my videos. I don't care for my voice and narrating a video is harder than it looks.
Right, I just saw this after replying to a different comment, but I think a COV-19 type scenario is probably the most likely of a bunch of really unlikely scenarios. Its unlikely an alien virus would be able to interface with a human virus, but if they managed to exchange genetic material, then it's possible the hybrid could infect a human. The same reason makes these types of pandemics from local viruses nearly inevitable. The proximity accelerates how viruses evolve and jump species. We obviously don't know enough about life to know if viruses are a universal phenomenon such that they could interface on first contact.

It's super unlikely that a virus that evolved outside of Earth would (on its own) have a mechanism to infect cells they hadn't encountered before in order to propagate. Again, nothing is impossible, but physics, chemistry and biology would all have to line up in a very specific way for that virus to infect a human cell.
My impression is this would be more bandwidth efficient (and thus perhaps possible) with APFS than HFS+ because of block level updates.

Of course I have no clue whether Apple is thinking of this or not.
FYI: I've used Arq for nearly a decade and have loved it, but the latest version, 6—which was something like a complete refactor IIRC—seems to be riddled with bugs (including, I think, data loss) and the support experience has not been good (both being deviations from normal). I'm not up-to-date on the whole saga but it's been disheartening to watch. I'm sticking with 5 for now. I just Googled around and it looks like a v7 is in beta testing and reports are that it's better than 6...
I think you are substantially underestimating the scale of the galaxy and the vastness of space to make a claim like "dna based life probably has a monopoly on water based planets throughout the galaxy"
I think she was jailed for obstruction of justice / lying to investigators. She had to pay civil penalties for the actual loss avoided.
Yeah, and it's weird but it turned out that Al Capone jeopardized his entire empire over just not paying taxes on $100k in income. Strange that despite his incredible business acumen he committed this one small crime.
I use Kap
I honestly don't understand. If people do side projects and programming in their free time then how is that not an expression of interest? What about the inverse? If someone is not willing to do that then how is that not a sign of disinterest? Someone who only does their job and nothing else is not exactly someone I would call highly motivated or highly interested. There is this misconception that there is an upper bound to how interested someone can be. As if you are either interested or not.
Tell me what this means: `I’ve tried a few times to start. Still looking for my pit chief.`

Specifically what’s kept you from starting?

There’s a whole community of people who can help you. Start by starting.

In case it’s helpful; some resources: http://go.drod.io/startups
Azure Portal authentication seems to be failing
Of course, once you hit the lotto once, VCs will keep throwing money at you no matter how old you get.
It's a family thing. They aren't splitting it in any direction. It's kept in the family.
Version control is collaborative editing. Synchronizing on every key stroke is real-time collaborative editing. That's nice if you're working on a overlapping data at the same time. In code this does not happen so often because code repositories tend to be large.

Git does not work well for text because we have not figured out a nice format for text yet that developers and other people both enjoy. Developers want to stick to plain text as their format because we have so far failed to create nice tools and formats for structured data. Perhaps these affordances can appear thanks to a popularization of real-time collaborative editing.
Reminder that Karl Simms has produced some interesting results with Genetic Programming:

https://karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html

https://karlsims.com/papers/alife94.pdf
Academia is probably unavoidably abusive because it’s all personal relationships[1] but PhDs are definitely abusogenic compared to professional doctorates like JDs or MDs. You absolutely need your supervisor[2].

[1] Academic science is one of the most feudal environments I have ever personally experienced, and human genetics perhaps even more so. A few large groups of collaborators with connected pedigrees share post-docs and promote each other’s work, and fund young researchers coming up through their network. Any researcher who crosses one of the lords of human genetics could be excluded from a whole patronage set, and sources of funding, as these networks populate the grant-review boards.

https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2019/01/17/d-5/

[2] It also illustrated a truth in academia from what little I’ve seen and experienced within it: it is a highly feudal culture defined by patronage networks and an ordered understanding of the relationship of superiors to subordinates. As they say: “You come at the king, you best not miss.”

https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2018/03/
Thing's will probably snowball exponentially once we figure out how to clone consciousness and create fractal networks.
That's scary because being married is positively correlated with success in professional school.
On the flipside: Mackenzie Scott (formerly Bezos) announced $1.67bn dollars of grants in 14 months. It is entirely possible to give money away rapidly if that’s your priority. It also massively reduces the friction for grant recipients, who don’t have to invest vast amounts into applications and can just get to work.

https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/mackenzie-scott-anno...
I’m a 4th time founder (but first through YC) and also found it to be very valuable.

We spent too much time coding behind closed doors in previous startups.
Not only that but if she’s in finance, the monitoring requirements for what you do on work machines is even higher. And as a child comment said, Amazon complied willingly. Nothing forced at all. It doesn’t want insider-trading either.
Maybe in both cases they did some A/B testing and found out ads were more effective without either feature. Like isn't it obvious that text boxes interfere with ads, take some attention away from them. Not as obvious with subtitles, but I can see how pushing people to watch something else without subtitles rather than letting them stay on videos and read subtitles is better for ads designed for being viewed in watching context, not reading context.
Web search for obits. If someone dies young and the reason isn't clearly stated, it's suicide.
While this is true, the fact remains that it gets harder and harder to calculate (as far as we know). You can see in the given formula that the base-16 multiplicand is not an integer, so it "bleeds" into lower digits and consequently also receives interference from higher digits (which themselves also have interference, and so on, although the decision converges much sooner than the origin).

There are analogies of digits of prime to sort of infinite libraries, kind of an evolving random universe of numbers. But the digits of pi are not a local (fixed-size) function of the previous digits, so the analogy to a physical simulation (or cellular automaton) isn't quite right. But the idea of a cellular automaton with varying locality (in this case increasing radius of interaction) is itself quite interesting to me.

(in this case it's a logarithmic neighborhood and the rule is chaotic for the initial conditions)
All the real money is in quid pro quo's.
MIT does not cover the, up, to my knowledge. Quite the opposite.

The only one I knew personally died for reasons unrelated to the Instititute— in fact it was one of his bright spots in some ways (though he suffered dreadfully from the imposter syndrome as well so in other ways it made things worse).

However MIT can be a very difficult place and I don’t want to gloss over that. And I think the institute could do a lot to improve things.
No one seems to have mentioned Blendle. Or maybe it’s only available in some regions? Anyways, a solution such as he describes already exists, and it’s great.
What’s it called? I’ll recommend you, if you previously built a $100MM company. Email me or DM me on Twitter.
I would like one of these with rudder pedals instead of a foot rest :-)
I studied dogs quite a bit (informal academia (course audits, etc)), and I firmly believe they domesticated us instead of the other way around.
Does this have anything to do with the Azure AD Service outage?
This family will likely be ruined by these charges. Even if they successfully defend against these charges, the lawyer fees will wreck them financially.

Meanwhile, Mr. Musk has literally gotten a slap on the wrist for multiple flagrant violations of securities law. There are definitely two justice systems in the US. The ultra-rich do not play by the same rules that you and I do.
Australian physics student works out 'paradox-free' time travel
https://jancovici.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/prix_petrol...
Wouldn't this be intentional that you couldn't open a Time Machine backup from another user account? That feels like a really, really big security hole to be able to view the contents of files in a Time Machine backup on a machine that either wasn't the original or an account that wasn't restored from that same user account.

Otherwise, are you suggesting that you were able to authenticate the Time Machine volume and then were still unable to browse it within the UI?
I'll say. I've got stories from my time at Big State U that would make your blood run cold.
Ha. I don't think I'll remember '1592' directly. Easier to remember the offset of '+100' and combine it with my existing knowledge of who sailed the ocean blue.
For those wondering “really, they had the Amazon earnings ahead of time and only made $1.4M?” this reminded me of a good Matt Levine writeup about a group of folks who obtained massive numbers of earnings reports ahead of time [1]. Having the clear knowledge of the earnings report doesn’t give you perfect knowledge on how to trade it / the reaction!

> Their performance is statistically significantly greater than that of random choice. However, the difference is economically small. For example, only 31% of earnings announcements traded by the informed traders fell within the tail deciles. About 70% of their informed trades missed the biggest stock price return opportunities. They traded earnings announcements with an average absolute return of 5.15%. The average earnings announcement return in the tail deciles is 11.3% (median 9.2%).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-11-26/kn...
The best bosses I've ever had were fairly staunch servant leaders. It's a shame that the opportunist ruin the servant leadership model fairly easily though since a servant leader is very easy to mislead and manipulate by nature. There is a level of trust required to be a good servant leader that also lends itself to exploitation by the opportunistic middle manager described in the OP article.
I think she gets a bad rap. Obviously being wealthy makes her unsympathetic, but that's peanuts. And they 'got' he for 'lying' and not for securities fraud -among the original charges.

But the thing is there are much bigger fish to fry --why not go after international investors who have sheel companies within shell companies, etc. But... I mean, I guess this is a career bump or bonus for someone doing investigations.
Does this exemplify that there can be unique properties of a base?
What happens if this thing malfunctions?
As a current MIT PhD student, this ideas are incredibly important to hear. Establishing an appropriate widespread sense of what normal is crucial for changing culture.

More people need to talk about changing labs as well. A surprising fraction of PhD students do this and is fairly normal as well. I switched labs in the middle of my PhD and had the unusual and lucky opportunity to be able to take my work with me.
I'm using this to test for return of service:
$loop = "loop"
do {$response = $null; Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
try {$response = Invoke-WebRequest "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | select status*}
catch {Write-Host "Down $(get-date)"} finally {}
if ($response) {Write-Host "OK" ($response).StatusCode (Get-Date)}
} while ($loop -eq "loop")
Haha, that's funny. But no, usually with options the hard part is pricing it accurately. So, for instance, if you look at AMZN for next July, you'll see the options are very expensive. AMZN may well rise but unless you know better you will still lose money on OTM calls.

That's because the option has a time value (which depreciates by theta) and a stock correlation (which says how much it goes up by an increase in the stock). You need the stock to go up faster than the market currently believes it will in order to make money on OTM calls.

TANSTAAFL. You can't just buy OTM options and make money.