skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long time ago when I designed a zfs based backup + offsite-backup solution (having the luxury of 2 backup levels) I intentionally used ZFS replication between the data and backup but then used file-based replication between the backup and offsite-backup. I also ensured that you couldn't (at least easily) directly access or influence the snapshot state of all 3 locations by starting at one of the hosts. The offsite-backup location also had it's own point-in-time snapshots.

The reason is that
(a) zfs send/recv is very fast and can be done on an hourly (or even faster) basis even with billions of files, but file-based replication (e.g. rsync or rclone) is typically slower with large file counts. We can afford to have a slower pipeline to the offsite-storage.

(b) I wanted to prevent some kind of ZFS bug in send/recv handling accidentally transferring corruption from the original data store to both backups

(c) Depending on the zfs send/recv flags that are used, it can remove snapshots not on the source host. So there is scope for both accidental and malicious deletion of all snapshots depending on the circumstance.

(d) You don't want all files being removed on the source to remove all copies in either the backup or offsite-backup location. That is the reason the offsite-backup had it's own point-in-time snapshots so that if all of the files are deleted from the source + backup, when the offsite-backup replicates that state and removes all of it's files, you can still access the files from the previous point-in-time snapshot.

(e) You don't want a hacker that penetrates 1 of the 3 storage locations to be able to cause or directly access both of the other 2 locations. This is commonly possible because SSH keys are used to allow zfs send/recv or rsync. Pivoting from a production storage to all backups (and destroying them) has happened in some high profile malicious cases, e.g. Distributed IT.. At a basic level, this means for example your backup server can't directly co-ordinate both the local and offsite backups via SSH otherwise it may have direct access to both environments and if the backup server is compromised.
keepassxc has extra options in the auto-type menu for "username", "username<enter>", "password" and "password<enter>" in addition to the normal "username<tab>password<enter>"
>the actual value that is being transacted is the userbase and their data

I haven't used Discord, but I'm curious, what value can Microsoft extract from user data on Discord? Shared links?

Microsoft isn't a data company.
>"Fusion is typically a high temperature, high pressure phenomenon. It requires a star, or, if you’re hellbent on making it happen on Earth, massive magnets and a lot of power."

Not true!

Well, "true" according to the popular current day understanding of what fusion is... let me elaborate, elucidate, and explain...

Fusion is a fundamental process in nature, which is relative to scale.

As is fission.

Which is also relative to scale.

There are two great patterns expressed by the Universe at different scales, and these can basically be thought of in such simple terms as "cut" and "join".

You know, what we have scissors and duct tape for...

You go one way, you cut larger things into many smaller things; you go the other way, and you join many smaller things into larger things...

Cutting is Fission, joining is Fusion.

Now both of these patterns exist at all scales -- at all energy levels.

They exist in ALL chemical reactions.

In fact, I'll make a wager that future scientists will be able to prove that endothermic (absorbs heat) and exothermic (generates heat) chemical reactions -- are either Fission or Fusion.

If I were to make a bet, I'd say that Fusion is the exothermic one, simply because Fusion reactions as are known popularly today (again, not relative to scale) -- are the hotter reaction of the two.

So then the question is, how can an endothermic (absorbs heat) chemical reaction be fission -- if fission generates heat?

Well, I don't know the answer to that (yet!).

Perhaps all exothermic (heat generating) chemical reactions consist of fusion OR fission components, OR both...

Perhaps there are two other complimentary opposites to fusion and fission that remove energy...

But, here's a good time to talk about Implosion.

Most people who have watched Hollywood movies -- know what explosions are...

But, not too many people outside of the Physics community, or people who understand Brown's Gas or the works of Viktor Schauberger -- really understand implosions...

See, in Physics, there is always a two-way exchange of energy, that is, if something is expanding, then something else is contracting -- even though we might not see what that thing is -- even though we might need special equipment to detect it...

In an explosion, we see fire and hot gases expanding outward to fill space...

But, there must be something else -- equal-and-oppositely that's contracting inward, even though Physics has yet to observe what it is...

We can think about Implosions (although in a different context) -- as Black Holes. We can also think about them as vortices... Basically they remove something from something else, they act to "compress" matter, objects, information, etc.

So, getting back to fusion and fission, join and cut, implosion and explosion, these phenomena exist on all scales, at all temperature ranges.

A future scientist will show that all of these things are parts of the same dualistic pattern, which repeats in nature at all scales, at all temperatures...

(PDS: Addendum: I almost forgot to add the obligatory "And yes, I know, I'm a Crackpot!" ending to this message! <g>

So, on that note: "And yes, I know, I'm a Crackpot!" <g>)
Yes and if people still want personal desks, it's 0% regardless. In reality the figure will be somewhere between 0 and 20%. But 1 day/week sounds very low imo.
The public personas of celebrities were always unrealistic and unattainable for ordinary people. Maybe replacing them with explicitly fictional people would lead to a healthier culture.
Lots of people have rent terms or leases, which can’t be changed amidst corona. Especially without knowing what post COVID life will look like.

Moreover, some people like being in the heart of the city and as such, can only afford a studio.
> I do hate it when the touchbar crashes and requires a reboot

I don't even want to consider the possibility of my keyboard crashing. Imagine if that happened on iOS! Input devices have to be 100% rock-solid.
The last decent book I read was 2 yrars ago. It was Rane Willerslev's "Soul Hunters".

I enjoyed the book for its depiction of an a-logical style of dealing with the world. The book describes the animist world view of a Siberian people, the Yukagir. It is interesting to me that their animism works for them just as the logical paradigm works for Westerners.

The animism of the Yukagir recognises the personhood of prey species; the spiritual conflict of the hunter whose intent it is to murder another person for food is real.
Germany doesn't have an idea of how much will be delivered, so that is a lame excuse.

Seems to me like being able to rely on the delivery schedule would be a prerequisite for not holding back doses. I thought this was stupid at first, but that was giving AZ the benefit of the doubt, which they have now repeatedly shown is unwise. You can't have just-in-time delivery with a partner as unreliable as AZ. Maybe this will change in a few months, or maybe at that point they'll decide to sell to someone else instead, who knows.

Germany insists on administering the second shot after three weeks

Did you mean months? Because I know first hand that at least one region administers the second shot three months after the first one, as in: I handled the appointment, and I wasn't given a choice in the length of time between shots. So three weeks is just false. As far as I know that's the recommendation everywhere in Germany.
What you are saying is true, of course, but you are overlooking the fact that cattle that graze on large enough areas (like the buffalo of historical time) are a part of an ecosystem that sequesters carbon dioxide.

Game meat is often carbon neutral because of that, whereas very little meat produced today is.
Ah damn, the fabled Voodoo 2! Fond memories of these times!
I always find it very interesting how the 1Password X (the standalone extension) team seems to work half the day just to fix some random website. At least their „fixed“ section of the release notes consists usually of a listing of websites where autofill does (did) not work [1].

[1] https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/B5X
To be pedantic, the central example of a zero trust network is the internet. BeyondCorp popularized the idea of running corporate services the same way as internet facing services, instead of relying on the internal network as a security boundary.
That's called brand and in one way or the other, in postindustrialized societies most people seem to work in that field (e.g. everything that is funded by ads is effectively part of the supply chain).

"The value is in the user base" is just a particularly sticky form of brand, nothing else, set least as long as there are no long term contracts involved. It's not in knowing their logs, it's not in having their authentication hashes, it's not even in exclusivity (I believe that most users of anything in the wildly overlapping spectrum from chat to instance messenger to screen sharing conference call are active on quite a lot of offerings)
We broke our lease in May, we'll get a new office, but it'll be 1/3 of the size of the old one - and mostly meeting rooms. The open plan will be small, sparsely populated and flexdesks only. We have grown 18% this year.
No need to demonize China, or better said, the Chinese Communist Party. They already behave in ways that are the envy of actual mythological demons.

Social scoring, mass surveillance, the Great Firewall, forced labor, harvesting organs from healthy people, Uyghur genocide, Falun gong murders, Tiananmen square massacre...

And actively trying to cover up every crisis, torturing and murdering anyone who speaks up. From environmental disasters to COVID-19 to party corruption.
You think that’s unbelievable? I’ve literally had a company recruiter tell me that I should probably spend a few hours on leetcode and hackerrank before the interview.

That turned out to be predictive, because they rejected me mostly based on my inability to do well on those kinds of tests.

I got a life people. Between taking care of my son, wife and work, where am I supposed to find ‘a few hours’ to spend on something that is solely meant to do good on your company interview.

It could theoretically have been worth it because of increased compensation, but something in me just screams nooo whenever I consider it.
Why the hell is this downvoted?
Because it obviously doesn't work.

What happens when the losing party in the sim-war disagrees with the outcome and accuses the other side of cheating?

A mugger accosts you on the street, points a knife at you and demands your money. You've managed to convince him to play a round of Quake 3 Arena instead - the winner gets your money. You win. Do you think the mugger will just say "gg mg", and leave you with your money?

War is the same thing, just scaled to groups of people.
William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) features a Jamaican space tug where the "righteous dub" played within is automatically generated by remixing a vast library of existing music. I was fascinated by the concept when I first read about it as a budding DJ, and it's kind of exciting to see it come to fruition, even if the single tune this particular AI seems to play is pretty insipid.
WHAT! I have been on HN for over a decade and I didn't know this. Thank You.
Reminds me of Elon's quote "product errors reflect organizational errors"
Would you save your kid from dying if that meant 10 other strangers would die instead?
You can switch it in keyboard preferences under “modifier keys” now, no need for Karibiner any more. Can’t remember when this was changed but it was a few years back
You seem to think Discord can be recreated by throwing people and money at the problem.

History shows it cannot. Discord is on another league in terms of technical and usability excellence when compared to competition.
Dunno much about it. Just read about it once and found it interesting.
> Apple extended no-questions-asked replacement for butterfly keyboards for something like four years after sale.

That's only a 1-year extension for people who bought AppleCare. And after you drop out of the warranty period, your machine is basically one speck of dust away from being useless.

A fairer policy would be to give AppleCare customers longer for no-cost fixes, and to offer everyone a reasonably-priced repair for the life of the machine (I was told it would be something north of $700 after the warranty period).
Poland has slightly slower deaths per capita then Sweden, so if that point is not valid I don't know if any other of your points are.

And although Sweden didn't do lockdowns, almost every corp sent their workers to WFH, and other people reduced their outgoings.

I have a friend in Sweden who has a shop and he complained that he has never seen so few people on streets and in his shop.

So Sweden had unofficial lockdowns.
Unfortunately the drop in consumer trust has been enormous. [0] And humans lose trust faster than they regain it.

After the wild "let us suspend AZ and let us restart it in two days" ride, it will be much harder to get AZ into arms of European patients. Even here in the Czech Republic, where AZ wasn't suspended, the reverbations in the public are stark and all kinds of half-baked conspiracies started circulating. (An example: "Germans want to get rid of a junk vaccine and force it on us Slavic untermenschen, while they will only use more expensive and better Pfizer for themselves.")

[0] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2...
> You don't have to have an optimal solution first.

The problem is that they still want that optimal solution in the 30 minutes given to you. There’s no point in thinking about it unless you already know what they are looking for.

Whoever thought up that alghorithm the first time certainly didn’t do it in 30 minutes during an interview.
I've had the exact opposite experience. There are so many connectors (thousands of connector families) finding the right one is extremely difficult.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550429
Can someone recommend a thunderbird alternative on Linux that supports Microsoft Exchanges account? My company uses Exchange without imap. I can connect with apple mail on Mac, but yet need to find a mail client on linux. Thanks!
More details on the issue: https://twitter.com/Benjojo12/status/1373707799054712836

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26536019
Have humans adapted their strategy with similar success? As I would guess those strategies rely on the improved micro in movement, hp vs damage possible analysis, and communication.
The most exiting phrase in Science is not “Eureka!” but “That’s funny...”
That rather depends on your usage pattern, I expect. Twitter has similar inconsistent reports, and I can confirm personally that I was suddenly asked for one as soon as I tried to post anything; I believe I also had something like that happen with Discord, but I don't remember as clearly.

Not that it's necessarily malicious in intent—requiring “extra verification” only on suspected misuse isn't entirely unreasonable, and that's awfully hard to distinguish from things like targeted privacy attacks—but it would be nice to establish this sort of thing as common knowledge, especially since I imagine the chaff of “huh? no they don't” is only to their benefit.
The person you respond to is talking about encryption, not crypto currencies.
As a Dr Pepper drinker, I have no doubt that that is actually literally unironically the case.
>No one wants to buy the actual chat application itself, because they could build equivalent technology on their own.

Not sure about that one. Teams is an absolute failure of a chat and audio/video calls app. I think, even if Microsoft tried they could not get it worse than it is currently.
I tried first to search for motorcycle trips. "motorcycle" search returned suggestion for Norway. Clicked on Norway -> "Nothing found here yet!". So why suggest it? "France" suggests Brunei, "Germany" suggests Algeria.

The interface is weird: enter does not work on search box, browser back does not work.

And then the content is actually copy pasted from wikipedia articles for the regions. I am confused. What is this?
Emojinarium – Sketchs of two merged emoji in one
I didn’t mean to imply that no companies actually care about privacy and security, I meant companies affected by a public incident like this.
I really hope in the future that a policy can be set in place that prevents these types of acquisitions (on this scale, specifically) from happening. A lot of my favorite products have been ruined by acquisitions like this, and its clear that Microsoft will follow suite considering their track record.
I figured you took this from the referenced stats link, i.e.:
https://stats.thunderbird.net/#platlang
There's Bing Ads which alone may suggest otherwise. Also, they operate a search engine.
Id be much more interested in reforming the calendar

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform
Five Day Fast
Me when I saw the title: Oh fuck my petunias.

Me when I saw the video: Whew, this is much less timeline-scary than I was afraid it would be.
> Any investigations will have the goal not of finding the truth, but of minimising damage to the political powers that control it.

This seems sufficient to explain why China wouldn't be interested in a foreign investigation into their labs.
I think the model is plagiarizing somewhat. Both https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhV3ecScgrA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjinBNYEkb8 contain the part of the melody from Take on Me by a-ha.
Which is when (if you do Science much) your heart sinks because you become absolutely certain that you have made (another) mistake and will now spend days/weeks/months trying to pin it down.
Hi, great idea and work!

If I may ask, since there is no such thing as a free meal, who is paying for all this, and how?
Have you never heard of corruption before? This is not something that I'm saying, it's out in the news in plain sight
VdL is certainly mediocre, but she's a career politician, not a bureaucrat.
Like many many old people my late grandmother would very often complain about her bad heart, she had a perfectly healthy heart that would have never gave her any problem, she only stopped complaining about her heart once other health issue started to appear.

My suspicion is that the reason she was often complaining about her heart was that she in part knew that there was no need to be worried about it.

Openly choosing to recognize the existence of a dragon in your life require either bravery, desperation, or finding a costume to put your cat.

I am not specifically replying to you, I was just stimulated by the topic, but I find it ironic that given a debilitating condition being outspoken about it could maean being of two very different end of a spectrum of experiences.
> Finally, a side note about OSS. I don't think it's fair to expect anybody to maintain any kind of library in any language for free

True! but why Spark & Flink, which are backed with business, didn't bother themselves to catch up with changes in Scala! they delayed their upgrade to 2.12, not mention 2.13! and as far as I know the 3.0 hasn't been discussed yet! Am I right?

In general I'm happy and thankful that I learned Scala! it shaped my perspective to combine programming paradigms and pick best practices from each one rather than sticking to a single paradigm. But for work that I wanna last long enough, I can't accept it, as there is no realm of calmness in view. Software Industry is a young industry and complex, like any other profession, and a developer need to think about lots of other things as well, not just the language and possible pattern/syntaxes it has to keep up with!

I think the value that Scala brings into industry is what that prevents it from becoming the rival to others.
https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430

this issue tracks Windows progress, it hasn't been really updated in a while. I've been following Crystal Windows port for over a year, nothing changed yet.
There's also Rsync.net: https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html
Thank you so much for this insightful comment. You (and the many others commenting) have given us a lot to think about in terms of on prem!
I remember when Google presented their Ada(?) modular phone concept, I was really excited. But the commenters on HN were really convincingly telling me and the others that liked the concept that it couldn't happen. Basically unsolvable problem and the phone would be too thick. And right, Google immediately gave up. So it was impossible I thought. And now you see this, made by one guy I think. It was not impossible at all.
Every time when there's a question about China's bad behaviour, someone will point out that it happens everywhere.

Yes, but in a vastly different degree, China goes to an extreme of making it political and look good.

In US, most leaks don't look good. Sure, US tries to make some problems look good, but they don't try very hard (or there's more balance in how an issue is investigated with multiple different parties).
What is a good start to learn about generative art with neural nets? Using tools which work on OSX preferably.

Lets say I want to train the AI on classical art pictures and see what it can generate by itself.
The future of Django – is it becoming obsolete?
You would have to prove cause to fire without notice.

Also, depending on the country, firing/layoffs can be difficult without cause (and often even with cause) (e.g. you can't layoff someone at will, you might need to prove that you have an economic downturn before downsizing). But this varies way more between countries as far as I know.
I believe the long-term winners will be companies that adapt to remote work and enable their employees to have social interactions without requiring them to sit down in the office.

One of my job interview questions (as an employee) will definitely be how they handled the pandemic, e.g. in regards to home office, equipment for working at home and communication tools used internally.
Backblaze is missing the part where you conduct an investigation, request assistance from Facebook, and determine what data was leaked to third parties.
> Microsoft isn't a data company.

Deja vu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19854922

Surely, you haven't heard of Windows 10's horrendous surveillance?

Data collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298

Ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13835733

Phone home: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053352
I care, and think it was a good addition to the discussion. Your post however is of no value at all.
You are free to disagree about the argued points, but nothing is gained by you trying to argue others should not be allowed to engage in the discussion simply because they decided to use a throwaway.
Shutting down wildlife farms and consumption was actually one of the first actions taken, this was widely reported last year:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/15/9775278...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/28/8839000...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/world/asia/china-coronavi...

etc.
No, they didn't. The ancestors of RaTG13 and SARS-CoV-2 diverged decades ago. RaTG13 is not the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2.
Mobiles have built in LiDAR and TOF now, not to mention it was possible to build 3d models with just a phone using photogrammetry. ARKit and ARCore have also come a long way to replacing things like this.
It's just all built into phones now.
I get the same thing using Google search. Three results with the answer in the snippet.