skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think it's just adding up similar tools, you're pretty wrong.

I've only used kopia briefly and it had a bug where I couldn't simply read files from its GUI, so I'd take it it's still doing basic implementations but all the tools you mentioned have varying degree of reliability and performance as well.

You can easily Google around and see how restic takes huge memory and is slow to restore on larger repo, duplicity being unreliable and you'll find less of those reports for borg which I believe is the only open source tool of the kind that is reliable and doesn't stall on restoration.

I want to use multiple implementations for doing a backup towards multiple remote targets in case one implementation has a corruption bug but so far my research only shows it's better to just use borg twice to different remote targets than use another implementation that could be unreliable.

duplicacy also takes lots of memory to the point of freezing up a machine with 2GB+ free ram while taking medium sized repo that is only in the range of 50GB with many small files. (Not to mention I don't like its per machine license which can be costly if you handle many small servers.)

Backup tools are something that is so sensitive about its reliability. It must be working from the beginning as it's too late when your backup data was corrupt but you only realize that when your original data is already inaccessible as not many people do backup data integrity check frequently.

Reading on its feature list doesn't mean much but do yourself a favor and check for GitHub issues, check the forum for bug reports and maybe even Reddit and figure if they're fighting primitive bugs or not.

You should rely on a solid tool than just one of the remote backup tool, like using rsnapshot locally first. It uses rsync and hard links, which is quite hard to break.

Here are a few reports on instability for a few tools.

1. https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-as-destination-for-borgbac...

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/eg0zpe/duplicati_se...

3. https://forum.duplicati.com/t/is-duplicati-2-ready-for-produ...
let's fund our own town!
European companies are ambitious. Many European multinational firms have a broad presence in most developing countries.
It's not clear to me how Amazon is even a "quasi-monopoly" as you put it. What are they doing to suppress competition? They aren't forcing exclusivity.

A few rich guys put together Jet.com ~7 years ago. A totally independent operation from Amazon and they sold all sorts of crap before being acquired by Walmart. So what am I missing?
> Glory to the country I chose as home, which so many natives seem to be delusional about how terrible it is.

The US is a great hopping off point. As in, its great to start from here and take advantage of any system almost anywhere else in the world.

But I would say a wealthy EU or wealthy Swiss starting point is good too. But I wouldn't incorporate there and especially not have employees.

Both systems work the best for business in intangibles.

Many US states are very incompetent and bureaucratic and slow in business formation as well. Its just that those states are completely ignored for the ones that excel in those products.
Video games, movies, books, and other such entertainment. I genuinely believe that this is what they're looking forward to.
Try F#. It's not exactly ocaml, but close enough if you want to stay on windows.
> Especially a problem because for almost all men a career and supporting family (maybe the hardest thing to figure out in life) is non optional...

What do you mean? Of course those are optional. If you don't want a career, you're not going to have one. If you don't want to get married and support a family, then you don't have to.

I mean, "saddle up to a breadwinner" is an extremely demeaning thing to say about a whole class of people. The reality is that men dominate all desirable, successful professions, so the probability of a man "saddling up" to a woman that makes significantly more than him is very small.
It is in Antartica and got no rain but snow ;)
Surveys of some eu nations rank them as friendly for business creation - Sweden Denmark and Switzerland rank pretty high. Universal healthcare at half the cost of the US and built into, but independent of your taxes is pretty nice for starting businesses.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/open-for-business...
Or Scala3
But ultimately, even if I trust someone else with my private key, if they lose it, it's irrecoverably lost forever. If Google loses my password, they just set me up with a new one, and I'm on my merry way.
The Reality of Truth
Great response, thanks. I didn't know that was part of the training.
I don't think a lot of people know what motivates them or what they want to do in life.
If you could play video games all day and have fun or force yourself to study or work at a hard job all day, what would you choose?
Wouldn't most people prefer the easier and fun option?

Do you have a solution to this? (I've been thinking about it for a while and I don't know)
I place all my tents in a house (Docker VMs inside unprivileged LXC containers on Proxmox - yes, unprivileged = not a brick house, more like wood).

The only reason I use Docker is that I can access the system design knowledge that is available with docker-compose.yml's. Last example: Gitlab. Could not get it running on unrivileged LXC using the official installation instructions, with Docker it was simply editing the `.env` and then `docker-compose up -d`. All of this in a local, non-public (ipsec-distributed) network. I often find myself creating a single, separate unprivileged LXC container->Docker nesting for each new container, because I do not need to follow the complicated and error prone installation instructions for native installs.
Ambition and competition go together unfortunately.
FDR confiscated all gold to thwart the Great Depression and fund the war effort, and froze bank accounts for a handful of days, a Bank Holiday. For better or worse, it would be much more difficult to do this with btc.
> Men are not doing as well as women in school.

Schools are not performing as well for men as they do for women.

I'm not just playing with words; it is really important to frame the share of responsibility correctly.

It is the school's job to educate the kid, not kid's job to compensate for the dysfunctions of an education system. I'll generalize because I don't have any detailed data; anyone from the front-line educator to the curriculum designer to the budget maker is potentially responsible for this failure. On this particular issue, they are the ones not doing well, not the kids.
Lose money for the first several months, and then print money after you have thousands of 5 star reviews and a first page Amazon listing.
What kind of interoperability should I expect between Guix and Nix going forward? As I understand, Nix is pretty heavily reliant on systemd for running services while Guix has its own pid1. Last I read Guix was also replacing the daemon with one written in scheme. I think Guix used Nix package format (nar) at one point but not sure if that holds anymore either.

The idea of two functional, declarative package/system managers being interoperable is very exciting for me, if it meant I can use full breadth of Nixpkgs with system config declared in Guile. But is that something I can look forward to or is it too much?
Pasqal’s ‘neutral atom’ tech promises 200 qubits of quantum
I totally agree. Great analysis and article.
> Throwing the kitchen sink means you're literally using everything you have

If that is true, the article is still misusing the expression because congress is in no way using everything that they have to regulate big tech.
> Working on the pyramids was a bonus, not a requirement

Egypt used corvée labour to build the pyramids. It was certainly a requirement for those people.
That was indeed my point; this started out with someone saying git is bad because rewriting history is bad, and me pushing back on that.
Are you sure they don't just have different Git emails set across their machines or projects?

> How would you go about exposing this? Ideally in a brilliant and clever way.

I wouldn't. If it causes problems, let your employer address them.
Well, installing OCaml from sources was always considered the hard way.

Now there is https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/installation/

Basically you just need Cygwin and you are good. It worked for me when I last tried it.
Nix itself is written in C++, but Nix the language borrows multiple characteristics from Haskell. Nix community and Haskell community are also very comfortable and comingled with each other and Nix is one of the recommended ways to manage Haskell project dependencies.
One would think all the AI development happening at the major tech companies could be leveraged to fix this.
These awards are all meaningless.
Sorry this might be a dumb question but how do reverse engineer a service or maybe software
Gdp is not anecdotal.
Honestly, I wonder if the level of autonomy we provide to states and lower subdivisions makes sense anymore in an era of one-day delivery and non-in-person sales.

They're buying the same goods, with the same currency, backed with the same warranties, and shipped with the same couriers, but because some of your customers are on the other side of an arbitrary line drawn for a political gambit in the mid-1800s, here's an entire second set of rules and documentation to deal with.

Even if you can somehow convince all the states to play ball, and not tie any sort of standardization process in the courts until six months after the heat death of the Universe, you've got the same problems on different scales with patchworks of local authorities.

If anything, though, what we should be looking for is a uniform national VAT or sales tax, distributed proportionally back to the states/local authorities. It would discourage the "race to the bottom" gaming of special tax regions and exemptions to attract business, and take funding for essential aervices out of the hands of state legislatures. In at least some states, we have real problems because such legislatures will do things like "taxes can only be raised as a ballot initiative with supermajority" as political posturing, then hatch up harebrained schemes like "the courts said we actually have to fund public schools, let's sell off state-owned land as a one-time earner" to kick the can down the road.

Added plus: we could reasonably price goods as tax-inclusive, like in the UK, because the marketing copy can be consistent and accurate everywhere.
I use it as a package manager on another distro (in my case, popos; that's how a lot of people use it afaik). Considering using it as a VM. It works quite well as a supplementary package manager, but has glaring deficiencies with some languages / build systems (gradle, npm, Julia, etc.)
Incident Writeup as Sociological Storytelling
Possibly.

Or they end up as homeless drug addicts.

Both outcomes have a none neglible likelihood.
Infinitely divisible money is an unit with unlimited ability to scale to the circumstances - if more is needed, simply add another zero. You err in comparing this to roads, which are necessarily in proportion to the amount of traffic over them. Money needs only to be able to represent value, and the relative value of different things.

Good monetary policy may be practicable by angels or saints, but not by men, who stand at the gates of unimaginable wealth that emanates from the printing press. Literal trillions of dollars - who can even conceive of that value, let alone decline the exercise thereof? Better to take it out of our hands.
Wasn't sarcasm. More like an effort to prepare for worst, while still hoping for the best. Sorry I didn't make it evident that I actually do agree with all of your sentiment.
The median of two numbers is the average.
Europe is doomed. Nobody in their right mind would start a company here, everybody I know who tried filed for bankruptcy and emigrated to the US. It's a business hostile environment.
The only reason there are some big companies is because those have been started a hundred years ago, e.g. Germany is run by old industry and ex nobility families, everybody else is just a peasant pretty much, and those are heavily exploited.
People think we Europeans have nice social nets, it's bullshit. I pay more monthly for health insurance than I'd pay in the US. I pay 1700eur/2069USD in social contributions alone per month and I am not even 'rich' in any sense, I can't even afford to buy an apartment in a big city. After that on top 48% tax (overall I earn after all taxes 30cents on the euro!). No wonder nobody wants to work and try to start a big business, there's nothing left. Same goes for companies...shit ton of taxes, regulations. I did the math, you net gain is negative. Europe will slowly die, at least I have some Shorts on it (which are taxed at 27.5%)
There is a great article about Steve Jobs and Genentech waiting to be written, but so far nobody has done it.
From anecdotal experience my father abandoned us I used to be a NEET in my late teen years. (but I also used to and still live in a very dangerous place, where I could regularly see people being killed or botched, something that could have contributed to me staying home)

What saved me was that I had a big interest on computers and learned at the time to do basic stuff like toying around with php (when it used to be big) and html.

One day on going through the neighborhood park I met a guy who told me he was a software developer and his company was looking for inexperienced people in exchange for the minimum wage and so my story as a developer (although I'm a very SUBPAR one) started
Android doesn't have a Facebook store don't see a reason why they'll have to make one for ios.
> Half of Europe’s richest ten billionaires inherited fortunes spawned long ago; in America nine of the top ten are wealthy solely because of companies they founded.

Note the two differences in these regions. Specifically, population size of the respective country.

There is an old quip that suggests family fortunes are squandered by the third generation, but a greater force of this would simply be how many people are there to an inheritance?

France, for example, only doubled in population size from 1790 to 2021.

The United States, on the other hand, went from a population of 1,000,000 to a population of 330,000,000 from 1790 to 2021.

Its more likely that people aren't irresponsible with fortunes en masse, and that it simply dilutes when people pop out too many babies.

Maybe you would like to compare to the entire European subcontinent, be my guest. I don't think thats necessary as the United States region was basically empty as it expanded west. The people that were already there had already been undergoing a multi-century decimation by the time the union expanded.
> First, most municipalities in America anyway allow a homeowner to do their own electrical work. You are required to get a permit for the work though and then have it inspected by the city inspector to verify the work was done correctly

They allow them to change sockets and light switches. Anything requiring a city inspector is literally the same thing as getting a licensed electrician. Municipalities have a lot more insurance than an electrician does, often unwritten by the same reinsurers as the electricians.

> But second and maybe more importantly how would you ever be able to get insurance on an older house. There may have been dozens of different electricians and homeowners that did work over the years. Who would the insurance company go after if a problem occurred.

The insurance company goes bankrupt and the state bails out the homeowner. That's why we have electrical contractor surety bonds.
I think you do not understand. I have more "skin" in the game than you might think. I am a founder who understands business, finance, talks to users, takes support tickets, can talk to investors, and write in 3 different programming languages, setup the entire software pipeline myself.

I am more hands-on than you might have seen around. Trust me on that.

Your definition of "skin" does not need to be mine. I want to have impact, for those who are not being taken care of. I am tired of investor led companies making the rich richer. I do not belong in that world.
Client server architecture sounds like a good move forward.

It'd potentially open up having remote stuff be hosted in HashiCorp Cloud (HashiCloud?) directly. ;)

That could be pretty lucrative over time...
Amazon doesn't have the best prices though; it's big selling point is, IMO, convenience (this is IMO a bigger factor for Walmart as well; while they heavily advertise a few particularly aggressively priced items, most of Walmart's SKUs are pried middle-of-the-road).
It being something this fundamental, it's almost inevitable that some application out there is meaningfully impacted by this difference. Maybe not yours - and indeed, I wouldn't step down into the int version without a benchmark showing that it's a problem in my specific case - but it's not hard to imagine cases where this would have a huge impact.

But even setting that aside: I think the author's point was less that you should never use EnumSet, and more that the very fact that it exists is an illustration of the flaws at the language's core.
Pillarization isn't a thing anymore, politics is still a thing but doesn't revolve on party lines, if that makes any sense.
More like hyper-politics, it isn't politics until it is.

For research IMEC is huge, the people working their are generally good, mix tungsten with silicon and get better chips due to quantum effects. Non semiconductor stuff is a lot weaker, some stuff bordering on academic fraud. Semantic web this and that, sir Tim Burners Lee saving the internet again. Bureaucrats just love how consensus focused that stuff is, like catnip.

When I have meetings with government officials they are lead by consultants from PwC that talk about the need for more competition. I'm better off working for EY that just gets the contract.
TIL Buzzfeed & Buzzfeed News are separate websites, When ever I saw a URL pointing to Buzzfeed News I assumed its the former - A daily mail with lesser NSFW images, So never bothered to click.

Good to know that the latter is doing some good journalism, But perhaps a rebranding is due?
- Apply Hanlon's razor. Maybe they're going through some stuff.

- Consider how you'd like to be treated; like for real. What if it was you?

- Burning bridges over something like this isn't worth it. Burning bridges over anything, is almost always a bad idea. Seek to mend.
I use WSL2 with Ocaml, works fine.
"!Zap" is not a terminal editor at all, it's a GUI text editor for RISC OS.
Heh Heh Heh

Might be time for getting that Vagrant-Libvirt link happening after all? ;)
Given you have a finite amount of time, the relatively obvious answer is - this isn't a good idea.

Excel is made by Microsoft. Microsoft is strong in languages and tooling around languages. If there was something genuinely useful to add, they'd have done it.

Now, obviously you can't think like this about everything or you'd never do anything. But, you have finite time so pick something better, I'd say. Maybe pick an area where you have some deep insight. Or some area where the existing products stink. Excel is really freaking good given the large number of use cases they have to support.
How's Magnets compared to using i3WM
Men run most governments. Men own most companies. Men dominate the higher levels of corporations. Most engineers, doctors, lawyers, investors, and other highly paid professionals are men. Men simply own more capital than women, by a huge margin.

It looks like schools are performing better for men than women.
Not as smart as average.
Have an existential conversation with your nemesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mariner%27s_Revenge_Song
Compress than encrypt.
I feel like the conflict in the spirit of the article is to create billionaires, not just have billionaires. 'Create' is not a great word, but 'create an environment that allows for creation of new wealth' is a bit verbose. Granted, I'm sure in the US, very few of the billionaires grew up in meager means, but quite a lot became billionaires under their own endeavors. Admittedly, it is largely secular (i.e. technology), but I think that dovetails.

But out of the top 10 richest in the US, only the Waltons are heirs. I would say it's a bit of a distortion, since the all of them combined I think is still larger than any other US individual.

Looking at Sweden, it looks like a lot of it is inherited, certainly most of the top 10. And like 1/4 are H&M, Tetra Pak, and Ikea alone. The new 'household names' are spotify and minecraft.

Norway is obviously smaller, but surprisingly, quite a lot of them got the three commas from their own businesses. The last-ditch cop out there is the typical Norway is in general an outlier due to being a highly developed nation with oil money. However, most of the billionaires are not there due to energy.
I had two of my friends take a manager role. They went back to development because of the politics having to deal with senior management and partners.

There is a reason why Business Administration and Computer Science courses are different. Not everyone can be Steve Jobs and handle it all.
Pardon the interruption for this opportunity to promote basic income.
There are a lot of sentient animals, including all mammals that I'm aware of.
Pretty cool! I'll try it out in more detail.

I also liked a similar product, aimed more at ETL/ML/AI segment, that was recently posted on HN:
https://hal9.ai

Question: I added a 'HTTP Request' which returns JSON data, but connecting it to the 'Sort' block shows a warning/error: 'Data input is not valid. Accepted types are: DATASET'. So how do you convert JSON to a dataset?
“Better than being hit by a bus”
How is this different from signing in with a yubikey that you can never lose?
> The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income, which health insurance doesn't affect.

Maybe that 4% is correct, but for sure how to deal with paying for medical care is a big worry for many people in the US.

There was a post a few days ago (or comments at least) discussing how many people working low wage jobs in the US are working 29 hours or fewer specifically so their employer doesn't need to provide health insurance. Are there social programs that cover those people, or do they just not go to the doctor when sick?
Fire is the opposite of not having a work ethic. Most firees are incredibly disciplined and have a bigger work ethic than most normal people.
Not really, IT generally have no idea what you look like. I suppose if the company provided your ID photo to tech support, then that could supplement this though. However, I've never seen a company do that.
> They own what they sell.

No they don't. Standard terms are suppliers get paid 90 days after Walmart takes delivery of the product. You also pay rent from the time a pallet arrives until it is broken down for delivery to stores - so if you deliver too many snow shovels in the middle of summer you might end up owing them money.

There is a whole industry of "supplier financing" that helps smaller players with bridge loans until the product sells.
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I recall but can't find a meta-analysis which found that over 80% of children in single mother households read into stats with no critical thought.

Poverty is a more convincing factor in the way people raised by single parents turn out than that they didn't have a father figure (traditionally the financial provider btw).
The data may may have been encrypted with a key that only some people know, and to others it's just random noise.

By that definition, however, every file could be transformed into an illegal one through a suitable cipher and key.

Then there's the concept of steganography.

Digital data is interesting for sure.