skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want more reliable backups, Backblaze personal backup should never be on your list. The client takes anywhere between 1-8 hours to upload the index of files to the server after uploading the actual data for the backup, but it will say that the backup is complete before this happens and give a false assurance. So if your machine dies in that span (data uploaded but index not uploaded), then it’s as good as the backup not happening because the server has data blobs but no metadata, and cannot provide you a way to restore that. This is an intentionally designed behavior (for some other reasons) that adds risks that I belief nobody should take.

See this blog post and comment from nearly four years ago for a better description. [1]

And here’s Backblaze’s support page on the same, last updated a month ago (June 2021) indicating that this behavior remains. [2]

Any backup solution that doesn’t, at a minimum, follow the 3-2-1 rule will cause more instances of regret in the future. If the data is of value, it needs better and constant care.

[1]: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/05/22/what-backblaze-doesnt-bac...

[2]: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665498-Why-h...
Georgia County Ballot Images Prompt Speculation of “Provable Fraud”
Provable "massive fraud".
As chrisseaton said, this is the exact response users on this very forum had to both Dropbox at its launch ("it's just rsync, why would anyone use it?") and Slack ("it's just IRC, why would anyone use it?"). This is a poor mindset to take when it's clearly not targeted at you. It's for businesses and more casual users who don't want to deal with full local installs, and that userbase is far larger than the HN crowd.
It's a hypothetical. A Constitution can be amended or ignored, can't it? My point is that a country is not your house. And citizens are not visitors. It's the wrong analogy and leads to bad conclusions.
How Do You Fix a Legacy JavaScript Monolith?
> After that, we briefly discussed Amelio, and his book, and Steve said that Amelio "has fucked up everything he did, except hire Fred Anderson as CFO." He said that if you looked at all of this year's California graduating high school classes, anyone in th top 10% could have run Apple better than Amelio.

Poor old Gil...
I tell everybody I know to set a monthly reminder to reset the maid in their device. Even if you have tracking of which I also recommend I don't trust it.
> I don't even understand why Youtube should be forced by a country to host someone's content.

It doesn't appear to be settled even in U.S. law whether requiring a company to host something would be governmental overreach. The traditional "common carrier" doctrine is pretty broad. It's not an exact analogy for the kind of regulation some people would like governments to undertake regarding YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc., but it's not totally unrelated either.

Eugene Volokh from UCLA's law school recently posted a 79-page draft article on the legalities of regulating social media companies as common carriers under U.S. federal law: https://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/carrier.pdf. One large section, II.A., "The General Constitutionality of Compelled Hosting" (pp. 35-58), argues that compelled hosting isn't in general prohibited by the U.S. federal constitution, so in his view the U.S. Congress could pass a common-carrier-style law mandating such companies host content on a neutral basis, if they wanted to (at least if the law avoids various issues he identifies).
Seriously Risky Business is back
> most of the folks doing this sort of security research are probably worse programmers than your average senior dev, or at least not noticeably better.

Hard disagree. Maybe you can argue that they might not have skillset/experience of writing good quality code but they need to know the very in depth of each of the component from javascript to kernel. It's not a separate skill. It's the same skill as what senior dev do only the folks who write exploit need to understand allocations in bit level detail in each layer of the machine in which code is executed. eg I would recommend seeing the coding episodes of geohot who was a hacker and look how fast he could write the "ordinary" code like setting up website and other things.
What requires them to get approval from the FAA for something outside the FAA's jurisdiction?
Autostereoscopic, not holographic. That alone is enough for me to not buy it because its being dishonest at best.

“Holographic-like experience” would be an order of magnitude more accurate. Now you have a very constrained viewing window, limited depth without fuzzing, especially in front of the display. On the plus side, you get animations, proper colors and interaction. Wish dimenco were still selling their WOWvx displays on 8k and not the current costly integrated kit. 8k allows much better angular resolution, but nothing remotely close to an hologram.
>> Years ago, I dismissed photography as a pretentious hobby that would be rendered obsolete as smartphone cameras and digital improvements became more ubiquitous.

Actually, smartphone cameras make photography even much more accessible. I don't want to sound old, but perhaps you remember 3 or 4 decades ago where all people took pictures with film. It's a limited media (usually 36 frames or less on bigger formats). No instant feedback (have to send them to film lab to be developed or do it on your own darkroom). And for some, indeed photography was a relatively expensive hobby.

Now the barrier is much much lower. Smartphone camera techs are getting better. And you don't need high end PC running Lightroom/Photoshop etc for image editing. Simply use smartphone apps. These are good enough for most of us, social media oriented persons.

Sure, if you want better image quality, eventually you'll upgrade to camera with bigger image sensor (M43, APSC etc) like the pros do.

I'd say smartphone cameras render compact digital point & shoot useless, instead.
Congress and Senate from both parties are equally corrupt when it comes to insider trading but this article makes zero mentions of Democrats. The bias in these articles is incredible. It states:

> Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina and former Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, all Republicans, drew scrutiny for their own pandemic trading last year as well.

But it amazingly excludes Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who did the exact same thing with covid trading. Nor does it mention Nancy Pelosi, worth $250 million, who claims she has no idea of her husband's co-incidental perfect stock trades. The article mentions Tom Malinowski but only puts "D-N.J." next to his name but puts the full "Republican" and "GOP" next to other names.

Data:

Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress:

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/congress

Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Senate:

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate

> For example, Pelosi in Dec 22 was against more stimulus. Her husband buys deep ITM TSLA and AAPL calls that day. December 23rd, she is suddenly for stimulus again, with those same companies ralling 5%, giving her an instant +30 return.

> Congressman Gottheimer is absolutely an incredible options trader. He’s been selling calls at peaks on $MSFT all 2021, & seemingly buying back the contracts on dips. This in blocks of $250,000 - $5,000,000, which is incredible size given the amount of $MSFT shares he owns. For ex, on 02-12 he sold 500k $MSFT $160 strike expiring 06/18/2021. On that same day, he bought deep ITM calls of $1M-5M at $145 expiring 03/19/2021. The whale caught both of his movements as well.

In congress, Democrats are worse. In the senate, Republicans are worse. Pretending that only one side does it shows the author doesn't care about the actual problem of corruption but cares about scoring political points.
Not a payroll human but someone who lives in the UK.

It does not, we have various brackets that you fall into as your income rises.

- No income tax is paid on the first £12,500 of your earnings
- 20% on everything between £12,500 and £50,000
- 40% on anything between £50,000 and £150,000
- 45% on anything over £150,000

The way that HMRC likes to figure it out is that you take the salary of the person in question, and then you take into account all of the above bracketing plus more little gotchas. And spread their tax over the course of the whole year as evenly as possible.

This gets more complex when you change jobs or get a new salary midway through the tax year and then payroll software has to account for that and try and even out all the payments for the rest of the year.

Hopefully that makes some sense!
The short answer to "can I replace physical storage with cloud storage?" is no.
Correct - you get your spouse to make the trades.
Let's bring back prohibition while we're at it.
> It is your burden of proof though. You have to convince decision makers why your project deserves funding. Nobody in life just blindly gives out funds. Finance can be your biggest champion if you help us understand the cost/benefits.

That is all true, and my way of playing the meta-game and flipping the risks to finance is working in Profit-center departments only. "The storage array is about to get full, and if it does, everything will grind to a halt and we'll make no money until its fixed" means the burden of proof is now on the finance person, and if they refuse and our APIs start 500'ing because of it, I'll have my paper trail ready. Fuck working in cost centers.

> This takes shape in many forms and it’s a fallacy of some sort. Is being more productive even the goal?

The answer to you question is yes, that is a goal for the helpdesk to resolve issues faster when users are complaining that the wait times are too long, especially when it's the pencil-pushers in finance who want to jump queue because "everything they work on is important and time-sensitive" and deserves to be a P0. For the modest amount required to buy a midrange, off-the-self replacement mail server, we could avoided half the tickets that were email related (server was very old, and we suspected it had bad memory, and of course we had no backup server - that would be expensive)
If you had insider information that you though would adversely impact the price of a stock you’re holding, selling OTM calls against it would not be a valid way to attempt to offload your position. The thesis put forward in the article for why this is a suspect trade doesn’t make any sense, and seems to intentionally be conflating selling stock with being assigned.
For photographers these images are their life's work and professional value. They need to be able to go back and reference a client's photoshoot or pull up a higher resolution file or retouch a photo or come back to an old photo and use new software to re-edit it to perfection, or find related photos from a photoshoot of interest in the future, etc....

It's very different from when a hobbyist takes photos just for their personal fun
His lectures are also on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjc...

I've been trying to watch snippets while also watching the MIT 6.824 lectures as well.
Is it even possible for a "game of skill" arcade machine that dispenses high value prizes to be profitable? Seems like any such game would just breed expert players that clean house and win all the iPads with their skill. If not, surely it would invite some hacker or tinkerer to invent a device to augment their skill and (again) clean house and get a bunch of cheap iPads.

Maybe you could have arcade machines where you:

- play AlphaGo/Stockfish

- factor a huge prime

- Some other "hard" feat

and if you succeed you get an iPad. Those are the only "games of skill" that wouldn't get you bankrupted by expert players
I'd buy the Kona, they're really great car. I'd buy it again, personally. The recall is a mild annoyance and the risk is fairly low. Also the recall here is painless. And newer models aren't susceptible to the flaw in the earlier design.
Xcode shortcuts to get back your screen space
It also mentions David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler but doesn't mention Dianne Feinstein who did the same thing. And Pelosi from Congress who did same thing. A Ctrl+F for "Democrat" gets zero hits.
The good ones do that. I think many recruiters here charge based on the candidate's salary. I once applied for one job directly and via a recruiter. I didn't realize it was the same job. The recruiter basically pitched me about 30% higher than what I'd aim for when applying directly. Direct applications can often result in HR trying to lowball you, but recruiters know the range.

Some recruiters might see it as a violation of trust telling the candidate the salary range, and often they value the one who's giving the money, so they usually let you handle the negotiations.
I hear you because I needed the same, with absolutely no experience in web apps. Please listen to other comments first. If this does not help: I used github.com/tiangolo/full-stack-fastapi-postgresql - it is a Docker-Stack that can be deployed through Gitlab CI on Docker Swarm. Not that I had any experience in these systems - but it directly worked and I had a Progressive Web App (PWA) with CRUD, SSL certs, Queue, Reverse Proxy and everything with it in one day. This thing still runs after 2 years.
President Donald J. Trump has won the State of Georgia and 16 electoral votes
16 More Votes!

Wow - I wonder what happens when Arizona comes out with their kickers?

Left team: What do you think!? Is this not interesting?
HN does this automatically, unfortunately. It's fairly aggressive about editing titles (it'll drop "How" from the beginning too, I think), and sometimes it ends up with something confusing. The good news is, if you notice after posting you can go back and edit it and it'll be left alone.
Inflation will raise property "values" which then raise assessments, and thus Property Taxes. There are exemptions for home owners in my state, but those are getting wiped out by the increase in "value" of my home that I can't afford to sell.
Has anyone found scheduling information about this? When can we expect this in Chrome, for example?

Edit: Oh, here we go: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule

This is for Chromium and not Chrome, though:

...

Feature Freeze Thu, Jul 29, 2021

...

Stable Cut * Tue, Sep 14, 2021

Stable Release Tue, Sep 21, 2021

...
I just bought a pretty high quality 4TB internal HDD for like $120. Compress an archive and that can hold quite a lot for quite a while.

Next, I might need to build a little blueray changer to burn massive quantities of optical media.
“Why do you take us on errands like the bank if mom was home?”

“I just really enjoy your company.”

For years in my teens I was convinced that they didn’t believe my time was as valuable as theirs. Making me wait in a fucking bank.

I have two boys now and I take them shopping even when mom’s home.

I deeply deeply understand my parents so much better now. I’m so thankful for that because I think it lets me love them on a whole different level now. I now understand countless details of why they did what they did.
I am surprised you are downvoted. Engineers are the worst kind of people to make rules, as they see things as simply black and white when things are much more nuanced. Best thing to do is "mind your own business". Unfortunately they feel its their business lol
I'm a little surprised Microsoft isn't using their Azure Sphere for this IoT experience. Some of the quick start guides for Sphere are quite simple, and the free Azure accounts for going a few steps further is also not that hard.
One has to wonder, if demand for unbiased, non-partisan, reasonable, complete, measured, historically aware, accurate, non-inflammatory political news coverage exists, why is it only available via C-Span?

Seems like the American public have either been worn down into non-engagement or radicalised, and I think it's a combination of the designs of politicians (the partisan game is simpler to play and costs less and is more predictable than the one that is focused on societal progress) and that a lot of people would rather believe that the only thing between us and a better society is the evil 50 senators in the other party. Distracts them from having to take personal responsibility for their contribution (or lack thereof) to society and that many of our problems don't have obvious legislative solutions.
My first thought was to disagree and push the small datapoint thing - but I suppose it varies greatly based upon location in the world, and what the definition of 'fine (for their kids)' is.

In some places kids can play outside and have a village of school connected people / things to get through just fine.

I guess it's also easier to do fine if you have church groups to help, and some places have other community that can help I am guessing. Perhaps that mall in Beverly Hills is a fine babysitter and teacher of life lessons - the malls around other parts of the country stopped being good for that some years ago.

I also feel that fine is also a gamble.

You might get affordable child care that does not abuse your kids and you might get a school system that teaches them life fine.. but you may not, and if you don't have the time to find out, or the money to change things drastically - you are essentially gambling with an innocent's life.

Again I feel this varies quite a bit from location to location and situation to situation. But I don't feel it is right to suggest the choice is putting themselves first - at least not in all circumstances, and I'd guess it's not the main factor in most of these conscious choices.
Have they announced the cost? If they can keep it at under $150.00 for a year then it will be very attractive for a whole bunch of people.

I've been waiting for virtual Windows. It solves a bunch of headaches related to having multiple PC's. I'm in.

Funny how we are doing a full circle back to time share computing. Looks like having individual PC's was just temporary.
Reminded me of my childhood in Serbia, western neighbour of Romania, where we used to have same hay stacks [1], but now those are very hard to see, since modern methods prevailed for hay collection and transportation.
Not sure tbh, why this thing is called Romanian in first place.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=stogovi+sena
There is a Romanian Hungarian artist named Ernő Bartha who executed many hay sculptures. He has a park and holds workshops and camps. The site is in Romanian only:

https://arkhaisculpturepark.ro/despre/despre-noi/
God: So how interesting do you think your life was?

Adam: ~15TiB.
Like Pelosi's husband and Hillary Clinton as well.
I am pretty sure if you actually have bread and lard like in the old times it will make you less fat than modern industrialized food.
I upvoted you, but the bottom of this cesspit unfortunately lie the outputs of some otherwise illuminated people like… ugh... feel free to find out for yourself if you have the stomach for such a thing..:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
Just common sense. People invest in companies to get more money, not to lose money. There are exceptions, they are very rare, especially for public companies.

Moreover, CEO is legally obliged to work in the interests of shareholders. That is the law, and that is one of many reasons why corporation flourish in the US: you can buy stocks and be protected from management deciding to waste money listening to each immature employee.
It would be nice if google simply ceases operation in Germany and blame its government for adding difficulties and then watch the germans infuriate over their own government.
It seems more of a QoI issue. Most Intel chips maintain synchronized (same rate of change) TSCs. That knowledge is encoded in the Linux kernel:

/*
* Intel systems are normally all synchronized.
* Exceptions must mark TSC as unstable:
*/
if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL) {
/* assume multi socket systems are not synchronized: */
if (num_possible_cpus() > 1)
return 1;
}

From unsynchronized_tsc function at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I thought they passed a bill to make it not illegal for Reps to do insider trading.
> Unfortunately this isn't how these agencies operate.

I have some state-run tennis courts nearby. In order to sign up you need to bypass the certificate warning, identify what kind of nonprofit you aren't, specifically ask for the "tennis" amenity at the tennis court location, and explain what you want to do there (tennis). Oh, and you need to sign up at least two days in advance so the bureaucrat can approve it.

Indeed, it is not how these agencies operate.
"Seems like much ado about nothing unless SpaceX is outright lying"

They'd never do that, would they?
They are not a public square. They do have the right to censor you. Especially, if you spread misinformation and hatred.
They’ll probably give owners a setting that controls this. Maybe it appears after x years or kilometres? Interesting new EV UX issue for them if they do upsize the battery packs.

This is similar to Apple’s degraded battery CPU throttling where they would throttle and not give you any choice or awareness of it. Now, when your battery ages, you can choose to run it into the ground with max performance.
Photographers have their photo collection as their life's work and source of professional value. It's viewed very differently from a personal photo collection and serves a very different purpose. They may need to access these photos in the future for many different reasons, for new clients or projects, etc
Ah, good ol' ambiguous-width box drawing characters. They are not ASCII and their width is not prescribed by the Unicode standard and mostly determined by domestic conventions. Stick to ASCII drawing for the maximal portability.
i love this because to all those who say that only government may not censor and private companies can do whatever they want, it makes clear that censorship by private companies that dominate our communication has the same effect as government censorship, and should therefore be under the same restrictions.
I'm all for the pitch forking when it makes sense, but the congressman has a decent out which wouldn't be hard to prove.

> In the audio recording, Fallon backed this up by outlining the trade as an option call in which he purchased a block of $250,000 in Microsoft shares on May 26, and subsequently sold the rights to other investors to purchase at a later date. Those other investors chose to purchase the shares on June 21, according to disclosure reports, effectively liquidating Fallon's position in the company just two weeks before the high-profile JEDI contract fell through.

He purchased a bunch of stock, or ITM (in the money) options - either way he then sold covered call options (good safe bet). Those sold call options went ITM and someone exercised forcing his position to be liquidated.

Purchase a stock, sell call options to make a bit more money or as a "hedge" against the stock going down.

Either way, classic strategy.

It didn't really work this time because the stock went up too far, out of his expectation which limits the gains to the value of the options sold. But again, it's a relatively safe strategy.
I get that none of us want this stuff. No end user wants any of this stuff. It's for big business, who get to tell their employees what computers to use and how, despite their employees also not wanting this stuff. It's where the money is, so it's not going away.
It also depends on prioritizing high quality work. Plenty of places would be happy to have you at below optimal efficiency for twice the time to make up for communication inefficiency.
Under attendees:

> Ken Bereskin, Dir., Mac OS Technologies product marketing -- (a fool)

yikes.
Ask HN: Why haven't we heard of data centers being affected by ransomware?
It seems to me that they would be just as likely, if not more, to get hit.
I am an Iranian-American (dual citizen) and I suggest you to NOT visit Iran. You may be subjected to arbitrary arrests.

P.S. I haven't visited Iran since high school over 12 years ago and I miss my friends and family there so much.