skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I hope there is a BackBlaze person lurking the comments.

I use BackBlaze to make sporadic, one time backups. I then disconnect everything - which is just 2 mirrored drives. These drives only contain important documents.

Can BackBlaze please not delete my backups if my drives are not connected for X days, even though I pay for the backups? It is very confusing to me, and actually pretty damn frustrating.

To be more clear, my backup solution is detailed here, where I recommend BackBlaze even: https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2020/07/backing-up-for-mortals...

Thanks!
Unless a big vendor (coff Microsoft coff) decides to enable it by default, them it becomes meaningless.
The comparison is very apt. Everyone will have their private pocket rocket in a few decades.
If copyright didn't apply to software, why would you agree to the EULA?
Its widely recognised that an Indian bought martial arts into China and into the world later. This mostly originated from kalaripayattu, all these arts were considered passed down from Hindu gods (devi, female goddess) the way she danced to beat demons was copied by warriors.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15480741

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9FODBb_b0c
> Oh, you have proof that person X murdered someone? I am sure I can find awful stuff that person Y and Z did!

No - that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that if you're holding X to a standard, you should hold Y and Z to the same standard.

> No, my users however might need to once they have to deal with a cmake project.

cmake is available from the package manager on basically every system imaginable, or as a binary (or source) download for a whole host of platforms. It's also widely used, so chances are a user is going to have it installed.

> I was told that it takes hours, though I might be misremembering.

If you're going to dogmatically claim that cmake is inferior, then you should at least verify the grounds of your claims are true.
I ran

git clone https://github.com/Kitware/CMake.git && cd cmake && cmake -H. -Bbuild && cmake --build build

in under 90 seconds. Might have even been faster if I used ninja. I actually don't konw how to compile make from source on windows. I had a look, and apparently I need to ftp the source from a gnu mirror?

> This kind of thing does not really distract you from anything. Adding something like that takes as long as it does to add a cmake check. Then the person who is compiling has to do -DENABLE_FEATURE=1.

This isn't unique to cmake but a meta build system does more than just let you add defines.
I'm not sure I'd classify it as viable with how Mozilla middle management has acted the last few years.
Chinese achieve new milestone with 56 qubit computer
Yes, thank you, this was exactly my point.
> How can they move the source code from open to closed source? They don’t own the contributions.

It's in the article. They are having the contributors sign CLAs, which would allow them to do this.

The ones who don't sign the CLA, they will re-write that code themselves to get around it.
Lots of university file dumps are served on FTP...
Same here, this is why my goal is to simply FI not RE.

Once I FI'ed, then I can take whatever job I want based on fun or personal aspiration.
Backblaze completely lost my wife's data several years ago due to a bug in their platform, then their support tried to gaslight her into thinking it was her fault. The actual issue is that their dashboard stored cached data and said files existed when they didn't, which was only discovered when trying to restore data to find it was all missing.
I typically ask them what they've tried to address and then tell them the tasks to try that they haven't already.

There was significant cost savings to offshore to India on paper but its not up to you to fix the reality of a 12 hour offset in team availability. If it takes 3 sessions to fix a problem, there's no going around it. They need to learn and learn by doing and you cheat them if you do it for them.
The Moog Grandmother is an extremely easy analog synth - my kids know how to use it
The just like most C and C++ compilers there is a common frontend that then executes the corresponding compiler infrastructure.

C was deprecated from Microsoft point of view regarding systems programming on Windows, apparently complainer keep forgetting to actually read Microsoft employees blog posts.

Here, have a go at them, to spare you some Google-fu.

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-s...

But alas, some manager decided to backtrack on the decision and support C after all.
Safari and, especially, its iOS monopoly (for the engine, at least) are the only thing keeping Google from dominating and nearly everyone from only testing against Chrome, now that MS switched to using Chrome's engine and IE is finally nearing the end even in the important niches where it had been hanging on. FF doesn't have enough "normies" using it, isn't the default anywhere, and its trend-line is heading the wrong direction.
> why is "working for the man" so bad

I don't think it is necessarily bad, but that doesn't mean that there aren't other paths to fulfillment. They may not be for you, but they exist.

> it is the same with repetition and no change or progress.

If someone chooses to retire and immediately enter a vegetative state, that's really their fault.
Stories about cyber security and the railway
This guy is not the creator of mRNA vaccines, he’s just a guy who did something slightly related with mRNA forty years ago, and is now trying to ride the wave to money. I think it’s fair to say the vaccine was rushed, but that’s because we have been having the second largest pandemic of the century. More Americans are dead from this than died in WW2.

I didn’t downvote you. I do wish we had a longer trial period, and I don’t like taking something that hasn’t been through the full duration trials. Here is what convinced me:

- we now have more than a billion vaccinations done globally, with no mass surge of negative side effects.

- virtually every politician in every party has gotten vaccinated. Including most of the people telling you not to get vaccinated.

- the vaccine produces way fewer antibody targets than the actual virus, so I would expect that if there was a long term negative effect from the spike produced by the vaccine, we would get that or worse from the virus.

- the virus is really contagious and seems to be mutating toward being more contagious over time.

- thus, you’re probably going to get it, which means one way or the other you’re probably going to make a lot of antibodies to spike protein no matter how you slice it.
Burnout is a clinical condition and there are tests for it. You can't just ask people if they "feel" burned-out, as the term is often employed outside of the condition.
I miss Flash games :(

There used to be thousands of little dumb games and animations like this on the net.
It's at least technically viable for now
> Now, SmartBlock 2.0 in Firefox 90 eliminates this login problem. Initially, Facebook scripts are all blocked, just as before, ensuring your privacy is preserved. But when you click on the “Continue with Facebook” button to sign in, SmartBlock reacts by quickly unblocking the Facebook login script just in time for the sign-in to proceed smoothly.

I wonder how it does that, and if it's open to exploitation by a malicious website like Facebook.
DNC Pushing SMS Carriers on Vaccine 'Misinformation' Spread Through Messages
Critical illness insurance because everyone has a plan until they are punched in the face.
There is a list of standardized fields, it’s pretty comprehensive [0], or you could look through the spec [1] which has additional comments.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3#ID3v2_frame_specification

[1]: https://id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames
Yes. Continued fractions offer the best possible rational approximations, for some definition of distance which I don't remember at this moment.

Moreover, they are uncommonly good if you truncate just before a large integer. So for π, 22/7 is a great approximation because the next number in the continued fraction is 15, but it is blown out of the water by 355/113 which is not specified to only ~0.3% accuracy as you might expect from the denominator, but rather 0.000008%. This comes from the splendidly large next integer 292.

e is more boring, the continued fraction is [2; 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 6, ...], and that pattern indeed repeats forever. So you do keep getting these large integers, and they keep getting larger. That first one was 19/7 (0.1%), then 193/71 (0.001%), then 2721/1001 (0.000004%), then 49171/18089, which has about the same error as your approximation, but less than 1/5 of the denominator. So the continued fraction doesn't pick that one up because as far as the continued fraction is concerned it's not very good :D

Side note: It turns out that the above computational approach of "build continued fraction and then evaluate it" is not necessary and you can actually stream these. So you can take a + 1/(b + 1/(c + 1/x)) and rephrase it as sort of f_a(f_b(f_c(x)))). Simplifying by just looking at

> f_c(m/n) = c + n/m = (c m + 1 n)/(1 m + 0 n)

we can rewrite this as a matrix product,

[ a 1 ] * [ b 1 ] * [ c 1 ] * [ m ]
[ 1 0 ] [ 1 0 ] [ 1 0 ] [ n ]

and the nice thing about matrices is that their multiplication is associative, so we can compute front-to-back instead of back-to-front:

Prelude> (a, b, c, d) .* (w, x, y, z) = (a*w + b*y, a*x + b*z, c*w + d*y, c*x + d*z) :: (Integer, Integer, Integer, Integer)
Prelude> (2, 1, 1, 0) .* (1, 1, 1, 0) .* (2, 1, 1, 0) .* (1, 1, 1, 0) .* (1, 1, 1, 0) -- starting point
(19,11,7,4)
Prelude> let matrices = scanl (\matrix n -> matrix .* (n,1,1,0) .* (1, 1, 1, 0) .* (1, 1, 1, 0)) (19, 11, 7, 4) [4,6..]
Prelude> take 5 matrices
[(19,11,7,4),(193,106,71,39),(2721,1457,1001,536),(49171,25946,18089,9545),(1084483,566827,398959,208524)]
Prelude>
Prelude> :m +Data.Ratio
Prelude Data.Ratio> take 8 $ map (\(a, b, c, d) -> a % c) matrices
[19 % 7,193 % 71,2721 % 1001,49171 % 18089,1084483 % 398959,28245729 % 10391023,848456353 % 312129649,28875761731 % 10622799089]

note that this is streaming due to the scanl, so it'll compute the next term in O(1) given the last terms. (Also note that there are some other "best approximations" hidden in there because I am taking this by these [4, 1, 1] then [6, 1, 1] then [8, 1, 1] chunks.)

Side side note: it also follows that the most irrational number is 1 + 1/(1 + 1/(1 + 1/(1 + ...))) for this metric of distance, as it always has the smallest possible number in its continued fractions; its approximants are never "very good". Solving for φ = 1 + 1/φ and some quadratic formula reveals this as the golden ratio φ = (1 + √5)/2. If you do this process you will find that the matrix always contains Fibonacci numbers and this matrix [1, 1; 1 0] kind of encodes the Fibonacci recurrence directly.
Are these also used as deterrents to terrorism via motor vehicle? Large blocks of concrete to prevent cars and trucks from intentionally going onto the sidewalk to harm people (as we've seen a couple of time in Europe.)

Edit: after looking at the pictures closely it does not look like they have been placed in such a manner that they would be so I guess the answer is no.
Google already singlehandedly controls the web standards. Firefox and Safari are the last obstacles to them basically privatizing the web.

The independent Chromium distributions do very little to that effect, as they're not incentivized to specifically disable features Google puts in.

If Firefox goes away, kiss the open web goodbye. We'll have it on paper, but just that. It'll be Google's web.
Because capitalists, by definition, exploit others in order to turn a profit. Capitalism isn't a win-win game. Nothing 'trickles down'. Without sufficient government regulation, you get things like one trip to the ER bankrupting a person, Amazon delivery drivers defecating in baggies while working, megacorps like Walmart putting thousands of small shops out of business without creating anything of better value, to name just a few consequences.

The cherry on top is that the growth mindset at the center of modern capitalism (fueled by industrialism) is extremely unsustainable, due to capitalists' myopic decisions and the relevant economics' inability (or unwillingness) to calculate environmental costs as part of the profit equation. Sure, a couple centuries of explosive growth and innovation is cool, but tragically pointless when the system collapses under its own weight after it exhausts all reasonably-extractable resources. And no, space mining is not going to save it. Even oil is already becoming unprofitable to extract in many areas on our own planet, how do you expect anything involving spaceflight to be? Even events like this Branson party wouldn't exist if the companies involved didn't believe they were turning a profit (in this case, by fleecing would-be space travelers).
It's the hedonistic treadmill

Everybody loves a startup/small business.

When it grows then people still appreciate the quality of life that the growing company provides.

At some point though the startup becomes a behemoth and the rate of improvement in quality of life provided by the behemoth slows down. It's natural, S-curves rule the world.

But the hedonistic treadmill has already took hold of the population and all of a sudden with the rate of improvement in quality of life slowing down they all take a long and hard look at the monetary rewards reaped by the company and the entrepreneur.

All that can be summed up with:

"What have you done for me recently?"

If the population think that the answer is "not enough" then the next logical step to extract quality of life out of the company is to break it up and expropriate the entrepreneur.

That way you'd get yet another boost in your quality out of past purchases of products and services by de-facto retroactively stealing them. That's a good way to beat the hedonistic treadmill, to get one last hit out of the bong...or in this case out of Windows 95.

On top of that you also get the huge quality of life boost of seeing somebody richer than yourself getting down at your level or even worse.

So it's useless to try and reason with people. The heart wants what it wants.

There is some equilibrium though . Under the current system the limit was tested most recently by Microsoft and Bill Gates.

It took:

a) 160B personal wealth back in 1999 = 262B today equivalent

b) Total domination in a newborn sector of the economy which everybody wanted to have a foot in.

c) Not wanting to talk with politicians and bend to play the D.C. lobbying games.

d) Lots of angry competitors who actually did bend and went to cry to D.C. and accepted to play their games.

e) But all of the above wouldn't have mattered if Windows 98 was as big of a leap in quality of life provided as Windows 95.

So the lesson here is:

1) You would not have to worry about the haters until you are disgustingly rich, they can moan and cry but they can't do anything.

2) If you reach a stage where your company is exceptionally powerful and you are disgustingly rich and you want to keep going for more then you have to keep taking risks like you were poor and the company was a startup company. That's the only way to beat the S-curve and avoid the "what have you done for me recently?" question.
> Single platforms stagnate, we’ve seen it before with IE6 and we’re starting to see it again.

They do, but at least chromium is open source. If it stagnated like IE6 then someone would fork it.
Have they mentioned the reason of its removal somewhere?
Your comment starts with a disingenuous sentence, and continues to show a level of bitterness I've seen before in people who believe themselves to be more knowledgeable/experienced than their surroundings (or they actually are), but never got a chance (or so they believe).

I didn't claim to know everything there is to know about statistics and research in general, but I think I know enough to tell that this is not a study, but a marketing campaign for whatever this usehaystack thing is.

> First, they should have tried to poll around 400 people (and perhaps they did!),

If you had read the article, you would have known that that's not what they did.

> By typical polling standards (95% confidence interval, random sample from filtered population), we expect that 77-89% of UK software developers are actually burnt out. That is still three out of every four people in the industry!

Do I understand correctly that you've worked on this? That certainly explains the hostility, but nevertheless.

> we expect that 77-89% of UK software developers are actually burnt out.

That's not what the link/study says.

> That is still three out of every four people in the industry!

This is absolutely wrong, without a shred of a doubt.

I recommend that you read: How to lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff.
> It's the asymptomatic spread that has caused a lot of the problems and concern.

Is there a lot of evidence of this? Last time I checked, asymptomatic spread was not well understood.
One amazing thing about this vaccine is that it is basically open-source. We can look at the genetic code so you know exactly what is going into your body if you choose to take it. This guy does an amazing job of breaking it down in detail: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

I agree the CDC has done a terrible job of representing science and establishing trust, but the virus is less politicized in other countries. Look at what those health institutions with better track-records are recommending.
The whole point is that when you have more and more choices , you can't escape your psychological needs as a human being. You can have sex with random strangers with protection from modern technology, but they don't provide the same intimacy you need from your spouse. You can live alone with single wage, but it does not fulfil your psychological needs can only be gained from living with a family.
Nice, agreed. At least Sunday's should be car-free, stuff like that, and reducing more and more car traffic, that would definitely help promote bicycles

For the heart, maybe don't push too hard, I used to push myself to the limit in the hills every sunday morning. But nowadays I ride slow, long distances, but slow, timeless, I would grab some figs here and there to refuel myself, or buy (fruity) food sometimes (+ stuff like lentils and greens). Normally with frequent riding, you'll get a low resting heart rate (below 50 bpm), a low breathing rate, as a result sleep is easy and good quality
> Your claim that the media is simply not reporting that vaccinated people are much better protected to the point of it basically not being a threat is not “a fact”.

> That being said, considering how small a percentage of people are vaccinated, it’s still a massive threat we cannot simply ignore.

OK, so your issue is that I've critiqued the media for sensationalism.

You think the media is not being sensational, because There Is a Major Threat. That's fine. We can disagree. The facts are still the facts, and people can interpret threats in light of those facts. You've now triple-responded to my comment with essentially the same thing. Maybe you're seeing this through an emotional lens?

(FWIW, I haven't seen any major news outlet report that the latest data for secondary transmission of "the Delta variant" indicates that it is not more contagious in the UK. That's a pretty big change, and it's new information. Even if you can find a single news source that has reported it, it's not widely known.)

> We need to double down on vaccination even more

I'm not sure what "double down" means, but I never said that people should not get vaccinated.
Laughed out loud at this one

> The irregular shape even makes them unusable for skateboarders who like to skim along surface edges.

Photo: bench that's clearly popular with skateboarders...
Thanks. Anecdotally I've noticed that most people around me who refuse the vaccine more or less follow your argument, but you articulated it very well.

We humans certainly suffer from omission bias, it was probably safer in our selection environment.

Our everyday life is full of cases where we do dangerous stuff which we don't feel as dangerous because, everybody is doing that, since forever, so yeah you know some things may be dangerous but c'mon, it's not that bad, you don't want to miss out on life by being the only crazy person who doesn't get in a car or something.

When something totally new happens like covid vaccines, it's hard to get the right intuitions, and probably each will have their own, using their own biases.

My personal rules of thumb are:

1. I don't trust authorities to pull off a major conspiracy (and hide the data of bad vaccine effects).

2. I don't trust governments ability to effectively coordinate among themselves to pull off a conspiracy

3. I don't trust journalists to obey to the conspiracy; money in media is about attention grabbing, if there were serious side effects they would have ridden the tide (and probably even inflated it)

4. I personally know a few people who died of covid; I don't know anybody that had serious side effects of vaccines. Even if the media is hiding the problem, I would expect it to be visible in my direct experience (as it was for covid)
He didn't mention 100+£ or any price. He said he never used a calculator in college -- even a 5£ calculator.
The code in this post is in Raku[0] — pretty much the perfect language for expressing something in "multiple ways". There's More Than One Way To Do It, as we like to say.

[0]: https://docs.raku.org
Why does anyone get to drive on public roads? This seems to be what this entire thread is about.

Are you against Tesla owners in particular? I can hit and kill someone in any car with or without driver assist technologies. Are you worried that it's more likely that I will kill someone while using technology that is invented to make that less likely?
Here's my rough estimation:

Anaerobic digestion of food and green waste yields ~0.22 toe/tonne of biogas, and manure yields up to 0.04 toe/tonne [1]. (toe = tonnes of oil equivalent)

Australia wastes 300 kg/year/capita of food [2] (across the entire supply chain, from farm through fork)

Americans generate 90 kg/year/capita of yard waste [3]

That's 1.07 kg/day, for 0.24 kg of oil equiv.

The average adult produces ~0.4 kg/day of manure [4], for 0.02 kg of oil equiv.

All up that's 0.26 kgoe/day, or 0.3 L [5] of petrol.

The most efficient scooter I could find (Honda Activa-i) does around 70 km/L (165 mpg)

So optimistically, you could generate 21 moped kilometers per day of biogas. In more normal units, that 3 kW/h or 11 MJ.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/outlook-for-biogas-and-biomethan...

[2] https://www.environment.gov.au/protection/waste/food-waste

[3] https://www.waste360.com/mag/waste_yard_waste_4

[4] https://www.emedicinehealth.com/ask_how_much_does_poop_weigh...

[5] 1 kgoe = 1.16 L of petrol
>a conscious decision with negative externalities.

So bereavement should be declined if the dead made a conscious decision for suicide, and sick days should be banned if the person say made a conscious decision to take care of a family member with a communicable disease?

I would argue parental leave is only unfair against those who are simultaneously infertile and legally barred from adopting. If both of these don't apply to you then your position is intractable.
Give me /events, not webhooks
does anyone know of an about:config to the switch tab style back? Its still hard for me to notice which style is actually selected with Dark Mode
I used to add '+"index of"' when searching for files or dumps using google. It still works, but definitely not as good as a few years ago.

A past time: typing '+"index of" main.dfm' to see what people were developing using delphi.

'+"index of" dire straits sultans of swing mp3' still kind of works.