skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using borg now for a couple of years. It has been great.

I previously used duplicity. It would do a full backup once every week or month, resulting in GBs of data being send over the line.

Borg chunks the data and uses deduplication. It result is just one huge backup at the beginning and incremental changes afterwards.

The abstractions used are also much friendlier. I never took the time to retrieve specific point in time backups from duplicity. With Borg one can mount the whole backup repository as a fuse mount, which each different backup being a distinct directory.

rsync.net offers cheap online storage for borg backups.

One caveat, borg is not yet multiprocess.
What does the "mean" really mean?
Not to worry, we also spend some time messing with strace and GDB. I see it more as "giving a working knowledge of Rust" than a distraction. Some of these crates/tools are lifechangers, I wouldn't want folks to miss out on them.

I'm sorry yodelshady has run into a build error for cargo-edit (was it OpenSSL? screw OpenSSL) but also: the more folks run into these issues and report them, the sooner they're fixed. Also! I think cargo-edit should just be adopted by the default cargo distribution because it's all-around really good.
Scheme was literally one of the OG languages to teach to beginners. As an English speaker, I've nested parentheses is normal writing, so it shouldn't be a foreign concept.
I don’t know the solution, but I’m not currently in charge of a G7 member state.
There's no such thing as EU funds. EU funds are British, French, and Germany's money.
How does this compare to other toolkits?
I suspect because it makes both data and control flow more explicit and traceable.

> And is it always applicable?

No heuristic is always applicable.
It's going to be bad. I don't expect to have a conventional retirement like my parents did. By that point, society will not longer be able to support a large cohort of people who just consume and don't contribute.

I don't understand how anyone can still justify having children, knowing how they will suffer as a result of what we have done to the planet.
Which side dragged on for months/years, asking that the UK keeps on participating to the EU budget for several years AFTER leaving ? London or Brussels ?
I adore how your moral position is more important than the opinion of those who believe the contraire.
Or installs Doctrine DBAL which handles it all for you.

At the cost of some performance, but the ease-of-use with a highly-tested and relied-upon library normally outweighs that.
Hetzner's "storage box" product also supports Borg backups:

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box
> If the audience desires certain types of show, they get it, or the competition makes no money and cannot continue.

If the athletes don't turn up, the competition makes no money and cannot continue. This goes both ways. The "element of showmanship" taking precedence over the sport shouldn't be tolerated, and the pushback is well within their rights.
It's all down to this video where a Polish guy was amazed at a hedgehog he saw in some city centre somewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwR6KS6vJWg

Edit: oh and it means “Here’s the carrefour (supermarket chain), and here’s the fucking hedgehog”
Yes, however in my experience you typically have to write out constraints like these a bunch of times. Refactoring a generic trait with 10 implementations is a nightmare. A struct with a couple of variations on the constraints for its impl blocks is also painful beyond like one generic param. It has to be spelled out somewhere, but then at minimum somewhere else, and in general about 3-4 more times.

I see why Haskell folks like their type level functions.
I don't think this is a _typical_ signature. On the contrary, it's quite exceptional. In my experience having more than 1 type parameter in a function is quite rare in most code, unless you're building an advanced, composable library like a futures implementation.
I looked up the official rate where I live (18.1%), but I find it hard to believe, since virtually everyone I know smokes, at least casually. And the few who don't smoke, vape.

Why do you care? Everyone knows the risks by now. It's never going away. You should find better things to do with your time than trying to control other people's behavior.

Also, I'm originally from Cali and I make over $100k a year, but I'm hardly a unicorn since all my California friends bum cigarettes from me whenever I see them, even though they all "quit" years ago. California is just a miserable habitat where you can't enjoy a beer and a smoke at the same time unless you belong to a private club. And they all lie on the surveys.
This reminds me of many years ago when the entire office got motorized sit-stand desks. We had frequent competitions ..3.2.1.<Who can raise their desk quickest>. Utterly pointless as all tables raised with the exact same speed* but very funny. One day the repair guy came to the office and I explained the situation to him and he somehow managed to tune the electric motor in my desk, so it would raise my desk a lot quicker than the others. The look on the others face when I unleased my new super power. priceless :)

I wonder if the pi would have beaten me?

*Desks with the same number of monitors (weight) would raise with the same speed.
Peer reviews do not involve reviews of actual collected data, just a review of the paper that draws conclusions from it. I don't know if there's such a thing as peer reviewed data in the medical world. If there is, it can't be a consistent standard, as a lot of studies are published despite appearing to have made up data:

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea...
> any live television

A licence is required to watch any channel while it is being broadcast. It doesn't have to be "live" (or perhaps that is the same as "while it is being broadcast"). You also need a licence to record it while it is being broadcast. You need a licence to use iPlayer.

For these purposes, "broadcast" includes satellite, even if you only watch foreign channels.

The BBC and its funding have been a political football since forever. The right hate the BBC because it's funded by taxes, and seen as socialist; the left hate the BBC because it tends to lick the as* of the government of the day - the style of news coverage changes in the first few weeks after a general election.

The licence fee is a regressive tax; the beeb should be funded out of general taxation.

I'd like to see a BBC that is independent of the government, ad-free, and cut loose from the need to chase viewing numbers. I don't know how to get from here to there. If the beeb were a subscription service, I'd consider subscribing.
Tells you a lot of how they stand by their values
My favourite sport is cricket. When I was younger, it was always shown on terrestrial TV (mainly BBC or Channel 4), but after the huge success of the 2005 Ashes, Sky bought the rights and you then had to buy Sky Sports to watch it. As such over the years the interest in cricket in the UK seemed to fade, and hardly anyone was taking an interest in it anymore.

I can almost see this happening with the Olympics to some degree, if it continues to be shown only on channels you pay for, people are going to lose interest in watching it more and more over the years. I like watching the Olympics but to be honest not enough to pay an extra £7-10 a month to see it where the coverage isn't nearly as good as the BBC can do.
In their official document on population growth [0], their policies include “将学生参加课外培训频次、费用等情况纳入教育督导体系。平衡家庭和学校教育负担，严格规范校外培训”.

(We will monitor the frequencies and fees of extracurricular tutoring for students. In order to balance the educational cost on families and schools, we will strictly govern out-of-school tutoring.)

[0] http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/2021-07/20/content_5626190.htm
That's really cool. There's something magical about such a complicated simulation running at 60fps.
Anecdotal evidence, but I've had a 2017 13" MBP repaired under the Flexgate scheme for free. Obviously this repair should be standardised, and the affected models should be added to the scheme, but Apple (or at least their employees) are authorising repairs for models not on the "official" list.

It's also worth mentioning that I tried at two different stores to get the free repair, and was refused the free repair at one.
You can do:

pub fn try_join<A: Future<Output = Result<AR, E>>, B: Future<Output = Result<BR, E>>, AR, BR, E>(a: A, b: B) -> impl Future<Output = Result<(AR, BR), E>> {
Ok I promise I'm going to stop replying to those comments (because as you pointed out they show up on every post), but! Rust is not the only language with a decent type system out there.

I can definitely see some ML/Haskell/Scala/etc. folks who would quickly pick up on all the Future stuff, drawing parallels with their usual language of choice, yet being completely unaware of all the nice tooling around Rust. It's one of its main selling points for me!

Re cargo-edit specifically, it also lets me stay in flow while writing these: instead of having to repeat "we'll just edit Cargo.toml, make sure to have that under [dependencies], uh this time we need a feature so the right-hand-side needs to be an object, not a string" - instead I can just copy into the article the actual commands I run on my side, and if a quick paragraph about where that subcommand comes from unblocks even one person then it's worth it.
It’s mentioned in another document. See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957141
I'm with you in sports I understand like football, but I definitely benefit from a bit of expert guidance in things I don't like taekwando, skateboarding or shooting.
> Also in my opinion Freenom makes very clear disclosures about the differences in the paid and unpaid features and rights.

They are not making it clear.

> would be more on par with saying GoDaddy is defrauding customers when they offer a discount on the 1st year registration and then they “extract more money” subsequent years

If it is not made clear to user - then yes, it is a fraud.
Thanks, I have the same problem - I'm an Eastern European living in the UK, must've heard my name pronounced correctly (just from someone seeing it written down) maybe 3 times in 9 years. But I actively avoid telling people the correct pronunciation because it's not in anyone's interest (unless they're a close friend, I guess). I never understood why someone would selfishly expect a stranger to pronounce their name correctly if your name is difficult/not intuitive. There are billions of people out there whose names are so difficult to get right, isn't it more important for us to spend that mental energy being nice to each other in a practical way instead of doing this useless ritual?
I was lucky enough to witness it too.

I was driving down my street and I saw the world in front of me light up from a fireball in the sky accompanied by a loud roar. I had no reference as to what this was – a missile? A plane going down? Surely it was travelling too fast for those though.

As it passed over to the East I waited with tensed shoulders for what was to come next, I assumed a large impact or explosion, but thankfully exhaled after a few seconds and simply silence was what came next.

Remarkable experience!
I believe it is incumbent upon those of us in privileged positions of education and wealth to have children that we teach and raise to be contributors in solving the world’s problems. Raising one child well goes a lot further to helping people out then not having a child at all.
A bookshelf is a problematic comparison since we do have devices that people buy that has a built in bookshelf, one that can remove books at the company discretion. The digital books you loaded it up with at home is not owned by you, nor do you have any natural right to the book or the bookshelf.

However, they won't lock it up and demand payment. They simply just lock it up at the discretion of the company.

The digital bookshelf will record and analyze what you read which is a bit of switch-and-bait tactic.
Also, in Polish a regular 'c' is pronounced approximately like an English 'ts'
Sony are the archetypal media savvy consumer products company in Japan, but they completely blew it with their rigid vertically integrated strategy. They tried to control the media production end with Sony Pictures and Sony Music, controlled the media format with Mini Disc and control the end user device with the players and Hi-Fi systems.

The problem with this is the other media companies - movie studios and record companies - saw them as competition. That means they wouldn't touch any of Sony's media formats or distribution platforms with a barge pole. This massive strategic foot gun has crippled their medial initiatives for decades. The media companies are nice businesses, I shed no tears for Sony, but they could never do what Apple did and cut ground breaking deals with all the major labels and studios.
I hate this too. But it's worse than not carrying these things. I went into 3 small DIY stores looking for 1/4" 20 machine screws for a router fixture I was making. Britain has been metric for quite some time, although we still hang onto some imperial measures (mph, pints, etc). The fact that they didn't carry them wasn't really that surprising, but the fact that no one working in those shops knew what one was, or indeed showed no understanding of the fact that imperial bolts existed is sad.
check out https://github.com/kopia/kopia

https://kopia.io/docs/features/
Red moon traffic jam when?
I tried reading up on that, but that article is very hard to follow:

>At the heavenly North of the circle, symbolizing the Alpha and Omega, Our Father to which we solemly pray, lies the glorious positive and negative infinity. At its opposite, the wicked, immoral South of the circle, lies nothing of value, the value 000. Meanwhile, on the earthly plane, God's children enjoy free will, where they choose between positive one at the East and negative one at the West.

Who thought it would be a good idea to throw weirds jokes into a description of a number system? I'll probably just file posits next to Tensors in my mental model of the world (Tensors are just matrices for people with egos).
For better or for worse, piecing things together using context clues never seems to really end :-)

One useful heuristic is the "unambiguous parse rule." You think about different ways something might be read (even if you have no idea what it's trying to say yet) and try to work out which one would lead to the least ambiguity. This is helpful also when trying to figure out how to write using newly learned notation yourself.

A good technique is to just not get frustrated. All math starts impenetrable. Read ahead, try to get a glimpse of an idea of what's going on. Go back, find other sources about the same thing, find sources about similar things. If the original source was worth anything, eventually it'll reveal itself. Sometimes you realize you weren't the target audience and you were supposed to have been exposed to more introductory material and you wish they had cited one, but anyway, you found it.

Another thing is that sometimes you just need to ask an expert, someone who's steeped in the culture. math.stackexchange.com is open to notation questions, but the guidance you can get in-person can be much more nuanced.

I actually like running into new notation (supposing I'm not on a deadline trying to figure something out...), be it math or a programming language. You're trying to solve the puzzle of the purpose of the notation, what function does it serve, why someone ever thought this was a good idea. I've exposed myself to a lot of bits of obscure programming languages over the years, which makes it easier to guess what things might mean.

Maybe one more thing: math notation tends to be invented for specific purposes, and maybe most of it doesn't carry over from subject to subject. Arithmetic, function application, summations, integrals, and set notation are fairly universal though.
Good job! Just a small feedback, it's really hard to find a specific country in using that dropdown menu without alphabetic order.
Most governments might be trapped because reducing emissions does not help to solve the problems people have now or in the near future from climate change. "Inflicting" hard policies on the electorate without benefits in even the medium term is tough.

So governments will need to start with actions mitigating the effects climate change with at least equal effort than emission reduction. Don't see that realization happening at the moment as most policy and international discussions are about emissions. In the end, might even be that adaptation wins out over reduction in terms of effort.
It’s explicitly mentioned in their official document on population growth. See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957141
I don't think you and parent disagree. Parent claims X=0.5, you claim X=Y.
We already have this every time it snows in winter in the pre-alps. People totally forgot that like 10-20 years ago "extreme snow" was kind of the norm from December to early March.
If Amazon vanished tomorrow *as a result of* our culture changing, then yes -- it would mean a seismic cultural change rooted in a seismic morality change. At the *very* least we'd be on the path to a moral mend. With all due respect (as I said, I've upvoted all your comments), I don't think you're trying very hard to hear me.

If people can't extract themselves from their Amazon addiction (i.e. their addictions to convenience and materialism built on the exploitation of others as well as disregard for the planet's health), then we have no chance.

If liberals (i.e. those proudly flying the flag of social and environmental responsibility) can't own up to their own complicity *and* change their ways, then we have no chance.

If you grok what I'm saying, you'd understand why I, unlike most, shine my spotlight on (neo)liberals and the things liberals do/use/perpetuate, and not on conservatives/Trump supporters. Especially since liberals use Trump and conservatives as scapegoats, providing cover for their own moral failure. So yes, my spotlight is on Amazon over Walmart. The Democrat party of the GOP. Etc.

I think, given your apparent agreement that things are fucked up even if we don't agree on underlying cause, that your insistence on nitpicking because someone isn't attacking or highlighting problems the same way you would speaks to some other issue that only you can fathom. Not sure there is a point in continuing if you are unable to at least understand what I'm saying.
Woah, he uses Iosevka for his mono font. :D

Edit: Whoever is downvoting, Iosevka is one of the favorites of the HN crowd, and also my own daily driver. It is worth taking for a spin if you haven't yet.
For the lazy like me, there's this: https://vorta.borgbase.com/
> Results like this are a good reminder to log off and go interact with the real world for a more grounded perpsective.

Gallup survey was conducted entirely online but "real world" survey [2] (including ppl without internet connection) says otherwise here

"Americans' optimism about country's direction over next year drops nearly 20 points since May: POLL

In May, a little more than a third were pessimistic. Now, it is a majority." [1]

1. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-optimism-countrys-...

2. https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/outside-covid-19-bide...
Not parent but it's likely to be a combination of several factors:

* Impact of social media on mental health

* Use of CDS by print/online media

* Social divide and tribal thinking

* Perceived instability and uncertainty
What I don't get is this this "growing body of evidence" does not seem to apply when it comes to things like Ivermectin, where they don't consider anything other than some high quality RCT, and reject all observational data.

But when it comes to vaccines, they are so OK to make suggestions (to put it mildly) based on observational data..
TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
Offering to not be extradited to a specific third country on a specific charge would be the furthest possible thing from a blanket guarantee.

It's of course entirely their prerogative to not offer any guarantees at all.

It is similarly "illegal" for many other countries to offer any guarantees that the suspect wont face torture.
I think that you can do a lot against the 'optimized races' by giving riders the timing info reliably _without_ giving them radio communications with their teams.
I also think that currently, the races are actually quite fun. Even in the sky times in the TDF, there were breakaways with a chance, there were people who would solo to a victory.

I don't think unofficial channels are ever going to be policeable. Obfuscation is too potent. And I don't think it would be interesting if teams start competing to be better at getting their riders extra info. Even though I think its quite fun to try to design such systems.
Why the Options Pattern Is Great for Security
Since the pandemic started, I've switched from hitting the gym to buying dumbbells so I can train at home. I've made huge strides in muscle mass and strength. Even just 30kg in plates can last you months if you haven't lifted before and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I'm not sure what you mean with the last part though. Weightlifting isn't just something you do for a few months and then you're done. It's by its nature a long-term process. After a few weeks without training, you start losing muscle mass and strength.
> Restic can't pull backups

There's ways to pull backups. You'd use ssh forwarding and/or the REST backend for append-only backups. See this comment:

https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/299#issuecomment-456...
Nah, Sony was hell-bent on ATRAC and their proprietary memory stick standards. Not sure about the other major electronics manufacturers in JP, but the only one that sounds "technological trend setter" in my mind is Sony, so if they weren't doing it nobody else was.

And Job's Apple was throwing their hearts into open standards big time, abnormally so compared to the industry landscape.

Nope, the iPod could have only been Apple
in 2020 cloud market was worth $312 billion, fun fact that majority of companies are overpaying and could reduce their costs on average by 40-50%.
Taking Months to Bits: A calendrical journey into low-level programming
> Installer loaded, system was installed and rebooted in about 20-30 seconds

This was my experience with QNX 6 two decades ago. Installing and booting into its beautiful Photon desktop environment took less time than it took to just boot Windows 2000.

> And this was in a VM with SATA disk backing.

Believing virtualization always makes things slower is a mistake. Windows XP always booted and worked a lot faster in a VirtualBox under Linux than it did directly on the same machine.
One weird thing with rents Germany is that old contracts have very low rents that barely increase over the years. So, you get this weird dynamic of very old shops and restaurants that have been there for decades paying almost nothing right next to very hip/trendy places that have to pay through their nose for the privilege of being there. Some of the older restaurants get away with this by simply charging less for their food and drinks. Newer places can literally not afford to do so.

Especially West Berlin still has quite a few places that pre-date the fall of the wall 30 years ago. Lately, Charlottenburg (a big neighborhood in the West) has been gentrifying rapidly. So, you get this weird contrast between these old places and very new & trendy things opening right next to them.

You see the same dynamic in East Berlin though large parts of that have been gentrified by now. I live close to the wall memorial on the East side and most of the old shops and restaurants in my area have disappeared over the last 12 years. Mostly the reason is that the business owners hit retirement age and scale down or sell their business. In some cases, a relative takes over but more often than not the place closes and some other business moves in.