skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What effort? It runs automatically every hour. They include that they buy a new drive on which backups are written and archive the old one. Presumably they buy drives that are big enough to have a full backup and a reasonable about of space for the diffs (a drive 50% larger than the one being backed up is typically sufficient).

Since Time Machine is in addition to other backup methods, they don't need to make an effort to keep a Time Machine drive offsite.
I think the parent was more making the point that however we chose to deal with the pandemic, it was difficult to avoid disruption to the supply chain.

I guess the potential nuance is, blaming it on "lock downs" gets vaguely political whereas blaming it on the root cause, the pandemic, puts emphasis on the wider point that any actual pandemic of this magnitude is of course going to disrupt the worlds supply chain one way or another.
I wish you would read the rest of the comment. I clearly explain this.
We are in the age of Unicode. The LaTeX entry methods are options, not required. I rarely use them, and don’t paste in characters. I hit a modifier key. Typing a Greek letter is no more inconvenient than typing an uppercase letter.
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Udemy is the reason why I helped start Reforge and Closing Credits. I can't believe I'm seeing the S1 and it fuels me even more.

Curated cohort-based live instructors that give revshare to industry experts > static unqualified mess.
not OP, but yes, I backup both our Mac machines (TimeMachine) and my Linux machine (restic) to a Synology NAS that is in turn backed up to a cloud. I ended up using the Synology cloud because the setup was easy and they have a datacenter in the EU.
> but there is some evidence that child abuse is common among Protestant churches too

And scouting and similar organizations. The Catholic Church is a big focus for a number of reasons. Aside from anti-Catholic animus, the fact that its a uniquely large international heirarchical organization rather than a loose federation of organizationally independent national churches, dioceses, or independent local churches like the Protestant churches is a big reason.

EDIT: That is both a direct reason for the focus of attention, and also an indirect reason (because the greater number of lawsuits is a reason for the focus, but that is because the structure of the Church makes it a better lawsuit target—a bigger potential bag of money—even when the facts are similar than many other organizations.)
Thanks! Can’t wait to try this. Meanwhile I have to post a YouTube video of AppleRock. I don’t see it archived.
Unlike preceding formats that tried to replace JPEG, this one was designed with the replacement challenges in mind.

A great blog post on this by one of the creators of the format, Jon Sneyers:

https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...
Thank you, phrack.

Blacklisted411 was another zine you may be interested in hunting down if you enjoyed the genre.
This would be massively annoying for my local network. I trust that I do not mitm myself for malicious reasons and really do not feel like setting up certs on my lan...

Talking about certs, nowadays it seems browsers want to make you believe that self signed certs are some diabolical work straight from hell. Using self signed certs with websockets on Firefox is actually nearly impossible [1].

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187666
I don't know how your relationship is, but when I was in your position, I set up a remote access solution. For me it was tinc+ssh, but I'm sure there are many equivalent solutions in GUI land that will let you login remotely.

It's easy to talk someone through physically plugging in a hard drive, and then you can do the copying yourself.

This of course relies on your dad not expecting his computer to be private from you, but I doubt there are many people who aren't technically engaged but expect the utmost in digital privacy.
It's pronounced "jizzle".
I'm not sure I trust [2] it seems most articles rehash the Estadao article. Are there other sources?

Dr Luiz Carneiro D’Albuquerque from the Estadao article is interviewed here shortly after https://globoplay.globo.com/v/9387212/

Does he confirm what the article says he says, Ivermectin is strongly suspected for transplants? It's hard to tell with translate.

> get ready for: ozone therapy (in the anus), and HQC inhalation.

This is why I love living in the future, thank you for that info. A Visual Guide to Ozone Rectal Insufflation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz-ZEOpgTsY (2017) Their website is cool, "check out our refurbished products" and "gift certificates"

Interesting it was tried for HIV as well and ozone in treatments is 100 years old. All bunk. But that's the future, we can order this interesting stuff for at home now, not hidden in university labs.
I want to validate the complaints about startup and error messages as a Julia user / fanboy ;)

They don't really bother me anymore personally as I've gotten used to them and make frequent use of packagcompiler.jl

However, I'd just like to say that the core team is aware of these problems and there's active work being done to address them. The general path seems relatively clear, and it's currently just engineer time limited (not like we've hit a wall or ran out of ideas). But I'm confident that with the recent series a and Sciml picking up steam, these things will get ironed out in the next year or two.
If you mean the container format, AVIF uses it natively.

If you mean the image format, probably never. It's based on the HEVC/H.265 licensing minefield. For that reason, I don't expect it to ever be supported on Chromium or Firefox based browsers.
JPEG XL has a party trick where you can losslessly transcode JPEG files to JPEG XL for a ~20% size savings. I imagine that every CDN out there will enable transparent conversion of JPEG to JPEG XL and that will drive adoption just by itself.
Exactly, protocols over platforms.
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I do hope that it is secured enough to withstand attacks.
I feel the downtime was too short to really extract meaningful data.

Really, it should be down for at least a month, so people can adapt, and samples can be taken over a longer time period.
>it seems to be better to have state curiosity (curiosity about the task at hand) rather than trait curiosity (as in, claiming to be a person with a high curiosity personality trait

This is very interesting, do you have any article discussing this that I could check out?
The US uses its tax code(s) to try to implement policy. Increase taxes on something to try to discourage people from using/buying/participating in it. Decrease taxes or offer tax credits to try to encourage something. On the face of it, this is not a bad idea, but cumulatively it gets pretty messy (especially when, as you note, some of the policy-as-tax-code has implications over more than just a single tax year).
Probably because such ICs are rather niche indeed. Any way of re-architecting your system to use an SPI flash chip? If anything else fails, you could go the extreme route and get a microcontroller to "translate"...
I think it's a combo of physical distance and ease of commenting. Remember the old Penny Arcade comic that frequently made the rounds years ago (about the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory)?

Not a terribly subtle bit of commentary itself, but it was a humorous reference to something most of us had experienced. In person, there are reactions to see. The other person/people's humanity is on direct display and most of us have at least some degree of innate empathy that keeps us from being a complete asshole all the time. And even those who don't mind (or relish) being an asshole have to worry about repercussions.

In contrast, if I read something I disagree with, it's a lot easier for me to just fire off a smartass reply without the effect that socialization has on me to consider how appropriate the comment is or what effects it might have. I'm just countering some words that I don't like with some other words I do like.

Large-scale social media just turns into the comment section for the entire internet.
I would tend to label this as personality trait curiosity, though not with absolute certainty. It's kind of a classical example of trait curiosity. "Oh, my child is always asking questions about everything -- what a naturally curious kid."

On the other hand, if someone is always wrecking specific electronic devices you own because they want to know exactly how that works, but they never want to figure out how to make you a better tasting dinner, that might be state curiosity? :)

The lines are perhaps not super clear, though.
I would look at Backblaze and Cloudflare as firms that publish blog entries that do well on HN.
You don't have to do anything. You don't have to be anyone. You don't have to go anywhere. Life is not going to stop because you don't do something with your life. What are the 100 trillion lifeforms on earth, 8 billion of them human, doing that's so essential?

Nadda.
> My experience of state taxes over 32 years (WA, PA and NM)

One of those states (WA) doesn’t belong in the list of states that require personal income tax returns, unless you mean something else?
> What if your inbox worked on a bonding curve, such that as it filled up it became more expensive to send to (except for whitelisted addresses you approve)?

When my inbox fills up with spam I can't get legitimate mail because my inbox is full wouldn't essentially the same thing happen? I dunno why not just use the whitelist and be done?
I think it’s reasonable to expect a lot of people to follow Netflix outside of the App Store. Therefore Apple would have to make an offer that is competitive enough for them to stay. I would argue that’s fair competition. Unlike their current highway robbery approach (in German we have the word wegelagerei, which was medieval toll extortion on unavoidable roadways, a better fitting term in my opinion)
Because the existing crypto currencies support 10c transactions if they grow to any kind of audience!
The subtitling/dubbing process as described is an art. It also requires sizable chunk of time for considering the choices and tweaks, just as any creative writing. If this art is also an income source, then the pay/time arithmetic becomes important. It would be nice, if production houses had these quality standards, as described, AND respective appreciation of these efforts (paywise too).

Alas, more and more the human creative output in such field as subtitling is being replaced by AI output. This also distorts expectations about the effort needed to produce a quality output.

Is it just cutting corners and "optimization" of the process? In my view it tells more about changing attitudes towards the language in general. Nuances and styles traded off for direct meaning, creative work overpowered by churn.

I guess, now this field needs the enthusiasm and love as described more than ever. Ironically, the AI too needs that quality for training but it cares less about the time well-spent consuming the final product.
Where else all the hn users that claim that they don't use Facebook would come and say that they don't use Facebook.
This is a really cool project. It's unfortunate to see the author being this obviously frustrated by having Sixel-related contributions be rejected time and time again. However it seems like the main Tmux maintainer has shown up on the issue tracker about being open to including the changes upstream, maybe that will improve their faith in the open-source community.
> Contributions go to the Mozilla Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organisation based in San Francisco, California, to be used in its discretion for its charitable purposes.

This goes to the Mozilla Foundation and not to the browser's development. As far as I know there is currently no way to donate to the browser's development.
They were using the model forecasts from the health community. We all knew it would become endemic but it was hard to forecast lockdowns would continue for so long.
no, its just an outcome of the age of information (i.e. post internet) where people who want to be activists around a particular subject have it very easy to create both international and inter-generational communities where everything they need is at their fingertips.
I apologise for that. You’re right, it didn’t add anything substantive and was disrespectful.
You are very wise. Visualization and analysis in particular, but also facilities, from what I've seen. I couldn't find anything in the Python world to measure a Python application calling native code (like linear algebra), but at least Score-P, Extrae, and TAU can, and for parallel applications.
Yes, time machine can run over the network. It really is easy.
Deductions should not exist period. The more transparent way for a government to subsidize something would be to give cash. This would force the government to recognize the costs of the subsidy and who is benefiting from it clearly.
Anyone has information about the details of Smart Block 3.0? The "learn more" URL returns a 404.
It's a radically different number of comparisons

Bubble sort scans the full array repeatedly until finished, but only along the pairwise edge, and usually finishes way early

So in an array of 20 elements you have a maximum of 380 comparisons

This searches Euler's Little Triangle the whole way every time, so in an array of 20 elements, you have a maximum of 380 comparisons again

Seems similar, right?

Except doing pairwise you're likely to exit without doing all 19 scans - at the logarithm if it's well distributed - so it probably does either 4 or 5 scans, saving ~80% of the work

The issue isn't the ceiling; it's the common floor

Doing it the seemingly-normal way radically changes the common floor
aka "How a language disappears up its own ass"

...or would it need self modifying code too?
There's no feedback mechanisms which penalize the university for turning out unemployable graduates. Peter Thiel actually talks quite a bit about this. I think you're right on the money.

We must consider the increased cost of a university education and how its function has shifted in society. The university, for the most part, is now a training ground for corporations. We can see this in the dramatic shift away from the humanities and intense focus on STEM. STEM is essentially a corporate career path -- especially science. So we have a strange situation: universities are acting like job training institutions, but they are not directly coupled to industry. They want to maintain their ivory tower aloofness, but they lost their ivory tower status when they opened up the floodgates and became part of the cooperate pipeline. I think the university system is having an identity crisis.

This wouldn't be the first time it has changed what it is. We must remember that the prototype of the modern university was a semi-religious institution used to train the clergy. Funny that you speak about the ideal of education being sacred...at one time it literally was. And perhaps the secularization of the university system is also a symbol of losing that sacredness. Certainly, the demands of the earth are more important to the university of today than the demands of those platonic realms home to pure intellectual curiosity and moral transcendence.
Looking through that book, it’s not easy to find the demo you’re talking about without a hard copy. Do you have any idea which chapter might have it?
I still get newsletters I never signed up for tho. They are breaking the law but it's profitable for them to do so.
Still no built-in uBlock Origin (or equivalent) despite it being permissively licensed and Mozilla's "commitment" to privacy...
Temporary hospitals were a thing here in India as well. Marriage halls, schools and unis were repurposed to have lots of beds for covid patients.
I do think this website is still small enough to have decent moderation, but there are plenty of borderline toxic and/or trolling comments I've seen here that go unmoderated. I've also seen tons of blatant and dangerous misinformation posted in the comments section, you only have to look at the vaccine threads from last week to see that. Nothing is perfect anywhere and medical misinformation is really bad for everyone. Maybe we can blame Facebook for bleeding out into the rest of the internet and turning things toxic, but we still have to deal with the effects of it.
Price gouging in most cases, supported by difficulties in transportation and customs. I work in manufacturing (not IT products) and this is what we see. Chip shortage is real, but not every single type of chip.
Time is money, I'm sure some users visiting websites that don't have the luxury of being maintained by multinational corporations will experience issues as a result of this change. TLS certificates are also not trivial to set up or renew if you require a wildcard certificate.
> I guess the potential nuance is, blaming it on "lock downs" gets vaguely political whereas blaming it on the root cause, the pandemic, puts emphasis on the wider point that any actual pandemic of this magnitude is of course going to disrupt the worlds supply chain one way or another.

Thank you for phrasing so perfectly the exact point I was making. It feels disingenuous when people solely blame the reactions to a worldwide pandemic while ignoring that the worldwide pandemic was still gonna be happening regardless.
> Looking back, I have to imagine that this 3%+ tax on all American transactions must put a weight on the system.

I 100% agree. It's pretty absurd that all merchants have to pay a 3% fee on the vast majority of their transactions with no real alternative.

And I realize crypto gets a bad rap around here, but I really do think stablecoins offer an interesting way around this. It's an open standard that anyone can build on top of and integrate with which means we could have a healthy market with many payment processors, and wallet providers. Even if we ended up with the likes of coinbase, kraken, etc custodying the majority of user funds, the fact that users would have options, and any startup could integrate would help a ton with maintaining a competitive arena and driving prices down.

(and before someone yells "crypto fees", there are already solutions that can drive these well below $0.01 if we're just sending payments between 2 parties)
Life continued as normal in Sweden, Russia, Belarus... the pandemic 'response' was driven by the media and politicians. If there is surge of deaths in nursing homes (typically 50% of COVID deaths), it has no impact on the rest of the economy.

Many of those same politicians later benefitted to tune of millions of dollars from advance knowledge of federal bank intervention in markets. If there was no lockdown, this opportunity would not have occurred. There was a clear conflict of interest.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fed-vice-chair-traded-stocks-1527...

Its the same for individuals who bought into MRNA startups eg. BioNTech in 2019 - there's a clear financial motivation to promote disruptive lockdown, in order to position vaccines as the cure.

https://trialsitenews.com/gates-earns-10x-on-biontech-in-jus...

Its likely that lockdowns worsen COVID, because of the reduction in health from lower Vitamin D (staying inside), poorer diets, increased stress, and reduction of exposure of younger people (school cancellations, nightclub closures etc.) who usually form the bulk of the herd immunity population for seasonal respiratory viruses.
Would you have a counter example of a contemporary institution that facilitated mass abuse on a bigger scale?
Anyone else getting hit with a 404 when trying to visit the 'Learn More' links for SmartBlock 3.0 or the referrer tracking protections?

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/10/05/firefox-93-feat...
Isn’t the reason they can do these discounts that that is their margin?
You don’t get spam from non eu countries?
FreeFillableForms is great and has saved me a ton of time, but it does not do the calculations automatically for every field. You still have to manually lookup certain things from tables. It's freakin' frustrating, because there's no reason why it couldn't automate those as well.
This would be really very useful. Thanks
Having a status page forced Comcast to fix my internet
Try sixel-tmux compiled with msys2 in Windows-Terminal: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/tmux.exe

Or compile it yourself using MinGW64 : after installing from msys2.org, pacman -S base-devel etc

It works fine here. I have a Windows Terminal settings to start sixel-tmux instead of bash, using script to provide a pty: just have the command line be:

C:/msys64/usr/bin/env.exe MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict MSYSTEM=MSYS /usr/bin/script -c /usr/bin/tmux /dev/null
The other humanities courses give you a glimpse of what you don't know. It's a bit of a Dunning-Krugger scenario. You can't know what you've never heard of, and can't begin to self-teach yourself a thing if you don't even know it exists.

Or, perhaps another way of saying it is: I think it's safe to say that no one in the 21st century has heard of "The Seven Types of Ambiguity" outside of an academic setting.

Without a frame of reference to start from, I don't know how anyone would progress past a sort of floundering beginner stage of writing ability.

It should not be left out that these humanities courses at the latter end of the undergrad level and into grad school are not 200 people sitting in front of a lecturer in an auditorium, either. They're more like a moderated philosophical discussion with the professor guiding the discourse among a dozen to 20 people. If you get nothing else from them, you get "how to analyze a thing, present your opinion of it, and defend that opinion to others." If you aim to convince others that your words have some sort of meaning of worth to them, that's a pretty obvious basic qualification.
I really don't agree with this hard-line stance on maintenance windows. The use of extreme examples doesn't really strengthen the argument.

It really comes down to the cost of implementing "Super HA" for everything. If that cost is more than the tangible loss of having 30 minutes down each month, it's not worth it.

And it's not just IT stuff that has to be "Super HA", it's everything. Updates need to be atomic. Every database change needs to be able to be half-done so staged rollouts can take place on application servers. That requires 10 to 100 times more effort, and therefore cost. Not to mention testing, certification, etc. It all comes with baggage.

I run a bunch of very small sites on a single Digital Ocean droplet. It has no HA whatsover, it's just a small VM running nginx. Yet, somehow, it has better uptime than every single one of the 10 biggest sites last year (30 min downtime total for 2020). Sure, I could beat that down to zero by using a load balancer and multiple servers, replication, shared storage, all the shiny stuff, but it's just as likely that something could go wrong because of the added complexity, and take me down for an hour or more.

There's never a single Perfect Solution to every problem. That's why we don't build suspension bridges across creeks.