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Tell HN: EVBackup will close July 31 and all files will be removed
EVBackup, which is Exavaults cloud storage / backup product, will sunset on July 31, 2022 and all files will be removed:

"The EVBackup service will shut down on July 31, 2022. All accounts will be closed, and all files will be removed from the EVBackup servers at that time. We’re sorry for the hassle this causes in finding a replacement service."

And, interestingly:

"As you look for alternative services, consider rsync.net."

Here is the full announcement:

ExaVault, the provider of the EVBackup service, recently joined forces with Files.com to create the world’s largest company focused exclusively on cloud native SaaS Managed File Transfer. You can find more details about the acquisition on our blog post as well as over on the Files.com blog.

As part of this transition, we made the decision to shut down the EVBackup service. We’ve been proud to offer this self-service backup option, but it no longer fits into our portfolio of service offerings.

The EVBackup service will shut down on July 31, 2022. All accounts will be closed, and all files will be removed from the EVBackup servers at that time. We’re sorry for the hassle this causes in finding a replacement service.

We have turned off all invoice renewals, and you will not receive any additional charges from us during this transition period.

As you look for alternative services, consider rsync.net. They offer a similar service at an affordable price.

If you currently use FTP or SFTP as the transfer protocol for moving files to EVBackup, you can try out our full-featured Files.com service. Files.com is a great choice if you have high transfer volume, a need for automated workflows, or are interested in automated syncing capabilities. If you are interested in this option, email us and we’ll connect you with an account executive to discuss your options.

It has been a pleasure to serve you over the years. If you have additional questions, please reply back by email or contact us by phone at 1-510-500-0245 x2.

Sincerely,

The ExaVault Team
Probably some developer misusing the .dev domain for their own personal test projects, yet again.
I’m writing some tooling for chat/conversation & have been thinking a lot about these optimization considerations

One amazing piece of tooling I’ve come across is SST: https://serverless-stack.com/

They build on top of AWS CDK & they have a very clever way to do “local” development by injecting a websockets into your deployed lambda & you can work against real infra instead of mocks
There are dozens of us!

While I have certainly seen idiots with nice clothes make bad decisions in management, I do think that all things being equal, some level of professionalism is beneficial to an environment. Attitude and aptitude are critical, and I think dress can help the former.
I hesitate to say I thought this was a good article because it was highly negative and I don't think it focused enough on the positives (of which I think there is some - for example, it has very nice and highly performant lightweight threads with full blocking semantics via goroutines). That said, I'm not really a fan of Go even though I wrote it for a few years and I think the article covered pretty well why I don't generally care to write it (even though I don't agree with everything they said).

I think I would say overall that I like the idea of Go better than I like Go itself. I like the idea of a simple language, but not the choices they made. I like the idea of simple tooling, but don't find their tooling simple to use (ironically, Rust's tooling is much simpler to use IMO). By being less expressive, it actually makes it more confusing to use IMO (in the same way I find dynamic languages more confusing because without static types, I'm less sure about what args a function takes). By keeping null, not having sum types, etc., I don't trust the code I write. In the same way I don't trust any code I write in Python unless covered by a test, I don't get much confidence in Go's static typing due to their implementation choices.

In summary, I don't think 'simple' is the right metric because it doesn't necessarily make writing code 'easy' or safe. For me, languages that are highly 'logical' and 'compose well' are much easier to use in practice. A language should try and find the simplest way to express X, not remove X as a concept IMO, or else code simply will not scale or compose once past a few thousand lines.
What actually made midsize towns in Iowa unsafe to visit for persons of Indian descent in Trump's America? Did the Iowans suddenly get more racist? Was Dubuque declared a "sundown town"? Have the Iowans calmed down now that we live in Biden's America?
Counter claims exist for alternative flight trajectories that fit the data

https://mobile.twitter.com/the_cholla/status/151875157360987...

https://youtu.be/N9lOQkxMkW8

I would provide credence to the above flight path as witness testimony from the pilots themselves attest to it, while West's claims of it being just glare are on the data alone.

Nevermind West's continual assertions of it being glare when we have witness testimony that it's a fleet of objects moving together, including the Gymbal.
I've been wanting this to exist for years, ever since using Elixir and the amazing first class doc support. I hope it is super successful!
I'll take a stab.

An odd number is a number that ends in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9.

- ends in a 1: times 3 + 1: it now ends in a 4, which is even, and thus reduces to the even case.

- ends in a 3: tomes 3 is 9, + 1: ends in a 0; even again.

- ends in a 5: ×3 ends in a 5 again, +1: ends in a 6; again even!

- ends in 7: x3: now ends in a 1, +1: ends in a 2; even yet again!

- ends in a 9: ×3 then eens in a 7, +1 thus eens in an 8: even again!!

So all that's left is the cases for @someweirdperson ;-) @someweirdperson
I will tolerate an abrasive tone in an emotionally charged discussion where people's lives are affected. I will do so carefully, because it's incredibly easy to be mislead by emotional content, but I will put in the effort, because important viewpoints can't be usefully distinguished from manipulation by their tone in those arenas.

Physics is not one of those arenas. I am not even remotely worried that selecting explorations of QM interpretations based on tone might result in giving me a skewed perception of the topic due to my ignoring the views of those being harmed by them.
Agree, I studied mathematics and molecular biology and the most interesting problems are intersections between that and coding (which I learned by myself as a kid).
This isn’t surprising as the Navy loves the C.

Sorry - I couldn’t resist.
Google is running an app store. Why should they have any right to involvement whatsoever after the app has been installed? Once the user has installed the app the transaction has been finalized. And if that app is given away for free, and Google has a problem with that, they should ban all free apps and require charging a fee.
Definitely agree on Geometric Algebra + Calculus. What drew you to it?
It was built into the cost of the computer.
MRI, CRISPR gene editing
That is such a great point.

Twitter almost invariably unmasks idiots more than it makes heroes.

Tragically - I have seen many people I admire look like fools.

In particular, a lot of users will 'let loose' their beef, their cynical grind on Twitter, the thing that upsets them. Consistently.

It's one thing to be 'angry' in person, with people you know - that can work - but when you do it in public, without the humane context, it just feels really unsympathetic and people look bad.

I think this is what happens when you give a man a smartphone, and have them start to just 'say stuff' 20 times a day. We don't have that much insight. We just get ornery, like a smoker needing their next cigarette.

I think this applies to everyone.

One minute I really respect a person for their moderation, conscientiousness - the next moment they're jumping on a stupid meme, over reacting to something etc..
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So you've gone through all the weird flows to accept and enable installing. Now how do you get security updates? Google scares them again every time, even though android apps can already execute arbitrary downloaded unsigned code at runtime (otherwise V8 and other JITs that generate machine code can't work), so it isn't really protecting much and mainly makes things more insecure by not letting you add your own trusted providers permanently for timely updates.
Copernican heliocentrism still used epicycles, so fans of those would not have been completely disappointed.
That page is like empty. What do you do?
He's been talking about it on twitter https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/152032383560579891...
there's a lot of learning potential in building one or two but after that you're pretty much just making them bigger. There's a lot of engineering and construction involved but the new ones are really just very expensive and huge without netting necessarily much in terms of engineering science. In particular if you consider opportunity costs. With the 23 billion(!) it costs to build the new Large Hadron collider you could fund 230.000 100k grants to young scientists. That's enough money to fund entire disciplines.

And that's important to keep in mind because money is a limited resource and what's relevant is where that money didn't go rather than just speaking idealistically about the potential benefits of a megaproject.
I liked her content at first but now I’m tired of the way she implies that "scientists" are lying to us, stealing our money, and that she is here to reveal some truths that are kept hidden from us. After watching any of her video, I don’t feel like I’ve gained any insights, except that I shouldn’t trust "science".
The proposed 'spec' is what the industry (before it was industrious) started with. In addition it can specify in a single stream, multiple 'tables' and 'files'.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8695118/what-are-the-fil...
During most of the time since Windows exists, the majority of its users have not paid for Windows separately, but as a part of the purchase price of a new computer.

Android could also be paid as a part of the purchase price of a smartphone and maybe it already is, but of course a one-time payment would be much less profitable for Google than a continuous stream of revenue from the apps.
More and more it looks like Epic just wants access to these major platforms and wants other companies and developers to pay for it.
What about things like Q-Anon? I don't understand the question. How does that relate to Russian history?
Why isn't the same warning shown when installing from the play store? Apps installed from the play store can have the exact same permissions as side loaded apps. You can claim that Google vets the apps, but this is pretty much false. Just go make an app and experience the process for yourself, it's laughable. Any checks they perform are automated, and there's no reason those couldn't just run on-device.

And besides, even for side loaded apps they have a database of "bad" apps that get deleted by Google called "play protect"
Does the information in the article generally still apply for viewers in the US?
You mean "some dev deciding to keep using the .dev for personal test projects, as was the standard before ICANN and Google took a standard community resource and privatized it, yet again"
When you bought software at a retail store, the vendor didn't get the full retail price. It's not the platform getting a cut, it's the store. What we need to ensure is that platforms can't force you into their store.
> When holding the last click of the sequence multiple words/paragraphs can be selected.

When I wrote about the double-click-drag thing, I thought triple-click-drag might logically also be a thing, but it doesn't work for me. (Firefox, KDE, Linux)
> Social media are the fidget spinners of the soul.

Substack is quickly becoming Writing 101 for tech bros.
This is correct. I grew up on a spectrum 48k and as a kid I remember often wasting time trying to find the longest keyword thinking that the lag was a function of the number of keywords in the buffer. I believe RANDOMIZE (T) was the longest keyword
This is 100% why you hear so much about Twitter.

Journalists are all on it. That's all.
Some days, you have to wonder where we’d be if Pownce actually won out against Twitter back in the day. That Twitter won out ended up being more consequential than anyone could have expected.
“Neko the Cat”-like ADs

Oh boy, here we go again.
> no one ever had a proposition of what the alternative was is the goal was to advance fundamental particle physics. You've got exactly 2 ways to probe subatomic interactions: (1) particle accelerator measurement and (2) incidental measurements of high-energy spaceborne collisions.

Sabine has recommended funding more telescopes to learn more about dark matter.
And cost of Android isn't or can't be?

They make most of their money from user data and search anyway.
I think that was meant metaphorically, not literally. Of course not certain though.
It’s weird. I always thought DevOps meant a philosophy of using traditional agile software development practices (source control, continuous delivery, testing, etc) to make ops processes better. So config as code, instead of maintaining unique snowflakes; cattle over pets; deploy pipelines instead of manual jobs etc.

But the term seems to have been diluted into almost meaninglessness as people seem to mean very different things when they say it.

SRE is related but my take is it’s an evolution/reaction to DevOps. Some took devops to mean “developers do all the the ops” and SRE puts on-call back onto a dedicated role (so back to the NOC and old school Ops) but keeping (and perhaps even further-emphasizing) the commitment to engineering work in service of automating operations at scale.
Every physicist knows about renormalization. It's not a secret.

An "independent researcher" might consider that a discovery, but you could learn a lot more just by picking up any textbook.

It's not "rotten". It's an open research question. One that every physicist already knew about.
The thing is that Strava doesn't even try to automatically flag activities that are obviously fake or cheating. Their developers just seem completely lazy or incompetent. Like it should be trivial to automatically flag any activity that is significantly faster than the world record for that distance.
Wasn’t this faked footage from a video game?
Why Innovation Prizes Fail
Ask HN: Why is this YouTube video longer by 20s only on Chrome?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ZGRQiIdms
When playing on Chrome, this video is 4:50, but on Edge it's 4:32.
There seems to additional video content at the very beginning while playing in Chrome, but not audio, causing it to desync quite badly.

Why would this happen?
There’s a grain of truth in there.
Years back I was doing passthrough AR, and spiked a zoom to nanoview (atom beach and towering grain of salt; hardwired to a parking-lot view out my window). Was crude but fun. Intended to go to picoview, to demo a physically-realistic atom-bonding interactive, but it got put aside.

Magic school bus uses "zoom you", rather than "zoom objects". Tradeoffs, but one advantage of "objects", especially for chunked-zooming and AR, is you retain your environment to use as a size reference. Eg, "the red blood cell is M&M sized, and a grain of salt is cardboard-box sized, therefore the table, room, and playground are...".

Fwiw, my fuzzy recollection is someone wrote a simple VR zoomer in unity some years back. Re dioramas, you might find some inspiration from http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms (very slowwwwly loading page - wasn't intended to be public). I did outreach with a few 1 m diameter tables, each with assorted objects. Pool-noodle floats for hairs, Goodsell's molecular bio illustrations in nanoview, etc. Thought about how one might design a larger exhibit.

But I never did manage to find a community interested in this kind of thing, aside from scattered folks at MIT and Harvard. Size/scale is occasionally taught done down towards primary, and is taught in most every science and engineering curriculum. But knowledge of size/scale is rarely then used to teach other things, so there's little incentive to teach it successfully. With "well, that shouldn't come as a surprise, but oh my, yipes" outcomes.
>without substantiation

Really? Pretty much every article in this field is some click bait title similar to "did this recent discovery break science?" and is quite tiresome. But a more accurate title like "Results from new experiment are so far out of norm for prior understanding that much more scrutiny is needed" doesn't gain attraction.
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In flight simulators or driving games, it gives more range of motion by tracking head position and gaze. The really good implementations allow you to do more head tracking, or more eye tracking, depending on your preference. FS2020 needed some tweaking in this department, when I turned my head to look behind me IRL, the game camera would spin like mad. The responsiveness is pretty shocking to say the least.

In shooters, there's an added "snap to aim" feature that is borderline cheating, it snaps your aim to where you may be looking. I've only seen it in non-competitive and first person games though. For competitive shooters, the tracking can be very useful to know you weren't looking in the right place at the right time, if you care about that stuff. There is an overlay you can enable which shows where your gaze is calculated in real time.

In third person games, gaze can be used to reveal information in the HUD (hide HUD elements unless I look at them) and to aim throwable objects. More gimmicky in these cases, but simply having more field of view without having to move your mouse/arm is useful IMO.
If it's what I think it is, it's usually (in english at least) succinctly referred to as "Sour grapes"
I think your comment is far behind the times. Directly from QCD we have: computed the low-lying parts of hadronic spectrum, computed the proton-neutron mass splitting, made _pre_dictions about hadronic masses that were then found at the LHC, computed the nucleon axial coupling g_A, vacuum polarization and light-by-light, and so on. It requires supercomputers. But so what? Nobody promised that physics should be easy.

We know how to match our effective field theory of protons and neutrons in nuclei to QCD observables. This project has been under way for 20 years. Expect major breakthroughs as the exascale machines mature. If we match our EFTs to QCD calculations then there would be no additional parameters fit to data, and our intellectual edifice will have quantitative predictivity from fundamental particles to neutron stars. It's hard. Nobody promised that physics should be easy.
Is that what happens when a Windows program is not put on Windows Store? Thieves!
And CERN is literally the reason we're here on th Web right now.
Thanks, I'll check out Distributed Services with Go.

For LC - I've already taken a couple of DS&A classes, I have some youtube videos to refresh on groups of problems like graph problems, DP problems etc., and the rest is just to practice solving as much as I can.
It is also 4m50s on Firefox... so maybe the question should be why it is shorter on Edge?
It's really a reflection of what Twitter is actually great at: surfacing things that you're already interested in. If you're the type of person who interacts with a lot of political things on Twitter, it's going to surface things that will make you engage, which is hot political takes. So it makes you believe that you are part of this global consciousness, despite it really being just tens of thousands of people engaging with each other circularly.

Personally I have locked down my Twitter to only be about music and anime and it's really, really good at surfacing new art and new music that I enjoy. I have never seen a political take on my personal Twitter feed.
I had my 12 inch telescope on this morning. I've got a neat shot of venus and jupiter under high power. Too bad it was through some trees and are completely garbled.

then the sun came up.
That's weird.. I don't recall feeling like it was a money thing that I had a Spectrum, only that my parents had made the 'wrong' call on a 50/50 decision (though I will forever be grateful for that early exposure to programming!)

Trying to search for local prices back then is tricky, but they look to have been in the same ballpark (£180-200).
It was based on a true story:

https://youtu.be/2b5s0WBI8ug
lol I feel like this debate plays out at least weekly in a HN thread about a subculture, specialty, etc.
Chess engine from scratch. When I got the move validation right it felt very good!
> But we don’t really do sliding scale payments for food

But we do! When I was a poor student, I usually bought the bottom-shelf store-brand cheap pasta. Today, I look at a higher shelf and often get the organic high-protein stuff with fancier shapes.

It costs about the same per unit weight to make, but the latter costs much more to purchase. This is exactly a sliding scale that allows people who are more price sensitive to buy practically the same stuff except at a much lower price.

(Why do companies do this? It lets them expand their target market without getting total profits too close to the floor.)

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This is also why we have region locks on electronics and export controls on medicine: companies are selling literally the exact same stuff with different profit margins in different regions, based on their collective disposable income.
There you go again. Asking a straightforward question in clear, comprehensible language, without any hand waving. How can you possibly expect the economic sophists to engage with you if you persist in this behavior?
You compile and install them using Xcode.
Man, i think they'd want stuff like:
How to create a budget.
What does a 401k do for you.
How to plan for retirement.
How to do your taxes.
Balancing a checkbook.
Psychology of debt versus paying in cash.
How to save money.
Nutrition planning under constraints - feeding yourself or your family cost effectively without eating garbage food or wasting money.

Don't get me wrong, intermediate economics topics are useful and valuable, but I think people are overestimating the level of basic knowledge young people have by a huge margin. It might be good to culminate in a crash course in investment banking and hedge fund management, but let's make sure we have a rock solid foundation of practical personal economics that empowers people to take advantage of any level of income, even chintzy $9/hr teenage summer jobs.

Also, workers rights and financial security of identity - cover basic workers rights, unionization rules, benefits, drawbacks, when you need a lawyer, where to report employer misconduct, small claims court, identity security and credit bureaus, credit freezes, and so on.
If you are out there and are great with solvers - I would look to water resource management consulting too. EG: http://www.ecorpconsulting.com/marketsector/WaterResources/i...
I think it's like how in sexual selection, many animals display traits that take additional energy to maintain. The theory is that this is selected for since if a potential mate is able to display these traits while still being alive and healthy, then that is some sort of proof of good genetics.

If a company can put energy into looking sharp while also staying in business, that proves some sort of viability/success of the business. There seem to be a few qualities you could have to achieve this, discipline being one of them. But, even if it's discipline that's being used to look sharp, that doesn't mean it transfers to the work the business produces -- all we know is that they're still in business and are successful enough to look sharp. For all we know they could use shady practices, under-deliver, know how to protect themselves contractually, and extract wealth from large inefficient organizations.