skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not familiar with Box, but this is a concern with most backup solutions. Many backup storage providers offer snapshot features that will protect you from that because the snapshots are immutable, just make sure that you check your backup regularly because there have been some cases of data ransom attackers managing to detect and work around such protections¹. Snapshots like this also protect you from a number of accidental matters that might cause you to lose data such as the content of a file being corrupted and the broken version being backed up over the last good one.

If the storage provider doesn't offer snapshots you could backup to a rolling target, say one subdirectory per day of the week/month/year, though here you lose the protection of snapshots being less mutable – someone taking control of a machine can kill all the backups as it has full access to them.

I do a soft-offline backup³ where the source machines don't have access to the backups directly and so the snapshots. The source machines backup to one external service, just a server connected to via ssh, the backups being maintained using rsync (other tools like rclone already mentioned would do just as well), then another external server reads the backups from there it itself and creates snapshots. The source and backup machines both have credentials to access the intermediate backup but can't authenticate against each other so malware or a human attacker getting access to the source can't corrupt the backups from there or corrupt the source if they hack into the backups. It isn't perfect: there isn't the immutability promise given by some storage providers, verifying backups takes extra steps (but can still be automated), a really determined attacker could still do damage if they get both sets of keys or access to my accounts on the server providers (though that would have to be a very directed attack and I'm not interesting enough to attract one of them!), and I have to be careful about those passwords/keys: I need to be able to authenticate against the final backup service if all else is compromised and for maintenance.

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[1] breaking the backups subtly, so you don't notice and delaying hitting the encrypt-and-ransom switch until after the standard snapshot retention window² has expired

[2] assuming this is short, like a month or less, this is less of a concern with longer retention but you still stand to lose recent data

[3] I must write properly about that somewhere permanent-ish, so I can just post a link instead of re-describing it in every backup discussion I have!
Again, not an expert on French law, but in the US you can just hire someone else to do the job in the case of most strikes. pejoratively called scabs.
Housing investors still either live in the house themselves or rent it out to people who live in them. Getting rid of them won't change the price. The price is driven by the supply and the people who want to live there (demand).
I agree. I went through it as well though I didn’t publish any apps to the App Store (lack of ideas :( ) but I personally adore Swift and SwiftUI and Hackingwithswift is such a great resource!
Alienblue was the first app I bought. Then reddit bought it and latter canned it for the offical app. They kept changing it until it became the monstrosity we have today. On mobile, I browse reddit through old.reddit.com - anything else is an awful experience
The basis of his legal peril includes both, and many other things.

It's such a wide basis that his hope basically has to rest on sweeping it all away at once: finding a juror willing to hang the entire thing, letting a judge dismiss things and exclude evidence, relying on a Supreme Court he appointed to side with his contention that as President he's allowed to do whatever he wants.

These aren't great hopes, but he's got a talent for just barely pulling out of things. He's avoided consequences many times in the past, and he's not unjustified in thinking he can avoid them again.

So it doesn't really matter what the real basis is. None of it puts him in jail by itself. That relies on a complex system of judges, lawyers, jurors, and others, any part of which can make the whole thing go away if they're minded to.
CEO pay was higher in 2000 than in 2021. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1669300665686843392
Yup. In fact, I have a vehicle where exactly that happened. Bought a used diesel pickup truck. A year later it wouldn't start: ECU was completely unresponsive and wouldn't even send anything over OBD. Had it towed to the dealership and during their analysis they found an aftermarket torque chip in the ECU and removed it. Truck started right up after that.

If the dealer hadn't mentioned that, I'd never have known. I don't even know if the person we bought it from knew about it since he was the second owner.
Why are you storing an offset for each byte?

I thought you are supposed to find the offset where your entire file is sequentially there in pi.

Because if it's infinite and not repeating, then that string should be in there somewhere.
If that lifestyle suits you, sure, go for it. However, by staying in a shit job you are throwing half of your waking hours away. I know this is not an option for everyone, but if one can make enough money from the thing that one enjoy that's like getting half of your life back.
Discord is worse. Like Reddit, it's owned by a corporation and unlike Reddit, search engines can't index it so the conversations effectively go into a black hole. Also, Discord is live chat so unless you're there 24/7, you might miss a conversation you are interested in, where on Reddit, you can still read and participate in older conversations you missed when they occurred.
It is mainly on this website that see complaints about this approach to article writing, and I wonder if the repulsion is due to the fact that so many of us here are on the spectrum. Wider neurotypical society doesn’t seem to react so negatively, indeed this approach has been claimed to be more engaging to ordinary people than a drier, facts-only approach.
Inquiring minds (and a future resident) need to know -- which Seattle subreddit is the best? Or at least, what are the flavors?
If your company is not asking you to do the things that are most likely to make it money then I'd worry about your long-term job security. In my experience, most employees lack the context to understand what the best way to make their company money is. Therefore this argument seems flawed. However, if you have a better way to make money for your company than your boss does, then you should be promoted. A good company listens to bottom-up feedback and adjusts its approach accordingly.
Really all this proves is that if you had infinite Shakespeares and infinite time, one of them would write his complete works using only the letter 's'.
Why can't I download the PDF?
Im not an enthusiast and really balance work life balance but I get more done when working 9 hours instead of 8. That shouldn’t be a controversial take.

Whether thats worth it or if employers can reasonably expect it is another matter. But absolutely more work gets done. This is a topic where the reddit and hackernoon takes are comically extreme sometimes.
*was one of those 10x humans.

He's kind of gone off the deep end now, though given this comment he may have always been a little out of touch with reality.

He was a hero of mine, but now isn't (and IMO that's fine).
Reduction is almost magical.

Last year, I was working as a founding engineer for an early stage startup. We were working on a pitch deck, and I was trying to make it really well designed and professional. I'm a former artist so even though I'm not strictly speaking a designer, I have enough visual chops to make it look pretty.

So anyways, I put hours and hours of effort into this pitch deck. When we presented it to our advisors, they tore it apart - not because of the visual aesthetics but more so because the content itself wasn't good enough.

I was pretty upset that I had spent all this time making it "look nice" and now have to go back and redo a lot of the content, so I told myself "just get rid of everything that isn't 'design'". That way I could just focus on the content itself without having to waste time on the visuals.

What happened is that the end result of this process genuinely looked way better than before. When I stripped the design out, the design came to life.
I admit you make a great point.
Paycheque missing? TD Bank 'aware of' issue with direct deposits
Yea, it really cheers me up. I love a good bug story, and this one is a classic.
You're not saying anything here. Sure there are people like that, but the nature of capitalism means that people _must_ work to survive.

This requirement precludes finding work you enjoy, and thus those that have the opportunity to work on something they like are in the minority.

Put another way, would you quit your job immediately if you're asked to work on something you don't want to do? If not, are you a "nine to fiver"?
Octagonal Sword from Bronze Age Is So Well Preserved It Shines
This is exactly how I've been selling the whole idea of hardcore, cloud-native to leadership & our customers. Most responses begin something like:

"By leveraging the capabilities of a multi-trillion dollar Death Star ..."

The objective is to get completely out of the game of managing VMs, certificates, authentication, MFA, et. al. There is no way in hell we can do a better job than any cloud provider when it comes to compliance, consistency, security, etc.

Maybe when we have 10k+ employees we can reconsider the benefits of suffering additional complexity.
dream inception? no

external dream manipulation? probably under certain circumstances.

not an expert but you can't ENTER a person's dream, this falls into the category of gemstones having healing powers.
During which time civilizations have risen and fallen, often because of their own short-sightedness. It hasn't wiped out the human race, but there are outcomes far short of extinction that are nonetheless best avoided because they are extremely unpleasant.
Landlords leaving the market reduces supply, which will increase price.
There's still automod that you can use to just delete everything the moment it appears.
Lemmy or kbin
right, but according to stats - they do $3.4m worth of work every year - effectively subsidizing reddit.

if they had a way to truly own their community and for the community to show their appreciation - it would def make them feel more valued.

no one will reject “donations” of course.

wondered how crowd sourcing a side income would look like
- similar to the creator economy.

eg: ad revenue made on a subreddit - split with mods.
It sounds like the actual software that facilitates giving third parties access to remotely access car diagnostics can't be ran by the car manufacturer. So while they likely envision the user controlling the authorization for their car, my point is that this third party likely has little reason or obligation to safeguard access and authorization to this data and ensure only the user can authorize access to their car.

If the automaker themselves ran the software for this, they have a financial stake to make sure it's done right, since "hyundais being remotely controlled due to bad hyundai 2fa" is not a good headline. But with a third party, it'll have to be a de-facto monopoly over access to a manufacturer's cars, so once they have the contract and are years after the initial rollout, they might cut costs and leave the authorization/authentication system to rot, or have support agents incorrectly "recovering" user accounts for themselves or being phished into doing so.
Perhaps if we've reached the point where the driver-controllable functions available in cars today have gotten so complex that we're having trouble describing them in some common and succinct manner, we should be looking at reducing complexity so that the driver can focus on safe traffic participation, rather than abstracting these functions (and whatever other ones will be added in the future) away behind something infinitely more complex still.

Whatever driver-controlled functionality a car offers that can't be automated with a sensor (optionally toggle-able) and which isn't directly related to improving driver awareness, traffic signalling, or vehicle handling probably shouldn't exist in the first place.

For home automation you do you, of course! I can definitely see the appeal of this in that scenario even though it isn't something I'm particularly interested in.
"Live in Idaho" isn't THE solution to deaths from tropical diseases; but let's not pretend that it isn't A solution...
Ideally your incentives get aligned such that you're not spending your enthusiasm on your employer, but on yourself via your employer.

You should be invested in the success of the people who you work for, financially (or whatever you value).

You're a "nine to fiver" if your incentives don't align. That can be your fault, but often isn't.
How would the poll have to be done to convince you it's what the majority of actual users want?
Ask HN: Find Location of Mac Voice Memo Files?
Can anyone recommend a good tutorial on how to find the location of mac voice memo files? When I right click to the files for their location, I get a temporary location. Anyone know how to find them?
Are you planning to register a designated agent at dmca.copyright.gov or are you comfortable with assuming personal liability for DMCA notices?
I’m a doctor. I’m married to a doctor. We have no children. We have a once a week housekeeper who does some laundry and puts up the dishes and vacuums the place. We do not have a cook, unless you mean ordering takeout.

Medicine pays well, but it’s all W2 or 1099, not something like getting stock and long term capital gains.
This sounds really cool! Do you know of any other similar projects?

It would be awesome to walk around the room in Bletchley Park, working on the Collosus (apparently the name of the computer Turing & Co. made during WWII [1]) in a simulator game. Now put it in VR? REALLY cool.

1: https://www.tnmoc.org/colossus
This is a great rule of thumb: "a 1% increase in prevailing interest rates decreases the value of the loan by approximately 1% per year of duration".

Especially good to keep in mind for borrowers who are trying to negotiate payoff amounts for fixed term loans. A 5% interest rate increase means you can potentially negotiate a loan payoff for significantly less than you owe for loans that have multiple years remaining. Has anyone been successful at this for consumer loans recently?
No amount of euphemisms makes up for what cancel culture really is-- cyberbullying at scale.

Scott Cawson, the creator of Five Nights at Freddy's, was doxxed, harassed, and had death threats issued against himself and his pregnant wife.

His crime against society? Being outed as a Republican political donor. Not a crime, just exercising his right to participate in democracy. His ability to do so was subsequently attacked and stripped from him by brave keyboard warriors.

Death threats are an actual crime. They are not free speech. Nobody's been held accountable for that though.

This is the problem with modern "equality" movements. They don't want parity at all. They just want to tilt things enough in their favor so they can be the ones doing the bullying.
Not an automatic option, but it works for me.

emacs org-mode + org-cliplink + macro bound to F5. F5 -> insert org-mode style link with URL and Title. Then I can add as much description or tags as needed. If full text is needed, I might pull the site up with eww and copy/extract the text into org entry or add to org-roam for future processing.

New bookmark file per day synced via self hosted Git repo accessed over TailScale.

Manual, but full control and only available to me.
You should read these threads if you want to get an idea of how the normie users think about the whole lockout:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/14b11kh/were_just_here...
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/14al426/rapple_black...
Thanks, I've just added mine called bau, a reactive ui library under 300 lines of code, available at https://github.com/grucloud/bau
FCC chair to investigate how much everyone hates data caps
(I work at Heroku) Do you have more details on what sucks? Anything we're not already tracking to fix in our public roadmap? https://github.com/heroku/roadmap/issues
Why is gyro data required? Doesn't the video itself contain enough information about the movement in vast majority of cases?
great point.

have you looked at lobsters moderation log?

https://lobste.rs/moderations

having this open could potentially reduce the perverse incentive.
I earn enough money so I can choose to work less. I wouldn't work more even if it means more money.
I’ve found that 5 x 6 is roughly as productive for me as 5 x 8. 4x8 would be a drop, no doubt. I’ve got approximately 6 good hours per day, and then I’m just not bothering. When I’m really in the flow, I can pull 10 hour days, but that’s fairly rare.

Also, the long term impact on my happiness and well-being can take a while to measure.
It sounds completely surreal to have cameras and face id everywhere, but this is already done by our phones (face recognition) and GPS tracking, full surveillance of any messaging activity (with rare exceptions) for no good reason other than selling ads. Having less gun violence and deadly police interactions can actually use this technology for something better than just ads served by corporations (and also sell this data to anyone who pays). We should be careful about who can access these systems though.
I would prefer simple, but clear commands that also work offline.
Not sure the magic link is working with brave - I click on the link and get the tick, and it tells me to close the window.

But the other window is still showing the get started screen.
I was thinking pure "comments per second" numbers, ie how much users interact with reddit. No idea what's the right word for that.
> People exist, real people, who hold opinions that differ from yours, including me.

Of course, but astroturfing is also a very real thing that those with money to lose have no moral objection making use of, and as such it's naive to take every comment at face value.

The method which one determines which comment falls into which category is variable and imperfect and always will be but it's a sense I've tried to hone. I like to try to give people the benefit of the doubt but it can be difficult to do that when, say, large number of comments parrot one of a handful of talking points with few linguistic variances or elaborations on why the commenter feels that way.
I actually just read it (the best I could, the page is really janky on my device) I didn’t see this mistake on there and it was the most common one we saw by a wide margin in the beginning.

Number 2 (1 in the article) was solved by the platform. We had two activation points for UI experiments. The first was getting the users assignment (which could be cached for offline usage). At that point they became part of the test, but there was a secondary one that happened when the component under test became visible (whether it was a page view or a button). If you turned on this feature for the test, you could analyze it using the first or secondary points.

One issue we saw with that (which is potentially specific to this implementation), was people forgetting to fire the secondary for the control. That was pretty common but you usually figured that out within a few hours when you got an alert that your distribution looked biased (if you specify a 10:20 split, you should get a 10:20 ratio of activity).
It means people like me, like the users of this site. It also means people who know me personally because I make sure to tell them about uBlock Origin and install it on every browser I use. You bet they like the ad-free web.

I can't help everyone but I try.
Lemmy or kbin. There are also web forums.
This is a huge problem with social media and it is only going to get worse.

Another important thing to understand is the amount of fake propaganda passing off a news. Not just propaganda but we categorize some editorial style talkshows on YouTube as news. News itself isn't supposed to be bias. It isn't supposed to be entertaining. It is supposed to be just informative.
Must say I'm genuinely thankful for what Meta has done on this front. Without their research release of llama I think things would have been substantially less democratic.

This could easily have gone into a "only orgs with billions can play" direction and nobody even trying in the learned helplessness sense. Instead we're ending up in a hybrid "ok maybe can't quite train from scratch but can still tinker" space which is a lot more healthy

If they want to double down on that then I applaud them
I love work. Sometimes I work 50 hours for my full-time employer, and sometimes I work 30 hours for them, and 30 hours for my own side project.

Not everyone loves work as much.

Having the choice to work more or less is good. We should be compensated for whatever value we provide, measured in a way that agrees between employee and employer (or between market and person/business).

So what's the problem?
Palestinian Forum Highlights Threats of Autonomous Weapons
I believe they are saying that Marginalia is also very fast.
Doesn't this kind of depend on the law? Do you really think "guns and and facial recognition on drones" is the kind of thing we have to do experiments on? I kind of get where you're coming from in the sense that it is scary for so much power over so many people to be concentrated in such a small place, but, on the other hand, when the case is simple or the moral calculus is clear enough, I think we ought not feel a strong compunction against action at a federal level.
Honestly I find John's argumentary less interesting than either glyphi's answer he got or the article he is originally replying to.
Three things to watch as US intelligence prepares for Covid ‘lab leak’ reveal
It looks cool, though I still find myself looking for Hyperlapse[0] alternatives.
Hyperlapse seemed like magic when announced, particularly, not needing to crop large parts of shaky videos

[0] https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/hyperlapse-siggraph-2014/
But do you think you would accomplish more by working 4 days instead of 5?
Ross Anderson Discusses AI Model Collapse as a Growing Problem in Online Content
In just six months, generative AI has made significant strides, capturing the attention of the world. ChatGPT, a prominent example of this technology, quickly gained popularity and widespread use. However, renowned expert Ross Anderson warns about the potential risks associated with the intellectual decline of future generations of models.
I agree, i really like my job and my coworkers but i'm not doing more of it for free. That's for sure.
The US literately flies people around the country and opens fences for people on the southern border. Biden administration isn't making anything harder.
Oh wait. I'm working on a project right now. Never mind the PDF-to-braille thingy. How about a proxy server with HTTP, HTTPS, Socks5 and websocket? Not complex enough? How about routing to Tor and I2P? DNS and DNS-over-HTTPS? It's a local proxy server so it supports local disk access from a web browser. Trapping requests to modify them or write them to disk? The purpose is to support browser apps to do things like reading Twitter or getting Youtube videos (or whatever else you would want to write an app for).

It runs on Node.js and the entire code base is just one file (under 100k). No third-party includes.

Took me three years to get it to the point where it is now (I spent most of that time wondering what to do next).

Is that complex? Dunno. I'm trying to finish the documentation but, damn, there is so much to cover! It's a beast. That's really why I'm here. Gonna announce something soon.
Looks like a cool tool
I really like Flutter's approach, I just wish they weren't so wedded to (a) Dart and (b) Material Design.
It's not only free as in beer, but free as in libre, open source models.

Let's hope it will play for AI is it played for operating systems with Linux.