skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state of backup tech is surprisingly bad, and runs OS deep. Even with modern solutions like restic, you have no guarantee of a consistent backup[0] unless you pair it with a filesystem that supports snapshots like btrfs, ZFS, etc, which basically no one other than power users are even aware of. Interestingly, Windows ships snapshot support by default[1], but you need admin privileges to use it.

Also, it's unclear to me what happens if you attempt a snapshot in the middle of something like a database transaction or even a basic file write. Seems likely that the snapshot would still be corrupted. So for databases you're stuck using db-specific methods like pg_dump.

All this complexity makes it very difficult to make self-hosting realistic and safe by default for non-experts, which is the problem I'm having.

[0]: https://forum.restic.net/t/what-happens-if-file-changes-duri...

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/fil...
Why would that be the case specifically for bitcoin? Lots of cryptography secures things far more valuable than bitcoin and breaks in bitcoin would reduce its value to zero unlike many of the other things protected by cryptography.
Correct. Bard is a public interface to their Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM 2). It's anyone's guess exactly how they'll roll out Gemini. Sounds like might be initially through GCP through approved partners.
> These appear to be exclusively the modem, whereas OP was talking about the System-on-Chip with an integrated modem packaged by Qualcomm.

Exactly :). QCM likes to sell both but also recognizes that selling half is better than none.
You're responding to an argument I didn't make. Obviously I don't believe that repeated CBC IVs are never an exploitable vulnerability. There are famously exploitable instances; one broke TLS. I'm arguing that a repeated CBC IV is less likely to be practically exploitable than a repeated CTR nonce, which is virtually always exploitable.
I never meant to imply poor people, as in starvation poor, should not be able to afford as much bad food.

But generally, the people eating burgers in developed countries have a choice of eating healthier foods, and choose to eat burgers instead.
That group of peasants is going to fight to the last man (unless the DM has some situational awareness).
That's just it, though. The WHO says there is no level of alcohol use that is "zero risk."

The difference between toxicity and therapeutic use is what helps define the safety of the substance. There are some, like psilocybin mushrooms, that have a relatively monstrous gulf between therapeutic doses (in the mcg) and toxic doses (presumably in the kg). They are quite safe, though not zero risk. I believe alcohol is relatively unsafe by that measure, while cannabis is pretty darn safe. But that's not the same thing as saying "zero risk". I think the poster is just imprecise with their language when they mean to say "safe" and not "zero risk".
TSMC tells vendors to delay chip equipment deliveries
https://archive.ph/lfIK6
I know what you mean. Script fonts are so 1890's. Every time I drink a Coke I think, "Another Spencerian script? So bacchanalian! So dated! We anatomically modern humans are not interested in type more emotive than prison signage. The logo should have been reset in a contemporary sans-serif with a few curves thrown in to remind us how irrational we once were." I feel like I'm drinking something found covered in dust while cleaning out my grandfather's basement--next to his violin.
Nice. Can this be self hosted?
Funny, but as you probably suspect, it doesn't quite work like that :)
I have not stolen a thing, I have paid for every item that I purchased. Not sure how theft is defined where you live … ?
Oh that's undoubtedly a lot, of course. If Plex somehow prevented (built-in CV detection of anything commercial vs. home video being played from your own library, say) pirated content I think MAU would drop approximately 100% though!
Haha, no.

Training is not privileged, for the same reason CC’ng an entire department will cause one to lose privilege on a conversation.

There are parties privy to the conversation (which the parties are aware are party to the conversation) that aren’t even remotely plausibly trying to get legal advice, or part of the matter being advised on in any direct way.

Trainings aren’t seeking legal advice.

Being a random employee reading email isn’t seeking legal advice.

The larger the group, the less plausible any argument gets for this reason. There is no way a lawyer is having a conversation or giving legal advice (actual advice) to 100 people at once. Even 10 is highly improbable.

If all parties to the conversation can’t even plausibly claim it’s a private conversation with their lawyer to seek legal advice, then the courts aren’t going to even think of taking a privilege claim seriously.

Even if they can it can still be pierced if there is evidence privilege was used to commit crimes, further a conspiracy, etc.
cert pinning is done by the apps, not by the OS
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Google throws California $93M to make location tracking lawsuit disappear
None of those is the case of passengers' carry-ons being robbed as they go through security, AFAICT. They're stuff like lost-and-found wallets being stolen. And what you're posting is from several years ago (mostly from a decade ago). If anything you're making it clear the type of incident we were talking about doesn't seem to be common nowadays.
I can't read the FT article to see whether it is based on domestic stories here UK or whether they are addressing this from a US perspective.

But what you're saying is historically far from true in the UK, at least.

Over the last seventy years, UK house prices have increased by on average 300% in real terms. This isn't barely outpacing inflation, surely.
I also have been using XFCE on Debian on my S23 and using it for VS Code and some dev work. It runs node and python just fine and is quick. It's nice because it is minimal. Having a 4K screen and only my phone and some peripherals is a dream. We are close.
Among Us can't easily be ported to another engine?
LOL

I've been making a Unity VR game, and I can assure you, with a bit blood, sweat, tears, and some ChatGPT assistance, it can be done, especially for the vanilla 2d games which represent the majority of Unity games in the wild.
The Chaos at Unity
This is a question with a simple answer. The most popular nonce-based AEAD is GCM, which has only the AES block size to fit both a nonce and a counter, which doesn't leave enough headroom to comfortably use random nonces. As a result, people build elaborate schemes to generate deterministic fresh nonces, and when those break, GCM breaks.
iOS is even easier than Android to add system certificates and can be done without rooting or jailbreaking the device unlike android. cert pinning is done by the apps not the system.
Comparing the entire company's revenue to the fine is a bit misleading. Arguably, the more relevant comparison is to consider how much marginal revenue the violating feature actually produced. Granted, probably no one besides Google knows that number, but it's surely orders of magnitude lower. If those numbers are comparable, this starts to look like a reasonable penalty.
Youngsters, bragging about their good eyes... ;)

Anyway: I thought I have here a laptop I have to initialize, maybe I will install IcarOS on it as soon as I will have the time. So, we will see how it behaves on bare metal.
The biggest “aha!” thing for me has not been any complicated data lake, but rather one simple text file.

In this file I write the date and a short note anytime something important happens. Visit the doctor and get test results? Write a note. Change the oil in my car? Write a note. Get a quote for a mortgage? Write a note. Open a new bank account? Write a note. Shop for new running shoes and learn what size fits best? Write a note. Have a contractor come work on the house? Write a note.

If there are important files that relate to those I list filenames and say where they are, but frankly I haven’t found that to be very useful. Rarely do I need any original documents. And if I died prematurely, my family can just scroll through this document to check off accounts (Google will automatically send it to them if I don’t access it for a period of time).

I’ve been using it for a few years and found it to be a total lifesaver. I frequently just need to quickly see how I did something, who I used, or his much something cost.

I store the live version on Google Drive so I can edit it anywhere, but you could host it locally.
That link is corrupted. HN thinks the ");" is part of it:

https://forum.restic.net/t/continuous-backup/593
Competition is good, we don't want TSMC to pull an Intel and start resting on their laurels either.

But I'll believe it when I see it. Intel has been spewing a lot of PR nonsense for lack of actual competitive products.
I suspect it's partially because the lawyers remind them that certain contract terms are not enforceable, and also that shooting yourself in the foot doesn't really help revenues long-term.
Cardboard drone vendor retools software based on Ukraine war hacks
> They must think the average game developer has no business sense whatsoever.

Well if the reports are to be believed, developers were signing agreements with Unity which allowed them to make unilateral changes to fees. If so, devs really do have no business sense.
seeing "Do not know how to serialize a BigInt"
As another Californian, I'd love examples of where this is ignored, or where non-californians also benefit from these.

I also gladly unsubscribe easily without frustration - just not sure if this is common in other states.
In person you also have to worry about your stomach, your nose, your back, your BO, and in some cases, you still have to stare at some screen or whiteboard. Letting your eyes rest during a meeting seems a lot more manageable.
I'm impressed by your chunking and retrieval strategies. I think this aspect is often overly simplistic.

One aspect I don't quite understand is why you filter by the sliding window chunks vs just using the medium chunks? If I understand it correctly, you find the large chunks that contain the matched small chunks from the first retrieval. Then in the third retrieval, you are getting the medium chunks that comprise the large chunks? What extra value does that provide?
> CSV would be great if there were one CSV, and if you absolutely guarantee that nobody has "improved" the CSV by editing it with a spreadsheet program (including opening it with a spreadsheet program)

Practically no formats actually pass those rules. Even plain text is bound to be "improved" by text editors frequently (uniformation of line endings, removal of data not in a known encoding, UTF BOM, UTF normalization, etc.)

Just don't do that.
DHS Violates Facebook Policies with CBP, ICE Creating Fake Social Media Profiles
Show HN: Using ChatGPT to track stock mention sentiment (and mapping over price)
Monkeemath is set up to scrape comments across Reddit that include a stock ticker. It then uses ChatGPT to determine whether the comment is bullish or bearish on the outlook of the ticker. This data is then used to create the charts and tables you see across the site.

-A page that maps the sentiment of a given stocks mentions mapped over the price movement of the stock.
-A page showing you the percentage chance of a stock going up or down based on the sentiment of mentions the previous day.
-Theres also a prediction mini game set up, so make a profile and earn your spot on the Monkeemath user leaderboard.
This is technically true, but I feel like ends up actually meaning something very different from what people take from it.

Which is to say, I see more reason to trust Ethereum to "work right, as stated" precisely because it's just federated enough?
How many normal phones can you root these days?
Okay, but the workers' pay was not adjusted upwards to match those best years, so if not now, when?
It's a lesson people have to learn periodically, I suppose. As noted in that FAQ, both Frank Miller and Alan Moore already went through this with them, publicly and loudly. I like his point about not knowing what was lost by poisoning those relationships. They robbed themselves of the fruits of two of the best writer/artists in comics history, at the peak of their creative ability, and robbed us of seeing what they'd have done if they'd stayed.

(Frank Miller at least did more work for DC later, but sadly not at his peak)
It's probably because I'm comparing it to the iPhone 12 Pro Max which was more expensive, but keep in mind that that phone was also three years old.

Here's a list of complaints in no particular order:

> Firefox on Android doesn't properly background tabs. I didn't know this and had lots of tabs open and my phone battery would literally be like four hours total. This is obviously Firefox's fault, not the phones, but it was a bad first impression.

> Similarly, ProtonMail also sucks up all my power; if I don't turn on "power conserving" mode for protonmail, I only get like 13 hours of battery life. Again, not directly the phone's fault but a bad early impression.

> The camera is dreadful compared to what I had with the iPhone 12 Pro Max. It's not horrible in really bright conditions but it's terrible even in "general indoor lighting".

> The audio quality with bluetooth seems to "clip" a lot, even with stuff like LDAC codecs, and even playing a raw FLAC file with VLC.

> The overall interface is just mildly stuttery which isn't horrible but is mildly annoying.

> Google Pay seems to work sometimes, but it almost always rejects the first attempt.

There are more, but those are the biggest complaints. Uninstalling Firefox on Android made my life substantially better, so that's good, and maybe I'll find enough stuff that I actually like about it to where I want to stay within the Pixel ecosystem.

As of right now, though, I'm just wishing I bought another iPhone.
I don't know if this is the cart you're talking about but the USGS does this for LiDAR data and yeah I'm with you I die a little every time I use that site. I love that the data is available but why in the world do we have to cart everything? Just give me a one click download
Well, now we've reached the "every decision is a vote" argument. Is HTML political because browsers reject malformed HTML? When my browser refuses to render a page, does it "vote"? When I am watching a movie, am I voting against TV?

> very much do "vote" in the sense that they decide on what rules are valid or not.

Yes, they decide for themselves. Their decision is irrelevant and ignored by the network, at protocol level. It doesn't prevent anyone from running modified versions of Bitcoin (in fact, there are tons of those running as we speak). Nor does it prevent miners from mining invalid blocks.

> The validity of blocks is not some ethereal thing, and neither are Bitcoin rules written on a tablet by God.

They are, more or less. I think the last time a hard fork occurred was over 10 years ago for a small bug fix.

Like I was saying, your argument is basically that "everything is political". You are using "vote" in the most abstract and metaphorical sense. Yes, people "vote" for Bitcoin by using it. Just like I'm "voting" for HN by commenting here. That's just not how people typically think of "voting" and "politics". That "vote" has very little in common with the traditional "vote" that is counted and used to reach a decision.
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I am responding to this assertion:

> A slap on the wrist like this will make them continue their actions and nothing will change.

If this "slap on the wrist" does indeed change the bad behavior in question, then it seems like the system is working.
Thank you! I’m bewildered and quite frankly truly annoyed by this celebration of an obvious downgrade, forced by a law made by people who (mostly) do not understand the tech world.
Yes, you now have the same port as (all of) the concurrent phone when you have an iPhone. Youplidoo. You succeeded in giving us (iPhone users) something worse than what we had because there were too many of you. By force. Thanks for nothing.
So true

If you don't care about the project, why even open up a Discord server you will never look at? The point with open forums is to get feedback and provide customer support
That's not necessarily specific to iOS. Certificate pinning is usually done inside an app, not at the OS level. An app can choose to ignore the system certificate store and, for example, pin the cert used to talk to its private API. This is possible both on iOS and Android.
Low-code platform provider Airtable enacts new round of layoffs
Taiwan tells Elon Musk it is 'not for sale'
Thanks, this was very helpful to me. At $200 with no subscription fees, I would definitely consider one of these for my dog. :)
Yes, ignoring compression each (half-)move takes up one byte. So if you want to store a sequence of 10 (half-)moves it would take only 10 bytes.
I was wondering when someone was gonna build something like this. Looks good!
Sainsbury’s don’t like changing the weights encoded in their urls so although Cadburys 180g “Price locked” Fruit and Nut has been shrinkflated for over a year the link is still:

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cadbury-dairy-mi...

…www.Sainsbury's.co.uk/gol-ui/product/cadbury-dairy-milk-fruit---nut-200g

My
I think you'll find most cryptography engineers wouldn't reach first for secp256k1, or for the ECDSA signing system, regardless of their success in Bitcoin.
Well life expectancy was only 37 years in the 1700s as well. So for an adult, 14 years was basically the rest of their life.
>Some writers have made much of him “owning an emerald mine”. But the mine only cost $50,000, never really produced many emeralds, and closed after a few years - it was a side investment unrelated to the family’s wealth. Rumors that it used “apartheid labor” or produced “blood emeralds” are false: the mine was in Zambia, which had no apartheid or bloody conflicts.

Even if that was the case, it would still be the 'casual' $50K side-business emerald mine purchase of a multi-millionaire dad (don't we all have a $50 emerald mine?). Very humble upbringing wise.

But it's not the case. Musk has said it doesn't exist [1], after first saying back in the day that it did exist [2].

That "claims it produced “blood emeralds” are false: the mine was in Zambia, which had no apartheid or bloody conflicts" is also BS for people knowing the situation on the ground in such developing African countries, especially back in the day.

But here it is from Musk's father: "Elon knows it's true. All the kids know about it." "Elon saw them (the emeralds) at our house," he added. "He knew I was selling them." (...) "What Elon is saying is that there was no formal mine. It was a rock formation protruding from the ground in the middle of nowhere," Errol told the tabloid, noting that he kept his involvement with the operation "under the table." "There was no mining company. There are no signed agreements or financial statements," he explained. "No one owned anything. The deal was done on a handshake with the Italian man at a time when Zambia was a free for all."

And here's from Elon himself in Forbes interview:

"(...) my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia. I was 15 and really wanted to go with him but didn’t realize how dangerous it was. I couldn’t find my passport so I ended up grabbing my brother’s – which turned out to be six months overdue! So we had this planeload of contraband and an overdue passport from another person. There were AK-47s all over the place and I’m thinking, “Man, this could really go bad.”

If it indeed "only cost $50K", it was because it was a hush-hush deal, stealing Zambian resources from some foreigner sleazeballs who grabbed them. "AK-47s all over the place" and a handshake hush deal "at a time when Zambia was a free for all" does sound awful like blood diamonds, sorry, blood emeralds.

As for never "really producing many emeralds", the whole narrative adding that goes like a Bart Simpson excuse: "the mine never existed, and if it did it was bought cheap, and if it wasn't bought cheap in didn't produce any emeralds anyway, and even if it did produce some, Elon never got money from those"

According to his father, he quite did: ""During that time," said Errol, speaking to Elon's college years, "I managed to send money I made from emerald sales to him and [Elon's brother, Kimbal Musk] for living expenses."

Rather, people should not believe the self-mythologizing narratives of billionaire CEOs past, especially when they involve their self-made quality. Including in biographies and biopics.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1646272562488569857

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20140729222547/http://www.forbes...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37515625

Yesterday's discussion on this topic.
Why are you conflating right-to-unsubscribe with P65? They are different laws with different enforcement mechanisms. Also consumers don't find P65 useful whereas we see benefit from unsubscribing.
Another source of shrinkflation is changing ingredients. Something that used to be 50% water is now 75% water as an example. Another is changing from olive oil to canola or palm or, and things like that.
Question is what are the loop-holes available for the databrokers to ignore data deletion requests?
For database, in my experience, is better to dump the whole database and backup the dump for the reasons you explained
My understanding is that one patent is still covering it for a few months : https://patents.google.com/patent/US7949129B2/
Here it is in nushell:

/tmp> # be kind to the server and only download the file if it's updated
/tmp> curl -s -o /tmp/euro.zip -z /tmp/euro.zip https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip
/tmp> unzip -p /tmp/euro.zip | from csv | select Date USD | sort-by USD | first
╭──────┬────────────╮
│ Date │ 2000-10-26 │
│ USD │ 0.83 │
╰──────┴────────────╯

(I removed the pipe to gunzip because 1. gunzip doesn't work like that on mac and 2. it's not something you should expect to work anyway, zip files often won't work like that, they're a container and their unzip can't normally be streamed)
It’s not about my brand of humor, any comment that is just a quip is unsubstantial and against community guidelines here. What exactly is the point of your comment other than to try and make us more like Reddit, the website HN was designed to not be.
Profits are defined to be what’s left after expenses / labor gets paid. Maybe they mean revenue ? Or more stock based compensation ?
I see, thanks for the context.
Given the level of confusion the article describes, this feels like malicious compliance (or malicious interpretation of the rules?) at some level of the hierarchy to me.
Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but MLU-Explain is nice: https://mlu-explain.github.io/
I assume that the argument is that a break in secp256k1 has an especially straightforward monetization, where breaking the cryptography in TLS, while much more destabilizing to the Internet and the things running on it, wouldn't immediately net you a bunch of cash, but rather would just enable further attacks that might get you that.
I can only compare it from a user experience point of view. I tried duplicati for my windows laptop and was never quite happy. Kopia just worked from day one. The front-end still has a few bugs here and there particularly if you on windows electron eating sockets, WebDAV mounts not always working), however the backend seems very reliable (only did one full restore, but I also did not note any reports).

It still has a lot of potential, IMHO. You e.g. find some hints how to use it with AWS storage tiering in the docs.

I am just a very happy user!
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