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scheduling+browsing https://forum.restic.net/t/backrest-a-cross-platform-backup-... (Golang webUI supporting Linux and MacOS).

A number of others are findable through the community section of the forum.

Bit of a self plug, I author Backrest. The most significant challenge historically has been that restic has poor programatic interfaces but in recent revisions the JSON API (over stdout) has largely stabilized for most commands.
build it and host it like pirate bay — I’m sure the knowledge is already out there, we just gotta make it accessible and impossible to take down
Valuations of public companies are decided by a small number of parties. Those parties can decide the valuation is whatever they want it to be. As long as the underlying economics of the business are not obscured, there is no fraud being perpetrated.

If it helps you can think of this as a transaction where the investor is providing a service of buying the startup more time to build up their valuation and in return obtains shares for a discounted rate.
Sure, but rsync requires the server to support rsync.
Having driven both a Tesla Model 3 and a BYD Atto 3 (their best seller outside China), the early Apple vs early Android comparison is apt. BYD gets the job done and thanks to low prices may beat Tesla on volume, but the overall experience is quite janky. Those who can afford it will get a Tesla, and that's why Tesla will continue to capture a lot more margin.
4K processing takes just minutes, but HDR processing can take over a month to… never. There is no indication of this at all, no progress bar or eta. Just check manually every few days!

This is why everyone is giving up on HDR, it’s just too painful because the content distributors are all so bad at it, with Netflix being the sole exception.
> I don’t see how zero cost abstraction has anything to do with binary size.

But binary size is absolutely a cost. Whether or not it's a cost that matters to you is a different question, but it's still a cost.
It's fully made in Rust with a GUI in Rust so it should be multiplatform with a few contributions.

There are just packages for OSX for now... you know open source means you can build your own now, and that may be exactly why they release?
>Especially since there are no scaling laws, it's an empirical observation based on essentially 3 examples - GPT2 to GPT3 to GPT4 (and their rough equivalents from Facebook and Google and a handful of others). This all happened in the span of 4 years or less. We don't even fully know how much larger GPT4 is compared to GPT3.

I don't think you fully understand the scaling laws. They hold for those models, sure, but also other models at the same scale, smaller scale models, models in-between those examples, etc. They're an empirically derived law, for sure, but so far they've been very accurate for prediction, not just description. We know how much the loss will drop for a given amount of compute and data.

>Not to mention, we already know OpenAI has spent more than a hundred millions of dollars training GPT-4, and they are quite probably selling it at a loss (each query may well cost them more in compute power than they charge for it). So, if GPT4 is ten times bigger than GPT3(.5) as sometimes reported, economics suggest they may already not be able to scale GPT5 to the same extent, and are definitely not going to be able to reach GPT7 (1000 times GPT4, or roughly 100 billion dollars).

I think there's a decent chance even that much money could be spent if there's appropriate returns from GPT-5 & GPT-6. More importantly:

>So, unless you believe compute power will go down in cost massively,

Why on earth wouldn't you believe that? That is what has happened consistently for decades, and unlike general purpose computing which is slowing down, the fact that we need so much compute for one relatively specific operation means we can build ASICs for them (GPUs are already a chunk of the way there) and see very large speedups. As well, at these scales energy costs are a huge part of the training costs, and energy costs are continuing to drop dramatically because of solar. Compute is also a very flexible energy load, you can build it such that it can be paused at night if necessary, which could make it a very good fit for solar energy overproduction. Basically, there's a lot of low hanging fruit in terms of cost reductions for AI training available and a long trend of the cost of compute getting cheaper, it seems silly to just assert that your position (trends won't continue, there will be a discontinuity before we reach whatever point human level performance happens to be at) is the most likely outcome. All else being equal I would expect the existing trends to continue.
Have you had increased infections on RA meds? (Not sure what TC stands for in context, but I'm guessing you take biologics.) Maybe I'm the outlier, but spending several years on TNFis hasn't lowered my immune threshold in any noticeable way, knock on wood.

Oral steroids, on the other hand... when I go on those every fungal creature in a ten-mile radius decides to take residence on my skin. Nasty fuckers.
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We'd have a problem on our hands if we all followed the admonishment to show more respect to people in public? To not besmirch someone, with no reason other than our own personal bias and prejudice?

You're worried about the world being too kind and positive? You shouldn't. There are enough people actually doing things worthy of scorn -- enough to wear out your keyboard -- without besmirching someone for the flimsiest of reasons.
i agree, seeing the guts of something like .kkrieger would be awesome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger
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Thanks - last time I looked at npbackup it didn't support macOS! I'll have her give it a go.

Relica looks neat, but at that point I'd either suggest she uses one of the Borg tools or write a simple wrapper for her to trigger backups instead.

edit: Still looks a bit hairy for an average user to install currently, and the maintainer writes "I'm not planning on full macos support since I don't own any mac" - https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup/issues/28
There is only a tiny fraction of the housing required. There is single digit percentages of the actual housing required and low to mid double digits percentages of shelters where some of the time if you get their in time you can sleep in a communal space where you can't bring your belongings, your pets, cohabitate, where you might get raped, or acquire new 6 legged friends, or more recently covid before being turned out in the morning.

It's not like most people are being offered a job and an apartment. They are being asked if they would like to be warm for 10 hours and even worse off than before.
I just set up a new business and it cost me to $27,000 to put in two male and female toilets. $1.7 mill to too much.
I disagree, The UI feels more like a simulation, you have an initial position (100% equity) and you start adding events sequentially, and you can see the partial results after each event that you have added.

Sure, you could have done the same thing in a spreadsheet, but I think the UI is what differentiates a simulation from a calculator
BLIS mixed precision interfaces seem quite interesting and might be a good reason to expand on the BLAS api.

If I recall correctly, MKL also has interfaces that allow different array orders (row order or column order).
> taking it too literally

They’re straw men. The problem is almost entirely inefficient farming. Bottled water and golf courses don’t move the needle, but they do absorb activist resources. It’s an incredibly effective rhetorical technique in a public sphere that chases shiny range-inducing factoids.
People who cant pay rent end up on the street. They take drugs to salve the pain of being on the street. How would you expect that to end?

Are you asking about the connection between rents, regulatory capture and greed? High rents and being on the streets? Or living on the streets being a bit of a cause of mental issues?
Does rclone require rsync? Haven't checked.
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Nice tool, but if your goal is to help people understand, some more information in the UI would be nice; I can click "add safe" - what does that mean?
Tesla still is janky though?

The auto windshield wipers straight up don’t work.
There is plenty of old C code, this is irrelevant. Equally irrelevant is that you found a library that uses a void pointer. I can show type unsafe C++ code as well, and would be equally meaningless. We talk about whether C++ is more type safe in principle and it is not.

Here is the array example:
https://godbolt.org/z/P8494W3Pf
Note how grotesquely bad the C++ syntax is for exactly the same type safety.
Agreed on continuous code audit issue! This is the non-resolvable problem with browser-based services.

But I think the cryptography is not entirely performative, and your suggestion of a UUID KVS is not the same model.

In Retriever's model, as I understand it, Alice generates the keypair which Bob will use to send data to Alice. Alice sends the pubkey to Bob (via URL) and Bob encrypts and submits. Bob then sends a new URL to Alice to decrypt and read. (Not sure why this second URL exchange is necessary, unless it contains the encrypted data?).

Only the original receiver (and Retriever/page host) can decrypt the data. Neither of the URLs are secrets, although possession of the first URL would allow an attacker to encrypt arbitrary messages for Bob, and maybe that's why Bob waits for Alice to send the second URL.

That said, it's a fun experiment but too awkward for anything but ad hoc secret sharing between strangers with no better comms channels. Which is not something I do.
It’s still bad. Even as a totally amateur videographer making short clips of my holidays, YouTube is not good enough.

HDR processing takes months!

The SDR down conversion is “potato quality” even to my non-expert eyes, let alone a Hollywood colourist.

Etc…
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It stopped being a view library a while back. I mean server side components are now a major direction for the project.
Oh, sure, I wasn’t saying that Flash was entirely without value - we all used it for a reason - but simply that it wasn’t a web native technology. That proved to be its downfall: the entire ecosystem depended on the whims of a company which just isn’t interested in supporting platforms, and that proved to be fatal in the end.
Not true in 2023. In 2023 every version of the model 3 qualifies for the 7500 tax credit in the US
Never. Love watching piss porn, would never watch scat porn.
Sorry I was unclear. I was trying to speculate on the question, "Why is there an income limit?".

Before digging into this, I thought the IRS set the income limit. (e.g. "We the IRS want all people earning less than $65k to have free tax prep.")

It appears it was the other way around: the memos show the IRS sets the % of the population it wants to have free tax prep services (70%), and the FreeFile income limits are calculated so in theory only the highest (30%) of incomes must pay for tax prep.

So I speculate that the answer to "Why is there an income limit?” may be "It was part of an attempt between the IRS and the private sector to have the richest 30% subsidize everyone else's tax prep."
If you are trying to rise NEAT through activity, then doesn't that make it exercise, because now it's purposeful movement. I thought NEAT means you make no deliberate or purposeful effort at it.
> now they have to give money to Nestle to do so while also polluting the planet with plastic bottles

Very few people have to drink Nestle’s products.
Stupid in the sense of dazed and unable to think clearly not lack of intelligence. Like, stunned stupid. You can have moments of stupidity and still be vastly intelligent. No one will call you stupid. Calling someone stupid is the first definition. I’m not a fan of that one. Claiming stupid on self is valid. When my girlfriend says “oh I’m stupid”, it’s not a remark about intelligence - it’s about clarity.
It’s pretty cheap to build a factory when it basically a building with some tables inside
Pezblog – a 2000s style blogging app nostalgic of early WordPress/Twitter days
Hey HN! Been working on a new blogging service recently to encourage me to journal more and recount my thoughts in 2024. With Apple's new journaling app, I realized there was too much functionality and that I'd be more inclined to using something with a much simpler and hackier aesthetic. Decided to take an old-school approach and build something that resembled old Wordpress blogs (simple, barebones, no fluff) and made it easy for me to submit new entries - not too different from how HN works today!

So far, I've been writing entries for 7 days straight (a new journaling record for me). Entries are all private by default, but allow for users to create shareable links to share with friends/family if desired. Code is open source if anyone would like to contribute and make pezblog better! (repo: https://github.com/parthematics/pezblog)

Would really appreciate any feedback and tips on how to make this app better + more usable. Hoping someone other than me and my family can find some use out of this!
So then I'm going to post my favorite 4k [1], which even if you ignore the file size, is just a very cool use of fractals.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_xEUoK79o
Fixing the hiss on my Pinball machine including root access
Deinstitutionalization was supposed to be coupled with community mental health centers, which would have been places for these people to go when they fell through the cracks to get help without being segregated from society. The problem is that deinstitutionalization happened. Federal funding was removed from institutions but then never materialized for CMHCs.

These would have been places with maybe a psychiatrist and some therapists and social workers on staff who would work with the chronically mentally ill to help them navigate society so they didn't fall through the cracks. It was the same idea behind the "Least Restrictive Environment" requirement for No Child Left Behind--people who have problems in society should still be allowed to navigate society with support.
Chips, and intelligence in general, is a very special case, because it can be miniaturized retaining the same function (or if you prefer, gain function in proportion for the same area).

Other technologies might have some improvements from miniaturization, but I don't think the principle applies for solar cells. You obviously can't just shrink a cell and keep the same output[1]. What you can do is learn how to shave costs and improve efficiency, and also amortize R&D. Eventually you reach somewhere with very good efficiency and costs close to the raw material cost.

[1] That said, maybe you can shrink the thickness of a cell? That being the case, at one point just the cost of the frame for keeping the cell integrity (specially under wind loads etc.) would start dominating costs, and also the (copper) wiring outputting power from cells. I wonder how far we are from this being the case?

Wind power is interesting because it's mostly a mechanical problem (or at least there's a significant mechanical component). You have to transport the forces on a moving blade, or some kind of moving part (it has to be moving due to P=F.v), so all those parts have a minimum thickness necessary to offload those forces to the ground. It would increase mechanical efficiency (by requiring less load for a given power) if you could increase the velocity of the moving parts, but wind speed itself is limited. You could try funneling the wind, but that introduces structures which themselves suffer stresses (and also induce drag lowering efficiency). There's a limit (at material/W) given by wind speed, and specific strength of the structural material.

This very long exponential improvement (miniaturization) march is a somewhat unique effect to information processing[2], because information can in principle be represented at any scale. That's not to say that all those technologies can't be significantly improved. Generally automation, mass production, along with (limited) efficiency improvements and general cleverness can go a very long way.

[2] I don't mean to be taken as law: there are probably also applications (outside information processing) that you can only do well with the benefit of certain scales. For example, the cells of our bodies are wonderful mechanisms whose magic really works because they can each play tiny mechanisms and deploy molecular-scale objects to act on such tiny scales, and the billions of them make machines that have no parallels in terms of large-scale fabrication (including self-repair, filtration of compounds, ...).
> DORA metrics

I generally agree with your point, with the caveat that metrics like DORA are the first to be gamed when applied to an organization.

It's the usual cycle of applying the metrics first in an informal way, then using it for team/process evaluations as it seems to be somewhat reliable, then teams start to reajust how they make the tickets and the deploy cycle in ways that dramatically increase the metrics while reality hasn't changed much.

Analyzing productivity with completely objective metrics will I think always bear these flaws (I'd assume even measuring things at the highest level as "wages vs revenue" would be gamed on how wages and revenue are calculated ?)
My current day-to-day apparently revolves around pointing accountants towards approved Aconex Workflows and the documents contained therein, after they email me in a panic asking for me to send them said documents and they "Don't see them" on Aconex. Yes, I am following the published-by-accounting templates and naming protocols.

Someone kill me, please.
> water has been a story for the last few decades already

It’s the leading theory for the collapse of civilisation in Mesopotamia, among the ancestral Pueblo/Anasazi and countless other ancient civilisations.
There are a couple of companies that still make CRTs (Google turns up Thomas and Gassler for display rather than X-ray applications), but I expect your stock options will have to have done very well to afford their services on a small scale. Still, if someone were sufficiently motivated, I bet it would be possible to arrange a group buy of a limited run of tubes for some retro device.

Or you can take up glass blowing! This is, in principle, 125-year-old technology, and therefore possible to construct with non-esoteric tooling.
Do it in China. It's way easier and faster. Guangzhou has like 15 manufacturers who can build CRTs for you with delivery mid-Feb. You'll have to do QC, though, because they have al sorts of image issues. But I think it would be way easier to get one of them to be good (for a price) than to build these yourself unless you're already an expert with access to the facilities.
I think the better question is why are they investigating accidents in the first place instead of limiting jurisdiction exclusively to essentially loss prevention.
What EV did you go with? I'm entirely on the fence. I don't even want to own a vehicle but since that's not practical for me yet I want an EV. I just can't stand sending a single dollar in that direction but I also haven't figured out what other options are acceptable.
I'm not sure I follow. What is the degree of assurance the cryptographic version of this web page can provide that a UUID and a database can't? Remember, the web page can itself surreptitiously decrypt anything Alice or Bob encrypt or decrypt.
Sensible people treat both!
I thought a metamaterial is something where you fundamentally change the peoperties of a material by giving it intricate geometry. I don't know where people officially draw the distinction, but I would call any foamed material a metamaterial too.
There's usually a pre-filter on the outside which stops larger particles from entering the actual HEPA filter, and you can clean that at least.
Your toilets are being placed into an existing building and will be constantly monitored by employees.

It’s a bit different of a use-case.
>desal requires firm generation

Most existing plants are designed for this, but it is by no means necessary.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001191642...

>This work analyses the long-term performance of a full-scale brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) desalination plant that has been working under intermittent operating conditions for 14 years (~9 h d−1).
> Out in javascript land no one cares about file size or wire time any more

Which is one of the reasons why I tend to leave JS disabled in my browser. Too many web devs have no care or concern for these sorts of things, which often makes JS a real resource drain.
Is it possible to build SBCL on my quest 3? Would I be able to generate bindings to vulkan and/or openxr with c2ffi or cl-autowrap? It seems like it would be cool to run swank, connect to it with my desktop, and build stuff. Bu
Rude to who exactly? OP criticized the landing page for a) omitting the fact that ~85% of desktop computer users can’t use Zed, and b) alluding to this not being the case with language about working anywhere. This isn’t an attack on the authors, or on the product they clearly put so much time into.

Yeah, OP said the page is really bad. But IMO we should be able to express negative opinions on things we think suck about technical content without being forced to couch our language in euphemisms for fear of being rude, especially on a site like HN.
If you really need Chromium why not Vivaldi? No need to turn off 'cryptocurrency stuff' there.
You don't have to search anything, other users asked you to stop, let you know about the site's conventions and also flagged your generated comments. So all you have to do is not post any more generated comments, you don't need to search or parse irony.
The Gang of Eight has the keys to the kingdom. 4 Democrats, 4 Republicans. The Speaker of the House, House Minority Leader, Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, and the Chair and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees have full access to every classified program in the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(intelligence)
Folks living in a tent aren’t typically the ones getting caught with a warehouse and 18m or 30M in stolen goods, which has happened in LA and Chicago respectively. These are organized crime rings running fencing operations at heart.

The same thing is happening in agriculture, though it’s really under reported.
> Long-term, inpatient mental healthcare is an impossibility for most folks who need it.

It's like free housing and free healthcare combined; neither of which are possible in the US.
Hmm. This is a bit of a silly comparison, but Tesla will sell a Megapack with 1.9MW, 3.9MWh for about $2M, “ready to install”.

Signature Solar has an 18kW, 61.44kWh battery plus inverter setup for about $22k. If you could buy 64 of these, you get just over 3.9MWh and 1.15MW for about $1.4M.

Tesla’s system presumably operates at a nicer 480V and is intended to scale larger, but the cost isn’t amazing if you pretend this is apples to apples.
Yeah. That something that happened during that period of time was:

- Stable jobs with good salaries

- Home Ownership

- Salaries that increased as much as profits when productivity raised.

It was a good time, they told me.
This is cool! Could we get an IPO option? Maybe there can be a way to set how the market responds and see how that directly impacts your net worth as a founder.