skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems quite out of character for minor macOS releases. Yes, stuff breaks, but seldomly so broadly in a minor release.

Speculation about why: Apple had to push out a major iOS update before March 6 for the EU DMA deadline. They had almost two years to prepare, but they figured out fairly late that they could not negotiate (most of) their way out of it. So the weeks/months before the release, probably most of the focus of the OS (and infrastructure) teams was on the March 6 deadline.

I imagine that they had all security updates rolled into the macOS 14.4 and iOS 17.4 branches already. Then when March 6 came around, they released iOS 17.4 and they had to rush out macOS 14.4 as well (macOS 14.4 was already a day later than iOS 17.4, which is untypical for Apple), to avoid that bad actors find macOS vulnerabilities by looking at iOS changes.
Made by Oscar Toledo G., who learned assembly language by age 9 and won the International Obfuscated C Contest five times.

https://nanochess.org/author.html
What gets me is -- besides this reflecting poorly on Canonical for wasting the candidate's time -- isn't this also a huge waste of time for Canonical and its CEO?

Why go through all that trouble of scheduling a meeting between the candidate and the CEO if they knew they weren't going to accept the candidate based on something they knew near the top of the hiring funnel?

Surely the CEO has better things to do with his time? Or perhaps not?
I used to do a lot of at home automotive work, and in the early days relied on jack stands since it's what was sold for the purpose and being a kid I didn't know better yet.

But after several years and a few close calls with cars unexpectedly shifting on the stands while applying work forces from below, I started using ramps and/or cribbing made of plain stacked dimensional lumber like 2x8s, and just scrap blocks of wood in general I'd taken from heavy duty pallets.

Jack stands just plain suck, it doesn't matter who made them. They're rigid at the vehicle interface (usually cast steel/iron) and generally only make very little points of contact over their cast in, small area profile - not even considering the tipping hazard when extended.

Solid chunks of wood piled up like cribbing is far more safe, and in my experience, free. And as an added bonus now you have chunks of greasy wood on hand for whacking things on/with less-destructively...
At $375 a month you could buy a new drive and have yet another copy every month.
Except that single drive becomes a single point of failure. I wouldn’t recommend doing this if you care about your data.

I did this once with a buffalo raid nas. It died and I was left with 10 years of my life inaccessible. Much sadness ensued.
This library does that for SSE

https://github.com/rexxars/eventsource-parser
Im with you. My only understanding of ML is a class in 2016 where we implemented basic ML algos and not neutral nets, gpts or whatever but I always assumed its no radically different.

Take a bunch of features or make up a billion features, find a function to that best predicts the greatest number of outputs correctly. Any "emergent" behavior I imagine is just a result of finding new features or sets of features.
$1500 a month is four or five 18 TB drives every single month.

You could just make four copies of all your data every month, and throw hard drives in all directions.
> can be proud again of [del]humanity[/del][ins]humidity[/ins]

I fixed that for ya.

Genuinely my first reading
He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake!
It is because the "right answer" is contingent on personal factors like cost, risk tolerance, threat models, existing skills, and access to existing infrastructure. The right backup solution is the one that works for you.
If you can't pass the captcha, you need to ask yourself if you are really a human being or if you have just been programmed to believe that you are.
A simpler solution would be to just have them write a racial slur into a text field.
WebSocketStream is about to ship in Chrome, which adds backpressure: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5189728691290112
Great stuff! I celebrate everyone who gets the world off SFDC. We recently started using https://attio.com/ — how do you guys compare?
https://archive.today/oLFFz
But can the waitstaff at the Laundry fight?
Hello friend. I'm on a crusade to make people's bootsector code work on real hardware.

You're missing several reserved memory areas and state bits to reset. Check out my bootsector I have lots of comments on what things are needed https://github.com/fsmv/bootstrap-os/blob/master/bootloader/...

You can probably drop the extra sector loading code and error printing and only use the header and footer.
Yes, because Apple can do no wrong.

You ask any long time macOS/OSX user and they will point to Apple software quality worsening well before anything comes up in the news media.

Heck, I'm in the camp that thinks Apple OSX software quality peaked at Snow Leopard and it has been all downhill since then, and this camp is massive.

I doubt we're being influenced by the "media".
It will go on until 'value classes' are incorporated in Java
"I’ve been using Phind + their VS Code plugin" ... "I got them to add Claude 3 Opus support"
You didn't note any budget requirements.

If money is no object, just buy a synology NAS drive and be done with it. They do everything you want and more, and are incredibly user friendly.

Use their BTRFS filesystem with SHR Disk groups to get multiple disk redundancy alongside data scrubbing for bitrot protection.

It also contains software to connect to any cloud provider for remote backups if that is what you want.

EDIT: Something like a synology DS1621+ would do you well.
In any large city, yes there will be a palce to get kebabs. Most college cities, too. A lot of times it's just a tiny restaraunt with 4 tables in the back of a grocery store, but that's when you know it's gonna be good.
My understanding is it depends on Valhalla (value classes) and they basically keep updating it as that project changes.
Great article, thanks for sharing. NATS is an excellent option along these lines, particularly with their nats.ws library

https://nats.io/
How do you know it's not "bots" (humans) convincing "humans" (bots) that they're human?

One of the kind of core things in Blade Runner imo is that it's basically impossible to know, because the artificial humans are basically identical to the real ones
The Foreign Memory API is in the works since 2014. They are just very diligent and careful.
'Exvangelical' on loving, leaving and reporting on the culture of Christianity
Money isn't a great analog for "socially suboptimal" use, if anything money acts an analog for the most greedy use.
Buy an external usb drive, 1 or 2 bays with a 16 to 22tb drives and consolidate everything. Use backblaze for unlimited storage. If really only have around 6tb of actual data, a 2 bay external drive mirrored will be sufficient.
They said it is waiting for some feature from project Valhalla. Not sure which one though
"Vector API" is universal api for SIMD. It will probably remain in incubator until valhalla delivers value types.
I think this is spot on, and the only thing I'd add is to use something that can take ECC RAM. Rather unfortunately, that probably means server hardware which doesn't always mix great with consumer settings. I'm currently thinking about a Dell Precision workstation for this as it seems like a decent blend of server hardware in a nice, quiet package.
I too have been with AT&T since the Cingular merger and am also not in the HIBP db. I use a custom email address related to Cingular, which I otherwise would have forgotten existed.
suggest not raid 0 - with a 4 bay nas you have room for a raid level with some redundancy in the case of hardware failure. S3 Glacier is a good idea to mitigate against data loss, but recovery isn't instant
Why not turn this into a nice tech portfolio demo project? Why don’t you design a global high availability data system on top of Amazon S3? Then, you could also implement native client for each OS that you use. It is a great way to learn.
I know what you're referencing but I really don't see why. What does IPv6 have to do with this?
Steve – Atari ST Event editor developed at the brink of Yugoslavia's dissolution
I don’t think that literally anybody is on the other side of the point you’re making. In fact, it is commonplace for other ‘tech companies’ to copy Apple’s marketing aesthetic. This has been the case for well over a decade now. You’re arguing against a fanboy stereotype that has never /really/ existed, and certainly not now, certainly not here.

And let’s be honest, Microsoft is absolutely no stranger to releasing updates that break systems. Far far from it.
It is not an ad or spam, I'm selling it. I made and published it today on ProductHunt. Do you know how devastating it is when you create something there is nowhere and no way to reach an audience?

And then I got those feelings and wrote it here. And that's how I feel and tell everyone who have never heard of news.ycombinator.
Data Mishaps Night 2024
That's a valid point: if you don't want a language that makes breaking changes (so you can always compile old files with the latest version), it's not the right time to use typst. It's just moving too fast now. It's currently at version 0.11. Come back when they release 1.0.
I do think sustainability (and the global warming concern in general) is a bogus smokescreen. I am of the opinion it is propaganda put forth by America's (and "The West's") economic adversaries to weaken our position on the global stage and make us a less capable, less successful/prosperous, nation. Articles like the original one starting this conversation thread strike me less as an organic "Hey, look how cool/new/tasty this is!" and more as a targeted "lets move the population's Overton window over to 'this is acceptable, please work past your natural revulsion to this and eat our bugs'".
Cost: Given a quick look at the cost of archival cloud storage, I guess I would be willing to spend up to $60 per month on a remote copy.

How often: I would expect to access the remote files rarely (maybe once a month), and need a complete recovery very rarely (with a low requirement for recovery speed). Local backups I would like to occur at least weekly, with a verification or access frequently (daily?).

Risk tolerance: For the local-encryption-for-remote-storage aspect, I would like something with a high level of confidence in the cryptography and the implementation surrounding it. I would also like a high degree of confidence that I can recovery my files in case of a natural disaster or similar that wipes out my local copies.

Local security: I live in a relatively secure home in a relatively low crime area. I could store a copy at a relative's house, although I may move far enough away soon that it would not be practical to access.
The thing really weird is the different behavior between beta and release versions
The spring counteracts the weight of the door. In the event of motor or electricity failure a well adjusted spring/door will be easy to manually open. A direct drive/worm gear would require an uncoupling mechanism and the ability to lift the full weight of the garage door overhead to get out.

Attention is required when changing these, but they really don't pose that great of a risk. I've been present when one broke, and I've changed them myself. As noted by others - the spring stays contained by the metal shaft. They really aren't worth substituting with something that has more drawbacks when a spring's lifespan is on the order of decades.
C# and .NET are both truly underrated in the wider community -- I think -- because of some early snafus. The late adoption of an OSS model, Windows-centric in the .NET Framework days, too dependent on Visual Studio for a very long time.

Nowadays, I think it's probably the most natural language and platform for teams that need to move on from TypeScript rather than Go or Rust given the similar constructs and idioms.
I've been wondering about that since early child hood. While it seems like it I don't think there is a good answer.

One fun experiment I did was ask first and final years students why they chose that particular field. In the final years all but few alternative studies are part of the answer. They mostly explain coping or what they enjoy about their field. Some of the first year students provide an elaborate examination of many fields.

I [jokingly] ask if they chose the study only because they didn't like the other things. Or I accuse them of post purchase rationalization.

We like to think some logical process/choice is going on when we are simply doing what we are used to doing.

There is also something to be said for any process that arrives at logical conclusions to be some kind of reasoning.

What is free will?
Will this still be the case now that Shared Dictionary support is being rolled out in Chromium?

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/shared-dictionary-compress...
I've already gotten one recruiter email from an AI tax prep startup, which is just a hilariously bad idea. Hallucinate yourself all the way to prison.
"Neanderthals left Africa 500,000 years later into Europe while Denisovans left at the same time"

For most of the past 25 years there was a theory that Neanderthals and Denisovans were descended from Homo Heidelbergensis, in which case Neanderthals and Denisovans probably evolved in Europe or the Middle East. The oldest known Homo Heidelbergensis is maybe 1 millions years old and most of the early Homo Heidelbergensis were found in Europe, so it is assumed that Homo Heidelbergensis evolved in Europe.

Recently, many have argued that Neanderthals and Denisovans were not descended from Homo Heidelbergensis, but instead from some other species of humans that has not yet been discovered. But it remains likely that Neanderthals and Denisovans evolved outside of Africa.
Loved that book Makers
You can argue that science "worked" in the case of string theory in so far as it (eventually) came to be seen as a lot of untestable mathematical games with zero experimental evidence to support it.

Of course, "follow the science" is more commonly interpreted as the scientific community consensus ~= the truth. So having a generation of physics that essentially ended up as "never mind" doesn't instill a lot of public faith that scientists know what they're talking about in general.
I've had great luck using rclone to encrypt and send to backblaze b2 for our offsite backups.

See:
- https://rclone.org/crypt/
- https://rclone.org/b2/
I feel like there are PLENTY of "AI" apps someone could have made and still been first to market, long before they got down the list to "eat this fungus, trust me bro" territory.
Worth noting that "Huggingface" the company got it's name from and started as an attempt to use LLMs for therapy.
Plus I'm a solo-developer giving away free accounts there, being right now currently diminished by some huge corporations feeding ad money to the service. I don't actually count as some evil mega-corp.
Battery startup says it's found a way to make cheap long-range LFP batteries
Bypassing USBGuard on Linux
CPS Representation and Foundational Design Decisions in Flambda2
> Is 0 meaningful as a boundary? It has nice numeric properties, but does it have real world impact?

When the discount rate is negative, the value of an asset is infinite.
Why You Shouldn't Care About Iceberg (2022) [video]
Sure you can say that popular music is all genres and formulas, but it was an artist that broke past what was common in the first place to arrive at that now-popular style of music.

Without real artists, AI is just going to lock us into the same genres of music for a very long time.
The JVM has worked fine on macOS and Apple Silicon for years. It's not violating W^X. The problem is an undocumented/unannounced and probably unintended change in kernel behavior.
Me neither. The thing is that at the scale of an operating system like macOS or iOS is that even if only 1% of its users encounter an issue, it's still a lot of people. Enough to fill many discussion boards with complaints.
I’m not if they don’t take out any funds out of the 401k for health, housing, education

because there’s not a lot left over on $15/hour
EVs just don't seem a good fit for short term rentals. Maybe ultra short term, less than a day, where there is no expectation that the renter will need to charge it.

My EV(model Y) is the only car I ever had where I need to give a tutorial to someone who wants to borrow it. Hell, most passengers need a lesson on how to open and close the doors.
There are VERY few (if ANY) mushrooms that can kill you after taking a test bite and waiting 20 min to see how you feel.

This story is warning against people people mushrooms in LARGE quantities of unknown origin or type. Any moron knows that so only the idiots are making this mistake anyway
I'd argue that while its not a core diving part narrative... It is central to the idea of the book and its sequel. It's a decent sized book with a lot of ideas and the idea of code archeology and the repercussions of it are what the book is about as much as any of the other main ideas.

But yes, if you want a book that focused only on that... This is going to disapoint.
Once you consolidate, you can buy a second one/third one/etc to make copies.
Indeed, AT&T is more concerned about BEING breached as a first order than data under their responsibility got out... anywhere.

I doubt anyone affected will care about any such distinction.
I'd argue that while its not a core diving part narrative... It is central to the idea of the book and its sequel. It's a decent sized book with a lot of ideas and the idea of code archeology and the repercussions of it are what the book is about as much as any of the other main ideas.

But yes, if you want a book that focused only on that... This is going to disappoint.
> But I mean, this article was literally about a measurable effect from Mars on Earths climate and I never claimed there was a measurable effect or any significant effect at all on the brain (that would support Astrology).

> Just that there is influence.

Wait, what? There's no effect at all, just influence? You're talking in circles.
1. Doesn't matter. ZFS or whatever. I use ext4, it's good enough.

2. Buy as many 3.5 inch external USB drives as you need to reach 23 TiB, then connect them all over a single USB hub. Buy the same drives again, shuck them, and stuff them in this[1]. Store them in one of these[2] when you're not doing a backup and put it somewhere outside your home. Merge them all using mergerfs.

3. rsync. If you need to think about how precious your data is, at 23 TiB, you've already lost. Just backup everything in triplicate. Don't bother setting up RAID; it's not a backup.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/B07MQCDVJ2/
[2] https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/B087WXFFW6/
So you don't create another 40+ disks in the future, get some kind of network attached storage (or an always on computer) and use it as a backup/media store for your backing up your everyday computers and a media store. Hopefully it will outlast several computers (I have had the same Drobo with 2 or 3 disks in RAID since 2014, had 1 disk fail).

Back it up with something one of the other commenters suggest - I actually use rdist to space on a friends computer (and vice versa) that's worked unattended for over 15 years (and free!)
Without hyperbole, this is catastrophic. If SST is that high, and given that the winds are probably juiced by it, it's quite probable that mixing has pushed the heat down more that a few metres. The heat budget must be enormous and doesn't give me a good feeling at all.
Not exactly what you're asking for, but I think worth considering: LTO-6 data tapes.

I have about 29TB of blu-ray rips that I didn't want to risk having to re-rip (that took months!). My solution was to buy an LTO-6 tape drive on eBay, and about 100 tapes.

If you get lucky, a used LTO-6 tape drive will cost you roughly $250-$350 on ebay. The tapes themselves can be had for about $10 each, particularly if you buy a lot at once. Each tape can hold around 2TB [1]. I have all my movies backed up twice, on two tapes each. I have a label maker where I label the tapes from A-Z and I have a spreadsheet keeping track of which movies live on which tape, in case I need to restore just one.

I don't know if there are any kind of proprietary blobs in the kernel required for this, but I was able to get this working on vanilla NixOS with the `sg` kernel module enabled, and the open source LTFS implementation from HP [2].

The tapes are actually a lot faster to read and write than people think, but you can only read and write one file at a time, so you have to plan accordingly. They're also not random-access, so even though LTFS gives you a filesystem mountpoint, you probably don't want to be rsyncing files directly to them. It's not a "RAID", just a regular filesystem so when I run out of tapes, I can simply buy some more.

I keep them in a big plastic storage bin, and I have a ton of desiccant in there to protect against humidity. I haven't lost any tapes yet, and they're rated for like 15-30 years, but I want to hedge my bets a bit and desiccant is not expensive or hard to get.

Still, I am very happy with my setup. It's saved me a lot of time after I broke a RAID configuration and lost all my blu-ray rips for my Jellyfin server.

[1] They advertise like 6.5TB but that's sort of a lie; that's assuming the best-case scenario with their on-board compression. If you're backing up already-compressed stuff like video or photos, you get much closer to the 2.5TB limit, and you don't really want to run them to the edge I think, so I stop after 2TB.

[2] https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/storage/storage-software/storage-d...

ETA:

In regards to "testing", I didn't do anything too elaborate. I filled up a tape with movies, then copied them back, and compared the md5sum of each of the movies to make sure nothing had changed. They hadn't changed so I was happy enough with the results.

Also, I forgot to mention, most of the tape decks I've seen are SAS-only, so you'll either need to make sure your computer/server/whatever has a SAS port, or you'll need to find a card that has one. I think the modern LTOs have thunderbolt support, but I haven't used them. I simply found a used PCIe SAS adapter on ebay for $35 with shipping, and plugged that into my server. I think the only things I had to directly install were `mt`, `ltfs`, and enable `sg`.
That's kind of like saying the internet is not reliable. Don't post links. Ok. So now what?

Only studies, only peer-reviewed studies?

Only peer-reviewed studies published by qualified sources?

Only videos based on peer-reviewed studies published by approved sources, that have passed a committees on the non-biased use of artistic representations of special effects in entertainingly but scientifically accurate facts?

This whole, nothing is real, there is no truth, is really out of control.
It also occurs to me that the camera chips -- or even separately-sold chips -- could be augmented to perform transformations (like black-out) on already-signed images. You could even make this work with arbitrary transformations - just sign the new image along with a description (e.g., bytecode) of the sequence of transformations applied to it so far. This would let you post-process authentic images while maintaining authenticity.

The possibilities are pretty endless here.
Yeah, those damned science fiction shows make it all look too easy...
Love it. How about adding something about shareholder value, the economy in general and of course wars.