skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've probably spent way too much time thinking about Linux backup over the years. But thankfully, I found a setup that works really well for me in 2018 or so, used it for the last few years, and I wrote up a detailed blog post about it just a month ago:

https://amontalenti.com/2024/06/19/backups-restic-rclone

The tools I use on Linux for backup are restic + rclone, storing my restic repo on a speedy USB3 SSD. For offsite, I use rclone to incrementally upload the entire restic repository to Backblaze B2.

The net effect: I have something akin to Time Machine (macOS) or Arq (macOS + Windows), but on my Linux laptop, without needing to use ZFS or btrfs everywhere.

Using restic + some shell scripting, I get full support for de-duplicated, encrypted, snapshot-based backups across all my "simpler" source filesystems. Namely: across ext4, exFAT, and (occasionally) FAT32, which is where my data is usually stored. And pushing the whole restic repo offsite to cloud storage via rclone + Backblaze completes the "3-2-1" setup straightforwardly.
This has been posted at least 12 times before: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=why+you+will+marry+the+wrong+perso...
No Iain M Banks or Peter F Hamilton on the Hugo winners list which says everything to me
Is it possible that over the years the number of nuclear devices per warhead has increased?

1, 4, 8, etc. per warhead, thereby increasing your capability while claiming a reduction?
There's actually plenty of people like that out there, but probably not where you live.
If I needed container orchestration I would use k8s. I can improve it and even propose patches/bugs or chip into opensource maintainers fund. I wont write my own orchestrator, especialy being in a streaming business.

Thats what I meant, doesnt even necessarily Build-vs-Buy, but rather Use-Open-Source-and-Contribute or Reinvent-the-wheel-for-L6-promo-and-then-opensource ??

Would the world be better with 10 workflow orchestrator systems or one mature?
I am not seeing a distinction between how I interpret what you are looking for and what Kodi appears to be trying to do.
And I use MythTV[0] myself. I've gotten a lot of hate from other HNers about that ("why aren't you using $MEDIAPLATFORM instead?" "That's so old, you should use Kodi, instead" -- when Kodi is older than MythTV.).

No, it's not the slickest interface. And no, it's not the most full-featured. But it doesn't spy on me (like Kodi, Emby and/or others) and it doesn't try to show me ads either.

I don't run it off a broken laptop (a fanless minipc for the front end and a VM for the back end), like in TFA, but it works nicely and does what I need of it -- and most of all, it doesn't spy on me or try to show me ads. That's a win!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythTV

Edit: Added missing link.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40997997
Are you implying that every Starbucks customer is buying a frappechino?
Because it’s about winning and politics is as much about appealing to the most people as it is merits. If you think it’s only merits that anyone wins on then tell me in what universe Trump wins on merits?

People can be diverse and the best for the job too ;-)
Log workload tends to be OLAP so an OLTP isn't very well optimized for the use case.

Usually you can relax consistency and sometimes even partition tolerance to get something cheaper/faster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
you're not describing a negative income tax
Exactly. If you want to reuse the term "entropy" in information theory, then fine. Just stop trying to make a physical analogy. It's not rigorous.
>Apparently you haven't worked with many humans...

this goes the other way too, AI that trains on data from humans, well you're going to get the same sort of reliability haha

We get the best results from neural networks on closed systems with an infinite supply of training data (think how successful alpha zero was at chess, it simply trained by playing games if I'm not mistaken.)

Neural networks are an incredible tool. AI as a chatbot trained on human input is going to probably just simulate a lower quality human being that hallucinates more than normal lol
Partly true, Steve Jobs had a charismatic tone when describing these problems in public.

Have a great day, =3
switch was ancient tech, but still predates usb-c enough that they're rolling their own power protocols.. hence deluge of broken switch on ebay with fried usb-c ports...
yeah clearly nobody on this thread read the findings
I feel like there's a way to directly derive the blockchain trilemma from the CAP theorem (or probably the more formal PACELC). Reasoning through it in my head makes sense so I've been saying that it's a corollary to CAP but I haven't actually seen it written out formally.
I’ve done some work on implementing this as a coder, not a mathematician. So, the following description is just how the process looks while you are implementing it :P

Take the original curved image and put it on a super stretchy rubber sheet. Pull all four corners out diagonally until the curves look straight. You have to pull really hard and the corners will be stretched out into thin spikes.

But, no one wants to see an image that’s 80% long, thin spikes with lots of empty space between them. So, go to the center and crop down to the biggest rectangle you can that doesn’t have empty space around the edges.
Very nice, sometimes people claim that the only difference between distros is the repository and package management tools.

It is when the defaults make the parts integrate nicely like this that the “greater is more than the sum of its parts” come into place.
In real life, you've always got to go with your gut. But in chess you have perfect prescience: there is a very limited set of parameters, and things can only occur within them. Its good training for real life, since you can have both foresight and risk, and for me at least I always have a multitude of different plans about both my near and far future sitting somewhere in the back of my head, switching between and adjusting them depending on the circumstances that arise.
Again, this is a decision by the managers and corporations, which is my whole point. They could have chosen to use Linux despite these difficulties. You can argue all you want about how much easier Windows was to administer, but ultimately it was a choice by the corporate managers to use it. Linux had its own advantages (cost, not having to worry about all the MS viruses of the 2000s, etc.) too.
> we also have record amount spent on travel

That's heavily skewed by the wealthy. Most Americans can't afford to take a vacation at all. (https://www.newsweek.com/americans-ca-no-longer-afford-vacat...), online purchases are at record highs every year (since 2009) and the overall trend is that online purchases have increased since the early/mid 2000s and that's not expected to change any time soon.

> People are buying homes that have gone up by over 2x in the last 4 years

Very rich people and investors (including foreign investors) have been buying homes. Foreign investment is slowing down because of the high prices. Current transactions are at "recessionary lows" and "The average home is still unaffordable for most potential buyers" (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/25/home-price-growth-slows-what...).

Mostly people just aren't buying houses. In 2023 homes sales were at their lowest since the mid 90s (https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/home-sales-likely-fell-t... or here (no paywall issues) : https://www.housingwire.com/articles/just-4-09-million-exist...)
Are you telling me that there are actually people out there in userland who still don't block third-party cookies.

What a surprise.
Kodi became it's own deeply complex thing; far from a WM/DE?

I suppose I mean something that Linux people would recognize is a DE. A slightly easier and TV-ish interface, but still ships with e.g. apt or pacman or whatnot, etc.
The second sentence makes me not trust the first sentence btw.

The first sentence is basically just signing normal budget agreements? The chips decision sounds like the best decision that was actually pushed after Covid.
We use CloudWatch for less often queried data but it has minimal indexing so it's not very good at lots of ad-hoc queries for discovery. More feature-rich platforms also allow things like ad-hoc metric generation and a more robust ingest pipeline

In addition, CloudWatch metrics aren't great (for custom metrics) so you end up using CloudWatch + <something else> so ideally you just use only <something else>
Your salary comes from that. So too is your Internet. Maybe you are being hypocrite? To be human, we destroy. The only way is to die out and let nature take her course. Agent Smith in Matrix said summed it best that we are virus on this planet that need to be eradicated.
The fifth time this has been posted in just over a week... it must be a REALLY good article! :)
> Personally I would rather take the luck out of it

Then you should play Chess, or some other perfect information game. There are popular games that don't involve luck.
it would be enough if MS offered knobs and switches for admins/devs/vendors to disallow non-static-verified stuff in the kernel
> U.K. policymakers asked the tech giant in February to pause its planned phase-out of cookies over antitrust concerns.

i'm trying to understand how eliminating such cookies could lead to antitrust concerns. Any enlightenment on that point would be appreciated.
AMD was originally planning to have an ARM CPU that would be compatible with its AM4 socket. I believe their first customer was Amazon but Amazon dropped them for an in-house design that became Graviton due to performance reasons. Given AMD was not in a good financial state at the time it made sense to concentrate on Zen. It would probably be a very different world if AMD had managed to debut a 'Zen' inspired ARM CPU alongside its first batch of Zen processors.
And we're all still talking about that one regularly...
I might be cynical, but I have seen many cases of companies open-sourcing a few products for PR and promotional purposes, where the open-source community takes care of the promotion work for free. Fast forward a few years, and a license change occurs after many companies are already relying on such products.
Buy prepaid credit cards with your debit card, cash them. Buy commodities and sell them at a loss.

People will find a way around it, especially desperate people with addiction issues. This will just add overhead. If you want to stop the fentanyl crisis then attack the root cause, don’t make life more difficult for the poor for a marginal benefit.
Trucks are literally an asset - you can't do depreciation on a liability.

The only way a 'truck' could be a liability is a lease for said truck.

There are plenty of economically rationale reasons why a company may own more trucks they strictly need to manage delivery. For example wanting to handle seasonal bursts, wanting to ensure reliability, preparing for an expansion, being able to lease capacity to other businesses.

Actually you can go replace truck with server and you describe what made AWS make initial sense.

Please stop misusing accounting concepts.
Yes, earnouts can help bridge a valuation gap — and if the buyer is reasonable/kind, then they can create a win-win scenario. The question is whether a seller can accurately identify whether their counterparty is reasonable/kind. This is the sort of thing that lawyers should be able to help with, since they're involved in many deals. But as mentioned above, they may have misaligned interests that cloud their judgment.
>Similarly some people like you like to thinker and find out how to get Linux to work in 1999 while most prefer to just pay to use Windows NT/MacOS and get to work.

We're not talking about regular people here. Try reading the prior messages for context before commenting. We're talking about people who claim to be IT professionals. If they were really as smart as they claimed, they could have done the same thing I did easily. They didn't, not because they loved Windows that much (maybe they did, maybe they didn't, it's irrelevant), but because it was seen as essential for their career.
It's probably most clearly stated in the original post, but the point is you would either be able to find three people who are all friends with the other two, or you would be able to find three friends who are not friends with any of the others. The non-obviousness is due to the fact that someone may have only one friend, or someone may have two friends but those two would not be friends with each other, so I wouldn't call it blindingly obvious that there would always be a subset with one of these properties (I think the main intuition that is useful is that if you have a sparsely connected graph of friends, it's easy to find a group that aren't friends at all, and if you have a densely connected graph then you can find a group that are mutual friends. The theorem is then proving that there's no middle ground: it's either dense enough a mutual group must exist or sparse enough a non-friend group must exist.)
Isnt the enriching process super slow? https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/how-do-countries-cre... this article puts somewhere in months, but you are still limited by the number of centrifuges and probably some other factors.
A lot of people have this weird cognitive dissonance that lets them understand a “partial UBI” is a universally guaranteed income that does not meet basic needs, and then that a “full ubi” is one that does; but then fail to understand that if it’s not full UBI it’s not UBI.

A universally guaranteed income that does not meet your basic needs is of course a thing. But it’s not a universal BASIC income. It’s a subset. The games people play on semantics is very strange
> Let me guess, you bought a house before 2021 and are locked in on 3% or less mortgage.

yes, and I want to buy a new home but these prices are unreasonable, so I am not. unfortunately, I also rent because I had to move for work; however,

who said you need to buy? I am not saying you are wrong for doing so, that's what you wanted to do and good on you for that.

but you made a conscious choice to choose buying a home over having kids. you could have rented, or like me you could just wait.

my friend and her husband both work with a combined income of 250,000. They live in Brooklyn, NYC and have THREE kids, and still travel, etc. I'm guessing you and your wife is making more then that. if you can't support 3 kids at your combined income: You are over spending.

> Or are you going to tell me I should’ve been born earlier to buy the same house for cheaper and lock in those rates?

now you are just being rediculous / toxic, so will ignore that.
I agree with the sentiment but logging is incredibly simple to implement and is almost completely vendor agnostic (it's up to the log aggregator to make sense of the log file, not the software to output data in a specific format).

In addition, there's so much software that logs out of the box with limited support for metrics and traces it's not practical to ignore it.

In general though, I agree it's good to avoid if practical. Tracing is much more helpful in most cases especially when helpful context data is attached to traces.
Yes. I avoid closed source software whenever it is practical to do so.
I used a Corne for a while and I loved it but after a couple of years I found I was actually getting quite bad pain in my thumbs.

I've gone back to a normal keyboard for now but maybe I'll give this a go at some point.
>You keep taking highly niche technical cases from your SW dev bubble and trying to extrapolate that experience as being mainstream

Why is it so hard for you to understand that we're not talking about average users here?
From a somewhat low-paying job that has no transferable skills? How big is the pension? If it's not nearly as large as the person's prior paycheck, it doesn't sound like a good deal at all.
Will be amazed if this stays the top comment. Would not be surprised if the submission gets flagged.

It's the truth.
I don't know how the EU expects Meta to make any money. It's pretty infuriating
what mac AVs support this?
Speaking of Microsoft, did you all cancel your Microsoft GitHub Copilot subscription yet?

If not, did you check out 14.q.iii. of the services agreement?

Cuz that means you can’t share your code or use it for AI if copilot was involved in its creation, making copilot output effectively toxic waste.

Here’s a link:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement#14q_AIServ...
Not instantly it seems, but there have been reports of degradation over time. It will be a case-by-case thing.
Nuclear warhead is a single nuclear device.

Are you thinking MIRV where multiple nuclear warheads are mounted to missile? The US has down rated lots of SLBMs and ICBMs recently. Many of the warheads in storage are from missiles. They could put them back, but then they would show in the active count.
I have a laptop and an HDMI cable. The laptop is a really nice remote control. It even has its own screen and keyboard.
Aa an idea on it's own, yes, pretty obvious and therefore pretty worthless.
Nice is always relative to what most has, if you compare to 1700s any apartments would have been called nice, this is why UBI may not work as well as people think. When everyone has the same quality of life they take it for granted
It's not Star Trek, even in very automated industries someone has to do the things.

If you don't get in the tractor and plough the field you don't get the wheat.

Economic value is no less real. If anything, it's much more real at the low end in fast food, the supermarket, labouring jobs etc than it is in Uber for dogs.
Yet the CEO made 34 million dollars last year

https://www.ajc.com/news/business/delta-ceo-ed-bastian-saw-h...

That includes a 20 million dollar bonus ('one-time enhanced award'). One wonders for what?
10/10, but knowing one of them is AI and the other isn’t makes it so much easier. Here you can just pick the one that has more detail that doesn’t really add to the aesthetic. In the real world the question is do you think this image is AI or not?
It's not called the Kawii?
Okay? He's just sharing his opinion of the city in a HN comment. What's wrong with that?
Your WM/DE doesn't ship with apt or pacman or whatnot, because your WM/DE is just the window manager or desktop environment.

The underlying distribution will be Debian or Fedora or Arch or Alpine or whatever, which will provide package management and whatever else you need. Then you install something like Kodi on top of that as the WM/DE:

https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux?https=1
Well, do they? The operating system can provide microcode updates to a running CPU. Can the operating system patch the PCU, too?

When I look at a "BIOS update" it usually seems to include UEFI, peripheral option ROMs, ME updates, and microcode. So if the PCU is getting patched I would think of it as a BIOS update. I think the ergonomics will be indistinguishable for end users.
The article is 10 years old. I wonder how he feels about it today, as his "due date" approaches.

For a contemporary rebuttal:
https://surgicalneurologyint.com/surgicalint-articles/bioeth...
> In principle, an AI learning from a scientific textbook is no different than a human student doing the same. Neither will violate copyright law when they're done learning

If AI were only learning from scientific textbooks very few people would have problem with it. When AI learns from creative works like novels, it runs into the same problems we have as humans. We can read a book, but the minute we start distributing copies of it from memory we're in legal trouble.
Nobody asks how many anti nuke missiles. :)
So people like it but it's bad? How exactly are you defining bad?
"OK, great, let’s give everybody a case" lives on
that's actually the normal view, with saying both info and stat mech entropy are the same is an outlier, most popularized by Jaynes.
The difference between OIDC and OAuth boils down to exchanging attribute assertions describing a user as opposed to the delegation of a specific set of allowed actions, as OAuth was intended to do. OIDC and SAML are basically the same thing, with OIDC being a somewhat less frightening and more modern protocol.
Right. it's fascinating. I think This and "Dark Brandon" worked, but perhaps it's because I see them, and don't see the equally effective efforts for the other side.

My understanding of the other side's imagery is that it has a lot of eagles, Guns, crosses, flames and Leni Riefenstahl in it, but maybe I'm wrong? I saw Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's TV ads in Argentina and they were amazing. They wouldn't have been out of place in 1936, except they were in colour. Adoring kids looking to the mother of the country, cut to a jet flying down the parade ground as tanks roll, cut to family eating juicy steak thanks to the mother of the nation, cut to the mother of the nation with a flame background...
No, a MIRV [1] missile has multiple warheads, each warhead has a single device and is counted as such.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targe...
Good. It needs to be a threat with plenty of teeth.
I observe this as well, however, because Google wants to catch your attention and keep you for as long as possible, it is quite possible that this is also because of the past view history or terms you search. That is, if in the past, you let play lots of videos from traditional media, or search things traditional media like to talk about, then this may reinforce their appering in the search results.

If you watch videos on space flights and search related terms all the time, I expect you'll get related recommendations and links on less mainstream channels.
i remember once @ my great grandad house taking half a cup of wine around my 7 y/o; didn't tasted awful at all but i was expecting Fanta Grape Soda and i was thirsty...

but yeah, palate differs when you grow up; now if it's because social influence or effects from the substance, i dunno?
but on taste & food (which for me it's different than a toxic substance); bitter/sour is rarely pleasurable for first timers and i can't deny that i'm in love with right after starting to ferment my stuff :)
Interesting. I do need to try some more decaf from roasters who know what they’re doing…
"One had come from Jamaica for a midwifery conference, but no midwifery talk was delivered." Love this wording.

I've received a lot of OMICS spam. "Hello, Dr. $MyName, Greetings for the day!" followed by a lot of slurp regarding my greatness in fields I've never worked or published in.

The Nature article was unusually reserved. Made no mention of the OMICS CEO, his Indian boiler rooms, or that they've threatened suits against Beall and others. Maybe they're afraid of being next.
The margin on trucking could be so much higher than plumbing that most plumbers could never afford the R&D necessary to advance flushing tech. Big truck operates at a scale where they materially benefit from better flushing, so they take their truck dollars and pour them into their own plumbing lab. Big truck sees this as a competitive advantage that no one else is positioned in the market to unlock. They may one day enter the general plumbing space and disrupt waste management, at their option not obligation of course.

This describes Google and Amazon perfectly - while you can armchair quarterback their biz decisions they are definitely doing well for themselves.
I think you are correct, it would be more blurry. Unless the manufacturer goes for the same technology, but the BOM would probably just explode.
What in the world is most mispriced? Cyber Cat
It's not clear there's any such thing as "tactical nukes" given that they're strategically useless, and it's actually not even clear there's such a thing as nuclear exchange that isn't full scale war. At least as told by Ellsberg in the Doomsday Machine, there was literally no mechanism for the US to launch a partial nuclear attack.
it has no reason not to, its a detterent, russia and china needs to believe that the nukes are working and that there is enough for them to ensure the mutual assured destruction.