skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A) You have always done whatever you wanted to do. You get a say in which voice/urge most constitutes 'you'. The more you veto, and the more you can distinguish the urges, the more of a say you get. Everything else is fluff.

B) The productivity industry is a total sham and a net drain on productivity. It's mostly social manipulation. The industry takes attention away from the things productivity is a side effect of, such as level of control, overall health, and level of insight into oneself. This is partially due to -

C) All texts/advice/systems put minor spins on a couple of templates, and most of the good ones steal from Marcus Aurelius. Whichever flavour of system fits the fashion of the day the best becomes 'the best' because reasons.

D) The definition of 'productive' is so absurdly narrow and restricted in the late-capitalist hegemony as to render most of humanity utterly useless. Clearly, they're not [1]. It's more about raising members of a certain class with a certain personality profile [2] up to the status of a golden cow.

[1] for example, parenting is a fairly productive activity.

[2] that is, two things we're lucky to be able to change a lot about.
I only skimmed the article but I didn't see anything about the local systems that receive the commands? Or really why they need computerised control rather than local controllers.

There must be off-the-shelf components to plugin in to replace the on-site controllers that can be controlled remotely?

Also, what's the chance the modem just connects over POTS to another modem with no controls on authorisation?
For the second part of your requirement - supporting different backup providers - I'm a huge fan of rclone: https://rclone.org
I amazes me reading that they weren't even able to do a screwdriver level assembly in US, but that story is not that uncommon. I heard many horror stories about "Chinese company tries to run factory in US, runs away in horror in 6 months time."

1. Work culture - very few people with manufacturing experience

2. Work ethics - not stellar, were you fire people for low work attendance as they do in China, you will have to fire 70% of your workforce in US

3. Workforce education - US has a lot of high school dropouts, lots of PhDs, lots of community college educated clerks, but nothing in between.

4. Labour resources - cheap cities in US are small cities, having access to a lot of labour resources in one place is simply an unattainable dream for US.
TBF, the "desenclaving" is relatively recent if it was effected by the Schengen agreement given these enclaves were created back in 1921.

It would be interesting to know how they were handled/managed in the meantime, did Belgium have the entire railway fenced off? I expect not, most land borders are not that hard, the east/west border was more the exception than the rule.
I can't tell if this article is satire or not.

I played a lot of Mincraft as a teen and I have nothing but good things to say about the game.

It's very relaxing, you can be creative and explore and build, plus there's a whole depth of gameplay in Redstone circuits. The Pi edition also had Python scripting which was way too much fun.

I've not played the main verion since the release of 1.9 beta, and haven't followed the game closely.

But surely there are worse things for a child to be involved in?
This is what I was expecting when I drove between Switzerland-Italy in 2016. Except I was stopped, told to park, had my passport examined with with a loupe, and then was sent on my way. Are the borders back to normal now?
Lawsuit alleges Apple’s iPhone XS marketing images deceptively hide the notch
It is worrisome that current, and future "leaders" are discussing the ethics and other nuanced nitpickings.. as if this were a debate class. There should be one - correct - answer.
I like https://www.urbackup.org for Windows boxes. Does incremental file and image backups.
Next system for the Linux world will most likely be https://restic.net with a rclone backend that saves to B2.
Idea is to have an append-only service that is safe from ransomware deleting backups for extortion purposes.
3% of other (minerals?) than talk. Not 3% asbestos to make that clear.
Err you don't need to know how Js is compiled.

You need to understand how html css and js work and not cut and paste megabytes of cruft.
Well, there is no option to change to an Arduino. If you have no other way to handle it and no access to any documentation to program something else then you keep what you have running until you buy a replacement.
If you don't trust people to even run a thermostat then perhaps you shouldn't hire them to work for you!
There Are Now More Shows Streaming Than There Are on Broadcast or Cable
Sexual trauma, aliens
Some difficult problems are easier to solve if you don't have to think about them sequentially. One problem in my current work involves getting records from events one at a time, building predictive algorithms from those, and building another set of algorithms based on those.

If you model it sequentially, it takes a lot of work to make sure the right data is calculated in the right order. But you can also model it as a set of lazily evaluated streams, and that makes life a lot easier – because order of evaluation isn't part of the domain, it's essentially an implementation detail.

ETA: another way to think about it is that this lets the compiler manage evaluation order by default, while you're free to focus on other stuff (with the option to manage manually if you need to.) This is a similar type of benefit to garbage collection.
Tcl and Rexx were around in the same time period as well. And most "personal computers" had a BASIC interpreter at the time (albeit with lots of platform specifics).
Haven't seen those, but can imagine, having seen roughly similar stuff from earlier.
I am mean only to losers who deserve it.
I abhor it on mobile. I can't navigate away from it easily, it's hard to copy paste annurl to share with others, etc. I wish Chrome had the option to disable it, but of course they don't.
Ask HN: What do you use for media storage?
Had my first little one recently, and it dawned on me that my iphone’s storage is gonna run out real quickly with all the pictures and videos.

The wife and I don’t want to use social media as our “solution” (in fact we don’t really use it at all, especially Facebook). So I’m wondering what other folks use. I’m thinking I might just upgrade my Dropbox account, but not against turning it into a little project of sorts either if there’s some benefit.
I've been taking this magnesium: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BD0RT0

But I think it may have been discontinued or changed recently- my orders on Amazon say the ASIN that I ordered no longer exists? Regardless, "Magnesium Glycinate Lysinate Chelate" is the keywords I'm looking for when I find a new source.

I'm taking a single 100mg pill per day, though I've recently noticed the recommended dose is 200mg. shrug I guess 100 is enough for me, when combined with my other dietary intake.
> Tim Cook loves the narrative that it's impossible to bring manufacturing culture back to the US.

Citation on "impossible"? Under Tim, Apple has invested $100 million in US manufacturing. The Mac Pro has been manufactured in Austin since 2013.
Sample Chapter (pdf): https://bookstore.ams.org/mbk-105/~~FreeAttachments/mbk-105-...
Have you heard about them taking loss at every model 3 sale?
Not sure Prolog is a good example here; my experience with it involved having to spend essentially as much time reasoning about how the unification/backtracking algorithm was going to visit different clauses and facts (and how I might want to cut/control that) as an imperative programmer might think about the order in which statements are executed. Maybe more, considering the process was less linear and obvious.

(Not that I didn't like Prolog -- I did -- I just felt far from freed of mundane concerns of execution order.)
Sorry, no it's not 20% - 30% before tax. It's 30% including tax. Iglu pays all of your personal income tax, so around ~20% goes to the Thai Revenue Department for tax and social welfare.

The bottom line is that staying in Thailand for over 6 months per year is illegal if you are working and not paying any income tax. Anyone who stays in Thailand for over 6 months is officially a tax resident (even if you're on a tourist visa.)

So you will get deported or possibly sent to prison if you are ever caught (and you never want to end up in a Thai prison.) A lot of people have been getting away with it for now, but I don't think this will last forever, and it's probably not a smart idea if you plan to stay here long term.

I think the "working on a tourist visa" issue is a grey area, and they don't have any problem with tourists who do some work on a laptop. It just gets tricky as soon as you become a tax resident.

You should be OK for 1-2 years if you stay under the radar. But this is very important to sort out if you're going to stay for 3-5 years.
I think one part of it is that HTML(5) and CSS have become much more powerful.

In the past, if you wanted fancy animations or even just moving parts on your webpage, you needed to script that.

Heck, you needed to embed Flash for any video or the like.

Nowadays, even responsive webpages are no problem with just HTML+CSS.
> Picking hardware that has direct kernel support

that's headache for me
Purely to keep the SEO positioning everyone enjoyed before it came into being.
Manufacturing is fast evolving with the influence of high tech automation. As business relations gets too much to manage and brings more and more risks (trade war with china), I'd imagine companies will start investing in automated manufacturing plants stateside. Perhaps, the many of the components would still come from cheaper parts of the world, but I can see custom microprocessors being manufactured in the west, and say iPhones's body machined in the US, parts assembled into the enclosures at the US - by robots anyway.
Oh dear Lord. Thermostats in big buildings with complicated airflows with big open spaces are hard. People don't get how long it takes to heat or cool air. This is not your home system. Its basically saying I can drive a SMART car with an automatic transmission so I should be able to drive an 18 wheeler hauling a airfoil for a wind turbine.
People in the U.S. have forgotten the meaning of the word "state".
Candidates, don’t forget: You’re interviewing the company, too
Apple lied about iPhone X screen size and pixel count, lawsuit alleges
In college and high school I was taught they used radar years ago to find what was thought to be all of the remaining tombs. Anyone know why this one hadn't been found yet?
Ifs, buts, maybes. The margin for error is a lot smaller when you're asking people to trust you with their money.
I've yet to see any rule on such language apply across all LBGTQ populations without issue. Don't speak with such authority on issues which has no authority.
Does GCC introduce multiversioned AVX functions on its own initiative?

Yes, this seems like one reasonable approach. The current approach of compiling to a "least common denominator" and then updating this denominator every decade or so seems insufficient. Instead of interpreting the absence of a "-march=" flag to mean optimize for nothing, maybe it can mean that multiple optimizations are automatically compiled and the appropriate one is selected at runtime. Alternatively, maybe we need to move away from the idea of compiling a single binary that runs on all platforms, and encourage greater use of platform specific compilations.
Which is why we have the class action law suit and whistleblower protection statutes.

(Both of which, sadly, seem to have become partisan issues in the modern world...)
Dynamic function creation at run time with Python's exec built-in
Yes, but, I have used rclone via Restic which encompasses more functionality I think. compression, deduplication, encryption etc.
I clicked through the various 'manage settings' dialogues starting at the 'before you continue...' splashscreen and eventually found a list [0] of Oath partners who "participate and allow choice via the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF)". The list contains more than 200 different organisations.

I decided not to read the article.

[0] https://guce.oath.com/collectConsent/partners/vendors?sessio...
Bret doesn’t want to be relevant today; he cares about his work being relevant long after he’s gone[1]:

> > Right now, today, we can't see the thing, at all, that's going to be the most important 100 years from now.

> It certainly won't be software. Today, software is the dominant field of systems engineering. But before that, there were integrated circuits, and before that, discrete transistor circuits, and before that, vacuum tubes, and relays, and mechanical gears of all sorts, and on and on, back to the hand-axes. Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer was a mechanical masterpiece which no longer matters.

> I will not fix your vacuum tubes. I will not invent your Darlington pair. Any concept, technique, or tool that is specific to software engineering is guaranteed to have a short shelf life, at least on any time scale that I personally care about.

> (Which is totally fine if you're into that, but this is my ill-advised personal note, not yours, and I personally care about mattering 100 years from now.)

[1]: http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/note.ht...
Oh yes, here we come: Guided meditation through VR! Westernize meditation too.

How about going outside to meditate in nature? What happened to that? :/ Do it while you still can, as we have not completely destroyed our planet yet.
I have to confess my decisions here are often driven by frustration that reaches a tipping point. But yes, calculating short and long-term payoffs against the investment is very hard.
City of Bits(1995): One of the most thought-provoking books I read in 2018
For those having issues please can you try our CI builds from https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/ and if you are still experiencing problems a bug report on https://bugs.netsurf-browser.org would be appreciated.

The browser is a little limited in its javascript support (and hence rendering of a lot of modern sites) but it should not crash in general operation.
It's quite misleading to talk about 100,000 Isp for fusion. That's because unless the quantity of material you are expelling is at least as large as the fixed mass of your engine and tankage, high Isp actually hurts you. You'd be better off diluting the outgoing mass with inert material and accepting a lower Isp, but higher total impulse delivered by the stage.

How much fuel do fusion reactors burn?

A 1 GW(th) plant will burn about 100 kilograms of fusion fuel per year. ITER, which has a mass of 23,000 tonnes, will produce 400 MW(th). So, going by that, it would take nearly a million years for a reactor like ITER to fuse its own mass in fusion fuel. That's obviously silly. ITER is clearly not optimized for use in space (and burns DT, in which 80% of the energy comes out as neutrons that are useless as plasma exhaust), but any real fusion rocket will be designed to operate with an Isp much lower than 100,000 seconds.
Probably not. The Italian Northern border has been repeatedly “closed to Schengen” by neighbours because of the migration crisis. France, Switzerland and Austria basically keep suspending the treaty unilaterally whenever they feel like, as well as carrying out further abuses (like French Police illegally crossing the border and unloading migrants in a forest before driving back).
PewDiePie printer hackers strike again
The US government subsidises purchases of electric cars with tax credits of up to $7,500, which apply to all of Tesla’s cars.
https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/11/16/overload-control-for-sca...
I think counting the losers is the great rhetorical trick pulled on the public by the pharmaceutical industry.

In what other industry do organizations get away with charging customers such exorbitant amounts of money to cover their failures?
Very little knowledge is needed to know how to speed up a website (or keep it from becoming slow). Almost every front-ender I've met, including those who never got beyond inserting jQuery snippets, knows enough.
Oh, that is easy. You just break up the task. One is mining the dangerous substance (telling itself, oh- they will purify that stuff), one is packaging the dangerous substance (telling themselves- Oh, im sure they now what they are doing), one is delivering it to supermarkets.

The only one who should know it all - says to himself oh, i do not want to know all the details.

Splitting responsibility works very well. You could nuke the planet, as long as you split responsibility.
more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enclaves_and_exclaves
A society that values integrity seems like a good place to start.
PhotoSync on iOS will safely move photo/video from
the phone to remote storage, including other phones, tablets, local PCs, NAS or cloud.

iXpand Drive is natively supported by some iOS apps (e.g. Filmic Pro and LumaFusion for video) and can import/export directly to a 32/64/128G external flash storage.

FreeNAS works on low-end PCs. There are commercial NAS like Synology with iOS apps.
One exposure might not be sufficient to create a deadly cancer.
They are close to achieving breakeven, maybe (for certain values of "close"). Congratulations, that puts them where fission was in 1942.

But a workable, practical fusion powerplant? Not close at all.
A few countries have started to introduce this recently due to paranoia around Syrian refugees. It's extremely controversial, as it basically nullifies Schengen, but countries are apparently allowed by the agreement to put these spot checks in place (provided some political procedures) up to 20 out of every 60 days.
Haha what? You absolutely do not need to understand how a CPU works to make a fast site. 90% of the job is getting rid of shitty third party ad and tracking code, something most front engineers don't control. Beyond that most is just sensible practices.

In depth knowledge of the DOM would serve you a lot better than knowing about CPUs. What triggers a repaint, how you can avoid it, and so on.
Apple doesn't wants its good to be cheap to make, they want them to be borderline free. Have you read that for every iPhone, Chinese economy only gains single digits of value?

Electronics is one of the most automated industries on the planet already. You can run in anywhere you want where you can put an SMT line. There are electronics factories even in African countries.

What matters is being able to run in cheaper and better than the next competitor, and you can't do it with three quarters of the global electronics manufacturing ecosystem sitting in a single city - Shenzhen.

IF Apple will agree to sell their products at less than triple digits markup, than they will be free to make iPhone in America.
There are two kinds of work to be productive on: exciting work and busy work.

Exciting productivity occurs when you are doing or learning something new. The excitement motivates you to keep taking another step forward. For this type, I have learned it is best to take baby steps to avoid burnout and to create a steady flow of productive days.

Busy productivity is boring. It is standard routines that you just need to do. For this type, I have found that my mood greatly affects how much I can do. There is no strong motivation other than "it has to be done." That being said, I add additional motivation by keeping in mind that it will make my future self's life easier.

Last thing I want to add is that productivity stems from self love, and the simplest way to love yourself is to take care of yourself: eat well, exercise, and sleep well. Having that basis will motivate you in all other aspects of life.
Edgar Cayce made this predication many years before radar technology was even invented. To my mind, the mystery surrounding ancient Egypt and the culture of its people still laregly remains a mystery..
This look really compelling for cases where a robot isn't big or stationary enough to just use an industrial PC. I'm really looking forward to seeing how NVIdia's newest iteration on Transmeta's core does in benchmarks. From the Wikichip Spec results[1] and quick Phoronix tests[2] it doesn't seem too far off from an Intel chip clocked down to a similar speed. The whole approach of JITing form x86 or ARM instructions to an exposed pipeline VLIW design is just a really interesting one. For the last generation that was used in the Nexus 6 it did very well in areas that VLIWs are traditionally good at like audio processing and did sort of mediocre in areas where VLIW tends to be bad. A JIT running underneath the OS has the freedom, in theory, to add things like memory speculation across library calls that an OoO processor could do. But the software to do that is, of course, really hard to write. I hope it's improved in the years since the Nexus 9 came out.

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/nvidia/microarchitectures/carme...

[2]https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-c...
Im pretty sure, we should have those people regulate themselves.. we can trust them, after all they thrust in us.
Keeping your own copies might not be a bad idea. Almost certainly a violation of company policy.
Am I the only one who finds it concerning that they capture like everything ("Data entered by customers in using the products" and "Clickstream data capturing usage of the product") and persisting it just for the sake of having it and finding a use for it later?
Also they collect data directly from 100s of relational databases, that sounds like a terrible idea to make your DB schema an API for data collection.
Does LUKS provide plausible deniability via hidden volumes like Veracrypt does ? I imagine that this is important for the use case.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” - Upton Sinclair

This quote gets brought out a lot, for good reason, but I think people don’t quite grasp its meaning. It’s often understood as meaning that people will play dumb in order to resist you. But it goes deeper than that. A person will literally have a difficult time understanding something if that understanding will put their livelihood on the line.

I would wager that essentially everybody involved in this process had a twisted understanding of the problem that left them convinced that what they were doing was harmless.
Odd borders are funny. Here's two other examples: The utter chaos in Baarle. They even have nested enclaves. So area of Netherlands surrounded by Belgium surrounded by Netherlands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/51.4402/4.9316

Between Germany and Switzerland, there's the German exclave Büsingen am Hochrhein. They have odd tax rules as Swiss VAT is applied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen_am_Hochrhein

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/47.6941/8.6910
Do you have kids?

It's not the "others" bit, it's the "your own kids" bit that makes it surprising for me - it's kinda like one day you pick up a pen with your non-dominant hand and it writes some words in an alphabet you don't recognise: How did it do that? Where did it even come across Akkadian cuneiform?

I still remember the confronting the realisation of this with my eldest when they said a word that I knew we, his parents, hadn't taught him. It's such a stark contrast when you're still having to manage a little person's toiletting that they nonetheless have an internal independency of thoughts and feelings.
Interesting. They originated in the 1880s in the UK (still part of the E.U.) in the hope that when people saw that goos were coming from Germany or France they’d reject them.