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I have spent far too much of my life in a warehouse doing this robot's job. A job that according to every pundit from the "smart" to the stupid was supposed to be gone tomorrow. Mostly I'm just disappointed in how clownish all those futurists look.

Completely retooling the society after 70 years of postwar infrastructure is going to take more than anyone would willingly sacrifice. You would have to bomb everything more than a few years old flat. At no point will it be feasible to keep leaving major investment in business and industry tied to the promises of modernizing through bleeding edge technology. The world is so vast and involves such a colossal distribution of existing resources. So many of the systems here are only functioning through broad and cheap standards, like containers, rail gauges, ship sizes.

I don't want my job. I want a machine built to put me out of it for good. I have been saying that along with a generation of workers told robots were coming for their jobs since the day i was hired. That was fifteen years ago.

We need a Manhattan project for the basic tools of industry. Now. There are thousands of novel or unproven methods of doing the most basic forms of labor our economy is based on, and we are leaving the creation of things that need to be ISO standard across the surface of the earth in order to succeed to entrepreneurs and startups and scholastic vanity.

The modern technological landscape across all disciplines looks terrifyingly similar to the cambrian explosion, which produced so many things, at such a cost of living suffering, that did not survive what came after. I'm afraid our civilization might have run out of low-hanging fruit.

To me that is the line of demarcation between the "developed world" and whatever precedes it. I don't think what is beyond that is peaceful. It necessarily undermines the infrastructure the whole society is founded on.
1) They're too complicated for Joe Average User to understand and keep in order.

2) Companies make more money by having you store all your data in The Cloud: you have to pay (somehow) for storage on their servers, they get to comb through your data and mine it and use it to advertise to you, and the cellular companies get to charge you for access to your own data because you have to constantly transfer it wirelessly instead of keeping it local.
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You're completely right. Clojure enables an incredible amount of productivity. It lets an engineer compose just the things they need, quickly and powerfully, to ship something complete and functioning rapidly.

With that said, might it also be possible that there could be some drawbacks? Having worked in and with Clojure, I found the ecosystem incredibly immature. It's somewhere beyond arrogant - reckless comes to mind - for most engineers to do all their own plumbing for a web service. The odds that they'll manage to design someone easily long-term maintainable are slim. The chances of authorization, authentication, potential SQL injection, and a thousand other security things being handled well is effectively none - the Clojure ecosystem seems wildly ignorant of such things. The core philosophy of just composing the libraries you need into Ring means that anything you don't actively think of will be entirely neglected. This is a dangerous and unprofessional way to ship code that will be facing the real internet.

This stands in stark contrast to the level of consideration around maintenance and security that has gone into a modern, mature framework. Or a modern language where SAST is an option.

Again, you're completely correct. Doing low-level stuff feels absolutely amazing! The sense of control, of having your hands in the guts and the ability to do what you need without wasting time on bullshit magic, is heady and glorious. It's just perhaps worth considering that that magic can sometimes be incredibly valuable, well worth the tradeoff against the feeling of freedom.
I am installing it on our lab's Clearpath Husky right now. Thank you!!
Ghost Commander and Total Commander are good alternatives. The former is on F-Droid.
>While the manifesto – a meme-laden soup of troll-tastic nihilistic nonsense – has been outlawed in New Zealand for inciting murder and terrorism, the file continues to circulate in underground forums.

Please don't share from theregister if they're going to write articles like this. People have read the manifesto themselves and seen what it contains - to try and spread FUD around it gives it more credence than it deserves.
Indeed. That is why I included "Find good books and good teachers/videos/other instruction". They point out to you what and how you should practice, but practicing is still the key component.
My packing rule, slightly tongue in cheek, but not really:

Pack light and then throw out half.

Seriously, I just came back from 3 1/2 weeks in Asia with a backpack with a weight of 11KGs (15, when I returned). I was never short on anything.

This may be slightly different when you have a weighty hobby (scuba diving, or so), kids or go to colder places. But in general my experience is that most people pack far too much.
There is user access, but app access is becoming scarce.

An app can ask you, as user, to pick a file for reading/writing/creation, and it receives access to something very much like a file, but the app isn't even permitted to know whether that's a file on the local device or an on-demand download/upload by another app.
Oh, that means you have to open a pipe to the process if you want to control it from another programming language? That would be a bit harder to leverage for automation (though I guess it's just a matter of writing a few helper functions, or you could always use bash and redirections if the language is ill-suited to pipes).
No, it is not.

It's an argument for structural rather than individual change.
Doesn’t sound so different from the US.
I often make an explicit effort to convert frequent actions from "System 2" to "System 1" (in the language of Daniel Kahneman) as soon as I can. For example, if I'm learning a foreign language, I commit common expressions (not words) to memory as soon as possible. If I'm learning a new software (say Adobe Illustrator or emacs), I commit the common shortcuts to memory as well. It's often one of the first things I do.

Then, when I actually learn the more complicated stuff, I don't ever think about the basic stuff (and I get that out of the way very early in the learning process). I think it frees up my brain to focus on the complexities of any domain a bit sooner than I would otherwise.

I'm not sure this method generalizes to other people, but it seems to work for me across various domains. I think the use of rote memorization is a bit underappreciated (given how useless it seems in high school or university), but I've continually found it useful in my professional life.

[Edit] It's also useful to identify what the "common action" are, and in general that's only from "learning by doing" and realizing what's important/what's not - then saving the important stuff to the "hot path" of processing.
How can a Visual Basic macro executed as a regular user write to the MBR? Maybe it's asking for elevation?
Dogs demonstrate the existence of an epileptic seizure odour in humans
Leo wanted to make his film so he didn’t ask too many questions when this guy wanted to fund it. A similar thing happened to John Delorean.
How do you reckon my post is inexclusive to yours?

Despite HN not liking the truth about the situation, causes, and effects... Boeing was within all regulations at all times it seems.

Even their poor PR now, and anything short of scrapping the plane as the other thing many will accept, they’re working within the rules.
It's not just their phones, sadly, they're quite a popular supplier of backend telco equipment. e.g., in the UK,

> BT has announced it is in the process of removing Huawei's equipment from the core of its existing 3G and 4G mobile operations
Most people who buy iPhones probably already have at least one credit card, and this would be a good way for people to start demanding that merchants buy new readers.
I also used ES before it was sold, and I've heard nothing but bad things about it since. I find Solid Explorer to be a much better option now. Mixplorer is good too, and free. Cx File Explorer looks good too, but I haven't tried it.
The Evolutionary Ecology of Metamorphosis
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In C and C++ (where you don't have the >>> operator), you can do this:

6: mid = ((unsigned int)low + (unsigned int)high)) >> 1;

Since you're casting to unsigned int anyway, can't you just use / 2?
Agreed. But... $406 billion?!

In the real world, some countries need to stop invading others on false pretenses, stop overthrowing democratically elected governments, stop helping would-be terrorist organisations, etc.
Any ideas for lucrative side projects?
I still liked the old launch procedures where people where involved and no hyper sonic missiles. Back then, some guy could step back and say - "Okay, its all fucked, so why should i drop one more rock at some poor town in nowheristan?" and give those after us a living chance by behaving reasonable. Today that wont happen, and the machines are that much more likely to just MCAS kill us via a design failure.
Genuine question - why 2 wheels, not good old 4? Only because these robobees look cooler this way?
> I have no choice but to operate a root'ed device?

That's becoming the answer with everything on Android, for anything useful you want to do, you need to root the phone. The stock phone is becoming just good for running Facebook and Candy-crush.
Laravel doesn't follow semantic versioning and more important they are sloppy about backwards compatible changes been documented anywhere.

Symfony 4 however is wonderful, they modularised everything, kept backwards compatibility, properly deprecate things and it's fast, like really fast.
Spot on, and a particularly good point for people overwhelmed with the volume of resources out there to learn things.

Picking a method/book/instructor that seems to be getting good reviews and getting at it is far more important than wasting tons of time jumping from method to method but never actually putting in the time practicing.
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Yeah, I had almost stopped using the free version because of the user-hostile UX they kept pushing but they had a sale a few years ago and I picked it up then.

It's like a completely different app, all the cruft like ads and pushing other apps is completely gone. You're just left with all the good stuff and those features generally all work well.
I believe the VB was used to download a binary which accomplished the overwrite.
I really enjoy Go and reach for it first when starting a project.

However, Ruby on Rails still has use cases that it's better suited for than Go. Other languages, too, have their uses.

Please don't trash talk other languages just because you have a favorite. It's unprofessional.
>> ... without knowing anything about how it works ...

> Setting aside technology the only thing I'm left (no pun intended) with is the experience of a mirror's handedness swapping.

You also know what a copier is supposed to accomplish, so you can consider the results of copying several different things.

> Will you be posting additional hints here or at the OP?

I will be posting a discussion of this on my blog - I'm unlikely to post additional hints here.

>> Try to answer the question ... only refer to what it does.

> The thing reproduces an image of the source ...

Try thinking about different, related sources. Believe it or not, there is actually a connection here to some aspects of cryptography, although that's not necessarily helpful, and certainly isn't essential.

(and thank you for engaging with the question)
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I've been using JupiterOne recently, has anyone else seen it? It creates neo4j-like graph and CMDB from actual AWS data and many other things. There’s a free community version of the product too that I could test out in my lab.
When Glacier first launched I looked at pricing, and it was going to cost a lot to restore from backup if needed. But after your comment I checked the pricing again, and you're right - it's very much cheaper now that it used to be!
You should check out Ocado - they have literally done this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-38897417/the-ocado-wa...
Thanks.

So is this to help protect apps from each other? And/or to protect users from malicious apps?

And what if you've rooted the device, and installed your own file-management app. Could that app manage files normally?
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Not unsurprising, 1M equity over 4 years at today’s valuation is fairly common.
I love that there's no wasted space to "organization". I found all my backpacks wasted so much space with padded pockets I didn't need. The benefits of being able to customize with packing cubes or molle attachements allow this bag to carry more than bags larger than it.
> Any competitor wanting to get its foot in the door would only need to pay Google enough money

Or indeed Google develops a competitor themselves if Uber and Lyft gain 9-digit valuations. It could do that in less than a year and for a few hundred millions at most. Taking a page out of Apple's book of vertical integration and squashing popular services with in-house offerings.
Hi Hacker News,

I'm the writer of this blog post. I am pretty sure that HN readers will find incorrect assumptions or know how to tackle the described problems better. I can handle HN feedback, so please help this guy out ;-)
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My company provided the first Internet connection for Biosphere 2 in the 1995 timeframe. This was right after the bust, they were taken over by Columbia University. At the time I took a tour of most of the complex and it had a very weird, abandoned feel to it. FWIW, most of the systems that monitored / controlled everything there (like Jurassic Park) were ran on HPUX.
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...which would still need to be elevated.
You can install cygwin on windows. This will provide sftp, rsync and lftp which is awesome for doing rsync-like transfers on sftp-only chroot setups.
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Accurate, but to help anyone who cares, here's how to verify your download: https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-how-to-verify...
I was actually wondering if there was anyone storing textual data in html, I also think it is pretty useful and nice. Do you have any additional information? Such as your html organizations etc.?
Reviewing Sled, an embedded database written in Rust
If you click "edit" you can change the capitalisation.
As a creative Director at UI/UX design firm http://fairpixels.pro - I’d like to highly recommend founders to build their first version on intuition. The best way to design a solid UI & UX is not from scratch, rather from a foundational prototype or v1 that’s being used by actual users. We found that the best products we helped design (where the design significantly helped the business move forward) was where the founders had a working prototype and user data to form the basis of crafting a simpler and more user friendly product.
Learning research has shown that this is true.
Most threading related functions in posix are named with the pthread_* pattern, so pthread (short for posix threads) has become the name of regular (usually OS level) threads on a posix platform.
We can do that already by recording a rosbag and then reading the data back on a laptop. Or by port forwading, changing rosmaster and blablabla.

This is just a quicker way to diagnose stuff. I do forest robotics, and when I'm in the woods with my robot the lesser fiddling with my laptop I have to do, the better. It's always great to be able to quickly verify that all sensors are working properly before starting an experiment.
This is by far one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Not only because it's so detailed, but because we still have it 400 years later in such pristine condition.

On that vein, as a 25-year-old it's so incredibly hard to imagine that this was made just under 20 of my lifetimes ago.
This robot looks unpredictable and dangerous for any worker that would be in the area. Other point: as a unicycle rider, I would suggest this robot to wear a helmet.
Please don't repeat this myth. It's simply not true.

Every normal user can understand hierarchy -- shoeboxes in closets in rooms in houses in neighborhoods in cities. The human mind orders things in hierarchies effortlessly. It's just incorrect to claim otherwise.

The only thing users sometimes can't understand are badly designed user interfaces for exposing and navigating a hierarchy.
Ask HN: What was your first programming book?
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That sort of school then has all sorts of “optional but really compulsory” extra fees for things like trips abroad etc. If the sticker price is 30k per year, the actual one is probably around 40k.

For comparison, the average salary in UK is 28k before taxes.
I've been using it. It's pretty good. It's basically the same Ubuntu you've been seeing since 17.10. The performance is better, there's some tweaks to gnome, and the Yaru theme from 18.10 is great. It's refinements mostly.
Got my Atreus kit in the mail today. Can't wait to put it together! Phil, thanks for a wonderful product!
prediction: in a few weeks somebody will rediscover the existence of tektronix emulation on xterm and the community will go crazy about it
Not necessarily. File explorers (and other apps) can still ask the user for access to specific files and folders (including the storage "root "), via the Storage Access Framework (SAF), which gives the app a sort-of-like-a-file-but-not-quite handle on the files and folders within the given tree.

That handle is probably good-enough for basic file management operations, like copying, moving or renaming files, but (from what I've read) if you want to, say, jump to the middle of a file, such as to read a specific file contained in the archive or seek to a specific position in a music/video file, it becomes very inefficient. If you want to read/write from a database (and need that database to be easily shared between different apps), then you also have a problem. If you use an app like Termux, which exposes the file system to standard unix utilities, and want to directly manage all your files with them, you're pretty much out of options.
Cygwin provides rsync, sftp and lftp for windows.
More like Go’s building comes building-agnostic, whether you have 20 stories or not. Anything you need (such as a generic elevator) can be added on. No need to walk 20 stories every day because you can just add what you need in through reusable packages.
heh. Do you live in US? If you do (and only if you do), will it be risky for your life, health or freedom to write tweet "I hate POTUS"? Is there a 100% guarantee that you will be beaten by police if you dare enough to show your political disagreement with the president on the street? If no - you're living in a VERY different country.
I'm not fan of US, but comparison of US and Russia is a really ridiculous thing.
GoRuck GR-2. I got it used on eBay for 1/2 price (used in this case isn't a big deal because these things are bulletproof and last forever). It's great because:

* It has a laptop sleeve

* It's big enough to pack for I'd say 3-5 days

* For the day-to-day I can also pack all of my gym gear (shoes, belt, wraps, clothes)

* It's so heavy duty that you'll never have to worry about it breaking down (and if it does they have a guarantee for repairs)
Learn how to learn and deliberate practice.
im using a ogio mach5 [1] due to riding motorbikes and it has a laptop compartment

i would fully recommend it, i got knocked off and the only damage done to me/bag was a small scratch, bike needed 7k(gbp) work, but me and all my stuff was fine

[1]https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ogio-No-Drag-Mach-Backpack/dp/B0158...
Can it get back up if it were to fall over?
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> There's even an interactive version of the map available to explore via Google Earth.

Does anyone have a link to this?
I recommend X-Plore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatg...

(I am not affiliated with the creator)

I like its column-based view of the filesystem, and the wifi server that you can open a web browser to and upload files from your laptop/desktop.

Some of the features are paid, but frankly $5 for an app really doesn't bother me much as I try to donate at least that to the different open source projects I use a lot.
For spaced repetition, if you haven't tried it here is a fun interactive that is well presented to try it out [1].

For spaced repetition tools, besides Anki [2] there is also TinyCards [3].

Ultimately learning new things means building projects in them, but for rote memorization and when getting started spaced repetition is great. It works well because it is similar to how people learn naturally, the more you see something, the more you lock it into memory.

[1] https://ncase.me/remember/

[2] https://apps.ankiweb.net/

[3] https://tinycards.duolingo.com/
Jurassic Park was SGI IRIX.
I am using the Piquadro CA3214BR-BLU. It is a stylish backpack and it fits the my Macbook Pro 15” 2018, my iPad Pro 10.5 and everything ai need for them, even though it is described to be for 14” laptops. I love it :D
Maybe I'm missing something but this sounds like a disaster. Is this the end of locally stored music libraries? Epub readers? Anything that relies on access to shared storage? If so I'm done with Android.
Depends on the domain. For languages, having learnt or being learning a few (including Japanese & Chinese) my approach is to first learn about the phonology. Then basic vocabulary and grammar, searching words I don’t know in the street (not everything) and having input from authentic material. I prefer learning from books using multiple one at the same time and cherry picking on what pick my interest. Having a few friends in the target language is a huge help to understand some concept or learn about cultural point. Also Wikipedia.

For other things, reading accessible research papers, reference books and searching for unknown concepts when I encounter them, sometimes ask people about a thing or two.
Interesting that this needed re-learning. Anyone who has grown seedlings indoors observes similar.
I always get downvoted to oblivion for pointing this out, but the Elon Musk hype squad is just not being realistic about how far we are from establishing a permanent colony on mars. Severe issues remain.
I have chronic pain. I hate that it makes my anxiety even worse and it's anxiety what really burdens me the most (feeling nonfunctional, feeling anxious, having panic attacks or triggers)
Maybe not. But users might go somewhere else. I have yet to meet anyone in real life that developed anything with UWP because it allegedly (has been a while) still lacks very basic features relating to UI at least (i know it is not restricted to that). I have nothing against WPF, although I am not a fan of XAML. But I think MS isn't really focusing on it. We will see.

I used WPF in medical applications like you said, but that was around 4-5 years ago.

Currently I believe UWP will never significantly take off on the desktop outside of Microsoft.
Like Minsky, who I've been waiting to be referenced in this subject but haven't seen yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
Add lftp on top of sftp and you get extensive scriptability. Working public anonymous demo: [1]

[1] - https://tinyvpn.org/sftp/#lftp
You said:

>we don’t get stuck in frameworks that become legacy (rails)

And now advocate

>Go has a massive ecosystem of third parties libraries

What is so special about these libraries that prevent them from becoming legacy?