skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure I've used these and similar tricks over the years, and still do.

For the most part, I've found that the first two mentioned were the ones that mostly would get me going. More often than not, I find myself hours later lost in the task, having complete way more than I intended to.

The third one - starting with something small - also comes in handy, usually when I am cleaning or organizing something. I'll first look at something and say "yeah, I'll put this back where it belongs right now" and before I know it, one thing becomes another and everything is cleaned up.

But I've always been a procrastinator - especially on personal projects. It's one of my personal failings. Though if the project has a deadline (like I recall with homework in high school decades ago), I find that the pressure to finish quickly ends up gaining me a successful outcome.

I think these tips are useful, and may help others who don't know about them, or haven't developed them on their own.

Great posting!
Germany has also very low net income inequality.
Dense HVAC filters make your HVAC systems run much less efficiently. There is less airflow and less heat transfer (either cooling or heating). Anyone that has come to service my air conditioner or furnace has always checked the filter and recommended never getting a denser filter.
The filters in the HVAC system are more there to prevent your furnace from getting clogged up with larger particles than to help the indoor air quality.
Or, a book mark means I have vetted this page and know it to be of good high quality content. So in this context a bookmark search would be a good feature. Better layout and categorization would help as well.
The services that tried and failed to provide this just redid browser bookmarks and added social. I think they missed out on why people have 100 tabs open.
You mean like this? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
Have you read the SpiderOak disclaimer though?

NOTE: Logging in via the SpiderOak website does temporarily allow SpiderOak employees access to your password.

https://spideroak.support/hc/en-us/articles/115001854583-ONE...
Not true.

Disclaimer: I work for Apple.
clutch?
How do you know? Have you been to the future and confirmed that my history has not lived on? You might think it improbable, but you have no way of knowing that.
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I've only visited briefly, but Aldi in Germany was higher quality than any Aldi I've been to in the US.
Interesting, I will try that the next time, thank you!
Boeing has temporarily stopped making 737 Max airplanes
Wikipedia: “In France, historical records compiled by rural historian Jean-Marc Moriceau indicate that during the period 1362–1918, nearly 7,600 people were killed by wolves”.
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Sonos will stop updating its 'legacy' products in May
It is like a Julia-Nim hybrid.
Yes, I wasn't debating a point, just providing a list of exactly how Apple encrypts user data.
They only way to get rid of mines is to make them useless. Robots can make them useless, because they can spot and disarm or label mines automatically, or just step on them.
Apple scrapped plans to fully secure iCloud backups after FBI intervention
I thought they designed a perfectly serviceable social network. As a product I thought it worked better than Facebook. It wasn't enough better to beat the network effect of the latter, however, and medical records keeping would likely be an even tougher nut to crack. How are you going to convince a hospital that just spent $10M on an epic install to switch to your version, even if it is 15% better?
An Overview of JSX with 3 Non-React Examples
Did you read the article? It's a currently disabled optional feature in the latest insider build.
Of course, there are open source operating systems out there...
The headline made it sound like the horrible mess that Freecell has become, but this is fairly low key.
How can we create a workforce full of lifelong learners?
Please don't use an iPhone X "for scale".

The dual-ruled calipers used in the next photo would be an acceptable substitute for just using a plain old ruler.
Bookmarks don't really solve the website/page is no longer on line problem. But they do solve the Google moved the cheese problem.
A contradiction! Incomes have not increased if incomes are stagnant, and the data is quite clear that incomes are stagnant. How do we resolve this?

Perhaps you are confusing increased income with being higher up on the income ladder? It is true that, statistically, those with higher education do find themselves higher up on the income ladder. They are not making more than they did before, when they did not have higher education, however. Incomes are stagnant.

All we're really observing there is the fact that people range from more to less able, from geniuses who seemingly can do anything to those who have crippling disabilities. At one end of the spectrum you have the people who do well in school and also the workplace due to their natural ability, and at the other, those who struggle in everything they do, be it school or the workplace because of their disabilities. And then everyone else somewhere in between. Statistically, the more able will find themselves higher up on the income ladder, and able to go further in school, thanks to being more able.
Not exactly. Some people may not understand and also not care and I'm sure there are many many people who that fits. When you're talking about surveillance level vs. someone hacking your iPhone that's not really a comparison. Of course people don't want their private messages stolen, but that's not really the case with most surveillance. Not that I'm in favor of it necessarily but there are merits.

Surveillance and privacy aren't the same thing but this is the FBI and people are bringing up snowden. In general I think you're right privacy is just expected for personal messages, but at some point when it's just data I don't think most people care, and may in fact support some level of surveillance.
> Riding trains is great, getting to the train station(s) in a busy city, worrying about the schedule and being in the right spot for the right train, etc, is not at all fun.

I'd say that, in the majority of cases, it's either no more difficult or outright easier than getting to an airport, as airports tend to be located on the outskirts of cities (requiring connecting train/bus service or private cars), while most rail hubs tend to be in city centers.
Recent glibc seems to use 'rep stosb' for largish regions of memset. At least for the numbers I give in this post, the ~30 bytes/cycle is actually coming from rep stosb inside memset.

The q variants (as opposed to b) are a bit of a grey area: Intel has this REP ERMBS thing [1] that promises fast performance for rep movsb and rep movsb specifically, but not for the w, d or q variants. However, I think all Intel hardware that has implemented it has implemented the d and q variants just as fast. It would be good to verify it though...

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[1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/43343231
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>Kinda makes me wonder why MS is even bothering gatekeeping their ISOs. Why not make them freely available?

They are freely available... kind of. There's a site[1] that generates direct download links from microsoft's CDN.

[1] https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php
We had an Aldi open fairly recently close to where we live in the UK and I'd say it is pretty good, maybe not the absolute best quality but our nearest Waitrose is much further away.
I have this problem too. In fact, I built a tool to better serve my own needs [0]. It helps to categorize links based on keywords. Best for article links but also works for generic links, as long as a title and description is present.

[0] Stackkup.com
Good article, but the model is too simple. UK used to produce more cars than Germany, but it's the opposite now. Why? They haven't shared the same currency. German cars were better.

> And it means those same workers in Spain are less equipped to compete for Manufacturing jobs — because Elon Musk has to pay them in German Euros instead of cheap Spanish Peseta. If you’ve got to pay everyone in German Euros, you might as well get the most productive workers for your “buck”, right?

If that was the reason then he should move his factory 50+ miles East. Why the factory is near the Berlin? Network effects. They have the logistic, supply chain and talent. Even electric car project, created by Polish government is designed and build in Germany.
Over the last couple of months I've been slowly, but steadily playing with Rust. I work on embedded systems and while it's gaining traction only slowly, it feels to me reasonably likely that we'll be seeing non-trivial applications in the next 8-10 years. I doubt that we'll see it used for low-power/resource-constrained firmware, but lots and lots of embedded systems are now bulky Linux boxes with years of uptime, and I can see Rust making inroads there. It's not a bad idea to be ready for this, just in case it turns out to be a revolution.

Honestly, I like it, and for all the non-hyped reasons.

Like ownership. Lots of us in the embedded space aren't so impressed by the extra memory safety because, if you allocate all your memory statically, there are fewer ways to screw things up with references, and it's a lot easier to do bounds checking, so fewer bugs slip in. Not that "even fewer" isn't good, it's just that the impact is less dramatic than in application code.

But: the borrow checker still pesters me about something I've written every once in a while. And every once in a while, what it pesters me about is a data race that would have definitely bit me in the back sooner or later. It has no security implications, I guess, and it wouldn't crash my program, but it's still wrong. Yay!

Or like traits, which are just so refreshingly sane.

Lots of people are hung up on security and segfaults, and spend far less time talking about a far less categorical property: the conventions that Rust enforces make it easier to write correct code. Sometimes it's not straightforward code, mind you, but "works right" trumps "fits in a single line" in my book...

In many ways, Rust is what C++ could have been if it had not been designed by saying yes to everything. I guess it's not there yet, but there's a chance it might be.

On a more, uh, philosophical note, I think it's pretty cool that our industry has been granted a second chance in this regard. We've already been given Ada, and we missed the chance to adopt it on a wide enough scale to make a difference. Maybe we won't miss this chance.
This reminds me of a chapter "The Organ Makers' Shop" in Matthew Crawford's book _The World Beyond Your Head_. The author spent a lot of time with organ makers Taylor and Boody (Staunton, Virginia) in 2007 and 2008 and his descriptions are rich and interesting.
perhaps an alternative would be to start a "models" section here?
https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning
I'm sure you've tried but you might want to try and find another perspective. I did a similar joint project with my wife. At more than one point we butt heads. It was pretty tense to say the least I don't want to embellish. On the other hand we did create something and learned much about each other along the way. If you finished something that is a success.
I believe this has been the case for sometime hasn’t it? I vaguely remember reporting indicating this was true during the San Bernardino case and that Apple handed over that backup. Either way I do remember reading the Apple law enforcement guidelines a year or two ago and this was the case. iCloud data is not secure from law enforcement.

My project list has implementing a WiFi backup Windows/iTunes VM for this specific case. Does anyone know how iOS backups will be handled on personal PCs once iTunes is discontinued?
> the common market has distorted things in Germany's favor, an effect that probably won't last.

Quite by design. Having the whole Europe on Germany's monetary policy (i.e. Eurozone with EUR interest rates) while not sharing any other policy is heavily in Germany's favour and one of the main reasons the European debt crisis happened.

Not to say that being a well governed country with good policy and a culture that is conducive to high productivity and good quality did not help - it definitely did. And I'm not trying to redirect blame for the Eurozone crisis - Greece has mainly itself to blame.
YSK In firefox you can confine your awesomebar search to just your bookmarks by typing a * first.

The biggest problem with bookmarks is pages that don't have descriptive titles.
I think congratulating is OK, if you are congratulating the pregnancy, not that they will have a child. Many people struggle with that step, so it's something to be happy about.

The same way you congratulate somebody for being accepted at an university, not knowing whether they will make it to the PhD or not.
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Not sure about the facts underlying the analysis. In my search results (and it's important to remember that it's possible you get different results than another user, due to launch experiments and trials) the ads do not have icons. They say "Ad" in bold text. The "organics" results have icons.
That page seems to have some user agent sniffing. If you're on windows it doesn't offer direct iso download.
There is a business case - charge the FBI or any government agency for the cost of restoring/delivering it to them, or use the contents to improve any machine learning they are conducting, and I'm sure there are others.

For the longest time Facebook couldn't actually delete photos that you requested the deletion of. They could remove it from indexes so it couldn't be found, but if you had the link it would still be available (akamai cdn). Because, to them, either the cost of the hosting was miniscule compared to the cost of writing the software to ensure things actually got purged from the CDN.
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This is why it's worth the effort to make behavior clean, coherent, and logical.

"Huh the behavior of this system is a little eccentric, but if I insert my code in just the right place, I can get it to do what I need!" This is how legacy systems get built.

Instead you have to ask, "How can I describe what this system does in one or two sentences?"

"How can I describe how it does it in a short paragraph?"

The first explanation should make it clear why you're building the new functionality into or on top of the system. The second explanation should make it clear how the system supports the new functionality and why it works. These two explanations form a team's shared understanding of the system. If you build a new system that conforms to this understanding, porting is straightforward, even if you don't replicate all the details.

Invariably, though, there are developers who are too lazy to ask how a system works, and instead crawl through the code sticking their new feature in likely-seeming places and leaving it in the first place where it seems to work, regardless of whether the reason it works is related to the shared understanding of the system. Because everybody else must keep this new feature working, there can be no understanding of the system separate from the system itself: there is just a mass of equally significant details. The intentional developers are reduced to the level of the random developers. There is no such thing as a rewrite of a system like this. All you can do is replicate it nut by nut, screw by screw, and then it still doesn't work because you didn't match the spacing of the screw threads.

The corollary to this is that if you build a complicated enough system, with an abundance of distinct places to plug in code, the random developers will always find a place to stick their code and will always be happy and "productive." This is the way to achieve architectural immortality inside a company: create something so complex that it can't be understood but solves every problem if you look hard enough.
I want my OS maker to get stack traces from stacks so that they can fix crashes

I want my OS maker to ask for stack traces so they can fix crashes. I do not want this to be a default with no way to opt out. Even crash data is my data, not Microsoft's, and Microsoft should ask my permission each time it happens the way that MacOS does.

Then again, that might make people aware of how often programs go sideways on Windows, which is not in Microsoft's interest.
Modern hardware can store license keys on the motherboard's firmware. When you go to reinstall it checks the device to see if it has any valid Windows keys.

FWIW, this isn't exactly a new feature, just a feature which has been expanded on and is far more common with modern UEFI firmware on devices shipped by OEMs. If you notice, most modern laptops don't ship with a product key sticker anywhere. Instead they have a genuine holographic Windows sticker on it and have the license loaded on the device. This became standard for large OEMs with Windows 8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS#SLIC
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"It's not happening in my country" is a naive argument. You might not care if human rights activists and HK protesters are affected. But Apple's actions in China set a precedent for other countries to follow. If a country demands that Apple "comply with local laws" by providing encryption keys or else risk losing access to that marketplace, Apple will comply, regardless of its effect on user privacy.
The index providers are quietly building up enormous powers
This is a very good move on their part, and they have a great no-logs policy, but they do still restrict p2p in some countries which is a bummer for some potential users.
Yes, they do factor in number of clicks. They also consider "regret" -- returning to the search list and picking a different result.
Does this mean that, for instance, if you're writing a novel, you start without a structured outline?
What if I have the browser scale it up via css width and height? Is it still compliant since there's only 128x128 unique squares?

If it's a rectangle, can one side exceed 128 pixels if the product of width and height is less than 128x128?
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New twist on marshmallow test: Kids depend on each other for self control
For what it's worth, here in Denmark, no snow whatsoever this year. Temperatures have been in the 6-7°C range, which is really weird, since it's usually below zero these months.
The "doc" here are comments on the std::fill function in gcc, not the actual reference doc for std::fill.

It isn't even correct:

1) I find no evidence wmemset is ever used (e.g., for wchar_t).

2) It doesn't work for "char types", as in the example in this post: the memory is char type but when literal zero is passed, it breaks.
Are there any advantages of using borg over rclone?
I made my own bookmark manager in Django and it's served my needs for years. Your mileage may vary of course.
https://github.com/gjost/django-linkpile
I'll read this later when I feel like it.
Tech arms race ‘will give corporations, govt the ability to hack humans’: WEF
You can play the same game for Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_states_by_GRP

And if you looked at each of the regions at the top, you'll likely also discover large differences between close-by areas. The geographical distribution of economic activity seems to follow a kind of fractal structure.
The internet is a complicated beast. When ISPs connect to each other (e.g. Proton VPN to Comcast), they can't always directly reach each other so they have to go through intermediate networks to make it work. Sometimes there's congestion in those networks or a faulty switch or any number of things.

ISPs that allow VPN providers tend to be some of the worst ISPs around (i.e. they're able to reach very little of the internet themselves), so when you see bad performance it's quite possible for it to be the VPN's ISP that's the problem, rather than your ISP.

For example I have FTTH from a great ISP. Not only do they have one of the most extensive networks available in my country but they've also been happy to add direct peering to providers that I've asked for in the past. I'm easily able to saturate my gigabit connection to most of the world, even across the Atlantic. When I tried to connect to a VPN server in a city ~5km away resulted in a path traversing 3 different countries and about 5 different networks, resulting in pretty abysmal bandwidth and latency.
Let's be real here - and no, I'm trying to put this guy down:

He was hardly a qualified teacher. Lots of young people up here go on voluntourism trips to countries in Africa or Asia to teach a couple of months. If you want to try teaching, you can do so locally; There are lots of options.

Musician, sure, it's fun (I've toured in 4 different countries myself playing in band, though 15 years ago now), but it's hard to do full-time.

DL expert would be to push it, there's a long way between being productive and being an expert.

But I'm gonna be frank with you, doing all those kinds of things is possible here because we have a great welfare system. You can work, save aggressively, and do whatever you want.

The unfortunate fact of life here though, is that a lot of entrepreneurs and indie developers (just to pick a few) are funded by welfare checks.
It shows up in Finder. Most of the iTunes functionality is still there but split up into more logical places.
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Yes. Take a screenshot. If it says Full Page, there you go.
Hmm yes I see.
My small bit of advice is to think everything what you do as feedback loops. Eg if you start browsing youtube videos, you'll get by each video more and more into it and at some point cant stop watching. Same for work or workouts or whatever. Once the initial cognitive burden of starting the work has happened, it's should be your utmost priority to just keep at it. Minimize the distractions and get back to the 'looping' as soon as possible. In time the act of doing becomes so easy, that you dont need to invest that much in starting up. Just to stay focused. And your flow-state becomes so strong that you dont even become distracted as the work is so interesting to you
> Google is an ad company

Apple is also an ad company.

Apple's advertising business is currently $2 billion, growing rapidly, on track to $11 billion by 2025.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/11/15/apple-ad-revenue/
this is fairly low key

Only if you're inured to this kind of corporate intrusion on your machine that you paid for with your money.

My toaster barking, "Hey, wouldn't you like a nice Thomases' English Muffin instead? Nooks and crannies!" is also fairly low-key, but not something I want.
Yes I see the same, it's really easy to tell what is an ad and what isn't...
Ask HN: What was the most recent step function you discovered in your business?
It can be software performance, marketing, personal achievement, anything brought 2x improvement...
Not sure the value or USP compared to all the other digital business card alternatives

Edit: To be fair, it looks nice. Good work regardless!
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