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Ask HN: Simple Solution to Backup Laptop?
I have less than 80GB of data (mainly documents, photos and code) that I would like to backup. My current strategy is rsync + WD elements external hard drive (1TB) + 1 cheap usb stick. Public photos and code are also in the cloud. So far, so good.

I know that using NAS would be the perfect backup strategy, but honestly I think it's a bit overkill for my needs. In any case, I would like to rely on local storage (instead of cloud) to improve my current situation. I was thinking about buying an additional hard drive (Western Digital 1TB WD Blue Mobile Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 128 MB Cache, 3.5") to use it as an "offline" storage device (since my main external drive is always next to my laptop, though not always plugged in). I would need a suitable enclosure (e.g., Hard Drive Enclosure, RSHTECH USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for 3.5 inch SATA I/II/III HDD).

What do you think?
I'm not. Your citation shows extremely dense pads in two banks (even before taking power delivery into account which isn't shown in your functional breakdown), and decent amounts of empty space between the logic blocks.
> it costs $10m to prosecute you and put you in jail for life, OR you are given $5m and told you get to keep it unless you commit another crime

I don't think that would work simply because after that person spends the $5M, the government can't claw it back even if that person commits another crime, and if they are in the state where they are considering another crime, the extra $5M debt would probably not deter them too much. This proposal would need to be reworked to align long term incentives of the person with not committing another crime. It would also need to disincentivize people from committing crimes just so they can get this benefit.

In a somewhat related vein, I recall there being a proposal to provide basic housing to the chronically homeless, as certain homeless people cost the taxpayers millions due to arrests and illnesses from being homeless. Although there is no angle of punishment here, there is still the angle of those homeless not deserving free housing. I believe however that there is a strong case for providing such housing, when viewed from a dispassionate point of view, as it is both fiscally prudent as well as humane in reducing suffering.
The peace process was in 1996, not 2006. Hamas doesn't accept the partition decision of 1948, even fatach don't really accept it because they ask for "right of return", meaning all Arabs who used to be in Israel area in 1948 and their descendant should have a right to go back to Israel, effectively destroying Israe as a Jewish country. So sometimes this political stance manifest itself in a type of violence, like the suicide bombs during the Oslo agreement times in the 90', which caused it to derail and become more of a war than a peace process. But even if they were the most peaceful people in the world, their stance doesn't change, that Israel should be another Arab country. So the only option for Jews is either to live Israel or live under some Arab dictatorship, like any other middle eastern Arab country.
I feel like this argument is akin to saying that the measurement ruler will never take off because medieval worksites use "soft" local measurements. I think the long-term view, in my opinion, is that of course contracts will be clearly delineated with definite terms. We may still need juries to determine facts and application of these contracts to facts, but we should not have to try to understand the intent of the contracting parties- that's what the contract is.
>There have been tests showing we cannot hear the difference between minimally lossy audio (e.g. mp3 320kbps) and lossless. But Balvin can. And it sounds "bigger and stronger".

Yes, but lossless audio is still useful for transcoding. If you want to play music on your phone, and you have plenty of fixed hard drive space on your desktop (which is very cheap), it's rational to compress with an advanced codec to ~90 kbps since your headphones probably aren't good enough to pass anything more hi-fi and you want space for pictures and videos. However, if your downloads come lossy compressed, you'll introduce transcoding artifacts; you can get around this by transcoding at a significantly higher bitrate, but now the compressed file is wasting space!
The analogy isn't really working, but the core is valid nonetheless: when an idea has few valid examiners and thousands of nutjob followers and they all want to talk to you, perhaps the latter even more than the former, then you'll eventually accept the risk of perhaps missing out on one of the few gems rather than suffering through the endless repetitions of all the others.
They’ve been repeatedly conflated, either purposefully or carelessly. Almost no one was actually pursuing the engineered bioweapon angle but anyone who even suggested that it may have leaked from a lab that studies bat coronaviruses was treated like a tinfoil hat conspiracy nut. It’s pretty dismal that no one is going to be accountable for their behaviour through this whole mess, nothing will be learned and we’ll probably be worse off the next time something like this happens.
This is actually a category of moves on sites like Chess.com.

They categorize moves into things like blunder, mistake, inaccuracy, good, best.

But the top move is 'Brilliant' and the second best is 'Best Move.' Best move is the move the chess engine thinks is the best, and brilliant is the category for moves that weren't considered, but turn out to be the best. They're uncommon, but if you play enough, you'll hit them occasionally.

https://support.chess.com/article/364-how-does-the-game-repo...
> Claiming that COVID came from a lab is pretty close to non-falsifiable, i.e. impossible to prove.

I don't think this is true. A hypothesis can be unfalsifiable without being unprovable. (Think of a "needle in a haystack" existence hypothesis: it's unfalsifiable, at least practically speaking, but it can be proven simply by finding the needle.)
Some drives (like those for Atari 8-bits) were intelligent, so software didn't have direct control over the recording parameters. So publishers would create custom authoring drives that could write bad sectors on command; the program loader would check for a bad sector and refuse to load if it wasn't present.

A more-clever technique would write two sectors in a row with the same sector number but different data in each. The program loader would rapidly demand that sector twice, getting different data as the disk passed under the read head. A copy program, however, would only copy each sector once and be missing the data from the sector with the duplicate number.
>I just found it interesting that different dogs were allegedly affected both there and overseas.

Affected in completely different ways, with no symptoms in common. That's terrible evidence, yet it seems to be the primary reason you went from skeptical to convinced.
The US already has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and it's also by far the most dangerous and crime-ridden developed country in the world: there are 7x (seven) times more murders than any other OECD country!

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/pdf

Yet you're proposing doubling down on a clearly broken approach?
I took a Super Shuttle one fine morning and the driver was drifting in and out of sleep. Scary as heck. They had an app that would beep and he'd wake up and tap it and then kind of drift back.

My experience with early morning taxis (if they actually show up) and unlicensed taxis has been a lot better. But I've also resigned to being ok with paying an arm and a leg for airport parking because I trust myself to get enough sleep to drive safely.
Paper notes are my central knowledge base, and I consider my notes one of my most valuable resources. Going back to notes I've made in the past is one of the best memory jogs I've found.

The act of writing things down makes me much more likely to remember them, and it gives me a way to knowledge dump that is completely freeform and follows my train of thought.

Typing them up later into refined notes solidifies everything and becomes part of my organization, but the notes themselves serve as the best way to remember details and major concepts that I've found.
Says the subdomain link that lacks SSL. A wildcard certificate would have sufficed.
The interesting thing about hydrogen is that it is flammable in almost any concentration (4% to 74% in air). Jet fuel, on the other hand, is only flammable over a small concentration range (0.6 to 4.7%).
It's not exactly 'meta' knowledge, it's something that anyone with a few hours of experience in chess would be able to pick up on. It doesn't require knowledge of anything other than chess.

If an AI can't pick up on it then that suggests it lacks parts of what to humans would be a basic understanding of chess.
An astonishing insert:

>A good example of human exploitation of the engine's failings is GM Hikaru Nakamura's defeat of Rybka in the following three-minute blitz game from the Internet Chess Club. Nakamura cleverly locks the position so that progress is impossible for Rybka, then he offers two exchange sacrifices to the engine. With the position locked, the engine's rooks have no value, but the engine thinks it has a winning material advantage. With a draw by the 50-move rule approaching, the engine sacrifices a pawn to avoid a draw, but this proves a huge mistake as Nakamura is then able to win the game, an incredible achievement!
This is very cool. I've always wanted a "virtual platform" that can run on even the creakiest of hardware. I especially like that it uses ASM instead of some embedded language.

Some people think of the Pico-8 as this but it's actually got pretty high minimum specs! Higher than the GBA! (Which is my typical "runs anywhere" platform of choice)

Maybe the graphics are a bit too limited though? 2bpp for the entire screen is a tough sell (Wassup my Apple ][ and Amstrad CPC fans)

The sound limitations are pretty cool and remind me of the Amiga.

As for the ASM specs, I'll have to wait and see what more experienced programmers have to say on that one. I remember people picking over the DCPU 16's ASM and there having to be revisions.
I do not see the point of reading translated literature, let alone translated poetry. It's like trying to appreciate an IOCCC submission by looking at a Java port that does the same thing. The beauty of it tied up in the specifics that you can't replicate 100%. Even if the translation is good, it ends up just being a different piece of work altogether.
Links:

- Western Digital 1TB WD Blue Mobile Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 128 MB Cache, 3.5": https://www.amazon.com/WD-Blue-1TB-Hard-Drive/dp/B013HNYVLA/...

- Hard Drive Enclosure, RSHTECH USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station for 3.5 inch SATA I/II/III HDD: https://www.amazon.com/RSHTECH-Enclosure-External-Docking-St...
Joe Frank's Last Interview Before His Death
Not OP but I used a remarkable a few times at my old job and it was slick, but I'm not sure I would really say I recommend it more than my trusty notebook and pen. The digitization was decent, though, and i'm sure it's only gotten better. I honestly think it's the type of thing you'd have to test out to know.
One thing I really like about the Legalese front page is they identify the problem with all the other numerous contracting-automation startups out there. We don't need another soup-to-nuts automated contracting solution. We have those, they're fine but they're not going to bring about world peace.

What we really need is an industry-wide API-like-thing to provide a higher base to build all the other contracting solutions on top of.

Right now the default API is "English language" and law of your choice. That's too hard of a problem to solve transparently with technology and it presents a learning curve that's hard to justify with an endgame of vendor lock-in and product instability. And you can only do so much if you're the only contracting party "speaking" that API. Designing a replacement API isn't easy either, and industry adoption may be nigh impossible from the position of a startup. But these folks seem clever and they think big so something to watch.
I agree. Some workschedules are quite toxic, and (perhaps biased as someone sensitive to circadian rhythm disturbances) would prefer not to see this normalized as it is today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_work#/media/File:Child_L...

I don't want that to come back either.

> Maybe they like having sunlight in their free time instead of their work time.

With a real night shift (3rd shift) your body would strongly want to sleep through all the good sunlight anyways. And if you do stay up for it, well good luck enjoying any part of the day.

Anyways to some it all up, maybe PP should check out https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238091
This reminds me of ADE_651, fake bomb detector, except the part of someone going to jail for fraud:

"It was widely used in the Middle East, and may have led to numerous deadly bombings in Iraq due to its inability to detect explosives. Its inventor, James McCormick, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2013 for fraud. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
Note that a contributing problem to the Hindenburg disaster was the exterior canvas paint was chemically about the same as rocket fuel.
I'm an 1850 player and when I am playing under extreme time pressure (e.g. < 2 seconds remaining), I occasionally underpromote to a rook because I can execute a rook+king endgame mechanically faster than a queen+king without an accidental misclick causing a stalemate.
It depends on how you define security. Are you talking about privacy maybe? Because there are more 0-day exploits for iphones than pixels so for security you are already ahead.
They are not removing cities blindly, they are only including cities with more than 1m people. That removes places like Pateros which, while incredibly dense, are not particularly populous.
Do you have an example of the final (aerial) imagery result?
No, what I'm pointing out is that the scales involved are preposterous in this case. 100% of the residents would be paying for services that are only available to ~41% of the residents.

On the other hand, if it were, say, a tax in the service area of the MTA, then it would be mostly equitable.
The central KSK is a reason for normal users to dislike DNSSEC, but it's not why virtually nobody in the industry has deployed it, even though we're rapidly closing in on 3 decades of standardization effort for it.

Handshake is a deeply silly idea; literally, the Internet analog of selling the Brooklyn Bridge.
Censorship, Surveillance, Profits: Apple’s Bargain in China
Cool - but this quickly wanders into highly questionable subjectivity.
Energy is energy. If there's a way for damage to cause the battery to discharge "all at once" there will be an explosion/fire just as bad as the equivalent gasoline fire.

> Electric cars are going to make cars significantly safer by avoiding the accident in the first place.

I see no reason why the fuel source has any bearing on accident avoidance.
The BBC published a fascinating article on that: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29459896

Longer form article: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/fake-bomb-detectors-...
Please update the title so it isn’t clickbait
There is value in seeing a bunch of faulty ideas that leads up to a good one. For this reason I keep almost all of my got dev/feature branches posted to an archival remote.
It's more of "the" downside than "the MTA would no longer have as good of a reason to incentivize ridership".
There are still the American scientists and foundations that were involved in offshoring this research to China.
I've had my Remarkable2 for about 40 days, and use it everyday. I use it for all my meeting notes, use it for planning, sketching out ideas, marking up PDFs. Add about 4 pages per day.

I love it. My favorite tool for thought I've added to the toolbelt in a long time (well, the M1's are also amazing). It's like magic. I can draw a diagram like I do on paper, but now drag select and then duplicate and quickly have thousands of glyphs. Very fun to think through ideas. My iPad Pro/Pencil is mostly for FaceTime now and the occasional marking up of a screen grab. Before this I would fill up about 4-6 paper graphing paper notebooks a year.

It was definitely expensive, but given how much it is improving my work, well worth it.

The subreddit has been very helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/
It does, however, seem to be the ‘secret sauce’ to humans’ ability to generalise our problem solving across domains.
Ahh you're right; I should have thought of that possibility! It turns out my data is more or less garbage; mea culpa.

In fact: all of the =R promotions I inspected were frivolous, and 4/5 of the =N promotions were frivolous. I'm surprised it's that bad. One scenario where this happens is "capture-promote, followed by immediate re-capture".
Anyone on night shift could have told you this, especially 12hr night shift with a 2-2-3 schedule.
Their debt [1] doesn't seem outrageous especially when they recently converted some of their over-inflated stock into more cash-on-hand. That article says they've got $19b in cash-ish assets, 11.7B in debt 2 of which is going to be coming due soon.

Regarding 3rd party fast-charging networks; look at https://abetterrouteplanner.com/ and a/b test a tesla vs non-tesla going from where you might want to be to where you might want to go.

For the most part it is practical to use a tesla as a normal car including long-distance trips, the same isn't nearly as true for other EVs. Plus, a modern tesla can use 3rd party charging networks.

As far as truck / semi / etc goes -- I suspect tesla simply doesn't have the battery capacity to make those new products and the existing product line.

Tesla's a battery manufacturing concern looking for the highest profit-margin products to wrap around batteries. As they've expanded battery capacity they've expanded from unreliable sports car to luxobarge / weird SUV to BMW 3 / Audi A4 competitor and now have expanded to include competitors to the Q5.

Lastly, when looking at the market cap of Tesla vs some other car company, keep in mind that tesla includes a global dealership network while other car manufacturing companies outsource the dealership side of the business to others. What's the global value of ford + all ford dealerships vs Tesla?

[1] https://www.benzinga.com/news/21/02/19638445/teslas-debt-ove...
This sounds like a needlessly harsh take and on something as benign as "having pen and paper regularly".
I feel like I remember even in 2017 correspondence chess players in centaur-allowed matches had centaurs beating people who expected to just be able to set up a cluster and run an engine and copy its moves. And gwern's article seems to me pretty strong evidence that the best centaur players still held an edge in all the tournaments he listed.

I am very curious to hear how that's still possible (or to learn that in fact it is now impossible), especially in the post Leela/Alpha world.
This would be a great argument to defend slavery in the 1800's.
You can use a security targeted distro, like copperheadOS.

You can use the regular built in stuff, like device encryption, long pins, adjusting the privacy settings, and adding/removing apps for best security.

Then there's this for general tips. https://anonymousplanet.org/guide.html
I don't think every person who replies to you needs to answer the exact question you asked. This is a general conversation, and people can talk about any interesting point in any part of the preceding text. Tangent conversations are just fine here.
We must have missed each other on passing trains. My experience was that sprints are not just built in but required. I set up my last project with a catch all “active” sprint that never ends, and a catch-all “later” sprint that also doesn’t end for stuff that’s not being actively worked on or considered.
The closest comparison that leaps immediately to mind would be Hong Kong.

But I think the underlying theme is that descriptive words can editorialize - which is pretty obvious.
Being the center of political and military power means a lot of people have to constantly worry that their political and geopolitical enemies are trying to get one over on them. I'm not saying they're like Dale Gribble, but a certain part of them is professionally paranoid.
Israel recognizes no government in Gaza (neither the Palestinian Authority, which has no power there, nor Hamas, which they recognize as terrorists not a government), claims control over entry and exit to the territory of goods and people, including by sea, and claims the right to enter the territory at any time to carry out military activity.

Israel also does not recognize a Palestinian state in general to be at war with to begin with. There is some lip service to an eventual two state solution that gets less and less paid to every year, but as it stands there's no one to be at war with, as far as Israel is concerned. There's just a bunch of stateless people stuck in a postage-stamp-sized jurisdiction that they've left in a lawless state.

"Disengagement" is not devolution is not autonomy. The idea that this is a war is a convenient PR fiction.
Yup I've been there, and on hot days you wake up super dehydrated
I'm aware of that. but some rehabs adhere to the harm reduction model & too many don't, which is why you get people ODing because their rehab thought expecting someone to stay fully abstinent after a month or two of inpatient was a better idea than putting them on suboxone while they got long-term psychiatric help. the 12-step approach is partly responsible for the abstinence dogma, hence my mention of it
I keep branches like these around if nothing else to show other developers that come up with similar ideas just how it'll turn out in the end. It's been really useful a few times for stopping a ball before it starts moving that I know isn't going anywhere good.
Contrary to the title, the blood isn't used as a vaccine ingredient. It's used to test the vaccines for bacterial toxins.
Deconstructing Lambdas–An Awkward Guide to Programming Without Functions [video]
Learning Ktor In 7 Days (server-side Kotlin)
The more sources of information you have the better you can collect and correlate it - especially if you have various low-resolutions taken at different times but still able to be lined up.
Here is a well written article about the topic, which outlines some details that I am currently investigating for confirmation, and helps make Galileo's story a little more nuanced than the elementary school version: https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2020/09/18/what...