skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Productivity" has been fully productized to the extent that there are paid tools built around methodologies like bullet journaling, lists, zettelkasten, spaced repetition, pomodoro timers, stoicism etc.

The end result of which is an ocean of SEO blogspam written by the the purveyors of such tools, reducing the signal-to-noise ratio the well below the threshold of usability.

I find that in my 30s, the solution for productivity woes is much the same as the ancient wisdom of my parents' computer-free generation:

(i) ensure decent nutrition and sleep

(ii) step away from the screens periodically

(iii) spend time outdoors

(iv) review your goals at the start of each day

(v) perfection is rarely necessary
Just ignore the 287 million car owners in the US... yeah.

I wouldn't vote for a party that promised to raise gas prices to 8 dollars a gallon - I don't think most people would.
An SRE friend told me that they're pretty confident that a three letter organization have attempted a serious breach at a data center. There's a good chance that Apple has negotiated a deal so they'll stop attempting hacks in the future.
Hard-copy documents can be fraudulently altered after signature too. The question is, how much more burden do you want to impose on the parties to address the infinitesimal fraction of cases where that kind of fraud might be involved.

EDIT: Each party presumably will have email records with the PDF attachment — and if the attachments don't agree, then the parties' lawyers will be busy. But again, how likely is that to happen, and how much time and money do you want to spend to prevent it? At some point you hit diminishing returns (and OCD behavior).
Worked for a startup making their own chat and it sucked up such a lot of effort on everyone's part trying to get all the tiny details working that everything else started to suffer.

I dunno though - even using something like Mattermost as the backend, you're probably still having to do a lot of UI work yourself as a wrapper around that. Damned if you do, damned if you don't?
Carbon budget will exhaust in 10 years at current emission levels: IPCC report
Ah, thank you! Yes, I see. Users of cryptocurrency are monsters who, because of the carbon footprint of mining, threaten the very planet. Why, that goes beyond mere hatred for humanity—you have to include the entirety of the Five Kingdoms.

https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/animal/animal_3.htm

How could anybody be against criminalizing it!
Wow, that's super neat. How much fine-grain control do you have over the drone's control? I'm curious how much data these consumer-grade headsets are able to measure, I've always assumed it's just a single analog value for sensed "brain activity" (not a neuroscientist so I'm totally guessing).
My wife's ex was college buds with a guy who bought fuck.org back in 1999. I know he's been offered upwards of $1 million for it, probably more by now, but he's never given it up. My wife even got an email address out of it, though she doesn't use it. Dude's never even bothered to put up a web site. It's still just a single html file that says "fuck you" in the metadata.
And we know that all of that is feasible, because Linux on Desktop is a great thing now.

Years ago it was something that only nerds and techy people would use and now one can easily install it for any family member and never look back.
Probably everyone painting their roofs white would help too.
This is what's happening with open source hardware. For example, VESC and ODrive both quickly had knockoffs in all the usual places. The maintainers were somewhat understandably irked by this, but if you ask me it's exactly what should be happening. Maybe the issue was the knockoffs not complying with the license or not giving credit, but if that's all good and proper, and we should check as the end buyer, it's a net benefit to the consumer.
- You didn’t think this through

- That was a stupid idea

- Do you even have a plan?

- Do you know what you’re doing?

- Darwin awards

- …

I think there is a lot of cultural concern about not thinking enough.
Some people are just really stupid and a belief in aliens is the perfect litmus test.
I think when most people understand what the thing is doing they either don’t care or actually agree with it. There’s a large overlap with tech people and people that have strong privacy feelings. If you chat with normal people they are generally completely onboard with scanning for this type of material.

I had quite a hard time explaining to some people why the anger towards this wasn’t pro-pedo essentially because they couldn’t understand why anyone would be against these people being found.
It would be difficult for a human brain to read a news paper article without parsing any of the quotes. :-)
Not to be too tinfoil-hatty, but why wouldn't we at least consider the possibility of this kind of "warfare"? We accept the possibility of physical, nuclear, cyber, cultural, chemical and "deadly" bio warfare. But not soft, malicious and below the radar bio warfare that this could be? Is it because they "released" it in their own country supposedly?

Anywho, I've long since realized that it's all too-easy to do both sabotage, terrorism and other evil things very easily without being caught. The fact that it doesn't happen fairly regularly on a grand scale that brings society to a halt though makes we wonder if there are an appreciable amount of such evil people that are willing or incentivized to do those evil acts. A sort of "Drake equation" look at it, I guess.
How does open web make it better? Then your data is swimming on a server outside your device on an unknown operating system with god knows who looking at it.

Someone earlier astutely stated the metaphor “the thin edge of the wedge”; the movement to the “cloud” via the open web over the last decade was the thinnest part of the wedge.
“Ice Age”, climate change documentary narrated by Leonard Nimoy (1978)
https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/04/google-ch...
I noticed myself doing this more and more, but not in the context of personal productivity, but rather in the context of "how can I help you help yourself". The gist is usually "can we solve this in some way that doesn't involve me coding a full blown technical solution". A lot of times, a workable solution is as simple as "just write 2 paragraphs about it in the docs" (and then mindlessly copying+pasting the link to it in chat until people get the message to just go RTFM). Or spending an hour doing a brain dump of the problem/solution space and letting them go off and do the work themselves.
Purism's accurate take on Apple's recent CSAM-scanning announcement is preaching to the choir since the typical consumer use-cases for an iPhone versus a Librem phone don't overlap well. Still, I'm glad Purism continues to stake-out and explain its entire reason for existing.
Ah so the csam detection doesn’t apply to incoming iMessages? (For now at least I guess- who knows about what Apple decides to do once this gets adopted).
But then they have lied to the police.
Even $200B is minuscule when compared to the money that governments can spend to make this a requirement for everyone. People need to push back on the situation that led to Apple even thinking they needed to do something like this. We need to go against the root cause, not the solution one company came up with to try and fight against that cause.
The USSR economy did pretty well under Stalin, especially during the Depression that affected the west. Khrushchev deprioritized capital expenditures and that was the beginning of the end. Similar story in the DDR around the time of Stalin's death.
So this friend of mine receives a call from the Director about to evaluate his work, and is told "Clearly you are brilliant, but other colleagues are faster than you... For example, yesterday I asked about X, and see how A was fast in replying?"

It was not easy to express that A gave a quick response with a largely false content.

It is called rushing, it came from a culture of stopping well before decent quality, and it should not be a value.
What coolspot says below. I want to have a look and maybe create my own version, I love generative art. My "best" (the one that made me happiest) creation followed the same approach. It's an iris [0] , and the process of drawing tries to mimic how you'd draw it… and I just broke the implementation in the pieces needed for it:

- Create background gradient
- Create muscular coloured stripes
- Add a bit of noise to the stripes
- Gradient for the pupil
- Reflection in iris and reflection in pupil (the last one is "fake")

[0] https://github.com/rberenguel/sketches#iris-p5js
I think GP is asking that every time you refresh the fish, it uses a different seed and it publishes it, perhaps via a share link. Otherwise, to find a fish you want you'll have to manipulate the url multiple times.
You have to enable the more intrusive metrics in the back-end.
The cycles are longer than you're imagining. Relational database folk have been railing against the incursions of one generation of non-relational database type or another since at least the 1980's.
So long as I can also use them in firefox they're 'unstandardised but not single vendor' and at that point I'm not as troubled about it.
A couple of clichés I use when I lack motivation.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today.

Point being that is never too late to start.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly.

Maybe you don't the motivation to give 100% today. Maybe you are not good enough to do it the right way. Doesn't matter. Don't just give up and do nothing. For example I may say I don't feel like going to the gym today and lifting weights. So instead of staying home and watching YouTube. I'll go walk on the treadmill for 20 minutes. Yeah it might not be as rigorous, and I might not have met my goal, but I did something.
I never understood the market for Balena Etcher.

You can use the standard unix 'dd' tool to copy images to sdcards and usb-drives. You can literally `dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/rdisk3` (or whatever your disk id is). I have done it dozens of times. It doesn't give you a progress indicator, but I don't need to do this often anyway.

The pro version does make sense thought, I just can't imagine a long running manufacturing process where the SDcards are arriving faster than I can write to them.
At this point "my phone" is a pretty meaningless distinction. It's just Apple's phone as a service. For whatever reason people have drawn this, to me arbitrary, line where it's decided that it's not your MySpace page or your Squarespace site just because someone else distributing it on your behalf but once you hold it in your hand that rule can't apply because reasons.

It's been a decade and a half of software not being the user's agent and instead some company's agent that in some cases you buy the hardware for.

Unless how we talk about software changes this is just the world we live in now. How many apps do you have that are genuinely extensions of your intent as a user and not company kiosks? Of probably about 100 apps on my phone I think I have maybe 5.
> Even assuming this other shoe drops, then this logic implies that there is a moral duty to implement other types of scans to prevent other serious crimes. Surely Apple shouldn't abdicate its moral duty to prevent murder. There's really not much of a limit to this argument

Over 70,000 Americans die from overdoses each year, which is nearly double that of yearly vehicle fatalities. If Apple is already scanning photos and messages, why not save tens of thousands of lives while they're at it by detecting heroin and fentanyl dealers, too?
All arguments aside for a moment, do they just not see the logical inconsistency here?

>Apple’s Head of Privacy implies that it’s because it was ready, but that’s a bit of a dodge—Apple has to choose what technologies to prioritize, and it prioritized this one.

Apple didn't have to prioritize this ahead of anything in order for it to be ready to ship. They could have been working on it in the background for some time.
If this is a preemptive response to full E2E encryption, does that change your opinion in that regard at all?
You are right. Though that’s opt in “for now”.
Interestingly I saw someone not even a day ago on HN asking for _exactly_ this kind of product, complaining that everything that looked even remotely close was some whitelabelled endlessly rebadged junk[0].

Weird to see people taking the exact opposite stance and asking "who is it for".

Obviously this is _awesome_ for any large deployment of Pi's.

Imagine you'rea teacher and you're giving Pi's to kids (their intended use case), I wouldn't want to write 30 cards one by one.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28141304
Unless you know someone in executive leadership that can file an exception, you can't (at most companies). HR processes are often created specifically to prevent exceptions, though, so by that time you've already lost. You'll either have to stick around at your current employer until they give you a chance, or start spamming resumes.

There's no magic bullet here.
> I've been an Apple fanboy since the mid-80s, but I find the whole concept of my phone suspecting me of child pornography appalling.

In The Cuckoo's Egg, Cliff Stoll tells about having his computer page him when it detected a hacking attempt. Telling about one time when his pager went off, he said, "My computer wanted me."

Now we have so many notifications and suggested actions from our phones and computers, it feels like we have become computer peripherals. Our computers want us to do things. They have agency, and we're responding to it.

But at least we still had agency, too. The computer had the initiative, and we could choose to respond, or not. Now, though, the computers are limiting our agency. They are becoming the controllers, and we the controlled.

I don't think it's just that Apple has made a huge mistake. I think humanity is making a huge mistake. We are allowing tech to turn us into children.
This is why people say that the police are an agent of the wealthy to oppress the common people. The wealthy "file a report", and the police "take the report seriously", trampling the rights and stealing precious time of people's lives (and sometimes much worse), but the common people can not do the same to their oppressors.
> I overthink everything all the time and there are still many things I miss and do wrong.

If you're like me, this is probably because the time spent thinking wasn't necessarily productive. It wasn't spent thinking about the right things, or about the things in the right way, with the right understanding or knowledge, etc.

This is hard to overcome because at least in my case this occurs because of a lack of understanding of what I'm doing, or perhaps a worry that I won't execute on something as well as I believe I could. But in there lies a significant problem. My overthinking is motivated by 1) impressions and hypotheticals (could I actually execute better? And what if I don't need to understand the problem better? What if there is no attainable solution to the problem that's better enough to warrant researching it?) and 2) insecurities like fear of failure, fear of being wrong, of appearing incompetent.

I often overthink because I want to do the best job I can (good) but... I want to do it on my first try (bad). I end up with massively diminishing returns on the thinking I do because of the first point mentioned above. I'm pursuing something that is arguably imaginary, and if I make good progress it's often pure luck rather than a calculated, predictable step forward.

This is what makes it overthinking in my case. I'm wasting my energy and potential. I could act on what I know much sooner and be more productive, then revise my work with what I learn in the process or what I learn later. I should move forward with a better balance of confidence and critcal thinking, being sure to consider what I know carefully, how well I understand what I'm engaging in, but also knowing that I'm acceptably competent and that I'll learn more by doing.

Easy to say, harder to do. But I do believe I lose a lot of my potential to overthinking. It becomes more neurotic than effective after a point. I'm often unaware that I'm even doing it; almost like I'm addicted to the process of analyzing, deconstructing, reconsidering, starting again. It feels somehow safer than taking the risk of making a (likely correctable) mistake!

I agree that underthinking, or I suppose an absence of thinking, should be more critically considered and addressed when it occurs. It's a much different beast though. I believe they occur for perhaps entirely different reasons.
obviously when people speak about productivity they dont mean wasting time. And I agree with the need for rest, but again some people struggle with the balance in the opposite direction
What actually happens in that scenario is that one group now writes an adapter on top of SQLite to make it "standardized" to whatever interface you design, increasing the complexity and scope for bugs. To be clear: you're literally reimplementing something that SQLite already does, except probably much worse, in the name of the "standard."

Then that adapter is carbon copied by everyone, because again, nobody is going to reimplement an 80kLOC SQL database as well as whatever 10k LOC parser/lexer/typechecking adapter someone wrote, if they can avoid it. Then everyone just uses that forever, and you're back to square 1, using one implementation everywhere, which is the exact situation standards are supposed to avoid anyway.

The working group was correct to reject a "compromise" like that because that's never how it works out in practice; it's a submarine suggestion from the start. And a big part of this is all because, as evidenced by numerous responses in this thread, modern computer programmers seem to value their own immediate satisfaction and time over literally every other potential concern, no matter how significant.
I dont care if crypto crashes 90+ Percent because Tether turned out to be highly leveraged. Let it.

What do people want to hear? If the issuing organization has no liquidity for its commercial paper or literally non existent assets then people cant redeem their tether.

OTC desks using bitfinex as advertised isnt news and has nothing to do with speculating on an opaque reserve issue with Tether. That was my entire point.
Gotta love the new and improved Hacker News where ads make it to the front page daily.
Jirafeau is a “one-click-filesharing” – Select file, upload, share a link
How rich could you have been if you invested your Stimulus Checks?
GitLab CI is not only easier to use , it also isn't a half-baked product like GitHub Actions.

For example, GH Actions don't support YAML anchors but also have basically no other way of cutting down on repetition in your CI config files (actions can't call other actions, for example), so your CI config is full of brittle boilerplate.

Also noteworthy is how you can't rerun single actions. If your deployment failed, you might have to rerun the whole workflow, including the 10 min test run.

Meanwhile, if you use dependabot, PRs issued by that tool have no access to secrets, so if you need to connect to e.g. AWS to run tests, you need to implement weird workarounds.

I don't understand why GitHub is so popular, GitLab seems like such a better tool and it's also developed totally in the open. Some of the CI stuff is literally amazing (e.g. merge trains).
> shoving all your data into and out of boxes that don't fit

Ironically this is what dynamic languages do. Everything is in boxes that could be anything.

It's worth bearing in mind that dynamic languages can be (and often are) built using statically typed languages. You can easily build dynamic collections using static typing.
On MacBook (built-in retina display), it has very similar antialiasing to the default UI font SF.

However, the x-height is smaller and that bothers me a bit. If I increase the font-size in tweets to 15.5px, it matches old size and looks good again.
So it’s worse. They don’t wait until they’ve had several hits before they get any knowledge of it, they have a list of people who might have these images in their library.
Why You Should Work For a Startup
Google is super relevant to the case if they identified someone who downloaded a non-protected file in response to a police request. Not sure there is any slope left to slip on, this is basically the worst case scenario already I think.

Edit: Whoops, all of my assumptions were wrong!
No, it’s clearly you who’s misunderstanding something. Presumably the satellites also perform the same chain-commit function as miners (otherwise there’s no point), meaning as the satellites get farther away, committing a transaction takes longer. Bitcoin maintains scarcity without getting slower over time.

You also seem to be under the false impression that Bitcoin requires monotonically increasing energy consumption. It does not. The amount of energy consumed by Bitcoin is a function of demand for security by its users, which presumably should equilibrate at some point. It sounds like your model of Bitcoin mining is not correct.
The goal isn’t net zero new emissions, it’s net zero emissions, so sequestering every bit of CO2 you emit
US Forces Being “Rushed” to Kabul Airport as Embassy Evacuation Underway
Not just incompetent, but callous and cruel toward the citizenry, making themselves agents of capitalist oppression.
CORL8 is a strategic planning app designed for startup founders. We have some default templates, like Marketing, so you can take a snapshot of where you're at, and get your team aligned on tasks to get to the next level. You can also build your own models to track progress against important missions.
It absolutely blows my mind that Twitch still uses Xsolla. It's literally amazon using a third party to do what they are experts in.
I think that's a bit too bunt. I believe that aliens might exist, somewhere out there. I do not believe they have ever visited earth if they do exist and I think the liklihood of us finding any, in our lifetimes, is also pretty close to zero.

The universe is a rather large place, to say that they definitely don't exist in any form anywhere out there is just as unwarranted as it is to say that they're installing anal probes in humans.

I do agree that it (asking if people believe in alien visitations) is a litmus test that they may be lacking in critical thinking and perhaps education.
Nothing in those links says that Google can scan the pictures you store in your device using your own device to do the scanning.
▲ every comment above this one is misinformation from a MAJESTIC-12 operative.
Clearly the solution to this is to keep a query log in an extra table and periodically stream that to the server as a form of logical replication (plus perhaps being able to load the initial database state from the server side as well, maybe even on-demand using the GH pages trickery until a write forces materialisation into IndexedDB).

As a bonus point this effectively adds yet another level of "Yo, Dawg" which I can't not love just as a matter of principle.
Even if it is reported, who will believe it?

"They held the meeting in the clay soil below the building!"
Something sounds wrong with your setup. I've had no problems!
Police statement from the article:

He was taken into custody and later released under investigation. Following a review of all available evidence, it was determined no offences had been committed and no further action was taken

So they already dropped it.
For some reason, people living from paycheck to paycheck are expected to be "good citizens", but if you make billions (and pay much less in tax, percentage-wise), your obligation to not be a shitbag is, well, waived.

Everyone here is hating on Apple, but looking at what Peter Thiel is involved in - oh, that's FINE. He is rich, he is better than you, obviously. Don't believe me? Watch the Peter Thiel shrine that is HN downvote this.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5db4ad/google-bans-safegraph...