skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easy, I just make a list of things to do. I also use a calendar.

Seriously though, I'm just annoyed by some aspects of them:

1. I feel spread too thin: item 1 doesn't get the attention it deserves because I was thinking of doing item 2. The GTD book itself seems to say, "I'm a victim of this problem."

2. The longer an item stays on a list the less likely I am to do it.

3. I'm annoyed by having a long list of things to do.

4. I was optimistic when I made the list, but later when I'm doing things I become more pessimistic.

5. I like the days when I lose track of time and suddenly
it's 17:00 when I thought it was 11:00. I don't usually have that kind of day when I operate from a list.
Some companies actively encourage people to review them on glassdoor. While I have not seen example of the opposite, I suspect that there may be companies that warn otherwise 
 due to fear of leaking their proprietary hiring process 
.
No. Even without a list I'd still have all these things to do. Having a list doesn't change anything except I don't have to stress about remembering and forgetting.
Skype was the 'goto' for a long time, but then facetime came out and it split the family into apple users and the rest of us.

I had apple products as well as others, I chose the rest of the family anyways :p
I've got a pretty massive list of stuff in org-mode. Some of it makes sense to do now to achieve goals right now, and some of it is interesting stuff that I want to think about later (or maybe never).

Dumping it all into org-mode GTD style helped made me feel noticeably lighter. All of this stuff that's been bouncing around in my brain is now stored in a place that I trust to keep it. It's all organized in a relatively hierarchical fashion (projects & sub-projects), with next actions identified for most projects.

Every week (usually Sunday morning), I spent a 0.5-1 hr looking at the week that has passed and looking at the week ahead. Specifically looking at "doing the right things" is the point of this. I look at my overall goals and try to figure out whether or not the tasks (and the containing projects) are what I should actually be working on. If there's tasks that I think should be done in the following week, I schedule those tasks for a particular day so that each morning when I wake up I've got a manageable list of things to accomplish that I've already decided help move the needle in some way.

During that review I also give a look through the list of projects that don't currently have scheduled tasks and figure out if there's one there that should get included in the following week's schedule.

I keep everything driven in there. Some of them are recurring tasks/chores (walk the dogs, clean furnace filter, call Grandma), while some are more tactical (get feature X specced out, touch base with old client X), and some are more strategic (review financial plan).

The beauty of all of this is that the "doing the right things" evaluation and the "what should I be doing today" evaluations are separated but still pretty close in time. This, for me, helps me from getting too caught up in the moment and spending a lot of time doing the wrong things.
As the one who implemented Airflow at my company, I understand how overwhelming it can be, with the DAGs, Operators, Hooks and other terminologies.

This looks like a good enough mid-term alternative. However, I have a few questions (which I couldn't find easily in the homepage, sorry if I skipped something):

- Do you have a way of persisting connection information? I saw an example of how to create a connection, but it isn't clear if the piece of code has to be loaded every time you execute the ETL

- How easy it is to implement new computation engines?

- Plans of creating a command line to make it easier to execute operations?
What is facebook's business? Targeted advertising. They don't sell you a friends management system for $0, they sell targeted ads to people who expect to receive targeted ads, and tracking is necessary for that.

The same can be said about google's search service. The search still works, but adsense and adwords won't work without your private info. And google can claim it doesn't sell search, they sell ads.
Anytime I've ever charged a retainer, it's been because there has been ongoing work and they've needed me to be available at short notice. A retainer acts as a little bonus to keep me from giving another gig higher priority.
One because it is illegal. Nicotine smoking age is 21 in the USA.

I might be wrong but I am pretty sure that nicotine is way more addictive than coffee, TV, or video games and the problem is that teenagers are already addicted.

“You fall asleep with your Juul under your pillow,” my other friend said.

“With Juul, the pattern of use isn’t kids having a cherry vape every now and then,” he said. “It’s kids sneaking off to the bathroom, kids vaping consistently throughout the day.”
> However, you have to be prepared to defend in court that it IS necessary.

I'm pretty sure Facebook has the resources to have hired competent lawyers to advise them on that, and the money to afford preparation and execution of a strong court presentation of their viewpoint.

And Facebook probably had more information on what is necessary for the system Facebook provides to work than people trying to guess that from the outside.

It is, of course, possible, and, perhaps even likely, that a court will disagree with what they argue, and force a change—but it may be, from a PR perspective, worth the cost of non-compliance sanctions to have any decrease in utility resulting from changes they will be compelled to make to be very visibly forced on them by orders that they vigorously fought rather than self-initiated, so that European authorities and the GDPR get the blame for any reduced quality.
How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

All the way down to the hardware.
No, that's valid. "Z is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset."
Visualizing a Neural Machine Translation Model (Mechanics of Seq2seq+Attention)
SMBC has covered Fermi’s paradox a few times. I prefer this answer: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/monkey .
Yeah pop culture driven programming.
The module starts with "import requests" which should be a red flag even for a cause skim of the source. The "it's open source, I'm sure someone else read over it" excuse only works when the code is popular enough... and some obscure pip package definitely isn't.

The author of the package claims to be a "victim" here, but it's hard to tell. Too bad pip doesn't support package signing.
You can try: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
Waymo by miles with pun intended. Showed seeing with snow yesterday
FreeBSD does not use vnconfig, FreeBSD uses mdconfig:

# mdconfig -f smartos-latest-USB.img
md0
# gpart list md0
...
scheme: MBR
Providers:
1. Name: md0s1
...
# mount -o ro -t msdosfs /dev/md0s1 /mnt
// (or, use labels)
# mount -o ro -t msdosfs /dev/msdosfs/SMARTOSBOOT /mnt

Or for ISOs, in one line:

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/$(mdconfig -f image.iso) /mnt
You're not allow to operate that way in most other businesses anyway. You can't sell leaded paint, even if clearly marked. You can't sell unsafe cars, even if you tell people that even low speed impacts will kill them.

There's a ton of stuff you can't do, even with clear consent, because otherwise people who lack the means to understand the compromises or afford the safer choices will suffer.
The real important bits: "Front-end CPU stalls - The workload wastes a lot of time in CPU instruction cache misses, instruction TLB misses, and to a lesser extent branch mispredictions".

My educated guess is that it relocates the hot path of the text segment to better pack into the instruction cache. Cool.
The $99 Sales Stack
To extend that argument: NPR listeners for example are also not the product just because they don't pay NPR (but instead its funded by taxes).
So your point is that the current system is broken because our currencies are not truly inflationary if you're super rich and powerful because you get to print money so we should switch to a currency that's deflationary by design so that they don't even have to bother printing money? How does that work?

>Crypto is a democratizing force in a corrupt and unaccountable world.

Assuming that cryptocurrencies are successful they might cause some turmoil in the top 1% as early adopters with thousands of BTCs become the new 1% and current rich people who missed the bus might drop among the pleb. But after this initial period what happens? People who HODLed thousands of BTC will be hugely rich and remain so, people who don't have a lot of money still have to pay for housing and food so they can't save money to bridge the gap.

And I don't really see how Bitcoin are going to help with corruption and accountability when one of its main use cases today (beyond speculation) are powering online black markets.
I'm gonna guess that no, you can't. That's what I would expect from Facebook.
Unfortunately, if I run an ad targeting 18-24 year old males in New York City, and my ad manages to collect IP addresses, I have effectively purchased information about anyone who sees my ad.

It's certainly not a complete profile, and may have ranges of categorizations (i.e. 18-24 years old) BUT as an advertiser, I probably wouldn't need or want data more specific than that anyway.
Apple's #1 principle is to make the best product in the market. That's what they've done: the alternatives to iPhones in China are much worse in terms of privacy. Apple would not be helping anyone by going to the mat on this.
Considering that the topic of "serverless" is itself highly controversial, consider that mentioning it here is akin to starting a flamewar. Consider the other side as well, not just one side.

My intent wasn't and isn't a flamewar. The topic is not one of "intellectual curiosity" either.
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White House Hosts AI Meeting with Amazon, Facebook, Google
I'm actually surprise of how many people is impressed by this. I have been using google's assistant technology for a while now. It's amazing! I just wish they release the new voice ASAP! This is what you can do with it:
https://vimeo.com/251603335
With a little bit of work you could probably trigger tasks on a Windows Machine, in particular if the work you need to do is mostly script and/or SQL based. The main limit is that Gunicorn for the Airflow webserver is not currently compatible with Windows, but the scheduler should work fine. I believe it might be able to run in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, but I don't think anyone has tested it as of yet. (Source: I am an Apache Airflow committer)
New Tool Helps You Turn Off Facebook’s Surveillance and Reclaim Some Privacy
The “best” part of it all is that apparently js engines have an internal optimisation for `foo % 2 === 0`, because it’s such a common thing.

This clown was using a bit wise operation in `is-even` “because everyone already knows about % 2 === 0`, and thus was hurting performance (on top of whatever extra memory is used for the module, function call overhead etc)
It's all so tiring. It's seriously going to be decades until we get politicians in power that understand the Internet and start holding companies accountable that don't give a shit about security (namely, all of them).
I have spent the last couple of months enduring code generation from Swagger, boy do I miss WSDL tooling.
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I actually wrote my own in Haskell, but really I just mean the structure. I no longer need huge ordered lists of blocking dependencies. I loved that taskwarrior did that, but once your life becomes less complicated, all the cool features seemed to get in my way. I wanted burndown charts. I wanted an app to figure out what tasks were highest priority based on how much time they could take and deadlines. But once you no longer have any of that...it is basically todo.txt

Edit:

I should also add that with my daily life (outside of work) I'm strictly a pencil and paper kinda guy. I hate when my phone dies and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do today.

Might as well return the shameless plug with my own (https://github.com/jecxjo/todo.hs)
That's another reason to invest in space exploration :).

But yes, we should be minimizing wasteful growth where we can. Food will have to grow in lockstep with population, but the growth of trash is something we can reduce. And there's especially no need to add artificial high-growth energy sinks like cryptocurrencies to the mix.
While I've had issues with macbook pro's and 2 older iphines (all new when given to me), that's really the extent of my personal experiences. I've heard good things about them from others, so assume my experiences are a-typical.

I've never dealt with an apple support person, all my interaction has been through my companies tech staff who are competent.

Specific to apple hardware, it just seems better than the average windows/linux/android hardware, but you pay for it and can often find equivalently good hardware for a similar or less premium.

at the end of the day, use what your family IT guy will support for free, and if you're an IT guy, use what you like.
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SEC filing suggests MoviePass’ time is running out
Is anyone out there doing (or considering) streaming ETL as opposed to batch?
List of confidence tricks and scams
> Crypto is a democratizing force in a corrupt and unaccountable world.

Howso? The ultra-wealthy elites managed to seize control of crypto in like two years. They control all of the major mining ops and a huge % of the coins themselves.
I think it matters more where I studied. First Heidelberg, then FU Berlin - actually Physics with secondary subject CS. TUM, KIT and RWTH are maybe the best at CS in Germany, but IMO still not good. What are they known for except being good universities for CS?
See the other comments also, but ETL stands for "Extract, Transform, Load"
Correction: Metropolitan Fiber not Metropolitan Cable. Ultimately purchased by WorldCom.
Given that PoS is still not adopted in a meaningful way, I feel those differences are merely constant factors, they don't change the trend. But I might be wrong about that, I'm not up to date with bleeding-edge cryptocurrency developments.
There are many ways of holding currency without being affected by inflation. This is what wealth management plans do.

One simple tool used for this:

> Treasury Inflation-Protected
Securities (or TIPS) are the inflation-indexed bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury. The principal is adjusted to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the commonly used measure of inflation. When the CPI rises, the principal adjusts upward. If the index falls, the principal adjusts downwards.[8] The coupon rate is constant, but generates a different amount of interest when multiplied by the inflation-adjusted principal, thus protecting the holder against the official inflation rate (as asserted by the CPI)
> In the '80s you would still meet better chess players than you.

Sure. But in the 80s you'd never meet a player who is several orders of magnitude better than anyone who has ever lived. That's important.

Similarly, in the 80s you'd never meet a group of political operatives who could read dossiers on tens or hundreds of thousands of people and tailor propaganda for them to read while in a doctor's waiting room, or wherever they happen to be. That's important.

We can't beat supercomputers at chess by practicing chess really hard. And we can't beat digital propagandists by thinking harder about what they publish.
Selling the credit card is illegal, serving targeted ads isn't.
What would be the point of doing this?
Excellent link, ty. More things that I should not have been doing... :)
It is very, very hard to ensure the safety of the energy density required by consumers of any transportation method except perhaps diesel fuel (which is damn near impossible to accidentally ignite outside of the engine). Improvements will continue to be made, but we might never eliminate the problem.

This might simply be the Paul Walker scenario: too much power with an inexperienced driver.
Not just the US. Most of the western world has incredibly invasive security theatre in airports and train stations now.
The scheduler has seen a lot of improvements in the past couple of releases, and release 1.10 should be coming out soon. (full disclosure: I work on Airflow)
I remember this guy! I put together some notes and annotations for it when it came out. Some people found them useful back then- I'll leave them here in case other people can make use of them.

https://github.com/samjabrahams/tensorflow-white-paper-notes
> "the game" is being played an unimaginable number of times.

Actually, it's quite imaginable. Not only is it imaginable, it's fairly straightforward to calculate an upper bound on the actual number, and from there to calculate the odds of producing the same gene completely independently more than once. If you do the math you will find that the odds are indistinguishable from zero.
Greate, so now my account will just exist in some state of limbo...
Since they use that data to sort your feed I think they can argue it is necessary for the service to operate.
The other person was able to use his/my SSN to "mistakenly" withdraw a large amount of money from my bank account. That was what first tipped me off.
Perhaps because that very small subset of a very small industry can have a major impact on the entire global economy when something goes off plan?

It also hints at how much money is actually in play with these "very small" companies. If they're spending hundreds of millions to get an edge (sometimes in picoseconds) on the competition, what does that say about the magnitude of the money they are working with and willing to risk?
Or without needing root using guestfish (http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html)

$ guestfish -a img.dd -m /dev/sda1
><fs> ll /

guestmount works if you want to mount it on a local directory (implemented using libguestfs + FUSE).
Doing work rocks
One of the sites I love to visit every few months is http://literallyunbelievable.org/ which has screen caps of people that don't know what The Onion is.
"Police said the gray 2014 Tesla Motors Model S may have been speeding southbound in the 1300 block of Seabreeze Boulevard when it drove off the roadway and struck a concrete wall about 6:46 p.m. Tuesday."

The car was not operating in autonomous mode.
3D Xpoint latency is still several times slower than DRAM. 3D Xpoint also still suffers from limited endurance. 3D Xpoint NVDIMMs will be used as pmem block devices, not as primary RAM.

For DRAM-equivalent latency and endurance you need STT-MRAM, which has already been available in DDR3-compatible DIMMs. Both STT-MRAM and 3D Xpoint will be available in DDR4-compatible DIMMS too but only STT-MRAM will run fast enough and long enough to replace DRAM.
More like how the US subsidizes weapons, dictators and armed conflict. To compare FB to medicine is kinda neat in how fucking brain dead retarded it is.
Hopefully it will encourage some people to ditch FB.
I'm still around and in the industry.

Never promised the lowest latency, but I was the first one by two years to build NY<>Chicago.
Also in some places (Berlin S-Bahn comes to mind) leaning against the doors will obscure the button you have to press to open them.
> Tesla has been under scrutiny before over several instances of vehicles catching fire.
> There was no incentive before ACA to control prices either.

Sure there was. Profit = revenue - costs. Previously, lowering costs - particularly claims - was a direct way to improve profits.

Now, the formula is more complicated, because 80% of costs must be spent on claims. Lowering claims directly reduces the maximum amount of profit you can make. There's still an incentive to reduce non-medical costs, but there's an incentive to increase medical costs, or shift non-medical costs to medical costs, in order to satisfy the 80% rule.
I am not expecting Google to pay significantly more than market rate salaries in Berlin, why would they ?
Those are safety/environmental issues. Showing you ads based on your preferences is not.
This was my first thought. Would this article have been news if it said teens crash mommy’s Porsche into concrete wall? Maybe this is news because the Porsche may not have burst into flames.
Same here. I think Facebook needs you to agree to the basic ToS, to then move on to your acceptance/refusal of tracking.

My guess is that "we can silently change our ToS at any time" is no longer possible, and that's why you cannot login without agreeing first.
That's why traditional GTD has the daily/weekly review steps. You look over your tasks, and make sure they align with your longer term goals, and decide if the things on your list really help you achieve them.
Please read the GDPR text and then tell me where it says anything like this.
Motor vehicles deaths in 2016: 37,461

Additionally, high school aged men driving insanely powerful sports cars probably have a higher risk of death. I'm not sure why this should be anything more than local news.
I fail to see why. Without clauses like this, you'd be at the same place you were before, "Either agree to all of our completely invasive and probably unrelated terms, or go pound sand." The GDPR is shifting the balance of power back so that users do have some bargaining, not just the take it or leave it that's been so prevalent for so long.
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> You can't rely on getting text effects working properly.

terminfo and ncurses seem to solve this problem, assuming you're not just hard-coding in escape sequences.
Even if you can't access the link, you can definitively send them an email citing the appropriate GDPR articles and demand a way to delete the account without approving anything.
Yes - my apologies, I'll disengage faster in the future.
In that case Facebook should offer user a choice between paying for the service directly or letting advertiser to do that. I doubt that any nontrivial amount of users would choose to pay even $100/year so that wouldn't change anything for Facebook. However it could be enough to comply with weird EU regulation.
I totally agree, I am also android user and its terrible. I cannot update my profile and I have sent them screenshots of issues many times but their replies are unclear and unhelpful, so I got fed up with it and uninstalled the app.
The GDPR talks about "executing a contract, which includes the provision of services" (not the exact wording, but something like that). So if you define "using the social network in return for having targeted ads displayed" as the contract, it is necessary.

> just that not every avenue of funding is allowed

Funding by targeted ads isn't illegal last time I checked.
Php.js
Eating right matters. And all it takes is a 10MB
I think the issue here is the safety of lithium electric batteries?

It's rare for gas tanks to explode.. not sure what lithium battery safety rates, especially given reports of exploding phones/laptops/Boeing 787s
Nice one!

Users should accept facebook to access they medical records also.

Very uselful would be let facebook to map your ancestor tree as a additional service.

Bonus condition to skin deep microcompuer as embedded "security" feature for users.