skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For personal projects and goals I keep a couple of index cards aside - one I used for GTD - 2 columns on one side (Next Action and Inbox/New Items) , 3 on the other (Waiting For, Projects, Someday). And then another index card or two for notes and sketches. I find it good to limit them (and keep just three folded in half in a back pocket) , otherwise I end up dragging around a stack of cards and not using them. If I limit them but replace as needed, I seem to use them more and keep them to hand.

I redo my GTD card weekly and drop stuff off every time that I 'thought' I wanted to do but just the act of writing it down and reviewing shows me it is not a priority. For a while I kept my old cards, but now I ditch them.

GTD = Getting Things Done - https://hamberg.no/gtd/

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I use a combination of a mental/back of index card kanban board for purchasing goals (a cadence of what I can afford to save/spend, leading me along a list of prioritised items I want <or don't want by the time I can buy them in cash usually>) - been thinking about making an app for it for a while, but beyond my skills.

Right now I have two or three 'main' hobbies - paddle boarding, brewing beer and cycling. While I have a good salary, we have 2 kids and a single income, so things I would have just bought without thinking just a few years ago, now get thought about for a good while before pulling the trigger. If anything I'm happier this way. I stops me buying 'hobby crap' that I never use, and gives me time to find the best item I'm looking for (is it worth buying that huge saucepan cheaply, or waiting to get a better one? Or second hand?)
this reminds me of when I was learning to write fortran code for the navy around 1990. My rookie debugging method was to insert print statements throughout the code, but instead of printing something informational I would put 80s song lyrics. When I ran the program (which calculated fluid flow around submarines), it would print the lyrics to a song. Wherever the song stopped was where my code was failing.
It always makes me happy to see approximate algorithms/data structures like hyperloglog being used.
People are always sleeping on the originators of the AI + Blockchain movement: Synapse AI (https://synapse.ai/) -- they (along with many others like Goog, Seti, MS, etc) even spoke at the Decentralized AI Summit in Feb. (https://decentralized-ai.com/)

This team even launched their own wallet application like two days ago. They're killing it.

Check out the yellowpaper, it has some really good stuff in it: https://synapse.ai/yellowpaper
If all he needs is a web kiosk why even bother with a real OS? Sounds like the perfect job for ChromeOS or Porteus Kiosk.
That's good. It's an ordeal to disable them on Pro, and the once-good guide I found[1] is usually out of date (or some of its settings get overridden) with every major update.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/973009/conclusively-stop-wak...
Full Stack, a language where the only data type is a stack.
It is very easy to understand. LinkedIn started as a service to help with business networking but ended up just being a recruiter place and scamming (yes, scamming) people making them think the service has many other uses.

For example, you go to a LinkedIn group about marketing with million of subscribers, post an average interesting non spammy article and nobody comments or click on the links. Nobody! And it has million users. Compare this to posting in an interesting subreddit like /r/sysadmin or /r/networking or /r/python where almost anonymous people give you an answer to a complex issue.

Then you decide to go premium, or pay for ads where you will find that the conversion is practically zero. Finally you apply to their API. Yes, you apply because they manually review your use case and will not approve your request even if you just want to retrieve all your connections with a simple HTTP GET.
It goes without saying that eating something you’re allergic to doesn’t make sense. For most of us lentils are a cheap and very nutritious food.
ZFS Zpool Checkpoints
There certainly are many things wrong in these descriptions. But they aren't unique to flat companies. Tech organizations always self-organize to an extent, but it only becomes painful when the hierarchy and the self-organization don't match up. In a good company, they'll be aware of what is going on, mentor and guide the unofficial leaders as necessary, promote and reward everyone based on how well aligned they are to business goals. The hierarchy will set strategy and deal with money, while the self-organization will figure out the best way to get the creative work done.

It sounds like Valve may need some work. It also sounds like the author may need some work. There are two sides to every story, and we're getting the tweetstorm from someone who has built up years of frustration and is now letting it out.

Sitting in a place where you aren't happy, or where you are envious of the positions of others, isn't a good place to be either personally or for your company. All companies are flawed in some way - you need to find a place where you are accepting of the flaws and can be productive and satisfied with your work anyway. If you aren't in such a place, take action - either invoke change to make it better, or leave.
If he just needs a Web browser, I've found that the iPad is the best solution here. Both hardware and software are very durable, and portable. Get a Bluetooth keyboard and some sort of stand for the tablet and you're set.
What Does “Reasonable” Data Security Mean, Exactly?
I didn’t say anything about lack of funding. This funding is increasingly going to a few growth stage startups (SoftBank model) in larger amounts.

I’m saying the tiny 2 person startup working out of a shared apartment in Soma has some serious headwinds nowadays to hiring and growing in SF these days.
Also worth noting that they're not patching it for 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation Core CPUs. I'm sure there's plenty of Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge CPUs in the wild, and it's not like you have an option to discontinue use of the Intel ME :(
I’ve given a Mac to my interns. 2 months in, they say they’d never come back to Windows. Fun thing is, building a lean OS doesn’t require as much time as building an OS with IA embedded in the Start Menu trying to push you to play Candy Crush, and not as much work either as building all possible combinations of Unity-Xcfe-Cinnamon-Gnome-Wayland-initd-systemd distributions. MacOS could be an easily reproducible OS, yet never properly copied.
If you want to prevent Windows 10 reboots, use the following (with the included gpedit.msc tool)

* Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update

Do not include drivers with Windows Update = Enabled

Configure Automatic Updates = Enabled = 2

* Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Defer Upgrades and Updates

Select when Feature Updates are received = Current Branch for Business = 365 days
VT-d passthrough?
Two sections before 'The HP Way' in an engineering blog.

Section 1 - Linting (sounds like engineering, interested, continue)...

Section 2 - Management (3 paragraphs ending with maligning the President's management style, not interested, tired of it, 41.7% chance of annoying your audience) https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

Section 3++ - Didn't read.
Not OP but having been in this situation I am willing to offer a discount, but I still insist on a premium over what I could earn locally; as a remote I am giving up career advancement so comp neefs to recognize this. Otherwise I might as well work locally and get the career benefits of being onsite.
Don't drink every day/regularly, and only drink 2-3 units when you do drink, seems to be reasonable advice.
Organic grapes exist, and this is one reason why.
Know of anyone using this in production outside Stripe?
The sample code is kinda fun to read.
Do we really need remote code execution on the bios level? Is this a case of 'we can, but should we?'
I worked at HP in the mid nineties and left right when Carly took over. Working at HP was the first real job I ever had (real in that I didn't need other jobs and had health insurance, etc.) The people that I worked with were, for the most part, pretty serious about the company. When I decided to leave there was shock all around. It was the first and only time that co-workers approached me and said things like "Working here is really a career, it's not just another job. You should really think about staying." When I started, most of the people I worked with had been there at least five years and most more then ten. Several had been there their entire careers, starting off in entry-level positions and arcing up into management, then kind of descending into a holding pattern in my department (UX and MPE/iX platform support and management) until retirement.

But even then things were changing. By the time I left I had five managers to whom I directly reported. One of those managers was fired, as far as I could tell, because he didn't agree with the other four; sadly they were the one that made the most sense to me. Certainly that wasn't the HP way. There was suspicion among almost everyone about Carly Fiorina, not so much because she was a women, but because she didn't rise from the HP ranks and likely would be unfamiliar with the "HP way". Even at that late date, the "HP way" was something people talked about even if it was fading away.
I wonder, who ever uses these "management engines," let alone put them open on WANs?

When first news of IME being compromised, I was surprised that Shodan showed such a small number of machines.
I'm not sure that the story here is that a non-hierarchical structure is impossible- but rather that just changing the org chart is not really enough. I've heard stories of widespread sexism in 60's hippie communes, for instance. The problem is that you've still got the same old people, just in a new situation. For the change to be real you have to change the culture and the way people see things, but all these people were born and raised within the traditional hierarchies. So they end up recreating them in a different form. But that's not to say that it's impossible to really flatten the org structure- it's just going to take a lot more work and self-reflection than just printing a new employee manual.
You have hit the nail on the head. I moved from Windows to Ubuntu many years back. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my windows machine in 2010 and by chance everything worked like magic. I purchased a new machine in 2015 without much thought and installed Ubuntu. To my horror it would not detect my Qualcomm wifi and AMD Radeon Graphics. Banged my head around to find a solution to Qualcomm wifi. But the 2gb graphics card is just a piece of silicon on my motherboard which does not work.
Alas, can't install many packages, dependency errors. Example below for texlive-collection-all

fmtutil [INFO]: Not selected formats: 29
fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 29
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0
pkg_add: no pkg found for 'tex-pgf-[0-9]*', sorry.
pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-pgf-[0-9]*
pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-pgfplots-[0-9]*
pkg_add: Can't install dependency tex-milog-[0-9]*
pkg_add: Can't install dependency texlive-collection-langgerman-[0-9]*
pkg_add: 1 package addition failed

This could just be mirror flakiness, $PKG_PATH is resolving to

http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/8.0/All

There appears to be no native binary for LibreOffice. Investigating.
There is a large middle ground between constantly pushing yourself and just doing what's fun.

Also, reaching a goal is great, but for many goals it's the process of getting there where the real personal growth comes from.
This could be said about Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara also...
Press the reader view icon in the address bar.
No problem - happened to me 6 hours ago too.
Perfectionism is not engineering. Not finding a way to fix every use case that you can come up with is not an excuse to insist on unsafe features that are proven to be disasters in practice.
It’s not a minority thing; whites deal with the same (e.g., “[whites][0] [have][1] [a mass][2] [shooting problem][3]”). It’s just different groups that apply the double standard.

[0]: https://www.newsweek.com/white-men-have-committed-more-mass-...

[1]: https://www.salon.com/2017/10/02/americas-white-man-problem-...

[2]: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/9/1747592/-How-America...

[3]: https://psmag.com/social-justice/white-men-aggrievement-and-...
Please reach out through my email. I do them multiple times a week along with English resumes and interview coaching in the Shanghai based professional services firm I own and run. I am fully booked until August 1st however. TIA!
> it keeps filling the start menu with silly game icons (candy crush, etc.)

Do you mean literally? You've removed candy crush from the start menu and windows put it there again? Or it was something on microsoft store live tile? Right click, more, Turn Live Tile off.
I don't agree that this is such a big deal any more. I've been running Thinkpads for a little over a decade, and and almost every single Fedora release has worked flawlessly out of the box (with the exception of proprietary fingerprint sensors or S0i3 sleep states).

I've got mates with the developer edition Ubuntu XPSs and actually consider Thinkpad+Fedora to be a better, more stable choice. Maybe the number of RH devs with Thinkpads has something to do with it.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh, but when the Forbes article author was complaining about a random unplanned forced update I thought surely the guy just didn't bother to change the default settings.

Now I've come to your comment and am now realizing that apparently there is no built in functionality to prevent forced update/reboots (while connected to the internet) in Windows 10.

I not crazy anti-Microsoft, but that's absurd and honestly aside from gaming (which I don't have a gaming PC anyways) I miss nothing from Windows.

I see comments about Linux on random laptops, I've only have had good experiences with it generally. I'm not a power user. I've run at least one distro or another on a random cheap netbook, a 2005-08 Sony laptop, a low end and higher end Lenovo laptops, and honestly other than the one I'm on right now I've not had the problems people talk about it (something related to the CPU was crashing the system, found a solution online and everything is good now). Maybe I'm just lucky.
The article links to the HP corporate culture booklet from 1980 written apparently by Hewlett. It's worth reading.

Can't fail to notice how successful a well-engineered company culture might be. The booklet gives pretty rational reasons for things like profit-sharing, stock sharing, company-sponsored medical insurance, management by objective and lack of micro-management, etc, all introduced by HP very early.
It will happen as long as weak willed tolerate this. Educate your neighbor for better experience for all.

It's doubly amazing that this happens while Win7 is still more than usable.
DevTools: Improved Multi-Value Logging
Why are you concerned with blood cholesterol as opposed to e.g. calcium scoring or actual inflammation markers you can measure almost as easily as a lipid panel? One does not spontaneously develop atherosclerosis from elevated blood cholesterol. That just doesn’t make sense from a metabolic perspective.
Two thoughts from reading this article:

1. Yes, "porting attacks" (where an adversary convinces your carrier to port your phone number to his/her own) are a real threat. You can mitigate these somewhat by choosing a carrier that has a relatively strong porting procedure. Project Fi (Google) requires a temporary PIN generated by the user's Fi app, as well as logging in to one's Google account. I don't know what the other carriers require today, but this is less than what I experienced when I ported my number from Sprint years ago for example.

2. The author says that 2FA is overhyped, which is maybe true, but why don't more services allow physical devices (e.g. Yubikeys) to be used for 2FA? Often the phone number is the only choice offered for 2FA.
Backlash Against “War on Cash” Reaches Washington and China
What about i9?
> I want to see Linux gobble up more of Windows 10's market share.

Then encourage developers to agree on a standardized and long-term supported base system and promote AppImage as the primary means of distributing non-system software. A stable driver ABI wouldn't hurt either, but if there's something more difficult than getting the community to agree on a base system it'll be convincing the kernel devs to help proprietary drivers work properly.

Seriously, Linux Desktop evangelists have supposedly been trying to woo users for decades now and somehow they are unable to grasp the simple concept that it is a pain in the ass for developers to target their platform, and without developers targeting their platform they won't have the applications the user needs to do their work. Lately they've been hailing the coming WebAppocalypse as a way to free them from having to build a real platform, but sadly for them that means any web kiosk will do and Linux Desktop is still irrelevant.
My i7-2600 is still a beast (well, still gong strong anyway). They did the same thing with Meltdown/Spectre fixes.
The problem with 0.05 isn't how lenient it is, but rather the fact that a default exists at all.

A p-value should be chosen (before running the experiment!) based on how confident the researcher wants to be in their result.

For my high school statistics final project, I did an experiment to test whether a stupid prank/joke was funny. Had a pretty terrible experimental design (tons of bias) and tiny sample size (<10). Chose a p-value of 0.8 and ended up with a significant result (it was more amusing than our control). And that was fine, because (A) it was not a very important experiment, and (B) my report acknowledged all of this instead of trying to sweep it under the covers and pretend like I had a strong conclusion.

That would be wildly inappropriate if I were QA testing a new model of airbag or medication. But I wasn't, and I'm not going to use the results for anything other than sharing this anecdote, so it was fine.

Similarly, I'd say in some A/B testing scenarios, it's okay to use a lower standard of proof (though p-hacking is definitely not). Especially if you're just using the test as one piece of information too help you decide on the final design. The problem is when people do bad stats and then use the result as an excuse to throw out their human judgment.
I wasn't aware there was a windows default install that is this sensible! Thanks for pointing it out.
Yup, I have to remove a bunch of apps/games I never asked for after every major upgrade.
It is odd that we don't look underwater for civilizations from before the end of the last ice age. We observe sea levels rising now from the melting of the ice caps, so why would it not have happened then too?
Meet the 11% of Americans who don’t use the internet
What’s happening to our kids?
THE VIVO NEX’S NOTCH-KILLING TRADE-OFFS ARE WORTH IT
What a harrowing experience for everyone involved. Coupled with financial difficulties, this could be the worst nightmare imaginable.
No real advancement after Sandy Bridge was made.
Only incremental 10% with each gen. That means current gen is only 2x as fast when comparing the same lines (i7 to i7).
If you can't make new things better, just gimp the old ones, like Spectre/Meltdown.
Six questions you were afraid to ask about Google’s EU antitrust case
erikb, I'm not writing this to be rude, but I am hoping it can change your perspective a little. Every sentence in your reply is so negative. You almost certainly won't get something you want if you think it's impossible. It means you wont bother trying. You have an excuse for everything. Its completely possible. I've worked for a large company for 2 years and made it happen. I know plenty of other people that do it as well.

The attitude in your comment was such a bummer I had to log in for the first time in years just to respond. Try to be more positive and go after what you want. Have a good rest of the weekend.
I've bought a bunch of XPS 13 laptops because of project sputnik, and the only bad thing with them seems to be the extreme coil whine.
Grandpa, it's time to upgrade.
Anybody ever though about downshifting to 3rd world countries in line of this?

I myself work for a SZ based company, moved there from Canada. During production run times I'm in Shenzhen, and the rest of the time I'm stationed in a random "developing country" trying to "play a big man," fraternise with local business and political establishments, trying to win bets.

We have few Americans in the company, all of them are from "flyover" states. They all say China is a way better bet in moving up the ladder for them than Silicon Valley.
For anyone still unaware, O&O ShutUp10[0] is very helpful for dealing with this crap.

[0] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
When I was 17, the world didn't work the way I assumed. Don't be your own gatekeeper. Just go look for a job. Good luck.
>Isn't that exactly what you would expect if the threats were real?

as soon as it is throwaway account s/he should be safe
A very optimistic perspective. Seems more likely to me that we are simply lucky than that the intelligence community is competent in their charter.
It doesn’t matter if they have an agenda (which has definitely not been proven). It’s good that they get any information to the public. The Podesta emails were extremely valuable to the public, they had a right to know that the DNC was in bed with the media. Whatever else didn’t get leaked doesn’t matter. That info needed to be made public.
IME, most large organizations are extremely bad at preventing their employees from allowing strangers into their buildings.
You could say the same thing about anything that anyone has ever had an allergic reaction to.
It should really say "HTTP[S]" calls, or "Web" calls or somesuch - when I saw "Network" I hoped it would be a debugger for, say, UDP packets and TCP traffic. It's not.
Why? Because it's been longer than intel would like since parent gave them money?