skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're lacking time to work on stuff you could keep track of your daily tasks and see trends in how you spend your time. If you know what you're doing, then you can re-organize your schedule to do things that are more important for you.

If you have a large list of projects to do, you could try assigning value to each and put them into a queue.

Take a spreadsheet, put the projects into rows, add columns for what's important to you, weight the columns appropriately, compute a final importance score, and rank the items in the queue. Column names for projects could be: community value, work value, personal value, and maintenance cost (negative). That at least datafies the tasks so you can objectively work with them.

Otherwise org-mode for taking notes and small daily tasks. Having random facts on hand about systems at work and what you did 5 months ago to solve problem X have been really helpful for me.

There is something to be said for just getting excited about something and hacking it though. It's way more fun :D
Also, just because the servers stay online cheaply don't mean that the operations and security teams work for free.

If the government can't keep staffing those teams, the responsible thing is to pull the servers down on their way out -- rather than leaving a government asset unmonitored.
No mentions of The Warriors yet?
All that does is give you an invalid certificate warning when you go to the site. How does that warrant shutting it down. If you can't see that this is 100% politically motivated. Well... there is one born every minute...a <blank> and his money are soon parted....
>This is such an intellectually snobbish position to take.

Intellectually snobbish is "everyone should listen to Mahler and read Epictetus in the original language".

This is just basic professional requirement...

>The fact you learned what a Cartesian product was at high school shouldn’t preclude someone who hasn’t from trying to build stuff and experiment with tech.

Just not in any capacity where people depend on their output...
They have, and they realize that giving into him means he will do this again.
I get where you're coming from, but it's hard for me to watch you continue to balk at what people are saying to you. I am assuming good faith in your intentions to be scientific and well-reasoned, and it would be nice to be able to measure the changes people are talking about. Nonetheless...

What sources do you need to back up the "claim" that home ownership and health care are qualitatively more important in many ways than consumer goods? You can get all the "stuff" you want, but if you can't get a home or pay for health emergencies it will be hard not to live in some level of fear, always scrambling for slightly more security and feeling precarious. The area of my town that I live in for example, is full of homeless people, many of whom have computers or cell phones (many more don't). It is disturbingly frequent that I see one of them start to have escalating health issue, and eventually just "disappears". Disconcerting. I have no way to know if it was always this way, or if it getting worse...but certainly disconcerting.

TL;DR - Some of the people who seem to be pushing back on your "scientific rigor" may be just wanting to not forget about the actual hardships people are going through. They probably still understand that it's good to have sources for things etc.
On the west coast, bike theft is common. Junkies and/or homeless people steal them and sell them for parts. Or change parts around and paint them so they can't be identified.

Also, there's supposed to be organized rings where bikes stolen in Portland are trucked to Seattle (so they're much harder to identify as stolen) and vice-versa.
You'd think TSA would be able to pay their employees at $5.60 per head through their lines. They state that they raked in $4B in 2018 in 911 Security Fees[0]. I'm sure there's entanglement between government departments (payroll elsewhere?) that complicates this, but they do state the fees are paid to TSA, and perhaps not the Treasury.

Has anyone bought an airline ticket since the shutdown? Perhaps they're not charging the fee, since they are unable to provide security or its theatre during this time.

[0] https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/security-fees
If you can't see this is 100% politically motivated I have little faith in the HN community anymore.
I really like Overpass Mono. It's quite easy to read and I think it looks nice as well:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Overpass+Mono
>Knowing what is meant when a term or symbol is used is not math, it's language.

When the symbol is a mathematical symbol, and describes a mathematical operation, then "knowing what is meant" by it means you know a piece of math.

Besides I wasn't describing what you "know" if you know what a Cartesian Product is. I was stating (as a fact) where you learn it (at high school math classes).
Why does SQL have both WHERE and ON, plus various kinds of JOINs? It seems to me that it would be simpler to have just have one JOIN which represents the Cartesian product, plus WHERE for filtering - and then the DB engine could apply optimizations so that queries would actually run as fast as in existing SQL. Am I missing something?
I think it's less about building a career and more about accomplishing the goals of the CEO and the company.
I’m not the author, but the author simply asked their primary care doctor for one and I know others who have done the same. Next time you’re at the doctor, just explain that you want to be proactive about health and ask for one.

Make sure to get the 14-day version: https://www.freestylelibre.us/system-overview/freestyle-14-d.... It’s about $80 (cash to a pharmacy, not through insurance) and includes 2 14-day patches.

Over the next year or two, performing at least a few weeks of real-time monitoring per year will become standard practice among those who consciously monitor their health. With the Libre, doing a few weeks per year is no harder, and not much more expensive than a home blood pressure cuff. It’s not even all that expensive to do year-round.

(I don’t think this should require a prescription, but in the US it currently does.)
Excellent debating skills.
Looks like it might actually be the Antideficiency Act:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antideficiency_Act
Do you truly believe that that they are not capable of performing a cost benefit analysis? Perhaps it's you who are not capable of seeing the true costs at play here?
I think “food insecurity” means not knowing where your next meal is coming from a significant portion of the time.
I am, by accident, a small part of a "culture transformation" at a large, well established corporation.

The group doing this has the same intention (to improve the employee's experience), but I have observed this is consistently at odds with the leadership's desire to keep employees at arm's length, and maintain the strategic control over employees.

For example, you can't be nice to employees and then lay them off at the same time- such an act instantly violates trust, therefore leaders say they want things to be better for employees but are often not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to follow through.

So then you get stuck in a conundrum, and the leaders look and often act like hypocrites. Employees do that too.

It's been an interesting time in this role, like I said, for me it was somewhat accidental and I can clearly see the arguments from both sides. Still working on it but, I'm not sure how you resolve some of these issues without the right attitude - that maybe we are not "leaders and employees", but that we are all "professional colleagues" - and then following through with the proper organizational supports and programs to help such an organization survive and operate, and still be able to compete.
Why a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth
If somebody has abandoned their property on your property and you want it gone, you can move it off your property. But it still doesn't become yours, and you definitely don't need to call the police about it. Going back to the car analogy, if i park my car in your private parking lot, you can have it towed. It doesn't become your car. Same with a bike - you can move it off your property, but you can't steal it, because that would be stealing.

Is there some sort of mental block happening here where people are forgetting how the world works because they hate scooters so much, or do you guys really not understand the fundamentals of property law and common sense?
>> Average case scenario, people will think you're racist.

I think you're carrying this a little further than is justified, now.
Today I learned that the government needs to start operating a bit more like a corporation in the sense of removing paper pushers.

Automation, some of the comments are linking to TLS renewals. It is 2019, how is there still an individual manually doing this kind of work?
Direct sun exposure when the UV index is under 3

That's before 9am or after 6pm around this week https://uv.willyweather.com.au/nsw/sydney/sydney.html
BP Thinks It's Sitting on Another Giant Gas Field in the Caspian
Seems like maybe there's a balance here. On one hand, JS was designed with a particular vision (prototypal inheritance, etc.) and it's good for programmers to understand and follow that vision. On the other hand, even JS experts admit that there are plenty of warts and legacy oddities in JS, and we'd do a lot of things differently if designing the language from scratch. I guess it's unclear where `this` fits in. It's closely tied to the nice elegance of the language, but it's also a huge source of beginner-unfriendliness. IMO it could at the very least have some ease-of-use improvements.

JS has gone through lots of careful language changes (strict mode, arrow functions, classes), and tools like ESLint and TypeScript help limit confusing parts of the language, and I think it's worthwhile to put at least some effort into making JavaScript better rather than just accepting it.
Maybe to get insurance to cover the cost?
CRISPR being used to develop better antibiotics
One of the side effects of capitalism. Monopolies.
You’re probably thinking of the Anti-Deficiency Act.
Good question - made me revisit my memories.

TLDR some aspects were a progression, but the planning part was something I had to try out over a year to convince myself that I finally have something that works.

I'd say I have always done the daily todo all my professional life. Started it as my daily work plan when I was a salaried employee. Only tracked work-related tasks with it, but it was necessary because I had multiple project responsibilities and deadlines then. I actually thought of myself back then as a very disciplined person.

Even the life goals thing is something I have been doing from my salaried years. An annual document where I wrote details about my career wishes and personal improvements for the coming year. There were plans in those docs, but they were rather nebulous and not tracked.

That system worked ok for my salaried life. But when I became a consultant, things fell apart. When I had client projects to work on, my work-life balance became terrible, I missed project deadlines constantly, missed out on hobbies, and felt stressed and demotivated.
When I did not have client projects, I went the other extreme - making lots of plans but terribly distracted and not finishing anything.
Until then, I had not realized just how much of my earlier discipline was not because of me alone, but actually because of the structured and supervised environment inside a company. When I went alone, much of my discipline disappeared, and along with it, my self-confidence. I had actually refused lucrative client projects because I wasn't confident of meeting any deadlines.

I tried many planning systems over those years. GTD, Trello, Mind mapping tools. It's taken me a lot of self-analysis, experimentation and tweaks to understand why I had planning problems, and what I should do to overcome them. The main evolution between the system I have now versus the system I had back then is that all life goals now trickle down into concrete hourly tasks. While 2015 was a terrible year professionally, this system helped me improve my situation in 2016, and more so in 2017-2018. It's working out for me, thankfully.
Oh, it's absolutely politically motivated. But so is everything else on HN. Is open source good? Should venture capitalism be a viable career? How should startups be funded? Is technology making the world a better place? Is China trying to hack us all (and who is "us")? How much should programmers be paid, and how do you even formulate the answer to such a question? Is it bad for cell phone companies to sell customer location data? What about net neutrality? Does it matter whether SpaceX is more successful than NASA?
If a wall is such a dumb ineffective idea why don’t Democrats just support it since it will continue to allow people to come in illegally?
I feel there a gap between task planning, prototyping/exploration, versionning .. I can't articulate more than that. Just a feeling
Boards – A tool for collaboratively organizing notes
Which in turn reminds me of South American 'quipu': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
Christmas CTF https://twitter.com/sudosev/status/1075213434273320960
https://pastebin.com/raw/7VL6usg6
https://pastebin.com/raw/Sm9PCxWv
https://twitter.com/sudosev/status/1079069504498556930

HACKvent 2018 https://hackvent.hacking-lab.com

SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2018 https://www.holidayhackchallenge.com/2018

GreHack 2018 https://2018.challenge.grehack.fr
writeup https://www.synacktiv.com/posts/challenges/grehack-2018-qual...

CSAW Red Team Competition 2018 https://red.csaw.io/challenges

Hacktober.org https://hacktober.org

Advent Calendar of Advanced Cyber Fun 2018 https://xmas.rip
repository https://github.com/takeshixx/advent-calendar-2018
writeup https://gist.githubusercontent.com/BenGardiner/03e2a7edeb764...
writeup https://emanuelduss.ch/2018/12/advent-calendar-of-advanced-c...

OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2018 https://advent2018.overthewire.org
writeup https://ctftime.org/event/721/tasks

35C3 https://archive.aachen.ccc.de/35c3ctf.ccc.ac/challenges/inde...
writeup https://ctftime.org/event/718/tasks

HITB-XCTF Dubai CTF 2018 https://ctftime.org/event/720
So now would be a good time to use your 0 days as there is no one around to patch the systems...
Iosevka for me, you can custom build it with the letter designs you want, it supports ligatures and it's condensed without been cramped (also has Term, non-term and Slab variants in the same build).

It's replaced my mono font everywhere, Fira Code is lovely but it feels way too wide once you've used Iosevka.

The only font that comes close is Pragmata Pro but that's not free.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/be5invis/Iosevka/master/im...
That´s not a failure of TCP.
How is building a barrier along the border a racist policy?
Not really, you can just pass a bill to prevent more shutdowns from happening?

And even if you don’t give Trump what he wants now do you really think that’s going to stop him from trying again? He has no reason to stop trying.
Even your 2-days are good.
Man I was all set to be like "Yeah I love CTF!!" and then I realized it had another meaning besides referring to my favorite childhood game.
Converting Merchant Ships to Missile Ships
The priest and the dying soldier, 1962
I would love it, personally! And websites would riot, and then reduce the number of permissions they requested, just like apps do/did.
My advice for anyone starting the world of work is become debt-free as quick as possible, invest, and save. Smile and say yes to any company that tries to tickle your feels.

No matter who you are, you are expendable. Don't ever forget it.
Douglas Crockford has argued against using "this" for years:

https://vimeo.com/118740253

(start around 35:40)
Yeah, the i960MX that had all the good RAS and security features. That would be useful today. Good news is we have stuff like CHERI and CoreGuard that someone might turn into systems we can actually buy for security-focused applications.
No. In the US, all similar products require a prescription. This is by far the best available option (no fingerstick calibration, longest-lasting sensor, easy mobile app, etc.). Basically, get this one. It’s $80 including 1 month of sensors.

I believe the thinking is that people need a professional to discuss results with. I understand that perspective, but I don’t agree with it, and I definitely don’t agree that having someone to discuss results with should outweigh the increased access/adoption of over-the-counter sales. This is the first product that makes it practical - even easy - and completely painless for non-diabetics like me to track blood glucose informationally, so perhaps this will change. That said, the FDA has made other overly-conservative decisions, like disallowing fingerstick A1c tests (which don’t require fasting or a full venous blood draw) for first-pass screening of diabetes: http://www.onsitehealthdiagnostics.com/blog/a1c/, https://twitter.com/troyd/status/1018150306125758465.
And probably doesn't understand all that was required to see and prove the theory. Making his message narrower.
Every model or analogy has this problem, but it doesn't make models and analogies useless for learning.
They don't track financial assets because those jump around a lot based on interest rates(because of how interest rates effect future discounted cash flows). So this can give you the false impression that inflation is happening when it isn't and vice versa.
"you can't be nice to employees and then lay them off at the same time"

You absolutely can and you must. Being professional and being nice are not exclusive. Quite the opposite.

A professional manager understands that being nice doesn't mean protecting someone from reality just because reality sucks. It means showing them respect during the process.
I use my own system dubbed NL0 (N = Now, L = Later, 0 = Never). I keep a Trello board online with these 3 columns, and once in a while I clean it up (maybe once every month, but it's not a rule - whenever I feel like it).
I also write things and ideas on paper, but, eventually, I sync it all up in the Trello board (I also have Trello on my phone, so, it's usually around when I need it). The [Now] column is for things I need to do / learn now (highest priority); the [Later] column is for things that I need or would like to do / learn later, in the medium-term future; the [0 (never)] column is for things that I am sure I won't do / need, or things that represent no meaningful value (for me) anymore, including things from the other 2 columns. It's been working for me for years now.

P.S.: I keep talking about things that you need to "learn" / "do". Actually that sums up everything we do in our lives. We either learn something or we use what we already learned. Keep learning, keep doing!

NL0 4ever! :)
It would kind of suck for the people who (inevitably) live on a piece of land for which the papers have been lost.
> Today I learned that the government needs to start operating a bit more like a corporation in the sense of removing paper pushers.

Not to stir the political pot, but this is one of the reasons my father says he voted Trump - an "outsider from corporate lands" would cut the fat of government and start running it like a company. The government is slow because OF the paper pushers, and the often used cliche "you have to really do a bad job to get fired as a government worker".
They actually do home delivery in Japan for ￥3,000, or roughly $30 USD: https://www.ikea.com/ms/en_JP/customer_service/ikea_services...
No, we'd call that propaganda as well.

It's not that "everything Russian is propaganda" it's that under the Soviet Union at the time these were produced there was a specific agenda and ideology intended to be propagated by the state and funded by it. And under that regime, if you made a holiday postcard showing a drunk Lenin and Stalin arm in arm staggering down a snowy street and tried to distribute it as "art" you would have likely ended up in a re-education facility. Context is relevant to the terminology here.
So everything in moderation, including sun.

Are there any sensible exceptions to that rule?
If that is the case, then the downvotes are misplaced. The HN Guidelines say nothing about humour (good or bad) in comments.

HN Guidelines do specifically say don't talk about downvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN Guideline: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

It's all about signal to noise ratio here. You weren't the only one that posted the same obvious joke and all the comments were downvoted. No big deal.

On the topic of HN guidelines, the following can be construed as particularly snarky:

If someone got offended because they don't like people joking on HN, well, guys, are there more of you than my karma? If not, tough.

HN Guideline: Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky.
Haha... levity definitely helps in enterprise software.

We develop ERP/CRM plugins, and I don't even pretend to sell employees on a "change the world" mission.

(We do, however, strive to build the best picks and axes so others can change the world).
Adults are not children.
Just bought a ticket yesterday - no, it's still there.
I do not know why people think this is some "conspiracy" or "politically" motivated. One my customers is also .gov.
So the invoice from 1st of Jan 2019 was not paid. Should I cancel their service? And nobody even answers on our emails (saying gov shutdown bla bla).

The shutdown is politically motivated. The fact that certain government operations do not work is the result of the shutdown.
My guess is like other people are saying, awareness, and having a short expire time on certificates should also make it less usable if someone gets access to the certificate by them having less time to use it. Same reason why passwords should be rotated often.
Datebk6 was also incredible
So if you timed it to coincide with the boat race....?
> Fasting glucose and A1C tests done over the past few years show me at low risk for diabetes. But these tests don’t necessarily capture how much blood sugar “spikes” after meals–something that may be a better predictor of disease risk.

It's hard to take the author's concern seriously when he is at low risk. A better take is that he's just curious.
Show HN: Beautiful Todo CLI Manager
History has shown that appeasement is generally a totally ineffective way to deal with aggressors.
Poland Arrests 2, Including Huawei Employee, Accused of Spying for China
I've seen people on Instagram making treehouses before and they made way more than five stories about it.
> By the standards of the time, a relatively large amount of data could be stored in a small installed volume of core rope memory: 72 kilobytes per cubic foot, or roughly 2.5 megabytes per cubic meter

Wow, I'd never heard of this 'rope' memory before - incredible!
Serving a static HTML page has security or maintenance issues? This is reaching IMO, short of the web server having a vuln, this shouldn't take much to create/maintain.
I'm guessing SpaceX isn't part of this given they share the front page with a story about laying people off.
No that's just the facilities. Gym + Food / month averages ~ $275.00. But the unit cost does seem low for Manhattan standards
I really like the idea. We recently got a new minister of education, who is a successful entrepreneur, and so far he has done a great job.

But I guess it all depends on who you pick for the position..
This isn't a debate, you've just ranted.
At the very least, I have a list of priorities that i HAVE to get done in one place. Anything else I have to do, I do categorize but I'm not worried about getting to them. If I make this any more of a system, I'm worried I turn my life into work so this is good enough for me.
What makes that more open?
Ah. My mind jumped to the Wollemi pine and such.