skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love seeing all the comments in this thread talking about things they use from GTD. I also extracted a ton of useful tips, tricks, and concepts from GTD that are now just part of my working life. Thinking through concrete next actions, having an inbox to throw things everything, having dedicated time to process through my inbox and think through priorities, putting anything involving time on my calendar (including "tickler" reminders to think about and take action). One time I showed a friend the GTD book. She opened it to a random page, read for a moment, and said "oh! I can use this technique!" and she incorporated it.

It seems the article's claim is that GTD takes an individual approach whereas it might be more fruitful to take a systemic approach — why is GTD needed in the first place (tons of ad-hoc tasks generated by others for you) and is there a way to obviate the need for it upstream? I'm pretty sympathetic to this argument. We humans can stretch our capacity for cognitive work quite far, but I think almost everyone has had the experience of overload when our natural human limits are stretched for too long.

I think if the author wanted to develop this argument he wouldn't have stopped with suggesting a limp theoretical proposal but done an empirical investigation of organizations that already did what he was proposing and how it went a la Frederic Laloux's brilliant "Reinventing Organizations". Or maybe just build the software and studied how organizations used it. Maybe Newport did some of that in his books, I'm not sure.
If the CEO is an AI, that will play well with the AI investing systems that allocate capital.

Ironically it looks like the truck drivers and shelf stackers will be the last people to go.
A database performance issue was ruled out earlier in the process:

> Node 17 and below worked, Node 18 and above didn’t.

Given that the same queries worked fine with a different client, that would point to a client issue rather than a server issue.
Yeah, I mean, as long as we're idealizing, let's have them pay the actual costs that were externalized to society instead of merely wiping out profits from misdeeds.
Thats a touch cynical.
Close. Automate middle management.

All the things mentioned in the article really are prime candidates for automation. But that's management, not leadership.

Management is primed to be automated. See Marshall Brain's book "Manna" for a great take on what's possible here.

Leadership is not. LLMs are great at doing the right things when there's a general consensus on what the right things are. Best practices, etc.

But what the current technology cannot do, and what I think LLMs specifically could never do, is know when to break the rules.

As Phil Knight may or may not have said (he was quoted in the new Air movie): You're remembered for the rules you break. That's leadership.

A great CEO needs to be a leader first and foremost, and a manager second.
In a quick search for an alternative, looks like this non-credible Web site commissioned testing by credible-sounding researchers:

https://www.mamavation.com/beauty/toxic-pfas-dental-floss-to...

Without time to research further right now, I'm going to try this Reach Mint Waxed floss (unfortunately from J&J, of asbestos baby powder infamy):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013OKRGWW/

Also, I'm not qualified to assess the HSPH work, but if turns out there's evidence that a company did something possibly criminal with PFASs, where should we be expecting a criminal investigation? US AG? States AG?
losing friends is in my experience a somewhat dynamic and historically plausible process while break ups turn a switch in a woman's brain. i know this won't fare well with many folks to put it that way - but men don't have that switch. a woman turns from one minute to the other into someone else the moment the relationship is over and the only thing you have left to hope for is that this someone isn't going to be your new archenemy - especially if you have a divorce looking forward to.
> Back then intel were pressured into a recall, today we seem too willing to put up with being sold broken stuff.

This bug only applies to servers that haven’t been rebooted for 3 years and have the CC6 sleep state enabled. It can be worked around by disabling CC6 sleep state or rebooting once every 3 years.

If you think operators of these servers can’t be bothered to update and reboot their machines once in 3 years or change a single BIOS setting, what makes you think they’d be interested in tearing down their servers, physically replacing the CPU, and reassembling all of them with the associated downtime and inevitable accidental damage to some units? Nothing about that makes sense from a business perspective.
All "unlocked" energy requires a certain energy investment: drilling, pipelines, refineries, tankers, setting power lines, running a solar silicon factory, setting up a wind turbine...

The question is always what's your multiple on energy return from energy invested, and how does it compare to the alternatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment
Like previously mentioned. Definitely give it to a PhD student *NOT* in the first world institution.
Maybe, but you need to run the exact came container on everyone's machines.
It's literally the definitions of the words:

> A reason or excuse given to hide the real reason for something.

> That which is assumed as a cloak or means of concealment; something under cover of which a true purpose is hidden; an ostensible reason, motive, or occasion; a pretense.
Blitzortung.org: Lightning Detection Network
Where do we submit change requests for People 2.0? I found a bug where people crash after roughly 60-80 years and can't be rebooted, they're just plain bricked.
I think it would. Why would someone falsify data for a company if they know they might get executed. It wouldn’t be for their own gain.
Also that we can't wipe ants out. They seem to be doing quite well despite humans. I'd bet on ants surviving long term over humans.
Libya to be invited to join the EU?

LOL
Thanks for explaining the issue more! I must say I wasn't too familiar with Intel's issue when I wrote the comment.
It is. These systems (inctedibuild, fastbuild) tend to work extremely well but are network bottlenecked. You need a fast, low latency connection.
The CEO is the action organ of the board and is intended to be burnable.

At any point The board decides that the organization is not providing maximum financial compensation back to the board and shareholders, the CEO will be replaced for someone that will.

That’s the role of a CEO and nothing more
Google DIDACT: Large sequence models for software development activities
The kind of journalism that journalists want you to think they do - going out into war zones or directly interviewing people to find out new things of public interest - isn't replaceable by AI. The kind of journalism they actually do - hanging out on Twitter and repeating whatever goes trending there - is easily replaceable. They did this to themselves.
Indie hacking is a movement of developers who are building their own products and businesses on their own terms. They are not beholden to investors or corporate overlords, and they have the freedom to pursue their own passions.
My biggest pain point is translating the internal compliance/security requirements into technical measures and monitoring them in real time.
Not only infrastructure but also application security.
In addition templating solutions and make them easily integratable.
Power is the amount of energy transferred or converted per unit time. Whereas energy is the ability to do work.

Power is the ability to do more work, faster.
Personally I use these: https://www.thehumble.co/collections/dental-floss

It says on the packaging, PFAS & BPA free, the string is made from polyethylene. In the UK I buy them off Amazon. I have no association with this company.
Would they? I understand that in many cases, CEOs are often selected by, and their remuneration awarded by, boards made up of incestuous groupings of people who rely on each other in the same way. Their incentive is to award big paydays to each other.

Do you have any evidence that boards would not do this?
Not OP, but they likely mean a waste of brainpower in the survival or ability to function as an agent sense. Ontologically of course it's not a waste but that's not part of evolution's cost function.
Why not? Many security issues are detected by people who just happened to do a series of actions in a way nobody expected them to do.
I don’t get this comment.

You’re trying to make a snarky comment about the morality of shareholder capitalism but clearly IA is a better allocation of resources than “more realistic AAAA video games”.
I don't think "on average" is a very useful metric in general (unless you're also narrowing the qualification greatly via other metrics too, to shrink the pool of people that contribute to the average), because that tends to subconsciously translate to "default assumption".
https://godbolt.org/noscript

Since I am more and more comfy at writing assembly, it is usually kind of less of a pain to write directly assembly than to refactor and comment compiler assembly output.
I've now written a lot of zig code (http.zig, websocket.zig, log.zig, zuckdb.zig, etc.) I think Zig falls into an "easy to learn, average/hard to master" category.

Some insiders underestimate the effort required for newcomers to build non-trivial things. I think this is because some of that complexity has to do with things like poor documentation, inconsistent stdlib, incompatible releases, slow release cycle, lack of package manager, etc. For an insider living and breathing Zig, not only aren't these huge challenges, they aren't really "Zig" - they are just transient growing pains. For someone getting started though, the current state of Zig is Zig.

I wish Zig had a polished package manager (there's one in the current development branch, but you don't as much use it as fight it). They could then move some of the less polished code into official experimental packages, helping to set expectations and maybe focus the development efforts.
This is like designing just the right shape of bomb to bring peace to the middle east.

Neoliberal solutions dont work on the captains of the neoliberal order.

If you want to bring CEOs to heel the best way to to organize, unionize and strike (if youre not a dev) or unionize and/or covertly work to rule (if you are).
FP didn't really start to "click" until I found "Functional Core, Imperative Shell"[1] last year (2022). The HN comments from that thread were very helpful, too.

I didn't really grok FP until 2022, but I learned Scheme as early as 1999 for programming 101 (comp sci degree). We used the SICP textbook; looking back it seems SICP used an FP language to teach programming, but didn't explore some important FP concepts like Option/Either (a.k.a. Monads. Perhaps our class just didn't cover that part of the book?)

Between 1999 and 2022, I dabbled in FP because I heard good things about it. But I think many FP practitioners could improve their marketing/teaching skills. Most FP texts seem to dive into mathematical jargon (monads, functors, etc) without even explaining why knowing these would be useful.

So I'm writing a series of articles on FP. The first one is on why FP is worth learning: "More Performant, Testable Code with Functional Programming. (FP language optional!)"[2]

The next article will be a curated list of articles/videos that I feel explain FP better than most; the ones I wish I had found way back when starting to dabble in FP.

Also there's an argument many of FP's useful features have been copied by more imperative languages[3]. So people may be unwittingly doing FP even if they aren't using an FP language. For example, anonymous first class functions have been added to C++ and even Excel. JS has always had anonymous first class functions.

[1]: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/18043058

[2]: https://blog.leftium.com/2023/04/more-performant-testable-co...

[3]: https://youtu.be/QyJZzq0v7Z4
I have been to Orlando a few times. There is a helicopter tour that flies over the parks every hour or so. Him saying he's a very good customer means he probably gets a discount for flying with them so much and just brings a good camera and zoom lens.
For fish and eggs it’s worth looking into carbon steel as well. You can get basically a non-stick surface without PFAS and it’s lighter than cast iron.
That is certainly the view of many people who aren't writers or journalists. We'll see if it plays out. Jobs do tend to appear simpler than they really are when looking in from the outside.

>They did this to themselves.

And who set this bad direction? The CEO. This hardly adds to the case for not replacing him with an AI.
Eradicate corruption? Almost certainly not. That's not really possible. The goal is largely to keep it below a certain threshold so the country can actually function.

As the death penalty, personally I'm not a fan. But I am a fan of severe punishments for the kind of intentional corporate malfeasance we're talking about.

Here's the lesson I'd like people to take from all of this: markets need strong voernments to function. Libertarianism is a fantasy with no basis in reality (eg [1]). Political movements such as "starving the beast" [2] are nothing more than an attempt to extract even more profits from the populace, even to the point where that society can no longer function because no one can afford food or housing, the drinking water is poisonous and none of the roads or bridges can be repaired.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
I've been playing with it and so far but I'm more impressed with their build system rather than the language itself (it seems to be way more flexible and simpler than alternatives which is pretty rare). They did however get the module system right. You can just organize the file structure in any way you like. I hate Rust's "everything is a single module" system with passion.
I do get why they standardized it that way, but boy is it ugly.
> I understand that in many cases, CEOs are often selected by, and their remuneration awarded by, boards made up of incestuous groupings of people who rely on each other in the same way.

Can you give one or two examples?
Using AI to imagine farm animals growing old
Computers definitely were. Cars not so much.

Jaguar E-Type (1968): £2,250 (~£32,000 today)
Mustang (1968): $2,602 (~$23k today)
Mini (1959): $1,340 (~$14k today)
> A rational actor would only engage in the behavior of their expected gain was larger than the expected cost to society.

This is - bluntly put - a shite fucking idea. I am not trying to "maximize total welfare" where one way to accomplish that is to allow a bad actor to get ridiculously wealthy at the expense of everyone else (even if the total paid by everyone else is less than the bad actor makes).

We have a term for this: Privatized profits and socialized losses. We're witnessing that this mindset is completely dysfunctional.

It allows bad actors to accumulate immense wealth through behaviors that are net negatives for all other participants - further, those bad actors can then use that wealth to avoid or offset the share of their social costs that should be paid (ex: lobbying politicians, paying off regulators, bribing judges, etc)

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There is a reason most people don't accept a deal where both parties gain, but one gains at a heavy advantage over the other: We know that allowing this behavior is bad for long term social stability, and we have all sorts of ideas about "Fair" that we apply to stop it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/ultimatum-...

> The firms profit should be irrelevant in my opinion. But make these firms believe that they will have to cover the true costs of their behavior!

The profit is the ONLY FUCKING THING that is relevant. The firms don't care about "true costs" (which, as an aside are often impossible to reasonably calculate). All the firms cares about is "Does bad behavior A lead to more net money, or less net money?" As long as the answer is "More net money" The firm is going to engage in bad behavior.

The answer ALWAYS needs to be: Fine the bad behavior until it is not profitable. Full fucking stop.
There is now also a repository that is holding 100's of thousands of RARBG magnet links in text files [1]. The link is in the article. I'm not sure whether posting the direct link is proper here.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/rarbg-over-267000-movie-tv-show-mag...
Research Finds Women Are Advantaged in Being Hired in Academic Science
Thanks for this cool bit of information.
Is there an enforcement arm? As in, what if some agency decides not to do it for some reason - do they get sanctioned in any way? In the US Federal government, there are two I'm familiar with: budget and dragging agency heads in front of congress or the Executive Office and yelling at them. The first doesn't always work - cutting the budget of an important agency over what the press would call a "minor IT issue" doesn't look good (and counter productive). The second tends to work better.
Putting that at the front of your email makes it sound even more sketchy to me.
It also creates a weird liability where hotel owners have to snoop on their users in order to deflect responsibility. It also stimulates self-censorship. VPNs are likely very popular in Germany.
I didn't claim there were no camps in Germany, I said there were no death camps - camps built to kill people, camps equipped for mass killing. Your response was to mention other camps and to say the difference between them is semantics when the difference between them is literally hundreds of thousands of deaths.
I’m personally reminded of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (which has some historical evidence for being a true story)…
It would be worth it, if I regularly used it. But for that one time a month and less, I’ll stay with the non-stick. Even scrambled eggs work in the ceramic, it’s only fried eggs, and super-flaky fish that aren’t that great in it.
Ask HN: How to save and retrieve Markdown at database
What's the best practice for working with "user generated content" in Markdown.

- How do you save it
- How do you retreive it (to edit) not to display

notes: potential problem when user have a script on the text

Thanks
*from one of the most senior judges in the UK* -- not "hot" but "has a ton of utility in the conduct of real commerce."

It hits different coming from people that handle the legal frameworks for trillions of dollars of transactions, you know?
I think the parent comment was talking about individuals, not companies. At the end of the day most companies can outlast a change in government, which is why the government settles. Jail time for bad actors in companies is probably the best way to deter corporate bad action. I wonder if sharing some of the money from damages with the whistle blowers f* the game up enough to not make it worth a companies time to act in bad faith.

Classic prisoners dilemma. which makes me wonder what the prisoners dilemma looks like with different points distributions for each outcome if it changes the long term strategy. if you can adjust the points so you can predetermine "rational" strategy for an agent.
Thanks, So I take it, the Lichee Module 4A won't fit the uConsole, DevTerm or other projects who use those raspbi compute interfaces?
How about diesel?
Eradicated is quite a high bar, isn't it?

I don't think any category of crime has ever been eradicated from anywhere. The question is whether China's measures reduce corruption. My bet would be yes, but who knows.
Dealing with people running automated scanners that do nothing but spam you about nonsense.
I don't like the idea that there is a singular "center" of life. Everyone's center is different. Assuming that it's the same for everyone can cause a whole host of problems in people's lives.

Societies are so far off from what's truly important in existence, that I fear we may never collectively reach that day where we truly get it right.
wow this is some real advice. I fully agree!
50% of what middle management is what secretaries used to do. If I ever run my own company I will hire a team of secretaries to work with my developers and our productivity will shoot through the roof. No everyone is organized, good at scheduling, following up on things, focusing at work, interpersonal discussions, sending memos, navigating bureaucracy, etc.

A great secretary allows you to focus on getting development or whatever work you do in and out instead of on the day to day running of life.

I don't want a scrum master, I want a secretary.

As a manager, 90% of what I do as a manager is follow up with people, act as an escalation point for managing timelines, organizing who can do what, and none of this really is a skill related to my actual skillset.

Luckily I am able to commit to 20/hrs a week of development, but I could probably do 35 with a secretary - and use those last 5 hours to focus on strategy, direction, leadership stuff that's actually important.
So, you think only women have difficulties with break ups? Men don't? What are we, emotionless rocks or ice cubes?
You know what will be the actual AI apocalypse? When (probably middle mgmt at first, and maybe some dumb CEOs) mgmt starts treating LLMs like the Magic Meatball and following the advice blindly.
A big thing for me is no mystery meat algorithmic feeds… just the subreddits you’ve subscribed to or /all or /popular if you want to look at those. The official Reddit app is bad about doing things like showing you posts from washing machine subreddits because you looked at a post about washing machines once months ago while doing purchase research and it’s really annoying.
As a internal security person (now a consultant for third parties): your approach is interesting, but still fails where all security tools do, who is going to install the agent on every box. The reason why every asset tracking solution is incomplete is because they are trying to correlate agent data and platform data. This is exacerbated by cloud computing since resources are much more transient and new servers lack gating by a governance org.

Complex AV tools are cool but they are so far down the chain of actually exploited vulns, they are not super useful most of the time. Usually the vulns used are old and just unpatched (check the latest DBIR data to see average age of exploited vuln). So a lot of time and effort goes into cajoling teams to update packages and having them say "we don't even call the vulnerable function."

My biggest issues:
-Asset inventory (SANS Top 20 #1)

-Software inventory (SANS Top 20 #2)

-Tagging of ownership (what does this box do and who do I call if it goes bump in the night)

To answer your other questions:
-Yes, but that is because we created it

-Yes, but only because we have tooling to do it across cloud envs

-No, we only look at deployed bins

-Signature based

-Getting useful code deployed to a box is hard enough, unless there a RCE this is so far down the list of threats on our threat model

-No idea, I assume pretty good since we use MITRE references, but making sure those are accurate to what we find is tough

-Yes, all of them (Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch, Alpine)
Not sure if biggest pain point, but SBOM tools seem to be a wild mess. A tool that can generate a reliably complete SBOM in a heterogeneous landscape, considering the source as well as the end products (like containers) would be helpful.

The only tool that seems to get this even partly right is syft but it is still far from being an acceptable solution.