skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot make a "safe space" just by declaring it. You have to actually do the emotional labor of visibly understanding someone's individual perspective and building over time a particular type of trust: The trust that you are going to gracefully handle even their unreasonable emotions.

Expecting to do that before every meeting with your employees just makes you sound like an aerospace engineer who's never hear of "O-rings".
I think those boil down to consequences; if it's not the bad things happen when we don't have rules / a categorical imperative / golden rule, or not achieving eudaimonia, it's bad things that happen in the afterlife.

Why regulate human behaviour if not for a reason? Dare I say it, a consequence?
Docker sends SIGKILL to all processes on the host if a CRLF start-script is used
Anyone used Streak and Pigeon? Curious to hear thoughts?
Especially compared to cash currency, I’m sure this must be true.
Hi there, worked multiple times on fulltime remote projects over the years. I can echo your concerns.

I think the best way to achieve team spirit and to reduce emotional frictions is actually to break up the remoteness here and then.

Currently I see my colleagues once every week or two and I love it. On fulltime remote projects I try to convince colleagues to meetup once every X months or so and work together for a week.

The amazing thing is, once all of your mates realize that you could do this meeting anywhere in the world, you can turn this week into a great experience. Even more so if one of your colleagues lives in that place.
I pity the fool...
Just to pipe in in this chorus of rather negative takes: I'm super happy with Gnome 3. Ymmv!
No, it certainly isn't black and white. Indeed 'much better' is hard to even define when human drivers cover an enormous amount of miles per accident, miles driven are heterogenous in terms of risk, there isn't even necessarily a universally accepted classification of accident severity or whether drivers should be excluded from the sample as being 'at fault' to an unacceptable degree. Plus the AV software isn't staying the same forever: every release introduces new potential edge case bugs, and any new edge case bug which produces a fatality every hundred million miles makes that software release more lethal than human drivers, even if it's better at not denting cars whilst parking and always observes speed limits in between. I don't think every new release is getting a enough billion miles of driving with safety drivers to reassure there's no statistically significant risk of new edge case bugs though.

And in context, we still punish surgeons for causing fatalities through gross negligence even though overall they are many orders of magnitude better at performing surgery than the average human.
'Appeals to consequences' as used by Quinn are a fallacy because the decisions rest on the desirability and emotional judgement of the consequence.
That's an obvious fallacy we can agree in the context of business.

There are more ways to evaluate consequences than their emotional viability. Taking a teological stance or a protection from death stance can lead to nailing the puppy charity to the wall on exactly how much of a lie is necessary to prevent death of puppies, the truth, people's bank accounts and the charity itself.

Using the appeal to consequences fallacy to disregard an entire category of philosophical thought is a bit silly.
Impressive! Though very lacking on any kind of instructional use. "init" is easy enough to figure out, but there's no "add" step. Shame :)
Something that stuck with me (from long before the current crisis) was when I asked a friend how she thought Chinese people generally perceived America. The response was much as you'd expect: some people see it as a faraway paradise, some feel pretty negative, many don't really care.

But she specifically mentioned one guy from her workplace who fell into the "relentlessly negative" camp, always criticizing America if he got the opportunity. She said even he admitted the US did one good thing that deserved the thanks of the Chinese people.

That thing was publishing air pollution numbers based on measurements in American consulates in China.

I usually think about this in terms of the apparently huge diplomatic win it presented for very minor effort, but it also says something about the level of trust in the Chinese government pre-crisis.
Where was it livestreamed?
>Gives you a sense of why the U.S. intelligence community is so nervous about having Huawei at the core of the domestic 5G network

Makes me wonder what we've done using the fact US companies (ex: Cisco) control large swathes of the internet's infrastructure.
> Almost every rich western country today behaved like China during their industrial revolution

I'm not a historian so please correct me if I'm wrong but the US gained independence, democracy, and the rule of law well before the industrial revolution. I'm pretty sure 90%+ of the population were still subsistence farmers back then.

Outside of the world wars I'm not sure the US ever practiced state capitalism either. They didn't even have a central bank until 1913.
I'm a bit confused by the License in the Terms and Conditions:
> Unless otherwise stated, Redsprint and/or it's licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Poplar.one.

...
> You must not:

Republish material from https://poplar.one
Sell, rent or sub-license material from https://poplar.one
Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from https://poplar.one

Does that mean:
- Redsprint (an AI tech company in London) owns all intellectual IP written in diary entries?
- you can't republish your own notes?
To all the negative replies: yikes!

To me, this seems like a good faith effort to improve work life for your teammates, and build a company where people feel well-cared for.

Remote teams inherently have more communication friction than co-located teams, and - if we want to bridge some of the resulting emotional gap - we'll need new practices to do so.

Incidentally, what OP suggests isn't anything new. Just Google "red yellow green check in"[1].

I've found three ways of building emotional honesty and openness:
1/ regular 1:1s to listen to your direct reports and build trust
2/ lead by example
3/ every week we have a team meeting. During that meeting, everyone on the team answers a question. The question gives them the opportunity to open up about some aspect of their life -- to be better known and understood by their teammates.

[1] https://blog.travis-ci.com/2016-06-09-start-meetings-with-pe...
I think you were trying to be a bit disingenuous, but that is actually true. Just because a human pressed a button on a camera does not mean the image is copyrightable. Example case [1]

1: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/1...
They're dropping python2 support for caja (nautilus) plugins so watch out if you have any python based caja (nautilus) scripts. Not that that's unreasonable. Just beware.
You can do all of this without a PhD. I'd go a step further and say that a PhD is probably orthogonal to most if not all of these goals:

1. With PhD you drill deep into a niche. By the time you're done, if a dozen people in the world care about your work, that's a success. Sure, you become an expert in this super-tiny niche, but the real world hardly swoons.

2. If you want to show your work so that other people read it, academic papers is not the way to go. So much so that the trend today is to encourage researchers to write easy-to-read blog posts that explain their work.

3. Expertise comes from solving problems, and that's not really what academia is about. You've mentioned ML, which is white hot right now but might not be in ten years' time. Most academic ML work competes on marginally improving on the same datasets, which rarely matter to real-world applications. If anything, what there is not nearly enough of is building quality data sets for new tasks. This is something anyone who trains themselves with decent statistics can get into.

4. Again, experts who monetise are experts that solve real-world problems. I don't know of successful consultant who are successful BECAUSE they have a PhD.

5. Writing books is a skill in its own right. I have a friend who's done a PhD and slaved on a book out of her thesis. She's very proud of it and all, but the volume we're talking here is a few dozens, bought by academic libraries. Is that your goal?

6. I feel the only people who invent something that ends up being valuable are those who apply their wits to real pain points. Most times, it's not the lone academic that launches a successful startup, it's the clever academic along with the sharp business buddy, and some seed funding. And even then, you still have to do all the legwork of any new business. A PhD, with its 4 years of being buried in the library, is hardly training for that sort of work.

I think university is brilliant and curiosity is brilliant, and going out into the world and applying what you know to problems that you see can be incredibly rewarding. It's just that all this stuff doesn't necessitate a PhD.
I believe that's part of what they're trying to point out. That melodies this short should be copyrightable by anyone.
It uses a physical model of color, not a perceptual model, and it ignores ambient light color, so it's already clearly missing the boat on scientific colors.

The example it a vomit of color where punctuated, tags, and content all scream for attention with equally loud voices.
Notable a lot of JavaScript AST libraries at least a while back omitted comments and whitespace, which is fine for writing a minifier, but horrible when trying to implement source code transformations.

What I really like about Roslyn's AST (and I guess TypeScript's looks about the same) is that all those details are put into Trivia; ignoring those is just passing one flag to the visitor; you don't have to be aware of how many different types of AST nodes there are that might be ignorable. It also means that each and every whitespace and comment belongs to a syntax token instead of being other nodes interleaved with the normal nodes. This helps keeping comments where they belong even after re-arranging code in the AST – something that, e.g. ReSharper is atrociously bad at.
The main thing is exposure + motivation. I learned to program about age 8 (not well, mind you, but that's when I started) with BASIC. We had a Tandy 1000 at home, and math textbooks had BASIC listings at the end of sections/chapters at the time (late 80s, early 90s). I was motivated to try the things out, my dad provided me access to the computer (showed me how to get to the command prompt, launch BASIC, open, save, and edit files, and run programs). He didn't do much beyond that (he hadn't programmed in 10 years or more, in college), but giving me access was the critical element.

If she's not interested in the motivating examples, like I was with the math-based examples, then she likely won't stay interested or engaged. So find something that she's interested in and can write her own programs (or program extensions) for. It could be more game-like stuff (controlling a character or bot on screen and having it do something), simulations, drawing (think Logo's Turtle Graphics or fractals), or something more physical (arduino + LEDs or servos controlling something).

And don't pressure her. Once she has access, and knows she can ask for help, if she's interested she'll pursue it. If she shows some interest but has little self-motivation, maybe keep providing little widgets or gizmos or games and inviting her to help out, but only occasionally.
£30 currently. Though mobile payments don’t fall foul of this in theory, in practice some terminals are limited to £30 to match the card limit, which can be annoying when you want to pay by mobile (the most secure way).
Due to the forced slowness of US chip readers, Apple Pay is often much faster (to feeling magically faster) on average, that as I have gotten used to my device's own haptic feedbacks for the action, that I don't feel too much self-consciousness in those few times I try it, it fails, I dig out a physical card. At this point I don't think anyone notices if I try it or not other than when it succeeds "too quickly" and they want to know what voodoo I used to checkout faster than them, and I like talking about tech and enjoy explaining in that case.

Most of the remaining awkward are the cashiers/business that still like to "touch" the physical card itself (for whatever reason and/or ignorance), hiding the chip reader behind a counter or facing it away from the user. If the reader is too hidden you know not to try at all. The "pardon my reach" is sometimes embarrassing to try when the reader is in an accessible but awkward position, but sometimes I still like to try it, just to somewhat send a message that there are reasons they should move the reader closer to the buyer than the register and they just hadn't seen them yet.
You nailed my feelings on the matter - I love the concept of 'air-gapping' as applied to personal truths here.
US Postal Service Suspends Items Destined for China and Hong Kong Amid Outbreak
https://live.drewdevault.com/
One thing I like about Eater is that he keeps mistakes that he's made in the content. He's not some rockstar, just a curious guy whose made a lot of very interesting videos.
I make a point of asking people how are they doing at the start of one on one meetings. 9/10 people say 'good', and we go to other topics. 1/10 has something to say, and that's ok too. It's a small thing, but sometimes people just need someone to listen and be heard ... odd to me that it's at work, but ok, I'm glad to help if it helps.

That said, fishing for 'emotions' seems uncomfortable to me, and maybe asking for trouble with HR down the road.
£30 in the UK, and PIN is required 'occasionally'

https://www.barclays.co.uk/current-accounts/debit-cards/cont...
An unobstructive approach to large scale software license analysis
Revolut has acquired quite some infamy due to their employee/applicant treatment. Not sure I'd want to keep my money with them
He has a subdomain on his site that he uses for it:

https://live.drewdevault.com/
This above all else.

I've seen an entire remote office fall apart because of an over-reliance on slack.

- Text doesn't convey emotion, so one person's joke often gets misinterpreted as another's jab

- Text is low-bandwidth and asynchronous. When those two pair together, you get people writing novels back and forth over the entire day when it could have been a 15 min chat

- Text makes it hard to empathize, which means it's really easy to soapbox and grandstand, which makes conversations very unpleasant and brings out the worst in people.

What works is limiting text communication and actively encouraging video chat. A peer review can have a comment, response, and rebuttal, but anything further should be done over video. Encourage "office hours" for knowledge transfer or "why is this done like this" type questions. Find ways of minimizing friction for video chat -- if it can be done casually it will be used more frequently.
You can buy things from a different company or work for a different company or lobby your government to go after the company and stop their behavior.

It's much much harder to move countries, if they even let you.
Inkscape is so overwhelmingly popular for SVG illustrations on Wikimedia that they've seriously considered just using headless Inkscape as the standard SVG rendering backend, instead of rsvg.
Also check out the "Moveable Feast Machine", Robust-first Computing, and this Distributed City Generation example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858577

DonHopkins on Oct 26, 2017 | parent | favorite | on: Cryptography with Cellular Automata (1985) [pdf]

A "Moveable Feast Machine" is a "Robust First" asynchronous distributed fault tolerant cellular-automata-like computer architecture. It's similar to a Cellular Automata, but it different in several important ways, for the sake of "Robust First Computing". These differences give some insight into what CA really are, and what their limitations are.

Cellular Automata are synchronous and deterministic, and can only modify the current cell: all cells are evaluated at once (so the evaluation order doesn't matter), so it's necessary to double buffer the "before" and "after" cells, and the rule can only change the value of the current (center) cell. Moveable Feast Machines are like asynchronous non-deterministic cellular automata with large windows that can modify adjacent cells.

Here's a great example with an amazing demo and explanation, and some stuff I posted about it earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236973

Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc
That's a very good argument for why gay marriage should be allowed, and IIRC the one that the supreme court followed. That doesn't mean that there aren't still people who would challenge the morality of such.

Morals and legality are different. Marijuana is federally illegal - does that make it immoral to produce/distribute/possess/consume? I would say no, and a large part of the country would say the same. Similarly, I think a ton of people would freak the fuck out if the supreme court legalized marrying prepubescent children - it might now be legal, but that doesn't make it moral.

The moral position that people fighting gay marriage have is that the current caselaw is wrong, and that equal protection shouldn't be interpreted that way.
If this actually happens it will be a good testcase to point to when arguing with idiots.
Anyone else here unpopularly wish they could write typescript/js & compile directly to native iOS machine lang?

I love prototypal inheritance & JS' syntax.

I don't enjoy the swift I'm doing now nearly as much as JS/TS.
In Australia we have supported contactless cards for close to a decade.

The security issue isn't a big deal since (a) payments are limited to small amounts e.g. < $100 and (b) banks will indemnify you against credit card theft.
A ... disappointingly large number of what should be definitive or at least clear sources fail to define privacy: at all, precisely, or in any way that corresponds even vaguely with the sense I have of the term.

Solove is the first sharp exception I've found to that, and is writing of the current, highly technological and pervasive landscape.

His observation is accurate.
We have a kss - knowledge sharing system, that looks at patterns in code changes on pull requests and add comments if needed. Anyone can add a rule
> £30 currently. Though mobile payments don’t fall foul of this in theory

I believe Apple Pay supports payments >£30 but I use Android Pay and it has never allowed me to exceed £30. I understand that it is probably a limitation of the terminal in many cases but I have observed an Apple Pay transation exceed £30 and then been rejected by my Android Pay device on the same terminal in one case.
www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/11/outrageous-and-un-american-sanders-says-city-kansas-jailing-people-unpaid-medical
Do you think sending large percentages of minority men to prison for long periods of time and then having a society that refuses to permit those who have been to prison to fully re-enter society might have an impact on the population of fathers that stick around?
I bought coffee from the usual place today, where the card machine was broken. Everyone uses Apple / Android pay. The lady serving there was as confused by cash as the customers were.

There were conversations about bank notes because some hadn’t seen the newer ones before, despite them being around for what seems like ages now.

I too had a note sitting in my wallet waiting for such a circumstance. Now I have change and it’s weird that it feels alien. We used to do this for everything.
Agencies routinely set up fake businesses for cover, with the cooperation of insiders at big names (e.g. Dell). So you set up a fake SaaS, have your big name client buy the big thing 25k / CPU x however many you need to reach payout, done. All legitimized by a fancy public stock name.

If things really get too hot, it's easy to send a letter to any country's IRS via their local intell agency.

You'd be surprised how simple it is to close files in this world. I'd suggest reading Snowden's autobiography, Permanent Record. Very eye-opening and a great read.
I'm deeply uncomfortable with this as well. I've struggled with my mental health and had days where I could barely drag myself into the office. If this were implemented at my company, I would have spent the better part of a month beginning these meetings with 'well, I'm experiencing near-constant despair.'

Afraid of guarding? My mental state is my own business. I may choose to share it with my manager or my coworkers (in fact, I have), but to have it become a required part of a meeting? No. No. No. Especially on a remote team where I just don't know the other people. This is not the right way to build rapport.

It's telling that so many of the comments on this post at the time of my writing are negative. Please heed them.

And please keep in mind that as the team lead, or manager, or whatever your role is, there is a power imbalance. People will not have an easy time saying no to this activity, even if they want to.
Hey - author here.

I agree that libraries for certain things, like MobX/Redux or Formik, may be overkill.

What's more important, though, is that people choose an appropriate equivalent to these libraries. Replace the library, but not the method of organizing state.

For example, feel free to replace MobX/Redux in my post with your own global state management solution. But I recommend replacing it with a global state management solution, not something else.
If this occurred in the USA, I'm surprised the story doesn't end with the waiter asking this guy to take his Apple Watch off so the waiter can take it to the back where the payment terminal is located. Portable terminals that are brought to the table (so the customer can enter their PIN) still seem to be a rare occurrence in the US.
Creating command-line interfaces in Python with Argparse
>Also, the reverse might be possible, i.e., decompiling genetic code from phenotype and so on.

I don't know anything about decompiling or ML, but doesn't the black box nature of NN rules this out?
> My niece is 7 and seems to have the personality that would be perfect for a programmer

I've worked with all sorts of good programmers, but now that I think about it, I don't think there is a "type"?

Curious what you meant about this?
that's a fair distinction
https://interpreterbook.com/

https://compilerbook.com/

I <3 these books. They're very well written, and I recommend them every time this question comes up. I also have https://github.com/cweagans/awesome-diy-software, which is similar to the project-based-learning link that you posted.
Except the hotels part your description sounds a lot like Austin of 10yr ago. I hope the summers are as miserable as you say they are. The Texas heat wasn't enough to keep out the kind of negative change that washed away most of the stuff on your list.
That's a bit like saying what if 0=1. If the company owned the whole world you could launch legal action to make it sell a bit and pay out.
I'm currently reading "Blind Man's Bluff" [0], which I think I found in an HN comment, which, in addition to Thresher, also discusses the loss of the Scorpion. The authors come pretty close to claiming that during the investigation into Scorpion the Naval Ordnance Department covered up a known problem that could cause a torpedo to explode inside the vessel. This information may not have saved the boat (the problem was discovered just days before the accident) but seems to have been deliberately withheld from the investigation (and the documents have mysteriously been destroyed, somehow without leaving an audit trail like they should have).

It's an interesting book, so far.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0089EMLGK