skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask to understand isn't about trying to lay out a gotcha scenario.

You explain what you see as the problem as clearly as possible, and you try to get the other person's view of what went wrong and why.

I use this often in a management role. You explain, explicitly, clearly, and carefully what you see as gone wrong, but not your perception of the intention behind it. In fact, you try to avoid having that perception or trying to guess the intention. That's management/working with other humans 101.

Then you ask probing questions to get at the why that choice was made/mistake happened.

The idea being that most people act in good faith and rarely make a complete fuck up out of maliciousness. They do it because of a lack of information or a lack or perspective or lack of training/knowledge, or because you as the manager lack one of those things and can't see the solution was actually a good solution.

You can fix the last four, you can't fix malicious. And asking questions reveals what the deficiency is.

If a manager makes that conversation into a 'gotcha' scenario without laying out what the issue is first and immediately, they're bad at their job.

And if an employee gets defensive about a fuck up, they're a bad employee.
More wasteful spending for no real benefit to taxpayers.
Link to GitHub : https://github.com/stcarrez/ada-awa
> Unlike patents, it’s very possible for two independent people to come up with the exact same sentence and those people to independently own copyrights to the exact same words. Proving independent creation may be difficult, but it’s still possible.

In cases where this is possible, it's often not possible to hold a copyright over the phrase for reasons of lack of creativity. The main difficulty isn't proving independent creation, it's proving that a third party didn't also come up with the phrase independently.
One of those halves has more evidence, though.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/04/ginni-thomas-trump-conse...

> Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas is launching yet another project to wage war on multiple fronts of America’s most heated cultural and political debates. This time, however, her plan will include a project to “protect President Trump” using at least two new campaign-related political entities, according to a presentation obtained by The Intercept and Documented.

> Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, unveiled the new venture in a closed meeting of GOP lawmakers, donors, and Christian-right leaders last month, seeming to make reference to the movement disarray and electoral losses suffered by conservatives in the Trump era — and the gains made by left-wing groups and politicians.

https://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/justice-thomass-wife-...

> Now, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has recast herself yet again, this time as the head of a firm, Liberty Consulting, which boasts on its website using her “experience and connections” to help clients “with “governmental affairs efforts” and political donation strategies.
>That makes the court feel like a political body.

Is it not? From the method that I've seen legal logic applied, it feels heavily political. What counts as a loophole that will be struck down and what counts as a loophole that will be allowed often doesn't have any core logical justification that isn't political. There are a bunch of rules, but even more exceptions. There is a bunch of consistency, but not on the level that you find in actual logic, math, or computational science (like with Turing machines). This has long led me to view it like a bunch of political entities playing pretend at being logical. Pretty decent pretend, better than most other systems, but when compared to truly logical systems, still clearly pretend.

You can also see this at macro scale application of the law. For example look at how the law is applied when you break it down by class, race, and sex. It clearly is done so unfairly, which leads on to conclude that either the unfairness is logical, or that the system isn't logical at the core.

Jury nullification is another example where it breaks down, as to say it doesn't exist when the things that logically give rise to it must exist is a contradiction.
Looks very "Bootstrappy" like most of the web.
This is very nice to know as I have an ancient copy of this book to hand. Thanks!
For context this is a major about-face for the court. They have had the option to do this for decades now and have explicitly refused.
If I knew somebody else's unique subdomain, I could set my browser cookie on my local computer to that value and it seems to just load the other subdomain just fine.
I tested this with 2 different browser on my same laptop. Maybe it won't work if the other person is on another computer?

I could also just set the subdomain to anything I like (by setting the cookie value) and it still works just fine.

Ah no, I can still set the cookie to the other person's subdomain on another machine.

Edit: add extra sentence.

Edit2: format.
Damn. The report guidance is really good. I'm going to use this in an assessment next week :) Have to review an account that has hundreds of IAM roles but this should help a lot,.
Europe and China were on course for a reset. Coronavirus changed all that
As a kid, the library had a TI-99/4A with its LOGO and a book by Papert included. I remember it had the most documentation of any piece of software for the machine, which intrigued me. They also had a Coleco ADAM that had LOGO, too, so I used both.

Today, we use SBCL to power a Lisp backend for our product that communicates with an Electron HTML/JS frontend via WebSockets. (See Nebula[0])

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23043417
Why does musl make my Rust code so slow?
The HN from 2009 really is different from the one today.

For one, the downvote was only available for users with Karma > 250, which was a really high number at the time. Also, I think this discussion you linked to was PG's being descriptive and not normative: people do that, but it doesn't mean they should.
After years and years I’ve decided that you are never going to convert either group, no matter how hard you try or what kinds of benefits you extol - they simply don’t “get it”, and that’s ok.

The only solution I have found is to carefully evaluate every situation.

If it’s important that you get a timely answer, sometimes it’s worth jumping on a call, even if you think a quick Slack message or email would be the best for both parties. For group 1 that may be because they’ll lock up and pause trying to figure out how to respond (in many cases because they’re trying to make sure everything is perfect and 100% - you’d be self conscious about your Russian, wouldn’t you?) and for group 2 that may be because their only break is in the car on the way from one client to another. This is the same “do I want to die on this hill?” part you have with any interpersonal disagreement.

Second, it’s helpful to carve out specific times when this kind of “jump on a call” can happen. Particularly with remote workers on different time zones, it may not always be practical for everyone to jump on a call - for instance I’m at dinner with the wife and can spend 30 seconds answering a Slack message while she’s in the restroom, but I’m not getting out my headset and getting on a call. I discourage setting up a recurring call, because then you run into the issue of people holding things until the meeting that could and should have been dealt with in a different manner, but specifying that “between two and four every day” are available for calls can help with the sense of urgency for the other party. If it’s 5 already and they know you can’t get on a call, perhaps they’ll decide a textual message is worth the effort.

Establishing the time periods also helps with “quiet hours” where you can turn off message notifications and really focus. The key is that everyone needs to coordinate to establish those periods and they need to be known, otherwise it’s just frustrating to never be able to get ahold of anyone.
well, it's Bloomberg citing one person only, it's not a scientific paper. I do find it quite worrying that when news gets hold of all kind of edge cases or special cases, with barely any scientific data to back it up (from COVID causes X, Y and Z) everyone has no issue with the scarce facts. When an actual antibody test or special cases (like the one from France with more scientific explanations and detailing how a guy who was swabbed in December got a positive result), we need to be careful as the science is not valid or there are serious doubts over minor statistical error.
Right. Is this the situation you imagined when you started?
Why not? You don't know how much knowledge the universe contains.
hackers (people passionate about free software)

This is a narrow definition of Hackers limited to specific opinions and values. That's ok if that's the mission of the organization but it's orthogonal to the idea of a hacker space which is about activity not belief an specifically, hacker spaces are about the activity of making and not socio-political goals directly.

Don't misunderstand me. I think free software is an important and powerful idea. But in terms of creation, being around other people who are creative is more important than being around people who match one of my particular opinions and I definitely don't prioritize the degree to which I value free software over the tools and process that facilitate creation. Good luck.
People making FAANG level salaries on this site routinely complain that they are "grossly" underpaid.
Coolio, thank you for the response. How _did_ it go?
Was going to say, the recommendations seem rather dated.
Empathy Is the Heartbeat
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I think you might want to think about how noticeable deaths are versus contagion of a disease where it's likely you don't show outward symptoms.
I've been thinking since yesterday and I think I'm going to jump back into Deming's work... do you have a good starting point? I had the realization that I hadn't read "Out of the Crisis" since my early 20's, and I've had a few bad run-ins with super-corporate weirdos slinging his theory like snake oil after that.

> Ultimately the knowledge needs mathematical grounding (specifically in probability and statistics), which is something else sorely lacking in management trees (and even more and more on the programming side)

This is one of the biggest struggles of my career... dealing with quantifying something that's incredibly difficult to quantify.

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Glad you're checking out Tom Sachs' list! It's an odd one for sure - weird artsy video and all. It's about an art studio in NY and how it manages it's people/process. It's sorta hokey I'll admit, but I find the simplicity of it helps me get back on the rails myself during those times of variation =)
Or you could just watch it on C-SPAN: https://www.c-span.org/video/?471619-1/supreme-court-oral-ar...
This StackOverflow post explains how it can be done with Nginx: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12950572/nginx-wildcard-...
A data race requires multiple threads to access the same memory at the same time and at least one of them to be writing the data.

There is no data race in your example, since the fragments are all written to different parts of memory, unless you had something else reading the message while the individual fragments were still being written.
How does Stripe look "Bootstrappy"? Could you provide a specific example?
> How long has this project existed/been usable ?

It's been our (people who work on Julia) daily debugger since 2015 or so

> Am I correct in understanding that rr can be used with any application

Yes
I am willing to be pursuaded, but the quote you have given us contains the caveat "at distances longer than 1 meter", while, in the scenario being discussed here, distances of less than one meter are relevant.

The quote also presents its case as 'absence of evidence' rather than 'evidence of absence'. In the early (and not-so-early) pronouncements about HIV/AIDS, there were a number of significantly harmful false claims (notably, about it not being transmissible heterosexually) being made by health organizations as a result of confusing the former for the latter.

Also, let's take a look at the text surrounding these quotes [my emphasis]:

"In all other contexts [i.e. other than the experimental setup being discussed], available evidence indicates that COVID-19 virus is transmitted during close contact through respiratory droplets (such as coughing) and by fomites.

...

"As such, WHO continues to recommend that everyone performs hand hygiene frequently, follows respiratory
etiquette recommendations and regularly clean and disinfect surfaces. WHO also continues to recommend the
importance of maintaining physical distances and avoiding people with fever or respiratory symptoms. These
preventive measures will limit viral transmission."

The quotes have been taken from a passage discussing the significance of a specific experiment.
In mid-march Vietnam began quarantining all travelers, and it was common for flights to have infected individuals. Not that many tested positive on tests while they were in quarantine, but it did happen.

https://www.kaggle.com/nhntran/vietnam-covid19-patient-datas...

Dataset collector's writeup: https://towardsdatascience.com/covid-19-what-do-we-know-abou...
Indeed. I was wrong to assume Apple would not have yet another XML Parser somewhere else :)

In that case it would only work with side loaded Apps signed with enterprise and developer certificates.

I stand corrected.

That being said I wonder... since we have two parsers on the device and one in submission process, if a more clever variant of this bug would have worked... I guess we will never know. For sure that parser is rock solid now.
This is a bit hard to calculate because of scroll acceleration and inertial scrolling.
No that doesn't always apply.

Think of two worker threads pushing entires to a synchronised log. It's non-deterministic which order they arrive in the log, as different schedulings and other things will cause the threads to run in different orders (they 'race' to put entries in the log, we say), but it's not a bug, and it's not lock-free because the log is synchronised.
Thanks! I’m glad you like it. Let me know if you have any feedback - here, in the Gitter channel (link in the Readme), or on Twitter (kmcquade3)
If I understand this correctly, they changed the format of these legal proceedings to better suit the TV coverage?

Is this the NFL we are talking about or the Supreme Court?
This is because the next generation of hot coders is working on JS or something more exotic like Rust. This is why I think that even though Rails is still a good platform for building a certain class of webapps the writing is on the wall and I'm planning to transition away from it over the next few years.
I've seen this again and again: good, honest people trying to do their best in their day to day... but unavoidably, whenever we reach a larger scale scenario, everything breaks. And it's not technology. It's people. You can live happy with a few friends, or many friends, as long as you stay in your small world. Even working on complicated things. But when you start trying to scale up and translate the magic to the big world, it becomes too much, because it's impossible. It's so messy and complex and there are so many parts out of your control, that you can't attempt to care and not end up hurt, to do things right, because no one has such power in a world this complex. The business landscape around technology is terrible... but that's just like any other large-scale landscape. Tech might scale well. What never scales nicely is adding more and more people to ambitious projects. We don't scale well.

So... Do not attempt to align your ambitions with money or the big world. Try to find a job where you can directly see the benefits of your work, and where you only need to think about "the people physically in front of you". Your curiosity is still there, it's only overshadowed by all the other problems you had to face. But they are separate things. It might take a while to see them separately again, but it's possible. You just need to identify this and stop pushing yourself in the directions where they overlap.
Many times the grey comments bounce back to black after some time.

I usually upvote grey comments even if I disagree, unless they are offensive or very wrong. I also try to avoid downvoting grey comments, unless they are very offensive or extremely wrong.
If you manage to reproduce a race, is there some way to capture exactly what the scheduler did and force it to do that again?
SuckIT – a fast website downloader in Rust
Does the dependency manager not enable fork + override dependency?
Our modern era of algorithmic music programming (or the "four hour playlist" format) makes be pine for the days when actual humans did music programming. SiriusXM has a lot of stations with really good on-air talent. Not sure how much leeway they have on what actually gets played, but they're at least knowledgeable. Some college radio stations are also really good. (Shout-out to John Richards at KEXP!)
If BIGCORP is acting outside of labor laws, then there should be legal action.

If the law doesn't explicitly outlaw BIGCORP's actions (yet), and we all kinda know that it should, then opposing BIGCORP is the correct thing to do.

If Amazon is acting legally, yet in an ugly way, to suppress workers organizing, it seems hard to complain.

Now, if Amazon workers exercise the right of free association in their spare time to stick it to JeffB, well, it sounds like he's got a problem.
C passes Java and becomes number 1 programming language
"According to Hebrew time reckoning we are now in the 6th millennium. The Hebrew year count starts in year 3761 BCE, which the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides established as the biblical date of Creation."

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/jewish-calendar.html

This may have had some influence on western thinking.
I don't know.
I'm there with you about Kotlin. I started with PHP last "last generation" and was pretty bored with it. Kotlin was a breath of fresh air. Also, if you like some similar to Laravel/Symfony for Kotlin, give Alpas a try: https://alpas.dev/
Not the person you were responding to, but: implements security with fine-grained and system-enforced permissions, not human approval for apps.

One of these methods has a much better track record than the other.
I agree: https://i.imgur.com/eKTeijG.png

Most of the time I don't believe I am informed well enough on a topic to be able to add comments that actually add value to a discussion, but other times I simply don't feel like arguing with some smart but often mean strangers even though I do have an opinion, like most people do. What's the point, anyway?
I agree with this, but also think that working for an employer that is "making a negative impact on the world" might _sometimes_ be the right choice. Specifically, it could be justified for two reasons:

First: you might have more impact on the organization from the inside than from the outside (this is most relevant to people joining at a high/senior level). For example, Google seems to be making privacy far, far worse. Yet there are some people on the inside fighting to limit the privacy violations, which leads to decisions like banning GPS tracking in their contact tracing app[0]. Would the world be better or worse off if the only people working at Google were people who don't care at all about user privacy? I'm honestly not sure, but I can at least see an argument that it might be even worse off.

Second: you might get something from the organization that lets you do good that outweighs any harm you contribute to (this is more relevant to junior employees). Many employers provide something (training, future job opportunities, or a high enough income to open your own small business/non-profit). A thoughtful employee can go into a "negative impact" employer with eyes wide open and a plan to get something, and get out.

However, in either case, self awareness and a definite exit plan are _key_. As Drew writes, once you are working at a "negative impact" employer,

> Doublethink quickly steps in to protect your ego from the cognitive dissonance, and you take another little step towards becoming the person you once swore never to be.

The way to avoid that sort of conative dissonance is 1) know that you'll experience it and be on guard against it, and 2) know all along that you're there temporarily and should never get too comfortable. Even then, you should be realistic about how long you can maintain your personal values in face of a very different culture. For a junior employee, I'd say two, maybe three years should be the absolute limit before you get out.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-ap...
Both groups are wrong, they are all politicians and pseudo senators of an upper parliamentary chamber. Its just another bizzare American political ritual of pretending to believe things about their politics that are plainly not true.

Pretending that the supreme court and the entire state and federal court system isn't part of the party system despite all judges at all levels being public figures cheifly identified by their unoffical or offical party affiliation. There literately isn't a single issue of political importance that isn't actively subjected to review and amendment by America's highest court.
Yes. Baltimore has various nicknames such as Murdermore. It is also the place where Edgar Allen Poe lived, where amazing wineries can be found, where some say the best crabs in the country are, where Johns Hopkins Hospital is - the No. 1 hospital on US News Honor Roll of Best Hospitals 2013-2014.

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Yes, he was actually talking about the Penn family trying to buy the governor off to veto defense spending, but the quote's sentiment is still valid.

Surveillance technology can be a good thing, but only if policed very well with adequate checks and balances. I don't usually see those checks and balances in place when surveillance is rolled out.
I don't disagree with you. I know there are elite hedge funds, as well as certain niches in finance tech that pay extremely well. It sounds like you're there.

But I'm not in one of them, and neither are most SWEs in finance. We're justing doing line-of-business .NET or Java.

Thankfully I've managed to worm my way into a niche (JavaScript/React/Python) which, while not exactly super-lucrative in the finance world, is at least much more marketable to SV tech companies than doing C# and WPF.
My guess is the latter. There are several woods and parks around where I live in Harringey that are showing no trees on the map
Nice find! Thanks for sharing
Speculated maybe, but known? Not widely and it looks like it's now starting to get wider attention which is a good thing. The more we know about this virus the better it will be for treatment. If clotting is a significant problem we definitely have drugs to help with that.
Purely factional information is not offered copyright protection. However, the specific contents of a book is also a fact yet copyright is still valid. That might seem like a contradiction, but the law is interpreted by humans who make judgement calls.

Use of a hash by a database to index files is likely fair use, but a torrent site aiming to promote copyright infringement is a different argument.

PS: The Harry Potter movies also can’t be transformed back into the books, but they are clearly a derivative work.
> The justices are socially aware but there is a big gap between them and the professional politicians

Go read anything about Chief Justice Roberts history as a conservative activist and see if this really holds true.