skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read about Management Process. Sounds like your company lacks this; or could argue have built one that is dysfunctional. It's not uncommon to have a consulting firm come in and evaluate/coach on this topic, it should be seen as a good thing. However, based on your description, admitting there is a problem may be difficult. If that's the case, reach out to a firm that does management process consulting. They can give you pointers. Don't try to solve this alone. You need to gain influence within the ranks, acknowledge the problem with positive intent, and offer some solutions.

I can't tell what level management you are. It sounds like middle mgmt and the senior leaders are driving this culture. This is a unique viewpoint because you see up and down the org chart. If there's a C or VP level person you have good rapport with, that also has high level of influence (CEO or maybe COO, VP HR, etc), try to get a lunch/breakfast meeting. Mention that you've read _insert some book_ and had a conversation about it with a _friend who has mgmt consulting experience_ and you feel that the company could be operating as a higher performing team if we dealt with some of these issues. You may have to do similar things with multiple people. It's a bit like being a rights activist. You may need to be the face of the movement. You also may get stifled. But this is a practical way to start the conversation within the company.
Except Elon just admitted this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-sa...

The satellites were never the challenging part; cross-links and the user terminal were always the most difficult pieces.
>I'm not convinced - beyond beginner-level one quickly realizes that translation is not one-to-one.

You don't believe the vast majority of language teaching happens at the beginner level? I certainly do, and it would be most people's only first-hand exposure to any kind of translation.
Clinging through to the Archive.org link...

Not sure if it's nostalgia, but the Maxis logo still looks really good. It doesn't scream 1992.
Ubuntu with its ability to auto upgrade is nice enough?
Then your software..compile everything with static libraries and put them into /opt or something? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The only concession I want from the pro-censorship crowd is that they oppose democracy. If you want unaccountable private social media corporations to be the arbiters of what is allowed to be discussed so be it, but just admit that you hate democracy and that you are a die hard technocrat.
Federal government does cost of living adjustments all the time, it’s not rocket science. Local control and national funding is a completely possible policy choice. There are tons of examples.
Doesn't seem to be that good:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23422993

In fact it almost seems like the actual blur used in the app is different from what they show in the article.
Set as in the collection. Sets are idiomatic, they even have syntax sugar for their construction: #{}.

Seq is extremely leaky, as whether or not a built in function takes a seq or a specific collection is undocumented and arbitrary. Hashmaps for example do not accept seqs when using “into”, it accepts vectors. So my code was littered with (into {} (map vec <thing>)). That’s a leaky abstraction.

You need to hint protocols if you want to go fast.
This was awesome, great job.
But you just do the comparison before hashing.
TXR Lisp keeps a weak hash table which associates objects in the syntax with file/line information, without changing their representation in any way.

There is no need for ugly, cumbersome syntax objects that destroy Lisp.

Whether or not the recording of source loc info is enabled is controlled by a special variable. It is disabled by default, because you probably don't want that overhead if you're calling the reader for reams of data. Functions like compile-file and load enable it locally.

To take advantage of the info for error reporting in a user defined macro, you can simply do this:

(defmacro mymacro (:form f arg1 arg2 ...) ;; get the form using :form
(when (somehow-no-good arg1) ;; something wrong with arguments
(compile-error f "first argument ~s is no good!" arg1))
...)

You get an error which mentions mymacro, and the location.

(foo.lisp:10) mymacro: first argument 42 is no good!
Well it depends on what you mean. I'd say there's basically a 100% chance they can access your account. In a properly designed system for this, there would be a feature for allowing certain admin users to log in as an arbitrary user and access all of their information as them, without ever seeing or typing their password, so the actual password is kept secure and there are logs of which admin "ghosts" which user accounts when.

Would I bet that the Chinese Government has this properly implemented and can't access passwords once set? Yeah no way.
Actually maybe this is the best way to explain (especially on this site) - imagine the possibility of a spread with an extremely high initial first derivative of the number of cases, with a constant negative second derivative. I think there's a good chance this could be at least more accurate than what's commonly thought compared to all of these very severe exponential models.
Anyway, it is not coming FROM the black hole.
I'd bet it all. The CCP is like God within the borders of China. They have omnipotence and omniscience.

To be clear, I wouldn't bet it all that the passwords are stored in plaintext. But I would bet it all that the CCP has their own special key and/or backdoor access which allows them to continue having omnipotence and omniscience while keeping pesky foreign powers out.
Run Android speech to text model on PC
In my opinion, no. Killing people with dumb artillery shells vs. smart microdrone swarms seems equally horrific morally. The primary question is about whether one is more dangerous on global scales than the other. Although I think the smarter drones may in fact be more dangerous globally, I haven't seen anyone define a clean criteria for distinguishing them. Without such clean criteria, it looks infeasible to enforce through international law.
> Laws are worth zero if the law enforcers ignore them with impunity - a lesson familiar from Caribbean and African banana republics.

I think it's a lesson America is currently learning...
The real problem is that ~40% of America supports/votes for the POTUS, following him on social media, re-shares his memes, etc.

People are looking to generally open communications platforms like Facebook and asking them to censor, but if they carried their logic to its conclusion, the President’s emails, texts, mobile Apps, and press releases should all be censored or blacklisted by communications providers.

If the president sent out content similar to his tweets through a Trump 2020 campaign app on the apple store and android store, should Apple / google remove the app from the store? Should they build in a filter in chrome and Safari to block access to the trump 2020 campaign website?

Where does this logically end?
This is the weirdest juxtaposition i've seen on this site.
I know it's very fun to dunk on China these days, but I'd recommend that everyone take a step back for a second...

As has already been stated, multipled people have tried what she did (myself included; just tried with a spare SIM)and we have not had our accounts banned.

WeChat also has little reason to ban someone a private password because that can hardly be considered a communications risk (it's not like her password is being publicly posted for everyone to read). It seems much more likely that her account was closed for reasons outside of this password change.
What Changes with Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) in September 2020?
Maybe you aren't from the US -- there's a long history of systemic racism here, The protests that are happening across our nation are in response to those systemic issues, particularly how policing and race interact. Race, therefore, is a core part of the conversation going on in our country right now.
I think it’s the opposite. Managers have more rigid schedules and less flexibility with remote work. If I want to be home at 2pm it’s much easier as an eng than a manager. Maybe depends on your employer though
None, just sell some natural gas and produce some "green" hydrogen.
Is it a list of trash mail addresses by default or is there an assumption that people made trash mail addresses specifically for the app?

If it’s the latter, I suspect that won’t happen in practice for the majority of users.

I haven’t heard of threema, I guess users have to share their IDs manually with each other in that case?
It's truncated hashes, not full hashes. So you don't see exactly which phone number it is, you get a bucket and the client checks if the full hash is in the bucket. Which is far from perfect, but it's a little better than the full hash.
Yeah, specialization and division of labor seem to be the way for a group of genes to evolve beyond the individual.
The police union will make bail, no need to worry. It's scandalous that bail has been set at all.
Github issues works pretty well for almost all software projects. A single list of issues viewable/searchable by the whole team, simple commenting, code referencing, tagging, assigning to people.

We tried Jira but became tangled in a mess of complex configuration and endless confusing UI's...
The real problem is that you refuse to take people you disagree with seriously. You keep fucking lying about them, you keep pushing people towards their side by being an absolute fucking cunt. Just stop. It's not helping.
I took a quick look at a few of the videos. While they do provide insight into cue ball/target ball behavior, they don't seem to show how to achieve the shots in the first place.

Are there videos that also show how the cue hits the ball?
That sounds like exactly what I need. What’s the service called that you use?
As someone in a similar situation to OP, I really appreciate this advice. Thanks.
TTYs in general are some of the most outdated and archiac pieces of technology still used today. They need a serious overhaul, but the problem is, any major change will break pretty much all programs.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

Apparently, there are overlaps between common LTE bands and both ham radio bands and unlicensed (... low-power) ones... the above page states that any device with the right bands will work (... and they even got them working presumably?)
I believe a straightforward sentiment model from /r/investing would be simple. If you want a challenge /r/wallstreetbets would be harder because the vernacular changes quickly and it’s more context sensitive. /r/news or /r/worldnews if you want to try a “trade the rumor sell the news” sort of classification.
I'd agree with you if I would be only seeing the teams through my management reports and not from the trenches.

I am envious of the environment where you never saw somebody trying to bug feature request as a bug. I do think in a lot of cases, it's a judgement call...or a habit where problems perceived as bugs by customers are swung under the carpet as features as bug is only defined as "deviation from requirements".

Fair on distinction of severity by customer vs priority by team, although I am used to make a distinction between support ticket by customer and issue in engineering team's queue.

Lead implies either managerial or technological leadership and especially in mature organisations, I've seen both.

My experience with management by bug statistics is...very inconsistent as it motivates people to game the system...and boy I've seen that a lot. I do agree trend knowledge helps, but I am not sure it's worth the side-effects and work.

Of course, a flavor of this depends on context (and scale). It is very different if you have a single-instance SaaS, distributed system or images shipped to air-gapped systems.
Thanks for the reply. Sorry I didn't give more details. Unfortunately, I've been following most of the "best practices" for sleep for a while, as it's been almost a year since my sleep turned to a mess.

Currently, I try to take a walk at least 30 minute everyday in the morning and then I do the 7-minute-workout in the afternoon, even when I have no energy. My sleep's improved for the past couple of months since I started this workout routine. I can't tell if it's because of that or my sleep just improves on its own but I'll keep doing it since exercising is better than doing nothing. I also started 18:6 intermittent fasting. That might also have helped.

Still, my improved sleep means about 5 to 5.5 hours (sometimes less) a night with at least 2 awakenings in between. My normal sleep was about 8 hours with 1 awakening, and I'd still nap in the afternoon if given the opportunity. Now, I can't nap and there's no rebound sleep (i.e. I don't sleep more the next day because I sleep very little the day before). It's a pretty messed up situation and doctors haven't found anything abnormal from medical tests, including MRI and EEG. Sleep study indicated 50% sleep efficiency, reduced REM and deep sleep, but no sleep apnea or any common cause.

I tried the 2-min fall asleep method when my condition first started but it didn't really help. And yes, I only drink green tea and have some chocolates before lunch time in terms of stimulants.

I've also read Why We Sleep before my sleep got this bad. In fact, knowing too much about how sleep work and the negative impact on health with lack of sleep makes it much worse for me. So now I tend to avoid reading articles like this and learning more details.

I guess what I'm asking is if there's anything more I can do, like something to supplement or eat/do to make up for the stuff lost due to insufficient sleep. It's a long shot asking in a tech forum, but I'm willing to give anything a chance to help improve my sleep. Let's hope there's more research into sleep as insomnia is one of the worst form of suffering.
pandas can directly write to parquet
I was a (20% share) co-founder of a successful(ly bootstrapped) company in the telecomms space 14 years ago.

When the company was +-10 years old and quite successful a European investment firm came along and started discussions to acquire a share in the company.

I've been thinking of exiting at that point already (wanted to relocate my family to another country) so it was a very fortunate happenstance; I discussed it with my colleagues before and this was my chance, and I was taking it.

After a 9 month handover and training my replacement period I sold all my shares, took my family on holiday, and went completely off-grid for just over 8 weeks.

By off-grid I mean we went to a place with no internet, no phone, a single solar panel powering a few LED lights, a gas digester powering the stovetop, oven, and fridge, solar-heated water, and lots of open space and a sea breeze at night.

After 10 years of working at least from 8h00 to 19h00 weekdays and a few hours every weekend it was jarring. The first three weeks was a mental shock; it felt like my brain was almost "clogged" and not forming thoughts properly, almost like your ears feel when getting water in them.

Reaching for your phone only to have it do nothing stimulating because there is no signal was really difficult to get used to - but it highlighted how often I used gadgetry to pep my energy levels.

By the third week we did start getting into the rhythm a bit more: going to farmers to buy food very early morning, attending a nearby town's Saturday morning market for other bits and bobs, walking to the various neighbours to chat etc.

Our day was fairly full and structured, e.g. we'd have the kids gather wood early mornings, then walk to the beach (about 4km walk), spend some time there, come back, shower outside, prep food, do a late afternoon walk (mostly to a neighbouring farm or two), chat days away.

We had another burst of under-stimulation/restlessness around 6 weeks, and we started driving to a nearby library to get some books for a little more mental engagement. Around the 8th week we started craving "normal" living a little, missing the extended family, and more, so decided our time off the grid was done.

We hired a houseboat, spent a few nights on it, and then slowly drove a rambling 2000km back home over 6 days.

If you can find a place devoid of cell service and internet I can recommend it - and I still am very cognizant of how easy it is to use phones / laptops / etc to lose hours of your life every day.

I also think my addiction to technical stimulation was related to the constant stream of novel content - I felt less like reaching for a device after I internalized that it doesn't have something new that I can consume.

Using these devices mainly for creating rather than consuming is less problematic, and less addictive (for me at least) and I still try to focus on creating rather than consuming content when I use my digital devices. Fully aware of the irony of posting that sentence in a social site ;)
If you're using SSL the password is encrypted in transit. Once it reaches the server it needs to be to encrypted at rest. When I see billion dollar companies with an ungodly IT budget not do something basic like salt and hash passwords in the database I have to wonder how they could miss something so basic.
Previously, I proposed addressing this with a mount option and a filesystem volume flag [1]. The mount option would prevent creating new files/directories with "bad names" but would still allow accessing ones which already exist. The filesystem volume flag would make bad names on that volume be considered fsck errors. (If the kernel found such a bad name on a volume with the flag enabled, it should log that as a filesystem error, and either return an IO error, or just pretend the file doesn't exist – whatever Linux does now when it finds a file on disk whose name contains a null byte or forward slash.)

Using a mount option and/or filesystem volume flag means it works fine with legacy volumes which might contain those bad names. On such legacy volumes, either that volume flag is not supported by the filesystem, or else it is but is disabled for that particular volume. If you mount it with the mount option, you can still access bad names on that volume, you just can't create new ones; if you need to create new bad names, you just (re)mount it with the mount option disabled.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873153
I bet that if Facebook and others start fact-checking comments about the dangers of nuclear power or GMOs then people will revise their perspective very quickly.
Serving GPT-2 at Scale
For context:
https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Note that such system only provides you benefit if the client-implementation is to be trusted.

E.g., if your user-agent does it all for you, you could consider it trusted, but if all the code is provided by the "untrusted" service-provider that you won't want to see your password, it ends up just being for show.

Similar situation with ProtonMail: As long as you use the clients shipped by them (webmail, app), all of the security hinges on nothing but a promise. Their app can read the passwords and keys as much as it wants.
Why not have the clerk assign the severity? Why can't the programmer and clerk discuss the problem themselves if there is uncertainty?

The only problems in your scenario arise from the introduction of a boss as go-between.
> OOP support is “meh”

But multiple dispatch support is great!
Thanks! Sorry for the late reply, subscribed!
Happy to, glad you like it
The old meme is true.

Eat well, get some sun, drink water. You are like a houseplant with more complex emotions.

90% of the time when I’m feelint crabby it’s because I’m hungry or dehydrated. Moving also always helps.
You forgot one.

2012: Facebook (via an open, neutral platform) helped Obama win the election. They are wonderful. E.g. “Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election” (The Guardian, February 2012)
What does an executive coach do? Very interested
One can help with that by creating a single-person company and just issuing regular invoices for services. An accountant to manage the local taxes is usually not very expensive.
Trump campaign removes 'Make Space Great Again' video
I maintain that there is a vast conspiracy amongst parents not to tell new parents about the threes. Sure, we will chuckle about the terrible twos, but there is this implication that it will get better after that. Ha! The threes are just like the terrible twos, except now they have intent. If we told people what the threes were like, they might never have kids :).

I'm only kinda kidding...
Yes. There's a reason why best practices are called "best".
The main thing I've learned from parenting and being around other parents is that each kid is different in their own way.

Kids have a lot of nature built up in them.
Maybe the people trying to reproduce it didn't already have strikes against their account and this reported could have.
Sounds like it means the same things as to 'cut a good figure' in English. i.e. he cuts a good figure => he's well dressed, charming and polite.
Former Slack employee here...

This blog post/case study was published a few years ago by Slack's marketing team and led to a firestorm of controversy within the company. Many employees of all backgrounds spoke up about how upset they were that Slack would use a police department as marketing. Eventually the decision was made to keep it up which certainly frustrated a lot of people. I guess now the leaders have decided it's time to take it down.

edit: in private channels for POC, which I was a part of, people were incensed at the insensitivity. At the time I felt it was a particularly stupid choice for marketing material but not necessarily a moral wrong.
Moving the public square to the corporate world's data gathering arm was a terrible idea.
“If the opposing narrative is blasphemy and heresy, of course we ought to burn the books (and the heretics)”

Comment on Medieval equivalent of HN
Tell HN: ProtonVPN servers located at Mexico are down
Eight servers ProtonVPN announced on April 2020 to be located at Mexico are down for almost a week now.
I definitely want to stay on the technical side, though management is my fall-back.

I guess moving into Dev role isn't exactly what I'm looking for.

Mainly, I want to move into a systems operations roll where I can work with newer technologies, and continue to advance my technical knowledge.

A problem I'm running into is that there seems to be a large gulf between "SysAdmins"(Like Myself) Who manage office systems, and don't really have to know too much beyond their environment, and SysAdmins who actually work with developers, more in the DevOps realm.

In the roles I've had so far, I've never had to speak with a developer. And every 'DevOps' guy I've worked with has really just been an IT manager with an AWS cert.

The only reason I've ever had to run so much as a Bash or PowerShell script has been out of personal interest.

What I'm really striving for is to not just stagnate and take a job managing IT goons who can barely work a command line.
didn't some search engine Cliq shut down, because they had no support in Europe ? would love to hear their response to those officials
I am taking it seriously. The logic that demands Facebook censor trump from their open platform doesn’t have any clear limiting factor that means that Trump shouldn’t be censored off other communications service providers.

Not a MAGA type by the way. I’ve voted against trump in 3 elections already and will be voting against him again in the fall.
I inherited a stereo amp from the 70s, and I'm pretty sure one of the capacitors has gone bad. I've managed to find a schematic and PCB layout for it (remember when service manuals were a thing?) but I've been too worried about discharging capacitors to poke at it.

For now, I just deal with a mains hum that's only audible when nothing is playing.