skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mid managers are basically plumbers, figuratively speaking. They're in charge of ensuring a smooth flow (of orders, policies, and good results in the opposite direction), and also making sure that there're no leaks in the system (passing only needed info down, relaying needed info back).

The subordinate employees in that sense are dwellers.

So the open disagreement is considered a leak, it signals a warning to subordinates and spews gases to the upper floors.

To avoid this sort of disturbances, the management usually holds their own management meetings, at which there's some chance for discussion before the 'consensus' is adopted. After that it's just the flow, and it got to be smooth...

Being (I assume) a recent manager, you'd need to forge the operational alliances among your fellow managers. This could be both reassuring and helpful to eventual promoting of changes.
I'd love to be paid again for contributing to an FOSS project. There's something liberating about writing software that you own and get to decide how things are designed. A lot of devs don't enjoy that kind of flexibility if they work on projects used by more than a handful of people.

But yeah, it's hard to get paid. I was lucky enough to have a company pay me to contribute to an OSS project, but they didn't hire me for that purpose, I had to hustle for it and was blessed with a great manager who supported the idea.
Jitsi and Google Meet both use WebRTC. Although it sounds like a great technology, it's really CPU taxing and not inclusive as some of our students didn't have high-end hardware and connection, and we just couldn't run our school on Jitsi/Google Meet. However, Zoom in the browser is equally bad, so, it's subpar on Chromebooks.
On one of my visits to SF from Boston for work, I realized I left my phone at home on my bed (there’s a sign of addiction right there: last thing I look at before sleeping and first thing I look at when I wake) and didn’t realize it until I arrived at the airport. My wife offered to bring it to me but I declined.

My coworkers were pretty amazed when I turned down a loaner on arrival in SF. It was a very refreshing week. I always like walking around SF but I feel that I paid more attention to everything. I still had a book I was reading so I got a lot more reading done, and made it a mission to hit a bunch of different parks while doing so.

I don’t recall even once missing it, and was sorta sad when I got home to it again. It’s amazing how quickly habits can die and take hold again.
>Instead of “western” medicine, I prefer to call it “evidence based, tested with randomized controlled experiments, mechanism of action deduced” medicine

If that's the definition, then there are zero psychiatric drugs that can be classified as western "medicine", as we have yet to understand how drugs like anti-depressants intercourse with the mind ("the mechanism of action deduced").

"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests" -Allen Frances

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances
There is nothing wrong with allowing unpleasant posts to be accompanied by a note. The issue is that too many people take hate speech masquerading as "truth" with zero context as reality, and act accordingly. That is what is not acceptable.

If I tell your neighbor that you are molesting his daughter, and he kills you, will your family find that acceptable?

If a politician tells your neighbor that you are molesting his daughter, and he kills you, will your family find that acceptable?

If that word is flagged maybe you'd still be alive because the neighbor would have some doubt as to your guilt.
> Alex Jones is the new CEO of Twitter. How would we think differently about the real problem here?

That is a useful question to showcase an important aspect that I don’t see discussed.

There is a single government, while there must be multiple competing private corporations.

Twitter vs. Gab, Youtube vs. Liveleak: each corporation is defined by what it refuses, NOT by what it accepts.

So, if Alex Jones becomes CEO of Twitter and puts “Did you know? The Earth is flat.” on all tweets mentioning SpaceX, users will simply move to a greener pasture. Twitter will die when its business model loses viability.

Twitter’s moves are not political, they are economical first and foremost!
The same goes with Nike’s Kaepernick ad: greenlit because the corporation estimated that being on the right side of history would bring more value long-term.

> [T]he company claimed $163 million in earned media, a $6 billion brand value increase, and a 31% boost in sales.

– https://www.fastcompany.com/90399316/one-year-later-what-did...
Among others, former director of the CDC [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/DrTomFrieden/status/1267796218496901121
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perhaps you could argue that the "pro-censorship crowd" is being irrational, selfish and/or myopic, but no, they don't hate democracy. you're trying (badly) to conflate two separate concepts.
That's the current law. Because Facebook doesn't post those peoples information. They are a host, not a publisher.

If they start editing and fact checking then that's their content and they'd be legally responsible for that. Which you would want because if Zuck was far right you'd want to sue him for his fact check errors.

They should also not prevent third party fact checkers from posting on their platform. I'd also love to see them allow for third party plugins of fact checkers which allow people to directly post snopes or something on a comment with the click of a button.

This would serve to keep Facebook as close to pure content host as possible, and still offer fact checking solutions.

The fact that there is even bias in fact checking tools shows how twisted this can be. Many fact checkers argue over semantics but still it's incredible that we think there is one view of the facts out there. It would be easier to have a falsehood finder than a fact checker. I digress. Anyway, I like the idea of third party plugs which directly push to these services.

I'd even be ok with facebook/twitter creating a special area for this and ratings for fact checks etc. But they still need it to be user driven content or they're at risk of being liable.
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See also: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.27.20114546v...
Pizza delivery guys have higher work death rates than police. We should be paying the delivery guys at least as much.
Or conversely, 2020 is when we got our shit together.
Are you joking? There's a huge number of cesspools still on reddit. Stuff like thedonald, theredpill, all sorts of blatantly racist/misogynistic communities.
He mentions that in the post. Ayurveda is designed for prevention whereas modern medicine is designed for fixing. I used to be skeptic of traditional medicine but on close observation, I realize that these cultures have incorporated some or many aspects of Ayurveda or Chinese traditional medicine into everyday life which, at least in the past, have contributed to better mental and physical health. So, Ayurveda might not fix cancer but could potentially prevent you from getting diabetes.
This is the video source of the gif at the top of the article [0].

I was pretty interested in Penrose when I first saw it but I still haven't seen a "cool" example of its use. Either something that's easy in Penrose but hard in every other visualization tool, or an example of a visualization in Penrose that elucidates some deeper mathematical relationship between the objects being shown.

[0] https://vimeo.com/416822487
Direct link: https://penrose.ink/siggraph20.html
SRP is... weird.

The good news is that using SRP is definitely not worse than DH as a key agreement protocol.

The bad news is you probably already have a nice modern ECDH key agreement protocol, you wanted secure passwords and the proof for how SRP does that involves a lot of flailing about. Flailing about which so far reached SRP version 6a

If browsers and backend stacks and everything else was one config change from doing SRP 6a tomorrow it's tempting to say hey, go ahead it can't hurt.

But in fact SRP is very niche, so it makes at least as much sense to try to deploy OPAQUE or other things that have a clearer security rationale.
President Andrew Jackson famously shrugged off the US Supreme Court decision in Worcester v. Georgia by (probably not) saying "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!". Like you said, "Laws are worth zero if the law enforcers ignore them with impunity". This is why we need a system to police the police. At some point, we as a society need to commit to forcing those who swear to uphold the laws to also live by them.
> The French show up the most in news stories with "felony interference with a business model" stories.

I agree with you. And am French. But France is not whole Europe.
They should not care about black, or white, or female, or male people. What they should care about is hiring the best fit to their needs, regardless of skin color, sex, etc. It is up to the people, regardless, white, black, or whatever, to became the best, to demonstrate and use their ability not a color of their skin.
Jitsi Meet is a clone of Google Meet; Zoom is a different product. Although Jitsi borrows some features, it lacks strict control. When working with young students, you understand why there needs to be stricter control on who can talk, who can present, raise hands, run polls, etc.
Yet, the maximum density of the electron cloud (at least in the case of s-orbitals) is right inside it. (Talk about the "size of the whole atom"!)
For example, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been very strictly enforcing the shutdown and social distancing in her State, but yesterday was out with protestors in dense crowds.
The author originally wrote a paper provin that printf is Turing Complete [0].

Here is program itself and an actual, excellent write up [1].

@dang, you might consider switching the link to the GitHub. I don't think the Hackaday article actually adds anything new.

[0]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

[1]: https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe
You must be kidding. Please tell me you're kidding. Ever been to /r/the_donald? /r/conspiracy? /r/protectandserve?
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May I recommend:

The Frailest Thing: Ten Years Thinking About the Meaning of Technology: https://gumroad.com/l/CWRfq

Michael draws from Albert Borgmann, Jacques Ellul, Hannah Arendt, Esther Dyson, Guy Debord, Ivan Illich, Daniel Boorstin, Johan Huizinga, Lewis Mumford, Neil Postman, Marshal McLuhan, Walter Ong, and many others as he explores how technology and technological idealism shapes our thoughts and actions.
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If by “the UK” you’re including the citizenry who use the rail network, then we are quite clearly not getting any kind of bargain whatsoever.
As a user, factual content is a feature.
You say that, but I've actually seen people with that exact mindset start to make progress when I've helped them keep a consistent workout schedule and designed an appropriate training regimen for them. All of a sudden, they're 3 months in and they feel good, their body doesn't hurt anymore, they're stronger, they look better, their cardiovascular fitness has noticeably improved, and they realized that THEY did that. They put in the work, consistently, and changed things they had previously been blaming on their genetics and parents.

So, for some, it can help.
TD is gone for a long time now.
There is a class which is behavioral evolution from stanford which covers these topics. There are other frameworks to look at it from like individual selection theory (try to make sure your dna survives) kin selection (your family shares your dna so try to pass that on as well, even if you sacrifice yourself). There are even more ways to look but I’m too much of noob to elaborate on them. But bottom line some behaviors might not help you and your dna but similar enough dna for you to want to sacrifice yourself. Robert Sapolsky is the professor and you can find the lectures on youtube, highly recommend all though i only finished 4 of them so far.
I’ve had this happen with normal carrier phone calls as well so it appears till be nothing special. Maybe there should be a different tone for “finding device(s) to ring” and “ringing device”.
I work for a small company that's been around for 20+ years. All of those things you outlined as basic, are things that I have been fighting for the last eight years. I've won a few battles, compromised on a few others, but lost most.

In my opinion your expectations are too high for a small company. Most of the people I have worked with at small companies don't have experience with most those basic tools. Some actively are afraid of code reviews, and others see tests as writing the same code twice, hence a waste of time.

Management and coworkers pay lip service to wanting these things, but I've found that they see them as nice to have extras, and not as time saving efficiency increasing tools.

Don't get me wrong things can change. One way I found is to overwork myself and implement it outside of my normal projects. Then I just have to keep pushing and educating people to follow along. That's how I got the majority of our code under revision control.

The other way is that management finally has enough of a problem and someone convinces them one of those basics will make things better. In our case managment got tired of making new features live, and finding out afterwards that something else had regressed. That's how we got end-to-end tests.

Company culture can change, but it'll be slow. Try and frame things in a cost-benefit light for management. For developers try and show them how it will make their life easier, and show them the cool factor. Good Luck!
While the size of this file is >64kb, it reminds me of the demoscene which does impressive stuff like this, but with much less space. If you're not familiar, this is an introduction https://www.slideshare.net/dfox288/introduction-to-the-demos...
The parent comment is extreme, and the real world is indeed very diverse, but I would also be quite surprised to find a software project with spaces in internal filenames.
TD is gone for a long time now. r/protectandserve is a reddit for police officers as far as I know? Not sure what's controversial.
I get the feeling they are quite familiar with those communities.
> "And I don't think that declaring your pride and love for who you are is a good starting point for any kind of change."

Lol. American do it constantly and it works for them.
i voted you up, it was a risky analogy given my limited knowledge of Star Trek compared to the majority here :)
>The easiest one would just be to prove that the person in question didn't have the many thousands of programmer-years ... //

We're talking a copyright infringement case here. They have to prove that they own it, proving he doesn't does get them a little along the road but nowhere near far enough.

Compile with different flags and I don't see how your "current binary" argument works; also they said the code had been changed a little, at least.

Whilst the necessary proof should only be "beyond reasonable doubt" the burden of proof is still with "Macrosoft" and they have to prove their ownership, with no original materials.

What else have you got?
I meant spreading across devices. So separate DNS addresses for your phone, another for your tablet, and another for your laptop. If you use virtual machines, you can diversify the DNS addresses even further. You can also enable different DoH servers for different browsers that you use to further diversify.
I don’t know Malli; and I haven’t used Clojure since 2017, so things might have changed. So if I’m misunderstanding the purpose of that library, my mistake.

The issue wasn’t that we would use the wrong data in the wrong place. The issue is that we had a bunch of data that was syntactically similar (huge overlap in keys), but semantically different (key numerical results must be calculated differently based on the minor differences between maps).

So the issue is less “the right data got to the wrong place” and more “in this data pipeline there are multiple places where the same data must be treated differently based on minor differences”. This is actually pretty tricky to do in a maintainable way in Clojure; technically possible but really hard to avoid breaking when you need to extend it.

In the end it actually turned out to be an issue that classes and objects solved brilliantly. The solution was to have the pipeline accept an interface (syntactic similarity) and have different classes for the behavior (semantic differences).
I choose to not care about the looters because I know that if they get caught, we won't be giving them a paid vacation then clear them of all wrongdoing.
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You don't change things by disagreeing or arguing. You change things by getting people to agree before agreement is necessary.
No one is asking for anyone or any single piece of information to be suppressed so it doesn't meet the legal standard or definition in the US to be considered censorship especially since FB is a private entity and the 1st Amendment protects you from the government. It's also why we are not seeing civil rights lawsuits against these companies and people that try fail miserably and can't even make it to trial. Read your TOS.

If you come to my website to post and I delete it, thats just me taking out the trash as I see fit. You're not being censored. No one suppressed your speech or expression. In fact you said or wrote it and faced zero repercussions and ramifications. Me saying you can can't come on my property or giving you a time out isn't your rights being infringed on.

Not allowing me to delete your post would be the literal definition of censoring MY speech and expression and the SCOTUS has already ruled on this. You can't have it both ways bud.
I was wondering why this seemed so outdated and ignorant for something published in 2018 (only 10b transistors? 'computers are serial', really?), but I see that it's from a 2015 textbook, using citations for computing hardware published in 2008, and presumably referencing hardware from 2007 or earlier...
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Glad you didn't get voted down.

People, by nature, have one dimensional views about a world that is in actuality multi-dimensional and highly complex.

Humans evolved this way in order to navigate the complexity of the world as quick decisions and judgements aid more in survival than best decisions made at the expense of haste.

It takes a lot of effort and luck to exit our biases and see that even a murderer, child molester, pedophile, rapist, racist, dictator etc. have multiple dimensions.

Not condoning crimes, but honestly I can relate to how someone like Dennis Rodman can chill with Kim Jong Il or even Hitler if he was still alive, but I'm not sure how people in general will react to what I just said and how far above their own biases they can pull themselves.

I guess we'll see with the karma, I used some extreme vocabulary in the sentences above. I think if the OP used the word "Unabomber" instead of "Kaczynski" people would be less forgiving as my initial reaction to his post was positive simply because I didn't recall who "Kaczynski" was...
she is completely right
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I'm confused about what data is being provided to these companies. Is it the patient data that my GP has for example, or is it purely data that the NHS aim to gather from the contact tracing app?
Yeah, TD alone was huge in 2016-2017 and was a huge contributor to the dynamic we have in the world today. Ellen is 100% right here and Alex did absolutely nothing to address it.

Good on her for publicly calling it out.
For most projects, sorting leads to prioritizing, which is an anti-pattern. For those who choose to eschew proper software development practices, it is nice that Projects is its own thing.
lead-ish mod /r/relationship_advice here

nope.

The horrors we ban for are usually considered (by their submitters) to be perfectly normal, and we often have people starting debates with us about our own rules because other subreddits permit passive bigotry across race, gender, orientation, etc.

There's a lot. You've just closed your eyes to it. We've had mods quit because of the volume of crap.
They are all 'quarintined' subr-ddits, that are not part of the larger community, and are more or less muted until you join them. Not quite the same. Don't get me wrong, I am no fan of r-ddit, but for very different reasons that are not fully relevant to this discussion.
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After a half hour long conversation with my neighbor last week of him trying to convince me that Bill Gates is behind coronavirus, please, for the love of our future, continue banning information that is blatantly put up on a bad faith basis.

It's exhausting to see my mom and dad succumb to a new conspiracy every other day. I don't see how else we can curb this other than for the tech companies to start aggressively moderating, just like how HN is moderated.
No, it's not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/the_donald
Reddit is responsible for the fact that 24% of people killed by police are black?
No, the salt can be public (it was on Unix machines before the invention of /etc/shadow). The important thing is that it is unique per password, so that Hash(Salt#Password) is unique even if two passwords happen to be the same.
Here's a relevant totally hypothetical "long con" involving Ellen Pao's hiring-and-firing and re-hiring of the original founders: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

The hypothesis is posed by Yishan Wong, an ex-CEO, with responses from Altman and Ohanian.

edit: I made a mistake understanding this story. Please see the correct timeline in geofft's comment.
So would clojure work as a substitute for scheme to go along with the sicp book?
Sorry but please: Colombia, not Columbia.
(And to the comment, yes I've seen this kind of situation in Canada).
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> I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now.

Yup. It starts from the top and trickles down. Thats why the U.S is so far gone.

The funny thing is we will all be talking about a new case in the future. Then another high profile person will be throwing money at the situation. Maybe something different is needed?

Also how on earth are certain subreddits still up and running is just beyond me.
It's really not - look at the dates. There was some bullshit going on, there is nothing left.
Even better if those could be demonstrated by studies/concrete data instead of "I think/feel..."
> " a platform joining up cloud-hosting services from dozens of companies, allowing business to move their data freely"

This is practically dead before it's created. The other platforms (AWS, GCP etc.) are hyperscale due to their useful integrated nature of building blocks. You're not going to get that with a bunch of random vendors. It's hard enough as it is for a large company to create a somewhat homogenous environment, and existing projects that are supposed to be multi-vendor like OpenStack (and CloudStack) are just not on par.

Say you have a few vendors, one runs VMWare, one runs Hyper-V, and you need a workload with scalable counts of CPUs, and the datacenter of the VMWare guys is full and you now need to use some of the CPUs in the other datacenter. Are you going to have a single API (and perhaps console) where you say: I want a machine with specs X, image Y and parameters Z to do that and have the lower layers resolve it? Probably not.
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