skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless we solve this early, the problem you describe could be terrifically self-perpetuating.

Online learning (in its current state) requires lots of motivation and discipline. These are skills learned from tight feedback loops which historically happen in-person. If kids fail to pick this up early, they will be even less inclined to online learning. As a parent of a young kid, I'm very concerned that we're going to learn this lesson after it's far too late.
I don't see any benefits to this, Guido does a good job mentioning many of the negatives .. and, aware of them all, I am surprised he would push on. It seems an unreasonable increase in complexity for no tangible gain.
I meant 'expert' as in the person responsible for the technical side. Not in the sense of 'they know everything they need to know all the time' or anything like that.

> I suspect/hope the situation is better elsewhere in the industry. :-)

I do freelance, client work. Alone and in (very?) small teams. Typically my/our clients only have a superficial understanding of everything technical (if at all). Trust often needs to be earned.

One way to gain trust is being creative/optimistic and explaining feasible possibilities and strategies. Another one is being pragmatic and not selling them something they don't need, or might not need.

And then the most important one is to have conversations about their problems and wishes. Showing that you understand them by asking questions and writing a specification. And explaining your (iterative) workflow: "Let's figure this part out after we've done this other part." I guess this is the "domain" part of the process.

My experience is that if trust is in danger then the work is less valuable, less fun and less sustainable. Indications of this are things like we discussed before and similar:

- Trying to measure effort instead of rewarding value.

- Nitpicking, bikeshedding and other distractions.

- Overstepping their expertise (typical for UI design, a bit less for programming)

Now most of my interactions are good but sometimes I get the above. We're actually discussing of doing more upfront communication work in the offers and initial discussions to prevent these things (even by filtering out clients/collaborators) and to set a tone. Because again, this is unsustainable on multiple levels and it never ends well...
People are wondering why they would include this, but I bet accessibility settings could be considered medical information e.g. if you turn on colorblind or other assistance. If the game sends back all of your settings, they'd see you turned that on and could make a reasonable guess that you are.
I can tell you that from at least this Canadian's perspective, using military force to eliminate the Khmer Rouge was no less necessary than using military force to eliminate the Nazi control of Germany. I think you'll find that among people who have extensively studied asian and southeast asian history and military topics, it's almost universally agreed upon how evil their regime was.

The full weight of the evidence for how many people they killed, which only surfaced by the mid to late 1980s, only further reinforces this.
So Steve Jobs shouldn't have run Apple?
After this (and a few emergent race bugs), I started burying the equivalent of setTimeout(() => getFakeData(), 1500) in my similar code.

Best part is, I'm almost certain to beat 1500, so I've gotten compliments that it "feels snappier".
How many people are using a face mask? Mask detection with computer vision
I felt that the old print statement sometimes was handy when I wanted to quickly throw some debugging lines into the code -- just less hassle with parentheses. But I wouldn't want any of the ambiguity GvR's suggestion would bring.

For debugging comfort the print statement is half measures anyway: Give us Julia's @show macro!
Businesses already do rounding on sales tax, since percentage tax will often be fractional cents. And they do round down if it is below half a cent.

I don't see why this would be different. Most likely there would be a law that covers it. (I believe there already is regarding sales tax)
I'd simplify the above. It's hard to make any argument for switching, because it's annoying to change habits. That's about it.

Even if it offers advantages, some will be reluctant, because of the above habit issue. So they should just push metrication, period, instead of dragging it for decades. Other countries did it successfully including for temperature, so how is it a bigger problem in US than for them?
In my experience: communication. It's the manager's job to keep the big picture in mind: how is this team's output impacting major org goals?

If a manager doesn't have the story and line of communication set up (through his Director, etc.), the engineering team could prove P=NP; nobody would notice or care.
I wish all languages just adopted ML syntax for function application.
There are times when a rationalist approach to societal and cultural issues (and political issues, as they bleed into that) may be more or less acceptable to the public, and I think we are unfortunately at a time where those approaches don't work very well, and indeed are seen as attacks themselves.

I have all sorts of poorly founded ideas on why that might be so, which themselves might be more symptoms than causes, but the bottom line is the same; It's very hard to have a rational discussion between two parties with different points of view these days. I find that one or both will usually have underlying beliefs based on dogma that they refuse to entertain any discussion on, which makes discussing views founded on those beliefs extremely hard to do constructively, if not impossible.
No, but IMO they should be one of the more technically competent people. Managing is not a full-time job, at least for a good manager its not a full time job.
I appreciate your comment on competitive advantage. What would it be in Tesla's case? It's not really the car design or assembly. I know they tried to play "disrupt" games with throwing software at the production line but I understand it didn't go well.

Couple things that come to mind:

1) SV software culture, kinda coming from Musk. This helps with battery pack management (important), electric motor control (important) and fancy car UI (less important perhaps but a "cool" factor. I think I count autopilot here)

2) Skin in the game. This is a bit meta, but some of the things they've done take some real guts and leadership. In their case it was do-or-die. Things like charger network, or getting the cars sold without dealerships, or building their own battery factory, or maybe the very idea of a production EV. I don't see this with incumbents - even if they have EV lines they could probably shut them down without much impact. Maybe this will not last long, I guess VW promised to switch to all electric new platforms? At that point they are kinda committed.
Gaslighting occurs in the workplace too.
Hey, I see you've struck a nerve with some people - even talking about the idea of an independent Hong Kong will send your comment to the absolute bottom.

Have my upvote.
All coins are pretty terrible. When the US was trying to push those dollar coins, there was an argument that the government would make money by selling the new coins (through seigniorage), but that argument was counteracted by the fact that people just wouldn’t use those coins and it would end up sitting in a jar somewhere rather than in a bank earning interest (the velocity of money would be reduced).

The government should put less money into designing and minting/printing new money and instead focus its resources on making the “unbanked” banked. Doing so through the post office has been talked about for years.
I do not see the point on linking to twitter instead of the official announcement[1]. Still, the fact this is a thing is interesting in itself.

Their landlords are in a really dire situation right now but airbnb cannot give them free money, so they are asking their customers to do so.

[1] https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2795/how-can-i-send-a-ca...?
I was in this situation.

The result was:

- No one really managed any software teams.

- The manager did just ended up as a proxy between higher management which create friction. (E.g. in aspects like what features are viable to add in this year and which are not.)

- The manager lost practically all authority (and later one all trust).

Generally a really annoying situation not benefiting anyone. Through then a lot of other things went wrong too in that company.
Indeed. Anyone have a working workaround link? (which is required to exist for paywalled sites according to HN rules?)
Just because someone worked free on something does not mean it’s suddenly free of criticism. I’d say it’s healthy to criticize even these projects.
I agree with, and have felt the same pain as you here. But this isn't YAML's fault, IMO, it is that the templaters, like Helm, aren't safe, and don't escape their outputs.

If have a string, and I use that in the middle of a YAML template, I expect a string — I don't expect "300" to become (integer) 300; give me a function for that conversion.

Any HTML templating system that behaved this way would be frowned upon due to the potential for XSS. There's little risk of XSS here, but it's still annoying to get the wrong results.
Hate the idea to be honest. In my opinion this will just bloat the language, no need. Rather avoid the hundreds of different standards like PHP.
> Hospitals will begin sending coronavirus-related information directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under new instructions from the Trump administration.

> ...

> But the move comes amid concerns that the White House has been sidelining the CDC and after Trump administration officials attacked Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and a member of the White House coronavirus task force.

That motive doesn't make sense. Fauci doesn't work for the CDC, he works for NIH, a branch of HHS. If anything, the move is bringing Fauci closer to the process, not further.

> The National Institutes of Health (NIH) (/ɛn.aɪ.ˈeɪtʃ/) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health

Also: Pop-unders? Really?
The installer does not allow modification to the privileges it gets by the user. You can install it or not. If not, you’ll consequently be locked out of all or part of the game it’s associated with.
Until I made the (in hindsight, fortuitous) move into a house with a washing machine, I and many other millions of people in the US used cash weekly at the laundromat. Even their laundry service only took cash.
Lol the defence of the Editorial standards. There are no good editorial standards in the whole NY Times anymore. Any paper that can publish the utter ridiculous historical revisionist 1619 project can't in any way be defended as having any editorial standards.
What makes these sites "hyperpartisan" is that they are directly funded by candidates or PACs that support them.

My read: it's in their interest to seem balanced until the moment that it matters--when covering candidates or policy.
If the US banned American companies from selling to ByteDance/TikTok, then yes, ByteDance would have to move to a non-US cloud like Alibaba.
>by the end of my lifetime the US will not even be in the #2 spot globally

Not sure this says what you think. Simple GDP growth math has India and China passing the US in a few decades so that's not even controversial. If you are suggesting some major calamity/collapse in the US that somehow doesn't impact the rest of the world, I would find that highly unlikely.
I feel you, as I have tremendous respect and appreciation to open-source maintainers.

Nevertheless, I think most developers already "review", critique, and share their opinion of open-source libraries loud and proud. They just don't have a dedicated platform to do that.

Like most developers, I've been using dozens of open-source libraries, it's natural that I'll form some sort of opinion about them. If I'm like most developers, I'll even have some very strongly held opinions and preferences.

I will like some packages, and hate others. I'll find some documentation great, and other unreadable. I will insist one project is complex, and the other is easy to use. That's all fine.

IMHO, the fact that a piece of software was created for free, doesn't mean I shouldn't have the right to express my experience and opinions about that software, good or bad.
With Openbase, we just want to give developers the ability to easily learn from the experience of other developers, and share their own experience with various libraries.
You're correct, but I think the other argument is correct as well. I've seen teams where a manager is so technically incompetent as to be useless in their role. I've also seen teams where the developers were caught in technical minutiae while not contributing actual business value. I don't know if there's a cut-and-dried answer here.
I figured some universities would start doing things like this. You can even make the class special in that it's pass/fail, doesn't affect your GPA, doesn't appear in your transcript, it's a special class that is free and doesn't increase your tuition, etc. Glad to know it's no longer going to be required to pull moves like this.
That's not it at all - a year ago, we actually defined a new strategic initiative to migrate the legacy userbase to BTD5, and the CEO herself gets regular readouts.
Yes, and if you want an example of American political hypocrisy in things like international war crimes courts, I'm honestly astonished that people like Slobodan Milosevic were prosecuted, but Kissinger hasn't spent the past 30 years in a prison cell.
I don't know about this game in particular, but many games install spyware for anticheat and DRM purposes.

For example, Blizzard's anticheat software phones home with the title bar text of every open window on the computer. If I leave a browser tab open from my doctor's portal, I can totally envision how Blizzard would end up collecting some of my medical data.
Still, all those should be the responsibility of senior engineers on the team, not management.
And if you get a gift card instead of cash it's typically free. I did that and walked away with an 80$ Starbucks card. The other time, the machine had an issue connecting and a normal checkout clerk gave me cash directly, again no fee.
Pennies are just extra surfaces for coronavirus to ride on.
Yeah, I could've been more precise about what I meant by "demo day." In my comment, I was thinking about the broader, often companywide demo days that many companies hold.

I wasn't talking about intra-team demos to, say, product owners.
Bethesda seems to have conflated playing their game with applying for a job with the UAC on phobos.
Surely the extremely expensive and difficult to obtain elements aren't going to be in any vaccine.
The value of being able to build an HTTP 1.1 server is not in putting a hand-crafted server on the internet and serving traffic. It's in the experience of building the server and later applying that detailed byte-by-byte knowledge in real work. It's also in teaching young engineers that yes, they can learn something by digging into the layers that surround their own code. Part of the dysfunction of "enterprise" programming is the programmed helplessness of people who are surrounded on all sides by complex, opaque technology that turns curiosity into a liability. We are replacing a "whoa, I can see how it works!" experience with a "fuck, I guess have to leave this part to those bigcorp engineers" experience.

(I'm not agreeing with the author, just pointing out why he might care about the ability for an individual to implement the protocols the web is built on.)
Thanks for correcting – free rein, I mixed up the two adjectives in the quote.
You might like deno (https://deno.land) then!

It’s native typescript.
Do you think that's the extent of people's criticisms of Bari?

But I'm sure such dogged defenders of free speech normally send other reporters after people to acccuse them of being anti-Semitic for a joke about them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hels/status/1283092586392178695?s=20
Almost any country which tries full on communism sadly ends up in a similar scenario. See USSR, Mao's China. In Mao's China, it was well apparent that the communal farms weren't working and even the people's daily wrote a story on it. The then high ranking party officials also opposed them. But Mao still got rid of them all and continued, causing several famines.
Ghost of Tsushima Releases July 17th 2020
And, appropriately enough, you’re not a manager. :)
Any recommendations on books/resources to learn accounting?
> How is there not anyone willing to take another shot at competing here

Cliqz did and they lost.
Dude, you could have just said “because I take my job seriously and executed with complete diligence”.
> We have a White House filled with white supremacists and career grifters

I know right? Lots of white supremacists everywhere in the White House with the grand wizard as POTUS spewing 'this hate' all over the place /s. Meanwhile in the 'peaceful' CHAZ/CHOP, they also reported that their experiment turned out to be a pretty good thing for eveyone as 'a summer of love'. /s

It's too easy to label and categorize anything you dislike as the most extreme side of the political spectrum. The same is done on both sides. The difference is however, is that you need to give the strongest form of evidence you can find to prove that the White House is filled with these 'white supremacists' as you claim.
> Either way, Mac Pro sales are a drop in the ocean in terms of Apple's revenue.

Indeed. It's their "supercar". It's there to show how impressive an Apple can be and, in that, it doesn't fail - it's a great machine and a solid example of how a well designed computer should be easy to maintain.

I seriously doubt the Lenovo can be opened in less than 10 seconds.
Vox Media preparing round of layoffs as business fails to improve
How scientists know that coronavirus came from bats and wasn’t made in a lab
I think "the point", given the wording of the email, is to showcase the power of the new parser; not implement it.

(I fucking hope)
I'd rather they round it on all transactions. Gets really weird when the cash register says one thing and you have to pay something else.
These look like brackets, not binary operators. So, that's one style, but a rather unobvious one, and also contradicts PEP8, which says (as the very first thing in the section on inline spaces!) to avoid whitespace immediately inside brackets.
Fair point, but there's just no way all the management work fits in 20% of one's time unless they are managing like 2 people in a very narrow problem space.
>>> print (1, 2, 3)

Is that supposed to be a function call with a tuple or function call with 3 integers?
what are some of these outlets you know of? I've been trying to ironclad my news sources after getting into Chomsky recently but have only found Democracy Now! and Novara media, as well as a couple other small speciality podcasts that seem potentially good. Would appreciate pointers.
This was election year red meat for Trump's base, which his campaign has explicitly made their sole focus. It lets them tell the true believers that Trump tried to keep the evil foreigners out but the liberal deep state traitors stopped him, that's why they need to keep supporting Trump. That's what's behind all of these absurd attacks on immigrants, queer people, etc that instantly get struck down.
Level 5 isn't the only safe level. Level 4 is safe too

I agree that, by definition, this is necessarily true.

The catch I see is that the same definition is predicated on the vehicle being able to safely end the journey before entering any unsupported situation, without requiring any driver interaction. I'm not aware that we have any known strategy for solving that problem in the general case that would not achieve level 5 anyway.

I acknowledge that in specific situations like geofencing, where a vehicle does effectively operate at level 5 but only under predetermined conditions, that would be level 4 according to the scale. However, it's the ability to operate fully autonomously, albeit within those boundaries, that makes the vehicle safe in this scenario.

So, what happens if external conditions (for example, directions by a police officer, or some sort of road accident or severe weather) mean that the vehicle cannot safely remain within the area where it can operate autonomously? Unlike a vehicle with a human driver, it cannot adapt and safely leave that area either.

In short, unless perhaps we're also going to have a new set of rules and possibly some separated infrastructure for use with level 4 vehicles, I'm not sure they can ever fully match the safety of a human driver without necessarily reaching level 5.
I believe the author of the article is confusing "manager" and "tech lead/senior developer". I think the author has projected things they think are important in a manager onto the roll and those things probably don't align with what senior stakeholders think are important.

I would certainly expect the technical lead to do a good amount of coding in addition to design and mentoring, but expecting the CTO to code as the article suggests seems wrong. I guess this might be true at a 25 person startup, but I think this is an unrealistic requirement for larger organizations.

By a similar argument, would the COO be reasonably expected to work on the assembly line and repair hvac on a regular basis? Again, perhaps at a company of 25 but seemingly (to me at least) absurd at a larger company.
>>If US banned TikTok

Any attempt to ban it to the wider public would be immediately be met with a legal battle that the US government would lose as there is no legal way for them to implement such a ban, our constitution would forbid it

At most they could bar employees of the federal government (and its contractors) from using it, which given the federal government is one of the largest would have a large impact. Even that limited action however would be met with a large legal challenge and would have a good chance of failure for anything that is not a Government Computer / Phone / Network
Link to the actual study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483
Awesome, I'm honestly not deeply familiar with most of those industries (let alone maybe credit rating agencies), but this is definitely a model that we need to explore. Thanks!
Are all opinions entitled to a private platform? Expressing disagreement via mechanisms a platform provides is, indeed, expressing an opinion.

What all this concern trolling really sounds like isn't an actual defense of values of free speech, but rather sheltering someone from the speech of others.
Nice comeback
Yup, I do all my banking / financial stuff on an old netbook. I keep the OS up to date as best I can, it feels good to know everything is kept separate.
I think you have a point. But should making decision that require an intimate understanding of the technical stack be part of those activities? Should drafting new features be considered under architecting? I understand that my managers are heavily engaged in these activities and their decisions are challenged by very technically minded people before they are put to work.
If a manager trusts their reports, they can manage those reports effectively, because they are getting accurate data about what their people are doing. That trust (also known as being professional) short circuits the need for the manager to understand the work being done.