skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. For all but the smallest of teams, this just means being both a poor manager and a poor engineer.

Trying to balance this was one of my first mistakes as a manager. I was a roadblock to shipping things because of my limited coding bandwidth, and I wasn't spending enough time focusing on growing people, having career conversations, ensuring my org was structured for success, etc.

Finally putting down the keyboard was the key to me being a much better manager. Yes, I don't have the depth on every framework like I used to, but I still have over 15 years of hands-on-keyboard experience and the "engineering" part of "software engineering" is less about fluency in languages, but more about how to effectively set goals, mitigate impact of external dependencies, design for performance, etc. That knowledge is still very useful.
Or maybe if you just want to hardwire your dependencies, you shouldn't use dependency injection.
Good individual contributors are also productivity multipliers. There's nothing specific about managers that makes this trait specific to them.

Also, using salary to force engineers into becoming managers is a good recipe for losing good engineers. Either because they become managers or because they leave.
For VWs, it's always the electrical systems.... If it's 10 years old, I can almost guarantee it's going to have problems. With that said, you'll always see the rouge 1999 Jetta tooling around town, and either the owner got really lucky, or they've worked on it.
Not going to heat instantly using a heat pump, it would be tank based and it needs solar heated air (warm outside or warm garage).
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Other way around, no?
I agree with you that it's not strictly a "left" issue - and certainly the recent election in the US had the "right" bringing up voter fraud.

But it's important to remember the "left" raising flags about fraud in the 2016 election, and primary. Everything from harping on the legitimacy of a candidate that lost the popular vote, "not my president" protests, accusations of voting machine fraud, primary delegate issues, conflating gerrymandering with federal elections, etc...

In general, it seems whichever side loses is increasingly blaming "unfairness" to generate more outrage to de-legitimize winners of the election. ...rather than trying to appeal to more voters.

We're all losers in this situation because it is the voting system that keeps us from killing each other.
I've started learning guitar more seriously, and I'm convinced this is the fastest way to learn. Set a semi-ambitious goal of something you can show others, and use deliberate practice to get there.

It'll take longer than you want, but you'll get better much faster than you think you can.
>Private companies should be able to remove apps from their store.

Why should they unless the app violates the law?

And please take into consideration the fact that we aren't talking about small / mid size businesses, but giant behemoths and we're trying to apply some rules to the biggest ones.
Electricity rates are the same across Ontario, and natural gas prices are mostly the same. I live near Toronto, and when I did the math a couple of years ago, an electric heat pump water heater would cost about 4x more to run than natural gas (back-of-the-envelope math). A resistive water heater would be even worse.
last time it was: install tcpdump on java server doing nasty things. save pcap. Analyze with Wireshark, find out the JAVA app was doing insane things against the Oracle DB even after vendo said they had "optimized" database access. Th good thing is the same technique applies to REST apis, sockets, load balancer problems, other databases. You probably can do a better job using each specific stack debug facilities, but a .pcap and wireshark is the swiss army of debugging.

Also: strace for reading what anything in Linux is trying to do when failing.
He did want a color blind society. He explicitly talked about it.
Doesn't matter as long as you are watching. The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. Hate is just misconfigured love.
I bet they are when you're passing it on as a 'genuine' Ford part when you're selling the car.
That's probably the best advice. I'd add to it: make sure it's something your passionate about. Bonus if you can get real users.
> The paradox of tolerance is something that many people should consider.

Or even read, it’s barely longer than a page and yet I see it mischaracterised on these threads repeatedly by people who have clearly not read it.

For those with too short an attention span to even search for the text, let alone read it, and to save them from the mendacious cartoon that purports to boil it down, here’s what it says in two lines:

- speech should beget speech, no matter how disagreeable

- intolerance is defined as those who will not engage in speech and have turned to violence instead

That is not the same as deplatforming “bigots”, or punching Nazis. Quite the opposite.

Edit: typo
Start with Chrome.
Do you think 4-5 corporations making the decisions behind closed doors will reach a fairer result?

If you categorically don't have faith in the laws and the justice system, you might as well emigrate or start planning a revolution.
It's great that you recognize professional investing isn't something you know a lot about.

It's a bit concerning that people believe a hollywood movie has taught them how the industry works. Keep in mind how hollywood portrays "hackers" or "scientists" or "Russians" or whatever group is an outsider or opposition to the protagonist and realize they're doing the same to finance.
Only if acquiring, storing and handling cash is cheaper and less risky. Which when we start talking about large sums of money might not be the case anymore. As it does get quite complicated.
> Which means the 95% efficacy for phizer/moderna is not actually correct.

It is correct, it just efficacy against covid-19 disease, not against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Infection and disease are two distinct concepts.
I don't remember exactly how it broke the first time, but the cognitive overhead shows up in various places. E.g., start a new project, create a branch, then merge back to master... oh wait, it's main now? But then I'm back to an old project, or another person's project, so let me look up what name I need to be using, etc...
What it takes to be a Software Engineer
This sounds interesting. It feels like you would have to have a super smooth on ramp to productivity, otherwise you are getting terrible signal from the try outs.

Ie. you don't want to hire dev A because it took them just 2 weeks to figure out how to deploy a change to Prod instead of 4.
This has been my experience with late 2000's BMWs too. Man they look gorgeous. You can pick one up for under 10 grand now... There's a reason why.
> Unsigned Right Shift (>>>).

C doesn’t have this.
He advocated for a color blind future.
Obviously he did not bury his head in the sand to the non-color blind injustices he saw in his country.
> And it also typically means that the customer will lose their data.

If they don’t back up, that’s on the customer.

Look, I’ve never had a bad go with Apple. Other than once I walked in and tried to buy 25 laptops for a startup and they wouldn’t sell me that many without an appointment.

I’ve had great experiences with Apple Care where they replaced a 3 year-old laptop with a brand new one because a part failed.

Are there bound to be people who had bad experiences, sure. But like… if they are all the sort of people who don’t backup their data… kind of hard to take that seriously. You have to be a realist.

In any event, if you think the ability to repair is so important then you should only buy products that you know are easy to repair. I don’t necessarily care about this, and I don’t really want a phone with a battery flap to make it easier to remove, or that isn’t water proof. I vote with my wallet, and you should too. And that said, you shouldn’t try and circumvent my ability to vote on with my wallet and I shouldn’t try and circumvent your ability to vote with your wallet. Apple has done ok by me, rather they keep doing what they are doing - following the market and building the best quality devices (in my opinion) out there.
Same experience here. I've really, really wanted to like Mastodon but feel like it's all just random toots. And then if I click the wrong button it is random toots in Mandarin!
> The article is saying renaming master to main in Github won't help race relations one bit and he's annoyed that it's probably white people who come up with these things.

I think he's right that it was probably white people who came up with it.

My first point is that words do matter. We can debate how much the specific word "master" matters, but my point was that words do matter.

My other point about investing also supports his main thesis.
Not alone. For many cultures, killing the animals is a special job in the community.
I mostly agree with your post. However, I must point out that some people get paid _very_ well to write router firmware. Just maybe not consumer grade router firmware. Where the margins are high on the hardware, typically the salaries are as well.
Uber to give UK drivers minimum wage, pension, holiday pay
My point was detecting obviously untrustworthy isn’t enough. If a broadcast is for example inconsistent in what it’s reporting aka mentioning 7 dead then 9, then 3, etc sure you can pay attention and notice the issue. Similarly, poor logical arguments are detectable etc. However, bias can show up in what’s not reported just as easily and in that case their is nothing to detect.

Essentially, you can train people to deal with poor execution, but that’s not enough when the subtle stuff is equally if not more important.
It’s ironic that you did exactly what I mentioned is the problem while responding to a comment where I pointed out I’m aware of, and sensitive to, subtle cultural differences within Britain. I’m at least n=1 for giving a nuanced shit about people outside our borders, but that didn’t fit your reductionist narrative. I get it, but I don’t respect it.
Litestream maintains a WAL position so it would need to expose the current local WAL position & the highest replicated WAL position via some kind of shared memory—probably just a file similar to SQLite's "-shm" file. The application can check the current position when a transaction starts and then it can block until the transaction has been replicated. That's the basic idea from a high level.
>That's a pretty serious organizational flaw.

I agree that "no career ladder" is a serious flaw. That said, it's not uncommon that, in terms of money anyway, IC tracks tend to cap out at lower levels than management tracks even if there is a well-defined IC track.
It would seem that the solution is to adopt Western practices if Indians truly desire a better quality of life, instead of sticking to archaic superstitions.
> COBOL programs have history. They were changed in '77 and then the change was reverted in '79 and then again in '84. Nobody really remembers why.

I wonder how different it would be if they had a good source control system (and used it). Would you be able to look at the history and understand why the changes were made, or would you just get a bunch of commit messages like "made update" or "reverted earlier change"?
We literally can't. Boycotts rarely work, because keeping up with what should be boycotted and why is a full time job, and people simply don't commit to it.

Printer ink still comes with DRM, as do tractors, and smart TVs still spy on us. If it were as simple as collectively not purchasing these products (without using legislation as a means of organizing this not-purchasing), these issues would have been resolved already, instead of getting worse.
Probably not. Even the simplest foods are things we've radically changed from 'nature'. The Paleo diet is nonsense from a historical point of view.
How do you even define the "average American" and in what context?

Are these people average Americans? [0]

No offense, but this sounds a lot like the argument how Trump supporters are allegedly just a "loud minority", a claim that's factually disproved not just by results from the public votes of two presidential elections, but the fact that he won one of them and only barely lost the other one.

Where does the "average American" fall in that context? Is there even an "average" when the only two valid political choices have become distilled down to a superficial "We are not the other party" forcing everybody to pick between two allegedly completely opposing sides?

[0] https://youtu.be/KHJlZyFxp88
Discovery is definitely the hardest part of the fediverse. Your best bet is to join a server with similar interests and start following people.
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Its amazing to me how people always want to analyze everything in terms of the Smartphone market.

This is nonsense. It simply doesn't make sense. They are completely different industries, completely different players and very different geopolitics.

One is a tiny consumer product for your pocket that gets replaced every 2-3 years that is easy to transport, the other is a huge consumer product people often keep for 5-10 years that is hard to transport.

Sure, both have Li-Ion battery but again its totally different. In a phone the battery is a small part of the overall price, while for a car its a huge factor in the overall price.

Tesla is not like Apple, in many ways and Volkswagen is not like Samsung in many ways. Tesla is like Apple in some ways but not in others. The same for VW.

The car market simply does not operate like the cellphone market, the role of software is different. The geopolitics are different, every 'Western' government that has a car industry is bent on defending it. Even outside of that, producing cars is such a massive capital intensive business that hits your cash-flow localization of production is basically a requirement for the biggest players.

Tesla is amazingly successful and have a strategy of strong vertical integration. They have a tech future centered image promising fun, good performance and environmentally friendly. They are building up localized production of a few models that they want to sell in very high numbers globally. They are hell bent on increasing battery production and on solving self driving.

Tesla will continue to grow at a quite rapid rate year over year and no matter if other EV come into the market that will likely not destroy Tesla growth anytime soon. Tesla is one of the largest costumers of all of the major battery companies and is turning itself into one of the largest battery producers as well. That alone is a huge advantage as with the continuing cost curves, it is likely almost all EV that can be produced, will be produced and will be sold.

They have also smartly invested in charging network and are an omnipresent symbol of EV along all major routes in the developed world and they are expanding that network every day.

VW is the first really big monster company that has fully realized not just that it needs to be done, but also that all the talk about how the car industry talk about how easy EV were and if they wanted Tesla would be crushed is not the case. Going into EV on large scale is breathtakingly difficult and VW has mobilized the whole company, made huge investment both in suppliers both now and future suppliers, they have transform their internal plans (of all their companies) and are trying to execute. They are doing quite a good job along most levels.

VW and Tesla will both be large parts of the EV future, whatever will happen in terms of mobility service, self-driving and so on.

There are open question for VW about how to transition such a large company but Tesla also have open question about continuing to execute a massive growth strategy. Both companies are set up for success if they continue to execute at a high level.
SQLite is one of the options evaluated in the article. I haven't considered it because I feel that it's a proprietary format, and also because I haven't read up on its improvements in the past ~decade. My view is still that SQLite corrupts easily because people were treating it like a proper database and doing multithreaded reading/writing, but in reality it's a different thing that doesn't quite work that way.
Slave Branch Matter!
I never understood that koan and I’m not sure I understand it now.
Yep. I can't even count how many times I've lost steam trying to learn something by doing tutorial projects where you're making lists of vegetables and otherwise building nonsense. It's like trying to learn guitar and being given "Mary had a Little Lamb" instead of some melody you actually like.
I purchased an Alcatel smartphone several years back and about a week after the device received a firmware update I started getting weird pop-ups with fake virus warnings that led to some bogus cleaner app on the Play Store.

I started examining the apps on my phone and saw that all the preinstalled system apps had been modified to siphon off social media data to Chinese servers.

I collected as much information as I could to report the manufacturer to the Facebook.

Several months later the New York Times reported that Facebook had been allowing cellphone manufacturers (including Alcatel) to access users social media data regardless of what privacy settings the user had set because FB considered them “Trusted partners”

Alcatel has been found to have placed backdoors with root access and hard coded credentials in TCL branded televisions and their smartphones have been reported for DNS rebinding attacks to TCL clouds and also having packet sniffers in their low-end smartphones.
Interesting point. Would like to hear what someone like RMS would say about this case.
The american left is lagging behind in therms of political theory and this "identitarian ideology" is a symptom of that. The fact that this ideology now is being imported by leftists in other countries creates a really bad image of the whole political movement.

It is interesting that this innocuous terminological justice is now a thing in a lot of english speaking social environments (and internet), as far as I can tell, but is a joke for the majority of population (included left organizations and political parties) where I live. This is, for me, a clear sign of the elitist agenda that has minimal impact in the real life, but delight the middle-class left of american universities.

I consider myself a left minded person, and being from a third world country, I first was amused by this when this started since I do a general research of leftists movements around the world. But now that this evolved on a entire "ideology" (quoted because it has really poor political substance) and is now present, albeit not as much as in the USA and Europe, in my country, my take is that this is a dissuasive factor in the political development of the masses.

Sorry for my english.
I miss both Maemo and Meego. I had a Nokia N900 that was great and then an N9 that I loved even more.

Meego did use edge swipes in the OS which felt advanced at the time.
I was not being sarcastic.
Authoritarian regimes tend to commit atrocities. Unchecked power tends to lead to abuse of power.

This is true regardless of what ideology helped the regime take root. Recognizing this fact is not whitewashing anything.

To give you a less personal (to you) example, the Islamic State of Irak and Levant filmed and uploaded executions of hundreds of people, and killed many, many more people off-screen. They have "Islam" in their name.

Should the page about "Islam (religion)" put ISIL front and center, despite them existing for less than a 1‰ of time Islam existed, and having similarly little adherents in comparison to global population of muslims?
> Is Rustie Lee "ultra extreme far right" in your opinion?

No. In my opinion, Rustie Lee is not "ultra extreme far right". I don't see why you're asking though, since I didn't call UKIP "ultra extreme far right" either; or any one or thing, for that matter. So I don't know what point you're trying to make; that racists will always fall back on the "I have a black friend" defence?

In any case, I deliberately avoided referring to specific individuals, since that often devolves into he-said/she-said accusations, and metaphysical circle-jerking about the 'true intent' of this or that. Tangentially, it's useful to the far right when discussions around them or their tactics devolve into such petty bickering, since it's a useful distraction towards easily denounced anecdata (hence putting their audience more at ease with the bigotry, and hence nudging the overton window a little more). After all, it's no coincidence that white supremacists deny the existence of systemic racism (unless it's against "whites", of course).

Whilst bringing up a person (or, to reduce circle-jerking, the outcomes of their actions), is fair game in a discussion about people's actions; I would recommend against pivoting an existing discussion towards some person or other, as you've done, since that can help to entrench far right memes (e.g. that racism is only about individuals, etc.).

With that in mind, I would point out that I am not the first to put UKIP in the same list as the BNP; UKIPs founder did the same (he cited the party's increasing racism and ties to the BNP as the reasons he left in the late 1990s).
Ex post facto deals with criminal cases and things that generally negatively affect an individual.
Or ya know, not making someone’s disability the leading term you use to describe someone. That what’s most important is their personhood and they’re not defined by some single dominant aspect. And that their disability isn’t part of their identity but is just a fact about them.

Language doesn’t do multiple inheritance well so has-a descriptions are easier to work recognizing that people are multifaceted.
Now, quick, define "fascist"
And why should those huge companies be able to collect rents from their App stores?

Protecting side-loading (legally and technically) solves both problems. And limits the ability of the government to do the same kind of moderating as they’d first have to somehow disable sideloading. (Imagine the government trying to disable ability to run arbitrary code on all laptops or PCs. Possible with enough manpower, sure, but way harder than just moderating an App Store.)
> It's not nitpicking to ask for a source for the statement "it's not known if the various vaccines give sterilising immunity", it's asking for proof of a negative.

You're rewriting history. You definitely did not say "it's not known" originally, you made a very clear statement that they didn't confer it.

> I don't get what your point is.

That if "limited" is 80% then you are grossly misrepresenting the situation to talk like transmission isn't affected.
For tax purposes, in the U.S., what he had at the time was an unrealized gain. So if he later went to convert that Bitcoin into U.S. dollars, he would have a taxable event (i.e., if he cashed out the whole thing, he would owe taxes on the difference between his basis and the value at the time).

I don't know how it works in Germany though.
> The problem I have with this name change, and reasoning like this, is that there is no "slave" component of the master branch convention. There is no reference to slavery.

It's apparently an indirect reference, because its taken from the master/slave usage in BitKeeper, even though there is no slave on the git context.

In any case, “main” is simply descriptive rather than either a not very apt metaphor or an out-of-context reference to another (also not very descriptive) metaphor, so it's an improvement independently of whether “master” had social problems on top of it's descriptive ones.