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I feel that the way that GitHub and others do social coding is a bit backwards in regards to this article. Issues shouldn't implicitly be owned by the owner of the repo but by the reporter. The reporter cares about the problem. The issue tracker should be a way to find others who care about the same problem. If the repo owner doesn't care they should feel no obligation. But the way the issue trackers are structured those issues implicitly becomes the repo maintainers problem.

Also, there should be more ways to "praise" a project.
Hah, a passage about an historic gun duel over the use of a punctuation mark, and yet the author refers to the # glyph as "hashtag" with no irony whatsoever :(
The GitHub issue tracker made me cry more than once. I couldn’t get any sleep after having closed tickets without substantial justification.

To be frank, that sounds like an addiction.

It takes literally zero effort to just ignore the complaints. Let them complain all they want. You don't have to care about them.
Those viewing this headline will believe these two concepts (lawyer suing Chevron, and his house arrest) are related, when they are not.

Taken directly from OPs posted article link:

A US federal judge then concurred with the fraud allegations ... finding that Donziger conducted a “pattern of racketeering activity”

Donziger was made liable for millions of dollars in Chevron’s legal costs and the company was granted seizure of his laptop and cellphone. When he appealed this ... the judge, Lewis Kaplan, hit him with criminal contempt charges, upheld on appeal, that led to his house arrest.

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At no time was this arrest related to the attorney's suit of Chevron. His arrest is due to US Federal anti-racketeering charges brought against him. Those charges were then upheld by a US Federal Judge.

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This article is a soft-pad for a criminal. Stop it.
I have worked with couple female developers and I had many interesting discussions on the whole problem of being woman developer.

Here some random thoughts / observations:

Hiring women because "we need at least one woman on the team because of the quota". Would you like to know you have been hired because the team is forced to have a women and everybody knows it?

Same company. I have received an email that you can "get bonus if you refer a friend that gets hired." Then a list of how much you can get depending on position. Then a note -- "if a woman, the reward is tripled".

Promoting women before they got enough experience. Similar to above. You have been put on a fast track for promotion but you haven't had time to get the needed experience. Everybody knows this (and discuss behind your back) but nobody is going to tell it to you. Now you have two problems.

On topic of feedback, people need feedback to improve, but female developers will not get it. All-positive feedback is no feedback at all because you are nowhere closer to knowing what you are doing wrong. I have personally been doing some pretty stupid things (like taking credit for other people work) until somebody told me and I fixed it. I wonder what would I do if nobody dared to tell I am doing anything wrong, or if my salary or position in the team had nothing to do with how well I am actually doing?

Just because guys can't be hitting on girls in the office doesn't mean it isn't there, but now it is more comical.

Just because people aren't supposed to discriminate women doesn't mean it is not there. Male developers seem to be in large part focused on the fact the words are spoken by a female rather than their merit. I have seen concrete examples. It kinda seems it is still true you need to (at least in some cases) work twice as hard to prove anything, but now male employees got better at hiding their discrimination. I am half decided that maybe all the focus on discrimination achieved is push the discrimination underground.

Discussions quieting down when you show up. Or tame behavior when eating lunch. Guys reminding other guys that a woman is present. Supposedly because it is not proper to behave like that (but it is fine when only guys present?) Imagine this happening every time.
I think it is more that I would hope that folks who have an unfair or just not fun thing happen to them, wouldn't do the exact same thing to others in almost identical situation.

Granted years ago I once worked at a call center and a coworker, just after complaining that they just got yelled at by customer for something they didn't do and couldn't change, placed a personal call to a local pizza place, and did the same thing to them.

Bummer to see.
Generally there is a big overlap between attack scenarios that allow for token exfiltration and attack scenarios that allow for code injection.

Someone doesn't need to exfiltrate a token to make the client do their malicious requests right on the user's device. And certain external mitigations, like anomalous API usage detection, won't see odd time-of-travel restrictions based on the estimated geolocations of two different IP addresses or a change in the user agent behavior (different user-agent header, different networking stack behavior, etc).

The difference is that some people argue that one of them is in scope for security measures, while the other is out of scope.
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I routinely encounter problems where the file structure on disk gets out of sync with the .gitmodules file, or one of the internal files inside .git, and I need to completely recreate my local repo.

I dislike having to warn in the README file, "somewhere in this repo are submodules, and you need to use this incantation to clone them."

I think you can now have the submodule reference point to a branch but it can't point to a tag, which is what I want most of the time.

And there's how `git status` just reports "modified content" without going into details.
You would be freaked out if you wrote a snarky, aggressive tweet directed at a US Senator on behalf of your employer?

These people all have agency. And if they work in an environment where they'd fear being fired for not posting snarky, aggressive tweets targeting one of the most powerful lawmakers in the country, then maybe they should find a new place to work.
Are custom language bindings a thing for Unity now?
Did they immediately publish the details of every gain-of-function coronavirus experiment they ever did, or does it sit in a notebook or a private database for some period of time? A lag time of 4-6 weeks seems reasonable here, not 6 months. There still seems to be room for a natural origin, but to say a lab escape is completely impossible because one of maybe a dozen people (or less) would have been both willing and able to be a whistleblower doesn't seem right.
This is true. The behavioral data is valuable to the bidding process. If you can provide context that this user previously bought things after clicking through, their demographic with respect to your target market, etc. Can be used by advertisers to change their "bid." (increase it generally) So providing behavioral data improves the CPC which improves advertising margins for the publisher. That is what drives harvesting all of that data.

DDG could increase their ad margins buy supplying identifying data, but perhaps they choose not to with the assumption that higher volumes will result in more gross revenue. I've never seen the books at DDG so I can only speculate.
I believe that is highly illegal in many countries.
Here's what FCC has to say about jammers: https://www.fcc.gov/general/cell-phone-and-gps-jamming
Is the first example with C and Am correct? It says the first chord of Am scale is A, shouldn't it be Am?
I've been having decent luck managing my dotfiles' dependencies with `git vendor`, which is a nice porcelain around subtrees. The big win is that it keeps track of your subtrees for you and presents a sufficiently-simple interface for adding, removing, and updating vendored dependencies: `git vendor add <name> <repo URI> <path>` to create, `git vendor update <name> <commit-spec>` to update, `git vendor list` to see what you have installed and where. I haven't yet had to do any dev work on my vendored deps, but I suspect it wouldn't be much more difficult than anything else I've done with it.
Raises hand

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
The writing was already so clearly on the wall by the 70s that a cult classic satirical film [0] was made on exactly this subject.

I'm mystified to not see any mention of it in TFA. Nay, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)
Here is an interesting one on the subject : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/

They found 2.7% seropositivity simply for people living near bat colonies.

There is also this event in mine workers that handled bats and bat dropping : https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.5815...

All in all, antibodies to bat coronaviruses to people in contact with bats are quite common.
I can comment on this as a current Amazon worker!

I think people pissing in bottles probably does happen in Amazon's vast network, but as a very, very rare exception. It makes for good public propaganda, but it's not the issue most salient to warehouse workers.

There's a constant grind that Amazon puts on your body and brain. The work is monotonous. Your joints slowly break down from RSI. You get aches that you learn to compensate for or ignore. You learn to manage the pressure of the little screen at your work station that shows you the rate you've been packing at over the past ten minutes. You learn to manage the pressure of your co-workers at the next step in the process, who have their own little screens, and need you to work faster so they can work faster.

The pay is better than most shit jobs, the benefits are good, the work rules are clear and the managers largely aren't abusive. The trade-off you make is that the physical and psychological demand is intense. There's a reason that the average Amazon FC worker lasts six months—I reckon Amazon's done the math and decided that high turnover is worth the extra productivity they can squeeze out of workers while they're there.

In that sense, it's a bit of a shame that reporters and politicians focus so much on pee in bottles, because working at Amazon is still pretty ghoulish without it. I'm rooting for the workers at Bessemer. It will be very hard to build up the union density needed to really have negotiating leverage over Amazon, but you have to start somewhere!
It's a popular story. But I think people shifted their focus after the atheist cause stalled. And the framing assumes their activism wasn't motivated by social justice all along.
In this case, could you have even identified it?

If the man on the panel was really experienced in said domain, regardless of if he was sexist or not, he could have given the same feed back. Especially if he’s really confident he’s right.
Man. I can't help but feel like some stories like this are caused entirely by pressure that the project maintainer is putting on themselves. Like the solution in this article was, "Finally, I learned to say no..." But maybe I would be the same way, diving deep into some obscure issue out of a sense of obligation to fix the thing I built and made available for others to use, and not realizing how much it was affecting me until reaching a breaking point.

I'm glad articles like this exist and are getting shared around. Maybe more maintainers will start with a healthy attitude of "I'm not going to address every issue." Maybe we'll get a technical solution... Make it possible to close all channels? Find ways to encourage satisfied users to leave positive feedback? Buttons to close an issue with "Sorry, but I don't have time to provide support for free, but feel free to contribute your own solution to the project!" or "This might not be related to the software and I don't have time to address it, advise doing more research on your own."?
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Looking to hire council for a project I want to open-source. Any recommendations on a good quality law office that can support questions around this area?
I have a FOSS project[0] that uses submodules for two separate reasons:

In the first[1], it's to include the project's JS implementation in the project's website. Considering that this would be the only JS code running on the entire site, it seemed like overkill to throw in some newfangled asset manager like Bower just for a single NPM package.

In the second[2], it's to include the encoding/decoding test cases alongside the implementations. This way, instead of having to maintain a bunch of independent per-implementation unit tests, I can maintain all the tests in one place, and then have the per-implementation test suites snarf the test cases, and I then know with reasonable certainty that all my implementation libraries have equivalent behavior.

There are probably other, "better" ways to do both these things - I could bite the bullet and use Bower for the website, and I could have test suites download test cases on-the-fly - but submodules were the path of least resistance, and I've yet to encounter any significant downsides.

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[0]: https://base32h.github.io

[1]: https://github.com/Base32H/base32h.github.io - specifically /assets/base32h/, which points to https://github.com/Base32H/base32h.js

[2]: https://github.com/Base32H/base32h.rb - specifically /spec/cases, which points to https://github.com/Base32H/base32h-tests
> Oh. My. God. Just ask the person if they want your advice.

I'm admittedly a bit socially inept, but isn't it obviously not this simple? Someone saying they want honest feedback is no guarantee that they will take it well.
Does it work for Rust?
> of course, the irony of the Culture books is that this kind of Utopian life isn't terribly interesting for the plot of a novel

I think you definitely could write interesting novels about it (quite a lot of Look To Windward is about it; you could at least get a short story out of the guy building the cable car system for no particularly good reason, say), just not the sort of novel Banks wanted to write.
As a non-minority person, I often see people just being assholes. For example, some dominating dude who talks over everyone, who ignores others input, who takes credit for everything, etc. As a white male, when I encounter that behavior, I think to myself, wow, that guy is a fucking asshole. However, and I have experienced this, people who are in a minority often take it personally, that they're an asshole to them, because they're in a minority group. It can be very frustrating to watch that (especially if my group -- white male -- then gets blamed for the behavior, as if its my fault this other dude is an asshole) and I can't really say anything either or it comes across like I'm defending the asshole.
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What is going today is far beyond calling out sexism (racism, homophobia, etc.). We’ve gone from closeted and dangerous bigotry to open and dangerous guilt-by-accusation.
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Agreed. And what kind of steps would a person who's had the shot have to go through to get the passport? Would it be internationally recognised. Who would administer it? How much would it cost the tax payers to admin it?

Australia spent > 80 million on the CovidSafe app, and AFIK its helped trace ~8 people.
You've asked a Canadian to air their complaints about the CBC.

Indeed, the CBC isn't an actual elite that could be defined by achievement, performance, accountability, history, or other merit, but they do groom the lower slopes of it. It's possible they have become more balanced as I tuned them out almost 10 years ago, and perhaps in the mean time they've investigated public service corruption, major party financing and election integrity, foreign influence operations, value for money in spending, threats to Canada's sovereignty and place in the world, challenged dominant narratives, and provided valuable and neutral insight into the culture conflicts of the day, but I'm willing to bet I haven't missed that much.

If you are in the U.S., CBC news is like if a Portland NPR affiliate had the budget of CNBC. Lots of very concerned and appropriately unattractive white people with cameras, descending from billion dollar office towers to hover around mystified minorities (who, quite reasonably, just shrug and go with it) demanding to know how they've been victimized by the Four Bads. (climate change, homophobia, racism, and sexism.) The CBC became the prosecutors in litigating for social justice, which I think many of them would be sincerely flattered to read, but to many Canadians, they are just activists posing as reporters.

This is in addition to that they are the state broadcaster whose mandate was to popularize Canada's increasingly homogenized federalism and (now post-) national identity. Their mandate isn't even reporting, it's narrative, and from a federalist perspective.

That view represents the consensus of a few neighbourhoods and schools, basically Queen's, McGill, and to a lesser extent, Carlton, and the international NGOs they all did their gap years at. It is widely regarded as an arm of the LPC. Their content is a formula of patronizing concern about what should be done about people who don't work for the government, or aren't paid in public money, and it manufactures sentimental conflict over different minority interest groups toward that end. While most media panders to outrage, the CBC's editorial tone exalts victimhood as a kind of new state religion.

I could just dismiss them as just another group of radicals with government jobs, but it's more complex than that in Canada. The CBC is something much weirder altogether.
And mod enablement on every platform, including HN from which I've been banned permanently for calling her a fraud.

But hey, I'm a sexist, racist homophobe who wanted to bring down a woman. Why should anyone want to listen to me when I told them she is a fraud whose only credentials are her genitals?
Are you sure? The word sounds distinctly Turkish to my Greek ears [1].

It's funny but there's long-standing confusion between me and a friend regarding what a "musmulo" (singular) is. I know by that name a small, round, orange-yellow fruit with soft, tangy flesh and large-ish but very smooth stones - known in English as a loquat. I'm from Athens, but my friend who is from Corfu knows two things as musmula: the loquat and the medlar fruit.

I notice also in sister threads that there is some linguistic confusion about medlars and loquats in other places, e.g. two French users discuss whether "néflier" is the loquat or the medlar fruit, in French.

This year I was at my Corfiot friend's house in winter and they have medlar trees in their garden, so I had the opportunity to watch the bletting process in action, as it were. Basically my friend and my friend's dad picked a bunch of medlar fruit and put them in wicker baskets wrapped in newspaper. Then a few weeks later they ate some. To be honest, I didn't try them, because they looked and smelled ... rotten? I guess? My friend ate a few but some had actually gone bad and had to be chucked out. Strange fruit, really.

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[1] All the rest of me is Greek also.
I thought for quite awhile that the whole list should be made public on a pre-announced date to "scorch the earth". On that date, liability for any fraud committed using the data would be placed on the party improperly using SSNs for authentication tokens.

The Equifax breach did the publishing part, but nothing changed with liability. A golden opportunity missed to fix this particular bullshit.
I'm more excited than ever about my own projects.

Professionally, I've come to terms with just putting in the hours for money and taking time off when I need to. I honestly think I wasted a bit of my twenties caring too much about that "dream job" and building someone else's cool product.
It can certainly be compatible with the First Amendment; just make "fairness" a requirement for Section 230 immunity. Then no speech would be compelled, but if someone chooses to invoke their free speech right to control the message on a site they own, they would be held responsible for that message.

And that's not about "fighting the last war"; it's about correcting for the network effects of the Internet that create natural monopolies with too much influence on public discussion.
Aye, they're called "nespoles" in Corfu also and it's probably an Italian influence.
In contrast, it was first in expressly feminist academic literature that I first encountered the idea that men are disadvantaged in ways that are systemic and by design.
Great point. Another subtle aspect to this kind of rhetoric is that it's about an issue so pervasive that it's disingenuous to present this as new information. Even as a boy you have to be careful what you say to girls, and vice versa. The rules are slightly different, but there are still gender lines and it's going to be really (really really) hard to change that! Men and women are all aware of this, so presenting this as new information is a bit divisive, despite the best intentions of the author.
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You've said that in another branch of this thread.

Do you understand that some people don't have that option? Or cannot move to a new location? Through no fault of their own?

Why can't people use the powers they have delegated to the government to put a stop to these practices, for the growing class of people who are trapped in jobs with conditions similar to this?
>no anonymized is ever really anonymous

Here's an anonymized email address, please tell me how to de-anonymize it:

<redacted>@gmail.com

My point is that your hyperbolic statement is not true, and anonymization can be done correctly.
I don't think it's true for most people that ignoring complaints about something you've invested effort into requires zero effort. I would say it typically requires tremendous effort.
> but he usually apologizes

I think this is very developer-esque thing to do.

If it was me, I'd just be happy that someone else is using the code I wrote!

I wouldn't worry too much if I was you :).
> If someone asked me this, I'd probably think they used hashtags like #redpill or were into bashing Ellen Pao or something. It comes across as, "you can't say anything these days without being offensive, men in tech are soooo mistreated."

Interesting. I hesitate to accept your interpretation as the universal one, because my experience has been that there are ways to express these concerns without coming off as a bigot. Perhaps more education, awareness or discussion is required.
What strikes me how frequently obvious propaganda from China and/or North Korea, clearly meant for internal consumption are reported as “news”. Of course bellicose vitriol is printed against the US for example, but it’s clearly not official or policy in any way. I don’t have references but this has become much more common in recent years, imo.
and what is the problem with that?
"Single guy made a good looking and so far working product in only 59 commits since september" is a different way to present the same facts.
How much BitClout do I have to buy in order to update my profile with a username, etc?
It wouldn't be as nice as an e-ink device, but the Surface is pretty nice for doodling on PDFs.
I don't actually think that's reasonable. The next time you're watching a conversation, really pay attention to when people chime in. They may not interrupt mid-word, but they'll often take advantage of mid-sentence pauses, when the other person otherwise would have kept going. It's a natural part of discussion.

This is also why call latency can really destroy the quality of a discussion, even when its presence isn't obvious.