skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing your personal feelings about some hypothetical organization with the separate question of what the definition of "morale" is. That organization will have a level of morale even if you are not a part of the organization.

As to this:

"We're all slowly dying"

That is a double-edged sword. Many people find meaning through the commitments they make: marriage, the military, the nation, their religion, children, parents, friends. Why make a commitment? Because we are all dying and so we wonder "What is the meaning of life?" And for those who find meaning through their commitments, then the fact that we are all slowly dying would be a reason to make more, deeper commitments, not less.

"I value having more control over what little time I have left"

Unless someone puts a gun to your head, no one is taking away your control over your time. Whether you decide to make any kinds of commitments to marriage, the military, the nation, your religion, children, parents, or friends, those are your choices, both if you reject all such commitments or embrace them.
I had been thinking about it on and off and as a 40+ old engineer trying to pivot into Software, and i get cold feet whenever i think of the hazing practices currently in place to "weed" out bad hires. I am not against the concept of white-boarding but why bother with arcane algorithms that no one uses in the industry. But at present, I am focused on getting my first product out rather than pivot into Software Engineering as a career. A god way to really gauge my interest and also my persistence as a solo founder.
Asking developers to own QA is broken because developers are naturally biased towards the happy path. If you want to build a bar, you need someone to order -1 beers[1].

Handing off QA to an external team is broken because those people don't have the necessary experience with the product, nor can they quickly and easily engage with development to get to the heart of a problem (and a fix.)

Having QA rely exclusively on automation brings quality down as the application's complexity goes up. Writing tests to cover every possible edge case before the product ships isn't feasible.

The best solution I've seen in the decades I've been in software development has been to have QA and Dev as part of a team. Automation covers as much of the product as possible, and continually grows as issues are identified that can be covered by CI from here on out. QA become essential at the boundary of new features, and require a deep understanding of the product in order to know what knobs to turn that might break the application in ways the developer never thought about. Once those sharp edges are also automated, QA pushes the boundary forward.

[1]: https://twitter.com/brenankeller/status/1068615953989087232
I stumbled on some crazy stuff back then when doing scans, one of the more notable was finding and ISP billing system with it's C drive shared over netbios (137/138). It was such the wild west days of the internet.

Stuff like: I got in the local newpaper for recovering an important county server password that had been lost... cracks me up in retrospect.
You obviously can't just do that, because ordinary applications are full of GET requests that cause database updates.
> So my question is , what does Google and Apple do to protect its users?

They enforce a rigorous review process of all app builds, of course. (it's hard to say this with a straight face)
Makes sense. I don’t have a good grasp on what the actual data is over time. My primary awareness is the extreme events that make the news.
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You got it.

We can give people a library that catches Postgres readonly errors and make it a reasonably standard experience. We can't ensure that peoples' apps have good write hygiene. We _can_, though, educate people and tell them what to look for when they're trying to optimize performance.

There's also the graphql problem (and really any kind of non-rest RPC). It's somewhat rare that applications use HTTP verbs appropriately, APIs tend to bypass HTTP methods.
If we feed the entirety of a library to an AI and have it generate new books, is it an exploitation of people's work?

If we read a book and use its instructions to build a bicycle, is it an exploitation of people's work?

No, no it's not.
Wow that sounds very different to my experience back then. Nerdy kid trying to get time on a computer in a shop in Canberra - generally the sales dudes would chase you out of the shop. The "Computerland" store in Philip was the worst offender for that. The Microbee people were slightly better so I am pretty sure that's how we ended up with one (plus the Apple and Atari machines were insanely expensive back then, and the Commodores seemed like toys).
This is a really glib view of the vast and complicated reasons people are encouraged to update their OS. It's not mere whimsy that in a rapidly developing malware landscape, updating your OS is a necessity.
I'd put money on Amazon having sufficient power to control a number of desperate state governments at the least
Have the hype and bootcamps moved on from programming to data science?

Can we have a normal profession once again?

Are the frauds all going to start calling themselves data scientists now?

I would love that.

I just went through 5 days of whiteboard interviews for a single company.
> The grid will handle the loss of electricity anyway.

No, it won't. And if you do it in the midst of a hot summer, or a cold winter, people will die because you killed them.

There are responsible ways to close those plants without killing people.
Perhaps someone at Github can chime in, but I suspect that open source code datasets (the kind they are trained on) should require relatively permissive licenses in the first place. Perhaps they filter for MIT licenses in Github projects and StackOverflow answers used to train the models?
You can download older versions of Xcode via https://developer.apple.com/downloads — if you don’t care about shipping anything to an Apple walled garden but just want to dig into some old software, definitely stay on an older version of OS X and grab an older copy of Xcode.

EDIT: additionally, I’d recommend going for a version of Xcode as close to the version used for developing the software you’re interested in as possible — balancing out what version of Mac OS (you have / are targeting / most up to date) is compatible with the versions of Xcode close to it. Some major Xcode updates will break compilation and you’ll have to fix minor issues to move forward, which could be brutal in a larger codebase.
We should have definitely linked to these docs, I appreciate you asking and it sounds like you all managed to figure everything out though:

https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/multi-region-databases/
When you ordered, was it a "Sold by: Newegg" product? Regardless, they're still responsible to handle it.

I maintain that Newegg has diluted its brand (and presumably grossed higher) by adding so many third-party sellers. At least, for me, they've held up their product support thus far.
> The copied book is identical, cover and all, images in the Amazon listing too ... Amazon chose to do nothing.

Amazon will still get paid whether they sell the real book or a knock off, either way. It's not like a small time author has the resources to actually do something about it in court.

I refuse to give money to a business that behaves the way Amazon does.
No-code WebGL gaming platform raises $15M Series A
Yep. Fire the aholes and the egos, and keep the messianic figures who go-give and get shit done.
Side note: reading other parts on the website, this guy is hilarious

"CORONA VIRUS: I've ordered everyone at Acme Klein Bottle to work from home. Of course, I'm Acme's only employee, and this is my home business. "
In other words, all of us are victims of the 'Imposter Syndrome'. I used to think it was just me.
How does a pdf of a menu help a vision impaired person?
Like others have mentioned, dream state lets me get past the otherwise ‘black wall’ state, so I can relate to the other, just frustrating that I can’t access it at will.
If there really is a Cliff Stoll award, I'd be happy to contribute a Klein bottle for its continuation. (seriously!)
SparkFun Hooks a Patent Troll
Mozilla Venmoes PayPal CEO Dan Schulman Our 2 Cents
Right, that’s what’s confusing. To rephrase, I’m hearing that brokers can execute some primitive operation <lock up> which correctly and credibly persuades the financial market that $X is available to settle a transaction.

But <lock up> is only a “valid operation” when executed with “the broker’s own funds”. Why? To whom would “locking up $X from broker funds” be a valid operation, but “locking up $X from client funds” wouldn’t be?

Your comments are saying “that’s just how it is”, but that’s not a reason. Is it a wholly arbitrary operation handed down from on high that accomplishes nothing? Is it a matter of the financial system not being able to trust client-originating money?
the more outcomes the better the learnings my friend
The only silver bullet is approximated by a holistic approach.
It’s not “your storefront”. Your listing is only there at Amazon’s discretion and subject to whatever arbitrary and capricious and erratically enforced rules they choose to make up. That’s the deal you accept if you choose to make Amazon (or AliExpress or Facebook or whoever) a critical part of your business.
I guess people don’t want to retire earlier than 55 or 59 1/2, since no one ever seems to talk about just sticking your investments in a brokerage account.
I find it awkward as well, but Google Wave worked exactly like this, and people praised it for this feature.
For future reference, check out weather.gov and read the forecast discussion - it's written by your local meteorologist and is THICK with jargon and interesting stuff to google. It's sort of the 'root' for weather information and you pay for it anyways through taxes. It's great.

Portland, OR example: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=PQR&issuedby=P...

EDIT: Look through the history to get their perspective on what happened - just click "previous version" to go back in time!
Nope, they explicitly note that the GPL showed up 700k times in the training data: https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1410067860299255810
Appreciate it! It's a first version, we're thinking of new exciting features for the next release.
Why should anyone be able to seize anyone else's Amazon listing without thorough human review by an Amazon employee? This seems like it would be a non-issue on a sane platform.
Off-topic.

So I have this cron job that scrapes this wiki page[0], and sends me a random article every day. Guess which one it sent me yesterday? "Bob's Game".

How is this possible?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles
The problem is that my fierce sharpness cuts people around me. Some of those people are close to me. And even those who aren't, they are still human beings and deserve to be treated as such. They often don't deserve to be hurt.

When your daughter tells you to your face not to do to her sister what you did to her, it brings home that you are at least using the sharpness wrong. (It wasn't abuse per se - it was mostly treating them as things that I wanted to get to shut up so that I could get on with what I wanted to do. Kids should not be treated like an interruption to your agenda.)

For the record, meditation isn't my answer. Prayer is - though there are those who will say that it's the same thing. The difference is whether God is really there or not.
Those 10 commandments there kill any potential this thing would have. Nobody is going to make good exclusives for this unproven device, which makes its alleged quality control goals not feasible.
Some of both - I’m never going to claim that all games are of cultural significance, but I find the assertion that gaming is a passtime devoid of spiritual reward on a par with the idea that reading novels might be devoid of spiritual or intellectual reward - trivially true for a large proportion of the material, perhaps, but no more true for one medium over another.
> I can't understand anyone suggesting that we should not be allowed to present our opinions to the government. What are you in favour of? Just voting once every four years or so and never saying anything else the rest of the time? Bizarre.

It's not the "saying anything else", it's the listening: Sure, anyone has the right to say anything they want. The difference is that the government doesn't listen to most people -- how could they? Where would they take the time to listen to everyone; when would they get anything else done? It's not as if there's any constitutional right to be heard -- but some people and organisations, they do somehow magically find the time to listen to.

Pretending that this is just "a super-basic part of democracy everywhere" in stead of highly correlated with how much money the ones who get heard have contributed to the campaigns of the ones doing the sympathetic listening is disingenuous in the extreme.
Hi Cliff,

I want to buy your books, but suddenly I don't want to buy them through Amazon, is there a better website for me to buy them from?
If the thing you are trying to run has/had a Windows counterpart you could try using crossover which can run 32 bit Windows apps on Mac.
Here is the secret: If it misses the deadline, it's going to be announced at the next event.
¿Cómo impulsan los 'unicornios' la industria del deporte?
Are they? Corporate shareholders have power of on-demand accountability and enough competency to grasp the goings on of a board meeting, that is not what a random _demos_ in a representative democracy is composed of and it changes the whole game, that's not a minor detail. Even besides the competency/knowledge problem, American citizens cannot, amongst themselves, zero external mediation, vote an elected official out of office as far as I'm aware.

If we were in Plato's perfect Republic where all the uninitiated adults were purged from the polis and there were only citizens trained since childhood to seriously consider matters of state, now we'd be in the same sport, if not ballpark.
Dendron is open source:

https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron
Multinational Enters JV with Employee
Hi all,

I’m looking for examples where a large corporation has entered into a JV with an existing employee.

I have a side company that has grown to become interesting to my employer. To the extent that they are looking to enter a JV.

The board will want to know if precedents exist whereby an employee has entered into a joint venture with their employer and retained employment.

This is desirable to align interests and be motivated to share IP freely between the two entities.

I am under the impression this is common in tech companies but can’t find any examples.

Thanks for your help!
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> It is basically like Heinz Ketchup.

Sriracha does seem to be northern California's version of ketchup - it is ubiquitous in restaurants. You can even get it at Starbucks, though I've never seen anyone add it to hot drinks.

I've seen it a lot in southern California as well, although various Mexican hot sauces are also popular, as is Tabasco.
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Performance is hard to measure as a scalar.
> trying to download Mojave to install but the App Store doesn’t allow a download when you’re in a newer version - so I have to go to another site that specializes in this type of thing

You can download the Mojave installer directly from Apple:

% softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.14.6
So many of these articles every week, I wonder if we are actually making any progress…?
For a while, I've been meaning to write about how Catherine is an absolutely amazing game. The raw mechanics of it give me a sense of intellectual delight comparable to Go (the game, not the language) and the core ideas of Lisp or Scheme. All of them share a relatively small ruleset that results in surprising power or complexity. But what sets Catherine apart is that is has a metaphor (a human traversing and manipulating large blocks) that totally works! (There's also a storyline that is pretty good but irrelevant to the primary metaphor.)

If we ever meet intelligent aliens, I won't be surprised if they have their own Lisp-like language or Go-like game, but they probably won't have Catherine. But to me, Catherine feels just as fundamental as Lisp or Go. And I call that very impressive game design.
My last site’s generator is 71 lines of JavaScript. Just enough to walk the directory and run mustache over each file.
Companies are taking a broad interpretation of Section 230 and claim that the law shields tech companies from all liability for their platform[1], online and off, and not just liability for hosting user created content.

Lower level courts seem to agree with them, although one such case has been fought all the way to the Supreme Court[2].

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/herrick-v-grindr-why-section-230...

[2] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/women/publicati...
to say the least, yes

however, the probability of accidental IV push is reduced dramatically by requiring trained, interned personnel to administer vaccines

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/admi...
I did this course and I am thankful for putting out this free resource. The course was straightforward, felt like the instructor was sitting with me on my table and just walking me through the main points. He explained the core concepts, talked about pitfalls that should be avoided and went into details of best practices. He even debunked some myths about what works and what the industry constantly says works.
A percentile doesn't dictate the shape of the bell curve. The parent comment could be suggesting the tail is getting longer.
The same way nine thousand women can make a thousand babies in one month, right?
Security gets better, but a) the attack surfaces grow larger and b) so do the educational resources. I'm constantly in awe of how much easier it is to learn this stuff these days, with concise and articulate walkthroughs alongside dedicated vulnerable VMs you can spin up in a minute. If you ever want to spend a weekend experiencing that rush again, TryHackMe.com's Advent of Cyber will have you popping reverse shells in an hour or two.
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Yes. Sell stock, subtract from this account, add to account in another bank is something that should be trivially automated.
I'm not sure you have this _quite_ right. Vatican II was not some radical break with Tradition. Some of the weird and opportunistic _interpretations_ of Vatican II that followed did (think "felt banner clown mass"), but not Vatican II itself.

> celibate in the priesthood or in religious life is superior.

This is still the case. JPII even repeats this in one of his books (possibly "Love and Responsibility", can't remember atm).

> Without the special status, the women left.

I don't think this is the reason. In any case, celibacy is not the abdication of motherhood or fatherhood. We are all called to motherhood and fatherhood. In the case of the celibate religious, those are expressed in a spiritual way. One becomes a spiritual mother or father.

> Mother Abbesses [...] could even hear confessions from her subjects, even if she could not impart the sacraments.

This is certainly not the case[0]. I mean, you can tell anyone anything you like (though obviously prudence is needed here), but only priests can confer the sacrament of penance. So what would be the point of hearing a confession if you could not offer absolution?

[0] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01007e.htm
Supporter fatigue is about it. The outrage is hard to maintain set against the backdrop of all the awful things in the world.

I know I write ludid prose. I get fiercly critiqued for being hyperbolic when I write, pressing my claim too hard. To me, this front statement made me not want to read the rest of the outrage.
https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-house-votes-to-expan...
This is nothing but negligent on Amazon's part. Absolutely horrible.
> Asshole-Driven development (ADD)

This often is a real issue. When there's a technical problem that is too sensitive/complicated/important to handle carelessly, assholes kick in in the middle, oversimplify the problem, ignore possible critical issues, and push plans without plan B. They offer what they can do right now as the best solution, and often don't even check the documentation nor the community best practice.

What's worse, assholes normally don't care to document the decision and its context. This helps them feel important because people should ask these assholes for the context. Also, this increases the chance of getting positive reviews during peer review, because they did help someone anyway. There's this positive cycle that makes them keep being asshole.

Until someone comes and directly inspect the situation, no assessment process from the management can ever detect this behavior. Assholes are hiding in the plain-sight, and behavior themselves in the presence of management. They look safe and sound technical, just enough.

If you're a manager, be advised. If you see an asshole out in the field, it's likely the guy isn't the asshole - the one's just stupid, so is safe, since everyone can clearly recognize the guy is a stupid-ass. You can tame guys like that.

On the contrary, assholes often are praised as good and even performant. However, in reality, they actively ruin normal decision process and technical communication in general. This alone discourages a lot of engineers, but they also tend to create lots of tech debts, as they already ruined the communication that could have prevented debts from the beginning.

So, one possible way to detect an asshole in the organization is to tracking the source of all tech-debts - how they are introduced, who did that, why they did so. You'll have to talk to engineers directly, because assholes only "talk" to distort decisions.

Another way is to (ab)using interns as litmus paper. Just interview everyone of them at the end of their work term. They do tell you the truth, as most of them will never see you again (or they believe so).
I wish Kissinger and Cheney went with him, very slowly and painfully. Mass murderers who created the conditions for genocide. Find his grave and fertilize it humanure.
You can be friends with a colleague and also not hang out outside of work. And obviously in life you'll be closer with some co-workers than others, so it's useful to have the distinction of someone being a 'work friend'.

'Colleague' just refers to someone you work with who is of the same rank as you, and probably on the same team. It's closer to 'teammate' or 'peer' than it is to "workmate you have a friendly relationship with". You can dislike a colleague, and you can also barely talk to or really know a colleague.
Faster Python: How these developers built Pyston, and where it goes next
It's hard to get them to provide details to the engineers. I haven't seen many who write user stories. Asking them to build no-code automated test cases, that's ... ambitious.
Since no one has mentioned it yet, you could finger your ISP to see other usernames logged in. Those usernames had email addresses like <username>@your.isp, and their passwords sometimes were the same username, or something equally silly.

If you think cybersecurity is in a sorry state now, 80s and 90s were much, much worse.
Yeah it basically comes down to ID.
Yeah, when they had only two choices it could’ve been any number of issues influencing their vote, not only climate change.

Two-party system sucks.
The web is turning into the ultimate gaming platform. No 30% fees for developers, and instantly shareable games via URL's. Steam and the App Stores will be disrupted long term, especially with web-based no-code game editors where you quickly build a 3D world and publish it to billions of supported devices.
Import tariffs and immigration quota reduction for countries not doing their part.