skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two clicks ahead they explain that "Hamers is rolling out a permanent hybrid working model for the firm globally, allowing at least two thirds of its employees to mix work from home and the office. Traders are part of the “25% to one third" of the bank’s staff for whom it is “really difficult" to work from home". Those people are banned for entering the bank buildings if they don't have a vaxx proof, so it's either get the jab or get out.
Is "vaccine refuser" a protected class or something inalienable about a person? Does everyone have the right to work anywhere they wish? Plenty of other vaccines are required to attend college and to participate in other parts of society, why is this vaccine different?
I don't agree that the government exists to social engineer society.
This!

There's one thing that gets utterly lost in the discussions about standups vs. async that bothers the hell out of me: in the end it's about people and how they function as a team.

Any manager proclaiming "the way we do it at company X is the way, and everyone else is incompetent" is way over his head imho.

The essence of the matter is simple: in person meetings CANNOT replace textual documentation and proper task workflow. And writing everything down is no aid when it comes to human relationships in company culture.

There's a big point in what you are saying: ask your team! And make sure you have built the trust and culture needed to get true answers.

There's nothing wrong with periodically talking to each other and it does wonders for how people feel about their peers. The pitfall is when spending this time together is mandatory for the workflow to function, and above all, when one or the other workflow is forced & sole source of truth.

Have standups so extroverted team members can socialize and ponder issues together. Have a kanban and issue tracking so introverted team members can stay in the loop. Use both tools to maintain the big picture as a manager.

What fucks up companies is not "the wrong way of doing things", but forcing individuals to partake in a mode of work that isn't right for them because "that's how we do it"
My local Amish people work, shop and live together every day. No vax. And their health is unchanged.

I think that the threat posed by covid, and the necessity of the vax, has been exaggerated.
I used tildes for the better part of a year, unfortunately for me the cliquish nature and the fact that there are 12-15 power users with half the posts, who also congregate on the offsite discord, really ruined the website for me. I respect deimos and his goals greatly, but his community quickly became stressful to deal with.
Not possible. Such licenses are founded upon copyright doctrine, and copyright doesn’t protect against learning, natural or machine. As it stands (and this can certainly change), legal consensus in general (regardless of jurisdiction) is that if you publish your code where they can reach it, they can use it.
I bought JetBrains myself because I was told about some nice refactoring tools, and they were right.

I don’t ask my work to pay, because I use it personally as well, and I look at my brother as a woodworker and he’s honed his tools to what suits him.

I do the same.
Damn, back to the imageboards it is.
I don't want Firefox to update. (Last time it did that, it got much worse, and it took a couple of hours to get it back to looking OK.) There are two choices only in the preferences:

1. Automatically install updates (recommended)

2. Check for updates but let you choose to install them

OK, I clicked 2. Then a few times a day for a month am subjected to a popup notification saying "Update Firefox - 1. Now 2. Dismiss". 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2...I relented eventually. It seems I don't actually have much of a choice, as I loathe popups.
The Media Is Lying About Florida
There's nothing insincere about it. It's a simple acknowledgement of the other persons contribution to a positive interaction.

Trust me, no normal person is gets upset if you give them thanks or a compliment.
If that was the case then they should be investigating Virgin for not reporting the issues rather than the actual failures themselves.
This blog perfectly articulates the strife that inspired and drove the DevOps trend.

I am always saddened when I hear "our organisation has a DevOps team" - immediately this demonstrates the fundamenetal lack of understanding the very premise of what DevOps set out to solve: Bringing Development and Operations together.

Even the very name "DevOps" was constructed such to symbolise the combining of the two domains into one. But no. Now we just have a new cool title to throw on people who will be ringfenced just as they were before.
Kotlin Operators
From the filed complaint, Take-Two quote one of the developers :

> GTA 3 and Vice City were originally written in [programming language] C++ . . . The compiled executables that are shipped are in machine code. So the general task is to go from machine code back to C++. . . . To go back to C++ is by no means a simple 1:1 mapping, but over the last 10 or so years decompilers have appeared that help with this process. . . . So what we typically do is work with the output of the decompiler and massage it back into readable C++

I know, as a software developer, I don’t consider that fair use, and I very much doubt any reasonable person would either.
The "before" is what value is returned, the "after" is whether it should be returned.

In your case you were conditionally choosing a manipulated return value for x and didn't care at all about filtering the list. Here's one with both:

[x if x > y else x*2 for x in a if x % 2 == 0]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
return x as... filter down to only...
x or x*2 even 'x's

There's not really a semantically logical place for an "else" in the latter half because it's only looking for a true statement so it can return x (or not).

For example this makes sense:

... if x % 2 == 0 or x == 3

(filter the list to even values of x or the value 3)

but this does not:

... if x % 2 == 0 else x == 3

(filter the list to even values, otherwise wait, otherwise?)
It may not be reliable, but is IMO necessary ingredient of moral decision making. With important understanding that there needs to be some kind of tradeoff between purely emphatic and purely logical approach to the problem.

Empathy is what gives happiness and meaning to our miserable existence. We are social creatures and empathy is the basic mechanism of social interactions that lead to happiness.
Another root cause in our environment is alluded to in the article. With the rise of test frameworks, devs seem to test to prove the API is correct, not to find problems.

Another symptom of this is that when the QA/Staging function went away, load testing became perfunctory. Many of the performance problems we see should have been caught in QA. Devs are anxious to ship and get on to the next sprint, leaving app support and operations on the hook.
I can’t wait for Amazon to deliver a van through my fence.
I would love it if the government required vaccination but the last time the government did something controversial, a bunch of looters and thugs stormed the US Capitol and killed several police officers.
That's basically where my gut went when I read the headline - so is that of a junior engineer, or really any engineer who hasn't had to think about it, and we don't promote their code directly to prod, either (if we can avoid it).

Copilot shouldn't be able to generate code destined for prod without review any more than should any line of code written by a human.
Ex UBS employee here, 12 years including Swissbank pre merger.

They do more than most to avoid negative publicity, especially any that might come from legal action. Related to that (or not) and very much on the plus side, they are (or at least were) a good employer.

What’s not clear from this is whether those taking advantage will suffer any downsides. My guess is that they will as far as possible make that job-specific.
Learning new abstractions is not a good argument though. Did hardware engineers from the pre-OS era complain about Linux / OS hard to understand?

In a sense, kubernetes is the new Linux / Bash of our time.

If it's painful, maybe it's just the abstraction not done right, but not the fault of abstraction itself.
In this case its different because UBS apparently doesn't want to fire a bunch of people. Plus, as the article says, different countries have different rules about what an employer is legally allowed to make a condition of employment.
Which countries are these? I live in Denmark. We’re on 600-800 new cases a day and were around 72% vaccinated.

It’s fairly easy to explain why we have 600-800 a day even though it’s not “record outbreaks”.

Part of it is the 72% and who the 20% something that can still get vaccinated are (children), part of it is delta being capable of infecting vaccinated people as well as people who have already had covid, but the biggest reason is that we’ve opened society again with no restrictions.

We are capable of doing this because of the 72%, because even though we have 600-800 new cases a day, which while it’s not record numbers is still significantly higher than what we had when we first locked down, almost nobody ends up with severe cases. Which means our hospitals are empty by comparison to the first lockdown.

You can argue about the morality of opening society with just 72% instead of waiting until we’re near 90% but that’s a different discussion.
Universally referred to as "USB" in all three references in the linked article.
> various embedded processors

Cars?
Or some kids crossing a street.
That’s on the developers. From TFA :

> The lawsuit says that after the company filed a DMCA takedown notice to remove the projects from Github, the defendants filed a bad faith counter notice to have the content reinstated, thus triggering this copyright infringement lawsuit.
I assume that perpetual license still has some per-unit or share-of-revenue price?

In which case, Apple might consider switching to RISC-V as a way to save money. Or they might make noises about switching to renegotiate a lower price.
Yea that’s a weird flex, I get some companies have “use these tools” but that’s largely for support and discounts
It's neutral up the chain, so if my supplier charges 20% vat then I charge 20% vat it doesn't result in the consumer paying 44% vat.
Prettier does okay, it has some weird edge cases though that make certain code entirely unreadable. But they're rare. I still prefer how Black does things, e.g. splitting complex expressions into multiple lines using parenthesis.

> Though I would slightly prefer if the ternary form was:

Agreed, I do like that much better too.
Not being able to host data locally kills it for me.

That is why I use Obsidian. Even after 10 years, even if the company doesn't exist anymore, I still have my markdown files.

This is a must for me to use any note or similar app.

Please consider adding options to back up data locally.

How are you going to monetize it? If you have a one-time payment option, and add options to back up data locally in a human readable format (txt, md, etc), then I will easily pay 15-20$ for it.
Or you can use Lisp, call your boilerplate generator a macro and get rid of any boilerplate and never again have any problems with modifying any duplicate pieces of code.

Sigh... every time I see people generating any code (say through external tool or through IDE) I am always thinking how this could be a simple macro in any Lisp language.
One of the employees has posted her version of events online in great detail here: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html

Strangely, her timeline about Apple begins in March with an article she published about her health problems. I remember the story was #1 on Hacker News that day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688965 She was having health problems and believed they were the result of toxic waste somewhere on the site of her apartment complex property.

I remember that the details of the story didn’t really support her claims as significantly as she suggested. I detailed my concerns in the HN thread about her other toxic waste battle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26689837 The summary is that she was living in an upper floor apartment but she assumed something in the ground was causing her medical symptoms. She found evidence that an old toxic waste container might be buried somewhere on the 100 acre property surrounding her apartments. She used some questionable measurements (heart rate change of 10bpm and spurious readings from a generic indoor VOC monitor) to try to bolster her story, but it didn’t make sense that the thousands of other people on this site weren’t experiencing severe medical issues even though her apartment wasn’t close to the supposedly toxic ground.

She is apparently also waging a significant battle against her apartment complex and the city for the issues she believes were caused by a toxic waste container that was supposedly buried somewhere near her old apartment.

I bring this up because she highlights this story as the start of her Apple timeline on her site I linked above and brings it up many times throughout her Apple writings. She seems to imply this was somehow related to her harassment claims at Apple, though I’m not sure what she’s exactly implying with that claim.
If you leave quarantine you expose yourself to risk.

It's your choice to leave quarantine or not. It's your choice to get a vaccine or not.

This is a personal responsibility issue.

Not a society wide issue.

It's never been anyone's responsibility to wear a bubble suit to protect immuno-compromised people, or stop eating meat because of people with high cholesterol..
and it's not anyone's responsibility to get a vaccine to protect other people from covid.

Personally Im a hurricane evacuee and we are grateful for the help we don't demand you help us at risk to your livelihood.
... and businesses do?
On Needing a Shooting War
The labor minister of Germany recently said that companies cannot force employees to disclose their immunization status.

There is a conflict between health on the one side and civil liberties/privacy on the other.

We need to achieve a reasonable balance. Draconian ‘thou shalt’ demands are not the solutions but more and more companies are starting to require evidence of vaccination whether you’re going to the office or not.

I hope this gets settled by the labor board or the Supreme Court rather than companies takin that mantle to impose a mandate themselves.
Most writers have their own writing and pre-writing processes. Tgis is a great piece about how John McPhee structires his writings and how he uses Kedit as a non-linear editor for that.
Similar issue applies on Windows with Visual Studio's C# compiler; Tho in that case it's a terminal with a non-default starting script that adds the C# compiler, so default and that non-default terminal point CSI or CSC at different languages.
I had the same questions. Skimming the other comments, it sounds like it's proprietary. It boggles my mind that people think they have an alternative to anki when it's not free software.
But a business has a legitimate incentive to want their employees vaccinated. Every Covid infection is lost productivity. And if it goes poorly, that could be an empty seat that now needs to be filled.
There's a difference between recreational use and driving under the influence.
Some of the comments are assuming that all those who smoke pot are irresponsible or unable to do a job if they do smoke pot (this includes people who may only smoke at weekends/parties btw)
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid-amish-idUSL2...
Thanks for the anecdata. I'm sure that outweighs all other evidence.
Isn't it already common knowledge that Right leaning readers are moving away from mainstream left wing leaning news sources. The rise of Brietbart, and similar sites that fact checkers dislike is hardly a surprise is it not? (Or is it? seriously, I would like to know, are people surprised that right wing sources are increasing in the wake of Trump?)
I’m keeping my camera ready for when Snoop Dogg brings me my package.
It's a good thing they screen applicants to make sure none of them have used alcohol in the last month. Imagine -- hiring someone who drinks alcohol for a driving job. The irresponsibility would be truly unthinkable.
Vaccinated people are less likely to become infected, and if infected, are probably contagious for a shorter duration.
It could be better, but it seems to be some transmission prevention: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E....
This isn't true at all, though. Many organizations, especially smaller ones, seem to have taken it this way. Everyone is responsible for everything. But that wasn't the DevOps thesis. The idea was for eliminating silos in the sense that dev and ops would talk to each other continuously throughout the software lifecycle, with developers understanding operational challenges and creating software that didn't just meet functional requirements, but was easier and faster to deploy, change, rollback, and troubleshoot. Ops would understand the pressures of development and create automation systems catered to the specifics of their software stack.

It wasn't supposed to mean no more division of labor. Division of labor is a key innovation in human society that enables civilizations to exist. It was supposed to mean the teams in different categories of labor interact throughout and consider each other's needs, and not throw shit at each other over a wall and only ever interact through a ticketing system.
So what is the age of consent for apple ?
Rationality has left the building.
Amish people have died from COVID-19.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/28/9909860...
Be that as it may, I'm prepared to deflect any flame with my antistick pans and lashing out with my silicone cookware, whipping any opponent hard!

Yah! I do! :-)
How about just having decent working conditions and paying a living wage? Amazon is cancer.
> Any introduction to computers must start with the statement that they are all heaps of plastic

This scales to everything IMHO, everything is simple once you understand it. Levels of abstractions is what makes it scary and complex. I.e. electricity or fire is also not scary once you know how to handle it.
If the condescending doesn’t work then try making them pay for the covid test themselves.
I couldn't find a link to the actual study anywhere in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09293
You only need a method of key invalidation and renewal, that's all. Ssl certificates have been facing this problem for years. The threat model is equal to someone infecting millions of devices and then sending back banking data, so it's not like people aren't working on mitigating that stuff.
Things you do for strategic reasons you tend to do in a half-arsed way. You know that you're only porting to an architecture to act as a negotiating lever, so you assign a small team of cheap engineers to the task.

This doesn't seem to be that.
Mice, keyboards, trackpads, earbuds, any number of tiny coprocessors inside anything…
I think this is just an ESL tone misunderstanding. The content of their post is completely fair and highlights why looking pretty doesn't automatically make it a good product. Nothing about it came off as intentionally trying to be offensive to me.
And also clearly have never been high enough to realize that they are more likely to be super paranoid and going 10 miles under the speed limit than driving through a fence or running over children. It’s not at all comparable to being drunk.
My gas stove and my 100 amp 240 volt service are about matched in terms of power capability.

To switch, I'd have to spend thousands of dollars on an electrician to upgrade to 200 amp service, and wire a new outlet. Then buy a new electric appliance, dispose of the gas stove. In the end it would cost more per BTU, and nothing would have changed to help mother earth.

Or, I could stick with my used $100 gas stove. This puts less carbon into the atmosphere then burning fuel in a power plant and losing a bunch of energy heating the grid, and doesn't create any new landfill.
>Java is not the culprit here.

It definitely is the culprit. They didn't even want to add `var` to the language until recently, and let's not even go to the anonymous class vs lambdas retardation.

These are just the things that they eventually buckled on, but Java is extremely boilerplatey - the bad patterns and XML crap got invented to deal with that problem.

DDD and onion are another issue, mostly coming out of the TDD movement and "make everything unit-testable". If I liked one thing about working with Rails is that they just gave you E2E tests from the start. But if Java/.NET were more flexible (dynamic or FP do far better at enabling simpler unit testing from my experience) mocking would be simpler so the unit testing part would be simpler too.
I would say if you have the money for it, the Icebreaker FPGA dev board is really nice and integrates with the open source tools well. When prototyping I either use Verilog + Iverilog for simulation + yosys and icestrom tools for building, or more recently, I've been messing around with the active nmigen fork for python and doing design and simulation all in there which also links to the other tools for build as well. Honestly what software you like just depends on what you find best.
> But when it comes to computers, often you need deep understanding of its inner workings to make sense of your observations of problems.

They're supposed to have that knowledge, or at least not be afraid to dive in and get that knowledge.

There's only one way to build an intuition of what kind of problem probably causes some error (most famously, if the error is completely incomprehensible, you missed a closing thingy on the previous line), and that's by doing the work a lot.
That is how some trains worked:

https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/g/Gas_tu...

Also the range extender in the BMW i3:

https://discover.bmw.co.uk/help/used/how-does-range-extender...
What is PTP?
Why don't you want to think of the children?
Decades of exposure to intentionally misleading propaganda is difficult to ignore. It becomes a part of the worldview, making it hard to even think outside that box.
This looks good. If you support exporting to md or txt in a structured manner, and when you choose to monetize, a one-time payment option, I will easily pay 10-20$.
I’ve found ESR’s “how to ask questions the smart way” [0] to be really helpful in these situations on both the asking and answering.

If I’m asking a question I explain what I’m trying to figure out, what I’ve tried, what I expect, what I’ve researched. Basically helping the answerer not waste as much time covering the same ground.

If I’m answering questions and don’t get this info, I ask it. And establish the expectation that this info helps me answer their question.

About 70% of the time, the asker adds in more info. 25% of the time I don’t hear back. 5% of the time I get a complaint that they are too busy or can’t answer the questions.

[0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
"Hedge funds" generally aren't supposed to beat the market. They're supposed to do different to the market. That might be, for example, generally a bit worse but hugely better if the market suffers a catastrophic loss for a simple example.
Right, because anybody who consumes cannabis must be doing it all the time and willing to drive under the influence.
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Could a taxi company fire a driver refusing to wear a seat belt?
Could a construction company fire some refusing to wear a helmet?
Could a hospital fire a surgeon who refuses to wear a mask and gloves during operation?