skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a theory about this, I already know some people hate it, and others totally agree. Basically it is that executives, management types, people who worked their whole career to get ahead and get that corner office, they really like walking around an office, it is like their fiefdom. It's not just the meetings or whatever, it is being a big shot and having people see them that way. It is a big part of what they worked for. This is a generalization, of course, not all executives and managers are completely that way, but, I think all have, if they are completely honest, will admit, they kind of like being the big man on campus and miss that a little bit. I am not casting shade here, it would be human nature, of course, you worked hard to be head of things, you want to walk around and enjoy that, it is completely understandable.

Those of us who do not care about that sort of thing and are happy writing code, developing circuits or network designs and etc. We are completely fine working from home. In fact, not having the distractions of an office is actually really nice.

But if part of your fulfilment is being "the big boss" or whatever, it's just not as satisfying sitting in your basement on Zoom with the rest of us.

Just my little theory.
Are you saying you don't like working below decks in the steerage section?!

In my last (and final?) office job, I worked in an open office environment. One team would have their daily meetings 3 feet behind my head, so I'd have to wear headphones. My coworkers all wore headphones, so I'd have to ping them via Slack or do a dance to get their attention. To have any privacy for meeting, I'd have to book a conference room, sometimes many floors or buildings away from my actual desk. I can't think of anything my desk actually provided for me, other than a place to park my laptop-hauling backpack.
> I had already, at this point, verified that this is something you can do in Common Lisp. [...] But maybe… maybe you couldn’t do this back then? On Lisp was published in 1993. Maybe… maybe Common Lisp macros were entirely syntactic in 1993? Is there a chance that this is some, like, recent development in the lisp world?

Paul Graham mentioned this (EDIT: something like this, but probably with a different answer) once in http://www.paulgraham.com/ilc03.html :

> What happens when a Common Lisp macro returns a list whose car is a function? (Not the name of a function, mind you, but an actual function.) What happens is what you'd expect, in every implementation I've used. But the spec doesn't say anything about this.

(EDIT: I think "what you'd expect" actually means "raising an error" here. Either that, or implementations have changed since 2003, which is also possible.)

I do suspect that this is the nicest way (from a theoretical standpoint: requiring the least additional complexity in the language semantics) to get "macro hygiene". Then you probably want a different syntax from quasiquote, because otherwise I think you'll put commas on the majority of the symbols. But using "list" a lot (and "append" when you need unquote-splicing in the middle of an expression) isn't very nice. So probably a new syntax is warranted.
>The scariest thing is how quickly propaganda can convince people others are not worth of life. The cheering of unvaccinated covid deaths is abhorrent.

I like to study history and I recall an interview with a German who lived during the holocaust. He was asked if he thought the holocaust could ever happen in the US and replied that it could happen anywhere, it's just it wouldn't necessarily happen the same way as it did in Germany. If it ever happened in the US, it would be its own unique flavor of holocaust. It was pretty chilling. People don't even realize the moral road they are traveling when they praise deaths for political "gotchas"; I guess that's what makes going down that road so easy.
"no notes" is an idiom meaning "I have no suggestions for improvement"

The author was being sincere, rather than sarcastic as your initial parse suggests
PostgreSQL json functions allow me to dispense with the ORM. Just send and receive JSON (for regular table field types, note, not jsonb).
That comment is about the value of a store like Walgreens. It's not praise of the Walgreens brand.
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> Why do people have to write like this?

they don't have to, but it's a beautifully written sentence, a pleasure to read; it's like you're asking "why do experts in an artform actually display their expertise?"

here's how to read it.

"A pervasive ontology of sameness soon developed."

ok, what does that mean? well, it's "rooted in notions of essential humanity and nascent sensitivity to cultural relativism." You probably believe in the essential humanity of all people, and you have sensitivity to relative differences between cultures: he's saying it started at this time, it's a hinge point between what was before and the modern era. We are all the same, our sameness is pervasive, and it's all of us because ontology is comprehensive.

Now that we've decoded the first sentence, the rest restates it:

The Ottoman enemy and its Christian opponents became, over time, integrated parts of a discernible, albeit internally contentious unity, revealed by that great equaliser, war.

now, it doesn't mean he's right, but that's what he's trying to say.
Tuple is great, zoom is OK, tmux plus a neutral VM in AWS is great for lower bandwidth pairing.

> so one person tends to drive for a long time

This is not wrong though.
Don't we have a term for that — software coupling?

A microservice architecture has weak coupling.
This effect goes back to the steam engine era. Steam engines were sometimes built with multiple cylinders, each successive cylinder larger, and running at lower pressure, than the previous cylinder. "Triple expansion" seemed to be the upper limit of cost-effectiveness. Some quadruple expansion engines were used successfully, but not many. At least one quintuple expansion engine was built, and used in a Norwegian fishing boat.[1]

[1] http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/kos.html
Time After Time (2010)
I shared those with my crafts-inclined partner, who filled me in on what "weft, warp, and shuttle" mean in the context of a loom- I still don't entirely follow, but where-ever this tidbit of computing has it's roots, I love it.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I'm currently building a Slack app myself and this is very useful information.
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Some things are significantly more effective and productive in person than remote. Empirically I cannot argue otherwise, and I have been working remote for years in various capacities. The discrepancy suggested in the article can likely be explained by the reality that the further up the management ladder you go, the larger the percentage of your work that significantly benefits from being in person.

In that sense, it feels like people are talking past each other.
Then why is everyone I know with an office job being pushed back in?
NPR and NY Times [1] are not valid sources of news. They have discredited themselves again and again. As of yesterday they were pushing the narrative that Southwest Airlines is affected by "weather" that no other airline seems to be affected by, for example, while pilots on the ground are flying Gadston flags out of their cockpits and Southwest CEO was backpedaling and saying he's not a fan of "man dates".

CDC says "1 in 4.2 (95% UI* 3.6 – 4.9) COVID–19 infections were reported". Your friendly coronavirus tracker says there were 45,431,167 confirmed cases in the United States. Simple arithmetic shows that there were, therefore, 45,431,167 * 4.2 = 190,810,901 total cases. 120M figure was computed months ago, when there were fewer confirmed cases, but the ratio still holds. Most people had it already. Moreover a lot of people had it _and_ had the vaccine as well. Kids and anyone healthy under 30 aren't at risk. Let's end this charade.

Lest you think I'm an anti-vaxxer, no - I think people 40 years old and older should definitely get vaccinated and I'm vaccinated myself (I have comorbidities). But I also think this must be strictly personal choice, and you _can't_ collect enough safety data over just 9 months, especially if you vaccinate your control groups.

[1] Just a few days ago: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10076925/NYT-report...
It's also a bad idea.
These things really aren't so far apart.

--> solve the problem
/
see a problem
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--> exploit the problem
Something I like to point out to people who will listen (not upper management) is that communication is not a good - it's a necessary evil. It has to be done to remove obstacles, but it should be minimized where possible.

This is completely counter to a lot of corporate cultures, but it's true; every wasted meeting, every unread email, etc, is a time wasting suck created to further the goal of "communication", without realizing that isn't a worthwhile goal.
I've read all of Uncle Bob's books.

IMO, Robert C Martin is to Computer Science what Nassim Taleb is to Economics and Finance and what Jared Diamond and Graham Hancock are to anthropology and archeology - they're psuedo-intellectual quacks pushing a bunch of impressive and authoritative sounding absolute bs with zero evidence behind it on unsuspecting victims.

A lot of Robert C Martins pieces are just variations on his strong belief that ill-defined concepts like "craftsmanship" and "clean code" (which are basically just whatever his opinions are on any given day) is how to reduce defects and increase quality, not built-in safety and better tools, and if you think built-in safety and better tools are desirable, you're not a Real Programmer (tm).

I'm not the only one who is skeptical of this toxic, holier-than-thou and dangerous attitude.

Removing braces from if statements is a great example of another dangerous thing he advocates for no justifiable reason

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3202...

Which caused the big OSX/iOS SSL bug in 2014, see https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

This link and thread on hackernews is good too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15440848

The current state of software safety discussion resembles the state of medical safety discussion 2, 3 decades ago (yeah, software is really really behind time).

Back then, too, the thoughts on medical safety also were divided into 2 schools: the professionalism and the process oriented. The former school argues more or less what Uncle Bob argues: blame the damned and * who made the mistakes; be more careful, damn it.

But of course, that stupidity fell out of favor. After all, when mistakes kill, people are serious about it. After a while, serious people realize that blaming and clamoring for care backfires big time. That's when they applied, you know, science and statistic to safety.

So, tools are upgraded: better color coded medicine boxes, for example, or checklists in surgery. But it's more. They figured out what trainings and processes provide high impacts and do them rigorously. Nurses are taught (I am not kidding you) how to question doctors when weird things happen; identity verification (ever notice why nurses ask your birthday like a thousand times a day?) got extremely serious; etc.

My take: give it a few more years, and software, too, probably will follow the same path. We needs more data, though.
Interested in learning more about this, if you can point me to the source data somewhere online. Unless you meant your particular company found this in which case I’m guessing you can’t go much further into it.
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Ten Percent Of U.S. High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence Skills - The Onion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssjokgx0pUQ
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For consistency, we should use the term motorist instead of driver. Just like we use cyclist or bicyclist instead of rider or motorcyclist instead of motorcycle rider. The only exception would be for buses or trucks (bus driver of truck driver).
I like getting raises by stroking their egos and it’s hard to do remotely. I want to go back to the office too.
If you rely on reliable public health authorities for pandemic-related advice, you're in the clear, logically speaking.

If you rely on unreliable public health authorities, you might feel OK about your choice, but you're not in the clear, logically.
It must have slowed down to almost nothing by whatever means, or it wouldn't have landed softly on a pillow, but obliterated the bedroom. Or the entire house. Or the entire neighborhood.

I'm gonna guess it's pretty low-density, and either entered the atmosphere at a very shallow angle, or is a chunk that fell off a larger piece somewhere close to the ground, and most of the energy was absorbed by the roof.
If a prospective employer asks for one's current salary, many encourage the interviewee to add some percentage, say 20%, under the assumption that when a prospective employer asks this it's an indication that they are going to lie about what they can afford.

https://twitter.com/ChristianPeel/status/1443970373280620545
The phrase "no notes" is slang from show business. After you're shown a script or a performance you may have "notes" to share indicating what you think is wrong with it. If you have "no notes" then you think it is perfect as-is and needs no changes.

The author here is not saying that the message has no notes. They are saying that they have "no notes" to offer the creators of the message on ways to improve it

See, for example:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/no-notes.3042292/
https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/15238431
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NVQ8v1P4go
Unfortunately, this feature was discontinued by most graphics drivers.
This doesn't address anything I said. Please directly address these two points:

1. You cannot prove someone has been vaccinated as the system currently exists. That ship has already sailed. Anyone can opt out by lying that they got vaccinated somewhere that doesn't keep public records. Those mandating vaccinations have have to accept this because vaccines aren't approved for more than 2 (or 3) shots, so you can't force people to get vaccinated again if they don't have a verifiable record. Even if there's a worldwide database rolled out, it's too late, too many people got vaccinated off the record.

2. You CAN prove you've had covid with a high degree of certainty. Recent tests have low false positive rates.

Why let people slip out of the vaccine mandate with an easy lie yet corner those who have already had covid and therefore better immunity than the vaccinated? It's nonsense that ignores reality.
Some of us entered management explicitly because they had such a good manager themselves, who truly enabled them, that they want to provide that to others. And are constantly tempted to go back being a developer because of the pain of dealing with the organization. And some of us are enthused about remote, and have spent the pandemic finding new ways of working.

Agreed that we're rare and vastly outnumbered by people with bad motivations though.
I think you are misunderstanding most, if not all, of what I wrote.

I never claimed that we weren't unhealthy but that being unhealthy isn't "American culture" as evidenced by different demographics in America having markedly different obesity rates. The obesity rates are similar among similar demographic groups in different countries - e.g. white people in the US have similar obesity rates as UK, Canada, and Australia. It's very weird to say that this thing that is constant among demographic groups across countries is dependent on the culture of one country. Especially when it is different among demographic groups in the same country.

I am not implying that white people are genetically predisposed to obesity. Actually, what I wrote is the exact opposite. I suggested the obesity rates were due to environmental factors and, crucially, I pointed out that other racial groups have greater obesity rates. So, I explicitly stated I believed the difference was not genetic and that white people have less obesity in the US than non-white.

For the other points you seem to prefer using a different metric, overweight instead of obesity. You haven't said why that factor is more relevant or how it changes what I wrote above.
Gen X and older don't have the moral high ground when it comes to selfishness. You know what's selfish? Selling the nation's economy to boost the stock market and pad your nest egg while collecting social security, then writing article after article ad nauseam about how spoiled Millennials are because they dared to eat an avocado with their breakfast.

The lockdowns and mandates are just one more example of generational warfare where the powers that be force the younger generations to sacrifice for the older generations that have already sucked dry every resource they possibly can.

I am so sick of Boomers and their ilk destroying the environment, destroying the economy, undermining democracy, defunding education, sending us into a two-decade war without a strategy or exit plan while collecting dividends from war profiteers, enslaving us in Ponzi schemes masquerading as social safety nets, forcing us into unemployment while racking up national debt we will have to pay back, and unconstitutionally placing the entire country under house arrest without charges, counsel, trial, or jury, all while brazenly lying to our faces about masks ("the typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus"), lockdowns ("two weeks to flatten the curve"), the origin of COVID ("Clearly Not a Lab Leak"), conflicts of interest ("NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan") and so many others it's impossible to keep track.

Western liberal democracy was founded on the simple premise that freedom is inherent, not merely a privilege doled out by the government — that we shall die on our feet before living on our knees. The nations of the world seem to have forgotten this these past two years, and forced — sometimes with violence — their own citizens to sacrifice their freedom with no end in sight.

Wanting to feel loved is not selfish. Wanting to work is not selfish. Wanting to see your friends, your family, is not selfish. Stealing the right to pursue life — real life, not just the continuation of breathing — that is what's selfish.
Lots of comments dismissing this out of hand because of lack of evidence, but there aren’t any conventional treatments that are very helpful for Alzheimer’s. The lifestyle adjustments suggested in the protocol are largely healthy, not that hard to do, and offer other health benefits. They are also relatively uncommon so it’s not impossible that a broad based adoption of specific habits along with testing for mycotoxins and heavy metals, etc could provide some marginal benefits. Aside from maintaining your spare tire and fatigue from not getting enough sleep and exercise, there’s not much reason to ignore the main advice.

Anyway, here’s a Rhonda Patrick interview with Bredeson for the curious. So few people will actually do the protocol, time will tell if there’s anything to it.

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/dale-bredesen
Why is that preferable over a system that's just... mutable.
Not sure the need for the sarcasm. If you have a criticism of what I'm saying, you can use words to address it. If you are insufficiently equipped to counter what I've said, it's far better etiquette to not post at all. Sweden is far more socialized than the rest of the world - and even employees
rank and file Swedish employees of H&M enjoy a far greater share of the profits of H&M. That doesn't stop H&M from committing and profiting off of human rights abuses in Indonesia.

Under a socialist structure if all workers decided to poison the ocean in order to increase profits, that's completely possible. The main distinction is that more "shareholders" would be the people who actually do labor for the company, but I personally believe that they wouldn't act completely differently from shareholders of today if the negative externalities of their decisions were sufficiently outsourced.
> ... but will make you want to hit him with his own books.

One of the funniest things I've read recently. Literally laughed out loud. Thanks for sharing.
Super interesting... it's like a linter for car crashes.

There are opinions that are not going to be liked (i.e. crash vs accident) but such is the nature of any linter.
I don't think any employees will object if executives choose to return to on site rather than remote work.

The problem is that that 44% of execs (who are free to, and in many cases freely do, work from home or elsewhere at will even when everyone else is in the office) actually wants the peons back in their cages,and in an environment where bigger and better located and better furnished cages are a reward that can be doled out (at no net cost because they are given from supply, taking away from others if needed.)
Reminds me of this one guy in the analytics office on the floor of my office building who was somehow cordoned off from the other parts of the same business. This guy dressed like total "mover and shaker" dudebro: always business casual with the top 2 buttons undone, sunglasses hanging from his shirt at all times, Michael P. Keaton hairstyle, and a blazer, and ALWAYS wandering around in circles while gesticulating and talking to SOMEBODY via earbud microphones in his office.

Meanwhile, the company president was a friend of a friend, worth 8 figures, and just a normal dude.
Part of it I’m sure is: the kind of people who become executives tend to be the kind that like work. Nothing wrong with that, there’s a lot to enjoy in “being productive”, accomplishing tasks, feeling like you’re making an impact, optimizing things, or competing in a new market with novel technology and strategies. The kind of people who make it to the top love it in one way or another, or in multiple ways.
I think this is where it really shows that it becomes just pattern recognition. Sometimes our brains are fuzzy and we slowly match patterns. Other times they’re quick.

Though I also think the real value in puzzles is not that they help you win more, but lose less.

I often play a puzzle that the advantage gains a piece over one or two lost pawns, and when I play these I love to go then and try to beat stockfish 9, undoing moves freely. I often still lose, but what I learn is how to defend after you blunder and how to avoid blowing an advantage.

I think just solving the puzzle as if you are the stronger player taking advantage of a blunder is less beneficial than solving the puzzle as if you were the one who made the blunder and what do you hope they don’t see is better.
> Why aren't the vax campaigns leading with Trump's action – and his repeated verbal endorsement of choosing to get vaxed – to overcome resistance in his followers?

If you go to trump community sites you'll find out that:

1. They think he's an idiot for taking the vax
2. They think he was threatened to taking it
3. He didn't really take it