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Ask HN: How does your company manage communication response etiquette?
Hello HN!

I've just started working at a large (~5000 employee) company in a senior IT management role and in the last two weeks there have been several mission critical issues that key, senior people I've emailed, then IM'd on teams thst have been completely unresponsive.

These are all fully remote positions and "forwarding the email to their boss" in our org structure would be the CIO, and having only started two weeks ago I'm not really ready to be -that guy-....yet.

How does your company handle slow or no reply communication issues?
Source matters. Always, for anything.

There is essentially no such thing as "inherent qualities" distinct from their source. Or rather, you can never actually know all the inherent qualities.

Knowledge of the sources history, character, motivations, and intentions is itself one of those inherent qualities.

If someone presents you with an idea, you often don't know if it's a good idea or just looks like a good idea because it was crafted to look good, in service of some unknown ultimate goal that you would not voluntarily choose to support if you knew everything.

Every scam in history is based on convincing a victim to harm themselves. Apparently, inherent qualities can be unknown, unknowable, or hidden. It's too late to contest that. It's already been happening for all of human history, and on every possible scale.

Judging something because the source has a known evil character is not wrong or counterproductive or unfair the way it is judging something because the source has pleasing charisma or lacks it.

If a Nazi says something, it's automatically not a wonderful idea in the first place, even if someone else later says the exact same thing and we all agree it's a wonderful idea then.

It's not wrong or illogical. It's just a slight of hand used by the dishonest (or the merely misguided) to try to make it seem wrong or hypocritical by pointing out only the surface similarity between that and prejudice based on nothing that stands up to scrutiny, when those are actually two very different things.

It's like a less obvious version of crying about being ddnied the freedom to deny others freedom.
Which other players went dark?
> Other serious players went dark and that is very concerning

Not really all that concerning, they just realized it's a dead end with our current day tech
I got a few spider bites in the Peruvian Amazon. The spiders look exactly like those recluse spiders on the photos. They are really fast and they can jump. The photos I found online of what recluse spider bites look like matched my wound that refused to heal for 2 months until I started taking antibiotics... Now they look like a small bruise.
similar recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32403275
Sure. And bloated websites aren't dropping from the race here, either. They are communicating, over HTTP (and maybe WS/SSE), with fair number of servers, that also implement significant functionality. Then, there are microservices, databases, network between those...
63 for me, and most of those are libraries which should already be in memory. Which is nanoseconds away from the CPU while servers are dozens to hundreds milliseconds away.
> All your iCloud data is a few clicks away for most NSA employees, and I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that they also have root capabilities on your iPhone.

There is still value for most people in being able to limit personal data access from many data brokers even if that data is still potentially accessible by the NSA. It’s a spectrum and not a binary outcome.

You are right though our rights to the data we create for most services have been relinquished via the TOSs that no one is really expected to read. It’s certainly broken. However I still think there are steps one can take to resist cross linking of that data by companies; it does take a bit of effort though which isn’t realistic for most.

While I think Apple’s choice to support privacy are ultimately self serving it is still beneficial for many consumers (at least for now).
I often don't think to explain these things, so thank you for taking the time to explain to others the context.
Yes, standardization processes are different than hardware, but I expected that the requirements for a full and accurate specification would be stronger for an international standard than random hardware documentation-- and, the MS example showed that even a standards document could be gamed to such an extent as to be unusable to create independent implementations.

I don't follow the MS world, but I do recall complaints that OOXML as built by MS included binary blobs (straight out of their old, undocumented, doc and xls formats) wrapped in XML. And, folks using MS software at old job sometimes complained that when I edited an MS document in libre office, "I broke it." Thankfully my group standardized on plain text to make version control more useful, so it only came up when dealing with folks outside the group.
You keep repeating this "ovens don't go to 500F" claim all over the thread and it is just wrong. Looking at lowes.com, around half their oven inventory has a self cleaning option, requiring the oven to be able to get to that high temperature. Even a cheap electric oven will often have a self cleaning feature and a max temp above 500F.

What evidence do you have for this claim?
To add to the HDMI-over-CAT5 instead of long-run HDMI, I wanted to offer an anecdote: we tried doing HDMI with extenders at a previous MSP shop. We had random de-syncs. We were probably far past the 50ft spec for how long to run an HDMI cable and the extenders were unpowered (basically female-to-female boxes). HDMI-over-CAT5, however, handled the distance flawlessly without powered boosters in the middle.
I wrote a comment[0] about this in one of the other threads on this topic, but it bears repeating. Apple started working on a solution to this problem in 2020, called App-Bound Domains[2]. I always expected them to make this mandatory instead of opt in eventually. In response to this recent focus on in app browser they could accelerate such a timeline. With mandatory App-Bound Domains, an app would have to list the set of domains it wants to inject JS into in the app manifest. Further, those capabilities are only available after the web view has been restricted to forbid navigation away from the app bound domains.

TL;DR: Apple could fix this tomorrow if they wish.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32523474
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32514793
2: https://webkit.org/blog/10882/app-bound-domains/
This is fucking nightmare fuel. I'd burn the house down and I'm not even particularly bothered by spiders usually
I assume GitHub could force you to allow Copilot to use your code for training with their terms and conditions? Whereas if it's from another source the licensing of the code has to specifically allow for commercial products
It's equally possible that they added DT_HASH lookup to achieve glibc 2.34 compatibility. The old way for getting the original dlsym function after interposing dlsym stopped working because the (internal, usually uninterposed, now unused) __libc_dlsym@@GLIBC_PRIVATE symbol went away in glibc 2.34. But a program can still obtain the dlsym function address by looking at the ELF data structures directly.

This would explain why people are so annoyed: there's unplanned extra low-level work to enable glibc upgrades two years in a row.
It is literally NIST’s job to define the standards that people are meant to use.

What you’re saying is that NIST not considering a dual system standard is fine because no one would consider relying solely on the standardized PQC algorithms and would obviously implement their own version of a dual system, only with less understanding of potential pitfalls or analysis for weaknesses.
This is about their direct deposit product, which is offered through an FDIC-insured bank, Evolve Bank & Trust. (Same bank that holds accounts for other fintech startups, such as Mercury.)

It works as follows: When you sign up to enable direct deposit, FTX opens an account for you at Evolve. You can use that account number to have some or all of your paycheck direct-deposited. When you buy cryptocurrencies on FTX, that account is automatically debited. (This avoids the ACH transfer step if you were to purchase using your "regular" bank account.)

I may be missing something, but I'm pretty sure the deposited funds are FDIC insured, up until you use them for a purchase. But FTX isn't allowed to say that without mentioning the name of the actual bank (Evolve), and the FDIC thinks the "until you use them for a purchase" part of the preceding sentence is confusing.

I agree with the FDIC here, but I don't think FTX's statements were particularly nefarious. There's more nuance here than could fit into the tweet this C&D is about.

Edit to add: this is how FTX explains it when you enable this feature on their site (no mention of FDIC insurance, but if it's a regular checking account, the unspent funds in that account would be protected if either FTX or Evolve went bust): https://pifke.org/ftxdd.png
Correct link: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/wqawcb/m...
Aren't they talking about ACH? I didn't think US banks use SWIFT for domestic transactions.
I am an experienced multi platform C++/C developer. Do you offer such projects?
Ugh, the article was so hard to understand, I actually had to read certain parts twice to get if he was talking what is a recluse or what isn't in that line or paragraph. I think it is a bad idea to interleave those definitions, and same with pictures. I have no objections about hard to understand objects, but this was probably intended as a quick emergency guide for a commoners.
Changing how we handle non-free firmware
SIKE... that's the wrong number!
off topic: how did you negotiate 4x10 work schedule?
They'd be solving other low level problems instead I assume. Systems that are unintentional blackboxes instead of intentional ones.
Loopr: A Loop/Reduction Macro for Clojure
I am not a professional but using an Alesis Q25 and like it.
It seems that the choice of what would work reasonably on the hardware while being orbit-programmable and not esotheric boils down to JS, Lua, Scheme, and Forth. The latter two have a steeper learning curve. Between JS and Lua, the former has more implementations, and by far more widely known.
CPython PR #95908 – Add support for the BOLT post-link binary optimizer
at least say "we at Tabnine" lol
Is it slower?
This is a decent analysis. However...

The USA, and indeed the entire western world, has let the concept of "ownership of an idea" gradually take over copyright, trademarks, patents and other "intellectual property". I think we'll be stuck with lawsuits about how close an algorithm can come to something like "an artist's signature style", beginning in the near future. Laws will be proposed with lots and lots of really terrible follow-on effects, and sooner or later, one of them will pass.
Does it even offer any realistic protection if the "partner bank" goes under? AFAIK the limit on FDIC insurance is $200k / account. Is FTX managing hundreds/thousands of account to get around this or is only $200k of their money FDIC insured?
It’s a historical thing people used to do for length extension attacks, but it’s irrelevant where it exists in bitcoin, for example as branches in a merkle tree where every input is of a fixed length (another hash). For Bitcoin a good portion of all the CPU time involved in verifying is just doing hashes of hashes, so it just is what it is.

It has the side effect of making some attacks where you need control of certain bytes of the input (see the md5 commission tool) harder because you’ve now got to find an exploit which makes it through both hashes.
Im currently in such situation.

Our team in central EU and second team in US. 8h difference. We learn about everything last and have nothing to say. One sync on manager level per day.
Cant get anything done well.

Already filled papers to quit.
-fno-exceptions should be sufficient for this, especially if you link statically. People also use `-fno-rtti` to save the extra data by dynamic_cast etc.
(Technically "arable" isn't the term I was looking for, I guess I mean "land suitable for large-scale human habitation")
I briefly considered and discounted a Mac based on keyboard , do they allow remapping now? The physical layout is still trash but remapping may help.

To clarify, it's not just apple - this trend of putting left slash above enter (ANSI) needs to stop, unofficial iso is just so much better.
> Wow blew my mind was when Google introduced 'hum and we'll recognize the song for you' in Google assistant

Their announcement actually made me roll my eyes a bit, as Soundhound had that functionality nearly a decade before. I had both SH and Shazam installed on my old phone for these usecases - now Shazam is baked into Siri so I don’t even have the app itself installed.
In macOS there are also ping spikes when you open the WiFi menu bar [1]. This still happens in macOS Monterey.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/97805
US Workforce Population Maxed Out
Yes, generated by AT&T's wireless STBs (cable boxes) back around 2014-15. It was a nightmare to figure out, as I recall.
I'm surprised there isn't a mechanism for the link peer to report the SNR to the sender from its perspective.

I've had the same issue without any antenna troubles - Mac would constantly connect to the 5GHz network and struggle to send any packets out, yet the displayed signal strength was good. It turns out it was able to "hear" the AP just fine, but the AP had trouble hearing back, yet somehow there's no feedback mechanism for it to know.
I think you are missing the point of art if you expect rigour, though.
It. Doesn't. Matter.

You're not getting it. We could discuss this in a nuanced manner if the evidence existed, and could be weighed by the Court.

We no longer can, because the State, the very entity we bequeathe with the sole authority to conditionally suspend civil liberties in the condition of a proven beyond a reasonable doubt case, and the abscense of exculpatory evidence, destroyed it.

The Court must assume that that information was so damaging to the State's case, that even with all of the disincentives the legal system has to offer, a State agent committed the heinous crime of denying to the defense evidence lawfully subpoena'd.

If the Court does not exonerate, it's recognizing, and cutting law enforcement a check to undermine the rights of a defendant, and more importantly, their counsel, to lawfully surface potentially material exculpatory evidence by whoopsy-ing the material in question, and trading one of their own to make it stick.

This undermines everything the legal system has been predicated upon. This attacks the very integrity and independence of the American judiciary. No one is above the law. Especially the Government.

You may not like the defendant; I don't, but I like a rigged system even less. These are the cases that really test the mettle and integrity of the legal system, and the claim we live in a society subject to the rule of law.

It could be you in the same position. Don't even try that "Pah, never happen", because you don't know. That's why due process matters. This person was entitled to the same procedure as everyone else, and the State has willfully deprived him of it.
There are some variously-imperfect methods to ID things that you can take photos of.

The Seek app by iNaturalist has pretty decent AI to identify plants and animals. It can limit itself to broader IDs such as “wasp family” if it doesn’t find enough characteristics. It can also be wildly off sometimes in its specific IDs because it’s image recognition.

There are also loads of dedicated Facebook groups specifically for ID. I know that some of the plant and mushroom ones are very good, I suspect spider-focused groups are similarly enthusiastic. They can also be wildly off, with the added component of traded insults between different people who are all certain they are each correct, and the others are all idiots “who wouldn’t know a recluse from a redback even after they got bit.” This could be a pro or a con, depending on what you find entertaining.

State extensions are going to be the most reliable, and will likely have the most info on the obscure local wildlife. I don’t know how willing they are to ID from photos though; it may vary from place to place. They may want you to capture one and send it in.
> Canada will do pretty well and grow a lot.

Perhaps- but it's also warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, which makes adaptation even more challenging.
The author's point is that a 50-year mortgage is a bad deal because almost nobody has a 50-year working lifetime to pay for it, and besides the interest over that time span is absurd.

But let's think instead of who a 50-year mortgage is bad for: someone who can't quite currently afford a house. Who is a 50-year mortgage good for (bearing in mind this is a UK thing): anyone in the business of lending.

It's a done deal that these will become a commonly done way to buy a house.
First, Document Document Document just to cover your ass internally (maybe email a recap of problems to yourself).

As for actually addressing the issue, Is there a shared Executive Assistant or Program manager on the teams you're reaching out to? One thing i've had success with is reaching out to one of their senior direct reports (when appropriate).
I would usually say something like "Hi, There's an issue with XYZ, what are your thoughts on how we can improve it with the least impact to your team? I'd like to get this in front of Y as soon as possible, any thoughts?" What I found is that people are eager to get brownie points with the boss, leverage that and get your initiative pushed through the team rather than from outside the team. Again, I realize this doesn't work for every situation, but it's helpful.

Sometimes you just have to socially engineer the outcome you need.

Good luck!
Anything cortexy would profit from teensy binaries.
If you don’t mind sharing…

- What was/is your business?

- Which customers were you going after?

- What other marketing / advertising approaches did you try?

Edit: I’m guessing weather forecasting (https://skysight.io/) is the business.
Another option, if all your equipment can fit in the depth of what's basically a switch rack, is to use a wall rack: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Bracket-Equipment-Mounti...

Most audio and networking equipment can fit in there, as well as some servers. Check on the servers to make sure they fit, though.
I decided to research it. It doesn't appear that the furniture was first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_(room)#History says:

> The study developed from the closet or cabinet of the Renaissance era. From the beginning of the 18th century onwards increased literacy at the middle-class family level led to the setting aside of closed study and library areas within larger houses."

I found a 1635 example of such a closest in "A commentary vpon the Epistles of Saint Paul to Philemon, and to the Hebrewes together with a compendious explication of the second and third Epistles of Saint Iohn." at https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/bitstream/handle/... :

> There must be a closet, or a place to study in, that is, the cham­ber of our owne hearts."

https://www.etymonline.com/word/study says:

> Sense of "room furnished with books" is from late 14c.

It's unlikely that there was a specific "study" desk at that point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk#History says:

> Desk-style furniture appears not to have been used in classical antiquity or in other ancient centers of literate civilization in the Middle East or Far East, but there is no specific proof. Medieval illustrations show the first pieces of furniture which seem to have been designed and constructed for reading and writing. Before the invention of the movable type printing press in the 15th century, any reader was potentially a writer or publisher or both, since any book or other document had to be copied by hand. The desks were designed with slots and hooks for bookmarks and for writing implements. Since manuscript volumes were sometimes large and heavy, desks of the period usually had massive structures.

Here are some early desks:

1480 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Jerome_in_His_Study_(Ghi...

1478 - https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/malesskir...

1500 - http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/14/77089

I don't see how they particularly inform the modern study.
> The issue that I've seen is that while it may shave off 15 minutes of writing code in a month, it also adds another 30 minutes of debugging code that you didn't pay attention to when using it to write the code.

Have you actually used it? It's really easy to avoid any multi-line suggestions. In the past year+ of using it I've run into an issue that was due to generated code twice. Maybe a total of 30 minutes debugging? Compare that to the fact that it's probably saved me a couple hours of typing. And that's not even counting the "ugh what's the name of this again, lemme look it up" stuff which imo is where it really shines. That probably triples how much time its saved me
You mean all the heat maps provided by Comcast and so on from 2014(?) are incorrect? That they lied about all the traffic from CA caused by N?
Thank you for that perspective - I hadn't thought about collusion. Maybe it's because if my friends urged me to not do something I'd still continue doing it if I wanted. If they're being particularly argumentative about and I don't feel like arguing about it I'll lie and say I'll stop but won't. I guess I'm assuming I'm an average person and everybody else operates pretty much the way I do. Maybe they don't in all cases. Is there an "average guy" fallacy?
I don't know about that, but they love wood. I find them from time to time in the corners of my fence. Only about one a year. Once I found thousands when the eggs hatched but they quickly dispersed. An interesting thing about Black Widows is that their webs are really strong and unorganized, so I usually see that before finding the spider, which is pretty shy.
quantum is used for problems like finding the factorization of the number 4.

Jumping is also real, but we need not worry about people jumping out of the atmosphere.
Try booking a virtual meeting with relevant stakeholders and get them on a call? People often ignore emails but will attend to meeting requests.
I have; it worked flawlessly for content that was decently seeded. And that's without the sorts of table stakes you'd expect for a streaming platform like the same content encoded at different bit rates, but chunked on the same boundaries so you can dynamically change bitrate as your buffer depletes.

And I'm not sure most people actually care if their home hardware is being used for whatever by the service they're using, or else there'd be pushback on electron apps from more than just HN.

The sense I always got from Netflix's P2P work was that it was heavily tied into the political battles wrt the BS arguments that Netflix should pay for peering with tier 2 ISPs. Did this work there continue much after that problem went quieter?
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The difference is that almost all chicken is contaminated while very little pork is.

If we compare contaminated meat, okay, maybe pork is more dangerous. If we compare what people actually encounter, pork appears much less dangerous.