skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't sound like that was the job of this little committee. As written, it was to review and particularly identify extra work. Presenting solutions to this kind of problem isn't explicitly and often implicitly the function of the developer(s), especially in a room full of managers. Whose job it is literally to identify solutions to this exact kind of problem.
I've done similar, works great for Node, Python and PHP apps.
> but lacking in evidence

Thank you for saying this. We know xenophobic racist right wingers are saying that COVID came from China. But WHO-China investigation definitely proved that COVID came outside of China. Even western virologists have been supporting Chinese scientists. [1]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Josh, I recommend that you do even just some basic research into this topic. It's quite complex, and I can't do it justice here.

Masking certainly does cause accessibility problems for many people.

For example, people with mobility and other issues involving their fingers, hands, arms, shoulders, neck, and ears can find it quite difficult, or even impossible, to put on, to wear, or to remove a mask.

Masking can also aggravate respiratory and cardiovascular-related medical issues.

Masking can aggravate PTSD and other psychological issues.

Masking can cause problems for those with hearing-related issues, as it can make it difficult to hear the muffled voices of others, as well as making lip-reading impossible.

In jurisdictions where accessibility is considered important, the forced masking bylaws or legislation typically had accessibility-related exemptions, because masking does cause severe accessibility problems for many people.

The harmful social impacts of masking take many forms.

Among the most egregious were when exempt individuals were denied service, reasonable accommodation, and in some cases employment.

Such people also faced significant harassment when in public, even in so-called "tolerant" societies. Sometimes this would involve verbal abuse. Sometimes it would involve having creeps take and share photos of them, in attempts to socially shame them. Sometimes it would unfortunately involve physical abuse, even with the police being the perpetrators at times.

A less-visible aspect to this very real threat of harassment was how some people just stopped participating in society as much as possible, even at the cost of financial, psychological, and social harm to themselves.

Forced masking, especially in schools, has definitely had a negative impact on the education and development of children. This manifests in various ways, including communication-related delays and difficulties, trust/fear-related issues, immune system deficiencies, and so on.

Perhaps you were spared the worst of this based on where you happen to live, and luckily didn't have to experience the costs of masking yourself.

Others, however, suffered significantly because of masking, even if you may not realize it.
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Oh my...what an awful way to get back from vacation! It's such a shame when egos get involved like that.

I deeply appreciate that level of wordplay though! Glad it worked out for you in the end, and I hope you have continued to express true creativity in your code :)
> I find it absolutely insufferable when you ask people to do something that you want, and they ask you why

Wow, I really want to avoid working with you on anything.
Will be interesting to see how this assertive prediction from "someone in the industry" a few days ago plays out:

>> Regardless if FTT collapses, it wouldn't matter cause insolvency both the asset and liability side of the balance sheet would go down. [1]

We got our FTT collapse today, let's see if the "experts" are correct.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33467429
starting from infix equation a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0

x = (-b + sqrt(b^2 + 4*a*c)) / (2*a)

is obviously conceptually clearer than

(setf x (/ (+ (- b)
(sqrt (+ (* 4 a c)
(* b b))))
(* 2 a)))

i however think the latter is computationally clearer. also i think the difference is most striking when we use well known infix formulas such as the quadratic formula. you would not have this effect with the cubic equation for example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_equation#Cardano.27s_met...
I was looking for a new data notebook toy to ease the tedium of reporting some metrics.

I found the clojure-based https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk which I like the look of and remember clojure being rather pleasing interactively.

That lisp and Julia might have some commonality made me look for something similar (that isn't jupyter) for Julia. Seems like https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl is such a thing.

Does anyone have any experience of either they could share?
Yes. If you need more time ask for it and explain why it’s necessary and why the delay couldn’t have been anticipated. It’s better to be late than be late and also delivery a shoddy product.
The video in this tweet makes an analogy with opium, which of course is charged historical territory between China and the west. In fairness, the US and most other countries haven't made a serious attempt to stop or ban 'addictive' interactive apps and content. There has at points been pressure, e.g. on YouTube, but my understanding is no laws have been passed, etc. If we disapprove so strongly of kids being exposed to this stuff, let's get some legislation on the books, rather than just one-off shaming companies for not meeting our unwritten norms.
FTX looks to be toast, Binance are in takeover talks. Perhaps you were the one speculating?
Free day care is just really hard to pass up
That's just a fractal version of this same problem.

Most of us are here to get work done and earn a living, and not to role play palace intrigue.

But certainly it's my experience that this toxicity comes from the top down and I have sympathy with managers who are putting their reports under unreasonable pressure because they are themselves under unreasonable pressure.
Thank you for saying this. We know xenophobic racist right wingers are saying that COVID came from China. But WHO-China investigation definitely proved that COVID came outside of China. Even western virologists have been supporting Chinese scientists. [1]

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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Interesting. They also have flight simulation among the applications, which made me recall an old family friend who was a passenger airline pilot during the 70s and 80s. He also played a bit with older Flight Simulator versions, and one time he commented "yeah, it's very accurate but it can't be the real thing: you don't just pilot with the instruments, you also need to feel the airplane with your ass".
How can you call this a “modest proposal” and not even suggest eating the kids with the lowest test scores?
It's an interesting theory that temperature leads to skin pigmentation however all research points towards it being an adaptation to UV rays.
Found it:

Speaking with the Financial Times on July 14, Bankman-Fried stated that if FTX can become the top crypto exchange and supplant rivals such as Coinbase and Binance, the idea of purchasing giants such as Goldman Sachs and CME group is not off the table:

“If we are the biggest exchange, [buying Goldman Sachs and CME] is not out of the question at all.”

https://cointelegraph.com/news/billionaire-sbf-says-ftx-may-...
For anyone who may be working in the epidemic response space I read that there may be problems getting PPE for the health care workers.

There is a place that accepts products that are obsolete and reusable and they have a section dedicated to PPE since a lot of outfits obsoleted their PPE inventories once Covid was better controlled.

They also have a shit-ton or more of other things that can be repurposed from their original tasks.

Repurposed Materials - Sanitary stuff [0]

[0]https://www.repurposedmaterialsinc.com/sanitarystuff/
Wow, that's an awesome introduction to music synthesis. Bookmarking for future referral to others.
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Tech ≠ Information Technology industry, instead = technology

If we look at it with the perspective that technology is an essential integrated part of the society. Time and space has evolved the world from analog to digital, and there is less likely a road to go back, given the numerous benefits of tech. It's the same question as if AI or robots will replace the humans. They will not. Instead, they will work together - in tandem.

Tech has definitely superimposed over almost all other spaces or industries. It has redefined the professional space completely. Now, with the help of tech, we have the best minds with enhanced capabilities than previously possible. Looking at a layman's life, we may sey that tech made us dumb. But the nuance here is that it's not the tech, instead the internet or over-dependence on the web has made people lazy, because they can find out anything on the internet.

Why everyone is running to tech? only for money?
not really. People run after the best ideas, which make the world a better place, and make our life easier. It's just the fact that due to this, almost everyone is interested to learn tech skills to stand competitive in a digital world, and we may think that other professions are less lucrative. The reason here is that other professionals did not change or evolve with time, as much as the technical workspace has evolved. Due to this, the money is not invested at equivalent scales, however the best experts in any field make more money than a deep tech guy (specially people in business, doctors as well).
It reminds me of the Robustness Principle [1] which states: "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"

I think this advice about the use of "just" applies. You should be liberal in accepting "just" statements from others but conservative in sending "just" statements to others.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
"Are you saying that when driver breaks the law, it not unsafe,"

When a driver or cyclists breaks the law, it is not necessarily unsafe.

"Who can be bother with all that hassle?"

What hassle? You're implying details that aren't there. It wouldn't be difficult at all to require online training/testing for a low fee. This is already done commonly with boating licenses and us low cost and easy. And yes, kids get boater certificates too. Based on the data, they are the cycling age group that would most benefit from the knowledge in the training/test.

"It also feels entirely disproportionate to risk."

How so? The data I posted about UK cycling accidents shows about 52% involve a factor on cyclists end. If these people are at risk, then we should attempt to get this number down to zero. It seems the data suggests that even if we eliminate driver errors, we would still be left with just under 40% caused solely by cyclist error.

"If there was data, rather than hysteria,"

No hysteria here, just data.
Obviously this does vary because retail insurance is usually sold locally but the middle men were eliminated years ago.

First, it was phones. This happened in the early 90s. Then it was internet which was largely finished by the early 2010s. The only exception for this is that online price-comparison websites have added back some distribution costs...but you still need to spend on marketing if you are online (generally speaking, online ads aren't cheap, I know insurers in my market that have moved away from price-comparison/online advertising because of the cost).
Just google "lisp syntax error" for the hit count if you are feeling petulant. =)
There are quite a few benefits you can gain from moving to serverless and some trade-offs. Rearchitecting your app is generally a pretty severe way to achieve a goal and means you've had an issue recently that you need to solve or a company wide initiative to mitigate a specific risk, The best way to play this is usually to look at it from an opportunity cost perspective.

Some of the possible reasons why you'd go down this path would include
1. Cost optimisation, generally not a good driver unless you have very spikey workloads (which you don't)
2. Resilience/availability, this is a pretty good driver especially if you've had issues recently, moving to serverless takes away almost all maintenance tasks and solves a lot of potential problems

Some of the main trade-offs include
1. Developer velocity, generally it's pretty hard to debug locally which you will need to spend time working out how to do it or do your debugging in the cloud
2. Cold start ups, this can be largely solved with solutions such as GraalVM however you do need to invest time to implement these solutions
3. More complex internal application architecture, you need to either deploy your entire application as a single function or break it out into multiple and you'd need to do the analysis of how it should work and the performance tuning of each option

That being said, I find the best way to look at these situations from a political perspective is to have a quick chat with the architect and look to understand what problem he's trying to solve and for you to mention your costs and take it into a cost/benefit discussion

If he says its for cost benefits, you could say it will be a x week migration timeline, which has a developer salary cost of y and delay a new feature which is expected to bring z revenue, 10-20% operational delay to pushing out new features. So what would be the cost saving total and ROI?
That's exactly my problem today - I have some old PCs repurposed as homelab, and they require some cron jobs to keep them in check - like forcing modules, or keeping the fans from whining. Without any MTA, it's such a chore to learn why something is failing. In this age, the whole "cron only sends output logs through email" seems super anachronistic.
Hard disagree, a couple of years back my team was running mobile game services connecting users in the millions (at peak).

We were hosted on AWS, and pretty much only used Lambda + API Gateway + DynamoDB.
> you don't go into a meeting like that to present problems, but to present solutions. And a 12 month delay on a $60 million contract isn't a solution, it's another problem

Honestly that's exactly what I'd expect out of a meeting like that, and with good leadership it'd be a collaborative exercise on how to solve the problem. There's not going to be a solution that has zero impact on anyone else, and that individual team doesn't have the authority to make the call on what impact the business can sustain. They came, presented their problem, and their ideal recommendation (a 12 month delay). There's plenty of options on how to deal with that: ask sales how much of a delay is actually tolerable, see if low-priority asks could be dropped to free up some additional time, etc etc.

It's leadership's job to mediate problems between "peer" groups, like engineering and sales.

My first role out of college was on a four person product team split across three projects on two OSes. We were overloaded and couldn't maintain the desired velocity that Management was asking for. So we scheduled a meeting with the VP of product development and the CEO (the joys of a midsize company), sat down, and shared the amount of effort in our backlog, the goals we'd committed to as a company for these projects, and the cost that context-switching. The CEO considered us for about 20 seconds, then said "Okay, which project should we drop?". She had the trust in her teams and her management to take them at their word about their inability to achieve the goals, understand it's because the goals were beyond the reasonable capability of the team and not because the team was underperforming, and understand the landscape of the choices available:

(1) continue underperforming on our existing goals and possibly upset customers due to not meeting stated expectations

(2) walk back our commitments, possibly upsetting customers

(3) cut the legacy product and focus on achieving and even exceeding our commitments for the modern product

(4) do nothing and shred team morale

More often than not "office politics" is really just shorthand for "low trust, low transparency environment". Yes, there's some amount of collaborative interpersonal skills necessary to be a good engineer, but if you don't trust me to do my job and tell you when our objectives are at risk then why did you hire me?
Me: "Doing your own research on this is very difficult due to people with credentials selling their reputations to service political goals."

You: "What about this Chinese scientist who lied about their experience and had no actual evidence of anything but who was working with Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui and repeatedly platformed on Tucker Carlson?![1] Oh and a Senate Republicans minority committee just released a report that mistranslates standard Chinese party doctrine as menacing![2]"

Admitting that Covid19 was very likely a spillover of a natural virus doesn't mean that you trust China, that you think their labs are run well or are incapable of accidents, that they've been transparent or helpful with the investigations, or that the possibility of new evidence pointing to a lab origin is foreclosed -- just that the actual physical evidence we have today about this virus and this pandemic overwhelmingly points to a natural origin.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/business/media/steve-bann...

[2] - https://twitter.com/janeqiuchina/status/1589098167051911169
Well it's a good thing then that jurors don't decide sentencing. They only have to declare her guilty (which they did). The factors you mention are for a judge to consider.
The author claims these licenses are overall good for a free society, and that its additional restrictions are no worse than the AGPL's. Neither of these things could be further from the truth. Any non-free license moves you further from a free society, not closer to it, no matter how noble your intentions may be. And the AGPL's restrictions don't violate freedom 0, unlike these ones. I'm also pretty sure that freedoms 1 through 3 are violated as well.
> concoct a plan to stage the product development and release such that it gets done and you don't cost a giant contract

Yes, always showing up with a solution to problems that you've surfaced is a good idea and good for your career,

... BUT:

isn't coming up with a solution to this problem literally the job of the management team that they presented to? If management hears "the thing you think will happen will absolutely not happen" and then says "I wasn't handed an actionable plan by my subordinates so we'll just pretend I never heard all this", then they kind of suck. How well is an IC or lower level manager going to know what tradeoffs could be made without jeopardizing the contract or what kind of staging would be acceptable to the client?

If your boss is ok with riding a project off a cliff when you've warned them then it's not your fault. That's when you either hang out, don't stress, and wait for it to explode, or you go find a new job.
I got to be honest, this whole thing of the 'founders' persona is utter bull. I have met many, and know many very well and they tend to be all sorts.
Is "no algorithm" the reason why I see "re: Real long aggregation of Mastodon etiquette for birdsite expats" 11 times in a row?

RSS feed readers had "no algorithm" back in the day and they never caught on because if you subscribed to several blogs they didn't give you adequate tools to hide the articles you'd already seen, all the "me too" articles, etc.
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> Let's say someone is telling you they are fearful for their job, they think they will get fired soon, even though they have nothing specific to point to.
As a listener, are you agreeing with this or are you neutral nodding your head?

As a listener, I'm my goal is to create an environment for them to talk about what bothers them in the most vibrant, and exploratory way possible. I realize that's not exactly the most helpful explanation so allow me to go into more detail. There's a few conversational techniques that I pull from heavily when I'm trying to actively listen: conversational orienteering, and open ended questions, non-Sorcratic questioning.

For lack of a better term[1], conversational orienteering is actively being aware of the topic of conversation and its local topology. Given a topic, one should be able to generate several other topics: one that is more abstract, one more specific, and several adjacent. Over time, a listener gets a sense of where a conversation wants to go and uses the conversational topology to orient towards that goal. It took me a bit of practice to be good at picking topics not too far and not too close to the one at hand - too far can make conversations feel disconnected and random, and too close can make someone feel like they are being misunderstood.

Secondly, I don't think open-ended questions needs much explanation, but when someone is venting or needs support, hows, whys, and whens give the speaker much more room to express themselves than 'Do you...'s.

Thirdly, it's important to be non-Socratic in questions and responses. Leading the speaker is much much worse than telling them advice and should be avoided at all cost.

If you've ever worked a problem out verbally, you should be able to recognize that these principles work to cultivate a good verbal environment for the speaker. I don't see them as not helping, so much as creating an environment where they have the best shot at verbally processing their issue. I think it's important to recognize that emotions can get in the way of people being able to take action and that speaking can help diffuse strong emotions so that someone is ready to take a concrete step toward fixing their problem. I've seen that happen a lot. Even just feeling understood can help people feel better about making a real decision.

It's probably also important to point out that there are some people for which verbal processing works really well and some who can complain endlessly. It's important to recognize the difference. For the later, value your time. Maybe give them 15mins of listening and then decide to change the subject, for them verbal processing is not going to help. They probably need to work on issues in a clinical or therapeutic environment you cannot provide.

Hope this gives some insight, and even if it doesn't, feel free to tell me too.

1. If this actually has a term, please let me know. I'm coining one just to be able to talk about it.
Rest assured that the regulations are coming because the crypto simply did a speed-run of unregulated securities market and repeated every fraud or scam that the traditional markets went through over the history.

In the process, huge fortunes were created and libertarians were empowered(but not enough to be the main political power). Congrats to them but there's nothing anarchist left in crypto, they even end up consolidated and centralised. No interesting business models or financing came out of it except for ransomware.

The silver linings might be that the crypto regulations can be made with the current technology and globalisation in mind, hopefully.
I'm literally asking a question, since it is news to me that "no professional infectious disease modeler will forecast out more than a few weeks."

Do I sense attitude? If so, why?
In a professional work context, you are responsible for managing your own emotions in order to solve the problem at hand.
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