skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, definitions of managers and what they should be doing varies widely. A lot of developers I meet these days put a pretty narrow scope on what constitutes 'management'. The bar is pretty low, and seems to get hotly debated as marginally useful to redundant on reddit and other places. Frankly it's hostile enough I'll be glad when I retire.

I think the better managers have 1:1's were they think about it before and after as opposed to just showing up. They have career plans and objectives on a quarterly basis, and they do it with the employees as partners, not just recipients. Operations, planning to make sure teams work reasonable hours, managing customers, documentation, hiring, budget, procurement, audits & process, salary planning, all of these things are in scope where I learned about management. Managers also lose control of the hours in their schedule, they need to work on other people's schedule in the team more often than not ... urgent issues for people can come up all hours of the days, nights or weekends. If you're a good manager you're there for people when they need it.

I don't meet a lot of managers that both do those things & really want to do them. I meet a lot of good team leads who are also coding that don't do the above, which frankly should be ok and rewarded. It's misleading to suggest though that they could also pick up everything else and still have the same time available to code.
Which was my point. It adds a small hoop for manufacturers/bakers to jump through and people who have actual allergies are no better off--and arguably marginally worse off--than before.
OK, good luck with the implementation. Aside from offending some people you're also going to confuse many others.
What's the issue with bog standard selects? Is it purely aesthetics, or are there accessibility problems?
> Some 23% of Republicans, and 15% of all Americans, say they agree with the baseless QAnon allegation that “the government, media and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex-trafficking operation.”

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/05/27/nearly-30-...
Having to do it while updating narrows the window of opportunity for sure, but I don't think KeePassX is a more secure target than Dropbox or Bitwarden.

They don't have to get bad code into an MR (though that's one option), they could compromise the website and have it distribute a different binary. If you build it from source you're safe against that, but are you really building it from source?

Also, remember that the same logic applies to Bitwarden: they need the master password and therefore must compromise the client during the window where you update it.
this is a great list of resources. any other blogs or books you recommend? would love to start a company eventually.
Paper can be tedious, but it has never let me down. Unless someone is prone to losing notebooks, or is burgled on a regular basis, I can recommend a password notebook as an effective and reliable method of password storage.
It was useful for me to know that website URLs and other metadata are not encrypted.
OK, in that case, we agree 100%.
Is it possible to recieve the icloud mail from a custom domain also in my non apple email app? For example on my desktop?
See this brilliant thread by Foone:

https://mobile.twitter.com/foone/status/1572260363764400129

"Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just fine right up until we try to explain our calendar to them..."
Feds probing Hertz for allegedly renting cars under recall
thank you for sharing. how did you learn to become an effective owner? any book or blog recommendations?
Sierpiński Triangle Interpreted as Musical Notes
India makes negative Covid test mandatory for five countries
Indeed - agreeing to disagree is not something one does intensely.
Now that I recall more clearly, I got this part wrong… they had requested an early induction (not a scheduled c-section). Unsure if that changes things, but they weren’t going straight to an operating room.
More than a decade and a half ago a first was an ALife rendered from simulation to mecha which could move in RL.
Let’s not pretend Apple, Uber, Google and countless others weren’t spending billions trying to make this a reality. They didn’t burn that money because they were smart enough to know it wasn’t going to happen. Everyone thought it was imminent. Many still do.
Death to totalitarians.
I always found it interesting that when it comes to sports, mangers are/were rarely - if ever - the best players of their time.

Some were woefully mediocre players themselves, and didn't necessarily have a noteworthy career as players.

So my theory is that if we're going to borrow anything from the world of professional sports, you don't need to promote your best (whatever best means) employees to managerial positions. You probably need them to be above a certain threshold, but also be able to identify those employees with best leadership and managerial potential.
Elon Musk’s Jet Has a Twitter Account Tracking It Again–With a 24-Hour Delay
Surely it's satan that's typically depicted as being both male and female? Lucifer (the angel), on the other hand appears to have identified as male.

There's a lot of male specific words in the bible referring to Jesus and there's the rumours about him having a relationship with Mary Magdalene, so I'd conclude that he identified as male. Similarly, the Christian god is often referred to as male, and the Garden of Eden story suggests that Adam was made in God's image (i.e. male) and then Eve was conjured out of a rib, so presumably that's when females were invented.
Might be worth reaching out to a company like Equal Exchange. They may be able to connect you with educational resources.

https://shop.equalexchange.coop/
100%. One of my relatives was on some wild shit last night, I had to struggle to give a shit though.

It’s a life skill to not get pressed over conversations even if the subject matter is important. The funny thing is we all learn it for our professional lives but tend to turn around and forget it when for different topics.
Mozilla refuses to add _any_ toggle to disable RFP's control over features it touches, including even an about:config entry.

See example bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535189

My "fix" for this involves using a janky old version of an addon that attempts to muck with the CSS/JS to reproduce the effect.
Define significant. Sesame allergies are pretty rare, but, where present, are extremely dangerous. Generally these mandated warnings are based on some combination of prevalence and severity; sesame allergy is rare but use of sesame is common and the allergy is lethal, so it gets a warning.

The one that confuses me is lupin. It’s one of the 14 mandated allergen/intolerance warnings in Europe, but is not at all commonly used.
I don’t know, I feel this is a slippery slope. I don’t want everything to be on the same level of caution as peanuts, let’s look at root cause for this stuff.

Most likely could being an over-sterilized environment during pregnancy or at birth, some chemical in common products, or something else effecting the micro biome or immune system.
Hope you deleted it from LastPass too!
Nice project!

> Due to debouncing troubles, it seems to be double-reading each pulse. At some point I should throw a scope on it to confirm what the problem is, but it works quite adequately as-is. (My first try only had a 10ms delay, which empirically resulted in septuple-reading each pulse…)

Needless to say, this is not the canonical way to count pulses. A more typical and accurate loop would look like

if digitalRead(pin):
count +=1 # register the pulse
sleep(0.01) # debouncing delay
while digitalRead(pin): # wait for end of pulse
pass
sleep(0.01) # debouncing delay
Is there any consumer car that is anywhere close? My understanding is that no other car has things like automatic lan change and route following. Let alone stopping at stop signs / red lights etc.
> I don’t care about illegal immigration because it doesn’t affect me. They aren’t competing for my job or the job of anyone in my social circle.

This seems like kind of a naive take. Illegal immigration affects your country>state>community>social circle>family>personal well being in that order. You might be several orders of magnitude removed from its effects on a personal level but that doesn’t mean it isn’t affecting you. E.g. simply the fact that illegal immigration is happening in your country means it IS influencing nationwide politics which in effect influences voters and your local politics. Your anecdote about your friend is testament to this.

Your opinion on illegal immigration matters, man, whether it affects you directly or not!
Interesting to see Dr. Anand Swaminathan quoted - he is a prominent, highly regarded figure in CME/CPD (ongoing education) for ER docs nationally and internationally, with a large Twitter following.
Can someone explain how it’s anything but completely insane for an online service to deny access to someone with a *correct* password??

This isn’t someone getting locked out because they forgot their password (where I can at least understand why the user is at fault).
> increasingly vote avoidant society

Turnout for presidential elections has been increasing in the US in the last decades. Also 70 percent is great turnout when compared with other countries.
Here’s what I’ve observed recently in this space.

- What really astonishes me, is that for each and every one of these ideas there is probably a VC funded company or group of individuals working to build the thing.

- anyone in web3 is working for hype and for funding. Bunch of clout chasers. If you can make the thing sound good, you win. Your shitty GitHub repo is mostly ignored; as is your ability to integrate with the real world.

- No one is working for actual market share of anything meaningful because there is no real market for any of this crap.caveat-

- The only actual market that exists is a self-feeding one, so you have startups building dev tools or doing things like recreating web2 data systems on web3 in horrid/obscure ways.

Overall it seems like a big fun money scheme. A few privileged and/or greedy individuals chase some hackers pipe-dream, convince a bunch of young fools to join & build for them, and then a bunch of idiots to fund them/pump their token.

EDIT: while I’m knocking current state, I believe in a lot of the ideals of decentralization and expanded uses of cryptography. I’m investing a lot of time & effort in understanding what could possibly be meaningful. I really, really struggle with the noise in current state.
Your (almost) quote helped me find the thing I was trying to remember in my sibling comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=34115186&goto=item%3Fi...

With your quote helping, the reference from the book is:

Robert Oppenheimer oversaw all this activity with self-evident competence and an outward composure that almost everyone came to depend upon. “Oppenheimer was probably the best lab director I have ever seen,” Teller repeats, “because of the great mobility of his mind, because of his successful effort to know about practically everything important invented in the laboratory, and also because of his unusual psychological insight into other people which, in the company of physicists, was very much the exception.”

“He knew and understood everything that went on in the laboratory,” Bethe concurs, “whether it was chemistry or theoretical physics or machine shop. He could keep it all in his head and coordinate it. It was clear also at Los Alamos that he was intellectually superior to us.”

The Theoretical Division leader elaborates:

He understood immediately when he heard anything, and fitted it into the general scheme of things and drew the right conclusions. There was just nobody else in that laboratory who came even close to him. In his knowledge. There was human warmth as well. Everybody certainly had the impression that Oppenheimer cared what each particular person was doing. In talking to someone he made it clear that that person’s work was important for the success of the whole project. I don’t remember any occasion at Los Alamos in which he was nasty to any person, whereas before and after the war he was often that way. At Los Alamos he didn’t make anybody feel inferior, not anybody.
I'd go for the less obvious question "Is Brazil the best Christmas film?".
> What would be really cool is to see some version of “Minority Report” actually work in my lifetime.

I suspect that that will come swiftly once VR headsets get good[1] enough to be used as a replacement for a laptop/monitor setup. I don't personally have a device, but people who do have told me that the resolution and weight just aren't there yet.
What the author is trying to avoid is conversations like

"well YOU blah blah blah vaccines blah blah blah Tucker Carlson blah blah blah Twitter blah blah blah misinformation blah blah blah insurrection!!!"

"well YOU blah blah blah woke racism blah blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah blah Twitter blah blah blah groomers blah blah blah drag queen story hour!!!"
It could be sampling bias or increased availability, but it does seem as if allergies in general are increasing: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/02/747545877/se...
I don't think OP was defending their own earlier work or otherwise exempting it from their assertion that all obfuscated code should be considered malicious.
Anecdata, everyone I've spoken to who is loyal to The Party, believes at least one mistruth. Ranging anywhere from "the gays are coming for you" to "the Jews control the media" the fact that there are a selection of personal boogeymen instead of a single centralized one is almost irrelevant to the overall point.
Full Self Driving, I believe.
My point wasn't very clear. Downside of posting at 9 am and 9 degrees.
> In my country you are liable to pay hefty taxes on inheritance. Neither of us have the reserves to pay those taxes on a piece of land we have no idea how to run or manage.

1. Borrow against the land to pay the inheritance taxes.

2. Rent the land to a farmer, use the cashflow to pay off the inheritance tax loan until it’s paid off.

3. Keep renting the land to receive cash income.

If the cashflow from renting the land is not enough to pay off the tax loan, sell the land.
Agree, is almost as he was using TeX to write it.

But his product still sells, and has feed his family for a couple of generations. There is a lesson to learn about productivity here.
100% earned it, in my opinion, and if he comes to my favorite coffee shop, I'll be all ears if he chooses to brag a bit.
Arguably we've only been broadcasting outwards for something like 50 years, so the message hasn't gotten that far yet.
There was a plot element in the book about using a technique to broadcast a message more strongly than terrestrial antennas alone.

A spoiler alert
another plot element in the book was that it wasn't just the one way broadcast, but a response & counter-response that allowed distant aliens to determine distance and direction.

So I wouldn't quite say its disproven.
As an owner in the FSD beta, I think the most misleading thing is Elon's BS time lines. When I bought in August 2019, they were basically telling everyone they have it ready to be a taxi next year with a flip of a switch. Implying they already have it figured out when they didn't. I bought my car with FSD and didn't get into the Beta until a year after they were suppose to be ready for use as a taxi. At this point for me, it's not really good enough to use on city/rural streets without frequent interventions. I pretty much only use self driving on the highway, which is currently using a separate stack than FSD Beta. They are suppose to start using the same stack for highways soon.
The problem (as I see it) was s not R&D, it's human nature. If there is a possible self driving car we can put things off, imagine a different mix etc.

Almost all of the climate chnage debate is really (excluding the fringes) not "is climate chnage real" but "exactly how much do I have to do to fix it".

An analogy is I don't dispute that I am overweight, and that will impact my lifespan, but t there is a debate on whether that means a calorie controlled plant based diet from tonight along with four hours in the gym each day, or I "make an effort to cut down".

Imagine AOC and Greta Thunberg as the personal trainers, and Bjorn Lornborg as the CEO of low calorie beer and no-salt chips LLC.

I think I have wondered off the point - but essentially we have within us the solution to all our ills. Politics is just the voices in our heads as we try to talk ourselves into going to the gym and sticking to a budget.
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself.

Yeah, maybe the Satan worshipping thing is off the rocker. But a known pedophile ran a pedophole tape party island that lots of wealthy powerful men were at, somehow none of them got charged and the guy died in jail with video cameras blanked out.

Are they really ~crazy~ for thinking that maybe something is up there? Or are they just going overboard when diagnosing a real problem, like the half of democrats who supported COVID internment camps?

Source:
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/par...
To save the world, we're going to have to stop working (2020)
Rotary phones where used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch - so they have very simple interface - just generate the number of pulses that is either N or 10-N (I don't remember exactly which one is right). There is also a nice back-story about how it was invented.

This is a nice DIY project, but its practicality is questionable. Choosing a number on rotary phones is very slow, as you need to wait til the wheel returns to its start position.
The reference I was looking for is included in full in another comment[1]

Hans Bethe (who won a Nobel Prize in 1967) said, among other things,

"There was just nobody else in that laboratory who came even close to him"

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34117168
> And the list goes on.

I would be keen to see more of this list, as two of the three items you mentioned are not at all interesting or useful to me (and, I would presume, to a majority of other users).

Even the other item (#1) is somewhat academic, as modern security practices are generally "good enough" for most people in most use cases. (That is, there is certainly room for improvement, but where we are now isn't nearly as bad as it could be.)
On the flip side there are many of us "programmers" who are interested in technical problem solving and building things in a more abstract sense - writing code is one tool but not the only one. Promote us instead of the ones who just wanna code :D
I will try to balance spending some quality time with my kids and family, with taking a deep dive into three.js. So far I'm enjoying both.

Shout out to Bruno Simon for his excellent Three.js Journey course. <3
This reminds me a lot of the controller/control loop pattern used in Kubernetes with the additional constraint that the amount of work done in a loop is fixed.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/controller/
Full Scary Driving
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“Ultimately I work for the kids,” Ms. Safran said. Kids?

"Grown Children" are adults or adult offspring. They are not children. Being adults they can tell the dating coach to go away and tell the parents to knock it off unless they reside in a country that enforces arranged marriages.
The roads will be so gridlocked no one will drive on them anymore /s.

Seriously though there are ways of reducing traffic on the roads like increased registration taxes, raising the price of tolls, gas price hikes (or equivalent dc fast charging price hikes). Gridlock won’t be a problem.

DC fast charging price hikes will be especially effective at reducing robotaxi usage as unlike privately owned EVs, robotaxis will primarily rely on fast charging.

Also don’t forget about how much traffic flow will improve because self driving cars don’t get impatient and tailgate.
The common trope lately is to compare Twitter now to Whatsapp back in the days. It's so disingenuous and tiring.
Android largely works now with these permission prompts, though. TikTok asks you for a million permissions too, and many average end users decline. Many people also opt out of tracking on Facebook et al. when iOS prompts them about it.
It’s good that the courts use the more peaceful option of going after the defendant’s property instead of his person, when available. But obviously it’s only available when there’s property to go after.
You’re getting downvoted but you’re not necessarily wrong.

I love the idea of self driving vehicles and I’m excited about them, but I harbor no illusions about them fixing traffic. The key question I would ask to self driving proponents is this - if you waved your magic wand and suddenly changed every car on the road to self driving…how would that impact traffic? At the very least traffic wouldn’t decrease. You could maybe marginally increase throughput by using tighter tolerances between cars, but I’m guessing the difference wouldn’t be substantial.
Wow, I've lived in the U.S. my entire life and I couldn't tell you who won any superbowl if my life depended on it.

I have seen several of the infamous "superbowl ads" though, those seem truly inescapable.
I'd rather be slightly poorer than miserable and needing therapy. It's what it is, we're not all cut out for corporate ladder climbing. My hope is that I'll find a startup I truly believe in someday, join them early and skip a bunch of steps. It's not management that I can't stand, it's middle management.
Google gave away the Google Voice number I had since the GrandCentral days, a number obviously used daily with purchased credits in the account and religiously confirmed linked number.

Zero customer support, no way to get the number returned and no refund on existing credits for toll services. And to add to the pain, they won’t give me a new GV number because it sees my linked number as a spam source and never sends the confirmation code.

I am done with this outfit.
> Seriously though there are ways of reducing traffic on the roads like increased registration taxes, raising the price of tolls, gas price hikes (or equivalent dc fast charging price hikes). Gridlock won’t be a problem.

Yes, this is why traffic is so minimal in the top 10 MSAs in America.
> With most Enterprise IT just saying "I don't know, works for everyone else, must be something wrong on your end, good luck with that."

This was something new and interesting with COVID WFH. Whereas previously WFH was an optional thing, a bit of a perk, and usually not long-term, we could fault someone's home internet and let them contact the ISP/whatever to figure it out, 2020 changed things.

Since we were telling people they needed to work from home, and if they couldn't they'd need to contact HR, it really was best if we helped them out a bit more.

Not full-on support, but talking through the problem and making a recommendation of how to make things better basically became the norm.
Tens of millions of people live in places where frequent bus service simply isn't practical. It's probably reasonable for society to make choices that overall incentivize against living in those areas, but that isn't going to change where people live anytime soon.

And you can just use taxes to control any induced demand that comes from lower costs or new behaviors. The vehicles have sophisticated tracking systems and telematics built right in.