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As long as the manager is not the one making technical decision, then there's nothing wrong with a non-technical manager.

That's why you need IC tracks with Principal and above engineers, so that the person that _knows_ stuff is in charge of technical decision and the manager can be in charge of people problems / communications / strategy / scheduling, none of which strong technical people are particularly known to be good at.

Think about this, what good does having a SVP of a big company be an engineer that hasn't coded a line of code in 20+ years? These people probably don't even remember what it means to be a programmer.

I would much rather have a manager that is good at being a manager and doesn't know anything about coding, rather than a mediocre manager that also knows coding but they are not in the loop and think they knows better than me.
Another solution is for kids to have an account which is restricted in which app stores it can install from, or simply can't install any new apps. Then the kid can't install Fortnite. But the kid can go to the parent and have the parent install Fortnite, if that's what the parent wants.
I've found reddit to be an amazing place to grow your traffic. And a lousy place to grow your actual revenue. Lots of clicks, no buyers.
I might be wrong, but I think the point of the parent comment was more along the lines of, the things we find to be 'general intelligence' may not be as general as we believe.

Something like your sokoban or 2048 example, which you view as a thing that any being with general intelligence should be able to solve, may not be such general intelligence thing and more of a 'human specific' thing and we're too wrapped up in our anthropomorphic view points to recognize it.
YouTube TV not working on my phone.
> A bad week-after-week standup was one that dragged on and on ... our off-shore team which the US team knew was going to be canned in a few weeks...Between the connection, and accent, and knowledge they were all junior and working on minor tickets and flubbing them...

I hope I never have to work the managers who allowed this to go on. Treating this way the people who potentially didn't feel empowered to push back, is an indication of how they would treat others in a similar situation.
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I'm not sure I would get back on one of these. I used OnLive back in the day, but now I can't play those games any more. It was a subscription with lock-in, and now that it's out of business I can't even choose to be locked in.

Now, I have recently started playing on GeForce NOW, nVidia's offering. However there it's much closer to an EC2 model: I'm renting a machine, and I log into my Steam profile and play games that I purchased there. If I want to move that to my own PC, I can. I like that pattern much more.
So the solution is to lock the kids alone in their dorms? What a nightmare. Forbidding human contact with anyone is the most extreme covid restriction I've ever heard of. A clear violation of human rights.
It's an unacknowledged cut. If your employer suddenly reduced your paycheck by N%, you'd probably want an explanation to go with it, pandemic or not.
Has nothing to do with producing videos. Link bait.
On the bright side, their DNS servers didn't go down, otherwise I would have spent about an hour arguing with my ISP.
I think I've heard some developers of popular apps which have done this who say it's a pain to support the users who do not understand this is for upgrading and then get confused which app to use.

The fact that they can't handle refunds also does not help.

They really should just support paid upgrades. Just provide a framework/system for it and make it a normal thing.
"Stake your tokens with us and you could be the next cryptocurrency millionaire"

Forgive me - I thought that was tongue in cheek ? I thought the op was humorously paraphrasing some current, popular trend in ethereum contracts ?

No ? That's the actual function of these contracts ?

Can someone point me to one of these in the wild where I can see the actual pitch / advertisement ?
If games go subscription there will be less money for the big developers. Netflix is a net looser and selling dvds makes more money for publishers.
When a company sides with the consumer, the developers complain (HN crowd). When developers are given free access (side loading, jailbreaking), the consumers suffer (most times without knowing).

I only see one sided opinions from Developers here on HN. What happened to your sense of understand that capitalism ensures that companies will do every bit to milk privacy and money from the customers by hook or by crook. Do you not realize this or refuse to accept? Just look at what LinkedIn app on iPhone was doing until Apple decided to alert the user when it uses the clipboard.

Apple isn't doing this out of charity. Theyre doubling down on software + hardware security because that's their market differentiation from the rest of the Ad-tech horror show.

Vast number of actions Apple takes are siding the with the consumer. I also want my own device to be hackable, but iPhone is no small toy. It has my entire life on it. As a consumer, I pay the Apple tax so I am not constantly worrying about security and privacy. As a hacker, I want to be able to run Doom on my iPhone. Why is one side so difficult to understand? I am all for pushing Apple to make their devices repairable, more eco friendly, cheaper, better, highly secure, hackable upon concent, but gosh - it's like an article after article here bashing Apple without any balanced form of discussion. Selling a device that contains your entire life to millions of people is very different from selling a linux box to a bunch of hackers. You should realize both sides of the coin and debate.
MIT license = Yes you are licensed to fork and use it commercially as you see fit. Your company has licensed you to do this for the rest of your life and even beyond after you die.

A better question is whether your company is ignorant about what the MIT license means. In the real world rules and laws are not the only things that matter. You can be attacked while in compliance with all laws.
Google image search is completely down for me
Search is still up and snappy! I may be biased as an ex-search Xoogler, but Search's resilience is a testament to how battle-hardened a stack it is, considering GDocs and Gmail appear to be hard down.
There are definitely issues. GDocs functionality is intermittent. e.g. the ability to move a doc into a new folder or even see what folder it's in using the little folder icon at the top while editing has disappeared.

I've suggested to our team they copy/paste locally anything they're currently editing.
Of course. Green means the service is working for me. It is Red when the service is not working for me, and clearly neither for nobody else. Orange means it doesn't work for me, but you might have better luck.
While I get what you are saying, claiming it has never been easier is somewhat silly. It was never required in the past. So, as easy as it may be now, it is still harder than many times before.

Worse, as well intentioned and correct as your advice is, you are still many zero days from a hosed machine. Sure, you don't let them download arbitrary apps. Doesn't matter if they visit some sites.
I would love to see the decisions overturned. Maybe with a majority originalist/textualist SCOTUS there’s a chance. I’m not holding my breath though.
In this case I think the ages are a distraction. This is clearly a violation of the constitution even given Covid due to it essentially banning a large section of the population from something as fundamental as visiting friends.
I believe GoL is easily solvable by ML if the task was to find parameters of the update rules with the constraint that the rules are simple.

For example, if we were presented a highly sophisticated repetitive pattern and were tasked to figure the underlying tesselation rules that generate it, we would enumerate rulesets that we know already and then try to find parameters for them with the assumption that those parameters are simple.

Again, my point is that to solve GoL, the ML model needs to be given two things: 1) a few rulesets to choose from; 2) an upper limit on complexity of ruleset parameters.
Sorry, it was me guys. I was just clone the quiche repo and I accidentally brought down the whole system.
This is definitely a Chrome problem; Firefox works just fine.
> In any case, I think that any academic discussion of the definition of “open” needs to take into account the paradox that perhaps, by requiring dogmatic adherence to the definition of “open”, we cause the world to be more closed. Which is, I think, not what we want.

Thank you for putting this so succinctly.
Oh, it's totally feasible–simplicity of the world is quite a subjective thing.

> But this is to illustrate that even “good” apps still sometimes have these dark patterns.

I just showed "Among us" to my 6-year old and he said he doesn't like it, whereas Journey [0], LEGO Batman [1] or The Gardens Between [2] (the games he is playing these days) is something he prefers more. I totally understand the "social perspective" moment you mentioned, it's a super important part of a child's life, but I still kinda stand on my previous idea, because instilling good taste is something that not only affects your own kids, but also the social circle they interact with. I get that even "good taste" is a subjective thing, but hey, all Wikipedia roads lead to Philosophy :)

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/journey/id1445593893

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lego-batman-dc-super-heroes/id...

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-gardens-between/id13719655...
Side note: Hacker News is an IT guys best friend, came here for confirmation after staff started complaining about gsuite being down and the disruption announcement is top spot. Much appreciated
The way the students were acting are putting other peoples lives at risk. It’s not straightforward.
> This is mostly targeted at apps like Apple Music where Apple allows deep Siri integration without allowing the same to competing apps.

it seems that, according to Spotify, Siri works with Spotify.

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/siri/
> I feel the same about Liquorice

I was starting to get worried that I was the only one. There should be laws prohibiting the placement of the word candy anywhere near the word liquorice. It's the worst form of false advertisement I've come across. Candy is supposed to taste good!

That childhood trauma is still with me to this day. I feel disgust and anger at the mention of liquorice.
I agree, with a strong enough sandbox I am very happy to use sideloading. Fortunately, iOS provides Safari for such a sandbox.

According to screen time on iOS, I use Safari 2x more than all my other native applications combined. Including to play games. Especially with "Login with Apple", and "Apple Pay" I find that most websites are as easy to use as native applications.
I just had problems playing Google Music. I assumed it had something to do with service derating because of the move to YouTube music.
Well now you need a guitar amp.
> Yeah, standups are for triage. If someone raises an issue then you work out who they need to talk to about that and arrange for that to happen. The details get hashed out in the separate smaller meetings (or 1:1 conversations).

Honestly, I expect competent developers to be able to do that on their own, without needing someone to make arrangements or having to wait for a standup.
Yep analytics is experiencing issues for me.
I hope the President chooses Allison Jones Rushing or Barbara Lagoa, because Amy Coney Barrett has cited Jacobson favourably.
I assume you're referring to this? https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.463.pdf

Gotta say in my opinion it didn't age well for a paper published in 2020 (but pre GPT-3). In practice, we have an O that is pretty good at describing how to build weapons against bears despite having absolutely no idea what "weapon" or "bear" refers to.

But also, I don't seem to understand how this relates to the discussion, so can you help me there?
It has been absolutely fascinating to see my 3 year old interact with his grandparents as he "helps" them play Scrabble on their iPad.

Together they decide to watch in-app ads; try installing some free-to-play game apps that seem like they might be amusing for an adult to show a child how they use; and otherwise explore the bounds of what you can do & learn on the modern walled-garden Internet. The grandparents are pretty media savvy ("this is an advertisement -- they want to sell you something") but are overall a little less conservative than the parents about screen time and are occasionally willing to, for example, try new apps that turn out to be scammy shovelware.

I've been thinking about getting the kid a non-networked desktop PC with a keyboard and seeing whether he derives any joy from the kind of basic, actual applications I grew up with -- a word processor program and a printer; literally QBASIC and gorillas.bas; etc.; with the understanding that this is an amusing anachronistic toy.

To be honest the biggest thing I'm trying to think about with the kids is not so much about screen time but about dealing with information more generally. Ads work really well on kids, but so does any organic, confidently stated information.

How do you convey the idea that that "just because you read something online doesn't mean it's true"? What happens when adults in your life (including sometimes your own parents) don't model a safe level of skepticism?
One thing that amazes is me is how the individual rights objections to these orders get so little credit. People go into deep discussions of whether the cost/benefit makes sense (do you save sufficient lives with a measure to offset the cost of the restrictions).

As you point out, this is collectivist, utilitarianist thinking, and it gets us to a bad place. There is a very simple reason why these restrictions are outrageous: individuals have a right to gather with their friends if they so choose.
I remember when the Netflix prize was underway, there were certain movies—Napoleon Dynamite was one of them specifically—where it was incredibly difficult to determine if someone would enjoy it based on their other ratings. And yet it was also enormously popular, so lots of people ended up reviewing it.

Honestly, read up on the articles discussing the Netflix prize, they tended to mention a lot of unexpected gotchas. For instance, it turns out, ratings aren’t really independent. If you rate something good, it will affect how you rate the next thing. Stuff like that.
I was out of the loop on this. What the hell, NYT. This is why we can't have nice things.
I'd argue that younger people are less likely to vote because they're less likely to find politicians who they want to vote for, so just telling them to vote largely misses the point.
You can download apps on Windows from anywhere and there is no sandboxing.
Google search is up. Google Mail, Calendar, Docs seem to be down.

(This is probably a testament to who pays the bills.)
Kick the students out, keep their tuition. Be done with it.
I haven't read all your docs exhaustively, but how do you solve joining your parallelized query results without running into spill problems? Or rather, how do you solve for spill?

Once your hypertables balloon to large sizes, you may be able to store handily across many Postgres instances, but collating the sub-queries will be costly. Spilling to e.g. S3 is a potential solution, but brings with it a new bag of problems, not to mention cost.
A Human Perspective on Algorithmic Similarity
Several services haven't been working for me for 20 minutes and the dashboard hasn't been updated. They're effectively useless.
> I always felt weird after drinking a cup of licorice tea.

Same. It's a shame because it's often added to some blends that I would otherwise enjoy and would not expect licorice root to be added.
I’ve wondered the same about grapefruit and bitterness as well.

I’ve compared relative bitterness of things to a grapefruit. My partner thinks grapefruit is less bitter than beer, or many items I consider barely bitter at all. Yet I find grapefruit to be incredibly bitter, out doing almost everything.

Maybe that’s why I don’t like it much?
This section presupposes that you inevitably run out of tasks that are high-impact and easy, which hasn't been what I've observed. There are tons of little code functions that can be tested, released via open source / internal libraries and add lots of value.

I'm constantly creating new open source projects with little functions that get lots of adoption. Just added some code to validate a SQLite schema in a Pythonic manner for example. Nothing groudbreaking, but makes it easier for the folks that need to do this in the future.

The Unix-philosophy is writing programs that do one thing well. Lots of little functions can be combined to build something great. Lots of "snacks" can be used to make a feast!
Isn't search more or less static? Docs and mail change instantly and users expect instant feedback
You've heard of this pandemic thing going on though, right? Perhaps they should have not put an age restriction on.
I've wondered about the difference in behavior of crows when they encounter humans at different kinds of places.

I put peanuts out on the rail of my deck for the squirrels (I've got Eastern grey squirrels and Douglas squirrels) and the Steller's jays. If I see crows around, I'll give them some too.

If I'm actually outside on the deck, even far away from where the peanuts are, the crows will not come get them. They wait for me to go in, then get the peanuts, then fly to a nearby tree to wait for me to come put out more peanuts.

I have never been aggressive in any way to the crows, and will toss peanuts to near the foot of the tree they are sitting in. They have also seen me giving peanuts to squirrels. The Eastern greys will run up to near me, and the Douglas' would take them right out of my hand if I let them, so the crows have plenty of evidence I'm happy to give away peanuts. But they will not get close.

Yet at nearby supermarkets and fast food places, they will walk around the parking lot looking for food and come right near people. They seem completely indifferent to people there, only reacting if someone happens to be walking or driving right toward them, then they casually move to the side.

They don't seem worried at all about the humans at those places. So why are they much more cautious about me at my house?

I wonder if they recognize houses are human nests, and so we might be a lot more touchy about other animals in the area, and so the crows are much more cautious than when they encounter us at the supermarket?
I've not ever made licorice so I will have to defer to your experience.
That's your example? That is infuriating. A young man killed an elderly woman and has not just his death sentence but his conviction dropped because of his race. Talk about privilege.

My heart aches for the victim and her family. That is an extraordinary and disgraceful, politically-motivated injustice.
Can’t help but to think of the international student angle here.
Oh thats fair I should have done the math
"In total, I did this with about 40 different farms. There was a time when there were several new ones every day. For a while it was pretty much a 24/7 job as maximizing apy required constantly jumping to some new hype."

There is a line from a movie ...

"Short everything that guy has touched"
If we're talking about space mining is Lithium abundant too? It's number 3 so should be everywhere in the universe?
Does herd immunity work for COVID-19?
I though we did not yet know whether infection leads to future immunity.
Even better than 18 low-risk and 2 high risk is 2 low-risk and 2 high-risk. I think the intention here is to reduce infections until a vaccine comes out
A deep dive into Swift’s function builders
Almost sounds like making offerings to a friendly god. How curious!
Kuberenetes is a leaky abstraction that by default allows the deployment of sloppy unreliable apps if you don't know what you're doing. If something is broken and it just restarts automatically and no one is paying attention, it will do that in perpetuity. Ideally, you would see those issues and iterate to make your app more stable, but it makes it easy to just forget about it. The additional layer of complexity is also harder to understand easily for most devs that haven't spent the time to learn kubernetes and even with devs that do spend the time it can still make understanding how everything works hard. Letting tech debt like unstable apps grow into mud balls can reduce a team's velocity in the long term and in some cases the short term as well.

Kubernetes is great for easily sharing and executing recipes, but it can make it tough for people that want to become chefs that are able to use reason and intuition to build and understand complex systems.
all but functional?
I wonder how much of this is because of protests.
Yeach, we're seeing `Authentication Expired` for our firebase auth calls. Firebase static hosting still looks up.
If college campuses are an issue, then maybe something should be done about college campuses instead of drastic measures for everyone who happens to be in that age group? (EDIT: looking at the text of the order, it does have more specific restrictions for students and people living in some specified properties, which makes the general ban on top even weirder)

It's also a very dangerous trend to ignore human rights because it is convenient for your current goals.
All your intellectual output (include during the shower) belongs to the company by default and you have to ask for permission for the company to sign away it.
I'm just not sure what that has to do with it. If they're engaging in specific risky behavior, maybe it's justified to ban that risky behavior, but you can't just tell an entire age bracket they've been naughty and ground them for 2 weeks as punishment.
In Boulder the area that students living off campus is called the hill. It happens to be surrounded by the most affluent (read old) portion of Boulder. I’ve seen gangs of students walking up and down Pearl Street with no masks. The students are not isolating
This may be a dumb question, but could a phone app work for a good number of people? Not sure off hand how not to amplify your own voice, but otherwise a phone can easily do the DSP work can use wired or bluetooth headphones.
> when `foo`'s argument is not easily known at compile time?

There's no such thing. In Julia, all types are computed at compile time.

The catch is types such as `Union{Int, Float64}`. If fwrdt returns that, the compiler will generate a specialized method for `foo(::Union{Int,Float64})`. But `Union{Int,Float64} isa Int` can not be evaluated at compile time, so that specialized method will have run time type checks.

Julia provides some static analysis tools to detect this, and help you locate the `1` in fwrdt which should be a `1.0`.
> Putting the strictest measures on the segment of the population that is least likely to get ill seems questionable

It's less questionable when you look at it a different way: this is one of the segments of the population most likely to behave irresponsibly. It's a common observation that people in this age range often unjustifiably act like they're invincible. Those feelings can lead to bad results for others, like in the case of a drunk driver killing someone else in an accident.
I'm confused.

Do waste management districts handle epidemiology issues in Utah?
Interesting to note that the controller connects to Amazon servers directly. Is that something new or has it been done before?
Replace it with Christian. Churches have been shut down for the duration in many parts of Colorado including boulder.
A high water pressure in a container will also not move. High pressure water moves to low pressure areas just like high voltage moves to low voltage when a path exists.

A larger pipe will push more water at a lower pressure like a low resistance wire will move more energy at a lower voltage.