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Ask HN: How to manage a team when you don’t know the tech
I recently started as a manager at a smallish company working on <complex tech>. I inherited a team of mixed skill level and tenure.

I think I’m pretty good at people management and generally organizing work and protecting the team. But I’m having real trouble delivering more value because I just don’t have domain knowledge either as a domain-specific developer or end user.

I’ve managed teams before but I was somewhat, or very familiar with the domain, allowing me to engage in much deep conversations with stakeholders up to unblocking the team by taking on design or architecture work that enabled others to come in behind me with a solid scaffolding in place.

I am reading and studying outside of work when I can but with 3 small kids I can’t do much. It seems like I need months of dedicated study and a couple of practical projects under my belt to get up to speed and feel useful instead of just asking for status and estimates like a useless middle manager.

What do you do? Have you had a manager in this position that handled it well? Should I just keep plugging away?
Get hired working on radar for Lockheed Martin or something and pretend to have a gambling problem
The US average is about 21% electricity from coal, a number that's down from over 50% about 20 years ago. And coal is falling over time as well.

It's not an "inconvenient truth", it's outdated information, basically a lie at this point. No one's bothering building new coal plants any more. People ARE building new nuclear plants (Vogtle, etc, not counting the small modular reactors). Nuclear produces about 18-19% of US electricity, nearly as much as coal. Solar is about 4-5% of US electricity (including solar behind-the-meter), hydro is 6-7%. Wind is 10%, geothermal about 0.4%. Wood and biomass waste (including landfill gas, etc) is about 1.3% total. Total renewables and nuclear produce over 40% of US electricity, twice that of coal.

Source:
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
and
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
I imagine this will be front page. It would be nice if the link could be changed to a non-paywalled site.

I recommend The Guardian though I’m mostly indifferent: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/shinzo-abe-for...
Agree 100%.

At the same time, some vets are also nasty and charge extortion scalper prices for trivial services. Welcome to crazy town.
I have noticed a trend recently of high quality, free apps disappearing from app stores. I wonder if it is the changing app store/play store guidelines and changes are making it too difficult to keep up with the changing requirements to keep the apps in the store.
> In this case, they apparently said it in foresight

Eh, I would tend to believe that the slam against Henry Kissinger is mostly hindsight. The foresight part was the rest of the sentence:

>>> and total lack of people with domain/business expertise in the area
Update 3 from terminal:

Jul 07 2022 23:10:51

By Ryotaro Nakamaru

(Bloomberg) --
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was unconscious and unresponsive after he was apparently shot in the chest during a political event in the western city of Nara on Friday, national broadcaster NHK and local media reports said.

Abe, 67, was apparently shot in the chest, national broadcaster NHK said, adding a man had been apprehended at the scene. The suspect appeared to be a young or middle-aged man, an NHK reporter said.

Abe was rushed to a hospital and unconscious after the attack. He may have gone into cardiac arrest, Kyodo News reported, citing local firefighters.

07/07 23:17 ET
Witnesses on NHK are saying that Abe was shot from behind. Abe took one step back at the first shot and fell at the second shot, they said.

07/07 23:24 ET
Police have seized the gun, NHK is reporting. There is some confusion about the gun used, with one witness saying “it looked like a toy bazooka.”

07/07 23:24 ET
The news reports are saying that Abe is in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest -- i.e. without vital signs.

As only a doctor can pronounce someone dead, this is language often used by police before a confirmation is made. While we don’t have details yet, the language being used is not encouraging for Abe’s condition.
Oh

07/07 23:36 photos of the shooter have emerged

https://www.asahi.com/articles/photo/AS20220708001407.html?i...
You could imagine that in quite a few states. California isn’t even on top in terms of GDP per capita (DC, MA, NY, AK, ND all rank higher, CT, WA, WY slightly below).
Thank you for these updates.
Who can blame them; asides from low pay, two things stick with me; many of our friends are teachers, when we get together and there are a couple of drinks, if a photo is taken the teachers in the group reflexively hide their drink out of sight. They’re afraid it might be used against them by parents or a hostile school administration. I had a friend who was wearing something low cut and asked me not to post a group photo for the same reason. That feels like such a violation and outrageous that teachers have to live like nuns in their private lives.
The other, lack of respect or deference. My kid knows his teacher’s first name. That’s just weird to me for some reason.
Good call out, I have edited my comment accordingly.
> User experience trumps any conversation about profits

Ok, sure, you can have this opinion.

But the point still stands that anyone who claims to care about user experience, and yet only gives a solution that results in Apple getting more money, is giving a bad solution.

> just codify the laws of the developer program

As long as Apple gets a 0% cut of app revenue, I think that a lot of people would be OK with some of these laws.

None of this really matters anymore though. Apple lost. They are now going to lose out on all of these app store fees, for developers that go to a 3rd party app store.

And Apple should have proposed a reason solution, that resulted in them getting 0% and also solving these user privacy issues, much sooner.

But they didn't do that. And now the EU law is going to happen, whether Apple likes it or not.

> 3p devs have to be disincentivized from anti-user

And yet the original solution that you gave did none of this, and only gave Apple more money. Which means that your originally gave a dumb idea.

> You keep complaining that I’m not providing any solutions

You did give a bad solution though. You gave a bad solution that did not help users, and only gave Apple more money.

And because you thought of such a stupid idea that doesn't help users in any way, I am accusing you of not caring about users at all, and having bad ideas.
The "scheme in scheme" section is cheating, imo. I like to imagine language implementation on a line between:

- Implement JS in one line with `eval(input)`

- Hand-crafted asm compiler with manual lexing, parsing, codegen, etc

This article is far closer to `(eval input)` than to a real interpreter. The entire front-end is pushed onto the native implementation, and even the tree-walking interpreter just mostly delegates to the host implementation.

I'm not saying that it's useless; it's a very elegant demonstration of how a tree-walking interpreter works at the very simplest level: for each node, evaluate their children, with literals evaluating to themselves and symbols resolving according to their environment. It neatly demonstrates the core principles, but fails to demonstrate any of the parts about language implementation that's actually interesting.

You don't get details (that somebody ultimately has to write) about memory layout, GC implementation, continuations, etc. This is all punted to the host implementation.
Because they are nice places to live with strong economies and lots of amenities. Not because they have a lower tax burden.
>In what world is $500k as a couple “wealthy?” You have to be joking.

It's 7x the median household income.
Everyone is sensitive to large enough changes in price. Converting people to EVs does nothing if those EVs are energy and lithium hogs.

There is no substitute for energy efficiency. Having the right form of energy generation or storage is wonderful but efficiency is a fundamental virtue for hardware that is currently undervalued.
That’s an unusual way to summarize Sunny’s life in the context of this ruling. Judging his personal choices as wins/fails while he is being sentenced for a massive financial and medical fraud.

Who cares if he divorced and never remarried?

Did CEO of Enron fail in life because he divorced his first wife?
The account I have from Melissa is that Marc was the source of all that plussing.
Politically: what motives would the shooter have? I don't follow Japanese politics closely.
Is there any discussion of price caps?
Not in the same way that a flat panel phased array that maintains a fixed angle and aim at the sky can.
> The dystopian social decay that’s so ostentatious in the Tenderloin and SoMa is barely visible in Noe Valley and Pacific Heights, and even in the Mission it’s mostly in your peripheral vision.

Idk the Mission is pretty crazy, too
I'd imagine the top end being where you need the gearing. If you can cut the rpm in half while on a road trip that's double(?) mileage? Im sure it isn't that cut and dry though, they probably did plenty of experiments.
Most investors care about after-tax returns, so increasing the tax rate on certain assets will decrease demand for them.
Shouldn't cities subsidize suburbs? I genuinely don't know the breakdown but when I was a kid and living in the suburbs I remember most of the adults around me commuting into the cities. I live in NY right now and rent prices are basically unlivable for most people so I find it hard to believe most workers don't commute in now as well. At that point subsidizing suburbs is basically required to support the workers who generate all the money for the city, it strikes me as symbiotic.
Learn the tech or come to grips with the fact that you're going to be a (useless) dunce from here on out. Doesn't sound too appealing.

Do what needs to be done -- Buckle down and get a handle on the core technology!

Otherwise how will you evaluate good vs. bad, and avoid being misled or hoodwinked by clueless noobs?
There are some rare legitimate reasons to own pickup trucks, but those trucks should require something between a normal license and a CDL imho.

As for SUVs, yes a ban is a good idea.
Science is making chocolate taste even better
Love seeing people recognise a problem (the time it takes to wait to see a specialist) and then solve it themselves.

I'm interested what you used to build this?
No idea.

They may not track/keep that information, but there's no reason they couldn't.
Busy work, waking up early, memorizing history dates, homework, its all very barbaric. The whole thing was built for a time when parents went off to work in a factory. School as we know it is primitive and helps no one. It hurts those that have difficult upbringings, as they are locked out of top educational opportunities, which may gate them for life. Do away with the whole thing, teach reading and math slowly. With the classics
I wonder about the feasibility of a Mac mini as an AWS Outpost, and furthermore the concept BYOHardware Outposts. In a few years if I snag a used Mac mini for cheap, I envision being able to provision it as an Outpost and have it interop with the rest of the AWS ecosystem. That would be neat.
To be in interesting to see what is to stop this new manufacturer from selling out as well
I went on a long road trip recently with my Model S and charged up at RV parks where we tent camped. It's $10 more than a non-electric site, but that charge's range is worth about $30 worth of gasoline, so it's an easy win and you can skip the time to supercharge.
Man taken into custody after former Japanese PM Abe Shinzo collapses
Checkout wails.io and tauri.app
Just like any business if you want a kid to get a good education, live in a school district that is growing.
Exactly. In Austin, there are the "cities" of Westlake Hills, Rollingwood and Sunset Valley, each with a couple hundred to a few thousand people, that exist just so their residents can take advantage of all Austin has to offer without actually paying for it. Sunset Valley is a neighborhood of just over a square mile that is completely enclosed by Austin.
Come to Australia.. we need more teachers
A Chinese gift card stores value in Japanese yen?

Was there some kind of mix up? Are they laundering their money using foreign currency? Or does US Ikea not understand the difference between Yen and Yuan?
They're fighting to annex them because they consume disproportionate resources, by concentrating the tax base in places that aren't required to pay into the city school system. It's not a subtle effect.
Just after Russia did it, so they'll be in a good company. Why do politicians always have to decide this kind of stuff for people? I view it as basically because they are evil. If an adult consents to have their data accessible to FBI or whatever, in exchange for being able to post selfies and click the cow, let them. Nope, Putin/EUtin think they know better than you.
I guess it’s culture and generational thing but when I was in high school in the early 00s a teacher sharing their first name was a form of building mutual respect.
You're clearly so far out of touch with reality that your contributions aren't beneficial anyway.

I don't mean to be rude about it, but it's kind of bizarre.

That is certainly well beyond the household average in the US, which is still below 100k.
So, yes, most people consider >5x average annual household income to be lumped with "wealthy". Haha, that's two People, each making 20k per month.

Being so totally immersed in your own chase with the Joneses to miss that verges on comedic were it not so insulting.
According to local news, it seems he has died.
I agree that there will be decreased demand, but I don’t see any evidence of a crash. Equities would still out perform most other investments
Actually in exactly the same way. The nice thing about phased arrays is they steer electronically, so you can aim them extremely fast and compensate for any movement. That's how 5G works and that's also how Starlink on moving vehicles works.
I work in conjunction with this segment of the industry. You can do it, but don't be surprised when you can't recover anything in a termination suit.
Boeing CEO ready to cancel 737 Max 10 unless Congress acts – The Seattle Times
Royal Carribean just rolled them out
> The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
Yes, you have some radiative cooling downward and upward but you get a little static boundary layer above you instead of convective flow. You can do the same by making a little wall the same size (you have to do this when sleeping on the ice -- don't attempt that in california!) but I find digging a little trench easier. The same effect either way.
I have a question because I have not kept up with desktop remix for about 10 years. 10 years ago you could download a proprietary driver for Linux and Nvidia and it would actually work great. Is that still the case today or are you just completely hosed if you have Nvidia graphics?
Why is it weird to know your teachers first name?

To me it seems absurd not to know your teachers first name.
Outside of the US:

>> October 12, 2020 - Insulin prices are more than eight times higher in the US than in 32 comparable, high-income nations combined, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

>> In 2018, the average insulin prices in the US was $98.70, compared to $6.94 in Australia, $12.00 in Canada, and $7.52 in the UK.

US Compared to Similar Nations: https://pharmanewsintel.com/news/insulin-prices-8x-higher-in...
I don't see a problem with it, although (gas prices aside) it's not ideal since I find it hard to really look around while I drive, especially in places that are unfamiliar. I once lived at a place I'd stayed at for a couple of years and it wasn't until I was moving out that I realized I'd never once taken a left turn from my own driveway! These days I tend to do that kind of neighborhood wandering in google maps/earth.
but you would hopefully not export all messages every time? incremental?
Kids are brats, parents are insufferable. low pay, having to deal with administration and bureaucracy. no surprise.
BA.5 Is Spreading Quickly
The laser part seems easy, the targeting part seems hard. I'm imaging some type of gimbal, is there a better way?

Also seems likely that if they can find a way to make small sats with the ability to accurately point a laser at another sat, that would have pretty obvious implications to the defense dept. SpaceX is a military contractor after all.
UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles are some of the best engineering schools on the planet.
Normal users will probably just check that the green padlock in their address bar.

I think this is targeted towards securing chat traffic from thrid-party hosting services accidentally leaking or passively spying on you. Think problems that arise from early HTTPS termination like the cloudflair's https leak.
Ask HN: YC Dad Pro Tips
My wife and I are expecting our first child in late November. Truthfully, I never thought I would be a dad, but I am very excited. I am fearful of what the future may hold for me, for my family, and for my child especially in this bold, brazen world we are living in where there are so many unknowns. How does one make the best of it? What are some YC Dad Pro Tips?
When I first visited Venice, I loved it, but that was 40 years ago. Thirty years later it had lost much of its charm. There did seem to be too many tourists, but in all honesty, I think the age of a visitor alters perception.

In any case, City Walk videos may not be ideal, but they provide a rough idea of the current situation.

https://youtu.be/QqTsxl820lo
Yes, unfortunately — that’s what’s on HK news too
Update: reports say Abe "was showing no vital signs"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/07/japan-shinzo...
> Back in the day, your health record was like a criminal record. If it got a black mark, you couldn't buy insurance any longer. I hope we never go back to that.

I'm honestly confused how this comment flowed from mine. Getting a vaccine isn't a health problem. These databases make it much easier to get your vaccination records, since you don't have to track down records from every health provider you may have visited (including ones from before you could talk).
Teachers are considered second in terms of contributing most to society but teacher pay is near the bottom.
They are talking about non-higher ed when referring to "schools".
Clarify what you mean.

Education is the single best tool humans have invented for progressing knowledge and solving social issues.

But the current education systems in the US are pretty bad though, from what I've read.
The TikTok ‘blackout challenge’ has now allegedly killed seven kids
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32007829
"begging the question" is only wrong when you apply it to the wrong logical fallacy.

Otherwise, it is just a descriptive phrase that really makes more sense than "raises the question", IMO. There really is no official book of phrases where anything outside that usage is wrong -- otherwise the first use of "begging the question" itself would have been wrong. Or, if we insist that there is some notion of official phrases amongst the population, the logical meaning of the phrase would have long been with the descriptive one.

Also, whether you call building blocks lego or legos it is bad for the trademark.

I also don't get why someone gets to sell naming rights to a building and we're suddenly supposed to call it something else like it hasn't been there for 100 years.

So yes, I've visited the Sears Tower. I play with legos. I've played ultimate frisbee, etc... If they want me to change what I'm calling things, they can start paying me.
Why does the "Decentral Bank" have safeguards and ways to modify "immutable" constructs just like any other web3/DeFi project then?

The financial system is the way it is for a reason, and crypto is not some sort of revolutionary unicorn that noone has ever thought of before teenagers wanted to buy ape pictures. Yeah, proof of ownership is cool and stuff. Meanwhile almost the whole of DeFi and Web3 is even running counter to the very core philosophy of cryptocurrency and/or decentralisation… and this comes from an early Bitcoin evangelist. I’m truly starting to believe that the crypto “investors” nowadays are the only ones not understanding this “new asset class” that for some reason is 14 years old and has CME futures. You’re not even playing with safety off, you just strapped a black stock market to a blockchain, handed the safety to amateurs and criminals and are playing with regulation off.

But yeah, the stupid nonbelievers, that’s why volatility must be present. First of all, what’s happening to DeFi isn’t volatility, and secondly I’ve heard that kind of reasoning before and it never ends well.
The ACM has made the book Structured Programming available for free. One of the most interesting parts of the book is what it has to say about objects as implemented in Simula:

> A procedure which is capable of giving rise to block instances which survive
its call will be known as a class; and the instances will be known as objects
of that class. A class may be declared, with or without parameters, in exactly
the same way as a procedure...

That original idea of objects is very similar in spirit to a closure. It is amazing to have an article on object-orientation inside the book about structured programming. The ideas are so old, yet keep getting rediscovered.
"Picking the winner" would imply the state forcing market participants to buy the state's insulin.

As long as they're not forcing people to buy their insulin then what they're doing is more akin to setting a price floor (assuming they are selling at cost rather than subsidizing a loss).

But hey if it's going to be a boondoggle then the private sector should have nothing to fear from competition here, right?
> Do you have anything to backup this claim about anyone in particular?

Yes. Half a lifetime spent in the United States Navy. Traveling to, and living in, over 39 different countries on 6 different continents, from Canada, England, Italy, Germany, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, Malaysia, Laos, Haiti, Costa Rica, Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and on, and on, and on some more.

> This is just unfounded prejudice and stock racism.

This is fucking word. for. word. the stock "woke" response from someone who's never traveled the world.

Go ahead. Travel to the countries I listed. See which ones smell not-so-great and which ones don't. If you think it's a matter of "racism" and not a matter of "insufficient public funds to provide for widespread public sanitation", you're not only wrong, you're hilariously wrong, and hilariously ignorant.

India literally had a campaign called, "Poo in the Loo!" due to the fact that there was a significant problem with public defecation.
All PE overlords are not the same. Learn what the company's style is and base your decision on how they've handled their other investments. Did they gut it and continue to run a husk? Did they buy companies to change leadership and then sell it to be an "add on" to other PE investments? Did they cut costs, load.on a reasonable amount of debt, take it public again and remain on the board and reap the rewards? All that and more could happen, and you will see your future in what has been done to other acquired companies.
I wasn't saying that businesses should do it... but I wouldn't be mad if power companies had to