skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US, most doctors are independent providers for hospitals, they don't have a traditional 'manager'

You are putting a round peg in a square hole. As I already stated, these are not the kind of managers we see in development where your manager is your "boss". Even as independent providers, doctors will have someone they are interfacing with who will see to the admin and other work so they are focused on medicine. Less than half of all practicing doctors in hospitals in the US are independent. Most of them are employed by the hospital. You are grievously misunderstanding the role of the "manager" here. There are certainly far fewer managers in independently practicing medical facilities like clinics but that's because the volume is far lower and the doctors themselves wear many hats

> but it's lower skill work delegated to people that are subordinate to doctors

Again, this is very insulting to the people working these roles. They are not "subordinate" and the work in not "low skill". These are parallel roles to doctors. Leaving this kind of work to doctors would result in a failure of the medical profession in its entirety because of the sheer volume and sensitivity of it
I agree.

Clear cutting is the dominant forestry method here. Everything else was actually illegal only a short while ago. One can personally sample by eye the wood piles one sees on forest roads, or on wood trucks. In general, the material is quite small. There is very little forest in the whole country that has trees that are over 100 years old, and it's not because of forest fires.

My family owns forest and some of that was felled 60 years ago. The trees are quite small for clear cutting. The plan is to remove some of them, to make the others grow more. The proposed standard alternative (that most neighbors are doing), clear cutting it all and planting saplings - would that really be carbon negative? The trees in a way have the most growth potential right now.
As an engineering manager, I read and agree with this guy's critique. Coding is creative, uncertain, and vulnerable work, and if engineering managers are responsible for whatever leads to results (as he reads Drucker as saying, and which I agree is really our job), then yeah, everything he describes as hampering us in doing that job (tools like OKRs, the need to quantify results, etc. etc.) are all indeed real issues!

And if you look at how engineering management happens, at really any org big enough to have even one manager of engineers, I think you'll see this stuff really is a problem. But it's a problem because, well, organizations need to find some way to scale accountability over all of their members, which, when it faces the really tricky vulnerable and weird work of engineering, runs into these problems because of how incommensurate that work is with the tools it has to understand how it's going at scale.

When EMing is a bullshit job, it's because the engineering manager is so constrained by the bureaucratic needs of the organization that she cannot actually do the work that matters between the lines. Like when you've gotta manage up so much that you cannot find the room to support an engineer grappling with a novel and uncertain task? Well, the engineer suffers, rightfully blaming engineering management -- we were responsible for supporting them, and failed to do so.

As EMs, we have to ask ourselves what we wanna do. Do we wanna fit with what the org asks of us, or do we wanna do what we're responsible for: delivering results by supporting engineers as they do the scary, vulnerable work they do? When those things diverge, I think good managers discover ways to keep the people above them happy, while delivering on their responsibilities to their team. But they often do it despite, not because of, the organization they're serving.

I'd like to say it's as easy as just always focusing on results, as when they are delivered, the rest of the org will see that you know what's up! But no. If you just do that as an EM, you'll be fired, or passed over for promotions, or have your team cut from underneath you, or be told you're a better engineer than manager and demoted. Ultimately, your job is to do both: to deliver what the people above you say they need, and to help those who report to you.

The coda to this is that the people above you are also human, and also probably realize what they're asking of you is bullshit (if you're lucky). So if you're capable of dealing as humanely and vulnerably with those above you as much as your direct reports, you'll also win them over, and you'll win the cover from them to be able to do what matters with your team.
I can't speak for everyone, but I would not argue against PMs or Senior Leadership.

There are two critical differentiators in the role of an EM: power over those managed, and the bias toward management over productive output. The people who predominately fill those roles are those who are good at management, not those who are good at production (and, by the way, the "good EMs" which DO exist are generally people with a history as an IC, and treat the role more as a PM).
Or to build things that use that attention/addiction in less harmful ways. Gambling addiction is only a serious problem if gambling is a process of consistently losing things of value. Casinos (defined broadly) are not an inherent feature of the world; they are an optimization to convert other people's attention and/or addiction into revenue.
That's not how scalpers operate. They're interested in getting the product off their hands as fast as possible. Given that PS5s are produced in mass quantities, and that supply disruptions are easing, buying and holding PS5s is almost certainly a money losing proposition.
I love this idea so much and it reminds me of what I believe about e.g. Uber/Doordash/AirBnb: Which is, we need to let go of this idea that large companies deserve all the spoils of merely being the first to build a useful database-based service, especially if such an idea was kind of perhaps inevitable.

This is where both our intuitive and literal "intellectual property" type ideas just go too far. I don't care that they were first or even that they worked hard or whatnot, when you can look at the thing today and see undue harm, take it apart.
>This seems like a non-story. Rates were insane due to Covid. Things are now normalizing. The rate is still incredibly expensive and should fall more.

Things normalizing are important. Many things are still out of whack. Inflation is still 9%. Demand is decreasing. Why is that a "non-story"? It seems to me it's interesting in both directions.
> This seems like a non-story.

It’s still very much a story. A big question has been whether recent inflation would be transitory. Ocean shipping rates coming back down means that at least this one facet of inflation will end up being transitory.
> For the first time since the Winter 2020 batch, the Summer 2022 batch was in person.

Nice.

> For the Summer 2022 batch, we received 19,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 240.

Acceptance rate of 1.26%. For context, Harvard has a 3.19% [0]

> Demo day

is on September 7th and 8th. [1]

> United States: 140 startups, India: 19 startups, United Kingdom: 11 startups, Israel: 8 startups

Interesting how the country breakup does not represent country GDPs at all. I would expect more from Germany or Japan if it were the case. But it shouldn't surprise people who are familiar with YC and tech startups in general.

Besides Michael's post, which provides some details, I think it would be interesting to hear from YC their view on the upcoming months/years of high uncertainty in geopolitical and economical terms, and how is this going to affect companies that apply for YC, and want to graduate and go build great companies.

[0]: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/1/admissions-class...

[1]: https://www.ycombinator.com/demoday/faq/
The big names provide recording and transcription now - Zoom has it, Teams has it (Teams apparently does it realtime and live and it's not bad, great for the deaf!).

I suppose those are part of paid plans, and they trigger the "your shit is being recorded, dude." warnings.
Or, the alternative, is that yours (apparently) and gp’s point of view is not that common as you think it is. So it is not me that have to understand things, it is you that are wrong.

Also, the mentioned example seems very implausible. What makes an author unique is not what source they used for inspiration. Two writers will get the exact same “19th century travel journal” and write to completely different stories inspired by it. In different genres most likely.
This is precisely why I am not going to buy into this year's Ryzen motherboards, how am I supposed to attach all of my PCIe 2.0 LSI HBA as well as my 2 GPUs, and NVMe? My options are buying 2 machines (one for storage, one for compute), sacrificing speed somewhere, or buying into either Threadripper Pro OEM or EPYC ($$$).

The bandwidth is there by an order of magnitude, but not the lanes to actually use it.
Batteries were (are?) cheaper and you don't have to handle Hydrogen, which likes to explode.
Maybe we'll only get two new chat apps this year.
You didn't answer the first question...
People who do this kind of stuff don't think of it as "free" necessarily. It's highly rewarding at the most abstract, but more tangibly develops skills that make them more valuable in the workforce, allowing them to demand very high salaries from top companies.
The author of SQLite recently published a paper on olap performance and duckdb that went into greater detail on the virtual machine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32684424

Also, there is a "hint" mechanism in SQLite to force the use of a specific index. A variant of it ("not indexed") can be used to force a full table scan, which is appropriate when more than 5% of a table's rows are involved. The docs strongly admonish that these are not "hints," and the optimizer must obey these clauses when they are used.

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_indexedby.html
Software development is an outlier in that companies don't tend to care where you went to school. Lots of firms on Wall Street will only hire from a few schools, or sometimes even a single school. It makes sense Jane Street would be somewhere in between.
If your manager is only adding a marginal value to your career it is time to have a conversation with them. A manager that isn't advocating for their team isn't a good manager at all. They're something else.
> I know I've worked with some devs who prefer working with well defined requirements and get uncomfortable when making decisions that haven't been formally approved.

A thing I teach to younger folks: no one likes making decisions, but that's where money comes from.
Teammate here! Very fun technical challenge - happy to answer any q’s
I am under the impression that sqlite may struggle with many concurrent writers
> Would you prefer to add correctness tests to the compositionality that Julia gives “for free” due to multiple dispatch, or would you rather rewrite huge libraries from scratch?

This is a hypothetical future choice, and in that case I would absolutely choose the former (and I hope we get there).

But the current choice is more like "composability that often isn't tested as generically as it should be, with no interfaces at the language level, even the abstract types used for the composition often not having clear specifications, all of it holding together only because of people fixing things organically as problems arise". Then the choice isn't as clear cut - choosing to go with the more limiting option where things are known to work together well with each other is a respectable, sane choice.
If we're going to claim composability as a strength of the language, it shouldn't come with hidden traps, caveats like "composability but really only if the hidden assumptions on both sides happen to be satisfied".
I would take a smart doctor motivated by money over a dumber one motivated by caring for people.

The reality is all of the top surgeons, cardiologists, etc. didn't become those professions just because they were "well rounded", they were smart and they wanted prestige/money. It would be good for medicine to have more smart and ambitious people.

Well rounded is just a euphemism to discriminate against Asians through affirmative action.
You think lawyers and doctors don't have people to manage them?

The reason most engineers don't have secretaries is because we usually prefer doing the same thing with automation and scripts.
You are arrogant and, more importantly, wrong.
In Europe we also have housing crisis in the capitals and other desirable places and there thr density already what the YIMBY want. If you want to solve the housing crisis don't ask why the rent is so high in NY, SF or London. Ask why there are so few desirable pleaces for people to live.
I'm not sure that's true.

Many lawyers do work on separate projects: Alice drafts my will, Bob handles your divorce, etc. Since these can usually proceed independently, there's not much to manage. However, bigger cases/projects usually do have a structure: someone, perhaps a partner, interacts with the client, develops a strategy, and delegates its implementation to associates.

Likewise, the doctor who manages your blood pressure in a private practice is fairly independent. On the other hand, hospitals, especially teaching ones, often incredibly hierarchical, with med students at the bottom and layers of interns, residents, chief residents, fellows, and attending, with a department chair on top. Attendings can treat patients individually, but they also oversee the work of the more junior staff; they're even called "supervising physicians" in some places.

If any project has more than a few people, I'm not sure how a "team" can proceed without at least a de facto organize/leader, and if that leader spends most of their time leading....well, that's a manager.
>Cherry picking data to fit your point is stats 101 for "journalists"

What "point"? Shipping rates are down 60% in a year. That is a fact.

I guess business reporting is too complicated for some people here.
Nobody wants to live there because there is no local work. If you work remote it's an amazing value proposition.
Technically it was 1/3 had or had family members, which means the number is actually much better than 1/3 but I was being generous.

We don’t know how many people skip healthcare because a doctor is inconvenient (in the states or in other regimes) either. So it seemed the most appropriate comparison to make.
This is a good objection, and I think of parallel concepts, e.g. email. I think there is at least an argument that you don't need complete decentralization if you have federation. That being said, as we watch email consolidate, it is a thing you have to work to preserve.
Idk if its that big of an "if". People who are ending up as managers are rarely highly trained in the job or receiving a ton of support. Often just attracting bad personalities. Its always someone who wants to do something different then engineering, they become a manager. Imagine if we hired engineers because someones friend thought it sounded interesting and they had to do all their learning on the job.

> By this logic every job is useless. Any role can have someone bad at it.

Its not really the same because there's only one manager. If i had redundant managers maybe then a couple bad ones could get by. bad engineers have a tons of checks to prevent them being a real drain. theres no code review for a manager.
The different Stack Exchange communities have very different ethos, and thus their answers have some very different vibes. In particular, the ones related to creative writing (especially https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ ) are full of speculative and creative conversations that, while still constructed around the Question/Answers paradigm are not quite so draconianly managed as the technical Stack Exchanges.
The issue regarding editors is a real one IMHO.
Common Lisp is too tied towards emacs. It can put, people who don't like Emacs, off. And while there are alternatives, but like the author said none of them provide as a complete CL dev env as Emacs.
But at least there is work done to perhaps remedy this issue.
Emacs is the main reason I gave up on CL.
[Context: After founding a startup and being a VPE or CTO four times, I now train and coach engineering leaders at vpecoach.com]

Engineering management is anything but a bullshit job, the impact of good leadership is very, very high. Knowing where you are going and why, having good processes, and solid communication is a step function improvement in basically every dimension of engineering team performance.

But I also understand this person’s take, because just because it’s an important and impactful job doesn’t mean YOUR engineering leader or manager is any good.

Like everything, management and leadership are skills, and most leaders have received next to no training during their entire career.

What level of leadership do you realistically expect from an untrained person? And if that isn’t what you need, what are you doing about it?
Several of us would regularly play it in a Chemistry computer lab on SGI workstations. Annoyed the hell out of the students doing molecular simulations, regrettably.
People with emotional issues aren't as likely to be promoted into management. Management is often way more stressful as you're getting dumped on from above, from peer managers, and all the negative feedback from devs all at the same time (plus needing to actually facilitate getting things built). Maybe you work at some poor company that can't promote devs high enough so they're forced into some form of management role to get a promotion. Those companies suck because they steal good IC talent for roles they're less suitable/valuable for, and causes the company to have perverse incentives to over bloat their management pool than necessary.
Yes I think that's fair especially about writing technique if that was the OP's original analogy, and in particular about new writers as you point out.

What I was referring to specifically was inspiration and knowledge of niche events that become the details that bring prose / art alive. These immediately lose their effect if they are reused which is why my friends who are professional writers dedicate an enormous amount of time to research in the hope that these details may jump out to them.

In a lot of contemporary art, a curator's view of work is often hung around a particular piece of research and that must be unique to warrant the attention of the public - my original point was that that research just can't be shared until the work is revealed.

However, maybe to your point, there is a lot of value in a more technical literary HN which encourages meta discussion on the process of writing rather than the content.
Not the majority of the users, the majority of the miners, influenced by leadership/the wealthy. This is plutocracy. And very much not an improvement over the status quo.
I'm not an expert at all, but I was under the impression that hydrogen requires electricity for it to be synthesized. And that it's quite a bit more efficient just to use electricity in a battery directly instead of going through the process to create hydrogen, store it, and use it.

I do think it could be used in situations where the energy density benefits are important (planes, racing).
Translation: We‘re firing the last 5 customer support people in the organization.
I don’t think it was an error, given how the article describes its handling of delimiters. In the example:

(foo (bar))
(foo (novel) (bar))

The balanced parentheses around bar “haven’t changed”, but the symbol between them “has”, and the balanced parentheses around bar were “added”. It’s a perfectly valid diff given the approach, even if it’s not ideal, as the author found.

The only way you could arrive at “novel) (” given the algorithm, I think, would be something like

(foo (bar))
(foo novel) ((bar))

(This might be off too, hard to write code on mobile)
I have in fact only seen these kinds.
Would you take a 10% pay cut? 10% is a significant amount.
The mainstram writing groups are terrible. The average writing ability on many of the writing groups are actually lower than the rest of reddit.

I think it attracts hobbyists who refuse to take any advice. It's like how some grandmas refuse to use timers when cooking pasta. These groups are full of people who are always challenging the norm. They spend more time criticizing Stephen King and R.A. Salvatore's writing over making any meaningful output.
An opportunity for my favorite "Russian composer" joke!

Did you know that Tchaikovsky struggled with depression? He once tried to commit suicide by walking into a frozen river. Do you know what happened?

He got cold feet.

It's funny 'cause it's true!
Release overview page:

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/3-3/
Legally held accountable for what, exactly? Providing a service that is explicitly legal and heavily regulated?
Engineering management (when done right) has some key benefits

- protect the team from bullshit corporate politics / micromanagement (pad the team estimates with a buffer / push back on management unrealistic expectations)

- help team member fulfill their potential and grow outside their comfort zone

- give the team credit when credit is due (help shy people be seen etc)

- promote good people (and fire toxic / bad performers that drag the team down)

- help the team prioritize / prevent going into rabbit holes

- help the team get to decisions faster

- hire good people

- provide training

- provide budget / enable / arrange fun activities (offsite / hackathons)

- ensure inclusive environment (give room for introverts to speak their mind in a non awkward way / make sure not only extroverts are speaking in meetings by splitting to smaller groups / doing activities that are async e.g. writing ideas anonymously via virtual post it notes etc)

All of this can be done by a good peer or mentor, doesn't have to be a manager, but it sure helps if your manager is also a mentor.
So we used WikiHouse construction to build a community centre in our local park. You can see a timelapse here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTkW87vmUQ

Took 4 people 6 days to build it. Slotted together like lego, it was quite something to watch.
If you consider interns and residents doctors (which they are), it's not a wild leap of imagination to consider attendings "medical managers".
> most oxygen (50-80%) is created by phytoplankton in the ocean.

True, but not the whole story. Phytoplankton did not create Earth's oxygen atmosphere but today is the majority producer of oxygen. Earth's oxygen atmosphere was initially created by cyanobacteria up to 3.5Bya and which today still produce about 10% of atmospheric oxygen.

The detail I am unsure of is what produced most of the current volume of Earth's oxygen. While phytoplankton today produces the most, that does not mean that most of Earth's oxygen was created by phytoplankton. My suspicion is that, though today cyanobacteria does not produce the majority of oxygen, that cyanobacteria in fact created most of the oxygen currently in our atmosphere.

Surely someone here knows for certain and can speculate on whether the idea of installing cyanobacteria on Mars is any good.
> People who have a high level view can direct the folks down in the trenches quite productively.

This shouldn't be middle managers. technical leader is better for that or most senior on the team. An actual leader on the team.
> What is the alternative to transporting containers by ships?

reducing, repairing, buying laptops every 15 years instead of every 2 years, etc.. that's what we need, there's no miracle solution, just limiting our carbon impact under 2T per year for each of us