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I strongly agree with you.

I went to berkeley in the 90's. Tuition was ~$2k (usd) per semester. I lived in a shared house for $300/month. I paid for everything out of pocket by working for a campus job (which paid $8/hour vs $5/hour minimum wage). So I was lucky and walked away with no debt.

I feel for the current generation that will need to take on debt if they feel they need a college education, and I know the amount I've been saving for my kids.

I can't change anything about the monetary policy that allowed student loans to be so large. But I do try my best to do outreach and recruiting from candidates with non-standard backgrounds and who didn't come from one of the big CS schools.
Similar to the other top comment, you're saying everyone who believes this must be naive and/or immature. Except that's the opposite of my experience: the most capable, longest-tenured technical people are the ones who are generally most jaded about management. Myself included.

I believe that there are probably a lot of problems out there that can be fixed by "proper engineering management". The problem is that 95% of what's out there is improper engineering management, which makes everything even worse. The whole point is not that engineering management is completely unnecessary, it's that in actual reality it's a trumped-up support role with false authority and completely swamped with utter bullshit. It's not done properly; that's the whole point.
This looks like a PR piece. She definitely nailed the photoshoots though.
This reads to me like a spiteful piece due to a manager thinking this particular engineer was under performing, and maybe they were or maybe the manager is wrong.

To then declare that all engineering management is bullshit because measuring isn't a discrete number really makes me think less of the author.

I've had both good and bad managers, the good ones are able to identify dead weight, provide career growth and balance company needs against staff needs. The bad ones are yes men or never fire anyone.

Some of this may be company culture, I left my last job because firing people who didn't even show up to work was a 2 month process (amongst other culture problems).. HR only wanted discrete numbers in terms of performance, which to this articles point, is not 100% accurate.

Clearly some are able to measure, and sure its not a discrete number but its possible and currently its a skill, which is why most good managers are also engineers.
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I've been meaning to read that - so no information yet, sorry.
They're not even in production, so nobody knows really. Reading the article they have accepted $65M AUD in deposits which may or may not be refundable. The $1B AUD in demand seems to be a very speculative number likely based on the amount of interest they've received rather than any actual commitments. Probably a ton of customers saying "We'll buy these if you can actually make them". We've seen enough this flame out to stay skeptical, but the fact that they have a prototype and cash deposits is at least a positive sign.
Chicago. My actual GP schedules months out. An appointment with "any doctor in their practice" is within a week. An appointment at their affiliated urgent-care takes hours, usually less. The correct strategy is to get a GP affiliated with an urgent-care, schedule a checkup with the GP, and, meanwhile, just go to the urgent-care for everything; they'll send records over to your doctor if there's anything complicated.
The similar devices for drinking water do add minerals, but for hydrogen production the lack of them is a benefit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_water_generator
Disclaimer: Charlie is a friend of mine, but OTOH, that gives me some personal insight into his thinking. And I think he has a great mind.

Saying that, this is one of the most shocking blog posts by anyone I've ever read. Yes, it was a year ago now, but this is cilivization-saving level stuff, if Charlie is right and Musk makes it work.
Zig has good docs now? Nice.
Last I looked Zig had some of the worst docs I'd seen to the point where I just looked at the std sources and eventually just gave up
My understanding is that it's basically the Canadian Harvard. Is the reputation worse than I thought?
Also they were always 8% behind the market because they were running on Cotsworth's 13-month International Fixed Calendar.

Mostly joking, but it does suggest a pretty isolated internal company culture... they planned projects and billed based on different months than the entire rest of the world. Wild.
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> To answer your nitpick with a nitpick,
> averages can work that way. Do you know
> the distribution of engineering managers
> well enough to say that most aren't
> "about average"?

Sorry it hit a sore spot; especially in a community such as this we should at least try to speak accurately regards statistics.

That's not what I'm saying. The OP is stating that it holds for averages. It doesn't. It might in this case but we don't have the stats.

The statement just doesn't make sense - you can say exactly the same about a random value. It will hold in some cases. Average too. However it will not hold in all cases.
disclaimer - I work in civil/structural engineering but typically much larger structures than houses and mostly concrete and wood and haven't done wood design since school. the following does not constitute engineering advice and should not be relied upon for design or construction purposes. This is merely discussion.

I wouldn't build most houses today out of 2x4s, simply because its not a big enough insulation cavity for a modern home. Stick framing being cheap does not substitute for planning. As you say - you need to design a structure and that includes hiring an engineer for more than just 'passing codes/inspection' but also for structural design of your home.

It's unlikely you'll be able to design a roof out of 2x4s without making major sacrifices to the design of the house, and you're probably not qualified to judge the worst case loading in your area or capacity of a 2x4 roof (or else you wouldn't even mention 2x4s).

The linked site includes several guides including an engineering guide most non engineers would struggle to understand. https://www.wikihouse.cc/guides

Plywood is not particularly prone to water issues, and isn't used in the same way as solid wood would be. In situations where plywood would be having water issues, so would solid wood. You might be confusing plywood and OSB. Structurally, plywood sheathing is primarily used for shear capacity to let structures handle lateral (sideways) loads to resist racking, and to have somewhere to attach the exterior materials of the structure to.

The linked engineering guide provides structural testing numbers of their panels for various capacities that a structural engineer understands. Like proper stick framing, it requires planning and design, rather than grabbing some 2x4s and letting er rip.
To everyone who thinks that $2k/vCPU is a lot of money, it's not.

First, if you're running it on an 8-core server, that's $16k per year, which is about what many companies are paying for an enterprise support contract. It's not much when you consider that it gives you access to Akka engineers at the cost of 1/10 of an FTE.

Second, the $2k number is a list price. All large enterprise deals are negotiated, and nearly all are discounted from the list price. Akka probably won't discount small deals, but they'll be forced to discount larger ones if the buyer has an alternative. Plus, the buyer will demand SLAs, dedicated support, and will often demand changes to the license and custom work on the software itself (tweaks to make it work with X, etc.)

Akka and their larger customers will make it work. The purpose of this license change is to give Akka the ability to get their customers to the table in the first place.
They've all been very visible.
It's possible store billions of humans as embryos that are grown and raised by robotic parents upon arrival. And it should also be possible to genetically engineer those humans to be better suited to that new planet's environment.

Though, by the time we figure out how to do that, "we" probably won't be purely biological, naturally evolved beings any longer.
finally a quanta article in which the math is easy to understand

The binomial series is just algebra. You take something like (a+b)^3 and then you generalize the rule for exponents to any value and , presto done. My question is, when did math become so much harder? I think the quntic formula was when math finally became what It is today. This required a whole new conception of math . How do you go from a simple formula a high school student can grasp, which made Newton a genius because he co-discovered it, to 60+ pages of dense notion at phd level?
Just something to think about next time you overpay for locked down Gentoo Google Edition with a Debian VM.
Is anyone else blown away by the level of talent in this younger cohort nowadays? We have interns and juniors doing solid mid level work.
This is going to sound ironic, but it's not: another philosopher who found purpose in work was Marx. To Marx, work was central to self-expression and human thriving, and part of capitalism's failure was a de-coupling of the results of a worker's toil from the worker, leading to estrangement and alienation. There's a reason why every other people's republic, for better or for worse, valorized the coal-miner and the farmer.
I sometimes wonder if companies could choose to expire their patents earlier. Especially in cases when there are little to no strategic value to uphold them, but lots of potential value to unlock when they are gone.
"embedded" can mean a few different things so that's a bit confusing for me, but if the intent was "show me places sqlite is used as a database backend for user-facing web software", the Nim forum (https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum) uses sqlite as its database backend.
One man's environmental crisis is another man being lifted out of crushing poverty by the abundant energy and wealth produced by that same industrialization and profit motive.

Unless you think cavemen shouldn't have burned sticks for warmth out of concern for CO2 emissions, the way out for humanity will be through (further technological gains enabling more energy expended per capita, hopefully cleanly), not backwards.
It's almost never 5 minutes though, is it? You have to get there, park if you are using a car, possibly pay for parking, depending on the location, go look for the things that you want all over the store, possibly not find some of them, wait in line which could be quite long, get to the car, drive back. All this time will add up.

Instead, I can do some of that shopping on my computer or phone, then quickly reference it again or even set up auto deliveries. A lot of times it'll be cheaper too because I can comparison shop.

For me, it's about convenience and saving time and money. It won't be the same for everyone, of course. The location where you live will dictate whether this shopping experience is similar to yours or not.
1. CL supports multiple dispatch, but its built-in numerical operators are not extensible. There are two libraries, GENERIC-CL and CL-GENERIC-ARITHMETIC, that put wrappers over existing operators... but you have to use those wrappers.

2. Matrices and linear algebra has only rudimentary support in Lisp. It's better than nothing but it's worse than NumPy. MAGICL, Numericals, LISP-STAT, and NUMCL are four such libraries.

3. To my knowledge, minimal/toy implementations of auto diff exist in Common Lisp, but nothing big or serious. Scheme was actually a real hotbed for autodiff research, by Pearlmutter, Siskind, et al.

4. Two of the historically best computer algebra systems are written in Common Lisp: Maxima (derived from MACSYMA of the old days) and FriCAS (derived from AXIOM of the old days). These systems basically build a computer algebra programming language and engine on top of Lisp.
The rub is that their discrimination practices seem to care more about prestige over quality of CS programs.

Sure, go ahead and use quality of school as a filter, but don't go around discriminating against top public schools while accommodating what are honestly fairly mediocre CS programs at certain Ivies / prestige-private-schools.
Interesting. Do you know whether this is true for all gamblers? Or only for problem gamblers? If it’s true of everyone then I wonder what the difference is between people who can walk away and those who feel compelled to keep playing.
> but the sun was really intense in what should have been the cooler months. I'd definitely do some thorough modeling before building one of my own.

I mean sure but like in the worst case, window shades are a thing.

Edit: Or maybe this isn't about passive heating and you're saying long term storage might not be necessary in winter?
Honestly not a very surprising story. Maybe it wasn't even worth skipping the $16k. Looking at the endless list of boondoggles undertaken by some of the middle eastern countries awash with oil, one can only surmise that there is a well staffed consultant class there who are very talented at never saying no, I can say I'm completely unsurprised about that.

If you believe that as an employee of BCG, you're offering next to no value (as a yes man who makes snappy powerpoints to help squash the fleeting doubts of some architecturally aspirational minor royal), and that the actions of your clients are broadly unethical (destroying the planet, facilitating other people destroying the planet, cutting up diplomats, etc.), arguably, is it not ethically appropriate to act as a parasite for such clients to increase inertia in their operations and drain their ill-gotten gains?
To elaborate on this, a CTA would directly transfer the contribution of the copyright to the project. A CLA is much more common than a CTA. A CLA is more complicated: the submitter maintains the copyright, but a sublicense is granted to the project. That sublicense grants rights similar to having copyright, one of them being the ability to relicense. It is possible for the CLA sublicensing agreement to restrict the ability to relicense, but most do not do that.
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The mere existence of this article about this particular song and this discussion about amount to a high level of (mostly) unintended meta-hilarity.

“The first, and most obvious reason, was that the song was supposed to be a bit silly!”

+5 insightful.
>because more terrible managers exist than those "good ones" that you allude do.

The irony is that I've heard the same said about engineers. It's easy to take the cynical point of view, but probably not wise or accurate. Like the OP, in my experience the people making those types of claims tend to have an overly simplistic view of the problem.
Do companies and society promote harmful things that are OK in moderation to me? Debt, soda, sure. Should we reduce that? Sure!

But in the end I’m still the one who chooses to fall to temptation.
Co founder is the way to go. It will increase your chances of success.
Quake and id Software were pioneering things we just take for granted now.

I remember playing QuakeWorld when it came out, on Linux, over a dial up modem. You had ping times of 200-300ms and it was playable. You have to remember at the time Doom and other games were LAN-only. John Carmack used to keep a .plan file with some really cool details behind Quake/QuakeWorld development. Check out Aug 02, 1996 for some detail behind the netcode[1]. You can read the future of gaming being invented right there.

[1] https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/blob/mast...
The VOSK library is good for transcription but there seems like a lack of good simple command line frontends for offline transcription of audio files.

mp4grep works and I've been using it but it has some unnecessary features if this is all you want to do (it's mainly designed to cache the transcriptions and let you search them rather than just write them to a text file) and hopefully someone will make a simpler command line transcription tool.
I wish this evil company would stop spamming the internet for PR.
Maybe a static site generator that throws in random noise/errors so it feels like a handwritten HTML/CSS site?
I tried Zig recently but I found the unsilenceable lints to be a huge productivity killer. I actually posted a link to the GitHub issue this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32751317

This makes a normal workflow with `watchexec zig test` basically impossible, since before I can even run the tests I have to spend time hunting down which variables are used/unused at the moment and (un)commenting them. And it seems like they're planning to double down on this by making you adjust even more trivial things like public/private and var/const before it will even compile your code. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/335 https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/224

Maybe I'm a bad developer, but my code is never perfect the first time around. I always spend time experimenting and refining my designs. I want to find a design that works, and only then spend time polishing and prettifying before I git push.

I do understand the reasoning (they don't want people committing poor quality code), but this implementation just seems completely backwards to me. It breaks the natural order. It's like saying we won't let you ctrl+s until your tests pass to make sure you don't commit broken code. Stop nannying me and let me get my work done!
Somehow Starbucks seems to excel at bringing prepackaged microwave food to a personalized premium price point. I stand there and watch them put it in the microwave.
I assume it's the same in every company after a particular amount of time. They start clean and then everything grows organically because you spend more money in innovation than cleaning up and documentation. It's not even a thing of competition or capitalism, but limited resources.
The rough breakeven time is 42% of the time. If your validator is online more than that you are making money, less than that you lose it. So the protocol is rather forgiving in uptime. That's why it's much better to not run failover of any kind. You can afford to be offline without problems but if your failover fails and you run two instances you get slashed.

There is also a penalty that kicks in if many validators fail at the same time resulting in over 1/3 of the network not being available. In that case penalties are also increased significantly. So if over 1/3 of the network were to be run in AWS those validators would risk heavy penalties if the region were to suffer some downtime.
That's a good example.
The stock price of Alphabet never made any sense to me. Google has the best AI in the business, YouTube is an 800 pound gorilla with billions of monthly users, and their search and ad business literally print money out of thin air.

It makes no sense for Apple to be worth $1 Trillion more when their business is on a much more shaky ground. Their entire chip business relies on TSMC and China dictates the manufacturing side of things.
Gambling is kinda fun if you stay in your limits. I think it really pulls in people who are just bored in life.

Online sports betting is just not fun for me. I want to get a betting slip and walk away with dollars. Doing it on the phone feels very lame to me for some reason. Probably for the best. I also just don't have time to actually learn stuff about what could affect the game, so I mostly just make fun bets.
That's gonna make it tough to keep track of when the pumpkin spice latte goes on sale. "Shoot, I missed fall again, guess I'll have to wait 48 hours for it to come around again!"
> Ultimately, it's a twist on the old "commodify your competition".

I think you're thinking of "commodify your complement"? Commodifying your competition would seem to be a bad thing, as prices drop for something that substitutes for what you're selling. Might work in particular luxury/Veblen goods, but seems likely to be less of a thing? (and certainly a different thing than "commodify your complement")
How do plant-based meats take food production "further into .. profit motive territory"?
Shareware is back (sort of.)

Not a bad thing per se, by the way…
I don’t think our points are opposed. I can’t speak for the parent but I am not saying people don’t like you, won’t help you or that they resent you or guard their secrets. They can like you and not tell you important points they’d like to keep secret.

I am saying that if you went in asking certain direct questions about the author’s work you wouldn’t get the same reception.

I agree with your point about the outcome of discovering a journal in a broad sense but think reading parent’s example accurately requires a lot of context of being in the industry, presence at the right events, and knowledge of the zeitgeist. There is still competition.
It’s static hosting. If they change their terms, it couldn’t be any easier to switch. I switched most of my Netlify sites to CloudFlare Pages in like 10 clicks each. The whole point of having a static file is that they’re super easy to manage.

Worst case scenario you pay a few cents to host on S3 and stick any free-range CDN on it.

I categorically refuse to use any non-static hosting for static content. Your shared hosting runs code and can be compromised, especially if you host multiple software/sites on it.
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-khufu-nile-river-giza-stones.h...
SQLite has been taken seriously by serious people for decades. We just don't hear about it in the cool, hipster startup circles because it isn't sexy. But it's steadily grown to be the most deployed embedded database in the world, in millions of devices, and have specialized strands that went through military and medical grade formal validations to end up in airplanes, fighter pilots, naval ships, medical devices.

You have to look where SQLite isn't rather than where it is these days.
There were other embedded databases; Firebird, Foxpro etc..
What was your PhD in? Math?
Ask HN: Any pre-funding founders received a SBIR SeedFund grant?
I'm building a language learning startup using NLP and ML here and there. I've built a tech demo and I'm about to release a prototype, but no users yet.

I think I'd be a good fit for the SBIR SeedFund grant but haven't moved on it because my impression is that it is a huge time commitment to put together an application.

They even have advisors to help people figure out the first application steps. For someone not from academia, this looks like a full-time job for a while.

Does anyone have experience with this? What was your experience like? Do you recommend applying for founders in similar positions (pre-seed/funding)?

Is anyone willing to chat with me about this (email in profile)?

Are there any resources you can recommend?
>> I don’t see upgradability being essential to longevity. I think you can just buy everything you need for the next decade on day one.

Wow, that statement reeks of having so much privilege it’s like you forgot that this isn’t financially feasible for a lot of people, and that upgrading down the line allowed someone to afford a lower spec computer at the time.

Like - you do get not everyone’s wealthy af, yeah? And that companies intentionally bloat the cost of first party memory and stuff so that if you’re not insanely privileged; like I guess you are, then, no - it’s not even…it doesn’t even make sense.

All this does is steal from the poor to give to the rich.