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Ask HN: First Time Director of Web Platform – Advice?
I've been a software engineer for over seven years now, I quit my old job at the bank two weeks ago because I was doing project management + dev work for only dev pay. I applied to a small local company that is seeking a digital transformation. The owner liked me a lot, I'm set to start in a few days.

How can I make sure that I crush this? I'd like to stay with the company for a few years at least, and make a career pivot to being a director. Are there other certs I can take? I think the thing I have to remember the most is to display confidence. Are there directors out there with advice for younger people? I'm even thinking of cold calling/msging directors on linkedin to ask them for advice.

How would you go about it?
I meant "fighting" as in "not a 'grappling exercise'".
These are the photos my wife took at his home.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knu...

Like the 5th picture down you can see him standing (he uses a standing desk!) and if you blow up the screen, you can see part of an emacs window on the left hand side. I believe he also was using emacs shell windows as well, but not 100% sure.

Direct Link: https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2020/04/DK_VC_...

I can't emphasize enough how incredibly nice and welcoming he is. He is bursting with enthusiasm for computers, and my wife and his wife had to almost restrain him so he would sit for his pictures, because he would start talking to me again about computer related stuff.
Is there any evidence whatsoever that the "majority of the emissions of those countries belong to Western corporations"?

From what I've seen, the vast majority of the emissions/pollution from China and India are byproducts of them supporting their own citizens. It's not all exports. It's not majority exports.
We have a saying:

"Learn a craft to survive and letters to not be stolen from."

You don't want a democratic society lacking or with subpar education. Do you prefer your neighbor voting for the future of the economy, your kids, your long term state goals to be well educated or lacking education. And a lot of populism is based on tricking your constituents with statistics.

But even then: we need skilled workers. Looking 10-20 years ahead, what is the ratio of unskilled/skilled jobs that we need? I would argue the ratio is dropping. And if it isn't, one can always do an unskilled job with a graduate degree. Not so much the other way around. At least if you want to compete globally.

I see your point. But I think doing some back of the envelope in my head it doesn't work in the long run and is bad for the democracy.

The US does have a pricing social issue, but that is not true for the UK from my understanding (outsider, from other part of Europe).
My 2c anyways.

Edit: fixed typos
your comment incorporates so much ... fail

>It is trivially simple for an educator to write a test that

while it is not trivial to write any test, it is trivial to have the test cover the material that was taught and not the material that wasn't, and that's how tests are written

> every student fails, curve the grades into a normal distribution,

then the bulk of students didn't fail under the normal meaning of grading on a curve (unless you clarify, do you mean the students had a normal distribution of "learning some material", but even the highest cohort didn't learn enough of the material to constitute getting credit for having taken the class?

> and place blame on students while showing a normal distribution of outcomes to administration.

what blame would there be to place on students if a normal distribution is shown to the administration? unless as above, all the students are failed and blamed for failure?

> Do you think that practice produces better learning?

testing students on material taught produces better learning, yes. Grading on a curve is more fair to students than not grading on a curve, as it simplifies the task for the professor to write the exam by better smooths any unevenness in the relative difficulty of the questions across different material.
So you are personaLLY to blame?
Most recessions are self-fulfilling. Outside of true exogenous disruptions (ie a pandemic or a war) recessions are largely driven by collective bad vibes creating a vicious cycle. In most cases, we could probably power through dips in consumer spending or specific industries shrinking or fuel prices rising but in reality the bad feelings trickle outward until they affect everyone very broadly. Then when we've had enough, things recover. Keynes called it Animal Spirits.
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If you removed all of the noise in a corrupted image in one step, you would have a denoising autoencoder, which has been around since the mid-aughts or perhaps earlier. Denoising diffusion models remove noise a little bit at a time. Think about an image which only has a slight amount of noise added to it. It’s generally easier to train a model to remove a tiny amount of noise than a large amount of noise. At the same time, we likely introduced a small amount of change to the actual contents of the image.

Typically, in generating the training data for diffusion models, we add noise incrementally to an image until it’s essentially all noise. Going backwards from almost all noise to the original images directly in one step is a pretty dubious proposition.
I found it difficult to get a good affordable (< $100/cam) camera with ethernet+poe and cloud/live streaming.
Do we know how he cheated in the in-person over the board games? That’s the most fascinating aspect of the story now.
RIP in peace my dude.
Pgproxy - Don’t make databases available on the public internet
So what? We should get back to socialism? Give me a break.
> Prominent news organizations, such as CBS and Newsweek, have reported on the nuclear train (albeit, referring to it as "independently verified").

I'm not sure what articles you're referring to, but the first CBS article I found[1] says it could not be "independently verified".

>A video shared online of a train in Russia carrying equipment belonging to a Russian military unit that handles nuclear weapons should be taken as a message to the West, a military analyst says. The video, which a U.S. official told CBS News could not be independently confirmed, shows an armored personnel carrier with a cannon attached, as well as another vehicle belonging to the unit, being transported on the train, the analyst said.

The newsweek article[2] doesn't mention any sort of verification, and is repeating whatever the polish military analyst says.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-nuclear-weapons-train-vi...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/nukes-nuclear-weapon-train-russia-u...
Why are you using 'threads' instead of vcpus or aws instances like it was for other benchmarks? Thats really hard to compare and add suspicions here.
For me, one of the biggest problems with Java is its simplicity. Because of the lack of "power tools", you end up with things like dynamically assemble class instances using either XML or magic (see Spring), and adding functions at compile time (see Lombok). The last time I worked on a Java project, it was practically impossible to predict how the system would actually behave at run-time; my joke was that a lot of these tools took issues that could have been detected at compile-time and instead converted them into run-time errors.
I'm appalled after decades of massive anti nuclear war protests and shuttle diplomacy that our 'leaders' are now almost casually sliding into the abyss of nuclear wars
Send this article to the desertSun.com
Right, but even if that was how phobias work, which to my understanding it's not, it still depends on being afraid of the spider to be afraid of the web, while the poster above is implying there are some people who are primarily/only afraid of the web.
Except there are many steps before a trial where a cop legally shooting someone won’t end up on trial. Not every murder trial is going to be of a guilty person, but someone going on trial for murder suggests there is significant evidence they actually committed murder.

Conviction rates of 12% vs 70% show a very strong bias.
Yeah this death was lit dev / corp communication
If you find yourself in the similar situation, use RenVM to get your bitcoin over to an EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine, many networks use EVMs now), then you have many more options.

You can still use Tornado cash. You can still withdraw from Tornado cash to new addresses. You can use those funds in those new addresses to buy and pump the price of the the smallcap tokens you already owned with your salary money. Decentralized exchanges that utilize liquidity pools remove the need for matching orders, liquidity pools are mixers on their own. It doesn't matter who you sell your pumped tokens to, you are just depositing them in the liquidity pool and getting the more liquid token back - USDC, Ether, etc.

A couple 8,000% gains later and you're just another crypto trader that got in early and believed.
> Blaming capitalism does not help

Why should descriptions 'help'?

> to which there is no known better alternative

Why should there be? The only reason I can think of is if you have a prior religious/metaphysical belief in a specific species (in this case H. Sapiens) having a 'destiny'. If OTOH you see species as contingently arising, well, then: they come, they change, and sometimes they overrun, and go.
This will likely be a problem for the democratic base eventually. As Hispanics go conservative and less students go to college to be indoctrinated into liberal values the country will shift conservative. Democrats will need to find an alteration source of voters
“Quiet layoff” is totally a thing. Back in the 2000’s when I worked for a Fortune 500 software shop, I feel like it had a different name. If Meta is trying the same thing, then they’re pretty incompetent.

The idea was to “resource action” workers in small percentages over an extended period. That keeps you out of the news.

It totally defeats the purpose to layoff 15% percent or whatever over a short period! That gets you in the news. The goal of a “quiet layoff” is to keep it quiet!

Thanks NY Post for the “quality journalism”. You could have addressed all this and you didn’t (the content-mill is based on quotas, don’t ya know?)
> They don’t do much but send out confusing emails all day. They’re so sleep-deprived and addled with caffeine, they can barely think.

I do find the article interesting but an editor would be useful since lines like these cast doubt on the rest of the article. Interesting none the less, and oddly I don’t even the yoga pics.
why not Ammonia?
Ammonia has a higher energy density, at 12.7 MJ/L, than even liquid hydrogen, at 8.5 MJ/L. Liquid hydrogen has to be stored at cryogenic conditions of –253 °C, whereas ammonia can be stored at a much less energy-intensive –33 °C. And ammonia, though hazardous to handle, is much less flammable than hydrogen.
Can God Be Proved Mathematically?
Aside from what one thinks personally of him, it's worth noting esr's attempt to start an open source ups project (upside): https://gitlab.com/esr/upside
8 days later, still not working.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/21416153
There's a python script that does a passable impression of `ip`

brew install iproute2mac

https://github.com/brona/iproute2mac
The ancient Greeks did not define a recession as two quarters of negative growth— that has never been the definition of a recession, even if you go back several thousand years.
Something I think needs to be stated: Kafka is not a message queue. If you need things like work stealing, you're going to have a bad time. It doesn't seem to apply in this case, but the terminology misuse is going to lead some poor developer astray.

It seems like they only tried postgres? so they didn't compare it with kafka at all....so yeah, you can make a message queue or log table in a rdbms.
It'd be an improvement if this were the case- if the money was actually being spent on the students.

Generally speaking, the huge expense for any large purveyor of education is actually the administration reaping the outsized rewards. Paying themselves $150-$500k USD/yr, and simultaneously creating unnecessarily large yet low-impact organizations. This strategy soaks up every last penny.
Person who is definitely not bluffing: “I’m not bluffing.”
This is exactly right and confirmed by at least 20 GMs as well as Regan.

But once something is leaked to the WSJ, people believe it and downvote based on "authority". Which is why the leak occurred just before the US championships for maximum impact.
The irony is that sqlite uses fossil which is more modern than git.

But really, I agree, the elephant in the room is that any time someone use the term "old" or "not modern enough" or "legacy" it means they have a system they don't under stand that they want to get rid of. software does not "wear out".
> pelikan_pingserver_rs: an over-engineered, production-ready ping server useful as a tutorial and for measuring baseline RPC performance

> an over-engineered...

Ever since I saw Juicero teardown by AvE [1], I'll never see the term "over-engineered" in a positive light. Usually that means, it is sub-optimal and not engineered well, usually in a hurry and developed with a broad brush approach towards safety margins. Juicero was so over-engineered, it was embarrassing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
Quadcopters have short flight times because they need to use batteries. Commercial helicopters regularly have 3+ hours of flight time.

(Of course, Lillium's aircraft is battery-powered. But it's not fair to say that an aircraft capable of VTOL will always have a dramatically reduced endurance compared to a non-VTOL aircraft, especially since this one can transition to fixed-wing flight.)
Rich Whitehouse – Doomba [2018]
We should be teaching subjects which will (A) ultimately be useful to as many people as possible and (B) exercise the brain as much as possible.

I'm inclined to think statistics and programming would fulfill these requirements better than calculus.

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> Here are a few, understanding and fixing a car, understanding music and playing music, art appreciation, literature and understanding the human condition and on and on.

High schoolers already spend a lot of time analyzing literature. I do think they should spend more time with other forms of art as well—why teach only literature criticism, when literature is just one of many art forms?

However, this work exercises your brain in a distinctly different way than mathematics, and I do think students should learn both.
> continued cultural education

Mao Zedong did something similar to this during the great leap forward. He hoped it would have a similar effect on the peasant rice farmers as you hope for the McDonald's workers.
Most people do not get meaningful raises without moving to new companies. Google, Amazon, and others also often have a compensation cliff at year 4 if you don't get a promotion by year 2-3.
https://hackaday.io/project/187567-doomba
Musk is a sociopathic pathological liar who's also conservative, the first thing he's likely to do is unban Trump, Along with all the other far right nutcases.

Not because he necessarily likes Trump but because its the most controversial thing he could do and his new Republican fan base will love him for it.

There is no version of reality in which Twitter owned by Musk is better in any sense.
Google has removed AMP recommendations from its structured-data recommendation
I'm sure there was lobbyists involved in this deal but that doesn't make it a bad deal. The drug manufacturer may have been in conversation with HHS about their needs and realized this was an opportunity and capitalized to everyone's mutual advantage. We spent a shitload of money on COVID tests and treatments to the great benefit of everyone.
So she didn't actually talk to the women in the pictures about this issue, right? Maybe this is related to a running joke on the blog that doesn't make sense out of context?
Parag is the first one on the ejecting seat once Musk comes in, in case you have not realized.
> But it did happen with Covid

what do you mean? We did not have stockpiles of drugs because the drugs were not known and it took quite a bit of research to figure out what works and what does not.
ip is way more useful than your summary! It also supports abbreviations just like a switch does which is nice:

$ip a
$ip a a 10.99.0.111/24 dev re0
$ip r
$ip r a default via 10.99.0.1 dev re0

The second command is: ip address add. The third is show me the routing table - ip4 is the default add -6 for ipv6. The fourth is add a default route.

$ip n s

That is neigh(bour) show - the arp table.

On Linux, ipconfig and co are destined to quietly go away. Use ip and co instead - so much more powerful.
That's an interesting thought.

I wonder how long a used-car dealership that made people sign an unfair agreement similar to streamed movie legalese, and then later came to repossess people's cars, would last.
Btw, since this is a scaffolding thread, does anyone know a tool which could create files and folders in cwd from a single-file template? Something like

/folder/subfolder/
/file.txt
some text
/some.sh +x
#!/bin/sh
…

I could use a zip/tar file, but repacking it on every change would be cumbersome. There must be something simpler.
The west makes the critical mistake of seeing this conflict as about Ukraine. Putin sees the war as a single front in a much larger pending conflict with the west. He firmly believes this conflict must occur for Russia to have a place in the future geopolitical order 100 years from now. In his mind, there is no distinction, or tactical advantage, between using a nuclear weapon in Poland versus Ukraine. I argue, Putin is far more likely to use a nuclear weapon against a NATO target in a Baltic state than use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. A nuclear attack on a Baltic state would be far more palatable to the Russian people versus using a nuclear weapon against people who are viewed as "Russian". More importantly, he thinks about history in terms of decades and centuries. Using a nuclear weapon within what he considers Russian territory is untenable in the broad historical arc he has created.
Potassium Iodine tablets are he new toilet paper.

I guess all those preppers who used to look kinda crazy now looking smart.
For nuclear winter it would need to be substantially more, and for crop failure necessary for population reduction, a full nuclear exchange
The entire world is looking for a reason to freak out, so they're seeing big, scary shapes in the clouds. Most mass media would love to see the masses freak out, so the problem is exacerbated. The entire train claim came from some nobody in Poland who had no idea about the context of what they were looking at. This train track is commonly active, and even more so during Russia's nuclear training exercises that occur every autumn.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-1.6605262

>"We don't see any practical evidence today in the U.S. intelligence community that he's moving closer to actual use, that there's an imminent threat of using tactical nuclear weapons," CIA director William Burns told CBS News Monday.

>"What we have to do is take it very seriously, watch for signs of actual preparations."

The nuclear train story came out Sunday and this quote is from Bill Burns on Monday.
And then there are projects like CDK-Dia that are taking infra documentation one step further.

https://github.com/pistazie/cdk-dia
Education is one of the very few things in life that can’t be taken away from you. By anyone.
I think you must've totally misunderstood me. Perhaps not your fault because what I wrote wasn't terribly clear.
In Australia I don't think I've ever seen an ability to fix 100% of a mortgage.

We tend to fix about 75% and variable the remaining.
His past cheating AND the statistical anomalies related to his fast progress may also be explained by cheating in an Occam’s Razor sort of way is what is raising the flags.

I don’t care one way or the other, but I’d assume the worst.
I don't disagree with you there.
Yep. Allocate in opposite order to execution, assume no branches / control flow / phi nodes. Single pass.
Nobody, but can they do whatever math they actually will need without first learning that?

I have no idea. So I will gladly defer to those who do understand math, and be glad someone does, or my career wouldn't exist.
I think you're mistaken about a few things.

> Less efficient cruising due to much more drag from all the ducts and engines.

So, I read through some of Boeings research in this area years ago. The array of fans ends up acting like an insanely high bipass ratio turbofan. In the case of hybrid aircraft the combination is more efficient when cruising. The efficiency of a fan producing a given thrust or drag goes up with disk area, as it can spin slower and the local speed mismatch to the airstream is less. The array of fans acts like a giant disaggregated disk in this regard.

> Much less likely to fly with engine failures as they can dramatically affect control (since they are essential parts of the control system).

These are electric motors and batteries. Electric motors are extremely reliable, and in this case we have a high degree of redundancy. This thing is almost certainly more reliable than a single engine helicopter.

> Yaw (rotational) control is highly dependent on working engines on both sides.

The flaps can help with that, it's not solely reliant on differential thrust. There's plenty of precedent for yaw control of flying wings.

> The glide ratio of the aircraft would be very poor with all the drag, even assuming the surfaces were still controllable (not hanging).

You can't evaluate aerodynamics by eyeball, and that goes doubly for active devices like these wings. It's the net circulation pattern around the wing that matters, and you have no actual information about that, just assumptions. Likewise that there's some novel fault problem with a movable flap just because it has fans on it. You realize airliners have huge flaps that deal with much more substantial forces?
Will readers of the report be tracked for suspicious viewing patterns?
I saw it being done at a hackerspace (it's the plastic in the clear part of a two liter bottle). Basically melt it into whatever shape you want (you'll be building tooling, frames, extruders, what have you.

On caveat is you need clean polypro, not used 2 liter bottles. It's not hard to get for free though, hospitals discard mountains of it.
I think the jury is still out on whether TikTok is an improvement over Facebook.
NASA Tests Gigantic Slingshot for Hurling Objects into Space
I would say that more than relationships with Magnus, chess.com are not impartial in the same way that the tabloid press are not impartial. controversy -> attention -> money. I bet their brand recognition is through the fucking roof after being in international news and spread all over tiktok for a couple of weeks

this isn't to say that I don't think Niemann cheated. I think he probably did, just that chess.com is getting great publicity from all this and it would be un-shocking for them to want to string it out a bit longer. it would be poor business not to, in fact
Also Bell (of Bell's theorem) was apparently on the short list for the Nobel prize the year he died.
Well the TSLAQ community is certainly assuming they're gone.

It will be funny of the Blue Checkmarks have to form their own social media platform - or in incredibly irony - end up in one of the "right wing" platforms as a refuge of free speech.
It happened with PPE (which has expiration dates).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32924301