skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your role is to manage engineers. That sounds very simple, but let's break it down.

Starting with the term "management". The best definition I ever received was "management is getting things done through people". This is slightly distinct from "leadership", which is "influencing the way others think". One can lead without managerial skill, but its difficult to manage without leadership attributes.

There are therefore 2 parts to this role title:

(1) identify the "things", that need to be done. This will be different in almost every organisation, so it's difficult to provide a playbook here. But ensure it's crystal clear between you and your own management. Typically it will be some form of "ship features" and "report on progress". But do not be fooled: there is a long laundry list of "unsaid expectations" that you'll simply need to learn over time (recruitment, planning roadmaps, managing performance, foreseeing and eliminating all sorts of risks such as scheduling and resourcing risk). Be kind to yourself. You will be blindsided by things you weren't aware of. KEEP A BUFFER of time to allow yourself to be responsive. Slice up all the "things" and understand what needs more definition, what can be delegated, and what cannot. Get very good at managing others' expectations when things aren't going according to plan.

(2) Get it done "through people" (your team). It's up to you to set up the right structures, communication lines, to get your team working effectively. But the "right way" is completely dependent on what you discover in (1). Feel free to pick (start with) one or more of the many software development approaches on offer (SCRUM, Kanban, etc) and tailor as you go along. Whatever you pick, recognise that it will need to evolve over time.

Now this is a controversial point: I'd recommend to keep your hands dirty, without being on the critical path to delivery. But, be sensible and recognise what's possible within the boundaries of your available time. You won't be re-writing the company's caching layer single-handedly. But you might choose to fix a small bug.

Rationale here is 3-fold: firstly, it's a good break from some of the mundane "manager" stuff (you built that buffer time in, right?). Secondly, it's sometimes much easier than prescribing every fine detail of what you're require people to follow. As a personal example, I delivered a small module for which I included integration test evidence, so engineers could see/understand what I was asking for in the test evidence. Finally, your engineers will actually respect the rules/advice you're giving them, because you're fighting alongside them in the trenches, not "shouting out orders over radio".

Hope this helps.
Filter videos for muscle groups, training length, additional needs such as workouts for pregnant women, or for those with asthma. Switch between Eng and German.
Zwangsarbeit

Nazi Germany all over again.

Shameful America.
The book segment header links (in italic [0]) serve raw html which is probably not the intention (unless its an exercise for the reader that I've missed in my quickscan :-)

The section on mobile clients seems very timely. At least one fediverse server [1] is adopting elements of htmx and it would seem that the corresponding clients would be a canonical example using this technology.

[0] https://hypermedia.systems/book/part/htmx

[1] https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe
> I'm interested in hearing how the process for selecting speakers currently works, as well as how the signatories would like it to be changed.

I think any student or faculty member can invite a speaker. The policy is about when it’s acceptable for the university to step in and say that an event (or protest) can’t happen.

> If a single faculty member wishes to invite a speaker, does that give that speaker the right to talk in an official capacity?

I think that currently a speaking event can be canceled on the basis that the speaker promotes harmful ideas. The signatories want to remove this from the list of acceptable reasons for cancelling an event that someone wants to happen.
> I certainly don't see how not using AI is dwelling in darkness. We can have a very nice and functional society without it.

We can also have a very nice and functional society without penicillin, hot water, or fire... but nobody argues in favor of getting rid of those things just because doing so would make lives more profitable for the few. In fact, most people would be horrified by the selfishness of such a suggestion.

> You also say that you hope AI will drop the price of art to the basement where it belongs. What if AI drops the cost of generating a computer program to the basement where it belongs, and programmers will be paid minimum wage? Would you be so content then?

I would, yes, since I'm not employed as a software engineer and I'm tired of cleaning up after those who are who can't write programs worth a damn.

> Frankly, the attitude on this board is dismaying, but that is expected because the people who are benefiting from AI with higher salaries are currently the programmers. It has nothing to do with logic or fairness, only selfishness.

...or we recognize your class interest for what it is and we are not impressed. Everyone is made obsolete at some point. shrug Learn to code, I guess?
Will you ever get back to these? I don’t use
I have had discussions with individuals who maintain that entertaining (and giving airtime to) certain ideas itself constitutes harm.
Then is should be named doSomethingWithDome.
Using 5GHz is a real pain here in Switzerland. Only 4 non DFS channels are available 36, 40, 44 and 48 (output power is also highly restricted in these 4 channels). Rest 14 channels are DFS. Channel planning is a nightmare; never know when a AP on DFS channel will hop back to a non DFS channel and start sharing bandwidth there, and will also lower its output power. Moreover adding to the confusion is that all Outdoor APs are restricted to using DFS channels only!!
I've been on a quest to tame the bookmark monster. I have bookmarks (collectively over 10k probably) all spread around in different devices, different browsers on different computers, and event in text messages I sent to myself, via whatsapp/sms, over a period spanning 6-7 years.

While I'm not close done curating (the dead/expired/out-of-date links)... I needed to collect it all in one central place, and [linkding](https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding) is fitting the bill quite nicely. I'm using the tags and description field to annonate and sort the mess of bookmarks. It has a simple to use rest API, uses SQLite, and you can import/export bookmarks using the Netscape bookmarks html format. Best of all, it's OSS you can self-host on a RaspberryPi or even for free on say fly.io.
Woah that's a good thread, thanks for linking! Guess I should look into this Mastodon thing.

If there's anything hardware hackers are famous for, it's abusing hardware to get it to do unintended things. I think my favorite that isn't Linux running on a badger is the RTL SDR, so maybe there's a way to get a super shitty software muxer going, or maybe map two displays into one but drive it from software so even if there's a special dongle required, the hard work isn't being done by that dongle making it a $30 piece of kit instead of $150.
I heard the bivalent vaccines were kind of duds

I do want Covid 2022 vaccines, and seasonal refreshers (not necessarily for myself, just an option over covid 2019 vaccines), but I heard these weren't good enough over the covid 2019 vaccines

Any updated maybe peer reviewed comprehensive studies?

I honestly stopped following. I know the internet has an overrepresentation of people still in their prepper bunkers, but outside is basically the opposite for along time now and more closely matches my view of not needing to have strong opinions about any outcome at all.
https://www.theregister.com/2014/05/20/getting_wifi_glitches... Has an example of what interference may look like on the radar side…
I went and looked and Moderna bivalent was in the list. What am I missing?
>> Just cos majority shares an opinion it doesn’t mean that opinion is somehow “good”.

Exactly. For a couple hundred years _after_ US independence, the majority considered women to be second-class people. (quite a few still do.)

>> Basically the rule of majority will generally breed mediocrity in my opinion.

Mediocrity is the _goal_ - its not a bug its a feature. Spare us the rule of a person who considers them self to be exceptional.

Alas these days, democracy would do well to get mediocrity. Judging by some of the candidates in the last election, mediocre would have been a step up. (fortunately the voting public seemed to agree with me.)
So this is why I’ve found even stateside cs to be so bad, I’ve been cursed at by local reps and now it makes sense I too would be furious at life itself if I was treated this way and then had to answer for the very company that was screwing me over.
do you "recommend" any hilarious biker bars in the SF Bay Area? I only know one and it had a Pabst vending machine in the back. I didn't have a patch or a rider or really any black leather so I never checked it out. Or a motorcycle. Or have ever been on a street legal motorcycle.
It's not even limited to Europe or China.

The US lays claims to many deserted islands in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific for their HUGE EEZs and bird poop.

No one dares contest the most well-armed navy on those though...or else.
Learn what personalized emails are, how to craft them successfully, and send them to multiple recipients.
I'm not sure I understand you.. Do you deplore that Sinovac and Sputnik aren't available in Australia? Really?
Rather I value AAA titles so little that I'd rather see the price attached to art assets come down so that more companies can afford to enter the field and compete on a level playing field. In short: I want to see more competition, and lowering the cost to enter the market is one way of doing that.
>Yet in your assessment, there are enough students in lock-step against free speech to terrify the admin into working against its own professed principles. How did that organizing prowess happen-- seemingly without any struggle-- in the latter case but not in the former cases? This doesn't pass the smell test IMO.

I think you want to consider the admin as individual agents, and think about their career downside risk.

Remember how James Bennet had to resign after publishing the Tom Cotton editorial in the NY Times? Imagine if L. Rafael Reif had taken a stand on the Dorian Abbot lecture. Students start calling for his head, fellow admin say "you're on your own bud". He goes the way of James Bennet. Then just like Bennet, his personal brand is tarnished. He struggles to find further work in academia.
> Apparently, and this explains my experience, after an OS update the phone will use a lot of battery while it does post processing of any photos you have and other random stuff.

Photo processing should only happen when plugged in.
Some Wifi routers only allow you to pick non DFS channels. An example of this is the Orbi range from Netgear. I assume that supporting DFS channels either results in suboptimal behavior or it’s too much work for them.
What's funny is that everyone was attacking Jonathan Blow for being against LSP, but his primary argument is all that computation is going to be slow.

He has a point, although the advantages outweigh the disadvantages for sure.
Here’s some Wikipedia articles that make good starting points:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony#Perception

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonance_and_dissonance

The short version is:

- Sound is vibrations produced by some object resonating and transmitted through the air. In the real world, things that resonate tend to have multiple resonant frequencies, and these resonant frequencies tend to be integer multiples of each other (due to physics). This sequence of integer multiples is called the harmonic series.

- Therefore, our ears are built to recognize the harmonic series, and to try to fit incoming sounds to the harmonic series in order to quickly and accurately identify the source of a sound (and isolate different sound sources).

- If and only if the least-common-multiple of a set of pitches is small, these pitches share many harmonics in common. If we hear these pitches together, our ears tend to recognize them as one blended tone, rather than as separate notes.

- Sounds that blend together are called “consonant”, and sounds that don’t are called “dissonant”.

As far as tuning systems go: frequencies are real numbers, but for practical reasons we would like to choose a discrete set of frequencies to work with when making music (unless you can build me a piano with an uncountably infinite number of keys). So, we choose notes that harmonize reasonably well together. But if you sit down and try to construct a tuning system by starting with one frequency and multiplying it by simple integer ratios, you’ll find that you do not obtain a finite closed group, which means you’ll have to make approximations somewhere. For instance, start with a frequency of 100 Hz and go up three perfect fifths - each is a 3:2 ratio so you end up at a 27:8 ratio, or 337.5 Hz. Then, start at the same base frequency and go up a major sixth (5:3) and then an octave (2:1), making an 10:3 ratio, or 333.3 Hz. These sound so close to each other that they are functionally the same note (you can listen to them on a website like https://onlinetonegenerator.com/), but no matter whether we choose to put one frequency or the other on our keyboard, some intervals will always be just a little off, so we have to make a compromise.

12-TET is the most common such compromise; it divides the octave into 12 equally-spaced notes (on a geometric series). Why 12? Because it gives us very close approximations of all the intervals used in Western music, without having so many notes that it would become unwieldy. Equal temperament has the advantage that the same interval sounds exactly the same everywhere — the 5th from F to C has the exact same ratio as the 5th from G to D, so you can play the same piece of music in different keys and all the intervals will sound exactly the same. It also guarantees that octaves (the most consonant interval) are tuned exactly and never approximated.
The ReVolt CR-43 Motor Electric Swap Kit
My dream web browser settings:

√ Never autoplay anything; not even you(tube)
√ Block slideovers, overlays, and modal popups
√ No, I do not want to sign in with Google
√ No, I don't want your stupid tracking cookies
√ No, I don't want to sign up for any newsletters
ASK HN: Facing problems in PostgreSQL Database Backup, help?
I've been using the PGDump utility however I often find the following problems -

- fails for larger databases,
- takes a long time to process,
- restoration doesn't always work,
- backup/restore doesn't work for a few selected tables

Thus, I've been looking for ideal solutions for the same. One that handles these edge cases. I've also thought about building a tool myself for the same.

If you have a solution, please help -- if you would like to play with a better solution - please leave your info here: https://airtable.com/shrmAi6hbImX2LGo4

Thanks a ton, folks!
I only sorta agree with this argument. It's like saying that headphone jack was removed because not enough people bought phones with them - and that's obviously nonsense, pretty much every manufacturer dropped them within a very short timespan, so there really wasn't any choice in that matter as a consumer. Especially for consumers invested into an ecosystem(apple), manufacturer took away that choice - and the cost of switching away to android to keep the headphone jack was greater than dealing with the inconvenience, so most people didn't do that - but that doesn't mean they wouldn't prefer to keep the port.

>>Anyone who uses that power to force people to make phones with removable batteries is absurdly authoritarian.

Do you think any and all regulations are authoritarian? Governments everywhere, not just in EU, try to legislate based on what's best for the society. As the simplest example, they force manufacturers to limit transmission power to protect users from too much RF exposure - is that authoritarian? Or just a good idea that protects people? What if customers would prefer phones that have a stronger signal, at the potential expense of health consequences?

Similarly, we can decide that it's better for the society if phones have removable batteries, because in theory it will lead to less electronic waste(which affects us all). I don't personally think that's true, I think even with removable batteries people will just buy new phones every 2 years anyway, but I wouldn't describe this move as authoritarian - just misguided.
> This was done largely with privately developed tech like commercial telephone wires, commercial modems, commercial minicomputers, commercial solid state RAMs, commercial storage tech

Same happened with all of those. The government created the tech, then paid private corporations to implement it, literally funding the everything from scratch while the private corps grabbed the profits.

> This sped up the process of having a viable, unified internet

That's false. Chile's Socialist president was at the point of launching their Internet in mid 70s. Which was ended by the US backed coup.
Leak of a cancelled 1996 “Duke Nukem Forever” side-scroller
Robust rebate isn't an option for people who are not in control of their emotions. They physically can't discuss certain things because emotions overwhelm them, blind them and even hurt them. Our mistake is to assume that everyone who looks like an adult is an adult mentally. Once you think about students as adult-children, the draconian speech control starts making sense.
https://nitter.net/vinciusmedeiro6/status/160718738233532416...
>By contrast, Senior House was a significant legal liability due to large, public parties with a habit of sending people to the hospital for more interesting reasons than booze. That, the institute has financial, practical, concrete reasons to care about.

Did they think about putting Senior House on probation or something like that?
At my current job (sr. eng) I have an average of 45 minutes of meetings per day
>did that red squiggle go away because I fixed the error, or because I'm waiting for tsserver to catch up?

Shouldn't you know without red squiggle if you fixed something?

That's like waiting for the red squiggle in Word to know if you spelled a word correctly.
That's a very thorough article that answers all the natural questions. Among others, "why don't they just use river water?".
https://archive.ph/MmQ3Y
https://archive.md/MmQ3Y
I meant 0 phones to buy designed for caseless use.
Seems more like wage theft and fraud than forced labor. Maybe I missed the part you're referring to?
"Persons who received the BA.5-containing bivalent booster had better neutralizing activity against all Omicron subvariants (especially against BA.2.75.2, BQ.1.1 and XBB) than those who received 1 or 2 monovalent [original] boosters"
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2214293
The box just below the drop down...
If the powerful have no protections then they won’t be the powerful for long and then the shoe will be on the other foot and a new powerful elite will be created (ostensibly what is happening right now as a certain group of elite have largely taken control of both the media system and the school system).
This recent WSJ article says Stanford has 15,750 administrative staff for 16,937 students and 2,288 faculty: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-stanford-guide-to-acceptabl...
Agreed, one of those rare sci-fi films that does it all without green screens or rubber suits, an actual story that you care about, and want to see the ending.
What data does LastPass encrypt?
This was also my path. I highly recommend it, you'll know more Ruby than most Rails folks if you go down this path.
How does this company ever find people? Are they just all mathematically illiterate? You would do better scavenging for refundable bottles.
Many APs have buggy radio firmware that won't ever be fixed. The manufacturers hastily implemented DFS to pass FCC certification, which was a lot easier to do than implement it to work robustly. Due to detection false positives, the radios will only use any given DFS channel for a few minutes at a time. If you have the AP set to "auto", then it probably just needlessly hops around channels every few minutes; you get a brief latency spike and it's mildly annoying. If you have the AP set to a specific channel, then your wifi frequently cuts out and you go insane.

It's interesting. If you're a typical consumer and use default settings, you end up with a mostly working setup that's glitchy but not quite broken enough for anyone to notice because Netflix still works. If you're a tech enthusiast and tweak seemingly harmless settings that should unambiguously improve things, you end up with a completely broken network.
Agreed, having a fun and social physical activity that I need good Muscle and Fuel for, has started to greatly shape my appetite towards Protein and Fat, and away from Sugar and Carbs. (Eggs, Cheese, Milk, Meat, Eggs, any and all Greens that are fun to Crunch on) Been reading ingredients lists very carefully, and increasing my sensitivity to Sweetness to the point that a Vegan Zucchini Bread was delightfully sweet. I think it had 5g of sugar per serving.

The final straw that began my diet (the Exercise re-lit and carries it on) was a batch of Costco Grapefruit cups with about 25g sugar per cup - Tasted like nothing, and was almost mildly nauseating. Leagues from the bitter grapefruit I imagined, and a waste of sugar and profit margins to add so much sugar IMO.
show me the point in my chain of reasoning where i defended "free speech at all costs"

to my mind i made a very reasonable defense of "free speech even for speech i find objectionable and disagree with but ultimately must tolerate in the interests of the inviolable principle of freedom of expression for all not just for my bubble" – that's the position i'm arguing for and nothing more.

"at all costs" != "free speech even for speech i find objectionable […]"

"at all costs" goes far further and is not something i am arguing for

> is unlikely to work.

i'll go one stronger – “free speech at all costs” cannot work. but that's fine because that's not what i'm arguing for. what i'm arguing for ("free speech even for speech i find objectionable […]") must work because that's the foundation a free society is built on. otherwise, all bets are off and the spoils go to those most willing to use covert and/or draconian measures to achieve their ends
+1 for GoRails along w/ Chris' Hatchbox[0] Heroku alternative.

[0] https://hatchbox.io/
I expected this to be bad, full of things like "forced to buy own equipment" and "only paid for time on phone," but it's so much worse. Days of training you need to pay for? Two different companies charging you monthly fees to work for them? Just absurd.
Your last paragraph reminds me of a line of thought I once had:

Libertarianism works better without libertarians. It works better with collectivists than individualists. It works better with people who care about other people's freedoms than with those who care about their own freedoms.

Freedom of speech as a negative liberty means that the government does not criminalize speech. Some people would like to extend that to other powerful entities banning / limiting speech, but then the government would be suppressing those entities' other liberties.

The freedom of speech people care about is a positive liberty. It's about being entitled to have a platform for your speech. Maybe even a platform with an audience, or a platform you feel safe to use. In order for your opponents to have freedom of speech – a platform – your liberties must be suppressed. Either by an authority by force, or by yourself voluntarily.

Ultimately, freedom of speech is about you being obligated not to confiscate the megaphone.
Yeah, but not that the Mac OS UI is lightning fast, or state of the art either.