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Ask HN: Engineering Managers
How do software engineering managers measure their team's performance? Any tools, tips, metrics or suggestions? I'm trying to manage a high performing group & eager to learn from other peoples experience.
Let's not sugercoating this. When a company invests in image generation AI, its intention is to replace artists.

And before "but who spend money on this? it's just simple motion graphics my nephew can make in After Effect..." yeah we know you can make Dropbox with rsync in an afternoon.
Unfortunately the archive does not like VPN

I think that's the problem. Turn off vpn. The article is fantastic.

One of the most incredible presidential races going on in the world, but its eclipsed by war elsewhere. I really learned a lot from the article.
> In a statement published shortly after Fortune reported the news of the $1 plan, X ‘s support account confirmed the details and described the move as a way to curb the prevalence of bots and spam on the platform, rather than a money-making endeavor. “This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount. It is not a profit driver,” the company said.

$1 per account is not that much money to pay if you want to spam or manipulate twitter. According to this (https://www.privacyaffairs.com/dark-web-price-index-2022/) as hacked Twitter account $25, and I believe I've read that fresh accounts already sell for a couple dollars (because the cost of faking through signup verifications, etc).
Iran likely obtains a nuke from North Korea. Detonating one in a religiously historic city is a no go. It could be put on a rocket, but expensive risk of getting shot down. If Israel's army gets concentrated for some reason preferably in rural area such as outside Gaza that would be a tactical vulnerability.
How do you get a YouTube video without connecting to YouTube?
My understanding is that lower rates are good for economic growth, except when they cause inflation. Is that wrong?
> Microsoft is preparing to bring Amazon as a customer for its 365 cloud productivity tools in a deal worth over $1 billion, news site Insider reported on Tuesday, citing an internal document and a person familiar with the matter.

> The e-commerce giant has committed the amount for over five years and to secure more than one million Microsoft 365 license seats, according to the report.

What’s the scope of the deal beyond Microsoft 365 and how much does each license cost? The numbers, based on a back-of-the-envelope-calculation [1], make it seem like Amazon couldn’t negotiate better rates for such high volumes because its stuck with having to deal with Microsoft.

[1]: 1 billion over five years is 200 million a year. With 1 million seats (keeping it at the lower bounds), it’s $200 per user per year, which is $16+ per user per month. Microsoft Business Premium is currently on sale for those who buy from its website at $19.8 per user per month (usually $22 a month).
Something not said explicitly but to me, is the characteristic sound of psy-x is the synth bass line. It's a very simple sound that you can make in any subtractive synth - you start with a single saw, add a lowpass filter, and instead of using the amplitude envelope to control the dynamics or "pluck" of the sound you modulate the cutoff of the filter by an envelope with a very short attack, quick decay, and low or zero sustain.

If you're fancy you can use a stepper or lfo sync'd to 16th notes to do the same thing instead of programming loops of 16th notes.

And of course, you sidechain compress that with the kick to get the pumping sound.

That's how you get the deep vibe of a psy track that resonates in the club at 2am.

That's just the basics. The really good tracks find ways to make it crazy, like modulating the decay of the filter envelope with velocity of the notes and then adding velocity curves to create dynamics with the baseline, or adding a reverb send and automating the send level as you build up to the end of a phrase. Or taking the basic idea (a plucky bass with sixteenth notes) and changing how the pluck is defined via an FM synth, or overdrive, or frequency shift, and so on. It's such a simple sound that can be driven to weird places.
You want a killer app for VR/AR goggle style things? You’re right this would be amazing.

Apple demoed some kind of volumetric video to the press with the Vision Pro. There was a short clip of a concert and an NBA game (Nuggets?) among other things. I heard a number of people said it was like being there.

This is a step past that. Apple’s was recorded from some kind of special camera rig (I assume), but I seriously doubt it was full volumetric video from a large number of angles. It sounded more like volumetric video if you were stuck in a (very good) seat in the venue.

I’d be curious to know just how much horsepower it takes to play these back.
One can hope that every single one of the 200+ highly educated members of the elite ruling class of Canada made this “honest oversight”. At least they can claim it after some kind of apologies were made. Not so much for Zelensky who didn’t mention this incident at all, since honoring Nazis is business-as-usual in Ukraine.

Still, I can see how it can benefit the Canadian party too, because the original electorate would either not notice this or accept the apology and forget about it, thus not impacting the status quo, but now they also get the neo-Nazi vote after this wink and nod.
No promo here. 15 pro
They unleash a lot of undesirable and uncontrollable behaviors in the organization. It’s incompetence and hubris to think otherwise.
Not enough numbers to trigger disclosure laws?

Previous round was dozens?

So we're talking 15 employees?
Previous big discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907433

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37904518
What does your pyproject.toml (or equivalent) look like? Which linters, formatters, and similar tools do you consider essential to your Python development workflow?
The flu vaccine reduces severity and likelihood of catching it as well (which can serve to protect vulnerable populations). Your own personal chance of death is not all that matters.

Getting it yearly may also reduce the risk of other related conditions e.g. https://www.uth.edu/news/story/uthealth-houston-study-flu-va...

It's nearly risk free and it's definitely worth it even if all it did was decrease the severity of flu if you catch it (and it does more than that).
> Key thing I learned too late in life: don’t be too hard on yourself when you have those less productive days. It’s just part of the cycle.

That's a good thing to keep in mind!

Maybe also: understand that colleagues are not always at the peak of this cycle.
The festival in Israel where 250 people were murdered by Palestinians while they were dancing in peace was a Psy Trance festival. One of the greatest Psy Trance bands of all time, Astral Projection, was supposed to play at the festival. You're right that tensions are running high. This was an absolute pogrom on a peace loving community that many people (including myself) have been a part of for 40+ years. Suggesting that "tensions are running high" is the understatement of the year.
No one lost anything though. No one is worse off than had this not happened at all - say the CEO never started the company.

That to me is the definition of victimless.

I lost imaginary income that never would have actually existed doesn’t make you a victim.
Preliminary analysis of the Israel/Hamas conflict-related disinformation
> start a blindingly successful company with wild ARR

What is Jetbrains estimated ARR?
TSMC wasn't bootstrapped in the stricter sense though. Those 58$ million came from Phillips, who also provided the technology and skill transfer for their first manufacturing process.

> People used to make fun of the idea of a software guy building spaceships and cars and he’s doing it better than the incumbents.

Reducing the success of SpaceX to Elon Musks persona alone is, realistically speaking, delusional at best. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
Genelec 8250A active monitoring (speaker) systems were in production from 2006 to 2016. The Product Documentation (2006) has on page 7 screenshots showing the ability to define multiple groups of speakers and jointly control the volume level for groups via LAN. Extensive customization included individual time delays as well.

So back in 2006 Genelec was already doing all of this and had shipped products to the market.

https://www.genelec.com/previous-models/8250a

https://assets.ctfassets.net/4zjnzn055a4v/2Jy6loSGRWecUWacsq...

https://www.genelec.com/-/blog/glm-and-smart-active-monitori...
There's a lack of nosological classification of meaningful sub-types of depression and their specific dysfunctions. It's currently scatter-gun, medieval treatments without bothering to measure or understand the systems affected.
Hindenburg is out here doing the Lord's work.
Wow, so your entire worldview is based on Seattle?

Let me put it this way. I had a friend who worked in Finance at Amazon and his $1.2 million dollar 2400 square foot home that was 20 years old was relatively shitty compared to the $350K home I had built in the burbs of Atlanta in 2016 that was 1000 square feet larger than his.

Yes I know about Seattle salaries - I turned down a chance to interview for a role at Amazon Retail as an SDE because there was no way in hell I was going to relocate to Seattle and deal with the high prices and shitty weather.

However, I did get a remote role working (full time) at AWS ProServe.

BTW, I had my 3200 square foot house built in the “good school system” in 2016 making $135K.

People making $150K (which puts you in the top 20% of earners) are not going around homeless
I'm not on a VPN and I'm in the same boat... not usually had this problem with other archive.tld websites before?
I think some people at any given point in time (and some institutions and some governments) do a better job than others at splitting their resources because in part because they have a better framework at recognizing what may reach that critical threshold faster than others based on a given set of conditions (or have lower switching costs when it comes to deciding to not allocate resources to something after a certain point).
Looks like it is geoblocked, not available in my region
That also includes things like using the rulebook to slow down work even if it is more effortful for the employee.
Open source app to watch videos from any platform
The minorites who will be the majority will not be committed to imperialism and empire building like the current Caucasians who are in charge of the US.
Whoops, sorry — I didn't realize that was against the guidelines!
This is evil, and I feel zero sympathy.

They should indeed make an example out of him.
Capitalism is just distributed optimization protocol. It reacts to its inputs, producing predictable results. Had e.g. environmental externalities were included in the capitalist calculation, capitalists would optimize them for the benefit of all. Unfortunately it's also a tail that is wagging the dog. It is supposed to serve the society, but without control over it it's the society that serves it.

There's really nothing outdated about capitalism. It's the political systems that are outdated, where they can't control the ever-growing capitalistic protocol and give it inputs to produce desired outputs. Or anything else for that matter. Voters are too stupid to understand anything complex, and they elect politicans who have no clue or care for it either. And it's been like that pretty much since forever. It's just that last few centuries the technological progress was so powerful that it was able to overcome even the most radical political attempts at ruining everything.

Unfortunately politics are a hard coordination problem - trying to make robust global system out of pieces who have incomplete information, are flawed, irrational and often actively malicious. Distributed systems are hard even assuming near perfect conditions and trustworthy agents, and with such conditions and requirements - it might be unsolvable problem.
Recognizing that you are in a rut is a start. You’re already there.

Some time ago I realized that there is a long-term rhythm and cadence to my life. The ruts are part of that. I learned to look for signs that show that I am getting into a rut, or out of one.

I do things to help myself get out of a rut. At the same time I realize that this is not fully under my control. I give myself room, and am patient.

First thing I do is look for objective causes. Often these are things that are out of my control. Health issues of family and friends. Political situation. War. Others are more under my control. These are usually the basics: diet, sleep, exercise, and social connection.

I try to affect the things under my control. It takes significant effort, but it usually helps.

For the things I can not control I make sure to notice when the issues pass. I make a concrete mental note to no longer let it affect me, since the thing changed. And also, I try to accept the things I can’t change, recognizing that they will affect me nonetheless. This also seems to help.

No silver bullets. Key thing is to make sure the rut does not become self-reinforcing. Self-love and acceptance are a part of this.

Good luck on your journey.
I don't know why this is flagged. Texas Faggott perhaps? It the name of an artist.

Soumisaundi - wikipedia[0] "In 1997 Exogenic Records became the first record label to focus on Suomisaundi and approximately during the same time Midiliitto was founded as an association focusing on the advancement of production and commercialisation of Suomisaundi. Pepe Kosminen was the founding Chairman of Midiliitto. Together with Flippin Bixies, Midiliitto counted within its members many of the future international stars of Suomisaundi, including the members of groups like Texas Faggott and Squaremeat."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomisaundi
link to said video?
>Your argument assumes a just state that will not outlaw things...

No, once things are outlawed you should stop doing them. Any prior messages don't matter since the law can't apply retroactively. I am assuming ex post facto laws are prohibited.

>Plus, having something to hide does not automatically mean you are doing something criminal.

If you the reasoning for hiding is because you don't want the government to see it then it is likely criminal.
MagicWindow was an excellent Apple II word processor that was, in my opinion, much better than early AppleWorks. I used it for many years.

http://www.artscipub.com/history/magicwindow/
I used to use virtual box simply because it was free and convenient, but I recently switched to KVM + libvirtd and holy smokes, the vms are running much faster,

A lot of my work is CPU bound on my hobby project (https://atomictessellator.com) and I have noticed a good 20-40% speed up, when you’re doing 10s thousands simulations a day, that’s a big difference.

Sorry virtual box, you’ll always have a fond place in my memory, but it’s time to retire you :)
I prefer psychill and chillout over lofi for work/chill.
The personal traits required to find a job are different from that to perform well at a particular company & role. That's the sad truth. So, people voluntarily leaving won't be correlated with performance low or high. Also, people who were selected for layoff by management will also not be correlated to low performance well. In fact, in most layoffs, they are planned in closed rooms with only VP+ people who have little context of who does what work well or not, and with flawed performance calibration data. So, you will always be shocked to find that the people /you/ thought were high-performers were let go.
It seems to be a JDAM, not a missle. Someone made a video to compare the sound.

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1714359458967466235
Stupid tricks at the userspace/kernelspace boundary
Use cppcheck to find bugs and improve code quality
I believe all of that came later and not in the original releases?
Check out Benji Vaughan (the other half of Younger Brother along with Simon Posford), and his harder alias, Prometheus.

his first solo album under his own name, Even Tundra, is incredible
$1 doesn't mean ad-free.
When you have enough scale you can claim a certain particular way of doing things are better than the others, which in most cases is just one way of doing things. This is what we see here.
For Amazon personnel as the users?

I would've loved to read the 6-pager on that, because it's not immediately obvious to me.

(I can see some business/data people demanding MS Excel, and some business people live by Powerpoint unless banned or forced to use some simpler and less-familiar presentation tool. But that's not a million seats. And letting MS get a toehold with their suite risks really dumbing-down how your organization works and thinks.)
"random thoughts" is pure class.
Business-clasa dating.
Now that is what I call, unreal. Literally.
This might be different though because this is led by Elon Musk, who has always somehow managed to come out well despite bad looking decisions,

Like pard68 though, I have no skin in the game and have also given up on social media.
I verified and I did not see a drop in memory consumption after `docker compose down`. Added this to the issue you mentioned.
There is a difference between standard privacy where your information is not accessible anyone you know or anyone in the public versus a level of privacy where not even the legal system with a court order can get the information.
From the paper, it seems a 3060 is enough for 60FPS for the DNA-Rendering dataset. On the full-screen datasets it manages 25 fps. A 4090 might be needed to stay above 60 fps.

Still pretty heavy I’d say but it certainly came a long way and shows us real volumetric video is doable.
Does it make money? No
Does it make you drive your car safely while sleeping ? No

Does learn to drive such a hard thing? No

Then why do we need this kind of company? I don’t know.
It brought my laptop to a crawl, too.
Possible answer to Fermi Paradox: "Too much energy is required to go exploring"
To me this talk was rather confusing. This statement cannot occur in a well formed standard C or C++ program, and I don’t think that the speaker did a good job conveying this. They also took way too much time to get to the actual point. If the intention was to discuss the particularities of memory mapping on some popular systems, they should have used bitcast from the start.
On my phone right now, but how did you figure this out?
Language learning is a perfect example indeed.

You memorize so much stuff that at a certain point the language "clicks" and you can infer meaning and rules even if you don't know them yet.

Remembering is understanding, understanding is remembering.
LL is the ‘y’ sound is Español.

Yemma.
This isn't going to drive me away from Mazda, rather the Lexus prices. I know inflation is partially to blame, but if I am dropping $35-40k on a vehicle, I want it to be a luxury brand.
I meant "business model" here.
> Then why do we need this kind of company? I don’t know.

Why bother doing anything at all with this attitude?

Let's freeze in place and wait until the sun dies out. I don't know.

To me, Waymo is exciting because it could unlock a next step function of capabilities, patterns, and economics. Everything we take for granted in transportation -- highways, traffic signals, parking, traffic itself -- we could potentially get to reevaluate a lot of previously-held assumptions. The second- and third-order effects could be wild.

Maybe it'll all go bust. It's worth a shot, though. The rewards, if they succeed, will be tremendous.
I started working on something like that a couple decades ago. I figured, with all of the camera feeds at a football game, there would be plenty of views generate 3d models, even with relatively naive approaches. Then the NFL did it shortly after (2008) [1], and it didn't catch on.

It's definitely the future!

[1] 2008, https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/nfl-demos-li...

[2] Some renewed interest, in 2016: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2659861-future-of-the-nf...
FYI all those examples are PE, not VC. Fairly different. Not that VC doesn’t have its own problems, but yeah.
> it is not immune to errors

They’re pretty much part of the guardian’s dna:

> Frequent typographical errors during the age of manual typesetting led Private Eye magazine to dub the paper the "Grauniad" in the 1970s, a nickname still occasionally used by the editors for self-mockery
So it seems like the primary use of IP, as you describe, is to define a way to narrow the search to sub address groups so as to not require enumerating every address in the scheme.

Still, there's doesn't seem to be any reason you couldn't just say "device 1 gets MAC 00:00:00:00:00:01" and "device 2 gets 00:00:00:00:00:02" and the gateway controller gets :::00 and there's a special address on :::FF that can be used to talk to everyone...

Is that it? Is that all there is to IP? A loose pattern for reducing search scope, a couple reserved addresses for special cases, and a balance between address bitsize and total number of unique addresses (without requiring additional routing complexity)?

It all seems so... simple
I suppose you could build up what would essentially be a 4D sprite sheet or animation set of a character and use that to support natural looking arbitrary movement. I'm not sure that isn't just a mo-cap character with extra steps, though.
Looks so, suspect the authors precomputed everything they can to reach the highest frame rate. Like predecoding all frames in a movie into raw pixels?

I think volumetric video should be thought of as a regular video, where the decoding and playback happen at the same time. A few papers down the line this could be easily implemented.
Just came here to tay that Patlabor is pretty far from "obscure" as an anime. In the late 90s/early 2000's it was pretty big, although anime wasn't big in the United States yet and that could explain the author's comment?
Why even bother going through a crazy licensing deal? They could just write a shrink-wrapped license attached to an online payment form like everyone else does. Only require talking to a sales rep if the quantity is above a certain threshold.

Oh wait, this is Oracle. They don't know how to handle amounts smaller than a few grand.
Likely it comes from your tax, so calling it free might be just an illusion.
It's rational for the buyer's agent to do that, but that doesn't make the system less utterly corrupt.

The buyer's agent represents the buyer. They should be paid by the buyer. The payment from the seller's agent to the buyer's agent, if it affects the buyer's agent's decision, must mean the buyer's agent is no longer acting in the buyer's best interest.
Stanfield's logic is simply wrong.

1. Spermidine found to increase lifespan and fertility in mice.

2. Spermidine levels not found to increase in blood or certain tissues when fed to mice.

3. Therefore, 1 is wrong.

Finding 2 in no way disproves 1. Facts which could be consistent with both 1 and 2 being true:

- spermidine metabolites are responsible for benefits

- while spermidine levels are maintained, excess spermidine is used beneficially

- experimenters in 2 simply haven't looked in the right tissues

And so on. TFA says there were observed phenotypic improvements (follicular health, oocyte number and quality), which categorically trump 2's failure to observe increase in spermidine levels. And none of this says anything directly about spermidine's effects in humans
I had already edited my comment to make it non-personal. You saw it just before I fixed it.
disgusting idea, i hope it fails miserably.
This might explain why aliens haven't visited us, but it doesn't explain why they haven't talked to us.