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Ask HN: New team with old members rejecting tech lead
(throwaway account for obvious reasons)

I have been invited to be the tech lead for a small group of people that had been working independently for 2 years without reporting to anyone formally.

CTO and a few directors were checking in sporadically with them but interactions were happening as needed, only for adhoc requests. They were mostly keeping the lights up, doing whatever they felt was necessary and not having any long-term plans.

This situation caught up with them in the past few months with many outages that caused close $1m USD in damages. Thus why leadership felt they needed a tech lead to steer the ship.

These people were working individually, never coordinating their tasks, there were many duplicated solutions for the same areas. I counted at least 12 different ways to deploy applications. Manual changes happening all the time, no code reviews, not a single test, etc. They were skipping all the good software engineering basics.

Before appointing me as the new tech lead, management talked to them. The reactions ranged from indiference to approval. I didn't think this great but it could be worked out.

Fast forward 2 months. They are pushing back hard on any new proposals to adopt CI, tests, code reviews, issue tracking, you name it. My PRs go without reviews even if I beg over and over. When I give up and commit to the master branch, they single out my commits and I've had to revert many just to avoid more conflicts.

I've reached my breaking point. The issue is, these folks can't continue working like this... they are actually causing a huge risk to the company.

I proposed to fire/transfer some of them. Management was in favor but, after talking to them, decided to give them a chance to adapt to the new reality. I also proposed hiring more people to at least make some progress. Suggestion was deflected too.

Have I fallen into a trap?
Looking at the filters that uBlock is using, it still seems to be some sort of regex on the xhr request/response body [1]. Why can't youtube trivially defeat this by encrypting everything? It seems like trying to go about the cat-mouse game in this fashion in a losing battle, because all google needs to do is just change up the names a bit each day.

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/commit/fb33bb3c1fa99...
Wow, these are pretty nice, with a permissive license too by the looks of things. I like the serif one in particular, very readable to me.
Never used it, never knew it existed and I'm using Internet from the 1997. Seeing all the warm comments here I suppose it's like IRC for me.
You could also use B4A (https://www.b4x.com/b4a.html), which compiles BASIC into Java bytecode and has an interface builder -- as well as versions available for iOS, Arduino, and desktop Java. Only the iOS one requires a payment, the others are 100% free.

The IDE runs on Windows. The whole thing was developed by one guy who is very active answering questions and providing lots of sample code.
This is like saying "I can't watch the video without a browser that supports video playback", yep?
I first played it after it became available for M series Macs, so I skipped all the drama from the early days. I found it to be a great game.
Surely you can see that Steam has come a long way since then. Hope you're not really still upset about that.
Some other fonts use character variants for this, so you can personalize your own setup. For example, with Fira Code[0], if you want to tell VS Code to not use the long = for == but still space it in a less ugly way, instead of setting ligatures to true, you set it to "'ss08'", which will then do the same thing to === and != and !==. This is also where they can hide their 'overthinking' glyphs, so the discerning user can enable them but they won't disrupt you if you just install the font normally. For example I have ss06, ss07, and cv27 enabled, for distinct escaping backslashes, =~ and !~ operators, and smooth-square [].

[0]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
I can't recall ever reading anything on Jezebel except a piece about a female writer who performed an experiment and submitted her manuscript under a male name and got drastically different feedback when people thought the author was male.

https://jezebel.com/homme-de-plume-what-i-learned-sending-my...

It's a rare piece of solid research into gender bias. Same author. Same piece. The only thing that changed was the supposed gender.
> Recognizing the food you are holding and coming up with a calorie count was the only part of the demo I found genuinely cool

Fun fact. It was completely wrong. That wasn't 15g of Protein. You would need like 3x that much for 15g of protein.

It was also wrong about the solar eclipse.
Are you saying these were some sort of hazardous devices ready to explode at the most inexpected time?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62wUaJUh4Ko
In 2016?
30% fee is fine? If you don't want to use steam you can put an ad in the back of 2600 Magazine and mail out CD-R or USB sticks like they did in the olden days. That's how Wolfenstein 3D and Duke Nukem were sold for many years.

Valve charges 30% because customers want all the stuff that comes with steam. They work for that 30% unlike smartphone ecosystems that offer a closed ecosystem and can lock competitors out of their platform.
The press did not collude with intelligence officials. The press did exactly what they were supposed to do, they looked for sources where they could find them and reported on the findings.

Findsen should not have been speaking to the press a secret source that much is obvious. Imagine the head of the CIA speaking anonymously to CNN about secrets on his own? Unheard of.

This public case has damaged national security much more than just having him fired, and there are some threads to politics (he's rumoured to be hated by the head of the department of the prime ministry, Barbera Bertelsen). However the fact that he is "outraged" or anything of this sort is insane. He dodged a prison sentence and should be happy about that.

The case against Claus Hjort Frederiksen (confusingly called Frederiksen in the article, which is also the last name of the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen) is absurd. He confirmed the cable agreement with the NSA which was public knowledge since Snowden.

Both cases saw vast overreach by the domestic spy agency (PET) in that they used a statute of the law reserved for traitors which is not remotely close to fair in either case.

It's worth noting that the Guardian article is over a month old. Since then all charges have been dropped because the procecution claim they cannot procecute unless everything is in secret, which the supreme court has denied.
I prefer steam’s openess as an incentive to sell games versus companies that manipulate you, spy on you, prevent repairs, steal your data or use all sorts of dark patterns. Steam is simply a company that builds products the right way. They deserve my £.

Oh and that sexy support of Linux. It won a loyal customer for life (or until they get acquired and get enshitified to death).
Well more recently I had a urine drug screening for a job. I passed obviously but I was curious about the results and the drug testing company also told me it was the property of the company.
Well that's first world for you.

Would you rather live in a world of 100 billion on efficient food only or 1 billion that can actually eat meat and other tasty things?
TL;DR: I want to tinker with one assembler, which is better for tinkering, NASM or FASM?

I am looking to one day learn assembly (x86, x86-64 and potentially ARM) simply for tinkering hobby purposes, to prove I learned something watching all those Ben Eater TTL youtube videos and try my hand at logic design and creating toy programs that are as close to the metal as possible, just to say I can do it.

But part of the trick is not knowing where to start. There's MASM which appeals to me as a higher level language user in that you create those macros and use them in various places, and there's NASM and FASM which I like the idea of since they seem to be more portable to both Windows and Linux. I doubt I can write an assembly program and run it on an old android smartphone, so I'll leave that aside here.
Why would you have non-developers reading code?
Do you not find it overheats in sunny weather, though?

I have an old car without any sort of fancy infotainment system, and I always end up with my phone overheating during long drives into the sun.
Ask HN: What's your experience with AI-based code review tools?
I've seen a lot of AI code review tools hitting the market, and I'm curious to hear from people who have tried them out.

Do they speed up reviews? How?

Do you still need human reviewers, or can you directly land code that the AI says passes?

Do they lead to higher quality code? Do they catch important enough things that the review is worth it, or is it mostly minor things?
Yo dawg. I heard you like Minecraft
Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit from a Sexual Abuse Survivor
That was my impression trying it this year
great, so why troll this thread with your redundant viewpoint?
Yes, that is why Principia Mathematica [0] is taught in 1st grade. If you can't prove 1 + 1 = 2, then how can you progress? (joking, of course)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
Just for fun, why don't you take a look at this chart & identify the point where Tim Cook became CEO.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/AAPL:NASDAQ?sa=X&window...
True yes - but Source 2 is now eight years old (and has been in development for probably 14 years) and has only been licensed once.

I won't be surprised if there are some other licensees eventually but it seems like Valve isn't overly interested in making the engine usable in the same way that Unreal, CryEngine, Frostbite etc are.
I agree with you. The killer innovation which will flip this is the ability to interact via hardware that takes sub-vocalisation as input. There's work being actively done in this area:

https://news.mit.edu/2018/computer-system-transcribes-words-...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8104532
Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke
He did enjoy it being a gamer, and he got all sort of accessories as I knew later. I honestly had big plans for it, I even have few 5G Quectel modems and planned to integrate one, and add the SDR I have too so it’s truly a portable ground station, but that happened during a big project I didn’t have the time for any of that, I still might do it, or maybe inspire someone in here who’s into robotics to do it!
This if fucking hilarious. What a clown. I knew of him before, but I didn't know the full depth of the delusion and megalomania. He rivals Zuck in later which is an impressive achievement.
How Play Deals with Akka's License Change
Would love to hear more about what you're trying to build here. Are you thinking use VNC to control and stream a desktop?
While it is, the users are from everywhere and so is the content.
Eye-popping new cost estimates released for NuScale small modular reactor
Germany. Computer science and engineering. Lastly, I focus more on Ai and machine learning.
Thank you very much.
Why would I expect someone to host/write it for free?
Cargo ships burn incredibly dirty fuel, the working conditions are bordering on modern slavery, and it isn't sure if some cargo travel routes will stay viable in the near future - the Panama Canal has issues fitting the latest and greatest ("Postpanamax") ships and it's dealing with severe water shortages, and the Suez Canal is under threat from Iran as well as from a repeat of the infamous Ever Given incident.
Pray how is buying land from Palestinians and setting there as a country colonialism?
You mean ABed as in AB testing?
Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling using blavaan (2022)
Toronto FC aka TFC were playing their ninth* season when NYCFC joined the league

x FC is just a common way to name football clubs around the world, adopted by MLS clubs

Edit: Announced during their seventh season; joined in their ninth

Edit; Chicago, Dallas, Houston Vancouver and Toronto had FC In their name before NYC FC existed
Curious: at your level of experience, what is the interview process like? For example, for DoorDash, for a mid or junior, they would do Leetcode style + Systems Deisgn right? Did they do stuff like that for you?
Here, success can be an enemy of the E-2 visa if the company receives additional funding that dilutes the ownership interest below 50%. The E-2 is a great options for many founders/companies but at the outset, a contingency immigration plan should be put in place to deal with the loss of the E-2 (such as the O-1 or green card).
"The good man plants a tree whose fruit will be tasted by his grandson" is a proverb I came across once about date trees. There are a few varieties of this for various precious trees which can take generations to bear reliable fruit.
Yes, I also get that toggle grayed out, like Henktube said below.
It does appear that dumb. CAFE seems predicated on exceeding a particular average gas mileage for each class of vehicles.

If I understand it correctly, having a small truck counted among your sedans hurts the average MPG of your "car" line since even a fuel-efficient truck performs worse than cars.

Solution: add just enough mass to the Frontier to bump it from "cars" and put it in the "truck" class.

Among "trucks," the dummy-thicc Frontier now becomes the best-performing Truck, whose high average MPG raises the shittier average MPG of the rest of your gas-guzzling Titan/equivalents. Then you don't need to improve any of your existing trucks.

...which leaves little incentive for anybody to make a small truck. It hurts your average car MPG and only qualifies as a Truck if you add so much weight to it that it's no longer "small." This is dumb.
> “Virtually every tool can be used for good or for evil, and that is especially true of communication tools, due to their innate flexibility,” Leif K-Brooks, Omegle’s founder, wrote in a note announcing the site’s end. “The telephone can be used to wish your grandmother ‘happy birthday’, but it can also be used to call in a bomb threat. There can be no honest accounting of Omegle without acknowledging that some people misused it, including to commit unspeakably heinous crimes.” K-Brooks’ note did not mention the settlement in his statement, but blamed the closure of Omegle on unspecified “attacks” against communication services.

> There’s a flaw in K-Brooks’ argument: The telephone doesn’t connect children and teens directly to sexual predators with the click of a button. Omegle’s model allowed sexual predators to sign on and click through a roulette of people, continuously jumping from one to another until they were face-to-face with who they were looking for.

Yesterday's discussion about K-Brooks' statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199355
Always Be Learning
It talks about warding off rising sea levels but does not mention what happens if all or most of the everglades is under sea water, which looks possible in the lifetime of people who are children now.
Seconded. I was hoping for a persistent multiplayer and modernized Freelancer 2 but i got a very pretty, but mile wide and inch deep game.

God what i would give for a modern reimagining of Freelancer 2...
Honestly asbestos (and by analogy graphene) would be some of the more benign chemicals involved in semiconductor manufacturing. It regularly uses carcinogens, things that will cause miscarriages in pregnant women and acids strong enough to cause bone damage after being absorbed through the skin.

Have a gander at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_hazards_in_semiconducto... for more info.
It's insane that that video was three years ago, and nothing has changed.

Hello Games just keeps shipping things that make the game better.
That was 7, 6 was the last 'good' one.
OpenText is another one like that.
IMO "Solves iPhone addiction" is more or less a rephrasing of "people will quickly get bored of this".

It's just a smartphone, except you can't run third-party software, can't directly interface with it, and can't connect it to other machines. And instead of holding an N-million pixel, M-million-colour, extremely high-constrast display directly in your hand, you have to indirectly project (meaning extremely LOW contrast) a single-colour display onto your hand from a projector that's shaking around being clipped to your clothes.

The only single hypothetical upside I can see to this tech is that it might lower the two-second delay in looking at my phone caused by putting my hand in my pocket before raising my hand, but you could say that that goes against the goal of solving phone addiction.
Plenty of publishers do try ditching Steam for their own storefront. They always come back to steam. Ubisoft is currently doing this with the latest Assassin's Creed game, PC sales are Epic and UPlay store only.
No idea. I’ve never worked at any of these companies, I just learned this in an academic conference presentation on ethnographic research into OnlyFans users. OnlyFans doesn’t have its on recommendation system, so users need to find their customers on instagram, Twitter, tumblr, etc.
I have toyed with it on a larger code base but nothing significant. I ran out of tokens fairly quickly on trying out some larger refactoring/tasks. I don’t find myself reaching for it much but I’m usually pretty impressed when I do.
i remember apollo 8 so well. how brilliant.

is anything that good ever going to happen again? often these days i think not.
There's been experiments with upside-down goggles, where people have been able to adapt in a week or two. They claim that after long enough they see the world normally because their vision has actually changed.
I think this is a cool concept. I can't imagine ever using it with the latency demonstrated in their video. If I was in charge I'd be chanting "latency, latency, latency" like Ballmer or something.

I think the Meta Ray-Ban glasses are probably a better concept even without a screen just because of the better placement of the audio and camera. But I'm glad people are trying different things.
You know what things are what color so you'd notice instantly ?
Olive oil is substantially better than many other seed oil alternatives in terms of omega 6 content (too much omega 6 appears to be a problem, especially given how little omega 3 we get in the modern diet) [1] [2]. Extra virgin olive oil also has crazy high phenolic content for an oil, and polyphenols are well studied in their many beneficial impacts on health.

[1] https://www.drfabio.com/healthblog/cooking-oil-comparisons

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8504498/

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095528630...

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6724211/
You can even go to the point store, get a url of the preview, download it from Steam servers, put it in an appropriate Steam subdirectory and set in Steam settings to be the default.
I should have clarified, the cloud integration requirement for adjusting the keuboard's RGB settings is under Windows. It's software Razer developed themselves and require for basic functionality on their shipped product. It left a terrible impression with me.
It is a shell company, except that it is not Google (or its equivalent) who is creating it. It is the Infosys and Cognizants (or other bodyshopping firms) of the world who create this structure to satisfy the demand created by the Googles.
I have GOG and Steam installed.

For GOG I wish I didn't have to install it, because it's so rare that I play that one game I got from there.

For Steam I'm happy I have most of my games there, because I only need to install one program to access them.
I had a Logitech G Cloud for a bit and found myself only using PS Remote Play because the other apps were too much of a hassle. The streaming from PS5 was flawless for me. I couldn’t tell it was streaming at all. Only issue I had was the game UI. Nothing was scaled up so trying to read anything was a task. I was not doing any multiplayer gaming though.
The mix and match is what convinced me to give this font a try. I’ve been using Operator Mono for years now specifically because of it’s true italics.

I’ve wanted to switch to an open alternative to Operator Mono for a long time now, and I think because of the mix and match, this finally is the one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38184750 ("Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist (nature.com)", 122 comments)
In my experience, LLM's are bad at generating concise & witty jokes. They can randomly generate but that requires the the prompter to be a funny person to begin with.
One major plus with Steam is buying a single copy of certain games and having a friend join instantly via remote play.

Also nice to be able to buy some new games and run them on an old laptop, can't do that on my xbox 360 anymore. My library all runs on my latest computer too. At least xbox makes a fair amount of the catalog backwards compatible, it's not a thing on Playstation.

edit: plus I can give friends access to my entire library, providing I'm not using it at the time.
Also the reason why I got AMD when upgrading my graphics card.
They know the reason “it pegged my cpu and blocked out other processes.”

OneDrive is the worst background process I’ve ever run and at least once a day, I have to kill the process because it’s maxing my cpus. Over something stupid like syncing a random file that hasn’t been opened or changed in a year.

It’s curious how bad it is.
What does one time use mean for a phone? You make one call and dispose of it? I used my last iPhone for 6 years, including a 3rd party screen replacement and battery replacement.
Because they do offer content to people for free, and have for years. And people might actually be willing to put up with ads if they weren't so invasive and obnoxious - static ad banners, for instance, would probably be fine. But interrupting a video every few seconds for several minutes of ads is just ridiculous.

Also because the ability for the end user to have complete control over the content the server sends them has been baked into the web since the beginning. You can send your content for free and hope that I choose to view your ads (which I probably wont,) or you can put your content behind a paywall, and hope it's worth paying for (it probably isn't.)

What you can't do is send your content for free and just expect me to view your ads, as if the internet were old media like radio or television, where even then, you could skip ads with DVR or just change the channel.

It's not our problem corporations thought the web was going to be a gravy train where the rules didn't matter, and they poisoned the well and ruined everything in the process. To hell with all of them, let them burn. We'll go back to sharing videos on torrent or something.
That's also what I was hoping for, but yeah, NMS kinda just culminated into pastel drudgery. For some reason it just doesn't feel like there is either carrot or stick and I suppose the creative avenues offered don't really feel interesting to me in the context of the game. But maybe it'd be more interesting on creative mode or something similar. But the combat has always been really subpar, both in FPS and in-ship which would definitely be my forte.
There are a lot of people working on converting cargo ships to ammonia fuel. This will at least burn clean producing only nitrogen and water with appropriate engine tech. The ammonia can come from green hydrogen, so it could be 100% clean tech and ammonia doesn't have the problem of needing to be compressed and has good energy density.[1]

[1] https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/worlds-fir...