skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The true purpose of an engineering manager is to be a Directly Responsible Individual for the output of the team. Someone who makes sure day-to-day operations go smoothly, sure, but is also looking ahead for future business needs and making sure resourcing, training, etc line up. Almost all tasks an EM does can be delegated many different ways (Engineers. Tech leads. Product managers. Project managers. HR. etc...), but the EM will either make sure that each role is being handled or will take care of it themselves. They patch together a functional result from a patchwork of people joining, training, leaving, and going out of office or burning out.

EMs, like most managers, are typically paid more than most engineers. The reason why is very simple: They've sold their soul to the company, and that is, in fact, fairly valuable.
For, literally, all intents and purposes, they are used interchangeably in the year 2024.
Out of curiosity, how much is a human life worth in these calculations?
I've been building an app for the Apple Vision Pro for sharing spatial videos:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spatial-station/id6476346004

It's gained a decent amount of content and users since launching shortly after the Vision Pro launch.
Their competence is measured by their success, not your opinions. And it turns out that in many professions, an insta is the thing you need for success.

If you don't like it, that's your problem, not theirs. You're part of a small enough group they don't care about. I'm not sure how that's an age question in the first place, though. The "being run by millenials" throwaway by GP is just... well, at best, sloppy thinking.

There are GenZ businesses websiting, there are boomers insta-ing. You pick the tool for your niche.
I'd love to hear from them! Once I get a design update I want to start a private beta. If they're interested in participating, I'd be glad to give them free lifetime access. :)
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Automation practically eliminated the labor required to provide for the basic necessities of human survival, but if I don’t maintain an increasingly inconsequential job, then I will die homeless in the streets in short order.

I’m really not trying to argue for or against any new technology. But I don’t see why any new technological change necessarily brings about UBI given the absolutely drastic reduction in the amount of labor necessary for human survival we already achieved in the mid 1900’s. So my question is still, why did the old forms of automation not bring about a post scarcity utopia (or at least a UBI)?
Every piece of marketing coming out of Google and Microsoft is about how ai is coming and it's the future and there's people still asking why people have unrealistic expectations for these models.
I have used the vybe app to varying degrees of success https://app.thevybeapp.com/
It's still an amazing achievement.

The world procedural generation from a seed alone is amazingly well implemented in an environment so constrained most programmers nowadays wouldn't even be able to do anything in.
I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying we specifically fail to hold private industry accountable in the US. So we get things like poisonous runoff from agriculture and industrial production, insanely slow and outdated train lines, privately owned bridges that fail and cause injury, property damage and traffic jams, massive wildfires causing property damage and loss of life from unmaintained utility infrastructure, and worldwide banking crises, among other things.

Is it impossible for these things to stop happening? No, not at all. But it's probably not going to stop, in this country, because we let private industry get away with whatever they want. If this were the UK the story would be very different.
Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available
Reminds me tangentially of the study that found that strong chess players were much worse at recalling randomized positions than realistic ones: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03200937.pdf

I’m wary of inviting the too-easy “it’s just like how it works for people!” comparison, but the implied context and history of a game state seems to be important in processing it.
This seems like a system architecture error. Boats do weird shit sometimes and so bridges need to be deigned to not fall down when a boat crashes into them. Requiring a huge boat to be steered to meter resolution when clearly that's not always going to happen is top shelf stupidity. Up there with backup generators in the basement below the water table.
For my knee scans I could move into a position that was comfortable for me which actually I think was arms folded across my abdomen, but then you just do not move while the imaging is happening, which will have a distinct sound.
> managing by dashboard

What a delightful phrase. I've seen it before but never had something to call it.
I don't think attacking professional or drivers licenses is useful nor do I think incarceration is. That said.

> Realistically, it tends to be responsible people who would have paid child support anyway who pay it,

This is a bold assertion that seems extremely unlikely. Most workers work for a wage and cannot trivially become an under the table construction worker to spite Alice. I would guess that given the enforcement mechanism most people who are able to pay end up paying. It's also pretty trivial to imagine that without the threat of at least garnishment or seizure lots of folks wouldn't pay. If you are going to assert it you should actually prove it.

> For example, maybe in custody proceedings we should more highly weight financial ability to support the child when awarding custody.

You already need to be able to support the kid including the other sides court ordered support in order to get custody in court now. Weighing it more heavily towards wealth to avoid charging Bob seems extraordinary. Why?

> it doesn’t take 15% of a good earner’s income to support a child.

You should probably redo the math on that and start with the median individual income and tell me how it went.

> There are probably better ways to ensure Bob Jr. is supported.

Bob Jr being supported unlike the many complexities of child rearing is a function of whether or not sufficient resources are transferred from Nonscustodial parent to custodial parent. Court orders, garnishment, seizure are the only way to get from A to B.
I picked up godot 4 to try out a game idea, and have been running with it for a few months while leveraging chatgpt to get over the skills hurdle, https://www.reddit.com/r/boomballs/
It's the hypocrisy of espousing liberty while systematically stripping away personal rights.
Did you ever come across a minister named Holt in Gornal?
I think the other commenter means that you could walk in a bank, put down 10% of the house value in cash and get the bank to pay the rest. This way you get a house as long as you can pay back what you owe to the bank.

To me it seems from your explanation that with Bitcoin loans you can only basically turn a collateral amount into the same value in Bitcoin, but not leverage the collateral. Hence, it's only useful if you already have money.
I'm working on https://UpVPN.app - Serverless VPN
And here I thought it was just a Thievery Corporation album.
Yes, because gender issues didn't exist until the internet did. They definitely didn't exist decades or centuries ago:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-his...
One might expect that local news are well connected with those who actually did construction, planning and whatnot of such projects, or emergency responders, or disaster mitigation, or people specialized in local geology / hydrology to show up challenges...

The sad truth is that "local" news more often than not barely has any local people any more, a lot of content is directly ripped off from others (especially fire dep't or police reports, with the added problem that no one challenges the copaganda), or not local at all but produced/sourced by central agencies, or theoretically "local" reporters have such large areas to cover that they can't reasonably build relationships with experts.
> The most useful job they can do is to take on responsibility. (...) The issue is when they are all concerned about their management, defer the decision upwards, and now you have a King who must [get] everything [approved].

You've just described every company of more than 50 people.
I read in this article lack of experience working in different organizations and lack of understanding of complexity of organizational structure. It’s nonsense with a clickbait headline pretending to be revelation. Why?

1. Most organizations have EM with one or another job title and many of them function very well. It is not a problem of specific role if something goes wrong. It’s often unfit people.

2. The role of EM is the role of people manager. This role is hard to delegate to anyone else: outsiders like HR will not know people well enough, assigning it to a product or project manager will overload those roles with functions unrelated to the primary job (great product managers are leaders without authority - it doesn’t mean they should take over their cross-functional teams). Principals are not managers by definition, they are people who have chosen different type of career not willing to do anything with interpersonal stuff. People management is a scope of work big enough to have a dedicated person for a team of 4-10 people, bigger teams will need more.

3. Engineering manager is a first point of contact for the business regarding feasibility and planning topics. While engineers work, managers talk. In theory a principal engineer can be such person, but not every team can and should have someone at this level. In fact, most should not - this is the role for the teams with over 50 people and it’s an org-wide role. If you have principal or architect in a team of 10, you are doing something wrong with the career path and probably overspending.
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One reliable way to convince customers is to provide emergency notes with a fixed expiration date of a maximum of 1 year from the time the note was written. After 1 year, customers are, in a way, forced to create a new emergency note, and at the same time, they can verify if anything is going to change soon on the platform (e.g. upcoming shutdown). This would also help to keep the emergency note’s content always up-to-date. When you sign up for car insurance, you do so for a maximum of 1 year, as prices and coverages may change.
I'm desperate for this for Starcraft (bw) which is generally casted in Korean.

Even for streaming I'd watch some of the top pros if I could understand what they are saying
Still the same journalism hating governor (Mike Parson) as 2 years ago:

"Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28867562
I spoke w/ Marvin Minsky once back in the 1990s and he told me that he thought "emergent properties" were bunk.

He said the same thing about perceptrons in general. When it comes to bunk, Minsky was... let's just say he was a subject matter expert.

He caused a lot of people to waste a lot of time. I've got your XOR right here, Marvin...
Or run the OS for which you already have media?
According to the marine traffic track shown in the YouTube analysis above, the ship looks to have been heading through the channel, but then nosed in right under the bridge. Would have sailed right past upstream dolphins, and rammed the pylon from the inside anyway.
> had Chess-GPT play against Stockfish with this random initialization. Its performance plummeted. The larger 50 million parameter model’s win rate dropped from 70% to 17%.

Beating stockfish 17% of the time is still incredible for any engine.

and being trained on human moves rather than engine moves will make this so much more annoying to analyze cheating...
> These tulip farms will continue to use as much pesticides and herbicides as before regardless of mechanical pest controls.

I happen to have worked in that industry. And I do not want justify the environmental burden of floriculture. It is a far from green industry using lots of chemicals and energy. But the tulip business you mention here is also remarkably high tech. It is unfair to frame these companies as they would always choose chemicals against innovation. Au contraire I would say, it is maybe even the most innovative branche of agriculture.
This is deeply wishful thinking. We're not even remotely close to self driving cars and that is numerous orders of magnitude easier than trying to diagnose a human being with anything.
No person should need an engineering manager, but nearly every single team deserves one.

It's not difficult to be productive as an individual; but teams are much more complex and require constant tweaking. The highest performing teams are continually improving. A good Engineering Managers puts the systems and processes in place that make the team stronger over time.

But if you're not going to get excited about making your team as awesome as possible, then maybe management is just effectively being an agent of HR. Sounds miserable.
You can have completely concurrent GC, without pausing threads.

https://github.com/pebal/sgcl
Great study, though there might be bias that exaggerates the effect. as the selection criteria for sudden death includes, e.g. car accidents, one might guess that a lewy body disease would predispose one to be clumsier, or less attentive, as one ages, leading to a higher incidence of sudden death.
My point is that your question existed because you gave credit to an hypothesis. You gave credit to the idea that I'm in a bubble. You were happy to consider that and to even ask.

You lecture me (badly) on "what I should have written". Well, there are tons of things that you could have written. I've even said it before, I quote:

> Being careful is fine, you could have asked precision about my domain.

But you did not, you just "asked innocently" a question that only someone with an idea already in mind would ask.

> I A-S-K-E-D

What if I tell you "how old are you?" (and I will: "you're so stupid you could be a LLM" ... seriously? how old are you?).

Does it mean that I did not assume anything about you? After all, I've just asked a question, it's the proof I'm not biased towards a specific hypothesis, no? Surely, by your own logic, asking "how old are you" is not implying that I consider you not very sophisticated, you should understand "maybe they think I'm young, but maybe they think I'm old and wise, they don't assume anything, as proven by the fact that they are asking a question".

You could have said "people in nuclear will down-play the importance on renewables, you are saying that around you, renewables are considered as a very valid solution, but are you sure renewables are not in fact a very very valid solution, because maybe you are in a bubble dominated by people working in nuclear". Why not having asked that?

You can even take more extreme examples where a person asked a foreigner person if their parents are apes, or bankers/moneylenders, or jihadists? If this person is asking an arab-looking person, why this person is, what a chance, asking if their parents are jihadists but not if their parents are bankers or part of the mafia? Do you really think the person is not assuming anything? After all, this person asked the question, so it's the proof they don't assume, right?

You see, language is a tad more complex than just LLM and out-of-context word-by-word interpretation, and apparently, I understand that. I don't know (and don't care) about LLM, but, you, you certainly don't.
> It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge and I expect the Congress to support my effort

This is what he said. I would expect Congress to play along too -- just how unpopular would it be to abandon Baltimore??
In my part of the US, it's essentially impossible to find a primary care doctor at all. All of the rest of the frustrations the article talks about are meaningless when you can't get a doctor in the first place.
A suite of widgets / tools that many SaaS apps want at some point, but that can be cumbersome to manage and build from scratch, e.g. Announcements, NPS widgets, Product Tours, Feedback widgets etc. etc.

All are creatable and editable without coding skills (after the initial copy-paste setup). So for example, product managers and customer success can manage them without having to bother devs.

https://produktly.com/
It's complicated.

The rudder is a wing, it's just vertically oriented and underwater.

The rudder is capable of stalling, just like any wing. The rudder only produces lift related to the flow of water over the rudder. The lift produced by the rudder is what is experienced as turning force. The tiller or wheel changes the angle of attack.

I used to helm a racing sailboat with a high aspect (long & narrow) rudder. It could provide a lot of turning force but stalled easily. It didn't work as well under power as it did under sail; I suspect this was due to the turbulent flow off of the propeller, which was forward of the rudder.

On the Dali, the rudder should have been providing some turning force due to the 7+ knot flow of water over the rudder. Full reverse propeller might have impacted that; I can't comment because I've never helmed a ship that large.

Additionally, a single-propeller vessel like the Dali, will have "prop walk" - asymmetric thrust that pushes the stern of the craft one way or the other while the propeller is rotating.
I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop in terms of costs to serve for AI before I start freaking out. Maybe a super AI could replace an engineering org, but how much will it cost? Developer wages are already being depressed by off-shoring. The era of the $300k/yr app dev is over. AI companies can burn cash to acquire customers for one off prompts. But what happens when you are severing multiple prompts a minute? You are going to want to charge by usage instead of monthly. Will this be cheaper than a human? Maybe. Probably not if there another major disruption to the chip supply chain.

Also AI demos really well for basic problems with lots of examples on the internet. Anyone who has used LLMs for niche domains knows that its not as reliable. I think this means Business Students are impressed since they use problems they learned in class, for which they are many example solutions. Worse even are the demos of AI "correcting" itself.
> The APA’s position paper makes this explicit: “Using social media is not inherently beneficial or harmful to young people.”

I think this is just saying that social media is still part of society, and so there is nothing inherently bad in using social media, which is just an extension of our offline lives. That doesn't mean it's not harmful - if the offline life is harmful, social media can amplify it.

> The negative aspects of social media apply to young and old equally

The APA paper is filled with warnings specifically about adolescent social media use:

> ...potential risks are likely to be greater in early adolescence — a period of greater biological, social, and psychological transitions...

> Parental monitoring... and developmentally appropriate limit-setting... is critical, especially in early adolescence.

> Evidence suggests that exposure to maladaptive behavior may promote similar behavior among vulnerable youth, and online social reinforcement of these behaviors may be related to increased risk for serious psychological symptoms, even after controlling for offline influences.

> Research demonstrates that adolescents’ exposure to online discrimination and hate predicts increases in anxiety and depressive symptoms, even after controlling for how much adolescents are exposed to similar experiences offline.

> Data indicate that technology use particularly within one hour of bedtime, and social media use in particular, is associated with sleep disruptions. Insufficient sleep is associated with disruptions to neurological development in adolescent brains, teens’ emotional functioning, and risk for suicide.

> Research suggests that using social media for social comparisons related to physical appearance... [is] related to poorer body image, disordered eating, and depressive symptoms, particularly among girls.
Thanks for clarifying. I knew I was getting something wrong, but can never remember all the details. IIRC PS1 also suffered from render order issues that required some workarounds, problems the N64 and later consoles didn't have.
I'm not sure what is more mainstream - belief that AIs are as capable as humans, or belief that they are not.

Roger Penrose is one of the more authoritative, for lack of other arguments, voices for humans being more capable than AIs. Still not sure if it implies an existence of God, a class of ability higher than Turing machine or something else.
Related:

How to Criticize Computer Scientists (2001) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26609492 - March 2021 (101 comments)
What if it was the responsibility of parents to make sure their kids didn't smoke cigarettes, but it was legal for stores to sell cigarettes to kids? Responsible parents could tell their children they are forbidden from buying them, explain all the reasons why it's bad, and then kids could just walk into a store and buy them anyway. Putting it all on parents doesn't work, parents aren't capable of supervising 24/7 and it isn't reasonable to act like they are or should be.
What are the recent revelations you’re referring to?
It's a good question. A lot of it centers around creating good corporate governance and a reason for either me (or someone else) to stay interested (careful incentive design). This is obviously antithetical to the typical scale-up strategy of a tech company, and the financials are very similar to an insurance company. It's also why there is no free plan in the pricing.

In terms of convincing, for the technically-minded, I have a public disaster recovery plan, a public business continuity plan, and "escape hatches" for "common" events -- war, subpoenas, changes in law, a post-RSA future, etc. The goal is to cover as many events as possible, including the very improbable (like AWS losing a whole AZ!). The backing clouds are Microsoft Files and AWS S3, both with excellent track records and absurdly good durability. There is some special caching in front to minimize cost.

For the less technically-minded, there are no good alternatives. Self-hosted data is difficult to geographically distribute (and if you do it's difficult to update true cold storage). Cloud services have a very high lifetime cost, and unclear rules around data distribution to next of kin. Other methods, like burying some vacuum sealed MDISCs in a freezer, are not realistic.

I am of the opinion that while it is impossible to predict the future, it is possible to plan for it.
> IMO there is real value in letting states ... test the hypotheses.

"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will have no other" -- Benjamin Franklin
friend of mine built this: https://www.instructables.com/HDDJ-Turning-an-old-hard-disk-...

can't beat how smooth it is.
Reminds me of the Shim computer https://www.purdue.edu/uns/html4ever/2006/060112.Shim.comput...
Humans have not demonstrated any capability that is not theoretically computable, AFAIK.
IME, in the structure they've described, either the project manager becomes the de facto manager (terrible outcome because they don't have the technical knowledge to do the job properly) or an engineer with a strong personality fights the project manager and becomes the de facto manager (okay short term, but guaranteed burnout long term).

A better model is to ditch the project manager and give the engineering manager an administrative assistant.
Debunking Davos [video]