skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A sweeping statement indeed, but it does reflect my experience too.

IMO - managers are terrible at the same rate as ICs. But the damage a terrible IC can do is limited in most companies because there's guardrails like automated testing, pull requests, no access to the production database, etc. At worst they end up being a big timesuck for other team members until they get let go.

A terrible manager will sink a project or team single-handedly, though.
What kind of advice would have been better?
AI is the plough of the digital age
I have advised multiple people in their 50s that they are no longer seeking a position, they are looking for a decent paying job.

Career progression should be dominated by FIRE...
I would be impressed by one of my reports saying “We’ve worked together to get me ready for the next step in my career, and I think more face time with our execs will help me take that step. Can you help me find opportunities to get it?”
This is assuming we’re on the same page about how ready they are to take that step. But if we’re not on the same page, then I’ve already failed in performance reviews and feedback.
The data representation is fairly straightforward once you're familiar with the composition rules, at least for modern Korean.

Unicode simply lists all possible combinations in dictionary order starting from U+AC00. So you can take any code point and split out the 초성, 중성 and 종성 using simple arithmetic, just like you can figure out Latin alphabets from their ASCII codes.
Quoting the article:

"I use the word 'theocratic' deliberately, since like theocrats in every domain, some in the sustainability space believe that they own the high ground on virtue, and view dissent as almost sacrilegious."

I wish the author would have skipped the reference to "theocrats". Any strongly-held belief (including the authors) could be described as a sort of religion. Using "theocrat" adds an aggressive tone that distracts from the message of the article.
I don't think anything beyond the elemental composition of the impactor would matter much since the impact would heat it to a temperature at which it would be in chemical thermodynamic equilibrium, regardless of what its initial molecular composition was.
Given the amount of dystopian content he was posting on his website and subreddit lately, he seemed to be despairing quite a bit regarding the direction of society.
The buildx/build and docker-compose vs 'docker compose' are recent updates.
Very sad, just a reminder that success doesn’t translate to happiness.

The podcasts that came out of HSW.com have heavily influenced my life. Especially Stuff You Should Know (still a top 20 podcast but no longer owned by How stuff works.

I remember 16 years ago going through the whole rigmarole of downloading the podcast on my white MacBook, syncing to my iPod, repeating each week so I could keep up with the episodes of SYSK coming out. Fast-forward to today I still listen to each episode religiously and have learned so much from Josh and Chuck.
Serious question: why is this bad? Is it just the 3% false negative rate? I don't see the negative privacy implications of face recognition when the alternative is to present your face (via photo ID) anyway.
Generally speaking you present ID to pass through security.

The facial recognition is based on the biometric data collected when you got your ID, the ID you presented to pass through security. The ID with your name, address, date of birth, and uniquely identifying number on it. The ID which is associated with your boarding pass. The ID they scan (or they scan the boarding pass which is associated with your ID) prior to letting you through security.

Using facial recognition changes nothing, absolutely nothing, except that it reduces the amount of time spent at the checkpoint.

It does not grant anyone access to any information they do not already have.

It does not impede the traveler in any way.

It does not change, at all, any aspect of one's privacy whatsoever.

"But I don't wanna..." doesn't seem like a defensible position.
IMO, there's no such thing as a career in tech, outside of maybe FAANGs (or whatever they're called now). It's just a series of jobs until accumulated wealth, ageism, or disability ends it.
I think LingoDeer is generally considerrd a very good app to learn CJK. You can start with no prerequisites at all.
I'm arguing that there's a qualitative analogy of an increase in rates eventually leading to a plateau, and you're turning it into a quantitative argument?

The point here is that if there's discrimination against certain characteristics, there will be individuals that will deny part of their identity to the outside world.
From an AI risk perspective, one of the most wonderful things about LLMs is that their chain of thought can be entirely read off their outputs by humans with no specific training.

This is a risky step backwards, and for apparently little gain.
The telephone is becoming like an email inbox without protection from spam. By listening to every telephone call Google can alert users about phishing, voice cloning, etc. in real time.

Voice cloning will get to the point where it's so good that there's no tech-savvy users who can detect it the way they can for email. Users will demand for protection to be added to their calls because you really can't live without it.
Sentencing? Who’s been charged? The article implied that regulatory bodies haven’t even raised an eyebrow— the parties are in mediation and synapse said they don’t even have enough money to audit their books, and are just sort of shrugging their shoulders about it. And doesn’t white collar crime need to be discouraged too? Probably even more so considering the scale of the impact? Hundreds of millions of dollars, uninsured. Maybe if the cops went around major metropolitan business districts frisking every middle aged person in upscale business casual attire with an expensive haircut to search for wire transfer receipts because they ‘met the description’ then extremely consequential white collar crime would be less frequent than it is.
This is it. I don't think I've opted out of it. I know I can but I know the agent is going to make a big deal of it and the line is already long for everyone behind me so whatever lets just get through it.
Yes, however...

Notice the wording of that researcher's quote - they are trying to understand things about cash transfers. He does not say that they're doing cash transfers.

And:

> The other half will get additional help from Greater Change, whose support workers will discuss their financial problems then pay for items such as rent deposits, outstanding debts, work equipment, white goods, furniture or new clothes. They do not make direct transfers to avoid benefits being stopped due to a cash influx.

SO - however deceitful The Guardian is being, I'd credit the researchers with honesty here. They're running an imperfect-but-legal experiment, with the gov't's okay & funding, as a work-around for the gov't own bureaucratic rules on cash income reducing benefits.
When entering China, they take your fingerprints, iris, and I guess face too... I was there in 2019, at one point I was at an airport, and a screen was bragging, "Stand where the camera can see your face, and we'll tell you which way to your gate.". It worked too, the screen displayed my name, flight number and direction to my gate. And implicitly, "We can identify you wherever you are.".
Bevy of smart doorbell bugs earn Ekon an FCC penalty for negligence
"Here, drink this Flavor Aid. If you don't like it, it's a personality defect in you."
What do you think opting out does exactly? For the system to work they must already have your photo associated with your name and ID. And even if you opt out they’re still tracking your movement. It seems like an impotent protest so I don’t bother.
So how is Bluesky going to pay for the costs involved?

Personally, i hope once the Ads start appearing on Bluesky, everyone will move to the open-source Mastodon... - which relies on community support and contributions for development and sustainability.
By that logic also, everyone would by expensive razors and cheap razor blades because they would see that it costs less in the long term than cheap razors and expensive blades.
I'm building https://tolearnkorean.com/ , but it's far from finished currently, only meaningful content is an introduction to Hangul so far.

Making it because I believe there's lots of opportunity for high quality Korean learning content.

Also found it annoying that the majority of content out there does not mention other quality resources since they want to keep you in their own (lacking) ecosystem to sell you on their books, coaching sessions, Anki vocabulary cards or whatever it is.

Want to improve my own Korean by teaching it to others.

Also making a site currently that aims to gamify the learning with flashcards, similar to some(!) questions you might see on Duolingo but with your flashcards as a base. Making learning with flashcards more fun and efficient.

I liked BillyGo's videos as a resource in the beginning. The apps I have on my phone to learn are Naver Dictionary, Anki and Migii. Didn't like any other apps I found.
I'll take facial recognition over long TSA lines any day. I can't wait until we have full-throughput non-blocking walk-through security.
We train people in their technical role, but we (generally) don't train people to manage -- and years of poor experience don't count.

I'm not a manager, and I don't want to be. But I'm quite happy with the manager training that my employer puts people through before giving them direct reports.

One should always be negotiating expectations, though, even when one considers management to have our best interests in mind. And also remember that your manager is learning how to manage from you. You get to shape their experience of being a manager, and you get (to an extent) to guide them in how they grow as a manager.
> I wonder whether you've ever tried to make a non-trivial SPA without them.

I personally have. React launched in 2013. Here's a real-time enabled browser chat app I built in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG_W0VxjzbM and at this point, it had been years of building similarly complex JavaScript apps.

Many sufficiently complex apps existed long before React. The "OG" Outlook Web App was certainly not lacking in complexity.

The challenge is that it requires far more skill and a deeper understanding of DOM, JavaScript, and CSS. It requires being more diligent about encapsulating logic.

What React did was it made front-end more accessible to a wider audience. The skill barrier is lower (though traded for complexity elsewhere, IMO). Devs now probably start with React and Tailwind before learning raw DOM and CSS. The good ones will eventually learn it, the mediocre ones will vaguely know that it exists.
Show HN: I made an ls alternative for my personal use
But Microsoft doesn't take this approach at all.

Their software is huge, with all sorts of things integrated into it and no focus at all on keeping the software small enough that one person can read it through with such care that it can be assured to be secure.

They probably run their cloud stuff on processors that can reorder instructions and all sorts of things, whereas what I'm arguing for is simple computers, things that can run a text-only search engine and where the text editor is substantially simpler than nano.

Where you decide exactly what your requirements are and make a system which solves that problem and nothing else.
I think that’s largely due to the weird notion that engineers will eventually “upgrade” to management, as though one is the advanced version of the other.

There are whole degree programs dedicated to managing and organizing people, but we’re like, “nah, Joe’s a good programmer so we should talk him into stopping that so he can supervise people instead”.

Fact is, there’s little relation between the two. A person may happen to be good at both, but expertise in one does not imply adequacy in the other.
> ... run your own benchmarks and complement my results with your own.

Of course, people already had.

Of course, NIH, so instead of references to those more comprehensive benchmarks it's recursive fib again.

https://pybenchmarks.org/

https://speed.pypy.org/

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
We still live in a world with SQL injections, and people are actually trying this. It really is criminally negligent IMO.
The idea of a desktop future based on an OS that's going in the direction of refusing to let you (or in Apple's case, already forbids you to) run arbitrary code they haven't given permission to, is absolutely fucking dire.
> Marshall Brain died inside his office Wednesday on N.C. State’s centennial campus.

>While the university would not confirm any details related to his death, sources close to Brain said he died by suicide.

:(

Marshall was a frequent poster in subreddits such as /r/collapse.

https://www.reddit.com/user/MarshallBrain/

I don’t think it’s hard to see what things concerned him. I think it’s important for all of us to realize that no matter how we think the world is going there is still brightness in the world and Marshall contributed to that brightness through his contributions to society.
I live in a US state that has at-will employment.

I once had an owner of a small business threaten to sue me for quitting because it would cause financial harm to the business. And that was with giving 4 weeks notice.

At-will employment laws protect employees that want to quit, not just employers that want to fire.
Consider the many cultures that Europeans discovered in the Americas. Of them, only one had a real writing system (the Maya). The Aztecs wrote down history in a sort of comic book form, and the Inca did accounting with qhipu, but only the Maya had a conventional system of written forms that correspond systematically with verbal language.

You can communicate and remember a lot orally. The Polynesian navigators encoded information about how to navigate from island to island in oral poems passed down generation to generation. A lot of these traditions seem to vanish once a culture gets writing, leaving it unclear how they used to pass on so much information before.
The problem with that is that it drains away your life energy in your late 20s and throughout your 30s, and in fact it's not only about draining one's energy, let's say that would be fine up to a point, but it drains away your purpose in life, and, in the end, your will to live. I refuse to believe that there are people whose purpose in life is to be a manager/VP, and, if they are, they might as well be walking corpses for all I know.
> And , I don’t want to assume but so have found “I can’t” attitudes don’t work for effecting change in life.

I personally subscribe to framing “I can’t” as “I will not”. Then you can view such things as the conscious choices they are. You can also avoid feeling forced to do things just because they are expected of you.

E.g. “I can’t give up time with my kids” vs “I will not give up time with my kids”.
The scale is just insane .. hard to comprehend a 3km/2mi wide factory.
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What are you opting out of?

Every state id picture is run through facial recognition, and that data is processed to detect duplicate people and other issues. Every passport has a picture which is digitized for facial recognition.

This is a good thing, as it potentially disarms the stupid RealID fiasco with respect to ID and airports.

There is no privacy benefit to document validation.
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My first manager was really good so it came as quite a shock when the next one turned out to be a lying, conniving bastard. Given enough experience you get hardened to it. Of course it would be better if you didn't need to.
(American here) A quick search shows Pew Research, National Academies Press (associated with the Library Of Congress), AmericaUnderWatch dot com, Politico and Georgetown Law .. all with varying responses to this question. In the case of social structure and law, there are many layers, interwoven, and difficult or impossible to fit into chat-level responses.
“For any amount convenience, it’s okay to discriminate against people based on any collection of facts, including ones you can see on their face like their heritage, so long as none of those facts are mine.”
BASIC. In memoriam
The public sector is probably a decent place for a well defined career.
According to the IEA [1], 43% of the energy consumption is oil (transportation, heating), 18% is natural gas (mostly heating), and 25% is electricity. Switching to resistive heating would require doubling the electricity production. Using heat pumps is much more efficient.

[1] https://www.iea.org/countries/france/energy-mix
Maybe I’m old school but I despise the idea of the government tracking me as I travel. Time and time again they are caught violating privacy laws and abusing power.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-more-than-...

For reference, England consumed 1 billion tons of coal during it's peak coal consumption decade.

So please stop with the "China is decarbonizing" crap, because they are not. A more accurate statement is "China understands the importance of energy and is applying an as-much-of-everything-approach to achieve its industrial goals"
"Allegedly".

> > There appears to be no independent confirmation of this story anywhere. The only references to it are this slashdot story, and a reddit story. Neither cite sources or provide evidence.
>
> You raise a valid point. The communication around this was private. The complaint about the title, the authors response, and the decision to expel were all communicated by either private email, on private mailing lists or in private in-person meetings. These private communications could be quoted by participants in said communications. Please let us know if that would be sufficient.

Don't get me wrong, this is a very over-sensitive reason to expel someone. But for better or worse, you need evidence to be taken seriously.
Disagree; the action behind the glass will make using the HUD more difficult, and the glass will make seeing what's behind it almost impossible. It makes both parts of the experience worse. Although, on the surface, to an onlooker, it might look 'cool'.
Not OP, but I also tabs. Usually I set tab to 4 spaces as 2 space is too little to clearly see the indentation, but in frontend projects usually I'd need to set it to 2 as otherwise the JSX layout would easily overflow horizontally. JS also prefer callback-style code that requires another indentation, which might not always be possible to replace with await.
The 100% tariffs are already in place under the Biden administration. Trump only needs to prevent a Mexico manufacturing loophole.

However, BYD still has the entire rest of the world to sell to. They will be fine.
>transforming the region into an economic powerhouse (most of your electronics were probably manufactured there)

I'm in favour of infrastructure but I think the history of Shenzhen is more market capitalism made it an economic powerhouse and then the government cranked up the infrastructure. From the Wikipedia page

>in May 1980 the Central Committee designated Shenzhen as the first SEZ in China, which was promoted by then-paramount leader Deng Xiaoping as part of China's reform and opening-up. Its objective is to be an experimental ground for the practice of market capitalism within a community guided by the ideals of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

And then the capitalism experiment worked. It benefited a lot from being near Hong Kong where people had money and skills while Shenzhen provided cheap labour and a place where Chinese entrepreneurs could go and build stuff.
As opposed to hoping the TSA agent doesn't properly proof you to your government credential you hand them? The data is already there, in state motor vehicle databases, and various federal databases. If you have Global Entry or PreCheck, your biometrics are already on file. The Dept of State has your photo associated with your passport, as does the DoD Common Access Card system.

Sibling comment covers this well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228984
It's interesting that the common sentiment on HN a couple of years ago was the polar opposite of that. I lost count of the number of comments that affirmed the boom was going to go on forever. Software was eating the world, etc.
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> I refuse to believe that there are people whose purpose in life is to be be a manager/VP, and, if they are, they might as well be walking corpses for all I know.

You could say the same thing about ICs though -- "I refuse to believe there are people whose purpose in life is to spend 5 days a week for 3 years building an enterprise line-of-business app to automate an obscure legacy business process that will be used by 10 people in total, and all 10 of those people will complain about the new app and wish they could go back to doing things the old way"
When latency and pageload was in seconds instead of milliseconds, downloading the documentation as a Windows Help file improved my efficiency.

This is a "kids these days" post. Maybe in a few years "The connection to the data center hosting the 1000 GPUs that run the LLM I ask how to do stuff is down, I can't get any work done!"
What kind of resiliency are you hoping to achieve? For most routes, there are many dozens of cables starting at many different locations and taking many distinct paths across the ocean. The companies using these cables take great pains to ensure redundancy for critical paths: they'll validate minimum distances between the cables, ensure that they have a variety of landing points, ensure that they have enough spare capacity to handle a certain number of cables all being out for repair simultaneously. Alternatives to cables would be either land-based wireless (radio, point-to-point microwave) or satellite, both of which have much lower throughput capabilities and also are vulnerable to sabotage of transmission/receiver locations.

While the number of cables is not large enough to put it out of the reach of many nations, it's also something that no group with the capability of doing it would really want to do: it's a surefire way to invite retribution from basically the rest of the world, while not really achieving much militarily: armies almost invariably have their own communication systems (satellite, microwave, transoceanic fiber whose location is secret, etc).
Counterexamples? Or, what am I blind to? You are trying to pick a fight about "bubble blindness" or something without any example of what I supposedly do not see. Yes, that is strangely abstract.
OTOH, this can be a case of the "if everyone around you is a jerk, the jerk is really you" rule.

If you can't work well with any manager the common denominator is you. It's also the only thing you can change.
I believe Apple News is basically this.
> Anyone know if there is a particularly great app/website out there for learning Korean?

It’s extremely unfortunate but in the year 2024, there are still close to no language learning apps that will actually help you acquire a foreign language. I’ve been in this space for about 6 years and the only I can recommend are Anki (which isn’t even a LL app) and some more obscure ‘comprehensible input’ sites. Outside of that, there’s Netflix, Spotify, Audible and real life human interaction (but none of those are LL apps!)
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42226250
Facial recognition systems like this are used everywhere in china. Its common for gates in apartment buildings.

Its just how things work there. It feel more malicious to pretend its not happening