skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a manager for about 9 months before being laid off. The goal was to attain power but also work on the huge backlog of work we had. I wanted to use the power to block outside forces that would push my engineers in the wrong direction or remove their focus for investigating things like platform bugs.

What ended up happening was that the project work even though completed was used to gaslight me for 6 months as breaking the platform and causing bugs. Issues that infra team promised to “fix later”.

Go ahead code when you’re a manager it can be effective, but be careful when working with outside ineffective teams they will put blame on you if they can. Management is political and once you start making moves that outshine other teams, opposition will come out of the wood work to bring you back to their level of unhappiness.

The trick to identifying this is when people start naming you at meetings you aren’t in. It might be good things they are saying but that may shift as the good things well dries up.
AI now 'analyzes' LA Times articles for bias
Inadvisable, IMO. This is not going to perform well. There are bindings for llama.cpp, I'd use that if I had to do things in Go. And yes, I'm aware that it calls into icky and uncouth C++, but it will be way faster, especially if you have some sort of acceleration hardware.
With all due respect to your experience and with sincerity, I must ask: did you miss Trump's first presidency? Surely that was the time to become disillusioned with the USA, if not before?
>You are automating an activity humans ENJOY doing.

There's at least an order of magnitude more people who enjoy making music than there are people with the actual skill/talent to make music. Music generation AI is an absolute blessing to the untalented among us who'd love to make a song in a certain style or with certain lyrics but lack the time, talent or ability to do it ourselves.
Let's hope they go to jail before the US collapses.
I have been working on a very similar build.

One feature I decided was a requirement is holding me up. I really want pogo pins on the sides of the keyboards, so that they magnetically attach and the left will charge the right.

How do you charge the left and the right since they require separate cables?
"But what does this mean for frontline engineering managers? Is the new normal just about writing more code and doing less of the other things that peacetime managers would normally do?"

"Should they be able to do code reviews? Yes."

There is no standard answer here. At many companies it is the Head Of Product who also oversees the tech team. They may not know how to write code, and will not know how to do code reviews. Some project managers lead engineering teams without knowing how to code. That's especially true outside of the tech industry.

For anyone interested in specific numbers, I interviewed Eric Garside about his experience scaling Freshly from 3 engineers to almost 80 engineers, see here:

https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/eric-garside-as-...

I also surveyed several of the CTOs who I know in New York City, about team size and scale and responsibilities, they gave their answers here:

https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/a-survey-of-ctos...
Putting on my tinfoil hat here.

One of the reasons Russia and China cooperate is because they also implicitly are supporting each others expansionist (reclaimationist? depending on point of view perhaps) stances, at least those not along shared borders.

The current US administration is suddenly moving towards an expansionist narrative, as well as being supportive of Russian interest in Europe and much less antagonistic to China than it has been previously.

Expecting this US administration to take ANY action opposing China or Russian interests that doesn't oppose its own going forward seems like betting no a dead horse.
https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com and it's free!

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft on this.
Considering the British supplied weapons, explosives and tactics to the Saudi uprising "white man saviour" is not far from the truth no?

I don't know why it is considered politically incorrect nowadays to say that the world as we know it was shaped by white people.
Deng Xiaoping himself constantly told his own comrades how fucking pathetic China had become. And nobody could argue with him.
Yes, in theory basically anything could be securities fraud, and lots of lawsuits like that get filed. Very few succeed.

If shareholders are serious about dumping Musk they can put in board members to sack him and get a new CEO. If they just want a lot of performative legal actions, yea sure file a lawsuit.
Using natural gas means climate change still progresses. Not to mention you'll be paying all of the overhead cost of maintaining natural gas plants, but only use them for a fraction of the time. So net cost per watt hour will be very high.
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> You have this information from where?

From the "free press".
This mantra continues since 3 years.
Totally with you. But it's the trend we get to re-balance in a good way:

> People that never considered the value of artistic process until it was the topic du jour unilaterally decided that it was inefficient, oppressive, complex, frivolous, and unfairly inaccessible to those that hadn't put any sustained effort into developing theirs.

This is eerily reminiscent of what's happening inside the USA government & administration today...
I've never seen a dual role manager that is actually good. It's usually a senior dev that gets stuck with management duties. They are usually good technically but then lack finesse and knowledge about most managerial issues (budget, employment law, team dynamics, etc). You're now at a disadvantage because the stuff they are supposed to protect you from or have power to help further your career is not developed. If your managers don't have enough management work, then flatten your org and expand their reach so they do.
I hope you're right, but I see no reason to be that optimistic.
Show HN: Vidformer – Drop-In Acceleration for Cv2 Video Annotation Scripts
Hi HN, this is a project I've been working on as part of my PhD.

Vidformer is a system that makes video annotation or transformation scripts practically instant. Traditional scripts that render full videos can take minutes—Vidformer speeds this up by optimizing execution and using on-demand rendering, so results appear immediately instead of waiting for entire videos to render. It works as a drop-in replacement for OpenCV's cv2, meaning most scripts can adopt it by simply changing "import cv2" to "import vidformer.cv2 as cv2"—no need to rewrite code or sacrifice flexibility. Vidformer is written in Rust and uses FFmpeg libraries for low-level video access.

Under the hood, Vidformer runs code with symbolic references to frames and tracks frame modifications to build a declarative representation of the task. Then, when rendering, it can transparently distribute the workload across many cores and efficiently use additional memory for caching frames. Further, it can expose a Video on Demand endpoint and only render segments once requested; this lets playback begin instantly.

Repo: https://github.com/ixlab/vidformer

The "Open in Colab" notebook is a great place to start. Would love to hear feedback!
I agree with this sentiment! One way to set up teams is with a squad leader who acts as shit shield first, and developer if the company is running smoothly. That way if the boss manager is a full time shit shield with little time to understand product, the team still has a local product owner to guide the team’s vision and concept of the product, but the power imbalance is also less as the team lead could fairly easily be deposed by accessing the manager.
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Book by Scott Anderson

One of my favourite books on the topic
Love this. I sent this to a few of my military and commercial pilot friends to see if they are interested in talking / helping out. Good luck solving this problem!
>Saying it's a blackbox is true, but that doesn't mean you get to invent random things to worry about, without direct evidence it's connected to the specific device we're discussing.

True, but the corollary is that you also can't say it's not doing certain things. Just because you currently don't have evidence of something happening does not rule out the possibility, but I must admit I am ignorant about the specifics of how the Pixel's RTOS is implemented.

So I'm genuinely inquiring: Could it be sending your GPS location to some entity without notifying the GPOS?
laudable. I'm hoping the radar UX will move away from 1930s 2d oscilloscope sweeper one day, instead of AI alucinating speech.
Another opinion:

I want this keyboard to put on a bookshelf and never use, haha. It is really nice looking. It sounds like it was an incredible learning experience and making something so polished and professional looking is a real accomplishment. But low profile, no pads, ortho layout, and no tenting… my eyes ache for the beauty of the thing but my hands just ache.

But anyway, ergonomics are personal so I can’t really judge.
What is slop music?

What makes these tracks "slop"?

https://sonauto.ai/song/942c0122-9358-4805-96c4-eb0537d97ca2

https://sonauto.ai/song/ba87e490-19f0-47c5-acb0-83a3b57a90e9

https://sonauto.ai/song/2b217436-0876-49bc-8a9c-d5807e626962
Yes, there are a TON of free tools and endless instruction on using them. If you move your budget up to making one-time payments for things that cost less than one month using a subscription service, you get an astonishing breadth of new options. Beyond that, so many of the more expensive music making tools are one-time payments rather than subscription services. Buy Ableton once? You own it. You can get the latest version at a discount, but there's absolutely nothing stopping you from using the version you bought, in perpetuity.
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Heck yeah bro, we're owning the Europeans! What a win for the USA! Love basing our geopolitical policy, and breaking our honor in keeping commitments on that. So much winning.
I was gonna take some issue with point one until I read point to, which sounds like it addresses my thoughts. China could take Taiwan quickly, but it would come at a pretty high cost to Chinese forces. I personally don't think China is really that invested into conquering Taiwan militarily, the Chinese invasion has been 6-9 months away for 30 years now according to "foreign policy" experts on Chinese-Taiwan relations. You can find books in the 90s predicting an invasion happening the following fall just as you see in today's articles. While the Chinese government is far from benevolent, if you go based on history, its more likely the US invades Taiwan than China. Other than border disputes with India and teaming up with the US to handle Somali pirates, China hasnt really had any real military activity since their failed campaign against Vietnam 40-50 years ago. At least that I know of. Which I would say perhaps backs up one point you may. Chinese forces could be massively weaker than expected. War sucks, but the tiniest benefit you can at least attribute to US interventions is, we do have some real combat experienced folks. China doesn't have any actual combat experience other than the once in a blue moon Chinese and Indian forces pop shots across the border, but no real sustained campaign. But yea, as we have also seen. Regardless of military might, rooting out guerilla forces is the hardest. The Taiwanese government may fall with China installing a military governor, but if the Taiwanese resort to guerilla warfare, it will be hard for Chinese forces to keep total control and stability for a long time.

Just my thoughts though based on my knowledge. If anyone has anything to add, would be glad to read and learn more.
Translating natural language to first-order logic for logical fallacy detection
My experience is from the midlands, specifically in council estates that were predominantly terraced and semi-detached houses (small blocks of 4 or so houses at a time). No flats so that might be a big distinguishing factor (as well as not being in London...). Definitely had problems but rarely because of the build quality itself, some issues with neglect in some areas.
I was talking about market accountability. Companies that don’t get anything done fail.
My problem with OCaml is just that there is no stepping debugger for VScode. I'd use it except for that.
The Annotated Lord of the Rings (2004)
1. I agree about the balance, and I also like the ideas you suggested.

2. Yeah, I noticed. It'd be great if the run would continue from there!

3. Oh, I had never noticed that (maybe because it doesn't really look like a button nor a link). Totally not a "missing feature" issue then (and maybe more like an affordance issue).

4. All nice ideas, but as you mentioned they can definitely wait. Also, let me reiterate that the game is already great, no big change is needed in my opinion. A few small additions might be nice, but I'd keep it simple (and from what I could gather we should definitely agree on this one).

As for the bug, I'll see if I manage to reproduce it on the web version when I have a bit more time. And don't worry about the fix, there's no hurry of course.
Feather-light 'heat shield' material can improve efficiency and safety
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My best managers were ex-engineers who didn't touch the codebase. They understood how things worked, and could talk architecture & concepts, but they didn't expect to be able to sit down and write code at our level. Maybe they wished they would have the time/opportunity still, but realistically they were focused on leading.
The core issue isn't whether Terraform can do it—it's how it does it. You're describing a workflow that requires multiple state files, external tools like Terragrunt, and sequential terraform apply runs to work around the fact that Terraform itself lacks imperative, runtime-driven logic. That’s not "using Terraform properly"—that’s compensating for its limitations.

And sure, using a general-purpose language doesn’t magically eliminate coordination problems, but it does give you far more control. If I were using something like Pulumi or CDK, I wouldn’t need to hack around Terraform’s static graph by splitting state files and manually sequencing deployments. I could express logic directly in code—dynamically querying instance IDs, handling autoscaling changes, and updating DNS records inline, without requiring an entirely separate execution step.

So no, this isn't a "failure of process and understanding"—it's just recognizing that Terraform’s declarative model is great for static infrastructure but falls short when dealing with truly dynamic scenarios. If you think its workflow is fine, that’s cool—but don’t pretend it doesn’t have real limitations just because you've built processes to work around them.
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Apple launches legal challenge to UK 'back door' order
Maybe?

Managers should not be evaluated based on code output -- it's not their job. However, writing code here and there -- to evaluate new technologies, make a rough prototype, or demonstrate a technique to be adopted by individual contributors -- may aid them in their management responsibilities and should be embraced when it does.

I've seen what happens when a manager is also responsible for individual coding duties. He ended up with roughly twice the work, shifting between two mutually incompatible mental modalities all the time, cranky with his subordinates and making a lot of sad phone calls to his fiancée explaining that he'd be late home from work, again. Not a good fate for any worker, even if the pay and prestige are better.
One important distinction to make is the difference between a manager who started out as an IC on the project (esp. the case when they actually built the thing from the ground up) versus a manager brought in from the outside. I think the former is more likely to be hands-on and generally speaking the expert in the room. But, sometimes you need the latter. It can be challenging (even counterproductive) for the latter person to try to be technically relevant, when they are often the least technically knowledgeable person in the room when they join.

I say this as someone who has been in both roles!
No, records are a reduction in boilerplate for regular classes (the result also happens to be read-only — not deeply immutable, mind you). Value types are in the works:

https://openjdk.org/jeps/401
“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within”

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Did you mean GW?
Could you share the name of the battery you used?
One can understand where the father is coming from without wanting to give him power over his daughter's choices. It is appropriate to give him compassion and support, not legal domination over another adult, who has her own life to live - or not! - as she sees fit.
Generate track, extract the pieces I like, build a real track using those pieces with all the other samples I use.
> After Compaq decided they wouldn't support Windows on Alpha, Microsoft continued using the hardware for developing 64-bit Windows

I seem to recall hearing that Linux also developed its 64-bit support on Alpha.
> 12 hours of night time is not 30TWh The world is currently at 26TWh A DAY

From your link:

> The global electricity consumption in 2022 was 24,398 terawatt-hour (TWh)

24,398. / 365 is 66.8 TWh of electricity used per day. And again, that's current electricity consumption. Before industrial processes are electrified. Before poor countries adopt air conditioning at the same rates as rich ones. Before transport is fully switched to EVs.

> Let's say it is 30Twh a day in 2030 - you can calculate 50% less energy usage during night making it 20 TWh during daytime and 10Twh during night time

That's not how th consumption curve works. Even in the summer, the ratio of daytime to nighttime energy use isn't so high. And in the winter it's inverted, with nighttime energy use exceeding daytime use.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915
This is exactly how it should be in my opinion. This matches my experience with who I saw as being good managers.
Its a matter of opinion where you draw the line between suicide or euthanasia. This implies that no one here has the high ground in calling the others idea of it "reductive" or "naive".
"Electronic music aren't real songs there's no real instruments involved". Let's be a bit creative with these tools. Sure the pure output isn't always plesant or listenable but there's probably an interesting genre to carve out here
Oh I’m sorry, did you forget that it wasn’t Han Chinese that laid claim to Tibet during the Qing dynasty, whose emperors were Manchus (even though Han was and still is the main ethnic group)?. But snark aside, your argument doesn’t address my central point.
Sorry, I should have said post-Cold War. The USSR obviously credibly countered the U.S.
> I've seen that PyPI costs a lot to run

The actual bandwidth is being fronted by Fastly. At commercial rates (of course it costs them less than that to provide) it would be a few times the entirety of PSF funding.

They have quite few staff and IIRC they aren't paid. But we'd be better off if both of those were fixed, I'm sure.

>I also well remember that PyPI mandated 2FA even for those who didn't want to switch

I got to learn my options for authenticator programs on my desktop as a result. Now I'm more upset that I can't use it for my bank.

>I stopped distributing on PyPI years ago, in favor of my own "simple index" package distribution.

Man, it's hard enough as is to promote FOSS code as an independent developer, how are you getting people to use your index?

>I wish pip etc. had a good mechanism already for mitigating dependency confusion.

They can't do anything about people not knowing which index has which package. A lockfile standard is coming to the ecosytem, at least (PEP 751), and some kind of namespacing (in the distribution names, not just "namespace packages" on import) is coming to PyPI. But abstract dependency specifications don't say anything about the index in pyproject.toml etc. How do other ecosystems approach this?

> I can see that people who download my package also try downloading other packages, like pybind11, from my index, even though it isn't even a dependency of mine.

Is this because you list them as abstract dependencies, or... ?
Phony. He’s just clinging to power.