skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once had a job where my job title was officially “Team Leader”, and my job spec was both to do development work and manage a team of 2-3 people doing the same work. (Except my team never existed, because they were all vacant positions and the salary budget I’d been given was too low to actually hire anyone, and then I resigned.) But, in that org, you could manage people without being classified as a “manager”. Whereas everywhere I’ve worked since has had this hard rule, if you have reports you must be a “manager” (or director or VP or whatever), no equivalent concept of “team leader” (although conversely you can be a “non-people manager” who has the word “manager” in your job title but no reports-common for product managers, project managers, etc). But I’ve observed first line managers often de facto act as “team leaders” anyway (actually doing hands-on technical work), but as you go up the hierarchy it gets less common-although exactly where it tapers out is determined more by the individual than the title or management level
Bear in mind that after WW2 the US didn’t want European countries arming up too much, and was quite happy to pick up the slack and set the pace. Eisenhower in particular was pretty clear he didn’t want a heavily armed Germany or Italy, for reasons that should be obvious, and was Dubious about France. It was the US that wrote the heavily pacifist Japanese constitution.
You don't need to use every capability of a device to make it beneficial for you.

Let's stick with photography. Can someone who knows what they're doing get great results with cheap equipment? Yes, in many situations. Is it WAY easier with the right gear? Absolutely. Finding the right balance is tricky - no, you don't need a flagship body and lens to get started, but having a flagship or pro-grade body/lens from 1-3 generations ago can be huge.

I shoot Nikon, not Sony, but going from a consumer D50 body to a Pro D300 body was huge just in terms of ergonomics - more buttons to allow me to quickly adjust things without having to pull the camera from my eye and fumble through menus.

In the current generation, I finally moved to Mirrorless with a Z6ii which blew my mind and enabled so many more things - no, I wasn't "getting the full use" out of it and yes, I got some great shots with my old DSLR gear, but it made so many things so much easier that it made shooting fun and got me to carry the camera and take photos every day, which has been the biggest factor in improving my skills. Within the last few months I splurged and upgraded to a current-gen flagship (Z8) which amazed me once again - the Z6ii was more camera than I could fully exploit, but the Z8's ergonomics are just incredible - so many buttons, most of them remappable, allowing me to truly develop an instinctive way of shooting and allowing the equipment to get out of my way.

It's important to try to avoid loving gear more than loving the activity, but that doesn't mean that higher-end gear is "wasted on" amateurs.
how it is the case us started war insubjedt country of ua?

or you mean other countries?
None of these combined shift-and-add instructions need a full barrel shifter, though, so they? Usually they’re selecting from 2-4 possible shift amounts, not 64 of them.
Either human blood or potatoes, the two options.
Certainty of war now Vs a potential nuclear war tomorrow? Are those really the only choices as far as you're concerned?
As an aider devotee I am now all in on Claude Coder.

Was fun while it lasted.
> The way I see it, the yearly release cycle is to blame. No one inside the company has time to do anything properly anymore. Features are announced and rushed every year, and we’re reaching the point where by the time something which was announced at a WWDC is out of beta, we’re preparing for the next one.

At many places where I've worked, the mentality is: "If that bug didn't block last year's release, then why would it block this year's release?" So it survives one release, it never gets fixed.
Incidentally, François Chollet, creator of ARC-AGI, argues in this 2020 Lex Fridman podcast that intelligence is not compression: https://youtu.be/-V-vOXLyKGw
Similar concept but entirely different implementation.

(aider is Python, Claude Coder is TypeScript, for one)
Why would I ever do a geothermal heat pump for $20-30k when you can get a proper central air heat pump and air handler for less than half? The split unit heat pumps a good portion of the world like would be even cheaper. Not sure how much those would cost.
Yeah, theres also personal and professional development.
Not exactly recommended but this also exists
https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf
Why wasn’t he impeached? Isn’t that the right way to handle it?
Nitpick: I assume you really meant US centric and not "Eurocentric", as as you point out european countries are more in the middle of it and look at each camps from a distance while being involved with all of them.

In practical terms, we can see how Huawei is not banned in the EU, the EU isn't in a tariff war with China either, while it's also not a clear Chinese ally, also having a independant stance from the US in most geopolitical fights.
Spam callers rotate the fake numbers they use for Caller ID, so blocking individual numbers doesn't work.
I feel like Duke 3D was probably the first mainstream accessible moddable FPS. Doom of course had plenty of level editors, but Duke Nukem brought the ability to alter and script AI as editable plaintext CON files, and of course any skills you learned on the BUILD engine were transferrable to any number of other games (Shadow Warrior, Blood, etc.)

Also shout out to anyone who remembers "wackplayer" - Duke's equivalent of the BEEP keyword.
https://archive.is/gCWtd
Doctors have access to high quality databases and search tools already, they don't need Google and to do so would be a major step backwards in medicine.

Your comment makes an important point, how can a patient advocate for themselves when they have no idea how their treatment is being generated?
The US is 100% the biggest existential threat to Canada purely based on Geography and adminstration.

The American people really need to do something about their current adminstration if they want to maintain a positive relationship with Canada
ROK and Japan have formal legal treaties. Ukraine does not.

This hasn't stopped ROK from thinking the Biden Administration wouldn't come to its aid if push came to shove.

I see your point but the effect is going to be much, much less "discrete" and more "diffuse" if at all.

I'll buy you a beer if ROK or Japan have a nuke in 10 years.
He and Trump share an enormous amount of plainly evident narcissistic traits, which are effective in business but fatal combined with toxic, quixotic ideology. Impulsivity is among those features.

Narcissists embrace and promote tribalism, which shores their power and volatilises their circles and communities. As conflicts arise, individuals are forced to take side. It is better for the narcissist to lead a battle to disaster than to be the benign civilian in a country at peace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disor...
It might not directly learn it, but it could still identify it if it's quoted by others or if there's enough text of the same style with the author's name as context.
Give improperly handling an error a try? I’m good. I prefer my software to function correctly.
Until razer comes in and lands a patch authored by an intern that tanks framerates to 1/3rd doing glowy USB shit every frame...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/8a1m9s/psa_deactivate...
In Peter Watts' novel Blindsight, human protagonists enter a completely alien world - not Star Trek "people with rubber ears", but different biology/consciousness-patterns/etc entirely.

As one of the plot points, 'aliens' (again, not the Star Trek humanoid kind) eventually 'hack' the human nervous/visual systems through various means (electromagnetic fields, visual patterns, movement types, etc) to hide things in plan sight.

My internal vision of scenes from that book is eerily similar to the videos in the article.

(On aside, would highly recommend Peter Watts to Hacker News audience :)
That’s what I use. Too easy and compatible with phone, tablet, Mac and is shortcut-able. I tried that journaling app but short of the writing suggestions based off calendar or photos, which is kind of clever, it’s the wrong form factor for that kind of app in my opinion.
So you want them to come to work and do their job, then go home and waste their nights and weekends doing a variation of your job?

How about, a proportion of their work day must be allocated to keeping up to date with the tools behind the thing they're attempting to manage?
He said publicly during the election that if he won “you won’t have to vote anymore” several times, including on a Fox interview.

During protests in his first presidency in 2020 he asked his security advisors “Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?”

Combined with his persistent attempts to overturn the result when he lost to Biden, and retribution against Repubican election officials that certified Biden wins, and I’m frankly confused what isn’t clear about what’s going on.
"It outran several models of Pentium and didn't make math mistakes."
Total bragging rights. Total. You owned them.
Good job.
> I think it’s Eurocentric to imply that China is morally inferior to the US.

Apart from the genocide of the Uighur, the brutal oppression of Tibet, the complete lack of even the pretense of democratic rights, the total lack of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and on and on. Last I checked not wanting your ethnicity eliminated or brutally repressed isn’t just a European thing.
Did you forget to paste the gift article link? The main article link goes to a paywalled page for me.
> The cynic in me says that most likely Accenture wanted to double bill us so gave us one competent dev and a bad one, but basically forbade the bad one from speaking to us to not be found out and then charged us two heads for the value of one.

on the one hand, the brutal, cold and emotionless hard-arse in me agrees with the cynic in you and would send an email about your concerns to whoever's decision it was in your company to bring them in and see what happens. they're the ones responsible for this situation. it's their problem. you might even be doing the offshoring company a favour because they might not know how bad the person is at the job.

at the same time, your manager (or whoever) might not even think it is a problem. maybe "their problem" is the risk of your team's budget getting slashed next year? maybe they just don't care and just want offshored devs around because .... well, that's what some kinds of managers always want for some reason that escapes me.

she does sound terrified. and the human part of me would absolutely struggle with this. but you are not responsible for her or her livelihood. you're responsible for you and yours (and the people around you depending on your position/role).

really, it depends on your manager. are they going to care about this? they're the ones who hired them, it's their arse on the line for spending that money.

> a few months ago we got a pair of offshored Accenture devs join our team to help meet some deadlines

> I had finished all my tickets for this sprint and was looking for work to pick up

your company got offshored devs to help with deadlines, but you've finished all your work for the sprint...? that sounds ... incongruous.

edited -- sorry basically rewrote the damn thing.
At some point having nukes might not make a difference though. To quote the mean, when everyone is special nobody is anymore, and having proxy access to nukes could be enough as a deterrent (e.g. being in an alliance that triggers a nuclear response in case of nuclear attack should be enough ?)
This looks more like a description of Trump...
SEC Drops Charges Against Billionaire After He Pumps $30M into Trump's Crypto
I still won't forgive Apple from dropping 1080i resolution from macOS. I've got a home theater Mac mini hooked up to my TV which only supports 720p or 1080i. I've always displayed 1080i fine, and then one upgrade later, it's suddenly "Fuck you, user. Use 720p LOL."
> How is conquest of Ukraine diametrically opposed to the interests of USA

Wars of aggression in Europe are against the interests of the USA.

I’be been addressing your points. It’s just hard to take them seriously as known Russian propaganda.
"More personal liberties" is a very charitable way of framing the fact that is China highly authoritarian, repressive, and non-democratic.

I don't really want to defend the US here, God knows we have no shortage of extremely serious flaws, but the PRC is much, much worse.
> Ukraine is kidnapping people on the streets to send them to the front lines.

may you expand on this?
Couldn't help but be reminded of this scene from that movie where Tom Hanks plays Fred Rogers: https://youtu.be/9AzXX_2BrVk?t=63
I understand it's early days, but that is horrifying.
This feels common. I have no data or anything to point to other than anecdotes. But, I've worked as a contractor and with contractors and the talent just isn't always available to fill those positions. They feed these devs to the wolves and hope it works out.
About 1500lbs, 15mpg, and $200K?

(Apologies for the nonsense units, it's all they let us use here)
> Wilmore: I can tell you at the outset, all of us have the utmost respect for Mr. Musk, and obviously, respect and admiration for our president of the United States, Donald Trump. We appreciate them. We appreciate all that they do for us, for human space flight, for our nation. The words they said, politics, I mean, that's part of life. We understand that. And there's an important reason why we have a political system, a political system that we do have, and we're behind it 100 percent.

Wow, USA is indeed turning into a caricature of the USSR.

I was very young then but still almost having a de ja vu reading these lines.
> The idea that the West protects Ukraine from a possible Russian invasion over land/culture is one of those things that sounds believable but really isn't going to happen.
It does seem like the same type of UI as v0.dev ("What do you want to do?") is a strange UI/UX for fixing a bug, although I see there is a way to import code. The ideal UI/UX seems to be a CLI tool or VS code extension where I give it access to the directory and describe the bug and it just figures out what to do
Ask HN: Any songs that uses HRTF?
HRTF[0] or Head-related transfer function can make sound appear to be coming from anywhere in 3D space.

Are there any songs that uses this?

There are some impressive demoes on youtube[1] that demonstrate this, but are there any music specifically made for HRTF?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-related_transfer_function
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkEpn_r-d0I
this does seem like it would skip a lot of the questions about whether it’s even possible to make a machine intelligence
It's the American version of "Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"!!! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJIQm9qH-w
Quick clarification. Low domain knowledge is okay for those who don't have experience and don't know what to say, like Alexa. High domain is somebody who has expertise with a specialized workflow.

So, they will rely on voice commands for recognition, not natural language. Often one to two words to set a chain of tasks in motion. Think of having to control your entire computer, including navigating by voice. That would be very exhausting and inefficient through natural language. There needs to be a hybrid solution that can leverage low domain natural language, but also high domain command-based recognition. I cannot overstate how important of low latency between the beginning of a command and an action produced. High latency means a big cognitive load and not to mention just inefficiency.

There's a lot of overlap between UI automation and accessibility control tools. However, UIA automation has always been a slow process simply because the stack doesn't have the demand from devs for low latency.

It's a difference between having an independent agent do something on your behalf, not caring how long it takes, versus you waiting for a aynchronous task to be completed.
>Staffed and decently equipped: Russia’s outlook for 2025

Equipped with golf carts, motorcycles and donkeys?

Staffed with wounded men. There been many cases when russians force people on crutches advance into meat wave assault.

Kidnaping people from streets - that is a Russian narrative as well. Forced mobilization - sure that happens at war.

When police arrests someone - do you call it kidnap as well?
That's why in Haskell after the Either monad becomes popular, people simply made a library that flips the arguments to become the Success monad.

The problem with most languages here is the name "exceptions" implying it's for exceptional scenarios, but without any substitute for good non-local control flow.
> "Your birthday was the seventeenth of last month, in point of fact."

> "I missed it anyway, then." He closed the bag and stuffed the uniform far back in his closet. "Not important."

> "It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture."

-- Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
what would be nice is some utility that just halts any useless process
Oh interesting. Never heard of another production like that

edit: looks like it was common practice in 20s/30s Hollywood to do this for different languages, such as with Dracula having a different simultaneous production in Spanish
Nice work! I especially like the satisfying layout of the PCB traces, glad you didn't skimp on that detail.
I can highly recommend Cryptography Engineering by Bruce Schneier. I read it years ago and to this day it still helps me regularly.
I would totally fall for that too....
Yes, I feel I should raise with my manager, but I feel a bit guilty about potentially putting their livelihood at risk.

I'm usually the type to not worry about low performers because I have little skin in the game. So I don't care so much unless my personal productivity is impacted by them or the code base becomes more unstable as a result (which impacts me because of on call). The latter is not an issue right now as we're pretty proactive about reviewing each others PR's here. Even more so when get PR's from junior members or known low performers.

The former could be an issue as if I'm pairing with this person but forbidden from sharing that info, then I could be seen as twiddling my thumbs and not doing much (mentoring is usually rewarded in this company and is considered part of your productivity).
Nortel's leadership did that all by themselves.
Just think… if we can get it up to a few million cells and provide it with a blood supply, maybe even lungs and a heart, we might be able to model a mouse!
Funding for Ukraine has been stopped and it wasn't through my unilateral decision. So far I haven't been attacked by the US army or anything like that and my cell phone is still working.

Somewhere in your calculation you are wrong. And it's not my 'feeling' that got us here, your feeling we ought to fund Ukraine is contradicting reality right now. Either US institutions don't function as you think or they are working as you intended with a different mandate than you like. Either way your monologue about renouncing and fighting the USA serves only as your own personal entertainment to distract from that.
Well, it will always be odd ;)
M4 Pro is 56% faster in single thread while being 3.6x more efficient. Thats not “slightly”. Thats generations behind.
The lack of self-awareness and celebratory exclusion of most of humanity from this assertion is deeply concerning.

Is there a reason that you consider people in vietnam, indonesia, the philippines, slovakia, mali, and dozens of other countries that are recent/ongoing victims of the rapacious and ultra-violent "good europeans" or the liberal-imperial US in recent ( < 100 years ago) history to be either:

A) Not part of the world (since you're explaining the GP statement about the world)

B) Or are somehow a self-evidently inferior subspecies for whom you assume it is impossible for people on HN to be friends with?

If you use "all the people in the world" and "a handful of majority-white former or current imperial-colonial powers" interchangeably, I don't see how anyone can assume in good faith that you're not carrying water for a set of very unpleasant european ideas used to rationalize dehumanization.
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I do managing, coding, design, governance and overall what i call "improve the company" within my areas of expertise and context switching and commitments are the most challenging things. Need to be very disciplined and know the other areas are currently very stable and under control to carve out time for the other things. It is not impossible but it have to be very focused and the problem domain need to be quite good understood before jumping in. Example, writing a internal tool that in worst case get delayed for later is easier to start working on then being part of customer facing product development as all of a sudden i would need to jump into some urgent management tasks or overall just let the governance and long term company quality go down.
> needs

knees
It's true that right now China's navy is much weaker than the US'. However, there are a few factors in China's favor here:

* China is building new navy ships at a much faster pace than the US

* China has LUDICROUSLY more total shipbuilding capacity overall than the US, like more than 200x as much

* China has a semi-militarized militia fleet that they already make use of that they can call on to help ferry soldiers around

* In a war around Taiwan, China would be able to commit essentially its whole fleet, while the US would still have to be concerned around interests in other parts of the globe. Plus the obvious home field logistical advantage in maintenance/repair being close by.

The US will still be much stronger in terms of navy for other parts of the world for a long time yet, but if it's a fight close to China, I think China may surpass the US in effective power within the next decade.
Doubled throughput of certain calculations in certain tasks if motherboard supported it

Possibly something software like maple could take advantage of
Correct. So many people get this wrong, and there are so many misconceptions around, that there is actual market pressure to deliver upwards-tilting keyboards and wrist pads.

If you want to get your keyboard and desk ergonomics correct, look at pianists. They have it nailed down. Elbows at right angle, no wrist supports, sitting straight. And guess what, the piano keyboards are not upwards-tilting! Unfortunately, most of our desks are too high relative to the chairs we sit in.
It's this one https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/1cfg3vr/...
Tmux – The Essentials (2019)
Two books on Doom, and a book on Wolfenstien. Three books? That rocks!
StarCraft units are semi-autonomous anyways. You don't want a human controlling the drones every movement, that would be awful
From Russian perspective it doesn't matter because they value Korean life the same: zero. Koreans are expensive, though. God knows what putin is trading for their troops. Probably rocket and nuclear technologies.

From military perspective Koreans are useless cannon fodder for to the language barrier and unaware of modern combat full with FPV drones.