skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of problem here is that there's a notion of a generic right answer to these questions and that typically the "right answers" are those that get passed down from the enterprise world.

I've worked at companies with no managers and it's worked fine. At one place I worked we basically just had a sales teams, an engineering team and a CEO. There were no managers. The sales people raised tickets for bugs and requests for features that would make their lives easier, these would then get a glance over and approval by either a lead dev or the CEO and someone would pick up the ticket. As engineers we would also raise tickets when we identified areas of the system we could improve.

This worked really well and it was an extremely efficient way to work for us but what we gained in efficiency we lacked in accountability and scalability. But when you're a company with less than 50 employees neither matters too much.

For large enterprises and public companies there's clearly far more value in having managers and various other non-engineers roles. For one as an engineer I literally don't want to be responsible for any big non-technical decisions in large companies which provide critical products and services. But in larger companies there's just far more value in having a clear hierarchy of accountability.

That said, I do think a lot of small companies think they need managers when they don't. And I think the reason they believe they need these roles is just because that's how it's done in the larger corps.

To some extent this might be a matter of personal preferences too. I tend to like working independently and quite like being given fuzzy requirements. I know I've worked with some devs who prefer working with well defined requirements and get uncomfortable when making decisions that haven't been formally approved. Depending on your engineers and culture the value of managers might vary.
Really unclear what point you are trying to make. But yes my intention of using the word "about" average and not "exactly" average was to communicate that most people hover somewhere around the middle. If you want to get really specific and get into stddevs, be my guest.
Shipped the bug fix that I don't understand. Something else broke, had to revert.
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I really liked my engineering management at Netflix. They really got the balance right. They sat in meetings with other management to sort out the big picture items and then passed relevant context on to us so we could figure out the engineering solutions to the problems that they had identified across the company (to go along with the engineering solutions to problems we had identified in our own org that we could solve).

They really helped the engineers save time in coordination while not getting in the way.

I think the key was that management didn't tell us what to do -- they told us what they company as a whole wanted to accomplish and how our team fit into that puzzle, and then we figured out the details.
Sure. Willows grow fast and are short lived. Typically you don't make timber out of willow either, though you can use it in building, it's a different method (and might be great).

My examples were of typical local forests here, which are long and slow growth by majority.

I know there are a lot of people with vested interest in selling logging as CO2 negative, and I see the idea promoted all the time.
> code-as-data

which I consider to be the defining problem of Lisp/Scheme. It becomes impossible to reason about code if it gets used too much or indeed at all.

Note that the lambda calculus has no such feature (though of course you could build an LC interpreter in LC)
> I feel like it's propaganda that likely would've worked before our highly connected modern age.

It’ll probably still work, just with specific demographics.
Also there is an another library called AntDesign
Antoine Lavoisier, named Hydrogen, executed by guillotine in French Revolution
https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/ Cities need to grow new developments to pay for the existing developments.
My best experiences with managers were ones that did that. Just let me work and help me if I need it. I'll reach out if I do.
Drywall is commonly available at any home center in 4'x12', and available in 4'x16' sizes.
hey, while you're here, the links to the other articles from this one are broken
I'm in a IDC role now where I do basically zero paperwork other than writing my own pull request notes. It's incredible. Can confirm that all paperwork I did in the past was nonsense and created by managers.
The bug fix might be the high risk change, since it's a hack on top of a hack that you think might cancel each other out
Realistic photos generated by AI are really awesome.
What are we talking about here? Data associated with specific users?

Well in order for your grandma to log into Facebook her user account must have a primary key associated with it so she sees her info when she logs in and not someone else’s.

We are talking about computers and databases. When did using a computer to search a database become a difficult, nigh impossible thing to do?

Even if design documents and flow charts or whatever don’t exist could they not fairly straightforwardly be reverse engineered by taking a sample of users and searching all databases for associated information?

This seems like a transparent ploy on the part of Facebook to avoid regulation by casting the perfectly doable, searching a database, into some sort of incomprehensible impossible task. The credulous author of the article and many comments here seem to be strangely buying into it.

FB investors don’t seem to have lost faith in the company’s ability to search databases. When it comes to making the company money from those searches, no problem at all. But regarding lawsuits or potential regulation, we can only throw our hands into the air and simply wonder and gasp at this incomprehensible mess we have made.
That's fine. Considering the business Jane Street engages in is highly competitive (maybe even the most competitive in the world), if their hiring practices cause them to have lower productivity, the market will force them to correct their practices or go out of business.

In fact, historical evidence shows amply that the more competitive an industry, the less discrimination (of the sort that we talk about now, like on racial or ethnic grounds) is to be found; and the most regulated, monopolistic, or anti-competitive the field, the more such discrimination is found.
My C code from last century fails to compile due to changes in "more secure function definitions".

C++ changes "the standard" every couple years. When someone tells me they "know" C++ I have to ask which "standard" they "know".

Common Lisp code I wrote in the last century runs unchanged today.

So the complaint about Common Lisp being stuck in the past is actually a feature, not a bug.

When Julia settles on a standard (and only one standard) then it will be worth the learning investment. When that happens I can write code that will run without change in 2070.
Just napkin mathing it, it doesn't seem like it would be surprising in the least due to mass transport.

Take the cargo ship for instance. In looking up the numbers, a single large cargo ship can carry upwards of 20,000 20-foot long cargo containers each with a volume of ~1200 cubic feet. So that's 24 million cubic feet of storage. Break that down into pollution per item, it's going to be some value that's effectively zero.

And the same is going to be true for most other transportation and movement along the overall pipeline, which is all going to be done at a large scale to reduce costs. And then you enter the picture. You drive 15 miles there, and 15 miles back in your vehicle - to pick up 6 limes, a few sprigs of mint, and a bottle of rum. The cost of transport/mile/unit there is easily going to be orders of magnitude greater than any other part of the trip, and it's not hard to imagine it exceeds the entire cost of the rest combined.
But "plunging by 60% this year" is exactly what most informed people expected shipping rates to do. Therefore, the headline is not clickbait-y.
Here’s one example ($341.60 / kWh):

https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-ll-lithium-battery-24v-200ah/
Yikes!....

Not sure if I want to advance brain science, maybe these companies can be legally held accountable... Or maybe gambling companies will get to the research first and manipulate us.
He only read the headline and now we're all discussing his feelings instead of reading the article which is about something else entirely. I recommend anyone still following this dysfunctional thread to go ahead and read it.
For sure, it’s almost certainly a “growth hacking” attempt (they’re hoping the ppl they email signup to otter.ai), but a pretty terrible one. Every other similar growth hacking attempt I’ve seen will explicitly ask for consent before sending anything to non-users of the app.

Overall, sounds like a VERY unscrupulous company, that you shouldn’t trust with your personal data.
Well, there‘s also the issue that batteries for boats or airplanes result in either a massive capacity cut, or something too big to fly, float, or fit through the Suez and Panama Canals.
If that thing goes seriously wrong it could be an impressive incendiary device.

I would want that to be in it's own separate brick outhouse or on a concrete pad twenty feet from anything that should not be sprayed with fire.

See this video of taking apart a USB power pack that runs on hydrogen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y48wCuC3KcA

Lavo seems to be claiming that one of their devices will last 30 years, which is better than a flooded lead acid battery system, if that is actually true.
Assuming there is an analogue between a very clinical and technical field like development and an incredibly volatile and human field like medicine is futile. They don't have many of the same problems we do

Instead they have to force doctors to break bad news to patients' relatives or do it themselves, get signatures from both parties for procedures, coordinate in/out patient streams, listen to doctors demand equipment and medicines and face upper management denying them their requests and tons of other such bullshit. Medical insurance and its intricacies is a whole big ball game that they have to constantly play with so that's fun
Because my managers tell me about fires I have to put out when I get back
Counterpoint, in my career, I've seen a lot of Security Audits that seem on paper to be very thorough and detailed but when you dig deeper, you can see that it only touched the surface and the auditor missed a lot of things.
> Electric heat pumps actually don't work in very cold weather.

You can use heat pumps with a underground heat sink (not sure what they are called in english). However, they really only make sense in climates where it is extensively below -10 degree Celcius. Even in southern Sweden they don't really make much sense.
> Yes. If a doctor is working in a hospital, there are most certainly managers.

Maybe some places. In the US, most doctors are independent providers for hospitals, they don't have a traditional 'manager'. Outside of a hospital setting, this is also true.

> This is not simply "admin work". This is critical, life saving stuff

It may be, but it's lower skill work delegated to people that are subordinate to doctors, not their managers.
This might be true in the US, but because of stringent building requirements construction cost definitely is a problem for affordable housing in the UK and in some European countries. Here in The Netherlands it certainly is not possible to build a house for $50k (or less) according to commercial developers. Municipalities have been complaining about developers only building houses at the $400k or more price point, and developers have been saying that due to the building requirements it isn't economically feasible to build houses for less.

Also, what's the soil like where you're building those $50k homes? I've often seen that being spent just on the foundation.

That said, I'm not sure this construction method is cheaper than existing similar techniques like for example structural isolated panels.
Personally, I don't mind routine checkups from management. The leading cause of detachment for me is tasks and meetings that generate no business value taking up an inordinate amount of time. If it takes more time to talk about the work I'm going to be doing than the amount of time it takes to actually do it, that's an issue.
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Gambling addiction is not different from social media addiction, i.e. brain seeking dopamine rush. The question is how to practically desensitize.
And all of the valves, inspect all of the welds, et cetera. Hydrogen leaks through everything. Just ask NASA why SLS hasn't launched yet.
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Would be interesting to see the link between these neurons and the hormones that control hunger in our bodies. Perhaps there is a way to deactivate neural pathways when we see food, v. just targeting hormonal pathways with obesity-related medications.
It's a simple test for me: does my manager protect me from bullshit so that I can get high caliber work done, or do I have to deal with bullshit myself because he can't?

The former are worth their salt. The latter can get back to coding or go pound sand for all I care.
I believe that the human mind is a symphony of signals, and a cacophony of contradicting forces at work. Flow-state is a broad description of "active and steady" but that could describe lots of very different things.. the torpid insensate cocoon of the opiate user, to the comfortable zen of a regular meditator; an accountant doing their third week Wednesday "rollups", an aerobics instructor doing a regular routine with thirty students at a gym; the captain of a small sail boat going down a regular route.. many more. These mental states are quite different, yet could be described as "flow"
Even without patent concerns, exFAT takes more effort to implement (lots of features you might not need) and ends up requiring more ROM space that may or may not be available… even if you want to write files exceeding 4GB to some external media.

e.g. some widget without network connection that optionally logs an audit trail to an attached USB media, could still end up with only a couple hundred kilobytes of soldered-on ROM to store the whole firmware, while wanting to write more than 4GB of audit logs.
Every job I've worked at, when a co-worker goes on vacation, it's up to the other engineers and laborers to compensate. When the manager goes on vacation there's no extra work leftover
I think removing a requirement for freshwater would be good for islands (which import fuel at great expense, and no one is building a submarine power cable thousands of kms to Hawaii) or military bases in hostile areas (the Navy was looking into syngas synthesis from the air)
I wouldn't minimize the gambling problem as just "plan a trip to vegas and lose a few hundred dollars", even before the widespread internet gambling was a serious issue. I can't speak for the US but from where I'm from "analog" gambling has a much wider array of options than just casinos(including illegal casinos), and those tend to be available locally everywhere in some manner even today.

It probably is worse than ever I do agree, the internet age gives far too much visibility and access to it, to the point where the most popular sports games have progression pretty much tied to some form of lootboxes, and that's before even getting into the rabbit hole of gacha.

The acceptance of loot boxes because "it was just cosmetic" was a tragic slippery slope, all the problems with having cosmetics on said loot boxes aside, that turned into "you can also buy it with in-game currency", which then started offering in-game currency for purchase and making the prices to buy said things extraordinary, which generated a lot of money and allowed for a free release that would then feed the circle over again.
Yes, and I'm worried that they burned mouse poop but didn't burn any mouse urine. From what I understand, what you piss is more dependent on calories than what you poop.

And in general, society's attempt to make things "no fault" seem to always result in more of whatever it is, not less.

Would I love to blame my body fat on anything else? Sure! But in the end it's down to me. Maybe it's harder for me or easier for me, but it's still me.
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That's not a manager, that's a secretary, which is my point. Engineering groups don't need managers, they need lead engineers and clerical staff, similar to a group of lawyers or doctors.
I have plenty of friends in the medical field and yes you hear stuff like this all the time. “Thirty and up” because maybe there is an underserved community. “Not diagnosing enough strep throat” because maybe there is a recently discovered epidemic and doctors hadn’t been testing for that.

People who have a high level view can direct the folks down in the trenches quite productively.
It's DEFINITELY much worse that before, for the sufficient and simple reason you stated, it's just that much easier to gamble these days. I know a colleague at work with a problem, who comes into work after the weekend cussing out his wife for hiding his credit card after he loses a few hundred bucks on Friday night.

I know another guy who only ever talks about his wins, which has me guessing he must be badly in debt just based on the long odds. Both of these colleagues are Asian-American, and for them it seems just culturally OK to do these things.
>That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system.

If you think they are getting paid to generate OS projects you aren't thinking about this very hard.
"I should be paid 300k for only 3 years of experience, be able to work remotely without location-based pay, work 25 hours a week. Oh, and my managers should support me, not wield authority over me"

I'm gobsmacked by the entitlement of these people.
To understand this more fully you’d need to appreciate two things.

One is that while there are a lot of things that people will share with you (they often want to share their expertise/craft and be good humans), there are a number of things they won’t share with you.

Two is that when you are starting out you are in a position where almost all information from an experienced artisan is helpful. That can mean you may easily miss what they are not telling you.

This is not to say they are misleading you or hold ill will because the information they withhold from the conversation would not be useful to you anyway, as you are not in a position to use it or be a threat to them.
I don't think YouTube videos are really representative of web memory usage, because a significant amount of the memory they take up will be the buffered video content itself
I get that, but you need fairly high grade heat to generate power. The idea would be to move enough heat from lower grade sources to a reservoir that is then hot enough to generate more power than is required to move the heat in the first place. It's effectively harvesting the ambient air temperature. I don't know that you could pull in that much heat, and I suspect that an analysis of the system might show that it can't yield useful work.
The claim I am responding to is very strong:

> "Apple products are classified as Veblen products, because most often users choose them, guided by the big name of the brand and believing that the possession of this technology will increase their status in society."

As if people might not be choosing Apple products like iPhones because of their proven track record of lasting much longer and being more desirable for the qualities of the product in and of themselves.

When people buy a Patek Phillipe watch, that might have the claim of being bought with the intent to signal status. A Patek Philippe watch tells time no better than any $15 watch.

But the implication that Apple products are mainly bought due to vanity needs to be supported by data. They have a reputation of being more durable, lasting longer, having more consistent user interfaces, better battery life, real life support from Apple employees in Apple stores, integrated software, primarily non ad supported business model, less known for malware, etc.

If I were poorer, it would be kind of insulting to think I would not value any of that and I am paying $200 to $500 for an Apple product than the cheapest alternative product simply to signal status.

Edit: as an illustration, Toyotas usually cost more than some other brands, but I do not see anyone claiming people are buying Toyotas in order to status signal. Or a Leatherman tool versus a Harborfreight tool.

I understand that at the very poor end, not buying the cheapest anything could signal status, but that is very different than buying something to signal status, which is what Veblen goods are about.
A great resource for beginners to understand the mui concept.
False. When I was in college, about 8 years ago, Jane Street not only hired from our school, they came to our career fair on regular. I interviewed with them myself at the time for an internship, but fumbled because my combinatorics knowledge was severely lacking at that time, and algo wasn't quite up to par either.

My college was a public state school (Georgia Tech). While it is a great school, it was public and affordable (could be done for nearly free in-state). But it definitely was not some super difficult to get into exclusive ivy club or the likes.

So it seems like they indeer attend a rather wide variety of schools, given the size of their company. But they aren't a mega giant like Microsoft/Amazon/etc. that can afford to directly send people to recruit from almost every school in the US, their headcount was under 1k total iirc, and significantly.
The Microsoft action pack may be worth consider. Comes with significantly more azure credits than it costs and has various software included too ( with some usage restrictions )
Not my problem of how many people because of evilCo's size. That's their problem, and I shouldn't even be aware of it being a problem.
Note that I tried to submit this with the direct download link (https://www.blender.org/download/), however the HN submission form refuses to accept it. :(
Do you see that in modern construction? As long as there is adequate insulation and the vapor retarding layer is in the right place (per code) the OSB shouldn't ever be more than damp for any extended amount of time.
Politely? You were kind.
I mean doesn’t heaving salaries and a sellers market imply that engineering management jobs are not bullshit?

Are there any jobs which command big salaries and which companies hire for directly that are bullshit?
Do you happen to have any experience with The Loft?