skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the article, these are highly technical, generalized projects.

That they were paid for by an investment firm and then released as OS means _we_ siphoned value out of the financial system.
Isn't the majority of carbon in a tree coming from the air, not soil? I could imagine it removes nutrients though.
>Just buy some 2x4's and plywood and start building. It's not that hard.

I mean sure, if you live somewhere without building codes, don't need a foundation, and don't care how long something lasts or how safe it is. Just chuck it together. Just some 2x4s and plywood is all you need for a treehouse. Maybe.
Tangential, but I often wish I had screenshots to prove I'd opted in, or out, or otherwise done the right thing. It shouldn't be too expensive to record and index the screen whenever I'm doing something important online and keep it for a week.
There are few wrong assumptions with your statement:

1) The wood the house is built with will not be there forever, some day the house will be torn down and the wood burned or rotten

2) Cutting down trees and planting new ones is not a good way of carbon sequestration. Otherwise, why not cut down all trees and just plant new ones? Bam, carbon negative, climate problem solved.

People need to understand that trees should not be seen as a renewable resource in the context of climate change. Not for building, not for burning as fuel.
"electrolysis". Hydrolysis is a wholly different activity.

The intent of the method presented is to make electrolysis energetically cheaper. It might end up financially cheaper, depending on what the apparatus costs, which will of course start out high and come down if used much.

Apparently there are practical catalytic processes to go directly from N2 and H2O to NH3 and O2. Everything will compete, and a few processes will win. Tolerance of impurities in the water has often been a problem. Where you have to distill the water first, that increases cost.
Motion to amend re Mudge complaint is granted
The linked web page has a logo with title "0% CO2 emissions | 100% green electricity"
I guess the managers have found this comment. Once anyone notices when a manager takes vacation, then I'll consider it a vital part of any job
Hang on, how long after you met her did you quit your job and move in with her?
Hyperbole in the article discredits the conversation about global warming.

The entire glacier melting isn't something that's going to happen in the reasonably near future, so the notion of 3-10 foot sea level rise is irrelevant. ...and sadly they don't publish actual expected sea rise numbers from actual expected melt amounts.
Revolut axes graduate jobs as it conducts sweeping costs review
Management is ruined by hierarchy.
Provided we grow as much as we cut, and let the ecosystem regenerate where we cut. Which is a huge if.
This has been a good resource re: what h2 is useful for, and what is hype: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...
I think that often engineers hold the view that the role in question doesn’t need to exist. And some roles are just welfare for MBAs.
Oh hey, we're back in the 90's.

> You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
> EVs still cause massive inefficiency in infrastructure and living. They require obscene amounts of energy to make and run (just less obscene than similarly oversized ICEs).

Maybe, but there's no sense in optimizing for those things in the midst of a climate crisis. Yes, if we could flip a switch and everyone could start cycling, that would help the climate crisis enormously, but there is no such switch and in reality it would be completely reorganizing our society which is not a viable project in the timeframe the climate demands.

> They cause local and global pollution.

They cause less pollution per passenger mile than the average diesel bus.

> The only upside is they are so inefficient they might induce the public to buy grid storage directly.

They are strictly more efficient than the status quo, and especially where it counts: miles traveled per unit carbon emission. This is the overriding concern.

> Places like istanbul or toronto prove that it can be done in less time than an EV transition will take (and in toronto's case in the face of massive political opposition).

Istanbul and Toronto are more densely populated than almost anywhere in the United States. Of course public transit investment works there. Moreover, they're individual small places--we're talking about public transit infrastructure for the entirety of the United States--there aren't enough public transit infrastructure firms in the world to get that done, and developing experienced people to do that work takes decades and considerable expense.

> Getting the political will starts with not concern trolling with lies every time it comes up.

I would say that smugness and self-righteousness from the anti-car people is the biggest obstacle to political will. I don't think the people bringing a dose of reality to the anti-car party are doing any meaningful harm.
Is it related to the litrpg sub-reddit ? I ended up there semi-randomly (reading far too many Chinese webnovels) and it's a pretty nice place for discovery, as a reader.
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any resource you'd recommend for learning framing and construction?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32747067
My experience with managers is they exist to put pressure on engineers for social reasons. They never do anything useful and within a short time I tend to resent their interference in my work, so I start fucking things up and generally slacking to screw their metrics up. If I could find a company that honestly wanted work done, they would just give me tickets and I'd power through them. But nobody cares about work, it's all this weird social game. I don't understand it.
'more terrible managers exist than those "good ones" that you allude do'

This is quite hyperbolical. A person can have a life experience of "mostly bad manager", but that does not mean "most managers are bad" or that "most people have experienced bad management".

I've been 16 years as a professional software engineer. I would not describe anyone to whom I was a direct report as "bad manager". Quite contrary, I've been quite happy with most of them. This does not mean a life without conflict or misunderstanding, of course.

Statistically, bad management is of course a non-neglible problem, but the above makes the situation sound hopelessly pathological.
BUT the request to postpone the trial is DENIED. Case will proceed on original schedule. Chalk that up as win for Twitter, I reckon.
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HN is heavily moderated, and it has a nerdy subject matter that selects for a certain type of audience. Those both help, but I think the biggest thing that makes HN so great is its peculiar business model.

I don't know if YC keep this site running purely out of love or if it's a calculated ploy to make money, but if HN is profitable for YC then it's in a very indirect and hard-to-quantify way - e.g. YC startups using HN as a recruitment platform. Dang doesn't have money-hungry VCs breathing down his neck telling him to maximize "engagement" - the day that happens will be the day HN devolves into an unreadable, unusable pile of garbage, like what happened to Reddit.

There aren't many communities like HN because there aren't many organizations that have the resources to run a site like this without running it into the ground because they have dollar signs in their eyes. The few that do exist are probably small forums focused on a super-niche topic or hobby, but if I knew of them I wouldn't post them here because I wouldn't want to spoil the secret.
Right? This whole framing of it as "quiet quitting" is intentional to make the workers look bad. This is "work to rule"[1] and it's interesting even this name is seen as a form of protest when it should be the norm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
I use it daily and it works just fine.
An effective manager cares for their team, their work, and its effect beyond the immediate organization.

I agree with this take, but with a whopping great caveat - the 'team' is far bigger than the manager's direct reports. Once you accept that the team includes people like product leads, QA, and the leadership team then you start to understand why engineering management is hard. You're trying to get the best work out of your dev team of course, but you're also wrangling a whole bunch of things that intentionally make the dev team's life more difficult, whether that's discussions about the broad direction for the team to go in relative to the wider scope of the business, or the minute little nitpicky bugs that QA won't let slide.
Yes, this has been the case for coal and nuclear for a while, and is the case in most places for gas too, even before recent price spikes.

The lazard LCOE reports give figures for running costs of existing fully deprecated plants to compare with the cost of new renewables.

See page 7 "Levelized Cost of Energy Comparison—Renewable Energy versus Marginal Cost of
Selected Existing Conventional Generation"

https://www.lazard.com/media/451905/lazards-levelized-cost-o...
- Lab-grown/3D-printed meat

- Nuclear power

- AR

- EVs

- Alternative style EVs like the Arcimoto.
From a technical perspective perhaps... from a fiscal perspective it is self justified.

Consensus planning is often expensive, error prone, and glacially slow.

Seen some groups end up navel-gazing in ivory towers, as their company collapsed. ;)
Emperor of All Maladies is this but for 20th century cancer research.

I too want to read your planned book.
Not involved in either community but I somehow don't think stackexchange's "make the answer ready to copy paste and don't link to external content" ethos applies well to creative writing.
Jennifer Widom was chair of the CS department at Stanford and is now Dean of the Engineering school there. She has a bachelor's degree in Trumpet. Criticizing people for their undergraduate degree is foolish.
Are you using gmail or a different email service?

I’m curious if this is really a US-Germany thing or if it’s just a Gmail/Google thing.
You need some level of expertise to turn off selinux, or even know what it is. They know what they're doing enough to know the consequences if they can turn it off.

By third party, i mean stuff not in the distro. It's extra effort to install something else. You're likely to have at least a link to docs in your face when you went and got the binaries.
The world has recently become less democratic
> Your ego knows no bounds to assume the entire world aligns to your own experience.

Yet, you also used just five examples, presumably from your own experience, to tar entire professions.

Yes, there exist incompetent PMs, Architects, Team leads, and so on. There are also competent ones. Just like there are incompetent and competent engineers. No profession has a monopoly on bullshit.
Zig: Compile Errors for Unused Things
Fuck calling it "quiet quitting" that's just being weaponized to make workers look bad. This is "work to rule"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
Sounds like What-Cha. Can absolutely recommend him.
I posted a long comment above in response to another guy who questioned the benefits of high cholesterol -- and I linked to sources. Yes, if you have high cholesterol then you should not worry about it and you should eat more red meat.
I get it now, the screenshot shows it all. I have gotten good with debugging php, but I can see that leaning into repl as a development environment has a lot of benefits. Looks like you can experiment with code, keep the returned data, and reuse what you come up with.

Php has psy shell. When it is loaded for a Drupal/symfony site, you can run api calls against the database. This is where things get tricky.

I can imagine better tooling for psy shell that could protect the underlying data to experiment with code before executing it. It would be great to develop system updates this way if we could work on a copy of the data until we’re happy with the output, then run it for real.

I use psy shell to load services and see what their methods do. The environment is not persistent, but maybe I can export my work to a file. Would love to keep results around for testing or running other functions on.
Even in writing, the right combination of execution and being in the right place at the right time is everything, and ideas/knowledge/concepts are like sand at the beach. But yeah like all art "markets" it's massively unevenly distributed, so you'll find way more people who are cynical about it.
> In that case, can I sue anyone using Stable Diffusion for stealing my data because the billions of images in its training set included something I created?

No, because of the landmark Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. case which found that ML training can be considered fair use in some circumstances.
SICP in JavaScript, by Abelson and Sussman (2022)

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543231/structure-and-interpr...

:)
In my experience Engineering management is essential. But most EM management sucks. Why?

Because in our industry management has no legal accountability. Nobody dies if a feature is half-assed. If the feature sucks they just create a ticket and assign it to a dev.

And because of that tech management has always been crowded with bullshit artists who promote other bullshit artists like them (which they have to, if not they would get exposed). And the story repeats over and over again.
GCP has https://cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint
I've explained why pretty clearly. Trees are not a renewable resource in the context of climate change. They take dozens of years to grow, they are part of an biodiverse ecosystem, and just cutting down forests has a much bigger effect on the ecosystem and its carbon sequestration capacity than the tree alone. And don't get me started with tree farms.

This carbon negative claim taken to the extreme would mean, that we should just cut down all trees and plant new ones. I think you can see why this is ridiculous?
The way I understood it, the questions determined that Facebook didn't even try to gather the evidence they were required to. Saying "we didn't want to do that because it is hard" may fly when they know how hard it is. But they don't even know that! Institutionally incapable because nobody pays for it, they argued.
Check these peeps: https://www.climatiq.io/
They also have a case study specifically about servers.
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However, Rickover was deeply against non technical people managing technical people in the organization. One is reminded of the Newton quote:

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificer"
Wouldn't that be equivalent to the plywood manufacturer? This still adds an additional processing step where you take a mass produced construction material and make a specialized product out of it which you then use to build the house instead of just going straight from material to construction.
Over the first 10 years of a an engineers career they might only be exposed to a few different management roles. It's possible that the manager isn't fulfilling the actual role so what you have left with is just the distraction.

Regardless if the manager is helping the team they almost always drain resources to aggregate information that they can synthesize upstream. It's a system that is so fragile it's not hard to see why we have an industry full of people that experience this.
How hard is it to turn the package around?
The 'average' manager may indeed be a net-negative, much like the average car crash.

> frankly just don’t have any idea what the job is for

We know what the job is for, but maybe there's no actual value there.

Do doctors have managers? Do lawyers have managers? No, they might report to some administrative body, but they mostly work on contract or in teams. The 'communicate with customers' nonsense is delegated to lower-paid clerical staff, not 'managers.'

What engineers need is low-level clerical people to handle the day to day comms with others outside the org. We don't need managers, unskilled labor needs managers.
Damn… this seems like a very important development. Now we can test and isolate differences.
Your body can speed up or slow down processes to conserve energy. For example, it's much easier to lose weight when you are heavier versus if you are skinny because your body is quicker to slow metabolism. And that is just one factor. Gut microbiome is another.
Stole from? Ethereum Classic is still running, hacker has her funds.

The rest of community has decided to disassociate themselves from hacker and forked away.
“It’s the flow of the experience that people are after. Money to them is a means to sit there longer, not an end. They don’t win a jackpot and leave, they win a jackpot and sit there until it’s gone.”
Per https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/06/nasas_spaceflight_com...

this was developed for the HPSC program whose goal was to develop a replacement for the RAD750, and the "100 times performance" requirement is wrt that.
I agree. It feels like half of programming posts are just the same 10 topics discussed over and over

Yes we know management metrics can't predict every end date, we know agile doesn't solve every problem, we know blockchain is a solution without a problem, we know code complete and the mythical man month are some of the best programming books.
I really like this series of blog posts on SQLite, thanks if you are reading this. It was really informative for me since I did not know much about its internals before
what you guys fail to understand is that the priorities at the micro level, are not the priorities at the macro level. of course any developer would like to prioritize having perfect code, latest tools, no interruptions, but money needs to come from some place, on time and you have to find a balance in what you put your focus on. that's what a good manager does.

it doesn't matter if you have the best product in the market, if the competition releases before you and has obtained all the clients. for the client, the task of moving to a slight better solution may not cover the cost.

just because people have other jobs, it does not make them stupid. of course, what i've said in here is over simplified, there are a lot of other jobs required in order to have a healthy, viable product with clients and cash flow.
By no means am I saying that "I made that" is a bad thing when it's true! It's vital to lionize people for the work they individually do, and encourage them to take pride in that work themselves.

But if they use the same language to describe the entirety of a team project, not just their contribution, as "my doing" alone, that often crosses a line into toxicity in the ways you mention in your second paragraph.
I'm under the impression there is a reabsorption of carbon over its lifecycle. Is that not the case?
It also completely discounts the policy decisions that lead to the car being driven. The driver didn't choose to defund public transportation and build widely spaced infrastructure that largely requires car travel.
The market also likes software that ships faster.

With html + js, we're able to deliver a great user experience in a fraction of the time.

Also, the desktop bundlers are getting better over time.
How are they going to upsell people to paid tiers if the free product is malfunctioning?
All destined to be sitting on a scalper's shelf where they'll be consuming zero power. I hate this console generation.
Multiple products exist to take multiple screenshots over a time period including details on which application was in focus.
This might be an approach thqt would work for you.
Google provides first party data for GCP https://cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint

as well as icons that nudge you if you work through the console
Two things...

First, looking through their design guide (https://www.wikihouse.cc/guides/design), the only thing they mention is that space (32mm in walls, I guess, and 70mm under ceilings) is provided.

Given that the plumbing, electrical, ventilation, appliances, etc. are the majority of the cost of a home, I find this a bit odd. A typical American full bathroom costs something like $5k to $20k (and up... way up) depending on the quality. A kitchen can cost multiple times more. Sure, you can build them cheaper, but that's the rub... most people who are in the market to purchase a home don't want low-end bathrooms and kitchens. Or windows. Or lighting. Or wall fixtures. Or anything really.

Second, IMO, the problem with affordable housing is not a construction cost problem. We can build small, livable (for various definitions) homes for $50k (or less) today, ignoring land costs. But the regulatory costs, the land costs, the market demands all make building such homes a non-profitable endeavor. Why build 20 $50k homes on the land and make $200k profit when you can build 10 $500k homes and make $1mil in profit?

The affordable housing crisis in the America do not have a technical solution, only a socio-political one. And since nearly all the power related to zoning, building costs, etc are managed at the local and state level, that means engaging with local politics.
TFA is literally about how there's not enough room for everyone.
>>>decides that I am a shithead, should google close my account?

Google (and facebook, twitter, paypal, etc) does that with regularity today, every once in awhile someone with reach in the tech community has it happen to them, some programmer or researcher, etc and it makes the news here but political commentators are banned every day off google sites because some one with enough influence on twitter targeted them for being a "shithead" in their view.
Communities occasionally fork... I participate on a slack channel that was a fork of the community on one of the chat rooms/channels on SE.

The codadict split was largely in part of (and I am intentionally being very vague here as if you dig it gets ugly and that doesn't need to be discussed here) a disagreement on the additional policies that moderators need to follow, religious laws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat ), SE management at the time, and the broad SE community consensus. To put it lightly, it is a mess. If you want to find an external source, Jon Ericson's one sided retrospective is a starting point.

It resulted in one of the more popular moderators leaving, joining a site/project in development and having a pull on the related communities to shift there.
It's open source; I wonder if competition and innovation will bring the cost down over time.

One obvious way to do that is to build one, or a few, giant centralized plants that pump out a zillion of these each year, i.e. economies of scale. Like Honda Civic cars or Lego blocks (which also are machined with tight tolerances).

Yes, I know that the founders want these to be manufactured in a decentralized way, all over the world, but that's not how economies of scale work. Systems that can be run decentralized (e.g. email, Bitcoin mining) often end up becoming centralized anyway.
your reply echos my reply and working in a matrix organization. are there terrible managers -- yes, but in a well functioning organization with definitive role a manager should be as you describe and not what is written in the article.

what's crazy to me are all the comments here that echo what the article is saying where managers seem to be some sort of rulers and be all in an oganization, which would totally suck and i'm glad i don't work somewhere like that.
Author here. Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad to hear it's been helpful.
Managment offers an escape route to people who struggle with tech competency. Just grind it out for a few years a dev, then transition into management.
This is a standard formula for years and i've seen many many people follow this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC0RNsallc Crypto Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk