skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It represents a sequestration of carbon whereas the cement in a traditional cement framework building represents significant portion of the carbon footprint.

As to the cost - https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/62676

> Based on commercial construction cost data from the RSMeans database, a mass timber building design is estimated to have 26 percent higher front-end costs than its concrete alternative.

And from the paper:

>
The resulting TLCCs of the two buildings under these scenarios are shown in Table 6 and Figure 5. From the results of these scenarios, it was found that the TLCC for the mass timber building would have a cost advantage with its longer life span (100 yr) than the concrete alternative (75 yr) when other factors are the same (see Scenario S0 and S4), and the higher front-end cost (value) showed an even greater advantage of 7.0 percent difference (Scenario S4). When the life spans of the two buildings were the same, the end-of-life cost or value of the mass timber building was not able to be offset by the higher front-end costs (see Scenario S1 [12%], S2 [6.7%], and S3 [5.9%]). In this case study, the two buildings were designed to be functionally equivalent. Thus, we assumed the same operational utility and maintenance during the building-use stage. No impact from these parts were considered in the TLCC calculations on the cost- performance for the comparison of the two buildings. But if there are energy savings discovered in the new mass timber buildings, the LCC analysis would reveal more cost benefits (Liang et al. 2019).

I can't find any sources that agree with your cost assessment... instead: https://www.bdcnetwork.com/5-myths-about-cross-laminated-tim...

> When considering the total in-place value of a CLT system, it is cost competitive to other plate building materials. But you also need to consider all the value added benefits:

> • More savings can be found in the reduced installation cost, usually 50% cheaper than installing other plate materials.

> • With an earlier project completion date, you are open for business sometimes months ahead of schedule.

> • The building structure will weigh less than half the weight of other construction types, so the foundation costs less money.

> • Job site safety is dramatically increased due to the prefabricated CLT panels and usually the only power tools are pneumatic drills.

> The intent of cross laminated timber is not to replace light-frame construction, but rather to offer a versatile, low-carbon, and cost-competitive wood-based solution that complements the existing light frame and heavy timber options while offering a suitable candidate for some applications that currently use concrete, masonry, and steel.
I've never seen this alleged "suicide counter" on the website, though I've only looked at it closely in the past couple weeks.

The site owner posted this rebuttal to assignment of blame for these suicides, which I find compelling. For instance, the widow of one victim decried Vice News (one source referenced in the article) for using her death to attack Kiwi Farms:

https://archive.ph/XNQYY
I think these calculations are done in some specific part of a SoC (at least on mobile phones). So do you need new hardware to take advantage of these upgrades?
This is misdirection plain and simple. In the best most convincing way. Get tunnel vision (sorry) nerds to make an honest display of their ignorance of the bigger picture at Meta. Aww shucks we don't know where that data comes from....

Of course senior engineers don't know where the data comes from exactly. Does your mechanic know where each tire comes from or care? Does your fav restaurant chef know each field that a produce came from? The suppliers know that info.

I know beyond any doubt that there are most definitively some people that know at least roughly where most data about most subjects are at Meta. I'm sure the data is a vastly beyond what a human can process. However some people there know where to go looking. The truth is in the Piles of money they generate by selling that data.

Awww gee wizz your honor. We have no idea how we do it. People just keep throwing piles of money at us so we keep taking it. I don't know why they do it. We definitely don't have mountains of highly specialized data on our users that we tell them we can get exactly what they want then provide that info to them. Somehow though when the court asks without piles of money we just can't make that magic happen...........
They put in about 2km of parking stones with reflective indicators - the flexible kind. Couldn't even be bothered to add a curb.

Took them a year to do it, too.

I guess it's better than a painted line.
They do. In fact, the top 3 tech companies started this way. So I guess you're right!
Not tech giants that care about compliance...it's not undoable.

They are just poor stewards.
See other replies here.
> OSB should not be considered code-compliant material, full-stop.

OSB is a fine air barrier, and most water vapour volume happens through air leaks. Vapour diffusion tends to be a smaller percentage:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXXgjvOJcYI

The main place that vapour concentration really becomes a problem is at the highest point of the house (e.g., ridge):

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/building-science-i...

The main point is to not have your condensing surface on the inside of your structure:

* https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-001-t...

Which is why so many jurisdictions are encouraging / mandating external insulation. When the sheathing is the coldest surface, of course there's going to be condensation, but if it's the same temperature as the inside air how would moisture accumulate.

> If structures don't breathe they rot.

If structures don't dry they rot. There are plenty of of <1.0 ACH@50 structures that do not "breathe" that have no moisture/rot issues because they take care of water mechanically, e.g., ERV/HRV and (whole house) dehumidifiers.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIcrXut_EFA
Counterpoint: I've seen this go okay when it's to make things impersonal. Rather than saying the engineering team is slow, we just say there's not enough resources in engineering. Rather than saying Diane is being stretched out across too many teams, we say we need more resources in design.
Rumors are that Tesla pays less than $100/kwh

Also, https://about.bnef.com/blog/battery-pack-prices-cited-below-...
Google has many thousands of fulltime customer support workers https://www.extremetech.com/internet/336765-google-contracto... why so invisible in all these ways I do wonder
You know there's a very well known joke that it's hard to get fired as a trader for underperforming the market by buying Apple, well it's hard to get blamed for hiring a bad intern if you hire him from MIT.
Avoid confusing sales with managers. Most "genius engineers" still need
money, and they still need that fabled creature known as the salesman
who can convince someone to pay for a software system he doesn't need.
To give some more context: Albania is hosting about 2-3k Iranian political refugees that are opposed to the current regime. They are actually mostly elderly people at this point.
This was done with the US request a decade ago.

That's why Iran is trying to blackmail/hack the government services.

This is not the first time it has removed embassy officials (a couple of Iranian officials were caught spying).
Any response the country does, it usually coordinates with the US, for obvious sensitivity issues. Albania is in Nato, so nothing will escalate further than this.
Europe’s Energy-Crisis Relief Measures Come with High Risks Attached
This excerpt from a memoir by Norm Macdonald provides insight into this mindset:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0V-C5yr5sg
That is what I call a comprehensive answer. Freezing my house with remaining it livable and serviceable is exactly what I am considering if the bad time keeps going.
Also a great sandwich spread!
The new developments in Aluminum-sulphur batteries look promising for this kind of grid buffering usage.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/new-aluminum-sulfur-...
Heh, a bit harsher than I would have stated it but I can't help but agree. Of course, 30 years ago, I would have disagreed with you. Probably in a few decades the author of the article will agree with you too! So there's that.
You are missing that you get more electricity from wind in the winter:
https://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/understanding-variable...
https://archive.ph/b088G

'European governments are increasing spending to shield households from surging energy prices driven by Russia’s economic war, but that comes amid rising borrowing costs and mounting investor unease about swelling sovereign debt in some countries.

To date, the European Union’s five largest economies have announced support for households, and less costly help for businesses, totaling €203 billion, around $201 billion.

The measures might keep millions of people from sliding into poverty—and thousands of businesses from going bust—as energy bills soar, cushioning the crisis’s impact on the economy and, governments hope, backstopping political support for Ukraine. Some measures, such as price caps for power and natural gas, could also help central banks to fight inflation.

But they also come with risks: If they discourage recipients from cutting their gas consumption, that could lead to shortages of the fuel late this winter. And while the supporting measures aren’t yet on par with the Covid-19 bailouts of the past two years, they are adding to government debt at a time when investors are demanding higher interest to finance budget deficits already swollen by pandemic-era spending.

Some of this aid comes in the shape of caps on energy prices, or cuts in energy taxes, which economists say could encourage higher natural-gas and power consumption, possibly leading to a shortfall of both early next year and rationing or blackouts.

“That’s exactly the wrong kind of thing to do,” said Benjamin Moll, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics. While help should be provided to hard-pressed households, it should come in ways that “are not directly tied to gas consumption,” he added.'
I believe the take you see is mostly coming from enterprise developers that have witnessed the immense inefficiency and waste of larger organisations. The solution to a non-engineering savvy manager in such organization is to add more people and more frameworks.

Mind you - to "them", these "dreaded MBAs", the development organization is a problem, often regarded as cost, and development is done by... developers. Sometimes the developers is the actual problem and they have gradually sunk the software in to a unmaintainable swamp of crappy code and debt - but this is a competency and hiring problem. It will not be solved by any framework or project manager. But you need the competency in your leadership to understand what's what and this is missing from pretty much any large org I've set foot in.
The high functioning teams is these settings are more a stoke of luck, and they often have to utilize guerrilla tactics to keep delivering value.

I've seen my fair share of global CIO's talking us through cloud and blockchain, never have to actually deliver and move on to the next company or fancy role.

I've seen CIO/CTO not trusting developers and believing no-code and citizen development to be the end all. Guess what - more unmaintainable crazy stuff

I've seen large organizations falling in to the "one system" trap on all levels, even trickling down to the software teams - a dedicated 8 person jira team for the whole org! What could possibly go wrong.

I've also witnessed amazing autonomous development teams that move at amazing speed with quality. In these settings you have management that understands the process of supporting a business with valuable code.

Most of the time IMO it's the business themselves that cause a lot of the problems facing developers by not understanding that it's they who own the processes getting digitized.

They buy software from vendors, staff up a project team to integrate, fire and forget.
This "fire and forget" project mentality is what accumulates in a shitty org, and shitty orgs start from the top.

If you haven't read "Turn the ship around" it embodies all of this. This condensed video is really worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psAXMqxwol8
You are simply refusing to accept the fact that doctors have managers and are simply labelling it "clerical". It is in no way simply clerical at all. These are people they report to regularly, who help manage their schedules, help with career growth, set priorities and targets, interface with upper management to avoid cruft coming down, dispel distractions to force their focus on what matters and so on. I will strongly state once again that this is in no way, shape, or form "secretarial". Often times, for junior doctors, they are most definitely superiors. The reason for the change in power balance from engineering organisations is because doctors have the significantly more challenging aspect that they are dealing with human lives so managers tend to stay out of their way more but their role is not diminished

Your analogy is bad only because you have no idea what you're talking about. Technical people need managers because technical people will do things other than their actual jobs and I say this very frankly as a developer. It is remarkable how similar doctors and engineers can be in that they are lost if left to their own devices. Just as an experienced engineer will wear many hats and can manage themselves, experienced doctors also successfully set up their own practices where they can manage themselves. But a good hospital manager can literally save and change lives
The Superiority of EBooks over Paper
I had the same experience. I've bombed a lot of CS interviews - a lot more than I've done well on, hah! I'm a couple classes away from a Master's in CS and would still have to study my butt off to be successful in a whiteboard interview. The first few rejections hurt a little, but once I started taking the interviews for what they were it all became a big joke to me. And the recruiter process may be even worse than the interviews. At this point I'm of the opinion that I'm not gonna waste one more minute on Leetcode or any "kata" a recruiter sends me. I've got much better things to do with my time.

My current position was basically just a conversation for an hour. Best interview ever... Went in thinking I was gonna have to do the whiteboard thing and they never asked me one question about any kind of algorithm. Been on the team several years now and it's the best position I've ever had.

I'd probably need something like a 50 to 75% salary bump to consider leaving, and I would flat out refuse any whiteboard interviews. I always count myself blessed that I'm in the position where I can be selective. If I was desperate, I'd have to compete for them like everyone else.
I've been meaning to read that. How does it compare to Capital?
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I highly doubt a multibillion company engaging in more widespread recruiting practices would be the difference between them succeeding and failing
Visually easier on my eyes, easier to scroll, I can filter out `package-lock.json` file from the diff (with a command line argument). In the end it's a preference thing, not an "objectively better" thing.
I wish Google Maps had an option to avoid small roads that are not made for transit traffic. I live next to such a road, and the amount of cars using it has grown considerably over the last few years, many with license plates from neighboring regions. Taking this narrow road saves them maybe two minutes compared with an adjacent, much wider road.
> And once again, the program was bigger than ever. We had 122 dev interns globally, coming from 42 different schools and 13 countries. As the program grows, it gets harder and harder to summarize it with any degree of fidelity by picking just three projects.
Autumn8.ai (www.autumn8.ai) provides accurate benchmarks of AI models for energy consumption and carbon emissions, both in the cloud and for on-premise servers, prior to deployment. Further, they also offer performance metrics (latency, throughput and costs) with no server spin-ups. This helps customers choose the optimal server to reduce CO2 emissions while meeting other SLA requirements. Please contact Vanya Amla (vanya@autumn8.ai) for more details.
Agreed - when I worked in the financial industry there was something called data lifecycle management. Since keeping data around indefinitely meant you could be held liable at any time for anything that happened in the distant past, companies are motivated to track data and delete anything that's no longer necessary for business as soon as possible.

No such law exists for Facebook, so they don't care. Someone needs to pass a law with a big fine attached and then things will change.
I worked at a company a few year ago that makes adiabatic demagnetization refrigeration (ADR) systems for milliKelvin temperature cooling. The magnetic cooling system cooled a small payload from sub 4K to mK temperatures... company sells a fair number of system each year.
https://archive.ph/3LiEI
We Are as Gods – Documentary about Stewart Brand
This, uh - ‘increase the price of our hardware’ thing that console manufacturers are doing is so far ass-backwards it’s making a full circle around the Earth to the front again.

Meta’s ‘metaverse’ isn’t doing well - you know, that thing they renamed themselves to focus on?

So…their reaction to that was to increase the price of an aging piece of hardware that is the main portal to the aforementioned new company focus.

And I’m struggling to have any sympathy for Sony, either - who has typically subsidized console costs; and is now joining the loony bin with Meta.

I have never - in my decades of being obsessed with consoles - seen a manufacturer increase the price of a console a year after launch.

Sony’s made a dumbass decision here - for sure - but it’s nothing compared to the facepalm that is Meta increasing the price of the Quest. Mind boggling.
The common presumption with free markets is that companies will grow until they consume the world. But as this article suggests, what actually happens is that companies grow until their internal bureaucracy strangles them.

Google's search business is heavily optimized towards and dependent on selling ads. Competing directly with them in search is not likely to work. But another way of doing search (I don't know what that might be) could completely undermine it.

After all, Google sank Alta Vista and Yahoo with another way of doing search.
I mean, sure, security is complicated, lots of judgment calls, but within this mindset, if a team/org/company said "we have no idea where we're using log4j" it was then their job to have someone working around the clock until they figured that out and fixed it. Figuring out how to meet new requirements that weren't around when systems were begun is, IMO, fully just part of the job. For FB engineers to be throwing up their hands in front of a legal system like oh nooooo how could we possibly track things seems like a stalling technique and makes all of tech look bad.
First let’s put things in perspective. According to public statements last year by the former CEO of AWS and the current CEO of Amazon [1][2], only 5% of all IT spend is directed toward any cloud provider. There are plenty of opportunities with businesses that don’t host infrastructure in the cloud.

Also, when was the last time an “upstart” challenged a giant successfully?

- Microsoft has been a “giant” since 2000

- Apple became the worlds most valuable company in 2011.

- Google has been the go to search engine at least since the early 2000s

- Amazon has been dominant in its field at least since around 2000.

[1] Jassy is my skip^9 manager

[2] https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud/amazon-shocker-ceo-jas...
Hosting (both websites and VMs to run services on), domain names, and Office 365.
Cool it a notch HN!

The article is not anti-management or 31337157

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Summary Paragraph:

what is Engineering Managment’s Job?

We’ve touched upon a vague set of goals, but haven’t really settled on what an effective manager’s daily job really is.

Going back to Drucker, a manager’s job is to prepare people to perform, and to give them freedom to do so.

Creative people need psychological safety in order to perform. An effective manager provides this, along with coaching to help reports become more effective versions of themselves. This should then allow them to reap long term rewards.

An effective manager builds trust and space for their reports to execute, along with guidance for where their efforts will have the largest impact, helping them to continue growing in their career.

An effective manager cares for their team, their work, and its effect beyond the immediate organization. They are stewards first, realizing that much is beyond their control.

The ones who care are just trying to keep the bullshit at bay.
But who are you trying to convince?

If it's them, they can just say "ok so what" to your footage, it existing or not or coming from multiple people or not is not entirely relevant, as a company they can choose to use it or throw it away.

If it's everyone else, why? What benefit does it get you to have others know you're right? You're still in the same position, with your choice discarded.
The freedom crowd loves gambling. It’s nuts.

Everything from kids arcades to sports has turned into a grand casino. The sports thing is a particular bummer as it will change sports in what imo a bad thing.
It's weird you assume I openly post this where people know my face.

I play ball at work because if I play ball I continue to make enough money where at the end of the day I don't care. I'm fully capable of reading a room and know full well the consequences of stepping out of line. Frankly a manager "helping you find empathy" strikes me as a form of indoctrination.

But thank you for the deep psychological analysis. Frankly I'm glad you're not my manager because the saccharin nature of your psuedo intellectual post would probably have me quitting anyway. It's always the "empaths" who are the first to fire the shots across the bow in the face of valid (albeit direct) criticism.
The issue is more that they don't care. They don't really need to track it so they don't.
Imagine thinking statins are used to 'treat' hyperlipidemia. Statins block the production of cholestrol, they don't treat the disease which is causing your body to produce high cholesterol.

Maybe you need to ponder about the difference between treatment and management, or ask your doctor about it next time. All this was clearly explained to me by doctor when I was started on statins and that only way to treat the disease itself is through lifestyle modifications. Unfortunately, There is a whole swath of idiots on internet who think they know better than doctors and experts.

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2020/0915/p347.html
Mandiant: APT42 – Crooked Charms, Cons, and Compromises
I looked it up and you're right! I thought they were more or less interchangeable but it looks like that's not true. Similar to how jealousy and envy are different