skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s silly. Managers exist on the same spectrum as any other role. Most are about average. Some are better, some are worse. Same with engineers themselves.

These articles are undoubtedly written by people who have never been managers themselves, and frankly just don’t have any idea what the job is for. Which is fine - everyone starts that way. But to then assume the job is useless is classic sign of imaturity.

> Nobody is saying that the functions of these roles aren't necessary

That’s literally the premise of the article posted.
‘Doomsday Glacier’ the size of Florida disintegrating faster than thought
I wasn't joking too much... high growth is bad for a company's 'health', no matter what is driving that growth (VCs or just PMF). By health here, I mean people, processes and product. It helps, a lot, if the team has done high-growth before and understand what the compromises are and where the organizational and technical debt is and how to pay it off, but you're still going to go through hell. Again, this is a choice: are you going to leave demand on the table or not? VCs are probably not going to let you say 'yes' to that, but can/will you anyway?

On a personal level, stress is going to be bad for you as well. But both high growth and low growth (below profitability that is) will give you stress, so if you don't want that health impact, look for a salary, not for equity...
And atheists and agnostics would not ever strike their own children, or their students?
That bullshit paperwork was probably created by a manager in the first place. It's a self replicating problem.
Not necessarily, if we could reach significant fractions of light speed. The subjective travel time can be shorter than 100 years, and approaches zero as you approach the speed of light. (Photons don’t experience time, so to speak, they are everywhere on their trajectory at once.)
This is known as mass timber.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wooden-skyscrapers-are-on-the-r...

https://www.thinkwood.com/mass-timber

https://www.naturallywood.com/topics/mass-timber/

https://www.ijpr.org/housing/2022-09-04/oregons-mass-timber-...

And regarding fire retardation - Cross Laminated Timber Fire Testing from the Forest Products Laboratory and US Forest Service - https://youtu.be/HuVTCOmRGd0
I've been a programmer for 15 years and I've never seen it done for "job security". I think this is mostly about low tolerance for boredom of most programmers: writing code is exciting, documenting it is boring, so you do not do it unless forced to.
This is simply not true. Consumer transportation accounts for a tiny fraction of global energy use. This is a common tactic for blame shifting to excuse the complete lack of effort and egregious waste from the corporate and industrial sectors. Shame on you for blindly picking it up and retransmitting it.
I don’t see how the actual story applies to this discussion as I haven’t seen it. I actually came here to see if it was worth watching.
Isn't concrete neutral over its lifetime? Surely you'd want to take into consideration that wood an concrete are different materials?
Great list, and TLDR, there’s no silver bullet. You need to engage across the whole platform.

I would only disagree about avoiding right-sizing, though. I made some instance-type adjustments on our batch compute platform thar saved millions per year. Follow the money!
Interesting compared to le malheur mentioned in the article, wherein factory repetitive work demands no mentation at all...
And also...

For many years Canada (and similar countries) have relied on cutting costs by importing health care professionals from other countries. That pipeline has now shrunk considerably, resulting in the exposure of the underlying problem.
I've heard that before and believe it to be true, but then it makes me wonder why cities are often so eager to annex suburban developments? If a suburb isn't paying it's fair share, why don't cities raise taxes or un-annex them? (is there a word for un-annex?)
Here's the thing. At the end of the day all of the "complexity and nuance" of running a business doesn't matter. The only way you even get to execute on that is if you're flanked by good engineers.

All roads lead to the engineer. Bad managers can be worked around. Mindless PMs can be worked around. But if every engineer at apple suddenly stopped working there would be real economic consequences. If managers and PMs stopped working they'd be replaced by engineers who are by and large more capable at adaptation anyway. Engineers should hold all the power. In most orgs management exists to prevent what is effectively an artificial union forming among engineers. Most, I'd argue even 99%, of engineers do not want to be sitting in meetings and spending 9 hours a day building CRUD. Without the guy cracking the whip over your head you wouldn't. I wouldn't. Anyone wouldn't. The power dynamic favors managers - hence all the hate.

MBAs take a lot of flak because much like the kid engineer coming out of school who believes he's legitimately God's gift to man the MBA does the same. The difference? The MBA controls your salary, whether you keep your job, whether you get your job, the direction of the company, the marketing of the product, the features that will be worked on, the finances of the company, etc. The MBA holds legitimately all power that is not engineering. As such, by generalizing and blaming "the MBA" you are more right than wrong on who is the real problem. I believe most engineers should go back for their MBA. Not to get better at business but to understand their enemy. An entire career is boiled down to a few excel formulas.

Do you know what makes me happy? Not even knowing my manager exists. Not even knowing my PM exists. In my a little over 10 year career I can name two managers and one PM that actually made a fundamental difference to me. I'd be infinitely happier if PMs and managers were replaced by robots that let me do my job and enjoy what I do. Instead, even something as trivial as "I'd like an extra day to optimize this because I can see it having problems under load" needs to be "scoped" and "talked about", then it needs to be "put into a future sprint", then it needs to be "pointed", "tagged", "etc". This is borderline tyranny to someone who is creative. Only a spreadsheet monkey sees value in this nonsense because at the end of the day I'm right (because I built it) but I won't be given time to do it until it breaks (because the MBA), when it does I will be on pagerduty and probably hearing about it (from my manager), and then I will need to ask for time and a meeting will be called to discuss and do JIRA nonsense (by the PM). You see? As an engineer it's always my fault. Even when I'm right. Who are the people who will arrive at my desk to blame me? Them.
I think kiwi farms should be taken offline because it’s a horrible site. What good is there in taking down the archive of it? Having archives of trump’s tweets was important after his twitter was removed so we could see what was there. There’s a difference between allowing people to use the site/post, and having a record of what was there.
There was a "Grand Designs" episode (UK TV show) where they used exactly that.

A bit of search turns up this link: https://www.facit-homes.com/post/we-re-back-on-site-manufact...
Or maybe just implying that Meta isn't up for the task of complying with GDPR, and lack the necessary ability to comply with regulations.
> Even though I don't know what's going on in the shadows

Well. Here is my report from the shadows.

Anyway, working for Wikipedia/OSM is totally worth it. As you see it by yourself, the projects are quite successful in delivering quality services to the masses. That's why I'm not advocating people to give up entirely on this "dream". Just take a short pause to ponder why are we starting this movement at the first time.

I'm not alone though, this burnout phenomenon is quite a recurring endemic to any long-time contributors. Some people take a pause [1], and some people left the project entirely [2][3].

[1] : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikistress

[2] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Editor_R...

[3] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Missing_Wikipedians
That's very helpful, thanks. Still totally bullshit though.
You're right, thanks for the correction on that.

Wikipedia said 8% of health care in England is private, mostly specialist, often through employer provided plans meant to augment NHS. The other 92% of health care is directly supplied by NHS [0]. So they appear to be a mix of public and private, like many other systems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_England
This is a neat project from a design/engineering viewpoint, but it seems it's addressing the 'problem' of "houses look hard to make; how can it look like something I can do?" Same reason I'm skeptical of 3D printed houses.

We had looked into SIPs for our relatively fancy house, but budget won out. There are lots of neat building solutions that cost too much. If you think labor costs are high, wait til you try to find someone who will learn a new system.

Construction cost is not the reason that housing supply is tight—but engineers don't have as much fun fighting for better zoning policy.
This nonsensical trope is trotted out on HN all the time with no data to support it. Just the fact that Apple products are objectively not expensive enough to convey any information about status should be enough to prevent it from being posted.

I employ people that earn $15 to $20 per hour with no benefits that use Apple products like iPhones, MacBook airs, and air pods.
I think some people are way better at seeing these mechanics at play than others. it's what is called social intelligence I think. Yet it also can be midly depressing to see your friend trying to subtly decrease your social status by some harmless remarks when a woman is in the vicinity.

People who do not see it are most easily exploited by it. For example a person with low self-esteem who does (often unconsciously) signal it to others even if it worsens his situation even more.
i've seen some pretty dysfunctional orgs, but none that has been that bad. a bit of diplomacy, a bit of corner cutting, a bit of bullshitting, some inflated sizings, a bit of politics, and you can buy the team enough time to clean up, get organised, and get back in shape
Just because YOU do not have a use case, does not mean NO ONE has a use case.

Your experiences are not the indicative of everyones experiences.
Archive link:

https://archive.ph/892uo

https://web.archive.org/web/20220907024629/https://www.washi...
Funny this actually makes me like it more. Any feature with no potential for abuse also provides no privacy and security.
>> the role of an EM in a large organisation is in large part to be an "enterprise abstraction layer", ensuring the people in the team(s) can work in a way that is as close as possible to what they could do in a startup/solo project

I worked for a guy like that. Sometimes technical decisions would bubble up and I'd get mad that he wouldn't resolve them but push them back down. I started to think he didn't do much of anything. Turns out he spent most of his time in higher level meetings finding out what projects were coming and ensuring we were properly staffed and projects got scheduled reasonably. He'd go into a meeting uninvited because "this project doesn't involve software" only to discover that there would be a software component to the project and make sure that was covered. Turns out once I knew what he was actually doing I'd say he was one of the more effective managers I've worked for. Things usually ran smoothly and random shit never dropped from other parts of the company unexpectedly. He did zero engineering (but he had previously), and most of what he did was unseen to us. Life was good because we lived behind an invisible shield.
Sounds like a problem for future taxpayers, not current economic actors (not advocating, just doing the math).
> “It's clear that quiet quitting is a symptom of poor management,” Gallup said in the report.

Glad they were willing to put this in writing.
Probably the same actions taken on antifa forums that are used to dox Trump-voting boomers with the explicit goal of harassing them: nothing.

IA is not being "bad", here. They're just being inconsistent. Either doxing/harassment is casus belli to scrub content, or it's not.
I want to write a book on the history of science, where we actually go througy what people thought (luminiferous ether, phlogiston, the humours) until some experiments convinced them otherwise (michelson morley etc). Who knew what (Arabs and algebra), and how did it spread (Jusuits)? I think it is really needed but I haven’t found any approach like this ! It is all about the shrinkwrapped final results and modern beliefs. And often the modern beliefs are being updated too (such as theory of atoms, big bang, plate tectonics etc.)

Where can I get this info? Anyone know of anything close to this?
Not a corporation, but recently I worked with a Swiss company that opted to use Hetzner due to their "green" initiatives, because for them it's relevant to maintain a low carbon footprint, even in the server space.

Call it a PR thing, but it certainly helps in some cases.
Those are local prices. You're forgetting about the expense of shipping, and I'm guessing the last mile problem in that particular set of logistics is a big one. Finding skilled laborers in local manufacturing might also be pretty expensive, so offshoring will be much more favorable even with the higher shipping fees.
Probably not. It's not hard to notice that while volatiles may flow from the hot side to the cold side, it's generally a one-way trip. Most attempts to model such a planet as habitable even on the thin strip involve trying to hypothesize some way that the volatiles could end up circulating rather than simply making the one-way migration, but personally I'm yet to hear a convincing way that could happen. And that's for the lower bar of "is life possible at all", not the much higher bar of "could we be happy living there".

YMMV, since it's all opinion and conjecture right now.

But in general I wouldn't expect much wind. The hot side is in vacuum because the only volatiles there are the ones just baked out of the fried ground or perhaps some volcanic activity, and the cold side is in vacuum because everything's frozen, and if there is some tiny pressure gradient you'd never notice the resulting "wind" as the vacuum flows past you, probably at rates roughly comparable to what the ISS experiences as "wind" in its low Earth orbit.
Glad you enjoyed that! I built those robots :)

That thread was previously posted to HN (linked below in some replies) and the responses were... mixed, to say the least!
They don't want engineers to unionize because the first thing they'd do is pause feature work and fix all the tech debt.
Isn’t quite quitting just refusing to go above and beyond? Simply working the required hours and going home? Pretty sure that’s what we should have been doing all along.
Interesting idea.

Reflecting on it, people already use what would otherwise be unacceptable slurs with their closest friends (at least IME in the UK). Using this as a human-computer differentiator is intriguing. Kinda like if non-humans were really incapable of purposeful harm to humans you could get someone to pinch you to show they're not a bot... CAPTCHA of the future!
Your statement is very interesting and thought provoking.

I'd like to know if it's true. It sounds like one of those things that are "to good to be true".

Is it possible that you're conflating the total of transportation pollution per capita with the part of it that has to do with driving to the grocery store for that?
Social Simulacra – Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems
It's not hardened, they have 2 synced systems effectively that can pick up from each other, such that, if there's a bitflip, it can restart and switch over in less that the time it takes for a loop (kinda) so it can easily do this is mid-air with no loss of alititude or positioning.
I run a borg backup from my synology NAS to rsync.net and it was pretty easy to set up. I installed borg and borgmatic from the community repositories and use the synology scheduler to run it nightly. I followed the tutorial at https://docs.borgbase.com/setup/synology/.
The answer is yes all management is bullshit
Ingredient for concrete is calcium oxide, which is won from calcium carbonate, releasing carbon dioxide. Calcium carbonate is limestone. Thus: Making concrete takes carbon from the ground and puts it into the air. This is climate-wise as irreversible as a coal plant.
That's not the point. Proposing a housing solution that encourage unsustainable transportation is not sustainable.
Would be nice if authors just compared things to 2019 or at least added that comparison to their report, this is how businesses look at their own numbers every since 2020.
That has nothing to do with is being discussed. Instead, what it is talking about is where researchers deposit their sequence data and don't provide metadata explaining what each sample is. Some of this might be accidental or be due to people not understanding what is required, but some of it is intentional -- researchers don't like being forced to share data (because they fear being scooped on the analysis) so they release the data without the information which would allow other people to use it. As the article states, this shouldn't be allowed.
This looks neat, but having to submit a structural engineer's inspection report before they sell you the materials is absurd.
Someone posted here that the maximum density with this type of housing is 3 stories, 75 dwellings per hectare, so about 7500 dwellings per square kilometer. At 3 stories, that has to be at least 6 people per dwelling, so about 45k people per square kilometer. Let's cut that to 5k people per square kilometer to account for infrastructure, shops, schools, etc, it still seems reasonable.

We don't even need more than that on average, we don't need Hong Kongs everywhere. "Brownstones" will do :-)
Except their Hardware needs to be manifactured aswell and that's a significant part of the CO2 "cost" of a datacenter. Though Hetzner does do a lot to in that regard with their reuse of older hardware and very energy efficient data centers.
> How the hell did these random twitter users manage to gain the power to pick and choose who gets to be on the internet now?

This is the part that really worries me. Random Twitter users trying to dictate what _I_ am allowed to read. And Cloudflare and the Internet Archive bends to their will! Highly embarrassing, these people should be taken at anything but face value.

Cloudflare folding is nothing new, but I really expected better of the Internet Archive.

Openly, to any outrage-politicking militant Twitter deathsquad member: you will never stop me from reading what I want to read. I wasn't aware of Kiwi Farms before your ridiculous antics but now you can bank on me reading EVERYTHING I can possibly get my hands on.

I will form my own opinions and you will have no say at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect -- good luck. You can't stop the signal.
This isn't "shit dropping" off of the net.. This was the result of a true harassment campaign that finally resulted in a faux appeal to danger to literally force a completely legal site offline via illegal DDoS attack. (The stated goal of the media cheered campaign) And now an attempt to erase it's history.

You're right that it isn't a precursor to some horrible dystopian future of corporate control.. because it is actually that already! The internet is now broken. Another level of infrastructure (now basic network infrastructure) is open to tantrumers, PR etc veto!
Actually FB has some wicked privacy tech around their central data store - and are building more. Nuance gets lost in these articles, for example even with proper documentation there are simply too many things for one person to know where data flows in that company. Or data flowing through RPC calls can make it hard to know what will fail downstream if you remove a certain piece of data.
Seems like a pointless appeal to non cognizance to me.

Show me the distribution and I'll show you the median.
Ask HN: Which Auth Service for SaaS?
How did you decided which authentication service you use for your Saas? Built in or external service provider?
I work with a lot of technical founders who struggle to accept the inevitable truth that taking the time to specify, coordinate, and resource what they want to do leaves no time to be the one doing any of those things. They eventually solve this problem by hiring other engineers to focus on the implementation step while they keep everything on the straight and narrow. When the company grows and they run out of time to directly supervise every engineer an engineering manager is born.

Engineers who don't appreciate the role of the product/marketing/management layers don't seem to understand that if they had to take on those responsibilities it would leave them with no time left over to write any code. If nobody takes on those responsibilities then our company won't make money to pay anybody to write code. It's not chicken and egg, it's cart and horse.

If you don't want to become a marketing expert as well as a product design expert for the sake of doing all these things simultaneously consider being glad others are taking things off your plate and coordinating work without you so you can focus on writing code.
> if it is, then the giants can put it on their platform and make your customers into theirs.

The AGPL already solves this. Whatever secret sauce the giants add to do that, you can just take it and add it back to your original program.
Open sourced the hardware or the software part? (Note: I'm the author of that twitter thread.)

The hardest part was probably the handwriting "generation." I put "generation" in quotes because it was mostly selecting one of the characters from the library of characters that we captured and putting it together with other characters.

The hardware had a lot of hard spots, but I think they were mostly hard because that was my first real foray into hardware.
Why would you adjust this value instead of using absolute terms?
Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law
A car is overkill for carrying most things day-to-day if you don’t live in an area built solely around cars.

Walk to any Costco in NYC and you’ll see plenty of people doing just fine with 50+lbs of groceries and a shopping cart.

Alternatively, go to any suburban grocery store and you’ll see people driving away in massive pickup trucks and SUVs having only picked up a gallon of milk.
Built in package management and documentation are features from Julia's repl that I love.
Oh no! It's a plague that's spreading! (and not something that's been the norm without a name for decades). Better stop it quick corporations! Make things worse for your employees to punish them, that'll make them stop not volunteering for 60 hour weeks and every bullshit "not in your job description" project your middle managers come up with!
The wagon equation isn’t only about armies, it’s about the logistics of moving things by wagon. Militaries need supplies to move with the army which adds a whole new set of constraints.
I hear /dev/null is a good place for large amounts of personal data.