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Your description of what it means to be a software engineer sounds a lot like being a carpenter. I would definitely call being a carpenter a trade skill.

Much like being a software engineer the real product of a carpenter is how what the build withstands the elements, can be repaired, maintained, and extended, and that is only achieved after putting in the thought and design that comes before construction. Much like a software engineer, a carpenter must keep up to date on building codes and regulations, different materials and how they are used safely, and collecting, maintaining, and extending their tools.

Software engineers often talk about "sharpening the saw". That's literally something a carpenter would do.
As far as I could tell, the entire purpose for that site was porn, and they killed that along with the userbase. Good luck selling it!
Coal is dying in the US. There hasn't been a new power plant built in years, and facilities are getting retired early because it's cheaper to build new solar/wind than to run on coal.

The bad news is that many of the coal plants are getting converted to natural gas rather than being replaced by renewables. And when it comes to climate change, gas is only marginally better than coal. (Though when it comes to air pollution, gas is much better.)

A tiny coal plant recently opened in Fairbanks, Alaska.
ah yes, argumentum ad cultural relitivismus.

does this actually negate my point?

nevermind the fact that it is not actually true..

christanity, buddhism, sikhism, etc. among many, many, others do not have racism as part of their theological core doctrines. This is not to say that strands of any haven't misused the theology in the name of racism, but your claim is patently false.
> An inflation-adjusted dollar in 2019 buys more than an inflation-adjusted dollar in 2000, even

Depends. Does it buy more concrete? Does it buy more rocket ships? Does it buy more childcare? Does it buy more iPhones?

Just depends on what you're talking about.
That's an unfair characterization - either side can make the easy insult that their opponents are greedy/stingy. Imagine if someone characterized the left-leaning side as "always complaining" of how there is a new medical innovation here, new real estate development there, wringing their hands about how they don't get instant free service from all the people who made it happen.

Money is not just paper, it is a direct representation of time and labor. The non-consenting seizure of one's property and labor can also be considered theft, serfdom, or slavery, depending on the circumstances. Inserting layers of indirection, good intentions, bureaucracy, and limiting it to 40% of your year's crop does not make it less serious of a subject.

You can argue that some of it may always be necessary, and I would agree. But it shouldn't be treated lightly.
Yeah, because that’s how counting people works.

Got a billion extra people? Herd ‘em into patient wards and start the experiments! We’ve got a billion extra chances to get it right!

Just because you’ve got extra people means they’re expendable right? Does that extend to every context, including military deployments? Just hose off that pesky opposition force with an extra million or two human wave attacks? Anticipate the victory as pyrrhic, and do it anyway? No expectation that even 10% will survive the flood of violence?

I say again, is this how you count human lives?
So can they stop acting like they censor equally across the ideological/political spectrum? It's fine that they have an agenda, but the corporate lawyer speak after events like this, feigning equal censorship, is so disingenuous (and I can't stand one minute of Jones or Yiannopoulos).
Or you could just get a hot water bottle... seriously, they are £5 and will never catch on fire. Not continuous but they keep you pretty damn warm for a good hour before needing a refill. Sometimes it's better to just keep things simple.

You also don't need to worry about quality / safety of manufacturing, it's a simple rubber mould - very difficult to get wrong.
Have you used Zmacs? What was better than the Racket IDE?
But it's not the Olympic track team, and we know disadvantaged kids placed into an advantaged situation demonstrate an IQ increase and perform up to par.

Education is uniquely different from training and certification. I say that as someone who has been through some of the most rigorous programs in both worlds. Education has no immediate impact on the outside world. You don't get to stamp a bridge design as a PE because you went to Stuy and MIT. You have to go through on-the-job training and certification exams. Same for physicians and attorneys. Education is part of it, but you absolutely have to pass the boards to practice.

Also, who would you have in mind to be the minority on a track team?

Also, this is Hacker News, why would you want to be getting stodgy about educational qualifications up around here?
They were also just straight-up replaced by buses.

The main bus lines in the older parts of a good chunk of cities still follow the old streetcar lines.
US automakers are ridiculously wasteful, slow-moving, and don't really give a shit about anything. These companies are risk-averse for a reason, but you would be floored if you could experience first-hand the sort of bureaucracy and complacency you have to deal with when working with an automaker. I live somewhere that basically revolved around the auto industry until recently, and everyone else I've met that has dealt with automakers has had the same experience.
For some reason, I've always preferred OCaml's style of generics notation: (T, (int, long) U, int W) S

I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority with that opinion though.
This eliminates a lot of strategy where you try to "block" an opponent from making a bingo, and moves based on knowing what letters are left.
> Did I sufficiently address your question?

What question are you referring to?

Regardless, I suggest that it is better to reply to the comment you're replying to than to reply to some other comment, whether you see a reply link or not. You don't need the reply link to reply to a comment.
A lot of things are missed if you just compare hard numbers. A home brings distance from neighbors and size of place means you have privacy and a place to stretch out. Most apts are built on top of one another and price is high per square foot.

I also have an asset I can sell which doesn't exist when renting. Property taxes are generally lower relative to where I could rent and simply don't enter into it.

More important to me, a bought house is my home.
You separate people in those willing to explore and figure it out on their own, and those who'd otherwise probably never check further than the home page on their own. In my experience the biggest gain from intros is that when you get people into entering some basic data - creating an example project or something - they feel like they've already invested some time and are much more willing to explore the features further and enter more data and eventually really start using the app.
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Wow. Powerful.
My all-time favorite response to this is https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1042802348656091136
The Tesla one is pretty good
It's not about fantastic technical advancements, so much as packaging new tech such that it could fit seamlessly in 100 million lives. That second part might not seem like a technical challenge, but it often is, in ways you might not immediately appreciate.
Armchair Electrical Engineer here:

The parts used in cars need to handle a lot of vibration and heat and last 10+ years.

The tech lags behind consumer electronics because consumer electronics don’t need to work in these difficult environments.
Touch screens are without a doubt more dangerous. You are forced to take your eye off of the road to navigate the screen menus.

There is nothing I prefer more in a car than the classic 3 physical knob layout for heat/cold, vent/selector and music.

I feel every car should start with that, and maybe add a touchscreen only for deeper interactions, usually needed when the vehicle is not in motion.
I remain skeptical of some of the company's intentions and practices, esp. regarding privacy and user rights/freedom, but VSCode and TypeScript have truly earned the respect of the community.

For me personally, these two open-source projects have greatly influenced my view of Microsoft for the better.
> given that the idea of the "public square" doesn't encompass harvesting the conversations which happen therein, aggressive tailored marketing, and leaking of personal information from everyone who crosses through.

Oh, so marketers aren't allowed to poll, film or listen in on conversations that happen out in public? In fact that's perfectly legal.

> Facebook capitalises on the notion of a public square. That does not make it one.

And free speech protections also need not be limited to overly strict definitions of public square. The question these types of controversies should be raising is whether free speech protections should extend to services like Facebook.

Facebook is a private space that anyone and everyone can freely access, and are, in fact, encouraged to frequent as much as humanly possible, and arguably has become intrinsic to the daily life of many, perhaps most, Americans. In fact, it's probably one of their primary means of socializing with friends and family, and definitely a medium for political discourse. Arguing it's a purely private space seems increasingly flimsy, frankly.
Sure, but my point is that both Sublime products only support x86 currently. There's likely a fair amount of other stuff that would break if we ported to ARM.
People forget ASCII is just a presentation mode. There's no reason for Ox41 to be an 'A'.
Why are you ever using == in JS?
>I can think of a third reason: everybody in the industry wanted IE6 dead.

Ever heard the story of Ken McElroy? He was a rapist, burglar and child molester murdered in 1981 in Missouri.

In front of 46 witnesses. Nobody saw anything.
Was driving on a back country road. Those living in the area lived in a beautiful place, but in poverty.

The beautiful mountain views were marred by the windmills put there at the behest of elites living in far off cities. The quiet of the countryside was broken by the constant thrum of the windmills. I really couldn't imagine living there with that constant low frequency noise.

With the best of intentions, these poor people were robbed of one of the very few perks in their lives - the beauty of the area they lived in, and the peace and quiet they once had.

EDIT: given the area of the country, it is highly likely that a large number of these people had formerly been employed in the coal industry.
You need at least 2 people for this mixup to happen...
On backwards compatibility. I recently learned that apple has deprecated OpenGL and soon will not support it at all. What a slap to developers... so yeah there is some value to Microsofts approach.
I’m genuinely on board with most of this, but it reads like satire.

On topic, it is wild how dated even brand new car consoles feel. Luxury brands do a bit better, but it’s still worse than my phone. Where do I sign up to overhaul vehicle UX?
There is zero evidence that he has white supremacist beliefs. Why haven't journalists found any evidence to the contrary? I don't care who he is married to. It is utterly irrelevant, trivial, small minded, petty nonsense.
nevermind the glorification of mary, spreading the practice practicing of monogamy instead of male:multi-female polygamy, being anti-prostitution, etc..

oh right, but those things are really 'supressing women'.
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Parameters can have `noalias` on them. This is [currently undocumented](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1521) and [not yet safety checked](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/476) and there is an [open area of research considering doing it the opposite way](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1108). Provided that it could be safety-checked, opt-in aliasing has the potential to make Zig even faster. As far as I'm aware, this is currently the only way in which Rust could potentially outperform Zig (and C).
The backup camera in my 2010 Tacoma is embedded in to the backup mirror. The usability is nearly perfect because it's right next to where you were looking already and is tremendously useful.
it’s actually not the touchscreen at fault for the model S. it’s the software. people have rooted them and even played videos at perfect speed. tesla is fucking us over with the MCU. if someone were allowed to make a home brew it would be much better. considering the mcu doesn’t control auto pilot or anything else we should be allowed to do what we want with it.
/edit/ thanks for updating the headline.

The title seems misleading. I suggest changing it to:

"Solar, wind, plus other renewables predicted to beat coal for the first time in US later this year."

It's clear from the chart that the trend of coal generated power decreases later in the year before increasing again. The reverse is true of renewables. It's during this time where renewables generation is at it's annual high while coal is at it's annual low that this predicted event is expected.

The title is misleading even though it is welcome news.
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For years I've just wanted a car with the equivalent of a 19" rack with some standard power + other interfaces.

They kind of make them for police cars - center consoles with mounting holes plus different height cover plates.

But I suspect the future consumers will get will be app-based because the connected car might be a data harvesting revenue stream.

sigh.
Raising taxes has little effect on the older generation but dramatically hurt the working class. Retirement benefits are barely affected by employment taxes or income taxes. Most of the old wealth come from capital and/or renting properties.

That being said, I'm not in the US but I am pretty sure the US is not that different from here.
you really need a power source to be an alternative to a space heater. i want to sleep with this thing
While almost no one has perfect health, a key factor there is the ability to correct the issues and the cost/benefit of doing so.

It's not worth mourning about a nut allergy because (as far as I understand) there's not much that we can do about it, so one might as well as just accept it as the way things are. However, if it could be easily and permanently curable without side effects, then not doing so would be an intentional choice to remain permanently unhealthy.

However, for the original discussion about autism, it may be relevant to consider the analogies (and differences) to the hotly debated issue regarding cochlear implants for deaf children. Both sides have a lot to say and I'm probably mangling their opinions, but in essence there's a situation where certain types of deafness can be "fixed" (albeit imperfectly) by cochlear implants; but many in the Deaf community don't want to be "fixed" to become more like hearing people; and in order for hearing/speech centers to develop properly the procedure needs to be done in childhood as early as possible, before they can decide for themselves. So there's a rather emotional debate on whether deaf kids should "be fixed" if they parents prefer that they would not (because e.g. they want their kids to be a full part of the Deaf community, using ASL instead of spoken English as their native language) - and if that raises a lot of questions regarding what should be considered states of permanent unhealth, then the mental issues would be even more contestable and contested.
Misleading article.

Just because more electricity was generated using these methods it doesn't mean they "beat" coal.

It's like saying staying inside beat outdoor activities at a maximum security prison.
If you owned you home free and clear then would you mortgage it to invest? That's what your statement suggests. I won't gamble with my primary residence as I don't want the risk or stress.
This is useful to generate models for clothing shop, or new fashion models.

More general: I'm not surprised to see some day, one AI bot could automatically register a Twitter account, and have "real" conversations there. One day, i might retweet their tweets, too.
That would be great. You don't need a floor length mirror and changing rooms if you can just have your rendered body and face to exchange clothes on. Need to get accurate measurements for the right dimensions though.
There is a fundamental trade-off between transparency and privacy, but also a very real risk that we will end up with neither.
I always wonder about their use as movie extras. Does anyone here know what's happening in the realm of movie-making? I had friends who did that as a lark, but there were pay minimums, so I imagine it's a substantial expense to studios.
If you post a serious attempt to math stack exchange, they are usually very helpful in telling you if you are right, or where you went wrong.
even tesla is laggy for me at times. needlessly slow and frustrating when trying to use the maps and driving. and their audio features “navigate to broadway” (?) like come on
It wasn't all that long ago that EU regions redrew their borders with Panzers/Rifles/Muskets/Swords/Sticks/Etc. All with the general goal being to increase their own resources at the expense of their neighbors.

This is actually an interesting article, I just felt like waxing a bit philosophical. The more things change the more they stay the same, although I'm not trying to draw a direct comparison between military conquest and political rule bending.
> It's important to know who is crossing the border, in both directions.

Why?

And if there exists an important reason to know that someone is exiting the country does that same criterion not also apply to exiting a state or city or neighborhood?

I am not being sarcastic; I am genuinely unable to come up with a reason it's important to track who leaves almost any place, except in highly unusual cases (e.g. "OK guys, chatmasta has gone; let's get to work planning the surprise party for when he gets back")
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When it comes to outages, just recent Azure downtimes broke our SLA 5 times over for the whole year..

Tho for w/e reason i cannot convince higher ups, that the switch was a stupid idea. But hey! We got some credits to spend in Azure to compensate. (Too bad we had to pay our clients with real cash)
How do you feel about using voice commands?
Yes, same here
You are correct; sad that most people don't know this.
Maybe a more accurate title would be "... using MICROSOFT apps and tools"

Non-Microsoft Windows tools like notepad2 and notepad++ handle unix line-endings just fine.

Why do Microsoft's Windows apps refuse to handle them?
Before buying my car I test drove a Mercedes that had what I assumed was a touchscreen. Upon trying to tap it the person working at the dealership said none of their cars have touchscreens because they don't make sense to operate when driving, and instead had a easily reached dial in the center console that controlled everything on the screen. Seems to be the case with any other German car I've been in.

Takes some getting used to compared to just old fashioned knobs & buttons, but far and above better than all the cars we test drove with touchscreens.
You can prefer X over Y if you have (or reasonably think you have) good reason to think that X suits you better than Y would. That can happen without experiencing both X and Y. I'm pretty sure I'd prefer to have $1M more than I do, even though that's not a situation I've yet been in. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work as a hairdresser, even though I've never done that.

I could be wrong -- it might be that hairdressing would suit me much better than I think, or that having the extra money would lead me to make decisions (earlier retirement? moving to a larger house? a generally spendier lifestyle?) that would be bad for me. But I have, or think I have, a pretty decent idea of how my life would be different if I were a hairdresser or $1M richer, and I can compare that against how things are now and make a reasonable guess at whether the change would be an improvement.

It doesn't need to be a matter of X being objectively better than Y. Would I like to be obsessively interested in fashion, celebrity gossip, and sport? Nope, I'm happy being a geeky intellectual type. It's entirely possible that those other folks are happier than I am (for the avoidance of doubt, I genuinely mean that and can think of some fairly plausible mechanisms that might make it so); but I'm used to being the way I am and have no wish to change in that way, and it would be a big upheaval in my life if I did.

Would I prefer to be autistic? Nope, I think it would be a nuisance and in any case I've grown used to being how I am. But I can (or at least I think I can) imagine being autistic and feeling much the same way about becoming not-autistic as I now feel about becoming autistic.

Severe autism is a big disadvantage in life and I think it's defensible to say that even if some severely autistic people wouldn't want to change that's a mistake on their part. But there's a whole spectrum, and over at the not-so-severe end any shift has both advantages and disadvantages, and I think it's very reasonable for someone to say that they wouldn't want to give up the advantages to get rid of the disadvantages, and that in any case autism is part of who and what they are and taking it away would mean taking them away and replacing them with someone else.

Incidentally, I think it's also perfectly reasonable to say "I like the car I'm driving now; I've had it for years and grown accustomed to its foibles; it's nice of you to offer me that extremely different car with a bunch of features this one doesn't have, but they don't sound very useful to me. I'll stick with the one I know I like, thanks." Someone who says that might turn out to be "wrong" in the sense that if you gave them the new car they'd eventually be glad you did, but so what?
Needs a title change:

“AI tech generates [images of] entire bodies of people who don't exist”