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> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for.

Unless Apple products are being made in the concentration camps, it's not even close to tangential to the topic of environmental sustainability of Apple's supply chain. It's just trying to derail the discussion by bringing up political issues.
More women are top VC decision-makers, but parity is a long way off
Soon machines will steal all the copy-pasting from Stackoverflow jobs.

But really, this is super impressive for ML. It's not software development, though. It's analyzing a corpus and performing a search.

The nasty bit is that if that is all it takes to do most software dev jobs, and hey, we might find that most software dev really is just pattern matching and regurgitating those patterns—as the project gets more complex, the specifications will have to be more complex and we'll end up mostly back where we started.
Same damage done on the upper layer to the cutting device. Just takes much longer to wear down - the only way you make any slight cut into it is with high speeds
Nothing, really. Except that it would be a taxation nightmare, since every time you spend some you need to report the difference in price between when you acquired it and when you spent it, and pay tax on the gain/loss. It would also be a lot of effort to find people willing to accept bitcoin for things like groceries.
Are you using the 2020 SE or the older one?
I echo this statement. I use Django a lot for my backends and I was very, very against moving to class-based views. I'm not sure why, I love OOP, but I was so used to function-based views. I finally made the switch (well, I use both when appropriate) and I love them.

During this time, I started playing around with React and I thought, I learned my lesson, it's class-based components all the way. Yet again, the community started going to "other" way with function-based components and I was steadfast in my attachment to classes - refusing to budge.

Of course, I eventually made the switch and wish I had done so sooner. Once you get the hang of hooks, they're so much easier to reason about and, as you said, make me much more productive.
They were only able to do it because Saudi Arriba was willing to take almost all of the cuts required. In the 1970s opec vot better compliance, but cartels tend to fail because it is the benifit of the individual to defect while everyone else makes cuts. Saudi Arriba is not able to make deep enough cuts alone though, and it is hard to see anyone else making them.
It's 1.Reduce 2.Reuse 3.Recycle
Would you please elaborate on your last point?
Yeah, God forbid consumers will be protected.

For years people's data was used as currency without their knowledge. How is that capitalism? Markets without transparency are not free. Europe is trying to maintain a fair market. While big tech (well, big everything) is trying constantly to subvert the market while pretending to make the world a better place.
Dual gas tanks FTW.
I am not sure what "elementary school" is but in the context of atoms I guess this is more or less 10-12 years old.

I was 10 in 1980 and as far as I can remember we were always taught about atoms as normal things, with electrons etc. No controversy (that was in France). I think nobody told us about the capacity to see them or not though.
Besides the usual, LinkedIn is running an e-learning operation for business these days (LinkedIn Learning), and generally trying to be another vehicle through which Microsoft expands its offerings — moving away from simply being the "recruiting" social network and instead moving to be the social network for every phase of your life as an employee.
While this is definitely a noble goal, I wonder what it would take for Apple to become carbon negative and what the timeframe for that would be?
>If oil price were regulated as a honest market, it would cost much lower.

No, if oil was regulated as an honest market, it'd have the CO2 externality priced in to make it carbon neutral. That'd make the price significantly higher.
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That's not really true, Norway was one of the richest countries in the world long before the oil boom. In Europe it was only behind Luxembourg, Switzerland and Sweden by GDP per capita in 1960.
All these super high powered electric cars are neat but I think this is going totally the wrong directions. This could be used as an opportunity to rethink cars in general and hopefully switching to smaller and more efficient cars. Instead cars are becoming even bigger and heavier. In terms of environment this is also a bad trend. EVs don’t pollute while driving but the energy still has to come from somewhere.
This is such negative comment. I don't understand why this gets traction.

I'm sure pretty smart people spent a lot of time in coming up with this goal that is ambitious and pretty noble may a I say. Probably going through months of goal planning a long vision setups.

And with low effort comment you can say, meh, I think I know better without almost any contextual information about any of this.

I don't mean to be insulting, just that I think it's a little disrespectful to peoples effort. And only negative.

Maybe you can present us a semi detailed plan of how Apple can better set their carbon emission program.
How do I finish drawing an obstacle?
It definitely was my #1 reason and I'm happy to see this announcement. I'll check Svelte out soon as it already looked quite promising to me.
Why? If you use Gladys locally (on your local network), or has the knowledge to self host everything, then it’s 100% free (because it’s open-source), and your privacy is respected

You pay for things which cost me money !
You’re obviously not paying attention or being intentionally dishonest.

https://komonews.com/news/local/demonstrators-gather-in-down...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat:

“EncroChat was a Europe-based communications network and service provider allegedly used by organized crime members to plan criminal activities. Police infiltrated the network between at least March and June 2020 during a Europe-wide investigation. An unidentified source associated with EncroChat announced on the night of 12–13 June 2020 that the company would cease operations because of the police operation.

The service had around 60,000 subscribers at the time of its closure. At least 800 arrests have been made across Europe as of 7 July 2020”
Speaking as a child subjected to routine 2 hour road trips each way (often coming back the next day, once in a while the same day) and occasionally much longer road trips:

Stop the damned car and let your family out for fuck's sake.

Just because you can drive >4 hours nonstop doesn't mean you should drive 4 hours nonstop (I did on a solo road trip earlier this year. I forgot a piece of equipment and didn't realize until I was 5 miles out of town, so I had to 'make up time'. It was still a mistake.) Complaining that you can't drive 6 hours nonstop is some form of insanity that I am not qualified to diagnose.
I'm arrogant because I know way more about this than you probably ever will. My brother is a psychiatrist and has published papers on systematic issues with psychiatric drug trials. You are another internet commentator that thinks they have grasped the current zeitgeist, when actually you don't understand that what you call "society" is just manufactured B.S. shoved down our throats to make billions and billions of dollars for Big Pharma and their cronies. Do you even know who Peter Gotzsche, Robert Whitaker, or David Healy are? Do you actually follow this stuff?

And I'm really glad that you are such an expert on Big Pharma corruption /s. I'm sure next you will lecture me on how the opiod scandal is about our society and not about the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma.
What I'm wondering is how it matched up the natural english description with the repository content though.
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Maybe they'll also consider not using planned obsolescence and stop sourcing "blood gold"? There was a whole documentary on the latter but the former is the real big offender.
ADHDer here. Please steal some of the motivation-techniques I've learnt over the years:

1. Find a friend who is a software engineer or data analyst and cares about you as a person. Talk about this with them. Humans evolved being able to talk things over with their aunt or best friend. When you are perplexed by something, a rubber duck probably won't cut it -- you should talk with a human.

2. Make sure you're taking care of your body and brain: exercise, good food, good sleep (this is easier if you're getting exercise), meditation, etc.

3. Understand what your "reward model" is. Under what conditions do you recognize "Aha! I've made progress!"? To really understand what I'm getting at here, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYylPRX6z4Q

4. Find internal things to strengthen your reward model's signals. Go back to when you originally started learning ML and Re-connect to your "Why". Do you still find those reasons compelling? If so, take some time to bring some vividness to your picture. -- Start With Why.

5. Find external punishments to remove. Now that you've spent 8 months working on it, you've noticed the things which are annoying you about your workflow.

- After 8 months, it is totally healthy to take a week or two and improve your development environment to sand the edges off of things that give you friction. For a stranger's recommendation: https://fishshell.com/ has made it dramatically easier for me to write little scripts that take away annoying tasks.

- Maybe you feel like you've been "in the weeds" for two long and your mental model is a bit scattered. Maybe just take some time and explain what you have learned in order to make it fit together in your head better. I find it helpful to pretend I'm back in university and fill an A4 sheet to prepare for a test.

6. Find external things to re-enforce your "reward model". In normal programming, this is what Test-Driven-Development does. In thinking through a hard problem, the anticipated social rewards from a person who is curiously listening to your thoughts serve the same purpose.
> On the other hand, if the device has no footprint then it doesn’t matter as much.

Agreed. The problem is, I'm sure "carbon neutral" means they're using carbon offsets to a significant degree. Offsets are good, and I certainly wouldn't want to discourage any company from using them. But, they're also not a panacea—certainly not to the point where there's zero harm in buying a new phone versus fixing an existing one.
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> You can't go back to your job.

Why not?
I guess you can make a case for the neo-luddites
Wouldn't be awesome if large corporations competed to reach the carbon neutral mark with the same enthusiasm they had for the trillion dollar mark? :)

Every company should add a page with a live chart showing how well they are doing right now and how far away they are to be carbon neutral.
What about Guido's

>PS. I like you a lot but there's no way I'm going to "bare" with you. :-)
On a sellers market for sure. And who wants to perform top throughout their whole career? Really doesn't sound that interesting to be honest.
Specifically, "reserve demand." People and institutions demand to hold a positive balance of the monetary good, and the aggregate sum of these reserve demands set the purchasing power.

The notion that fiat money has value because governments demand it in taxes, might set a non-zero value for the money, but it does not set a specific price level.

For instance, I could make a trade for dollars at the exact moment that I pay taxes, and it wouldn't matter what the actual value of the dollars is at that point. I would hold the dollars long enough to pay the taxes but no longer, so my reserve demand for the dollars is minimal. The effect on my finances is exactly the same if one dollar buys a pair of leather boots or a single shoelace.

So: positive value, but no specific purchasing power.
Even with a human involved, the process can be subverted by the human basically approving all requests.
It is a complex structure under the hood. There is a master LLC, holding c corp and an investment advisor.

Tax implications for the founders are similar to their founder stock obligations, when liquidation happens
Great idea - we did this by hand with a normal DAF - but a lot of work.

Quick question - can you accept check donations (ie, for amounts > $10K or so?). For larger DAF balances folks want to move / family offices / etc having the ability to handle a check would be nice.
Mobile app idea #76: Player Performance Predictor
Neat; but how does one try it out?
On the contrary - they pay a premium for tech talent
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There's a great YouTube video, probably from defcon, where someone talks all about safes and the many decades of materials science that have gone into them. When hard-to-cut materials were tried, thieves ended up crushing safes or trying to shear them in half.
Are there consumer tech product companies that have longer support cycles?

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Classic tale :)
Hopefully we will get to a point where we have an LSx of electrical drivetrain. Something that is cheap, powerful, ubiquitous, and easy to install.

Right now though we have some disappointing (from a power perspective) electric drivetrains from Prius' that can be swapped or a powerful but DRM'd Tesla drivetrain that is more work than it's worth.
> It used to be in the GE mode of cutting the bottom 5-10% each year.

Hasn't it been demonstrated that GE under Jack Welch was basically a massive fraud?
This article seems to approach at a pretty low level. For another take, I recently worked on a hobby project that built a multi-label deep learning classifier using CNNs and got about 95% accuracy for the validation set. I am somewhat familiar with signal processing with my background, but really wanted to just scratch the surface with deep learning. But to be clear, it was just a fun project for me and I don't pretend to understand everything I did.

My goal was to detect instruments in complex, full-length music, as opposed to single sources with no background noise. My approach was to generate Mel spectrograms for small sections of songs and then run the deep learning classifier on these images to build a list of labels for later use, e.g. generating playlists. I more than doubled the accuracy by adding to and curating my own dataset. I used Resnet50 as the base model and found decent results even when applied to spectrograms!

I still want to do more analysis to figure out what kind of small features the model was actually picking up on. I also want to try experiments like scrambling the spectrogram time-wise and seeing if the results are still as accurate.
I think the guns of bitcoin are it's decentralized design backed by the lobbying of domestic forces (The EFF, ACLU, exchanges, etc)
But where are the examples of the valued products in large use? Let's see.. Spotify ok, Mojang hmmmhmmm.... Rovio? Outside of Spotify, what do I use on a daily basis as an American that's a valued EU-based company?
Last year LinkedIn made $6.8B in revenue. If they hire someone who can make a process .01% more efficient, they would save $680,000. If they pay that person even $400,000/yr plus benefits, they are coming out ahead.

If you find someone who can make things .002% more efficient and pay them $100,000 a year, you've still come out ahead.

At that revenue, it doesn't take much to get an ROI on a new employee.
What about adding "??" after such "show me how I'm wrong" statements? Ppl would still reply I think, but fewer/no one would be fooled?
Most freight is carried by diesel trains. While it is possible to use electric engines, the ecconmics don't work out and so only a minority of freight is on electric trains.
I will never invest in a startup where the founder(s) don't believe in their companies. Moving forward all terms I negotiate will explicitly state that this (e.g. things like FounderPool) will not be a possible scenario.
I don't see how a company can simultaneously virtue signal about social justice and the environment, and manufacture hundreds of millions of units of its product in a country which emits twice as much per dollar of GDP as the US and uses "forced labor". All while charging eye-watering amounts for its stuff. But maybe it's just me. Explain how this is not a staggering level of hypocrisy, please.
Bit snarky, but all I got from this post is "because it doesn't." Many languages don't require a main function. In fact, the earliest languages like LISP (and even punchcards!) don't require it, let alone many other languages like BASIC, awk, etc. The presence of a main function in later languages is, in a way, the outlier.
>There is a reason the 80s-90s model years are starting to go up in value. Car enthusiasts want that sweet spot of purely analog controls, but also with working factory A/C.

People have said this exact thing for decades. It's because people old enough to remember being carted around in those cars as kids are finally getting old enough to be settled down and wealthy enough to have project cars. It has nothing to do with the vehicles themselves.

Within any given decade the things the rich kids got carted around in (or their dad commuted in) always command a premium.
It depends. If you're looking at an old school ICE with limited or no computer then they are super simple to understand and work on. Having tools, lifts, etc are generally the thing outside of reach.

I think one of the reasons older Jeeps (with manual transmissions) are still really popular for off roading is that they are super mechanical and very easy to work on in the field. You can carry with you parts that are likely to break based on what you're doing and fix them yourself with a bit of know-how.

You can also tune them however you like as changing suspensions, axels, carbs, differentials, or even clutches is pretty straight forward if you have the tools. Hell, you don't even need to rely on the battery to start it as you can just push it to get it going. Super reliable in a sort of way if you're in the field and need to self repair.
This article on their custom search engine was popular on HN a while back https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-06/building-a-search-engine-fr...
Not allowing people to subscribe to facts can also get people killed. How many had to die pointlessly before the Germ theory?
Did you try this in real life?
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The passenger transport market drives the others. Engine development is not easy when you need to meet modern emissions. Switch passenger cars to electric and the others won't have enough money to do the basic research needed for the next engine.
But it funded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Silver lining.
January 2, 2030. They just need to become neutral and plant an extra tree :)
>The problem is, I'm sure "carbon neutral" means they're using carbon offsets to a significant degree.

They aren't. See page 18.

https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Pr...
That is orthogonal to the point of the article.

The state can demand, using their guns, that you pay them in the coin of their realm.

At that point, you need to come up with those coins, or face their guns.

You can have your BTC be decentralized and seizure-resistant at that point, but that will not stop the Leviathan from jailing or killing you. The "guns" of the article are the actual guns of the IRS.
Using the opinions of friends and coworkers to judge potential hires
> I'm not bashing the lecture style, but if I were a student, I'd prefer a good textbook to those lectures.

There are supplemental textbooks listed for the course:

https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2020/spring/syllabus/#books

Also, confused why you expect depth from something with "intro" in its title.
I hope they focus on the human well-being aspect as well in their production and supply chain. There is no reason a Chinese worker should experience worse working-conditions than a US worker
This seems like a needlessly hard-line stance to me. It's not reasonable to think that "belief in one's company" is the only thing that will decide the success or failure of a startup, and wanting to hedge against the scenario where you pour your heart and soul into something for years, only to see it not pay off in the end, is very understandable.
Somewhat related:

Platforms need better ways to filter out "unwanted" voices. The amount of Hindi videos on youtube with English titles is pretty infuriating. As well as increasing Indian/China/Pakistan drama on relevant topics. "Unwanted" not specific to these groups, just general need for personalized content control as the internet is only getting more and more dramatic with new geopolitical tensions.

For reddit, I recommend "Reddit Pro Tools", it's a customization mass tagger. Setup a few filters for new accounts, users who posts in kid subreddits (likely kids), politics, and you have a good sense of who you're dealing with at any time. Internet needs more first impressions. I'm not interested in the opinion of a user who posts in r/teenager or r/XYZnationalistsubreddit etc.
I think it's also that the economics are just different. If you're evaluating a CICD tool at a small company, you're going to find something affordable and bend your process to how it works. A mid-size company might invest a bit into customizing Jenkins hoping that it will pay off in the long run. A giant company might spend millions building a fully custom system from the ground up because gaining 1% more efficiency in developer effort or even build times makes it worth it. And more than that, they may be willing to invest in experiments knowing that some will fail because the chance of success is still worth it.
Gold is a very good comparison (especially since it is inherently pretty worthless much like bitcoins) but I think the core currency quality it has is the limit of supply. One of the more amusing qualities of the fallout world to me was always the usage of bottle caps as a currency. Oh sure we have a pretty much infinite supply now but in a post-war setting it's a relatively common material (we don't use rhodium for currency because it's rare in absolute terms and also very hard to come by) that isn't going to increase in volume - that said more recent games have under cut that with the sheer commonality of nuka cola, and it also seems like a rather easy currency to forge per the volume it takes to transact an exchange.

The other points you mentioned are what's really interesting to me, the verifiable property is one that physical currency has struggled with for a long term and the ledger aspect has no equivalence in physical currency exchange[1] - it's really neat!

1. Except, of course, for my most favorite currency ever the Rai stones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones which are essentially a built-in fiat currency that no one ever actually counts or carries but instead the ownership was/is tracked entirely by oral history which is amazing.
Does it really matter how it’s solved the first time?

The second version can require three orders of magnitude less hardware. Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Well until someone builds millions of pickups and vans with the same EV drivetrain we're not gonna have an LS of EVs. The reason people like the LS is because it's everywhere and cheap. Everything else follows that.
Are you also against founders who diversify financial risk through angel investing?
Yes. For one, you don't take into account outright lying about results (which is shockingly common) - also by your definition we can never really agree on anything.