skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's 15% and 7% of the CO2 emissions; where is the other 73%? This is pointing blame at the individuals, but individuals can't make a statistically significant impact on the numbers; that's down to governments and legislations. Corporations won't regulate themselves wrt emissions if there's no incentive or legislation for it, not unless they can actually earn money from it. And I know some just sell off their CO2 emissions rights.
Yeah ... I can run Discord, Zoom, Meet - anything really, and my system doesn't have any performance problems. I open up Teams and usage jumps to 100% (MBP 13" i7 2016)
But this has nested mutation, no?
No thanks, not for me
What does it have to do with Javascript?
This could work if there is a subset of SQL where duckDB and SQLite behave almost identically
I have been using Teams since 3 weeks and it is such a confusing mess of stuff and menus that I still don't know how non-techy people find their way around it. Their are submenus in chats, and chats in submenus. Emails of all participants are randomly shown in chat. Files are thrown around here and there.

Other than a using it for a single video calls, it sucks. What is the menu of the left for? Just show me my chats.

I actually ended up liking google meet. Short URLS instead of random long URLs like Teams. Just click and join the meeting. No messages to download stupid Microsoft Edge, download the app or other sign in with Microsoft crap. AHHHHHHHH!

I accidentally ended up allowing my organisation full control over my personal machine because it signed into Windows with the same email. Very, very sneaky. I usually dodge all these stupid tactics very well. Dunno how it got past me.

Whenever I open the app, I ask myself, now why have I done this. Now, I just open it in my browser and hide all other crap with uBlock Origin.
For that to fulfil the second purpose, fixing a comment would fix the code itself. This obviously doesn't work, so we are back at the beginning: The programming language also has to be somewhat human-readable to be productive.
Age and experience are strongly correlated. Sure you can have zero experience and be old, you can have tons of experience and be young. But normally: Age and experience are strongly correlated.
Sadly there aren't many better ways. For the moment the best course of action is to search on ElixirForum. Even if I love the language and still look for ways to work with it (in my new job where it isn't used) I recognize that the ecosystem is not that big.

For auth, the core Elixir team has made one prototype but I am not sure if they'll pursue it further. Outside of that, use Pow. For file attachments: Waffle. Authorization: CanCan, although the area has several very solid options, I heard.

Discoverability can indeed be a problem. Covid-19 hit everything pretty heavily and Elixir's community is no exception. Just a month ago people started finally hiring for it again (on the forum).
Sorry who actually believes someone was sodomised for the greater good?!!
So, finally we get more insight into the crisis that sparked the rise of the dinosaurs. We already knew about the Carnian Pluvial Episode's existence, now we know what might have caused it.
I can confirm I never had fish sticks in the US since moving here for college, but I've had lots of fish sticks during my childhood in Germany.
> This has nothing to do with age, and little with experience.

It has to do with experience because skills can only be honed through experience. It has to do with age because honing skills via experience requires time.
I must admit I am completely ignorant to how much of an issue this is in real life, but I'm also in the privileged position of having the backend code compiled and run on remote servers, rarely on my own machine. On the other hand, I'm a junior developer, so I might yet stumble on this problem's relevancy at some point.

To be fair, docker is already a pain on my machine (using Fedora 32). I gave up on using docker at some point.
Unrelated to the subject of the article, but this I find questionable:

> Once, if you had lots of data, you had to store it in fully normalised form, because storage was expensive.

First time I heard that NF's were considered to save space...
They definitely have some Skype underpinnings. If you link to a chat thread the link says something like @skype.thread.
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Believe it or not all human beings care about the environment they live in, and I imagine most west coast Silicon Valley billionaires wouldn’t actually like to move in the case of flooding or wild fires “just because they’re rich”.

Also - most humans once they reach a basic level of food, shelter, actually start caring a lot about their local environment. It’s mostly poverty that puts you in a desperate situation where you don’t care about what you destroy to get food or shelter.

But just look around, who generally around you are the most vocal environmentalist. For me it’s pretty wealthy people.
I would agree with your statement if the right was proposing anything of substance in that regard.
Usually when it comes to personal environmental reforms and sustainability preferences on HN (and the tech/research community I associate with), there is always a strong emphasis on air travel. Understandably one round trip across a major ocean is a huge amount of CO2 for one person to emit in a short period of time.

However there is an even larger source [1] of carbon emissions that everyone contributes to on a far more frequent basis and that is the fashion industry. If anyone wants to start reducing emissions now, then changing purchasing behaviors for clothing, footwear and accessories is a great place to start.

Of course not everyone is into fast fashion, but even those that only buy clothing infrequently can make a difference by a.) only buying clothing/footwear/accessories made from sustainable materials, b.) only buying clothing made locally, or that is already warehoused locally (as shipping emissions would be spread out), c.) extending the lifespan of their clothing buy repairing/altering.

In general natural materials do tend to last longer than polyester/viscose, and even organic cotton is more sturdy than non-organic cotton.

Finally this behaviour can be extended to other household goods, eg buying bamboo cooking utensils instead of plastic.

[1] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/09/23/costo-m...
Totally agree. For OP as a young investor I would suggest creating a learning account for experimenting with higher risk trading strategies. For investment purposes SPY and QQQ, just not before the election because too much volatility right now.
The article makes a lot of bold claims that assume the truth of various unproven allegations. Journalists - who are paid to come up with dramatic sounding stories - are the exact opposite of the arbiters of truth when it comes to crime. Examples:

"people and companies tied to the massive looting of public funds in Malaysia"

Tied to? Tied by whom?

"more than $2 million for a young energy mogul’s company that has been accused of cheating"

Accused of? Accused by whom?

"amid a swirl of money laundering and corruption allegations spawning from his work with a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine."

A swirl of allegations? Alleged by whom? Additionally the article is filled with deceptive writing.

"In some cases the banks kept moving illicit funds even after U.S. officials warned them they’d face criminal prosecutions if they didn’t stop doing business with mobsters, fraudsters or corrupt regimes."

This sounds like the warnings were about specific mobsters/etc but it's carefully phrased to avoid claiming that. Yes, the USG tells banks to fight crime, everyone who ever opened a bank account knows that, this is not news.

"Suspicious activity reports reflect the concerns of watchdogs within banks and are not necessarily evidence of criminal conduct or other wrongdoing. Though a vast amount, the $2 trillion in suspicious transactions identified within this set of documents is just a drop in a far larger flood of dirty money"

One sentence after admitting that SARS aren't actual findings of criminal activity, they literally say that all those transactions are a part of "a flood of dirty money". They know that's not true! It's kind of sad, really. Journalism has reached the point where my first reaction to investigative journalists writing about leaked files is, "how are these liars going to BS me today?". It's a long way from the heydey of the Snowden leaks.
> It has to do with experience because skills can only be honed through experience.

Yes, but it does not take a learner lots of experience to learn a skill (with some caveats, ofc). It takes the teacher experience to teach a skill, though.

> It has to do with age because honing skills via experience requires time.

I agree.

But it was not about honing skills or becoming perfect, it was about learning and "building a kitchen".
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Do you want to discuss pedagogy, and why some people only need one youtube video to do this task just fine, while you could show 100 to others and they would fail every time, regardless of experience?
He explicitly said that experience does matter. It's just that it was a well known argument so he wouldn't bother retreading it. So, I'm not sure what your point is.
That makes sense, I'm not surprised much, the audio quality and bugs are the same on Teams. Not sure why they've done that, Skype has tons of reliability issues, maybe they are not aware of how bad it really is.
It's mostly the "magical" parts like before/after hooks. When you are tracing a bug and are trying to do step-by-step debugging, it has been hell. Quickly jumping to definitions? Even RubyMine can't do it.

Furthermore, as the project grows, you need to introduce something more/bigger than MVC and people put these files everywhere. Sure it's a management problem but it doesn't help that people don't do the right thing by default.

In general, there's a breaking poing that you will very soon hit when you try to just pile things on top.
> Even if you go vegan, thrift all your clothes and minimize your consumption, you have such a tiny footprint compared to corporations that naturally value profit over the environment.

If more people thrifted, went vegan, and minimised their consumption, it would shrink the footprint of these corporations as well. These things don't all exist in a vacuum. Shipping/manufacturing companies pollute the earth shipping/manufacturing things for consumers.

Now, it's not to say that these businesses shouldn't be held accountable, but people need to take some personal responsibility too. Once regulatory action passes, and corporations are forced to abide by environmentally conscious laws, consumers will be forced to be less consumeristic just by force of economics. It'll come down to consumers in one way or another.
I think one of the main values of senior developers is they've seen a few cycles. If something has been tried four times before and failed there's a pretty good chance that it will fail the fifth time. But if the boss has only seen it fail once he's going to try again, then when it fails get mad at you. He will be mad because of your calling it out in advance he will feel you're undermining his authority whether or not that's your intention.

Had a friend tell me when he was a newly minted lieutenant. All the new guys were put in a competition with their platoon to build a temporary bridge across a river. While all the others called out orders he consulted the grizzled old Sarge and asked him what he recommended. He took his advice and said lets proceed. Instead of barking orders he spent time working alongside his men doing physical labor. His team not only won they set a record for that task. As a result his platoon would walk through a wall for him.

But what if there isn't an old experienced Sarge? The organization is the worse for it and I've seen it time and time again.
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tarsnap is dead simple to use if you have classic Unix sysadmin knowledge, it takes care of the encryption/deduplication work behind the scenes, I trust it to work properly and be secure because
the creator is someone who has integrity (you can email him any time and get no-nonsense and refreshingly honest replies) and the price only becomes an issue if you’re storing massive amounts of data, at which point you have probably outgrown it.
Modules contain an optimization (less include leaking) and a pessimization (more serialized build graph). Only the former applies to CPU time, so modules should lead to less cpu time, but it's unclear exactly how that translates to wall time.
> studying for a few weeks affects their outcome should raise eyebrows everywhere

Lol then what do you think about the hefty exams people have to go through in Spain to become a public employee? People spent several years just studying after finishing college just to get a job - for life, that is.
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I did not indicate otherwise.
This is practically a trope at this point. Sure, most of us who started off with Java 1.5-1.6 felt the same and Java was pretty much taken seriously only in the enterprise world, but in the last decade so much has happened in the JVM world.

In retrospect, as an early adopter of languages like Scala/Groovy, I really like how Java just waited and watched for a few years to see what was good in those languages and let them make mistakes on the way to building something stable and then adopted a lot of things that made those languages fun.

Java since 11.x onwards had been a great mix of developer productivity, stable core (other than people writing trivial projects, most people want something that lasts for years without random bugs), portability, and great tooling (specially from the IntelliJ side, as well as from the debugging side).

I'd much more openly recommend Java as a loved language now than back in 2010 (though Elixir is the new and shiny project I'm playing around with right now ;)).
That's not true.

"On a global scale, an individual must have upwards of $744,400 in combined income, investments, and personal assets to rank in the top 1% of the world’s wealthiest individuals."

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05061...
you can actually find Tyler's posts across several publications outside of his blog. Chances are most people have already seen his articles.
Congratulations!
Are there any plans for international customer bank accounts in the pipeline or is it US centric so far?
Search in Teams is beyond dreadful, trying to find items in old conversations is pointless. I end up scrolling back and back. Which is infuriating as nothing is cached so Teams is constantly downloading
> We need old people because they're in a position to speak truth to the world

This isn't really about age at all - its more about incremental change vs disruptive change and who has the power to make those kinds of changes.

The old are in positions of power/influence and are often aiming to move things forward incrementally. They are rarely willing to risk everything for the chance to make paradigm leaps. Outsiders, on the other hand, are more willing to take audacious risks and have nothing to lose.

The young are nearly always outsiders but not all outsiders are young. Interestingly, when an old person retires, they become outsiders too with less to lose than before and therefore more willing to speak truth to power. The dynamic here isn't really about age at all but about power.

We need to get better at recognizing when change requires a patch of our models and paradigms vs when it is actually more effective to perform a full rewrite and create new ones. If we were better at that, we'd perhaps be better at valuing the types of people required for those changes.
Thought control is fine, as long as I’m in control.
This. I recently had to buy a small 15€ USB sound card because, as it turns out, my new Dell laptop's built-in audio card doesn't work properly on Linux(×). Not only is the sound orders of magnitude better, it also comes with a handy volume knob! It's so much fun to use!

(×) I can't believe it's 2020 and I'm writing this. I haven't had any significant hardware issues on Linux in almost a decade. What's even worse is that Dell specifically claims that the laptop is fully compatible with Ubuntu.
> 99.9% the reason any organization is using Teams is because they got it for free with their Office 365.

In the specific case of my team, we use Teams because we were told (warned? threatened?) that Skype for Business would be discontinued[1]. Otherwise, we would have completely ignored it.

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...
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Actually that's not true. Experience does matter. In one particular class I took we implemented a simple marching cubes implementation, or rather I did because the rest of the class could not complete it. I had about 8 years of experience in graphics type programming at that point.

People stupidly think programming is applying the most common patterns to the most popular frameworks. That is one type of programming inexperienced young people do. More typically it requires some strong domain knowledge. For instance one particular system I worked on was mostly written by one person who obviously had a lot of experience in the field. I think the younger programmers complained for many many years about the implementation, but none of them could have written it. This person had to ignore everyone else, who he knew were complaining without any experience to back it up, to get it done.
I believe cocaine is more addictive than sugar. Cardiac arrest is another issue.
Not much is known about long term health effects of cocaine because we don't have a majority of population snorting cocaine and eating and drinking it every single day.
What exactly is a corporation in your opinion? Something that’s completely independent of “people”?

Corporations are people and they produce things that people want and use. If suddenly we had 0 corporations according to your theory, what would the world look like? You’d have nothing.
Couldn't an open flame in the warehouse be enough to burn the ethanol evaporating and handle the problem ?
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If you only store a customer's address once, rather than having a separate copy everywhere you store the customer, then that saves a lot of space (as well as ensuring that different instances don't contradict each other).
[Edit] If you're right with the 73% ...

The middle 73% is with the middle, aka target of the article - don't anger the people who pay your bills.
I could possibly see the upcoming US Election causing a bit of an exodus from Social Media platforms as more people become drained by the fatiguing constant flow of extreme views from both sides (mind, I thought that last time).

I will say the big thing for me that made me put my mobile device down (of which I now barely use) was the sheer quantity of hours a day I was wasting away looking at it - this was being amplified by Covid. My thing was getting worked up by stupidity or hateful opinions on Twitter or Reddit (obviously the platforms helped out). The more I looked the more I got annoyed, seeking out arguments if you will. It wasn't until I just stepped back and realised that I'm seeking the opinions of a tiny tiny fraction of a global population that I realised how stupid it was. There are 7 billion people in the world, you can find any opinion you want - it's foolish to spend your day hunting these down and what's worse is that it starts to warp your own personal view away from who you really are. I think the catalyst was Covid for making me realise this, I think more people will start waking up to the same reality.
> it was not about honing skills or becoming perfect, it was about learning and "building a kitchen"

We must have different priors regarding OP's specific example. I think that "building a kitchen" would require a hell of a lot of skill, all of which needs to be honed over a decent period of time. I'm 100% confident that given an empty room, building materials, tools, and some appliances, I would do more harm than good.
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With Lync being soon gone recently started to switch to Teams and as a heavy user of Discord (note: If anyone working for them see this, make them a release a business version please, they would sink everyone) I have been extremely disappointed by this product.

The setup approach is semi-bad:

- On PC it doesn't need admin rights for install but then still need some P2P firewall rules for proper conferencing

- On Citrix/RDS it's a pain to maintain up to date

Then we got performance issues:

- High resources usage, this thing eat RAM like chrome
- CPU jump a lot once you start a meeting

- Probably because of those two points, we got negative
feedback about screen share not working at all for Citrix users

To add to this, we also noted a potential GDPR/privacy issue:

- You can only hide a chat message but can't delete it
TikTok and WeChat both managed to avoid their Sunday bans
> you have such a tiny footprint compared to corporations that naturally value profit over the environment.

They can only get those profits because they supply a demand in an economy of scale. Any law against a corporation will only reflect down on the consumers as prices go up or supply reduces. This is what it means to take responsibility together. If the majority of people can't live without their curent living standard and constant consumerism no law can be put into place to change a thing.
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I think you're ignoring that people don't want to "tune" their GC. They just want it to work. So instead, they are going with the obvious route of just buying more RAM. This is perfectly fine on servers, which is where Java shines. As soon as Java has to be used for e.g. CLI scripts, daemons, or situations in which multiple process instances have to run at the same time, then Java is an incredibly poor choice and there is nothing you can do about that. If you are a genius at memory optimization in Java then you'll see even bigger gains in C++ or Go or Lua or Javascript or Python. Some of these options may not be as fast as the JVM but this discussion is purely about memory usage.