skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that vegans are wealthy and white is simply false. Around the world it tends to be the poorest people who do not eat meat, and in the US most vegans are low income and more likely to be racialized peoples.

https://www.statista.com/chart/14989/who-are-americas-vegans...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53787329
Some of these bans only affect state agencies, the city, or special cases.
This is known as active and passive safety in car engineering.

Active safety talks about how (un)likely the car is to get into a crash. Visibility, brakes, grip, driver assists play a major role.

Passive safety talks about thr survivability of a crash once it happens. Passenger cell, crumple zones, seat belts, airbags, etc.

Most crashes (iirc) are single-vehicle incidents. Amount of energy involved is the biggest factor here.

You’re more likely to survive crashing a small car into a tree than a big car … with some fudginess around a bigger car having more ability to absorb the energy. I think it usually about cancels out.

Most deadly crashes between cars are t-bones in an intersection because of people chasing yellow lights. You are more likely to die in a big car because of rollovers.

Sideways crumple zones are very small in all car sizes.

I haven’t kept up with the science the past 10 to 15 years but this stuff was a big interest of mine for about a decade. Can nerd out for days :)

tldr: please don’t chase yellow lights. It’s among the deadliest common behaviors.

Bonus funfact: Large vehicles are safer for pedestrians because they spread the load across more of the human body when you hit them. That’s why all modern cars have tall flat noses.
Does this account for the fact that reusable bags are larger capacity and stronger than single use bags (don't need doubling).

Also, single use bags , as the name suggests, are used in far far higher quantities than trash bags. A week means 1 trash bag but a dozen grocery bags.

Anyway, regardless of that your shopping bag is, most of the plastit is inside it, wrapping your individual items...
Pantone was the reference intended by my parenthetical.

There are some downstream effects, but they are overwhelmingly not relevant to fashion design, no matter what their marketing material claims.
Flock Freight. What a joke
You file a complaint with the DOJ. The DOJ is part of the Executive Branch. It is not part of the Federal Courts.
Well that blows my mind, I never realized pedantic ignores the language setting. Is this the only case where it does that?
This sucks. I’m finally at a company that I like with a team that I like but I KNOW I am underpaid compared to what the market is paying. And yet I know I should be looking elsewhere.
No one cares about cover letters, but you do have to put in some effort towards marketing yourself. Have an up to date LinkedIn profile. Reach out to the company's recruiters and ask to schedule a call (instead of just applying online). Try and get an internal referral through friends (or friends of friends, friends of friends of friends).
I've learned a lot about myself, programming and life from HN. I rarely see the petty slap fights you're talking about.

Edit: I see that the submission is flagged + dead. It seems relevant to HN though.
In some cases, yes. Ecosystems are resilient to moderate damage but almost impossible to fix after severe damage.

Normally you will not have a winning combination of very fertile soil, water, forest near to provide recruitment of plants and animals and private land with strictly not allowed arsonists of any kind.
The problem with 2nd hand is convenience. Maybe I can save a few bucks browsing eBay etc. but it’s not worth the time spent compared to ordering new. I hate doing it though.
Israeli cyberarms firms scramble after NSO scandal
It's just another way of saying: it has it's niche and that we should recognize it for what it is, instead of trying to make it the globally recognized OS of the Year for desktop PCs, I guess.
I would support a progressive tax on single use items that are not biodegradable that simply becomes unaffordable to plastic within a few years.
Most companies' hiring processes don't vary on per-candidate basis though.
How Americans Respond to Unexpected Changes in Wealth and Unearned Income [pdf]
I imagine this has gotten worse with covid, people ordering food for take-away or shopping online. For what it's worth, I tried the idea of ordering from the restaurant online but then bringing my own (re-usable, washable) tupperware to pick up the food, and it certainly worked out. If you ask, you often get what you want. If the place is not willing to help you reduce your plastic footprint, then maybe it's one place to skip.
Though this last quarter only a loss of just shy of 600M
It’s a natural consequence of a culture that praises competition. “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying” is the motto of those who only have a tenuous chance at success. No point accepting your “just” lot in life: may as well cheat if the consequences from cheating aren’t that much worse than the expected quality of a life lived legitimately.
> /me reviews history of Fauci speaking…

> Also stop telling people they need an expert to explain it to them.

I said to read it yourself or get an expert, the latter meaning one you choose.

I didn't say anything about Fauci, and I didn't say you need an expert.

> how do I know the paper you posted isn't gov propaganda?

If that's the worry why does FDA approval matter?? this doesn't make any sense.

> Further what you’re implying with these types of statements is that science never makes a mistake.

No I'm not. I'm just saying that the vaccine is quite tested at this point, comparable to other vaccines.

And the rest of what you said about trying to convince people isn't related to what I said.
If they don't already have competitors, they will soon enough, and a11y is a moat to have.
They don't. That is what the article is about.
It's pretty common for vegans to suffer hair loss and develop dark circles under their eyes (anemia iirc)

Pass
There's no ethical consumption under capitalism, which is why I'm going to keep my slaves but vote really hard against slavery.
Any tips on getting a remote FAANG SWE job? Is it really all LinkedIn profile + attracting a recruiter?
With recent limits on H1B, those companies aren’t wrong to say that the supply has dried up. That said, it means we have more leverage when it comes to remote work. If it means changing companies, so be it.
My team is distributed around the US. A number of people joined after the pandemic started, which forced the firm to go from fully in-house to fully-remote overnight.

Our experience is that a team that works together to solve problems builds camaraderie. The tools and tech are all there and very easy and affordable.

A few weeks ago we met up for lunch after being away from each other for over a year. Nothing about our meeting gave us the impression that we'd grown apart from working remotely.

Of course, the size of your investment and your returns may vary.
Bit-squatting – DNS hijacking without exploitation (2011)
>Fashion is basically part of a real world interface for the social groups you interact with, a way to tweak the first impression.

Yes. But it's a shallow real world interface, for shallow groups and facile identities, mostly used to associate with teenagers and juvenile group forming.

I dont say it's not a thing, or don't have a use. I say the use is bad.
Yangtze plastic waste includes imported plastic from North America's fake-recycling, doesn't it?
While it's more excessive in the US, or at least Trader Joe's in my experience, various fruits and vegetables are regularly found in plastic in the European country I live in and others I've visited. Grapes, packs of apples or peaches, various peppers, etc. I find it unnecessary in some of these cases as well, unfortunately. It seemed better in local stalls that are especially plentiful in certain larger cities.
I've been on HN for a few years and have no idea what you're referring to, unless you are talking about things marked as [flagged], [dead], or downvoted to oblivion. Those I just ignore.

Are there any specific examples?
Couldn’t you chop it up and put in recycling bin?
Then what's with all the "social media causing depression" we hear all the time, and there also being studies highlighting that, not to mention countless anecdotal stories.

E.g this study:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/216770261772337...

Suicide rates increasing because of too much bliss?
> The CCP is obsessed with data – so much so that it was recently dubbed a “factor of production” alongside land, labor, capital, and technology

I've never thought of data in these terms. Makes a lot of sense for the 21st century.
Honest question as I'm not sure if it's just my own bubble - when was the last time you ever heard someone say "the Linux desktop will take off this year" or something similar? Not "I'm going to switch to Linux" or anything individual statement but something to the effect all of the "Year of the Linux Desktop" articles talk to. I.e. is there really this consistently significant portion of people that think Linux is going to take off in popularity in <current year> or is it just a bunch of people that like Linux try to get more people to try it out during these kinds of release cycle changes.
Many people would never have exposure to trading in the markets if it weren’t for these apps. It’s a double-edged sword but it’s a net positive to society IMO.
I’ve literally never had to write a cover letter in my 6+ year career in tech outside of FAANGM. Complete waste of time imho.
I should probably read the whole paper if I get the time… having been BURNED on hiring an “agile” development company recently.

> increasing degrees of agility

This I can certainly agree with.

But from my experience “agile” is code for ”we aren’t going to consider the future AT ALL, we’ll be paid to redo all this work”.

I’m sure my experience is an outlier but I was managing an outside company to work on an App for us, not being in our wheelhouse at all. What we paid for what we received haunts me.

I have never seen such poorly thought out, poorly documented, and just barely working code turned in as from this group that was touted for their excellence and speed. It was all disposable code. Nothing mattered because it was all supposed to be rewritten, at ridiculous hourly costs.

Speed sure. But you know what, it’s like anything else and good in moderation.

The abstract mentions only 15% of their data points were “true” agile and I get think I get why.

Sometimes you need to think ahead and from what I’ve seen agile is bad at that. You’re just supposed to pay for duplication of work, when the forethought might have been the better asset allocation.
100%. Good grades don't convey real deep thinking and understanding about a subject/skill. IMO.
Identifying a phenomenon and its causes doesn't necessarily mean that you know how to address it. It's a common fallacy. Questioning prognostical conclusions and recommendations made based on not a single data point (we don't know of another planet that went through something similar) is a valid stance. Scientists have been wrong before. I remember Allan Savory confessing his regrets to the killings of thousands of elephants in an effort to prevent desertification, only for things to get worse. Later they realized that the ancillary effects of their grazing activities were actually contributing to slowing down and even reversing desertification.
How about re-framing the problem?

Considering:

Reclamation and recycling technology will improve over time. Similarly the economics of processing recycled material are likely to make it more valuable.

and:

Supposing we can protect the surroundings, water table etc.

further:

Supposing, as other comments have pointed out, the availability of land is not really an issue.

Then:

Is it crazy to think that there is value to be found in safely storing this material until it is more feasible / valuable to process?

At least it seems like a better plan than incinerating it.
>Perhaps you only read the title?

Besides the clothelines, I mention two other things that are in the article only.

Perhaps you've only skimmed my comment? :-)
Even if the battery has 100% efficiency, the amount of electric energy one would need to store for a single day, on top of the normal power consumption, is just way too much.

Nuclear reactions have the highest energy density of any of the technology available to mankind.

Thus, with evergrowing energy needs, nuclear power will always remain the only scalable, carbon-free technology.
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2021/01/apple-scraps-end-to-end-e...

Interestingly apple was planning end to end encryption of backups but changed their minds on the matter.
You can learn something from every country. You don’t have to adopt a caste system with vegetarianism.
> we don't legally require every that everyone who posts an image on social media include a written description

Not that it takes too much away from your point, but I've experienced an interesting gap in this example. While not legally required, big chunks of the short-form-text fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/…) have had circulating posts recommending descriptive text for image posts, and I'm actually surprised by how many people get into the habit of complying naturally—perhaps because there's also an easily-noticeable slot in the UI for it? Ten or so years ago I remember it being like pulling teeth to explain to some people doing media projects on the Web that this kind of accessibility was important, and now with what seems to be culturally a similar crowd… huh, y'know?
> For what it's worth, I've known Matthew for many years.

And for what it's worth, I don't know him at all, and wouldn't dare to assume anything about his character. I appreciate that he responded at all to my cold email 18 months ago. I just wish the company would follow through.

I don't know you either, but if there's anything you can do to help my message get through, that would be greatly appreciated.
I almost fell off my chair when I talked to a friend of mine (whose completely no tech ) and she told me she's using Ubuntu desktop. A friend of hers installed it and it ran completely fine.

I think it's because most everything we do now is web based. Also I think people tend to forget how big a deal google docs actually is.
We bought ours second hand at a consignment sale.
Aren't Cloudflare the guys that're the only thing keeping Kiwifarms up and running? Fuck those guys.
New Freelance Web Design Company Directory – August 2021
yeah the cookie-cutter cover letters are useless, but i've hired people who write: "i love you are working in machine vision, i've worked with x,y and z tech to build _. I could augment your efforts in these fields...".

Call it what you will a cover message or note perhaps.
This is not happening for me, but then again I am doing zero to market myself, so that' not a complaint. I would have thought I would have a few headhunters after me , oh well :(
Once you’re coasting in the 400-500k FAANG range, what’s the optimal move to get 700-800k+? Seems there are too many graybeards to get a Principal title. Better to switch to manager role? Or VP eng type at some startup and hope your stock hits? Or maybe VP at some non tech company?
Get a referral from someone who works at the companies.
From a consumer's point of view, what choice do we have? All it takes is a trip to Costco. Everything is wrapped in plastic. Yet, they have the cheapest prices.
I'm surprised every time I hear the concept of "land fill" in conjunction with trash. As if the natural thing to do with waste is... put it in a hole in the ground? It feels like some 50's conception of environment policy to me. Shouldn't things be either recycled as much as possible, and the rest incinerated for energy?
Former Sunglass Hut employee. Maui Jims and Oakleys were, at the time, non-Luxottica brands. I told customers that Maui Jims were very high quality but I have no clue if this is true. They were exempt from my 50% employee discount though.
Islamic Art and Geometric Design Leaning Activities [pdf]
I've been going back to the office 3 days a week and am loving it. I find it much easier to get into deep work, put in longer days, and maximizing my productivity.

The two wfh days become almost half days due to banked up hours while in the office.
AFAICT, the perception of Unlicense is becoming better. It was receiving weird looks some years ago, mostly because of its name ("Unlicense? You can't un-license something") but once past that, the contents are satisfying enough and it's been better accepted.

Remind that it's just a data point though. #notALawyer
Okay, so maybe I'm an old man, but I have a hard time looking at all these newfangled project management strategies (agile, scrum, waterfall, whatever) and it just seems like literally all of them are patchwork responses to the organization fundamentally being in limbo as to whether they are creating a product, working on a project (meaning, a thing that has a start and an end) or providing a service, which by definition doesn't fit well with "project management."
It was a signed request by a prosecutor after having been quizzed about what data they could get. I would never freely hand over such data.
> one of those dietary fat != blood/bodily fat type things.

What is meant by that though? Radio-labelling experiments do show that some dietary fat ends up as stored in fat cells.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2362....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopic_labeling
You mean even in 2018-2019 they hadn't switched plastic forks/spoons for wood? Come on
Interesting, my take was always diametrically opposite, that if it has any meaning at all it's the allegory for getting converted to a collectivist religion or an ideology.

Zombies are not really selfish - I mean, if you were chasing one human in a horde and you were selfish, wouldn't you, for example, try to eliminate or exclude the competition? They are, rather, single-minded to the exclusion of any priorities other than one.
What is needed is single use items, not necessarily made out of plastic.
I don’t think the downvotes are fair here, but I’d just like to mention that this is basically what everyone in the early stages of burnout says … just be careful not to attach so much of your self-image to your work ethic, because over a long enough timeline, you will get screwed over many times unfairly despite working harder and doing things better than everyone else, and that may deeply shock you based on your opinion above.
I’m sorry but which German grocery store (I’m already assuming it’s not the farmer’s market) do you go to that has vegetables wrapped in plastics?
What if single use uses less energy in many cases? Washing uses a lot of power and glass is heavy, using more fuel in transit. Paper is renewable and can often replace plastic, but not always.
I'm in Miami. Its hard to meet FAANG employees here.
Do you think I was being literal about the radioactive code too?
A google for Year of the Linux Desktop shows a big number of seemingly serious articles from the last few years.
Right, the current title is both editorialized (the article itself is about some exec leaving) and six month old news.
Can’t it be argued that the crash came and went with the pandemic already?
Except it doesnt? Neary all stores in the country (Edeka group + Aldi Nord and Süd) have the option to just grab fresh produce from some kind of box, weight it and pay for the specific amount at checkout. If you're only buying packaged stuff thats because you find it more convenient, not because unpackaged isnt availabe.
> And nowadays almost every blackjack table uses auto shufflers

I already thought so. That means card counting was a thing of the past.
I don't understand, so you didn't literally get diagnosed with ptsd? Edit: I see you edited your post.
This negotiation tactic works fine if you don't have to do full day coding challenges to get to that phase, while also working a full time job.
Thanks. Looks like it is time to re-evaluate TruffleRuby again.
Until current broken devices fall out of use. Eventually, all devices might be secure.
Fair enough. Let's just hope said acquaintance was in a position to handle it without regrets.
That's the evidence that the climate change "doubters" are really concentrated on the decision-making/ruling elite. But the reason for that is simple - if you don't support climate-change legislation you get more funding.
This is what I meant about the ruling class protecting its interests. It's not hard to see.
Does anywhere have an actual plastic bag ban? Usually it’s just a minimum price to discourage people from grabbing a new bag on every visit
Nice photos, thank you for piquing my interest in Jersey https://www.tom.je/

Also, pretty good advice in this post, bookmarked it.
> What technically prevents them to run away with all stocks?

SIPC insurance is supposed to protect you in case they run away anyway.
I wonder if the early 1994 project (SWIFT) I did with BT is in there - I know there was a presentation done at the IEEE on the Project.
A small company TBH would not adopt this kind of browser, and a large company that might is too paranoid about lawsuits & CYA behavior to not make such an exception once it got escalated. And if it became very wide spread, I think it would have that stuff built in too, because to get some big company / govt contracts an accessibility requirement eventually gets thrown in somewhere.
What's wrong with them?

> Flock Freight’s algorithms help companies move products more efficiently, combining small shipments into a shared truckload (like a carpool for freight).

This sounds cool to me. Certainly more than all the ad tech and blockchain companies out there. A job here could mean revolutionizing logistics with AI, slashing greenhouse gas emissions, this stuff is core to our economy and modern life.
That was a marvellously lucid presentation of the subject. I can't say I understood all of it, but I love to read presentations of difficult subjects expressed clearly in (more or less) plain words. It makes me think I've learned something.

There's a citation in the article to "Gardner, 1984 p. 9–10". But there's no footnote. Would that be the late Martin Gardner, formerly of Mathematical Recreations? He also had a talent for expressing hard subjects clearly, in plain words.
I think for plastic it's important to note what the usage is. A plastic straw is much more likely than a meat package to end up in the wrong place. Because a meat pack is unpacked in a kitchen so probably 99.99% will end up in a garbage can. If just 1 straw of 100 ends up in a river that's much worse.

(This is assuming the problem with plastic is direct pollution and not CO2)
On the flip side - I tell recruiters immediately they have to AT LEAST match my current comp. Every single one of them so far has said they can't even get close.

If you work at FAANG - your RSUs (most likely) have doubled in about a year. You could easily already be getting paid more than the max offer for the level above where you're currently at.
None of that sounds particularly attractive. I would rather use nuclear, wind, or solar to capture the carbon until we figure out how to stop making so much of it.
So is the browsing history not e2e encrypted in the backup?
I believe the "Linux Sucks 2021" [0] video did a great job of explaining not just how the YoLD hasn't happened, but why it will never happen, now.

Linux is built with a bad architecture (spaghetti monolithic kernel with no stable APIs), which has a tremendously high cost of development, and also a high cost of maintenance. Large companies (e.g. Google) have realized this isn't sustainable, and are shifting away into better architectures (e.g. Fuchsia), which tend to be microkernel multiserver systems.

As money goes away, Linux maintenance cost can't be met, and it'll crumble on its own weight.

I do still hope a good desktop/workstation OS with a FOSS license will happen. It just won't be Linux, because its architecture was never suited for it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtJ9T_IJOPE