skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true, in many parts of the US it isn't beneficial (for the environment) to replace your vehicle with an EV because of how you produce electricity.

In other parts of the world where we can rely on hydro and nuclear for base load and top that off with mostly renewables (and some bad electricity from other countries) an EV purchase would be a net positive within a couple of years if you average 10000km/y.

We're all in situations where our ability to affect emissions are way different, the environment is a political game and some (countries/regions) have made different decisions that have paid of differently.
Not more energy than they put in. Just like every other fusion experiment.
I am a really mediocre player. But one can be a mediocre cook and understand and appreciate fine cuisine, or a couch athlete and understand the subtleties of football strategies. It's the difference between passive analysis and action.

And I certainly understand if someone dislike jazz. But saying it's not music is like saying Picasso's paintings are like a three-year old's drawings.
Recent and related:

Gasoline-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers to be banned under new California law - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830968 - Oct 2021 (25 comments)

California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28819696 - Oct 2021 (147 comments)
Except third parties can still conduct repairs, they just need to update the component pairing.
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That’s what I love about New York, don’t follow static rules that don’t make sense, otherwise you won’t be able to deal with such a complex system.
I'm glad you mentioned that. Might be necessary for me to optimize this post.

Basically, one of the huge problems I heard over the years was that founders wanted to write their own website copy. Or at least, their budgets necessitated that they did. However, once they did that, they weren't sure what was and wasn't working on their websites as far as copy goes. So they came to me for advice. I'd say about 75% of the people I talked to were in this bucket.

The other 25% wanted to hire a copywriter to actually write it. For the majority of founders, that option was not only cost prohibitive but also required more work in their eyes than writing the actual copy.

It sounds to me like what you're in that 25%. Would you agree with that assessment?

In regards to the custom copy, it would depend on which sections of your website needed the most TLC. But as a ballpark, you're looking at half a page.
> always wait for a sale or deal and get the batteries free with tool

I agree. I don't think I've ever paid full price buying a battery by itself. I just can't stomach the terrible value. I watch for a sale and pick up a new tool with the battery I want. I've got a few relatively obscure tools that way that I'd probably not bother purchasing otherwise.
Two observations.

1) The market has a wide range of solutions at various prices for consumers. You wouldn't prevent people from buying a cheap Kia or Ford because it'll cost them more in the long run, would you? Must they buy a BMW? And then only source their parts from the original manufacturer in licensed dealerships?

2) If Apple cared about quality so much, why do their cables fray so easily? I've had to replace all of my charging cables, even on my recent M1 Mac.

In any case, your anecdotes are not the whole marketplace. A world where we can buy only Apple is a nightmare hellscape. Pray that doesn't happen.
Overall a pretty good summary of how to teach yourself new skills. I personally went far too much into unguided learning early in my software journey. I took on personal projects that were far too ambitious and floundered with problems that would have been 10x easier if I'd focused on grasping fundamentals.

What's missing in this post is that it entirely focused in isolated learning, away from tutors and other forms of interpersonal teaching. Any approach to learning stuff "quickly" should take seriously Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem. [1]

Partly offloading your learning problem onto an expert tutor trained in master learning has a good chance of vastly exceeding any learning approach a novice can adopt on their own. The internet has thus far failed to support this learning model, I think because it would be incredibly expensive for students.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
How about putting the blame where it belongs? Intel knowingly sold CPUs with Meltdown/Spectre for close to a decade before it was disclosed to the public.

Switching to Linux does not fix the issue as it is part of the hardware. We have mitigated the issue, and done so poorly. You are not required to upgrade to Win 11, and gives your computer roughly 3 more years until you repurpose it for lesser tasks.
My instant thought was “NFTs”!!

NFTs are effectively the new reading cards. It’s gonna explode then implode, but I know a lot of people are getting into it.
I had to re-read some history. Measuring intelligence was initially, as you say about non-innate intelligence. Then the ideas were hijacked by eugenists who do make arguments about the innate nature of intelligence. In modern forms, mainstream practitioners have gone back to the original roots. But there still are modern researchers on the fringe who attempt to make racial arguments.
Oh man, I'm glad you posted that site. Love his branding.
"I could replace your microphone with one that records everything and sends it to me and you'd be none the wiser."

How is this miracle microphone going to send you anything exactly, telepathically?
The Crown did for Aberfan what Watchmen did for Tulsa.
>>>I bet half of it is plastic ("polyester") unhealthy and damaging to the environment in 100 different ways.

You don't have to guess at its contents, you could just....read the linked product description. It's mostly Merino wool, which is a natural fiber. Para-Aramid is synthetic but isn't a proven carcinogen.

We stopped using polyester moisture-wicking shirts when we learned that the fabric melts into your flesh during IED attacks. Cotton has its uses, but it is not as durable nor as performant without at least a blended fabric or other production compromises (such as overall additional weight).

None of which changes my original point: you can't just buy a sewing machine, get a bolt of cloth, and fabricate a shirt of equivalent performance in your own home.
The government also paid them off to get out of tobacco farming.

https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2008/08/01/feds_give_fa...

Production went from 38m kg in 2005 to 9m kg in 2008, I don't doubt demand dropped by 74%, so someone else picked up the slack/production value and we just import from there.

Another supply-focussed war on drugs failure.
> a house for a family with 2 kids costs upwards of half a million dollars. Which I think is insane.

That's a steal, globally seen. I live in a mid-size city in Germany (500k people) and for a house at the city border you can easily calculate a million euros. And that's for the small ones that need restoration from the ground up. Let's not even get started on larger cities like Munich or Frankfurt.

EDIT: Why the downvotes? While these houses might be expensive in absolute terms, they are pretty cheap for such a large Metropole.
It’s a fallacy to think that just because people want to do something it is valuable. People have wanted to do some insanely wasteful or horrible things in the past.
Sorry, I should have said "susceptible." But I did not say that children are exhibiting more severe symptoms; those are your words. However, the infection rate of children is much higher with Delta than other variants.

As an aside, I know that this is a hot-button topic. It would be appreciated if you follow the site guidelines, and be more charitable in conversation.
Come to think of it, the basics of playing chess is of insufficient complexity to be compared to an algorithm interview. More like being able to mount basic strategies and chess moves. Not sure how the average player would be able to recall those if they haven't played chess in a long time, because they were instead playing games derived from basic chess moves but with very different game mechanics.
> Where are you getting this concept that humans never forget skills? That's completely false.

I never said humans never forget skills, I said humans never forget skills they master. Most people never master much at all, maybe 90-99% of software engineers would be in the never master bucket. Which is why I get downvoted, most people never get good and get angry when you tell them that they can work to improve.
You can pay for battery replacement, but you cannot buy a battery and replace it yourself. They literally refuse to sell you any parts
> This may be preferable in some cases but the tradeoff should be recognised.

It's not a "tradeoff", it's a product feature.
This kind of articles always reminds me how conservative I've become. There are chances where I could have built something like this, but I didn't and now I regret that.
> That’s reaching.

No it's not.

> You’re by that logic locked on the internet, the supermarket and tattood by your credit score.

You in fact are, but those things aren't as severe as a tattoo on your face declaring your widely-recognized status as someone's property.

The point is that social status and the conspiracy of the rest of society to enforce that can be just as confining if not more so than a literal lock. A prisoner that escapes from prison isn't free, so long as he's within reach of the society that put him there, and a prisoner who understands that may not bother to escape at all.
There's plenty of space in the middle though, no? Bank accounts cut you off if you hit a zero balance, or they can execute your transactions and charge you a fee. Why can't these services implement throttling or even halting if the charges hit a certain ceiling?
Reference counting is a form of garbage collection. Remember that reference counting and tracing garbage collection are simply two extremes of a continuum of approaches. Must-read paper: "A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection".
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So it seems there’s a difference between knowledge and wisdom, and leetcode interviews optimize for knowledge. I wonder why that is, and if they also discourage wisdom?
Describing or visualizing the algorithm is one thing.

Identifying that you need to use some variation of that algorithm and then writing flawless and optimal code that handles all corner cases in a 20 minute job interview, is an entirely different thing.
Coal is just what, 20% of the USA's energy mix now? Granted, there are places where coal is much more in use, but the plants are probably more efficient and better at pollution control than a bunch of individual internal combustion engines. Additionally, your vehicle would automatically benefit from any electricity production upgrades (e.g. moving from coal to wind over 10 years), that won't be possible if you run with an ICE.

I would love to get an EV but I don't drive enough to justify one. The last time I got gas was a month ago.
Architecture that extends types using extension methods (Microsoft patent)
If you demand more complexity then you need to take people with more skills. Do you think that Magnus Carlsen would forget how to mount a basic defence if he didn't touch chess for 20 years? He wouldn't be as good, sure, but he wouldn't forget how to play, he would still beat most people.
Mandating all Americans get a extremely new vaccine or else they are unable to be employed is pure madness with few exceptions, such as a plague that stands to kill off a large % of the species.

Not all mandates are equal, not all vaccines are equal, and not all diseases are equal. A mandate barring employment, for a vaccine involving a novel mechanism and drug, for COVID is bonkers.
That's the thing: the copy does not need to demonstrate perfect grammar. All that matters is that the copy results in sales. Although I do realize that some may disagree with that sentiment. To each his own!
Cars, among other things that have been mentioned, have catalytic converters.
Call me paranoid (this is about security after all), but there's no visual distinction between data and power-only cables. While a rogue employee can wreak all sorts of havoc in any data center, it's nice to have as many correct-by-inspection systems as possible.

I don't see why one couldn't get a power-only hub, but I couldn't find anything that appeared to be high quality in a quick search. I did find some pretty nice looking rack-mounted kit, but they all appear to be data hubs.
We have a whole economic system where price is a response to demand and scarcity. Most of economic output has no fundamental relation to the basics of survival, as to purely exist to satisfy whimsical desires.
Searching for a package on npm is more time-consuming than writing 300 lines of code? Perhaps your app has some very specific constraints, but for a simple library like this, I have a hard time believing you could code something up on the fly faster than it would take to npm install the package in question.
Yes, and that is not ideal, nor evidence of value.
"Why would you allow untrained professionals to raise our most valuable resource? "

I would start by saying that anyone who would even use that kind of language is living in a totally different dimension of reality than I, and so first, I'd have to bridge that gap.

Our children are not 'resources' and while teaching certainly requires a degree of professional demeanour, raising children has nothing to do with 'professionalism' per say.

For gosh sake ... life is about life (!) - the whole gosh darn point of 'the economy' is so that families can be families and communities, not the other way around, i.e. that they can be turned into 'proletariat resource factories'.

We live, we have our communities, our culture, our institutions, our faith, our celebrations, our hopes, our fears, our failures, our conquests, our rituals. The economy can be a part of that. Stopping really bad acting (i.e. abuse) is always good. The state has a role even in education, obviously.

But the language you are using is the same type of culturally secular language that totalitarian systems adopted and resulted in dramatic failure.

If you want to see what that looks like, visit non-Moscow Russia, the parts that were designed in built in the latter part of the 20th century. Or better yet, Poland, because they will not romanticize that era in a perverse way and give you an earful.

The 'best' schools in the world, in Finland, if one could describe their approach it would be 'Communitarian' more than anything. Yes, they have standard European views on equality and somewhat higher taxation, but they are not 'top down secular equality socialists'. Instead, they value teachers as a culture. They value reading, education, intellectualism, they work as local communities. We would consider them 'somewhat progressive' in many ways, but they are not what we would call 'woke'. Their method of education is not anything special, it's downright ancient if anything. They are not what we would nominally call 'capitalist' either, they have a blended communitarian + regulated free-market + socialization in certain sectors and definitely national strategic cooperation between state, established families/wealth, industry.

They are a great example, there are others, though ideas and rhetoric are always good, there's no need to roll back to 100 year old ideas that have been essentially discredited.
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That is true, that most people don't master anything. The question is if software engineers should be expected to master the material in interviews other than for interviews, if it truly makes them better engineers who build better software. And if so, they we arrive at my original question: why is current computer science education and training failing to convey that vital information? And how can this situation be remedied?

In terms of working to improve, given the excellent filtering capabilities of algorithmic interviews, surely if people were taught right and knew how to master it not to mention what they should master in the field, then it would not be so difficult to improve (though this would render the filter ineffective)? Because then more engineers would have known from day one what they should focus on (not that they don't at present, because these interviews are now broadly known to the public), and thus having mastered the material, be passing the interviews easily.
> non lock, non atomics based ARC designs that still handle threading safely

Don't think that's even doable at all, at least not portably. Do you have some examples?
I watch the shibayu live crossing cam on YouTube sometimes, definitely catch some hay walkers on there.
More Proactive SIMs. AT&T inspired me to explore a little
6 years later and I definitely regret taking a counter offer.
As I was reading your comment I caught myself thinking this was a post defending git but then I saw you username. All of what you mention are what git allows to do and also how git is used 99.9% of the time. I can't help but notice your lack of experience with Git, and I say that very respectfully.

Most organizations' repositories will have one or more protected branches (e.g. master). What is published there remain. Even mistakes. When the history on those branches are erased it is for very good reasons only. Usually it involves the size of the repository getting too big, illegal / private content and paths only differing by lower and upper case messing with Git on Windows. Even in those very rare cases the history of the vast majority of the files remain. And this is also something all CVS has to face so this is not specific to Git itself.

Dev branches are pushed, overwritten and erased. I don't see how that's a problem. In the end having small intelligible commits that reads like a dish recipe accelerates code reviews and corrections and I haven't seen any other VCSes doing that as efficiently as Git.
hyperinflation is hyperbole.
Our inflation: 5% since last year.
Hyper inflation: ~50% per month https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hyperinflation.asp
The one exception is when you go to pay your taxes.
And awaken the "government shouldn't have been involved in funding stuff like Solyndra" crowd.
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Given the vaccine is not very good at this point at halting transmission, if we wanted a mandate focused on reducing transmission, it would be entirely about testing requirements. As a bonus, that would remove the major issue with coercing people into choosing between an onerous, expensive, and invasive testing regime and having to take a drug they do not want to hold a job.
I've watched the Shibuya crossing livestream, definitely catch some "jaywalkers" on the cam from time to time. :-)
Probably most societies through history has had the family as its "smallest unit".

Just like in modern USA, it's nobody's business if I cut off one of my fingers, it would not be of concern for such a society if a family kills one of their members.

If you kill or steal from another family, legal systems usually step in.

I always keep i mind that through almost all history, compared to our modern life, people were incredibly poor, living near famine, disease, and death. In that light what seems barbaric is often just practical.
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I would not say it's Tokyo as a whole that is thoughtful. It's the individual designer which was thoughtful. Where Tokyo/Japan aided is by being receptive and giving the designer autonomy.
To get an idea of life in Japan as a foreigner, I recommend the blog "Japanese Rule of 7"[1].

The author has also compiled a bunch of his essays into a book, "Strange Nights, and Some Days Too: Why You’ll Love Japan, for About a Year"[2].

1. https://japaneseruleof7.com/

2. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735174629
If someone was willing to pay for it, it had value to them. That's value.
We lost that battle. Now we're in a fight for our lives against disinformation and AR can only make it worse, judging by what facebook has done to most communities.

Worst part of it is that you won't be able to opt out, because your behaviours, likes and friends are being tracked whether you like it or not.
The problem is that we don't have much choice brand-wise. We get to pick Apple or Android. From a security/privacy perspective, the various Android brands are more or less the same (or, more accurately, the best of them are still likely much worse than Apple, and the worst of them are likely backdoored by the manufacturer or the government where it's manufactured).

Capitalism and the mythical free market have given us two choices, each with very big negatives. I don't want either. I want a phone that respects and fights for my privacy and security, and is relatively easy and cheap to repair, and allows me control over what I run on it.

(And I don't consider platforms like the PinePhone to be choices here. I want contactless payments on my phone, as well as Venmo/Cash App. I want my banking and airline/travel apps. I want Signal, Slack, Whatsapp. I want the app for my local gym. These things either don't run on other platforms, or provide a janky mobile web experience.)
Does anyone have links to good fear “science” information? I’m interested in learning how to discern anxiety (pointless worry) from acute dear (fear with a point). And further, to figure out how to manage acute fear. The particular use case is to be able to large and larger jumps and drops on a mountain bike.
The S&P 500 returned > 30% over the last year. Inflation shows up in many places.
The network was illegal but it was tolerated. The adversaries were other students sabotaging the network

Incompetent people in public service? Sounds about normal. In their defense, when you live in a communist state, everything new seems sinful until you are officially allowed to do it.

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It’s also very obvious now that it’s debatable if a 20 something kid who hasn’t taken the vaccine but is healthy and has good vitamin D levels presents more risk to others and is at more risk from COVID as a fully vaccinated 60 year old obese person.
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Yes; that that's a problem. It's one of the big reasons why people choose to put their kids through private school, or even to homeschool.
oh, you were innocent?
I haven't set it up correctly. Just laziness (DNS) on my part. Tho technically it means that the site doesn't belong to me (except it does since the root domain is verified).
But I got you to read it, didn't I? :)

It's more like a product, less like hiring a contractor. The solution is the review, not me.