skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you expand a bit on the perspective shift before and after picking up Rails? Asking as a full-stack JavaScript dev who recently started branching down this path myself.

One thing in particular that it's still really hard to get used to is keeping track of a whole discrete set of framework conventions while also making a first meaningful dive into Ruby to begin with. It's nice not having to, say, implement logins myself, but it's still a little mystifying how indistinguishable from magic that approach makes things looking at it from the outside. (But then again I guess when I first picked up JavaScript I wasn't also concurrently learning React or Express...)
Terminal velocity. What is that going to hurt?
> playing some annoying music

Samsung? Do any other appliance manufacturers play a long tune at the end of the cycle? My washing machine and dryer both play the same tune. I'm used to it, but it was jarring at first.
I think this depends on the area.

Back home in Slovenia, you see cows grazing all summer up in the alps where no sane person would ever farm. I wouldn’t even call it “agricultural land”. Cows roam free on the mountains among hikers and tourists.

Here in California, any rolling grassy hill you see has cows on it year round. Cows everywhere. Doesn’t look like anyone’s interested in building housing on that land and you rarely see any crop fields in those areas. Whether that’s because letting cows graze is cheaper or the land is unsuitable for crops, I don’t know.

But there are also feedlots where cows are “finished” before slaughter. How much grain and soy they eat there to be fattened up … probably a lot. I’ve heard of feedlots that stretch horizon to horizon in the midwest
In FireFox I have my ad blockers disabled in Private Mode so nothing is getting in the way if I'm testing or some site is being weird. Sometimes it's SHOCKINGLY different how a page looks with the blockers in place. I really can't believe anyone would user a browser without an ad blocker if they knew how things would look while using one. The web is a much better place with a blocker in place.

(Yes, I know, we get a huge amount of amazing "free" content thanks to the ads and assorted trackers and other garbage out there)
> almond milk

Life is already hard enough for people with nut allergies (which is apparently more common than I thought), so let's just make that oat milk and call it a day. A lot better for the environment too :)
https://i.imgur.com/y0xl11R_d.webp?maxwidth=2360&shape=thumb...
Still, the way energy is circulating in the food chain, you need a lot more land and water for raising X calories of cattle than for the same calories of plants.

Not to mention transportation, anti-biotics, cold chain management, packaging, transmissible diseases, waste management, etc. are all a much higher concern for animal based food. In fact, even pesticides are worse on cattle, because any non food product tends to concentrate in the animal after a life of consuming it.

Meat is a luxury, like plane transportation.
If you want to hear what Joe said in his own words and you don't really care about the WSJ's paywalled opinion on it, his statement is here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2uxCSxYfyXvERU7cQcoxJb?si=N...
I disagree, its way more complex matter.

Internet evolved from "that computer thing where you should avoid stranger and putting your real info"

to something that's as important as infrastructure,

we spend so much time in it that it is basically part of the world

Facebook and similar pushed it
webarchive cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20220131163244/https://imlefthan...

outline.com: https://outline.com/5HuFGj
Just a friendly reminder that this figure is only true if you attribute the emissions from those companies customers back to those companies. It doesn’t make sense to me that my emissions should be attributed to Shell or Exxon, but to each their own.
>If everyone were vegan, only a quarter of current farmland would be needed.

Yeah. We would just let it return to nature and become a (small) carbon sink instead of a methane source.
Sloping to drain like that sounds interesting. I've often been curious why large locker room methods aren't used in houses. I'm assuming it is mainly aesthetics?
My first thought when I saw this item in the HN list was TXR :)
Server may have melted into a left-handed puddle:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220131163244/https://imlefthan...
Screenshots works in Sway, it has been there for years.
Tray icons as well (it depends of the bar you use though, but it works with the included bar swaybar and waybar).

you can use grim + slurp for screenshots https://github.com/emersion/grim but Flameshot works as well (for example).

Edit: you should have a look at the wiki:
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway
You wrote OS GUI can't take that from you.

Who paid for that OS GUI? How often did the requirements change? How many stakeholders your OS GUI has? Is it done project or is it "constantly evolving"? If it is constantly evolving how many developers are working on it? What is team turnover or is it only you working on it?

It is easy to throw "gross negligence" when you work on some pet project where you don't have to change direction every week. You don't have 10 customers wanting things which are mutually exclusive.
Exactly. This was called “paid inclusion“ and was offered by Yahoo, for example.
Yeah, it’s mostly the lack of prosecution. But also fewer officers and higher salaries with more overtime so you spend more but get less.
>Alternatively as the dishwasher clearly is on Wi-Fi already (the only way it would know there's an update)

I guess yes it might be that but consider this workflow -

First start
Ask to update software - sounds legit
OK
Now you've okayed, now we ask to connect to Wi-fi - obviously need to connect to update software which you already agreed to!

If say user testing found that more people agreed to connect to Wi-Fi as part of update software on first installation then we get the above workflow and nobody says my dishwasher won't let me start without connecting to Wi-Fi which to some people might sound more worrying. And people then say there are lots of reasons why you should take software update - what about security! Bug fixes in the dishwasher!

but all that said you are probably right, it is on wi-fi and that's how it knows, but it won't necessarily stay that way forever.
I got black mold several times in the places i lived.

Never live in a moist home.
https://archive.fo/qgsTs
If there is an emergency, all the large companies can simply go to the government for free money, why would they care about doing anything but absolute profit maximization.
> Similarly, electric cars in areas were power generation primarily comes from fossil fuels are worse for the environment currently.

This is false. Internal combustion engines are far less efficient than centralized coal or natural gas plants and are far worse in terms of both CO2 and particulate emissions overall.

You can read a news article reporting on an MIT study here: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/lifetime-emissions-of-evs-ar...
What if only resource-intensive livestock was phased out? Say, chicken and pork(?) was still eaten. One also wonders why there’s no name for a diet that permits the eating of fowl, similar to pescatarianism.

On the other hand, what happens to population nutrition if cow’s milk was eliminated from the food supply?
The site appears to be hugged to death...but the thrust of the idea seems pretty obvious on the surface...I'd add that it also probably follows financial, if not technically savvy groups.

The person with a $50 Walmart Burner phone's experience will be a WHOLE LOT DIFFERENT from the person with the $1100 smartphone with ad blocking turned on.
Oakland actually was mentioned in this article, but I think the outcome still aligns with your point -- it's not relevant in this case or in general crime: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-de...
(A decrepit Coliseum which they also received of millions of dollars in public financing to play in: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/As-Ra...)
No, but if something is abandoned by a company, then it should be made open. Your car/dishwasher/washing machine/thermostat/door locks should not stop working because some brilliant small company was bad at the profit side of things and folded. They should not stop working because some large company simply got bored and decided to follow another market trend. This is why user repair-ability/unlocking/jail-breaking of devices should be legally protected.
> I imagine the technology will improve and they'll need to be upgraded in less than ten years.

What improvements do you foresee which will require these to be upgraded?
Is there a legal way to demonstrate the legally binding aspect?

I mean could you, for example, sign a document with your friend, have them purposefully violate it, and then take them to court to prove that the courts will back up the document?

I am asking because the existing digital signature solutions have the benefit of having proved that they are accepted in court.
The appearance of the ads has gotten closer and closer to search results. The first time the ads moved above the results they did look different.
It depends on laptop and distro. A lot of new laptops don't work with slow release distros like ubuntu/debian.
What about clojurescript?
> Meanwhile it sounds like the MNT has some real flaws (the battery discharging thing), but the context of that isn't really described - can the battery controller IC use much less power but the proper code hasn't been written, or is it a true design mistake, or what?

There's a known (and fixed) keyboard LPC power drain issue, which is likely what TFA described.
I had no intention of ridiculing anybody, there are things that I self-host but I like to pick and choose my battles instead of a blanket "I must have control over everything" approach. My response was specifically to this comment:

> And this is why you self-host on your own instance.

This was the commentary on the outage, and it's just outright wrong. Your self-hosted instances will also experience outages. That's the point I inteded to raise.
Whelp, I'm an idiot for copying the wrong url. I don't seem to be able to edit the url, only the title.
I don't use google, so I had a look for "new car" and didn't see any adverts.

Then realised I had to turn off my blocker.

Looks like

$('#tads').remove()

will remove the adverts?
I loved Synergy, but it has gone commercial, so I use Barrier, which forked from one of the last free commits. Works well across Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.
The comments are already frustrating. I could boil the whole being vegan argument down to "less cattle in the world would be a quick and easy CO2 reduction win", and receive mind bogglingly silly arguments in return totally missing the point. Better not go there.
I think the problem is Freedesktop. It is a shill for RedHat and GNOME (actually created by somebody who works for both) so every project gets railroaded by whatever those two want, rather than what users want or what is simpler design. The result is a lot of garbage that just makes users' lives worse.
I agree that draws and the possibility of draws increases excitement. But I do think top-level chess results in a draw a bit too often: half or more of games in high-level tournaments, and vast majority of world championship games.

Rules that draw 10-20% less often, and remove a little bit of white's advantage, would be nice.
How is that related to this article?
Long ago a customer who had a data center hastily constructed would call me every Monday morning about 4am to find out if his DS3's were up. I'd check and let him know.

After one day where all of them were down at the same time he said "Damn homeless people!" He later explained the local telco hastily ran lines under a bridge to get some circuits setup on time. The local homeless folks tended to gather under the bridge and when they started fires to keep warm his circuits running above them would heat up and go down.
Please don't start flamewars on HN. Not what we want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to warn you about this already. I don't want to ban you, so would you please fix this?
The Silicon Valley TV show quite vividly portrayed that era of tech, especially in the earlier seasons.
Tesla would have CCS everywhere in the US if the BBB federal $$ would come their way as a result.

Due to that bill not passing, it's not a priority.
As much as I love technology, I have my personal limits and can relate to your post. Whenever this subject comes up, I'm reminded of this (Red Dwarf);

https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec
Actual ordering by Google:

- Ads results

- Sites that display Google Ads

- Google's original algorithmic results
I agree the straw thing is silly and arguably even counterproductive. It makes people feel like they are doing something when in reality it makes very little material difference. "I sacrificed with a paper straw. Now excuse me as I go buy some clothes I'll only wear once".

But you almost certainly use things from those 100 companies. Which of their services and products should we deem worthy or not? Maybe a carbon tax is the way to go. But then which things should be more expensive (rarer, less available to the poor) and which ones should be cheap (common, available to the poor)? It's all tradeoffs and it's complex.
I did give it a shot when I was living with vegan roommates... turns out my health declines noticeably when I try. I do hope vegans and people like myself can find common cause around shifting away from factory farming of all types rather than trying to solve the problem by shifting diets alone.
> The benefit of not waiting by being a Tesla customer is a pretty high benefit, but could you imagine that same benefit with ICE vehicles? A gas station that you can't fuel at unless you have a specific brand of car?

I didn't have to imagine as, for a while, Tesla owners have had the best of both worlds: access to most 3rd party chargers out there, plus private access to the supercharger network.

Hence the conflict: the head is all in favour of breaking down those walls, but the heart likes being private members' clubs, when it's looking outwards from inside them :)
My only experience with Citrix is their GoToMeeting app/service. It's probably the most aggravating meeting software I've ever used. From almost everyone else's comments here, GoToMeeting seems to be their best piece of software.

Edit: formerly? LogMeIn owns it now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoToMeeting
This is such a tired argument.

First, emissions are not the only issue related to climate change.

Second (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong), the common article[1] that people cite for this statistic indicates that this is "industrial" greenhouse gas emissions, which I am pretty sure does not include all emissions.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
> does Miele require a specific kind of cleaning powder or packet

No.

But they do have an auto-dosing capability on some models that take a disk and dispense the right amount of powder for the given wash.

Which? reviewed this and concluded it's a gimmick: https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/09/is-this-miele-dishwashe... . I agree with this verdict.

The washing machine auto-dosing though... that isn't as bad, being more cost-efficient overall.

My take on it all: Miele dishwashers are so-so... their washing machines and fridges excellent, the ovens above average, the hobs exceptional, the hoods well made but over-priced.
>Think of it as jumping into a new codebase you have never worked with before. It is full of strange functions calling each other for unknown reasons. It takes a while to get a good intuition for why.

Software engineers have built careers off of making code more readable, both in terms of the language itself and the codebase it applies to. Mathematicians seem to go out of their way to make their work as obtuse as possible.

Can you imagine if software engineers had stopped at C? If we were all still trying to apply the spiral rule [0] to read everything? That's what reading math papers feels like. It feels like you stopped at C and are unwilling to even consider that there could be a better way to express things.

[0]http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
Twetch – Decentralized Twitter alternative on blockchain
I think dataleaks aren't punished hard enough. If they did and stung the wallet really hard the industry would quickly adapt to better security requirements.
That best rated consumer reports detector only detects fast burning fires.

The Nest Protect, for example, has both slow burning and fast burning smoke detectors as well as carbon monoxide. Three detectors in one. They also have built sensors and perform weekly automatic self tests to ensure they will make noise/alert when needed and that the detectors are working. A non functioning sensor in a detector just provides a false sense of security. Just about every time there are deaths from house fires detectors are either missing or are non-functioning.

Speaking of non-functioning, many people disconnect detectors because the cheap ones are so hard to silence if there is a false alarm. Again with the Nest Protects you just wave at them. People are far less likely to disable something if it's not annoying.

When there is an event instead of just loudly beeping, they also speak in a clear voice what the issue is (smoke, CO, etc.) - and more importantly, which detector is going off so you know where the issue is as well. I love that for my parents who are older - clarity in a time of crises is life saving.

So yeah, at $100 (easy to find them on sale or bundled) they cost more than a $31 detector - but they also do a hell of a lot more. Having had friends/family who have had to deal with house fires in the middle of the night (very disorienting) or near death experiences with undetected carbon monoxide (it's more common that one would think!) the slight price increase of them is WELL worth it. A ridiculous pittance for the greatly increased peace of mind.

And they still work without connecting to the Internet. I would at least do it initially to configure them, especially to program in their locations so you get useful information in an emergency, then disconnect them if you are really paranoid. However I do like the alerting if there is a problem with one. It happens - sensors don't last forever and I'd rather know about a non-functioning detector and replace it rather than have a useless piece of plastic on the wall.

Also love the motion activated path light feature of them too - so perfect for moving around at night without waking others or having to fumble for a switch. Wish they had an option for brighter lights, especially for units in the hallway - or as supplemental emergency egress lighting. Would help further offset their higher cost.

But yeah, smart detectors - probably one place where there is SIGNIFICANT net benefit well worth the increased cost.
As an example where I imagine this may have happened, in the early two-thousands I listened to a radio show (Brothers in Law) from the 1970's. It was in general a light-hearted comedy series starting Richard Briers - something people may know him from playing Tom in 'the Good Life' sitcom.

One episode of the show was particularly uncomfortable to listen to. It was an episode which featured an abused wife - beaten by her husband. I can't recall the full context of the episode, but basically it turned out that she was happy when her husband beat her - 'because it showed he loved her' (not a direct quote).

Whilst I agree this episode should be available in some form - it could be important to show some people's attitudes at the time towards domestic abuse, I think that it would be totally appropriate to remove it from the series if the series were being broadcast at tea-time, in a slot which would normally be a light-hearted comedy.
Burning fuel hits the Carnot limit around 35%, though, so you have a hefty margin for that transmission loss, and don't forget the entire global shipping system which brings that fuel to you.

The other big factor to consider is the much greater complexity: internal combustion engines are complicated. All of those parts have a cost to build, assemble, and maintain — one of the biggest reasons why EVs end up cheaper to own is simply that you're not taking on all of that.
> They participated in their cultural traditions and seemed to have a fun time doing it?

That might well be the problem. Some people will regard that as "cultural appropriation" regardless of the surrounding circumstances. That is, even if the "appropriated" subculture is totally okay with the practice, it's still considered wrong - apparently, the new standard is other cultures must always live totally isolated from the "dominator" culture, as if in a zoo or under a viewing glass, for the sake of hipster-like "authenticity".
> This is Microsoft.

This is not freedom. As a non-technical client that just wants to make a spreadsheet and share it with the rest of the corporation, that perhaps doesn't have to matter (as long as you can afford the ecosystem). But from a technical perspective, you give away the ability to learn from and develop your own software, to compete and innovate, to combine different parts and come up with something better.

As a developer, I don't understand why a developer would side with a company like Microsoft, unless your product ties deeply into their ecosystem and you are very optimistic about your relationship and the future.
Well the article says they were in a car shooting into the air.
I would assume some street criminal was having fun or doing a drive by warning by shooting into the air from inside their car but who knows.
So what? We have no shortage of farmland.
> On the other hand, what happens to population nutrition if cow’s milk was eliminated from the food supply?

It vastly improves as a result of lowered cholesterol, fat and hormone consumption.
to be fair nothing in this post is really weird except

"Every ad on Google is clearly marked and set apart"

I opened Chromium based browser without AdBlock and they actually put "Ad" next to those first result(s).

It is marked as an Ad, but the thing is whether it is "clearly". I'd say not really.
$13K/year for 11 acres in the middle of Nowhere, KS does seem a bit high, attached missile silo or not.
Most people are not shooting straight up vertically. In practice, they are typically shooting at a high angle such that it creates a long arc and this would not be first time something (or someone) got shot at a distance that no one intended to shoot.
Apple buying full production of TSMC’s 3 nm node represents real product demand, though.

It’s one thing I’d you’re buying up capacity that you can’t utilize, but it’s another when you simply are that big of a buyer.
I use AdGuard. There free version is more than enough to block ads including YouTube ads.

For Safari on my Mac I use the Ka-boom extension
>In terms of capability, I speculate that the best an attacker can achieve is a sticky, privileged process that accepts arbitrary commands at runtime, which can be used to read the disk, analyze other running processes, install and exfil sensor data, etc.

The worst-case scenario would be if the attacker somehow manages to rewrite your motherboard and/or SSD's firmware with a malicious firmware. And even if you reinstall your OS - he still manages to re-install the rootkit afterwards. I've only read about such type of malware but never have I seen or heard of anything like that in the wild.
Firefox Focus is free, but I use Wipr on both iOS and macOS.