skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company's goal is to make money, full stop. The way to make money, is to tell a story about reduced ecological impact, which is (like any marketing pitch) heavily biased and short on unintended consequences or contradictory facts. It's an effective marketing plan, because so many people seem to a) believe it without much checking and b) want to believe it, that is, have a healthy conscious by "doing their part" about the environment.
I think I can call myself fully corrected. I mistook GSHP for all heat pumps and got confused
That sounds like a lovely weekend! And a book club is worth a shot for sure, especially if it's a book whose readers might make good company.
Book Review: Barriers to Bioweapons
> You just need library access.

Assuming you live in a place where public libraries are well-funded and can provide such amenities.
Maybe my coffee hasn't kicked in yet but I didn't catch in the article the health disadvantages of veganism: the article spoke about health broadly, tackling climate change and it talked about culture war issues. I wonder if the plant-based alternative meat vendors need to admit that animal products contain essential nutrients and that perhaps then they can add them.

As someone who's quite active I've found my optimal diet isn't a lot of red meat, but a lot of fish, a lot of leafy vegetables, olive oil as the fat, and generally a LOT of protein with full amino acid profiles (chicken, whey protein-based things like Quest chips and Core Power Protein shakes that are made from real milk). YMMV but that's what I've found as a middle-aged guy who's experimented and does many hours of muscle-destroying activities as a hobby.

Veganism doesn't fit into this picture. I could MAYBE tolerate alternative tastes, but I can't risk my health because of a loose ethical goal that concerns all of our (and especially our industry's) behaviors in relation to climate change.
I don’t know what red state is, a social media company?I am referring to places where none of the content produced is made by the owner. Places where all content is user created.
With 370mg of sodium, it will never taste like an actual hamburger with only ground beef...it's about five times as much.

That's part of what makes it taste good.

And why it's just another processed food item.

The US diet is more salt centric, more sugar centric, more fat centric, than meat centric.
Musk has more than 20 direct reports at Tesla; here are the ones we know about
Hanging out with the kids, going to the park, running errands.
I've been considering the idea of going back to a "dumbphone" once my current phone kicks it, but this kind of thing gives me pause. More and more everyday activities assume you have a smartphone with an Internet connexion.

During the pandemic I went to a couple restaurants. They used to have printed menus, but they got rid of them as part of a "zero-contact" policy. Instead, they put little stickers with QR codes on the tables, which you had to scan with your phone to see an online version of the menu. Even now that COVID restrictions are basically over in my country, a lot of places seem to have decided that not having printed menus any more is the way to go. No smartphone? No food for you!
I think a different article doesn't count as a dupe, as they often have new information.
True! I would also include https://liveblocks.io to that list of services that help developers make multiplayer experiences.

Interesting to see more players in this space to help more and more developers do this.
In the most recent case, he could turn BTC into cash at a machine at his local convenience store. Surprisingly convenient, really.

He doesn't have a bank account as he's on the blacklist. Not sure why. But in the United States, if you write too many bad cheques, commit cheque fraud, or just default on your overdraft, basically anything where the bank closes your account with cause, you may find getting a bank account again, from any other bank, very difficult. (They have a reporting service they almost all report to and verify with.)

About 10 million Americans are blacklisted like this, from what I understand. And then you have people who lack ID, or who can't get an account for another reason. The unbanked add up to a fairly significant market - something like 5 - 8% of American adults.
Once upon a time I was a young punk with a fairly nice car. I had about 6 years of driving under my belt, and less than half of it was with a manual transmission.

I was up in Palo Alto during a light rainstorm, and we were on our lunch break. I was driving two coworkers in my 1988 Acura, one of whom was an absolute freak who drove his sports car super-aggressively.

I was at an intersection in the left turn lane, waiting for an opening. Traffic was fairly heavy and the roads were slick. I saw a possible opening and took it, but there was a car in oncoming traffic faster than I had anticipated. Having begun my maneuver, I counterintuitively held my foot to the accelerator, rather than stomping the brake, and my Integra obediently sped through the turn without incident.

Both of my coworkers commended my presence of mind and I was relieved that my driving skills were validated. Our company was involved in selling software components, and I have no idea what a "self-driving" car would've done in that situation, but as I had discovered, staying the course and stomping the gas pedal was counterintuitive in that place and time, but ultimately correct and safe.
> 1. Instead of changing the time ( God, what an arrogant concept this is ) why not change your schedule/working hours.

Hours are a human made measurement, how is it arrogant to move them around?
They do claim to be the safest cars!
Having done it very little, I'm no expert, but the situation I was in was that I was motivated but not knowledgeable, and I was paired with someone knowledgeable but wholly unmotivated. It let me be much more productive than otherwise, and put to use the other's experience without requiring them to find motivation.

Of course, if you're managing, and you know someone is not motivated, you probably don't turn to this as your solution, but I'm not management, so I could be wrong!
For what it's worth, there are some pretty decent "New American" recipes too, for lack of a better word. They are often vaguely inspired by ethnic fusion foods and then modified both for Americanness (more sugar, less spice, familiar seasonings, etc.) and vegetarianness. But they include everything from sandwiches to lasagnas to pot pies to chicken strips to meat loaves to chicken-fried steak to burritos to grain bowls and salads.

Only very rarely do they use mock meats, but tofu, seitan (concentrated wheat protein), legumes/beans, and jackfruit are common. The trick, as you noticed, is to make the meal tasty as itself, not to make it pretend to be meat.

You don't have to give up meat to enjoy those dishes once in a while, or as a side.

If you eat out often, the HappyCow app is specifically for finding restaurants with good veggie options. It's free and super helpful whether you're in your home town or traveling.

If you want to cook, there are a ton of purpose made vegan cookbooks. I personally like the quick and easy ones that emphasize meals under 20 minutes, vs the super fancy ones that take forever.

Bon appetit.
Much of this author's fiction derives its value from technical feasibility.
>And in this case, we were supposed to listen to the same "doctor" that caused hundreds of thousands of AIDs deaths in the 80s

No. Go to a podcast search engine and type in "virology". Go to duck duck go and look up "epidemiologist blog". Go to your library and search for books on immunology.

>A panel of authority figures is no excuse to stop thinking

Careful not to skip into straw man territory.

Thinking for yourself isn't mutually exclusive with educating yourself on a topic, which is best done by learning from people with relevant expertise. Doing something like a thesis defense requires a crazy amount of both thinking for yourself, AND years of studying from experts. I suspect that if you went to write a thesis on astrophysics, you'd put a lot of effort into studying from authorities. Though I would love to see someone go for a thesis defense with work based purely on "thinking for themselves".

>Whatever, guess I'll just defer to authority.

I cannot emphasize enough the difference between "authority" and "authority with expertise in a specific area." If your car engine needs fixing, I'm willing to bet money that you'll end up deferring to an authority one way or another. Unfortunately, when a topic becomes politicized, people quickly fall into black-and-white thinking and false dichotomies pretty quickly
> coworkers heavily in favor of slowing things down through unnecessary red tape

This happens a lot. I wonder what the root cause of this is.
I agree the strategy failed but the rest of what you said is wrong. We don't care about the global price. We care about the price paid to Russia. There isn't enough in our reserve to move that needle.
The more I think about it, the more this plea to push web frameworks in the direction of desktop apps feels misguided.

I know Chrome OS is really seen as the way forward for many many people, but what if they are just betting on the trend to last, when it is just the usual cycle of “applets” vs local applications ?

The same way Java was pushed in the browser, to then cement its role in desktop apps (or the Flash -> Air progression), wouldn’t javascript heavy work sites at some point move to a native JS hooked into the system and opening the door to system wide drag and drop, undo etc.
Maybe pay for lessons? I don’t mean go to classes with a bunch of people that don’t speak the language so well but rather 1-on-1 lessons with an experienced teacher. It does feel a bit weird to pay for lessons in a language you’re already competent with but you can also think of the lessons as being an opportunity to have very deliberate practice where you should be able to get much more feedback than if you were just talking with colleagues. You may find your employer is quite willing to pay for this sort of thing too.
> the programming profession needs a similar credential

And who will handle the distribution of that credential... The moment it is required to have one, thousands of private universities of questionable quality will be dispensing such credentials just like how they have been dispensing engineering titles. Totally legal. What difference will it make compared to the existing situation...

Or is it so that these credentials should be distributed by a few elite institutions to make it safer.

What difference does this make from the current situation in which top corporations hire top people for top tier work? So everyone will have to hire MIT, Pekin U, Tokyo U or Berlin U graduates?

And what happens when centers like San Francisco suck all of those graduates away from the rest of the market and cram them into the expansive tech business? Leaving the Automotive industry as scarce of such top talent as it is now? Will the auto companies pay more money than Google et al to attract that top talent? Something which they could easily do now, but arent?

...

So basically your proposition will not change anything, but it will just introduce more bureaucracy into software.
It seems wild to make assumptions about what other people love, based directly contrary to what they say they love.

Why do you feel justified in that?
One difference between fuel and food is that the fundamental ingredients are cheaper for “meat” than meat. Impossible has huge and ongoing R&D expenses as they try to simulate more things and enter more markets. But at the end of the day, raising animals is expensive and soybeans are cheap. The crappy pre-Impossible veggie burgers are cheaper than real meat for this reason (though less tasty, of course). As the R&D requirement slows down, I would expect a similar path for Impossible and other fake meats.
Yup. I do have js enabled, but take a look at what it does at the website. Looks like it's just smoothing it with a bit non-heavy animation. Well done. Who made this website, can I hire this person to teach young lads how to do proper html/css and not rely on some Reactshite?
Our government is flawed, sometimes it seems hopelessly so, but any replacement is bound to be worse.
> Despite never touching crypto up until now, I feel it finally has a solid use case.

I'd reword this as "I finally feel it has a solid use case", as the use case of "put western Union out of business for international same party money transfers" has been present since day one.

You're just now understanding that it takes time for complex software systems to mature and reach their goals. Next time a novel system appears, this reframing of your mentality might help you to see the benefits earlier on and become an early adopter.
Really? I enjoy spending time in the woods and also sharing photos on social media.

Congratulations on meeting me, I expect you to treasure this rare experience forever.
The path I've seen work for folks who studied and completed undergraduate CS in India is to get into a Master's Degree program at the best American University you can, then get recruited at the end or otherwise secure a position with an employer who can provide you with an H1B VISA.

The H1B VISA is the real challenge which must be solved to legally reside in the United States as a non-citizen.

Wish you all the best, I hope your dreams come to fruition!
I logged into Windows 11 this week and suddenly it installed some update automatically (i tried to disable automatic updates), which, rebooted and started a terribly slow firmware update !?

I just wanted to do 15 minutes of work, ended up wasting nearly an hour (meanwhile i had given up and grabbed my Macbook...)

Windows Update is horrible, in my opinion...
Leaving Academia for Clean-Tech
I’m an American and (for environmental consciousness and personal preference), I’ve chosen a “low quality of life” compared to what many wealthy Americans believe is a high quality of life: I don’t eat meat, I don’t drive, I don’t fly in planes, I don’t have children, and I live in a small apartment.

I have no doubt that climate change will remain unsolved.
Water vapor injection into the stratosphere by Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai
Completely agree. I own a 2020 V90 CC and the software is far worse in many regards than the car that it replaced: a 2016 base model VW Golf. I have radio glitches, the parking sensors kick in when no objects are present, the drive profiles that should activate when you use paired keys don’t activate. Not to mention using CarPlay or android auto only allows you to use the lower half of the display, with the upper half rendered useless.

I have nearly every safety feature turned off in the car because they all generate false positives at an astounding rate. Automatic braking kicks in for parked cars, billboards on the side of the road, cars traversing roundabouts in front of you, heck, probably even for gusts of wind.

They refreshed the interface recently with Android Auto, however they’re missing key features and have regressed on some major integrations - for example, they don’t support CarPlay in the current iteration.

I won’t be purchasing another Volvo.
When Do Startups Scale? Large-Scale Evidence from Job Postings
You didn't say "banks are no longer required to keep sufficient reserves". You said they were no longer required to keep reserves at all.
I think you've missed the point. A professional engineer isn't just a certification. It also grants the power and indeed the duty to say "no" to things that are unsafe. If a cost-cutting change is proposed that means the bridge might collapse, you say no.

But in software? If management says you need to cut corners to get something out by an arbitrary deadline, well, you cut the corners or they'll find someone who will.
I've seen this multiple times on lobsters.

It would be cool to see it here as well :)
Exactly. We have been here for decade or more so.
"Ultimately, I don’t think Google is actually nervous about TikTok’s growing search prowess. But YouTube probably should be."
Performance tab in Chrome is miles better than in Firefox.
>"A Fortune 1000 company is not going to just absorb the costs of failed products (like self-driving cars killing people), and do nothing about it to cover their asses."

And introducing certification is not going to to stop the killing and will not "cover their asses" either. Out tech currently is simply not adequate to solving this problem in the way acceptable to corporations and the end customers.
Similar thing happened to me with Stadia, signed up for free month, cancelled, noticed they billed me 2 months. Pointed it out to them, they said they wouldn't reimburse me. They'll never get a cent from me again.

As a sibling commented: "WE STOLE YOUR MONEY, NOW FUCK OFF."
This is one thing that has the potential to cause significant numbers of people to switch from Chrome to Firefox. The modern web is unusable without a good ad blocker and its inexplicable to me that it isn't a built-in feature enabled by default in every browser like pop-up blocking. You shouldn't have to install extensions just to get essential functionality from your browser.
Spending time with my kids and wife.

Polishing my new Electron app which is a data viewer for the time-series data that my companies products produce.

Spinning up another side project with Tauri/Rust as a background data collector service.
> A Fortune 1000 company is not going to just absorb the costs of failed products (like self-driving cars killing people)

Except, that's precisely what they do. Such costs are calculated into the product when it is being developed. Just read about the Avandia drug scandal.
Can we please stop using "controversial" in place of "important"
The number I saw was something like every 5 years the number of programmers doubles. So half if all devs have less than 5 years experience. And since most new devs are more likely to be closer to college age than retirement age devs tend to skew younger than 40 (probably by a lot).

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html
Personally, I use Syncthing to sync all my notes between computers and my phone, it works great!
Hopefully, a self-driving car would have waited for a safe opening to make the turn.
That wasn't a fight, that was market research.
How much time per day dop you spend looking for something to post your disdain about, as compared to how much time you actually focus on solutions? Im just curious
This is a bit different than a coop. This is the city government owning the store.
Once the fundamental underpinnings are well-established, expect a UX renaissance. Everyone knows the current UX is dogshit.

Either way, the table-stakes for digital and financial literacy in the modern world are rapidly changing, and we should be prepared for some increased level of baseline complexity in the coming decades.
Perhaps for a generation contribution, we can do that too. I do agree about Reactshite. Nice expression.
But when I search, I click based on a one-line description on the results page. Can you really tell anything based on the result thumbnails you see on the TT search page?

N.B. I last used TT in January, so if they have changed the search UI since then, I wouldn't be aware of it.
copy.ai even has a free plan for students.
A PE is not a certification, it's a license, legally-recognized by the state. (Like other licenses, such as for mental health counseling.) You have to take 2 tests, one to start, and another to finish, after 3 years of professional work. As with most engineering students, I took the first part (the EIT), but never took the second, as my job never needed it. I wish I had, though. It would have been a nice feather in my cap.

In any case, I can ASSURE you that it was comprehensive, and you have to "know your stuff" to pass it. I've been Microsoft certified, so I've seen this side too. If there were a similarly-reputable license in software engineering, there would NOT be "certification factories" to crank out people who can pass the cert test, and who can do little else. I don't know what the analogue for doing actual mechanical/electrical/civil engineering problems would be in the software engineering realm, but that's the KIND of thing that would have to be tested. It would require a working computer and internet access, and not a duffle bag of engineering textbooks, like I had. ;-)
Is that a rhetorical question? The fact they're trying it indicates the answer is yes!

On a serious note, I'd just like to emphasize how debilitating this condition can be. You can know what you want, know what you need to do to get it, and simply be unable to get going (or keep going), for months, for years... and the only thing you hear from others is how lazy you are and need to work harder.

As a ground-level example, you can have a task on your mind all day, to the point where you can't relax or do anything else productive, but still get nowhere with it.

I had some (limited) success with microdosing LSD, which I tried because I do not tolerate stimulants well. At its peak effectiveness, it became literally impossible to procrastinate because I would just be consciously, excruciatingly aware of trying to avoid a task. The only way to get it off my mind would be to deal with it.

So for a time it was extremely effective for me. Also some nice bonuses were it made me much more friendly and social, and fond of physical exercise.

I stopped for various reasons including the legality, availability, difficulty of dosing correctly, and also it woke me up to some things happening in the world that are very unpleasant to be thinking about on a regular basis. I rather went back to my usual half-asleep state of mind.
To be clear I am 100% in agreement that the meat industry is both unsustainable and unethical. However, specifically on GHG it really is not the worst offender.

Effectively if you would stop commuting with a car, reduced AC/Heating to bare minimum and simply bought less 'stuff' (non-essential goods), you would be doing more for the environment than not eating meat.

The unconfortable truth is that once we start discussing these things very few people are willing to curb their 'standard of living', in reality it is a first world luxury not a given right.

Nevertheless if you tell me that we need to curb meat consumption to avoid animal suffering than I am equally on board with you. But the environmental angle in my view is a distraction from the other elephants in the room.
Not OP, but I've been using SD to create logos for my Open Source projects!
I’m really into this gps game: https://wandrer.earth (I’m not the creator, just a fan)

It encourages you to walk/run/bike all the roads in a town/city/county and it tracks the percentage.

It’s a fun and creative way to go see parts of your area you wouldn’t otherwise. I’ve used it to walk 97% of the miles in Berkeley and seen so many funky little areas. I also really enjoy how much it has increased my walking over the last few years.