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Non-sequitur. You want to be crushed to death in 900 F heat on Venus? Or frozen in no atmosphere on Mars? I doubt many people reading the journal Nature would view "the wild" and "wilderness" as referring an extreme environment or another planet. It's not like we're talking about the Marianas Trench or the inside of a volcano crater here either.

It's about wilderness areas where people hope to see pristine nature, and how humans have tramped all over the world including what we now think of as "pristine".

Let's investigate that claim. Does OF physically and emotionally abuse its creators? Does it perpetuate human trafficking? Does OF create drug addiction and use that to control its creators? Does OF force its creators to have sexual contact with potentially violent or diseased/depraved individuals?

Ask yourself, would you prefer your family members to be under an IRL pimp or run their own OF?

If you look at this realistically, OF is not nearly as morally reprehensible as an IRL pimp.

What does TIBCO do? Well, I know their product WebFocus, curious if anyone else here uses it. It's basically an online platform for making charts, dashboards, scheduling data extracts for clients, etc. I'm in the healthcare domain, we use WebFocus to power a bunch of clinicians' products.

I will say, I think the product's technical underpinning is not ideal. Instead of just using SQL, they have a proprietary language built in which has similarities to SQL but is much less easy to read and use. For instance a lot is stored in Metadata tables that are many clicks away from the report they're referencing. Also, there are a few cryptic keywords and things specific to WebFocus, which is obviously not that widely used and doesn't have many S.O. posts about it. So you're left staring at some various mysterious keywords or specific-syntax and thinking, do I learn anything more about this than what I need to, since this product is probably not going to last and will end up in the dust-bin like many other proprietary products. And it's just not a very employable skill like SQL.

Overall, I don't like WebFocus, I think Tableau must be a couple notches better. But hey, my org is under-staffed and we don't have the manpower to change systems, so we're stuck with this.

What a low effort comment - as if burgers and cheese and big ole pieces of meat didn't exist before plastics? HN's comments are supposed to make the conversation more interesting and more engaging.

Plagiarizing aka Parent Comment just made an Open Source "library". What's wrong with using those??

Maybe there's a distribution of talent and skill in orgs, and it's nearly impossible to see if your new business partner will be great or terrible unless you have expertise in what they do...which you most likely don't if you're hiring them.

Further, how do I know if the web designer or plumber or mechanic is overcharging me, diagnosing problems I don't understand, or doing work that's not really needed?

Food seeking behavior =/= thin males =/= thin citizens. Lot of weak linkages happening there.

Why existential dread? We're extremely lucky to be alive. That one sperm hit that one egg and we survived to now. That is extremely unlucky, each of us is one sperm out of hundreds of millions, so savor this existence!!

People don't read things thoroughly for good reason: there's too much shit to read. If we read things thoroughly, we'd all waste our lives reading terms of service, user agreements, and fine print, and never get anything of value accomplished. Internet search and ctrl+F are some of the most time-saving inventions are conceived.

The headline from HN: "Nuclear turn green" (why the typo?)

The actual headline: "Gas and Nuclear Turn Green as EU Parliament Approves New Taxonomy" (HN left out gas)

So gas is actually being considered "green" now, so calling it a "cleaner" fuel as you do is actually what they're doing.

Industrial Revolutions required many things that Frodo's world lacked:

1) Abundant and cheap coal (heat, steel making, steam engines, etc). We know this didn't exist, for why should Saruman rely on the comparatively bad fuel of green wood to power his engine of war?

2) International demand for goods via global trade networks. The societies are clearly fragmented with little interchange...polar opposite of Europe in the 1750-1900 period.

3) Abundant laborers and innovators to create necessary machines. England had a number of innovative entrepeneurs who needed steam engines to pump water out of the mine so the miners could get the coal that was slightly deeper.

4) Scientific progress on metals, machining, and scientific method. Starting with Francis Bacon, Newton, and others, England saw a very strong burst of scientific progress right before industrialization.

5) Governmental support of industry (e.g. tariffs/regs in USA/Germany). This one is perhaps the hardest to study, we don't know much about governmental policy in LotR, but it seems to be monarchical and/or authoritarian, maybe war-lord driven...not what you need for an economic-technological revolution.

LotR in Frodo's Day is a sparsely populated world that used to be grand. If the Elves and Numenorians of old, with all their splendor, didn't start a revolution, then how could the ghost-towns of men and elves?

I thought the distinction was: "white papers" are not necessarily peer-reviewed by an academic journal's editors; white papers tend to be internally-made documents within an organization, edited by that organization's members, for the purpose of knowledge/information.

Academic papers as a whole can include both "white papers" and "peer-reviewed journal articles" aka the "papers" that many think of. I would surely put a "white paper" onto my resume if I thought it was a great piece of work.

We store confidential code on Github. How do I know it hasn't been used in CoPilot?

I think the average person living in today's world has it way better than 99% of humans in history, it's easily the best time to be alive. Infant mortality, life expectancy, chances of dying to violence or starvation or preventable disease, all kinds of gruesome things have drastically declined over the course of history and civilization. When else was it possible for most healthy people to live to 70, to travel the world a few times, and to live in relative peace and harmony?

And entertainment, joy in the arts, categories of aesthetics have vastly improved as well. Look at art and film and music in the past five hundred years. Look at the works of Bach and anyone before him, he's clearly the greatest musician known in the world up to 1750, and since him in just 275 years, we've had hundreds of phenomenal musicians that outrank any before Bach. This is one mere slice of culture which is evidence of the vast improvement in human capability in modern times.

I didn't downvote you, however I think people may dislike the idea of one having their own pet hypothesis without linking serious evidence to back it up. Amyloid plaques have been heavily studied and may have some tangential but real link to Alzheimer's, it's a plaquey protein found in the brain along with Beta-Tau which is another protein I believe. I personally haven't heard of any fungi theory yet, the main ones I've heard were viral things, pollution, or perhaps some breakdown in the brain's ability to clean itself up over time. And why are certain individuals spared and not others? I know there are genes that predispose one to it, and there are early-onset cases which come on more often than others.

If it was anything obvious in the environment, I'd hope we'd know by now...but it may be something hard to measure in large epidemiological studies like a more rare pollutant or something we overlooked in creating large observational datasets?

Anyway, I'd encourage you to link the best studies you've found and that may help some to read them.

In northern New England, we see a lot of homes using heating oil and woodstoves. These create a lot of local emissions and can be expensive or use a lot of time/effort (woodstoves). Heat pumps that work especially well in cold climates would be a huge efficiency gain over oil, woodstoves, and electric resistive space heaters which are also commonly used as stop-gaps in the region.

Consider: ADHD reduces executive functions, which are like the "secretary" of the mind. This means they can not direct attention onto where they need to: work, school, onto family and friends, etc. Those with ADHD have less 3 friendships on average, due to less ability to hold their attention on others. As they age, they may find relief in drugs like cocaine, caffeine, nicotine, and THC, which may lead to more drug abuse than neurotypical people. They're more likely to commit suicide. These are evidence-backed conclusions from the literature, which I reviewed for my MS.

All of these problems then feed into depression and anxiety. Is that so hard to believe? Less friends, less success, more abuse of substances, it's a potentially rough life.

If so, look at these articles, which review the hard evidence and find there's very strong links between ADHD and depression, and anxiety: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990565/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6493806/

This is an old article, it's 15 years old which makes it ancient in the battery world. I have a Prius from that generation and mine doesn't have V2G. I can't find any numbers, how many Priuses actually have V2G capability?

Wow! Give yourself some credit, you're doing great friend, holding down all those systems, that's a very hard job!

From personal experience, I haven't written any libraries or frameworks and I'm definitely a like 40th-50th percentile coder at best. But I do have family, friends, hobbies, outdoor recreation, exercise, and meaningful contemplation in my life.

This means that though I'm not shreking code 24/7, I have all these wonderful things to recharge my batteries. When I do sit down at work for those 30-40 hours, I get what I need to done, not worrying if it's via stack overflow, copy-pasta, or any method.

And that's totally fine, you don't need to re-invent the wheel or be a wunderkind, just be yourself and take AMPLE time to do things you love outside of work.

Even if you think objectively, in this case, he's most likely underpaid and undervalued by the startup.

1. He's working much longer hours than he's paid for, probably for pie-in-the-sky options that 95% chance won't amount to a true pay-off for his hustle

2. He doesn't seem to have advocated for himself or his own happiness, he's going along with this burnout inducing program

3. He's clearly modest -- he's been coding for ~10 years and he's in his mid-20's. That is a highly employable situation in our field, he could easily get another job IMO.

Why should it be a right that we are bound to as modern citizens? I didn't sign off on the 2nd amendment, it was signed off on 250 years ago by a small group of pre-modern colonial elites. It originally was considered useful because colonists and local militias needed to be able to defend themselves from the British, and to not lose their means to hunt or protect themselves before police.

These days, we have autonomy in our own country, no British will invade us now. What is the purpose of keeping the full right to any gun ownership, if it's not a good thing for the nation? We didn't keep slavery when we realized it was wrong, how bad must it become before we say guns be restricted to use by qualified and safe individuals?

And the idea of "arms" as only guns is silly, there are restrictions on many sorts of weaponry, including guns, so there is not an absolute right for any citizen to have guns at any time already. There are already restrictions and they're neither enforced nor strong enough.

I think your equation isn't apt. Facebook likes run through personalized networks and are fed to users by privately curated algorithms which prioritize engagement and serving ads to benefit: Facebook.

In contrast, a pure democracy would be open questions and elections to any adult who is a citizen, without algorithms and corporate motivation interceding. This would theoretically benefit the aggregate voter: the citizens who vote.

What is a techno bush doof?

Shoutout to the greatest album released in the 2010's, Yo Yo Ma and Chris Thile's Goat Rodeo Session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-31e8Nlujw

For a long time, a friend recorded TV shows and movies on multiple VCRs. I went to their house, it was literally stacks of video casettes on every wall surface, thousands of them. They even used to mail them back and forth to other countries in trades for other English content.

Nowadays, they digitized all of it onto 12 2 TB harddrives. They take a different one out every evening and organize and share, get more things, etc. While the cost may be comparable, the fact that they could regain their house walls was a huge boon.

I think every single field has complexified throughout history. Agriculture now has dozens of chemicals and large machinery. Woodworking now has advanced machinery and a handful of ways to do the same cuts. Music evolved from Gregorian Chant to Bach to Jazz. Software is no different, humans invent more tools and techniques in each field over time.

I don't think engineers are willingly screwing themselves. Does anyone here choose to adopt something they know will screw them over? We may be forced into decisions by higher-ups or by colleagues or associates, but those people generally have some reason behind their actions, they don't willfully screw engineers for fun.

The field as a whole, none of us individually can control where it goes. If your org sticks with proven older tech, it will do zero to prevent new frameworks from cropping up everywhere else. If you adopt any newer technology, you're now becoming a user, increasing its relevance, helping to test it and prove it, finding bugs and errors.

So no, "we" have not "screwed ourselves". It's simply human nature to complexify and add more tools over time.

Is it surprising that as the Minecraft generation gets older, some of them might think, why not build a huge underground base?

You're mathematically incorrect, unless you consider a typical worker saving 25% of their take-home "doing nothing".

A typical take-home for a month's work in US might be $3000. Cheaper rent could net you $300-$600 more, which is between 10-20% of your take-home. Not going to Starbucks every day, saving $5 a day let's say, works out to 5*30 = $150 bucks a month, a full 5% of the take-home pay.

Is 25% really nothing? Maybe you make so much money that $450 bucks a month isn't a big deal, but most people don't see the insidious nature of costly habits and how they're spending thousands per year on their quality of living.

Stop Drinking Calories. No alcohol, no soda, no fruit juice. This is by far the easiest way to lose weight.

Bonus: You don't need to eat what's in front of you. My family looks weirdly at me because I remove half the bread from a sandwich where the bread is too large. You don't have eat anything, you don't have to waste your caloric budget on "bad carbs".

I think your odd use of the exclamation mark is a great counter-example to your comment! After a long sentence with zero commas, here we have a punctuation mark! It doesn't exclaim, as in "Watch Out!" or "This is amazing!"! It's a questionable choice, it makes the reader think: why is this here? Is this writer casually throwing out punctuation that isn't needed?

That cognitive interruption, which I've kindly added multiple times to my first paragraph, is precisely what McCarthy says not to do in the very first bullet point of the article:

"Use minimalism to achieve clarity. While you are writing, ask yourself: is it possible to preserve my original message without that punctuation mark, that word, that sentence, that paragraph or that section? Remove extra words or commas whenever you can."