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Tech isn't even close to being among the top sectors contributing to energy consumption

Problem is, they're still relying on oil in a truck to deliver those groceries.

Guy in the suburb needs to turn their lawn into a full garden and become as self-sufficient as possible

timestamps at right need to be clickable.

check out the concept of NAIRU

Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla, Oracle, Caterpillar, Booking, BlackRock, Progressive... not quite so unique. Progressive is by far the worst in this small selection, but I'm sure we could find even worse ones if we did a proper Fortune 500 audit.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=alphabet%2Cama...

Turns out, the link actually would help you learn instead of guessing!

> It'll dry up and be like it never happened in no time.

With more rain slated for today and Sunday, and the fact that it ends on Monday, I wouldn't be so optimistic.

source?

what are you implying?

> to coin a song

You're not coining a new phrase with that, you're just referencing an existing song. Coining would mean you created the song yourself. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coin

> We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

The ball feels a little gimmicky but otherwise in general I am in favor. The whole point of no laptops / standing / forced attention is to actually cut down on the meeting time by encouraging people to be present. When people can tune out and multitask, you get wasted meetings. If people are paying attention, they'll call out time wasting.

> I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

Why is this a problem?

> We spent more time estimating story points than writing software

This I just really don't believe. Perhaps it was meant in jest / hyperbole and does not actually represent a true accounting of time. If actually true, this is not a problem with scrum, but with your organization. Just because a process is misused doesn't mean the whole thing is useless.

> scrum is not for developers

Probably the biggest thing I definitely agree with. You know what else isn't "for developers?" The existence of the business itself.

>In school, you hand in your homework, get the feedback only after Christmas.

Is this supposed to be a problem? Research says that delays in getting corrections are not all that important, you still end up learning even if there's a fairly large gap. https://pcl.sitehost.iu.edu/rgoldsto/courses/dunloskyimprovi...

The "flipped classroom" model has been around for quite a while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom

I think your comment is misleading. Most fonts in use on the web today are actually proprietary and not open source. https://jichu4n.com/posts/the-most-popular-fonts-on-the-web-... -- Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Georgia, Helvetica are all proprietary.

How is this making anything "worse for everyone else?"

What are you doing to make "Oakland, or Richmond, or the kind of neighborhoods I can actually afford to live in" better?

This is a cool UI -- haven't seen the ability to add Cloze / regular Q&A style integrated in this way.

A few things I've noticed:

* during my first review the "Skip" and "Reveal" buttons didn't seem to work for me. when I exited and re-entered, they worked but presented the same cards anyway. I'd expect skipping to mean that I'm skipping at least for this session, if not for this whole day.

* my leaderboard has two people, both with the same name. I imagine this is me? Unclear who the leaderboard would be comparing me to since it looks like it's subject-specific.

* nice that you don't have to sign up for an account and can just jump in right away.

More generally, the challenge I've found with using AI for Anki-style quizzing is the hallucination -- I'd hate to find out I invested time into learning & retaining something that turns out to be wrong. How do you think about this risk / do you do any interesting stuff on the back-end to mitigate?

This stuff only works if market participants abide by the law, which we know they don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

The other issue you run into is cost of getting to competing offers. In your example, you can just ask a dealer for a quote and they'll give it to you, with little to no work on your part. In tech, you have to go through multiple hours of interviews to get this information.

It's no wonder that people are resistant to go interview. Especially when you can get most of this information much more easily through levels.fyi.

"A lot of people" don't have a Linux computer, and especially not a home server.

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

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

right, just like you can change the provider of your hosting.

What a cynical take. For your own sake, I'd recommend looking for more positives in others.

I don't think it's subtle at all. Pick existing popular technologies / frameworks. If you like to gamble a bit, pick those that you see growing quickly. Invest time in learning new stuff (ideally, on an employer's dime) throughout your career.

If you don't care about being on the 'bleeding edge', you really don't have to think about it too hard and you'll have plenty of job opportunities.

The trick with these kinds of questions is to take a page from a politician's book and not answer it directly if you feel like you'd have to say "no".

"I built X system in [somewhat adjacent domain]", "[hyper specific domain] is a subset of my work in [more general domain]" etc.

You're just arguing semantics. And the example given can go the other way: if your Ford motor plant closes and the only places hiring are software shops, you'd also be "fucked".

not sure this is that specific to sqlalchemy, you could say this really about any ORM

fun story. in general i find it preferable to have a brief TLDR section of 2-3 sentences before an email, and then use the more traditional approach below. i think it can be a bit jarring of a read otherwise -- having a summary on top still accomplishes the same thing

the whole reason Amazon has it's own drivers is because they can pay them way less. your example would actually represent a big success since ups/dhl/FedEx drivers have much better job security and benefits.

that kind of setup is actually fairly rare -- most of the work done in this sector is by large companies that have tens to hundreds of concurrent contracts from various government agencies. speaking from experience

People in software are not making "bananas money," they are capturing just a tiny amount of the wealth that they are creating.

If you think a negotiation between a single individual vs. a company of tens of thousands (or, likely, a cartel of companies of millions of combined employees a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...) is anywhere close to an even fight, you're naive.

Looking at the paper, their "10 to 20%" figure is based off of three studies, one for call center employees, one for Indian data-entry workers, and one for Indian IT professionals. The one closest to most of HN's audience is the IT professionals case, and even in that one they note "measured performance among these workers remained constant while remote." In addition, they only mention how "productivity" is being assessed for the call center case (call volumes), not the other two.

Personally, I wouldn't really call this "hard data." It's also interesting that the same authors previously found the opposite effect -- https://wfhresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Barrero-A...