Hacker News: jchoca

New comment by jchoca in "Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California"

jchoca — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:12:37 +0000

Maybe "most companies" was the wrong choice of wording. How about "most large companies that actually influence the world?"

>Most people in business, like most people generally, are ethical human beings. Good to deal with, trust worthy and reliable.

It doesn't matter if the people you've anecdotally dealt with are ethical. It doesn't even matter if most of the people "in business" are ethical. The incentive structure to make the right choice for large public companies, or even venture-backed private ones just isn't there.

I wish I was incorrect, but I'm not. If I was, we wouldn't still have companies producing fossil fuels, animal agriculture, or surveillance capitalism.

New comment by jchoca in "Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California"

jchoca — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 20:34:21 +0000

You say that, but it’s how most companies operate unfortunately.

New comment by jchoca in "r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes"

jchoca — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:26:43 +0000

I just started using this service: https://controld.com/

$20 a year and acts as an ad-blocker too. NextDNS is another one. It's nice you don't need to install anything (other than configuring DNS). Using DNS for ad-blocking also avoids the "we noticed you're using an ad-blocker" popups.

New comment by jchoca in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

jchoca — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:21:29 +0000

Facebook bought it up because they saw the opportunity for that sweet behavioral surplus and just couldn't pass it up.

New comment by jchoca in "Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus"

jchoca — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 15:46:32 +0000

I think the problem is not with threads themselves but with Slack's implementation. Threads provide a much-needed way of creating a discussion around a specific topic that doesn't pollute the main channel. In Slack they seem like more of an afterthought than a primary communication tool.

New comment by jchoca in "Vegetarian women more likely to fracture hips in later life"

jchoca — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:21:43 +0000

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989112/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23372809/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...

New comment by jchoca in "Vegetarian women more likely to fracture hips in later life"

jchoca — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:38:44 +0000

If we care about collateral damage done to animals due to plant farming, then we should still stop eating animals due to the efficiency loss in calories when converting plants to animal calories. 70% of soy is grown for animal feed, and so is something like 50% of corn. Don't tell me all cows just need to be grazing all the time. There just isn't enough land for that. Even assuming 100% of our calories aren't coming from meat.

The carnivore diet simply isn't sustainable. Suggesting that's something the entire human race should be doing is lunacy. I'd wager all these people who feel good on the carnivore diet feel that way because they've stopped consuming processed carbs and other garbage. Meanwhile that diet and keto are associated with increase in all-cause mortality.

New comment by jchoca in "NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings"

jchoca — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 23:02:01 +0000

>Those who choose not to get vaccinated are making a risk calculation; they are making a choice.

Yes, but that choice does not only impact them. Being disallowed the luxury of going to restaurants and bars could be seen as a form of payment for creating that externality.

New comment by jchoca in "Software Disenchantment (2018)"

jchoca — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 23:39:31 +0000

I wish more companies thought like this in general. I often think about the nature of the work I'm doing as a developer and wonder if it's making society better off as a whole. The answer is usually a resounding no.

New comment by jchoca in "Edward Snowden on The Joe Rogan Experience [video]"

jchoca — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:11:03 +0000

Having guests with opposing views doesn't make it less of an echo chamber when the host is totally biased towards one of the opposing viewpoints.

New comment by jchoca in "People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day"

jchoca — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:12:11 +0000

I wonder what effects the lack of variety might have on someone's gut bacteria.

New comment by jchoca in "Functional programming in C++ (2012)"

jchoca — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:06:31 +0000

If you haven't heard of John Carmack I highly recommend this book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom

New comment by jchoca in "Stop Learning Frameworks"

jchoca — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:29:37 +0000

Completely agree. I think it would be okay to pick up a book on React or whatever, but only after I've had some real-world experience with it so I can actually appreciate the concepts.

New comment by jchoca in "How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? (2013)"

jchoca — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:42:27 +0000

One of my friends started a company that basically does that. It's called Qualaris (http://qualaris.com/).

New comment by jchoca in "REST Anti-patterns"

jchoca — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:27:07 +0000

A less related question: how do you decide between adding something as a property vs. creating a new subresource?