jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Pretty much all of the examples you used of codeless tooling (drag 'n' drop programming, visual state machines and graph editors, database FK diagrams, etc) still still require an undergrad-level CS education - or considerable experience - to understand and use correctly - to that extent they're just time-saving tools that use a graphical UI to hand-wave away tedium in software development (not to denigrate them: time-saving tools and eliminating tedium is important!)- but I argue it's a disservice to everyone to let the uninitiated use these easy-to-use tools for production systems without necessary formal introduction (of course they're still a fantastic didactical aid).

A great example of GUI winning over code or the command-line is a UI to allow people to arbitrarily reorder items: a drag-the-grab-handle UI is a hundred-fold better than manually entering new sort-orders for each item in a command-line array or other UI. This is, at least, the very kinds of things that visual tooling should be used for by everyone from Scratch-lang kids to SV elites.

Another example you gave is of "visual interface editing" - but while you acknowledge the problems that FrontPage and Dreamweaver had decades ago, WYSIWYG is still dead, having retreated back to its origins in print-media design. The old VB6-era "drag controls from the toolbox onto the form surface" is dead because one cannot easily express any kind of non-trivial layout logic using that approach: things like CSS' flexbox, CSS grid (with auto-placement and auto-flow) and @media queries absolutely require one to grok CSS' visual formatting model, which in-turn implies someone will already be more expressive by writing CSS by hand instead of using a mouse to choose from some predefined options (I appreciate XCode's Interface Builder and constraints model is very nice and shows how it can be done right, but explaining how the constraints system works and how it should be used ends up with me having to redo the work of the designer on my team. Ugh.

Another issue with visual-tooling is that unless the tooling vendor happens to control the spec that it's generating code for then the tooling will invariably and inevitably fall-behind and have limited value for more advanced users (e.g. TopStyle) - or if the tooling is meant to abstract-away multiple different backends then the tooling is doomed to support only a common denominator and won't be taken seriously by too many people (e.g. MS Word's Save-for-Web) - we've seen both of these happen with visual tooling for the web, especially with Chrome's rapid frequent releases and the everchanging spec for CSS. Web-design is now even more inaccessible as it was in the late-1990s (and is no-longer the butt of jokes: turns out the CEO's 12 year-old nephew can't apply CSS selector specificity rules - which, I note, is another angle of CSS that visual tooling just can't accommodate).
It might be the same with 'trains' (steam engines); I don't know much about that. But losing skills in 'the cloud' makes you prisoner to PaaS/SaaS providers; if these skills almost completely disappear (let's say, akin to your transistor gates, that almost no-one can install or maintain server setups anymore), the cloud providers really can do whatever they want price wise. For instance, if a cloud provider misconfigures something at scale in this great future, there is no way for anyone to verify that; it might be that you are paying 1000x what you should be paying for a particular database query that triggers a perfect storm in your set-up. As no-one in your company knows and no-one can check what or even if this is going on, it'll be considered 'normal' and you just pay. This is already happening, at scale, but not due to the cloud provider's fault, but because people are already not learning skills. If I would have $100 for every missing index I find per month in client's setups, I would be working a few hours/month for a very nice wage. Heck, most startup databases I see these days don't have any indexes at all; and then they wonder why they are paying $10k/month at aws while I can get them the same or better performance for a few bucks/month on a vps. Not because I'm so smart, but just doing everything 'low-level' wrong because no-one simply knows anymore how a database works (it's the cloud! we shouldn't have to!). It's not restricted to relational dbs either; sometimes I cry when I see dynamodb setups made by people who think this is just the cloud way of working; 'throw in whatever data, it'll always optimise itself'. So this is already happening at many companies and it's getting worse.
The thing is they did this for everyone in Australia and it isn't as if your average citizen doesn't get this. Our politicians are the ones doing this and it isn't because they are stupid, it's because they have Murdoch's hand so far up their ass you can see his fingernails when they talk.

Infantalising us regular people who think what the government is doing is dumb isn't winning them favours
Sites and apps in Chinese:

Baidu Wangpan (百度网盘): file-sync service like Dropbox, but gives you 2TB (terrabytes!) of free storage

Tengxun Ketang (腾讯课堂): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free courses on programming, machine learning, and technical topics

Wanmen Daxue (万门大学): similar to edX/coursera, they have a lot of free foreign language classes and lectures on economics/social sciences

HKGolden (香港高登): Hong Kong forum on tech and software, similar to reddit

Huxiu (虎嗅): tech news site

Toutiao Xinwen (头条新闻): news aggregator site, has categories and comments

Zhihu (知乎): QA platform, similar to Quora

Zhihu Zhuanlan (知乎专栏): blogging platform, similar to Medium

Ximalaya FM (喜马拉雅 FM): podcasts app

Duokan (多看): ebooks app similar to Kindle

Douyin (抖音): Chinese version of Tiktok

iQiyi (爱奇艺): video site with tons of movies and dramas

JD (京东): amazon-like marketplace with same-day delivery

Taobao (淘宝): ebay-like peer-to-peer marketplace

Weibo (新浪微博): microblogging site like Twitter

Zhifubao (支付宝): peer-to-peer payments app that works by scanning QR codes, very widely accepted in China

Wechat (微信): messaging app that also has tons of micro-apps and payment functionality built in
Nah, the British are just delaying the doses, without any kind of trial in play (other than population-level observation).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_gov...

On December 8, 2020, the cybersecurity firm FireEye announced that red team tools had been stolen from it by what it believed to be a state-sponsored attacker.[106][107][108] FireEye was believed to be a target of the SVR, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service.[27][109] FireEye says that it discovered the SolarWinds supply chain attack in the course of investigating FireEye's own breach and tool theft.[110][111]

After discovering that attack, FireEye reported it to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a federal agency responsible for helping to defend the U.S. from cyberattacks.[1] The NSA is not known to have been aware of the attack before being notified by FireEye.[1] The NSA uses SolarWinds software itself.[1]
Yay, games are a separate category! The art circles might keep their eyes closed, but the finance will keep them wide open.
Yes. At the earliest stage i needed money so i partnered with a friend who had nothing to do with what i was working on. I always kept him in the loop out of courtesy, but it back fired when he started refusing some of the decisions and pushing his own. To get rid of him i paid 4X what he originally invested and i'm still going through a lawsuit right now. i'm paying for all this from my revenue and end up having nothing for myself. Hopefully the judge will dismiss the case and this nightmare will end.
It's not more of a mess than IPv4. It's okay, people can learn it as they learned the weirdness of IPv4 (DHCP, ARP, NAT, RFC1918, IP fragmentation, ...).
It's asking for my email to check if my census data has been leaked? Email isn't even shown as a field in the leaked records. Is this site just harvesting emails?
At least in the current system, a home is the best hope that for many people if they wish to have an 'asset' that is concrete and tangible. The practicality of it (i.e. basic human need for shelter) also makes it one of the best 'assets' to pass to your children.

Remember: unless the house was seriously overvalued, as long as you held onto/maintained your house through the 2008 housing crash, it's still worth more than it was pre crash.
His color theory is quite flawed. Keep away from it if you don't want to waste your time. He was a much better poet than scientist.
All the big UK ISPs do. This is targeted at CP but who knows what else gets covered.
If people are collectively idiots, then telling 'white' lies like this only throws fuel on the fire by eroding what little trust people have in genuine authorities/experts. Without trust in those authorities/experts, the 'idiot' collective masses will behave even stupider.
Not every piece is the same. If you check sites like bricklink you will find that some shapes and colors are more highly valued than others. This because they only showed up in a couple of sets within a limited time span, in essence making them a limited commodity.

Btw, i found myself reminded of a two panel comic about plastic.

Panel 1: scientist in the 1960s: "yay, plastic lasts forever!"

Panel 2: scientist in the 2000: "crap, plastic lasts forever!"
Just went to do a Yahoo search out of interest. The landing page was reasonable...but the search results page were horrible. Look like something out of the late 90s.

Maybe I have come to appreciate Google's integrated search results that show snippets of News, Images and a kind of Wiki summary, all at the top in a well structured way.
Forget the study, people belonging to Jainism know this for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism
At work we've been running into problems performing npm installs over a VPN. I'm suspicious that it relates to executing too many concurrent HTTP requests. This motivated me to create crapify, a tool which lets us experiment with throttling connection speed and concurrency.
This is a perpetual (lifetime) license not yearly. You only need to pay if you want to upgrade. The price is not $59/year, the price is $29 to extend one year free of updates.
I think without the tab limitation, you can be happier, more productive and earn more than $29/year.
Speaking as an information security professional, it is a damn good idea to implement SSL/TLS on any login field.

That said, as (mostly) technical people here at HN, we should realize that putting our machines in a position where traffic could be sniffed or altered--that is, on the same public WiFi or subnet as a malicious user--is risky to begin with. DNS and ARP poisoning could redirect any HTTP requests to anywhere else on the Internet whether or not it's trying to initiate an encrypted connection. SSL is an important aspect of security, but can't be relied upon to protect you in a hostile environment.
This isn't the right place for you to project your frustrations and prejudices.
I don't think he's making any claims that this comes from first person experience.
Maybe offer an eBook for sale (or plug one from an affiliate program) detailing ways to create effective ads with easy tips, wording suggestions, other research, etc.
I think some people have different "career goals" than other people. Some people want to show up and keep their chair warm from 9-5 every day for 4 years, to get their small pay increase and title bump.

Others want to come into the company with the title "Awesome Excellent Programmer", work on something cool, and leave the company after they've done something interesting with the title "Awesome Excellent Programmer". These people do not get upset when they are not promoted for doing nothing, and do not tend to write bad reviews. They also tend to be the better programmers.

(I realized this recently. To get a bump up in my title and salary at my current job, I basically have to "serve my time". The fact that I'm much better at programming than other people does not accelerate the process; promoting me now would make the "time" that others have put in less meaningful. If I was promoted, then they would all quit and write bitter reviews like the one linked in this thread. "This company sucks, all they do is hire long-haired hippies that tell me to write tests! I have 20 years of experience, why would they let this nobody have a minimally meaningful title!?", it would read. Now, if it was my company, I would want highly-paid people that can't program to leave. But I am not a highly-paid person that can't program, and they make the rules. Oh well, at least I get a good laugh.)
I learned by talking to law enforcement types that used to hang around our computer store that unlike the "violent ballet" in movies most gunfights unfold with both combatants clumsily emptying their weapons in each others general direction, then staggering out to wait for the paramedics.
Let's be rational and look at the facts. Facebook has the technical ability to spy on all it's users, and more. Their revenues are ad-based. Targeted ads are all the rage. Conclusion: Facebook's very existence rely on massive spying.

There is no measured response. The facts themselves are too unbalanced for the FSF to appear measured without being overly generous to Facebook.
I've been using Rapportive, but it's more like Gist with better Gmail integration than a CRM
Also let's not forget about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal heard only one reference to Japanese experiments with "poisonous serums" on Chinese civilians. ... The Japanese defense counselor argued that the claim was vague and uncorroborated and it was dismissed by the tribunal president, Sir William Webb, for lack of evidence.

Some former members of Unit 731 became part of the Japanese medical establishment. Dr. Masaji Kitano led Japan's largest pharmaceutical company, the Green Cross. Others headed U.S.-backed medical schools or worked for the Japanese health ministry. Shiro Ishii moved to Maryland to work on bio-weapons research.
I think the story is about how one (possible) attempt at humor can reverberate some very different misinformation through history, not just a bad twitter thread.
I think my response was speaking more broadly about censorship, not just specifically about torrenting.
That's not what I meant by "building from source" and you know it.
CloudFlare is automatically blocking visitors from the Tor network. This being a security CTF I suggest you enable Tor users from the CloudFlare settings.
I don't think the headline "Only 22% of YC Startups have a Female Founder" is any less glaring.
And the great-grandparent was saying nowhere has 330mls apart from America. You're both wrong, many countries have 330ml beers, and they can be the cheap beers.
Abelson makes this point in the opening seconds of his 1986 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course.

Lecture 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA

He explains that Computer Science is a terrible name – it's not a science, and "not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes".
I have done this! I encourage others to do so as well. Block Facebook IPs at your computer DNS level with this: https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/corporatio...
Epoch creation is covered by a totally different set of process rules, for the reasons you've stated. These rules are mainly intended to make it much harder for someone to gain access to the system if they weren't there when the system initially was blocked off from the world.
This may be obvious, but is GTAV the most successful online shooter on the planet? (Never played it)
It wasn't though. The cube had a few extras built in, particularly in texturing (compression and a texture register combiner), but in terms of flexibility and straight line speed the ps2 is definitely ahead. Burnout 3 and revenge, for example, were not possible on gamecube at the same level of performance. Gamecube has no vertex shader equivalent and has less than 1/2 the SIMD throughput per clock.
I bet if the devs did more leetcode this would have never happened /s
Thanks for sharing this, didn't have a name for this scenario.
The institutional arrangements of the American System were initially formulated by first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, who proposed the creation of a government-sponsored bank and increased tariffs to encourage industrial development

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Bank_of_the_United_Sta...

Jefferson did not change Hamilton's basic policies. As president in 1811 Madison let the bank charter expire, but the War of 1812 proved the need for a national bank and Madison reversed positions. The Second Bank of the United States was established in 1816, with a 20-year charter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bank_of_the_United_St...
Chances are you already have all the hard skills you need.

The most useful skill is communication. Being able to "talk the talk", market yourself and come off an interesting and intelligent individual is the greatest asset somebody can have.

Also, learn another language (aim to know three). This is especially important if you happen to live in Europe where most companies are a mixed bag of various nations.
What do you want to do with your "best marketable skill"?
Earn more money? Join great startups? It will help us give you some advices.
The text is set to 22px, then that style is overwritten with '100%', meaning 22px. This is huge by desktop standards. 3% of people will be reading your words with an iPad. A much more common font size would be about 16px.
You're right; IIRC some SGIs show a whole screenful of penguins. But you're kind of derailing the conversation.
I agree with you, but here is a direct quote from the article:

“it can be used for prevention of infection for people who are being exposed or it could be used for therapy for those who are sick.” This is not something to generally be handing out to people after simple exposure.
And look what's happened to the housing market. Look at homeownership rates for 25-35's now vs. 40 years ago. There are some issues.
my understanding is that Cepheid has 23,000 testing machines. 5,000 of them are in US.
The new test cartridge will work on existing machines. [1]

FDA approval is for the specific test, not for the machine itself (as those did not need to change).

I was searching for analogous situation, where these machines were able to accurately detect other infections
and it seems that they were able to perform at 100% for
flu-A at 100% accuracy. [2]

My impression sofar, is that FDA was definitely asked to work faster and more efficient, but it does not seem like that they had 'cut corners' so to speak, and approved something out of the 'blue'.

[1]https://www.lucianne.com/2020/03/21/rapid_coronavirus_test_a...

[2]https://www.labmedica.com/microbiology/articles/294780980/po...
FTL is punishing to me, and people who've won it describe it as hugely chance-based, i.e. that though there are some prevalent strategies, chance is likely to ruin them (and not just in the first few jumps).

For the sake of curiosity, can you describe those surefire ways to win?
I think they are more harmful than good (although in the past it might have been more neutral, although I am still against copyright/patent laws in general). I think patents and copyright should be abolished (although trademarks might be useful, although I don't know if the trademark laws should be altered a bit maybe). Stuff I write myself I make it to be public domain because I don't like copyright. Copyright/patents don't promote inventions; they tend to hinder it instead, I think.
Note also that in Italy, deaths from coronavirus have already surpassed yearly deaths from auto accidents—-and this is just the beginning.
Users flagged it. Moderators haven't touched it.

Generally, we moderate HN less when YC is involved: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

In this case the post and account are obviously trollish, though, so we would moderate it if users hadn't already flagged it. "Less" doesn't mean "not at all".
An important caveat here is that it’s from a low base; Dublin has a massive property crisis and there are typically very few rentals on the market.
Do you have any source

I hope this idea will catch on and other browser vendors will implement this feature as well.
Cool!

> Metamon has hitherto been an internal tool that provides a reusable set of Ansible Playbooks that help us quickly start new projects by skipping environment configuration and automation.

Having built your tool for a specific purpose means it can avoid scope creep.

I built something somewhat similar [0], but use Puppet, added a GUI and keep adding more and more features. Right now you can set up a VM with PHP, HHVM, Ruby, Python, Node.js or a mix of all these. High on my to-do list is to allow setting up Python/Ruby/Node.js apps using Apache/Nginx.

[0] - https://puphpet.com
Yeah, managing memory with malloc and free directly was a nightmare. Back when I worked with Java, however, GC still suffered from unpredictable performance as well as a requirement to have much larger heaps. Are these now mostly solved problems? If not, what do you think of something like this (syntax aside):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointer#C.2B.2B_smart_poi...

My personal experience with similar such systems was that even when performance was not a concern the cost of having to untangle and document my reference structure was well worth the time.

Has any language ever gotten the balance of tradeoffs for finalizers right for strong GC?
Author here. I found that no other Flux implementation really helped with fetching data in a Fluxy way. There tended to be a lot of boiler plate code for binding stores to components. Furthermore, there was a lack of tooling for debugging. Marty helps combat these issues by introducing a number of new things:

- Fetch API for fetching data asynchronously without callbacks http://martyjs.org/guides/stores/fetching-data.html
- State Mixins for binding stores to views http://martyjs.org/api/state-mixin/
- State sources for syncing state from heterogeneous sources http://martyjs.org/guides/state-sources/index.html
- Chrome Developer extension (beta) for visualising the data flow and state of stores http://martyjs.org/devtools/
Well... I think it also took a cold war between two economic systems, multiple hot wars in Asia, and the maturation of social democracy to do so but yeah your point stands.

(Love your username btw)
> I wonder if we find a billionaire from the top 20 wealthiest who hasn’t at some level

No absolutely not. Id even say that you wont find more than a handful of billionaires who havent built their wealth on exploitation.

Its such a massive amount of wealth to have, it is virtually always precluded by harming others. The only exceptions I can think of are company founders who got exceedingly lucky, and even then you could definitely stretch the definition of exploitation to include them too.
Heh, I meant that the threat - and our relatively poor understanding of it - is terrifying.

Thanks for the additional detail.