skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cute article, but worthless and shallow.

Sure you can replace 4-5 lines of python with some box-based UI rule system, but anybody who’s not first week out of a 2 week coding boot-camp knows that the devil is in the detail. What if instead of “display error” it’s “try again if it’s a mail server error up to a maximum of 4 tries then email the administrator and save debugging info”

Then what about a loop? Have you ever tried to debug a loop in a UI programming environment? What about a complex loop with custom data types and no ability to see a stack trace or variable list? You gotta put print dialogs and system exits all over the place, and oh, the print dialog only prints a small string? Now you gotta do 1 variable at a time, 200 times to debug. Now I’m showing this to the “non-coder” who’s thinking “this is a giant headache” - and you know what??? HE IS RIGHT, because we have both been forced to use this crappy, blunt tool. Wasn’t this supposed to make things EASIER? Now the business guy AND the programmer are tied up trying to shoehorn what would otherwise be trivial for the programmer into this weeks novelty rinky-dink “no code” tool

Ui drag and drop replacements only work for trivial examples, or they become a giant unmaintainable spaghetti diagram that’s so complex you can’t even follow the lines, let alone understand program control flow.

The fundamental problem with existing software is composability. Us geeks have it at the command line, but regular users can’t pipe their brower through grep them to their printer,

Users are stuck with the fixed options available at software design time, if we could standardise a composable interface on all software (I don’t think “bytes” is the right abstraction for this, it’s too low level) then users can start dynamically composing their own solutions, which will take a decent shift in thinking for most people - but a generational cycle will fix it if young kids grow up taking composability for granted
You mean compared to Google and Facebook?

DDG is a tiny company that owes its small measure of success to building and maintaining a good reputation among devs and other tech-savvy, privacy-conscious users.
My retired W520 got a 170 W one. So, they're out there. But probably only a few.
New Year’s Resolution: Ignore Predictions
This delusion is especially visible in the DevOps space. For some reason we have decided as an industry that instead of writing some code in whatever 'real' language we will base operational work on YAML with ad-hoc templating and stringly-typed programming constructs.

The main culprits are Ansible/Salt and all the string-templating based tools for Kubernetes (Helm/Kustomize/...).

Especially with tools like Helm I believe we reached peak insanity levels. Instead of using a general purpose or configuration-specific (like Jsonnet/Cue/Dhall) programming language to build and then emit in-memory objects to YAML manifests, the industry is using YAML to define templated YAML and then parametrize this templating with even more YAML.

Now we just write complex declarative configuration with no debugging facilities, a non-existent type system, inversion of control that usually ends up working against us and no way to interact with external data apart from stringing everything together with fragile shell scripts. But hey, there's no need to write a single line of Go/Python/Java/Ruby!
The idea isn't new. I first saw it as '4GLs', which were higher-level languages. Later we had rule engines and now AI.

Programmers never go away, though. Besides the need to write the customizations that the higher level languages miss, there is the need for disciplined thinking and testing. No matter how simple the tools become, the need for these remain.
Apache Daffodil (Incubating) 2.5.0 Released
The supreme court did relative recently a decision on a constitutional challenge in regard to copyright when people argued that the Copyright Term Extension Act was unconstitutional. The general rule that came out of the judgement is that copyright law is constitutional as long as it observes the distinction between expression and idea, which the Supreme Court said is the constitutional guarantee, provided that fair use rights are adequately maintained.

For most people it would seem obvious that a 95 years in additional to the life time of the author is counter productive if the goal is to promote the progress of Science and useful Arts, and the limited time part lose its meaning when it keep getting extended, but that is the situation we are in. The meta interpretation I heard after that decision is that the supreme court do not want challenge Congress on the topic of copyright law.
Go is actually superb at this IMO. Channels and goroutines provide the actual primitives you need to handle streaming data, and the integration of the context library makes starting up and shutting down everything a breeze.

Best of all though, it's absolutely compatible wherever you need to run it.
Cable is probably the leader in most markets in the US. DSL hasn’t been given the same innovation love, so in markets where it is still marketed (primarily by AT&T) the speeds are almost always lower/capped at 50Mbps down. In more rural areas DSL still has a stronger foothold. But in general, yes, cable is quite prevalent.
That is because we've built tools that are good enough for most use cases, and the cases don't actually differ all that much. For every new case however, new software has to be made. It isn't getting any easier, there is just more of it now.

The problem is that a "problem" is essentially a fractal; it needs a defined accuracy and scope to be solvable. Differing scopes and accuracies again require overhauls of software that would otherwise be acceptable for the same task.
Toyota will transform 175-acre Japan site into a ‘prototype city of the future’
Not sure if you are aware of this (I hope it's not on purpose), but your personal website mentioned on your 'About' description contains some questionable content (gambling?) in indonesian language.

If I may ask, was it hacked, you lost the domain or you have put that content there on purpose to generate some revenue?
My experience as a language learner (French) supports the study. When I use English (native language) subtitles, my listening doesn't improve at all. However, my improvement with or without French subtitles depends on my level of comprehension. If I can understand most of the show without subtitles (~60% or more) I improve faster without subtitles. If I understand half or less, I improve with the subtitles. I guess this is evidence for Stephen Krashen's theory of comprehensible input.
I've been hearing about "no code" or "no programmer required" business solutions for over 20 years. Cynically, I encourage this thinking because my billable rate to untangle someone else's hot mess when urgent deadlines are looming goes up. Practically speaking, if the business problems being solved are complex you might be able to pull off a low-code solution but without knowledge and practice of the essential architectural patterns of software development a novice will paint themselves into a corner before they even know what they are doing, requiring an expert to come in an clean things up.
Yeah, but... It's not only the "threaded code" approach, that makes Wasm3 so fast. In fact, Intel's WAMR also utilizes this method, yet is 30 times slower..
I actually know many opensource projects that moved from the clunkyness of Slack to Discord.

In all fairness, though, the recent releases of Slack made it pretty snappy.
> FEMA told The Chronicle that it is compelled to seek compensation from PG&E. Otherwise, individual victims would be on the hook if they get settlement money that duplicates funds already paid by the federal government, according to Bob Fenton, the agency’s regional administrator.

Seems reasonable.
Automation = following model

Whoever build a good model get a good bonus ?
Or any manufacturer supported by LinegeOS.
You cannot run a 700W microwave from a 20V 5A power supply.
I read somewhere a quote that stuck with me: "No tool is ever going to free us from the burden of clarifying our ideas."

And that's how I view my job as a software developer: clarifying ideas.

Any "No Code" tool is still going to either force you to clarify your ideas, or have a large amount of assumptions. "Idea People" and "Business" don't like that, so they'll probably end up delegating the use of "No Code" tools to programmers of some sort.
I think this is what will happen over time: As everybody will have at least one USB-C charger at home, from the last two to three smartphone generations, vendors will stop giving you one with each new phone.
Even if you could, it's super illegal to do so.
International unlocked moto G6. I was wrong about Facebook. It's LinkedIn that cannot be uninstalled. I just checked now.
> Meanwhile, in China, the government just prints money electronically when they need it

The only country in the world that just prints money when they need it is USA. No other country can do it ­— it'll just cause hyperinflation. China is not an exception. They can't print US dollars. And if they would print more Yuan, it doesn't mean that China billionaires would be able to buy more houses in LA - the exchange rate of Yuan to dollar will simply drop and they will be able to buy exactly the same amount of goods in US as before.

USA can print almost unlimited amount of money because they control almost all the world and bend most of the governments to buy US treasuries. This is why there're US military bases in many countries and if some country decide to stop accepting US dollar for foreign trade, the next day it's invaded by US military.

Although many people predict that this uncontrollable printing of US dollar will cause US economy to collapse sooner or later. You simply can't do that forever.
Apple intially exploited the loophole, which was ironically created to help them. But it was the EU that dropped the ball by letting them get away with it for so long. The entire saga is documented in the link below, which is probably best explained by this excerpt.

The EU's failure to regulate, in essence, provides Apple with an argument to keep their own solution.

For Apple, the common charger is a success story – of regulation avoided. For the next commission, it could serve as a cautioning tale on the limits of self-regulation.

https://euobserver.com/science/144538
Even through ADB is not a full removal, you just don't see the app on your "user profile".
"Learning with intention" sounds like a reworded way of saying "deliberate practice" which is something highly motivated people have been doing from time immemorial (one notable example being Ben Franklin's rule of spending one hour per day reading or learning something new). It's excellent legacy advice because it works.
Even without disabling Gatekeeper and SIP it is possible to insert malicious code into the OS somewhere because of full read and write access to the home directory and what not.

You could run the application in a VM without networking capabilities.
Well that's the first time I've legitimately gotten upset at a UX decision in a long, long time. My wife is homesick, 5000 miles from her country and can't watch anything in her language... Because they couldn't be bothered with an advanced settings UI anywhere? Seriously, Netflix?

Maybe that's an entitled attitude, but to me it's in the same ballpark as accessibility. It might not make a difference to 99% of users, but to the 1% of users in the long tail, it's royally screwing them for lack of a relatively small amount of effort. (In this scenario, a tiny amount of effort).
What Are Carbon Offsets? How to Tell Which to Buy
Sounds like right now banks want people who can code but also have "quant skills". What's the best way to go about learning/acquiring quant skills?
> Grievances should relate to a ticket on the board, if not then make a ticket for it, if not that then is the grievance important?

That mindset is precisely the reason why these meetings are important, because these grievances might not necessarily reflect or deserve a ticket. They might be nothing or they might be something. What's important is that these meetings create a space where they can safely be addressed without creating any burden on the team and on the individual reporting them.

I've read somewhere that these meetings work as therapy for the team. Perhaps by putting it this way you might better understand the issues these meetings solve.
But they're both about choice, and the usual reason people make DDG their choice is privacy from Google.
Hey, we've been working on both native and react native with mongo, node.js since quite long time. Would be happy to send you our work, is there any email ID apart from the application form where I can send our information/ work samples?
The Image in the Age of Pseudo-Reality (2016)
Right? It's much more about the process than the piece. Would have also read that article, but I thought I was reading another.
Nearly 40 years for me; I remember reading about The Last One [1] back in 81.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)
My gaming laptop is 180w
Expensive marketing is effective for established acts that already have an existing audience—whether that be international superstars like Coldplay or relative newcomers like London Grammar.

But it's also true that traditional marketing is becoming increasingly less relevant for new acts. New music discovery used to be driven by radio, media and advertising. Those gatekeepers are now being challenged by algorithms and social media—and there's no sign of that trend slowing down yet.

———

To my original point: making music is now an order of magnitude cheaper than it was just a few decades ago. And venues where an act to break out are more accessible than ever. I'm not saying the industry is now or ever will be perfectly egalitarian, but the distance travelled is monumental.
The Wefax pictures you could/can receive over shortwave radio are retransmitted from the satellites over shortwave for Marine interests.
Here's the ASRS entry I was thinking of:

I had my first flight on the Max [to] ZZZ1. We found out we were scheduled to fly the aircraft on the way to the airport in the limo. We had a little time [to] review the essentials in the car. Otherwise we would have walked onto the plane cold.

My post flight evaluation is that we lacked the knowledge to operate the aircraft in all weather and aircraft states safely. The instrumentation is completely different - My scan was degraded, slow and labored having had no experience w/ the new ND (Navigation Display) and ADI (Attitude Director Indicator) presentations/format or functions (manipulation between the screens and systems pages were not provided in training materials. If they were, I had no recollection of that material).

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2019/03/heres-what-was-on-...
Microsoft wrote their own Solitaire game back in the Windows 3 days. It's not complicated, there's no reason they couldn't have written their own non-tracking properly free game.
trivially parallel workload is trivial in pretty much any language though.
Q. Are daily scrum meetings worth it?

Programmers: no.

Project managers: Why can't we do this twice a day?
Income Share Agreement. The financial value of a college education varies wildly from degree to degree and from school to school so why shouldn’t the loan structure?

We created this student loan debt problem by pretending we live in a fantasy of equality that does not, never has, and never will exist. Not all degrees are equal. Not all colleges are equal. Stop pretending otherwise. Price student loans based on the school and path of study and let the numbers-nerds crunch the numbers.
Well, parallel programming requires discipline, and a plan. Deadlocks do not occur when locks are always acquired in the same order. The fact that deadlocks occur at all (and I know they are notoriously hard to debug-- I've done it, lol), is due to the fact that one or both of the locking strategy and/or adherence to said locking strategy was flawed.
>The barrier of entry to biology is artificially high due to all sorts of reasons, mostly regulatory.
Considering the nature of the placebo affect and the difference between feeling better and being better, I am skeptical of pulling down many of the barriers to DIY biology. Forgive me if I am misunderstanding and making a straw-man here, but we already have therapies that do not work, such as acupuncture or a wide range of So Called Alternative Medicines. "Stem cell" treatments that are outright fraud already exist [0,1]. My fear is that this will be replicated with CRISPR technology. Personally, I would like treatments that work and am skeptical that the market could decide what's best (I don't think this is the argument that you are making, but I want to address it nonetheless). The CRISPR babies that I believe you were referring to are an example of needing regulations. One rogue doctor made changes to their genome that are not preventative. This was incredibly shoddy work that should not be applauded [6].
I would also argue that the barrier is not artificially high. Doing biological research is incredibly difficult. Unlike with your analogy to Tesla, people can die from treatments [2]. Additionally,with CRISPR there are off target affects that need to be understood before wide scale use [3]. There is great promise in biotech [4,5]. However, the consequence are not just billion dollar explosions, but lives. I may be over dramatizing, but I think a careful approach is important.
Also, the increments are still progress.
Could there be another way to approach this kind of research, absolutely! There I think you hit on something very important. My bio graduate education did not at all prepare me for any kind of business thinking.
> remember the donation you made to the local animal rights campaign helped hinder biological research and development by decades
I think this is a little over dramatic, but I agree with the feeling without really knowing if this has been studied.

[0] https://www.nature.com/news/stem-cell-ruling-riles-researche...
[1] https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/more-stem-cell...
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/43977
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31911131
[4] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/boy-rare-disease-get...
[5] https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/360/360ra134.full
[6] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/did-crispr-help-or-h...
The one true benefit that i remember from my time working in scrum was when we moved the scrum meeting from morning to 12 o`clock.
And the benefit?
After the meeting, everyone was already standing, so we went straight to lunch as a group without any further delay. Saved a lot of time and effort to organize everyone.
You are restricted to consume content only from your server. A video player or just any data parser/interpreter is less useful if it runs only CORS-enables(and public) urls. Imagine cURL working only with CORS urls! Lol!
PWAs value the site owner's "restrictions" more than the needs of the user. It's basically a kind of DRM so I believe PWAs are doomed to die unless they put the user in charge.
According to my research, LineageOS often has worse battery life and camera image quality. So you need to get very specific models which work best. Also you need to be willing to tinker a bit, obviously. Let me put it like this: if a geek friend had found a nice model and already figured out how to solve the expected problems, I'd probably get the same model.
I have to say I don't really like the iOS date picker. Especially since you're "whipping around" 3 or more wheels (year, month, day, time etc.) in close proximity, it feels very imprecise.

I'd love it if there were also some + and - buttons so I could easily add one month, one year etc.
Fred Brooks - No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, IEEE Computer, Vol. 20, No. 4 (April 1987) pp. 10-19.

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/Outreach/pc204/NoSilverBullet.html

Read and inwardly digest
It's Always a Good Time for a Salary Renegotiation
There's a 230W charger for use with current Thinkpad workstations, it's an absolute unit. [1]

[1] https://i.redd.it/5ln51upcv8w21.jpg
Whatever the abstraction of the language you use, you still have to code. It's just a different type of coding.
Out of curiosity, where can an average joe like me find and "fly" one of these?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose

(I assume, anyway.) I happen to remember it from a drama lesson at school in the UK, but I'm pretty sure it's predominantly American, yes.
By not working for banks
What about calling to stop the planned obsolescence?

Things like replaceable batteries, longer support (security patches and parts) should be a good start.
can we say diy stealth tech...
Making classic standups useful and comfortable definitely requires psychological safety. You need to feel like you can occasionally say "worked on X, didn't make any progress", and a manager or a rival isn't going to pounce on you for it.

If you don't have pervasive psychological safety, there's a lot of stuff from XP that isn't going to work.
Most US cable providers let you use your own DOCSIS modem. I doubt there are any legal consequences for changing config on your own modem. Channel bonding has to be configured on both sides though.
USB-C all the way
i loved the dailies. it was the best way to earn money without doing any work. i always tried to prolong the meetings as much as possible. ah, i miss those days.
I'm actually quite fond of some "no/low code" tools but there is a threshold of complexity beyond which if you use them then terrible abominations will result that are far more complex then the equivalent code and actually require more technical expertise then 'code' - so you end up with components that only a skilled developer can maintain in a platform that developers will hate.
My P70 is a little newer and it also runs on a 170W brick. And apparently if you go for the more powerful discrete GPU it needs a 230W one.

On the other side, the Dell 7773 I was eyeing for personal use is a seventeen-incher that runs on a plain 65W.
Ehhh, we had DVI in 1999. That gave us slightly-better-than 1080p@60hz over a single link and slightly-better-than 1440p@60hz over a dual link.
Don't know why, but today this CDN page seems like lost its SSL-certificate and now Firefox prevent loading this page due to “Untrusted Connection”.

Strange, but yesterday I had no such issue.
Well, isn't this how the world works? If yes, then x. If not, then y. I'm happy to live in a non-binary world.
Average cable coverage in the US is significantly higher than Europe. However, inside Europe there is large variance between the different countries. E.g. Belgium has nearly 100% coverage, while France as you correctly observed has very little. France is a-typical for Europe in broadband reach, lagging the average significantly.

https://www.broadband-mapping.eu/public-portal/

Snapshots from 2012 including technology mix

http://point-topic.com/free-analysis/mapping-broadband-cover...

http://point-topic.com/free-analysis/mapping-broadband-cover...
I would wager that 'better code' isn't the main (or even a major) objective of standups... getting the project done is. But both are important
eh no. that was like 2 years ago not decades.