skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Power Family" or Power Platform (PowerApps, PowerAutomate, PowerBI, Power Virtual Agents) are inarguable the most mature bundle of WYSIWYG, visual data flows, and data graphing on the market. It's not just about the app building itself, but all the ways to get data in and out of it, and what else you can do with the data once youve gathered it. Salesforce is probably the other company in the same league.

Microsoft clearly has a branding / marketing problem, where people have ignored them for too long, and or are just reconsidering products Microsoft has had on the market for 10 year (another thread where people said Office on the web has caught up to gdocs, whereas id say theyve been ahead of it for at least 4 years.)

Mirosoft Lists (their Airtable) is a new interface over SharePoint lists. SharePoint lists are one of the data sources for the Power Platform, but so is Dynamics CRM, ERP etc.

https://powerplatform.microsoft.com/
Agreed. Thinking in arrays is very powerful. Simple.

Say Unix tools returned JSON. What good is that without a schema? Instead of a parser, let's all write schema transforms?
This would mean that long-lived single page web apps would need to be hard-refreshed every once in a while when, through no fault of the app developer, all the IP addresses that their domain name resolves to have rotated.
Just a heads up: there is no statute of limitations on immigration fraud for the immigrants. If it's discovered at any time in the future all the immigration benefits derived from the fraud will be rolled back and the punishment (which usually includes a ban from entering the US) will be administered. E.g. if they get a green card through AOS and then naturalize and become citizens but their H1B is discovered to be fraudulent at some time in the future then: AOS is invalid since it requires a valid status, then the LPR (green card) is invalid since it's a result of an invalid AOS, then naturalization is invalid since it requires a certain time of being an LPR. So they are stripped of the US citizenship, deported and banned from entering the country ever again.
As a kid in Phoenix my parents forbid setting the thermostat below 80, unless the humidity outside was low enough we could use the swamp cooler instead of the air conditioner.

Now I'm comfortable at 78 with a ceiling fan, to me 75 is cold and 70 would be freezing
Agree with you 100%. Funny how we have the thread next door here on HN full of people explaining how billionaires worked hard to get their money and deserve to create their little dynasties with it.
Pls help me relocate to Durban
> "what a shitty name for an enterprise software" vs. "who cares if it works well")

It think you mean “who cares, if it works well?”. Or, if you don't want that much disambiguating load being held up by a comma, “if it works well, who cares?”
Give me an intuitive, drag and drop enviroment where I can plan out my AWS deployments and tie resources together, and then write the cloudformation for me. Then I'll be happy.

Also, this thing requires a different login even though I'm logged in to an AWS account with corporate SSO. Like quicksight and other tools do, and it's just as infuriating. Just let me start using and bill for usage.
2.44mb, down from 22.2mb (just checked). And the new site has more, even larger images. https://www.prior.club

Still something like 5x what I would recommend to most folks, but there’s just no getting around a site like this being very photographic.

(Edit) I can’t attribute all of this to next-gen images, also doing lazy load and other tricks.
>> First, you have no time. You read a lot but there’s no time to think.

> This is has nothing to do with being a foreigner, or being in any specific country. It's a university culture, and every university has its own pace of teaching, in China or US.

I think it also has substantially to do with reading/linguistic fluency in the language the class is taught in. Many university courses are paced to push the abilities of well prepared, ambitious, and dedicated native speakers.

If you have to read 500+ pages/week (or in some fields, more like 1000+ pages/week), and write a paper on average once every other week, you have to be a very strong reader, with a lot of experience analyzing and constructing linguistic arguments.

A non-native speaker who is a bit uncomfortable with reading might read at half the speed of their fellow students; they could end up spending twice as much time while still comprehending less, and it would be a serious struggle.
Widespread facemask use could shrink the ‘R’ number; prevent a 2nd Covid-19 wave
OMG The Mechanical Turk editor is soooo bad.
However, it's a lot easier to passively heat a house then to passively cool a house. We could easily upgrade building envelope standards, incorporate a heat pump, and reduce the heating-associated CO2 emissions to a fraction. If we did that, I think on net the Houston C02 emissions might be larger, since there really aren't equivalent ways to passively cool space.
> If hard-to-read-and-remember syntax exists, people WILL use it. And some people will make a POINT to use it, because it makes them feel cool.

Just like every human language that ever existed. And last time I checked, programming languages aren't used or written by AI's or aliens.
The State of NH Office of Strategic Initiatives has a nice Fuel Price comparison page that they keep up to date (and are adjusted according to cost per MMBTU):

https://www.nh.gov/osi/energy/energy-nh/fuel-prices/index.ht...

You can see that as of June 2, measured at $ per MMBTU (million BTU):

Natural Gas $8.31
Oil $17.62
Propane $32.93
Wood pellets $21.92
Resistive electric $48.84
Air src heat pump $18.74

The fossil fuels are all measured assuming 80% heating efficiency, whereas for propane or natural gas you might well have a high efficiency unit up to 97% which gains you a bit more savings.

These prices may vary depending on location and also I think natural gas isn't that common in NH as it's a mostly rural state.
HEY could have been a PWA. The UI is just web after all.

Edit:

Also, an argument could be made that because Apple doesn't really want PWAs on iOS nobody is investing in make a good one for mobile.
Goo – generic object orientator (programming language)
Yeah. Another point: my wife fosters kittens for the local animal shelter and almost all of the shelters are just straight up out of adoptable animals. Everyone is getting pets now.
Fun historical fact: "John's knife" was once a contraction of "John his knife".

No longer of course, the latter isn't grammatically correct in modern English. But that's where it comes from.
> Certainly, Amazon is also fundamentally opposed to customers becoming victims of counterfeiters on a platform they provide them with.

You can't even select "This item is a counterfeit/I suspect this item is a counterfeit" when filing for a return.

Surely if they cared about their customers becoming victims of counterfeiters, they'd give the customers who did become victims of counterfeiters on Amazon's marketplace the ability to return and report such items accordingly.

During my last return of a counterfeit item, I had to lie about the reason for the return during the return process. I had to choose between the vaguely related, but Amazon-approved, platitudes of "Wrong item was sent", "Inaccurate website description" or "Item defective or doesn't work".
i am as surprised as OP that GP ordered cereals by mail too!

first of all, transportation is not the same. food transportation to grocery stores is most of the time if not always different. in fact, some brands insist on having their own trucks.

i feel like with amazon, even with the prime trucks, everything is thrown together with everything else.
Google has since upped that limitation to 15MB.
Dell Latitude On I think:

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

Doesn’t look like it ever took off - I helped port an office suite to it.
This is clueless for reasons Grimm espouses quite clearly in the sibling post. It doesn't scale for anything other than the smallest of projects.
I use uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and Firefox's tracking protections. I don't see why not all three.

There's actually a lot that Firefox blocks in strict mode. On iOS for example it works like a poor man's ad blocker as it breaks ad exchanges. And it blocks Google Analytics too.
My response was too long, so I put it in my blog. https://www.yorch.co/what-i-think-about-food-production-and-...

I think the author has great points, but is not the full picture.
You're right, and I did think of that after I clicked "reply". What I meant was that a company with so much resources doesn't seem to have that capability. Even with such a large size, I would imagine Amazon of all companies would have the resources to say "this is the design, now get on board" and make it happen.

This goes for other aspects of AWS as well, such as consistency in the way services report to CloudTrail or are referenced in CloudFormation. Overall there just seems to be little coordination amongst AWS teams, and that's always surprised me.
It gets you pretty far. When I worked at a bank, most of the pricing was done in Excel. What they had was infrastructure on top of Excel, like standard calculations and network connectivity, to support this. (I ended up writing a monitoring system for this, which proved very interesting. Months were spent going back and forth with the networking vendor about how slow their thing was, but I added some simple time in -> time out monitoring and we found that the cause was actually the spreadsheet. That was a politically unpopular finding, but data is data.)

Anyway, this is still "programming", of course. You have inputs, you transform them, and you get outputs. What Excel gives is the ability to see all the intermediate calculations update as you stitch things together, which is very different from the software engineer approach (where we think of all the inputs, and write tests to make sure a particular sub-module works, and then treat that as working forever). The software engineering approach lets us build very large systems reliably, but the spreadsheet approach lets you build simple things very quickly.
Computational Trinitarianism
As far as I can tell, this is being pitched to teams, not really general purpose applications (as I imagine a highly scalable DB being used for). The pricing is quite high on a per user basis and the 'tables' max out at 100k rows, so not useful for any larger scale data aggregation.

Agreed, a seemingly missing feature is how can lambdas or other AWS ecosystem components interact with this data? I could imagine systems where it's nice for "no-code" and "code" to interact cleanly.
They'd also be used by any clients that don't understand DNS push notifications. That's including a lot of networking hardware, industrial hardware, medical devices, etc.
It seems a some hilarious irony to attempt to use religious arguments in a discussion about not using a narrative provided for you.
I use bitwarden as my password manager. Out of paranoia, I have been logging into Bitwarden only while an empty tab is open in case some random website is able to access my keystrokes while I use the plugin.

I am a web developer, but I wasn't actually able to find information about whether this is a real risk or not last year when I began doing it. Can anybody clarify?
There are a lot of modules and historical code stuck in old paradigms, but those are useful in their own way for backwards compatibility. There's also newer Perl modules that see heavy use, like Type::Tiny, Mojolicious, etc. We do a lot of internal web-apps with Mojolicious at work, and our larger ones make heavy uses of websockets, async code, and in some cases Vue.js.

> The ORM and drivers for both postgresql and sqlite don't even support most of the features added in those systems since 2014.

The popular ORMs for Perl (DBIx::Class, etc) are fairly DB agnostic, so work with Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, etc. You aren't likely to see specific features for one DB in them because of that. What you gain is a consistent and advanced interface for interacting with databases which is mostly the same regardless of the back-end for that project.

There are newer, specialized modules such as Pg or Mojo::Pg to give you specific Postgres capabilities or to enable a more asynchronous model if that's what you're looking for.

Sounds like you had some bad experiences, and that sucks. Nobody will blame you for "jumping ship", but I would suggest you not think of it necessarily like that. You learn and code what you have to for work, and you learn and you code what you feel like or you think gives the most benefit personally. Those naturally change over time for a lot of people, and sometimes they are the same sets of items, and sometimes they aren't. If you ever want to play around with Perl again, even just for fun, it's there for you. It's not going anywhere. Perl doesn't have to be the language you write to make a living, or even the first one you reach for for certain projects, but it might still be a good option for some things, and there's no reason to discount it entirely if you still know how to use it and can find a use case for it.

For example, even if I stop using Perl primarily for development, I'm pretty sure it's going to be the tool I reach for when I need to quickly process some data for the foreseeable future. Just the fact I can pull in anything from CPAN to supplement a one-liner (or a one liner I've copied into a file and formatted to turn into a small script) makes it invaluable over just awk and sed.
The energetically expensive input to the Haber-Bosch process is hydrogen. At present hydrogen is predominantly manufactured by steam reforming of fossil fuels, which produces CO2 as a byproduct. Hydrogen can also be produced cleanly by water electrolysis powered with clean electricity.

I actually think that Haber-Bosch plants will predominantly use clean electrolytic hydrogen before farm machinery becomes predominantly electric. Farm machinery has a very slow replacement cycle. Some of my farming relatives are still running diesel powered machines built in the 1930s.
Grandparent said "that learning to actually write Python or Java or whatever is not the hard part of being productive in a business context". I think that my response was reasonable, and directly addressed one of their most important points.
The Mystery of the Dark Asteroid That Scorched Russia – Issue 86: Energy
You might want to look at Carton and cpanfiles as a way of managing dependencies. You can also get really ancient stuff off BackPAN, should your dependencies disappear from CPAN proper.

https://metacpan.org/pod/Carton#Tracking-the-dependencies

http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/
Raoul Duke:
I want you to understand that this man at the wheel is my attorney. He's not just some dingbat I found on the strip, man. He's a foreigner. I think he's probably Samoan. But that doesn't matter, though, does it? Are you prejudiced?

Hitchhiker:
Hell no.

Raoul Duke:
I didn't think so. Because in spite of his race, this man is very valuable to me. Oh, shit. I forgot about the beer. You want one?

Hitchhiker:
No.

Raoul Duke:
How 'bout some ether?

Hitchhiker:
What?

Raoul Duke:
Never mind.

-- Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
So stupid. To apologize for being white, being born with privileges, etc... isnothing more than virtue signaling and does nothing positive for blacks or any other minority. If anything, it's an insult to them.

Will they also avoid black police officers?
it's a bit different though, you can't "push" errors somewhere, I guess so many error handlers and interceptors are set that it's not worth to split.
Single-use stickers, sent as a roll to the supplier at their registered address. Like a one-time pad of proofs. Each sticker would just be a QR code containing an HMACed {shipper ID, sequence #} string.

When Amazon receives the stock, it adds the sequence # to the set of sequence #s used/acknowledged for that shipper. If there’s a collision, the shipper gets a strike against it (because it’s their responsibility to protect their sticker roll from copying) and the item itself is returned-to-sender as undeliverable (because it was very likely a counterfeit.)
Thanks for this response.

I'm a former biz analyst turned boot camp developer. After a couple of years slogging through, I started applying for jobs these past few months, with little to no traction, and as such have been feeling burnt out because I don't know the fundamentals, have little to no support at work, and felt like I had no future professionally.

So this encourages me to keep on learning, building, and hacking as best I can until I can get to an environment that helps me succeed through mentorship, product vision, and a capable leadership team.
If your preconceptions were not random relative to the truth, wouldn't you be able to know how to correct them?
> Before calling the AG on this, how do you make sure that fake is fake in the first place?

Contact the manufacturers consumer helpline.
wow, you're lucky your a/c didn't freeze up
You can make it work the other way too.

"Think of the children that want to embrace $RELIGION but happen to live in a den of $DEITYless liberals."

"Think of the children afraid to express conservative views online because of a lack of privacy protections."
Holy moly. That price per million btu is a lot less than the number I stumbled across. Makes it even more obvious.
Understood. I stated that to say my problems with perl is not the language itself. To say it is the "community" is not right either. But basically "what is left of the community" is the issue. Languages like python, ruby, perl, etc are only good (if you want to freelance and make money at least) at being a "skin" around a database. That also entails a knowledge of frontend frameworks and workflows as well. Yet the words "database", "javascript", or "webpack" are very rarely mentioned at any of the perl conferences in the last 5 years! In the case of webpack, that's probably never been mentioned.
Questions about Unix Processes
Hopefully we can turn this off, this is going to destroy usability be very annoying.
Re-reading this, I realise I've got the bit about carbon reducing oxide ions wrong. The oxide ions are being oxidised here, not reduced. But ending up at CO2 rather than O2 means they don't need to be oxidised as hard - oxygen in CO2 is a bit more reduced than in O2. I think. I probably wouldn't pass A level chemistry if I sat the exams today.

When neutral carbon and oxygen react, the carbon reduces the oxygen because it gives it a fractional share of its electrons when they form a bond. But when oxygen is charged, it already has lots of electrons. In this reaction the carbon is helping oxidise the oxide ions.
Probably because it's free and easy.
Ubuntu 20.04 vs. Windows 10 WSL/WSL2 Performance in 170 Benchmarks
Why does any app have access to the clipboard? Seems like a big security hole.
Also... Baidu? DJI? Alibaba? Tencent? BYD? Xiaomi?
> I’m not sure commingling is as big a problem as you imply.

Commingling is the sole reason I canceled Amazon prime and don’t shop there.

I am spending my money to receive a certain product, and in order to do that I have to trust the vendor. If I can’t trust the vendor, why should I buy from them?
But I think you missed the point about the second factor, because there are really 2 factors here:

1. Something you have (e.g. your phone, in this case the Secure Enclave that stores the private key).

2. Something you 'know', e.g. your fingerprint.

Just having the fingerprint itself is not sufficient.
On macOS, "gcc" puts strings that don't include a null byte in the TEXT section. I put quotes around gcc, since it seems that by default macOS aliases gcc to clang.

You can run the program I built here to see for your self: https://github.com/vivekseth/blog-posts/tree/master/Jump-Add...

Since the string in the TEXT section, we can actually execute it as if it were code!

After you build the program you can run `otool -t ./a.out` to verify that the string `execString` is indeed in the TEXT section.
Yes I can mix up my own password encryption on some cloud service.. I need sites I came across at work machine to quickly reopen when at home office.
Accessing an unpublished port of a running Docker container
One of the underlying models, PULSE, was trained on CelebAHQ, which is likely what the results are mostly white-looking. StyleGAN, which was trained on the much more diverse (but sparse) FFHQ dataset does come up with a much more diverse set of faces[1]...but PULSE couldn't get them to converge very closely on the pixelated subjects...so they went with CelebA [2].

[1] https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.03808.pdf (ctrl+f ffhq)
Chinese Communist Party [1]
[1] https://www.vox.com/open-sourced/2019/12/16/21013048/tiktok-...
The 1980s?! How progressive! I work for an institution that is culturally stuck in the 1950s.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-05-ca-56718...
WebAssembly is not for the faint of heart. Although you can easily output Rust using cargo target, the memory model that interfaces with the browser is completely manual.

Of course you should be able to create really complex algorithms and do really advanced inlining to achieve near native performance. While also working across all platforms that run Chrome/Edge/Safari/Firefox.

I think the question I have is, Figma is one product I know that really takes full advantage of WebAssembly as a full experience. 1Password does another that uses the Chrome extension for it. Would Figma's success have been the same if they had just foregone the hassle of building in WASM and went pure native desktop?
Smart Farming is the way! You need to concentrate in flavor and quality. Yield is a race to the bottom.
He should experiment with shortening his ENV vars one byte by one, to see similar benchmarking effects. It process affects alignment, and if you unlucky bad alignment can cost a few percent.
They didn't impeach him over "suspicion of being a Russian puppet". They impeached him because he attempted to abuse his power to coerce a foreign government to investigate his political rivals. Note, even the withholding of the funds was illegal because Congress had approved it. This is without the shakedown tactics that he employed on top of it. Let's not rewrite history so quickly.
Writing a first iteration fast with no code is a smart move. You can later on create a second iteration with more traditional languages and tooling like Python.
You mean so you can snoop from the user without being detected?
> I can't speak for everywhere, but being an ethnic minority comes with tons of perks in China.

Like genocide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide_of_Uyghurs
I am inclined to believe it comes down to a fundamental error in our current way of taxation. Which is that we primarily tax work or the added value. While luck (the lottery, having rich parents) is not taxed at all or at measurable lower rates.

Question is why is that? And wouldn't it be fairer to tax work (effort) less and luck more?
Just to be clear, my argument was rhetorical.

I fully agree that in practice, we're seeing something completely different.