skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm a member of this "No-Code" generation?
My friends and I were playing Minecraft when we were 12 years old, and we're entering the workforce now.

I share the skepticism from other commenters in this thread.
Maybe it's just anecdata, but I don't see my peers using super high level GUI replacements for data analysis.
My friends in marketing, engineering, biotechnology, and using the same tools as the millennials before us: Excel / Google Sheets.
In fact, most learned how to use those tools on the job or in college, not from their earlier education.

> Whereas just a few years ago, a store manager might... put their sales data into Excel and then let it linger there for the occasional perusal, this new generation is prepared to connect multiple online tools to build an online storefront (through no-code tools like Shopify or Squarespace), calculate basic LTV scores using a no-code data platform and prioritize their best customers with marketing outreach through basic email delivery services.

I have seen people using Squarespace, but again, I've seen older millennials pick up such software just as readily.
My friends that are fluent in data analysis acquired their proficiency through traditional, code-heavy approaches (R, Python, a good dose of command-line interfaces).

I guess my point is that, if you want to fill this "missing productivity gap in the global economy", mere exposure to Minecraft and website builders is not a substitute for a comprehensive C.S. curriculum.
The government broke up AT&T. There was a time when politicians understood their role as being the servant of their constituents, at least to a degree. These days they don't even pretend, it's all corporations and special interest groups.
I'm not so sure about Nix since it seems much more complex in presentation. The meat and potatoes of Bazel is the BUILD langauge. There may be some warts right now but the community is attempting to address these warts. Difficulty around specifying versions of packages, semantics for building containers, etc.

Nix users do not seem to think it's build language is complex. I think Nix might be the worlds best attempt at something like this but it's the same reason why Haskell hasn't gotten adoption: "eeh it looks complicated"

Everyone understands `some_rule(some="argument")` though.
That's not wrong, but it is missing the point: Ongoing development is impeded by the takedown. That means the tool will not work anymore in the near future, rendering it useless.
My main issue with whiteboard interviews is that they often ask you to code something that is completely unrelated to the job, and is not representative of your normal work efficiency at a task that is within your area of expertise.

For example, I've had several machine learning engineer interviews in which I was asked to write some variation of NMS (non-max suppression) or gradient descent on the whiteboard. What machine learning engineer writes that kind of code anymore?

I can write it, yes I can fumble (a lot) and figure out how to optimize it, but in reality these are the type of algorithms that you almost always use some library that someone has already written for you for that kind of stuff. They spend the entire hour nitpicking at your implementation of NMS, base their entire impression of you on that implementation of NMS, and never in your entire interview ask you anything about, say, what the state-of-the-art object detectors are, what their breakthroughs are, how their networks are roughly structured, what you might think about doing to improve on them, what you could do if you only had limited annotation data, and other real machine learning questions.
As a European, could you explain this a bit ? How does identity theft differ between credit and debit cards ?
Zapps, the Platform for Apps on Zoom
How would allowing people to optionally come back cause a mass exodus? Do you think they would feel pressured and instead decide to leave?
This may not have been their first time, though :-P
No, you don't.

I did their upgrade program trade-in for the past 2 years, not once did they ask to include the charger. The box instructions (in which you give them back your old phone) explicitly mention what needs to be included, and the charger (or any other accessories) is not there.

Technically you might not count it as a trade-in, but it is effectively the same procedure. And I had plenty of friends who did trade-in not that long ago, they weren't asked to return the charger either.
You can plug the new iPhone cable into the MacBook Pro charger as well. Or into any of the ports in your MacBook for that matter.
Oof. Isn't it about time for you to delete this throwaway account?
Ultimately it depends on the design but you're basically right, yes.
Its not flawed because the correct analogy is: pen and paper Turing machines versus Python.
A bunch of environmentalists are idiots. But that doesn’t mean there’s no sensible plan or that it’s all speculative. In economics carbon’s costs have a name: they impose an externality on others.

The standard remedy for an externality is a tax. So, to address climate change you would:

1. Institute a tax on carbon

2. Work through an international framework like the UN or WTO to have other countries also institute this tax, and to levy tariffs on any countries that don’t.

3. Since carbon is taxed, you can lower other, less efficient taxes such as the income tax, which is a drag on productivity.

4. You can also redistribute some of the money to compensate the poor for the effective tax increase. For instance this is how canada deals with its sales tax.

There are other coherent plans but that’s a big one. Had we implemented thus tax 50 years ago, the effects would have been:

* energy efficiency is encouraged in production as there is a higher cost

* other forms of energy such as nuclear and hydro gain an advantage

* There would have been more capital available for researching other alternatives such as solar

* The economy would have remained good due to the benefits of a sharply lower income tax

Environmentalists tend to be rather bad at math and not good at thinking through economics or evaluating tradeoffs. Because everyone else abandoned the field, they produced the most prominent (and wrong headed) solutions.

But with gradual economically sensible action 50 years ago, we could have been in for a very soft landing. We could have still used fossil fuels too! They were pretty necessary, but the system I outlined would have nudged us towards a different energy base.
It's what I mean. It's not only what I mean, but that diversity of viewpoint is incredibly valuable when trying to solve problems as a group.
It's quite telling how you're being downvoted when proper evidence is presented that destroys the leftist narrative. They accuse their opponents of putting their heads in the sand, where they are doing exactly the same. Quite ironic really.
Related discussion about a 34 year old's diagnosis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853503
https://github.com/scylladb/seastar

https://github.com/scylladb/scylla

https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2

https://github.com/facebook/folly
I know it isn’t and that makes it even harder to talk about. Classism is understood and recognized in Europe and people are working on it. USA is still stuck pretending it doesn’t exist.

Similar to how 50 years ago it was pretendint sexism isn’t a problem.

Imo it’s important to talk about all types of systemic issues, not just the popular ones. And to quote one of my well meaning friends: ”Oh pfft your issues don’t count because you can pass (look white and male)”
People have been reporting that the Magsafe charging is tremendously slow, unless you specifically have the paired 20w charger.
There are numerous advantages to having a complete categorical or type-theoretic foundations of mathematics, especially one as constructive as HoTT. The main advantages in my areas of research would be that proofs in "higher-category theory" would become less cumbersome. Many set-theoretic proofs in this area are non-informative because they are are messy and opaque. This is the real promise offered by any alternative theory or explanation: insight.

Besides the immediate usefulness: if "all HoTT does is give a theory that's mutually interpretable with ZFC", then holy shit what an accomplishment!

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of mathematical research. Most fields of research do nothing but "give a theory that's mutually interpretable" with some other field, or at least did so initially.
I think people should be able to pass freely but economic goods should be legislated.
I think (from only having skimmed the contents) that there is some handwaving around the definition of the characteristic polynomial. In order to properly define it, you need to allow matrices over arbitrary rings, not just fields.
To be frank I think integrating with the Remarkable 2 (I have one as well) is going to be tough. This has more to do with the device than with Polar - it's very difficult as architected today to connect to anything else (Dropbox, etc). Given that, it might not make sense for these guys to prioritize this specific device, especially since so few people have one
I wasn't aware of the change to the SE 2020, but for 12s, storage is doubled across the line (or price dropped $100, depending how you look at it).
You might similarly ask how Alphabet can be a $1 trillion company when it charges no fees for google search, maps, or Android.
I'm indifferent.

On the one hand, yeah, USB-C works great, and everything else I own takes it. On the other hand, Lightning also works great, USB-C isn't an improvement on the merits, and iPhone users have a bunch of accessories for it. Like in my car, I have a 12v charger with one USB-A port and a built-in Lightning cable, and I'd have to either junk it or just ignore the built in cable if they went USB-C.

I'm pretty sure the writing is on the wall with MagSafe: Apple intends to ditch the port entirely. That makes me nervous, frankly, and there are people out there who use an SD card reader who would be furious.

But I think that future is more likely than one in which Apple ditches the Lightning port for USB-C. We'll see.
As a fun fact, I was taught a shorter version (during private pilot instruction):

"You have the control."

"I have the control."

IDK if it changes between aircraft types, commercial/private/military cultures, or if it's just coincidence.
Afaik GDPR says where it's technically feasible. The interpretation of technically feasible may vary, but given that the API was live for some time, it could be said it is feasible.

That being said I am no lawyer and I don't know what I'm talking about.
There are numerous studies now showing a correlation between vitamin D deficiency and serious COVID-19 symptoms. I don't understand why public health officials aren't doing more to conduct widespread vitamin D level tests, and give out supplements when needed. Those interventions could save many lives at a low cost today while we work on more effective vaccines and treatments.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
It is normally "spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch", since that would traditionally make the Catholic sign of the cross.

But maybe you're a Satanist, in which case the reverse order probably makes sense.
Over 80% of COVID-19 patients are right-handed too.
Release news - https://nixos.org/news.html
Mendix & Outsystems are pretty popular in the enterprise space and they work quite well. Like you say, don't move too far away from the intended space, but the LoB (line of business) space is vast for big enterprises and that's what these tools are for. There is no need to do 100% as you can get to 80-90% and the rest you don't do with those packages; you do with code. Why is that a problem; you use different frameworks / languages / dbs / etc with code too; these systems are no different; use them what they are meant for and do the rest with other tools. Ofcourse there is more than enough work to be had just creating departmental LoB apps to last you 1000s of lifetimes, but that's another story.

So like you said; I believe you still need to be a dev to deliver with these systems; 'end user programming' is not close outside Excel. People who know nothing about programming will generally make complete monsters with these systems, even after training (I saw it a lot with Outsystems when I click open a business flow).

Real enduser development revolutions we won't see this low-code wave, maybe the next somewhere around 2030?
> I don't understand your opposition to writing a kernel in some form of Oberon, but accepting pretty much any other language/paradigm

When people talk about developing a kernel in a language other than C, the question that springs to mind is So what does this choice of language bring to the table?

Rust and especially SPARK bring significant assurances of correctness, as they both improve greatly on the unsafety (supposing that's a word) of the C language.

The same is true of a middle-of-the-road language like Java, but Java isn't ideally suited to kernel development. (If OS researchers prove me wrong on this point, then that's great, of course.)

Assembly isn't a very compelling choice of language in terms of safety/correctness assurances, but I can see the appeal for a hobbyist OS, or for a carefully tuned high-performance codebase.

From what I know of Oberon, using it for kernel development isn't in itself very interesting. Does it offer the guaranteed absence of broad categories of runtime errors? I guess it's still probably a rather safer language than C, and I presume its performance is ok, but this isn't anything new.

(Of course, I've only talked about language. There are plenty of other ways an OS can be interesting besides the language it's implemented in, but that's the topic at hand.)
Unlike you I actually know about this stuff (though it's much faded by now I admit).

The looping issue is because modelling it - that is, giving it clear and simple formal semantics - was not trivial. The single-point of exit stuff is also there for the same reason. I'd agree that it's possibly not a good choice given the alternatives if you are doing non-verified code, but he had his reasons.

If you ever wonder why modula-3's garbage collector only collected memory, you could not hook into it in the form of a destructor for management of resources other than memory, go and read up the complexities that being able to piggyback on a destructor brings. It gets bad.

We could have some agreement but with "regurgitation", "strange fixation", "strange at best#" - this is the sound of you not understanding and not realising it, not wirth's deficiencies.

If you think you can do better then go ahead. You'll learn a lot.
A similar tip I picked up long ago: If you're typing a dangerous command, first type a `#` (or `--` if it's SQL, etc.), then the command. Then read it. Then go back to the start of the line and remove the comment and run it.
Basically, no. The issue was never the instruction set, you still have to support the interface and the OS which nobody is bothered to do because cost benefit.

Changing the chip isn't going to change the code base of the operating system.
> The only reason to doubt climate change is if you've been a victim of the concerted misinformation campaign. The campaign that was launched by the same spin doctors that launched tobacco companies' disinformation campaigns.

It's also incredibly distressing to think about what the future will look like, why wouldn't people want to put their head in the sand?

When I hear the average person deny climate change, I feel it's more to do with being afraid. At this point people look for something to validate their doubt, which is why misinformation works so well, it's convenient to believe in nonsense.

If you told people that climate change was actually beneficial to them, they'd be more likely to want to believe it. In fact this what some political figure heads are doing.

I think most people are in shock at this point that it's become real. Especially people who have been deniers for the last 20-30 years.
From the study:

> Vitamin D deficiency was found in 82.2% of COVID-19 cases and 47.2% of population-based controls (p<0.0001).
from the article...

>Heck, we’ve even had Commodore 64 and NES games submitted!

I certainly hope those games weren't intended to circumvent the logic of the 10NES checking Integrated Circuit chip as that would be a clear violation of the DMCA.
I was thinking Python kind of fits the description of low code. It will also work with almost anything unlike GUI based stuff.
Also the fact that the described situation may occur once, but then forever after you will have both usb c and a bricks so you will be set for whatever future devices you get rather than being given a brick every single time while most go unused.
"by wire" means non-physical ways in automotive. So accelerator and possibly brake pedals have only cable connections which carry data.

Even if the brake pedal is connected via an actual wire, emergency brake actuators can work by themselves on the system.

Electric assist motors on the steering column can also overpower a human with ease.

So, actual connections doesn't matter.
Hold on there sparky... If they did that, they would loose money on both the new chargers they sell people, plus every other adapter seller would need to change products, and then buying a charger that works with both iPhone and Android on one cable!?! Sacrilege! /s
If you use context, you'll just wind up rewriting flux, redux, Rx, Event, mobx, or whatever in what is likely a worse manner.
It would be instructive to know the vitamin d deficiency rate of the typical 2019 hospitalized population. Or the rate of, say, hospitalized patients in taiwan or new zealand (no covid) compared to their general populace’s.

I’m a big proponent of the idea that vitamin d will likely help against covid 19 but this headline is missing some crucial comparative context.

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Edit: I’m rather wrong in the part below. Patient only refers to people receiving treatment, so this is an accurate use. Keeping it there for posterity. I believe the rest of my comment still stands.

The headline is inaccurate. The study looked at hospitalized patients. That is a group in much worse health. And all manner of health conditions are correlated with low vitamin d.
Majority of covid-19 hospital patients are elderly. As you get older, your ability to absorb vitamin D decreases.

You must adjust for age.
Certainly, that’s true. There are many ways to hurt others with words, even avoiding definitions that would be against the law in Germany.

This is a bit personal, but my brothers and I grew up in Germany with a father who was verbally and emotionally abusive. However, he didn’t break any laws regarding offensive speech at least.

Ironically legislating against offensive speech protects people from superficial harm of “offense”, causes a chilling effect by curtailing “offensive” speech (what can you say about a corrupt cop in Germany or France without breaking the law?), and does little to prevent actually emotionally abusive speech.

Obviously my views are biased by my own experience, but I think the US is two _centuries_ ahead of the curve here while Europe still struggles with the ghosts of former monarchs.
USB-C is great but the Lightning connector is still better designed. Oh and you can downvote me all you want, I'm an electrical engineer, not an Apple fanboy. Don't like the phone. Anyway, they should at least include a cable.
Qi is fine. You can get a dock/pad with cable and charger sometimes for less than the cost of a lightning cable.

Personally I have an anker dock and I stopped buying any apple accessories.
There is a sort of metagame aspect to this. If Hitler had ditched the occult and superweapon projects and focused on winter coats and boots for his soldiers trapped Russia what would have happened? Then you wargame it out.

You'll never get anywhere on a real grognard game without spending hours poring over the rules first. The complexity is inherent to the system. Many of the better ones will try to compartmentalize it however, so you can start play on a relatively simple ruleset and only dive into the complex stuff when pieces interact.
I do use this in other projects, like in my tower defense game (https://github.com/victorqribeiro/towerDefense), but I was only working with one texture.

this project is not a city builder, it's a tile map editor, and should be generic enough to acomodate any type of tiles (I talk about that a lot on my videos).

this is something I would really like to do, I think I just need a better way for the user to specify these corners tile.

or, define a standard the texture must follow so it could be imported.
> I asked our VP Engineering if she was a fit. He replied "Did you see the guys around her? If I hired her, we'd get nothing done around here!" I was appalled.

Erm, I actually don't think that's an undue assessment necessarily if the guys really were acting like idiots. Hiring a female employee into that atmosphere would be suicidal. And the candidate is lucky she doesn't work there.

The problem is the VP of Engineering not trying to fix his employees acting like jerks around a female candidate. Eventually that's going to bite the company in the ass.
You're right. ReactDOMServer.renderToNodeStream is to support HTML streaming, which can allow the browser to start rendering the (as far as it knows, static HTML) document before it receives all the HTML. This is nice, but probably is not a huge factor if you're using HTTP caching via a CDN or a static site generator (since the CDN will likely support HTML streaming).
> There is no way for Facebook or anyone else to prove that the current or a future version of the NYU's extension won't scrape more data than people agreed to.

How so? The extension is open source, anyone can audit it.
I'd take the power brick out of the box and introduce the new wireless charging stuff first, too. Let people finish yelling about that first, then set off the inevitable rehash of the "but none of my dock connector accessories will work with my new phone! Apple just wants more money argh argh argh" fussing.
Why is that "solid piece" acting like stereotype threat is an actual thing, and not the totally debunked replication study failing pseudoscience that it is?
I didn’t even mean it as a slight to Python! I love the language and how much boiler plate it removes for me.
Not so fast, especially these days. CPU power consumption is highly non-linear.

You may well be benefitting from running a task longer, at a slower speed, and using less transistors.
Is this attempting to throw some shade on Figma to counteract lost sales?
On the contrary, it's probably on of its benefits: You can add as much as is relevant and provides information. After all, importance and relevancy is subjective and why would you need to remove 5000 words if someone wrote it and it provides value?
This is a really good overview, one of the better things I've read about hiring in a while. I led engineering hiring at a ~25 person startup last year and I strongly agree with the authors description of the differences between FAANG hiring and smaller company hiring. The part about fit resonates with me as well---everyone we recruited and hired with specific ideas about how they'd mesh with the team outperformed the hires who were closer to just "filling seats".
What do you think "population-based controls" means?
I'm convinced that the best way is to have a beer with someone and to get them to start ranting about the bugs they've had to catch and resolve. The more swearing about the technical stuff, the more confident I am about that they solved it. I'm more interested in hearing about the problem solving in the contexts that they've worked through, what they learned, and their experience over all. Experience is universal.

Telling someone to get 3 values of a list that create the high product isn't going to solve your production issue on a saturday night.