skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't make tools I write rubbish scripts that do my job for me. My job involves filling crappy designed forms on worse designed systems that seem to be designed for maximum clicks and slowness.

I'm not allowed to install anything so thank god for autohotkey!
I don't disagree with that assessment at all. I just wonder if it is possible to get the best of both worlds.
Why employees need counterespionage training
Software engineers don't have a monopoly on system design and debugging skills, not by a long shot.
So what is being done (if anything) to push back against this? Are there any Irish civil liberties organisations kicking up a fuss?
Yes, there's a ROI period. It's a matter of pay now or pay later (over time).

Obligatory Technology Connections video:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
Timing is dubious but I can picture a situation in which some version of 80% (by capitalized cost e.g.) of enterprise CRM, ticketing software, ERP, etc. is configured through something you could legitimately call "low code". I think it's already the case in many places.

I also predict that it will become more and more of a bloated mess, because of lower skill people working on it "anyone can set it up easily, no coding required!" and increasing complex reinvention of the wheel that will have to come up in working around whatever limitations make it "low code" in the first place. Again, enterprise software is well down this road.

Eventually, there will be a backlash and disruption of the enterprise market from something we haven't thought of yet that is way better than what we have to put up with today.
It's mostly C++ or Java (& other JVM languages) in high class finance, some python and verilog for their niches. The article is about the odd one out firm that has its own rather unique stack. It essentially says so at the end - "[you] become less employable anywhere else".
The Limerick gangs were more or less dealt with about a decade ago. It's the likes of the Kinahans, and possibly some of the various dissident republican groups, who are much more of a target for this bill.
I think they mean 'was it stripe identity' (there is stripe branding during verification) or was the company using some other solution. The experiences I've heard from bot developers using Discord and thus their Stripe Identity verification haven't had any issues.
I think this is a valid question. C++ provides std::is_same<U, T>, why do Rust users need an external dependency (especially given the fact that the type system is one of Rust's major strengths)?

My best guess, going by a comment in the source code, is that this macro will not be necessary in the future, and therefore makes less sense to put in the standard library:

> Until RFC 1977 (public dependencies) is accepted, the situation where multiple different versions of the same crate are present is possible.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1977
If you are looking for more ways to read about procrastination instead of doing something useful, I also heartily recommend:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...
I don't understand why people keep arguing against journals or newspapers because they are allegedly ideological or biased. Everybody is ideological and biased. Are they afraid they might lose all their critical thinking skills once they read such a journal and somehow be influenced or brainwashed without realizing it?

The people who recommend against those medias already believe of themselves that they are better informed and able to recognize the bias. If they are that critical, then they should have no troubles consuming biased and ideological media, and they shouldn't assume without further evidence that others don't have the same ability.

Especially in this case it's weird, because the journal is called The Economist. Obviously you'd expect some bias pro economy there.
At the risk of oversimplifying, is there any value in the analogy, "It's like RAID but for data streams"?
People don't understand decentralization and I think that people don't want decentralization.

Just look at GIT its killer feature is decentralization, bad luck because Linus Torvalds and bunch of kernel developers are using it in such way. Rest of the world is using Github\Gitlab making their own centralized repositories.
This is transparently not the case when exceptions are made for a Christian institution but not a Jewish one as frequently occurred during COVID-19 restrictions.
I'm not in the US. Typically I use live chat during European evening hours, and I often get agents with upper-intermediate English skills, who miss the crux of my question or who are completely unfamiliar with Stripe's own dashboard or services. Not even on an API-level. Simply on a "here's a thing that Stripe has and here's something it can do" level.
...on the other hand, the article notes that she hated being called that.

Calling her by her real name is a bit more respectful, and when people click on the link without recognizing the name (as I did), it serves as a good reminder that she was a regular human being born with an unfortunate medical condition.
>> While I appreciate the “middle” metaphor,

You kind of have to use a metaphor to praise monopolist practices ;-)
So what does this offer beyond just using a web browser?
> Except that's not clear at all.

Well it is when you realize the main feature of crypto is a decentralized bank and not a centralized one. A concept which makes it truly revolutionary in the time scale of humans using banks, but also very challenging as a technology.

The speed and security is constantly being worked on, there are other protocols like Solana which has a peak of 65k transactions per second.

Crypto is still a baby, saying it's slow short sighted to say the least.
Well, there are different types of loans. What you're describing is a collateralised loan which is the only type of loan that is feasible to implement with smart contract. Such a loan isn't very useful because the borrower has to post a sum equivalent to the amount borrowed as collateral, which means the borrower isn't really borrowing anything. Undercollateralised loans are more useful, because they can be used to actually finance projects, but these loans can only work if the lender has the ability to seize the lender's assets in the event of default, otherwise the lender would take the money and never pay the loan back. Such loans are not possible with cryptocurrencies because cryptocurrencies are "unconfiscatable", they cannot be seized. The escrow mechanism that you mention doesn't work because because it requires the lender to post collateral and then it's no longer an undercollateralised loan.
A nerve was touched here methinks
When I first started building applications back in the 90’s, I did it using the only thing I could get my hands on at the time, Access 95. Many of these low-code tools just feel like a web version of that. Form builders, drag and drop, define data types, hook up queries to forms and fields to text boxes and grids. I guess I just got old enough to see the approach come full circle.
Why do you say that the sentence was overly harsh? Chelsea Manning got a 35 year sentence, and would still be in prison had Obama not granted a pardon. Do you know of comparable cases where significantly lighter sentences were imposed?
If you are at all interested in screenwriting or storytelling, you owe it to yourself to listen to the Script Notes podcast's walkthrough of the script and how it works. It's too old for their RSS feed (unless you pay for back episodes), but they put it on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Nmoc1W0cMGo

(I can also recommend Script Notes in general. It's a pair of screenwriters, John August (Big Fish) and Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) talking articulately about the art and business of screenwriting. Expert shop talk from an entirely alien field is fascinating.)
Alright, let's say: "not on the list of criminals relevant for the topic".
The only reason people think "inflation" is bad is that it was bad one time in the 70s, except that was actually stagflation, and the cause was running out of a resource (oil) and not because the wage/price increases didn't match up. I guess some people might think Weimar hyperinflation lead to the Nazis, but it didn't really.
Comcast in the US has injected content into non-secured pages to notify customers of things. That is a horrible business practice that should not be allowed.

What can I, an individual with nearly zero political clout (I can vote... but I live in a gerrymandered district... another layer to the problem!) do to get this problem fixed? Best case scenario, I say something, it goes viral, people march in protest against bad ISPs, the monopolies get broken up, etc. But how long does that all take?

Meanwhile, I'll only use HTTPS websites as a first-line of defense. The "much bigger problem" can be solved in parallel.
Shouldn't need to subsidize it. The idea is that your $x PV install will generate enough income to make it a worthwhile investment.
I think the original google workspace launch announcement was better: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/introducing...

Not a lot better, but still better. There's a gif of basically integrated workflow between email, chat and document editing... I think.
>They routinely said that it held nothing of any interest (e.g. the story about the recipes - https://www.vox.com/2016/10/12/13253852/wikileaks-john-podes... ) but that it was also done to serve the interests of Russia and derailed the election - https://www.vox.com/2018/7/13/17569030/mueller-indictments-r...

Those two are not contradictory because the first one is based off the substance of the documents and the second one is based off the perception of the documents. Nothing too substantial was revealed but the existence of the emails was enough to feed into the existing narrative that Clinton couldn't be trusted and it therefore harmed her chances of winning.

>The idea that truthfully informing voters about the views and actions of a candidate was reprehensible if it affected the outcome of the election was never actually justified, it was simply assumed.

Because partial truthfulness isn't that different than lying. Imagine two scenarios:

1. Clinton gets the debate questions ahead of time.

2. Both candidates get the debate questions ahead of time. (Just a hypothetical and not a real accusation)

Story 1 would lead you to believe the Clinton is corrupt and will abuse the system for her advantage. Those two traits were already two of the biggest criticisms of her.

Story 2 would lead you to believe that it is the debate system that is corrupt and no specific candidate was at fault.

Story 2 being true automatically means story 1 is also true. However if you knew that story 2 was true and reported it as story 1, are you still "truthfully informing voters about the views and actions of a candidate"? You are reporting facts but in such a way as to bias the story. I think that is certainly reprehensible from a journalistic standpoint.

Many journalists believed that almost everything in the substance of these docs would be true for other candidates, they just didn't have the documents from other candidates as proof.
Looking for Server Hosting suggestions inside Tokyo
Title says it all.

Not happy with AWS prices inside Tokyo.

Need 8 cores for less than $200/mo ideally.
Problem with that is, as the article states, RAID6 _can_ use RS as its error correction method, which turns this description into something a bit too circular for my taste
Yes and it works fine, here is a weird Electrolux marketing photo https://www.reviewed.com/ovens/features/induction-101-better...

As weird as that looks I’m quite sure I could do that at home.
A political party is a compromise - a bunch of people who've decided they can accept one-another's redlines and non-negotiables.

A sane person doesn't just choose a party and adopt their party-line; a sane person works out what their opinions are, and maybe then chooses to support a party with policies that are sufficiently congruent with their views. Or not.

People who don't think for themselves are not really participating in politics. They're kidding themselves. They should voluntarily refrain from voting.
The European Digital Identity Framework
They're great tyres for commuting but they're so heavy. When you swap back to regular or race tyres your bike weighs half as much.

Again, I'm not saying they're good tyres, but perhaps best if you have a spare wheelset so you can keep a "fun" set for the weekend.
> It’s sad we can’t just encrypt the communication by setting up something in the server and that would be it.

You can? With any of Let's Encrypt's clients ( certbot, lego) of web servers that come with an ACME integration ( Caddy, Traefik).
The above message was the “why”: because it forces consistent (e.g budget neutral) ideas to be voted on.

Direct democracy doesn’t do that so isn’t viable for all decisions. Personally I think it’s useful in so few situations that it’s best left alone.
Why isn't there a universal free job platform?
> It was pretty level headed discussion until it was clear that their only motivation was getting to yes or enough justification to ignore him.

No, they offered solutions and only gave up when the author refused to provide any actual objection other than that he didn't like it. "Doesn't want people to file bug reports because downstream broke something" is a reasonable objection, but it's also a fixable problem. "The only thing that will ever make me happy is you completely removing this package from your distro" is neither.
I don't know if they updated this yet, but one location this was evident was on Linux. During a Teams call, if you looked at the applications using pulseaudio, Teams would show up as Skype.
The challenge of course is that detailed planning requires significant high authority work, hah.
The falsehood is saying that “currently, most K-12 students learn Confederate Race Theory.”

I grew up in solidly Republican Virginia in the 1990s (even my “liberal” Northern VA county voted against Clinton both times) and we certainly didn’t learn the “Daughters of the Confederacy” version. When we visited Monticello, slavery was discussed at length. Teachers have discretion so maybe some kids are still learning this stuff, but it’s a huge lie to say it’s “most” kids today.

Folks like Reid are massively gaslighting people by making it seem like the opposition to CRT is opposition to “teaching kids about slavery.” Conservatives in Virginia weren’t up in arms complaining about that when I was a kid almost 30 years ago, so it’s hard to imagine that’s what they’re doing. The opposition, instead, is to people like Reid who are trying to normalize racism against white people. It’s opposition to people who want to turn slavery into the entire narrative, such as the 1619 Project, which asserted that “nearly everything exceptional about America grew out of slavery”: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/year-zero

> Out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, its diet and popular music.
Not putting any eggs in this basket I got burned on Google Wave and I won't forget it ever, hah.
Reminds me of the exchange between Katie Couric and Sarah Palin along the same lines:

COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this — to stay informed and to understand the world?

PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —

COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.

PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.

COURIC: Can you name any of them?

PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.
Awesome product. As others have said, this has huge potential in eliminating costly photoshoots. If you can find a few big brands to partner with, you can completely disrupt the modeling industry.
It's been a long time, but as I recall there were two problems you'd run into with Access:

1. The database you're using was put together as if it were an excel spreadsheet. There was data duplicated between tables but not linked in any meaningful or consistent way, and fields that were supposed to have a fixed set of choices were terribly unnormalized. Think of a column for colors where you have grey, gray, grya, or Gray that are all intended to be the same color, but were entered by differently and wouldn't show up as the same in the reports that were generated.
2. There were real limits of the capabilities of the technology. Performance would drop for a while, but eventually you'd hit hard size limits and have to split your file into multiple "databases".

The first problem is definitely the kind of problem that you you're describing, where you have people working with a technology they aren't trained in.

Workers with these systems had long check lists they would run through to massage the report data into the form they needed, and these check lists would grow as they found more and more edge cases. I used to think it was crazy, but now I realize the alternative when these systems were built was probably post-it notes on a wall. Sure, eventually they had to have someone rebuild their system (move it to a real RDBMS), but meanwhile the business provided it's value.
I'm not familiar with this, care to cite?
So many horse and buggy makers in these comments that can’t see what you see. They think that because some SaaS app they build required so much custom login that low code won’t make a big difference in their world view.

What low code really represents is making automation more accessible for more common tasks without knowing how to develop software. Zapier but for more complex tasks.

20 years ago you had apps like Dreamweaver or Frontpage that enabled this for many people to do static sites like a square space now does dynamic ones.

Sadly though, if history is any teacher, at some point these incremental improvements will create larger low code companies and further consolidate more of the web into a few bigger providers.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17694306
Wow, that's a mouthful.

FWIW: Greenwald, as odd as his recent flip to Q-adjacency has been, doesn't seem to have been involved with the Winner episode.

It seems like Winner got burned as a source by a plain old journalist who fucked up badly while making a good faith attempt to validate a story. They got a bunch of scanned documents purporting to be from the NSA, so they called up the NSA to see if these documents were real. And in the process they provided the original scans, which identified the source printer and user.

But no, Glen Greenwald didn't have anything to do with this.
The author however is hired by the commercial entity behind Home assistant. And I'm not against making money using open source software. But when you build your company and income on an open source license and the work of others you should respect that license both ways.
There are many assumptions here. Personally I don't even remember when I connected to an open wifi, I believe some systems will prevent you from doing so. In any case, using HTTPS is indeed helpful in a hostile network when combined with HSTS, but if you have already connected to a network controlled by an attacker, this means they can not only sniff all your traffic, but already control your DNS and can easily find multiple ways to deliver the payload to you.
We should note that the WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Epistemological proofs are an impossible standard. Take in what you think has credibility or value and make a personal judgement.
Take credit for success, blame underlings for failure… it's Greenwald alright.
Thank you, but maybe I'm being dense:

Tire hits bump, causing energy B to impact tire. The whole bike and rider go 'up' or just the tire goes 'up'. How is the former causing more energy loss? The amount of energy is B either way.

I can see how one is more comfortable, because the tire takes the hit and not me, but I don't grasp the difference in energy.
Source that it’s “still taught across the south?” Because that’s certainly not what I learned in Virginia 25 years ago.

And Reid said “most” kids, not just those in the South.
One thing to keep in mind about this article: Gartner's only MQ that focuses on app development is based around these "low-code" multi-experience development platforms which comprise exclusively commercial vendors rather than any open source technologies.

They simply do not have a perspective on professional engineering trends for app development, so this prediction about low-code is pretty predictable.
Taproot Activation Brings Massive Bitcoin Upgrades
Americans’ inflation fears reach a fever pitch as consumer prices rise
> Am I paranoid to think that this sounds like a continuation of the ANOM project... selling a supposedly secure, home brew and private device to the gullible who desperately want a secure channel?

The difference being that the point of the PinePhone is that the whole stack, from the hardware up to everything software, is open source or runs on open source firmware.

The Anom was a completely closed-source solution which required a large amount of trust in a single entity. The Pinephone (and by extension every other Linux phone, whether it exists yet or not) leverages the strengths of the Linux community and is in no way comparable.
This quote. From Doreen's long lost German book is pure genius. It is the first and best description of the reality I've been experiencing:

"The idea was that you have a certain budgeted ability to do a particular type of thing and if you aren't getting enough of that thing, you will do more of that type of thing voluntarily (as a hobby) and if you are being forced to do more of that type of thing than your internal budget supports, you will start experiencing burnout."

Everything else I've read has generally been about increasing capacity, and perhaps to some extent one can, but perhaps there is a sweet spot. For example, in lifting weights, you have your capacity for today and for this week, and you want to manage hitting your sweet spot for where you are at a given time so that you can grow without injuring yourself.

This shifts the conversation from trying to find and endless source of creation inside yourself (not realistic) to an awareness of and managing your current energy budget for a specific type such as creativity so that you tend to your self and optimize your choices so that energy is not wasted.
I don't mind that kind of bias, if your 2x2 matrix was right -- that each of them reports everything good about their side and everything bad about the other side. If that were true, you could sum them up and have a pretty balanced total news source.

The problem with Fox News and CNN is the biased attitude. They report everything good as amazing and everything bad as horrible. The anchors are "performing" the news, telling you with their tone, body language and vocal intonations how disgusted you should be or how much you should be rejoicing. This phenomenon has infiltrated the NYT and WSJ as well, and I've stopped reading both.
I would imagine you're going to get a fraction of the users testing it that you're looking for then. I know I'm not going to put my username and password into a closed source app from a random stranger on the internet.
Advancements in Red Team Technology
Ya I watched the video and still have no clue what this does over regular Gmail/docs combo.

Also Google's spreadsheet program is dogballs compared to excel.
Effort? How about necessity? You think they were going to run gas lines to our house in Bumphuck, Indiana that sat 200m off the road (the road which, I guarantee you, did not have a gas line buried next to it)?

Of course no one would be running gas lines, that's why we had a big LP tank to play on when I was a kid:

https://www.homeimprovementbase.com/3-easy-steps-to-prepping...
What Universities Have Wrought: An Interview with Davarian Baldwin