skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're commenting on a article that says "we started to question many of the things we had accepted as ‘facts’... we’ll look at some of these myths. We’ll explain why we (and everybody else) used to believe them, and how things really work"

But you aren't qualifying what you're saying: Are you telling us what everybody used to believe? Are you saying you see through what everybody says even without empirical testing? Are you agreeing or disagreeing with the test results presented in the article?
> Do grandmasters never lose games to non-GM players even when playing multiple people for fun?

Pretty much, yeah. Especially when they don’t make any big mistakes, as was the case here.
The source could also simply be the ground. With a heat pump the water doesn't have to be hot to provide heat to a building. The difference with the system Nordic countries have is that they provide hot water to residences which is directly used for heating.
Code should ideally be on github as source code files, not inside a binary archive.
In particular their inertia is higher, and the tire is the worst place to put heavy things physically speaking.
This really depends on how you define tech... Is a static website made with SquareSpace tech? Is an excel file tech? I'd argue yes, and if so, then I'd bet that number is much higher than 80%.
Depends on the assignment, and can easily backfire.

When I was TA'ing the CS intro class, which in my University was actually using a functional programming language (ML), I received a bunch of "working" programs from students who already knew how to program, but not with functional programming languages. They would force an imperative style into ML, which was not what the assignment was, and kind of showed that they must not have paid attention at all.
Looks neat. I don’t see any source code in the repository though?
It's possible, and I imagine would be a very cool feature for a shopping app!

We went to the B2B path after launching Style Space (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/style-space/id1535818149) and realize we don't know how to run e-commerce haha. Might revisit the shopping app / marketplace idea once we have more validation and tractions.
You should be aware of the death toll for the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. It's not something we can legally replicate.
Hangouts/Chat.

Which means, practically, that everything is done through internal mail lists, because chat is not usable.

Pre-covid, that also strongly incentivized everyone to actually work on campus.
Wouldn't the size of the contact patch be dictated entirely by tire pressure and not tire size? A 100lb person+bike and 100psi inflation means 1 sq inch of contact regardless of tire dimensions.

They're circles on a plane, after all. In ideal conditions they'd only contact at a single point.
So I started my career a little bit later, but one thing I enjoy is reading about old development horror stories, it seems like all of the worst ones start with either/or 'Access Database' and 'Visual Basic'.

I guess my question is it seemed like the last generation of "No more developer tools" failed, because the problem in programming isn't knowing how to code, after all it seems like pretty much anyone can figure out how to write Python in a weekend, but that learning how to work and think like a developer. Thinking of edge cases, determining data flows, what to do in the event of problems, etc.

So from those that have a little bit more experience than me, what was it like in the age of MS Access, Visual Basic, and how do the new low code tools address those?

EDIT:

Also it says that the tech will be built outside of IT, but who is going to end up supporting that?
I would say my claim is that offering more money or the chance to make more money does make it possible to end up with a workforce of people with a higher than average skill level.

And if certain geographical locations are known for being places where the chances of making a lot more money are significantly higher, then I would say the skill level of people there is probably higher on average. The proof would be the numerous leading companies and products coming out of these places.

Of course, those locations can change, and maybe widespread access to broadband will cause that to change that or reduce benefits of agglomeration. But it remains to be seen.
If you're interested in wheels, check out The Bicycle Wheel by Jobst Brandt. If you're building wheels it's a must have.
“ “The barrier to become a technology producer is falling due to low-code and no-code development tools,” Gartner VP Rajesh Kandaswamy told VentureBeat. When asked what kinds of tech products and services these findings apply to, he said “all of them.””
App Communication: When to Use Push Notifications, SMS, and In-App Messaging
You don’t need to call the issuer. The NFC chip contains data signed by the issuing country. All you need is a list of trusted country CA’s.

You can check if it’s an original by performing a challenge/response protocol. You can read a public key from the signed data, the private key is not externally accessible. You ask the chip to sign some data with it’s private key and you check against the public key.

You can do all this from a mobile phone.
But it is fair to say that economies that look remarkably like our own are able to support higher wages with no catastrophic downsides. The same argument goes for universal healthcare, family and sick leave, etc.
I've bought a few tire models after researching at bicyclerollingresistance.com, and while I certainly don't have the means to do proper scientific research, I feel like I did buy the right stuff.
Anyone who claims to care about the mental health of open source devs should be on the author's side here
Citation needed. We’re 50 years away from running out of topsoil. Combine that with many other resources that are running out, and the compounding crises of climate and biodiversity loss. We’re not a few techno tweaks away from sustainability.
I have managed to earn a great living using primarily basic LAMP skills for decades.. but in the next three years it will all come to an end. oh noooooo
Trees are not accidental. They very much have a pattern. Namely they are in the shape of a tree.

TV static is pure randomness. Looking at any pixel has no correlation with looking at any other pixel. Any pattern you see in static must therefore be an artifact of the way your brain encodes patterns rather than something that is actually there.
Yes, Discord only allows bot developers to become verified (which is required for bots to be in over 75 servers) if the developer is able to verify their identity via Stripe, no alternate process is provided for developers outside of the supported country list.
This, to me, seems like it could deliver many of the actual promises of digital currencies without the bits that don't make them useful as currency. In many bitcoin threads, one pro-bitcoin argument I see people make is that it can be very helpful for people in under-banked or no-banked situations. I think that's actually a decent argument.

For a large number of digital currency enthusiasts, the "decentralization" argument has been a big seller, and obviously this is the exact opposite of that, but for those of us who don't buy into the decentralization argument but still find the tech behind digital currencies interesting, this seems like it could be a useful step forward.
No mention of C++? (https://www.rentec.com/Careers.action?computerProgrammer=tru... and probably most HFTs)
What is the point of this thought process?

centralized time-sharing -> decentralized applications -> centralization with web applications (or cloud)

Like next model would be coming from previous one or somehow created by some architect and like one or the other would be superior.

There is no such causal relationship, each model was or is best for its time and technical possibilities. If it would be possible to have decentralized applications running on PCs in 1950 people would do that right away.

Centralized time-sharing systems were necessity because computers were freaking huge and slow, remember that people did not have network connection to mainframe, they had terminals that were scarce and rather close to huge boxes that were mainframes.

Decentralized applications running on PCs were necessity because we there was no ubiquitous networking in the 80's-90's, while computers got small enough that basically everyone could have computing possibilities at his desk, not just dumb terminal. There were still quite some mainframes around because they were more convenient for huge calculations than whatever was possible on the desktop.

Nowadays or since 2000's we have really capable machines on desktop and internet started to grow to enable centralization that people want. Not like centralization that was necessity. I can do my calculations or a lot of work done on my desktop but I can easily share that work with someone on the other side of globe and thanks to centralization I don't have to wake him up but he can check his email when he finishes his morning coffee.

So it is not back or forth, those are totally different modes of computing enabled by different possibilities that we have because of technology changes.
Greenwald says[1]: "The most egregious, but by no means only, example of exploiting my name to evade responsibility was the Reality Winner debacle. As The New York Times recently reported[2], that was a story in which I had no involvement whatsoever. While based in Brazil, I was never asked to work on the documents which Winner sent to our New York newsroom with no request that any specific journalist work on them. I did not even learn of the existence of that document until very shortly prior to its publication. The person who oversaw, edited and controlled that story was Betsy Reed, which was how it should be given the magnitude and complexity of that reporting and her position as editor-in-chief."

[1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-int...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/business/media/the-interc...
Oh I see it, I just don’t want it and I think reading both sides gives you worse galaxy brain than reading none.
I could write an essay and it would not change a soul. Figure it out, or don't. Enjoy your life either way.
> For what it’s worth we have the same amount of morons just the Internet has given them means to organise and communicate

That seems concerning enough on its own, but that property ("means to organize and communicate") has knock-on effects: those morons become even more extreme and they come to occupy positions of power and authority in even greater numbers.

Once upon a time you had millions of village idiots whose views were moderated by their community and the talking heads on TV, and they were typically blue-collar, uneducated, and had no real power or authority. Now because of the ability to communicate with each other, they develop echo chambers that radicalize their viewpoints. On top of that, they organize, such that the administer universities, overwhelm newsrooms, and lead DEI departments in every major company in the country.
> I've always thought that the real NSA ruthlessly prosecutes

The NSA might do many things, but it absolutely does not prosecute anyone (though it same-head military command might prosecute service members within its command.)
Different exchanges and users use a blockchain to interoperate.

Different banks and financial services use different protocols, some instant some deferred, to interoperate.
> I’ll be remaining at the helm of Day One, leading the same passionate team that has been responsible for the development and design behind the app today. This means that the Day One you rely on to save your thoughts, photos, videos, audio recordings, and more isn’t going away. Instead, it’ll only get better, with future integrations with Tumblr and WordPress.com. Rest assured there are no current plans to change the privacy of Day One; safely protecting memories and creating a 100% personal space is the foundation upon which this company was built.

From the founder/CEO on the Day One blog’s announcement: https://dayoneapp.com/blog/day-one-at-automattic
Cheap tires are slower. Reliable tires are slower. It's obvious from the pictures that the fatties they're testing are special, with paper thin skinwalls. I can totally see that a high performance fattie would be just as good as a high performance narrow tire. It's the inelastic deformation of the tire casing (and inner tube) that eats power.

Unfortunately thin-walled high performance tires are also delicate. I've seen people ride tires that can't even survive a couple of kilometers of dirt road.
yeah, to me it seems a bit like someone contributing a driver to Linux and then throwing a fit when they see someone patching it downstream.
> The NixOS dev opening that thread was doing so with the intent of warning them about a potentially problematic upstream maintainer.

The "potentially problematic upstream maintainer" being a Home assistant core developer.
For sure - but you’re still thinking about it from the using side, not the purchasing/management side.

We all know how dysfunctional management can be, and IMO this is more a symptom of the disconnect between management and the employees resulting in bad business performance.

It’s clear whoever is doing the purchasing either doesn’t care, doesn’t know, or has to pick the option due to another checkbox somewhere they can’t control. The people who know have no control over the tools they are using.

It’s amazing how pathological organizations can be.
They got a lot of advice from Cuba on staying in power. I fear Maduro may hang on in there till old age like Castro did.
Who build the low-code tools and 'add-on' if not IT?

low-code tool might maybe get us back to where we were earlier with VB... but there was a cottage industry of OCX controls, again built by IT.

Same thing is/will happen with 'low code' tools: they all have their internal market, where "IT" sells what can not be done with the low-code tool.

And then, it's like Excel or MsAccess... it works until it does not (or the person who wrote it left the company) and then it needs to be rewritten.
I'm guessing it'll burn, but perhaps not very well/too dangerously... But I'm sure there's a way to weld yourself in molten plastic if you're unlucky?

Not certain which exact model is used - doesn't look like they're advertised as flame retarded? (most modern tents are)

https://www.surviveoutdoorslonger.com/shelters/heat-reflecti...
It wouldn’t. Changing the backbone and how money transit should be transparent to the user.
Somebody’s still going to have to maintain no-code apps. If they do as much as current apps, they’ll be just as complicated as current tech. Seems like that maintenance role will be left to people with system design and debugging skills—i.e. software engineers.
Whelp, time to hang up the ol’ compiler again. Jokes on the author, though. 80% of tech is already built outside of IT, then they find out they need us to clean up their mess.

Like the coding is the hard part
Why are Linux Mint people not doing this? They maintain LMDE too.
Sure, will do right away!
> All things considered this tent, at less than 3 pounds, is one the lightest 2-person, freestanding, tents around that can handle four-season conditions.

4-season tents are made to handle wind and snow accumulation, which this thing definitely would fail. It's a fun exercise for bushcrafting but don't kid yourself and think you can go 15k+ feet up a mountain and survive 50mph wind gusts like you could in a Hilleberg or other true 4 season tent.

I'm a big fan of tarps and tents with pyramid designs--the MLD trailstar is an awesome shelter that's proven itself well in windy, rainy Scottish highlands and is a favorite shelter for backpackers there: https://mountainlaureldesigns.com/product/trailstar/
Why I don't understand is, why is nobody talking about Crystel? She sold something she didn't own betraying the trust of everyone, and yet, nobody mentions her.
She went to hols and xmas parties, she was "elected" by peers and then she picked the worst person even and SOLD HIM SOMETHING SHE DIDN'T OWN.
After all, it's not even that hard or costly in comparison.

Total expected lifetime cost of the F-35 program [1]: 1.5T$

Expected cost of shifting the US to 100% renewables [2]: 4.5T$ (note these estimates are probably at least double that of the real costs in light of the rapidly dropping deployment costs since)

Environmental cost of not doing it: Projected at 1.5T$ for the US by 2050, so it's almost self financing.

This is not even about serious economic restraint, it's literally just about having a frickin' fighter or not.

Note the Apollo program was a bargain compared to both at just 280B$...

"We choose to go to the Moon...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too."

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/f35-fighter-jet-pe...
[2] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/shifting-u-s-to-100-percent-ren...
100% this won’t happen, and certainly not by 2024.

By 2024, enterprises won’t even have them on their radar.
> When I went looking for validation of it, I couldn't find any.

It's unlikely you will find validation outside an entry-level text book for virology or epidemiology. From my understanding it's a fundamental assumption that's easy to verify: ALL viruses with a similar transmissibility profile as SARS-Cov-2 (high R0, aerosols) have become endemic, that includes e.g. seasonal influenza and all other human coronaviruses.

That's the reason seasonal influenza is not a big issue most of the time, because we already had it in the past (or a related strain) and our immune system is primed. This happens usually as children and is the reason why both young children and their parents are a lot more ill than the average.

A completely new influenza strain, however, has a similar pandemic potential as SARS-Cov-2, and one hypothesis why the 1918 influenza was so deadly for younger generations is that they likely had not encountered it before, while the older had.

In fact, if SARS-Cov-2 wouldn't go the same route as basically all similar viruses have done before, it would be a big surprise. Try to speak to an expert in the field, preferably a virologist or an epidemiologist.

Somewhat related: it's a common cognitive bias to trust self-generated knowledge more than the knowledge from others.
I think the many decentralized exchanges and services built on top of cryptocurrencies is exactly that. It’s programmable, more interoperable, and more secure (that you won’t be able to see unless you work for a financial institution that uses a cryptocurrency).
Wolf 21
Matrix: How governments and spies text each other
It makes more sense if you read it as if you are in charge of a small business or organization's digital efforts. Someone running, say, a hair salon might find personalized email marketing features useful. The blog post about the launch seems aimed mostly at small businesses and organizations. https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-workspace-ever...
react@next and react-dom@next are not e-mail addresses, LogRocket.
Airlines have been data mining for a very, very long time now and have a reasonably guess of the ratio of people booking vs showing up at the gate to fly. So you set your buckets to oversell by that much and assign seats later. If more people show up than expected than you throw them a voucher to go away. Hopefully enough will.

Sometimes it doesn't work out and that's when airlines bleed. I was flying home one day from some US city (was it Denver? the years and cities blend together) when a Drupal conference and some major sports thing ended the same day and the airport was a total gong show. United first offered a paltry 120 USD but when they raised to 400 USD to go home the next day instead my hand went up -- and I was such a greenhorn I didn't know they will pay for the hotel, too. A buddy pocketed no less than 1200 USD from Delta.
Why publish it on the common infrastructure of python instead of some homeassistant project specific infrastructure then?
Looks like a carbon monoxide death trap if you close it up and light up inside...
Have you looked at stablecoins?
Interesting, I am often find nonplussed by their cover of Canadian stories, especially by what they choose to cover - "buttergate" and dearth of some obscure condiment Asians use in Vancouver come to mind as recent examples.

I find The Globe & Mail and MacLeans quite solid when it comes to news coverage.
So let's say your site is popular. What exactly is preventing a bad actor from MITM your site and spreading malware at a coffee shop or insert open public wifi?

HTTPS isn't just about securing the information, it ensures that when someone tries to get to your site, they ACTUALLY get to your site.
I am not going to open source the project at the moment, I have to clean things up a bit before that. I'm probably gonna do that as soon as it reaches a good first RC
Whether in EUR or USD, those numbers will feel pretty good in Hungary.
A great source of data on bike tires is [0], which has been doing systematic tests on a dedicated test rig for many years and appears to be independent of any tire manufacturer.

After finding this site a few years back, I bought a high-pressure floor pump and Schwalbe Marathon tires for all the commuter bicycles in the family. Haven't seen a flat tire since, even though we have four bikes on the road almost every day.

[0]: https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/the-test
Certainly not in 60+% of films. And since when is Christmas only celebrated by Christians in the West? It became fully commercialized and secularized decades ago. Its even a major holiday in Japan these days, where less than 1% of the population is Christian.
No-code tooling or not someone still has to design the workflow. Designing a workflow requires asking good questions, which requires putting in the time with domain experts who aren't necessarily an expert in implementing a workflow with software.

You'll just get different flavors of specialists this time with newer no-code tools. IT will still probably be doing this work. Writing custom code / using generators might still be more optimal to avoid vendor lock-in that is often the revenue strategy of low-code SaaS.
The point I was making is that the signal integrity work would be a lot harder than for a hard drive of yesteryear. The BOM cost of the switch isn't that important
They also said we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000
I have the same issue with every HN app: no “past” support, or insufficient past support. That’s the way I’m mainly browsing HN.
All indoor cooking requires venting outdoors to be safe.

The air quality concerns over gas stoves are a disingenuous argument to push for change for climate mitigation reasons. Most pollution from cooking is related to burning food not fuel, and electric burners make it far easier to burn food.

Rather than pushing think tank pieces environmental groups should push the industry to create induction ranges that are 1) cheaper and 2) don't create high frequency noise pollution. Current technology has a lot of positive aspects but the high-pitch buzzing is a deal breaker.
This would be bad on a business standpoint because SiFive has the capacity to go way beyond $2B, with states scrambling for chip sovereignity.
And then there's https://gazepass.com, a Passwordless Login API that uses your mug instead.
I’m not sure your point as that’s exactly what people do. I have a neighbor who is gay and voted for Trump because of gun rights. People are really diverse and it takes lots of particulars to find out why people do stuff.

It’s not a good idea to “cancel” people based on a single characteristic.
Why macOS?
There is just deviance, no positive deviance or negative deviance.
You can't put a filter for this.