skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excel VBA and Power Query are regular programming languages.

Nothing in particular has been solved by Excel, it's just that the languages that are built in are disdained by software engineers so people assume there's something special about them. It's cultural. You can write a Lisp in VBA if you want.

Microsoft's attempt at low/no code appears to be Power Automate, and it's awful (imo).
Most apps will skip all that and just ask you to login before working. Much easier and they get your email ;)
The Tesla NTHSA complaints are kind of a mess and why we can't have nice things (data).

Many are valid and from justifiably disgruntled owners, and I could see how Tesla would have the most driver assistance related complaints, but there are subset that are suspect and/or cranky.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2020/TESLA/MODEL%2525203/4%252...

Several begin with "The contact ", which I guess is someone filing a complaint based on second hand info?

There's also Keef, who is still filing complaints based off of insurance auction listings and has now started filing complaints based on FSD Beta videos.

THIS IS A COMPLAINT ABOUT THE BETA RELEASE AUTOPILOT. A RANDOM MODEL 3 VIN HAS BEEN USED TO BE ABLE TO FILE A COMPLAINT. THIS COMPLAINT APPLIES TO ALL MODELS OF TESLA. HERE IS A VIDEO OF A PROUD BETA TESTER. HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=PQ-RGY1V8UG THIS OWNER HAS A MISPLACED TRUST IN THE SAFETY OF THE AUTOPILOT. HE IS USING IT IN HIGH RAFFIC AREAS WITH PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS HE IS ALSO USING IT AT EXCESSIVE SPEED ON NARROW ROADS ONLY INCHES AWAY FROM ONCOMING TRAFFIC. RATHER THAN HAVING HIS HANDS HOLDING THE WHEEL IN THE CORRECT WAY HE ONLY HAS HIS FINGERS TOUCHING THE WHEEL WITH THE PALMS FACING THE WRONG WAY. IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG HE WILL NOT BE ABLE GRAB THE WHEEL PROPERLY IN TIME TO PREVENT A COLLISION. FINGERTIP DRIVING IS UNSAFE AT THE BEST OF TIMES. IF AUTOPILOT HAS A GLITCH OR A SPASM THE DRIVER WOULD BE UNABLE TO QUICKLY REGAIN CONTROL. DESPITE THE CLAIMS OF ELON MUSK SUCH DRIVER BEHAVIOR DOES NOT LEAD TO THE BEAT RELEASE AUTOPILOT BEING REVOKED. THIS EXPERIMENT IS DEADLY. PLEASE GET IT STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. THANK YOU KEEF.
Time is valuable whether you work 16 hour days or 2 hour days.

Wasting it on mindless things like chopping vegetables or washing pots and pans is of course a choice you are free to make, but it is a foolish one in my view.

It's usually about 2x the time to clean up after a meal than it is to actually prepare it, in my experience. The cooking is easy, but cooking makes a mess of the stove, of the pots and pans, of the utensils, et c.
Just to note - unless we can't reach you, we usually end up just crediting the donor's account with a balance that they can use to support any of the other nonprofits on the platform, so usually you do get to donate to another project of your choice :)
> I live in India and flavored soda is considered luxury item here.

I worked for a B-School program which looked at growth opportunities for Cola in India.

One of the challenges were lack of electricity in large parts of the country. Even those who had electricity did not get it for 24x7. Those who had it uninterrupted could not afford to buy a freezer. This prevented the whole appeal of cold drinks that are not cold. Coca Cola and Pepsi invested heavily in refrigeration technologies as they mass imported cheap fridges and offered them for free. But electricity being government controlled remains a luxury in India. Coca Cola and Pepsi did crazy things to solve this problem including creating tie ups with ice makers who supply ice slabs for special events to brine based coolers than can keep things cool for 12 hours.

The results however were stunning. From 2016 to 2020, India has doubled the per capita consumption of cola per year to around 88 bottles. I think it is fair to assume that the ceiling for this number is around 1500 bottles per year because both USA and Mexico consume that much soda. Given the income difference between both countries I think that is an upper bound.

USA has 30x of India's per capita income but only 20x more soda consumption. Which makes me think Indians are going to hit that 1500 bound much much sooner than expected.

Note:

Some of our research results were fascinating and counterintuitive.

People preferred Coca Cola because it was "healthy" to a locally produced freshly squeezed sugarcane juice. The reasoning was that while the juicer center does not even have a food department clearance and is unsanitary, people had more faith in soft drink manufacturers quality control. Ice mixed with sugar cane juice was often transported via two wheelers, kept on the road and smashed into smaller pieces with a hammer.

When people were convinced that the sugar cane juice was produced in extremely clean fashion people preferred it over coke and were willing to even pay more than coke.

Companies like Paperboat in India have come into existence from these sort of insights.
An excellent backgrounder on the #polexit crisis from March:

Poland’s Rule of Law Breakdown: A Five-Year Assessment of EU’s (In)Action [1]; Laurent Pech, Patryk Wachowiec & Dariusz Mazur; Hague Journal on the Rule of Law volume 13:1–43

Laurent Pech's Twitter feed [2] has basically been "see, I told you it would all end in tears" these past few hours.

[1]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40803-021-00151-9

[2]: https://twitter.com/ProfPech/status/1446138455197687808
Do you have code to share and look at? All we can do is point to real-world code and benchmarks. For this specific case, see LoopVectorization.jl results (https://juliasimd.github.io/LoopVectorization.jl/latest/exam...), and the corresponding effects on stiff ODE solver benchmarks against C and Fortran packages (https://benchmarks.sciml.ai/html/StiffODE/Hires.html).
Could that be treated as a trademark issue rather than a copyright issue?
I wish he would put the code out on github, does tht break laws if its not actively doing it?
Agreed. This is a fascinating beta test for the masses. Another one around the corner is Bitcoin (and NFT) integration within Twitter.
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> Wouldn’t the taxpayers foot the bill for whatever the price is?

Certainly doesn’t work that way in germany where college is free. But then again, the US have an odd relationship with tax funding, to say the least.
Just put the code out in open source, I don’t see how that could be subject to a cease and desist
I was curious about boardgamearena.com the other day. They had hundreds of board games implemented on their platform, and I figured they probably had some sort of DSL for board games rules and was wondering about what that might look like. I went looking around and found out that, surprise, the site was open source! So I went looking.

It's just...PHP. Each game is written from scratch in PHP with SQL tables for game state (custom schemas for each game), with clients written mostly from scratch in JavaScript and Dojo.

For a bit, I thought "this is crazy," then I realized that they have successfully implemented hundreds of board games and I have not, so perhaps I should trust they know what they're doing.
Do you want your weekly paycheck in an inflationary or deflationary currency?
>> international KYC/AML-regulations

I busted out loud at this one :). Of course they will follow "International KYC/AML regulations"
Your value is the amount of currency you exchange for an acceptable amount of your free time.
Is this not a strength of crypto?
That's nitpicking. There's an initial contention: "Teslas hit emergency vehicles frequently", and a simple refutation: "No, they don't, here are some numbers[1]". Your response only makes it "not impossible" that the initial contention is correct, but you have to show numbers to prove that.

All we have is a cluster of 13 accidents over 3-4 years, and there are something like thousands of such accidents in the US every year. That's not proof that this is noise and not signal, but the obvious hypothesis is that it's probably noise[2]

[1] Which I don't have, though I suppose I could track it down.

[2] For the record: I believe it's probably a real bug, but in a product that on the whole is clearly better, so it's well hidden in the noise.
> You are a buzzword machine with no substance. All of these are nothing more than an obsession with some idea of success.

Why are you so abrasive? The poster is saying nothing bad to you, but you keep insulting them. Why?

> Will modern apps, workloads, quote on quote "meaningful" things run on uxn? No! But we can still research what you can do with modern aspirations and knowledge on an 8bit computer.

uxn is a badly built architecture. It's an 8-bit computer with 16-bit addresses, no overflow flags/bits/registers, and inefficient jump modes. It makes no sense. It tries to ape 8-bit computers of its time without understanding the limitations of transistors and budgets at the time. You just need a passing understand of computer architecture and registers to understand that. And if you want something didactic, there's architectures like the LC-3 which do make sense, so this is definitely not a dead end as much as a bad implementation. I'm not sure why so many folks on HN have been latching onto uxn recently, I presume it's become popular in some computing minimalism circle.

> Do that, that's wonderful if your research is about things you can do on normal operating systems like a web browser. But if your research is about computers, you probably need to say, design a new computer (uxn) or expose yourself to different kinds of computers. I suggest you do both, write a compiler and write a VM for it!

Everyone _knows_ why a computer like uxn is a dead end. It's not like uxn has a monopoloy on 8-bit fantasy architectures either, so there's certainly viable options. There are others that don't have the same issues. nga, the VM underneath RetroForth, doesn't suffer the same issues for example.

Look, lots of people like reenacting period dramas and doing things like renaissance faires. But period drama and RenFaire folks don't act like they're doing fundamental research. They're having fun and expressing their creativity, which is great, but they're not coming up with new historical research. Call a spade a spade and call art art. And let folks have opinions on the way OS research should work without calling them names.
The irony is that a blockchain is the perfect tool to get rid of any form of money laundering: A permanent public record of each transaction. You can always run a simple program that checks your financial history against a blacklist.

Now the problem with such a system is also quite obvious: Money laundering poisons the whole economy. If you could follow every dollar, you would likely find out it was at some point part of the profit from a criminal operation.
It's either a very simple DSL, or it is coding.

Complete with debugging and maintenance and all of the other things that make "coding" hard.
I've heard it described as "insight porn"
How do carbon markets work?
Purely bitcoin transactions will never be for the masses. It can't even scale past what 350k per day?

For that it consumes the equivalent power of Countries?
> Same power efficiency.

Are we looking at the same graph? https://openbenchmarking.org/embed.php?i=1807102-RA-DELLXPSB...

windows is idling at less than half the power! Idle power matters since most laptops spend most of their time idle waiting for the comparatively-slow humans to press keys

> And did you come back here an hour later to get another quip in?

And "quip" is a questionable (bordering on implied ad-hominem) word choice given that my only fault is disagreeing with you.
Sure, you can have this attitude about how you operate.

Many of us believe there are expectations of companies, contracts whether written or social that should be followed. Even if Facebook reverts their position on this to "back in office" we have the right to complain and/or leave the company (while lamenting that this significantly affects people's lives).
> I am ignorant in this topic, but why do americans seem to drink soda( pop as they call in cinema) excessively ? I live in India and flavoured soda is considered luxury item here.

You answered your own question - because America is wealthy and Soda is cheap.

I'm in New Zealand and soda was definitely a luxury growing up. But here it cost 14.57 USD for an 18 pack, while for a 24 pack in the states it's 10.22 USD. So almost half the price.
Do we even know the real number? VAERS is highly underreported and how many vaccine cases are just getting labeled as "covid cases"... I love the southpark skit about this "covid related"... worth a watch.
2021 high school America: https://www.google.com/search?q=2021+high+school+america&tbm...

I see mostly healthy (80% or more) BMI kids in these photos.

2021 middle school America:
https://www.google.com/search?q=2021+middle+school+america&c...

Again nearly all of them healthy BMI.

Moving away from anecdotes to statistics: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

Not surprising 20% obesity and 80% healthy.

This is a tragedy that needs to be addressed but is not even close to non fat kids are being abused by fat kids now in America.

While the picture for adults is much worse, still only 42.4% of American adults are obese. A great tragedy that needs to be addressed but a “significant” majority of Americans are still at a healthy BMI.
A site that's acting as a reverse proxy could block these requests altogether in addition to not caching them. If the browser receives a 451 error ("Unavailable for Legal Reasons") when requesting some offending image, there isn't a trivial mechanism to redirect that request to the "real site", at least not without forgoing Cloudflare services altogether.
Drinking water excessively is often an indicator of illness eg diabetes. Other reasons exist. The "its a hot day" reason is better than most but cold non-sugar drinks are usually more refreshing.
> A big difference is that Norway is a sovereign state and didn't have to deal with federal and inter-provincial politics like Alberta did.

As I understand it the Alberta Fund is completely controlled by the province. There is some national policies, especially with exports, that falls under the Feds, but how much (or little) flows into the Fund is completely up to the province.

It is on Alberta itself that it decided to have low/er provincial income taxes and no provincial sales tax. Those things were 'funded' by the resource revenues, which effectively came a sort-of cheque to the habitants of the province. And when oil prices went down, government funded went sideways.

IMHO Alberta shouldn't blame Ottawa for not setting aside something for a rainy day.
The fact that you own both a Mac and an iPhone supports my claim, assuming that in both case you were relatively informed of all the alternatives and were free to choose.
> Just look at finance, the entire market is based on telling mistruths to regulators.

There are of course liars in the finance market, but my impression is that most financial companies actually follow regulations quite closely (and happily, their employees often wrote the regs).

> Apple are currently piling industrial amounts of bullshit to a number of regulators. The irish, dutch and british tax authorities are constantly being fed lies about where "sales" happen.

I think we are using language differently. My sense is that Apple is using a legal fiction to minimize taxes through Irish subsidiaries, but that they are (as far as I know) quite detailed and truthful about the details of that legal fiction. It's quite silly to say Apple Ireland is making all the sales in all of Europe, but such an arrangement is legal and I suspect quite airtight as far as the relevant legal standards go. To me this is "lying" - representing the companies actions in a way that's to their advantage and is strictly in line with legal realities. If you could look at every document inside Apple you would probably find no different between their public and private opinions on legal specifics of the arrangement. Like...Apple Ireland doesn't "make" anything, but I'm sure all the money actually flows through the company.

Facebook, on the other hand, has repeatedly been found to choose to say things to regulators (or psudo-regulators like their "oversight board") that are, at the moment they say them, directly at odds with internal understanding. They aren't accurately describing an advantageous legal fiction - they're just making claims about things that no one inside the company believes. This would be like Apple claiming all money flows through Apple Ireland, but checking their bank records shows that the company has never received or sent any money.

The difference seems important to me, though I understand why someone might disagree.

> Google have lied to both austrialian and french regulators.

I googled around and couldn't find an instance of google lying to french regulators (I did not check aus ones). Could you point to the instance you're thinking of?

> The reason I brought up apple is because they are doing to to defuse the fact that they are alone amongst FAANG for enabling child abuse.

I am not sure I understand what you mean here - I would imagine that all of FAANG (aside from netflix probably) provide services used by abusers.
~$400k in lifetime earnings fills out the 90% AIME bracket; ~$2M in lifetime earnings fills out the 32% bracket. I think that, so long as you're still in that 32% bracket, you're more likely than not getting (small) positive returns from paying SS taxes.

Though I agree, it'd be silly to continue working or to declare higher income purely for that.
I used to work at Facebook and I agree with this. Some anecdotal notes on motivation headwinds:

- Talking to more senior friends, both within the company and with offers to join— few people want to join product, and those who do would usually rather join Oculus and not one of the apps. Lots more interest in infra. Working to raise engagement metrics and the news cycle are always factors behind this.

- I know plenty of people who just straight up don't like to work at Facebook. They "like their job" because they love the pay, the people and talking about the perks but dislike their projects and dread Mondays. Some are coasting while they can, some are figuring out their departure, and others are tortured week-to-week blaming themselves for their lack of motivation and trying to salvage some productivity.

- To some degree it feels like the more you care about something, the harder time you'll have, and the more your motivation will be hit. A lot of the battles are uphill battles, because a lot of the things people who care want to do are not considered impactful (or have negative impact).

Of course, there's plenty of people that don't feel this way at Facebook and a lot of pros to working there, but I did notice these patterns after working there, especially towards the end. Either I was paying more attention or they did seem more common than at other places I've worked at before.
Is it? Well, given last year's 'shit', there should be another four this year, yes?
Per https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge/:

"Our pledges are in no way legally binding. They are commitments made voluntarily and enforced solely by your own conscience."

"Our pledges do not restrict you to give to registered charities, specific organisations, or organisations working in a particular cause area. The only requirement is that you give to the organisations which you sincerely believe to be among the most effective at improving the lives of others."

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So, if you think you genuinely believe working in FOSS results in a better world than pulling in a paycheck and donating to charity, I'd say: yes, absolutely?

It's certainly not the default expectation, mind you. I think you'd probably get less out of the community since they focus in a different direction. But if you still see value in being part of the pledge, I'd definitely encourage you to take the leap and count that FOSS work :)
>they can use price discrimination to force users to their preferred platform

And that's why stores get to compete to BE their preferred platform. Software stores are middleman. They've got to compete for both users and developers.

You can't say apps have to be on all stores at the same prices when stores charge different prices to be on them. Or have different requirements to be on the store. Or when stores straight up do not allow your app (Apple with Xbox Cloud Streaming)
I think the proper form would have been to pause the Sheila narrative at the Edna reveal, and then at the very end of the story, have the 50 years later meeting as the wrapper.
Picture of the family thanks. Gotta remember why I carry around this beeping shit box.
Yes, my prediction is that they will do this and that they will then be less satisfied with their iPhone.
... Masterclass is a small subset of classes by famous people to give you a bit of personal insight into what they do and how they do it.

Universities are a large set of classes focused on a particular domain of knowledge with subsets of a set of other knowledge domains bolted on that have a use for the student.

Watching Masterclass With Gordon Ramsey will give you a cookbook, and a few cooking tips for the things he prepares.

Watching 11 years of Emeril Live! won't prepare you for working as a chef, but you can probably watch them and summarize some dos and don'ts of cooking.

Attending the French Culinary Institute, taking their classes, and working in their student restaurant will prepare you for a career in the culinary field in some capacity.

Whether starting as a dishwasher and working your way up is better than spending $60K on 2 years of cooking classes is up to the individual.
SQL: one of the original no-coding means of coding. I wonder how many people in the world are paid specifically to write SQL, fix other people's SQL and deal with all the other issues?
I know nothing about it in the US, but in the UK it would be their business once he started and they set him up on payroll. You could still argue none of their business, 'can only harm you' in negotiating salary of course - and in a large enough org the same people would never know, but otherwise could be a short-lived deception and maybe you'd feel weird about that once colleagues.
The Adafruit Feather form factor and the Raspberry Pi 40-pin header have a similar effect. In these cases it's because of an open specification and a rich market in IO boards.
Matched your $100 :) https://i.imgur.com/GCuXArQ.png
I don't want to be too blunt, but have you looked at early 90's era 68k compiler output? It was crap. When Sun launched SPARC, like half the advantage of the platform was that the compiler was suddenly generating this amazingly clean code. The phantom spills and intra-GPR movs everyone was used to disappeared overnight.
Anecdote. Fear mongering. Misleading statistic. Misleading/demonstrably wrong information presented with an air of "obviously". Conspiracy... What is eroding trust in vaccines are narratives like this. You pretend like every single point you raise (accelerated development, VAERS) doesn't have a clear explanation that is readily available with a single search. You pretend as if these "issues" you identify are swept under the rug to push unsafe vaccines on people, when in fact they are openly and frequently discussed. It's a (sadly common) argumentative sleight of hand.

Back when the virus was less infectious and it was plausible to get to herd immunity with 60% of the adults vaccinated, I thought a good information campaign can get you there. In the US about a third of the population believes that Biden won through Voter fraud. Factual information, no matter how well presented or corroborated, only gets you so far if someone with a megaphone has a narrative to push.