skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visual programming is an idea that keeps coming up because there are no examples of it, therefore it would seem like a great innovation.

Because there are no examples of it is precisely why it’s hard to do. Those who try either end up with something too application specific to be extended, or something too abstract to be used.

Take UML, it took the abstract route. It has many diagrams, it even has flow charts. It was big in the ‘90s and never amounted to much. Turns out that to implement something in UML is harder than just writing the code it maps to in the first place.
I used to work at a company where we could clock in and out if we wanted. If we did, we could keep any extra hours at our convenience as a day off. If we didn't it would be a full workday by default.

I liked the freedom to work long days every now and then, and then take some time off later when I wanted a long weekend or so. A colleague decided that's a great idea and started doing the same, but stopped after a week or two when he realized he's just accruing negative time.

I'm not claiming that I was fully productive with my office hours, just agreeing with you that some people really do think they work more than they actually do.
Everyone couple of months I do a “purge” of my social media. I just delete the apps from my phone for a few days or a week. I have no set schedule for doing it but I know I need it when I’m angrily on twitter or Reddit most of my workday.
As the article explains, your DNA sample will not show how you are perceived racially by the people treating you. And it's that racial perception that has a big influence on quality of care in the US.

We cannot eliminate the box on the form until we first eliminate the biased care.
The leaf is still a major compromise. The 149-mile range on a 2022 base model is a real issue in practice. Smaller ranges mean more charge cycles which causes faster battery degradation in a vicious cycle. Assuming you follow guidelines and don’t fully charge or discharge the battery you quickly end up with under 100 miles of useable range. It is ok for some drivers, but it’s simply not enough for most people.

The 226 mile version is significantly better, but that’s all they offer.
Prime minister of India. Politics in India is very messy.
It also isn't always simpler. Once you're visually flowcharting minor text transforms "low code" is a misnomer
The one BMW I had was in the shop for a week to fix the rear brake lights, at only 12 or 15 months old.

The idea that luxury brands do not have problems is not something I have ever seen evidenced by owners. Some luxury brands are know for needing continual repairs.
So could I. The caveat being that I was only a fraction as productive. roughly guessing, 16 hours was probably worth about 3 of today's.

most of the difference is just the ability to go more directly to the right solution or implementation versus when i was younger I often found out late that something was off and had to change _everything_ to cascade the refactor.
I think the big issues present in many large companies isn’t democratic coding but interdependent technology architectures and business processes that must rely on centralized planning. In this case speed to market is a challenge due to the overall coordination burden and a hodgepodge of specialized technology and business domain logic. Coding and lack of coders generally aren’t the issue at big corps, it’s getting them meaningful instruction on what the business needs that is coordinated with all the other aspects of the business to yield productive outcomes. It’s why project costs are usually 30% developers and 70% overhead. There’s typically nothing democratic about this type of environment and low code / no code platforms can’t solve this type of issue.
> My understanding is that "woman" is simply an adult human female, whereas "gender" is a more polite synonym for "sex".

There are actually three traits of interest here, not two:

sex is a complex of biological traits that is loosely bimodal but not binary.

ascribed gender is a categorization imposed (or accepted) by the society in which one exists, whose dimensionality and granularity varies by society.

gender identity is one's personal concept of self belonging in the same rough space as ascribed gender, though it may of may not correspond to categories accepted in one’s society for ascribed gender.

Currently, in most of the world, people's initial ascribed gender is set by their society based on some subset of sex traits.

Historically, in Western societies (and to a greater or lesser extent most historical societies, though some had specific accepted exception from either or both the initial ascribed gender rule and the binary limit) the imposed norm has been that one should align their gender identity with ascribed gender confined to a binary based on stereotypical relation to sex traits on pain of fairly extreme social consequences, though the recent evolving norm (which is resisted by conservative elements of society) is that ascribed gender should shift as needed to align with gender identity which is not confined to a binary.
> I just don't buy the argument that visual programming tools are inherently more creative or imaginative than text-based programming tools because at some point, you are going to be constrained to the UI, which always comes with tradeoffs.

They aren't inherently more creative for all people. For example there is a group of people that prefers LaTeX to MS Word - but it's undoubtable that Word is more accessible to more users. The creativity comes from letting business users directly iterate on the UI mockups and underlying process, which is possible in these tools. Instead of waiting a few months for an IT project to start, the users can create a mockup in a few days and iterate a few times before connecting to a real backend. I would have thought this was improbable 3 years ago, but personal experience has taught me that there are many business users capable of doing this.

Most of the tools created with these platforms never "ship"; the primary users are often internal. At large companies, an internal app may have 10k users. Also, YMMV depending on the tool - some are much better than others at debugging complex flows.
Two of my four grandparents are from Gaza, expelled in 1929. That side of the family has been there for “ever” as far as we know. (The other two grandparents are from Belarus of mid-Eastern ancestry). We are not considered a “minority” in the United States for purposes of “diversity hiring” because we are Jewish.
In contrast, there shouldn't be anything in a suspension system failing after three years. Perhaps they inspect for a torn boot, but I wouldn't expect cracks in castings or sheared fasteners.
8-year programmer here and I completely agree. JIRA is a perfect example of a tool that has grown so big and feature-flexible that very little is intuitive anymore.
> In 2019, a small study raised the tantalizing prospect that ageing could be reversed. Scientists in California gave 9 men aged 51 to 65 a growth hormone and two diabetes medications for a year. The drugs seemed to rejuvenate the men’s thymus glands and immune function. They also shaved 2.5 years off the men’s biological age, as measured by one of the most talked-about technologies in ageing research: epigenetic clocks.

It's also worth nothing that another study shaved "3.2 years" off the "epigenetic clock" simply with lifestyle changes over 2 months. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064200/
Absolute full anonymity is sometimes the only defense against tyranny.
Exactly this. In most of US, ex-California, the non-Tesla charging networks are about 4 years behind on install locations/quantities. Plus they have tons of software issues (tons of EV reviews with drivers unable to charge at ElectrifyAmerica, etc). Meanwhile in 3.5 years of owning a Tesla, they have been filling in every gap in my trip charging needs, and introducing redundant charging locations on my journeys.

In the NYC area, 200-300mi trips in the Tesla have evolved quickly with a BEV-

* 2018 - OK there's one route to go on this journey that has charger, I've topped us up to 90% before we go, so don't miss the turn & everyone time your bladder to this one stop

* 2019 - Alright we are at 90% and there's a couple places we can charge along the way, as long as we take routes A or B.. and the backup charger on route B might be 10mi off the highway driving through some backroads at night in rural NJ

* 2020 - Oh cool they added chargers to a couple more of those NJTP/I95 rest stops

* 2021 - OK there are chargers at basically all the NJTP/I95 rest stops I used to stop for gas

* 2022 - It's winter & the battery is above 50%, we'll pass 2 chargers on the way to/from regardless of which route we go .. so we'll charge whenever is convenient to someone needing to stop for drink or bathroom

So living in 2022 with a Tesla charging network, it's hard for me to imagine going back to my 2018 style of driving with the very attractive MachE / Polestar2 / Taycan / Ioniq 5 / etc.
Doesn't every populist politican do this when and where they can? I'm sure I recall Trump adding his 'brand' to a number of things he barely had any say in, whilst he was in office.

I imagine a number of the % of public tax payers who are ardent Hinduists are probably quite happy to see Modi's mug on things. He's their guy, after all.
Ah yes, I misread the first comment, he’s talking about her Latin teaching business, not just the YouTube channel.

Thanks for pointing that out
Du you have any specific data points that everyone uses a dealership for inspection?

I do something similar in Belgium. But most people don't, definitely not for new cars.

And since that is the fundamental thing in your claim, i hope you have more data to be sure than a gut feeling.
You really have to memorize when you have a checklist the nurse could read off so you don't miss a step? I wouldn't trust my memory to hold a single step of that checklist, I'd refer to it every time.
I disagree. A true begineer is unlikely to be familiar with bash or these other languages.

Syntax like + - / * () = etc. are not esoteric since, for the most part, they work similar to math they learned in school.

But => and |? They are esoteric. As a beginner you have no idea what they will do without study.
ok only the rudiments of any sufficiently complicated field - politics, law, literature, math, physics, chemistry, biology, art etc. etc. including computer science, can be widely taught, furthermore given that time is limited and there is some showing that putting more hours of learning in actually decreases efficiency of education, it follows that the more complicated subjects we try to teach the more rudimentary our teachings in those subjects must be.

Given any sufficiently complicated enough civilization there will be enough complicated fields to maintain, and thus specialization will have to occur and some people will have to be specialized in some particular field.
I'm white but I put "Prefer not to answer" whenever I'm asked an equal-opportunity question about my race because what difference should it make?

However, at the doctor's office it matters. Black people are at a higher risk for sickle-cell anemia, there's a significant percentage of ethnic Chinese who cannot metabolize alcohol very well, etc. Having your ethnic background on file helps health professionals evaluate your risks for conditions significantly influenced by ethnicity.
The problem is that joe rogan is actively undermining the public health mission, not that he is being intellgently critical of vaccines in a healthy way.
Why do downvoted and clearly negative comments like this nonetheless end up at the top of responses to the parent comment? Is it because it fomented a lot of responses?

On another article today, again the top response to the top comment was so negative that dang stepped in, and yet again, it's the first thing you see.

It's frustrating, because HN is doing a great job keeping things pretty constructive, but this still seems to reward negativity by thrusting it into view. Shouldn't it at least be below less-downvoted responses?
Nexus 7 was a $200 bargain bin tablet mfg by ASUS with cheap eMMC storage that developed numerous problems over time.

You may be twice shy but even a Samsung S3 tab from 2016 would be leaps and bounds ahead of an awfully designed ultracheap product.
There was a nice talk from VCF West last year on signal analysis and filtering (focusing more on the analog realm than this article) to recover data from damaged floppies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgH6ov33ieg
I believe Southwestern Louisiana might have a bone to pick with you.
That's an anecdote you're comparing to a statistic. Of course anything can have manufacturing defects, but a 10% failure rate is not that.
And that's a self-selected group of people who have enough trouble focusing on work that they went to find an app to monitor whether they're focusing.
This is artificial womb idea is evolutionary suicide.

Human reproduction would eventually cease to function without artificial wombs as selective pressure for natural reproductive fitness disappears, causing genetic drift to go unrestrained.

Should humanity ever go through a technological bottleneck (solar flare?) where artificial wombs are no longer available, then the population would decline rapidly as only those who can still reproduce naturally will be able to have offspring. The subsequent bottleneck in human capital will ensure that it will take ages for humanity to reach the same level of technological ability, if we ever will.
They're a scarce commodity, and unlike NFTs, have a real use-case.

Until everyone moves to IPv6, if you want people to be able to reach your service, you need an IPv4 address. If you're an ISP or cloud provider, you need those so your customers can still communicate with v4-only peers.
Also reminds me of Kotlin 'let':

val y = h(g(f(x)))

is the same as

val y = x
.let{ f(it) }
.let{ g(it) }
.let{ h(it) }

I have used and loved the pipe operator in Elixir, but always missed using it for functions where the data is the second argument, for example. It's slightly less verbose, but more restricted and more complex to understand. I prefer the JavaScript approach.

In any case, I find it odd using the % as the variable name. Maybe if the operator was x %> f(%), but that probably is an invalid token.
As all scenarios that involve databases and "semantics" of the various fields, the actual meaning is heavily dependent on what the fields are supposed to be used for. In case of the US, the whole confusion seems to be that one would rather like not to talk about the use-cases as the whole topic is still politically sensitive.

Maybe a more honest question would be "Are you a descendant of colonial-era slaves? Yes/No? Are you a descendant of colonial-era settlers? Yes/No?"
Fastar, CLI to speed up tar extraction
And that's only in CS. Mathematicians use the term 'stack' for a whole different idea.
They charge 15-30% of the revenue so they should also be responsible. If they had offered a free service then no.
I see people say this and then just above are saying doctors ask for it because it is medically relevant. That seems contradictory to me.
> it's a sort of middle management role that a lot of people aspire to. Running a team, getting paid fairly decently.

really, 7 figures a year is "getting paid fairly decently" ?

MD in IB is the equivalent of "partner" in consulting, law firms etc. But the IB companies all went public so there is no controlling "partnership". Like "partner" it's the highest rung in the hierarchy and the distinction between them comes down to what team/desk/department they run & additional executive titles.
It’s not just normal, it’s progressive!

In all seriousness though, lots of americans share your sentiment. Lots of us would just like to live our lives, but we’re constantly bombarded with stuff like this.
In the music world it seems nostalgia and faux-nostalgia are almost everpresent, unfortunately.
It seems that less technical the role, the longer an incompetent person can hide.
Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
The actual content in the repository is just a few for loops to find the counterexample. With a ton of commented out code, and some default code generated by cargo I am guessing. I am not sure how ready the author was for people to view this.

https://github.com/CarlKCarlK/shortestpaper/blob/main/src/li...
Tesla has plenty dealerships they just don’t call them that they are primarily focused on servicing cars with a small sales showroom attached. Everyone orders online though regardless of wether they go see the car in a show room ahead of time.
Add physics to that list. It's taught freshman year at the local high school which guarantees zero calculus is involved.
I really wish they had a group that had the DHEA and metformin without growth hormone. I can get those easily and cheaply on the internet. I’d like to see how much of the effect they saw was just those two.
There is a reason for it.

A picture goes very far than any words.

A lot of new schemes are introduced by this govt, and there is a tendency in Indian politics to show or lap up to those currently in power.

So its not like this person is demanding a photo be put, but lackeys will do it anyway.

Also, the govt structure is different than in the US. The administrative department is under the control of politicians. So you have this effect. A byproduct of colonial government. In the US, the birth of US was marked by rejection of British.

In India, it was not the rejection of British, but, a good faith handshake goodbye that marked the birth of it.

Believe me. The moment the govt changes, the pics will change, or be removed.
Not sure how they're even comparable on any aspect.

IPV4 addresses are scarce due to lack of foresight and useful.

NFTs are scarce by design and useless.
At least that's what you think. I'm sure your direct reports have a lot of opinions on that setup that they'll never reveal. I say this with 100% confidence.
I'd recommend Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".
One promising avenue of Rust development is that, while --release implies -O2 and --debug (the default) implies -O0, the -O1 case hasn't received a lot of attention. In the future it seems like the contexts you mention would benefit from such a sweet spot.
Interesting. Can you talk a bit about the technology that is uses to process the data?
Still waiting for Google Cloud Platform to support IPv6 to the box...
No, because isps dont care about page rank. I have to operate a small isp. IPv6 solves nothing for us and just makes even more problems. The comments in here keep saying that ipv6 will fix everything but it is hogwash. It just means I have to support two things instead of one. IPv4 on the internet will not go away even if I do the ipv6 transition perfectly.

It is one of the more frustrating parts of trying to explain why we don't all just jump to do this.
Definitely a good idea to be able to specify the kind of topic areas that one would be interested in. Also good to restrict it to more "quality" articles. I can see spending a few hours reading articles :)

Anyone know how Wikipedia's own "Random article" function (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random) selects articles? Truly completely random with no quality aspect?
How does the GDPR apply here? This decision wasn't made by processing the personal data of the developer.
IMO we are just in denial that the VR headset has really solved anything.

It is not just what you can do in VR that you can't do in real life but what you can do in VR with missing most of your senses.

I suspect in 50 years people will look at this time in VR as not much different than VRML 20 years ago. Obviously, that was never going to work with the technological limitations of the time.

It is really hard to deliver when the expectation is 'virtual reality'.
Gab supports legal speech, uncensored.

Speech control (Censorship) is used to remove 'independent thinking' as a state of mind.

The current view in US, Russia, UK, China, Canada, etc and most of other countries -- is that 'leadership', 'business leaders', and 'the scientists' -- know better.

Independent thinkers usually, not simultaneously fluent in economics, biology, geopolitics, financial services, etc. So when they question not just 'status quo' promoted by the 'leadership', but also the motives behind that -- they are labeled various bad names (eg. uneducated, backwards, etc..)

Gab exists for independents to share, develop, often change the position that one builds up questioning the authorities.

The authorities, of course, consider that a threat.
And so does F-Droid.

F-Droid, therefore is not for freedom. It is for complacency.

I am Jewish, was an atheist just a year ago, now studying Torah, Talmud, etc.
My background is mathematics (abstract algebra) and CS.
Not observant (yet) – as I writing this on Shabbat.

My family escaped dictatorship before, and now I am seeing it is being built up here -- different words, of course, but same action as was done by Mao, Stalin, Hitler (label, suppress, exterminate (or suffocate economically as in case in UK/US/Canada) )

I visit gab quite often (well ... a couple of times a week, for me that's often).

Most of the posts, just like on HN -- I do not find intellectually stimulating. A lot of repetition, etc -- but for me, they key is to know that people have freedom of communication and expression.
It is more important than if I agree with what they express.

I am also glad that Gab now have some politicians, and people who are running (in US politics) on there as well.

Doctors (with anti mRNA-mandate stance), like Robert Malone is there as well.

I also think that this un-reasonable boom in bitcoin valuation made a number of people rich enough -- to not go through the typical ladder of VC/financial services, high-paying jobs route.

Which means that we now have a number of millionaires who want to project their influence, their position on free speech -- who did not grow up in the 'status-quo' world.
This is also a positive outcome of BTC (even though I missed the boat on crypto!)
UML did fail as a modeling tool - it was just too complex. However, flowcharts have succeeded on many platforms in many domains. (Gaming engines like Godot Visual Script and Unreal Engine Blueprints, BPM tools, Enterprise Integration tools, many hardware design tools)

The best environments combine visual and code based elements so you don't get "stuck" when something is missing in the low code areas.
Maybe, depending on how they were stored. I haven't done an extensive amount of recovery but my Apple II disks from the late 80s, stored in a basement with little temperature fluctuation, ready-out fine in the mid 2010s.

I would encourage you to look at the Greaseweazel[0] in lieu of the Kryoflux. The Kryoflux has an onerous license that only permits personal use. The Greaseweazel has a comparable feature set and doesn't limit user freedom.

[0] https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
State level politics, sure. But country level politics has been consolidating for a while now. Major players are mostly two, INC and BJP.

There have been efforts to bring forth a coalition of smaller regional parties to amalgamate into a third national contender, but these efforts have not been very successful.