skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might find it interesting to know a lot of really important code is not written by text but using tools like Simulink and other graphical programming systems. This is used, for example, to program the critical parts of NASA spacecraft. It's a lot easier to reason around images and, from what I understand, makes it easier to formally prove the underlying software too.
That doesn't match my experience. At an investment bank, or hedge fund, you don't usually go to interrupt someone. You "ping" them on chat, set up a videoconference, or something else. You meet people at the floor kitchen, the cafeteria, or meeting rooms. In NYC floors they don't even say good morning to the person next to them. Even if on the same team and both going together for drinks at the end of the day. It was shocking how isolated workers are. This was years before the pandemic. And I'm not just talking about trading floors.
Even if they store the data encrypted on their servers and hold the keys - it is not different from plaintext.

There's another thing. Some years ago Russian FSB demanded encryption keys from telegram threatening to ban it in Russia, and publicly they refused to do that. But then somehow FSB has quietly dropped the case. Question is - why?
Serverless is just short for: you don’t have to manage your own server, no code is short for: you don’t have to write your own code. Just like c is no-assembly, Java is no-c/no-memory management.

Do you think every developer should understand the entire stack below his choice of abstraction? Do you know c, assembly, cpu micro code, tcpip, etc?

Do you think every excel macro user should know the entire underlying stack used to create excel?
From I understand, China's foray in EPR was simply a move to leech the technology from France to improve their own ability to build nuclear plants.

A few people were vocal about this before it happened, and things did not go well for them.
The Maureen Kearney case is simply unbelievable, this woman was working for Areva and blowing the whistle hard on this transfer of technology, after receiving threat she was found tied up in her bedroom, a letter A engraved in her abdomen, with a kitchen knife handle inserted in her genitals.

The police decided she probably did that to herself and jailed her, while the state attorney prosecuted her. And she was sentenced to prison time and a hefty fine. it took a while before the sentence was overturned and for the truth to come out that she had not faked anything.

In the end, what she was warning actually happened, France is no better and even worse in its ability to build nuclear plants with no actual plant put in service (ITER is a mess, Flamanville EPR is plagued), while China started both Taishan EPR reactors and is now able to sell its ability to build plants to other countries.
It doesn't mean it is necessarily more directly expensive. The decarbonizing nations, notably the "West" and even China to a degree, have a lot of influence and control over the markets of good and services, both politically as well as a matter of who owns companies manufacturing things, and currently also in regards of who creates demand and margins for producers.

You can see that in a lot of consumer products already, when the EU e.g. started to mandate to put energy consumption ratings on electric appliances, and the market then swiftly went to improve the power consumption in most cases. I grew up with regular light bulbs, but now I and everybody I know largely uses LED light bulbs, again driven by consumer demand and heavily nudged by political policy in the EU. And I either save money now or at least break even thanks to my electric bill being less, and LED lights usually lasting so long they are over time cheaper than the old regular bulbs.

I wouldn't dare try to predict how these things would actually shake out eventually.
There was a bit of a black hole I agree. The 2021 models are much improved.
"Parasitic" can be descriptive? I means roughly someone that takes from a system without giving to or benefiting it.

Parasitic does have a fairly strong negative connotation, and Smith doesn't literally use the word, but those two passages do seem to have somewhat of a negative connotation to them, to my reading.
Because there isn't the same kind of social pressure for them not to be. Pretty straightforward.
People in developed countries are afraid that immigrants are going to put stress on the welfare state and other infrastructure. In practice it is the opposite, almost always countries are pretty selfish about who they let in so that immigration actually bolsters the economy and helps keep the welfare state sustainable.

Practically you run into so many issues, for instance in California the residents are opposed to building more housing. Young people in the US might not want to get a college education if they have to pay an order of magnitude more for college than people do in some other country. There is really a lot of fear that employers will take advantage of labor that works for less, etc.

On top of all that there is the fact that people are stressed by the fact that they”re going to die in a world very different from the one they are born in, often people find it hard to take that things have changed and certainly a changing population is part of that.
As a fun experiment, I wanted to use the library in Rust. While there isn't an official Rust port, I just used the library along with CXX (https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx) with a simple geospatial struct.
Spherical cow levels of consistency, indeed :)
We also really need to find Carmen Sandiego!! :-p
I started my first company at 46, with co-founders that were 43 and 30. Much of what we've done right as a company is a direct consequence of some of what we saw done wrong (or did wrong ourselves!) at other companies; there is a tremendous benefit to starting a company with more life experience! (Indeed, part of why startups so often make entirely avoidable mistakes is because their founders haven't had the life experience to know otherwise; and I know that I myself would have made similar mistakes because I did make them.) Yes, there is a challenge around your other life commitments (especially if you have kids!) but don't let anyone dissuade you: you can make up for a lot with wisdom and hard work!
Calling the repository of Marcel Bischoff a random GitHub repository. LOL
And (lacking) a fine multiplier for making the opt-out UI confusing.
What year did America go from actually being racist to just pretending?
I'm reminded of this story[0] from a few years ago where a family in Kansas was raided by every US ABC agency because MaxMinds was using their lat/long as the default when there was no exact position.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/maxmind-m...
100% spot on. There's a level of peace that comes from accepting that the majority of relationships are, and always will be, superficial, but then realizing that's okay.
I get what the kids mean about privilege now
Amazon Deforestation Hit Record High in February–Up 62% from 2021
Unfortunately, I never learned to touch type though I'm pretty fast so long as I'm not copying something. I don't think I ever touched a typewriter until senior year in high school and touch typing never seemed a sufficient priority to me to deliberately learn it. (Shorthand would probably have been useful too at various times.)
It's typical to have a markup goal of at least 10x going from place of origin to destination market. It is a scam. Source: involved in electronic design and manufacture.
I think people are missing the point. Goldman Sachs and other investment banks are working just fine remotely. This looks more like Goldman CEO is desperately trying to give a hand to help Manhattan not die. Good luck with that.
Keep in mind that large populations suffering often have political implications. That’s why economic predictions are mostly shots in the dark. They are reasonable and logical until people say “Nope”.

We’ll see what inflation is like this year, but it’s reasonable (due to Russia oil) to assume it’ll be just as bad as last year. This has a ton of economic and political implications. Some that can be predicted and some that will likely be surprising.

So making statements about what the the labour market will look like in 2 years…
Ah, I thought this was an actual thing, but I guess it's just an aspirational article
I agree with your post and want to add a second reason why HN is not the target market - which is the number of users.

I think most people on HN are building large applications that are supposed to be highly scalable, ready to have hundreds or thousands of users.

Low code tools are often aimed at applications used by 1-2 people to perform some simple business process which would otherwise be done by paper and a spreadsheet. These users never get applications built for them because the IT team has a long list of priorities for development which come before dedicating time to make the lives of some low-level administrative clerks easier.

I built a simple billing tool in Retool in an afternoon which one person uses but which we could have never approved an IT team working on. The tool I built probably saves them 20% of their time, but if we went to IT they would have said that a proper tool built from scratch would probably take a team a few sprints to build and would have had a very long ROI because IT teams cost more than one administrator. IT teams do not want to spend the resources of several engineers to save the time of one administrator anyway.

So a key benefit of Low-Code to me is that problems can be solved in low-code that otherwise will go unsolved because IT teams don't want to / can't commit the resources to solve them 'properly'.
Appeal to authority
I don't find that hilarious at all. Customers didn't want to get their their batteries swapped [1], thus Tesla didn't further pursue this path.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-battery-swapping-plan...
The US isn’t some kind of Nazi state. Black people holding professional jobs has been considered culturally acceptable for many decades. (And this by no means proves that racism doesn’t exist).
Turns out the same recently surfaced for French fusion experimental reactor ITER.

https://reporterre.net/Stress-peur-pression-le-difficile-quo...
AAA State Gas Price Averages
left-right, or up-down?
Yeah cert pinning is annoying but there's competing interests over that. The application vendors don't want you to be able to inspect the data & generally that's true as well. The niche debugging/analysis use-case can still typically be managed by disabling cert pinning once you have root (unless the application has its own TLS implementation which gets trickier).

re mac address == strong link level identity, it was never that and using it in that sense isn't accomplishing much. MAC addresses are trivial to spoof. If you want identity, then use proper cryptographic mechanisms to establish that (e.g. mTLS).

What we've seen as a profession is that that level of flexibility makes things harder to configure correctly leading to various security vulnerabilities. Or the optionality being user facing makes it not user friendly and makes it easy to socially engineer attacks. It sucks but in practice we've not found a way to optimize along several axes simultaneously. Don't forget that all your optional features is stuff someone has to build, implement, test & maintain. The only way out I think is to demonstrate a way forward that manages to attain the goals you seek without sacrificing the technical privacy measure. The technical privacy measures have been put in place as a result of real-world lessons learned, not hypothetical things.
>I like to work in the office, bc one of the reasons is that I get to chat with my boss,

Why? I can chat with my boss, he can share with me ideas he he has and I can give my opinion.
> The only vaguely legitimate point they make is that some users have experienced worse browsing

While this complaint is definitely them throwing every single dart at the board, the note that Private Relay reduces the government’s ability to monitor internet use is at least legitimate.
Appreciate the disclosure of other people on it. But, to be honest, even if the 5 additional people you listed were on the project full time, I'd still be impressed. Well done.
There was a case of someone getting killed in a traffic accident a few weeks after testing positive of COVID being classed as a COVID-related death and I realised the numbers are definitely going to be over and not under reported. South Parks Pandemic Special hit it home when the police shoot Tolkien and then quarantine the school because of a covid-related incident (if covid didn't exist, the police wouldn't have been teaching at the school, and Tolkien would never have been shot).
No. Dumb commercial displays with modern hdmi ports function just the way you expect them to.

I don’t know what your other child responses are talking about.
It is open source.
Geothermal is indeed geographically dependent. You need to be on a fault line, or otherwise have heated rocks near the surface. Most places do not have these conditions.

The hydrolysis example you provided is tiny relative to the requirements of grid scale storage. To put this in perspective, the US alone uses 500 GWh of electricity every hour. And this will increase as electrification progresses, electricity only accounts for about a third of total energy production. Producing grid scale hydrolysis remains unproven.

The same reliance on a globalized economy still exist with intermittent sources. The copper used in wind turbine generators probably comes from Chile, for instance.
Yes _and_ ...
the same issues also apply to the UCs. E.g. there's been a lot of recent discussion about Berkeley increasing the size of its incoming class by a third. But my understanding is there was never a plan to increase faculty by the same proportion, or a plan to create 1/3 more classrooms.

After having pushed so hard to bring instruction back to campus, Berkeley is asking a significant share of incoming freshman to do only online classes, which both increases the burden on faculty and removes some opportunities from those students.
In 4 years will we see the graduation rate drop because class registration became more competitive and competent students cannot meet all their requirements? Will the distribution of majors change towards those that are most compatible with a hybrid, "I'm not sure whether I'll get a seat in the room" instruction?
Which implies that 25% know about Tor and traditional VPNs. So even when a teen isn't necessarily going to use Tor they know that other VPNs exist to get around blocks.
Says the tech enthusiast on his armchair?
The trick is to do nothing and it will balance out in a year or two :)
Does the view that rentier income is parasitic extend to retirees and non-working recipients of social services or welfare?
The lazy solution to a lazy problem
No code is less relevant through something like Bubble vs enterprise grade platforms that are well integrated into the business. O365 will continue to dominate in this regard with the power suite.

Bubble must assume there is a future of innovation that isn't removed from UIs and simple crud.
Expectation doesn't always match reality & there's plenty of studies that show that trade shows DO impact the recommendations they make to their patients. Doctor's aren't a special class of human that has figured out how to avoid the biases that can be exploited in every other human.
I mean here stuff said towards western media and toward western politicians and public.

I do read accounts of people who were/are in Russia or Ukraine, reported from Russia for years and interview with Russians who run away. The latter includes journalists and activity that concluded regime became too dangerous for them finally.

The messaging toward west, toward Ukraine and toward Russians are three different messagings.
Or they don’t support the war, another plausible explanation.
My current company is hybrid, and I haven’t found this to be true. But, it’s majority remote - maybe 1/3 of employees actually live elsewhere, and of the 2/3 who live in the same city as the office, most just don’t come in to the office super frequently.

I think this notion is built on pre-pandemic reality, when it was like 95% in office, 5% remote. Then remote was a 2nd class citizen, in-person conversations reigned, and remote ppl were fairly out of the loop. But when 50% or more of people are remote, everything is “remote first”, basically all communication happening in Slack (or at least being summarized online), and I just haven’t seen this happen.
This looks great - thanks for sharing.

Is there an equivalent extension for Chrome that you know of?
Well, notice that the answer came in the form of a requirement. The PM just forgot to tell you that one up-front.

Also, your conversation doesn't reflect you asking him what to do. You made a proposal, and he clarified the requirements. He didn't tell you what to do.

I wasn't very clear on my post, but the way you did is the one that works. You go to the PM with an answer, and he says if it's acceptable (or why not). You know how to weight the technical details, he doesn't, he knows about the business details. So your proposal should be reasonable, but there isn't any expectation about any one he comes up with.
Just because the fridge is having a problem doesn’t necessarily mean you have to replace it - there are lots of resources for identifying problems and buying parts online. I had a relatively new fridge stop working, and it just needed a $35 part which was pretty easy to order and install.
I would not call those friends though: hence my original comment. What makes a friend a friend? For me 'interacting daily on social media' means very little. What would these people do for you and you for them? But it is all about definition: for me close friends would basically die for you and vice versa and friends would go above and beyond to help you out when in need. Nothing has to be about money, but it is easy as example; would your friends front you (whatever amount) when you need it? Mine would. Close friends would give a kidney. But again: that is how I feel. I know these people who have 1000 friends, maintain contact etc but none of them would lift a finger, even in a basic case like 'I really need a heart to heart right now!' 'Sorry, I am busy' type of thing. That is not a friend and defo not a close friend.
>Ultimately, it's a math problem that must have a positive answer for the insurance company. If 100% of policyholders make claims, you generally pay that profit yourself.

Not necessarily. Simply holding onto large piles of other people's money can he profitable - eg banks.
This is not reality. The guy signing the checks has leverage, end of story. It doesn't matter who is shouting louder, the pen won't move.
The point of the essay is buried deep within after a long preamble: facility space at Columbia is an emergency situation. It should rather start out with that fact.
Can confirm. There's 0 retention. Maybe if I kept cramming over an extended period of time I could retain it. Typically though I stop after taking the exam so within about a week or two things I thought I understood disappeared.
What's the point? How does that enhance your life?
I just ban China entirely from accessing my server. There's nothing on it a Chinese person could be interested in, just personal stuff and a private forum. Doing so has tremendously reduced the overall (remaining) abuse traffic volume.

It's quite easy and efficient to do this using IPSet. IP ranges associated with China are available on the net.
There’s a significant divide between “America is racist” and “America was founded on, and still preserves, many institutions that are fundamentally biased against some people.”

I don’t know many people who seriously claim that every single atom of American life is racist.
What context switching overhead is eliminated? This makes no sense.
> Do you think every developer should understand the entire stack below his choice of abstraction? Do you know c, assembly, cpu micro code, tcpip, etc?

Yes, they should have a basic understanding. Pretty much like a dentist understands biology.
But also they didn't have bipap and ventilators, antivirals, antibiotics for secondary baceterial infections, or antibody infusions then either.
Ah yes... "Project Ginger" was promised to fully revolutionize society, bigger than the Internet, etc. People do seem to forget how old the tech-hype circus is, and with a lot of the same promises, always "too early yet" with the promised benefits lying just around the corner.
Real or not, I owe Mavis my touch typing ability.
It's kinda like the "are we in a simulation" argument - does it matter if we are, if we can touch type like Mavis Beacon?
Yeah - I’m not sure what the state of things are in the UK, but here in America Private Relay is a pretty easy choice, as ISPs sell off your data with aplomb: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/for-sale-your-pr...
This article focuses on US military GPS tests in US and airline safety mainly, but does mention similar tests happening in Europe and China. Regarding these latter it does not name who is doing the jamming.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/faa-files-reveal-a-surprising-thre...
and it uses qbe as compiler backend, which is very interesting.
Do you not set weekly one on one time or just do quick huddle calls to chat on simple projects? My boss and my team is just as buried in the office and full of meetings. So we are going to be talking on teams/slack anyway- not sure about what I personally view as FUD about these mythical conversations people have with their managers and peers. Maybe my workplace is more fast paced than most. We also have a huge slew of contractors and offices coast to coast.. so it's not uncommon to have to set meetings with resources on both coasts. For us remote work has been, well, pretty freaking normal. And cheaper we have already divested of a couple smaller remote offices.
Yes, but the company that assembles the (eg., in my case) an oven is 30minutes away from my home, and the company that makes the railings for the trays is 5 minutes away, but the railing mechanism still costs 100eur.

Lets be real here, the companies want you to buy a new product, and expensive parts are just one of the parts of planned obsolescence.
- I use Sidebery for tabs, and have disabled the horizontal tab panel on the top using oldschool userChrome.css file.

- I use the dark theme. However, that makes lots of pages use dark theme as well, so I've changed layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override in about:config to not follow my theme, but my OS settings. (So I can have dark themed web pages during evening, but not all the time)

- And I use containers a lot. Very well integrated with Sidebery I feel.
After reading that article, I still don't fully grasp what bubble in particular, or "no-code" in general, actually offers or provides.

This no-code movement strongly reminds me of the 5GL (or was it 4GL) snake oil pushed in the 1990's. None of it panned out for a variety of reasons. Except for some of the people pushing them, I guess. I presume they made lots of money.
We used .NET for writing microservices running in Kubernetes. We used Elasticsearch and Kibana to store and search logs. As data stores we used Postgres and Redis. Consul was used for configuration. For mesagging we used NATS as Kafka was too fat and slow.
Street trees!
"We're RTO because we need to foster the office culture!"

_Office culture is a cubicle and 12 hour workdays_