skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my part of the world, IT has settled on Salesforce. We use flows (visual tool) for basic automation. For more complex scenarios, we have to resort to using Apex which is similar to Java programming and Mulesoft which has a GUI front end but you end using a lot of Java. Salesforce also released Mulesoft Composer which is a separate product; Mulesoft Composer is targeted at Admins and lets you connect external systems again using a visual tool.

The business, however, loves loves loves Smartsheet. Smartsheet looks like excel; but we had configured it to power all kinds of business processes/forms/automation/websites. It is pricey though.

Regarding your questions:
SLDC is hit or miss. My attitude is to get the business involved early in these low code tools as they are ultimate judge of "correctness".

I don't think we save time. If you have a 100x developer, they can create all of these things much faster than these low code tools. The problem is we don't have 100x developers. If we did, they will probably leave for better jobs. What we do gain is the ability to create things by our junior developers and admins.

The tools are only good as the vendor support. We want the junior developers and admins to reach out to vendor support for issues and training. We don't want the junior developers and admins to become "project managers" and nag the senior developers.
One of the most important, but that people forget very often. They needed to right to have strange ideas without being chased down and killed due to them.

The Europe science and engineering moved into England much before the economical activity, and as far as I can see, it was mostly because of that one. Some of the greatest minds of the time were literally chased outside of Italy during that move.

Also, it's a right that was missing from most of the world for about a millennium by that time.
I've been trying to avoid saying their name, but yes, this is the main offender I've had in mind the whole time
Ask HN: How can you convince companies to open up to you about pain points?
As a junior, I had one job years ago where I had an opportunity to see a small business's work process. I immediately saw things that could be automated and so-called "pain points" that could be improved with software. I opened up Balsamiq, sketched up a sample of software that would solve their problems and presented it to them. They loved my ideas and paid my employer to have me make them. They were thrilled with the result and I even heard through the grapevine how much it had helped them long after I had left that company.

Years later, I'm now a senior developer. Except for that one job, my whole career has been developing a carefully refined backlog of features that are handed to me. I get to use creativity and problem-solving for technical problems, but I keep thinking wistfully back to that one junior job where I got to come up with ideas for the software and features themselves.

I don't know how to get an opportunity like that again. How would I convince a small business to let me come in and spy on their work processes so I can pitch them ideas to let me build something that would improve them? Has anyone successfully found their way in to do this?
I looked at your first link, got very much distressed by Karen Shahnazarov's quote where he talks in the prime time of Russian state TV about 'concentration camps, reeducation and sterilization' for the anti-war activists.

Luckily I decided to look into it a bit.

It turned out that Shahnazarov was saying the reverse -- some evil forces decided to eradicate Russians (and that's why Putin fights the war) and 'they' won't have mercy even for the anti-war activists -- hence 'concentration camps, reeducation and sterilization' for pro-Western Russians too.

Here is the full video from which parts were cut and rearranged -- https://t.me/kolezev/11213 .

The article itself is written by an American and helpfully translated into Ukrainian to let Ukrainians know what Russians think of them.

Rogozin's quote seems real though -- the link leads to what looks like his Telegram channel :-(
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The bloat is mostly related to mocking and making a fake client for everything for unit tests, and the practices you have to follow to make that actually work.

In Python or Java, you can do something like:

class:
f1():
self.some_api_call()
<process api call here>

test_class extends class
some_api_call():
<mock definition>

In go, you cannot do this. Fair enough, but everyone writes object-style code because it's easier and there's less boiler plate. If you do this, you can't write tests.

Instead, you have to do something like:

class:
apiMethod = nil
f1():
self.apiMethod()
<process api call>

And assign apiMethod when you create the instance of the object; there are no constructors because they're not traditional objects, you need to create a factor method (boiler plate) or build the struct by hand (boiler plate). None of this is terribly challenging in and of itself, but if you work on large code bases, nobody did this because it's extra work, and now you have to refactor it because you want to make a change to the critical business logic and prove you're not introducing a regression (a constraint the l33t coders before you didn't have because they get to go fast and break things).

And finally, often times the thing you need to mock is in someone else's package, and it doesn't implement an interface, or the thing you need to mutate is private, etc, etc. You end up need to mock half of a package sometimes.

None of this is insurmountable, but when you do it day in and day out for years like I did, it's a real slog, and it sucks your soul out of your body. It wasn't uncommon for me to spend literally 20x as long refactoring and implementing tests as it was to ship features. If you look at some unit tests from large go projects, you'll see stuff like struct{struct{struct{struct{...}}},struct{struct{struct{...}}}} because so much stuff needs to be mocked up. And since interfaces are disjointed from classes, you won't know with certainty which methods you need to needlessly mock for your mock class until you try to compile, because the interface is defined somewhere else and not attached to a base class, it's just a definition floating out there in the source somewhere.
They are trying to convince everyone that the fruit & veg & lean meats is every bit as enjoyable as a steak and piece of cheesecake. It may be for them, but as a rule I have my doubts.
Oh we can trace far back to many cancelled alternative pipelines.

I will link to only one as people need to do their own homework.

Here is such an example:
https://www.rferl.org/a/Germanys_Gas_War_Nabucco_Vs_South_St...

"So I think that when both the Russians and the other players want to find a lobbyist, they very naturally look at Germany first. In this respect, I am not surprised that Schroeder and Fischer were the two [chosen]," he said.
It stops when NATO deploys there. NATO will not deploy there.

So, more sanctions I guess. It is immoral if any EU citizen has heating this winter when that could be going to Ukraine.
Every year Germany has been a net electricity exporter. If other countries buy German electricity, it means they can't produce it cheaper. You know who is paying by far the highest spot prices in Europe causing prices to go up? France.
I have sympathy for people in states like Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea when they suffer do to their governments. Changing governments there is tricky

The German population are well informed, well educated, and have a free media, they have a wide selection of political parties to choose from every few years, changing political direction is trivial, nobody will arrest you for talking about it, nobody will shoot you for voting the wrong way
NYC is pretty much the only quasi-European larger city in the US, and in North America maybe only Mexico City and Montreal are comparable. Boston and DC are more influenced by cars but still have a large fraction of the city that's walkable. The effect of cars on urban fabric is very depressing elsewhere in the US.
Turkey may start acting lunatic as well.
Looks like we're quickly going into semantics but I maintain that it isn't "a staple" of Chinese cuisine in general. It's very regional and many regions will not notice a shortage of them.

Bread is a staple of French (and European) cuisine, cayenne pepper is found is found in most kitchens but isn't.
OK thanks that sounds interesting, will keep a lookout!
Here is a propaganda tip for ya - simple, dumb ideas work great in Facebook and Twitter. Hacker News is a little different.

Just say that Russia is no different than China or the USA. It is reasonable for them to have their own monroe doctrine over former USSR nation-states.
Rogozin was highly incompetent and pure political appointment. It is a good step for Russia dismissing him.
This project is 7 months old with almost 800 commits.

The comment I replied to is less than 100 characters long plus a command line invocation.

One of these two has spent more time thinking about whether some dependencies are needed.
I like the idea of this product, but in US,Georgia they have DUI-Less-safe where they don't tolerate any alcohol... I wonder if any other states are like this?
So they value profit over their customers
Can US Himars Rocket Artillery Make a Difference?
Firezone (YC W22) is building an open-source network security platform
How to Level Up into a Startup Leadership Role
Right? From the article it sounded like Amol had motive, got revenge by framing Josh. Who knows.
Poland? There is no clean coal and one bad thing doesn't make other right
My assessment is the same, thanks.
1,500 Tesla Powerwall owners have already joined the new virtual power plant
> he should have known better.

This is a sign that you may not have outsmarted him, he may have outsmarted you. Of course, that's a communication failure on his part, but when you're speaking to a large audience the failure to communicate your idea is measured as a percentage of the audience, not a boolean.
Went from iOS to it. "It's good enough"(tm) for my needs. No serious experience with "vanilla" Android. With three exceptions (my bank app, Windy and Locus Map) I only use open source apps plus NoRoot Firewall running in the background. For browsing I use Firefox with NoScript and uBlock enabled. Plus, I'm cybersecurity savvy, so all things considered, should be safe enough.
> CentOS world that goes beyond "I need free Linux and I don't/cannot use Debian", and Red Hat has been very receptive to the needs of that world.

There really wasn't a CentOS world beyond that, because it wasn't a true community distribution. Red Hat never attempted to meaningful involve the community, all board members or whatever pretend org CentOS has are RH employees. There were never any kind of community elections or anything of the sort.

Red Hat killed CentOS.
Even knowing what they all are it’s annoying to read compared to having them spelled out. I’m constantly pausing to translate. If you’re talking to someone IRL you just say “hardware vertex shader,” not “HW VS”.
I came from Amazonas, a Brazilian state which contains most of the Brazilian Amazon. And yes not many Brazilians know the Amazon, most probably live as far from the Amazon as US is (Brazil is really big!).
And it's not just Ukraine - what about Sri Lanka which is collapsing by the minute? I do care about the people, but if I am completely honest, I could care less about the government. If the current government can fend off Russia, great, but maybe (I don't know for sure) it would be better for the people for some sort of diplomatic solution to be created (perhaps surrender a part of Ukraine but allow anyone interested to leave the new Russia peacefully), that might be better for people on the ground than an endless war. Surrender for now for the sake of stability, but regroup and don't allow such a thing to ever happen again and take some lessons learned from this.
Stripe has an incentive to cut its valuation to a much higher than fair price to avoid the terrible optics of a big valuation reduction.
A lot of very smart people went into nuclear up to the 80's. It didn't make much of a difference.

People severely underestimate the impact computers have on our society and the dynamism of the current day R&D. Even here on HN.
Book publishers were hot on this too some time back expecting used book stores to kick back up the chain. It came around again with eBooks. It's definitely not a new thought to be sure.
I share the sentiment regarding Russia's fascist regime but it seems much more realistic that the EU will just silently walk back on the embargoes. After all, if the populace gets too uneasy with higher energy bills the politicians won't have any issues dealing business with Russia.

And with the support for energy embargoes already falling to 32% in Germany[0] in mid July this seems like the most likely outcome.

Question is will Russia then attempt to hurt Europe by blocking gas deliveries like it is doing now with Nord Stream 1.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-germany-gas-i...
I don’t think this fits the evidence. At least for the 17thC. People in England did not know how to make good iron with coal, let alone steel, despite many decades of extraordinary government encouragement and special incentives - witness the many, many failed patents that had to be reissued from Sturtevant in 1612 all the way through to the 1660s and beyond.

Cities like London made the switch early on to using coal as a fuel over the course of 1570-1600, but this was for domestic use. Industrial use lagged many decades behind, with iron very much last - long after glassmaking, saltmaking, brewing, and even baking.

When the English iron industry struggled to adapt to rising fuel prices, the overwhelmimg response was just to import it from Sweden. And that was especially the case with the steel industry, which didn’t really take off in England until the breakthroughs of the mid-18thC (long after Newcomen or Savery).

If there’s evidence I’m missing, however, I’d very much like to know.
Glad I'm not the only one who reads it that way.
Forgot these three:

Signal

Tusky (Mastodon client)

Codeberg.org
He's not though. He was probably given some version of that statement as part of a briefing, but more importantly his businesses and campaign finance were incredibly entangled with Russian money and oligarchs at pretty much every level[1,2], not to mention his bizarre interactions with Putin.

This was his version of simply yelling the same insult back at people he didn't like: and he really didn't like Merkel (or any European leader) because unlike the despots and dictators they wouldn't just suck up to him (notably Shinzo Abe figured him out immediately and went all in on the obvious play for favor[3])

[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/18/japans-abe-nominated-trump-f...
I worked in the game industry for over twenty years as an engineer. Most of the time the work was fun, the projects were interesting and the money was okay. Eventually I needed more stability, better pay and work life balance, and I went into business software, a decision that I wish I had made earlier.
I think that the game industry has some issues that are very difficult to solve caused by various compounding factors, and for these reasons there will always be below market pay for engineers, crunch and studio closures/mass layoffs. The factors are 1)games are a creative endeavour subject to fashion. There is no guarantee that your star team that made Space War 1 will make hit sequel nor that people will be into space war games in 5 years. 2)project management is extremely hard when you have 200+ people across the world working on complex systems and a varying product description 3) the combination of uncertain delivery and high marketing spends required for a AAA title, and other hard dates like thanksgiving or a sports season beginning, means that crunch is almost guaranteed. 4)the cool factor of working in games means a supply of young people that can be taken advantage of. below market pay, unpaid OT and little structured career development.
In my time I saw project managers come from academia and from government or military contractors and none of them could tame the endemic issues that come with this industry.
Not all of these problems exist at all developers, there are bright spots and it’s possible to have a long and lucrative career. Just have your eyes open.
NPM trends: parcel vs. snowpack vs. vite
I organized a softball game between my startup and EA in 1984 or so, as described in [1]. Trip Hawkins hit a monstrous home run. Our president hit into a double play.

The fact that they've even lasted this long is some kind of tribute. Trip's idea at the start was to build games like a movie studio: have outside companies take all the risk of building the thing, and just assign an in-house "producer" to help them.

If an EA employee said, "Hey, I want to build games myself!" he'd say, "OK, you can give up your stock options and your job security, and in exchange you can get all the royalties that a game developer gets." Most of them thought better of the idea.

So now, it's... what? They work employees like game developers but don't pay them like that? Why would you do that?

[1] https://www.albertcory.io/the-big-bucks
A deeper dive into the Rogers outage
Only problem is that Wikidata is still incomplete when compared to Wikipedia itself. But yeah it's "trivial" to search it.
The old cynic in me wonders what it would take, for Germany to care about building major new infrastructure fast. Asteroid Dino-Doom 2.0 headed straight for Dortmund, and the needed interceptor rockets stacked like logs outside the barely-started launch facility?
It's crazy to think this is all because of Terra. Terra crashed, tanking the entire crypto sector -> 3AC defaults as they lost $$$$ on Luna -> Celsius, who already had a dubious "diversification" strategy, emerges as a big bagholder.
You can package the broker yourself and launch it before you pledge.

Keep in mind that if you can:

1. write to a file
2. Make that file executable (or write to an already-executable file, or an executable that provides scripting/ code exec natively)

And you have the `exec` capability, the sandbox is trivial to bypass in the face of code execution in the pledge'd process.
HIIT is great for cardiovascular development, but be aware that this develops your carb oxidation, and doesn't do much for fat oxidation. So many health problems are tied to poor metabolic flexibility, where your body favors carbs over fat. You develop fat oxidation, and metabolic flexibility, with long endurance, low-intensity exercise. Pro cyclists racing every day in the Tour de France right now are going mostly on fat oxidation at incredible power levels. They got there with mostly low intensity training (but lots of it, and some degree of HIIT). Here is a timely publication that goes over variables tied to fat oxidation (and points out how intensity deactivates fat oxidation): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-022-01727-7
What's so wrong helping a neighbour? That reduces the energy costs for everyone around the world not only Italy.
What is the Calyx Institute's interest in providing trial transcripts here? That's an interesting service: https://calyxinstitute.org/schulte
My god the things programmers had to do back in the day to squeeze every single bit out of the machine and here I was feeling smug using Weakmap instead of map for my code optimisation :P

I also remember carmack's fast square root function. So many amazing tricks. There definitely needs to a site or sub-reddit dedicated to these.
In the years following this, a lot of the big game developers (especially mobile) opened offshore studios in SE Asia and Eastern Europe where endless crunch like is described in the legendary ea_spouse post is still very alive and well. Basically orders come down from "HQ" which is typically the home office in Western Europe or US/Canada, and the overseas studios follow their marching orders. Added bonus for the company: much lower employee salaries and lax or non-existent labour laws.

Source: worked for a major game developer at one of their SE Asia studios for a while.
This title is clearly false. Some people are more active, and activity is a factor in BMI. Scientific studies shouldn't use clickbait titles.
please put (2004) in the title
It might have been a factor in some of the early eugenics programs. The worse parts were not "for the greater good", they were causing massive harm on purpose.
I'm just going to throw this out there, that until recently, we didn't necessarily have the computational tools to plot these stories algorithmically, as Vonnegut suggests doing. However, with modern language models, we surely do so at this moment.

Not that I have the time to take on more projects, but it must be reasonably easy to, say, do a sentiment analysis of the synopses of books and movies, say from IMBD, and generate these curves. I think it would be interesting to do a kind of type analysis on how many unique structures there really are.
Investors can learn.

USDT is no longer trusted — but still swapped around due to now-legacy exchanges denominating in it.

Your other points are not true for many cryptocurrencies, and for the ones it is, there are plenty of players who don't hold your concerns — right, wrong, or indifferent, they exist.
No explanation necessary. Anyone that has followed Atlassian in the news knows that downloading Jira Issues is an excellent idea!
This article is extremely confused, perhaps reflecting the judicial confusion in this matter. For example:

> Chief Justice Warren Burger defined a three-prong standard: Any school law had to have a primarily secular purpose, it couldn’t promote or inhibit religion, and, most famously, it had to avoid “excessive government entanglement with religion.” [..] Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that only “discrimination” against religion could explain the attempt to stop a coach from his “brief, quiet, personal religious observance.” He explicitly rejected the Lemon test, invoking instead the vision of public religion held by the Founding Fathers.

Why did he have to reject the test? It seems to me that "any school law [..] couldn't promote or inhibit religion" would mean that teachers must be allowed to pray. How can one argue that forbidding their personal prayer (not compelling students to pray) is not "inhibiting religion"?

View differently, prayer is just another form of speech, and forbidding it is no different than forbidding teachers from expressing any other opinion, whether it falls under "religion" or not. One could argue the 1st amendment in fact requires that religious speech is treated no different than other speech.

Then there is this part:

> the Carson decision will result in taxpayers being forced to pay for schools that strive to instill controversial religious ideas into students—a far greater offense to religious liberty than allowing prayer in school. [..] taxpayers will be required to pay for religious ideas they consider abhorrent.

Taking a moment to recover from the usually right-wing rhetoric "taxpayers forced to pay for thing they dislike" coming from the Atlantic, how does one get "offense to religious liberty" from parents being able to choose their children's upbringing? Is it then an offense to political liberty if taxpayers are forced to pay for schools instilling political ideas they dislike?

It seems schools are free to instill any kind of ideals they like into students, so long as they don't call them "religion". It takes impressive mental gymnastics to not consider that discrimination against religion.