skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One company I worked at in a major US city allowed individual teams to perform their own hiring. The division I was in had employees mostly from outside the US, and the autonomy given to each team led them to form their own to ethnic enclaves. There was a team of Indians, Chinese, Koreans, etc. When I first started, I couldn't believe it. That doesn't happen merely by change, at least not that pervasively and consistently.

It sounds like this is occurring everywhere.
Just look at the popularity of the Maverick and Santa Cruze - there is a significant demand for smaller (or dare I say, mini) trucks. Safety regulations caused the 80's mini trucks to start to die out - yet Mazda still produces the Miata and it (thankfully!) adapted to comply with updated safety standards over the years yet keep to the same basic size and weight with only minor inflation in size/weight over the last 30 years now, so manufacturers could likely do the same with true mini trucks like the old Nissan hard body if they wanted to.

But why bother? With the chicken tax limiting competition and car companies being able to make higher profit on larger, fancier vehicles why would they leave the extra profit on the table?

Mahindra was going to enter the US market, but eventually backed out for a number of reasons - the chicken tax was no doubt one of many factors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax and https://carbuzz.com/news/5-amazing-trucks-the-us-can-t-have-...
It's possible to pay extra for only renewable electricity.
We see so many examples of regulations having directionally wrong effects...

That regulation is adversarial (largest regulated entities are savvy and often propose the regulations), has higher order and long term effects, this all makes it a hard domain, but also is well known in advance.

What's the current best practice for validating regulation have their intended effects in advance?
Look into the flawed research of Ancel Keys.
In the extraordinary effort google does for equity and fairness, is caste bias ever addressed directly, with explanations, the same way gender/race discrimination is?
Venba, a video game about the emotional resonance of food
If they don't know a dealer for the drugs they want they might decide to buy them online with cryptocurrency, and that's where a service like Tornado Cash is useful. Cash can be laundered too.
And why is it the current trend in automotive (specifically, truck) fashion?

This is a weird indirection to introduce: of course it’s fashionable. The observation is that it’s fashionable because aggression is itself fashionable, at least to the target market.

I used Jalopnik as a source, since they’re a well known car website. I’ll try to find additional sources; I seem to recall an interview with a Ford or Chrysler exec a handful of years ago where they said, point blank, that aggressive front designs are a key selling point to their customer base.
Duplication of the topic, both active threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32425178
The premise of GP was that it already happened. OP said it didn't, but they think it should. I don't think that supports the premise really.
In modern times also plenty of people mind plenty of war related things, but not enough people mind enough to actually stop US messing all around the middle east, south america, africa, etc. Even "before modern times", there was a lot of anti-vietnam-war sentiment, and the war still lasted a long time... even the afghanistan war lasted 20 years, a few people mind, and others wave the flags and use buzzwords like "fighting for freedom" or worse.
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Sure, but why is it solely the responsibility of the domain expert to adjust their communication style to the executive, instead of the executive - who after all hired the domain expert, at least indirectly, and who stands to gain more from the company performing well - learning to communicate with domain experts?
All cars are getting meaner, it's not just fault of the Chinese market. These big trucks are sold mostly in the US and they still have these ever-growing grills.
This is such a key point that people forget: this isn’t some academic game theoretical debate but rather a question of how your actions will be perceived by society. If your IP is used to serve illegal content, saying “well actually, …” isn’t a defense and it most likely means you’re getting charged as an accessory to whatever that stranger did. Even if you can avoid legal penalties after years and significant expense, your reputation will be linked.
It’s included in the sticker price.

So what’s the news here?
Not everyone's vehicular requirements are satisfied by a vehicle which is optimized for transporting human bodies to and from town. Many of us have professional or personal requirements which require e.g. the ability to move heavy equipment. I couldn't do 80% of my hobbies if I drove a Mini or something.
Great to see the proposed fix in ffmpeg. Using a remote gateway should really not be a default but something the user has to consciously and deliberately configure.
>But we will continue to see domain-specific tooling that require less "coding"

100% agreed

Came up in another thread recently but Unreal Blueprints is a good example of that https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/blueprints-visual-sc...

It's robust and perfectly fine, you can even build full games without any coding at all.

Is it useful? Yes, but it would never replace "real" coding. Yet I'm excited to see any advancement on the field because it still feels like "magic" to some extent.
Pedantry may help address the author's gripe: whether a thing is provided at (monetary) cost or free, that provision, like any exchange of goods & services, is an entitlement.
If a company entitles me to a service and it's free, I am justified in my being entitled to a free service. Any notion that I'm not entitled to that service for free would be invalid unless the company set appropriate expectations.
However, the company, in fact, set expectations that the product is free. You are not entitled to the delusion that users should have any other expectation unless your aim is to promote user distrust and cynicism.
The _real_ hero will be when locating a random IPFS file doesn't take 10+ minutes.
I certainly see no reason to grasp hold of GM's current range.

The difference is that cars are a extremely competitive market, and the "no connected" version will always be offered.
Depends on the use case.

As someone without a lot of budget to hire devs, I currently use no code in my company extensively, our Airtable has 50 tables, some of them with > 10k records.

There is certain excitement to do all in no-code now, but the ceiling is truly there as the article says, the rule of thumb is that if something is operational and not core for business we do in low code, if it is business critical (we lose money if goes down) then it gets coded.

What happens if our business goes down, and is <low code tool> fault? We can't just say "welp" to our customers complaints, recently we saw that not even Atlassian is immune to long outages.

Also what happens when the market needs for you to do "X" and the tool can't? Now you are stuck in a low-code environment with 3 months migration while the competitors pass ahead.
We also got a lot of bugs with this tools on things that were supposed to work, and it slowed us down significantly.

From what I see that the best use case of low code is kickstarting software projects. If done with the right tool (one that allows for easy exporting), it allows to get the data in order for future scaling with code.

Since changing application logic in a living project (and even the entire language / framework) happens all the time, but the data generally does not, this seems like a best case scenario for a new feature or product that still needs to validate their market fit.
Nice recall! Thanks for posting this.
Having used low-code tools successfully to build ERP systems for the past few years.

I feel low code tools can only really disrupt development once they solve the problem of requirements gathering from customers/ end users and also formally describe change management in low-code as well. As long as there is ambiguity in requirements - code or low code makes no difference.
> an rollover cage into these trucks help to mitigate this problem?

I'm fairly sure that safety standards essentially require the roof to not crumple in rollover conditions.

Roll cages are necessary in racing where speeds (and forces) are much higher than road speeds.
>Why would I buy something that just shows up as a png in some menu?

Because in the game it's for it actually does something.

>How would that even work?

They would need to come up with some kind of standard.

>Need for speed and Forza for example have dramatically different driving models.

You would want to standardize on one to try and keep things consistent.

>Does sharing stats between those even make sense?

Having the car you paid for be separate from the simulator you use to drive it makes sense.

>What about licensing deals?

Whoever is selling you the car NFT would license it instead of the game.
> Sounds like you are a Brahmin mad about Dalits messing with your status.

I don't know what these two are and I'm fairly certain I don't belong to either one of them.

The efforts from the article made it sound like its an education effort. Presumably the parties discriminating are very much aware of the class distinction so education might not be the right call, more enforcement of existing anti-discrimination policies. Or throw the decisions to unbiased third parties.
On topic, how does the eReader world look today? I tried one a couple of years ago, and as a person with ADHD I was constantly frustrated how bad the experience was in terms of responsiveness.
I can see it could work for a book that you access linearly, but for technical books, where you often need to switch between pages it was a chore and I couldn't focus my attention on reading.
So I still buy paper books, because I can quickly flick between the pages and access my bookmarks.
The downside is that they use a ton of space in my room and I am hoping that one day someone makes an eReader that I can flick through pages as fast as a real book (or faster).
I've recently been building a business directory using Bubble.io.
It took me about half a day to do tutorials and another half day playing around just to learn the platform.
After that, I was able to build this business directory, including Stripe payment integration, some reasonably advanced Google Maps and search / categorisation functionality.

Building the same thing from scratch would have taken me two weeks or so.

I am saying this as someone whose main job is providing a CMS, so I am familiar with having to create a simple enough interface for non-technical users to use my CMS.

Hats off to Bubble.io for achieving such a usable interface for being able to knock up an app this quickly.

At the same time it is clear that some actions which would be painfully simple to perform in code take a lot of clever thinking and hacks to convince bubble.io to do it.

It also won't scale and if it breaks for no reason, it'll be nearly impossible to fix it.

If it doesn't provide a certain bit of functionality, you have to add your own CSS / JS and that's where it becomes clear that my extensive knowledge in web development contributed to my ability to use this no-code tool a lot.

Ultimately, I think a no-code tool can be a great way to enable programmers to build things quickly, but I think the ability to think like a programmer is still worth learning.

I'd be surprised if these tools could replace anyone building complex applications in the near future.
I reread that piece but fail to see why you think it misleads readers, given the focus of the article?
Funny you mention this, because Kindle support for libraries was amongst the last. For a number of years after buying my ereader libraries did not support Kindle. They've supported epub since at least 2010, possibly even before.
Analysing Git repository activities with BigQuery SQL
Sorry, I don't. I did have it when we were discussing productivity during my MBA, and the lecturer gave us a bunch of references for the studies that have been done, but that was a few years ago and they're probably out of date now.

It's one of those well-known truths ("diverse teams are more productive" is another one) that's well-supported by the literature and generally agreed on, but still comes up as "needs citation" every time. I should go dig out the citation so I can avoid this when I bring it up ;)
If you install the podman package via Scoop, you'll get a `podman` client shim, and then if you run `podman machine init` it'll automatically set up a WSL instance running Fedora with Podman set up and relay the necessary sockets for you so that running `podman ps` or whatever on Windows Just Works™.

Then if you want to can run `wsl -d podman-machine-default` to log into the distro as normal. You can also copy the distro, import/export/register it as usual if you want a clone unaffiliated with the podman package per se.
How is the peering to Finland nowadays? Last I heard it was all still going through their German centres.
There is no way storing the spent fuel would cost so much that it would generate 38c/kWh of costs.

For example the total lifetime costs of Onkalo (Finlands spent nuclear fuel storage site) is estimated to be 3.5 billion.

Lets take the new OL3 reactor as a example. It produces at 1600MW which comes to around 14 million MWh in a year so 14 billion kWh per of electricity produced yearly (slightly less in reality with downtimes for refueling and maintenance). That would mean that if storing the spent fuel would actually cost 38c/kWh just OL3 would generate ~5.3 billion euros worth of fuel storage costs per year which is more then Onkalo lifetime total costs. And OL3 has a planned operational life of 60 years.

And Onkalo is supposed to store all of Finlands already produced spent nuclear fuel and the fuel produced in the next 100 years.

Even if you add dismantling costs of the plants at the end of their lifetime there is no way to get to such crazy numbers even if it costs 2 or 3 billion euros per reactor to rid of. Lets say with 60 year lifetime of OL3 you get around 840 billion kWh produced and decomissions costs 5 billion it would be ~0,6c/kWh of cost. Yes it costs but not tens of cents. For the older plants that produce less it would be around 1c/kWh.

In Finland they started to collect money into a fund for decomissioning and spent fuel storage in the 80s and it currently has a bit over 20 billion euros in assets (the fund invests the money on markets so it fluctuates obviously). So basically they try to do their best to estimate how much money they need to save and collect it during the lifetime. For now it looks like the amount has been roughly correct. And still the for profit companies keep investing into new nuclear plants with this cost already in the price so it doesn't seem to be too much.
For everyone saying no, this is exactly what Shopify, and arguably Wordpress are. These things have already disrupted tech development. I think the real question is how much complexity can they take on, and I think they’re largely near the end of that curve.
It's not just the headlights, but that might very well be the majority. There have been cases where I've had to stop for deer crossing the road at night, but they didn't look into my headlights and freeze, they just kept walking across the road. Also once I had a deer run out of the woods into the side of my car while I was driving.
The Matt Levine Theory of Blockchain
They are still a great deal for burstable workloads or to use as a workstation - only run it when needed so no need to run 24/7.

If you need really cheap (and local!) compute for short periods of time, picking up one of those servers can still work out cheaper than renting from a cloud provider.
I'm optimistic but that could also open the door to many more lawsuits where someone felt prejudiced because of what side of town they grew up on or what state they are from.
I've heard this excuse, that tax situation is too complicated, and never understood it. The store knows to charge me the correct value, including all appropriate taxes, when I come to pay. So the data clearly is there, and therefore choosing not to show it to me up front is indeed bait-and-switch. They're telling me a price that is not going to be what they'll actually charge me.
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> I have been interested in retro hardware for a long time.

Retro.

1997.

Cries in 8088.
How on earth is this related to consumer protection? It's not as if they are forcing this retroactively. They're just increasing the price for a car by $1500 and including more functionality.

They are a free enterprise that can offer whichever products at whatever prices they want. And consumers are free to vote with their wallets.
Seems pretty notable that everything is so polluted that people can't have chickens nor grow some backyard tubers without heavy lead ingestion.

I think it is news to most people that they should have to care about "zones" just to safely grow a garden. Almost seems like you're saying it's their fault.
I highly doubt they're eating sufficient quantities to make any impact. They'd have to eat about 1/4 pound in the highest contaminated area to even hit the action level, assuming they fully absorb all the lead which isn't how it works.
Eventually, yes. But we will be approaching AGIs at that point.

On a shorter term, the disruption they can provide is similar to the one involving cryptocurrencies and blockchain: a lot of hype, grift, and few real applications.
Chris Krebs: 'We’ve Over-Fetishized the Apt Threat'
> Indian managers against non-Indian employees

This happens all the time in Canada. When you have a large ethnic majority and they start identifying with the language and start bringing toxic work culture with management fully aware of the issues and exploiting this.

For example for a startup I worked for in Vancouver had a large Chinese/Russian majority in the development team. They would stay behind past working hours and require me to do the same. When I left early they reported me. They also started to bully and talking only in Chinese or Russian.

It was absolutely a shock and not a surprise why Canada has a brain drain going on. I don't even have any beef with these groups since I have friends from those community that grew up here but for whatever reason, those guys at that startup specifically chose to isolate ppl that didn't speak their language.

It was a modern day sweatshop and it was weird seeing even Taiwanese engineers who also grew up here for less than a decade participate in this toxic behavior.

My mistake was expecting Canadian work culture and expecting others to follow it and the management who were white canadians knew exactly their culture and exploited it.

Just more and more reasons to leave Vancouver. Happened to my friend who were with Indian engineers too, funny thing is they discriminate based on caste which confuses a lot of Indians from island nations, south america.
I think any discussion about no-code/low-code and if it's effective has to take into account Unreal Blueprints. Game development is full of inherently complex problems, but some people are able to pull it off with Blueprints. What's important about that though, is that Blueprints live inside a complex codebase focused on game development, so the graphical/node based toolbox you have is extremely powerful because developers have coded those blocks and tools for you. The majority of the engine is abstracted away.

So it might be that node based programming is a good way to allow non-devs to interact with parts of an otherwise code based solution, inside niches. Examples that come to mind are eCommerce shopping rules. They can be complex, and really arbitrary, and in many ways having a developer implement them is really inefficient. Giving a node based pipeline editor for shopping cart rules would be a boon for power-users and take time off the dev's hands to focus on implementing the surrounding ecommerce solution, something you definitely don't want to be writing in a graphical editor.
This is a quality comment.
Wait till you find out the debate about XP era machines being retro.
You can do those things, but you're not going to capture the effect that you want. Renders happen frequently, and the render process will complete before your `fetch` resolves. As for alert, the alert will pop up immediately before the render is applied to the DOM- and will likely pop up many times more than you thought it would, assuming you're popping it up based on some state variable.

In short, you can do those things maliciously, but if you do them naively it is immediately obvious when you run the code that it's not correct.

Compare that to the original analogy to mixing raw PHP and HTML templates. Since the rendering process is blocking, you can easily stuff form handling, remote API calls, and database calls in amongst your markup, and can make it "work" even if it's not clean.

Even Laravel's blade components let you write custom components and helpers in PHP which can do all of those things from the template- you just don't see the actual SQL mixed with the HTML in the same file. The problem is still there, just now it is harder to see.
looks like it uses https://tally.so/

I dont know if theres a connection to notion but it looks very similar style wise.
Ego is why some people feel the need to come up with narratives where the reason other people drive better cars than them is due to some moral failure, and not due to rational decision-making.
Not for mobile Firefox, unfortunately.
It's pretty established that GM stopped selling cars to the discerning value focused customer years ago.

They're in it for the MBAs, and the truck/V8/admittedly luxury interiors buyers who GM does a passable job for.

Not sure they have many legs to stand on.
You can't just drop the word "conspiracy theory" on everything as a means of dismissing it's foundations.

There is certainly a lot of change happening around the meat sector and supporting supply chains.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23156862/meat-dairy-egg-p...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/emotion-...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220720-why-insects-are-...
Hot take: if you bayonet a child, I am allowed to call you a slur.
There are more guns in america than people, but only 32% of americans own guns.

I am way more likely to be hurt by a car - you’re right. The presence of cars in an environment puts me at an elevated threat level. When I’m standing waiting for a light I often try to make sure there is a pole between me and traffic.

But with very few exceptions, it’s hard for someone to bring a car into environments where I am not expecting them. Guns, not so much.

If you own a lockpicking set, i believe you when you say it’s for fun and learning - but to pretend owning it does nothing to the risk that you might unlock my front door is just denial.
Unreal Engine Blueprints have been a game-changer for me personally, no pun intended. The rapid prototyping, API discoverability, and total immunity to 99% of dumb syntax errors which drag-and-drop visual programming provides has been a great help to learning Unreal. At the end of the day my ambitions are bigger than what I can efficiently build with Blueprints, but they're a great starting point for demos and small one-off applications.
I see no reason why a reputation system needs distributed consensus. It needs asymmetric encryption (signatures), but not a blockchain.