skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if it's free. The costs were quite high:

Time spend rewriting networking

Code because more complicated: cooperation was moved to code instead of being handled by OS (to be fair this was way before asyncio, it was gevent).

Code became alien to the team. I was the only one who knew how it worked.

In the end, the only problem I solved was the problem we didn't have: "not using coroutines". Sure, threads suck at scale. But you should build things for scale when it's necessary, not when it's fun.
Your opinion is in the minority, even among the very technical folks I've seen discussing this issue. It's entirely false to reclassify a feature many users want as a dark pattern.

Let me give you an example personally: I want my RSS feed reader to use an in-app browser. Because unless I am going to get significantly more in depth, I just want to see the page content, and then swipe or back out to where I was in my feed very quickly.
Spot price (+margin) contracts became common in Finland at least some years ago. Most energy companies provide them now. The margin is something like 0.30–0.40 cent/kWh.

We buy energy from any Finnish seller with contract separate from transfer of electricity (a natural monopoly).
I disagree with this opinion
"Anyone marketing a low or no code tool to developers is targeting the wrong audience"

Switched-on developers are a perfect market for good no-code/low-code tools. If a tool is 100 times more productive, why on earth would a smart developer not use it to deliver value to their customers??

I wrote a complete ERP and CRM system using our No-code platform - this would have been impossible for a single person using traditional tools such as Java.
I've written a couple of blog posts explaining why the rise of No-Code/Low code is inevitable.

https://www.onedb.online/blog/why_no_code_is_better_than_ful...

https://www.onedb.online/blog/the_future_for_software_engine...
"most foreign workers" says nothing about Google or Google employees
> ”more customer value”

They are not lying. The value of the customer to GM increases.
Lol. Yeah, just some round numbers, not actual pricing.

I don't understand who's buying these new SUVs. I felt sick paying $42k for my Ridgeline and the Yukon and similar are >50% more expensive. Maybe I'm just frugal?
Tried it with a simple loop, got time limit exceeded unfortunately.
Not to say Disney+ is not successful, but the headline is false as discussed previously here.
As long as you honor the license you all agreed to and you own any IP not covered by copyright, I can't imagine what the complaint could be.

Plenty of copies of games get charged for by people with no connection to them at all. Asking for a non-required purchase as the creator of software shouldn't feel weird.

Plus you'll be providing and updating the Steam release de facto providing nominal support. That's not free.
Looking like it's going to hurt you, while being safer, is not a contradiction.
Because it's cheaper to reuse the web3 ecosystem compared to spending resources recreating your own version. It saves development time and is a proconsumer move.
I looked into this in detail one time and my fermi estimate was that, if we banned trucks entirely, it might optimistically save like 40 pedestrians a year. It's clearly not worth bothering, just on the grounds that it would be politically expensive, and it's also pretty clearly not utilitarian either.
Totally agree. I've been working on a programming language for UI designers, but it's been years and I doubt I'll ever release it at this point. The idea was to offer a syntax that conforms to their vocabulary and mental models. So if you were designing a button:

elements
shape Wrapper
text Label

style Wrapper
fill: blue

style Label
content: Click Me
fill: white

edit: no harm in sharing the demo page that I never released. Warning - it's very broken. But it kinda works: https://matry.design/demo
That seems like a red herring given the amount of expansion that FB has had - DEI or no DEI, doubling your headcount is going to result in a quality drop
Modeling light for solar panel placement in urban settings
And the mandatory subscription for car services have arrived.

Good, go out of business GM.
* Sales Tax

* Income Tax

* Property Tax

People in all states pay some combo of those 3. Some say no income tax (FL). But that means higher sales tax and property tax. Others have all 3 taxes, but in lower amounts.

Do you really think in New Hampshire you pay less total tax then someone like me, living in the Midwest? You likely do better than NY/Cali, but not the Midwest..
To each their own.

Any fiction recommendations?
Which is not necessarily where the car and the window sticker is, if we circle back to the root comment.
Well, the US, unlike other huge countries (india, china, etc..) is not forcasted to have population decline in the next 100 years. This is primarily b/c of immigration.
The double taxation criticism was about sales tax.
That's quite the leap. No one is arguing that elective abortions occur spontaneously (because those are miscarriages [1]), hence the moniker pro-CHOICE. And considering pregnancy is often incredibly dangerous[2], not always a consciously made decision[3], and in many cases will bear no fruit (pun intended)[4], there is ample reason to allow someone to make a decision about their pregnancy.

1: https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/gynecology-and-obs...

2: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020...

3: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/unders...

4: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pregnancy-los....
Blind spots increase with truck height.

google has many studies and articles on the dangers of this but a link to get you started

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/the-hidden-danger...
The HERO will be when IPFS CLIs/Libraries have the hash verification included. CLI & Library open source devs, please be our heros. We want IPFS and security (both)
An ongoing lawsuit against Cisco claims that caste discrimination is a form of national origin discrimination. Cisco's attempts to throw out the lawsuit on the grounds that caste discrimination isn't illegal were unsuccessful. There's a good shot that a judge will rule that caste discrimination is covered by national origin discrimination.
No, apps didn’t have any more ability to observe/interact with the view controller than they do now. SFSafariViewController has always been a separate process spawned by the OS, not the app. It was for all intents and purposes a “real” Safari tab the app couldn’t touch.

The way tracking was happening is by apps putting an identifier in the URL, which JavaScript put into the linked page by the authors (social media widgets, Google Analytics, etc) would pick up on the cookies and other identifiers in the SFSafariViewController session carried over from “real” Safari and then tie those with the URL identifier. Boom, Twitter, etc have a nicely fleshed out tracking/advertising profile to attribute to that clicked link, even though they didn’t use a custom webview.

This is exactly how tracking works with regular browser tabs, too. The only way to mitigate it is to give each app its own separate Safari container for SFSafariViewController to run in and encourage devs to use SFSafariViewController instead of the full browser.
I've always thought that it's probably done to engender anger at the notion of sales taxes by making the difference much clearer than it is in other places where the prices are typically bundled, and to display a lower price than the consumer is expected to pay.

Not displaying the taxes is infuriating when visiting other places, since unless you look up all of the applicable taxes you're effectively just guessing at the cost of anything.
Nice to see transparency in government. Pride in work. Helpful stuff.

Keep it up!
I'm not sure as to the specifics of this scenario, but as a general rule, the paying of debt is the destruction of money, because the debt now no longer exists on the balance sheet of the creditor. And I believe that's applicable here.
> An AP analysis finds that most foreign workers with H-1B visas are paid less than their American counterparts.

paid less than X is one thing, but they are probably paid more than in any other company they could work. People always tend to go for the glass half full despite the fact they are better paid than probably 99% of other occupations out there.

> AP analysis

give me a break, you don't do an analysis of medians without comparing the sample size. Medians out of context mean absolutely nothing. If you want to do such an analysis, it needs to be statistically accurate, and also account for the potential bias in reporting or non-reporting, the years of experience and all potential factors that can account for differences in pay.
So to think that Google has a blind spot towards caste bias is simply stupid.

Follow the money. Google has a lot to lose if they discriminated against black people or gay people. Google has, or at least had, little to lose by allowing discrimination against dalits. Never forget that all major corporations are essentially money-generating psychopaths and if they stood to make a buck by building death camps for left-handed people they would break ground tomorrow.
We spend so much time talking about the traditional race and class struggles in the United States that we don't really have the capacity to properly deal with and address the issues inserted into race by other world countries.
It bewilders me to this day to think of all the different dynamics that old world thought subtly imposes on the painting that is now...

Just the other day I remembered how as a young guy I was once dating a Korean girl in college and how our relationship fizzled quickly the minute I met her parents... And how I was working long hours on a job and being so stressed by management that I was grinding my teeth in my sleep, even though I was a manager myself, while 2 colleagues I was supposed to lead got away with constantly not being technical enough to support a project at all.

It's something special to be referred to by a sitting president (meant to reflect and represent everyone) and hear him say the words "My African American", and to observe memes that creatively play with a word that was used as my family members and ancestors have historically been abused to, or to see even things like Juneteenth Ice Cream coming from huge corporations that don't hire people like me to consult them time after time to properly address the issues...

It's also not surprising that discrimination is ingrained in many things in our world, and that so many people would easily say they are against hate and division, but are unaware of how it is upheld and sustained by apathy towards the micro aggressions that are embedded in it.

It is truly epic when someone of dark skin tone can navigate through and overcome the adversity created by old world ignorance, and it's even more special when they see it as an opportunity to represent everyone properly despite the adversity they encountered. It's also rare to find people that truly aren't bound in their word and actions by some sort of historical and psychological bias in terms of the dark history of this world... It's an every day struggle which rarely gets talked about, and an internal conflict that many people deal with, and more often reason out irrationally. This bias also translates into company policy, into platform algorithms, into service delivery, into everything.

If your company photos from leadership levels to the development room don't truly reflect diversity, the people in charge often end up multiplying the blindness to cultural bias in everything they do until it makes the news...

It works in both and all ways, and screws everything about a company, product, and service up... Royally.
At certain times they open up building to actually order it and sent to a dealer for you to purchase. Most of the year it seems they do not accept orders. Similar experience on Ford.com for most vehicles. I would agree though, it's very frustrating.

It's even more fun when you realize the dealer price they show for the ones they match is MSRP and the dealer is actually selling it for thousands more, plus the dealer adds accessories so you get to overpay for things like cargo nets and floor mats.
What happens to the software built with these tools when the no-code tooling company goes under? Do you have 30 days to port everything you did to something else before they turn it all off?
I am not a mailman though, who surely have special protection. If you want an analogy, I would rather go the "carry a closed package for an anonymous stranger through airport security" danger way.

The danger is just too big, as my sibling commenter says.
Exactly. It’s procedural writing at the end of the day: designed by humans, for humans to write.
No sheet!
Networking and having a reputation among peers for doing good work is one thing. Ethnic nepotism is a different thing. It's a massive failure on the part of many of these companies that this is allowed to happen.
I doubt Japan has a lower crime rate. You would have to look past just reported numbers. The US arrests a lot of people and Japan only pursues crimes they can solve 100% due to political reasons.
Agreed. Especially given the wide range of sales and income tax rates.
You have a point. OTOH, my three Sony readers and my Nook supported ePub without any servers, but all are dead now. And again, without that server it's just back to Calibre.
I agree, if only for the purpose of avoiding ignorant comments like "America has a caste system too, rich vs poor" which we often find in these discussions
It depends on your requirements. Serving user-facing content is likely to be a task best suited to data centers geographically close to the user base. There are plenty of non-user-facing tasks that could be offloaded to another location.

As an example, the product I am developing spends most of its time calling third party APIs to do bulk data extraction and processing. That can happen anywhere. After data processing and some batch ETL work, we surface that to our end users. The output of that ETL needs to go somewhat close to our users, but everything else could easily happen network-seconds away.
Isn't racism based on race or ethnic groups. Caste bias can be like a white person judging another white person because one grew up in the Bronx while the other is from New Jersey. That is not racism but classism maybe mixed in with some religious discrimination.
Is the cost of living in your country, on average, higher or lower than in the United States?

As far as I can tell there are a vanishingly small number of problems where "new laws" are the optimal answer. Increased regulatory oversight generally leads to ossified markets with higher costs. Many of the most reviled monopolies throughout American history got there in no small measure because of government protection in the form of "regulation".

In this case, there are multiple car manufacturers available to Americans from around the world - if this makes GM vehicles more expensive or causes a consumer backlash that damages sales, GM will change their behaviour. That seems like a more responsive mechanism than piling on new regulation to dictate which types of fees are okay and which aren't.
I'm not sure I understand your question completely, but if I understand it right, this is more a question of "are you hired to do 40 hours a week at work, or are you hired to perform a set of tasks?".

The objections to WFH tend to come from managers who manage by insisting their employees do at least 40 hours in the office each week, rather than measuring actual output and productivity, because it's easier. A similar question is: If you're super efficient and get your work done quickly, can you end your day early and go home?
Lots of states have no income tax
Amazon's margins are astronomical. Hetzner doesn't need to give up any where near as much consumer surplus as they do in order to compete on price, but having a solid offering at very low price point is how they have chosen to differentiate themselves from other providers on the VPS to cloud spectrum. Arguably they are competing more against Linode, OVH, digital ocean etc..

Massive respect to them for linking the change to electricity prices rather than just "inflation". They know that by doing this there will be pressure to reverse the increase once electricity prices normalise.
This makes me wonder why speed coding isn't more of a thing.
I'm guessing that Google is also unlikely to host a topic about black-on-black violence. I'm not saying that this is a fair comparison, but that's what many Indians how caste is used. If you're going to place high importance on people's subjective experiences, you can't only do so when it's politically convenient.
NHS IT supplier held to ransom by hackers
Concealed code execution: Techniques and detection
> Vote with your feet and leave

Would you say the same thing to someone facing racism at work? To Oliver Brown?
Starlink maritime coverage map [pdf]
> I think Sourcehut does this in an ideal way. On the site it very clearly says that it's currently free, but as soon as it goes stable it expects users to pay, in fact they actually sent me an email reminding me of that fact. There's no shiny "we have all these shiny features, the first dose is free!" behaviour.

We still have some confused/entitled users despite this, who express astonishment that online services might require payment. We generally issue refunds to these users (and simultaneously terminate paid services).

I think we need to make a cultural shift back towards paying for the things we use, so that incentives are properly aligned and there's no need to get "creative" with monetizing users.
Proportionally, we're doing almost incomparably better.
>a possible in-service count of approximately 1228

I doubt most of those are operational. Likely already stripped for parts.
> Unless the law allowed "between $x and $y depending on your local tax rate" (where X and Y are based on the lowest and highest tax rate for the advertising area).

What's wrong with this solution?

Getting rid of sales tax would be the best solution imo but complicated
I'd say yes, but not in the way you think.

It's still programming, just a trying to be nice. Here and there it makes programming worse by e.g. not being very object oriented sometimes, but overall it always tries to make everything as high level as possible.

High level programming languages on top of low level ones have been a hit ever since. The day I can plug together APIs and basic user management will be great: Make default user UI with login, profile, picture, make a twitter-style feed where everyone can subscribe to others. This I imagine possible within a day.

Ideally you also wrap some APIs for me so I can e.g. take my existing twitter feed and do stuff with it. We are not too far from all that, but if you want to do one custom step you are back at jumping in to a lower level and need to build components yourself and it's just even more annoying :).

It also has a way better chance with narrow use cases and is very successful there: chat bot builders, configuration of headless CMS admin UIs, analytics tools, KNIME even try machine learning and it looks wonderful.
Having an Indian CEO makes Google a lightning rod for this discussion. You are right to suggest that it needs to be taken more seriously at all tech companies.

I am ashamed to say I did not have an appreciation for its perniciousness when one employee from India made caste-based comments about another one, a decade ago, in my presence.
People might consider switching to supabase to get the real-time engine, the integrated auth, and the automatic REST API. They won’t lose any capability to write Rails/Django/whatever, but they’ll just have to do a lot less of it.
My comment oversimplified the work to be done for the sake of argument. Feel free to replace some of those 100 programmers with accountants or other kinds of employees. I agree those other kinds of work are very important, and my argument remains the same.
They are already. I consult for a lot of hyper-early-stage YC startups as they formulate their plans and I've had two separate clients in the past 6 months go the no-code route to build their MVP. At first I was against it, but having seen these clients go through it I would say it is much cheaper and less risky and gives developers an extremely good blueprint for when the founders inevitably decide to go beyond the MVP stage and build their own codebase. No-code platforms are a great way for non-technical (and even technical!) founders to do that hard product work of figuring out what they actually want their app to do and how each screen should work. Things like figma let you do this too, but I find founders will often make something in figma with logic holes or missing flows if they aren't thinking like an engineer. The no-code platforms force you to make these decisions because you'll notice the holes the moment you go to use the app instead of noticing them when your developers go to implement something that doesn't make sense. Much cheaper way to do early iteration.
> systems languages (as opposed to applications languages

We shouldn't need such a wide separation between what is system vs application.

The difference is essentially a few additional keywords and a compiler. But the simplicity comes from a high-level language, so you always need the high-level language. You only need the low-level language when you need to optimize something.

So naturally, the high-level language should be the basis for a language that can do both.

TypeScript is now well-established enough that its syntax should be used as this basis, and it natively targets the web which nothing else does.
I expect Russia to pull out the same way they left Snake Island and Kyiv region after holding them became militarily end economically untenable, "gesture of goodwill" as they called it.

The longer they stretch it out, the worse it is for Russia.

The war has shown that modernization of Russian military has been a bluff. All they've got is upgraded Soviet gear, in rather limited numbers, utterly defenseless against modern western weapons from Javelins to HIMARS. By now they've now lost virtually all of their "modernized" equipment and are not able to replace them anytime soon due to lack of access to western materials, tools and parts. Officer corps educated in the last 10-15 is also virtually wiped out. Essentially, they're demilitarizing themselves. With every passing day, they slip a week or more back in time, while Ukraine keeps getting better and better weapons. Six months ago, there were doubts about giving Ukraine shoulder-fired anti-tank weapons. Now Ukraine's operating the most modern western rocket artillery and soon the same air defense system that protects the White House.

Economically, national security people in Europe have now joined treehuggers in switching away from oil and gas to alternative sources of energy, which will have wide and long-lasting impact on Russia. Oil and gas make up about half of Russian government budget. This transition is slow, but permanent. Reminds me of SpaceX and how Russians mocked Elon that a trampoline is his best bet of getting into space. Took a while, but the tables have turned.
Yes, you just purchase your electricity with a market price contract (usually with added margin) and every day the next day prices are published around 3pm Finnish time (perhaps 12 UTC). Then just use the free APIs to load data and use the data to adjust when you spend electricity on what. E.g. to charge EV on cheapest hours, or load batteries, or when you fire up your electric Sauna...

These days the price is different for every hour, in near future they move to 1/4 hour pricing.

About 10% of finnish household contracts are market price contracts. Most of the contracts are kinda continuous (price changes every 12 months) or fixed (e.g. a two year fixed price contract).
“and here it is!”

ML can help with managing complexity. It can also be a tool for creating additional complexity.