skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No-code Data Processing/Analytics" (as I would call these) is a very generic category and some of these products are quite different in their approach. I mean, (almost) everything in computers is Data right? And there is nothing Excel-Specific about grids (and even formulas) : These are very primary paradigms, so is it any surprise they all use them ?

The existence of so many apps with such basic computer functions does not surprise me because you can implement it (at the detail level) in so many different ways (let the market decide the winner)

The sudden proliferation is another matter. I think it is just part of the recent (and more general) wave to build "higher level" (=no-code) platforms. Here, its is more "Data processing" oriented ones, that is all.
I think people are making pretty wild assumptions. But, ok if the AIs are these as advanced then why would there be investiture funding AI, the AI systems in the world would be just be capable of solving any problem abs no investment. Why would there be investment? Presumably, anyone with access to an AI (and presumably “open AI” will exist), therefore anyone could easily have any conceivable software written in seconds (if that long). Furthermore, what would be the need for software as the AI would have taken all the jobs for needing software on the first place. Would it just be to run the farm equipment for our “post scarcity” whatever?
- heavier

- higher torque

- tire noise more noticable without engine nose

- want lower rolling resistance for efficiency
Hopefully the rental car companies will soon have a similar feature.
"Invest" means to spend money with a reasonable chance of a net return.

There is no chance of a return here that outweighs the expenses. That's why Japan simple calls it spending. Maybe that spending is worth it for science or carbon neutrality or energy independence. Reasonable people may differ.

But it is not an investment.
Futhark looks very cool. I generally don't buy into programming dogma, but I'm a big fan of data-oriented design these days; on top of efficiency gains, I find thinking in terms of data transforms and flows very intuitive. Plus, it's always great to have another tool to use/toy to play with
> Macro expansion is slow, but only noticeably in the specific situation of a) third-party proc macros, b) a debug build, and c) a few thousand invocations of said proc macros.

Oh that's interesting. But note that it's an issue caused by (from the perspective of the language) user code being slow, and also only if you compile in debug mode. You probably don't want to unconditionally compile proc macros in release mode, as most times they probably don't get invoked thousands of times. Ideally you would probably a) invoke macros in a parallel fashion, with multiple expansion threads, and b) maybe have rustc signal to cargo somehow that there are tons of invocations of a specific macro and that it might make more sense to recompile the proc macro with optimizations turned on.
If there were a perfectly reliable, super easy to use jetpack: you would not be allowed to use it. Even if the technology were there, so are powerlines, helicopters, and other jetpack users.

Besides that, there are billions of dollars of security fences around government and other installations like power plants. I doubt they would let that be basically nullified, and would fight tooth and nail to prevent the sale of these, if they existed .
Not Getting Hacked
'Gravity' is testing their use in search and rescue on a mountain, pretty cool.
I’m guessing this is a troll or are you suggesting you would be the only one with this AI? If it’s a troll then great because I think people are leaving their brains out if these conversations about AI / chatgpt.
Frank Gehry Delivers on Time and on Budget
Brazil has started to try importing this US "harmful words" shenanigans, and most of the words they target are common vernacular among the supposedly harmed people

Labeling a word as harmful actually harms more, since most new generations are so removed from the word's origin that it carries none of the supposed harm
In general I would agree, but since you mentioned "never" I have to interject ; )

In this visualization, I was immediately able to pick out clusters around "i", "Apple", "touch" and so on .. and the interactivity helps me to quickly filter and explore. So, I think that for an exploratory tasks, a force-directed graph helps.
Do you think we should probably use Miller Syntax as an alternative? It seems just as logical as what people are saying about AI now.
No, you aren't. The rules aren't instructional enough, without explaining the logic behind options effectively and demonstrating comprehensible examples...
Even pre-pandemic I never liked people coming in my room during my stay. First thing I always did when checking in was put the 'DND' placard on my door. All these changes just fit with how I operated for years.
Knowing the difference between lies and bullshit
> > It's a lot safer if they are flown by AI

It would completely defy its purpose .

It looks like Level 4/5 automation will never be achieved for cars , the good thing about that is not having to deal with the psychological problems that come with it.

Cars, bikes, motorbikes, boats,jetskis….and jetpacks.

People love them because it makes them feel in control as they are the ones at the wheel
> But if you’re not as wealthy, saving money might be more valuable to you than having a room cleaned daily, or having a really nice tv, or a great mattress, etc.

The problem is that without regulation there is little incentive for business to be honest about the quality of service you're getting. It becomes a race to the bottom as they charge premium prices for cut-rate quality. It's hard for people to take your business elsewhere when you need a place to sleep and arrive late at night to a room that isn't what you expect. They just have to make their dispute process hard enough to keep customer money.

And if you day that's fraud, sure it is, but fraud is only something you can charge a business with because of regulation.

IMO regulation isn't perfect, but we should aim to fix it instead of throwing it out the window entirely
I assumed you meant something slightly different to what you wrote, because you wrote:

> You can’t decrypt things encrypted 20 years ago on modern API’s because those algorithms are known to be insecure.

Python's standard library, C's standard library, and Win32's CryptoAPI all beg to differ. The specific algorithms used by Crypto.subtle (Rijndael, Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) are over 20 years old, already, so even that's a counterexample.

> So it’s probably best to keep a windows version of the browser since that’s currently the only OS that can run software from 20 years ago, so hopefully they’ll still be able to do that 20 years from now.

Most operating systems can run software from 20 years ago. I'm currently running a 35-year-old piece of software on the latest version of an OS that isn't Windows. (I'm not aware of modern Windows being able to do that, actually; not since NTVDM got removed.)

Does this address your comment better?
Except Apple loves to drop the articles when describing their hardware. E.g. "With iPhone, you can do X, Y, and Z!". So "I like Apple TV" could easily be referring to the hardware box in Applespeak.
The worst part is not the missing JOIN. This happens, especially with juniors.

It's the 'all signup errors warranted paging the on-call even on 4am' bureaucratic decision followed by being unable to apply any fix quickly. No surprise the author did not stay.
> Hey, I'm firing you because I just no longer want you here.

This requires a really comprehensive social security net to not be abusive.
ChatGPT a Tipping Point for AI
Not a complete doc of different sources and known issues, but I've found OpenTelemetry very helpful to gather information about our node applications

https://opentelemetry.io/
There are good reasons why both the VFX/post production and music production industries have done vast amounts of research into accurately modelling every 'imperfection' that resulted from the pre-digital processes. If you remove all the imperfections, you end up with something that is sterile.

Digital production methods are great at producing data in very predictable, reliable ways. But our brains our great at spotting patterns, and they can tell really quickly if something is unchanging and can be ignored. So while the challenge in the analogue world was creating order (a faithfully reproduced signal) from chaos, in the digital world it's flipped. We need to find ways of adding some chaos to make the resulting signal interesting to our brains.
Well, you get an economy out of it. Minus the economic utility of printing I Did That stickers.
There's this by Andreas Zeller: https://www.debuggingbook.org/, it's an interactive free book with implementations of a bunch of different debugging tools in Python
That’s not the point. If this post is trying to argue that high prices are all just caused by greedy capitalists, then pointing out the three most heavily government-manipulated markets does not exactly support the hypothesis.
Yeah, that is a fun tutorial indeed :-D I forgot to add that one to the list of https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/other-resources..... Would you care to open a PR for that?
Maybe it's a Gish gallop, but with source material.
You could store a `RefCell<Option<T>>` in an `Rc` and set it to `Some(rc)` after creation.

Or you could use the recently-stabilized `new_cyclic` method: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Rc.html#method.new_c...
That really depends on future energy prices; it's always a bit of a gamble.
> How do you find mentors?

I go up to them, and I ask them.

And they usually like to spend any amount of time explaining, if they see that you're someone who might be able to understand the answer. And that's to a large degree just attitude. People are usually really happy to talk about things they know a lot about, not just to sound smart, but because they really like to think about it, and you get to think about it when you hear yourself talking... I really enjoy ranting, and listening to rants. I learned a lot of CS by listening to hour-long rants at the cafeteria. Some nerdy person just piping their /dev/urandom into your visual cortex.

Knowing what to want to know seems much harder.
I'm seeing two fly-overs of the ISS like an hour and a half apart. Can that be correct?
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I agree, but AFAIK the most common symptom is amplified “visual snow”. While everyone has some level of visual snow, an increased amount such that it’s visible during the day/on bright surfaces would certainly be annoying
Bernard Arnault: The new richest man in the world
On the other hand, you end up leaking cookies between the two subdomains when you take this approach. If one site gets hacked, so does the other. It’s better to use two separate domains and begin establishing trust for the new domain.
American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades
Hotels have gotten by too long on exploiting workers with long hours and low wages. $16 is not a liveable wage and people know that. Market forces go both ways!
Other industries manage this problem by having a professional qualification that you do the exam for once, and then you're good for years. Possibly with refresher courses to keep up with rule changes.

> filter out applicants who are completely unqualified, from the vast amounts of people applying.

It's not really surprising that industries which pay incredible amounts of money get a lot of applicants.

The "gate" has to be somewhere. At the employer, or at a professional body, or at the education system? All have advantages and disadvantages.
Ubiquitous personal jet packs would offer a level of convenience and mobility that would make it nearly impossible to keep strangers off my balcony.
Yes I saw the same thing countless times in London, lycra heroes on expensive bikes whizzing past me on the flat then I'd overtake them again on the way up the next hill! Happened particularly often in January after everyone had got their posh new bikes.

I must get back into it.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s top associates plead guilty to US charges
Paywall alternative: https://archive.vn/0ggaC
TikTok steps up efforts to clinch U.S. security deal
Let's estimate.

First, set up the scenario. You're going to binge-watch an HBO Max series that is 10 x 1 hour episodes. Each episode has the HBO static card (7s), a 1m45s intro sequence, and a 2m30s trailing credits sequence where the first 30s is episode-dependent but the last 2m is constant across the series.

This is a best-reasonable-case scenario, since we know that people do sometimes binge-watch a series like this. We can construct unreasonable scenarios which would do better (10 minute loop of an aquarium played for 24 hours) but they would be unreasonable. More often, I think, people tend to watch one movie or one episode of a show and then switch to something else or leave.

The receiving device needs to have 3m51s of storage available for reuse across episodes. That's not unreasonable. At a 4K streaming rate of 10GB per hour (Youtube 4K uses more than this, Netflix uses less) that would be 260MB or so.

That number does sound unreasonable, though. A typical streaming device has between 1 and 4GB of RAM available -- an Amazon FireStick 4K has 2GB, various modern Roku devices have 1 to 2 GB -- and eating a quarter of that speculatively does not make sense to me.
Indeed. Hence my final phrase :)
Not OP, but I think the term "movement" was meant to mean the percentage of people who are starting families, keeping their religion, owning homes, etc. is moving downward. Pew Research has plenty of evidence for this movement downward.
With hotels, worker shortages have probably exposed that many hotels were doing things like in person checkin and daily room cleanings that guests would often just as soon not pay for. At some hotels, cleanings were already optional in exchange for giving you some points (or even explicitly charged for). Hotels can certainly pay more. But automating or eliminating unvalued services makes sense too.
Just a brief erratum report since it is too late to edit my previous comment to correct the mistake, I meant to write PRIu64 for my example. Writing PRId64 was a typo.
Part of the reason we equate "old" with "good" like that 70 year old juicer is survivor bias. We don't dig through the landfill to find out how many broken 70 year old juicers are buried there.

That said, I suspect that in another 70 years, Walter's juicer will still work, but you won't find any working examples of juicers from 2022.

It should be obvious to most people at this point that any appliance with the word "smart" in its marketing really means "smarter than you, sucker".
> Those two characters looking into the sunset in the background… where exactly is the cool white light illuminating their faces coming from?

The same place music in the film is coming from.
Be aware that survivorship bias may fool you when comparing the quality of new and old items. The single juicer that lasts 70 years may be the only one of its kind to last that long, the others from the same production year being left to rot and rust in a landfill.

That being said, I definitely believe that planned obsolesence and unintentional bad quality is a plague on modern consumer items. I am lucky enough to have the time, knowledge, persistence and money to research and buy long lasting goods. For example, I have bought kitchen knives made out of a single piece of metal, which are therefore less prone to breaking than the run-off-the-mill ones. My jeans are from a Swedish jeans company that offer in-store repairs as long as it's practical. This is saving me money and effort in the long run. However, I do not believe in such individual solutions to what is essentially a systemic problem; people should expect good consumer items without researching beforehand like it was their hobby.

I'm glad that the EU is working hard on right-to-repair laws.
My first job paid $5.25/hour, but that has no bearing on what that same job should pay today.
Surprisingly, people do live in those places too. I was born on one and still have a lot of family there, and none of us are wealthy.
Where, pray tell, is one supposed to shop in order to find real products that will last?

And I’ll go further. Is there a single brand you can recommend that will last, regardless of where I’m supposed to purchase it?
Products with guarantees are for a replacement with the same short-lasting product, not a guarantee on the one physical item you originally purchased. It's cheaper for manufacturer's to send you another POS than to spend the time and charging a bit more for a product that will last. People have been conditioned to follow the percolator-drip-French press-espresso machine-Keurig cycle! I keep a steel cone sieve and buy beans I have the store grind for me. I too have gone through 3 or 4 coffee grinders. I just got back from Saudi after working there for 6 months, and being sober for years, I found it a land of coffee shops vs. pubs and bars. Most people had a simple, traditional Arabic (now rebranded "Saudi") coffee setup, or a Keurig or Nespresso machine in their home or Bedouin tent. My Mom and Dad had the same percolator for over 18 years. Maybe not a coffee connoisseur's preference, but it always worked if the gas bill was paid!
Deconstructing the sBTC whitepaper, a trustless two-way peg for Bitcoin
Thanks for the reply, I'm really pleased with an external opinion, I'm really wasting a lot of energy behind it! You're right, you can recover some bytes by "intuition" in fact now I'm applying some changes and will publish a new version. In particular, the xor function you proposed will be added to the bytes encrypted with my original method, so the xor function will not be "alone" but will be accompanied by the original method of 256 bytes. Furthermore, as you rightly said, even if by merging the two functions are still very secure, it would be much safer if the key has the same length as the input and in fact in the next version the key will be generated especially for the file, or it will be possible to encrypt only a message or a file of maximum length 256 bytes so that the keys do not have to be modified or lengthened. Now I'll see what's best. Once some changes are applied I think it can come in very handy and it's also super lightweight. I'll get to work, I'll put another submit here when it's ready and WELL DONE.
Didn't feel much stiffness for a while after that then
I've also done a lot of interviews for over a decade. I figure I'm an average or above average interviewer. Talked to people for an hour, discussed projects, they looked good. Failed basic coding screens. Over and over. Maybe you've got an amazing sense for interviewing people. I doubt many others do and processes need to accommodate the average interviewer and not the amazing outliers.
Rust still needs to do a lot of catching up in HPC, HFT, GUI, game engines, console SDKs, OS drivers on Apple and Microsoft OSes, Arduino, LLVM and GCC,...

Rust threading is only safe between threads accessing data structures in process own memory. It does nothing for shared resources using OS IPC, or external resources shared among threads.

It will certainly improve, as hopefully C++ will, even it never gets 100% as safe as Rust, the ecosystem has too much weight for decades to come.
My $4000 GE refrigerator has broken twice now in the five years we have owned it, both times in the exact same way. The way the fridge works seems simple: the cold freezer is on the bottom, and then a fan blows air up through a shaft to the relatively warmer refrigerator as needed to keep it just above freezing.

Instead, the failure state is that the fan that handles this broke with no warning. I lost a bunch of groceries, but luckily managed to figure out the issue and replace the part myself.

Then a few months ago I heard a clack clack like a fan was about to fail, so this time I replaced the fan after only about two days of no refrigerator.

I don’t understand how such an expensive device can have such a terrible failure mode that ruins basically everything inside my fridge, twice now (the freezer is fine though, it just gets colder).

Before this fridge my wife and I were totally broke and just had a $400 hand me down fridge that we literally never had any problems with. I don’t really know why modern stuff seems so bad.

I know I know, survivorship bias and whatnot, I don’t see all the broken refrigerators in the landfill, but even if that’s the case why not fire half your design engineers just trot out those old 1945 GE Ultracool (or whatever) designs and sell those?
Show HN: I made a Google 2002 clone
I was born in 2002 and it was my birthday this month so i decided to gift myself this clone and evenutally made available for everybody.
> Many blamed these problems on the government. They believed it had crippled certain products (major home appliances, especially)

This is a claim that was already present in Death of a Salesman. Here's the quote:

> I am always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it's on its last legs. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddam maniac. They time those things. They time them so when you finally paid for them, they're used up.

The play came out in... 1949.

It's not been my experience that everything is crap nowadays. But of course one needs to shop wisely.
What's the alternative in modern society? The village craftsman building single-source hand-forged juicers no longer exists.
All the hotel brands offer best price guarantees where they will give you a discount if you are able to reserve with a lower price elsewhere.

The reservation systems are setup so that the pricing that goes out to priceline and Expedia is higher than what is on the hotel brand’s website.

https://www.marriott.com/look/claimForm.mi

https://www.hyatt.com/info/best-rate-guarantee

https://www.hilton.com/en/p/price-match-guarantee/

https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/customer-care/best-price-g...

https://www.choicehotels.com/deals/best-rate

https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/hotel-deals/best-rate-guarante...

https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/best-rate-guarantee
Elon Musk claims the FBI paid Twitter to 'censor info from the public.'
Restricting to under 5m height is much less safe than restricting to only over 10m height except at specific landing sites. I can't imagine you'd ever want that restriction.
A year of building for the terminal
Unrelated: but why does Google use Kotlin(for developing Android apps) and Rust when they have a nice little language in Go. Genuinely curious: Is Go not a good fit for developing Android apps(Is targeting JVM the concern?) or system programming(using Rust in Android systems), what does it lack?
If the outlet is smaller, the current pushes it closed, unless it's rigid, in which case all the current getting pushed to the outside isn't being redirected in the opposite direction as you said. Instead, that current is just being directed aside, which does cause drag. Taking that design out to the logical conclusion, you end up with a drogue, as also mentioned on that page.

Note that a rigid design also has other constraints (storage) that may make it less desirable even if it is more efficient.
Google is adding another layer of testing for Chrome updates
The Rust Book has an example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html

Of course, leaking memory is as easy as using `Box::leak`, although that's probably never going to happen accidentally.
This is how you get bed bugs.