skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do USA customers think about this price if it was not a beta?

If you have no other option, this is a very good price. In a lot of places with options, this is still a good price.

Performance is more than just a set of numbers, so we shall see how well it works. If it's good, I think it will cause a revolution in American broadband.

Having a service like this would allow me to truly expand where I could have a weekend house, to the point where the money saved on the house could pay for a decade or more of this service, with plenty left over.
Unfortunately too true
Disagree. The sample arm was designed with spare gas for up to 3 sampling attempts, so they could go back and get more if they didn't have enough.

Since their sample-cup is filled to the brim and spilling over on the first attempt, they are choosing to stow the sample container, rather than go for another (redundant) attempt with an already-full sample container.
I think this is just it: text has a higher information density than (say) visual programming tools. At some point you quickly reach an amount of threshold of complexity where you either need to:

1. Hide parts of the program (e.g. hidden cells on a spreadsheet; attributes of nodes in a visual programming environment)

2. Switch to text for the higher information density.

I think the burden of #1 quickly surpasses the burden of learning to work with #2.
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I used to have my files stored on iCloud while it was only my Windows Desktop and my iPad but when I threw my Android phone in the mix I switched to Dropbox.

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There was a post on here a few weeks ago that discussed code as the translation between the desire for a particular behavior from the person coding, and the machine instruction that needs to be executed. The comment section had a video of Guy Steele talking about growing computer languages, and was trying to make an argument for Computer Science Metanotation being one of them. [1]

He started of the talk describing Regex, and how it came to be, and basically showed how that functions have been/could be formally described in papers the same way that Regex is used.

In the same way regex formalized the notation for string parsing, so too will the next language regular function expression formalize. Perhaps computer meta notation is the source of true no-code solutions? Perhaps instead of reading articles about "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Regex," in the future, we'll be reading about "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Computer Science Metanotation."

I also understand that what no-code solutions we are typically talking about is a user interface that is graphical, drag-and drop. But who is to say we don't create a tool that does that with CSM?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPlDnX6Mio&ab_channel=Erlan...
If few equals two then companies like Apple have some explaining to do as to why their hardware can't be serviced.
Thanks, although I wouldn't claim it to be "proof" :) and yeah, the choice of ES5 vs. ES6 seems to be a major weakness of the study as others here have said as well. In any case I believe switching the current product to ES6 would make the results even more convincing.
Can you explain more about the history of how Telegram implemented DPI scaling before Qt?

Looking at the source today, Telegram deliberately disables runtime DPI scaling after the application starts up. And maybe that's a good thing, considering how changing DPI between 100% and 150% leaves running Qt apps with misshapen text (sometimes tiny, sometimes huge and overflowing the menus and buttons).
And then the Mongols came
I mention the IAT specifically b/c it can be used in "teaching people about unconscious bias" as a coercive tool to prove to people that they are racist i.e in the context of OP: "to help people who don't believe they are racists".

I have no problem with teaching accurate information wrt bias; but on the other hand, that metric doesn't impel people to label themselves racist, which seems to be a goal.
If that's the biggest problem, things must be going pretty well.
Intel had some heat problems when they tried this. The FPGAs weren't able to use their heat budget dynamically, and as a result, the whole SiP had bad performance.
>I don't see widespread criticism against US non-state companies BECAUSE of their involvement with the US

On most threads regarding privacy in FB or Google there will be a mention of the intelligence tie-in. Past sins of the anglosphere or the west generally might make an appearance.

However, I never see users make the leap that these concerns represent anti-americanism or anglophobia.
I’m not sure what you are arguing here.
the reality is that even the no-code advocates are fully aware of this. I was surprised that webflow let me publish "No code is a lie" on their blog. https://webflow.com/blog/no-code-is-a-lie

if you stop there though, you're missing out on the business opportunity. you can dunk on things on HN all you want but if these businesses are right and the demand for software has massively outstripped the availability of engineers then you're gonna make money in no code tools.
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Look up the “shocking rule” principle from Horowitz’s “What you do is who you are”.

Sometimes you need to take a dramatic action to make it clear what your culture is (or what you want it to be).

It’s perhaps unfair to one of those 6 who was hypothetically just being polite and pretending to laugh along. But you can bet the rest of the org got the message loud and clear.

Sadly with entrenched -isms like sexism, it seems to require a drastic action like this to really make a change in org culture. It’s really hard to “make the company less sexist” if there is an entrenched bias among employees. And you may just need to fire a bunch of otherwise good people to get rid of it.
Reading this, I realized I need a browser-side PDF viewer that provides kindle-like features (bookmarks, current reading position, highlighting, ...) layered over a bare PDF file fetched from a server like this one. I'm guessing that thing exists somewhere?
Tangent by PhD student in Cognitive Science here - My current belief is that consciousness arises at the cross section of 3 core skills: Theory of Mind [0], Autobiographic Episodic Memory [1], and Embodied Cognition [2].

Principally, recognizing that other people have intentions and beliefs different from your own, being able to understand that you have experienced a timeline of personal experiences and these contribute to who you are, and that you are a physical being that can think in-situ as well as plan your physical actions in the future.

I'm favoriting this link and will try to return to it after my dissertation is done for reflection.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodic_memory
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition
Not sure about other states but unless it's posted you can use other people's land. This is true for my state and several of the surrounding ones in the Northeast U.S. You only have to get permission if it's posted.

regardless of posting status, written permission is required for certain activities such as driving and camping on private land.
Can anyone else give me some good recommendation for other company wiki software. I'm especially looking for something for a non-technically audience.
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Yes, because PC doesn't change the dispositions. I have worse experiences with prejudices that were underhanded while holding to etiquette just fine. I prefer the more honest variant if it has to be.

But it isn't a masculinity problem, it is just plain dominance behavior. That can have different manifestations. Some use drastic expressions, some try to shield women from the barbaric hordes.

Professional distance has its place in business of course.
Why would I use this over ECMP via for example two OSPF paths? Which is proven robust technology. Honest question.
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I have no idea what the name of this "gap" is. But, there are still countless workers trudging through mind-numbing tedium who could regain hours or days per week with a moderate application of no-code. I've helped several do just this.
lol I've seen better codepen demos
I've got a friend who tries to talk me down every time i enthuse about GPT-3 or similar. He seems to think I believe it to me more amazing than it is whereas I struggle to convince him that I think I've got a good handle on it's limitations and I still find it mind-bogglingly amazing.
IMO it's chance. Depends very much on the judge, which unfortunately all have a different take on the law.
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Oh I just saw it. Wow that’s... strange https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12584886
Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% agreeing with you.

However, I can personally vouch for 2 champions in no code.

The big behemoth is Salesforce.com.
The incipient champion is Bubble.io.

Cloud infrastructure ,API consumption and mobile usage are the paradigm shifting variables that were not present 10y ago.

The fact that cloud is getting (traditional) corporate green lights and that every employee is using software to do regular 9-5 work indicates that software creation is demanded at exponential scale.

> The end result is always back to code.

Sure. The same way the end result is always back to electrons flowing around. The abstraction layer that no code provides NOT TO YOU but to Michel the accountant is very relevant and will (10y from now) produce a new paradigm shift, as Salesforce pioneered the "no software" [1] SaaS 20y ago.

And the paradigm shift is not "0 code". It's "0 code to get thing rolling; and developing programming skills visually to later on have a more productive talk with coders"

[1] https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
look into ECMP
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In this case, usually the very fact that a popup unexpectedly popped up is enough. I use Konsole as my main shell, and like several other shells now it has a "You're about to paste 100KB, yes/no?", and I don't mindlessly click "yes" because it is already a "cache miss" to see that dialog at all.
I always laugh when the "No-Code" tools I'm forced/required to use have a section/editor/process for writing code or using external code. Maybe I haven't had much experience with the "No-Code" tools, but it does seem like a sham.

I think the proper term for these products should be "Low(er)-Code".
The 'self conscious I' can make logical inferences about the future and decisions about one's own wellbeing that are sometimes at odds with our lower impulses which govern most of our behaviour, and that's mostly it I think.

'Hunger' is something that has been with us for 200 million years of evolution.

'Emotions' since the dawn of Mammals roughly.

Developed cognition to the degree where we can even try to very conscientiously adapt our behaviour towards achieving goals - this is a very new thing.

I think it makes a lot of sense that we 'really want to eat that cupcake, but also try not to'.
Are people being forced to work for him?
Quick glance shows real issues

> Xorg xserver above 1.20.8-3 crashes when using displaylink/evdi

> Applications do not repaint in a timely fashion, resulting in screen corruption

> xorg-x11-server quit unexpectedly on windows resize

> x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.8-r1 crashes

> Xorg crashes after unlocking with lightdm

> Input events can be sent for disabled device, crashing GTK and mutter

> when ubuntu runing Virtualbox, Ctal+Alt+F1 Ctal+Alt+F17 switch cause memleak

> Server crash at startup

> Delay and black screen when the screen is rotated.

> xorg-server-1.20.9 crash on startup
Good. Hopefully it never comes unstuck
Kitchens are a notoriously cruder and harsher working environment than most. My wife went to culinary school to be a chef. While she stuck with it and graduated, she is totally against ever working in a kitchen. Instead, she's a daycare worker. That was the less stressful and more respected position for her.

It seems like, if all restaurant workers put up with the culture, it might be because those who won't never joined in the first place.
I hear this and feel fear. "It's 1984 come to life", I shout. I suspect in China they look at this advance proudly and say "What a Brave New World!"
It's not either/or. Someone can opt not to try to modify their behavior in an effort to never offend anyone without accusing other people of having the "wrong" feelings. A person can also make concessions on some of their behaviors and not others.
I've been using Mendix for a while now (for a client), which is more low-code than no-code. I enjoy it quite a bit. It's very easy to add a new entity (table) and some screens for CRUD stuff. Even without code you can customise quite a bit, but there's always Java (server) and JavaScript (client) actions. Nevertheless, as with many frameworks, it gets awkward when you move too far away from the 'intended use cases'.

However, I do think that you still need a dev mindset, with dev experience, to use it well. Principles like DRY, loose coupling, code organisation, consistent and informative naming, concise logic, etc adhere just as well. Those hard to transfer skills you build up over time. Although a junior may get things working very quickly, keeping things maintainable and extendable is just as hard, or even harder.
At least Facebook (where OP worked), Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Probably Netflix, maybe Apple. There might be a couple more, but no more than that because we've already accounted for a pretty high percentage of worldwide shipments for servers, disks, etc. Fun fact: when you're that big, your demand creates its own inflation and you have to consider that in projections.
Not long ago there was an FPGA inside the iPhone (an ice40). Hardly niche.
Enu is 3D live coding environment with a Logo inspired API, implemented in Nim. It aspires to make 3D game development easier and more accessible, and to be a fun way to learn to code. MIT licensed.

See my demo at https://youtu.be/upg77dMBGDE. Version 0.1 will release with Mac and Windows binaries on Nov 6th.
Back in the MS-DOS days a TUI would be something done with Turbo Vision or Clipper, simulating GUIs with text.
You can add new "heads" to GPT networks and train those heads to use GPT for new applications.
I agree. This goes back even further than that. In the 80's various "construction set" programs were all the rage. They were essentially no-code programs, many disguised as games. Later there were 16-bit solutions, like a program called "Can Do" for the Amiga. (I'm not entirely sure of the title, but I remember the splash screen had a voice shouting "I Can Do; you can, too!")

Macromedia Dreamweaver was the big inflection point because the results could be deployed on the web, for anyone to see, regardless of what box they were running.

The problem I have is that it devalues the worth of actual programmers by making everyone think what we do is easy. It isn't. I see this all the time with do-gooder charities on TV "We're teaching kids to code, and next week they'll all be billionaires!" The present themselves as if a week in a makeshift classroom is all it takes to compile and deploy a Swift app.

I've thought about this since the early part of this year when a middle manager in my company's Communications department dismissively told me that she could do my job because, "I know code." What does that even mean?
"Keep your mouth shut if you don't want to get in trouble."
I find declarative and functional (D/F) code is often difficult to debug. It's generally easier to break imperative code into fractal-like steps, sub-steps, sub-sub-steps etc. D/F just can't be dissected fractal-ish like that nearly as easy. It's just a magic property of imperative code that's hard to replicate in other paradigms. It's why imperative still dominates after 50+ years of D/F attempts.

Someone once said that D/F makes it easier to express what you intend, but imperative makes it easier to figure out what's actually happening. One improves writing, the other improves reading (or at least debugging).
That's the difference: they aren't centralized.
A few weeks back I was sitting at an outdoor table in Florence, Oregon, not exactly a high-tech hotspot. At the next table two ladies that I arrogantly categorized as type "nail salon employee" were chatting about this and that but pretty soon their conversation turned to pivot table mastery, and that's where they got really quite excited.

So yes, I think no-code has been with us for a long time and will continue in various forms.
It's a tech journalist, so of course they don't know about tech.
> I've never understood this idea.

It's an attempt to make an abstraction concrete. Think of it as the trolley problem in real life.

Stalin is famously supposed to have said, "one death is a tragedy, 100,000 is a statistic". Cynical or not it is how humans think.

> If you believe we should never use nuclear weapons, then don't have them at all.

Strategic game theory and Mutual Assured Destruction depend on the possibility that the other guy will use them if you do, and may be the only way to prevent their use. Interestingly this is one reason why you want the other guy to know your procedures, capabilities, deployments etc. Secret weapons have no deterrent value.
A camera has been available on lower end phones for at least 10 years, NFC not so much. QR codes are also ubiquitous in China so it's a familiar concept to people there, even less tech savvy/educated people.
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If you lose connectivity then the non-majority pool will just continually try to reconnect to the larger pool, which will happily continue on as it has a majority. The non-majority pool will not change membership to itself. Membership changes require consensus among the original cluster participants, which the non-majority pool cannot achieve. If connection is re-established the protocol gracefully handles bringing the nodes up to speed on any transactions they missed. If the majority pool changes membership to kick out the non-majority pool nodes, when reconnection is established they'll just be ignored.
The book Blindsight by Peter Watts addresses this in a sci-fi context.
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I'm having trouble wrapping my head around LeCun's thinking regarding the Nabla reference. The Nabla link is just a blog post by three people without any technical details provided at all. How can this possibly "debunk" anything?
Written from Firefox, so with that in mind:

In full screen mode, minimize the tab, address, and bookmark bars into the top of the screen. And personally, it bugs me how obscure it is to work with bookmarks (yes, I still use them).

It's still my daily driver at work and home but those are two things that always bug me.
Scientists predict Sweden will be overwhelm in about 3 weeks for 6 months already.
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From a business perspective, this is an irrelevant distinction. The requirement was satisfied in a different way, i.e. the engineers satisfying the requirement were replaced by GPT-3, the tool which satisfies the requirement.

I think everyone understood that.
FWIW, wikipedia says the plan always was to demolish it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_art_award

"Whiteread's sculpture, House, was demolished, as had been planned from its inception, on 11 January 1994"
Perhaps a trivial question, but I'm wondering about the web site typography not being consistent with the book (serif vs sans)? One looks much nicer on the screen to me than the other.
https://archive.vn/4XSpw
If someone goes on a racist rant you can quickly scroll past that entire streak with a chronological timeline. With an algorithmic one it's not so easy.
Wow exciting news, it's running in our family, so if they can find a cure for this would be great. Personally, I find Alzheimer's or dementia worse to have than cancer.
Just shows that they know all about spying on people.
A closer look at the (BEAM) interpreter
Except that they did invade Europe and while they were initially successful eventually failed. In part because the Europeans (if we can call them that at the time) improved their fortifications and had cavalry as well.
Better and cheaper than NASA and ESA? I highly doubt that.
Ok but you did enjoy coding on your breaks in the past right? So the advice of “don’t code on your break” is more like “do something you enjoy on your break.” Or maybe “beware of contributing to burnout on your break.”
I know why. Same reason why we didn't say shit when Uber was burning from the inside and our CEO was on drunk rampages with seedy women in the car.

The US has no labor laws protecting the employee. Saying something can easily get you fired, next day. They don't have to give a reason.

A protest would require a non-trivial amount of people all coordinated in a 24 hour period or so to come forward with demands.
> Doesn't require active internrt connection. There is an SMS and credit based fallback for when connectivity is low.

How does this work? Do you manually compose a text message to alipay with the payment information?

>Scanning is better than tapping as it can be done from range.

In what context would this be advantageous? If you're at a supermarket checkout, you're already standing close enough to the cashier that you can easily tap/swipe. The same applies to most other situations I can think of.
It absolutely seems like there are some incredible opportunities in the high end. But as far as I know, FPGAs are quite area hungry which makes them inherently expensive. It's hard to think you'd find FPGAs of meaningful size included in $60 desktop CPUs, unless the harvesting opportunity is significant.
Why? I can replace an excellent furniture designer with a much cheaper off the shelf desk.
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1/10 you really need to put more effort into this.

There is nothing in your comment that might help people understand what happened except abuse. So, to be charitable, if you were trying to help people to steer people to new understanding, this fails as there's nothing in your comment that is of any positive or encouraging value.
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I use it too and it hasn't, you still need to look at the suggestions before you accept them. It's not that good, so I won't lose my job just yet.
Because it's a lot more convenient, for the customer to just carry their cell and scan a QR code to pay, and a lot more convenient and cheaper for a small seller to just print a paper showing a QR code. Yeah for sure there are security issues (e.g. thieves changing the QR code pic so the money goes into another account) but most people out there put more value in that convenience. Plus they are a lot cheaper than cc.

Personal bank to bank transactions, at least in Canada, still involves a lot of trouble.
> which is clearly an overstatement meant to clear up hype, but is untrue

It all depends on your definition of knowledge. Under a certain definition you could say that GPT-3 knows basically nothing.

If someone teaches me to repeat perfectly something very smart in a language I don't know, without explaining to me what that thing is, do I have knowledge about this?

The same argument can be made about those kind of models, the knowledge they have is about the structure of the language and what word is most likely to come next, but they have no way to ground those words in actual relation with the world.
Travis cut the number of builds for Open Source projects to half
I have been experienced a lot of slow builds on several Open Source projects. You can see the drop around the 23rd.