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> The solution is a platform that doesn't have these mismatched incentives (either paid for, ran by donations, etc) but that otherwise has the user experience of the mainsteam platforms.

Isn't it kind of inevitable that those incentives manifest themselves? A company can run a centralized platform, do a good job of it, then get bought out for millions(if not billions) by a large corporation and redesigned to maximize ad revenue and the egos of those looking for greater job titles. This isn't exactly unheard of. Decentralization would supposedly section this kind of thing off if it even happens at all.

You're right that the average person doesn't care about decentralization, let alone understand it. That's fine. Before Facebook, people used forums supported by vBulletin, and those were effectively "decentralized" in the sense that they weren't all owned by the same entity. The only difference was that there wasn't sharing of data between 2 or more web forums, like there could be with something that supports ActivityPub or the like.
I don't think the GP was being unfair.

Ok, you're allowed to think that. I just think saying "it's the midwest" and then bringing attention to a list of social-indicators that aren't really specific to or even unique about the Midwest is by my definition a very incomplete portrait of the region and the people (like me) living here.
"The stakeholders who desire applications are not willing to buy it at it's current price; either because they know that the application is not valuable or do not know the application is valuable."
For those without available wired broadband options, the price point is a no-brainer.

In rural areas, your only option is often cellular (3G/4G) "hotspots" and the monthly cost will be outrageous unless you can convince everyone in your house to stay off of Netflix, etc.

If you're in a rural area and you want Internet access for streaming video or your kids who are in school or just don't want to have to deal with or worry about data caps (with outrageous overage fees!), this is quite likely your best ption.

The $100 monthly cost isn't unreasonable. You're going to be paying probably $60-70 for spotty cellular service with a data cap and/or throttling anyways, so might as well pay the little bit extra and not have to worry about it.

The one-time $500 setup/equipment fee will be harder to justify. I expect Starlink will offer an option to spread that out over a year or two which would make it much easier for some households.
Oddly I'd trust Google more with a self-driving car than say Uber or Tesla. Kind of glad they're making progress and expanding. The industry as a whole seems reckless to me tho.
I am sorry for your grandfather.

He knew Bible and he was right by his interpretation of Bible. In programming world word is reality, there is only one meaning. Those who know word forge reality. This requires knowledge.

Critics who do not posses knowledge appeal to emotions, spread FUD. They may be right by coincidence like standing clocks.
Data diodes exist and have been used in high security or other risky cases when one circuit or bus absolutely has to be isolated except for one way communication.

But how can you include adequate firewalls in a car that, for example, receives OTA updates for autonomous driving software? It is inherent in any such system that incoming signals are received and that the software that may be affected by those signals has access to pretty much everything.
I know nothing about this area but this statement;

"...the progression of Alzheimer’s disease is driven by a vicious cycle of the protein amyloid β (Aβ) inducing hyperactivity at the neuron level."

makes me ask wouldn't it be valuable to know what triggers this change from normal activity to hyperactivity?

The use of this drug treatment should it even be effective to your point seems a bit like insulin. It keeps the patient alive but doesn't find the root cause.

Perhaps I expect too much from biological science at this stage of our development.
A commit has to be replicated to majority of the cluster, and a leader is elected by approval of majority of the cluster.

More than that each of the nodes approving the commit would reject a candidate who has log inconsistent with their history. Therefore a node with inconsistent log could not be elected as a leader.

In raft paper it's shown in 5.4.3 (safety argument).
I completely agree but I do think humans have a language model, and considering how we use that to encode and decode the human experience might be useful in figuring out how we improve things like GPT-3.

Personally I feel that embodiment of some form, in which there is some vector space for a 'world model' that can be paired up to a language model, is a route forward. For example, if you have a Boston Dynamics (for example) robot that has a model for gravity, mass, acceleration, force, object manipulation, etc and you incorporate those into a language model, there is going to be a much richer latent space from which associations can be made between terms. If you ask GPT-3 the difference between various gaits, e.g. walk, trot, gallop, it's going to have associations with other contexts and adjectives used in the vicinity of those terms. However, if you enrich it with data from a Spot Mini that can actually execute those gaits, you're going to have information around velocity, inertia, power consumption and budget, object detection rates, route planning horizon, etc.
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Seriously, who is writing these articles? I've seen this kind of thing come and go since the last 20 years.

But this time it's different!
No it is'nt.

Users are now eMp0wErEd! You give 'em this drag and drop interface and they will cHanGe thE wOrlD!!
No they won't.
Because trucks are more dangerous than cars.
it is often easier and much much more useful to invest in learning to code rather than invest in learning a proprietary "no-code" tool
How is QR any different than NFC from a user perspective? Both require a terminal to be effortless for the consumer (an LCD or e-ink display that shows a real time QR with transaction details like amount, or an NFC chip that does the same thing).

I think QR is slightly worse since I have to open my camera app, or open my payment app and select camera, vs just waving my watch/phone at a terminal.

Things like metro payments are 100% doable with NFC and would be an awful nightmare with QR.
That basically what Tesla is doing, unlike Daimler they just don't have the Trucks yet. Once the truck is out it will drive itself on the highway.

The problem is just that you still need a driver anyway, so it really doesn't help that much for now.

Its the same problem Waymo has in general.
It wasn't arbitrary. Twitter started out with an SMS interface, and kept it for several years. SMS are 160 characters max [1], and some characters are needed for the protocol, so the payload was limited to 140 chars.

[1] Note: Modern SMS apps support a protocol that sends larger messages as a stream of multiple interlinked SMS. This is transparent to the user, but at the time of Twitter's SMS interface this was not common.
Loading a tweet really isn't that hard; it's just Twitter's engineering team is incompetent. Even tiny little websites that custom-roll their own forums have less trouble loading their content than Twitter.
congrats on launching! tracked your Netlify tool since the previous show hn. since launching my book I realized the need for a beautiful book image haha. I now have a directory of device mock tools https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dev... and you're in there
And after Chinese conquest was done, Mongols had fancy new-fangled Chinese siege weapons to use for themselves.
I'm concerned that they'll have a hard time closing the reentry vehicle, that its hinge and hermetically sealing systems will become jammed open as well. There's no one available to wipe the gravel and dust off the sealing surface with their finger...

I'm not involved in the project, but I do work on terrestrial automation projects, often involving CNCs - chip management to prevent swarf accumulating on your hard stops and tapers is a real problem! Here, we have plenty of compressed air as well as gravity to clear chips, and preventative maintenance schedules for the stuff that the automated cleanup processes missed, and we remove parts to cleanrooms for important measurement stages, but that spacecraft is basically floating in a cloud of gravel...not a good environment for precision seals!
This project is truly an outstanding bit of open-source software. I'm using it to bond two VDSL2 connections together; both sync at 79mbps and via OpenMPTCPRouter and a £3/mo VPS I get 140mbps download speeds.
That's not GPT-3.
Well one matter is about inclusivity and the other is about innocent people being coerced into declaring themselves racist.

Separating the two helps the audience determine if you’re speaking in good faith, or if you’re trying to rationalize and cover up an injustice.

Screeds generally indicate the latter.
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Granted, it's a good way to prototype ideas. Less analysis is needed when one converts from Access to the new thing because the ideas are road tested. But one problem is that modern web stacks are a bloated incoherent mess that take an army of specialists to manage. That may be part of the reason for the resurgence of "no code" tools.

But the real fix is to simplify web stacks for smaller projects. We don't need Rube Goldberg routing engines/URL-prettifiers, ORM organics, Bootcrap organics (UI), Async/Await bloat, etc. We want our app track some local e-paper-work, not be Netflix. A Learjet will do, don't gear it for Jumbo Jets. Time for a KISS web stack to become a de-facto standard.
You can post against specific uses "No Hunting" but not "No Trespassing"

A quote from my states website

The landowner may maintain signs that:

Prohibit hunting, fishing or trapping;
Prohibit any combination of the three; or
State all or any combination of the three are allowed
by Permission Only.

Once registered, Permission Only signs and standard Posted signs are essentially
identical in meaning and enforcement. However, if you've decided to post, consider
Permission Only signs when:

Your primary goal is to know who is using your property;
You welcome hunters, but have had issues with other users;
You've made the decision to post, but want to show you support hunting and use
hunting as a tool on your property; and
You want to continue to allow other public access without written permission, such
as hiking and cross country skiing.
Barbarians will always exist, historical context will perhaps help devising better policies to deal with them.

You can however find something good in anything bad, and vice versa. That doesn't mean "bad" is necessary.
For other uses, I’ve defined cronjobs similar to:

0 0 * * * cd /foo; git add -A && git commit -m $(date) && git push

Voila! Nightly snapshots pushed to another server.
I got into programming from a no-code tool as a kid: Stagecraft. An education/gamedev tool aimed at kids and looking back it was really neat. You had a grid and gave rules to objects on the grid by pattern-matching the surrounding grid cells. Right arrow key makes the player move right, if the cell to the right is empty. If there's a block already to the right but an empty square beyond it, move the player and the block. You just laid out a "start" state and a "final" state and whenever the start state was met, it would replace with the end state. A ton of basic (and not-so-basic) games and fun things could be made really easily with this. More advanced users could do something closer to traditional programming by giving objects variables and manipulating those, making "folders" of rules that controlled which ones could run, etc. I made a fairly full-fledged short JRPG in it, and other people's projects were even better. Frankly, I finished more gamedev projects playing around with that than I ever did after learning to code!

I could see something like that succeeding in the modern era if you make it easier to share - you needed Stagecraft to run anything made by it. Anything modern with this grid+rule system like that already?
It's not a very rigorous refutation. I think that's part of the reason this post is so contentious.
Opportunity cost, perhaps?
Trucks are an easy win if you've got launchable performance in cities, but still require a lot of human energy to get into production.

So early on, when the number of people that know the system is small, it seems better to work on the bigger, more general problem, and branch out to the sub problem later on when there's more people to work on it.

From another perspective, of you stop work on cities to finish a trucks launch, you're losing ground to competitors working on cities, which may be decisive in the research phase.
Always keeping a sharp eye out for denial, I believe this seems completely obvious to people that actually write code and/or build software for a living.

1. As many others point out, "no-code" is just a different way of representing code/logic. The skills are the same, except for typing.

2. Even if it did take off, someone still has to maintain the code for the no-code tools. I guess eventually the no-code tools are meant to be written in no-code. This doesn't happen overnight.
No-code tools makes easy to make the first 95% and impossible to make the other 5%.
Yes except they were saying the iPhone replaced Nokia's engineers.

GPT-3 is not doing what the ML engineers were doing (building models), GPT-3 is the end goal. The company just decided to outsource the work to OpenAI and pay a monthly fee to them instead of salaries to their ML engineers.

"We have already found several use cases for it, one of which replaces 2 ML engineers." -> Clearly makes it sounds like GPT-3 can do the job their ML engineers were doing.
Congrats Rohit!

You are right about the complex regulations here. It is very hard to operate in this field here in India.

Wishing you great success!
“AI” replacing the jobs of AI engineers. But we were told it was only going to do that to blue collar work!
Completely agree. In hindsight the choice of ES5 is questionable and in the study I actually conclude that another ES6-based experiment is desirable. Also, as others here have noted, you could start with ES6, see if it works for enough of your users, and only if not orthogonally introduce transpilation to ES5 as a production optimization.
yes more of a meetup.com alternative than anything. However the hard part is how do I migrate my large meetup community to a new platform.
If we have the ability to detect a crime at low cost, we should detect the crime and apply the law uniformly, and dispassionately. It should be applied as often as possible. Either the law exists and is enforced, or the law should be repealed. In your hypothetical scenario, if I have crimes I've "already committed", then those should have already been brought up.

But that's sort of my point as well. I think we can come up with the regulations to avoid the situation you describe. It may involve what I suggested above, updates to statutes of limitation, etc.
I evaluated it for our company a few years ago (the entire Ant design system, not just React UI Components) and although everyone had heard of Alibaba few knew about Ant Financial (now the Ant Group) even though it's absolutely massive.

Funny how our 2 leading candidates, AntDesign and BluePrint, both come from less than "ideal" companies with similar baggage, though from opposite sides of the spectrum!
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It's not perfect because the wrong keystroke sequence can cause you to lose a chunk of information in a way that goes unnoticed for a long period of time (or is just never noticed), but I run a cron job that just blindly checks in any new files and diffs into git every few minutes. It assuages at least some of my concerns about org-roam's many ways to cut myself with its magic.
You've got a backlog of some kind, be it games, movies, other projects, etc.; take a break and get through some of that. You know it'll only grow otherwise.
Software engineers spend every day trying to automate away their jobs, and it's hardly a conservative field.

If it were easier to use a visual interface than code, then devs would figure it out and we'd all start doing it.

The "no code" revolution is probably more accurately the Microsoft Access replacement for our generation. Sleeker, cooler, more professional. But like Access, you have to replace it with real software when it starts getting complex.
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as SamBam said, there are a ways to touch these domains without linear algebra.

But what I meant is that it feels so powerful to unlock these domains. Once you develop a comfort level it opens up these really cool, magical things you can do with a computer, like graphics, simulation, ML, image processing etc. And the linear algebra skills you learn in one domain are often transferable to other really cool, interesting domains. This is what feels like a super power.
With one notable detail: Its much easier to stream data through the GPU than it is through an FPGA. And I say that fully knowing how much of a (relative) PITA it is to stream data through a GPU.

I think it also works better to think of the DSP resources as a big systolic array with lots of local connectivity and memory and only sparse remote connectivity. The SIMD model doesn't really apply.
unlawful != illegal
Sexual harassment is illegal, but the conduct described here doesn't sound _criminal._ The police are only relevant when it comes to enforcing criminal law. Workplace discrimination policies are typically enforced under the authority of a state or federal regulatory agency with _civil_ penalties (aka. getting sued into next Sunday).

Many people see how problematic it is to increase the surface area of police enforcement, which carries the threat of physical violence. Is it really necessary to resolve workplace disputes with armed state agents?
Just 5% rapists are punished by Indian regime when the victim is SC/ST https://ncrb.gov.in

A separate country to 300 million SC/ST is the solution to Untouchability in South Asia https://chng.it/kJphRWWBRr #HathrasCase
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No, the MPTCP part of the link is between the router and the VPS. The end application doesn't see this.
> For all the talk about how language models "just" learn correlations, there's a remarkable dearth of evidence that humans do something qualitatively different.

GPT3 doesn't know the difference between a given set of characters and the idea/object the characters represent. It can associate "river" and "stream" and "water" but has no understanding beyond that they appear in patterns together. It couldn't possibly make the connection that river and streams are bodies of water, because there is no association with reality.

GPT3 wouldn't even know the difference between human language and characters derived from some random data source.

The only thing it does is identify deeply complex patterns, as long as there are humans around to notify it when it's doing a good job. It's going to be very useful for auto-complete, and jumping in to help users finish repetitive tasks, along with the other stuff ML is good at, but it's simply a GIGO pattern recognition system.

So I think you have it exactly backwards -- there is a dearth of evidence that AGI is even remotely possible. We have known the full anatomy of the C. Elegans ringworm since 1984 -- it's 1mm long and has 300 neurons. There is a foundation dedicated to replicating it's behavior[1], and all they have achieved is complex animation.

[1] http://openworm.org/
Well, the driver would just drive the "first" and "last" mile right? So he could drive the truck to a lot next to the highway that has an on-ramp, let that truck go on its way, and he can jump into a truck that just drove itself off the highway onto that same lot...

Or I guess you mean they still need a driver because of compliance/legal issues?
I agree with what you said but with the caveat that a large part of dealing with both customers and employees is being able to wear both hats. You can probably skate by wearing just one but you'll either have bad morale or miss out on some customers. Letting people act uncouth when it's not inappropriate to do so is basically free. Like anything you have to be reasonable and it comes down to a judgement call.
It feels like it wasn't written by anyone who knows much about the actual nature of programming computers.

As others have pointed out, the desire to build things without coding knowledge has always been there, and there will always be a place for it. An ice cream shoppe should probably use Squarespace instead of hiring a coder for thousands more.

However, until we have sufficient AI, executives will always request features that can't be achieved with whatever no-code building blocks are available. Contrary to others, I do think there will come a day where the human computer programmer is completely obsolete, but we are definitely not there yet.
How did you get access to it?
Most "scientific" languages have indexes starting in 1 and/or configurable (R, Julia, Fortran, APL). In some applications (finite element methods), it makes sense for indexes to start at negative numbers.
The media optimizes for eyeballs and attention, and hence we see hysterical, inaccurate, and fear-based reporting. With all the noise they put it, it absolutely does crowds out facts showing that the virus is now likely less deadly than it was in the earlier phase of the pandemic.

"If it bleeds, it leads"
If any story based on "private photos and documents" is to be blocked, then most news stories must be blocked on Twitter.

That includes the Snowden leaks, Panama Papers, the Pentagon Papers, virtually all Wikileaks releases, and many of the most important news stories of the past several decades.

Twitter pretends to have standards by which any news story can be censored, then uses that standard to very selectively block specific stories as they choose.

Also, from a journalistic perspective, it is much better to publish the source documents, as NYP has done, rather than quote from them liberally without publishing the original, as the NYT has done.
Sounds like you work at Verkada lmaooo
Also really good, even if you need to get past the default stylings and behaviours. They have continually moved upstream beyond basic components into more enterprise patterns that are as useful IMO if you need specialization but great for getting started (ex: login workflows, portals)
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The motivations are different: the cost to the rule maker of the effort by all those people is nil. While the cost of not adding the paper is the risk of something happening in the future which could cost them their job. This is why the shoe removal theatre was added to flying: the risk of something happening is essentially nil, but if it did, heads would roll.

This is not a criticism of bureaucracy or regulation BTW (I'm a fan of both, in general). It's simply a recognition that there's a misalignment of objectives.

Not sure how to analyze the calculus in the case of rachaelbythebay's observation. Certainly there is one misalignment which is if the tool has sharp unprotected edges (e.g. can take the company's whole site down) the person who ran the program will be blamed, not the person who wrote it. Unless they are the same person, it's hard to get a proper feedback loop in place. The only tools we have are coding standard and code reviews: bureaucracy!
Hopefully they crash...