skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, disclaimer, co-founder of Lowdefy [0] and shameless plug. But feel ok since it is on topic.

We’ve built many back-office tools for customers and the bulk of the engineering time goes into understanding the problem and tranlating that into data. Tools like Lowdefy make it a lot easier to put this translation into action, but the real work is done by a data literate employee.
We believe that role will stay with it the IT / dev department, at least for any project / tool larger than a Airtable. It use to be all tools larger than a spreadsheet or access DB, but now that scale has increased slightly but not much.

For this reason we are designing Lowdefy to be a dev first low-code platform. By writing apps in a DSL you get the following advantages:

- No steep learning curve for new devs :: All devs are familiar with DSLs.

- Apps follow a structured schema :: Easy to pick up where others left off.

- Nothing is hidden in a GUI :: You can copy, paste, find, replace, review changes, duplicate repos, etc.

- Create and manage apps with code :: Develop scripts, like a visual app builder.

- DSL files work with all dev tools :: Devs want to use their favorite tools.

[0] - https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

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With all this said, you can optimize with tools as much as you like - most dev productivity is always lost in building the wrong things.
For one, regularly since the early 1990s, they've been predicting a Japan style credit crisis in China. That credit crisis never comes. They have had article after article talking about huge debt levels in the banks, etc. Nothing ever happens.
That would cause an fake increase of stock price temporary keeping it artificially higher. Meaning anyone buying would be paying more than the actual value. The next thought would be wouldn't the market correct for this? It doesn't know if I'm going to sell 100,000 at once or 1,000 shares daily for 100 days.
Universities also add prestige and provide protection for the IP. It may be a good deal or not depending on the price.
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions – outline (2013)
We’re in New Zealand and we have been down for 40 minutes.
> Basically some days the selling pressure can come from Europe, and as soon as those traders go to sleep (mid US trading session)

The trading session ends at 4 PM ET, which is 8-9 PM in Western/Central Europe. I guess you meant when professional traders in Europe “leave the office”?
A very simple system is sufficient to demonstrate such metastable states. Consider a frontend supported by a database. Requests to the FE come in at a uniform rate below the ability of the database. Now there’s a peak in incoming requests. As parallel queries pile up, they start stepping on each other’s toes and the response time goes up. Given the temporarily stable incoming request rate, this means even more parallel queries and even slower response rate. Eventually the database response rate drops to the incoming request rate. If the peak of traffic subsides, the system sees a stable, usual, incoming request rate but a massively struggling database with a large number of parallel requests. This is the metastable state. When the db is restarted, purging the connections, everything returns to normal. Which can lead to the conclusion of the db platform being at fault. This is why you have queues or connection pools in front of your BE: to prevent dynamic complexity leaking over component boundaries and wreaking havoc all over the system.
What does the taxpayer get back? Do you pay back the money? Does the government get an ownership stake? And if it didn't exist, does private equity not exist?
And if you run a lot of servers it means you need fewer servers. These kind of changes can literally save millions.
That sort of 'solution' is just a game of technical whack-a-mole as one party finds a new way to scrape the data and the other finds a new way to stop them though. If you want to permanently stop scrapping you need a non-technical solution that stops someone even trying.
Let me rephrase: Tankless gas water heaters (90-97% efficient) aren't anywhere near as efficient as more modern alternatives, specifically heat pump water heaters, which are 300-400% efficient. They are are marginally more efficient than condensing storage gas water heaters, which are 89% efficient.

Given the gulf in efficiency between tankless gas and heat pump water heaters, tankless gas shouldn't really be promoted as examples of high efficiency.

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We do offer an XML sitemap importer if you're in a hurry, but the free generator is always from a fresh crawl :)

Thanks for letting us know about the pricing page on mobile!
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> By the end of 2019, this third country was sending data to the FBI every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, according to the court document.

> "This data comprises the encrypted messages of all the users of AN0MS with a few exceptions," the document reads.

> Those exceptions included approximately 15 AN0M users in the United States.

Sounds like the FBI got the data of everyone except the US users.
Which is why the organizations which stand to save millions by building their kernels with PGO already do it.
I've looked at a whole bunch of low code tools in the last two years and my opinion has shifted from high grade bullshit sold by the clueless to the even more clueless ('Now: coding for managers') to where I believe that the current crop of low code/no code platforms has something real to offer and has staying power for some use cases.

Specifically: lots of forms based processing backed by relational DBs with occasional excursions importing/exporting data to and from other systems where the flexibility outweighs any kind of performance and integration issues.

Have a look at: Mendix, Betty Blocks, Outsystems. Each of these has something to offer the others do not, and all of them help non programmers or beginner programmers to roll out working applications for themselves and their peers.
> Linux needs a standard set of benchmarks that are vaguely representative of things users use Linux for.

Have you seen phoronix framework + benchmarks? They use common tools, but did some good work on making the tests repeatable and accessible to anyone else.

https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/
The app was a plant, preloaded on mobile phones you'd only buy for criminal acts, so probably not much more than 251.

For the record, they almost certainly overreached elsewhere but imo, what was done with this app is pretty fair and balanced.

It's much better than requiring backdoors in apps or services. It's almost like real police work.
Ignorance is bliss and all that
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One resource that comes to mind is Khan Academy.

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While we are at it, I think one of the important aspects of learning is periodic recall to ensure you do not forget what you learn.

Especially this mode of learning tiny bits when you have time implies:

1. You are not part of a rigorous system like school/college that ensures learning has happened.

2. Your learning is not periodically assessed through tests and applied through assignments.

3. It takes lots of effort and discipline to ensure what you learn next builds up on what you learnt previously and not a bunch of random stuff that do not amount to anything much at the end of a year.

So definitely this is a very arduous undertaking.

With all these in mind, Udacity and Coursera offers mini-degrees which are a set of 4 to 5 related courses on a subject. Coursera atleast allows you audit those courses for free.

If anyone has a better suggestion, I would be very interested to know.
Yeah, the nickel-and-diming thing is really annoying from a bookkeeping perspective. I was assuming a corporate structure where people have a budget for small expenses. I had this when I worked at Oracle. We had a company credit card, and I'd just fill in these small expenses along with my timesheet.
Thanks for the feedback.

We have looked into developing the crawler for SPAs, but haven't managed to create a robust enough crawler just yet.. we'll get there one day!
I agree with your sentiment, but I don't even understand what the rationale for singling out bots is. A user of the service is either causing problems for others or not. Whether that user happens to be a bot doesn't seem relevant to me.

HN does quite well without requiring anything other than an IP address. So does Mastodon. And mailing lists generally have no way of knowing even that!
If they had a case, it would have been against the Chinese manufacturers of the copycat chips, or against product manufacturers who (often inadvertently) used the mislabeled, fraudulently sold chips in designs that called for real FTDI chips.

If suing a Chinese company is hard, they could have also worked with law enforcement to conduct the same sort of "find and destroy inventory" sting operations that the police sometimes do for counterfeit handbags. Instead they went rogue and did the equivalent of personally barging into everybody's home and shooting up their appliances.

What if they had bricked life support equipment, or part of an airliner? It was so unbelievably reckless -- I don't understand how any of their lawyers could have possibly signed off on such a stunt. They should have been sued into oblivion for it.
> It's not a myth, it's just conditionally true.

Sounds to me like it’s generally true, and conditionally not: in good condition with thin tires on a metal wheel good rim brakes can be better than disc.

Je general case is thus that you’re better off with disc as default.
The goal of SBIR is to provide seed funding for American small businesses engaged in innovation, and is one of the more popular parts of federal science funding, across parties. People like small businesses. They don't really like private equity.

Making the results of U.S.-funded research exploitable without license by foreign entities is also very unpopular. That is one reason the U.S. does not have a public domain mandate of the kind you propose.

I would personally be open to your suggestion that the government should take an ownership percentage in return for its funding. I don't think this has been seriously proposed, but it has interesting implications.
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Watch out, Google!
Really nice. I'm definitely your market (micro digital agency owner) - but feedback on pricing: I think it's the wrong model.

I'd prefer to pay per project rather than per month. I think this makes more sense at the lower end / for the "freelance" tier.

Say I do 5 web projects a year. Each one is reasonable budget, and mapping is a core part. From a psychology pov I'd much rather pay (say) $200 one off for each project (maybe based on a cost per page) fee than a rolling per month cost on a thing I'm only using intermittently.

Money wise, my response is silly, I know, but I think the psychology at play here is important. As a small company I don't like to spend money monthly on a thing I don't use whereas when client has just paid me a big deposit for a new gig, I'm happy to pay.

For larger tiers, cool. But a per page "once off" would make sense to me.
This whole situation makes me really angry; but I suppose I should be happy that enough of the ops left and formed libera ~a month ago. I think it is something about the snark in root/rasengan's messages, portraying this as "saving FOSS," and "doing it for the users." It's upsetting to see (what seems like) one person with a lot of money and control destroy something that has existed and helped so many for decades. RIP Freenode, and thanks for the memories.
Word 4 on the Mac rocked.
While some heuristics would be nice if they improve the situation, a lot of apps still leave performance on the table by not estimating the capacity well. You don't have to be very clever about growth if you know that this vector will always have 3 elements and that one will have N that you can estimate from data size.
Maybe they did not have insider access to info and were wrong? You don’t have all day to do research on news, you have to rush it out i guess?
After staring at the global message for entirely too long, I have a theory as to what rasengan is trying to achieve. It's an attempt to purge freenode of the remnants of libera (i.e., haters, at least so far as he believes). Killing off the old service list is a feature, not a bug, since there's no more hidden hate messages from libera or the like to discover. And surely the true believers won't mind the little bit of pain that is starting from scratch? This requires assuming that rasengan suffers from a victimization complex, which is somewhat bolstered by other comments out of band.
Once the Safari monopoly on iPhone is gone, the web will belong to Chrome.
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Have you tried Nod32? I have been using them for more than 10 years and never had a problem. It has quarantined couple of questionable files, but I had no problem restoring it within the app. Whitelisting those files though took some effort. :/
Well, that does it, I suppose. We can't require that public money goes to actually benefiting the public because God forbid people outside of America might also benefit from it.
This is known as shadow IT. And it is a risk for any big corporation.

Are you going to leave to "users" to implement GDPR and other regulatory compliance? No, that would be too risky.

"low-code tools" seems misleading.

On the other hand, I agree that if you think that data-scientists are not tech people. There is going to be a big increase on non-tech people (data-scientists) working in IT. But this is more a definition problem that any fundamental change.
Pension funds tied to universities are also buying up homes in major cities throughout the country (often near universities), further harming the young people they were originally meant to serve.
Generally I share your skepticism, but a lot of BI tools are low-/no-code. Generally you can't build a SaaS platform on them any more than you can build it on Excel.
If one accepts the premise of the patent system (and I don't necessarily), i.e. that it somehow is a way to reward innovation, then I find this discussion about patent trolls contradictory.

Why should only companies who make something benefit from the patent system? Somehow it's expected that the universities (and small innovators who can't afford lawyers to fight big guys violating a patent) generate free knowledge for companies. It's quite disappointing that the eff is propagating this view.

It reminds me a lot to what is happening in OSS, where big corporations and startups are making billions of software build by volunteers that burn out maintaining said software while working another day job. The same companies then pad themselves on the back if they sponsor some project with a couple of thousand dollars a year for supporting open source.
> I'm the co-founder of Budibase, an open source low code platform, and 70% of our signups 30,000) are from IT.

I'm curious, what makes up the other 30%?
Missile approach warning systems are definitely a thing.
> ill-formed assumption...by reading from both sides, they’ll balance and you’ll arrive at an enlightened center.

Not at all.

1. The assumption is that reading from multiple sides, you'll arrive at the enlightened position, center or otherwise.

This is the same assumption as in a courtroom. The idea isn't that the prosecution and the defense are both equally valid positions. (They don't.) The idea is that vigorous argument will yield the truth.

2. There's a lot of news that isn't necessarily "a side" but that you'd miss from a monotonous diet.

For example, in Jan 2020 I watched some Tucker Carlson episodes on Fox News. At the time the news media was overwhelmingly focused on Trump's first impeachment, but Carlson chose to cover this new "Chinese coronavirus."

I want to know what's going on in the world and it's absurd to think one particular source covers it all, even it wanted to.
Wow, the ERCOT numbers don't seem to have held.. from this article:

> On May 6, ERCOT said, citing its final summer seasonal assessment of resource adequacy (SARA) that it should have enough generation to meet a summer 2021 peak demand of 77,144 MW—which is nearly 5 GW higher than the current summer system-wide peak demand record of 74,820 MW set on Aug. 12, 2019. The SARA anticipates 86,862 MW of resource capacity will be available during summer peak demand hours, and it suggests the region will have a 15.7% reserve margin this summer, slightly higher than NERC’s evaluation. ERCOT’s reserve margin is based on “an accounting of load reduction resources that can be deployed by ERCOT during Energy Emergency events,” the grid entity said. ERCOT’s total resource capacity figure of 86.9 GW, however, includes only 64.1 GW of thermal and hydro resources, and it is counting on 4,808 MW of planned gas-fired, solar, and wind capacity additions.

For those who haven't been impacted -- Texas is in another rolling outage scenario. Peak demand neared 75GW and there was ~9GW of thermal and 3GW of renewables offline. So for the second time in a few months, spot rates surpassed $1,500/MWh. What a mess;

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...
Yes.

That's the point.

No it's not a real problem.

Want to fix your mistakes? Make a fork and try harder next time.

It's such a presumption to assume that I, as the user, gives a crap about what you think are your mistakes or not, or how important they are to you, or how much cleaner the code will be when you fix it.

If you create work for me.

I will walk.
Counterexamples:

Running your DB with the default parameters.

Not running Linux kernel parameters depending on your workload. (+10Gbit NICs, lots of connections...)

There are reasons, why those knobs are there, as there are always trade-off, and having them automatically adjust is very hard.

But maybe that was what you're referring to.
Pretty much 100% of users would prefer which ever technology solution that solves their problem for the least cost (in terms of money, or storage space on the device, or battery, or time, etc). For most apps that aren't graphically intensive, or require massive amounts of data in memory, or that require a ton of side effects when the user interacts with the UI, a PWA should do the job perfectly adequately even if it's worse than something native.

Being able to deploy a PWA that avoided the 30% cut Apple takes for all digital content would suit many users very, very well.
I spent half of last year working on a project built using a low-code tool that will remain nameless. The company that produces it had recently raised money at a valuation in the 9 figures if memory serves me.

The project took something like 5x longer to complete than it should have. We spent almost the entire time working against the tool to try to figure out how to do pretty basic styling and/or logic.

We discussed at some length during the project what use cases the tool actually would require less work to implement. There were a few, but they were essentially just the exact workflows which had been implemented in their examples and/or were obviously easy to do given what tools you got from the toolchain.

Edit: Just checked. The funding was at a 10 figure valuation actually (more than a billion). It's hard to believe.
I wasn't complaining about the process. Use 10 micron for all I care. This particular process was perfected in the late '80s, and the costs reflect that. From TFA:

> Die manufacturing cost is roughly the same for both dies (~10-15 cents) .

Again, this chip should never cost more than a dollar, even in single unit quantities.
Good, their economic prediction concerning China was wrong. So far. I don't see any substantial error or bad faith in that.
Attention Netflix opens a gadget store What can we expect from it?
That would frustrate me as well! Did they retaliate against anyone for open source? Do you mind if I ask if you went to a public or private university? In the US?
In other words: we may fix this next year. Or the year thereafter. No promises though.
Ask HN: How close to Ready Player One's Oasis are we in 2021?
I've seen people playing Skyrim on VR while walking on a treadmill, which made me curious: if someone had infinite money and access to cutting edge technology (Facebook wrist, etc) to set up the best possible fully immersive virtual reality experience, would it be anywhere near the Oasis experience?

I'm clueless about this space so apologies if it's a stupid question.
I recently switched to `rg` after many years of using `ag`, and the fact that it properly handles `.gitignore` syntax makes my life much better.
I was surprised when I found that Al Jazeera was the most neutral source of news (on non-middle eastern topics) I have seen in a while
Nothing like the 65,000 deaths from the Oregon Trail.
How does you having a patent 'A' protect you from trolly companies with patent 'B'? Or does it just give you access to funding to fight said tolls?
Yeah, and that's true. Because people are biased. Not saying CNN is the benchmark so. But deriving that all news is bad because of that is going too far.
Maybe get everyone to turn off their cryptominers?
Looks like it's apple only. Is that correct?
Isn't this the classic Five Eyes loophole? I'll spy on you, you'll spy on me, and we'll exchange notes.
I suppose you felt the same way about IE?
I don't think the other poster was talking about automated tests for conformance to the specification, just basic unit tests indicating that the feature works at all by any reasonable definition.
Not really on iOS: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/7374
That does not matter, it is just an aesthetical thing.

It’s like when they report that some pandas got offspring in captivity in zoo X.

Even if they lied about it, even if they invent a new country where there are celebrations, it makes no difference.

It is useful to consume and fact check news on what could have an effect on your life.

It also brings about the bias you are talking about.

Because the newly born panda might matter to the local veterinarian.

Well my train of thought certainly took a 180 degree turn there..
I mostly avoid the news.
However opinion articles on newspapers bother me a lot. The fact is most people will interpret these articles as the newspapers own view, increasingly so when this view is repeated again and again. However when you point out the
typical faults of the opinion article then defenders insist it's 'just an opinion'.
On a related note I hated an opinion article that came out of the guardian yesterday debunking the theory that that the Wuhan lab was responsible for covid-19. The main reason being it totally ignored all the evidence and just smugly insisted it wasn't true. It's fine to disagree but let's hear the reasons why.

I generally avoid all newspapers. The Economist does seem better.
Slowness is necessary to some degree. Early stopping leaks information, so FHE algorithms wind up being worst-case for all inputs (e.g., O(N) to find the value for a key).
Wouldn’t the decrypted inputs be readable in memory?
Right, I mean on platforms other than iOS of course. That's why third party browser engines ought to be allowed, so that vendors like Mozilla would be able to provide those features on iOS too.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27510824
More generally you want systems that implement oblivious accesses. There’s been a lot of cool work recently in making thi more practical, and I’m excited to see how it pans out in the near future :)

I will also note that for efficiency, Oblix relies on Intel SGX. I’m not sure if a purely cryptographic solution can provide the same security and efficiency properties.