skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Declarative goal based development. You type in English what you want the application to do, and some developer tool generates thousands of variants (maybe through a genetic algorithm?) until you reach a design and functionality you're comfortable shipping.

At a certain point we should be able to declaratively describe entire businesses, and have the computer work with vendors and other people online to carry out business processes while we macro-manage it from a bird's eye view.

Something that could probably make lots of people very rich is a tool that allows anyone to start a SaaS within a few hours or days rather than months or years.
It's actually a really nice language. But yes, it was a fad that is mostly irrelevant now...
Got any stories about Coffeescript’s scope? I always suspected the way it works would cause more than a few fires.
I think Wordpress is probably the closest thing to no-code that we're gonna get for a while.
Looks like you learned something new. You now also have a guage to measure the sophistication of a programming language. Ask if it supports tail call optimization and move on if the answer is no.
I've spent HOURS playing with fonts for use within VS Code and Windows Terminal. It is a lot of fun, and it really does help readability ... for me at least ;)
Hmmm. DoJ opinion is not necessarily infallible. See https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/legacy/2013/...
I tend to think the same. To be clear, I too have an Oculus and I also think VR is really really neat. But this whole pining after "the metaverse" is really silly.

Companies may develop experiences analogous to a Second Life, or Roblox, or World of Warcraft, or any other popular MMO (made more immersive by the VR medium), but I doubt they will have any further reach than those. At least I don't know why they would, anyway. To be fair, those games are successful and make lots of money, but compared to Facebook's current business they are a niche concern. So their enthusiasm seems misplaced to me.

Plus, VRChat already exists.
I was on the internet back then as a youngster. The Internet helped grow, inflame, and disseminate the rumors more than anything else. So many fake ways of getting a Mew, Togepi, or Pikablu...

If you think about it, how did you and your friends learn about the truck? I'd be willing to bet that at least indirectly somebody found it on the internet (or a friend told them, etc. etc.). It wasn't something you could see in the course of a normal playthrough, you had to use a glitch to see it at all.
You know, if I were able to convince a FAANG company to actually take us a step closer to a metaverse, it wouldn't be to, metaphorically, give the masses fish.

It would be to teach the masses how to fish and start stocking the lakes and streams with fish and so on. The social network is so 2010. Give us content creator tools and let us do the rest.

Yeah, facebook's never going to be that kind of smart. Oh well.
This is great pricing if your party is 2-3 people. However, that doesn't describe many American living situations. In our case, we would need a larger vehicle for a trip. Expedia is currently quoting me $700-$1,100 for the week you searched for a non-luxury vehicle like a Nissan Pathfinder. This doesn't include insurance or other add-ons, which I typically decline.

(It's outside my risk tolerance to reserve an economy car and gamble that I will arrive at the airport to be delighted by a complementary upgrade to a vehicle large enough to transport my party.)
My old book I wrote on PHP4 had SQLi in it.. heh. And I still ended up in appsec years later. Been doing that for 15+ years but my roots are software dev, so I use that and try to have a lot of empathy for developers. When I got started app sec was nascent and just becoming it’s own thing, and many in infosec had a very blame oriented mindset with developers. So it’s great to see how far we have brought things.
Dropbox has a fairly exhaustive post about moving away from Coffeescript that involves decaffeinate: https://dropbox.tech/frontend/the-great-coffeescript-to-type....

I do hope for their own sake that Bubble looks at migrating away. At scale an untyped de facto abandoned 'language' is going to catch up to them sooner or later and limit their ability to iterate safely at scale.

[Disclaimer: used to work at Dropbox, but had no involvement in this project other than massive appreciation for the amount of effort involved]
It actually seems to make sense, though it also seems very unimplmentable right now because it will require much higher qubit machines than currently exist... right?
This would be kind of cool if it wasn’t happening on a planet i live on… such a horrific feedback loop
Not long ago I saw a guy in a Segway-like wheel chair. It looked just like a regular wheelchair, with two wheels on each side. I spoke the owner and he loved it.

Here is a Segway converted to a wheelchair here in New Zealand:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/small-business/70065350/han...
Having flashbacks to installing Netware 3.12 from floppy. o_O
He conveyed in that clip that his advice about public masking was influenced by the need to preserve PPE due to what was expected to be shortages needed for Covid care if the public was to panic purchase surgical masks. If the concern was for preservation of masks for the protection of healthcare workers, then they have some degree of efficacy and he was aware of that fact. So his conveying that they did not provide efficacy to the public to preserve the PPE was being intentionally misleading. You may agree with his decision or his logic behind the misdirection, but it was most certainly a lie by its most pure definition.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie
Nope, and they're annoying because I accidentally click them and random stuff happens because I have no idea what they're mapped to.
> Does it boil down to the quality and experience of the hackers on the team?

Yes. But also requires management who can understand and value what they have in that team.
I went to the office for the first time last week, and I loved it, but I think where I work has a better attitude towards people than where that guy works. Certainly my department does. I went back voluntarily, mainly to get out of the house, and TO wear real clothes again. Tshirt and shorts, but I feel more human than the pajama man I was for the past year. I hope that guy gets a new job!
I would say using nlp to create model where you can query erp, crm and other big business stuff without sql.
Yeah, I haven't read the article, because that headline format is one of those that I've decided to never reward with a click.
I use the Red Dragon M990 MMO mouse[1] (with 16 side buttons) for daily computing/productivity. I bought it just for funsies just to see and it was a game changer (pun not intended). Its so good that I have two different mice (the same model) for work & home.

I heavily use the Windows virtual desktop feature along with window snap, so I bound 4 buttons just for that. I also have alt-tab, copy, paste & go bound to dedicated buttons. I have a bunch of buttons also bound for media playback controls (pause/play, vol up/down, next/prev track) since I'm usually listening to something when I use a PC. Then I have some buttons to launch highly useful programs such as Everything Search [2].

I don't play games anymore, but when I did, the mouse supports upto 5 profiles, so using the four programmable buttons near the scroll wheel, I can cycle through various profiles (all color coded too!). So effectively I have 16x5 = 80 dedicated buttons that I can customize based on my computing context. I had profiles dedicated for in-game keys and shortcuts.

But wait! There's more!

I found Stroke Plus [3] which a super-duper amazing program that allows you to create global or app-specific mouse gestures. So fortunately, alot of programs share common key commands such as Find (CTRL+F), Search & Replace (CTRL+H), close tabs, cycles tabs, new window, close window, etc. So I have mouse gestures controlling that. Then I have app specific gestures for windows explorer, so browsing files is super quick.

This is a super amazing setup for me and made me 10x more efficient in navigating things and generally getting things done. When I watch people take two seconds to "hunt and click" various on-screen buttons, tabs, etc....its literally painful to watch how slow and inefficient the process is.

I cant and wont go back. The only downside is that this mouse is wired, so if they ever offered a wireless option (with decent battery life), it would instant buys for me.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Redragon+M990+Legend+mmo+mou...
[2]: https://www.voidtools.com/
[3]: https://www.strokesplus.net/
I think if we have an automated way to check two implementations it would beat most every other form of testing that exists.

Then testing would come down to simply write everything twice and hope you got it right at least once.
But at least it doesn't burn $billions just to fool with it, as in the situation with Tokamak.
> But it is a strange notion of "convenience" to be locked into certain patterns of living and purchase just to make sure we can easily do something we do very occasionally.

Tech folks can make this argument, but it's a well-studied phenomenon that technologies have trouble gaining wide adoption until they are seen as credible replacements for existing usage patterns. Can either seek to convince millions of people to change their behavior (and show them why) or improve the product to better fit existing patterns. Which is easier depends on the characteristics of the product category.

My take is EVs are so similar to ICE vehicles that they will have to fairly closely approximate ICE capabilities to get to (say) 50% penetration. And that likely means they will need to support the fairly common (in America) use case of driving a half day (4-5 hours) in the hot summer, laden with weight, without adding too much drama for charging.
Don't work 80 hours a week please.
Isn’t that kind of what Roblox is?
Well, the Brookline Schools experiment with LOGO (some 40 or so years ago) demonstrated that people can learn and understand recursion. The big deal is to show the distinction between the text of the procedure and the process of evaluating it (known in those days as the `Little Man' model). When I used to teach with that, we'd actually have students acting out the role of the Little Man (`I need f(2), can someone do that for me? I'll wait for the answer').
tell me you’re a startup from 2012 without telling me you’re a startup from 2012
Weather forecast becoming really important part for modern society.
Well, Apple doesn't have a single subscription, they have several in totally unrelated areas (from Music to AppleCare, and from renewing your Iphone model every year leasing-style to Cloud backup). They do offer bundles for some, but not for others.
Lol, MIKESOFT. Oh I remember manually configuring my ISA sound card in Windows 95 was a real pain. Plug and play has made things so much easier.
Monospaced takes people back to a simpler time, when you would get cheats or walkthroughs printouts. I love how clean the look is with each character having its own distinct spacing
I wonder if a more useful category would be "just-code". I.e., even today you have to know quite a bit of auxiliary stuff about computers, your environment, tooling, networking, to realistically contribute to a real codebase (much less start one from scratch!). I think this is the real unnecessary barrier. Logic doesn't go away, but plenty of smart people can do logic who don't want to learn esoterica about fixing their path when they try to brew install a different version of Python and the only way forward is to go learn what "chmod" is

Repl.it and peers seem to be on the right track here
Public Domain Clouds
Are they competing with excel ? ;)
The soil exhaustion per a kilowatt hour given the planet's primary energy consumption is problematic and doesn't shift.

3-5% of all natural gas is used for nitrogen fertilizer production and 50% of the food mankind eats requires it.

When all the folks keen on approaching mankind's environmental problems think from a framework of minimizing CO2 emissions, they often miss out on things like nitrogen trifluoride and sulfur hexafluoride, which have significant global warming potential and are used more frequently as institutions use the objective function of (min(CO2 emissions)).
If you mean "well macOS is a UNIX too", yes.

I don't mean younger devs don't use Macs.

But for younger devs it's Linux that comes to mind when the context is UNIX-like environment, not the Mac (even though the first is not a UNIX, as it doesn't come from the old UNIX code lineage, and the latter is a certified UNIX).

So, they could easily slip and say "netcat or vi was written originally for Linux" (while meaning "for UNIX") versus saying "netcat or vi was written originally for macOS" (which nobody would ever slip and say).
Some people like things.

Some people don't like things.

Can we just accept that different people are different and move on?
Because the expectations were for good news and some people are probably taking profit.
If you make too many inflammatory comments (even in private) about, say, China or Covid vaccines, will you be cut off from this realm as well, unable to meet with your friends and family? Pandemic or disasters be damned.
Your electrical analog to this is chirp compression, used in Radar for decades.

Here's a good old (1965) reference https://www.rfcafe.com/references/electronics-world/chirp-ne...
I stopped doing it around Windows 7 and have not really seen an issue. I have Windows 10 installations that date back to the original Windows 10 release (and have been updated with Windows Update all the way up to the current) and they are running perfectly fine.

That being said, I feel like I install much less software than I used to. They used to hand out CDs with computer magazines that were basically dumps of random quality freeware/shareware. The amount of registry items and other such crap that kind of software left lying around is probably a large reason why a re-format was required so often.
> You type in English what you want the application to do.

In my experience this is the hardest part of coding, to a large degree.
Taking the history of a spreadsheet file, seeing what has been added to it over time, and where, and automatically generating a web application from that.

Often some spreadsheet has grown organically to solve some problem, with or without code.
I think the article's claim is only valid if you expect future sales to be uncorrelated with past sales.

Suppose that most of your revenue comes from recurring subscriptions of varying prices. Then, to use an extreme example for clarity, suppose that last month's revenue per person for the control and treatment groups respectively was not $95 and $101 as in the article, but $10 and $100. I guess you just got really, really unlucky with your random selection, such that most of your high-paying users landed in the treatment group. Then you wait a month and measure again, and it turns out this month's revenue per person was exactly the same in each group, $10 and $100.

By this article's logic, you should ignore the past values and only look at this month's $10 and $100, and conclude that the treatment made revenue 900% higher. In reality, the results probably just mean that most people didn't change their subscription level from month to month. Because individual users' spending on the subscription is highly correlated from month to month, you should measure this month's spending compared to last month's baseline.
yes, it’s kind of a fever dream of kid-generated content
Been there, 60+ computers in a call center over a weekend. Computers were PS/2 model 95s originally running OS/2 in Spanish, needed network card installs, windows 95 (in English), new US keyboards and a Netware client stack.
> If you like/prefer going to the office that is fine. I am not trying to say we should all be remote. Companies should offer FLEXIBILITY to let employees choose where to work from.

That doesn’t work. I prefer working in the office, but only if the rest of my team is actually there with me. If some people are remote, then we have to do Zoom meetings, so I may as well be remote too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27644387
Android is fine, IMO keeps getting better. Not sure what OP is on about.

Android is way more usable to me simply because Google does web and cloud things much better than Apple.
I’m not even sure that you are talking about the same show. Which alien race did you think was stereotypical of which real human nation?

The Centauri have a Senate and an Emperor, which I suppose humans have done. The writer and producer stated that he deliberately modeled them on the Roman Empire, but their story reminds me more of the transition from the Wiemar Republic to the Third Reich. The Minbari have castes, which humans have done, but the three castes are completely equal and share all responsibilities and decision–making authority, which humans have never done. The Narn have some kind of legislative body made of “many equal voices”, though we never learn many details. That government gets dissolved and replaced with a government appointed by the Centauri (spoiler!).

Among the League of Non–Aligned Worlds, there is also a Gerontocracy (which humans have never done), a Corportocracy (which I would argue humans have never done, though I know some would disagree), and one alien race draws lots and gets into fist fights, which is hilarious (“You do the same, for flag.”). The Vorlons have no discernible government, but no human society has ever been that inscrutable. But you won’t have seen any of those, since you gave up early.

But I can’t see how any of that is gross. Most fantasy and science fiction examines humanity and the human condition by creating alternate races which are just distorted reflections of our selves. Dwarves and Elves and Hobbits and even Orcs are just aspects of humanity that have been separated out for story–telling purposes, and it’s no different in B5. How can it possibly be gross?
A friend launched his startup recently with a product development consultant who built 1.0 and a lot of 2.0 in Bubble, in just a few months. The iterative mindset is a big part of why they moved so quickly but my friend reports that the tools helped and meant he could contribute with a lot of direct text entry and view layout, if not logic building.

The consultant does a lot of internal app prototyping and initial development in Bubble for Wal-Mart corporate so I imagine app builders are doing some substantial land grabbing in other large enterprises with their raised money.
My mum is the same. I have never been able to wrap my head around it: if you have no formal (or even self-taught) training in a particular domain, shouldn't you be humble enough to accept that you're not in a position to assess the quality of the science in that domain, and so accept the consensus?

I have never heard the argument - from even the most ardent climate skeptics and deniers - that the consensus (by simple majority of climate scientists) is in fact anything other than that we are living through man-made climate change. The focus of such people is instead usually on the dissenting voices.

But then, how do such people dispose of the views of the majority? Is their belief that the dissenting voices are the correct ones based on some artifice of conspiracy? Do they doubt the bona fides of the majority? Do they think they are all bought and paid for? What exactly is the leap of logic that allows this person - the untrained and only incidentally interested layperson - to dismiss the opinions of this body of people?

Most people are good. They care about others and they have good intentions. Yes, their actions can be distorted by incentives. But on the whole people seek to do good. It seems to me that you'd have to falsify those (in my view, self-evidently fundamentally true) claims in order to dismiss the scientific consensus on climate change.

I look at my kids, then I look at my mum, and it's hard not to get pissed off.
Scrape rottentomatoes? Scrape movie news sites? They will talk about the ‘latest on Netflix’, you got only one keyword to look for really :p

Reddit? Pirate Bay?
People are dealing with their own problems.

An education also does not amount to knowing trivia.
Almost all robot vacuums just tell only mAh without V on specsheet. It's useless but it seems that 14.4V is de facto standard. I wonder some crap manufacturer may tell only mAh meanwhile using 7.2V battery.
Can someone help me understand the no-code movement and what supposedly has changed in the last few years?

I know Microsoft tried to allow non-developers to create apps without developers, and they have been trying for decades. But failed! They built an app that allowed you to drag and drop blocks, and they tried a visual query builder(not sure what the exact name was) for SQL. They added a workflow builder to SharePoint.

They all worked great during the marketing demos. But as soon as you had to execute a slightly complex process/workflow/idea, it broke. And that happens almost on day 2 after deployment. The only success they found in automation was by getting non-devs to learn development using VBA macros for MS Office.

How is the current suite of no-code apps different. How will they solve the problem with non-trivial tasks?
Nonsense. They are way behind AWS, they don't control any unique natural or government-defined resource, and cloud users have never had more choicies.

If they grow stubborn, complacent and/or lazy, they'll lose customers or be forced charge less.
Just when you thought that we couldn't top the profoundly useless gesture of building your own personal rocket to blast off into space, we now have "metaverse." Take heed little ones, for some day you too might spend your hard earned billions to do the important work of recreating something cool you read about in a sci-fi book once.
I'm shocked that John Carmack isn't part of this effort.
Microsoft Silently Dropping Emails – a Sad but True Story (2020)
I think one good threshold for most startups is product-market fit.

Before you have it, you should be willing to accumulate large amounts of tech debt both because your product might change enough that you'd be rapidly throwing out large amounts of code anyways and because having product-market fit is such an overwhelming need that almost everything should be traded against it because your startup is dead without it.

After you have it, you have to be much more diligent about paying down tech debt, because you switch from a more "exploratory" mode to a "refinement" mode where you now are unlikely to be throwing away large swaths of your code at the drop of a hat, and instead need to iteratively build upon what you already have and that becomes very difficult to do with large amounts of tech debt.
Explore the world. If you are working remotely, and don’t have anything tying you down, go crazy, get out and see the world and enjoy as much of it as you can.

Your life will become increasingly restricted by people and obligations as you get older.

San Francisco isn’t going anywhere.
Audio noise reduction using AI
> I reckon that’s more due to reopening old conversations regardless of whether it’s threaded or not. In fact, I feel threads make it easier to return to those conversations again

I think we both agree there. My hypothesis (with no supporting data) is that the threaded format makes it easier to reopen old conversations, which makes it more likely that people will do so. In the vocal conversation analogy, the difficulty of having multiple vocal conversations at once naturally prevents people from starting more. Depending on the context that might be desirable or undesirable in a chat app.
Yeah, this is a fallacy.

But you need to look at the "before" to show that your control and treatment are similar enough to compare.

If you randomly assign people to the test- then control and treatment should be the same in the "before"