skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2013 Mark O’Connor wrote a series of articles about his experiments with nomadic computing using ipads, Linodes, and bluetooth keyboards. He was kind of a pioneer in this area:

https://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year...
Would the low code equivalent from the era be MS Access? And the webification of that being MS FrontPage for UI w/ MS Access .mdb behind? You also had ColdFusion wizards, Dreamweaver app helpers, etc.

Maybe what killed that push was proliferation of cheap journeymen: everyone’s niece wanted to be a web dev, everyone’s nephew a web designer, so it was easier to have your nephew or niece build your site than research which low code boxed software of the age would let you do it yourself.

The niece went down the path of PHP, Rails, and node.js+Angular/React, the nephew down the path of Dreamweaver, Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma. Plentiful cheap hands you can pick up the phone and boss around, nobody needs low code.

Now the tide has shifted. Nieces, nephews, cousins, anyone with a knack are all doing it, but the demand outstrips this supply.

So the demand needs more workers or more automation. Code camps aren’t keeping up, but boxed software is now web delivery. Advertising puts it under general public noses.

Anyone can find a way to build a thing (there are a thousand drag and drop app/site builders now), and the average small biz owner reading the marketing then dragging and dropping doesn’t have a clue whether that’s limiting or good idea.

So yeah what killed RAD tools was the web, but also kids. Now the kids on the web are building the next gen of RAD. And the circle of life continues. :-)
Articles like this misunderstand both innovation and capitalism. Progress isn't typically made by some unusually smart person or enterprise gazing into the future and creating the perfect thing. It happens by lots of individuals and companies making bets and guesses, most of which are wrong, but some turn out the be right. That way the overall system can be brilliant regardless of whether or not the individual actors are brilliant. Or, more precisely, you can have a brilliant system without brilliant actors.

Articles like this one look back with the benefit of hindsight and are written from the perspective, "Company X missed obvious trend Y and now they're in trouble". In reality, a bunch of companies made guesses about what could work in an unknown and uncertain future and some turned out to be right and others turned out to be wrong.
We put a norm that non 1-1 meetings don’t need camera to be on, but if one person switches it on then it’ll be nice if someone gives company. But 1-1s without cameras are acceptable if they at least alternate with camera sessions. You’re being paid to work. Zoom can cover backgrounds. Get on the camera or don’t complain if you never get a promotion.
I think throwaway accounts should be banned, or at the very least, there should be a waiting period before you can comment. If you participate with thoughtful comments, you’ll reach 500 within a month. What bothers me is people creating these accounts on a whim just a throw out some garbage, or maybe a valid opinion, and then disappear in the night. If you had to wait a week to post it might lead to massive duplicate account creation, but I think it’s worth considering.
Ah! Makes sense considering the post you replied to. I just wasn't tracking...caffeine is still diffusing through the system lol.
Meanwhile, American datacenters are still handing out IPv4 addresses like candy.

I know a few people who got 5 "usable" addresses with each dedicated server from a provider that shall go unnamed. That actually eats up an entire /29 per server. None of those people ever use more than 1 IP. The datacenter doesn't even bother to configure the remaining IPs on a default install.
Each of your two eyes only sees a 2d image, and your brain combining this information is what gives you depth. I'd say it's holographic in that each eye receives different information and you perceive depth when looking into it.

If you're asking whether you can see multiple translucent layers, like a hologram from a movie or tv show, then I'd also say yes. But I'd warn that there's a 58 degree viewing angle in front that you can see the images from. You can't look at the sides (or back!) of the display and see anything, for that matter.
Is that a toilet bowl float in the picture? Perhaps that was functioning as the mechanism's accelerometer?
Surprisingly many topics are political [1], and an answer the very right-wing libertarian consensus here disagrees with will absolutely be voted all the way down.

[1] Often, the assertion "this topic is not or should not be political" is political. Because politics is how we organize society on a large scale and saying things should be exempt from that, guess what, is a political opinion.
Running your malicious actions without writing to disk is a very effective way of bypassing a lot of security and forensics technologies.

As soon as you make changes have persistence you have proof and some operators are not oaky with that.
Color Blindness: Simple imge manipulation in matplotlib
The disk could be simply transferred to another data center physically so they can move data faster/cheaper than transferring the data by internet.
Algolia (YC W14) raises $150M at a $2.25B valuation
Slate Star Codex concluded that the Dark Ages were real:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/

Previous HN discussion of this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15485409
It's impossible to make an addressing scheme that's both memorizable, and abundant enough for the foreseeable future of the Internet. The human brain just isn't capable of dealing with numbers on that scale, which is why we invented computers in the first place.
404'd for me but I found this: https://www.aviationpros.com/gse/fueling-equipment-accessori...
I have been downvoted in technological threads, just expressing my past experience on docker. Should we avoid those as well?
> If you’re undercover with your camera off in a meeting, how do you think a lone person with their camera on feels?

Like they should probably turn off their camera too?
I just got an ipad for the first time. I spent more on digital purchases for that thing than I have in years on my android. Theres something about how big it is.
Do you happen to know why they rejected you? It’s kinda weird that based only they would reject you based on just the sign up form.
Hetzner has always been one of the cheapest providers when it comes to pricing for additional IP addresses. I'm surprised it took this long for them to be forced to raise the prices. This affects me, but I understand why they have to do it.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but 'Try and Catch Me' is my favorite episode (it has everything: the car, Dog, and IMHO, the best "villain"), and addresses the kindness:

> Abigail Mitchell: I'm beginning to be very fond of you, Lieutenant. I think you're a very kind man.

> Lt. Columbo: Don't count on that, Miss Mitchell. Don't count on it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075866/quotes/
Erdős-Rényi Model and Clustering Coefficient
With the rotating IPv4 you at least have the possibility to make yourself more anonymous. IPv6 takes that decision away from you.

> You would probably have the same level of reliability with an IPv4 database currently

That is... a lie. The selling point of today's internet is that you are anonymous.

Also I don't know which "easier ways to track people" you mean.
For stories? Yes. For comments? They don't seem to care. Also the reddit bot mob is a very real thing and there's folks who enjoy evading those sorts of attempts at control. It becomes a game unto itself.
> While the ethernet cables they give out can likely do 10Gbit (but definitely not 25Gbit) very few people have 10Gbit-capable ethernet or wifi chipsets and there is no way they will actually be able to routinely transmit data at this speed.

Bit of future proofing, the fibre cables will be in the ground for 10 years and who knows whether consumer devices can routinely do 10G by then. The cost is dominated by the price of digging up the roads, not by sticking a few extra strands in the ducts.
GitHub offers open source developers legal counsel to combat DMCA abuse
My unqualified opinion is you’re trading one set of problems for another. With combustion you have a lot of parts under stress for a long time. With EV you’re dealing with battery science and seemingly intractable supply chain problems.
The scientific process leaves no room for emotions what so ever. Errors in the scientific process could have devastating results. If you can not separate your emotional well beings from the truth go and do something where your feelings are of no consequence.
Yes you should: because all you have otherwise is a death rate that could be caused by any number of things. Biological organisms die all the time for all sorts of reasons: there's a difference between showing a series of factors lead to an death rate, and proposing the specific mechanism by which that happens and it's important.

That light behaves like a wave did not summarily prove there was an aether through which it propagated, and not finding it up-ended physics.
Plus, you can open source the code but leave the textures, models, maps, whatever else as proprietary. iD software already did this with the source code of Doom, you can read it but unless you want to reskin the whole game, it's entirely unplayable.
There isn't an IPv4 shortage. There is just hoarding and mismanagement. RIPE and ARIN need to charge monthly fees to IPv4 address hoarders.
There's an inherent account age requirement on HN though, tied to the number of upvotes an account has
Construction materials supplier here. That is not necessarily true. There are two major drivers for open office plans:

1) The notion in architecture that open plans, by literally removing barriers, figuratively remove them and create a more open and inclusive office environment. This is a popular belief in the biggest architectural firms in the world, even though the principals at those firms all have luxurious private offices.

2) Recently some offices have flipped to open plans to accommodate hybrid working. E.g. allowing employees to WFH 2-3 days / week but then expecting them to hot-desk when they come in. This reduces the total footprint required, which can reduce costs...except many firms are using the saved funds to enhance the office in other ways (more natural light, better furniture, plants and fountains, catering, etc.) in order to attract talent.

Gensler has published a lot of this research and positioning publicly in reports and in their podcasts.
I'm not disputing that. (also, prions aren't really human-to-human contagious, unless you're into eating your friends' brains or swapping syringes)
I am so triggered by this.

The author is a prime example of a person with one nuero-type expecting every other person they work with to operate the same way as them. It is anti-empathetic to folks with a neurodiverse background. The mentality is hostile to everyone that you work with.

Let me address each point.

1. Some folks do well in an environment that is just to "catch up" or "hangout". This is called an unstructured meeting and it has value. It is impossible to ascertain if an unstructured meeting is going to have value to you or anyone else. Sometimes it's just going to be about getting people in the same room to chat (or even just to hang out and have fun -- and yes, fun and camaraderie is important and has value). You should not expect every meeting to be structured.

2. Asyncronous communication... or even just communication with other members on your team is important. Someone dropping into your DMs and asking you a question is... normal. How else are people supposed to communicate with you? Are you expecting them to call you? Are you going to be upset if they email you? Come on! -- You aren't going to be expected to respond immediately, and if you are just tell the person you are busy and will get back to them later.

3. Some people... a lot of people actually... are perfectly fine with dropping a conversation when it has finished. You don't have to cap every conversation with "goodbye". Again, remote communication is asynchronous by default. People have other things going on. They could be driving. They could be dealing with their kids. They could have been called by a higher-up to an inpromptu meeting. They might even... GASP... think differently than you do, or process information and communication differently than you do. Can you believe it? Some people are different!!!

4. There are a great many types of people out there who are terrible at "deep work" (i.e. programming / design / whatever), but excellent at organizing people and tracking tasks / removing blockers, and helping people "get shit done". These people are valuable. If you don't recognize this value... I really question your engineering prowess overall.

5. Some people are introverts, have social anxiety, are autistic, or otherwise self-conscious. As someone who is openly autistic the author's mentality here is... frankly disgusting and offensive to me. Not everything is about you, brah. Have you ever considered how the person not turning on their camera is feeling? Did it ever cross your mind that maybe that has a debilitating effect on them -- or otherwise harms or hinders them?

People are different. Fucking deal with it.

This author...Daniel Yefet... sounds like a total ass to work with. Daniel, it's not others that need to grow and change. It's you. You are the problem.
Let me guess, high bloodpressure due to obesity?
Avi Loeb’s Galileo Project Will Search for Evidence of Alien Visitation
They are. The cheapest server plans and ipv4 floating IPs are affected by this change. The FAQ only covers the root servers part though.
For sure. An uncle of mine used to own property on Mackinac Island [1] that he wanted to build a home on. After years of trying to find a way to manage it, he gave up and sold: it was just too far beyond his budget (he is fairly wealthy).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island
Sure will definitely take a look. Thanks!
Work from Anywhere Gives Silicon Valley an Edge in Talent War
feel free to experiment with terrorism establishing credibility using a different psychological model. I, personally, won't.
I was hoping this article would address time management or home office organization or something else that would actually help me be a more effective worker. Instead it's just complaining about annoying coworkers. Being annoyed by your fellows is part of the human experience. Particularly his point about small talk "always being lower priority than work" struck me as misguided - forming bonds with your coworkers through normal conversations is good for your team and good for your own mental health as well.
It is true that hiding it for many years would make it less attractive for terrorists, however one could imagine another strategy where you wait 12 months before anonymously telling the authorities you did it, without telling them how. (While threatening to do it again)

Having some unknown person(s) spreading Prion diseases around that cannot be detected until way after it happens would be close to the perfect terrorist attack imo. You could probably keep the attack going for at least a year before authorities get their act together, all the while people would be scared shitless as it would be very hard to know how the original group got infected a year earlier if you choose the right product to contaminate. (Not even mentioning the difficulty finding who did the contamination even if the specific product is found)
During the baby boom, the kids outnumbered the parents enough that nobody expected the kind of attention this writer is talking about. The economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon born long before the boom, wrote of his own childhood that there was no Little League then: neighborhood baseball was for the kids and they didn't really want parents look over their shoulders.

[Edit] I should add that I had attentive and affectionate parents.
That's a great sentiment until you're one of the ones that they do arrest!
Down votes create cultural echo chambers and social cooling.

What down votes should be for is rudeness or site violations...but they're effectively used to blackball people with counter opinions.

There's a social cooling that goes along with anyone who has a counter opinion to the tribes narrative but doesn't want to be digitally outcast.

And eventually those with differing opinions who do speak up accumulate enough down votes and are outcast.

And over time the echo chamber continues to grow....

Edit: god bless HN echo chamber and the down votes.
This whole class of problems, where there's no general consensus about how to achieve something, makes it incredibly difficult to train juniors who still have a one-correct-answer mindset. It makes me wonder how any of us got past it in the Java world, where there were no fewer than three commonly-accepted ways just to represent time.

Declarative languages, like SQL or (dare I say) Terraform, seem to be good teaching tools in that regard.
This is not always the case... the DoJ reminds me of a sales organization. Crimes are sales leads. Publicized leads are usually very close to being closed(solved).

That doesn't always work though - the crime may be something the public is aware of, and then the pressure to "close" the lead is even greater. There are numerous "big" crimes that the public has no awareness of though.
They’re also positing a conspiracy against them, with people making multiple alts to downvote their comments. It’s more than just fear: it’s an empirical claim.

That whatever they said was legit unpopular is vastly more likely.
Tidal turbine in Orkney starts generating power
I think they bet perfectly fine, if you ignore the silly hydrogen efforts. Toyota has never been a technological front runner. They take the Apple approach; wait for something to be truly ready for prime time, then execute it better than anyone else. EV's are still 2% of the US market. And it will be a decade more until a 60+kwH EV is being sold for <$30k total upfront price out the door, which is where they need to be for mass adoption. That gives them time to keep perfecting the solid state batteries that will be crucial to getting Toyota levels of reliability, safety, and longevity from an EV.
a lot of exploits deliberately avoid persistence as an extra layer of protection from detection. Since most folks rarely restart their phones these bugs can live on your phone until a restart. So by restarting your phone on a weekly basis you are potentially wiping out memory only infections.
282 mpg(uk), 235 mpg(us)
Me taking a shit? :)
> I'm surprised voting is as popular as it is.

Voting is power and people love one thing more than power, and that’s greater power. Imagine if there were no up or down votes, and how people might respond to having no ability to silently express their opinions.
Recently read 2 books about this: indistractable and digital minimalism

Recommend them

Main takeaways for me

- turn off all notifications

- screen time + give passcode to spouse

- set specific times and places to check things i.e I only check Facebook on my desktop , I only open Twitter on Saturday mornings
Isn't that Reddit? I'm not sure you can cut a "village" over the internet population in any way that doesn't breed harmful behavior. Reddit is on the most harmless end of those possibilities, but it causes problems there too.

Anyway, is it for irony sake that people downvoted your comment?
I have little experience with server development. Why should it ever be the case that no requests are served? Why doesn't first come, first served apply (to some degree)? Is it assumed that every request to a web server will get its own thread, or what?
From my historic experience with both, the GIMP project always seemed actively hostile to UI change suggestions, and even keeping their name is a thumb in the eye to going mainstream. Blender has been more about being a good product from the very start, I've been following it since before it was open sourced. It's current success is a path it started walking way before it had lots of devs and resources.
If the behavior changes, the requirements have changed or you previously had a bug. That's not brittle tests.
Given the kind of cocky tone elsewhere in that comment, I read it as “the biggest problem with Bubble is that if you’re an engineering manager who likes maintaining a fiefdom of 30 engineers, you won’t get to do that anymore”. No-code folks often try and make it seem like their biggest antagonists are corrupt middle managers, because they make for better rhetorical punching bags than individual contributor developers.

You’re right about the mythical man month, but I have a feeling this person is trying to grind an axe more than make a coherent point.
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I used to think that, but /. comments devolved into dumb jokes around 2003-2005. Which I think is the main reason that hn down votes jokes so aggressively. I do like the meta-moderator system. however, without holding back mod points to begin with there is no incentive to do it.
Don't know how to message users on hackernews, so posting as a reply here hope you don't mind.
Saw your comment from 5 years ago about wishing Orbiter was open source.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12943028
The author has now made it open source!
https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/orbiter-is-now-open-so...
The point of the article isn't "Toyota bet wrong on BEVs, haha they are dumb". The point is "Toyota bet wrong on BEVs, and are now lobbying the government to hinder electric vehicles instead of getting on board".
I've pre-ordered an Ioniq 5. Tesla has a real competitor in Hyundai. If you don't care about the "self-driving" thing, other companies are catching up fast.
My camera points at my bathroom door behind me. Sometimes I get out of the shower and find I need to fetch a clean towel. This is an accident waiting to happen. My camera remains taped.
Senator Toomey on Crypto [video]
How to Set Up Your Home WiFi Like a Complete Maniac
So, not willing to turn on camera = lazy worker?
The astronaut in the looking glass in the main image is clearly not the same one as shown on the mac unity window.
I don't have a real "answer", but in my experience, being able to arrive at the same solution two different ways definitely helps increase confidence.

It also helps to have somebody with domain experience who is able to validate that the results makes sense. This isn't sensible in a "software development" workflow, but for one-off data analysis and data set generation tasks it's worth doing for complicated queries.
I've noticed a difference between downvoting and non-downvoting discussions systems.

In downvoting discussions, the top post will represent the consensus of the people engaged in the discussion. Note that this isn't "the truth" or "the consensus of the community" but of the people engaged on the subject. For example, if you see an otherwise-liberal community discussing gun-rights, the gun owners within that community will flood in and are highly motivated on the subject, and so the consensus will reflect their interest in the subject.

But either way, consensus.

Without the downvotes, the top post is often misinformation or just trash. Because a small, motivated group pushes it up, and the rest of the participants can only argue against it but not drive it back down... this creates the "engagement-based content" that aggregators crave.

The problem, of course, is that bots and sockpuppets are treated the same as established community members and can skew the "consensus". Realistically, the leadership of an online community needs to be able to identify who are credible voices on a subject and give them the power to steer the conversation. Yes, it's not egalitarian, but these systems never have been.
> Just say goodbye! If you’re partial to a bit of 90s internet slang, say “gtg” or “brb” or… “asl”?

Did the author mean "afk"?