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I often claim software is a new form of literacy. And I see no-code as the equivalent of cutting up all the frames from marvel comics and tippexing out the speech bubbles, then handing them to some illiterate and saying "hey, you can write your own story now !"

It's not how we (as a society) need to handle this.

Edit: i.e. that is not empowering the illiterate.
A coherent new theory of physics and cosmology
Hello everybody!

I'm new to HN as a registered user so sorry if I do something that breaks the site's etiquette; it's not on purpose.

I tried to post a link to my textual presentation about my ideas about cosmology and physics, but the problem must have been that the YT video had maybe some copyrighted music in the background or maybe also the simple fact that it was a YouTube video caused it to be stealth banned. I'm very eager to discuss these ideas with people who have more background in the natural sciences than I do so I'll just post the textual content of that YT video here simply as a list of theses that I think together form a very coherent and plausible model of these things, and see what happens.

1) First there was a primordial state of now unknown and nonexistent finegrained matter which we can call for example Hyle for the lack of a better term.

2) From Hyle emerged the Hydrogen atoms (as in the process of emergence where the whole is nonreducible to it's parts like H2 & O != H2O).

3) The star generations produced most of the other elements of the periodic table, etc, as is generally known.

4) Atom has the attributes of mass and gravity. Photon has the attribute of mass but not the attribute of gravity. Now the birth of the black hole is explained: mass is lost by the emanation of subatomic particles while the gravity field of the star stays the same. It's all about the mass - gravity balance of the object. It could theoretically be reversed once we know this.

5) Photon can be affected by gravity and yet have no gravity influence in itself. Therefore it can for example be trapped in a black hole.

6) Gravity is faster than light. No curving gravitational geometry outside the realm of physics ad hoc hypothesis is now needed to get the GPS calculations right.

7) Neutron might be the graviton. If it is this is huge and might be the key to anti - gravity technology. Arguments (which might be little weak as solid proving goes I know) for it: a) neutron stars have very big gravitational influence b) neutron is part of the atom so it might be the thing the photon lacks.

8) What does the red shift prove other than that the light coming from far away seems to be more red? What other proofs there are for the Big Bang? Dark energy is an ad hoc argument to explain the propulsion from the initial gravitation field. My guess: it is as nonexistent as is the gravitational geometry outside of the realm of physics (Einstein's own words!), just a gimmick to save the holy cow of "Big Bang happened" like the other holy cow named "Speed of light is cap".

9) Eventually (if not interfered with...) there will be the Big Crunch. But now if my system holds this will eventually mean that the mass - gravity ratio of the universe will balance itself and therefore the Hole will cease to exist, releasing uniformly something called Hyle.

10) Repeat 1) - 9).
It did not work for me on mobile. Multiple clicks with no response, threw me back to the first page once, I gave up a few pages into it.
He tried to pitch to Sony as well
Try some of Kafka's work.
Of course there’s a difference.
It's a variation on cargo cult; you WISH you had the scaling problems that could be solved by using something a bit more performant.

But solve the problem first, and solve it fast. It's why so many startups from the 2010's on used Ruby; they were productive in it, solving a real problem, rolling out features fast.

I've worked in a few projects where they dove onto the cargo cult, of wishing they had the kind of requests and load that e.g. a microservices architecture might help with. Massively overpriced projects too, because they hired lots of consultants and self-employed people.

The one time there was a guy who rocked up in a Maserati (used, lol); he took two weeks to build a page that was just a centered bit of text and a button, and it didn't even work.
I unfollowed everyone (manually) a couple of years ago and it was a big benefit - my feed was empty and it was great. However, Facebook has changed things over the last few months, my feed is now littered with recommendations of weird groups and content that I "might like".
Consider becoming a cashier at a liquor store.
This is an interesting question, though I have no answers. I've heard of the kids don't know files and folders thing before, but didn't think about how it might impact software education.

I suspect it would impact bootcamps more than university programs. I would hope that they could learn as it is not a difficult topic.
Also, for the record, I really enjoy/get a lot of value from your writing (if I didn't I probably wouldn't have criticized this tiny part of it).
That's the compiled rust code for the example, not the size of the compiler/interpreter.
R2 is marketed as "one less than S3!"

I used the exact same tagline for a project open sourced in 2019: https://github.com/pachyderm/s2/

So there you go VCs, I can market as well as cloudflare. Money please!
> Except that FB is a monopoly platform that has become too important to ignore.

I haven't had a facebook since 2012 and there are exactly 0 things I've noticed missing out on because of it. This includes all 4 years of college and moving states multiple times during this timeframe.

LinkedIn feels far more essential to me unfortunately.
> (people frequently argue that NAT is valuable for network security - nonsense).

Most of the devices on my home network should never be routable from the Internet. Without NAT, they suddenly are, and I have to go out of my way to configure a firewall (either on the device or an intermediary appliance) just to get back to that baseline. That is more configuration to get right and is a worse experience than when they were just impossible routes under NAT. So, I get it, NAT was not "designed" with security as a primary consideration, but when thousands of Grandma's printers are suddenly pwn'd because their 2.6.x kernels wind up answering traffic from the public Internet, it's quite devilish to say "gosh, well, they should never have relied on things continuing to work the way they always have, because it was philosophically never meant to be that way."

It's quite possible I'm missing something (because I haven't bothered to learn much about v6 yet) and consumer routers are smart enough to drop unsolicited traffic to "private" addresses (however that is determined). If that's the case I cede a little.
Again, in places nobody wants to live.

A janitors closet in NYC stops being a place you want to live when you have to be locked down in it
Why do they have that right? Here's a car analogy - If I buy a Ford pick what right do they have to stop me doing donuts in it? Or maybe fitting a swimming pool in the back. Maybe I want to drive it around my ranch on fire. If an individual wants to use this software on their Facebook feed I really can't see what legal right FB have to prevent them. OTOH - something was probably "signed" in a EULA to prevent this.
Considering the rate of obesity, .02 per drink might be more common than one would think. That said, people should calculate it for themselves than use rules of thumb.

I'm not convinced of the values in that table. I think they are being very conservative. My calculations using a BAC formula are different. For example, the .02 per drink seems to work for men weighing 215lbs.
As a consultant in the business automation and data space, the promised "paradigm-shift" is sort-of accurate but a little too optimistic in what the author believes the implications are.

No-code/low-code has been a game changer in many ways for businesses. It lets people dip their toes into improving their efficiency and productivity with low-hanging automations and simple apps. These things can have huge payoffs. And if you stick within that realm, it actually is a paradigm-shift to be able to build solutions as a non-tech person.

But there's always a point where you:

1. need more complex no-code/low-code solutions to get big pay-offs
2. have a mess of so many no-code/low-code solutions that they end up causing tons of maintenance/issues and you have trouble getting all your separate solutions to play nicely together

You end up spending a lot of money to get someone who is very advanced with those no-code/low-code tools (which usually ends up with code solutions inside of those tools), or end up building completely custom solutions anyway.

Also, there are a lot of nuances in what could be considered no/low-code. This article isn't too clear on which types of applications are considered no/low-code, and throws out everything from cellular-IoT infrastructure to MES. Is something like Tableau low-code? Or are we talking more about the Zapier kind of tools? Both of those examples have giant roadblocks once you get to a certain point, where you need some type of dev/architect knowledge to really get the most use out of the tools.
Don't wait to receive an offer. Make the first step and set their expectations as soon as you have enough details. You'll also be able to quickly gauge if you're dealing with people that are building a sweat shop by their reaction.
More of a failure of the education system. It was part of our curriculum that taught us how to use a computer, what internet is, how to use office (openoffice rather), sending emails, elements of UI, ...etc. This is 1998 I'm talking about - geez that's 23 years ago. I didn't grow up with a computer and this is how I learnt how to use one. This is basic computer literacy and there's nothing wrong in teaching it. (Way more important than programming IMO)

Same with banking, composing a letter, sending money orders - you name it. We had one subject dedicated to this starting 9th grade.

These days because tech is everywhere we seem to assume that we don't have to teach it in a formal way.
Define 'Stable': A Wild Search for Tether's Billions [audio]
I've been wondering why we don't all have squid proxies setup for NPM or other centralized dependencies. When I run npm install, I'm hitting the local cache 99% of the time, so I'd imagine that it's a perfect use case and would let us all keep doing our job when this happens.

Am I missing something?
Depends on the project and effort required for each component. I’m working on a website right now that really serves as a user-friendly way to view specific data. Because the data is static, the first thing I did was upload it all to Firestore.

Usually, I’d use mock data and set up Firestore once I’ve achieved the desired level of functionality.

I used to create a Git repo as a first step, but stopped doing this because 1) I’m not worried about a hard drive failure during the initial development, 2) I want to get straight into making progress on the core idea, 3) I currently do all development on one laptop.
Universal healthcare wouldn't really create more supply. It would just redistribute the supply more evenly. There would likely be longer queues for many non-emergency treatments.
In a trip down memory lane, https://www.aol.com/ is just... a pop news site now? Per Wayback, they shifted away from portal around 2010/11.
Just makes me think of olden days intellectuals and the tiffs they would get into when each other's ideas were disrespected compared to this.
I recently learned just enough Rust to use its ndarray crate and rewrite bottleneck bits of code. I used to think the whole "write inner loops in $fastlang, use $scriptlang as glue" was something of a lame "cope" (and I say this as someone who doesn't know $fastlang), but I'm seeing upwards of 100X time performance improvements for code that can't be hammered into numpy idioms. I can provide code examples.

Edit: code example https://gist.github.com/asemic-horizon/2830ed3637cfd278e7937...
This is precisely why "we" know it and neither our parents or children do.

We were forced to do it just to make it work the way we wanted. It was necessary. Hell, even semi-regular routine of formatting [the hard-drive] and reinstalling Windows because it was getting slow; taught a lot of people the simple basics. All of that is lost today.

Factory reset -> input email & password -> sit back while everything reinstalls. What do you learn from that other then to make sure you had a backup of your data.
You were lucky if you didn't have to learn a whole 'nother language first too, just saying. :-)
Show HN: A lightweight screen recorder for customer support
I'm not exactly a huge fan of MS, but at least when MS basically got a royalty for every Dell sold, there was a reasonable certainty that a vast majority of them were going to actually use Windows. It was the only OS pre-installed, meaning that unless the person was a geek (like basically anyone who hangs around HN), they were probably going to use Windows.

If there were two operating systems installed, there's a good chance that a majority of people would still only use Windows, and Dell would be paying a license to Apple that only 10% of their customers actually used.
> They seem to invest a lot in JavaScript which is not what I’d call a performant language

A lot of them have huge amounts of code that runs in browsers, so they essentially have to invest in JS whether they like it or not.

> All that being said I’ve never heard someone say we used X language and it scaled remarkably without issues.

Sometimes you have to go by what people don't say. Humans tend to talk most about problems or surprises. The former are actionable and the latter are more interesting to talk about because of their rarity. That means when things work well as expected, you get silence.

I remember when people constantly talked about how Java was too slow. Then there was a period of time where people talked a lot about how Java was fast enough because that was an interesting change. Now people don't talk about Java performance much at all, which is a good sign (but easy to overlook), that Java performance is now consistently reliably good for most users.
Bad news for PC gamers
> Similarly, if you were an advertising exec at pfizer, would you choose to pay millions of dollars to advertise your meds to a continuously shrinking audience on something like CNN, or would you spend significantly less directly targeting "oldsters who need meds" on FB or Goog's platforms?

You’re probably already aware but this only applies in the US (and a few other small places like New Zealand).

Direct to consumer drug advertising is fraught with issues and therefore banned in most the world.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/harvard-health-ad-watch-...
Hi OP here!

A few months ago I bought a basic screen recording website off microacquire. As I tried to grow the website, I noticed that more and more people were using it for customer support use cases eg recording bugs, demo-ing steps etc.

Since then I've pivoted it into a full-fledged customer support tool. We've had a lot of users interested in the enterprise aspects - embedding a screen recording on their website, white-labelling, CNAME support, and gathering feedback via a simple widget.

I'd love to hear what y'all think!
This is audio from a Bloomberg article[1]. I submitted the audio because the article may be paywalled for some people, while the audio seems not to be.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
NPM Service Outage
Ask HN: How do you seek information? not joking
Searched google,duckduck, frontpage

For:

are people naturally meat eaters teeth.

And

are people naturally meat eaters teeth science articles.

Got the same results from all engines. All pop articles.

PETA consistently comes out on top.

I'm dot trying to start a conversation about PETA. But about search engines and information gathering.

I know I sometimes troll myself but this is a legit question. I am honestly frustrated.

Please help
I expected they would've been amazed at CD-Rs. Even back when I was in college the practice was to pass a USB stick around the class with notes, PDF of textbook, etc.
Anyone else disappointed not to hear more about the Sheila interaction?
Microscopic cost optimization is frequently not a problem, but it's great if you can get it for low effort with Go. It's highly contextual whether it'll matter that much in both the short and long-term. You're situation as a solo dev is special and can't be easily extrapolated to efforts involving many people. The things that make solo dev great are hinderances to collaborative work efforts (by design in many cases.)

As a frame of reference, ASP.NET services in C# can exceed the throughput and performance of an equivalent Django app, but Django (and Python) may be the best choice for some people. What's not considered here is the experience of the developer and whether they can avail of the platform capabilities fast. Do they need to rewrite libraries? How much work is needed to be as proficient as you are with Go? The language and platform choice is rarely a differentiator here.

Over the long-term you can see some patterns. Python companies are able to scale up their teams more quickly and cheaply in some markets than Go ones. You choose to optimize hosting cost while they optimize other costs. They may need to avail of libs like Pandas and these are readily available. I don't know what the situation is with Go today, but similar libs weren't available originally and the Go community didn't have a big foothold in data science.
"Facebook will block this feature for you while you use it, depending on how much entities you try to unfollow. It automatically unblocks in a couple of hours and you will be able to continue."

Never that simple is it...
> have talked with literally 1000s of cannabis licensees

Did you get their contact info?

If you kept them informed of all options in the space I'm sure they wouldn't unsubscribe from your thrice-yearly newsletter.

If you're not working to build the (online) community you want to see, it won't magically appear by itself. I see you've published roughly 1 blog post a month since May and that's good, but nobody is going to read it unless you're emailing it to them. Obviously you do have to provide real value vs. being considered spam though... the first email should be knock-your-socks-off amazing (again emphasizing: give them value for themselves, not as much pleading your own cause), get several people to review it first. You probably need to get testimonials involved on the website, are you saving businesses money?

Edit: You didn't share your most recent blog post on Twitter (500+ followers, nice!), and the most recent post needs more editing ("The permitted values are" ... followed by nothing.) Also, you might want to target a slightly wider audience... I don't know enough to know whether barely interested potential community members on the east coast would know "LCB CCRS" without acronym expansion.

It looks like you could really lean into your Twitter. The other social media accounts give the appearance of neglect... if you don't have time, maybe use the others to point to the primary tool? Social media marketing should be scheduled (I guess until there's so much that you wind up trying to appear random), and if it's not going to be scheduled that's probably worth being up front about too.

Final Edit, I Promise: I was going to email you a heads-up in case you've moved on from this discussion, but decided it wasn't worth it... so there's an example of usefulness vs. spam vs. content going nowhere. Hope this is helpful if you ever see it.
This is an excellent article, which does a good job of detailing several factors involved here. But while it does suggest several ways to reduce the cost of training models, I'm left with a huge questions at the end.

How much does it ultimately cost to train a model at this size, and is it feasible to do without VS funding (and cloud credits)?
MMT does not say that you can't cause inflation by increasing money supply.

It does say that the government that controls the currency (monetary sovereignty) never has to default.

I think people may be mixing up the increasing popularity of MMT with the idea that we have been "pumping money into the economy" for years without the official measures of inflation ticking up much, at least until very recently.

I don't think the average person buying cars, trying to rent/buy housing, or send their kids to college would agree with the official narrative of low inflation however.
> Anyway, I can't speak for everyone, but as a remote approved FB employee, I've received no such request to RTO.

Then I'm more inclined to believe you. (Hence my initial wording "this policy may have changed.")
Upvoting because thoughtful uses of shape-memory alloys don't get enough love.
How about: folks who are drunk, just think they have a high tolerance and are functional.
Fact is the argument works both ways. A person can't stay logically consistent while saying "it's a private company they can do what they want" in the case of politics but then denouncing that same company when it takes an adverse action purely out of its own interest.

I, for one, don't hate Facebook. Facebook, Instagram, and all of it is a reflection of society. Naturally we're pretty slow to react to any problem, so it's taken this long for a larger fragment of society to accept that social media is a problem. The next step is for all of us to admit that Zuck & co. aren't the real bad guys; while they profiteer off the psychological warfare (profiteers will always exist), we spent years falling for their tactics over and over. Fool us dozens of times, shame on us.
> anything more than run WordPerfect or SimCity (and often even then)

Oh for sure, this gave me nostalgia of cracking pirated SimCity ISOs I had downloaded on Kazaa or Limewire or whatever it was that week.

Cracking ISOs with key breakers, patching DLL files, etc... all taught me a lot about how programs worked at a really young age.
I checked their story[1] on the incident you mentioned, and the first paragraph is:

>Interviews and additional video footage have offered a fuller picture of what happened in this encounter, including the context that the Native American man approached the students amid broader tensions outside the Lincoln Memorial.

and then a link to an article from the very next day[2] explaining what happened in fuller detail after more videos came out.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/us/covington-catholic-hig...
[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/us/nathan-phillips-coving...
What is the relationship between these thoughts and the new recent AWS API called "AWS Cloud Control API", which uses the Cloud Formation schema registry under the hood, and that will soon be available as a new aws terraform provider: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-aws-clou...
Two bottles in an hour though? I was under the impression that the most hardcore alcoholics consumed that much in a day.