skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a different definition of no-code, I think. I wasn't including any tools that don't offer generic enough primitives to build an arbitrary business process.

If we're reducing no-code to "things that have been written in code first, that can then be plugged together by the no-code user", then we're talking about libraries with a visual designer on top.
Warming from 18,000 to about 10,000 years ago looks a bit more significant than the current hike lol
Some years ago someone posted here on HN an excel extension that turned excel into an actual IDE.

While it’s true for a lot of people is the only choice, there’s also an amazing amount of enterprising users that sadly don’t know any better!
In a perfect world, things would be like you describe.

Unfortunately we live in a diverse landscape of browsers and devices, many of which have not been updated in quite some time. Factors ranging from IT policy at older companies, to geographical limitations, may prevent many users from upgrading to the latest and greatest.

Some companies choose to cut their losses, and support only certain browsers - these can get away with less compilation and polyfills. Other companies may be targeting these specific segments (such as B2B), and can't get away with such a luxury.
It has such promise as the shell scripting equivalent for the cloud what shell was to PCs.

What ever happened to Yahoo Pipes?
(Author here) Zhang's experimenting a ton with 3D printers, making short films, and conducting music. The way I see it, there's much more to come from him...
Yes, that! On Monday, I will travel from Basel to Berlin. By train, that’s eight continuous hours of work or whatever. By trains it’s a bus, security controls, a somewhat stressful waiting period for birding, cramped seating, waiting for luggage, waiting for a train. The three hours saved are likely to not be all that useful, since I always have a somewhat higher stress level when I fly. So, train it is.
Browser competition is one that sparks inovation. Each vendor wants to be the leader. So they compete.

And also anyone want to browse web using any browser they have at the time, it may be outdated.
There's a computer game that deletes random files when you make a mistake or lose.

There could be a competition!
Belgium, as much a wonderland for trains as it is for beer? Brussels, which is a stop on several bullet-train-equivalent high-speed lines (Thalys, Eurostar, ICE, TGV)?

If anything, putting Brussels in the centre of the high speed rail net is a good reason for it to succeed.
> When you have a fire in your fireplace, you are releasing polluting carcinogens. When you do that, are you also doing something wrong?

Yes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51581817

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/property/1430579/wood-b...

For the reasons that you set out. It's fairly straightforward.
You know whats funny dang that you let misinformation about vaccination and other made up shit from old accounts go without even giving warnings. You know what lets do a little test and mirror this site for 4 weeks lets say every 5 minutes just to look what your agenda really is. see you in a month.
Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Google could easily outspend Facebook/Meta on metaverse efforts if they wanted to.
then the (really poor quality, high pollution, not just co2 that jets exhaust) airplane fuel should be taxed, not the flights themselves. the price will get adjusted accordingly.
It actually is, as with some time, you learn which phases take what amounts of time in a normal situation. This lets you judge pretty quickly how long loading should take - or if something goes wrong.

> Say the first 100 items on the list take 1ms except for the last item which takes 30s.

Yes, in your worst-case scenario, this would be the case - but when would that scenario occur. If each state of the progress bar represents a different operation (as in the gmail scenario), you can structure the different states in such a wy that this doesn't happen.

If different states represent different slices of same operation (e.g. copying files), it's not really likely that ine slice of the same operation always takes a disproportionate amount of time, compared to the other slices.
>make it good

Wait, when did that happen?
I absolutely pay attention to Prop 65 when I buy products and will find alternatives. I also try to find out _why_ there's a prop 65 warning and then decide how much I care (e.g. if an SSD has it, I don't care because I know I'm handling it so little and it shouldn't be offgasing anything; where as with food or things I'm always touching, then I care very much).
I used to somewhat regularly take Toronto <-> Kingston, and I don't believe I was ever delayed by freight on that leg. Maybe the CN ownership prevents them from doing other kinds of upgrades on them, but they seem to get pretty decent priority during the day, particularly compared with the Toronto -> Vancouver route where you can sit on a siding for 4 hours. And it's not even really a matter of priority; the issue is that the siding is only long enough to accommodate the passenger train— the freight train going the other way is way, way longer.

In any case, I don't think anyone has ever seriously suggested HSR for the train out west. VIA has simply embraced that it will always be slow and impractical, and they market and price it accordingly— it's supposed to be an experience, like going on a cruise, not a practical means of getting to a destination.
Welcome to monetised platforms with a “infinite” global reach.

People are going to game it. They are going to cheat.

Especially when the platform itself allows it. But hey! “Small creators!”, right?
They stopped because CO2 was even higher so the "correlation" fails.
Thanks!
I checked on Charity Nav https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/200049703
It says they spend 9 cents to raise every dollar, almost exactly your numbers. Overall, they are rated superbly.
While a compiler-free world sounds ideal, my take is there will always be different, newer, syntax developers will want to write that isn't natively supported by the browser. For example, JavaScript language proposals that are maybe in stage 1 instead of the later stages.

Overall, browsers have gotten a lot better at implementing and supporting a common set of web APIs. There's still work to be done, but we're in a far better place than we were five years ago (in my opinion).

100% agree with your sentiment though.
The approach might work but I don't think in general it actually solves the same problem. While I used integer-like things in the example, it wasn't actually important.

It could be strings (think Apple_Description and Orange_Description) or even more complex type from a library (maybe something like Apple_Throw_Plot and Orange_Throw_Plot).
How MetaWMS Mobile Barcode Scanning can help your business to grow?
It's a National Statistic (subject to auditing and rigorous oversight from the ONS) so 'lies' is way off the mark.

What it may do is not match your experiences (it varies a lot by time of day etc.), or be perfectly defined for the replacing-flights question. Both LNER (east coast) and Avanti (west coast) are fairly ordinary in long-distance terms. If the question was, say, Exeter to Newcastle by Cross Country I'd expect more extensive delays.

Anyway, you can explore the data (including breakdowns by quarter, by long distance vs commuter, and by operating company).[0]

[0]: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passeng...
Why not just symlink them? You can have best of both worlds with relatively little effort.

Make the overlay of your dreams!
I enjoy what I refer to as 'bodge DIY' especially when working in my garden, using whatever is available to complete little projects without buying new stuff (materials and also sometimes tools). I certainly get satisfaction when an idea pans out, and in that sense feel more alive than if I'd just followed some instructions using the correct stuff.

One good example occurred during our first COVID lockdown (in the UK) in 2019. DIY stores weren't open at all for a while. I'd decided to paint the roof of my summer house and while prepping it discovered that a couple of places had got completely rotten. We had rain storms forecast for a few days hence, so I had to make and attach a waterproof / windproof 'nosecone' for the roof using only the stuff available in my shed / garage. Very enjoyable, once I figured it out.
Congrats on the job, Rich! I've been using Svelte, Typescript & Babel in the past couple of months to build a set of TV apps targeting some fairly slow and ancient devices and it's been brilliant. Totally impossible to do that with React, I do know some people who tried it though.
Yup. For the most part I would like to see current pollution regulations tossed wholesale.

Instead, put a price tag on each pollutant. The charge is applied at the point in the supply chain where the pollutant is created or extracted and is rebated to anyone who destroys the pollutant (although they may be charged for other pollutants created in the process.) Think of the oft-proposed carbon tax, just much, much broader.
Ah yes, it is so nice to breathe noxious chemicals exhausted from jet engines.

And CO2 is good for plant growth, right?
What do you think about the idea of the network state? What do you think the metaverse is?

He was the reason why i took the pandemic seriously before it unfolded

One other thing that is of value to me is seeing how to be sincerely engaging without being a narcissistic asshole
What a shame. Such a niche and cute and nostalgic little project will probably be dealt a deathblow because of this. I have no doubt Panic will find a way to move forward but it's going to take time. And that kind of delay is so much more hurtful to niche projects.
Being very conscious of those downsides, I'm putting in extra effort to make sure it's fast. So far it seems to be working!

It uses less CPU than any other Electron-based video apps I've seen (and even less than a few Qt-based editors I tried) and it feels snappy.

I think tools like Figma have shown what's possible when enough attention is paid to performance early on – but yeah, it's one of my main worries with going with Electron and I'm trying to avoid the downsides as much as I'm able.

The ones I have less control over are memory usage and disk space. I'd love to get those down but it seems like that'd require digging into Chromium and ripping things out. Which, honestly, I looked at doing, but that code base is a beast and I'd rather get something into peoples' hands sooner.

On a related note: I think there's a real opportunity for an "Electron Lite", like some kind of custom Electron/Chromium build that turns off stuff you don't need. I suspect it could help disk usage + memory usage + startup time. Chromium's build system has lots of flags that make it seem like you can turn things off. But it didn't work that way when I tried, so I think it probably requires source-level changes, which then means maintaining those patches across Chromium updates etc. But really, though: I don't need WebRTC, or printing, or media codecs, or probably a zillion other things. It'd be so cool to be able to turn those things off at will.
What is your current limit of understanding it, i.e. what are you currently struggling with?
A linear motor the length of the runway? I wonder what the 0-300mph time could get down to.
This doesn’t serm right. The car manufacturers would surely just buy their way into the front of the line, if it was just this. Chips are a fraction of a car’s value and the cost of stopping car production lines must be a lot higher than buying slots in s chip production facility.
What makes you think the risk is infinitesimal?

I think the reality is we have so many terrible chemicals all around us that it feels like an over reaction, when it's actually the exact opposite -- manufacturers have made many a deal with the devil.
We are all from the past ;)
> This is unneeded complexity when instead, you can just display an animation to distract the user while the page loads.

But that's exactly it - a distraction. It doesn't give any information to the user, not even if the page is actually loading. This thing will happily keep on spinning even if there is a network outage.
It seems as though the C Programming category on Amazon really just means System Programming. I've seen several different Rust books show up high on that list in the past several months (normally by looking at the book and seeing it listed as rank #x on that list, I don't tend to look at the C language list).
Specific energy is independent of scale! It’s right in the units: energy divided by mass. Watt-hours per kg. Where are you getting the claim from that larger planes can’t technically be made electric even if smaller ones can?

And no, don’t switch topic to range. That is a known constraint. Focus on SCALE. It is scale-independent to zeroth and first order at least!

This comes up every single time, and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. :D
> Now the industry is giving cancer to poor people ... Who is right and who is wrong?

Are you suggesting that this question is somehow hard to answer? I don't think it is.
Explaining Measures of Fairness
Thank you! Jarred is doing incredible work, worth following on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/jarredsumner
Because there are old computers and phones with old browsers that are still running today and will not be upgraded. Many companies cannot risk upgrading and many consumers have not upgraded or bought a newer device.

The old browsers are on ES5.
Even "make it work" is debatable.
Denver winters are not exactly harsh, there's still plenty of sunshine in the winter months. Flora grows back in the spring, every other park survives the winter.
Sure, let’s share stories. I’ll counter with the recently opened new BER airport. The construction process disaster even got its own podcast.
I got one dose of JJ and felt bad the next day. I got covid last week and slept a full day and felt miserable the rest of the week. My folks are sick going on a week and a half now (unvaccinated). Vaccines still seem much preferable to me.
This is a great question. You should ask the principle scientist of the study, Chris Poulsen. He has a twitter account that you can reach out to him through.

This is not my field, but my guess would be that 24,000 years ago was chosen because it corresponds to the Last Glacial Maximum. The obvious reason is that it represents the lowest global temperature within a timeframe of normal human activity, and was a recent major turning point of the global climate.

Beyond that, I'm not sure why the Last Glacial Maximum was specifically chosen as the starting point but I'm sure someone more versed in climatology may be able to comment on the significance of it.
> Most of us here have forgotten that many businesses flat out ban access to programming tools for the majority of users.

That sounds... counter productive to say the least.
But we are so close - the wound has almost healed, and instead of taking off the band aid, we are putting on another band aid.
Willllllllssssssooonnnnnnnnnnnn
Do the designers you work with have experience with front-end development, or have access to your design system in their design tools?

It sounds like an issue that can be resolved with some communication
> What you guys are not doing is promoting phones that are open.

That criticism is somewhat true and the reason for it is that it is a short term solution - it still means you are accepting that corporates gets to dictate how your devices should be and what you can do with it. (For the short term, absolutely - let's support and buy their products too. For e.g. I don't own an iPhone or Android phone and instead rely on https://sailfishos.org/ ).

I am all for free market and capitalism. But you have to first understand the nature of both.

For-profit companies will always choose the most profitable path. The more profit you make, the longer you survive in the market and the better you can squeeze out your competition. Open devices mean less profit. And that is why none of the current BigTech are focusing on it. As capitalists they would be fools to sacrifice their profits for something that will make them less money. Moreover, what guarantees do you have that tomorrow that these same open devices won't end up closed? Or that one of the BigTech won't buy them and scuttle their product when they become competitive (because that's exactly what they will do)?

This is why we have consumer rights and government regulations - without them businesses would only focus on more profits and, black marketing, hoarding, and other anti-consumer and anti-competitive behaviours would still be very dominant in the market.

That is why the real long-term solution is demanding existing consumer rights / regulations be enfored and / or new ones be created as necessary.
ok, i think maybe it was open epyhs, and it looks like it's 5k euro for a 64 channel starter system. (with the intan devices being the most expensive, costing on the order of 500 to 1000 per 32 channel package)

still an order of magnitude cheaper than the systems i knew and open source to boot.
Why not firefox? have you used it in the last few years? its dramatically faster than anything else, and actually respects privacy.
> I'm experimenting with building myself an App instead

This approach has worked great for me. I have a local web app that's grown (and rewritten) over several years, which renders a folder of Markdown files into a view with navigation, interconnected links, dynamic components (like calendar or calculator), syntax highlight for code snippets..

I love being able to write notes in natural language as well as code, and extend it with any feature I want.

Edit: Also I have some shell commands that open, add, or search notes from the terminal.
I think the beautify of the mirror system is that it's direct, understandable/observable, and nice to look at by itself, even if it's not showing an image. It's elegant. If you use beam formers and DLPs, you're just making an overcomplicated DLP projector that's going to look like an overcomplicated DLP projector.
"One size fits all" fits no one.
Good news, we have solutions. You could use continuous integration and software containers like Docker.
Are you suggesting that the Earth isn't warming up or that it won't matter?
climate change is not going to make the world dystopian in 20 years. That's just fear mongering.
It's in the same class of ideas as perpetual motion machines.

In that case, it violates laws of thermodynamics, in the "no code" case, it violates Information Theory.

The entire process of coding is about translating requirements into machine executable programs. The requirements cannot be condensed below a certain threshold and that's where the 'no code' promise fails. You can move around blocks of shapes but in the end they must represent the same amount of information and it just resembles code.
Ask HN: Chrome extension that highlights new posts on HN (hckr news replacement)
I was relying on hckr news extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodleonmmfkdhfofamacceeikgecp) to get a highlight of the new posts in a thread but it has recently stopped working. I don't know why since there wasn't an update to the extension and HN doesn't seem to change.
Is there another extension that is doing this?
The Decoder podcast had on the CEO of Anker and he explained (IIRC) that chips coming off of 12" wafers are impossible to get, while chips from 7" wafers are plentiful. The problem is recertification, which for autos can be a very long process.

Why that occurred is another question.
On some level it makes sense. The problem with the command line is familiarity.

How often do you reach for iptables? If you're like myself, and most home/desktop users, then probably once in a blue moon to set it up and then you leave it alone. But a system admin? Maybe they touch it a few times a week or month. Every time I use iptables I have to relearn how Linux networking works.

Similarly, the xset/xinput thing. When I need those tools I just create a script or throw it in .bashrc. I adjust the settings once and will not touch them again for a couple years. It makes sense to have long parameters that are readable. I can look at my .bashrc and see exactly what device is getting adjusted.
Are we still taking about vue <template>? I don‘t see how that is any way close to html when it has: custom conditional and loop syntax and semantics, arbitrary js expressions and a unique concept of scope?
It's difficult to convince people to change their habits when the person delivering the message is doing the complete opposite.
I've always been impressed with Panic's level of communication. Many companies could learn a thing or two from them!
No link to article, scant on detail. With all due respect I feel I need to flag this.
Tbh I was 100% expecting it with all the shortages and chip crunched.
Hardware is hard, no way around it
If anything, I appreciate the transparency
Consider the rate.
I've been consulting in no-code platforms, in addition to writing actual code, for about 8 years. Producing something that works isn't the problem.

Maintaining it is.

The legacy codebases from this stuff are dumpster fires, because most of the tools are closed enough ecosystems that the companies supporting them have to reinvent every programming best practice from the last 30 years.

'Version control? Sure, that's a feature on our roadmap that we'll get to at some point...'

In addition to going back to the bad old days of limited-use, proprietary compiler problems. 'Oh, that bug? Yeah, just don't do that.'

Furthermore, unless you choose very carefully, you're playing right into vendor lock-in, and a lot of the people buying this stuff aren't technically proficient enough to realize that.

Once these companies hit the end of the easy growth ramp, and the industry turns into monetizing & squeezing existing customers, there's going to be migration pain on an Oracle scale.
Thanks for the clear explanation. I appreciate it.
Malbec subsea cable connects Argentina and Brazil with the rest of the world
In the US, Acela--which is as good as it gets in the US--is still a full day trip from Boston to Washington DC while a flight is less than two hours. It's not as just-roll-up-to-the-airport as it was pre-9/11 but it's still something you can do to catch a mid-morning meeting.

The train is pretty much a full day. I've done it when schedule allowed but going down the day before, working on the train, and spending the night in a hotel as opposed to doing an out and back in a day doesn't work for a lot of people.

Of course, shorter segments of the Northeast Corridor work pretty well by train. I pretty much never fly Boston to NYC unless I'm under unusual constraints.
Rome is also being rewritten into Rust.

https://rome.tools/blog/2021/09/21/rome-will-be-rewritten-in...
hmm .. well I can say that as a US citizen, I was really shocked and upset a very long time ago, to find that some non-English speaking countries were completely and utterly throwing out copyright law on English language works. I was raised in an environment where an individual author could make a living (and own a home). This seems to be less-and-less true over the decades in the West.

Meanwhile, software patents were always, from the beginning, a tool of very large corporate interests to secure revenue from "soft" implementations. No individual author of software that I encountered, gained in a meaningful way from Software Patents. At the same time, certain companies you know now as the largest in the world, aggressively added engineers and rewards for filing software patents.

Even with strongly conservative, even Libertarian views, I do not see how these representatives and their close constituents, adhere to anything but the advancement of corporate interests, especially in thriving bio-tech of today.

The circumstantial evidence here does make the outsider judgement a bit murkier, definitely.