skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I think low code and AI have an incredible productive future. ChatGPT can create simple python programs right now. Imagine a few years from now, where it can output a low code program; that will be game changing since there won't be a need to have a software engineer to deal with the code. It's coming and it's coming fast.

> Everyone is talking about chatgpt and code generation this week. I think the code generated with chatgpt might be 90% accurate but how confident would you be to deploy that in production.

I haven't been paying close attention, but all the code I've seen it generate is also very simple -- like the kind of stuff someone could write after taking an intro programming class, prompted by a pretty detailed specification.

Modern-day software engineers basically write detailed specifications, they don't translate specifications into "code." Whether you're writing "AI prompts" or Python, it'll still be software engineering. Though my gut feel is software engineering by prompts will feel like typing with a wet noodle to hit the keys.
Wow. That should have become a household design by now.
> seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.

This does not in any way make me want to switch back from GrapheneOS.
> Do you want every language to just be slightly different Rust?

Kinda.

The trap with putting out 'crap' and fixing it later is that language designers will inevitably try to preserve backward compatibility, meaning the crap has to stay in forever.

Putting null and null-safety into a new language is like putting venereal disease and condoms into a new language. People will spill paragraphs on whether or not condoms are worth it, and whether VD is a problem if you have a sufficiently advanced IDE. But why put the VD into the language in the first place?
You don't pay a great team of engineers for a solution today. You pay them for the agility it gives you tomorrow.

Too often I've seen companies offshore a project only to require a full rewrite in 6 months because "that wasnt in the spec" during the first version.

Well written software expands your options as it grows, not shrinks them.
We started offering live chat on our marketing website about 10 years ago at my previous business. It was staffed by the same humans that worked in sales and support. Customers and prospects loved it. Highly recommended.
Did some research into this and it looks like ROCM is much easier to set up now as you mention. I remember in the past it required a lot of changes to the stock system to get working, but I haven't touched ROCM in a long time.
Sorry, I'm not trying to say that google isn't currently heavily using dart. Rather, that between Dart's initial release (released in 2013) and the release of flutter (released 2017) Dart was practically dead.

That's the period that left a bad taste in my mouth. IDK who chose to use Dart for flutter, but by doing so they revived a basically dead language.
FacilMap: Versatile OpenStreetMap Front End
My kid bought a Lego set a few weeks ago. Ordered it on Amazon. So naturally, it arrived 2 days later. They were DYING with excitement and couldn't believe they had to wait so long!

It reminded me of when I was a kid. I'd subscribe to the Lego magazine. And save my pennies until I could order something. I remember one time I ordered something that took so long that I was completely surprised when it finally came. I had completely forgotten I had even ordered it.
> No, and I feel like he made it extremely clear that this story is not really about money and his feelings are not driven by a lack of royalties.

If it wasn't about money, than what was it about? "Fairness"? So money?
there are different charges for intentional vs non-intentional crime, with usually more lenient sentencing for non-intentional crime, so the distinction does matter
This seems to implement the same JSON RPC interface as Geth, so it should be a drop in replacement RPC. I wonder how you are thinking about potential customers here?

I wonder further if there is an intermediate solution in this space where chainstate was denormalized into sqlite. How much of the read-only JSON RPC could be implemented with a sqlite over http approach?

Would also be curious to read more about the technical details here. What the application architecture is, for example.
> Sounds to me like the common knowledge is that systemd is fine.

By the same logic "billions served" proves that going to MacDonalds is fine dining according to the "common knowledge".

> There's nothing in your reply that says otherwise.

I was not aiming to educate you, but to point out your error.
Now rewrite the content as well to something good!

(/s, I now I will be crucified for this here :D )
Is it safe to openly oppose Zelenski's government at the moment while being in Ukraine?
Having worked in the DNA analysis space and admittedly haven't read the article... my first thought was that Codon was some python library for DNA stuffs that gets compiled via LLVM for performance.
I agree that the lack of a microSD slot is annoying, though not entirely unreasonable with the whole value proposition of a "ruggedized" phone.

The FM radio is entirely baked-in to the MediaTek MT6789 SoC, and uses anything connected to the 3.5mm jack as the antenna for better reception. Assuming this thing is intended for use at jobsites, it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that having a functional FM radio and 3.5mm jack would be desired.
In general, I think Tesla FSD buyers have a strong argument for a refund in that they never got what they purchased. But a refund is different from fraud.

w.r.t. the video though, I think it pretty clearly shows that the car can drive itself. What do you see in that video?

Do you not think a Tesla of today couldn't be used to produce a similar video to that one 5 years ago? It's definitely pesky legal reasons as to why Tesla won't let you do more with self driving. You don't need an AI driver to T-bone another car. It's definitely a column A&B type situation. If some state passed a law giving manufactors immunity in the event of a collision involving self driving I 100% think Tesla would OTA update cars in that state.
Yeah, this has long been my response to the stupid seat-up/seat-down controversy. Fine, lid's going down too. That way stuff can't get knocked or dropped in, and it reduces flush-spray, so it's better anyway.
`xsel --clipboard` has identical behaviour if you are on Linux. But I guess the wrapper is still nice to abstract across OSes.
There’s lots of this in the assistive technology community. This is a very representative project: https://www.tpgi.com/midi-kit-as-accessibility-tools-music-t...
For anyone checking back here: Someone suggested I start a Discord server.
Feel free to join:
https://discord.gg/DXr2eWPk
This is your only comment after 4 months. What is amazing about it?
American corruption aside, why does everyone expect the US to lead the prosecution of SBF? FTX was an international exchange. He could and should face criminal charges in dozens of countries.
Police depts have a plenty of departments that aren't public facing. I imagine you can spend 15 years in building surveillance devices and not suffer the mental breaking point of a beat cop or CSAM investigator.

If you can turn a side hobby into a second career, why not go for it?

The RPi's social media poster definitely needs retraining. There is no need to be this passive aggressive on a commercial account.
The legal definition of fraud requires intent
OK, I checked and it's indeed still not TLS.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/r...

I think the main question would be: are there cryptographic attacks that a rendezvous server could do that wouldn't work against TLS?
F-Droid is a free software catalogue.
As I was reading, I realized this will make e-sports more interesting from an academic standpoint (I know, way to party poop). But with the growth of e-sports, we're even seeing universities create e-sports teams, we may see niche security research on this type of anomaly detection. There's neural network powered aimbots, hardware manipulation, probably more (considering a certain chess incident). Would techniques used for credit card fraud / network anomaly detection work in these environments?
Isn't that what Shkreli tried in his defense, that none of his investors actually lost money? It didn't help him either
Because he explicitly says so and it never was his intention. If you're trying to say that he agreed to it never understanding what he's agreeing to - then that would probably be a non-binding agreement in any legal proceedings.
Piracy has been used as a form of blockade.
What are examples of 'low-code'/'no-code' approaches/products used by PMs?
It's funny what different people find interesting in Alpine. I started using it expressly because it uses musl. Void is a distro with similar principles that offers a glibc version, so I use that when I need GNU.
> To be fair, when you learn that South Korea has prosecuted and convicted most of it's ex-presidents (also one assassination and one suicide)... I'm not sure it makes South Korea look uncorrupt.

Or, alternatively, they realize it's impossible to run a country and not be corrupt. Then, all "presidents" are actually defacto dictators. Not too far off the reality of the matter...perhaps the US should get on this train.
Trust in Transparency: Private Compute Core
Episodic (vs serial) television has its own problems. It can be done well, but the path of least resistance is to make episodes low-stakes, formulaic, and mindless. Law & Order, The X-Files, The Simpsons et al have vague arcs but are approachable by design, which I see as "convenient but less satisfying".
Google Zanzibar Through Our Eyes
Yyyyep. That's a big part of the migration I've been working on. However, it's a non-monetized side project that I inherited with a loooot of legacy code, so it's not exactly going to be speedy.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blame/e8dc52766e1fdb4f8c0...

Yeah, looks like logging was added 1.5 years ago so hard to take his perspective seriously.
I think you may have missed that they do indeed let you sort of self host, in that you can run it on your own AWS resources. They just need access to manage it for you. Which I'd think would cover most orgs requirements out there that would actually use gitpod, but I could be wrong.

I think in this particular case it's maybe not quite as easy as just shipping a container or whatever, because a huge amount of the value and effort is actually the orchestration of VMs/containers/however they do it under the hood. Again, I might just not know enough here, but it seems more like they've constrained their self hosted option a bit to keep it manageable rather than getting rid of it in practice. It also seems like you could just use the agpl licensed open source code if you want?

Finally, it seems unfair to characterize them as having a weak engineering culture when they've managed to create something rather impressive with, I think(?), quite a small team.
Or, if you will, 'barracks'.
> If the structure relies on safety factors there’s a problem.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have actual (large) limits on what a structure can handle? Otherwise, everything will cost X times more time/money to build.
In France there is preventive prison - When the guy obviously did something and it will be offset on the final prison time.

Is there anything similar in USA? Only for violent crime maybe?
Hey HN! I'm one of folks that helped launch this project.

You can go directly to the annotated paper here[0].
It's got all kinds of goodies like the ability to direct link from anywhere and generate OpenGraph previews (e.g. [1]).

Coolest of all, it's entirely open source[2] built on NextJS.

[0]: https://zanzibar.tech

[1]: https://zanzibar.tech/2R50fs-R_n:1i:3u

[2]: https://github.com/authzed/zanzibar-annotated
Bingo.

They're not trying to understand the case or offer an opinion about it. The term "virtue signalling" refers to a similar category of speech, ie., signalling (vs communicating).

You can distinguish communication from signalling by the introduction of a hypothetical premise: suppose "The Issue" (eg., SBT) was discovered not to relate to "Identity" (eg., Left/Right, etc.), then would you/the-speaker still care?

If not, then what you're actually concerned about is the impact of this issue on your ingroup/outgroup game, not the issue itself.

Here, most either want to distance their identity from SBT, or associate it with their enemies.
I guess there are two possible ways you could pronounce Bankman-Fried, each of which suggest very different outcomes.
But the old ones aren’t superseded the same way Date is, though. You are perfectly fine using them and in fact will perform similarly well due to Loom (which has actually reimplemented them on top of async APIs)
Still better than getting the other one "FPO" (Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva) - a gene defect turns muscular and connective tissue into bone cells when there is damage to them.

No cure - you literarily get imprisoned in your muscle turns into fixed rigid bone.
I would love to hear about any actual crimes he committed before wishing he goes to jail. It feels like the mob has already decided he's guilty.
Not to mention actual murderers like Eddie Gallagher.
Perhaps Mendix, Bubble, AppSheet, and QuickBase fit the bill.
>SBF has few friends and doesn't have any money

I think that the skeptical people would disagree with this statement, especially since the only source to that is SBF himself.

There is about $3.3 billion in loans to himself and an entity that he controls (Paper Bird) that is still unaccounted for. 3 billion dollars can buy a lot of friends.
Of course it's the bottom of an S curve. Anybody that talks about exponential growth on the real world is talking about the bottom of an S curve.

What is your point? That the curve will inflect soon?

Also, about the "differentiating an exponential from even a low-order polynomial is not trivial at all given only a few points" part. Well, if you want to propose that the curve is a low-order superlinear polynomial, the onus is on you to propose a mechanism or show some analysis. That's not a very ordinary way for things to behave on practice.
And employees would come back and say "okay we decided there are no layoffs, for us it's better for you to pay us money till company is burned down"
One Thing: Becoming a lifelong learner
The Federal Reserve Is Deflating Financial Bubbles, Without a Crash
Hah yeah I live in a century home I know that feel. Double brick walls are lovely but there are definite downsides to living in that old a building. It's just that there's the obvious question "why don't we build new Old Buildings"? Some of it is obviously labour - nobody wants to pay a bricklayer in this day and age.

I was mostly confused because I live in the greater Toronto/Hamilton area, which rapidly joined Vancouver and SF in insane price inflation, and so we're talking million dollar homes made of cheap materials.
That's true, but if you don't pay in advance for well-written software, you are not going to get it later.
Fiddler Dennis Stroughmatt saves a French dialect – and culture
It's infrastructure for scammers.
Xiaomi’s humanoid drummer beats expectations?
The text isn't even _good_. "and the universe said i love you because you are love". That's expert level cliche.
Hey, link for the curious: https://electric-sql.com

Hybrid serverless <> local-first is the future. Neon in the client would be so cool.
The JVM has a ton of different things going on, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.

For one, the JVM isn't sandboxed by default. WASM is. That adds additional overhead.

Another consideration is that the JVM uses garbage collection. This doesn't just apply to the code itself, it includes things like the hot code cache and stuff. The JVM trades throughput for latency. WASM doesn't have a GC model.

Lastly, WASM doesn't define the runtime. There is no JIT for "WASM", that's just a bytecode spec. I'm actually not even sure if when you run it in a browser it will JIT the WASM bytecode.
The only ads I've bought things from were ones that were hyper-targeted to my demographics, like seller of sweets from my home country in my current city.
My god she sounds like a force of nature. I'd feel so small next to her.
Probably started in saloons so that the local sheriff could walk through and check for any fugitives by looking at their cowboy boots.
Perseverance does not use solar power. Instead it has a generator using the slow decay of radioactive material. The solar panel problem was more with earlier rovers
Commercial toilets are amazing in Japan, they usually do have lids.

"In Japan, these high-tech toilets are everywhere: hotels, restaurants, bus stations, rest stops and around 80% of homes."

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/02/25/808791622/why-...

The quote is somewhat exaggerated but mostly true. I've even found the public toilets to be incredibly clean. While it is possible to occasionally find older porcelain squat toilets they are becoming very rare.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+toilets+in+japan
Learn SugarCRM which is built on PHP; SugarCRM devs are rare, in high demand, and very highly paid (I just hired a full remote sr php dev at 145k with full benes/10% starting bonus).

We’re always looking btw.
Very funny to me that on the way out of the room Wittgenstein allegedly "clapped the two examiners [Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore] on the shoulder and said, 'Don't worry, I know you'll never understand it.'"
Not necessarily. They might have concluded that the potential liability from non-ownership was insignificant compared to the upside. Even when courts find against corporations who have massively screwed artists the compensation tends to be modest, and this case isn't clear cut.
Black guys have gotten more for stealing a pizza or something...
Sounds like something could be learned here from space toilets, which rely on suction (not gravity). Check out NASA's $23 million new design:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nasa-just-sent...

> "The new toilet is a compact cylinder standing about 28 inches tall and features the same type of fan system, as well as a funnel attached to a hose, as previous iterations. It also has a removable waste compactor for the astronauts to deposit their droppings in. Each time an astronaut poops, their business is sucked into a baggie. Once finished, the astronaut will seal the baggie up, and push the packaged poop down into the canister. They then install a new baggie and the process repeats until the canister is full. As the canister fills up, the bathroom stall may not always smell so fresh. The collection bin holds roughly 30 deposits. Once the bin is full, the poop is then discarded with the rest of the trash into outer space."

The idea of bags of human poop (including trillions of microbiome bacteria) floating forever in deep space orbits is rather odd. This seems like an orbital debris hazard?
I think the big thing PHP offered was people could easily deploy their project just by copying files to a directory. A link directly to the file got dynamic content. Most shared hosting also put index.php in the default indexes to check for directories. So it was simple to have clean looking links without using a rewrite module.

Deploying to the cgi-bin directory was more convoluted and error prone for end users. Even when you did it right all of your URLs had an "ugly" cgi-bin component.

The easy deployment and cheap shared hosting with their managed MySQL instances really helped boost PHP's usage.
> It's all just basic networking and basic Linux systems administration.

This might be possible in the fast and loose world of scrappy startups, but the bigger (and more lucrative) customers will have a lot more homework to do.

It requires a team to manage databases and a team (or several) to administer on-prem or cloud ops. They're going to have to learn this new thing themselves or meet with whatever team owns this third party thing. And have vendor meetings.

It's work and upkeep. At enterprise scale, this is one FTE bare minimum (probably spread out across multiple people), plus an oncall rotation (this is a pretty important business function), and definitely involves maintenance and upgrades that need to be coordinated.

Plugins, peering with external IPs, vendor security evaluation, BeyondCorp, certs provisioning, service discovery, traffic routing ...

This is all more work than "just", which is to say, I understand why the vendor is throwing up their hands and going after easier money. It's hard to support this, as each company does all of these things differently [1]. It just doesn't scale as well as SaaS does.

[1] Future business opportunity.
I believe it's mostly a matter of hygiene, less contact area for your genitals.
>The epic-length post is like those movies that would've been 10 minutes if the people just talked with each other.

I was thinking this throughout a large portion of the article. Imagine how different things would have been if Julian and Carl stopped emailing each other "rapidly" and "frantically" and picked up the phone (or setup a Zoom meeting or whatever).
HTTP does not (easily) allow for using answers of earlier queries in the transaction. E.g.

BEGIN;
INSERT INTO my_table (...) RETURNING (id);
SELECT count(\*) AS my_count FROM my_table;
INSERT INTO historical (new_id, value_derived_from_count, now());
COMMIT;

is difficult (or potentially impossible) to do transactionally using single HTTP queries. Sure, you can rewrite your queries to use single-statement queries if you're lucky, but for others that may take a lot of work. Keeping a transaction alive over WebSocket allows you to easily have transaction states that last longer than the lifetime of the first request, which allows for transactions of which state is processed in more than one place.
This doesn't help if the cause is that the EEPROM has failed or is no longer writable, a not uncommon cause of EDID errors.
Creating a web page for a new startup using AI tools
You asked it for a novel musical notation, and it gave you a riff on guitar hero and DDR and beat saber.

Not only that, but it wouldn't really work well for music played by professionals. Putting multiple parts together is reducing how easy it is to distinguish your part, compared to the norm where you JUST have your part, and adding color to the party doesn't get you back that level of being able to distinguish your part, and might even require different parts of your brain get involved.

It sounds exactly like the kind of thing a stoner comes up with and crows about before they sober up and realize "no wait, that wasn't really a good idea and I know nothing about the relevant domain". No wonder these chat bots are so popular on HN
Largest-ever analysis finds genetic links to smoking and drinking
I'd only suggest they go into programming if they enjoy programming in and of itself. If they do not enjoy programming, it will be a lifelong slog to stand out sufficiently to have a decent career versus the horde of others who do not enjoy programming and are only in the profession for the money.
Did people not send their crypto to SBF via on-chain transactions? Oh? They did?
I would love to watch the inevitable presentation we'll be seeing at some security convention within the next few years.