skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it would be possible to have a no-code tool that

1) produces a just wildly, horribly inefficient solution, just doesn’t care about optimization or big-O at all.

2) guides the user through producing some reasonably sane design docs that describe what they are trying to accomplish

Then you’d pass those docs and the toy implementation along to a programmer
We don't allow bots on HN and ban such accounts.
Metaphor is cool, but it's a different product. They use language models to generate links, while we use them to generate answers.
> The result was that Heisenberg received the lowest of three passing grades in physics and the same overall grade (cum laude) for his doctorate

I don't think that's accurate - there are usually 4 passing grades for dissertations in Germany, the lowest passing grade being "rite". It would be surprising if "cum laude", which literally means "with praise", was the lowest passing grade at Heisenberg's university (edit: Wikipedia confirms 4 passing grades for Heisenberg's dissertation: "summa cum laude", "magna cum laude", "cum laude", and "passed" [0]).

The standard grades for dissertations in Germany are "summa cum laude" (=very good with distinction), "magna cum laude" (=very good), "cum laude" (=good), "rite" (=sufficient), and "insuffizienter" (=failed). Some faculties have "satis bene" as an additional grade between "cum laude" and "rite".

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#cite_note-2
i mean we've heard this for years, diet + exercise = healthy, i dunno how much more they need to 'beat the drum' on this really
Color me surprised it was all bluster.

Clear as day that Trump pretty much stopped being able to sustain liberal outrage and now the Borg has decided Musk is a Republican (he's certainly not) in order to continue the perpetual heroin drip of anger and hatred they live off of.
My current terminals, iTerm2, xfce4-terminal, and Alacritty, don’t have telemetry. What am I missing out on here?
Tech companies fueled the rise of Homeland Security and domestic surveillance
Yes and no. It’s important to reserve a tiny handhold on emotional takes because sometimes it’s raw and emotional for underhanded reasons. I think the comment you’re replying to, wherein active spin was attempted to refocus on the emotional part over the legal part, suggests it’s a nonzero possibility. Some parts of the essay raised the idea for me and I had to work hard to dismiss them, to pay him the ultimate respect of reading it all (every word).

It comes across like the author is aware the feelings argument is stronger than the legal one. He likes Reddit’s take because the feelings were engaged. He quite clearly hates this forum’s because it asks questions of the situation he’d prefer to leave alone. Again, that’s how it comes across.

If you don’t keep such a handhold you’re more easily manipulated, and in this cold light of day and particularly that comment, I can’t argue against that idea as much as I would have last night. I do agree with you that we could all do with a bit more empathy, but keep your wits, all I’m saying.
>> You simply channel inputs to the LLM, collect API calls from the LLM, and execute the API calls it makes.

What could possibly go wrong?

I know! Hook it up to manage people's retirement savings / 401(k) for pennies on the dollar compared to traditional portfolio managers.
IMO chasing multiple compilers is a bad idea for almost any young language. It more than doubles the amount of time it takes to improve anything and while there are benefits, they are fairly minor. You essentially are asking a language to not fix anything in the compiler for a year for the advantage of making it harder to fix things in the future.
Ask HN: How can I rediscover my passion about computers?
I remember when first trying to learn a programming language, it was both fascinating and magical. A new world of possibilities was opening before me.

The same when I learned about the internet.

Now, I'm looking at things like Asahi Linux or the people building operating systems and compilers, and I do find them fascinating, and I'm always thinking about starting to hack on something new so that I can create something and learn and create a bit of magic myself, but I never sit down to do it.

Is anyone else feeling like this? Like you _want_ to do something with the things you already know, you want to learn, you want to demystify how things work under the hood by building something for the fun of it, but never start?

Any ways to overcome this lack of motivation and drive?
Well they are both based on the same underlying codebase in Blink.
This is one of those cases where “put your (play) money where your mouth is” / “skin in the game” really shines.

Anyone who wants to prognosticate on this subject should record their prediction on Metaculus or similar, and link to it. Anyone not going on record thusly should shut up.
wordpress has modeled this for ahhh almost 2 decades? infer what you will from that analogy ;)
Right, so that is not a ‘work for hire’ agreement. It is an agreement that explicitly ensures they are aware they are not getting your code on a work for hire basis.
Nope, project was already rolling full steam ahead before I joined.
Maybe you didn't intend to imply this, but I don't think it's primarily a lack of emotional intelligence on HN, but more so that logic perspectives is what people expect/want from this particular community.

Seems reasonable to me that there would be times/places where the balance between emotional and logic leans one way or the other. I've certainly seen places where things leaned greatly towards emotional to large positive effect, I think HN is a logical counter-part to that.
I see the appeal of low/no code, but have yet to find a platform that I think does it well. The sell is that "business users" can write their own apps/sites/etc. That ends up not materializing - business users don't want to or can't. So they get a dev to use the tool. So now, a dev is stuck using a tool that feels like death by a thousand clicks and locks the org into a subscription and ecosystem.

I do feel like there is a solution here. On the dev side, what should be simple business apps written in code are too complex, and have too much cruft. Upgrading frameworks is a hassle. It should be easier.

I feel like a popular really well done open source AI code generation tool could solve this and is waiting to be written.
If you guys want to launch a consumer business, you need a domain that can be said across the dinner and remembered and typed correctly by the person on the other side. Any other domain means you depend on your future users finding you through Google, your main competitor. Find a better domain if you want to grow.
Pretty sure the electric car company founder understands that.
> VILPA refers to brief and sporadic (for example, up to 1 or up to 2 min long) bouts of vigorous-intensity physical activity done as part of daily living, such as bursts of very fast walking while commuting to work or moving from place to place, or stair climbing.

Seems like a really low bar for someone without disabilities. Doesn't this association read too much into it?

I mean if someone is so physically disconditioned that this level of activity is not the case (excluding disability) then yeah that kind of sedentarism seems like a recipe for CVD.
So happy to hear that you've been using Hello already. We've been picking up the pace of improving our models.
Thanks valleyer. I edited the comment for clarity. The engineering involved is interesting. The politics and cost are just noise, but worth referencing because it became a clickbait story at the national level. It illustrates the complications for balancing good engineering with public perception and competing interests in the US.
Seeing as how it runs on a pregnancy test [0], I believe this is that list:

* ...

[0]: https://twitter.com/foone/status/1302820468819288066 (This original was well below the fold on Google, shame on them.)
I had to look at your comment history to see if you always comment in parentheses.
Broadband Woes as BBC Plan to Switch Off Terrestrial UK TV by 2030
I began implementing a PAM module for MIDI, but that was years ago and the repo got garbage collected.

The idea was that your password (or second factor) would be a tune, played in just the right way, with the right emphasis and velocity and even mistakes.

Bonus points, train an ML to detect nuances that define an individual's performance, as accurate as any retinal scan
The US' 2k-year-old mystery mounds
The refugee in the story you cited could have achieved the same with a Submariner tucked under his sleeve. Or a couple gold coins. That's one step from money laundering. At least the Rolex has buyers who will provide liquid demand based on its use as an accessory. Gold is functional in industrial applications. The demand side of cryptocurrency is pure speculation.
Map Will Show You How Screwed You Are If We're Hit by an Asteroid
You're completely right. We have a much better one that we'll be switching to soon.
A post that shows the limits of reasoning by analogy, but thought-provoking all the same.
> Takeaways

Missed opportunity to call this section Uber Eats.
Would you want to drive a car where some ChatGPT put together the software for your engine, for your breaks, for the steering wheel etc.? There are chips out there printed on flexible plastics and they get smaller in fast steps, which makes it easy to put them almost everywhere. What kind of software would you like to see running on these? What software do you expect to run in all kinds of infrastructure around us?
Enter team C, the US government.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/senate-judiciary-commi...
> Can't speak for OP particularly, but many newer houses in the US have the toilet in its own small room separate from the rest of the bathroom where the sinks, shower, and soaker tub are.

I hate this type of setup, because it means I have to walk to another room before I can properly wash. Then again, I believe many people only use toilet paper in the US, so they are probably used to it..
ELI5: low-code/no-code is nothing new, it was with us for longer than you can imagine, so why do we expect that nowadays it's gotten so much better that it can replace normal programming?

For me it sounds like another Web3AIBlockchainVRMeta fad, like those trends in history: romanticism, baroque, enlightenment, etc.
What I love about Hacker News is that a person can be convicted of a crime, die while still convicted of that crime, but then have the conviction thrown out after they have left this mortal plane and someone will still be like "Ummm actually he was never convicted of any crimes"

I guess I'm glad that Alan Turing was never convicted of 'Gross Indecency' then! Makes the UK look a lot more progressive!
The operator space of TECO was apparently sufficiently dense that hackers of yore could ask each other "what does your name/handle do as a TECO command?"
I think that's supposed to apply to you, not your users. My understanding is that you pay if you make money using it. I can definitely see how you can easily interpret it in many other ways though.
Low code/no code == low quality / no quality code.
You produce simple hello world or CRUD type stuff (but these should be replaced by SaaS, like google sheets/google forms/airtable/etc).

Anything more complicated - you are looking at mountain of glue scripting to stich together different parts and maintaining that frankenstein of code
Since when does PHP not have $?
My take was that he was saying ignore Mastodon like you would/should ignore Twitter - that platform isn't conducive to constructive online interaction.

"When you tell me about Twitter vs. Mastodon, I hear that you got rid of the flesh-eating piranhas and replaced them with federated flesh-eating piranhas. No thanks, I’m still not swimming in that pool!"
I've added this to the text above.
I personally stopped using it since both shellcheck and jq fill their own niches way too nicely “unfortunately”…

None the less, a lovely tool and the couple of scripts I wrote are mostly still in use and well maintained for a reason ;) Clojure is just fantastic and so is the speed of the GraalVM.
Teraforming a planet is part of the skillset needed to fund (well, more like acquire) an EV company?
Raspberry Pi brags about hiring a spy, then doubles down
The Story of VaccinateCA
Hi - thanks for the comment. We are planning to first open-source our Rust UI framework, and then parts and potentially all of our client codebase. The server portion of Warp will remain closed-source for now. You can see how we’re thinking about open source here: https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/discussions/400

As a side note, we are open sourcing our extension points as we go.

The community has already been contributing new themes (https://github.com/warpdotdev/themes). And we’ve just opened a repository for the community to contribute common useful commands. See: https://github.com/warpdotdev/workflows

Hope you find this helpful!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600909379863162884.html
Given how censorship was enforced on social media, they are now normalizing the practice.
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I thought it did a good job at talking about how the Army made everything happen.
It seems it comes back every year or two, coincidentally on market downturns.
"Wearable devices can capture physical activity patterns that are not typically measured in leisure time exercise. In a study of over 25,000 nonexercisers in the UK Biobank, brief bursts of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA) were associated with a significant reduction in all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer mortality. These results suggest that small amounts of VILPA can have a substantial impact on health outcomes, and may be a suitable target for physical activity interventions in people who are unable or unwilling to exercise."

— ChatGPT Summary
I'm interested to know more about what's failing.
The article also states that almost 1/3 of the Utah-sourced crop goes to exports.

> Almost a third of it is exported, mostly to China, taking far too much of our water with it.

So almost 20% of said water usage is for exports. That is lower than the total given.
Sales and Marketing both deal with this and have for much longer than software developers.
I wonder how those applications translate into applicants?
You own the copyright to any works you create unless you have signed a document that specifically says you don't. It's not his responsibility to bring up the basic fundamentals of copyright law during a transaction, and there's nothing different and secret about them. If the messages constituted an implied contract, the only thing implied would be a license to use it in Minecraft, not a total transfer of all ownership. You may want to become familiar with said basics of copyright; Creative Commons has a good explainer https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/2...
Okay, fair enough. I thought my previous test was parallel as well, but I was mistaken.

Here's one for 64 parallel writes: https://gist.github.com/markuswustenberg/f35ab7e191137dca5f7...

$ make benchmark
go test -bench=.
goos: darwin
goarch: arm64
pkg: sqlite
BenchmarkWriteBlogPost/write_blog_post_without_WAL-8 100 16317415 ns/op
BenchmarkWriteBlogPost/write_blog_post_with_WAL-8 1196 1198679 ns/op
BenchmarkWriteBlogPost/write_blog_post_with_WAL_and_Go_mutex-8 58455 17461 ns/op
PASS
ok sqlite 4.557s

1e9/1198679 = 834 writes per second is still far from crash and burn territory when using just WAL mode.

Of course, it gets more interesting when there are also concurrent readers, as people are trying out elsewhere in the discussion. But the point still stands: it can handle way, waaaay better than "fives of authors" in a not-at-all scary way.
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TouchOSC: lets you build a custom ui to use for a phone/tablet midi interface

GlovePIE if I’m not mistaken lets you use a wiimote as a midi controller

TidalCycles/Supercollider lets you emit midi from haskell, there are also other libraries in other languages (rtmidi in c++? and plenty in python, also there’s the web midi api in browsers)

I once tried a project with a flight simulator joystick as an input, it was just ok though lol

pen2bow: use the apple pencil like a violin bow midi control

I also once saw a research project that used muscle-activity sensors applied externally to the throat to do /non/-acoustic pitch detection/midi control; it would tell which pitch you would be able to emit just by the posture of your vocal tract. In general I think myography seems like a cool bridge between the body and signals

I would really like to see something like a vr-based hand gesture based midi app: wave arms like symphony conductor, put some colorful shapes in 3d space to anchor movement/provide visual feedback, etc.
@NotNull/@Nullable is not part of the standard lib, but is a de facto standard nonetheless. I found that defaulting to everything non-nullable (there is a setting in these tools which should be the default, implicit nullable or non-nullable) and providing the few places where you want to use null explicitly gives you effectively the same null safety as Kotlin (note that the standard lib is annotated by these tools)
I'm using the term "the US right" here in the fashion of political scientists, especially non-American ones. I understand that the US right, which has for decades spent a lot of time pursuing orthodoxy (see, e.g., "RINO", or the the way there is no longer a pro-choice wing of the Republican Party), has a lot of internecine fighting over who is truly within the tribal boundaries. But I think none of that is relevant to my point. Whether you think somebody is "the right" or not doesn't map well onto who might be able to squash a prosecution for political reasons. Being a cabinet member is a more useful proxy.
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> The problem with these generative systems is that they're synthesizing existing code and their output isnt therefore always valid

Actual programmers have this problem too, though they often use non-AI tooling to catch and prompt them to correct invalid code.

No reason a system using an LLM for code generation couldn't do that, too.

Anticipating the “but even if it is valid it won’t always be correct” followup: well, valid human-written code also often has bugs.
Overall I had very mixed experience with chats for support, because it is impossible to get past the bot. Or if, it takes age for a human to show up, then they disconnect if i don't respond immediately.

But my bank, which is horrible is many ways, has implemented it exactly right and the chat has been my main way of interacting with them for a year or so. It starts out with a chatbot listing common FAQ topic but also says that at any point I can just type "Asesor" (Advisor) to be connected to a human, which usually takes little less than a minute. They can then trigger authentication from within the chat so they can actually do basic things related to the products (but not things like e.g. doing transfers).
I'm actually kind of shocked at the majority reaction here. I can relate in many ways to the author and can feel his struggle through the story. I empathize even though I can see where the mistakes were made.

I figure we just have a lot of Carls in here. There's always been a very business-oriented culture here: people are looking for success in their careers and monetary success is a big part of it. Contracts and IP are big parts of the business brain and I think people just struggle to see things from a different perspective.

All I can say is I'm very appreciative for the author to share the perspective. He says it clearly, there aren't any bad guys there and I think so many people in this forum want there to be one.
Congrats on this new milestone! I had a lot of fun completing some Hacktoberfest tasks back in October for Wasp, it was a lovely experience.

What's most interesting (to me at least, as someone that loves building and learning about new languages) is that Wasp is YC funded. Probably the first language project I have seen to be part of YC.
Rebuilding someone’s personal site to be “prettier” to your own eyes, then widely publicized that is just rude.

If you want to do an unauthorized redesign pick a large unloved commercial app. That shows off your skills without coming off as snide bullying of a single persons design.
Ugh. I feel like defeatism like this comment is what causes the paralysis against fixing all of our medical cost issues.

> Do we really expect that patient to accurately compare all the medical/diagnostic codes between providers

Forest for the trees. The end user doesn't need to micromanage medical codes when deciding which provider to use. They need a cost "grade" for each provider (maybe based on averages or select common procedures). Apps like Google Maps would be able to help us decide the cost versus distance equation.

Price transparency bends the cost curve down. It doesn't matter whether it is wellness or Urgent Care. So long as you are conscious, you should have information+tools to help you decide where to go. Obviously if you are arguing single-payer, that would be a different situation but since most Americans don't have that, we need to address the issues that apply to us.

Facilities mark up the drugs they provide. Pharmacies have mark-up. Price transparency helps those transactions as well.

> acute illnesses and injury that you do not have time to plan for that are the killer

Perhaps, but not for everyone. Kidney dialysis is an example of a predictable, frequent, necessary for 500,000 Americans) and expensive ($3k - $15k per month) and represents about 6% of all American healthcare spending.[1] Working price transparency for a few of the large cost drivers like dialysis would increase competition on price and reduce the total paid by patients and insurers (and thus, all insured).

> even cutting the price in half or by 2/3rds would've still resulted in them going bankrupt.

Price transparency won't fix all of the price distortions. Nobody is saying it will. But it's a necessary component of bringing prices down, along with like 80 other changes.

[1] https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/brookings-schaeffer/congress-sh...
Here is a nice ad slogan:

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Super important warning though: make sure that you still work on developing some friendships in your city outside of the office.

I've kinda fell into that trap myself during the pandemic. Both my team and our customers are really cool, and I spend a lot of time on calls, so I didn't feel any need to meet people outside of work.

But then I took some time off and realized I barely have any friends in my city. I fixed it since then and met some great people, but at the time it wasn't a pleasant experience.
Seems like the more relevant paragraph from the Acosta article is this one:

> Acosta has variously stated that he was not directly involved in the unusual agreement, that prosecutors determined it to be the best available solution, and that he "was unduly pressured by Epstein's heavy-hitting lawyers." He also has argued the prosecution team believed conviction by trial in federal court was unlikely, and an agreement would therefore be the best way to put an end to Epstein's exploitation of underage girls.

Any conversation with Trump's presidential transition team happened 8 years after the plea agreement. Maybe Acosta is just trying to make himself look better. I wouldn't read too much into that.
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