skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with software is infinitely larger when rewriting, refactoring and maintaining ”not code”.

I’m in such a situation as we speak, and I’ve worked with low/no code workflow tools for more than a decade.

I’ve been part in building two: one BPM(N) workflow based and one graph-based data-modeling, form-building, event-sourced nightmare (like Alan or structr [1], both probably 10 years old by now, btw) - it goes for a great sales pitch but never touches on the finer points of maintaining and iterating on systems over time; a.k.a ownership!

Coding is usually not the issue, especially in business settings. Rather it’s about accumulating domain knowledge and expertise and figuring out boundaries.

It’s perhaps even more about owning the end results over time.

There’s a sort of quasi-competency built up around tools like this - you still need to understand how to build and govern systems, which is the hard part.

You end up with non-system thinkers that can build opaque stuff in a DSL. This ends badly.

Yeah, I’ve been around. Also blockchain will change everything. ;)

[0] https://alan-platform.com/

[1] https://structr.com/
Ask HN: Should we follow what impresses us?
So I've been laid off lately, and now looking for things to do. I was a senior software engineer, coming from the mobile space but lately more general...

I've been thinking about what to focus on next. (I bet some of you can relate) And I keep getting pushed to the subjects that really impress me like:

- compiler / programming languages

- AI image processing

- homomorphic encryption

But all of the above are hard. I've little experience, and it almost sounds scary to do it. Feels like the people in those fields are super smart etc.

The question is - If those things were impressive to me for a few years now, why I didn't do anything about them?

Maybe it sounds cool to be in compilers space, but maybe it's not cool, because you have to be very focused, read, and learn a lot. It's not as much hype as releasing a new side project with some cool website and earning a buck with SaaS.

I'm beginning to doubt my motivations. HN Help
> My analysis will treat this as an accident.

How does that work for a scenario where specific and intentional actions were taken by an individual or group of individuals, that may or may not have been illegal?

You can’t analyze an armed robbery prosecution as an accident without ignoring all of the most significant aspects of the case.
I’m waiting for Postman news to drop. Got into a discussion with one of their recruiters in 2021 about their absurd valuation, and boy did he try to spin a tale
It’s the promises of ‘full FSD in _ years’ that were regularly spouted out that I think breaks the whole thing. They - of course - never made any _-year goal - and - arguably - who knows if they honestly ever will.

They charged a lot of people money to participate in an experiment to see if they could ever do it with the promise that they could do it soon enough that it would sell, only to gradually let the truth set in.

Now people are rightfully pissed, that none of these promises that - to be fair, mostly Musk, made; have come to any sort of fruition, they’re tired of paying to be Guinea pigs; and they want the finished final product.
while the other big european country - uk has massive train strikes, tickets prices are already expensive.
This robot does bring back the hope the we humans are still required for things to be done right.

It's about the level I was when sat on a kit first time in my life.
What do you mean by platforms?
Tho now I think about it more, it might be damaging the site money of income (ads, etc). But it's still not a copyright violation.
Microsoft decided to make several of Bethesda's titles including Starfield and Redfall Microsoft exclusives despite assurances it had given to European antitrust authorities that it had no incentive to withhold games from rival consoles.

Sounds like the FTC does not trust Microsoft’s assurances.
Just wait when the price for "fixing" it will be having all their titles either Xbox/Windows only, or more expensive and/or with lesser features, addons, DLC, updates etc. on other platforms. Monopolies suck, always and everywhere, no matter what apparent improvement they seem to bring at first.
I'm a random developer that would be using it currently for local use.

I cannot/will not consider a solution that results in you directly managing or hosting my code/projects. I know many companies that would also take issue because of this.

Also I understand you're pivoting your customer base to enterprises and not the random hobbyist - but obviously I cannot afford enterprise pricing.

That's why many of us are sad to see this no longer be an option for us.
It looks like you are compiling and running. Try compiling to an executable and then benchmark running that
So you have a single point of failure
> “A lot of my patients would hold up their phone to the camera and be like, ‘Here’s this video that I saw on TikTok and this is why I have ADHD,’” said Dr. Sasha Hamdani. She is a psychiatrist and ADHD specialist who also is a content creator about the condition with more than 800,000 followers on TikTok.

> Hamdani estimates that about 50% of patients who inquire about the condition actually yield an ADHD diagnosis.

That would be weird. Part of a ADHD diagnosis is a in depth differential, digging deep into the patients psychological backstory. It also doesn't help that there isn't a clear agreement on the signs of the disorder, going so far that the validity of a diagnosis becomes really murky unless a patient has most obvious symptoms.

> “Logistically, it’s been a nightmare for patients and providers,” Hamdani said. ”[Stimulant medications] are so highly controlled, you can’t just transfer it [to a different pharmacy]. You have to cancel a script. You have to then go find another pharmacy that has it. By that time, it might not be filled because other people have filled it there. It’s a lot of logistical shifting and work on that front. And that’s extremely frustrating for the patient.”

Ah yes, the joys of the american health care system. Instead of fixing patients having to go through unecessary hoops in order to fill legitimate prescriptions (i.e. by tracking, I dunno, the controlled substance from when it's produced), we ought to blame patients with a diagnosis instead.
Piracy is the only option they’re giving you then.
I am actually surprised at how correlated layoffs have been across the industry. Is there a decaunicorn that went against the grain and did not accelerate hiring in the prior 2 years?
I've since lost interest in learning technical minutia for the sake of learning minutia. Instead, everything I learn is in service to reaching an end goal that is important and meaningful to me.

Thus, motivation comes down to find something meaningful/purposeful to work on, and then wanting to do the best implementation possible for that thing, whatever it happens to be.
Nature Medicine is known in the field for sometimes publishing studies with dubious statistical methods.

It's a great journal in terms of metrics, but more often than not they publish things that look interesting but not very robust.

For example, most studies that do multivariate analyses (not applicable here) do not do partial pooling. Hence, they end up with inflated effect sizes.

Nature Genetics is also letting this happen all the time, which is annoying and leads to non-reproducible findings.
Hi - I am trying out Warp at a job that defaults to the MacOS ecosystem. But as a Linux user in all other domains I’m glad to hear that you’ll be going cross platform.

I vacillated for a long, long time before registering for an account. The distrust of cloud centralization, especially among developers who would otherwise be impressed by the “built in Rust” marketing, runs deep. Even if your intentions are totally beneficial right now, companies can change hands to people who aren’t aligned with user interest. Users who are developers are frequently in privileged positions at their workplaces, and being compromised at the level of their terminal could be catastrophic.

I’m the type of person who will take on many extra hours of configuration hell because I spurned Docker Desktop for its account requirement. So why did I end up signing up for a Warp account? Because yes, you are actually innovating in an area that desperately needs modernization. You recognize the risks and importance, at least in words, and in actions such as you have taken today. But because of the account requirement, I can’t let myself become locked in to Warp, so I’m not sure how deeply I’ll be able to explore it. And if a competitor arises that can innovate without any potential for lock in, I would jump ship without hesitation.

Thank you for your efforts and please, please, please take all the feedback here with utmost seriousness.
Coding in Pascal in 2022 [video]
I was thinking the same thing.

The errors are now returned without their context, and I've written enough F# to know that computational expressions aren't magic. Forgetting an exclamation mark circumvents the entire expression. Perhaps that's changed in recent years, but it was really annoying to find your code silently breaking due to a missing symbol some ~5 years ago.

As much as people love to hate on Go, it's the only language where I can read someone else's code line by line and not simultaneously have to read partly outdated language specs, no longer applicable SO answers or generally have to play internet detective to unravel magical incantations that sometimes fail at runtime.

Yes Go is verbose, yes it lacks XYZ. Junior, mid, senior, Go newb, Go expert, the code (for the most part) looks the same. How that's a bad thing I don't get.

Boring? Incredibly. Useful? Incredibly.
I agree. Companies like MSFT are crucial so we should allow certain degree of "monopoly" (they are more like software infrastructure). But gaming companies are not essential.
Yep. It's a shame. I once (long ago :)) alerted our CTO to an ongoing attack in production after seeing some obviously attack-oriented requests coming in and hitting our gateway. It became a pretty high-visibility incident for about 20 minutes until a manager spoke up that his "pen test" was being performed. Looking into the "testing" that was occurring they were attempting to scan for decade-old PHP bugs in a set of services which were written in Java and NodeJS. Very high value stuff... Can only imagine what the invoice was for this valuable service.
MS have a VS code server which is in private preview now. it's very much like a self-hosted Codespace if you squint and write a tiny bit of automation around it.

license forbids using it to host a service for others, but you can host it for yourself.
Why share their twitter, when they are posting the papers on mastadon?
https://hachyderm.io/@ifesdjeen
Bypassing Google Search Rate Limiting and Captcha
I got nailed by this in Munich as a tourist. It was so confusing to figure out which zone (and subzone?) my ticket was actually valid for and I ended up having to pay a fine. I am reasonably well traveled and not a stranger to public transit but that one got me.
interesting how the chief people officer was able to leave twice in one day...

linked article makes it clear that it was the chief product officer

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/08/airtable-chief-revenue-off...
Off topic: I misread this as FTX Seeks to block... And was shocked but weirdly not surprised...
One ChatGPT reponse to:

> Write an explanation for the user who posted the following comment: "Wait. Isn't fastcgi essentially the same as mod_php? IPC with a long-running process rather than forking and capturing stdout? What's the newer fastcgi php method that isn't mod_php?"

is:

> FastCGI and mod_php are similar in that they both use a long-running process to handle PHP requests, rather than creating a new process for each request. However, they differ in how they are implemented and how they interact with the web server.

FastCGI is a protocol that allows a web server to communicate with external programs, such as PHP, to handle dynamic content. It is typically used with web servers such as Apache or Nginx. In the case of PHP, the web server uses FastCGI to send PHP requests to a PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) process, which then executes the PHP code and returns the result to the web server. This allows the web server to handle multiple PHP requests simultaneously, improving performance.

On the other hand, mod_php is an Apache module that embeds the PHP interpreter directly into the Apache web server. This means that Apache can handle PHP requests itself, without the need for external programs or FastCGI.
I might have used a different word than toxic. But, in general, it's unrealistic for many teams at many larger companies to expect everyone to be local and physically available for a random meeting. On my team people are scattered all over the US and at least one is in Europe. And that's not at all unusual.
Nah, I'm not arbitrarily deciding that CEX's "aren't crypto".

It's a fallacy. No true crypto. No point in responding further to this approach.
Holy crap postman is valued at 5.6 billion?

I... thought it was someone's hobby project. Maybe something ran by a tiny team.

Why did they even take funding? Surely making a profit from the get go wasn't a challenge for them? It isn't like there is some huge growth opportunity for them outside of "gain more customers", and pretty much every developer in the world has known who they are for ages now.
I hate almost every cynical reply in this thread.
which doesnt make sense since playstation has withheld more content than any other platform and has more exclusives than microsoft has ever had.
AAA games are more like hollywood blockbusters than games from the old days. Massive budgets, lots of risk, etc

Requires a different corporate structure
Yes, Munich has (had?) 6 zones. It's quite confusing. Surprised you had to pay as a tourist -- the usual trick we did as expats is pretend we don't speak German. Usually got away with a 5 euro fine.
Show HN: Mastodon Flock, yet another Twitter friend finder, with a Win95 twist
I spent the past couple of weeks building a web app that would help me find my Twitter contacts on Mastodon (and other ActivityPub-compatible sites).

I wanted it to be simple and clear, as well as to try out Astro and the React95.io design system.

The result isn't perfect, but it's as thorough as I wanted it to be to show others and gather feedback.

The code is also open source https://github.com/WesSouza/mastodon-flock (although I just realized I never fixed the README lol)
That is only used in tests :) The query engine uses this: https://github.com/prisma/quaint/blob/6532d69b5aec007ad06ac6...

(I work at Prisma, could have mentioned that earlier)
Is this only RE-trains and trams not IC/ICE-trains, just like the 9 euro ticket? If so long distance travel is not really practical.
You're conflating the entire crypto space (rife with theft and fraud) with funds self-custodied on a blockchain (never once has seen theft because it is mathematically prevented).
Having worked sales. You got asked what you've done today multiple times during the day.
The problem, as I see it, is that the other side may not have a point.

Consider a similar scenario: climate change. Either this is a real, serious thing that needs to be dealt with, or it is a hoax. Whichever one it is, many millions of people constituting at least a large minority are wildly deluded.

There's not a ton of room for middle ground. If climate change is not real, then it is a vast power-grab on an utterly unprecedented scale that would justify any efforts to thwart it. If it is real, then the widespread belief in that power grab is a dangerous delusion.

Public policy responses do need to take everything into account, including people who believe things that are wrong. But science allows only so much flexibility there, and when the scales have been upped to the point where the alternatives are "numerous deaths" or "a vast hoax for perpetrating harm on millions", there's not a ton of room for middle ground.

Resolution is not always possible. I wish it were, but it is not. Somebody here is behaving very, very badly, and it may be more effective to simply ignore them -- assuming you can figure out which one they are. If they complain about being ignored, there's no alternative to treating it as a deadweight loss.
I am not surprised. The new US administration woke up the regulators from their year if not decade long nap. Facebook buying that VR company blocked, Penguin Simon&Schuster merger blocked, and now this. You can't have a market economy without competition.
I was expecting this:

https://youtu.be/5UuFqQXWneM
How much of what Google was doing would be considered basic research? They built products as opposed to the building blocks of products. It's more of an evolutionary leap to go from transistors to integrated circuits but a huge leap from tubes to transistors.

I'm old enough to remember a time when we moved society a lot faster. He makes a pretty good case that those dollars spent in corporate labs were more efficient than university research and I'd have never imagined that to be the case.
A few thoughts as per request:

1. It's really cool that you guys are making your own models. It was looking like OpenAI might end up with a Google-style dominance of these things but apparently it's still possible to train one and get good results without them!

2. It's a bit unclear how programming specific it is. The sample queries are very programming dominated. Every results page seems to include a code snippets section even for non-programming queries like your Elon Musk query which presents a couple of "code snippets" that's just meaningless garbage. Presumably because it's not a coding question.

3. I tried a real question I had earlier today whilst programming, and which I'd also tried on ChatGPT. The first paragraph is the correct answer!

4. It seems to have trouble disambiguating different languages. My question was how to do something with the AWS S3 Java API, but the cited links were of a JavaScript repository showing how to solve the task. It also tried to generate a code snippet which was just totally garbled, it was obviously meant to be JavaScript but it wasn't even wrong, just non-syntactical nonsense.

5. In the same vein it showed me a code snippet that claimed to be Java but which was clearly C# (or meant to be C#).

It did manage to cite the AWS SDK docs but only right at the bottom. That was the most useful results. For comparison when I asked ChatGPT a very similar question earlier, it hallucinated a completely convincing answer which relied on an SDK method that didn't actually exist. Sadly not so useful. I think I marginally preferred the Hello results.

6. I gave it a really hard test by asking who I am. It's tough because there are several guys with my name who have a web presence. It proceeded to mash together details of all our lives into a single biography. The citation feature was useful here because it made it clear that several different people were being conflated, whereas the answer alone might have sounded convincing. On the other hand, just doing a regular web search and picking a page about the right person would have been faster and clearer, without risk of being misled.

The big questions in my mind are:

1. Business model? As someone with a developer tool to sell I've been kind of frustrated at how useless AdWords is for communicating the existence of tools to developers. They could surely use some competition there.

2. Truthfulness still seems like a fundamental challenge. The citation feature makes it really much more obvious but is that really a win? I finished by asking it a straightforward question about the population of my local city that Google answers instantly in the auto-complete box, I don't even have to press enter. Hello gave an answer that's roughly right but the snippet of the citation made it clear that the actual answer was a different number. The number the AI generated doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the cited page.

Overall, really exciting to see a LLM that can both cite its sources and is exposed as a product! But right now I'm not sure it's faster to use this than regular web search :(
Blizzard and Activision definitely need a very, very thorough house cleaning when it comes to worker mistreatment and sexual harassment.
I just hope my country has some Americans locked up in case I mistakenly bring some herb with me to USA.
Totally, but also excited to see what ex-blizzard creatives at Frost Giant Studios and their upcoming RTS Stormgate will bring. Happy to see the talent reform elsewhere.

https://playstormgate.com/
Isn’t that a good thing?

Tiny sovereign entities providing loopholes to the rich and the criminal needs to stop if we’re to build an equitable world to deal with upcoming demographic and environmental challenges.
All of the people responsible for the Blizzard seal of quality are long gone. They are Blizzard in name only.
You can leave feedback on individual search results via the check and X buttons below the answer. Leaving feedback e.g votes on each code snippet is on the roadmap.
>shittily-handled hasty retreats to full-remote for the pandemic

That's more than a bit unfair. From what I've seen a lot of companies that were completely unprepared to switch to remote, handled it a lot better than they thought they could.
This deal was announced almost a year ago. Let this be another example of governments being slow to react to things.
It's not a fallacy because there is meaningful distinction.

Centralized finance is subject to the whim of creditors and custodians.

Decentralized finance mathematically prevents theft within the system.
When you have to move around a lot, having a big national bank makes it easy to not have to switch your accounts every year. I spent the majority of my 20s/early 30s bouncing around from city to city and there was always a Wells Fargo. Now that I'm settled, I transferred to a local bank.
FIFA is Elctronic Arts, not Activision-Blizzard. And EA just did that, no more FIFA beyond FIFA 2023.
I can confirm, it’s a much more complicated problem than it appears on the surface (or at least based on other commenters perceptions of how easy it should be to do this). Where I was even used Replicated to try and reduce the hassle but even that is just a series of different trade offs.

So while our cloud/SaaS offering had a shared codebase there was still a considerable engineering team responsible for the “on prem” packaging and support. Alongside a pretty extensive CI pipeline to try and catch all the nuanced customer setups that had bit us in the backside in the past.
And that's exactly the problem and why I put CP in quotation marks. With everything we know about these completely unaccountable agencies, what guarantees you it will be limited to a actual crimes against children? For the children is the oldest trick in the book. Already if we talk terrorism, it's explicitly political. One woman's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.
Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!
Don't assume it wasn't.

I've done tests several years on a row where I pop a service using the first years report.
Wow, jesus, $6.5B [1] for an API client? 2021 really was a fever dream for VC, huh.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/18/api-platform-postman-value...
You mean post.news ?
Recently it was Bleach for me, not available in Poland for whatever reason.
If I was younger/didn't have a family to support I would have loved having a sleep pod in the city. You can go out friday night and party and then get back to your pod.
Chief people officer was repeated in the article before, they probably edited it.
Interesting. We'll take a look at this. Thanks!