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Ask HN: Why the Deluge of Zapier Alternatives?
Last year I worked on a domains-specific alternative to Zapier, and ever since I've been thinking to use that experience to build my own system with a similar functionality. But recently I've noticed quite a few posts here on HN, almost to the point of having a "weekly Zapier alternative":

* G-Script: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34758348

* Activepieces: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723989

* Trigger.dev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723989

* And a whole list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34735689

Any ideas why is this particular idea suddenly so popular?
Thanks, I came here to say the same thing.

I worked with a front end developer who used and liked tailwind. I always thought that Bootstrap was for people like me, it lets me get set up quickly, then I never think about the CSS on my sites again.
No, it is not continuously debated. Racist white supremacists peddle conspiracy theories about it (and slavery and the civil war for that matter too) but reasonable, rational people (ie people who aren’t Nazis!) are not debating the existence of the holocaust.

The comments in this thread are extremely disconcerting. I didn’t expect to find this on HN but apparently nowhere is safe.
I like Bootstrap and I think the writer misinterprets what Bootstrap is for.

I use it because:

1. It looks nice and users are familiar with it / it is a mature / proven system.

2. It’s fast. Drop in the CSS and I’m done fussing with CSS for +90% of situations. On with building the app.
I didn't know about ThirdVoice, thanks for letting me know.

The addon sends a request to the server every time the URL changes, without the user pressing a button (such as: a new tab is opened, the active tab changes)

The only reason for that is to get the comments for the current page. I could make this happen when the user clicks on a button but I thought that would make the experience slower and/or worse.

I do agree with the privacy part and I care a lot about that. There is absolutely zero tracking right now. There is no way to link or match requests to any particular user.

You can also verify that by checking the Network tab. The request will only include the current URL without any additional data.

I wanted to make this open-source to provide visibility but it will make it very easy for anyone to just copy it and submit as a new extension. If you have an idea about how I can make this open-source without people easily copying it, I'd be more than happy to know.
Do you feel that the level of regulation that we have in the tech sector is sufficient?

Why/why not?
As far as I understand, King Charles exists for the purposes of being a tourist attraction, and has no power. Was it the same with the Shah?

If a monarch can overrule the “head of government”, then the head of government is not really the head, right?
I think the original formation of a corporation as a means to conduct a joint enterprise is instructive - that the idea of a legal "person" is at odds with its infinite duration. Most if not all issues with corporations (institutional capture, etc) can be solved by putting a fixed lifetime on an organisation and returning the capital to investors after say two or three decades.

I mean Google is coming up on it's thirtieth birthday, and many people might have other things to do with its cash.
Be careful. Many people pop a drive in, add a few games and then report the drives as legit .when in actuality, it's a 512gb drive spoofed to be a 2tb drive etc.
My advice, if you buy such a drive, install it in a USB case, and rub a verification program (RMusbPrep, FakeFlash).
I would suggest reading the actual opinion. Supreme Court Justices are typically pretty clear and concise writers. It’s very surprising how approachable the texts are.

There is some value to reading “explainers” who might explain some context or history, but less than you might imagine because every explainer typically brings a slant or spin of their own.
Already posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34694123
While corporate personhood is uncontroversial in the context of legal tradition, I've always wondered whether another intelligent species with a psychology similar to ours (or even humanity, had our cultural development taken a different path), would consider it a fundamental legal concept. If a natural person were to be incentivised as a corporation is (i.e. complete self interest, only held back by the law, and even then, only if the penalty is higher than the profit from the action that led to it), we would generally describe them as a "sociopath".
What was avoided are incursions by armed enemies. You don't have a military for a war you want to fight, but for the one you don't want to fight.

Having 0 air to air kills for an interceptor is a good thing in the way that it's doing its job as a deterrent and enemies don't even try.
In a dreamland, all papers are digitized; everyone can use inline hyperlinks as citation; and all URLs are archived for stable public access.
Here is a recent thread from r/askhistorians indicating that 6m Jews murdered is the current scholarly consensus, more or less: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10wwemi/how_...
I have friends who work in the recovery field: The “12 steps” are from one program, but they’re not any sort of established treatment protocol.

That program works for some people, doesn’t work for others. It’s not any sort of standard that gets handed out universally by treatment programs, though.
I'm not sure if you think that's a good thing or bad thing.
The problem isn't having likes or dislikes it's that you will only focus on the things you like, even to your own detriment. That's what makes it a disorder.
Direct to consumer Whole Genome Sequencing is pretty affordable now, I had mine done at 30x coverage for $200 with Dante Labs.
Jupyter spun off IPython which has existed since 2000.
Imagine a future where espionage between nation-states becomes impossible not because of omnipresent surveillance but because the multinational advertisers realize that spies have nearly unlimited disposable incomes backed by other nation states so they have the best click through ROI and thus get targeted by the most bizarre ads that civilians aren’t.
By any chance, was your post about starting Julia in a tight inner loop? If so, this really isn't idiomatic and exactly one of the few cases where Julia isn't great. Though it can be circumvented.
Car cartel lobbies against common sense.
> So the topic was basically about extending nuclear only in response to the short-term situation? Not about reevaluating it as a valid green energy source?

The Green Party sees nuclear energy as the evil. Never they consider it as green energy. Extending nuclear was a short-term compromise.

I don't know how they want to supply the industry with only renewable energy. I'm not deep enough into that topic.
Can somebody who knows statistics explain something for me?

They report (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01285-8/tables/1, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01285-8) e.g. the C allele of rs114142727 to have an OR of 1.285, yet they also report the frequency of said allele to be similar in the case and control group (both ~0.988). Is this a rounding issue (i.e. frequency in the case group must always be higher to report an OR>1) and the frequency is only slightly higher in the case group and the OR becomes so large simply because of the large sampling size? (40K case, 200K controls)

When they report 1.285 OR with a standard error of 0.04 at N=38691, does this roughly translate to a 95% CI of [1.207,1.363]?
The OP article is raising the claim that most of the (recent young) people probably aren't 'trans' at all, but there's a one-way affirmation pipeline backed by no science whatsoever.

> there are a fair number of trans people on social media who seem happy with their surgery

Are the people that are unhappy embraced by the community, or are they deplatformed? Are they happy with the surgery itself, or that they're now 100% part of a community of some kind?

Once someone has surgery, do they in their mind feel completely the new gender, and go about their lives as such, or are they now some elevated status within the trans community itself?

I don't have a problem with how people decide to live their lives, and while I'm generally against unnecessary surgery, adults are free to do what they want. I am against quack science and unethical behavior that might be exploiting the mentally unwell and even just confused children. I also am against using the power of the state to levy the quack science in the case of custody battles.
The "conspiracy theorists" are listening to other folks with contrary goal. Then assuming their intent is the worst possible. And they're upset about their strawmen.

The people who call other people conspiracy theorists aren't even listening to anyone with contrary goals.

How did journalism become this?
i use it but the repo is private
This was a wonderful book, it really helped lift the veil on how more complicated things were written in code for me. Also, I remember I was at the mall with my uncle and he offered to buy me a gift. I went straight to the bookstore and picked out this book. He was surprised that I picked out a book on programming, and rewarded me with some extra cash after purchasing the book.
> Their finances were never that dire; they were profitable in 2018 and 2019.

The finances of a succesful/healthy company aren't usually decribed as 'not being that dire' to be fair.

Ten years of operation and still unprofitable isn't great.
Can't they just hire Seth McFarlane for the inevitable Picard season 4, assuming they can get him to drop the silly jokes? I love Orville for its surprisingly solid sci-fi universe but I cringe at many of the attempts at humour. Every actor behind a major Star Trek character have already played in Orville anyway (except for the bridge crews of TOS and TNG, I suppose).

Discovery and Picard have their moments, it's not all bad. The underlying story line is "government bad, humans suck" but there are some good characters hidden away deep inside.

A new TNG would flop. Monster-of-the-week (or in the case of trek, political-philosophical-pondering-of-the-week) doesn't keep people entertained anymore. TOS is boring and unwatchable for most, TNG is often doable but many some stupid episodes, especially in the earlier seasons (why on earth did they have to include "rape gangs"? and a "say no to drugs" episode? that episode where Crusher has space sex with the holo ghost of her ancestor?). Even more modern, more ST franchises like Voyager and DS9 would flop.

I'll be controversial and say that I'd like modern trek to be more like ST Enterprise. I think Enterprise struck a nice balance between classic trek and more modern TV, even if it's two decades old at this point. There was an overarching story line to keep people watching, but there was also plenty of time for going down to a random planet and ponder about space AIDS/mind meld disease and the associated prejudices. I love the Star Trek universe, but the older shows simply don't warrant all of the nostalgia; I recognize that they were an important part of TV and science fiction history, but the media landscape doesn't allow for philosophical pondering and space western TV anymore.
"Zuckerberg or Musk could end homelessness in the US easily and still be in the top 10 richest people in the world."

[citation needed] Major cities spend 100s of millions per year each on homelessness (LA is $500m-1B iirc, depending on how you attribute), for combined spending of a few B per year, and they cannot even make a dent. As much as I would be receptive to an argument that this is because most public employees are malicious, incompetent grifters, (1) I doubt Musk/etc. could do even an order of magnitude better, especially in the real world, with real-world employees and regulations, (2) even if Musk himself "could" somehow be much more efficient, mutual assistance schemes that would expropriate and use his wealthwould attract, and would be taken over by, the same kinds of structures - public sector unions, etc., as they were pretty much everywhere anything like this has been attempted. With predictable results.
Doesn't seem to be true. ChatGPT is going to make people stupider.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/10740176...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyl...
FrAIgrant: Search for the best-fitting perfume for your taste
So nice! To be honest, I will struggle to find a use case for it in my work, but I will try. I work with graph data a lot; I just need too get creative.
What kind of computer hardware meets that criteria? Toughbooks?
Exactly. You can even have several such entities in one chat.

One issue with this approach, especially in production, is latency. You’ve got to run the entire chat through one of the big models, curie or davinci, which is not only expensive at scale, but also slow.

Then again, if you just have one or two external tools, using those big models to make the decisions which (if any) tool to call is overkill anyway. So you just fine-tune a smaller model on the task. Reduces not only costs by a fact of 100 or more. But also speeds up your pipeline considerably.
Both to look more like current helium birthday balloons, and for square/cube law reasons, I'm thinking the vacuum birthday balloons would need to be ~30cm diameter.

The fragile vacuum part of a thermos has far fewer cc's of vaccuum (vs. a ~30cm "balloon"), is inside a pretty tough shell, and kids usually aren't allowed to play with 'em. CRT's hold more vacuum, but certainly aren't something that kids get to play around with.

Vs. have you ever watched younger kids play with balloons? Consider the potential for ear injury, if Kid_1 breaks a 30cm vacuum balloon in close proximity to Kid_2's eardrum. Or how similar the broken pieces of a vacuum balloon might be to broken glass.
Ughhh. 3 paragraphs telling you: that thing you like is actually bad and you are personally responsible for ruining science. Then, oops, only 10% of helium use is for parties.
Another link for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/news

Llms (the exact same architecture as chatGPT) trained to use calculators. Tell me which one requires "understanding". Learning how to use a calculator or learning how to do math perfectly?
Yes. The parallel being that "you just need to focus more" would work for some people but not others.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please assume good faith and don't incite flamewars.

When I'm arguing against wishing for collapse "from the comfort of our countries", where do you read that I'm talking to Iranians? I'm talking to HN commenters who are not from Iran. I'm obviously not arguing with pinkbeanz since he/she is from Iran.

Try arguing in good faith, unless you want this to devolve into a flamewar. You already tried something like this in another comment: please stop.
> Even a cheap pair of earbuds sounds better to me.

That doesn't work very well if there's more than one of you trying to watch...
This has been "known" for 30 years. It needs to be mandatory.
I have a very similar helper in multiple codebases in production. It has some additional bits to log errors and to handle tasks that should never complete (basically a flag to call sys.exit if they do) but it's basically this.

I don't understand why theads get a background mode but tasks can't be fire-and-forget.
Cannot see how. Smalltalk and Lisp basis are allowing modification of the environment itself even while running. Jupyter cannot do that and the notebook interface (basically originating from Mathematica) isn't suitable, or even has goal to be, for generic programming.
Same here. I got okay grades in school, and I even managed a few semesters in college with excellent grades (comp sci major), but that was with the help of self medicating with stimulants (illicitly obtained.)

Now that I'm an adult with a diagnosis and proper, legal medication, it has helped immensely. It makes me wonder where I would/could be if I got on the right path earlier in life.
They are doing it again in Pakistan currently for the US democracy is not important as long as the monarchy or military dictator tow the line. Western media almost silence against the killing of journalists torture, arrests of politicians assassination attempts shows the true face of western democracies. If the arrest and murders are done by powers in countries that say what US wants then there is media silence.
Can you give an example of what you’re thinking about?
thanks for the details - I was looking at the fine grained token but the user would then have to provide me with the the token and then I'd have to store that on my end - since i'm trying to avoid storing any user data that doesn't really play into the structure at all

with regards to the public token thing it's a bit of the same complexity since I would need to know if the repository the user is using is public or private and then configure the OAuth scopes appropriately since I do want to have support for private repos (as that's how I use it currently)
My brother is a dentist and he says the main drawback of SDF is that it looks bad. It indeed stops the decay but turns the tooth (or part of the tooth) black.
Such legal changes would also need to address selling the company and / or its assets lest someone scheme to get around the length of life limit.
And with C/64 there as also some business application (Geos, VisiCalc...).

The 8BitGuy noted usually business computers have 80-columns, whereas "home" compueters 40-colums.

Neverless C/64 could run a small database for a 'VHS Store' without troubles (I made it in basic... :)
They lost 2019s profits in 2020, and had a mildly unprofitable 2021. That isn’t unusual.

It’s likely more dire now, not less. From all accounts, the savings from staff cuts have been met with lost advertising revenue, Twitter Blue hasn’t made a dent, and they’ve got big interest payments to meet.
> All of this is basically nostalgia bait.

That’s definitely true of Picard, but is it for the rest of NuTrek? It’s hard to see how Discovery, awful as it is, is nostalgia bait.

> lightning in a bottle

Do I spot an RLM fan?
It works unless it doesn't, so it stays a Heisenbug.
I appreciate that Tailwind is a force multiplier for certain teams, but let's not get carried away. There hasn't been a "fall" of Bootstrap. It's still very popular, widespread, and well understood. It's still being chosen for new projects. It depends on the team's needs. The article wavers between acknowledging that and only focusing on apps with dedicated designers:

> Most of the time, you can tell easily if a website is running with Bootstrap or not, even if you’re not a seasoned developer. From my perspective, it doesn’t always sound like good news! Because when using it, websites tend to look the same.

Which is often fine for internal or B2B. For B2C, a unique look may be more important. Many apps are LOB, internal dashboards, B2B SaaS. Often customizing the brand colors is enough.

> With Tailwind, however, you can add your custom styles to almost anything. Why is that so important, you ask? First, because it allows you to design the website how you want it, this is great, especially for designers!

I'd say it's mainly great for designers, although there'll be overlap with developers for certain use cases. With the kinds of projects I work on, I don't generally find myself needing that. When I do, editing the CSS is easier than bringing in Tailwind.

> Look at easy it is! I don’t need to write custom CSS or Sass code. I just need to call the right classes to be able to use it. It’s really, really simple and yet powerful!

This is a bit handwavy. It isn't easier to use Tailwind vs. custom CSS per se. Do away with custom CSS and you're now just writing custom Tailwind. That could be good or bad depending on your team and tooling.
glibc is far from the no1 roadblock, if a program doesn't use undocumented/private features it will work for decades. This example [0] shows a program i wrote compiled on Red Hat linux from 1997 (ignore the broken colors, the program assumed 24bit/8bcc X server) dynamically linking against libX11 and glibc running on 2017 Debian (i took the shot in 2017), showing two decades of backwards compatibility with both the GNU C library and X11.

If a program that links dynamically to the GNU C library doesn't work the reason is either some other library or the program doing something screwy with glibc that it shouldn't do - but in that case that program wouldn't compile with musl either since it'd be touching glibc internals.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/YxGNB7h.png
What is this? I couldn't figure it out. Didn't work on mobile
Before anyone debates any position relative to the statement that "corporations are people," they should read the Wikipedia article on legal personhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

It would immediately improve the quality of any discussion on the matter. This is a legal term. In law there are natural persons (humans) and juridicial persons (entities which can do some of the things which persons do, like own property, but not all of them).

So yes. Everyone knows that a corporation is not a natural person. No need to point that out. You don't have to pass the bar to know it.

There is an interesting discussion to be had for sure about what rights we should extend to a juridicial person, and what rights we shouldn't. Society wouldn't function if we didn't have them at all. But it doesn't follow that they should be as similar to a natural person as possible. They are conceived basically as a practical shorthand for dealing with a group of people who want to jointly own property, conduct business, incur debts, and so on. A world without this collaboration would end up with... weird ultra-mighty barons doing that and personally employing thousands? Who knows.

No one sensible wants to treat them as natural persons. Arguments that they should gain rights just because "they're people" are specious. I just think the whole discussion is elevated if we talk about natural persons vs. juridicial/juristic persons.
My (dental hygienist) mother insisted that I get a sealant on my teeth when my permanent teeth came in, and to this day I’ve never had a cavity. Definitely doing the same for my kids.
You don't think it is possible to determine whether homosexual people actually exist???

When you said, "that simply isn't true," what exactly were you referring to?

Homosexuality is the condition of having a sexual preference for people of the same sex. We can easily observe that such people exist. Whether it is a disorder or not is a separate question.

When a man says, "I prefer to have sex with other men," we can easily check whether or not this is true. (Or do you think all gay men are just faking it?)

When a man says, "I am really a woman," he cannot point to anything empirical to back up his claim. To the extent that we can check this claim, we can easily determine that it is false.

Of course, a man can correctly say, "I wish I was a woman," "I think I would be happier if I had been born a woman," or "I really like dressing up like a woman," and all these claims can be true.

But when a man says, "I actually am a woman," we know this is false because we know what a woman is, and we know what a man is, and we know that they are distinct.
But the commonsense domain is all about inaccurate information. In your theory of mind, for instance, you have to model wrong beliefs that people have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

A general purpose chatbot should be able to talk about Star Trek, Doctor Who , Don Quixote and other fiction and that is a myriad of worlds that are more or less internally consistent but yet need to be understood in how they derive from the "base" knowledge base (James Tiberius Kirk inherits nearly all of the attributes of a Pᴇʀsᴏɴ as a fictional human character) and influence the real world (what does it mean when a person says their boss is like "Captain Ahab?")