skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The fact that there is no commonly accepted definition of consciousness has not prevented researchers from pursuing the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness

Why would it? There was no "commonly accepted definition of fire/electricity/human-developed chemical interactions/dna/light/etc" when we studied or developed them...
There is a problem with using CarPlay on an EV, and that is battery preheating. In a Tesla, Rivian, Mercedes, etc. EV, if you plan your route using the built-in satnav, the car will preheat the battery for charging which is extremely important when you are on a road trip.

Unless CarPlay includes a new interface for these kind of things, I would not be able to consider using CarPlay on a EV I am afraid.
I'm quite bullish about low-code tools now. Especially for building back office systems like ERPs or operational tools. From my experience most failures in such project implementations have been due to mismanagement in the requirement gathering phase and also development happening in silos where the team building has no real understanding of the business process workflows.

But with gpt-3.5 - these tools can really inlock the ability of non technical people to build products. Maybe outsystems should have a gpt chat interface that builds software on its platform directly from the requirements of the end user instead of any intermediate human development team.
Probably not the answer you were expecting, but you may want to consider getting an Xbox Series S (that is often on sale at $250 or even $200), plugin your mouse and keyboard and you'll have a great experience. Yes that is a "dedicated game rig" but much more affordable than a usable gaming PC. Of course, only if you also play other games on that xbox and can live with no disc. This is what I would do in your situation.
>Your choice to visit "/combatfootage" doesn't match your wish not to have seen combat footage. What did you expect? Non-combat footage?

I watched a lot of combatfootage previously that wasn't as traumatic but the use of small drones in ukraine with grenades has upped the level of very close range footage to a new level in ukraine.
Wait 'till we notice that one needs giant storage capacity for an actual renewables switch too ;)

The economic potential wasted in this country over the past ~30 years by shortsighted political self-sabotage is almost hilarious.

And after 50 years of sub-replacement fertility, now we'll get wrecked even harder by what's going to happen with this graphic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/med...

Of course, it all comes so suddenly...
Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...
Like this? https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/17/us/greta-thunberg-detaine...
> Until there’s a storefront that only sells games that include multiplayer servers that can be self‐hosted on your LAN

IIRC from a discussion in their official Discord (by one of the people who work there) that is basically Zoom Platform[0]'s approach - if a game has a multiplayer component it has to allow you to run your own server.

[0] https://www.zoom-platform.com/
I see pull requests on my projects from new/outside contributors as suggestions, not actual demands.

Refusing a suggestion doesn't prompt for a full explanation, it also doesn't mean it won't ever be reconsidered potentially.

People who engage in open source contributions are usually aware of this, the fact that they generally can fork and use their own "improvement" for themselves is usually enough, and the people who feel entitled to get their code merged in your repository are usually not the kind of regular contributors you want to keep around in my experience.
To make it worse, the customer's "vision" is almost always wrong. It takes great skill to extract from them what they really want - otherwise you allow the customer to be a tech product manager, which is a no-no.
iOS is stopping me.
What you do is finally close the cycle with a fast breeder...
This was so clear, then Astrid got shot for no good reason.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTRID_(reactor)
>The designated hitter rule was consistently deemed preferable by the fans for years and ultimately adopted by the NL. Certainly, pitchers tend to have far lower batting averages, and the drama with a pitcher at the plate frequently just comes down to seeing if the can land a bunt to get a run in.

You speak for yourself, not me. I hate the designated hitter with a passion.

It significantly reduces the amount of strategy employed, gets more bench players in the game, and creates moments like these[0][1]. And I just picked one pitcher as an example. Granted, he was much more amusing than most pitchers, but the fans (me included) love it!

But I'm probably wrong. Look how much the fans hate Shohei Ohtani[2] /s

But the team owners in the NL wanted the DH -- their calculation being more hitting = more viewers = more money.

And the player's union wanted the DH as it brings more players (hitters) up to the big leagues.

Another consideration was that pitchers (well, players generally), especially the elite ones are paid quite handsomely and batting/running the bases increases the risk of injury.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVFsq9FQBlc

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfvCKA9RdH4

[2] https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ohtansh01.shtml
Which meant that on this Unix system you had to compile a completely new Unix system (with the GNU tools and libraries) to be able to use any software that wasn’t hopelessly outdated.
Once upon a time Microsoft didn’t put ads in their operating system.

Microsoft has jumped the shark. Stop giving it the benefit of the doubt.
These are great, they make me want to play the game!

Although I'm not sure why a threesome during a pagan festival has become illegal, I'd have considered that a feature, not a bug.
Nyxt Browser – The Hackers Power Browser
you can’t plan your trip in the built in stanav then switch?
Fellow lion pit enjoyer here. We also use SQL for our product to deal with all the client customization needs. This has been our path for about 4 years now and we still haven't found a better option for our business.

If you build a SQL schema and involve the business stakeholders in that process, you end up with something everyone can understand & work with. The difficulty of writing SQL scales in direct proportion with the complexity of the schema/domain. If the schema is something that is fundamentally familiar to your team, then you already have 80% of the "language" trained into your employees. At this point, showing them a few examples is all they usually need to "get it" and start doing things on their own.

Inevitably, you will run into "how do I write a query that answers 13 questions at the same time and arrive at 1 final binary choice", and need to babysit with decomposition & CTEs. But even with some examples of those the team can begin to take matters into their own hands.

In my experience, the joins are the hardest part. If you can, organize your problem such that even very inefficient nested queries can complete in a few milliseconds. We do things like run SQLite in-memory to achieve this outcome. Allow the team to do lazy crap and get shit done. You can always iterate the queries for quality later on - I think an LLM does this for us in our near future.
That’s just another attempt at distraction.

It has nothing to do with the job being dangerous or not.
Unimpressed - I tried to get a chain from "Mocca, Yemen" to "Jimma". I got a whole long list of stuff about aircraft engines (I do get that the author was trying to make non-obvious links).

Mocca is a port on the Red Sea in Yemen. The Ottoman Turks used to require all shipping entering the Red Sea to put in at Mocca so their coffee could be taxed. Mocca is a port town; they don't actually grow coffee in the town, it comes from a mountainous region to the North.

Jimma is a coffee-producing region in Ethiopia, south of the entrance to the Red Sea.

I just bought 250g of beans labelled "Mocca Djimmah"; the vendor couldn't tell me whether it came from Yemen or Ethopia. My guess is that exports from Yemen are "challenged" just now, but I'd like to taste some coffee from the original home of coffee.
> Designing a solution worth a damn is actually the most difficult part of the software development process. Low Code tools lie to customers by implying that the writing of code is the hardest part.

I don't think there is a lie here. Writing 'production-grade' deployed code is the hardest part for people who can't code, but that do understand processes and how to design them.

There are plenty of people I have come across who cannot write code, but who are still intelligent and could design a robust process.

This is the benefit of low-code and AI tools: liberate the ability to develop software tools to people who are capable but don't want to spend years learning to program.
GM is keeping Android Auto and Apppe Car Play in their ICE vehicles.

Comparing their decision to remove it from their future EVs and buyer decisions with Tesla is a better comparison than comparing it with 95.2% of the other market which will still retain it.
Have they all finally figured out how to transverse unbalanaced binary tree or not? Because they keep on asking how to do it.
A nice extension of this is it provides a natural way to do generative video as well by finding an alternate encoder for the embeddings.
generative-compl.ai/ning
Germany is now currently advocating to sanction and ban Russian nuclear imports and maintenance on most European reactors, but is happily importing russian gas in the meantime…
Meh. That's just because it's an experimental / unstable trait.

That Rev or Peekable implement TrustedLen does not make them special.
Now it's psychological warfare testing :)
>is happily importing russian gas in the meantime…

No, its not.
Nonprogrammers used to use FrontPage or Dreamweaver to develop websites. Now they use things like Google Sites or Wix for that matter, which works well enough for a lot of individuals and businesses. This is a real thing that has been happening for decades and is not a lie.

This article is a lie.
Finally made the switch to run linux by default, there is a nice Flatpak for Steam which works quite well. Not the biggest fan of flatpak but to cleanly isolate steam I'll use it anytime ^^.

Still keeping windows as dual boot but I only switch to play multiplayer but since I run it only occasionnaly I care a bit less which crap get installed.
Similarly, yellow food colouring looks red when concentrated. Also water looks blue but deep underwater there's no blue light left. Beer's Law
I wouldn't be surprised. There are a large number of historical examples of human experimentation before 1975 when the Church committee did it's work.

I think these shady agencies figured out a new way to hide this kind of research after that date in ways that have made it much harder to show the world the truth.
I'm not saying nuclear is worse than fossil fuels, just that we don't know the future impact of waste with such a long half-life. So I don't think it's demonstrably cleaner "in every way".
Hang on a minute... Now the NY Post is a good source here, as long as it is bad news about Meta and contributes to the 'Meta is dying' narrative thanks to the layoffs? Very surprising.

I think the sentiment suggests that lots here have been scared to buy Meta stock when it crashed to $88. It's very important to disregard the news or predictions of immediate implosions of companies, or headlines of high sensationalism due to over-emotional events like layoffs and euphoric hype that manipulate human psychology.

We'll see how Meta does, but declaring it 'dead' or even 'dying' is nothing more than a great exaggeration.
I think the problem is this... Those who need a simple solution require considerably more tools than a 1-page website should require.

The user specification requires those tools to interact with the website, without technical help, in perpetuity. That's a MONSTER requirement.
Anti-nuclear-people have mostly been a vocal minority. However, due to mostly anti-science reporting and irresponsible media-spread panic after Czernobyl and Fukushima, there have been temporary majorities for a shutdown, which populist politicians used to get (re)elected.
Quinine is another fluorescent substance - it glows blue in UV light. I used to carry a UV diode into malls to test if tonics contained quinine.
I got into this discussion with coworkers about the loss of copyright for Steamboat Willie. They were all like "Now anybody can make Mickey Mouse cartoons!" Not so fast. The name and likeness of Mickey Mouse are also trademarked, and Disney can hold onto them forever.

It's the same with Mario. Even if the copyright on Super Mario Bros. expired today, Nintendo could claim trademark protection on the names and likenesses of Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, the Koopas, etc. Even the theme music. This has already been done. The "Tetris theme" is a public domain Russian folk song called Коробейники -- but The Tetris Company LLC owns a trademark on this song in the video game market.

Tetris is one of the most jealously guarded IPs in the world. Every aspect of Tetris is protected with copyrights and trademarks -- the board dimensions, the pieces, everything. Writing a game that plays like Tetris without a Tetris license is a good way to get sued and found liable. It's entirely possible for Nintendo to lock down protection of the Mario IP in virtual perpetuity in similar fashion, making copyright expiry moot for all but the most unimportant elements (say, the particular shapes of the clouds and horsetail plants in Super Mario Bros.).
The degree of ‘needing’ to explain consciousness is basically the inverse of the degree of ‘needing’ to explain what the last digit of 22/7 is. Hardly anyone talks about or does anything with the latter, whereas the reality of the former pervades - quite literally - nearly everything humans do and think about.

I mean, you experienced the reality of consciousness while talking about the last digit of 22/7.

If there is anything in our world that needs explaining it’s consciousness.

Reality doesn’t owe us an explanation of consciousness (obviously). We owe it to ourselves though.
I agree that showing the prompts will break the usability flow. I'm currently thinking about a way that let's users see the reasoning behind the AI agent - maybe in form of prompts if they explicitly enable it - for my current project [1].

Unlike Bing chat etc., I at least show the detailed sources with contents from web searches and social media comments that have been used to generate the answers.

[1] https://zeitgaist.ai
Early 80s computers were meant for hobbyists and enthusiasts, people who liked to tinker with the fancy machine they just bought. A smartphone is, as others have pointed out, a consumption device with mass appeal. They have some of the same kinds of hardware, and do some of the same things, but they are intended for very different things in the end.
It's like a wood stove, but for light.
We have not chosen renewables: if you compute how much oil for transport, coal for Chinese electricity, etc. you need to produce solar panels, as well as massive mining impacts, you realise that the new renewables (solar and wind, not hydro) are a complete dead end with current technology. A renewables world made only with renewable end-to-end production looks more like the year 1800 than any Green knows or would be prepared to admit.
Low code is still a code. It is just matter of time before some office worker will create large and humungous low code project which then will be used by half of the office. Because worker never coded before, whole project will slowly (or quickly) become unmaintainable mess where one change will brake 3 features.

Then they will call a developer to sort this mess out and it needs to be done yesterday.
‘De Humani Corporis Fabrica’ Review: Showing What We’re Made Of
You can often mix low-code into a solution that requires some code, I did that recently creating a custom review app for a Shopify store:

https://respiroc.com/blogs/software/how-to-make-your-own-cus...

Basically:

1. Airtable (low-code) to be a database + submitting new data
2. python code to sync to shopify
3. frontend liquid code to display reviews.

I have built a lot of low-code with Airtable for a 5-6 million dollar business (revenue per year). Product development system, warehouse management++.

And just to be clear: The good no-code systems are still built by coders.
I mean at least they are currently trying to make and implement long overdue policies to fix this mess and speed up required processes.
The executives have known about this for a while; rather, the delay is because they only perform 1 hour of real work a week.
Weather service can no longer post all watches/warnings/advisories on Twitter
From a National Weather Service office: “Twitter is now limiting automated tweets and as a result this account can no longer post all watches/warnings/advisories as they are issued. We will continue to provide general updates, but ensure that you have multiple means for receiving weather information & alerts.”
...made the decision in 2011...

That does not mean the plan has to be followed through without amendment today - in fact, it cannot be, unless restarting lignite-burning generators was part of the original plan. Responsibility for this development lies squarely on all those who chose this path today (and regardless of party affiliation.)
On the bright side, people here will spend 3 years creating the latest microservice + ai orchestrated infrastructure before launching.

Also it could be the other way around, you need a solution for a problem you have. Say that you built something profitable and wait 'til someone "copies" your idea.
The German Greens were literally founded out of the anti-nuclear power movement. Yes, they're against it.
> Once you can fool one AI you can fool every instance of it.

That what I wanted to convey but I struggled forming a good sentence for it.
> Low Code tools lie to customers by implying that the writing of code is the hardest part.

Not true. Low code tools often excel at fast prototyping at decent quality -- if you feel comfortable enough you can ship them as is and you have a functional product. That might be all what customers want or care about. They don't produce the best code, but nobody really cares in the real world.
The Greens fervent opposition to nuclear is a pretty big reason for why it was so unpopular in Germany.
For long trios that's what I do. I wear headphones to listen to music and audio books so I don't disturb my family. There's no way to tell Android Auto to only use my headphones, despite it being asked.
Where are these messages of people dealing with burn out in a month. I haven’t seen them. Took me a year and more while working. You don’t need to be taking a break, just change of project/environment can be enough from experience.

Like all these articles say, burn out comes from a number of sources, removing these will end up fixing things over a period of time.
> Anti-nuclear-people have mostly been a vocal minority.

Not in Germany
Sebastian Raschka's course is really good. Gone through it like three times.
A few effective counter examples I can think of, off the top of my head:

- the Apple Shortcuts scripting framework built into iOS 16 and above,

- gnuradio - a block based signal processing environment for software defined radio

- Scratch - the learn-to-code block language that’s evolved into its own programming environment

I suppose you could call these programs’ no-code premise “a lie” based on the premise that all of them have text based code under the hood.

But I also realize you can rebut that pretty easily by saying that the graphical flows can address a lot of custom functionality required by their user bases.

Speaks to me of those programs solving problems with a relatively well defined set of constraints.

I wouldn’t describe current web apps, and the rich frontend functionality required, as meeting the criterion of having a “well defined set of constraints”.
Comparing state of the art semiconductors to web browsers feels like an insult honestly

In my opinion browesr are just huge mess of shitton of technologies that are constantly changing/moving, yet fundamentally it is just about processing some letters, executing some code and drawing colors on the monitor.

Nothing novel that we weren't doing before or in other software (OSes, compilers, etc)

Meanwhile semico feels to be close to the limits of the physics.
Except you know…the actual amount of users that make the social media platform worth using…

We get it, you hate Musk and Big Tech. Nobody outside the tech world wants to “spin up” a protocol instance, and not enough resources would host all those people for free.
I agree with that statement, but disagree with the conclusion ('because of that no-code solutions are not useful').

The benefit of low-code is that you can spend more time understanding the root causes of the problems, and be able to quickly prototype solutions that match the user requirement (and that you can make changes to more quickly) than would otherwise be possible.

Of course if everyone had infinite time, we would build full solutions for everything, but in a world with limited time and resources these tools can have a great place in the toolbox.
> The more I write code, the more I notice how rarely one truly should want floats in most kinds of programs and how they almost always carry a whole bag of problems with them.

This! Imho you more or less never want floats under "normal" conditions.

Also in most application domains it makes exactly no difference that floats have HW support, as the bottlenecks are there usually elsewhere. And in case you really need real fast floating point math (say for simulations) you would do it anyway on the GPU nowadays.

The only langue I know of that is sane in this regard is Pyret:

https://www.pyret.org/

[CTRL-F: Pyret has numbers]

I'm still baffled no other new language thought about something so basic like number ever again. Everybody is just using what the HW provides natively since the year of yore. As a result there is no motivation for HW vendors to update the status quo form the state of the art of the 60's of the last century. Imho having support for rationals and (fixpoint) decimal numbers in std. hardware is long overdue! But it would only happen if there would be serous demand form the runtime / language vendors. Classical chicken egg problem.
You should also take in consideration, that nuclear waste is dangerous over a very long period of time. So a couple hundred now might turn into millions until the waste is no longer dangerous.
RyanHamilton did say it's "low code".