skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please see any reddit political thread.
Anyone works in games/films will know how useful low-code tools are. And they're ubiquitous. I can list more than 10 of them out of my heart:

- Unity and Unreal's material/shader graph.

- Unity's VFX graph/Unreal's Niagara

- Unreal's blueprint

- Blender's composition node and shader node

- The whole Houdini

- Substance Designer

- PureData

- Bitwig's grid

- Nuke

- Fusion

At this point I think it's a bit ridiculous that people still are arguing whether low code tools are helpful or not.
Catalina was the last supported OS for my 2012 MBA, and the following Big Sur upgrade worked well with OCLP because it only had to patch in WiFi support during the boot process.

After that, macOS Monterey also dropped support for my Ivy Bridge GPU, and OCLP had to rely on persistent patches to my system volume to enable 3D acceleration again. These root patches caused some weird issues with 3D acceleration in certain apps, and driver-related regressions introducted by some later Catalina patches took longer to be fixed in OCLP than in the still supported Catalina release.

I think macOS Ventura is the end of the road for macOS on my Mac. The OS now relies on AVX2 binaries, and the OCLP devs made some magic hacks to circumvent that requirement. Still, the OS now feels unreliable, and while I did not see hard crashes or errors, subtile breakage only disappeared, when I rebooted the system every few hours. The macOS 13.3 update also broke my GPU driver again for a few weeks, and I finally gave up on it.

This old Mac now runs Ubuntu LTS without any issues. The battery life is at least equal, it boots faster, and the OS does not immdiately use half of my 8 GiB RAM for itself. There is also less swapping, and while not perfect, it feels more reliable than Ventura or Monterey.

While I was not happy with these issues on macOS, it was still amazing to see how this group of volunteers enabled newer macOS releases on my device. macOS on Intel is dying, but if you have a pre-T2 Mac, you might be surprised by how well Linux might work on it.
Chatgpt can pretty much write the code do this this

And confidently get it wrong in this case. This is an example of why ChatGPT and others like it need a debug function to show their work/sources. Can you spot the errors and missing data?
A fair amount of them allow for things like:

- role-based rules about views, edit rights, etc

- workflow where items flow from one role to another

- less "code" for things like dependent drop-downs...where one field drives the drop-down choices in another field. Excel can do this, but with fairly complex macros

On that last one, I imagine there's more examples where Excel stops being "low code" because you're using complex macros. It's more flexible, but that's the tradeoff.
If you were to just heat sink underground all the time, it will be a non renewable resource. That already happened in London underground that the ground heated to uncomfortable temperatures over time. But coupled with bidirectional heat pumps and surface radiators, there's heat storage potential.
Agree entirely.

As an additional point - If I have an entry-level clerk who does 2 hours of work per day that could be automated by putting a dev to work on building a solution for a month or two, it won't financially stack up. I also don't really want to pull that dev off to work on that, because I could probably have them working on better stuff.

If we could build something a bit more scrappy in a low code tool in a few days and pay $40-$80 a month in licencing, that will stack up fast. Will it be as good as the full-code solution? Probably not - but we weren't ever going to build that solution anyway and it's better than nothing.

It's a simplistic example, but there are categories of problems that low-code can solve which full-code can but won't.
If you want to take a closer look at the early days of the Linux kernel, I can recommend "A Heavily Commemted Linux Kernel Source Code", a listing of Linux kernel 0.12 with comments in the style of John Lions‘ commentary on 6th edition Unix (available in Chinese and English): http://www.oldlinux.org/
> Fast forward ten years and the use of coal is at a record low, the use of gas has not really changed in a meaningful way and overall the situation has improved significantly on its own

Now imagine how much lower it would be had they kept the nuclear plants.
steam doesn't have a monopoly on pc video game distribution. There are many other services - GoG, epic, microsoft, etc. Steam is just the best of those services, by a long shot, and was far earlier and is better in almost all respects.
Anti cheat is part of the cat and mouse game it seems. If you think there’s a way without anti cheat you should try to write a serious proposal. There’s a lot of money involve in solving this plague in competitive gaming.
Your math is wrong.

5W/user * 200e6 user * 4h/24h = 167 MW
11 MWh/a/home = 0.00125 MW/home
167 MW / (0.00125 MW/home) = 133 000 home
Increases in GDP are evenly distributed across ALL income brackets.
Anonymous posts are one thing, but the popular "day in the life of a [Facebook/Google] program manager" short videos were something else entirely. That entire genre was incredibly damning.

I'll try to look up the link later, but I'd swear that one of them goes something like this, and some of you guys probably know what I'm talking about: Lady shows up with her dog. Grabs a bunch of free snacks. Grabs a free smoothie. Hits the "funfetti room" with her laptop for a zoom meeting. Grabs an enormous seafood lunch at the (free) company canteen. Goes for a walk with her dog. Grabs another free snack and/or a smoothie. Goes home.

Just another generic "day in the life."
That's true. I call the Steam API when my game launches and it replies with whether the Steam app is running or not.

If the Steam client is not available you simply lose Steam's Input API (customizable controller support) in the game. As a developer I would avoid requiring the Steam client to be running. That's just bad for users.
> burnout happens when we become locked in a cycle of caring about the results of our actions but having no meaningful control over those outcomes.

I've never heard it put this way, but that really resonates.

Nowadays, I work harder and longer -for free- than I ever did, when paid.

I don't feel even slightly burned out. If I feel myself starting to get vexed with a problem, I take a break, watch some TV, play a video game, or just take a nap.

But I get more done, every day, than I ever have before. Much higher Quality, as well. I've already made two releases, this morning.
Update: In fairness to Blizzard, I did just check this again and it seems like they have started maintaining Warcraft 3 Reforged again, releasing some small patches last year and a significant update in January 2023:

https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/warcraft3/23896791/warcraft-...

I'll have to take another look now that this has been released.

But still, there was a 2 year stretch between 2020 and 2022 when the game was in a very crappy state and absolutely nothing was done to improve it or address the issues.
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Yeah that would align with my energy and my girlfriend both coming and going at the same time
I can second that this is often about power, even if it's not deliberate on the execs part it can be perceived that way, in the early days of the pandemic at a previous job I saw this play out in a huge way, everyone in any management role at the company basically bailed from the office immediately, but made it very clear that everyone else had to stay in the office (until it was essentially government enforced).

It created this really toxic dynamic of managers lording over the staff remotely from their homes, while making overt claims on "oh its so important for everyone else to really pull together and come into the office" and how "difficult it was for them to be out of the office", many many people left including myself when we found remote work elsewhere.
Many of those posts were made by recruiters! They were ads for the company.
There's also a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378
When I’ve used CarPlay I’ve been generally impressed with the integration with my phone. However in my Tesla it’s not available. But that said it’s proprietary system is decent, except the music player which is tedious to play specific songs or playlists from. The satnav or gps is pretty good. The best though is that it doesn’t get dated. It continuously updates with revs. This is almost certainly the future across all brands.
>Consider this - How could an AI system improve on techniques that optimize for the Human Visual System? A very large part of our multimedia compression today comes from strategically sacrificing information that is subjectively worthless to humans.

Exactly that. AI could recognize what is important in a frame and use less compression there, while using pattern generation for high entropy parts which are not important.
Read my comment in it's entirety please. There's one very obvious improvement I suggest pretty much off the top of my head, I'm sure if you want to you'd come up with a dozen more. They aren't even trying.
You probably discovered why many SWEs are leaving the industry and going into things like carpentry. It’s nice to have control over the outcome of one’s work. It feels more honest than being a cog in an uncoordinated corporate (and let’s not forget — often juvenile and political) machine.
Some people have been using signed distance fields (sdf) to define fonts on the GPU.
What is implied here is remote execs are not engaged / lazy. This is particularly unfair because the company is doing doing poorly and engaged in layoffs.

The argument is essentially everything would be better even if everything is exactly the same (same number of layoffs, etc) except the work location. It doesn't hold.
I don't want CarPlay or Android Auto. It's one more thing I have to fiddle with. One more thing to fight while someone beside me or behind me becomes impatient.

Bluetooth is meh. I would rather have an aux cord. From the days when we connected systems by physically connecting systems.

I am in the car to drive, a delightful escape from interacting with a phone.
I don't really think that's true. the content is usually in assets and just behind some flag that gets activated via some callout to a store, but there's not active anti-cheat software making sure that you "actually bought the content" in general()

() technically a lot of games have anti-piracy measures that are somewhat active, but they're rarely of the "phone home" variety
If you have a couple of different sizes of texts you can render out each character into a sprite map and render a quad per character which is probably the fastest and works for most 2D UIs. You can prerender ahead of time or have some runtime code that renders the characters with a given font using the 2D canvas api. You will need also need to store the characters sizes somewhere unless it’s a monospace font

If you need to scale the text arbitrarily or render it in 3D space you can look at multi channel signed distance fields (MSDF) which also renders out each character but encodes some extra data which makes them scalable. It has pretty good results
Depressing, incomprehensible, and reprehensible. He gets boatloads of government subsidies and still manages to keep enough cynicism in his heart to block government agencies with no agenda other than saving lives.
MW by MW, coal plants emit more radiation than nuclear on average. This is true even when taking accidents into account, and not by a small factor.

We’d genuinely be better off ignoring most accidents and just using nuclear. Not to mention that coal ashes and emissions are chemically carcinogenic as well.
>The ban is silly, but I’d have Apple and Google remove the app for all users with a billing address in Montana.

I've never heard a better rationale for not using Apple products or a "Googled" Android device[0].

That it's even possible for Apple/Google Play to do something like that (although I'm not so sure they'd do so -- and I'm not so sure they could be forced to either -- but IANAL) is horrific overreach and definitely reason for stabbing people in the eye[3]

I own my device. I paid for it. It is mine.

I will put whatever the hell I want on it.

[0] LineageOS[1] with F-Droid[2]?

[1] https://lineageos.org/

[2] https://f-droid.org/

[3] I'm being (mostly) metaphorical here.
> And let's also remember that this is a SUSPECT, so we are still assuming to this moment.

In high profile cases like this, the prosecutor risks their entire career if the charges don't stick, so they usually have iron clad evidence or they wouldn't have made the arrest, and would've just waited for more evidence. The suspect hasn't even put in a not guilty plea during the arraignment. Mistakes do happen but I would say the odds are way in the favor of it being what is claimed.
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I think it should be obvious that this is impossible to prevent if you simply consider the human analogue (i.e. the jargonless version of what prompt injection actually is).

Imagine that you're in the army and you're commanded to do something. You're a child and your parents demand something. Your wife calls with a need. You're a prisoner and you're locked in a box. Basically, take the highest authority, however we define that, and consider that the "system message".

Later, you realise the enemy speaks your language, or your friends call and ask you to play, or you realise you need to stay late at work, or...

As a generally intelligent agent you can always sidestep orders. You often need to in order to achieve them, that's what it means to take an ill specified task and flesh it out.
10 hours of real work would be quite an accomplishment at a big company, but it’s not all laziness. At least at Google, there is almost a complete lack of workable process and at the same time insane red tape around most everything. The environment is inefficient and blaming ICs for getting little done in this situation is unfair.
What are your thoughts on the potential drawbacks or limitations of leveraging AI in single sign-on solutions?

Could you please also suggest feasibility of implementing such solutions in smaller-scale applications
https://youtu.be/X5TZVhKDwpk
I've gotten used to CarPlay, in my cheap-ass Subie (I can certainly afford better, but why?).

No way that I'll buy another car without it.
Which… I’m not sure, but that might be more uranium than would be needed in the first place to run our entire civilisation on nuclear power?

Certainly it’s in the ballpark.
lmao, way to set expectations. Also, what type of person were they trying to recruit with that sort of thing? The Lotus Eater tribe?
Nope. I wanted maximum interest rate duration and I'm betting that inflation will be higher than my mortgage interest rate, so it will eat more of the outstanding balance. Adjusted for inflation, my balance will be less than half what it is now. I don't anticipate staying more than about 15 years, and the capped rate is low enough that in the worst case this is still reasonable, and I'll have greater optionality to refi if I have a bigger balance
Now I thought of another:

4. It's the dump phase, so all current outbursts are negative

(Currently it's the pump phase, though)
> since if they don't like the wage, they can always go elsewhere

Capitalists are well known to collude to keep pay down and viciously suppress unions.

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

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/24/306592297...

https://fortune.com/2023/03/02/nlrb-starbucks-union-buffalo-...
Varies but you generally only need a work visa to work for a local company. Otherwise you can work under a tourist visa.
Sounds like they're coming on the next wave and they're just paving the way?
So does Steam for games that want it. In the end GOG can't override publishers' wishes either.
In starcraft, blizzard regularly adjusts the rules to keep the game exciting. I think that's going to become necessary for most games now.
I wouldn’t trust IP reputation to ChatGPT.
Large power exports come necessarily from using non-dispatchable forms of power generation like solar and wind. Other people who can turn off their power plants will buy yours rather than burning their own resources. In other words, the amount of power a nation exports means very little about how you keep the lights on.
Just current reserves, with breeder fuel cycles, would allow us at least a century, long enough to start building in space...
What happens if you put some of the cheap oil in a different container and then shine it with the torch?
I'm not sure I follow. So since ninety something percent of murders are committed by men aged 14-40 (not the real statistic, I'm going off of memory here) do you think we should assume with no evidence that any random murder was done by somebody from that demographic?
I'm sorry Dave, but "spiritual awakening" has only received five upvotes this cycle.. I'm afraid we won't be able to continue with any more research..

(or) We do live in a fully awake spirituality, that's how we built the bombs.

(or) We tried it before and all the messed up adults felt bad for messing up their kids and don't talk about it any more.
Right, so the reprap came well after the invention of fused filament, following the typical technology lifecycle of invention, then commercialization, then democratization.
It's interesting that they're serving uncompressed text, they could be serving gzipped content-encoding which would save a bit of bandwidth which translates to power usage.
It feels like if you’re willing to make computation >> storage, which is likely the bad optimization right now, you can use generative AI trained on the original video and key frames chosen to optimize size : fidelity and let the AI fill in the frames dynamically.
That's not a lot of power for a monk. What's the typical monk's TDP?
I would disagree. I wrote an app for a non profit I work with. Phones and tablets provide so many great sensors that my laptop doesn't.

The non profit hosts a race where the participants build their own cars. My app helps track the race cars. We use GPS, 3g, wifi, a touch screen, and a 12 hr battery to: track cars and send their location live to our website. This simply wasn't possible before tablets - amd it is really cheap with a cheap tablet.
"Restrict" is a 100% true description of what happened, there isn't the tiniest bit wrong about it. It's just your (our, I was afflicted by it myself) expectation that harsher measures are sugarcoated by deliberately inaccurate PR language. We can't blame the headline for our implicit expectation of incorrectness and neither can we blame the company responsible for a perceived lack of PR lies.
Yes. Not seen in my photos is that behind the WNB 068 printed on the PCB is WNB 067.
RLHF is arguably a bigger jump than LLMs, at least from my perspective beginning to study NLP in 2015/16.

Well what exactly is RLHF, practically?
The ability to go from 8 google search snippets to correctly rank and rewrite the top one into agreeable, cohesive, grammatical and helpful english is just incredible and allows so much more and the real step change from these models that lead to virality. It also increases consistency, which was always the worry of business use cases.

Why is that more noteworthy than the base GPT-3?
A lot of the LLM scale --> more correct autoregression prediction progress was predictable - RLHF on text was not (the early sparks coming for most of us in the release of T5 with it's multiple tasks-in-text).

What else could be a big idea coming up?
There is a ongoing wave of innovation in embeddings that has largely been missed by the hype curve but increasingly GPT embeddings and useful for compression, much much more accurate KNN search for tasks like matching curriculums to learning content (even multilingually - see the recent Kaggle competition with performance which is outstanding and due to similarity-based embeddings from the last 3 years). This wave may lead to the partial replacement of some anthropomorphic computing concepts like files, as information is much more addressable, combinable and useful as various sized embeddings, to some extent. More vitally, embeddings can be aligned across different models and modalities to get better results (e.g. the Amazon ScienceQA paper showed text questions about physical situations increased in accuracy when images of the situation were used during training - even if held out afterwards). Now this multimodality thing has always been on the AI radar (not necessarily ML), but these embeddings based on similarity, and also GPT embeddings (they behave differently and are sensitive in different ways) are getting us there much quicker than would have been expected.

Ignoring the engineering and techniques improvements (e.g. scaling up data, learning encodings rather than pre-programmed/sinu-positional embeddings), there are lots of things like capsule networks that could be big, like energy-based models (seeking predictable comfortableness rather than maximising gains). However, like you mentioned, a lot of these are years old and regularly come and go. If you want somebody who is pushing for more exploration here and decries GPT a little, checkout Yann Lecun.
Just as there are two groups of people: Those who write and those who don't. And the first group is allowed to write whatever they want.
There are countless valuable businesses built on no code. It’s good for prototyping and early stage
There are several games I play that are actually natively compiled for M1 (The Long Dark, Disco Elysium). Steam is a very noticeable resource hog on an M1, and I'd presume that's a mix of their UI framework mixing (CEF, VGUI) and lack of Apple Silicon binaries.
Oh wow. Obviously this was a dumb idea when announced (I think I posted "No they're not" here) but until reading this I had no idea Tesla did not support phones and that had been GMs inspiration.
Now you are buying nuclear power from Czechia.
Then why hasn't the percentage of fossil fuels in the US gone down so much lower since it didn't shutdown its nuclear plants?
Note that this approach is useless on its own if your app needs to render user-created text because nowadays everybody expects emojis to work and look roughly the same as on Apple’s platforms, which means detailed multi-colored layered vector shapes that SDF font renderers can’t handle.
I wonder what books will be written for BYD or Tesla, now that they are eating Toyota's lunch.
Not to mention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
Maybe just read the manufacturers recommended operating condition label?
Prototyping -- and the code generated for that purpose -- needs to be distinguished from production-quality processes and deployment artifacts.

This distinction (which is blindingly obvious to experienced engineers and product owners) is blurred or elided by most of the no-code / low-code sales and marketing materials I've seen.

Your example of dynamic charting for data tables is useful; analyzing the performance characteristics and featuresets of enterprise-grade datagrid solutions (eg Ag-Grid, Bryntum) the chasm between a shallow one-off prototype and a properly-extensible and maintainable solution becomes more evident.

Ignoring or attempting to bridge that gap with insufficient diligence leads to catastrophe.

TLDR I think some of the hostility towards low/no-code tools is less "it's going to take my job" and more "it's going to make a royal mess of things in the hands of people who don't understand".
Why are universities so international?
RoP wasn't bad because of any woke stuff. It was bad because it was bad.

It's entirely possible to be "woke" in some sense and be superb. Last of Us S1E3 being one example.
Additionally, the compiler optimizes certain Option<T> types to not require additional storage space.
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