skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By the end of my class, many were determined to never try coding again in their lives.

I think that's okay. There are lots of careers I'd never want to do. School is as much learning about yourself as it is learning about content.

Several people I graduated college with were determined to never, ever use their CS degree because they hated coding so much.
So don't use reddit.
Yeah, I think that’s likely. I doubt they’re breaking any laws, but this strategy is clearly not in the public interest and as such I’d like to see some of these executive from companies that have taken similar actions compelled to answer some questions under oath before congress.
Most of the comments on Reddit would be downvoted or deleted on HN. Most comments are just not that useful or interesting.
It reminds me of the math professors I had in grad school who were insulted when you asked for examples or even alternate explanations. Ugh. I love learning but I couldn't wait to get out of academia.
Isn’t he already a millionaire? I doubt he’s living paycheck to paycheck.
Show HN: Roller Coaster (Failed YC S23) – Complex Automations Without Code
Hi HN! I'm Hugo, founder of Roller Coaster. It's a platform that lets you build complex automations without code using visual scripting (a powerful way of building logic visually), and I'm excited to share it with you today.

I just launched today, you can try it out here: https://roller-coaster.app. Here's a 5min introduction to it: https://youtu.be/1gtdlM774Ug.

---

I'm well aware that there are already a lot of no-code tools out there, but I think they all have a major flaw: they're not powerful enough. They're great for building simple things, but as soon as you want to build something more complex, you're stuck. You can't do it without code.

I've been using the Unreal Engine for a previous project and I was amazed by the power of Blueprints, their visual scripting engine. It's basically a way to build logic using nodes that represent functions, and wires that represent data. It's so powerful that you can build entire games without writing a single line of code.

I thought it would be awesome to have something similar for the web, to be able to build really anything without code. And that's how Roller Coaster was born.

---

The challenging part is that visual scripting is not something that can be used without a minimum of training. It's not as easy as drag and drop. So I had to find a way to make it accessible to everyone. That's why I built a gamified tutorial that teaches you how to use it. It's a bit like a game, you have to solve puzzles to progress. It's really fun and I think it's a great way to learn.

You can try it out here (it doesn't require any subscription): https://luna-park.app/challenge. Let me know what you think!

---

For now, Roller Coaster allows you to build webhook-based automations with integrations. I'm planning to support CRONs and webhook, and add more integrations in the future.

I'd love to hear your feedback! You can also ask me anything about the project, I'll be happy to answer.
> I am one of the oldest active Reddit users and I 100% agree.

I am older than you, and I don't agree.
He was there at the beginning with Run DMC then the Beastie Boys, the latter was a punk rock band until he started to push them and as a member.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, others highlighted in new NASA low-Earth orbit partnerships
Since it sounds like very few folks in this thread have actually fired up Spin and built a thing, I thought I might offer a few observations based on my experience working on a little app over the last 2-3 weeks.

First, the good stuff:

- As a Rust developer, the SDK tooling is really good. I went from running the installer to generating a templated app to dropping in my own app logic in about 15 minutes.

- Local development iteration is also very fast and low-friction. Building everything as small WASM components means you effectively get hot module reloading for free, without needing to shim in a bunch of extra dev-mode-only code loading logic (with all the inherent incompatibilities and heisenbugs)

- The component reuse model feels a lot easier for me to reason than interminable chains of Express middleware (YMMV, of course)

- You get actual static (WASM) binaries, which can be as small as your compiler makes them. I'm normally pretty thrilled to get a production app container down to <100MB, and the app I've been working on, even without really paying any attention to my dependency graph, is around 2MB. Storage may be cheap, but pulling ~GBs of new container layers for a given release or deployment isn't free or instantaneous.

There are some less-great things:

- The "outbound" DB adapters are _very_ bare-bones. You only have access to a small list of datatypes, and you can't really layer higher-level libraries on top b/c the APIs aren't compatible with standard backend drivers. (Furthermore, if you want to use e.g. MongoDB, Clickhouse, Dynamo, etc., etc.: sorry, I hope you have some sort of HTTP adapter lying around ready to use.)

- WIT (WebAssembly Interface Types) is a cool _emerging_ standard, but like a lot of WAS* community stuff it's still in a fractured "draft" state, and many of the actual interfaces exposed in Spin are unique to their runtime. (This also means that _extending_ something like the PG bindings requires a ton of indirection code spelunking; I gave up trying to add a few new native types after realizing I would also have to support them for MySQL and every other backend DB.)

- The development environment, while relatively complete and usable on its own, doesn't really play nice with Nix or other high-level dev environment tooling. (There are literally invocations of `rustup` inside the top-level `build.rs` for the project, so good luck providing your own paths for e.g. `rustc`.)

On balance, I'm enjoying the experience thus far and starting to think about more thing-ish was to apply the tools. I'm also looking forward to trying out more of the self-hosted infrastructure stack. I'm not opposed to paying for managed hosting, but I do occasionally build things that need to run in "offline" or air-gapped environments, so being able to bring up a full hosting environment is pretty clutch.
not to mention the ceo also edited user comment because he disagreed with it, banned subs with no consistency, and for the r/place event, people caught admins cheating by placing tiles with no cooldown. who knows what other shady stuff goes on in the background
Err, Matrix too?
Does that mean that first amendment is ironic because it allows one to speak and criticize the right to speak?
There really are talented people in this world. A bitter lesson.
It means business decisions are based on who is most skillful at the corporate game, not what is best for users or the business.
I've never seen so much bitterness. Teachers in this thread are really, really salty. Just ask for his hall pass already and demand he call you "MISTER dwater".

Imagine if we talked about people learning programming the same way?

I have a general disdain for anyone who programs for 2 years and then thinks they have learned enough to teach anyone or improve the system in any way. 2 years is how long it takes just to learn git, let alone be comfortable teaching it. You better wait awhile, chief. Programming is the most important, most hardest, most critical thing in the world. Imagine thinking you could just stroll into MY world and make a possible difference in somebody's life with your abysmal and inexperienced self. The hubris! Y'know what? Go to the principle's office. This will be on your permanent record.
If mods on Reddit really believed they were irreplaceable, wouldn’t it make more sense to protest by quitting?
Same here - after Keep clobbered a meticulous but long note, I imported everything to markdown files that are synced between my devices.
It seems that the same people that complain that China is building too many coal plants are the same people that complain that China builds 80% of the world's batteries and 80% of the world's solar panels.

China gets a higher percentage of its electricity from renewable than the US. China's EV market share is 34%. China's emissions per PPP$ are dropping at a rate faster than US's are.

Could China do better? Absolutely. But those in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.
IMO Discussions on phpBB forums are much better than on voting/likes based discussion platforms. Less mob mentality.
If I am flagged by facial recognition software my rights have already been violated.

This is a bad idea even before we consider that LEO is composed of fallible human beings with an established history of abusing the information systems they already possess.
Most reddit comments would be deleted if they appeared here.
>There is massive friction to being able to post anywhere. Reddit would be objectively better with a less heavy handed approach to moderation

Whenever I see this sentiment I'm honestly stumped as to how anyone's experience can be so different from mine. What exactly is it that you're trying to post that's so difficult? because from what I see in nearly every sub, they'd be improved by more moderation, since nearly all of them get stuffed with off-topic and low-effort content, often actively breaking the community rules in the sidebar.
The communities I frequent voted for the blackout and voted again on whether to make it permanent
They are probably realizing that it's not the cash cow they wanted.
> It's too bad we don't have a properly open way to do that

It exists, it’s a web standard, and it’s called WebAuthn

https://auth0.com/blog/introduction-to-web-authentication/
There's no way in Vale to get the generation count of a generational reference without unsafe code, so I really don't see the difference.
I have been using 1password for the last few years. It’s been rock solid in the Apple ecosystem. I hear there is some issues with 1password 8 but I have stuck to 7 and loved it
On long enough timescales, capitalism destroys anything good.

The root cause behind all of this drama is Reddits need to maximise their valuation, and the impact that has on their decision making.
Have you looked at the scientific data of the temperatures of the world the last month? Global warming has breached 1.5°C threshold in summer for 1st time. Ocean temperatures this spring have been the hottest ever at this time of year, in records going back 174 years. Even the most dependable net-zero pledges would still lead to close to 2.5C of warming according to recent study. The world must slash emissions by 43% by 2030 in order to hold warming to 1.5C, by one estimate. No single country has actually implemented policies to make it happen.

And how chaotic the climate has already become after just 1.2C of warming over pre-industrial levels! Deadly heatwaves, droughts and wildfires. Storms and floods. Millions of people have died, been displaced or suffer long-term health effects from these disasters. Species are going extinct en masse. This is just a taste of what may come. The science supports that many, many of us will die.
> This is an example of how politics doesn't map perfectly onto a left-right line

That really is my point, the center political position is always arbitrary…in general and on any given single political opinion. So most normal people don’t break exactly along the dogmatic lines set by whatever is the governing authority of right and left.

My political opinion is driven above all else by pragmatism that does not break cleanly in right or left or by party. As such where i sit on the political spectrum is always relative to the person evaluating my opinion.
If they did, then you could successfully sue them for an injunction. Further use would then be contempt of court, a separate crime. Further, any evidence derived from that would be inadmissible in any proceedings.
DevonThink ToGo on iOS (DevonThink on Mac) is an excellent catch-all for any kind of content, including bookmarks which is a specific type for capturing. When you share, the modal that comes up has options for naming, assigning a type to format it properly (bookmark/webpage/pdf/markdown/etc), and tagging/flags/note.
There are distinct questions here: whether Reddit has the right to forcibly reopen subreddits, whether it’s justified in doing so, and whether it’s a good idea at all. The first isn’t in dispute, but the other two are open for debate.

It could all go super well and everyone forgets about this shakeup, or it could engender further animosity and chase people (particularly trend-setting power users) to some other platform. It could also ruin some communities if the wrong new mods are chosen.

I’m not sure how likely this is but it is plausible.
Tectonic plates are nearly permanently in a "sensitive arrangement", as you say. Compressive, shear, and tensional stress is the normal. Plates accumulate more and more stress over time, until a small trigger causes the plates to slip and release all that energy at once (earthquake).

In other words, tectonic plates are nearly permanently in a state similar to a boulder delicately balanced on top of a mountain.
This was my Samsung experience. I found their phones to be a poor experience full of apps I didn't want to use and couldn't uninstall.
myBB was my preference too- I believe it’s the latter btw (very similar look and feel vBulletin back then).
12 admin to one cop doesn’t seem lean to me.
> It seems like a lot of these folks are smaller — maybe one person — and they’re just being forced to shut down. Are those the folks that are making millions?

> > The ones we’ve talked about today, yes. Once they’ve thrown in the towel, they’re doing quite well.

> Can you give any sense of scale, how well they’re doing?

> > You’re talking to them, go ask them! Millions. He said how many subscribers he has, his price list is public. [Selig did not deny the “millions” claim when reached for comment.]

That really says it all, doesn't it?
It shows JS doesn’t scan for morality or ethics or judgement.
A couple years ago I came across a deleted Reddit comment[1] and I wished that I could read it so badly I messaged the op and asked him what he said. He didn't remember, and I was hoping so badly it would've been restored after I read this news. Alas, it wasn't.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/comments/eh80f...
I wonder if they perform image/video deduplication at scale (or if it is even possible). So many images are just reposts or slight variations on the same thing.
How does that work for online French Forums or other internet platforms that are community based? What about old school BBSes?
It's not like I'm doing nothing for these upcoming years.

Dunno what you're doing wrong if you can't land a job with a built-from-scratch internet search engine on your resume.
He's like a service animal for artists. He figures out what they need to feel comfortable and safe, to get into that flow state, and keeps them there while they record.

I really love him, he's an American treasure. I am so personally grateful for what he did for Johnny Cash.
> My understanding is that the NHTSA and its authority aren't found within the scope of the Constitution except by the broadest of interpretations

This is legally incorrect. There are challenges to agency authority, which might change the status quo. But even in their most ambitious forms, the NHTSA pre-dates Chevron by two decades.

In any case, that's an aside in terms of what can and cannot be federal law. Federal law trumping state law was always intended.
Hate to break it to you but there is no more Moore's law. Or at least not like it used to be.

It used to be when you did a shrink you got (1) faster clocks, (2) lower power consumption, (3) more transistors per square cm, (4) lower cost per transistor.

We lost (1) around 2005, we are losing (4) right now. It's not accidental at all that people are complaining about the 40-series graphics cards not being worth it because the price per transistor is now going sideways and may very well go up.
It's funny, I remember talking to an engineer from JPL(?) at a fundraiser in Palo Alto who was convinced of this link back in 2011. The conversation really stuck with me because in truth, I wasn't sure if this was a wishful conspiracy theory or cutting-edge science.

If my recollection serves correctly they were unable to get arrive at a good enough level of specificity to actually feel comfortable predicting an earthquake.

These cosmic ray events happened with enough regularity (and didn't result in earthquakes) that there was a legitimate concern about creating paranoia.
I think they are pricing in the future value of training an AI on reddit data, which *may* very well be a 20x investment in the long term.
Based on the headline I assumed the app would make immigration easier, but it's really just an additional step. The US can keep trying to make it harder, but it will just mean more immigrants will enter the US through illegal channels versus documented and safe ones.
The dictionary doesn't agree with both options. Cambridge has a single definition:

> In a way that continues or has continued for a long time.

Merriam-Webster offers the following two:

> continuing or occurring again and again for a long time

> always present or encountered

For"chronically" to mean "extremely" wouldn't make sense as to the root of the word, either.
I'm sure we could still register are cars we just couldn't leave the commonwealth in our cars.
How about a new metaphor, complexification. The maximal complex state is useless and the initial simple state is also useless. Interesting patterns arise only in the middle like while mixing coffee and cream [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAtvbRqckQ
Isn't there an issue with reddit banning certain communities? With the fediverse you can choose to be on an instance that doesn't block others or be on an instance that does block. For example, the instance I'm on defederates from 4 instances while beehaw defederates from 100+
8 years ago a bunch of Reddits went dark to protest the firing of Victoria Taylor. The AMA sub claimed that they wouldn't be able to continue without Victoria's help. Eventually the sub opened back up and things continued as they had before; the average user noticed no difference. If you told people today that Reddit AMA's hadn't been working for the past 8 years because the company fired an employee then, they'd probably laugh.
Here's some other coverage of this. I bet there's more if you look hard!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36348842 (17 hours ago, 18 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36340095 (1 day ago, 80 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36307981 (3 days ago, 6 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296250 (3 days ago, 72 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294748 (4 days ago, 18 comments)
I've never said, "No" to anything more in my life than YouTube Premium. Now that I've started browsing Reddit using Firefox on my phone it might just take the lead.
What if I created a new system of encoding words, where the digit "1" represents the word "orange"? Does that disprove the claim, just as encoding it with bytes does?
Finally, I can fulfill my destiny of taking over r/television and banning anyone who says anything positive about a show with a laugh track. It should never have been allowed to begin with.
Gyroflow: An open source advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool
Presumably you are OK with this person getting in front of a class of kids and being responsible for teaching them CS on their first year of employment. Even though they are a new teacher and still have much to learn, they will learn on the job and get better.

I don't see how starting a startup is any different. Yes, today, this person probably doesn't know everything they need to know for their startup to succeed. But they will learn that over time.
For unsuspecting readers: this article talks about the feasibility of building a new practical DBMS. Database is the most critical piece of software for businesses, so it has already been thoroughly explored and researched. It's very difficult to find a better solution for existing problems. One should either invent a new paradigm or tackle unsolved problems to justify the cost of development.

Technology-wise, writing a toy DBMS is nothing difficult. Even undergraduates can do it.
> Putting yourself in a position where you're close to indispensable gets you the title.

If you are indispensable at maintaining convoluted stored proceduces with business rules baked into them . Most likely you won't get the next level position which would need company to find somoneelse.
Google Lens is a godsend traveling.

It works much faster than the Google Translate app for translating text and it also helps identify any plants or landmarks that catch the eye.

I hope that technology never gets killed.
This sort of sentiment usually comes from someone that can't help but argue about politics in an area for, say, houseplants. Sorry, but I don't want to discuss Grundrisse in a hobby subreddit. I don't want nazis yelling at me about jewish conspiracies in an analogue synth subreddit.

"Waaah I can't say edgy things everywhere I want" is such a weak complaint against community-led moderation.
weird.. why isn't this copyright infringing? wacup seems to be using 'fair use'..
Instead of harassing mods, Reddit should be paying them. Mods should get kickbacks from coins spent in their sub.
It's a nice story and an interesting data point, but I've got a lot of doubts that it's going to prove useful.

The guy was under a lot of stress. He was already primed for a "breakthrough". Maybe the MDMA contributed to it, but maybe it was just an event that gave him an opportunity to do exactly the same thing he'd been doing before in the opposite direction. We can't tell if "reopening a critical period in the brain" is really responsible.

I'd love to believe that empathy can be induced, so I try to remain skeptical when I hear that it can be. I am deeply disheartened by how many people deliberately choose hatred. It seems to reinforce their egos, and ego-preservation is deeply ingrained in everybody.

Things that can flip can just as easily be flipped back. An alternate interpretation of this event is that he was suffering the ego loss of no longer being important in a hate movement, and made himself a prominent figure in giving up hate. The MDMA could have been just a coincidence, a moment he took to sit down and come up with a new idea.

I don't know if that's what happened. But I've watched enough white supremacists and other conspiracy theorists to suspect that it will take much more than a chemical nudge to change their minds.
The flat sequential thread was a reaction to threaded messages as seen on Usenet and mailing lists. It works reasonably well if users are careful to quote the messages they're responding to.
A minor doesn't go to prison for writing a single check in his father's name.
I think it's more like an omni-channel tsunami of fraud on all possible channels that has been gaining speed for a long time and appears to be increasing with an exponential growth rate.

The worst frauds still happen over phone and involve banking and old people.
Nice! That's the one I was referring to. Pretty wild.

Surprised those didn't get more attention
Too bad nobody was ever able to build a practical, concurrent programming language on top of parrot. (Nor any well-performing non-concurrent language, for that matter). And quite a few talented compiler writers tried (I'm thinking of Patrick Michaud and Jonathan Worthington at least, probably forget quite a few).
You only need 1 account on lemmy though, and then you can access any community that your instance federates with.
I think we can reasonably only complain about China when it is beyond the per capita levels of USA.