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Completely agree. No code is great for simple CRUD apps but unfortunately, anything reasonably complex requires code. This is why we ended up building Appsmith which is an open source "low code" application builder. You can write custom JS code across the board & customize your application to build more complex apps. Makes getting started easy but also keeps you going for a long time.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Appsmith.
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There's a common thread. Literary cyberpunk, and "future noir," are both centered around crime: Hackers, contraband-smugglers (from new nano-drugs to brain implants,) people who have found themselves caught between the gears of criminal conspiracies, etc.

The defining characteristic of 80s-90s cyberpunk is that it's about near-future crime. So it shares an awful lot -- if not absolutely everything -- with noir. The "punk" aspect is that cyberpunk stories are often told from the perspective of the criminal rather than the detective.

The r*dditors who go on and on about "i-it's all about urban dystopia and corporate conspiracies!" are dead wrong, because both elements don't always (-- indeed very rarely --) feature in the foundational literary works of the genre. Take Burning Chrome, for instance: All of the stories are about crime, but the features of the settings are rarely clear.

So much for literary cyberpunk. Cyberpunk in art -- e.g. www.cyberpunk.tech -- is its own thing, and just as old.
Android has them everywhere was well
https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/sqlite
No planet you can land on, so that leaves the moons and pluto and the cost is much higher. Not the little extra fuel and hardware requirements, but the mission time alone...

Venus is extremely dense and hot that it melts all the equipment pretty quickly, Mercury is hard to reach. Probably very hot too on the very long and sunny days and the nights are too cold. It also require the most fuel to visit without space brakes.
There are several way different groups are viewing right to repair, that I find isn’t getting much coverage.

Consumer: right to repair means fixing my broken display will be a DIY job for $50? Sweet!

Repair shop: right to repair means I can source a display from lowest bidder, charge $150 for broken screen, and make $120 in profit? Let’s go!

Apple: right to repair means you must buy $275 display module to fix a broken display.

Apple being world’s most valuable company, is not going to willingly allow consumer or repair shop to get advantage over itself without kicking and screaming.

A smartphone is not a device of yore, where components cost make up vast majority of its price. Instead it is almost pure margin. Every device repaired without handing cash to Apple handsomely is one less device they can sell.
hello google?
Dell, HP, Lenovo are all MS vendors and work close with MS for their drivers (or so they say).

The issue here is that MS plays the smart guy and installs his own buggy stuff, making it hard for the end user to use vendor supplied drivers, even reinstalling its own stuff with Windows update.
You sound like the stereotypical boomer saying "people don't want to work anymore", not understanding that nowadays it is impossible to own a home unless you inherit one.
So theres some small startup that seems maybe interesting, you're looking forward to investing when they go public.

Suddenly you hear they are going public through a SPAC. Why? Why aren't they going through the usual channels, crossing their eyes and dotting their tees? Laying everything out on the table so everyone can feel confident?

The very fact they are going for this SPAC backdoor is a HUGE red flag.
GPT-4 allows me to make better Data Science decisions
Isn't Thane more of a landholder, who could or could not also be a warrior but either way it isn't implied in the title? I think it is equivalent to a Baron.
i know it's in semi-jest, but what a non-argument lol. 44 util classes just to not learn the one line on which those utility classes are based on? if you want to hate on these types of things you can at least have a point of view that makes sense.

tired of people who've never seemed to use CSS beyond some pet project or stuck in early 2000s (all frameworks are dumb!) mindset make the wrong arguments over and over again.
Well, the problem with OpenTF is that they will have to stay compatible with TF at all levels. If they decide to enhance the product, things could quickly become messy. There are areas where they won't be able to innovate at all (e.g. the state file format) and some where OpenTF extensions could be possible if marked as such (in a similar way as the GNU project did).
There is no nuance. Anyone in EE working in the industry can easily transition into software (in fact most of my peers migrated to ECE before even finishing their undergraduate, as soon as they understood the work prospects).

I love hardware and DeepTech but why would I make 3x to 4x times less with little to no chance of remote work from home in uncomfortable clean room/ESD gear.

To quote Ray Liotta this is the proverbial "Fuck you, pay me" situation.
> How does having a magic card that turns crypto in to fiat work if the exchange has banned you?

It doesn't. That's the point of the article. However, this problem is not exclusive to crypto cards. The person in question turned to crypto in the first place because her bank/Paypal/etc blocked her. With crypto, at least there are non-magic alternatives: p2p, crypto ATMs, etc
Eppie is a decentralized email with full address and account ownership
> Chinese state-owned company

As China is a country with a communist government, isn't that redundant?
On property they own

Ownership that is regulate and enforced by the state; if you own it according to the rules, you use it according to the rules. If you want to do something else, you can step outside the rules and best of luck to you.
I would hope that they controlled for such systematic effects in the experiment (did not read the paper) by mixing individuals from both groups (my guess would be that they do not look different). I guess they should have also modified some other random gene in the control. Did they actually?

However, I find it very interesting that all those important details seem somewhere hidden in the paper. Also I guess if you consider a 10x increase between the species and then end up with 4% this sound really far less spectacular.
how much VRAM do you need to run quantised 7b model?
Ukrainians Are Cutting Open U.S. Cluster Shells to Make Drone Munitions
I'm unconvinced that motherhood is a theme of Frankenstein? The subtitle ("The Modern Prometheus") suggests "a second, technological Creation" is more the intent. I'm hoping you're going to be able to convince me I'm wrong, though.

Alien/s, now that's SciFi about motherhood.

I guess if I was going to approach "cyberpunk Frankenstein" I'd end up somewhere adjacent to Michael Marshall Smith's Spares ("human clones, the ultimate health insurance").
Communications barriers slowed the inrush of the sociopaths into whatever was hip at internet speed they arrive on the scene faster than the normies do.

So for communities to form there has to be other barriers. The foundational ideas being distasteful batshit is one option, but it's probably not the only one.

You might be surrounded by interesting countercultures and not even know about it: whatever properties save them from instant commoditization also keep you out.
That's a very amicable framing of what basically amounts to an inability to judge sources and adequately process information, coupled with a taste for consequence-free, amoral behavior and an authoritarian mindset.
Five Things AI: Open Challenges, Copyright, Health, Lilli, COBOL
The entire 3D printing community has switched to discord
there is no more forum, blogs or something else; even reddit was not able to compete with discord, and that was before the blackout in June. Since then, a lot of 3D printing subreddits are closed or only accessible in archive mode.
So what does it means in practice?

I have 30 different discord servers on the 3D printing topic (across the others i use for gaming or friends), each with 50+ different channels, not counting subchannels. For the Voron 3D Printing, i have the official Discord + 4 other fans discords including 3 in my local language. You cannot read everything, as chats are mixing high quality information but also random chats not usefull.

Some discords are only available if you pay a montly fee on Patreon
Some discords are completely empty but make a "news announcement" some times to times that is not published elsewhere that is why i keep them in my list
You have to manually pickup the notification otherwise some servers are constantly spamming.

Of course you cannot search across all discords at the same time and discord is picky with typos so if you search "pizze" across the pizza-discordverse you will get nothing
specifically for each precise component reference, you have to search the servers 1 by 1, this is really painfull
Discord is trying to create their version of reddit threads but that is shitty and not usefull in practice

It was a fantastic platform back to the covid period but now it's becoming very complex and not usable; the main pain point is that (as instagram) is it not indexed on any search engine.
I didn't RTFA completely so it migh very well be in there, but Æ is Latin for AE. So your are absolutely correct.
In June of this year (there are no snapshots for July), his Twitter bio included the phrase 'lover of open source'. Nowadays it says instead 'passionate about indie software' (as well as stressing that he's no longer in leadership at Hashicorp).

https://web.archive.org/web/20230614095444/https://twitter.c...
If they learn world models, those world models are incredible poor, i.e., there is no consistency of thought in those world models.

In my experience, things outside coding quickly devolve into something more like "technobabble" (and in coding there is always a lot of made-up stuff that doesn't exists in terms of functions etc.).
I’m just pondering this, and it’s not clear to me that there is anything intrinsic in the genome itself that explicitly’says’ “this sequence of DNA bases encodes a protein” or even “these three base-pairs equate to this amino acid”.

I wonder if that information could ever really be untangled by a civilisation starting entirely from scratch without access to a cell
Personally, I think commercial open source (COSS) technologies are pretty much the only solution to this problem. This way you aren't beholden to a company stopping their service and leaving you on your own. COSS ensures the project is maintained and if it isn't you can always self-host and migrate on your timeline instead of a vendor mandated timeline.
It seems like professor Higashiyama is really conducting research in perception, not so much psychology, as it is understood popularly. He also seems skeptical of what is commonly er perceived as psychological research- and I share his skepticism. FTA:

>> Many studies place importance on overt, conscious actions like seeing and listening. And some psychologists conclude that people are of one personality type or another based on questionnaires that lack evidence, and which are therefore indistinguishable from fortune-telling.

>> “So, people have biases in their understanding,” explains Higashiyama. “The same importance as placed on sight and hearing has to be placed on physical information as well, and conclusions must be based on evidence. Researchers need to be aware of the fact that the field of psychology runs the risk of changing people’s lives.”
I haven't read the proposed legislation but I expect in practical terms it means such expenditure can't be treated as a business expenditure for tax purposes but still impacts the balance sheet. Whether or not that's good or bad I have no opinion.
what monetary policy suppresses wage growth? (I know little on this subject and am curious)
Can someone please explain to me why sharedrop does not work with VPN / TOR?

Does anyone know of any alternatives that work with VPN / TOR?

I love the fact that sharedrop is open source, you can host it yourself, it works without registration/login and you don't need to install anything except a browser.
> is designed to go places that have never been accessible to humans or robots before.

Cool on paper, but what about battery endurance, how long it will last? Assuming there are no solar panels like the ones on the rovers

> The liquid ocean beneath the frozen surface of Enceladus? EELS could tunnel its way there and look for evidence that the Saturnian moon might be hospitable to life.

Also, I am really interested to know how their radio waves will penetrate through all that and still have a proper feed/C2 link despite the distance, even if it is laggy?
Well, the problem is that putting a price tag on government services makes them exclusionary to those who can't (or can barely) afford it while making no difference to those who easily can. It's like the old saying about fines: if you punish a crime with a fine, you only make it illegal for poor people.

That said, the processing time is probably more costly than the direct expenses because having to wait longer means you likely already pay a part of the mortage rate (most banks have start-up costs on these loans and you are generally expected to secure the loan before you have the approval). The entire process is expensive enough for the actual fees not to be a meaningful issue.
Good for the shareholders and for all the ones who worked and devoted themselves to research and solve all of these new challenging problems.

We also need more Nvidias. More competition in the chipset industry.
Just to further this, it's not just 'big names' that feel this way. Read this paper from a team at Microsoft Research: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 . These folks spent months studying properties of GPT-4, that paper is ~150 pages of examples probing the boundaries of the model's world understanding. There is obviously some emergent complexity arising from the training procedure.
Parrots are pretty intelligent. Seems like a an unfair analogy
For me only the advertisement in the webpage was geolocalized: in Germany everything was in English except the ad was in German
Doctors are paid better than SEs, arent they?
Tbh I've had the same issue delivering my own 1.x software with 0.x dependencies and my argument has always been that it's my problem, not the client's, so "do not worry". Being realistic, no sw offers any guarantees and Zig's 1.0 stability is more of a "contract" than a "guarantee".
>SWEs could halt the fiat economy tomorrow through collective action

From my experience, modern SWEs are the workers' category least likely to get involved in any kind of collective action. They're too self centered and individualistic for that.

Everyone's too busy trying to get "theirs", while kicking down the ladder beneath them, thinking they'll be the next Larry Page.

It wasn't always like this though. I think the insane demand and crazy compensation levels in the last decade changed the mentality and inflated the egos, reducing compassion and empathy, turning SWEs in the new finance bros, except more introverted and doing less cocaine.
Or, we could just pay semiconductor work for what it is, producing the most advanced technology on the planet.

$250,000 in 2023 dollars is about what my father made as a power lineman in 1970, at $15 an hour.

It was a well paid, union trade. But we need to put this in perspective. People don’t want to work for less than a blue collar job was worth in the 70s.

Housing prices (on average) are not that high, wages are ridiculously low in real terms.

The average home price in 2023 is about 350,000 in the USA, about 44,000 in 1970s dollars. That’s 1.5-3 years wages as a journeyman tradesman in 1970s dollars, if she were paying the cash equivalent of 350k for a house.

Of course housing was both typically smaller and much more cheaply built in 1970, and for 350k today you are getting twice the square footage, and a much higher quality structure.

Since an average home in 1970 would have been around half the size and 1/3 the price in inflation adjusted dollars, I think it’s safe to say that the thing that has changed here is primarily that wages are simply not enough to incentivise workers.

Any skilled job that doesn’t pay at least 250k is simply not worth investing the time and effort to get the skills for.

COVID gave people a chance to step back and value their time, interrupting the zombie death march toward slave wages. Now capital needs to readjust its expectations of how much they will have to pay to extract 90 percent of the surplus value of a persons life.
If you don't yet know about it - https://media.ccc.de/ is also pretty good.
how's the generation speed on CPU?
I get your concerns with no-code, but would you not agree that an Open Source alternative - with long-term viability - is a better investment.
Go ahead :)

Edit: it seems I've posted on passive-dynamic walking on HN before. Not a video, but an article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11801334

Seven years ago. Time flies like a banana!
I don't think the assertion that we've reached the end of current wave of AI is correct. It hasn't even been rolled out to anything yet.

Once it is fully integrated into os/browser/corporate workspace and the MBA's have thrown LLMs at every business problem they can think of then perhaps but right now it hasn't even left high tech circles
Hm... According to commit activity and high number of issues, looks like this project is almost dead. Anyway I tried to use it once and I got an impression it's too complicated and unreliable. I don't remember any details.
The display on my Samsung S21 (with original, unchanged screen) turns pinkish when I'm wearing polarized sunglasses - presumably it's filtering out part of the blue wavelengths. Mildly irritating when I'm driving and using it to navigate.
I don't get it. McDonalds can fully automate their restaurants and chooses not to.

There is a crisis in housing and house prices, but we are not automating house production.

The electric car revolution is hitting growth barriers, waiting for cities to electrify enough to support a full car fleet.

None of the problems are primarily technological, they are a failure of resource discovery and electrical infrastructure.

But resource exploitation has got a bad rap and men are not populating materials science, geology, agriculture, ect at university.

We don't need manufacturing, restaurants and trades that can be automated (or made efficient) with technology.

We need more resources and more material wealth, for labour, to labour towards.
There was, at one point, a very positive, non-ad related, Google project targeting microtransactions for supporting content on the net without having to create full business relationships etc. - Google Contributor.

Like many google things touching payments, it unfortunately started in such limited area that it couldn't have any future other than cancellation for lack of interest, because most interested people couldn't use it...
You could say exactly the same of all data; it's just 1s and 0s, but when I look I just see blonde, brunette.
I did, but accidents happen, those are usually farmers and aren’t trained engineers with all safety measures, someone could have an oil tank nearby and someone/car bump into it or similar scenarios.
What discrete realistic experiment would “definitively rule out” life or water on the entire planet?
How many samples would need to be microscopically analyzed to prove the negative?
it's a thing already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy
> While you are correct, the differences between different people's DNA is tiny, less 1% at best

How do we know this, if we have only sequenced the chromosome of one individual?
I suppose it's indeed possible to read the assignment as "print whatever you like as long as it includes 10 or more primes" but I'd fail you for that based on not being able to communicate with humans.
Zoom CEO raises eyebrows by saying people need to go back to the office
Isn’t ownership of land regulated by the state pretty much everywhere?
I have seen them in the late '90s, but in Flash
And using a server-side include to fetch it from a cache.
the sun.
Until you can solve the climate crisis with batteries alone you need other solutions to step-in in the meantime.

Also, batteries don't help when the electricity is in the middle of nowhere and not connected to the grid.
One that I wrote for myself...

https://github.com/cu/silicon
Yeah, and to my understanding we're not specifically looking for it as the uranium isn't really that expensive at the moment. The largest plant in Finland needs 128 tons of uranium for the fuel to be fully loaded which on a quick calculation is $57 per pound * 2.2 pounds per kilo * 128000 kilos = around $16M and based on a quick search it lasts from three to five years.

Since the fuel is cooled in water ponds for decades before it is processed, even in the case of a nuclear industry boom there's ample lead time to alter the plans if running out of materials seems to become an issue. I'd be much more worried about usage of oil as it is the base material for a lot of different things like medicines, and we're burning the stuff away (granted, we can do synthetic hydrocarbons, but the whole thing with oil is a bigger problem in my books than running out of uranium; it's still there to be retrieved if it really comes down to it).
> When it's full, the Finland plan is to fill in everything, seal it off, and not mark it. If some future society can drill through that much hard rock, they probably know about radiation, since that's a routine hazard in mining.

Reminds me of that Star Trek episode where Data, confused, walked with an suitcase with irradiated materials to a village that was just discovering the basic elements. They got irradiated because they couldn't understand the radiation symbols on the suitcase.
> All demos I saw which use LLMs were spectacular.

Aren't demos always spectacular?
Not defending OPs POV but you're reading between the lines an awful lot and making value judgements.

Perhaps they use frameworks and write CSS at scale. You don't know and failed to enquire, instead becoming defensive and robbing the circumstance of the chance for productive conversation. Shame.
What happened in 2016?
>What makes you think those democracies actually choose good leaders? Honestly, I'm not aware of any countries that consistently pick good leaders; all systems for choosing leaders (democratic or otherwise) are bad, so debating them is just about debating which is less bad. Some are much worse than others.

I don't think that at all. Any bourgeois democracy has fundamental failings. I just disagree with your characterisation of compulsory voting as being stupid.

>You still haven't proven that voters in compulsory countries are actually being made to care and are conscientiously picking a candidate based on any real research.

You haven't proven that they're just ticking a box randomly like you originally said. There are other benefits of compulsory voting, as well, like it being significantly more difficult to suppress voters.
> adhd + addictive drugs? Head scratcher. I have a nagging suspicion it’s the next OxyContin, personally.

Can't speak for all of them, but I don't feel any drive to take them beyond getting the positive effects. I even have a reminder otherwise I forget it.

It's basically a meme repeated by many people with ADHD by this point about how they forget to be addicted to those dangerous drugs.
is there precedence for linux adding new APIs which wrap old APIs, don't implement some features of the old APIs, and add their own new functionality on top?

It seems like a recipe for disaster, but also maybe it's the only realistic way you can go to maintain backwards compatibility.
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