skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent around a decade in enterprise digitalisation, and now work with organisations transitioning from startup to enterprise along on their journey, and I’ve never seen a good low-code platform. PowerApps are fine though, it’s certainly a lot better than what came before it, but you’re very likely going to end up with terrible flows that lack documentation, testability, maintainability and are far too dependent on certain employees who will easily find better pastures as their low-code platform skills grow.

This doesn’t really have anything to do with the low-code tools in my experience. It has far more to do with your organisation, and how it’s put itself into a position where it has in-house software developers but are now using “unprofessionals” to “make do”. Usually because the development teams can’t deliver business value fast enough for whatever reason, but your process people can. The issue is that low-code applications don’t really scale well over time. They can, if you take them stipulated, but if your organisation did take things seriously then you probably wouldn’t be here because you’re worried about the impact they PowerApps will have on your team. So my guess is that they will have an impact and that you’re likely not in much of a position to do that much about it.

So here are your options the way I see it, and I know that’s not exactly what you asked, but instead of trying to look for a good technology to solve your organisational challenges, try looking at your processes instead. Why is your organisation turning to PowerApps? Is it because your SWR teams can’t deliver value fast enough? If so, then can you do anything to change that? Stuff like that.

I wouldn’t be too optimistic about it though. These issues are very well explored in things like Conways law and more recently in Team Topologies, and their solutions is often going to be alter organisational processes and practices which you sort of can’t do from the bottom up. Because if your leadership took digitalisation seriously you wouldn’t really be worried about whether or not the use of PowerApps, RPA, whatever else, will impact your team.
One line of text is often so much better than blah blah youtube blah.

TLDR always confused me. I'd rather read 10 paragraphs in a minute, than sit through 10 minutes of "hi, I'm Joe X, and this is my blah blah..."
LLVM 17.0 and Clang 17.0 Released with Many New Compiler Features
american: china commie, no free speech, dictactorship, blabla..

also american: ...
Don't need to be a chef to know the food stinks
Don't need to be an expert, just need a working memory to see "14 days to slow the spread" or "if you get your 2 shots you have a 99% IMMUNITY from Covid" are bullshit.
We left the EU 3 years ago, not 7.
- https://www.startpage.com/sp/search

... still supports it. Great search engine. Great story behind it.-
They can't, it's an existential threat for them, just as they won't kill google search. They must integrate their index with the bot because somebody else will, too (looking at you, bing) and then it'll be a fast smooth ride downhill.
You Need to Try Astro
Note that social media can also act as public forums, which aren’t protected in the way entirely private institutions are. For instance, newspaper organizations are in a similar territory.
Right, I didn't notice that. I apologize.
> Nobody can (successfully) run a plastics plant with decades of old hardware knowledge and expect to be in business another 20 years.

You would be surprised - I've seen production lines 30+ years old running profitably.

Note this was not plastics moulding - this was producing raw plastics/petrochemical facility.
I don't understand the persistent need for people to foreground "The Media" as some actor in these situations.

In both cases, They relayed information and They are not a monolith, and often, if not always, the screeds about They betray an extreme lack of rigor and play on emotions
Yeah. That seems like a design decision that will scale poorly. For reference, even in my dinky 100M index I have individual terms with several gigabytes of associated document references.

In general hash map table index designs don't tend to be very efficient. If you use a skip list or something similar, you can calculate the intersection between sets in sublinear time.
Focus on one goal instead of spreading yourself thin
I did that too: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/berlin-burgeramt-appointme...

It took me a few months to get it sanctioned by Berlin's IT department, and I could not replicate that success with other services. However it's a start.
It's possible (Unity did it to C#, a magnitude more complex a language than Python), but at the same time we are not short on choices for other languages to extend upon. Google even made a few of those languages themselves.

There's just been no demand to make Python crazy fast, not to the scale where even Google will throw their engineers at it. Python's use cases aren't in real-time applications so that level of performance concern is simply not needed for many. And those that do will use anything else on the backend, from C to Go, maybe even Javascript.
He's not getting a massive boost to his views this week because of the content though, but because he's an alleged sex offender.

Of all the people demonetised by YouTube, already rich man can't profit from allegations of sex offences unless he can find brands willing to pay him directly has to be one of the least sympathetic.
Author again,
https://github.com/Ruddle/EconomySimulator
Yes, but that's a separate product from Bard: https://blog.google/products/search/generative-ai-search/
Let's be honest. Do you think Russell Brand would have been cancelled this hard if he was a boring centrist instead of spending the past 18 months talking about Ukrainian "bio-Nazi labs"?

Neurodivergent people are being persecuted for wrongthink.
That's a better title -- thanks!
I thought this was about training on a webcam feed, live..
or it would cost a lot to build to detect via signal?
Tell HN: Google censors positive reviews for a local police station in Poland/EU
Tried to post a postive 5 star review "profesjonalna pomoc[pl] "professional help[en]" (tongue in cheek) review for a local abusive police station in Sanok/Poland/EU.

"Co się stało
W tym miejscu często pojawiają się treści naruszające zasady Google. Aby temu zapobiec, wyłączyliśmy możliwość publikowania. "
"What happened
This is where content that violates Google policies often appears. To prevent this, we have disabled publishing." [translate.google.com]

https://imgur.com/KrAOg29
https://www.google.com/maps/place/District+Police+Headquarters+in+Sanok/@49.5581712,22.2140464,16z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x473c727df3861959:0x532b133b8ee2114d!8m2!3d49.5590532!4d22.219452!16s%2Fg%2F1tlbshcc?entry=ttu
https://archive.ph/XfIdR
All weapons reexports should be specifically authorized — this is a general international rule (otherwise e.g. Iran could buy Western weapons through reexport agreements). Switzerland used to have a policy for decades that only direct exports were allowed — that directly follows from our neutrality doctrine.

Switzerland has already abandoned lots of its neutrality policies when we (rightfully) joined EU sanctions against Russia, in full. But weapons reexports are the final red line. Otherwise Switzerland will not be able to consider itself a neutral country, which will create a lot of undesirable consequences.
I defined sentience as experiencing qualia, then decided to back up my assertion that most people consider animals to be sentient with an example. Pain is the one animal sensation humans care about, so I picked animal cruelty. I chose chickens because they're the dumbest animal that humans worry about hurting. I'm sorry that you've taken umbrage with my example. I didn't select fruit flies because I don't think a majority of humans necessarily consider them sentient, or sentient enough to count - nearly everyone squashes them without thinking.

It's funny you talk about academic stammering meeting the real world, because that's what's happening right now with philosophy. These LLMs are real-life philosophical zombies, if they're not sentient. We've literally implemented Searle's Chinese Room!

I'm not saying LaMDA was actually sentient, or that we need to pull any fire alarms, I'm just saying that it's hubris to think that it's an easy question with an obvious answer, and that Lemoine was a schmuck for being skeptical when told it wasn't.

Also, calling my post "an absolute slurry" and a "rain puddle deep thought" wasn't very nice, and technically breaks guidelines.
Not sure if your question is flippant/rhetorical, but in case you're genuinely curious: ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan, the initiative that set up the "postal codes" that we call ZIP codes.

I don't quite recall, but I think ZIP may actually be a backronym; in US English, "zip" is a word that also means "to move quickly", and they wanted to evoke a feeling that postal mail gets delivered faster when you include the ZIP code, which makes sorting mail more efficient.
That argues that how we pay for housing to be built is currently broken. One solution is for the government to subsidize the building of housing, which would let prices go below that lower limit.
Not even remotely comparable. One was just not good enough, the other was user-hostile bullshit.
We've developed a low-code solution for building web apps: Lowdefy - A config web stack for business apps.

We've taken this approach because we believe that building in a GUI only, is just not productive and restricts developers. Also, many low-code frameworks do not have first class support for Git work flow, and code review becomes worthless or impossible.

Lowdefy makes code review easy, so you can write low-code web apps like you write code, but with the abstraction benefits of a low-code framework.

We've been using Lowdefy for the past 4 years to build enterprise applications for customers, anything from large multi-company CRMs to call centre solutions, various ticketing and customer support portals, even an MRP in the food production space, and so many dashboard reports. What I like most about working with Lowdefy, is that it abstracts the business logic from the tech and makes maintaining a large number of apps easy.

Check out our website and repo, and let me know if you'd like a demo of what can be built with Lowdefy.

https://lowdefy.com

https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy
Emacs were pretty productive but sometimes overcomplicated imo. Remember TRAMP mode?
The media is not a single entity.

It is an industry comprised of multiple companies each with their own agendas, viewpoints etc. The publications involved in investigating Brand are not the same ones that profited from his exploits.

And even if they did profit in the past does not mean they relinquish any right to atone for their mistakes. Hollywood tried to change and improve after the Weinstein situation. And so should the UK industry as Brand isn't the only one accused.

We are talking about multiple cases of rape and sexual assault some involving a 16 year old girl. We need to not lose sight of who the real victims are here.
Copy-left licenses can work better for companies than non-copy-left licenses, if those companies are actually interested in improving the thing or creating the thing. They can release as GPL or AGPL and then profit from others contributing. If they released as MIT or other non-copy-left license, any competitor can use and modify without contributing back, which is the actual scenario any company should be afraid of. Copy-left actually helps companies that are not simply leeching.
But this is Britain. The UK has never had the same range of speech as the US or France.
I'd like just to say thanks for all the longstanding efforts of FSF and GNU. While one could debate minutiae to oblivion, it's hard to dismiss the core ideas, particularly in light of the continuous stream of facts and events that unequivocally validate the very real threats and maliciousness that this movement stands against.

Free Software in general contributes significantly to keeping the environment I live in more trustworthy, friendlier, and less threatening. That's no small feat and I can only express my sincere gratitude to everyone involved.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but isn’t this exactly what trial by TV is? Trial by its nature presents evidence (strong or not), but the point of trial by TV is that the public, not the court, decides the legality of actions, where legality is interpreted broadly.
Precisely. It never "roots out". Use and subsequent abuse of power is a fundamental human trait. All we can do to rectify it is to put systems and bodies of people in place to punish infractions that harm both the institution and society and, where possible and reasonable, prevent the people who might abuse said power from entry into the organizations in the first place.
As a small country, Switzerland will not be able to finance its world-class scientific infrastructure independently. It is a catastrophe. International cooperation is crucial in science.
As a westerner, when Japanese names are written out, I like having the family name capitalized. That way, you can write YAMADA Koji or Koji YAMADA, and I'll know what to call you.
It is a prevalent misconception that contract management software is only for large enterprises. Small firms can benefit from digital contract management technologies just as much as major corporations. Immediately request a live demo of Dock 365's Contract Management Software.
Both intellij/pycharm/… and vscode work with WSL these days. Dev tools have to adapt or die, more people seem to use WSL every day. Where I’m now, one of the blockers is the VPN/network issues mentioned here, so I imagine even more devs moving after that is sorted out
I'm not trolling, I'm just wondering why people care some much when their data goes to China or Russia and not to US.

PS: I'm EU citizen and, according to the Schrems II verdict, US laws are absolutely inadequate when speaking about personal data and privacy.
GitHub Copilot obviates the need for these platforms, in my humble opinion. You don't need "low-code", you want "low-effort coding". You want something quick and dirty that does 80% of the work.
> Kind of funny that it is assumed that a human-operated vehicle would be more prompt in getting out of the way.

Honestly I think it is silly to assume not. People (in general) have a pretty good intuition if EMS is coming their way.

Beyond that, this is a commercial service that is to be rolled out en-masse, it has to be better than the average human or else you will have lawsuits left and right.

> I think the fact that the vehicles stop is better. Emergency vehicles can use any lane even for opposite traffic - so go around them.

That is not a tenable solution.
I agree that corporations shouldn't punish people for alleged deeds that are not proven in a court of law — that is, unless it affects them directly.

Imagine a barkeeper throwing someone out for a misbehaviour that has been communicated to them. That misbehaviour hasn't been proven in a court of law, it might even be the case that the barkeeper read the situation wrongly and threw that person out despite their innocence. Yet they should have the right to decide that, otherwise they wouldn't be able to enfore any kind of house rules unless they have two sworn witnesses for anything that happens.

Now the pressing question is whether youtube is in a comparable situation here. Russel Brand, whether he is innocent or not, could now — with all the spotlights pointed at him — use that situation to produce more outrage — outrage that would make him a shitton of money that would be coming from YouTube. Seen from that perspective that move from youtube might be more of a strategic preventive measure to avoid dragging their platform into it without having to censor the guy than any form of punishment (although it will be read as such).

Btw. I am not defending that position, I still think it is problematic and I still think social media platforms that resemble some sort of public square should have higher free speech standards than they do, but pick one freedom for corporations or free speech for it's customers, you cannot have both.
In the browser the google office suite absolutely beats microsoft’s, even after years of benign neglect by google. Comparing the desktop microsoft apps vs the google web apps I would say the microsoft stuff is more fully featured, but slow and more confusing to use.
- A study was conducted with BCG (Boston Consulting Group). The experiment involved 758 consultants.

- Consultants across the skills distribution benefited significantly from having AI augmentation, with those below the average performance threshold increasing by 43% and those above increasing by 17% compared to their own scores.

- The analysis shows the emergence of two distinctive patterns of successful AI use by humans along a spectrum of human AI integration. One set of consultants acted as “Centaurs,” dividing and delegating their solution-creation activities
to the AI or to themselves. Another set of consultants acted more like “Cyborgs,” completely integrating their task flow with the AI and continually interacting with the technology.
It's not going to be true for every conspiracy or every conspiracy theorist, but like most things in the US you can connect a lot of dots with racism.

In the Robert Moses era mass transit was destroyed because it benefited poor African American communities, and highways were put down to tear apart their neighborhoods. Today, people use "urban" as a dog whistle for "black".

People decided the pandemic was no big deal and we should just let it rip in the US the moment early data showed it affected African Americans and other minorities more than whites.

It may not be the true explanation all of the time, but if you ask yourself if there could be a racist motivation for adopting a particular set of odd views, it's amazing how easy it is to connect the dots.
Nintendo more evil than Microsoft. What the fuck are you talking about? As if couple DMCAs are even a blip in the ocean that is Microsoft's evilness.
Relative to QA in the gaming industry I assume. I'm pretty sure (though I'm making significant assumptions, apply pinches of salt as appropriate) our testers are on less than our “standard” developers, certainly not more (though I think more than the junior/grad level), and that this holds for places friends work at.

How much “a respected part of the development process” holds true varies a lot in my experience, and depends on your PoV. A lot of places consider QA to be much less skilled work, a step (maybe two) above shelf-stacking, but still consider it vital to project success and needing enough thinking & understanding that it is far from all automatable.

> QA is a career that

In terms of career, I get the impression that QA management is much more respected and paid, but that there is comparatively less demand for people of those higher positions so upwards movement can be slow/difficult. This is one of the reasons why a lot of people who start in QA move sideways into development: there is greater opportunity for moving up.
That was *impossible* to *read* for *some* reason.
I believe this is just reality for a lot of Governments with procurement biddings. Just replace here the IT solution with other projects like construction (very profitable or so I hear), mining, office supplies like laptops, and etc.

It's such a cliché that I'm already tired at this point. I'm completely baffled as to why people keep voting these people for over two decades and obeying the vote-buying (when they can easily just keep the money and vote for the better/lesser evil candidates).

At least in Germany, it's a lot less blatant.
It's much worse than you think here. Germany is in the stone age when it comes to digitalization. As an example, most immigrants will be waiting months to hear back from the Auslanderbehorde - and the only way to get them to reply to you within 2 weeks is to send them a fax.
This is just a desperate move to gain some users because nobody is using Opera. I stick to Brave/Firefox
OT/IoT and OpenTitan, an Open Source Silicon Root of Trust
Because Microsoft is smart thinking long term and doesn't care about an outdated model of selling consoles anymore, as it sees the future revenues comes from owning valuable IP and monetizing that instead on all the gaming platforms, regardless on which hardware you use to paly it: Xbox, PS5, Switch, Steam, iOS, Android, Linux, MacOS, tablets, smart-TVs, etc., they don't care, they'll gladly take your money regardless if you have an Xbox or not.

They're slowly dethatching themselves from the console HW and moving to selling services the same way the detached from Windows and Office as the core products and made more money selling O365 and Azure subscriptions including their arch nemesis Linux.

That's why they keep selling CoD to the competitor's Sony PlayStation instead of making it an Xbox excusive like Sony and fans feared they would. People, and Sony, still don't get it, that Microsft's new business model is monetizing IPs and services, not selling more console HW thanks to exclusives like the old days. They'll probably make more money form Candy Crush than Sony makes from Last of us on PlayStation.

Holding on to the "console war" ("muh console sold more than your console!") is just silly and outdated. The big money is now gonna be in IP and services, not selling console HW, and Apple also knows this which is why it focuses more on new services for existing customers (ApleTV, credit cards, SOS satelite, etc) and less on selling more iPhones to new customers as the hardware market is already saturated.

Nintendo will outlast the Xbox, but Microsoft will outlast Nintendo.
> you need to save the form as a PDF or a readable text file

Why?

In this case, the data will live for a few weeks at most. The goal would be a QR code that contains the data as a hash: https://forms.berlin/#[form data]. This is to avoid storing or seeing any user data.

I was also considering a P2P solution with WebRTC. This would let you transmit your form without the server seeing the data. You'd just need to both visit a URL at the same time.

The idea is that I can't store private information, and the Bürgeramt can't install any new software.
I've passed this on to our web-dev chap on our discord. Thanks for providing the feedback; I suspect mobile wasn't fully tested!
If Switzerland is 'neutral' then it should neither deliver weapons to one side of a war nor take part in sanctions against a party to a conflict which are not enacted by the UN (since Switzerland is a member).
It's a shame how far Opera has fallen. From industry leaders with a lightweight web browser with arguably the fastest rendering engine, and one of the earliest implementation of tabs, novel web experiences with Opera Unite, most compatible and fastest mobile web browser in the pre-smartphone era, to... a Chinese owned Chrome copycat with gimmicky features and practical irrelevance.

I'm surprised it's still alive, but I guess the advertising business model and these marketing deals are lucrative enough to keep it running.
I made a tool for that: https://allaboutberlin.com/tools/appointment-finder
Spring is an open source engine

Recoil is a rename/fork of Spring

BAR is a game using the Recoil engine (ZeroK is also a game using the Recoil engine)
I think he's joking about the parent saying the name of that individual prevented the massacre.
He is alleged to have raped and sexually assaulted a number of girls. One as young as 16.

He is alleged to have passed along a girl to a known pedophile.

I actually don't care who the person is. If that is true then they should be in jail. End of story.
I agree. I much prefer to read than watch a video, especially for technical content.