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This may be a stupid question, but there's England, Britain, Great Britain, The City, United Kingdom, and The Commonwealth, and whathavewe... All is somewhat related, some is (sometimes) part of something else, but nothing is quite the same it seems. It's not easy for a non-native to navigate what is what among this set of boxes-in-boxes ...

> Brexit has failed for UK

Did UK exit, or did Britain? is this the same thing, or did the article headline mess something up?

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That said, congrats to Britain/UK for leaving, and thanks for showing all of us remaining in the so-called "Union" that there is still hope, and a leave is indeed possible (at least as a last resort if things turn too distasteful). I for one is absolutely certain that it is too soon to analyze consequences at this early stage where there's still too much post-Brexit turbulence - also I feel confident that in ten year's time or so it will prove to have been beneficial for you (as a country) to leave. If you don't re-enter that is. At the very least you will still be a country (boxes-in-boxes, imperial measurements, left-side driving, pints, pubs, pounds, and all.)
> Weird to see this cited with the year 2017,

That's what I was thinking, he didn't pass away so recently.

Looked it up and he passed away in 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_(bicycle_mechani...
Trust. There's no way to fully know. And even if you did there's way to abuse it anyway once you grant permission.

If you care deeply about privacy then the best thing to do is self-host.
The house's thermal mass would also limit the data rate.
If the company is controlled by distant, diffuse, anonymous investors indirectly, they are much more likely to demand instant profits and encourage rich leadership to screw the workers. Wealth invariably (but not always) makes people less humane and more arrogant.

The solution to avoid this Kafkaesque trap multitudes are willing to saddle around their necks is worker-owned co-ops.
Amazon's New Echo Frames Can't Touch the Ray-Ban Meta
Landscapes Made for Satellite Eyes: Calibration Targets, Resolution Tests (2014)
I’ve never taken calculus (the last math class I took was an algebra class in high school in the late 1980s). But I read a description of calculus once that used the example of trying to figure out the length of a coastline and described how one could use smaller and smaller sections to estimate the length and this is what calculus is all about. But, this article doesn’t mention calculus at all, so now I’m wondering if my impression of what calculus is used for is all wrong.
You can use snooze to get to zero while waiting on things.
Well out of the box Android doesn't even come with an SSH daemon. I run one sometimes through termux but it's not standard.

And some of the functionality it offers doesn't really have an SSH equivalent, like the install command.
I do almost all of my work in the database. I don't know if you want to call that "low code" or not. Evidently, it doesn't look like code to many other developers but then again it precedes current low-code platforms by about 40 years, so who knows?
My version of low code is writing HTML pages with a big script element full of vanilla JavaScript, and putting them in this one git repo we have which gets deployed to a web server.

Obviously it's not actually low code, it's 100% code, but it creates a space without a lot of the complexity and ceremony of 'real' software development. I don't write tests, I don't future-proof, I don't set up deployment or monitoring machinery, I don't worry about anything except solving a small, well-defined problem quickly.

It's definitely not a good approach to everything. But it's quite common for one of my users to say something like "I need a dashboard showing how the current reactor temperatures compare to the averages for yesterday, and also the available cooling water for each one", where that's all data we have existing websocket feeds for, and I can get that to them very quickly without it becoming formal feature development.

Lack of testing and monitoring means the products often break. But when they do it's typically benign - the page doesn't load, or shows no data, and if a user needs to use it, they'll complain, and I can fix it.

If a page ever got too complicated, or too critical, I might want to port it onto real software. But that hasn't happened yet.
Up to what resolution does this need to be recorded in history? Out of all those events, what would be if significance once the century gate opens in 2100? I suspect that general vibe-shift and dynamics are important, but all the constituent dramas may be just that — small personal dramas.
"Low code" means a low surface area of code you can directly interface with, but there's plenty of code shoved out of sight and out of reach. Total amount of code is probably actually quite a bit larger, actually, given all the code needed to create the abstraction layers to give the appearance of low code.

Layers of abstraction are powerful when they're tight and well-suited to their purpose (I'm happy to never think about memory allocation -- thank you garbage collected languages!), but when leaky or ill-suited can be very frustrating and make things harder or impossible.

It's hard -- probably impossible actually -- to build a "general purpose" abstraction layer that will work for specific purposes, but that's essentially the pitch of low code -- we don't know your specific use case, but we have a tool that will abstract away all the code previously tailored to that use case.

Now, in fairness, there's a lot of code that has too much accidental complexity in it. A good abstraction layer strips away that accidental complexity and leaves only the essential complexity that's specific to your domain and use case. But that's hard to achieve -- it takes skill and experience (and not just general experience, but specific to your domain experience) to achieve. Most companies don't have that available to them, and don't want to pay rates to build teams that do have that skill set and experience. Low code holds out the promise of being a short cut to that, but clearly if your own dev team can't manage it, the odds of a generic platform doing it for you is slim to none.
Systematizer's Guide to Sucking Less at Singing
Is the issue not enough talent in the US, or not enough talent at a desired salary range? One of the guys here is talking about people making 30k USD. My guess is there is not much American talent at that pay range, even if there's plenty of talent available here generally.
Jaw-Dropping News: Boeing and Lockheed Just Matched SpaceX's Prices
Training stores a variation of the source material, which is arguably distribution. And selling the result or selling access to it certainly is. So fair use applies, and hoping a court thinks the process is transformative to count as fair use. Given original material can be spat out, my money is on a court thinking this is about as transformative as a compression algorithm.
> A standard CS program will cover statistics

> graphics is a very common and popular elective

I find these statements to be extremely doubtful. Why would a CS program cover statistics? Wouldn't that be the math department? If there any required courses, it's most likely Calc 1/2, Linear Algebra, and Discrete Math.

Also, out of the hundreds of programmers I've met, I don't know any that has done graphics programming. I consider that super niche.
I'm renting an apartment in Germany in a building from around 1900 and I do have a clause requiring me to open my windows at least once a day for at least 5 minutes. Not sure that if it's legally enforceable, but if clauses about keeping some minimum temperature indoors are binding (judging from the fact that the government made them explicitly invalid at some point in 2022 when the country got left on thin ice after Russian gas got shut off), then I wouldn't be surprised if that one were binding as well.
That Tether expands dollar hegemony is just the story Tether tells the US government to try to convince it not to shut Tether down completely and instead work with Tether to recover dollars backing Tethers in sanctioned wallets. If Tether were backed by another currency, the US government would have less leverage, but it would also be worth less to malicious actors.
Snakes on a Tennis Court
Very neat! Love the iOS native UI.
Inside Scanlation (2010)
I don’t know if there is a chart/research correlating people who do resistance training with life satisfaction over age vs those who don’t. i believe it will be a quite convincing to get people started.
Intended result with made up numbers for purpose of illustration.

Author pays 10x$10 for copies of their book to have/give away. No royalties are owed to anyone on these copies. 5 are returned as damaged they are refunded 50.

100 copies are sold at $20 and 2 per unit are paid to author.

Authors balance sheet

-100
+50
+200

Net +150

What actually happened

-100
+50
+190

Net 140

By re-using the royalty free copies which ought to have been destroyed as damaged they directly took money out of authors pocket and put it into their own whilst dishonoring the spirit of the agreement to pay n dollars per unit.

They didn't bitch about damaged product because such fuck ups come out of Amazon's bottom line whereas a form of theft literally every real publisher would recognize as theft comes out of theirs.
Yes. There are already a few features it offers beyond the newsletter cleaner like the AI automation with more to come.

The overall goal of the app is to help manage email better. It could turn into a full fledged email app one day too.
Calculus and why it doesn’t help here are mentioned in the “mathematical aspects” section of the article
If you can replace 80% of programmers with GPT-4 and maintain the same output, the remaining 20% would have 5x higher productivity.
I have been since the first people at my previous employer told me it would replace all the programmers.

Then I found out the developers assigned to working on the low/no code parts had a component where they could write Java inside their low code process. There were hundreds of lines of code in each business process in the low code parts. They were writing giant methods in their process wired up by the true low/no code part.

To make matters worse the tool did not support unit testing of the custom code.

It ended up being like dozer mapping entity to entity and then passed along to custom code. All wrapped in some crummy UI. It produced a jar file which would be deployed anyways.

Maybe the tools are better now. We had some Tibco product at the time.
I wouldn’t call that low code but yeah the definition is ambiguous. I’m mostly experienced with and referencing flowchart type tools.
Features: https://cuis.st/features

Giving it a whirl in your web browser: https://github.com/nmingotti/The-Cuis-CookBook/wiki/Run-Cuis...
Have you done anything other than restate the initial FUD?

I think I have gone through efforts to elaborate why I think high reliability is achievable over wireless systems. It seems irrational to me to hate wireless so.

If I were a squishy human in a factory, I feel like I would far far far prefer some highly reliable central systems with near godlike omniscience of the factory floor watch things, & use well quantified known wireless channels (albeit no WiFi that exists today, without a lot of other promises) to communicate, than rely on individual robots relying on embodied knowledge. You all sound like cranks to me, given how incredibly fantastically super seriously I would want the former, not the latter.
Calculus deals with things that are sufficiently smooth on a small scale, and thus converges. For example, approximating a circle with smoother and smoother polygons. The length of those polygons will converge to the circumference of the circle.

The coastline paradox is the classic example of a fractal; the dimension of a fractal is actually greater than that of the space it lives within!
Yeah, it's far from optimal, sadly. The best I found for my device were (allegedly) ePM1 70%. We get quite a lot of smoke exposure from badly behaved fireplaces/unsuitable (palette) wood right now and it reeks.

Got any suggestions how I could retrofit a better filter solution for my device (Zehnder ComfoSpot50). It has "slotted" filters like these https://cleanfilter.eu/en/product/zehnder-comfospot-50-filte.... Maybe something to chain outside in front of the intake or inside after the outlet (though I'm afraid I could run the Comfospot out of specs..)?

Or I guess I could kind of suboptimally get a standalone one.

These handheld particle counters look intriguing. Unfortunately a bit on the expensive side... Maybe I can borrow one, might give me some hard data for contacting my municipality about this.
Show HN: Say: Remember Everything (open source)
An open source approach to remotely transcribe everything you say on your Apple Silicon computer.
Note: Relies on Apple Silicon, and configured to only produce Apple Silicon builds.

I think the idea of transcribing everything you say has the potential to change how we interact with our computers, and believe it should be open source. By "it", I mean everything you say.

Also, from a privacy / security perspective, this is like... pretty scary stuff, and I want the code open so we know for certain that everything is leaving your laptop. It's like exposure therapy: if it hurts, do it more often.

(Copycat of "Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)" by jasonjmcghee)

Original Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38787892
Wise choice to only use a metronome to set the initial tempo. Makes the groove flow much more naturally.

How does that work practically with modern DAWs? Since they all centered around tempo grids, the grid dominates the workflow, where to cut etc. How do they get around it?
Luxury is a loaded term, I probably should have used something less vague. The examples you gave are still luxuries even if they're only $10 more than the basic version - the cheaper plane ticket still gets you there, the cheaper wine... I'm not really into wine, expensive wine doesn't taste especially different to me... still gets you drunk?

Google still returns search results. You have to crawl through ads or search in different ways, but your result is still going to be in there. So if Kagi is a price and has extra comfort, it's a luxury.
Some terminal emulators (kitty for sure) support "open last command output in pager". Works great with a pager that can understand ANSI colors - less fussing around with variables and flags to preserve colors in the pager
Yeah, Reagan definitely made me fat. What a jerk!
Useless. Drones are not "seen" with cameras and then identified as drones. They are detected on radar, or by their control signals, and identified based on how they sound electronically. Making it look like a bird to the human eye as useful as it would seem.

If you want to fool a cassual observer, say a soldier glancing upwards occasionally, then shape it like a soaring hawk. But dont bother with flapping wings. Just use a transparent prop. About 1000 feet nobody will tell the difference.
Oh interesting. I think I haven't noticed this because I'm trying to disconnect from Google lately. These days I login on an incognito tab and log out when I'm done. But just with a password.
So NATO bombing of yugoslavia was protection of nato countries? Oh no, wait, it was a direct agression by nato. ...because of fighting with a terrorist group.

Where's the protection from the nato countries?

> Why hasn't Russia established good relationships with those countries, instead of placing corrupt puppets as a way to control them?

The puppets that won the elections and US had to organize a coup to remove? Victoria Nuland was literally giving away cookies there.

Yes, cuba is free to make their choice to be friendly with the soviet union and station missles there. But this was enough for usa to plan a fals flag attack and start a war with cuba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods Luckily back then, diplomacy prevailed, and there was no war there.. but it was close. The embargo is still in play though,... There should be a vote in the UN against the embargo or something... oh wait, there was: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143112 Just look at the results.
What ruins folks these days? Functional?
I'll grant I'm pretty skeptical of those.
I think the people building wind earn the name pro-wind, same for solar as pro-solar, etc. And they are largely focused on their own efforts, as it's a lot of work to build power plants. I don't think online posters deserve to be called pro- anything since they don't really do anything other than talk, and it's mostly negative FUD so if anything they're anti-.

The point I'm trying to make is that it seems that the people who claim to be pro-nuclear aren't actually in favor of nuclear, otherwise they'd be building it. Everyone else is building what they want, everyone except the supposed nuclear group.
When I was about twelve and starting to experiment with electronics, a friend's older brother told me the resistor color code mnemonic which he learned in the US Navy.

It's absurdly terrible. Racist and sexist, not to mention grossly inappropriate for a preteen.

So of course I remembered it instantly, and permanently. I've spoken it aloud maybe twice in my life (among trusted friends and with a longer version of the above disclaimer!), but it rings in my head every single time I even glance at the colored bands on a resistor.
Congratulations you have just invented yet another query language with the special fun addition that the result is non-deterministic.
Love that this is open source. Someone I know built something similar here: https://matchbooks.ai/
I've been involved in identity and access control work for a long time. The problems with open by default include:

1. People are fallible. I'm fallible. Someone fat fingers rm -rf / home/user and boom. At best you have a lot of very expensive engineers now doing firefighting instead of work that makes the company money. See for example Toy Story 2[a]. At worst, the company goes out of business. I don't like to have more access than I need, because if I screw up, and I do, there's no guardrails. If there is some unknowable list of people who have access because everything is open, glitches become that much harder to diagnose.

No hiring process or onboarding system can fix human nature.

2. Firing someone. Everything's open, right? If that person is malicious and you leave even a sliver of access for them, they're in. They can kill the golden goose. It's happened.

3. One hack is all it takes. If a malicious party finds the keys to the castle gate, they also get into the treasury, the queen's bedroom, the armory, the food stores, everything.

> he lost productivity with closed by default

He's been lucky. The productivity lost is peanuts compared to the business itself. I used to say things about "the reputation of the company", but major breaches and IT failures don't seem to make a dent in any company's reputation any more.

a. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
So... are we going to count the wars russia started vs the wars US&allies started?

Genocide is a strong word... how many dead people count as a genocide? Because if russia applies the same rules as US, 500k dead children are worth it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8 ... in a war half a planet away from USA.
Another one is measuring with football fields! We can't resist doing it, nor can we resist complaining about it
To expand on this: The issue is that OOP easily leads you to model your problem into your solution. This has the desired effect of solving the problem, but the likely undesired side effect that your solution encodes a specific problem description.

Thats why this is an issue
All I know is that I was quoted $50K from a Ukraine team to build an MVP, as long as I could provide detailed specs down to every function. I hired an intern who used bubble/airtable to build our product in two months and had ten paying customers in 6 months. After almost two years have yet to find a reason to move to a traditional stack. We have had 6 hours of down time in those two years thanks to bubble issues. I can live with that.
I don’t disagree with the points you make, but not the idea that lack of similar products means this is doomed.

Someone always ends up being first to succeed, and until that point others look in that direction and decide to pursue safer paths.
The original poster didn't mention LE or anything else that uses ACME. It's pretty easy to reuse a key in a bespoke PKI setup; the X.509 builder APIs that I've used make it trivial. Which doesn't make it a good idea, of course.
You must not have looked at sbom files recently. Software complexity is exploding due to the easy availability of libraries for just about anything. It is not uncommon to find dependency trees eith several thousand items for a relatively small piece of software. Adding a new dependency maintained by one person on the Internet seems to evoke little more than a passing thought.
Subscriptions as entertainment are usually good value compared with going to a movie theater or show or especially a concert or sporting event. So there is economy built in. If the monthly budget needs tightening a la Sense and Sensibility then maybe limit subscriptions to one per category - one streaming service, one newspaper subscription and so on. Amazon Prime is a cross-category value that checks a lot of boxes at once. I subscribe to several things but I would never ever consider paying Starbucks prices for something I can brew at home for 35 cents.
How this compares to using cl-lsp[1] with Neovim?

[1]: https://github.com/cxxxr/cl-lsp
in australia i believe its a bachelor of education minimum? with some specialisation in the area you want to teach. this alone puts me off entirely. which is probably why i would be a terrible teacher, so system working as it should? who knows.
> Drones are not "seen" with cameras and then identified as drones

Depends. Not every part of the Ukraine front has state of the art EWAR capabilities (on either side), and is infested with drones.

That said, it's still not that useful IMO simply because soldiers can't really notice normal quadrocopter drones when they're flying high anyway, or even if they can there's so many of them because they're so cheap that it doesn't matter if the drone doesn't make a return trip.

Agreed that bird-like-but-soaring would be a better fit -- I can't see flapping as needed at all
Very creative and retro!
It wasnt all about fun in the sun. Florida has laws specifically geared towards retired people, mostly regarding protection from creditors. There is a reason that OJ Simpson "retired" there. If you want to keep your money away from annoying lawsuits, from people you owe money, lock it up in florida property.

https://www.bestlegacylawyer.com/guide-asset-protection-flor...

>> Florida’s homestead exemption of real property means, in most cases, you cannot lose your house in a Florida lawsuit.

>> Many assets are exempt from creditor execution, thanks to Florida statutes. While, common law protects property jointly owned by a married couple, from the creditor of a spouse – in a type of ownership called ‘tenants by entireties.
Haven't benchmarked *grep implementations, but assuming those are just CLI wrappers around RegEx libraries, I'd expect the RegEx benchmarks to be broader and more representative.

There, hyperscan is generally the king, which means hypergrep numbers are likely accurate: https://github.com/p-ranav/hypergrep?tab=readme-ov-file#dire...

Disclaimer: I rarely use any *grep utilities, but often implement string libraries.
> and given that no drones like this exist

This is not true. Here is a video of a bird-like drone:

https://youtu.be/kio6w3Xu3-w?si=W8h0eHe9gpP_NpQI