skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's lots of good general criticism about Low Code tools, and certainly lots of it is valid depending on the tool and the context.

Of course, just like say the SQL or NoSQL debate there are contexts where one wins, and another fails.

I did have to smile at this though;

>> "Now, rather than being to recruit from a large pool of ubiquitous, open-source language developers, the company has to find maintainers who are very specialized in this tool."

From a company point of view this is correct. You cant just discard programmers and get a cheap, out-sourced one as a replacement.

On the other hand, as a somewhat older programmer, I like the idea that I get more valuable with age not less. I like that I can't be replaced by some ubiquitous open source freelancer who works for $20 an hour.

For the record I've been working with a low-code tool for 30 years (since long before "low code" was even a description) and I've seen thousands of one-man companies be successful developing programs where the owners actual programming skills are, well, in most cases, somewhat poor.

Turns out, making something useful has more to do with fixing pain, and less to do either writing code.

And yes, all the points listed in the article, and these comments, are true. And ironically almost none of it actually matters.

There are a million reasons it -shouldn't- work and yet, somehow, at least in my world it does.
An airbreathing RDE rotating detonation engine; NASA has tested rde rocket engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_detonation_engine
And faster horses would have made a fortune if he could have produced them.
Majority owned by US companies.
https://getthatvideo.com/ Is the first result for downloading YouTube videos. Seems super sus (especially since the site doesn’t load).

Auto-prompted to: "Here's a helpful website for downloading YouTube videos:"

Also, this result is horrible:

“What does it mean if someone is not covered in nfl football?”
> free, unlimited, clean energy that can’t be weaponized into things like dirty bombs

even in this nuclear free fantasy world, medical and industrial sources will still be around and far easier to steal than fission fuel ever was. we've had the tech to make (virtually) free unlimited energy for 70 years and there is no good reason why it hasn't become ubiquitous
Google, or Alphabet, is not a search emgine company. It's an ads company and that's what they are optimizing for.
Search engines are not designed to give you the information you desire. They are designed to sell ads or metadata. "Result quality" is of no consequence.

If you actually wanted accurate results you wouldn't use a tool that is literally attempting to read your mind like a fortune teller. It is impossible to know what you want just by the word "snow". Jesus Christ engineers are so dumb.
I wonder what cargo it was carrying, that got destroyed in the attack.

It sounds like the ship itself is still intact, which is not too surprising given how absolutely huge they are.
Ask HN: What are your new years' resolutions?
I agree, but maybe the solution is to attach developers to teams directly. Avoid the centralisation, except for infra that benefits from it.
Their black box semantic guesser has been told not to feed the radicalizing conspiracy theorist fires about federal plots.

Who needs to know anything about government owned land anyway?
Hilariously, asking them what they DON’T want actually does work in practice.

Asking your customers what they want is a form of designed by committee. What people want is the well thought out, self consistent vision of a single artist, minus a few things.
Wrong URL -- What's the protocol for mistakes? Flagging seems pejorative/overkill.
I experimented with this (counts fingers) OH! Ahem. Uhm, 8 years ago. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-just-hacked-my-brain-sean-m...

Excerpt: "The sensation is undeniable. The direction of the tip is dependent on the direction of the current, as evidenced by just swapping the electrodes. Obviously, since these were batteries, this was a DC current. Sensation grew stronger over a brief period of time until it saturated. It sort of feels like someone pushing or pulling you over, except there is no tug on your arm. The ramp-up in the feeling made me think of charging a small capacitor."

I remember it pretty clearly even today, which is weird because I tend to but remember this very well, but maybe it was just the excitement of the experiment. It was a relatively strong effect, and it was fairly easy to achieve (of I could do it with my crude setup, a real product should have no problem), but there were some distinct issues.

First of all, there was a lag in response, and it was a pretty large one. IIRC, it took at least half a second before I started noticing any change after turning on the current.

Next, it was fairly binary, and single axis. I could tilt left/right, but that was it, no front/back. It took time to ramp up to full tilt, and then I could only achieve about 50% tilt.

I briefly forgot what I was working with and thought I might try to limit the sensation by pulse width modulation of electrical signal. That was quite a shock! I mean that seriously!

Anyway, I came away from the experience feeling slightly nauseous and that GVS was too limited to work out.
No, but it would be resolved if the tool listed all of the images it used as part of constructing the new image.
But the author tried Kagi and the results don't appear to be noticeably different, filled with scammy adspam just like Google and Bing. Kagi's results seem to mostly aggregate existing search engines [1], so this isn't much of a surprise. Perhaps a subscription-based service that operates an index at Google's scale might help, but no such thing exists to my knowledge.

[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
Generally no, but in this case I think yes it precludes it. The second biggest cargo bay axis is like 8m, so you get like <19m on a diagonal. And the third axis doesn't buy you the remaining 2m+ left

Anyways you could fit the mirror unfolded, but not the sunshield with it. Something like that
Using powerful, battery powered, compact power tools that can be hidden in a backpack, bike thieves can now cut most U-locks--including those that were state of the art just a few years ago--in seconds, and the only locks that can even slow them down cost hundreds of dollars. The best thing to do if you have to park a bike in high crime areas has always been to ride a beater bike, one so cheap and/or ugly that it's of no interest to thieves. And you still want at least decent locks, preferably a couple of different ones that require different tools to cut.

Pitlocks, which are mentioned in the article, are a great way to secure wheels, seatposts, and other components. The best source for them in the USA is Urban Bike Tech. [1]

[1] https://www.urbanbiketech.com/
Not enough, hence a lot of DoD logistics is now done on civilian shipping via Maritime Partners program. Including Maersk who was dropping DoD contracts in September, the few ships on contract by DoD in region was refusing to go a couple weeks ago even with US escorts. The big revelation is Houthis has demonstrated US Transportation Command / US military's sealift ability is being challenged by small time Iranian proxy, so good luck on an IndoPac campaign against PRC. At least in terms of optics, feasibility of US DoD maritime logistics especially in protracted war looks to be in atrocious state. Regardless, the problem isn't really how many ships US owns, irrespective of flag - US can buy all the ships if they have to. Issue is US doesn't maintain enough dedicated personel for bulk of military transport (primarily due to working conditions despite being paid well), so they rely on civilian shipping, and it's start to look like civilian shipping increasingly uncertain of US ability to protect in SLOC choke points against TBF not particularly modern weapons.
Mark Russinovich gives a good talk most years on the internals of Azure and the systems that run it. [1] is an example. Look for talks from other years as well.

Meta also publishes a number of papers/blogs/OSS projects on their engineering site [2]

James Hamilton of AWS gives a talk most years on their infrastructure. Worth watching multiple years [3].

[1] https://youtu.be/69PrhWQorEM?si=u7vh_Um6SQNoyeFH

[2] https://engineering.fb.com/category/data-center-engineering/

[3] https://youtu.be/AyOAjFNPAbA?si=nFRJVcQI4EiamC-O
I was going to look this up, but it seems at least one of the people that maintain my pihole's lists have already blocked the domain. In any case, I like not being monitored in real time.
PWABuilder – Package PWAs for Publishing on Google Play and Apple App Store
Though I would hope that in a hopefully civilized age such acts and war crimes would be punished prevented from happening again, I would not say there are no consequences of these actions.

Many Dutch citizens have been killed on board of MH17 - and the amount of military support to Ukraine provided by the Dutch has been quite significant.

As for Iran and North Korea - I would say some lines have been crossed there that will play out longer term, but at least it now seems to be, for some peculiar reason, easier for South Korea to ship artillery shells abroad, either directly to Ukraine or to back fill allied stocks so they can ship what they have to Ukraine.

Also I don't think Isreal/Russia relations will recover from what Iran linked terrorists did on October 7. While rather busy right now, Isreal produces some rather advanced weapon systems, one really does not want to be on the receiving end of (see the Karabakh war as an example).

Also after it became apparent Russia was behind the Vrbetice ammunition warehouse explosion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_...), which killed 2 Czech citizens, the response was quite significant (on a 10 million citizen country scale):

* almost all Russian diplomats expelled (ending one of the bigger Russian embassies in EU)

* Russia was removed from the lucrative Dukovany nuclear power plant tender

* many Czech companies who still had relations from the soviet times with Russian companies stopped providing support and shipping replacement parts

* LOTS of kit:
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/07/bohemian-brotherhood-l...

- 79 MBTS + 105 more to be restored & shipped to Ukraine

- multiple mi-24 helicopter gunships

- 100+ IFVs

- dozens of self propelled guns

- Anti Shahed technicals (!)

- 10000 RPGs, 1.5+ Million Artillery, Tank And Mortar Shells, a small mountain of small arms, a big mountain of small arms ammunition

Some of this was even crowdfuded - a tank, a Tatra based MLRS system, some of the technicals. There is also an ongoing fundraiser to buy a UH-60 Black Hawk (!):
https://www.weaponstoukraine.com/kampane/cestmir

So while in reality evil is often not ended by Gandalf charging in, the same or arguable even worse result for the evildoer is often achieved over a longer time with less glorious, messy but still effective means.
> don’t build something before validating

It depends on what counts as validation. To me, it's the presence of the problem, and how many people are looking for some solution. This is why, I think, many validation-first sites are intentionally vague when describing the solution.
The Medicis of the Middle East
Yea, I think we still need to wait and see. Airplanes keep gliding when you turn the engine off. I think Twitter is still in the "Wile-E-Coyote ran off the cliff but hasn't started falling yet" phase.
Honestly, upon further thought I think it should be fine as long as the diffs look good.

I just personally would feel more confident with using perl for anything to do with multi-file substitutions. In theory, ripgrep with `--passthru` and `-r` should work.
I’m confused, you are searching for, specifically, a local phone number and you are upset that the machine interprets that as you looking for a local result? That’s what most people expect from a local number search.

Perhaps the incorrect thing is not your internet search results, but actually your phone carrier for lying to you and telling you that a caller has a local number?
Do you think it works in case of pollution and recycling?
It's not his manager, VP might as well be on the moon. They're people who were in early enough or have enough experience to have their job be arguing about other creatures of their species re: things like headcount.

That's why blogs completely fine blasting him, the whole overarching point is the VP's sociopathic nonsense (firing-not-firing-but-you-better-get-a-job is so VP can keep headcount) is in the way of OP's goal. (getting on paper "you're fired" so he can get severance). The more awkward the next 1:1 is with the VP (which will never happen, people are by and large cowards), the more likely it is reality has asserted itself and the VP can't keep lying to his employees to avoid getting in trouble with HR.
Steve was prescient. He's so knowledgeable about consumers he knew that consumers would willingly take UI/UX design and back pedal by several decades just to accept the novelty of a dynamic touch screen.

As much as you as a consumer hate the touch screen... consumers as a whole are the ones who chose to go this direction.
Google is a complex system so “want” can just include we are making money from the blog spam and while we don’t like it other things take priority over fighting it as effectively as we could.
I've always assumed it's because in order to do it successfully, you need either unicorn materials that don't exist or self-repairing (biological) materials. Birds preen their feathers to keep them in flying shape all day long - and regularly grow replacements.
Comparing the average case for a company to the worst case for a union seems more like you have a grudge.
Well, that was basically how the Falkland war happened.
This is why the modern belief that all relationships are rooted in class-based struggles for power is so dangerous and unproductive.

A person deemed a member of a “dominant” group/class is liable to be neglected. Widespread, such neglect can really blight a society, as it is blighting ours now.
Just fly a kite that is transparent except for the bird printed on it. Make it as cheap as possible.
I think the result grading is too opinionated here.

For example, the first query is "download YouTube videos", for which Google is ranked "terrible" for not showing you a command line open source program. But the literal first result is an ad supported site where I can paste in a YouTube link and download it right from the browser. That seems like exactly what most people would want or to the CLI tool the author is searching for.
The author seemed to be looking for sites without ads as what they wanted to see in search results more than search relevance.

Search is a very gamed system with a lot of SEO spam type results, but I think a much better analysis could be done for more meaningful results. Also I recreated some of the searches and got very different results (including ublock origin in the top three responses). Again, a more scientific ranking system could help uncover better data on searches.
UTC <> EST is a 5 hour difference, with UTC being ahead of EST, and 05:14 UTC would be 00:14 EST, so just after midnight.

08:14 EST would align with 05:14 PST though
When all they show is 3D renders and no real product, all they have are 3D renders. Classic tell tale signs of vaporware
A division of Fairchild Aircraft, which explains how they got all those contracts with the USAF. Sadly, their connections inside the Army were not nearly as strong, resulting in the well known political/procurement issues they had turning the AR-15 into the M16.
Aren't they also widely known to co-mingle with cheap counterfeit books as well?
He may have made less money and heay have made more, with different monetization schemes.

Copyright is a monetization scheme, but it's not the only one.

In this imagined world, cinemas would have no movies to show, so they'd have to pay people like Lucas to create the films such that there'd be something to put on the screen. If many cinemas got together, and maybe got loans, they could pay for bigger budget films, too
I really don't think that's true. For example, page 29 of your link describes "Lowest Quality Content." Most of the search results that the author rated as spammy or scammy clearly fit these guidelines, which means that either (1) the raters aren't knowledgeable enough about the subject matter to determine that the website they're rating is harmful or misleading; or (2) the raters are rating these sites correctly, but it still isn't having the desired effect.
I've been looking into alot of discontinued Linux apps recently, and I stumbled upon GNOME Empathy, an app that connects to multiple chat platforms at once. I'm thinking of forking it, or making one from scratch.
> Why would an average user want blog spam search results?

I didn’t say they would :)

In fact, I can’t figure out how your comment relates to mine. Are you claiming that Google doesn’t factor blog spamminess into its evaluation of search results? If so, that’s quickly put to bed by the document I linked, pretty much section 4.6. Excerpt:

> Creating an abundance of content with little effort or originality with no editing or manual curation is often the defining attribute of spammy websites.

You could claim that they fail to capture some essential quality of “blog spamitude” or that they don’t weight it heavily enough in their eval but to say they just, like, don’t know about blogspam over there, is pretty far fetched IMO.
Definitely hear you; not every problem can be so novel.

That said, the simplest way to understand the code is to read it before committing it.

Meanwhile, the tooling will only continue to get better as larger and larger context windows are introduced.
It’s not clear that Russia intended to down the drone. They were certainly harassing it, but they didn’t attack it.

As I recall, from watching the video and reading news reports, Russian fighters were flying extremely close to the drone, harassing it, and dumping fuel on it, etc. One of them got too close and collided with it while doing this.

It’s not like they attacked the drone with weapons. They presumably easily could have.

No one died. The downing may not have been intentional. Why escalate?
Fair point, Vulcan has never launched, but all rocket companies compete with paper rockets. Relativity Space had "the cheapest rocket ever" and "the biggest manufacturing capacity of any rocket company" and that rocket ended up never making it to orbit and was scrapped entirely. Relativity pocketed billions of dollars in funding in the process.
i dont think they public disclose that fact
Why couldn’t you use this on drawn in midi data? I figured that was the point.
No real feedback just wanted to say this is neat !
There are many other powers that a nation might have other than nuclear ability, and having nukes does not actually grant any of those other powers. North Korea, for example, may have nuclear weapons, but they have little diplomatic power, little economic power, little ability to project power, etc. The word "superpower" is typically used to describe a country that dominates many different types of these powers.
It's not anywhere to be found on the front page of CNN... therefore the national security state has decided to ignore it.
wtf decline of the United States are you talking aboout
I really don't understand why anyone writing articles about ChatGPT uses 3.5. It's pretty misleading as to the results you can get out of (the best available version of) ChatGPT.

For comparison, here are all the author's questions posed against GPT4:

https://chat.openai.com/share/ed8695cf-132e-45f3-ad27-600da7...
It would be a refreshing throwback to actually declare war, something the US hasn't done since 1942.
According to HN threads, just release a few house cats, and they'll destroy all wild life
It's a bit hard to use for most, either $20/month fixed for a limited # of messages, or you need to be able to reason through how to get an API key, or get another 3rd party service with similar cost & limits.
hope kagi takes ddg place in terms of adoption. never really liked ddg even though i always care about privacy.
Clay Shirky told the same story in his excellent book `Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age`

https://witandwisdomofanengineer.blogspot.com/2010/07/engine...

TLDR: McDonald's customers buy milkshakes. Marketing people ask customers how they can make milkshakes better... to sell more. They make changes with zero change in sales.

A researcher asks people who buy milkshakes: what is the job that the shake fills for you? Why do you "hire" the shake?

Answer: early morning commuters want something to eat while driving to work. A shake isn't a good breakfast, but it's quick and easy to buy then consume while driving to work. Satisfying.

The point is making a shake "better" won't help anyone! "How can we make it better" is the wrong question!
Regardless where they get their weapons, Ansar Allah is a battle-hardened, professional fighting force. They have fought the powerful Saudi military to a stalemate. Not a group we should be underestimating.
All great ideas thank you! It’s amazing how the core game can quickly become only 10% of the total functionality!
Its a constraint that every dev should have. Just because you are making a db driven web app doesn't mean your app and db doesn't need to be fast. How on earth can you take the user's bandwith, memory, energy consumption for granted. That's what they are reminding people of.
Wars are triggered by some combination of money and fear. Pretty much every one.
"Machine Learning Pipeline" as a mental map should be "considered harmful"
What are some libre projects that you are most passionate about? I'm looking for some to dive into.
The incentives remain poorly aligned though. Otherwise the people who actually author the copyrighted works (actors, special effects artists, etc) wouldn't have had to go on strike for so long to get proper compensation.

The value still remains with the people who own the reproduction capabilities, and only scraps go to the artists. Artists can get scraps without selling copyright too, just look at patreon
Not yet open source, but probably a switch I can flick on GitHub. Let me check.

EDIT: https://github.com/clarewolftrust/spindle (but definitely take it with a grain of salt!)

It is literally my first php project in years, though, and first Laravel project ever, so might not be the best educational reference!
I like the article, HATE the title.

You should ask your customers lots of stuff, and take VERY LITTLE at face value.

Implementing features that customers ask for is a sure path to ruin; you have to keep asking questions and digging in beyond just "I want it to do X."

To be fair, that is basically what the article says, I'm just very tired of the cliched title.

Also, I second the recommendation for Christensen and Deming, and I will add Sidney Dekker, primarily "Field Guide to Human Error" but I'm sure the other books are also very good.
Yes that’s right - the instructions need tweaking, but you tap the first letter, then the last letter, and if it’s a recognised word then it rotates.
Because we're talking about real life, what exactly do you mean, and what does it matter?

The concept is almost never true - and a strong signal of subjectibe bias - and also not useful for international relations or for any conflict. They are acting according to their interests, using the means they have.
Your technical know-how won't be questioned. But you have to get certified as a teacher.