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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on no-code tools like Microsoft's Power Automate?
I am consistently frustrated with how limited these visual programming languages are. They are 100% ok, until your problem gets a tiny bit complicated. Then all hell breaks loose. You frequently have to resort to dirty/messy hacks, which ultimately makes maintainability a nightmare...

I have seen very few that have done it right... I think the team behind `enso.org` is the only ones I've seen which actually appear to have done well. Any others? What are your thoughts on these generally?
> One year we got $300 (or less...) bonuses. It was just how the math of this complicated system worked out.

I worked at a company where HR had too many people coming up with complicated reward schemes, but not enough money to make them worthwhile. Same thing: Reward levels were $100 here, $200 there, and required a relatively large amount of work to get.

The weirdest thing was watching a subset of people pursue these small rewards so aggressively that their primary work started to fall behind. Some people would be grinding away at the next step to win a $100 reward while neglecting real work that others were depending on.

Good lesson in how weird incentives can be for some people.
If you're into machining, the American Precision Museum[0] in Windsor, VT is highly worth a visit.

I had the good fortune to tour the Starrett factory some years back. They were still running pre-NC screw machines to make parts. It really is true that old machines, well cared for, will last just about forever. Apparently it's something of an axiom in the machining industry that tools that are no longer economically viable for large scale production end up in job shops where the capability is needed but there isn't a need to pump out volume.

The Springfield Armory[1] is also a neat visit. For hopefully obvious reasons, their machining exhibits are focused on the production of weapons. The American Precision Museum is actually housed in a historic privately-owned gun factory. It turns out a lot of the progress in machining is driving by the need to make weapons.

[0] https://americanprecision.org/

[1] https://www.nps.gov/spar/index.htm
Was looking for someone to mention that. I remember that I wrote parts of the wiki entry on how to donate through Flattr back then!
You trust your browser?
> Even NASA was unable to establish contact with the IMAGE satellite after 18 years.

There's also Voyager, 46/7(?) years and counting.
Book recommendation: "Trade Wars are Class Wars" by Michael Pettis.

If you don't buy the apologetics that permeate the popular economics sphere but still want an expert to walk you through the details, this is your book.
Given the demand why wouldn't Nvidia be able to charge sticker price?
Embafflement? Oh US buildings have that too: fire-proof doors divide those long hallways that connect the staircases.
Functionality is also the interface, it demonstrates the functionality, a podcast app is an rss feed reader tuned towards playing longform audio. I sincerely doubt youtube music integrated with rss feeds would be any good for podcasting, I've tried it and it always tries to play the video (which, its youtube music, why would it play video?). Not to mention that podcasts already have ads in them, so now its going to have youtube ads and also ads in the podcast. Not to mention the ad numbers have tripled, there's 2 minutes of ads every 5 minutes.

Also we already have an example of podcasting functionality being integrated into a music app: spotify. And IMO it is a complete failure, the interface is constantly fighting between podcasts and music. Two methods of consuming media that are different, making the entire experience subpar.
Geography of Penguins
Meta is developing open source AGI, says Zuckerberg
I made a website to share rejection letters
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First time posting on Show HN. Spent two weeks over Christmas and new years to make this fun little full stack web app built with Next.js and Supabase PostgreSQL, hosted on Netlify

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Yes but entertainers always remained on stage, they didn't enter your home (as smart phones allow) and talk to you 1 on 1.
So it is the story of losing because of market competition? Doesn’t feel that surprising of an outcome
Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation (written from prison)
By the time they realize it's manual transmission they have already smashed the window and ripped open the steering column.
also slightly reminiscent of perlis https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6016271/why-is-it-better...
In this thread, hospitalJail discovers that some people enjoy leaving their basement :)
For truckers driving EVs, there's no going back
But B needs to know both the React app and the Java service. You’ve just moved the coupling from one component to another.
Another rust type you should look out for is Box<str>In my rust code I find a lot more uses of Box<str> rather than Box<[T]>. Strings are often fixed length identifiers or usernames that get passed around frequently and stored in data structures. Box<str> can be a drop-in replacement in a surprising amount of code
Design flaw. In IPFS every piece of data (even every chuck of large files) is globally indexable on the same namespace. You need namespaces and/or a path to restrict yourself to just the subset of peers that might actually have the data.

It would be possible to add a layer on top of IPFS to include some context with every hash lookup so the search can be more focused, but the original design just assumed it was ok to do a log2 search for every chunk.
Do they get Tesla stock or bonuses?

Total comp at companies like Tesla is weighted pretty heavily by stock usually.
...with 17,000 BTC.

(Valued at 220k USD then, or 700M USD today)
Wouldn't it still be $15bn? If I manage to buy $20 worth of gold for $10 through a special deal, is it not still $20 worth of gold?
There is no other languages with the same advantages as C and a good type system.
> Texas in particular has gone out if its way to incentivize its citizens reporting other citizens for getting abortions

That’s true, but if you, a biological man, were sued for having an abortion, this would be immediately thrown out. Indeed, even civil suits with their lower standard of evidence require more than a simple search history from data brokers.
Why do academics start companies?
Academia is a world of wonder and discovery. It's amazing. But it's fascinating to see how many academics venture into the realm of entrepreneurship. Why? https://medium.com/@jasoncorso/navigating-academia-to-startu...
Love to hear what y'all think.
OpenAI got all of the positive publicity for its social mission yet in short time we clearly see that Meta has done more for democratizing access to deep learning and will continue to lead on this front. The cost of open sourcing models is far more than just development cost. They're spending millions of dollars training models with that fleet of H100s. This makes open source AI much more costly, and generous.
Brace yourselves. The scale of capital investment coming from Meta, Google, and OpenAI/Microsoft is going to be historically mind-boggling.
You can afford to take a hit off your profits when you can simply ramp up production for retail sales. Looks great too for shareholders.
Satellites will be up in space, able to be found by "space archeologists" for literally tens of thousands of years. Sure we maybe won't be able to communicate with them anymore, but that's basically the same as how this gauntlet was dug up out of the ground - the knights who might've used it likely weren't able to "communicate" (find) the gauntlet because it was buried underground.
You don't need to "believe a person on the internet", just go look up all of the privacy-respecting features and options of iOS (and related services) we have today.

I think "contractual obligations" sounds like an unfairly high standard to hold Apple to. It'd be great if we lived in a utopia where corporations were genuinely looking out for our best interests. We don't. We live in a world where corporations are relentless profit-seeking vampires, and in that world Apple is an uncommonly benevolent mega-corp relative to its peers. This benevolence is not just a factor of being mostly built by morally "good" people[0], it's also a matter of what Apple has chosen as its market niche. They build privacy-first technology because that's what they tell us they're selling us, and it's why we buy it. It's profitable for them. It's good for us. It's a mutually beneficial situation.

[0]I think there's an argument to be made that because Apple has now spent a decade positioning itself this way, it probably attracts the type of employee who believes in privacy as a human right and is largely made up of people who genuinely do believe it's the "right" thing to do.
In the US at least, it's like 2:1 ratio, maybe 30-35% of families with kids have a stay at home parent.

So, less common, but not an incredible outlier.
volume customers always get special price.
There seems to be no information available online about a GitHub wipe in 2021. I haven't noticed anything missing personally. Care to share any information on that?
I agree that the steps themselves are quick, but figuring out what all needs done is the tricky bit.
No, I don't get any satisfaction crafting things in games (and that goes back to Ultima III which I was playing around the same time I started making armor).

For example right now I'm playing Diablo IV wandering around finding stuff to make more powerful weapons, and it does nothing for me. It's entirely about the physical details of making a thing with my hands.

Which is funny because I hated to play D&D with people "by hand" while I loved when the computer was the DM.
Maybe my advice will not be popular but, I teach 3D programming professionally, and I think the best start is to stay away from code (at the beginning)!

Just use unreal engine, its pretty neat and powerful, it will be a very nice bounding experience to learn a (complex) software together! Don't be intimidated by all the menus, most kids at 9 can do pretty advanced stuff when they really want it.

I advice to download directly a free (official) game tutorial (in unreal engine) and start to play with it, you'll have professionally made assets available, levels already designed and even some game mechanics and a step by step tutorial.

When, and only when, the general procedure to make a game is understood (terrain creation, what are assets, movements, etc..) you can start with blueprints (block programming), you will be able to reach good quality games just with it. After a while (years maybe), you can start c++ ;)

Note: differently than other advices, I say go directly 3d,the barrier is lower than you think with a good engine, and if he wants 3d, no need to bore him with 2d first.

Note 2: A friend of mine teached 3d programming with shaders to children of 12-17 yo with great success.

Note 3: some people advice Godot, I find it a neat engine, free, open-source mentality, and all that and it's very promising, BUT, you will find way less resources and community. As it's for someone young, ressources, tutorial material without code, and generally widely disponible online help is crucial to maintain a high engagement. You're not trying, at the moment, to teach him open source, but game creation, he will have plenty of time to switch if needed.
Volunteerism isn't "post-scarcity". If you're fed and watered by providing value in a capitalist system, and choose to spend your spare time volunteering, that's great, but it's nothing utopian. Volunteerism is a free choice of work in exchange for a price of £0. That's regular old capitalism at work.

If you could just generate energy out of the ether and use it to materialise food and anything else you might want, for example, that would be post-scarcity.
I think the comment you're replying to is quite literal. A lot of Googlers and ex-Googlers read this site and they are more likely to upvote these kinds of posts.
IMO the solution is cheaper, crappier data centers. OVH and Hetzner are most of the way there but there's probably more savings possible.

Local storage is free or cheap with VMs so I don't see that as a problem.
It still sucks. I want to be solving interesting problems during my work hours, not deal with traffic.
Sounds like commie gobbledygook.

(RIP Norm MacDonald, the thinking mans comedian!)
Which really feels discordant with the claim that all this stuff is only enabled by the new AI-specialized hardware. I say this as someone who owns a Pixel 8 Pro - love the phone, but am utterly disillusioned with these AI claims.
Sort of a tautology, right? The winner of the competition becomes the standard.
VR is a gadget, the same way that 4D cinemas are gadget. Ok it's +/- fun the first time to receive water droplets in your face while watching a movie, or for the cinema to spread fake fart smell, but this is not the experience you want to have every day.

Apparently only a single-digit % of people who purchased AR headsets are using them once in a month (source: Valve developer Chet Faliszek)
The two subject repos are:

https://github.com/Andre0512/hon
https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn

Make whatever use of that information you will before the takedown occurs.
I wish there would be an appliance manufacturer that would actually hire developers to create and maintain Home Assistant.
What makes you think they are getting a good discount?

What are they going to do? Buy AMD, yeah right.

Nvidia's sales are only limited by the number of wafers they can get from TSMC.
That was Google Contributor. It would pay min required to win the bid. Wasn't too successful. People very soon realized that you get the same for free with ad blockers.
MP944 First Microprocessor: F-14 Central Air Data Computer
American here.

I can't even put to words my embafflement upon learning that 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in Europe in 2017.
They would be required to investigate that during prosecution.
I have a Bill Cosby quote that I attribute to Dr Huxtable. It is sufficient citation, old heads will know but don't react, and new heads will just nod and not get triggered.
I'm reminded of an experience a friend of mine had while shopping at an Old Navy. She stepped in a pile of human feces that was in the middle of the aisle. For her trouble, the store gave her a $5 gift card.

Her dad taught a business class at a local college and for years thereafter used it as an example of how giving a small amount of money can be worse than doing nothing at all.
WebGPU is not a browser API. It is a lower level API with official, supported implementations in C++ and Rust with zero browser dependencies. See for example:

https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn

https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/

Yes it is exposed to Javascript applications by browsers that support it, much like WebGL exposes OpenGL ES. But that’s a separate thing.
Ugh, this brings back (bad) memories of my first job out of college. I remember some of the engineers who really put in a lot of extra time -- like, we're talking plenty of 60+ hour weeks for months on-end to get projects done for various customers. These customers' contracts were easily in the seven-figures (USD), sometimes eight-figures. In at least one quarterly meeting, the CEO & some VPs were thanking these engineers for their efforts... With $50 gift cards to Starbucks or wherever.

From a purely logical, objective measure, this is good - these engineers received extra compensation. But I think most people saw it as a huge slap in the face. Probably hundreds of hours of extra work compensated by an "atta-boy" and a gift card worth a few coffees and scones; in exchange, the owners of the company reaped huge monetary rewards.
Thank you for sharing, and for writing so clearly. I just finished Four Magic Words and enjoyed it very much, including the author's note. Just bought your book as well. I wish you joy even in these difficult circumstances.
The main problem researchers found is that the content quality has deteriorated. There is more spam now. However, Google is doing a better job at filtering low quality content than anyone else.

I've been working on a side project to filter spammy content and get straight to the point answers: Https://AskPandi.com
WebGPU is now available on Android
As Meta has always done. Their contributions to open source ML have always been above and beyond everyone else and they have one of the absolute best teams in the industry.
“A lens creates the spatial Fourier transform from the front focal plane to the rear focal plane.”
What are "bullet points" as named in this article? It's difficult to find anything on Google not referring to the typographical symbol of the same name.

Context: "Archaeologists also found a hammer, tweezers, pliers, keys, knives, bullet points, and a completely preserved 14th century gauntlet, in addition to fragments of its counterpart worn on the other hand."
I'm surprised other ideas have not taken off yet?(intended)

although not really a kite, this looks promising : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zGGn-HY1jak
I've yet to read a clear explanation of how "surveillance capitalism" is any different than regular capitalism with computers. As long as people are trying to make money they're going to try and crunch data to do it better. The only way I see to effect a real change in how companies collect and use data is with regulation.
Could you please specify the incentives you speak of? Are they material?
They can't just ramp up production though. Isn't TSMC booked for years by them, Apple, Intel and AMD?
Used GPUs cannot be sold for the same price that new GPUs are bought.
I say it's nonsensical (and yes, Ks are bytecode interpreted). https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/kclaims.html#...
I fully agree with you. I was just suggesting that a larger quantity is of higher suspicion but you're pointing at a clear context I wanted to be open to.

I fully believe that there is no hard rule based system that can adequately account for all reasonable scenarios. In fact, I think a key part of what makes us different from machines is being able to reject "rules" because we understand they're more akin to guides. So I agree and thank you for bringing this up.

Side note: in many countries medicine does in fact come in pre-measured dose bags. It might be more plastic but it sure is convenient and has other advantages.
Yes, our insanely burdensome health and safety regulations in the US often baffle the devil-may-care freewheeling folks over in Europe.

/s
A modern kitchenaid isn't really better than a cuisinart. Back when they were made by hobart, yes, they were amazing (and, inflation adjusted, something like three times the price).

These days they have plastic (I'm sorry "composite") gears, and do not appear to be designed to be serviced, just replaced. My ex broke three of them attempting to make bagel dough.
Doing this for the last 7 years, too. One server at my parents, one at my home. Connected via IPSEC. I just migrated to ZFS on my offsite backup, too - this is just perfect with syncoid/sanoid atomatic backups and zfs-pull of dataset. Fine grained security but robust at the same time. It is the first time I feel reasonable safe regarding the "worst" that can happen.
Another is regular expressions. They look entirely incomprehensible if you see one with no prior knowledge, but once you get used to them they are fairly easy to understand.
the issue with boeing and planes is they wanted to make money before safety. that's why we had planes with engines with software that makes the nose point down because the engine weight's make it point up. and they did HIDE this from pilots. this gave us two destroyed planes and HUNDREDS of dead people.

doors going away from planes while they're climbing up is the result of "making money is the first objective, safety comes later" attitude.
I also have first-hand experience with this scenario (shared here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043885) and if we had followed that line of thinking we would have unnecessarily lost a valuable life. It turns out that, just like our judges and juries convict innocent people in our justice system, our doctors can give terminal or non-improving prognoses to people who will, to a meaningful extent, recover.
How is it a defeaning silence? Their latest hardware product was released ~3 months ago.
As someone who regularly flies hobby kites, I think it can be done.

Modern kites are made of nylon and kevlar. With regular maintenance these kites should last at least a decade. Cables might have to be replaced every few years.

As for the flying algorithm, I doubt it has to be very sophisticated at all, especially if the kite is itself designed to self right and stabilise. After all, a single line kite has 0 controls.
> Is the same thing to happen with software?

Offshoring in software development has been around for a very long time. Most large US companies have a mix of onshore and offshore devs. The more mundane the software, and the tighter the financial macro-environment, the more the ratio shifts toward offshoring. This is the way the offshoring cycle has worked for a long time.

However, unlike hardware, software is about information and communication, and cultural context is very important. I have seen firsthand that non-US teams building software for US consumers often don't quite understand the reasoning behind the requirements and may lack polish around basic things like English. (The same is true, of course, in reverse, if US teams build for non-US audiences.) So I think it should be a little bit stickier.

You also cannot copy software design in the same way that you can copy, say, the design of a lathe. A lathe is a lathe, and as long as you've got the tools and materials, a lathe made in the US should not in theory be any different than one built in China. The same is not true of software.
How will this work with aviation? I know it probably won't affect most IFR flights, but still possibly dangerous for VFR. Will there need to be a new restricted area for each deployment?
Yes but can they run Crysis?
> One estimate that every 10-20 seizures saves one suicide. So clearly not living up to the more likely than not standard, or we would expect to see a closer to 50% result.

But that's not the standard. The thing you're trying to prove generally isn't "is going to kill themself with 100% probability," but "is at risk to kill themself or other people", an unquantified metric but one for which a 10% chance isn't entirely unjustifiable for an intervention. It's that level of risk for which you would want a "more likely than not" scenario to reach 50% probability of demonstrating; if you multiply the two numbers together, your expected avoidance should be far lower than 1 suicide per 2 seizures.
im pretty sure that Naz.api is just a collection of new and old breaches and stealer logs because my data that was in Naz.api is the same as the data that was leaked in the polish credentials data breach (im not even polish idk why im in this)
you can't define human that broadly i guess

what peop le want out of this word is a decent enough amount of compassion and altruism, something that would prevent that kind of harm to others (but i forgot if there was some heated arguments before he decided to step onto the murder path).

unless passionate crime is what you had in mind
The year is 3157. Each time you access a new resource on the shared data substrate, you are required to accept something called a "Cookie." You have no idea what they are or why. Your crewmates say it has something to do with the homeworld, but you just shrug and prepare for the hyperspace jump.
The scan as you go app is quite good until you get a rescan. The issue there is on the employees handsets. They never seem to be able to log in
> Meta is actually the company that has pushed the field forward for all companies (with LLaMA).

This is the first time I'm hearing this, unless you mean the fact that it leaked to the public. How was LLaMa pushing the field forward otherwise?
I see these things in movies, sometimes the last part is a ladder?

Why isn't it one big ladder?