skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> don't scale past a certain level of complexity

I'd say that's a given, both that they're not very complex and not intended to scale past a few users.

> tend to fall apart as they become successful.

There are lots of definitions of success. A dashboard on a phone app so that the boss can see the green lights on his servers is successful. It gave him what he wanted: green lights on his phone.

> By and large the target market for No Code doesn't value testing.

This seems to be your qualifier of why they aren't 'good'. I don't own one, or work for one, or even subscribe to a platform that makes them, I'm just a passer-by here, but I can see the value in them. The only one I have used is open source (NodeRed).

When there's no time and you need to glue two or three API's together in 30 minutes, I see nothing wrong with them. It goes without saying that the result will be fragile and only for a handful of people, probably only one of which will get write access.

Here's my use case: co-founded a disaster relief non-profit in 2017 (hurricanes). Our window of opportunity to do good deeds was about 3-4 days, by then the red cross and fema trucks would arrive. When we need to process data it's probably a job with a roughly $0.00 budget and needs to be done in 30-45 minutes, then there's something else to do.

For that? They are wonderful. I built a phone bar-code scanner that could pull price data from Kroger's API to account for food donations in about an hour and a half. Can anyone else do that writing code by hand? I say no, the UI alone would take longer (however rudimentary that UI is). Was it tested? Yeah, a quick manual once-over and me face-to-face telling the person admining it that if the bar code didn't read just google it and plug the price in by hand, or don't and we'll do it later if that isn't feasible due to volume. We were just trying to do a slightly better job than a pencil and a clipboard could do, not a perfect one.
I was going to say that the death of StumbleUpon really closed off whole portions of the web for me. Their algorithms were really top-notch and the replacement service isn't worth checking out.

Does anyone know why they killed off StumbleUpon? It was probably the best part of 2005-2015 for me.

Edit: I like your link but it seems to lack the interest-targeting algorithms that SU used to have.
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> It's possible to say racist things without intending to be racist

This is still using loose language to try and equate two things that are not equal, "saying racist things" is still not the same thing as "being racist". Though it's getting closer, intent and context definitely matters.

ex. I use the term "black" to describe to people when applicable. There was a blip of time when that was a racist thing to say, some people probably still think it would be better to say "african-american" and might think the language is racist. But my use of the term is not because I am being racist.

The issue here is that there are those who would abuse good faith and nuance, but I generally think it's pretty obvious when it happens, and this seems to not be one of those times. It can be fatiguing to continually need to use critical thinking, but it's not something we can just stop doing if we want to keep progressing.
I've put some thought on this topic, and I think the driving force between the Internet seeming so small nowadays is a combination of changes to how search engines work, as well a move from forums to big social media which has meant a shift from organic community discovery to being drip-fed content from based on what an algorithm thinks will be engaging.

The Internet, as you remember it, still very much exists. Some forums have shut down, but there are still small personal websites, blogs, all that stuff. They're just really hard to find with Google and facebook/reddit/twitter.

Here are some cool and creative things I've discovered recently. I have no affiliation with these projects, I just thought they were cool:

http://www.lileks.com/

http://dreamcult.xyz/

http://sod.jodi.org/index.html

http://godxiliary.com/

https://www.floppyswop.co.uk/

https://www.dedware.com/
that is a ground-source heat pump as the heat energy is mostly from ambient solar. But yes very common and I used to have one in my home before I moved away. It cost practically nothing to keep the house at t-shirt temperature during -25c cold weather snaps.
I think you'd have to be very young to think it's not novel. Natural language changes on this scale are usually very slow; singular and specific 'they' has only been getting pushed for a couple years (basically since Obergefell in 2015).

Note that this is separate from singular and nonspecific 'they' which is much older.
If you self-host Matrix, you can still bridge to Signal while avoiding the walled garden trap and having complete control of your data?

If you don't want to self-host, then you must be comfortable extending trust to someone. SaaS Matrix and Signal seem to be two sides of the same coin, in that case.
ludocystectomy
lu·do·cys·tec·tomy

a surgical operation after sexual intercourse in which a lictor appears to cause men to ovulate but then to become unconscious
*"he had ludocystectomy to ease his symptoms to a lesser extent"*

frankly, i'm quite amazed
Agreed; I've used it for a long time as paid user, and when you invest the initial overhead of learning/setup time, it has saved me tons of time every day when I worked as sysadmin.

(I'm also guilty of "do as I say not as I do", and occasionally during critical incidents logging in to multiple servers at once and parallelizing my keyboard output 0:-)
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As for the query parsing, here is a suggestion: couldn’t you convert that in shell argv automatically? If “name=foo&email=bar” becomes “--name=foo --email=bar” then devs can just use regular argv parsing utils from the language, and the same script can work both from the command line and under QuickServ
I got

```

noun.
bronchym

a word or phrase that has the same meaning as another word or phrase and that has a conjugated form

"bronchym for i, j, k"

a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm.

```

Quite apt, I'd say.
You don't present it "to court" because that might be decided by a jury of unsophisticated people. You file an Inter Partes Review, which goes to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and is cheaper (note I didn't say "cheap").

The U.S. doesn't have a "loser pays" model like other countries. You can file for attorney's fees, but the barriers are higher.
I haven't seen any evidence for that, but I've sure seen it claimed a lot.
How is OAS related to ADE?
Swc
> There's plenty of evidence that current vaccines work against variants:

Is there any reason to be afraid of getting vaccinated?
Shameless self-promotion: https://search.marginalia.nu/
What Saudi project could that have been?
Apologies, I had updated my comment to list a few of the dozen-and-a-half industrial Crown corporations that Canadian governments have sold off to already-wealthy people. I'll continue: Victory Aircraft, Orion Bus Industries, Canadian Vickers, Canadair...

It's a historical fact that the government did operate industrial Crown corporations, and they operated them "better", as viewed from the embarrassingly non-fiduciary perspectives of the workers and the environment, which is the point.

>There is no reason this couldn't just be done for private corporations via regulations. Politicians have that power today, why aren't they using it? And why do you think they would use it if ownership was different?

There's several organizations between the legislature in which some regulation is made, and the actual group to be regulated, whereas a Crown corporation's mandate to report directly to the government, not to mention the absent necessity to cover bad things up until the quarterly earnings report drops, makes them more honest. The other kicker, of course, is that private corporations can just bribe I mean lobby the government for permission to do bad things. There's not really an incentive for Crown corporations to do that.

A Crown corp is not there to make ever-increasing amounts of money, they're there to provide a service. No amount of deployed regulation on a for-profit, privately-owned corporation can change its tendency to optimize for the former.
Is it also the case that the human getting vaccinated build up immunity to the carrier virus and thus booster shots might become less effective? Would that be a reason to get a booster shot from something other than AstraZeneca?
The HDMI and DSP lines are crossed out. Does anyone know of they aren't supported on this chip vs the regular D1?
Data by the people, for the people!
Is the Beta variant worse than the Delta variant?
There is a difference between wedding and marriage. A wedding paperwork is not too expensive, but a marriage has truly become unaffordable.
A Simple Compliment Can Make a Big Difference
An evil use of this would be to publish a faux dictionary.com site filled with fake words and definitions so that when someone searches to see if a word exists, they find that site.
We could always go back to the 90s when they printed out the Internet Yellow Pages. Just pick a random page, point and go check it out. Apparently you can still buy it.

https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Yellow-Pages-6th-ed/dp/15620...
I had my borehole going straight down about ~150m deep from right next to the side of my house. I moved the lawn right next to the pipes.
Exactly what Total did: they rebranded themselves few months ago as TotalEnergies...
I don't think "there should be no billionaires" is a good starting point for deriving tax policy. I especially don't think it's good to have that as an undebated starting point.
> Or, you can choose to reject the principle of "no taxation without representation", which if you are happy to do that explicitly and publically I will shut up.

That "principle" covers some territory a lot broader than the specific way you're requesting it be interpreted. The idea that those born into a country cannot be held accountable for debts accrued before they were born—or anything relating to the situation of the budget before they have a say in government, I suppose—is, I think it's fair to say, not a common interpretation of the slogan's meaning, now or (most certainly) in the past.

That's not even to say you're wrong, morally or whatever, but your tactic of trying to pin someone down with these words isn't a good one.
On a side note, I noticed after the pandemic began, the birds began starving because they started eating out of our dog's bowls of food.
In my case I am using MobaXterm to start my WSL terminal, so it will stay in my setup for the foreseeable future.
Recently I began "exploring the internet" again with the help of a niche search engine that was posted here on HN not that long ago [1]. Seems like it returns lesser known, interesting, contrarian websites where the authors speak their mind. For example I found websites that: speculate that milk and lactose might be a hidden cause for several chronic conditions [2]; try to re-explain evolution by re-positioning the relationship between life, organism, and DNA [3]; rich homepages like this one [4];

[1]: https://search.marginalia.nu/
[2]: http://www.nomilk.com/
[3]: https://bwo.life/org/index.htm
[4]: http://www.valdostamuseum.com/hamsmith/TShome.html
On that note, bottom axis is usually x, not y. Dunno if it displays differently on mobile; on desktop the bars run horizontally; y-axis is profession, x-axis is percentage.
Check out Gemini.

https://geminiquickst.art/
I confess to finding this tempting just for the whatsapp bridge because frankly while https://matrix.org/docs/guides/whatsapp-bridging-mautrix-wha... is very clever I really don't want to actually have to maintain an instance of it.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

> SARS-CoV-2 naïve vaccinees had a 5.96-fold (95% CI, 4.85 to 7.33) increased risk for breakthrough infection and a 7.13-fold (95% CI, 5.51 to 9.21) increased risk for symptomatic disease. SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees were also at a greater risk for COVID-19-related-hospitalizations compared to those that were previously infected.

> Conclusions This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.

Also just in terms of baseline beliefs based on the physical world, I would assume that the vast majority of the time an infection would be more protective than a vaccine.
>This seems like a technical gotcha that has little to do with his overall point. Not all low-hanging fruit is worth picking.

That's as may be. But as a smoker, I took offense to their characterization of me.

Call it whatever you like, but I don't appreciate being berated -- especially when such insults aren't valid.

As I said, take from that what you will.
I work at an immunology lab which is next door to most of the Oxford vaccine group.

I think the quick (and overly simplistic) answer to this question is that models (e.g. convolutional networks) that predict which chunks of viral (or human) proteins are displayed to immune cells (HLA presentation), along with other kinds of models (like those predicting crossreactivity of T cell receptors against mutated epitopes) are really primitive (mostly because of low quality training datasets, it's not really a hard problem like e.g. protein folding).

Hence, rushing a new vaccine is not easy as there is a lot of labwork to do. As a matter of fact, all COVID vaccine designs had essentially the same payload (the whole spike protein). Modern subunit vaccines would typically include only little chunks of the spike (to increase efficiency and avoid side effects). But this was not trivial to do quickly without good in silico models.
It's... interesting, in the end. They make some bold choices (which I rather liked, since you don't see choices of that type in American popular media as much), but even as commentary, I'm not sure there's a moral or lesson to come out of it rather than to just provoke thought and to entertain.

Put another way, it says a lot of things, and outlines a lot of problems, but I'm not sure it puts any solutions forth. That's probably a good thing IMO, as any solution presented in a program like that invariably seems trite to me, as it necessarily oversimplifies the problem so the solution proposed can work.
Related news (found on axios): Soros and other good guys have founded Good Information Inc. (actual company name, not a joke) to fight "misinformation", promote "good" news and take care of dumb peons in general who can't be trusted in forming their own opinions (for those opinions may be ungood).
I skimmed very quickly, and this seems pretty similar to the Windows built-in tool Problem Steps Recorder. I assume it's cross-platform, which is a nice advantage. Any other big differences?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/record-steps-to-...
> this is akin to software updates

That is blatant fear mongering. :)
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Offtopic, but related: I am RELIEVED the `dotnet watch` removal was reverted [1]

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22262
One thing I cannot for the life of me authoritatively, confidently understand is whether WSL2 requires a Type 1 hypervisor running under baseline/parent Windows OS. It appears that it does, and that is just a massive deal-breaker for most of my PCs :(
True. But I'd say not as much as people might think, assuming (oops) that people check NOTAMs
I find it strange to believe that 95 days are sufficient to assess the lifelong effects of an immunity system intervention.

"Original Antigenic Sin: How First Exposure Shapes Lifelong Anti–Influenza Virus Immune Responses"

https://www.jimmunol.org/content/202/2/335
You're honestly comparing apples and oranges here. One side (whistleblowers) is a case where someone actively published and drew attention to classified material.

The other one is someone who was careless with classified material due to laziness and either A) not caring about the ramifications of that or B) not knowing.

I'm not defending Clinton, she's icky for many other reasons (not the least of which is her insincerity and power fixation), but your comparison is a non-sequitur.
I'm using rss/news reader Feedly.com to follow > 100 sites daily, most entrys are "marked read" others saved for more close reading. The list of sites expand weekly by interesting links from sites like hacker news &c.
Not the same sequoia

Sequoiacap.com

Sequoiafund.com
Best release ever
This reminds me of one of my favorite physics lessons in undergrad: classical mechanics are a limiting case of general relativity where v << c so that all terms with v/c can be neglected.
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Many PMs and engineers and laymen knew FB was a rotten product for a long time. I also assume a lot of people at this institute didn’t take the Alex Stamos (ex, short term FB CISO) U-turn either. So…

How is this effort not a virtue signaling by people that
made their fortune on the back of this generation’s cigarettes, and now hoping to get traction on being listened to for fixing the mess they created?
neat but can find obvious generic repeats based on specific syllable arrangements.

human things lead to human things, plant things lead to plant things, etc.
"expired" doesn't mean you can't sue for infringement. For six years (someone check me on this), you can sue for infringements that happened while the patent was unexpired.
With Hotspot, hot areas of the code are compiled, lessening the virtualisation overhead.

We compile some C libraries and use them via JNA. It takes time to create the cross-compilation environment with all the correct versions of the libraries they depend on (and the libraries that those libraries depend on).

In comparison, if a library works on Java version x, we can include it and debug it running on the JVM as necessary.
I have no idea what this means. Are you talking about the societal standards of what marriage is? something else?

There were 4 people at my wedding. It was only marginally more expensive than the paperwork.
If inequality were the only problem, then your solution would work. Unfortunately, there are other problems as well, and your solution would make some of them worse.
Okay, if that is what you mean by a bugout bag... I think many ordinary folks just need a 72 hour bag with basic essentials to get them through until they can get more permanent help. Your right, bugging out of society as a whole isn't really practical for most people.

As for big storms- ideally, yeah, but it seems that a lot of folks try to ride it out, it ends up being worse than they expected, they get flooded out, and now have to be evacuated in a hurry.
New databases.

But your point is very valid. We already live under mass surveillance, to the point of insanity. I reject this way of living and would like to be part of the solution... without giving up on the good aspects of the technology.
Based on what. The twitter link is just a picture but there is zero source attribution. He uses his own twitter status for his article. So, he's the source of his own article. At this point the entire blog post, twitter post, and the credibility of the author I find lacking.

I'm not defending anything that Frances Haugen did do, or say, but I find it disturbing that anyone can take the author seriously if he can't find support for his argument that doesn't come from himself than he has no argument and linking to other "sources" means nothing he writes is verifiable beyond the actual documents he does link to.
I think any requirement to have gyroscope-based instruments only comes in with IFR (at the very least you need turn indicator due to lack of horizon reference).

It's not any weird local laws, it's common aviation laws :) though navigation is a big thing even in VFR ;)
I think it is due to politics that you don't hear this discussed; seemingly, nuance makes it more difficult to convey a message. The number of people who are known to have been infected is not insignificant, and the number who have been infected but it isn't known is much higher. (I thought estimated were that at least 4x as many people have had Covid as show up in the published results).

There is every reason to expect that natural immunity (derived from a previous infection) is better (than that conferred by a vaccine), simply because the immune system will recognize the entire virus and not just the spike cell.

This pre-print paper (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...) concludes:

"This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant."

If having pre-delta covid made it more likely that your immune system could face delta, then I think it would stand true for other variants, too.
It's important to point out that many scientists were called conspiracy theorists by mainstream media after predicting (long before the vaccine rollouts) that mass vaccinations would cause the virus to mutate faster and that we'd all be worse off (as is clearly the case)...
Mainstream media and big pharma are corrupt. The people responsible are criminals and should be brought to justice.

COVID19 is not lethal for the majority of people. We will all die of something eventually but if some people are particularly fixated on COVID19, they are welcome to spend more time at home (instead of going out to meet people) and they can try to find remote work or some job which doesn't require so much contact with other people.
Anyone could easily bring their risk of catching COVID19 to nearly 0% by limiting social contact, proper distancing, hand-washing, mask-wearing, choosing the right kind of job (or retiring), getting plenty of sunlight, vitamin D supplements, living outside of urban centers, not travelling too much, etc...
All of these things are going to be way more effective at protecting individuals from COVID19 than any vaccine and these things don't require ruining other people's lives.

Also, if you don't want to risk dying of COVID19, you can just go live in a remote village/town; nobody is forcing you to live in a densely populated city.
Big cities are reservoirs for the COVID19 virus. Other people can kill you; this is a fact of life which we have to accept.
If you choose to constantly surround yourself with many people, then you're taking the risk, nobody else owes you protection from whatever viruses they may harbor inside their bodies without their knowledge.

The hospital system will be fine. If hospitals become too crowded with COVID19 patients; they can just start turning them away! People will come up with solutions; temporary/makeshift COVID19 hospitals, home-delivered ventilators, etc... Maybe governments can fund this if it comes to that?