skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So low margin" that they spent years doing major stock buybacks...
There are probably people who are very effective in vscode and the likes. But my patience is tested anytime I'm helping someone or pair programming and I have to watch them navigate the code and make their edits.

In my head all I can think of is all the ways it could be done faster in vim, so it's absolutely a productivity gain, even if it's just a plugin for vscode.
That's only half the story. Bigger hurdles are the framework fatigue and the constant of having to keep things up to date even after you've got a "complete" product. This is why you see shadow IT in the form of MS Access DBs and spreadsheets that (no matter how terribly implemented) won't die.

With no-code, those at least go away.

You're no longer having to deal with unnecessary complications of having to learn or deal with WebPack, etc, and you're no longer needing to stay in an endless cycle of dependency hell updates.
> there wasn't an adequate supply of masks for 330M people, and they needed to secure a supply for first responders

But they didn't do that either. They could have requisitioned the masks from private retailers, or just gone and bought them, but instead retailers continued selling them and the Surgeon General just tweeted at individuals telling them to stop buying them.
When does this problem come up? I don't see much combination of dates in the page's content in addition to simultaneously submitting a form with date input.
I time waste with any computer, so I leave them all at home and make an effort to be out all day without any computer on me. I believe it was Jonathan Frazen who said "nothing of any worth was ever written in a room with an internet connection" and I agree. You lose the subtleties of human behaviour when you can just unplug from reality.
I love waiting for the "Daemon" to start and twiddle my thumbs for 10 seconds before anything happens, all the while sacrificing 500MB of memory.
[Insert XCKD with adding a 15th standard when 14 already exist]
I think a big part of it is just enjoying your time.

We're both driving cross country, following the speed limits. We'll both arrive at roughly the same time but maybe I'll enjoy my time more if I'm driving a stick shift.

This is in general of course. Me personally, I save tens of minutes a year by using vim.
There's a mindset/inertia factor at play. Maybe you and others can pick and choose which discomforts to do, but for many little changes impact other areas in their life. It's like when people start working out, they tend to eat better.

So something like a cold shower leads to next uncomfortable thing being easier and so on. The inertia part is why I workout first thing in the morning, and why I feel like Jiu-Jitsu has done more for my well being than anything else I've ever done. They are relatively safe, controlled ways be uncomfortable daily which spills into every other area.

Now, does this automatically mean success? Of course not, but I'm sure we can all think of at least one thing that's uncomfortable that we should be doing to make our life better. If a cold shower helps someone do that thing, then good.
My guess, it's a mix of subtle changes in temperature, external noise patterns and light that are detected for the rough estimation, and then is when stress kicks in, and we do a lot of micro time checks with eyes slightly open that we forget, personally I remember checking the time semi consciously like 100 times, before "accurately" stopping it just one minute before, but other times I experience opening the eyes one second before the alarm rings and it feels so amazing that I suspect I forget everything else.
It sort of exists already. There is a "past" link under the title of the submission that lists previous submissions.
Did you have a device which detected visible light? Because there still may be small amounts of light even if we think there is none
I'm management and the primary developer. (We've got a super small tech team.) I look forward to no-code tools so I can get designers and others tackling less complex problems/projects that would otherwise take up my development time. The hope is that I'd be able to focus on more challenging things, much like how open source relieves developers from building yet another [insert here].
The creepy part is how it'll map the internet, including fringe political web-spaces.
This is huge news!! I've been waiting for something like this from the Rust team for years! I hope libraries can be built for other languages that would allow cleaner interfacing directly with Rust that doesn't rely on the boat anchor of the legacy C ABI that all languages are tied to!

This is the most important "feature" of Rust for it's long term success.

Edit: It looks like this is still using C ABI as it's base, which increases the burden for other languages to implement it. What a let down...
Different people had very different experiences of the lockdown. Many suffered tremendously - unable to get to work, being too far from friends and family and not being able to get help etc.

Clearly, you didn't have to go through the sort of problems some faced. That is not because they were stupid.
> It was ultimately handled at the retail end

To be clear “handling” here meant that there were extensive and pervasive country-wide shortages, and many people went without toilet paper for weeks, including myself. People who needed toilet paper went without, while others hoarded more than they’d need for a year.

That’s the problem people were trying to avoid with masks. First responders and doctors needed them most, but we had people out there literally willing to buy as many as they could for their own personal supply. You can’t wait for the invisible hand of the market to just sort this kind of thing out.
Loving one’s tools is one way of loving the process - arguably the best approach to building great things.
> tool first, problems second

Because there’s a tool and there are (current and future) problems that can be solved with this tool. It’s an one time investment into a tool and it helps to solve multiple future problems more efficiently. Especially with vim or rather modal editing - this skill can be applied everywhere, including your favorite IDE. Though, it may be unrelated to the problem that OP was solving.
Yes, but that only works for Linux. That's not the case for many other OSes where syscalls are not stable.
I agree with your explanation, but actually bootstrapping the compiler might not even be enough, as pointed out by Ken Thompson in his classical essay in 1984 [1] "Reflections on Trusting Trust.

Bruce Schneier already said that in 2006 [2]:

> It’s interesting: the “trusting trust” attack has actually gotten easier over time, because compilers have gotten increasingly complex

Since 2006 compilers have become even more sophisticated, but also much more complex, thus even harder to validate.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/reflections-on-trusting-trust

[2]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr...
> With no-code, those at least go away.

Spreadsheets are no-code that works and has been for decades. No-code won’t kill spreadsheets.
Telling suppliers that masks are reserved for first responders etc and getting Walmart etc to take them off their shelves would have been far less damaging.

Lying losing credibility permanently! There is no going back, that trust is lost. Just letting covid rip though those nursing homes would be way less damaging in the long term.
> What I like about it is that it arranges things in order of importance/relevance in most situations. The month tells me the most important bucket, [...]

In my experience, the thing which is the most important/relevant in most situations is the day of month. People often say things like "dia 10" when asked when something is going to happen; that means in context the 10th of the current month if today is the 9th or earlier, or the 10th of the next month if today is the 11th or later. The month is added only when necessary, like "dia 10 de fevereiro" (just "dia 10" today would mean the 10th of January).
Trump responded to a point from one of his actually-qualified officials which specifically mentioned the efficacy of household bleach in killing the virus outside the body by speculating about "doing something inside" and "injections" of "that disinfectant"

Most people's key takeaway from this is that highly-influential public figures with no scientific background probably shouldn't start inarticulately positing their own ideas for cures in public health briefings, not that the real problem is the media just didn't acknowledge he was talking about injecting (or "maybe not injecting") a different type of disinfectant...

Trump, incidentally, announced shortly after his biggest fans had mined the internet for evidence of Trump's awareness of cutting-edge research that his comments were actually "sarcasm", which would of course have been worse still.
LLMs and a Possible Future for Search
I think you should open source the data, too, by uploading a SQL dump to Github. It provides more learning vectors.
It's "odd" for a person who is used to saying "third november" and not "november third", i.e the order is reversed even there.

A spoken language full date format for me would be like "third november 2022". That, in either in english or in my native language.

I don't know how circular this argument is (does the spoken form come from a written form of the date?). But this is what makes it odd, that in spoken form I, for example, am used to saying the date first but the "odd" date format writes the month first.
Amazon Prime Air drone deliveries begin in Lockeford just before Christmas
It isn't news. It's science.

"Further investigations are needed to clarify the precise immunological mechanisms driving this response and to evaluate whether an IgG4-driven antibody response affects subsequent viral infections and booster vaccinations. This is not only relevant for potential future vaccine campaigns against SARS-CoV-2, but also for new mRNA-based vaccine developments against other pathogens."
Do you mean this mobile app?

https://github.com/mobile
Show HN: Permissions Tool for SysPass
It's definitely 99.9% if the websites aren't filtered at all. A lot lower if you're only taking about the top 100 visited websites according to Alexa or apple however...
That may have been the case in the very beginning, but it certainly evolved into let's scare the crap out of people to achieve whatever outcome we want.
These articles are surely going to be a waste of time. And it was.
Almost everything. The problem is figuring out what is broken.

There are some things that require extra attention, like a microwave oven
A user-friendly plug-in to generate Stable Diffusion images inside Photoshop
I love these sorts of things because it really exposes how little understanding people have of opposing views.
That's an interesting idea, but it completely falls apart if one remembers the "don't buy masks" phase of the CDC's efforts.
”Some people are inefficient with X“ does not mean X is inefficient. They may just be bad at using X.
Seems like the best solution is to not use this technique. Been touching linux servers for 10+ years, and have never had to use it. I definitely used it when learning linux though.

I curl to files for review when I need / want to run a remote script. A bonus is you still have to `chmod u+x some_remote.sh` before it can be run, so it would be extremely difficult to accidentally run.
I dont think it's quite so simple. Maybe 70% of business problems fall into a camp that no code tools can deal with and a long tail of 30% that do not.

The problem is that:

A) No code tools rarely provide good guidance as to where that 70/30 split lies.

B) It often takes a good coder to figure out when you've run into this square peg round hole problem and if you use a NCT you probably dont have one to hand and non technical users are SO bad at this (they will often think that they are the problem).

C) No code tools often end up reinventing programming languages really badly to bridge that gap instead of bridging like they should in an effort to keep users on their platform and because designing programming languages badly is fun!

D) As a result, most people not only misrecognize that 30% long tail and misapply the solution.

As a result no code tools have a perpetual allure until they get used on slightly too complex a problem at which point they become uber brittle and everybody starts tearing their hair out.

Sometimes the rigidity of the no code tool is baked in, which is even worse (e.g. like this one's bad mobile UX).
I’ve seen plenty of unmaintainable solutions written using Excel and VBA, FoxPro, Access etc.

In my recent experience, the only “low code” solution that may be feasible to non developers will be something like ChatGPT.

I am working on a project now and it does as well as junior developers writing well written, commented logical Python code when you give it your “business requirements” in plain English.

While I wasn’t too surprised that it knew about standard Python libraries that work with xml, Yaml, json, etc., i was surprised that I could tell it:

“Write a Python script that takes an xml file with key and value nodes (I gave it a sample) and given a DynamoDB table with key and value fields, if the key from the XML file has a corresponding key in the DDB table, replace the value node in the XML file with the value field in the DDB table”.

The code worked perfectly.

There is no reason that properly trained model couldn’t create a GUI.
Yeah... I suppose that's why we don't see people doing it anymore.

That's what I hope at least.
There's plenty of CPU and GPU numpy accelerators available.

* Numba: https://numba.pydata.org/

* JAX: https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/quickstart.ht...
> I save tens of minutes a year by using vim.

Probably more. It’s not only the speed of typing and editing that matters, but also the time you spend on context switching. When your hands don’t leave the home row you don’t leave the current context.
They may be paying to be the first option in "choose your email provider" lists. Although Apple's Mail.app (both iOS and macOS) offers their own and Microsoft's services before Google's.

For Google, the easiest way to gain new GMail users is to not deliver mail coming to existing users from 3rd party services or to throw it into trash/spam folders for no reason.
I'm not sure I got your point.

Also, https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
It looks like you get that for $1.99/mo. Talk to a real human: https://one.google.com/about/support

I have no experience of actually using it
While this thread is about crows, I can't recommend Bernd Heinrich's books, many of which feature his relationship with ravens, highly enough. A Year in the Maine Woods [1] is a classic. Mind of the Raven [2] and Ravens in Winter [3] may be of interest to anyone following this thread and since I am speaking about ravens in a thread about crows, an Audubon article "How to Tell a Raven from a Crow" [4] may also be of interest.

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77166.A_Year_in_the_Main...
[2] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254704.Mind_of_the_Raven
[3] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122665.Ravens_in_Winter
[4] - https://www.audubon.org/news/how-tell-raven-crow
https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1607410840562458624
I've seen conflicting opinions on this. Some people claim that is illegal but der spiegel gives me the option of free + personalized ads or paying + ad free but I'm also in the US so it may be different for people in germany.
One thing that does not seem to have been mentioned in the article is the simple fact that flowers feature overt hue (I.e. are colorful).

Chromatic vision in primates, insects, birds and fishes seem to have co-evolved in response to items of luxury. In the case of humans it was fruit, in the case of insects and birds it was flowers. These islands of chromatic intensity signaled ‘loot-boxes’ of high super-high carb content.

The carb came at a cost to the plant, but in return they got to spread their seed far and wide.

Chromacity seems to exist as a layer on top of lightness, and has certainly evolved as an afterthought to it. furthermore, in some ways chromatic vision seems to contradict Lightness vision in its form. Proof? Just compare the saturation map of a vase of flowers to its lightness map. They are rarely similar.

As a painter, I am especially intrigued by this. These mechanisms seems to account for our overtly emotional response to color, as opposed the functional nature of lightness. I.e. color = special treat.

Despite this, I believe that the prime stimulus of a flower is its shape (silhouette). This aspect of perception is prime in all animals (and in art) and the chromatic expression of a flower serves only to emphasize this shape.
Interesting. Thanks for following up.
I have learned Vim and tried it out. Still using Vscode. Don't understand the appeal. As long as you make some additional keyboard shortcuts for movement in Vscode, I really doubt you can go much faster with Vim. Plus I'm using about 100 plugins in Vscode and all the niche platforms don't have Vim addons for them. Domain specific plugins really make Vscode irreplaceable.
I've seen two people replace dishwashers because the power cord wasn't connected well and failed. They don't include a power cord with the appliance, here; you buy your own and wire it up yourself, or the installers do it for most people I guess.

So when this hurried connection made in an awkward place turns out to have been poor and breaks after a few years; "the dishwasher is broken" and a repair shop charges half the cost of a new one to come out and look at it... It made sense to these folks to just go ahead and get a new one without the stains etc.

Lots of electronics get that treatment, its too complicated to think about what's inside it; so the whole unit is either working or broken but not considered repairable.
> Packages are signed, unless you're using a niche, insecure distro or package manager.

You still need to get that signature from somewhere, likely a web server. If your threat model is that you don't trust web servers but do trust the packages and repositories they give to you, then I guess this is true but that seems a little crazy given that the attacker can just change the website you're visiting to host a malicious package, and change the signature it verifies against.

> Of course, that signing key could also be compromised, but those are usually more tightly guarded than web servers,

Why is it reasonable to assume that? I don't think it is, at all. If their SSL certs are comprised, all bets are off.

> any reputable dev should have their key in a hardware enclave like yubikey or similar).

I suspect you will be very very very disappointed at the number of people who publish software that meet the criteria you've outlaid here.

Fundamentally, your argument is flawed right at the beginning because all the attacker needs to do is compromise the web server and change the installation instructions.
To be fair, I've seen both a Windows NT 4.0 server, and a Debian server (not sure about the exact version) with several years of uptime. But these days, with everything connected to the Internet, one usually wants to install updates regularly, which often requires a reboot. Also, once the OS goes out of support, it's prudent to upgrade or get a new server altogether.
> “Directly” is immaterial if every part of the tool chain supports it transparently. Which granted isn’t a given

In other words, it's not immaterial (and even hinting that it might be by introducing the word in the first place is a red herring).

> it takes approximately none to minify JS

Simply untrue.

> And for an even meager payload on the wire, I know my users on spotty networks or low power devices aren’t just theoretically benefiting.

There are two issues here, both of which come down to the fact that the practice of minification doesn't exist in a vacuum:

1. HTTP payload compression is already a thing

2. There's a counterintuitive product of the industry that churns out minified JS bundles, which is that if you look at what people are actually doing, pretty much all these things end up being larger--this is approximately the same as the "low-fat/low-calorie snacks lead to overeating" phenomenon, but there's a fair bit of "lost knowledge/nobody knows how to do this stuff anymore" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko> involved, too
numba - instead of writing in Rust, you write it in numba, which is also almost like another language. Not bad, but needs to be taken into account and is not pure numpy.
Twitter is by far and away the #1 place to exchange and debate ideas. It is critical that speech on it remains free.
You still need your birth certificate or citizenship card. https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1280?language=en_US
Bookmarks are a good middle ground between saving everything and not being able to find something you read later.
It is integrated in the browser's address bar as autocompletion/search and if you can vaguely recall some words from the title you can find it.
I've been using this system for years, works great with Firefox sync and Firefox on Android too (to remember articles I discover on both mobile and desktop in same place)
Tell HN: Support chat turns on camera in Amazon app
I received a gift from Amazon that I didn’t want, so I attempted to return it. Turned out to be “non-returnable” (food related), so I was directed to talk to support for a refund.

During that chat session, I noticed the iOS camera indicator was on. Pulling down the toolbar showed that it was the Amazon app. I went to my settings and disabled it, which cause the app to quit and lose my chat session.

I am shaken by the fact that they were probably watching me. This was a serious invasion of my privacy, and I didn’t even finish the refund process. How is this legal?
> They made it clear after the fact that this was done because there wasn't an adequate supply of masks for 330M people

Partly..

There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.

“There also is the issue that we have a massive global shortage,” Ryan said about masks and other medical supplies

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r...
At least in BC, EDLs have been phased out :(
New framework increases speed of large language models by up to 3x
E.g.?
Having said that, I write a lot of JS / Node. When you npm (a package manager for NodeJS) install something there could very well be some curl commands piping to bash or sh.

Makes me think of an idea -- and maybe it exists -- create a npm package whose only purpose is to run checks on the code of the other packages being installed to ensure they are "safe".
Maybe contrast that to Chuang Tzu's Dexterous Butcher...

"When I first began

To cut up an oxen

I would see before me

The whole ox

All in one mass.

After three years

I no longer saw this mass.

I saw the distinctions.

“But now, I see nothing

With the eye. My whole being

Apprehends.

My senses are idle. The spirit

Free to work without plan

Follows its own instinct

Guided by natural line,

By the secret opening, the hidden space,

My cleaver finds its own way.

I cut through no joint, chop no bone."

It's not the tool, but the wielder.
This solves the part of downloading partial scripts, but doesn't solve the problem of malicious scripts. If you download a script from a compromised host, they'll just re-sign the modified script with their own signature. The solution is that you have to trust the script source, and transmit over secure channels.
Timers, calculations etc. could be processed on-device, without having to go to the cloud. At least some newer Apple devices do this.