skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The trains run. Given human history, and every other undeveloped country, this is working.

Sure, and in the context of any single country it might not be working. Is a train running at 3mph "working" because there were no trains on earth during all those years of human history before the invention of trains? I don't think that's a useful definition of "working".

I do absolutely agree that advanced societies are miraculous, though I wouldn't call them functioning smoothly (there's a lot of overhead). Still, there's plenty of things that aren't working at all or aren't working as well as they should (a thousand dollar burger should taste crazy delicious), and government (or more general: a large bureaucracy, of which government is the largest) is often involved.
This is really cool. The killer feature I see is to be able to have a cloud storage tier for warm data that goes off to s3, while keeping the hot storage local. Does anyone know of another option that allows this kind of hybrid local / s3 storage that also has a filesystem interface?
> has anyone here ever used an electron microscope?

I am not a scientist, but yes. It’s not that hard to directly access most scientific tools. Verification takes effort, but random verification should reasonably give you confidence and can be a fun project on it’s own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbdbVhzcM4

PS: One of the most famous experiments off all time is replicated whenever you can something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation
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This isn't exploiting a vulnerability. If I knock on your door and you open it and invite me in, you don't get to complain about how I'm trespassing. If your server responds to traffic on a port, then it's completely fair to conclude that you're okay with that.
> or some take advantage of the privilege of self management and milk the system.

People milk the system in the office too. It's human nature to expend as little energy as possible for maximum rewards.
A language like OCaml can still have memory unsafety issues introduced by the compiler or standard library. It just makes it much more manageable to effectively audit for and fix such issues. `unsafe` blocks serve the same purpose.
A civilization stops scientific activity when you kill its scientists and burn its libraries. Who would have thought?

How much science would get done in the US if everyone in the 50 largest cities is killed or enslaved and the cities are razed?
It was concerns over this very thing happening in Windows 8/10 that spurred Steam to develop SteamOS and the Steam Linux compatibility tool Proton.
>#Stop scanning and probing our network, XXX.XX.X.X/16. We are a defense

#contractor and report to Federal law enforcement authorities when scans

#and probes are directed at our network. I assume you don't want to be

#part of that report. Please permanently remove our network range from

#your current and future research.
I’m actually somewhat surprised someone hasn’t already built video chat just based on this ^
What ads? I can't see any. That damn uBlock Origins, must be the culprit in my case :D
He went on Tyler Cowen's podcast
It's simple and comparatively easy to make reliable, but a factor in its continued use is that's so prevalent in hard-to-change places: the web, libraries, old OSs, switches, other battle-hardened systems, etc.
Can you explain why Excel 2003 is better, or as good, as the latest Excel ?
Sometimes... Sometimes not...

spotty mobile connections with a powerful device (iPhone Android etc...) it might make sense.
Is it common for companies not to have this already?

Both places I've worked so far have had this. There's an office and everyone has a desk and is presumed to be in the majority of the time but if you want to WFH you just did and let your team know. There was an understanding that for certain events you should try be in the office (big planning/roadmapping meetings, retros and manager 121s) but otherwise it was at will.

If for some reason you needed to WFH for an extended period of time that was a conversation they were open to. For example a colleague's partner was ill so he WFH for a month to help with the kids, or another colleague was changing meds and that was easier to cope with if they WFH that week.

Maybe I've just been lucky with employers but flexibility around WFH has always been a given for me.
Exactly this. Multinational companies are relaizing that they've already incurred the cost of distributed teams and that since there's really no difference between your manager being in Munich, Germany and Munich, North Dakota they may as well cut costs by allowing the latter case.
It's not all-or-nothing. Numbers do exist between 0% and 100%.
Facebook is crack cocaine.

Most people aren't informed about the dangers, and by the time they understand, they're addicted.

Moreover, it was explicitly and willfully designed to work that way.
I really liked the nontechnical explanation, although the diagrams are a bit busy.

Something it could have benefited from is an explanation of what "dispatch" means, and why "multiple dispatch" is so called.
Toddler... Getting left home alone... Reads a note.

I don't think this happened.
Because atheists and christians don't like that. No other reason.
I don't think you've understood my point. I agree that cosmetics testing on animals is cruel, but it does serve a purpose, it doesn't matter how fucking selfish that purpose is, my point is that purpose exists.

What is the purpose of inflicting tinnitus on animals?
My point is that any such theory is untestable, and we're good at convincing ourselves of "truths" that appeal to us. A 19th century nationalist would have liked your first sentence. A 19th century marxist would have liked your second and third one.

Any one of them can be challenged with counterexamples. EG, a great modern cognate to Venetian lords and bishops pouring money into prestige projects are the gulf Emirs. Yet...
OCaml has its fair share of unsafe features, with the functions helpfully prefixed by "unsafe_". If you look through the stdlib you'll find dozens of such functions. Plus real world code uses them to do things like avoiding bounds checks. Much as I'm a fan of OCaml, even a pure OCaml implementation could do unsafe things.
Most European private health insurance isn't actually 100% private, as well. Often you will have some state provided healthcare in there (especially for major trauma in ER).
>Stripe is, qualitatively and quantitatively, about as different counting from my start date to today as it was counting from launch to my start date.

We've been using Stripe to accept payments for longer than Pat has been there. From the customer perspective, Stripe is largely unchanged from when we first started using it. i.e. easy to use and no complaints (other than the high fees which are probably in line with other processors given our low volume).

We tried to use Atlas to set up an Ireland sub, but had no success. I was not involved, only my COO, so don't have much to add on this.
I agree Cheney is as evil as they come but for the love of humanity please don't use fiction as reference. Misinformation is already bad enough out there. Movies are for entertainment that deliberately skew history to pull heart strings to get you to watch and more importantly talk about the movie so others will watch it too providing more revenue for the showrunner.
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>> the cookbook itself becomes copyrightable.

> But what is discussed here is not the cookbook but just the table of contents. The actual recipes are different.

We should be very cautious about trying to tackle the subject in this way. Illustration by analogy can be useful for explaining subtle concepts, but argument by analogy will only introduce more confusion.
Tinder Select, then? Or any number of other "more exclusive" services:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/07/tinder-select-is-a-secret-...
That was neat! Next, maybe you could do ones on URNs. They are much rarer in the wild, compared to URLs, but you can find them in torrent magnet files, isbn: numbers, etc.

They are a powerful concept - give a resource a universal name, regardless of how you locate it. I'm surprised this hasn't taken off as a way to universally point to assets (outside bittorrent), but I guess the challenge there is the resolver, and the lack of a pressing need when URLs do most of what you want.

I just want a way to refer to a file that might be local, http, s3, what-have-you, and always refer to it with the same string, regardless of where it's located.

There's XRIs, but there's, erm, some drama going on there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Resource_Identifi...
Really? My only experience with Julia was porting a simulation from Python and the speedup was incredible. Admittedly, that's an instance of numerical computing, but I would wonder why it was slow for you.
FWIW that was my experience too. And the JIT was too slow for my pace of code changes. Also really wanted to love it.

Maybe I need to try the new version.
Science and religion are belief systems and therefore share some commonalities but the radical difference is that science is based on testable hypothesis, whereas religion is just religion.

To say they are "absolutely equivalent" is a massive stretch.
I'm not a security professional and I was exactly thinking this. Why would you give away your sensitive IP blocks.
Or, at least, the young healthy people buy the cheapest insurance they can find while people who know they'll have a lot of expenses will tend to buy the gold-plated offerings.
Because the USA has a fundamentally broken healthcare system, which it propagandizes as the best in the world despite actual evidence that it is not.
Brezhnev may have had the Trump eye:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/d2/5b/79d25b5058348a24e117...

I don't think Trump has ever been accused of wandering around Moscow blotto, but Putin certainly got a laugh when he claimed he was certain that, Trump's hotel having been in close proximity to the Bolshoi, the future POTUS, a family man, would undoubtedly have taken the opportunity to sample the culture of Russia instead of that of its girls of low social responsibility.
I don't think that rents are the motivation behind this and instead I believe they want to get new heads and make work at Microsoft more attractive.

I get what you mean with either/or, currently you just don't know who is available on a day to day basis, which can ruin any planning.

One the other hand I would like to see mixed models like having 2 WFH days per week where I can work without the usual office distractions. For productivity purposes it would probably be best if those day are synchronized for development work of course.
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Scanning through windows to find fluffy animals is certainly getting closer to crossing an ethical boundary but it's not strictly illegal.

I also think that moves the analogy too far in the other direction. While it may not be the case that servers are actively "broadcasting" their port open status to all internet users, that's only because it would not be feasible to do so. It is not because port open status is supposed to be private or secret information, like the inside of my bedroom for example.

In fact TCP/IP is designed with the intention that anyone can check the port open status without authentication. It is part of the intended usage of the protocol, so presumably it is safe to assume that anyone using it is probably using it with that intention.
Do you personally test any scientific claims? Or do you personally take them on faith?
Wow, Rust being used in something as respected as cURL is a big endorsment !
You missed my point. I didn't say remote doesn't work, I said remote will disadvantage remote employees if not done right.
Every gas station in France does that. If you leave the station without paying, the station may report (sometimes in real time) your car to the police (which is sometimes very close on certain highways) and the manager can even submit a complaint against you.
"With the virus, has anyone here ever used an electron microscope? Did you see a virus with it? Why do you think it is a virus? Etc etc - its all on faith."

You're in the wrong forum.
I don't think difference in taxes is as much as people think.

I have lived and worked in many cities in the US as well as a couple of central European countries. Once you get into a high salary range the taxes aren't much different. The exception being if you have a bunch of kids then you will pay lower taxes in the US. However, you will also have increased costs including medical for the kids.
Many many reasons. Health care in the US is very expensive because providers have monopolies in most markets. Pharmaceuticals are also the most expensive in the world. The govt spends a lot of money, but in a way that makes market efficiencies impossible to achieve. Ultimately, that results in very high prices.

Essentially, no participant in the market has an interest in reducing costs.
What is the end-game of "flattening the curve"?

Is it:

- everybody will eventually, but much later, get covid and become immune?

- Keep the infected number low until a vaccine is developed?

- Something else?
And a credit to the author of cURL as well:

> We’d like to thank Daniel for his willingness to be a leader on this issue. It’s not easy to make such significant changes to how wildly successful software is built, but we’ve come up with a great plan and together we’re going to make one of the most critical pieces of networking software in the world significantly more secure. We think this project can serve as a template for how we might secure more critical software, and we’re excited to learn along the way.
Exactly. It isn't just Facebook. The SEC and FTC have completely failed us in the last 20 years. Everything is about shareholder return, who cares about how many monopolies it creates.

Also, you forgot Disney, Comcast, Apple, AT&T, and many more.
Some interesting excerpts:

> [...] this view sees natural things that appear to be permanent as merely following habit. Heat follows fire and hunger follows lack of food as a matter of habit, not necessity, “just as the king generally rides on horseback through the streets of the city, and is never found departing from this habit; but reason does not find it impossible that he should walk on foot through the place.” [...] tomorrow coldness might follow fire, and satiety might follow lack of food. God wills every single atomic event and God’s will is not bound up with reason. [...] “Were it God’s will, we would even have to practice idolatry.” [...] “Nothing in nature can act spontaneously and apart from God.” [...] Mohammed Yusuf, the late leader of a group called the Nigerian Taliban, explained why “Western education is a sin” by explaining its view on rain: “We believe it is a creation of God rather than an evaporation caused by the sun that condenses and becomes rain.” [...] the 2010 eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano was the result of God’s anger at immodestly dressed women in Europe.

We often overlook in hindsight how unclear it was how the world works at its basics in earlier times.
In other words, it could have turned out that way. It was partially luck that the West got it right. For all they knew, it could have been really God micromanaging everything with no humanly discernible consistency or laws to it. Certainly not ones that are as simple as Newton's laws for example. It was not at all inevitable that, say, the intricate dance of celestial bodies can be reduced to 3 laws of motion plus the inverse square law for gravity.
Which did not prevent the islamic world to influence mathematics and medicine, among other things, in Europe until they were driven out of Spain.
Unlike the others, Facebook can harvest the additional profile data and feed it into their more efficient ad business.
Of course. That’s understood. We know at max, your best workers are productive doing things 40 to 50%. Slackers at the office much less. Slackers at home even worse.
> The really interesting thing here is the possibility of part-time work.

Part-time work at a big shop, for many returning to work new moms, can be more accurately described as squeeze 5 days of work into 3 days. I'm not saying that Microsoft cannot pull it off, but many other big shops (and even those that rate highly on such magazine prizes for working moms) have been extremely disingenuous with such claims. That being said, the full time benefits for part time work has been a real thing.
I think there are two parts to the answer. Firstly, health care in the US is extremely expensive. There are long articles written about this but IMO a main reason is market failure. The US, especially republicans, place a lot of value on free markets but people are willing to pay almost anything not to die.

The second part of the story is that the US is richer than Europe. I moved to the US from Western Europe. Before I moved here I didn't expect how much more everything is more expensive here, but at the same time salaries are also higher. The US's GDP per capita is $62k, Germany's is $47k. But that doesn't tell full story. In the US there is a big difference between low paying and high paying jobs, rural and urban areas.
I would imagine Apple doing this with FaceTime soon.

Using their own NPU ( Neural processing unit ), you can now make FaceTime call with ridiculously low bandwidth. From the Nvidia example, 0.1165 KB/frame even at buttery smooth 60fps ( I could literally hear Apple market the crap out of this ), that is 7KBps or 56Kbps! Remember when the industry were trying to compress CD Audio quality ( aka 128Kbps MP3 ) down to 64Kbps? This FaceTime Video Call is using even less!

And since the NPU and FaceTime are all part of Apple's platform and not available anywhere else. They now have an even better excuse not to open it up and further lock customers into their ecosystem. ( Not such a good thing with how Apple are acting right now )

Not so sure where Nvidia is heading for this since Not everyone will have a CUDA GPU.
That sounds like all the downsides of an office with none of the benefits. Plus additional expenses.
This is only meta analysis, but some topics come up more frequently when people say how impressed they are with Julia.

Simulations, ODEs, tight for-loops seem to be high on the lists.

“Generic” data science doesn’t, or indeed general, unscientific programming.

Perhaps this is not right, or outdated, but my impression is that Julia is perhaps very well suited to _some_ scientific programming, not necessarily all of it, despite the broad statements.
It's not downvoting it's suppressing views that one doesn't agree with aka censorship. I predict HN will go the way of Slashdot within 5 years.
Let me second GP’s sentiment. I find Julia really slow for my purposes. I don’t know his reasoning, but I will explain mine. None of this is surprising and is oft discussed.

Julia (at least by default) is constantly recompiling everything. This is a huge pain in a REPL style setup where you want to tweak one thing and see the changes, again and again. I know the Julia ecosystem is working on better caching etc to fix this problem but it’s a problem.

Also, despite the marketing claims around the language, expertly crafted C usually beats Julia in performance. So if your “python” program is spending most of its time in Numpy/PyTorch/etc, it will beat Julia, unless you’re writing a fancy “put a differential equation in a neural network in a Bayesian Monte Carlo” program that benefits from cross compiling across specialized libraries.

Finally, the Julia libraries are just not as mature as python’s. Armies of developers and larger armies of users have battle tested and perfected python’s crown jewel libraries over many years. Often when someone posts a bad benchmark to the Julia forums they can “fix” it in the library implementation, proving the correctness of the theoretical case for Julia. But in reality many such problems remain to be fixed.

Julia is really cool and does have many inherent advantages over python. But it’s not the silver bullet many of its proponents suggest it to be. At least not yet. Every few years I check out Julia and I hope one day it does become that perfect language. I think it will. I just fear it will take longer than many others hope.
Worth pointing out that there was an important caveat that the GP included... "Science... BASED ON TRUST AND WITHOUT PERSONAL VERIFICATION is absolutely equivalent to religion."