skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nFreezer is different to RClone and Duplicity on a very important point (for me because I often move big multimedia projects): if you move `/path/to/10GB_file` to `/anotherpath/subdir/10GB_file_renamed`, no data will be re-transferred over the network, thus saving 10 GB of data transfer.

Indeed, Rclone does not handle renames when in encrypted mode, see https://forum.rclone.org/t/can-not-use-track-renames-when-sy...

Idem for duplicity (tests done).

TL;DR: see 3rd point of https://github.com/josephernest/nfreezer#features

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Another interesting feature is that you can read/audit the full source code of nFreezer quickly: it's only 249 source lines of code, as of today.
Well, here is the HTML code I get (perhaps I should have posted it earlier):

<!-- Head -->
<html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>Permission denied!</body></html>

The HTTP response code is 403
> Large companies keep billions in profit offshore, where they don't pay taxes

US companies keep their "offshore" profits in segregated accounts in New York.
>>they came up with several examples of biased behavior,

In none of those examples is there proof of racial bias.
Wikipedia and youtube, yes. In fact i wish i could re-start my life today, there is soo much to discover for an inquisitive child

The most important qualification for a child anywhere in the world today is knowing English
We are using Soasta at your company. We use it to do record, parametrize, playback to simulate multi user workflows. Cant see any such support here. One of the problems with Soasta is it requires lot of servers to trigger load. Looking for moving away from it. k6 seems interesting, but couldn't find any record/playback functionality. Any addon/extension which can be used to achieve similar purpose with K6?
I spent more time with videogames than encarta. However, trying to get pc games to run in the 90s taught me how to troubleshoot computers. When I had Internet access I still played a lot of videogames but I also learned a ton of stuff from poking around on websites. The Internet taught me networking, programming, digital forensics and lots of other useful stuff.
Only a second and it displays a prompt! And that’s how far the abilities of most users goes, you can’t teach them how to use this prompt.

Not to mention there’s no way to hook these computers to the internet which is what most people want to use.

There’s a lot to improve on modern computers but comparing them to a c64 is just ridiculous.
And that's why languages such as C and C++ are not a reference implementation from a vendor but an international standard.

Just get a few rust standards out of iso, one for the core language and another for some standard libraries, and get it over with.
How Facebook marketplace is eating the markets
Doing integer/rational arithmetic gives you a choice: either never do any rounding and require exponentially growing precision that makes even the simplest algorithms impractically expensive (not to mention giving up entirely on the many common computations which cannot be represented whatsoever in an exact rational arithmetic system), or allow rounding/approximation of some kind and end up with roughly the same problems floats have.
I use https://asciinema.org/ for terminal capture. Works really well and can embed into slides. Here is an example from one of my lab sessions https://nccastaff.bournemouth.ac.uk/jmacey/msc/ase/labs/lab1...
And there I was crafting my own ya-snippets for it! Facepalm
Iranians were and are afraid to vote.

Not too long ago, in Iran, there were scores of mass protests against their own government, who were then oppressed, subdued, and killed for protesting.

Lots and lots of censorship including in the media, internet, and free speech.

Sounds like a dictatorship to me.
A good use case for Reveal.js is if you have several presentations that share slides:

http://bigsense.github.io/presentations/index.html

I wrote a simple builder script that would pull groupings of slides together into different presentations, as well as watcher scripts to rebuild automatically when I saved:

https://github.com/BigSense/presentations
Why does Iran lag while North-Korea* built nuclear weapons & got a seat at global diplomacy round-table?

* North-South split, thanks to USSR/USA insecurities.
People have been saying this for years now. Not only has nothing materialized, but the price has barely ever deviated from the 1:1 peg.
I stand corrected regarding statistics (female cases rose more drastically but still do not exceed male cases) and edited my comment to reflect that, but will not take back the general sentiment. Domestic abuse statistics are near impossible to gather reliably, so I am extrapolating from what is known about this issue that current situation likely has made things worse for victims (of any gender).

I am aware that Japan is not under full lockdown, but partial lockdown (businesses like cafes or dance halls closing and owners staying at home) and remote work are a thing. Then, consider places elsewhere in the world where lockdown measures are or had been stricter.
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I will add it.

You will probably be surprised, but I wasn't aware of this one when starting my project! In a way, this is fortunate, because it was an interesting journey to code this :)
Thank you.

>I suspect that he struggles to see the world without that lens applied

If you'll have to select one or two the most important and essential things to see 'without that lens', what would they be in your opinion?
It's hard for me to comment on your results as I know too little about your testing method.

I'm not allowed to give our numbers to the public but there's a few articles and blog posts about the probabilities. The general observation is:

"A system on Earth, at sea level, with 4 GB of RAM has a 96% percent chance of having a bit error in three days without ECC RAM. With ECC RAM, that goes down to 1.67e-10 or about one chance in six billions"

https://community.hiveeyes.org/t/soft-errors-caused-by-singl...
Any technical information for their process?
wealth doesn't dribble down but a cure to cancer does -- I'm not advocating for overinvesting in the top of the distribution but governments can have legitimate, prosocial goals that involve cultivating specific talents

heard a throwaway comment in a podcast that poor countries have to invest in the top of the distribution because they have limited resources and need to max out highly-educated people so they can develop their tech economy. (I wish I had a real footnote for that claim or understood it better).

If you model the US as a poor nation that's falling behind its peers, or more plausibly, if you modify half of US states this way, there's an argument we should have the same education strategy as india or 1990s china.
This is potentially a godsend for me - I was faced with having to write a 1 paragraph summary of 70 student dissertations for an accreditation process next week. Abstracts are too long. Fingers crossed it works as advertised!
A toxic relationship that Gust tolerated for 18 months, which turned him toxic too. Fine, so he was just treading water till his own bonuses cleared, but that was his choice.

He was contracted and paid to do a certain job, and ended up doing a different, harder job which presumably wasn’t in his contract and for which he wasn’t being paid. That was his choice. I know, geeks are bad at saying “no”, but work-to-rule is a thing for a reason, and you don’t have to be a douche about it; unfailingly, excruciatingly polite is its own weapon too.

And then Gust turned various independent OSS projects toxic as well, even though his fight was not theirs. And the people they’re chucking abusing at now are not the abusive management who used Gust as their personal doormat, but ordinary employees down in the trenches just trying to do their own jobs.

I’m not sure where you’re getting the “subjected to further abuse after his resignation” from; there’s nothing in the article about that.

Nobody comes out of this one looking good, except for OP, who is just trying to do his job as best he can. His post is tagged “unprofessional-behavior” and he’s not wrong about that.

And Gust hasn’t done himself any favors either if/when that reputation follows him to future jobs. I get that he’s angry and burnt out and that’s leading him to make poor decisions—been there, done that—but like I say, if you don’t look after yourself you’re no good to anyone. I know I wouldn’t want to hire someone coming off the back of that shitshow lest they bring all their toxic baggage with them and infect my business too.

I understand Gust, cos there’s a bit of Gust in many of us, but he chose to take the abuse far longer than I would have before cutting my losses and getting out. And much of that abuse was ultimately self-inflicted because he chose to let himself be taken for a ride (because geeks love to be Helpful), instead of apologizing profusely that he was not qualified, competent, nor contracted to do work so far out of his job description. And sad to say the world is full of people (at all social and professional levels) who’ll be happy to take good-willed naive suckers for everything they’re worth (hell, just look at US politics!).

But the moment Gust turned abusive himself—boom, whatever sympathies I had for him as another fallible human being are done, and I’ve no interest in fellow geeks crafting a Robin Hood narrative just because it pleases them to do so.
I'd like to put in a word for the modus operandi in Busman's Honeymoon!
That's what k6 does. It's called soak testing: https://k6.io/docs/test-types/soak-testing

I use it with influxdb and grafana.

Set it up with one virtual user running for 6 hours, requesting different endpoints, you should get the 1req/sec.
> What incentive is driving this trend is democracies?

I guess you're getting at election politics? Spend money that's borrowed so you don't need to increase taxes, point at all the good things you've done.

Some people think this is kicking the can down the road, but again, if the bomb doesn't explode in my hands it's fine.
NZ relies on an incredible amount of international trade to survive.

It's a tiny island nation that is in no way economically independent from its trading partners.

And yet, they've figured out how to stop both community spread, and travel-related spread.
Looking at your codebase, it looks like each of these files could make excellent online tutorials. Many of the APIs you're using are tricky to figure out. It helps so much being able to google concrete usage examples, that are well organized and provide brief explanations and screenshots. It reminds me of the days when I used to used Beej's tutorials on socket programming. That's the kind of content we sadly don't see as much anymore. Online programming resources since then sadly seem to have become polarized between (a) direct answers to specific questions on stack overflow, and (b) low-effort seo-optimized blind leading the blind.
It’s more than just intelligence. For example, I score very well in IQ tests, but I’m unusually lazy so I don’t accomplish much.
That's up to the user. I was in the maths group for the write-offs when I was 14/15, and thanks to almost entirely my own reading I am now studying theoretical physics and writing compilers (amongst other things you tend to see on HN, that kind of stuff). That would still be possible without the internet but there's no way I could've done it almost entirely of my own volition (i.e. online resources)

In my case I'm not particularly intelligent (My IQ is probably about 110ish) but my ego drives to learn ever more difficult looking things, that and the having the attention span of a child (I've recently noticed I can barely read aloud without stumbling). Having the internet available to do that on my own terms is why I know anything at all today, I really don't do well being sat in a classroom.

I still do the usual gaming and the like, but I really don't buy that you can force people to learn if their hearts not in it (maybe my parents were too laissez-faire, who knows - if all goes to plan I'll be the first in the family to have a degree worth the paper it's written on).

My best friend had that kind of very-structured upbringing and I could just feel that I could run rings around him because I'd got to the same place (We ended up at the same University) the long way round - even though we're basically made of the same stock mentally.

That's my ode to the internet, anyway.
Thanks for asking the question, it's right, there are thousands of backup programs already.

The "key thing" that lead me to code my own is that with nearly all the solutions I tried, data was resent over network when a big file is moved to another dir+renamed, WHEN used in encrypted-at-rest mode.

It's the case for rsync (the --fuzzy only helps when renamed but stays in same dir), duplicity, and even rclone when in encrypted mode (see https://forum.rclone.org/t/can-not-use-track-renames-when-sy...: "Can not use –track-renames when syncing to and from Crypt remotes").

So I wanted to solve this problem, and it works. See point #3 of https://github.com/josephernest/nfreezer#features.
It’s generally preferable to link to the direct source rather than Google’s AMP page.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/final-say-remain-leave-...
The canonical way to record web traffic are HAR files: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAR_(file_format)

You can export HAR files from all web browsers and a lot of proxies and other tools. Then you can convert that recording to a k6 script with our HAR converter: https://k6.io/docs/test-authoring/recording-a-session/har-co...

We also have browser plugins to directly record browser traffic and import it as a k6 script in our cloud service: https://k6.io/docs/test-authoring/recording-a-session/browse...

However, you don't need a cloud subscription to run the tests, you can copy-paste the generated script code and `k6 run` it locally, without paying us anything.
I've wondered about this for some time. The Mensa demographic is 'highly intelligent under-achievers'. Why?

Part of it is early formation. Smarter people can find elementary schoolwork trivial. So they don't get any kind of work habits early on. I was one of these, like you, and still have a hard time buckling down to a task.

There must be more reasons, but that one seems fundamental.

My boys are smart - their mother is the product of a school teacher and a research physicist, so they got it with both barrels. They could have turned out smart-and-lazy. But we put them to hard tasks as soon as they could talk. Music, farm chores, Scout projects. Gave them jobs that were so big they couldn't see the end, so they just had to plug away cheerfully day by day.

Worked. One is an industrial Engineer for new products, invents new ways to aggregate steel in his spare time. Another went to Conservatory in Cello (he liked it better than piano and had to choose). The third spent last month up North, climbing 6 mountains. All three Eagle Scouts in a challenging program. All happy well-adjusted men.
My reading is this:

When you use an VAE, you implicitly assume that your data never ever leaves the area between 0 and 1 and that it'll never ever touch the borders.

But if you have pictures of scanned-in handwritten digits, there's a chance that in reality, the line was blacker than the darkest color that your image file format can store. For example, if you did contrast enhancement after scanning, you likely cut off some extra dark or extra bright pixels.

A regular VAE cannot handle this situation that multiple brightness=0 (black) pixels actually had varying negative brightnesses which were clamped to 0 for technical reasons. A continuous Bernoulli can model 0 really meaning <=0. And 1 meaning >=1.

That's why with a continuous Bernoulli you get more saturated white and blacks than with just a Bernoulli. See the image in 5.1, for example. That's a good thing because it increases contrast, thus making your features better and dependent learning tasks easier.
Yes, but the hooliganism of the 70s and 80s has largely gone away. It was conducted by gangs of thugs who were mostly associated with a small number of first division teams, and generally roundly denounced. I don’t think it’s fair to imply it was representative of the countries cultural approach to group affiliations.
Not only that, but he is paying for documentaries that attack the public school system, yet paint him and other pro-charter 'thought leaders' in a positive light:

"'Waiting for Superman' is a new documentary film that is being lauded as a path-breaking exposé of the problems with public schools in this country, and as a vehicle to pretend that some hard-working, school “reform” experts, have the solutions.

[...]

But the movie is remarkable for the “facts” it doesn’t show: how public money has been handed over to corporations and banks, resulting in public schools closing, students being jammed into overcrowded classrooms, with no equipment, books, or sometimes, not even toilet paper. It doesn’t show how so-called top leaders in education summits are primarily CEOs and charter school operators, as well as Wall Street “Investment” bankers and representatives from foundations pushing the agendas of billionaires like Bill Gates and Eli Broad." [1]

Rick Ayers on DemocracyNow:

"In a way, it reminds me of the Horatio Alger stories in the nineteenth century, when there was great union agitation for raising up the working class, and these Horatio Alger stories would be these wonderful individual stories of individuals who worked hard and did what they were told and became successful, so we do not need a union movement, we just need individuals to succeed under capitalism. And these stories about individuals making it out of the ghetto and the very moving examples of the scholarship student who gets out are put forward precisely to avoid any talk about real problems of poverty, real problems of access, real problems all the students are facing in a place like Harlem."

[1] https://the-spark.net/np879404.html

[2] https://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/1/waiting_for_superman_...
I spent a week in wikipedia learning about stars, nuclear fusion and black holes when I was a teenager, so 15 years ago.
It was fun.
Edit: As varbhat has edited their post to clarify that they indeed did not mean to say backing in an adversarial way, my post can be ignored or just read as my understanding of the space.

Apologies if I misunderstand your post, in which case you can disregard my entire post, but -- I assume you mean as in adversarial backing?

These companies use practically all of these languages but to a different extent, for different uses, and for good reasons.

I currently get paid to write C and Go but I dabble in most things, and I'm certainly the happiest when I get to write Rust and ReasonML/ReScript. Having said that, I personally think it's fair to guess that Swift will continue to shine mainly as Apple ecosystem language, Go will continue to shine mainly as network server language and Rust (and whatever follows it) will continue to grow for network servers but will also slowly seep into our shared foundational layer of software. Slowly, slowly, libraries, kernel modules, runtimes, stdlibs for other languages, frameworks, etc. This a good thing, because it slowly rids us of old C and C++ code bases that may not have kept up with the times

Yes, all of these languages are being used to write excellent CLI tools, graphical applications, etc and that's wonderful (I use many of them), but none of these languages are realistically competing to kill any of the other in any definitive way.

Now if only Go would give me sum types (ADTs), my life would be even easier :)
To improve education you have to improve opportunity, and in different places that will mean different things.

Talent and ability is well distributed, but having access to resources to make the most of that ability tends to be concentrated in the richer urbanized areas.

20% of the US population is rural, those kids are lucky if they have access to broadband, or teachers that can teach well, or access to cultural opportunities (museums, concerts, even libraries). In my metro, the poor side of town has problems getting broadband internet and computers for every child that needs one.

Our time would be better spent making sure everybody has a better opportunity rather than just focusing on those who were lucky enough to live on the right side of town.
the vast majority of knowledge acquired by humanity isn't even written down, on the web or anywhere else, because knowledge can be institutional, tacit, incorporated in organisations, embodied in cultural practises, families, even biological systems and so on. If your six year old learned to swim on wikipedia, do you throw her into a pool?

The kind of knowledge that facilitates economic development is of that sort, it's institutional and tacit. In How Asia works Joe Studwell makes an interesting observation. When South Korea and Taiwan had already taken off economically, significant parts of the population still could not read. The expansion of education lagged, not preceded economic growth.

Beaming markup text around the world is not all that it's made out to be for real world development.
I’d like to see the source photo if you don’t mind.

I’ve discovered that in any unclear situation it shows toddlers.

In particular, it happens when the camera distorts the perspective, such as too close or shot with an unusual angle. Precisely, selfies are often fish eyed.

I wonder if a plain, well lit portrait changes it. It must not be essentially a passport photo, but a passport photo would work too.

Of course, that is something to think about in the future releases. So sad, Anonymizer is an experiment made for fun. I wonder if it has a product/market fit. Thoughts?
About TSO, I do wonder whether Apple will stop implementing it in its future chips when the transition to Apple silicon is over and Rosetta 2 is dropped.
The author doesn't get the goal of education. It is to reduce population growth for the populace. The best make it to the top anyways.
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Depends on the individual, plenty of people have access to the Internet and remain in their own language bubble, never bothering to step outside of it.

Schools pretty much force you to at least know the basics to get a passing grade. The web only helps if you have self-initiative.
> And that's why languages such as C and C++ are not a reference implementation from a vendor but an international standard.

I'm not a C++ programmer but when I read C++ programmers discussing their language standard committee, "free and unconstrained by corporate interests" is usually not how they characterize it.
The most I started on a single machine was about 50.000 VUs. Back then, the limit was in available sockets. k6 now has support for multiple source IPs, so that limit has been effectively removed, and more VUs should be possible.

On the `k6 cloud` side, we have executed 500k+ VUs. The most RPS I achieved with k6 was 4 791 928 (~4.8 million requests per second). That test lasted for 6 min and generated 1.5 billion requests in total.

More is possible, but we didn't push further.

Source: I'm one of the guys behind k6.
I don’t know any Tasmanians who don’t regularly use a wood burning stove heater in the cooler months.
More precisely, it is in the Pact universe.

For some reason I love Worm but dropped Pact after reading a third of it. Maybe I just don't like the paranormal horror genre compared to super heros.
Can you elaborate on the "Wider processors are harder to clock faster" part?
Sure, but there are safeguards against crack pot theories being employed in a hospital. To make that analogy work, you would have to compare building out access to the web to building out access to public healing centers that don't require the use of clean water, nor the sterilization of instruments, nor doctors and nurses with any medical training. All while encouraging the provision wildly unproven treatments.