skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry what ?? i feel like i’ve lived on a different planet.

First, the reason people in the west lift lockdown has absolutely nothing to do with mrna vaccines, but with the fact that since omicron variant, covid is one or two orders of magnitudes less lethal than before, which means actually something close to the flu or less (for real this time).

Second, i have no idea how you got the idea that we were quick at adapting vaccines for variants. The 2021 vaccines were based of covid 19 variant, and were the ones used up to the third shot, in the late 2021 / beginning 2022, at least here in france. I’m not even sure what people are using now for the vaccine, as i don’t know anyone who took a shot since omicron.

Finally, trying to conflate fringe people believing in crazy theories with all the other good reasons for protesting against 2021 lockdowns or vaccine status pass, or health workers being fired (which, imho were completely legitimate causes), is a tactic used by governments to mute contrarian opinions.

Pretty much like what the chinese regime is doing right now.
> I added Rust and Dart as established comparisons.

Google trends normalizes the results to the highest value so if you want to compare Nim and Zig, it's clearer to query for only those two languages.
Syntax reminds me of Go. I'm looking forward to trying this out.
How's that so? The attacker has no knowledge of the user name of the key, unless that is also leaked, then only white listed IP may help.
Most of my friends and colleagues in string-adjacent fields --I doubt anybody would lately admit to doing string theory proper-- have the integrity to begrudgingly confess that string theory is Mathematics done poorly. My guys are healthy, they have neither Philosophy nor Maths envy. Calling String Physics Experimental Mathematics isn't even wrong, there are other fields of physics, computer science, or statistics that deserve that moniker. So what nomens do we have left? Not many. "Religion" is one of them, would appreciate more interesting suggestions here.
It gives you better control over your life. Cause that wife was utterly and absolutely dependent on husband. There was nothing she could do to improve her life if there were issues. And if he was gone (say due to being sick, dead, in prison) she was utterly absolutely effed. If be beat her up, she was helpless. If he was emotionally manipulative she was helpless. If the marriage just sucked, both were trapped. If he was feeling responsible, he would not leave her in poverty and would stay with her despite her being jerk too.

The kind of murder where husband kills wife used to be waaay more frequent then it is now. It is one of reasons for lower murders clearance rate ... cause these were super easy to solve.
One difference is the reduced friction of starting new projects. Starting a new company now is major task, from legal to funding starting salaries to developer setup, but in a company you have everything ready to go.

Some other differences are:

1. Salaries are limited, so hopefully more money stays available for new projects.

2. All the source code, docs and databases are shared.
Thanks, looks like a great start for lots of projects.
I'm bilingual and have learnt several European languages over the years. In both my academic and engineering roles I have worked with many non-native English speakers. When I have to speak in one of the European languages I realize how hard it is to express technical materials when you are not fluent in the other language. Makes me empathetic for my non-native English co-workers.

Since you are asking the question on HN, I assume you are working in an IT area. For that reason I suggest that EN-US should be basis for your "international" English. Simple reason being that the vast majority of resources are written EN-US, so why fight it. (I say that as an Aussie and a pedantic preference for EN-AU).

In order to overcome the differences in verbal communications, I suggest taking guidance from Amazon and focus on being documentation-centric. Ensure that a fluent English writer edits the documents. That way, non-native speakers can take their time to unravel materials and also improve their English.

I also find that it builds bridges to learn, to at least tourist level, the languages of your co-workers. Take time to learn about their customs, etc. It is also a good idea for persons who habitually speak fast to slow down. Give people more processing time to grok what is being said.
Expecting loyalty or trust from a purely transactional business relationship is a mistake to begin with.

You should trust that your counterparty will abide by the written terms of the contract. Believing anything further is folly.

It's just business.
> How does one magically snap their fingers and change their hard-to-control brain?

There is no magic solution. But recognizing that there is a problem, it can be solved, and deciding to put effort into solving it are what it takes to fix it. This is step one.
WebAssembly: TinyGo vs. Rust vs. AssemblyScript
Client certificates can have an expiry date, but it is a bit more fiddly than keys.
Unless it's trademarked it doesn't matter in the slightest
Cordyceps are fairly harmless, actually very beneficial to humans.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356751/
Girls Get Off exist to normalise female pleasure. They're creating a fun & positive experience for women to explore themselves. They currently do over $1M in annual revenue.
Of course, if you delete the Rust and Dart terms you'll see there's still no trend winner between Zig or Nim.
In IT lingua franca would be EN-US. After all, so many terms are actually based on Latin or Greek.
Oh no, HtDP is, in a way, for absolute beginners[0]. SICP has way more sophisticated topics, I think you'll learn more with it. One thing though, lots of exercises on real numbers (it was for Electrical Engineers at the time), some like it, some don't.

Or you may try moocs (if they're still available): EPFL functional programming in scala (by M.Odersky) is great. University of Washington Programming Languages (by D. Grossman).

There's also Brown University CS173 (related to Grossman) https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/

Hope you'll find something fun in this

[0] It's value to me is that it doesn't bind to a paradigm, but innocently make people structure data and destructure it logically in a way that leads to obvious functions. It teaches pre-think rather than write-in-$language-then-suffer. Also being based on scheme opens your eyes to a very simple language (closures and lists).
> also remember my Quantum Mechanics lessons where the professor very earnestly told me that microscopic systems change magically only when you look at them, which is patent nonsense, but is repeated to this day

I've also been pretty frustrated by Copenhagen interpretation orthodoxy, but decoherence and open quantum systems generally has made great strides as a subfield in recent times. People are thinking about it better than ever.
Many years ago, as a relative newbie in the industry, working a 1099 gig for a big4 accounting firm, I automated a netbackup media server migration with a for loop. Ended up saving myself and the more senior contractor (who was doing this process manually) about a day's work. Best thing I ever programmed.
Show HN: Affordable cloud storage and my story
Hi there,

I'm Tom and I am a DataHoarder :)
I'm based in Europe and I am a PHP programmer.

I've been Hoarding Data for over two decades now, going through all phases (losing data, having multiple copies of them, 3-2-1 rules etc), and I've noticed that it is getting very expensive after a while (well, you can notice that very fast nowadays hah).

All these started when I wanted to grab a couple of extra TBs of online storage to backup some secondary data. There aren't many affordable (mind you, $5-$7/TB might be cheap for some) options out there and all I wanted was to share a box with someone.

So I've decided to make a little project to "fix" this. Maybe there are more people out there who think the same (you never know until you try?).
I've had my ups and downs but this is something I was really excited to code. This is also the first project I created after a long time (so please be kind :)). Hopefully it will make me get back to the game.

I'm basically splitting up the servers, no overselling or anything like that, and you can use (S)FTP, SCP, rsync, Rclone, Duplicati, BorgBackup to create your backups.

I'm offering 100GB Trials for a week for you to play around and provide any kind of feedback so I can improve either the quality of the service or the website itself. I know it requires a signup and email verification but I tried to make it as painless as possible :(

I'm already working on the next phase (the first one wasn't anything special, just a basic build :)) which I think can do wonders to decrease the cost of online storage even further. Hopefully it will be ready sometime in Q1 2023. I will let you know :)

Thank you for your time!
Tom

PS: Hey! I said I 22 times within 325 words! Sorry..
I’ve worked in numerous international companies and English has always been the official internal company language. Whilst living in NL several companies were going through the long process of translating all their internal documents, although with one caveat - original Dutch documents took priority when required for legal purposes. Translations were always “best effort”.
This is very insightful. I feel that there is a communist cultural connection here that I find familiar. Elders today who came up in communist systems have a deeply rooted mistrust of anything that is served up into the body not because of suspicion of conspiracy, but because of a long experience with systemic incompetence and low quality. I’ve seen it here in Eastern Europe as well - people (grandparent age) trusted that Western vaccines are just fine - they just didn’t trust that the ones we obtained locally weren’t ruined or tampered with. They didn’t believe we’d get the “better” stuff.

I think this mentality can be difficult for Westerners of all ages to comprehend. Or it is easier for Westerners to just superimpose their own similar, albeit different ideas/problems around conspiracy and mistrust.
I’m not overly hopeful. I suspect the ill-thought out ‘COVID library' ends up getting…expensive, at best.
If it's only about transactional business relationships, that's a high percentage of one's energetic waking hours to be spending on it.
I used to work in Web preservation and we often discussed/collaborated with internet archive.

I was working in a French government-funded Web preservation project.

Many countries have such government-led projects (france, norway, iceland, italy, usa - via the library of congress, slovenia). For a full list of who does that, see https://netpreserve.org/

Short answer:
partial replication of the data at other institutions + overlap of the archive at other institutions

Many projects like internet archive exist, they are not necessarily publicly accessible via the internet (in France the archive can be consulted from public libraries via dedicated computers).

If you are interested in the topic, also take a look at the LOCKSS project from Stanford: https://www.lockss.org/
This is exactly how it was on twitter during the early years.
Hmm... trying to flesh out the article (and escape the trap of individual vs social responsibility...)

When the author says there's no cure for loneliness, he means he can't cure what ails his patients. As a doctor, it's very difficult to engage desperate patients you can't help.

So regardless of whether you think societies or individuals are responsible for loneliness, the question is whether you can cure someone else's loneliness. The author answered in part by doing so, by just listening. But as a result, he also grieved his patient's death.

There are many, many ER staff confronting the gamut of desperation in the U.S. They are not really trained or compensated to do so, but most evolve approaches out of some combination of emotional defense and compassion.

Since Congress made it illegal for ER's to send people away, people have learned they can go to the ER for help. This is very, very good because it's almost always cheaper to solve a problem early. But it had the initial effect of bankrupting many (inner-city) hospitals unable to cross-subsidize the ER, until the Affordable Care Act reduced the number of uninsured's (accelerating hospital consolidation). Unfortunately, hospital systems are still reducing their exposure to these obligations.

We need medical staff to cure people, parents to raise children, and teachers to teach people. We are no where near actually supporting people who build human capacity, and people avoid those roles because of the sacrifices involved.

So costs are exported to capacity-building people, society suffers more costs as a result of diminished services, the marketplace is only accelerating the trend, and there is no vested constituency with the resources to push for political solutions. The system is driving to disaster.

The author suggests a common dynamic underlying both drug addiction and machine addiction -- the hollowing out of will directed at personal or social goals. Choice, made subconsciously and then rationalized, is co-opted by a reward system dedicated by habit to the addicting behavior.

And only takes a small percentage of participants being uncooperative to make cooperation untenable. In the patient's case, his kids simply weren't responsive, and they were all he had after his wife died (and he presumably had no friends left over from work).

i.e.,: the system is driving only because we're not at the wheel.
They still are in wooden boat building. See Sampson Boat Company on YouTube from a few years ago.
As a Briton my vocabulary has slowly changed from en-GB to en-US from working with internationals for most of my career.
I doubt that the content of books is in the training data. OpenAI did not list Z-Library as one of their sources (though that would perhaps make the model more interesting than the alternative trained on Reddit and CommonCrawl). Even if a book’s content had been in the training data by chance (say, from a crawl of archive.org), the model would, I believe, not know where the book starts and where it ends. I don’t think it has that kind of attention span. Hence I think it comes down to aggregating human reviews that are in the training corpus. Which is cool for sure. But is not the same as having the model summarize the actual book. I find that distinction important, because there actually are algorithms that attempt to summarize text, and it would be easy to believe that GPT-3 would be capable of doing that out of the box, and much better, too. I have yet to see someone build this.
So it is little worse than unions done good.
"This is a land that God, if He exists, has created in anger. It's the only land where creation is unfinished yet. Taking a close look at what's around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It's the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder."

https://youtu.be/ze9-ARjL-ZA
My personal theory (I don't think it is very popular amongst my fellow coops) is that co-ops need well defined hierarchies that have the power to take a lot of decisions and the dutty to report on the decisions taken and the resoning behind it but with that also well defined rules to make sure power changes hands via democratic processes every x amount of years.
It has heating but not cooling.
This was shared here recently, and documents the nostalgia of a former user and then employee of Heroku prior to the Salesforce acquisition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31348529
Hello!

Mind sharing the co-op name?

I'm living in Portugal right now and I'm thinking about switching careers, so I might give that a look.
What's up with having two different new experimental languages from Google on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756800 - did Google just happen to release them at the same time?

I think when Carbon came out people's reaction was stronger than deserved (like saying that Google don't believe in Rust, or that Go has been a failure because it hasn't replaced C++ etc.) while in reality all of this is very experimental and very early in its development. I kind of expect similar reactions to Rune and Mangle with some people trying to make a big deal out of nothing.
So-far, all comments on this thread are about the general concept of timing attacks...

You're asking a different question, though. You're asking about precision.

The answer here is that in many cases timing attacks pose a theoretical risk, but they can't be exploited in practice due to a low signal-to-noise ratio.

It really depends on the attack vector.

Measuring the latency of a network call (TCP) from across the other side of the world, as an example, is going to be too noisy (in many cases). Especially if the attacker wants to remain covert.
I may be mistaken, but the film Tron looks to have been inspired by this section from a 1940s Busby Berkeley film: “The Gang’s All Here”

This has been edited as a video for the song Soft Core by Tamaryn:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AnZDaK9Vy0Y

The Gang’s All Here, and yes that’s Carmen Miranda:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xZp-s4wIc_s
How very YTMND.
Are we Reddit yet?
Wikipedia links to those, you haven't yet.

Peer reviewed papers aren't absolute truth either and one usually needs to be an expert in the field to see which papers are sound and which are not, if even possible. I'd even wager there's a lower percentage of bullshit to be found on Wikipedia than in peer reviewed papers.
I make my passwords using a password manager.
Ah that took me a second to get it. Nice one.

I agree with the sentiment that the commonly touted top non-fiction books probably won't teach you much. But I wouldn't cast out the whole medium just because you didn't learn anything from The Art of Not Giving A F*ck.

The only kinds of non-fiction books that I feel have actually taught me anything are usually very specific mathematics books that walk you through the proofs of a field's main theorems, and probably some other textbooks.

Books you find in bookstores are best consumed as entertainment in my opinion. Regardless of the non-fiction label.
First example seems weak. Any language can use separate data type for secrets and corresponding operator for constant-time comparison.

Second example is very neat. Actually I thought about using sqlite with tmpfs database for application state. That could be useful for some kinds of applications. That said, using functional API over traditional data structures seems like a traditional and widely accepted approach. Interesting to see where that experiment will go.
Patents != Breakthroughs
That is Friedmann Equation. Homophone of "freedom".
Isn't all of theoretical physics just a search for mathematics that fits the observations obtained by experimental physicists? It's all a subset of math.

What makes string theory particularly poor, in your opinion?
Nothing you’ve said is true.
> I got the distinct feeling I was being sold something while reading it, and the last paragraph confirmed it.

You mean the last paragraph where they _volunteer_ to have coaching sessions with people? "Selling" usually implies an exchange of money or an expectation of something in return, but there's no product here – the author is offering their time for free to help others start or join cooperatives. Is it fair to dismiss that as "being sold" something?
> News websites have a habit of blaming gen z for all the different issues

They used to blame millennials. It's amazing how little introspection media outlets have.
If you want to go nuts with structural editing you may also want to check out symex mode: https://github.com/drym-org/symex.el

It uses paredit (among others) for its low level functionality, but the vim-style modal interface allows you to manipulate the tree structure with single keystrokes in a precise and very expressive way. Keep in mind that you have to actively learn how to use it and it will feel awkward at first (similar to how vim feels for beginners), but I find the editing experience very pleasent and smooth after I got used to it.

Another thing I really like about it is that you can still switch to normal mode and it doesn’t get in your way like other plugins where I had to change my keybindings all the time because the amount of convenient shortcuts is still quite limited in the end. This modal switching to different editing contexts (or languages?) is something I feel should be explored much further.
> LIke: - Expressiveness.

Isn't Go deliberately not very expressive?
You can't have the SecDef talking about "climate change" as a national security threat and expect any sobriety in the accounting department.
I would love to have a Musk filter on this site or articles about him being tagged in the title so I don't accidentaly click on them. I don't think he's interesting or genius.
I'm interested to hear more about what you mean when saying that it felt like you were inventing the features. And how did the PM do it exactly? Thanks!
October 4, 2020, Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680109
A community of faith is at least a partial treatment.
Just throwing more ressources at it will make your hosting company happy. I am working for one, so I will not disagree with you. If I were to mention its name, I would though, since a lot of what we do is help our clients to make their webapplications run more efficently (and thus saving them a lot of money in the long run).
no it isn't. Running 107.0 here and it looks fine
What is the overhead of SSH compared to telnet?
There are any number of clubs, associations, etc., that you can join to get some of the same effects.
I didn't say it was a fact. I really don't know, but I don't want to believe it was an actual attack by one side or the other.

But regardless of what caused it, if you look at the effects, military strategists almost have to treat it as the Hiroshima of bio-warfare. Because it proves that such a thing is both extremely effective and also very hard to prove one way or the other.

Authoritarianism by itself doesn't explain the extreme lockdowns in China. But if the Chinese military sees Wuhan as evidence of the effectiveness of bioweapons and the start of an era, then the lockdowns can be seen as key to effectively defending against (or using) them. So tight pandemic response is now a core national security issue,

Another way to interpret all of it is as overall strengthening "society's immune response" to pandemics and so you could see that as a good thing in perverse way.

But that doesn't really change the military interpretation or brutal paradigm of global power that we seem to be stuck in.
Now I'm wondering how the steel tracks get bent- I figure it's done on site rather than at the factory. Dunno what sort of equipment they use to bend them though. Maybe they can just use bigger "spline weights" and pin the bend points to scale from the drawing! Hmmmmmmmmm probably not but I want it to be true
Good faith disagreements are not politics, they're negotiation.

Politics is when one person/group tries to sabotage/undermine another person/group out of self-interest, even though it harms the project and reduces value.

Their self-interest becomes their top goal.

My personal take is that there are two extremes of culture. One is dedicated to engineering and management excellence. Everyone contributes. Even if there's vigorous disagreement the engine runs smoothly and Things Get Done.

The other is a snake pit of back stabbing, drama, competitive ambition, and narcissism which spreads from the c-suite down. Things still get done, sometimes, but they're poor quality - or at least much poorer than they could be. If they make it to market they'll be overhyped and oversold. (Contempt for customers and employees alike is a good tell-tale.)

No org is 100% one or the other, but those are the competing tendencies, and - of course - they're very different to work in.