skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a serious implementation but one for didactic purposes:)

I've used gensim's one and it seems great for practical use but I wanted to build an understanding of the underlying algorithm, so built my own from scratch. I was hoping others might learn from it, but it's not really a practical approach to constructing w2v embeddings.
Don’t think building more homes in SF would help with homeless problems. The thing about SF and CA in general is that it is one of the most desirable places to live in the entire world.
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades (2020)
It just is not a medically recognized disorder/disease/syndrome. There’s no ICD-10 code.

To borrow from Wikipedia which does a better job at explaining the difference in simpler terms (and is accurate in this case):

> “Leaky gut syndrome is a hypothetical, medically unrecognized condition.

Unlike the scientific phenomenon of increased intestinal permeability ("leaky gut"), claims for the existence of "leaky gut syndrome" as a distinct medical condition come mostly from nutritionists and practitioners of alternative medicine. Proponents claim that a "leaky gut" causes chronic inflammation throughout the body that results in a wide range of conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, migraines, multiple sclerosis, and autism. There is little evidence to support this hypothesis.”

> “Increased intestinal permeability is a factor in several diseases, such as Crohn's disease, celiac disease … allergic diseases among others. In the majority of cases, increased permeability develops prior to disease, but the cause–effect relationship between increased intestinal permeability in most of these diseases is not clear.”

It is at best right now a finding of uncertain clinical significance. What is being called a disease is pseudoscience pushed by quacks.

> To say that there is no need to treat epithelial permeability is just blinding yourself to possible treatments of immune disorders.

That’s exactly the point. From your first link: “It is still unproven that restoring barrier function can ameliorate clinical manifestations in GI or systemic diseases.“

Because some researcher measured some values in a model or small observational study it doesn’t mean clinicians should recognize it as a disorder and consider treating it outside of a clinical trial.
This is a silly thread.

The difference in situations here is literally that on the one hand large corporations have spent money to market the idea that their services are essential because the alternative is incredibly difficult. On the other hand, McDonalds, KFC, Burger King, "Big Restaurant" etc have not spent large quantities of money trying to persuade the populace that cooking at home is incredibly difficult. It's possible to sell someone a convenience without also telling that person that it's the only real option and this is what the person you're replying to is highlighting.

It's not condescending, it's the reality of the situation. Yes in the examples you've described it would be condescending but in the situation we're actually talking about there are actually large numbers of people who genuinely believe (as a result of successful marketing campaigns) that the equivalent to cooking your own meals at home is incredibly dangerous, difficult, expensive and error prone.
Finally. Some action against the biggest tech companies of some sort, especially both Meta and TikTok the usual suspects.

Also an unrelated note, do NOT browse this site without an ad-blocker. Just realized that The Verge has regressed in quality and is riddled with ads just like the Daily Mail.
Even if you did, parents shouldn't allow their kids to get cigarettes. Parents trying to get out of parenting is getting old already.
Plenty of popular boutiques have grey signs.
> what it really means to live in a dictatorship with a secret police. For the urban middle/upper class it didn't mean much except if you were involved in politics.

18 million people were sent to gulags. 1.6 million died.

I doubt they were all "involved in politics" beyond expressing an opinion Stalin didn't allow.
> Sometimes I have the impression that Hollywood movies gave people a permanent wrong perception

yes, people have a very strange image of the soviet union somehow. the 90s have been the worse period by far in the ex-soviet union. before the system was in crisis, but sort of worked for most. and in the 50s, 60s was working fairly well. 70s decline, 80s crisis.
> it’s exactly the same thing with different branding

Yet capitalists will consistenly pick fascism, when given the choice. Pretty weird, considering it's exactly the same thing.

You are conflating fascism and communism with authoritarianism. A more in depth and unbiased study might give you the ability to grasp such subtle differences.
God is the ultimate cause for everything, but that doesn't make it "complete" or mean it claims to be complete or anyone claims it to be complete, anymore than anyone would claim the Big Bang makes physics complete.

The evangelical line is that the bible is both true and sufficient to understand all you need to know for salvation, not that it's sufficient to understand everything. All phenomena are not claimed to be explained or even described.

But that's really beside the point, the point is that, with our current level of scientific knowledge, believing in FTL aliens who are zipping around Earth and performing other stunts in violation of the known laws of physics is not different than believing in magic and demons. The only thing that's changed is your interpretive lens - one has a lot more cachet in a world where science fiction is more read than theology.
Ask HN: Any quantum programmer writing production code at work here?
Hi there,

We hear a lot about quantum computers of late.

By any chance, do you happen to be a quantum programmer writing production quantum programs that run on quantum computers? There must be such people out there, right?

I'd be very glad to know about your work experience, the kind of industry you are in, and your dev environment.
It certainly helps that we're moving on from "It's irrelevant" to "Actually this is important and it's bad if it's broken". When would you say that happened for the Web PKI? Not last century when the Web PKI comes into existence for sure. Maybe if you squint you could argue for the Baseline Requirements in 2011 as a starting point ? Or maybe the Ten Blessed Methods which was only a few years ago?

The browsers do have leverage over the TLDs, and over the DNS resolvers, in the form of how they choose to treat names and name services. For example check the "trusted resolver" policies at Mozilla and Chrome, which IIRC got big US ISPs to swear off nonsense like injecting bogus results into DNS in exchange for having the browser work with their DNS servers.
Or a couple SX servers from Hetzner

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx

(You would need 4 SX294s for half a petabyte with 2x replication)

And put ceph on them which gives you an S3-compatible API:

https://docs.ceph.com/en/quincy/radosgw/index.html

It's not trivial to set up but once you do it's much cheaper than AWS. It's even cheaper if you can find the machines in the server auction. There are some 150 TB machines on there right now for 174 euro/month.
I am no fan of the cloud, but with that many disks, failure rate goes up. So you also need someone to go to the DC. All the disks will bought around the same time, which means failures start to cluster up as well.

The machine also needs to be replaced every $interval. After 4 or 5 years, keep it up is more hassle that replacing it.

A single machine patches and will need to reboot. What should happen to people trying to access the store?

Keep replicas help, ensuring a petabyte or even half a petabyte of small files is in sync across multiple sites with various link speeds is not as trivial as rsync.
But nearly everyone who has Gmail signed up for it. We were all lazy and now we are getting what we deserve for our laziness.

My official email is a gmail, I'm currently shopping around for who I should plan to pay for the rest of my life to handle a new one for me. It's gonna take a while, but I do not intend to let them retain the ability to turn my life off with an algorithm.
Microsoft is killing Cortana on Windows starting late 2023
When I was a child I enjoyed looking at the back cover of video games and seeing the informative info-icons at the back of the game that showed whether it was 1 player or 2 player.

https://hafskjold.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/redalert2_0...

Here is the back cover of Red Alert, a PC game. I like the badges for game specifications.

I think some people really enjoy the stamp collecting activity of collecting badges or features on lists, it's incredibly satisfying and feels valuable. It could just be nostalgia but displaying valuable facts in one place is kind of pleasurable.

I notice a lot of GitHub projects have badges for build status, Go code quality report, and documentation icons. Some projects even have a "spin up on Heroku" or "DigitalOcean" one click deployment button.

I had similar feelings of going through an Argos catalogue and looking at computer specs in 1999-2001

I don't play video games anymore but I wonder if there's a value in establishing industry wide specification icons for enterprise features, such as OAuth 2 or security standards for credit card processing. So you can easily pick interoperable software that meets criteria.
In few years you'll be able to hire an AI to rewrite it in 5 minutes.
one of the few times when CQRS is used properly
Compacting Firefox's Layout with Sidebery and User Chrome
Photos: fascinating

Article: dry, empty, trite, derivative. Was it written by an AI? I suspect it was.
New account on HN with only 2 comments. Most likely a political troll. We might even be lucky enough to be in the presence of a true comrade.
And if the cigarette companies advertise to the kids? And the second hand smoke is everywhere (everyone else using them) and are almost ubiquitous now? Such that the only way around that is to cut those kids off from society?

I agree with you on parenting, but I won't, for a second, let these companies off the hook for the damage they cause.

Give them an inch, they'll take your entire soul if they can and it will help their quarterly P&L. Don't forget it.
Ask HN: Community Led Infrastructure
Something I've been thinking a lot about for years is how you build an alternative to the AWS's of the world. I initially thought taking it head on was a good approach, but turns out without the massive capital and moat like infrastructure of an Amazon it's almost impossible to do. Only the incumbents can really compete at that level. I also thought maybe open source was an alternative strategy but it turns out this sort of self hosting mantra only goes so far, it does not lead to real disruption or displacement of user behaviour or technology because the experience is no better for the end user. Crypto, web3, blockchain using decentralised networks was again a thing I looked at but turns out the technology is far too early and filled with scams with a bad reputation, it will take some time for anything to overcome that to be remotely useful. Mastodon and federation has show cased there is the potential for alternative paths but I think it becomes a huge onerous task on each administrator. I actually think it's the wrong approach now, and most value attributes to a few nodes so we don't end up in any of a better place besides maybe some common open source tech to run it, yet the contribution back to the code means it does not progress the same as centralised platforms.

Saying all this, I'm starting to come around to the idea of "community led infrastructure". The idea that we could form a group or co-op, much like a corporation, but one with community aligned incentives to run a common set of shared infrastructure for everyone else. The idea is that you get the benefits of centralisation, a core platform team, etc but one that is not attempted to use you for profit, instead they are directly serving you because of this community structure. This might be considered some sort of non-profit but having seen how OpenAI very quickly switched to being a for profit entity, I believe there needs to be more thought about governance structures to ensure it's always community aligned.

I'm kind of curious to know if anyone has thought about this or is interested in funding this? The idea would be to start by providing a common set of infrastructure building blocks and APIs, hosted, for everyone to use that is a paying participant. It would have some sort of community aligned incentive structure and a governing body of sorts. All the tech would be entirely open source. But the mandate is to fund infrastructure and a group of people who will manage it for everyone.

Thoughts, ideas and feedback welcome
So I can watch anime?
I don't think parents can just keep their kids off of social media, at least teens. How are they supposed to function socially if they're not even able to enter the spaces where a huge amount of the socializing is happening? What about during the pandemic, when it was virtually all online? If the goal is to promote their mental health and their growth, cutting them off from their peer group doesn't seem like a promising strategy.

It seems silly to blame the parents when the world has shifted around them, outside of their control.
You want to attract candidates that have a high probability of being hired.

If vJ is the perceived value of getting the job, pJ the perceived probability of getting the job, vI the value of the literal payment for going through the interview process, and vT the perceived value of one's time (and any other cost if it exists, such as travel) required to go through the process, we can represent the expected value of going through the interview process as:

EV = pJ * vJ + vI - vT

If we assume vJ >> vI and vJ >> vT (which I think is reasonable if you want the job), we can observe that the importance of vI and vT mostly depends on pJ.

I also assume that the candidate would choose where and whether to apply based on EV for their various options.

One one end, if your pJ is close to 1 (you're highly qualified for the job and will likely get it), the result is dominated by pJ * vJ which is ~= vJ; vI and vT matter little. This means that if you will probably get the job, it doesn't really matter much whether the interview is paid (and it also doesn't matter as much how much time it takes). For top candidates, the difference in pJ * vJ for different companies should be the dominant factor, i.e. they will apply for the best jobs.

On the other end, if your pJ is close to 0 (you're applying on a long shot), then vI and vT become much more significant factors. If your chance to get the job is really low, then the interview being paid makes it significantly more attractive, and it also matters more how much time it takes. The companies that pay for interviews, and companies that are easy to apply and interview for are likely the ones with the highest EV for the poorer candidates.

Basically the worse of a candidate you are for the job, the more important it is for the interview to be paid, because with a low enough probability of getting the job, this payment becomes a big factor in the expected value of doing the interview.

Of course it's not as simple as that, because people are not machines chasing pure financial interest and have feelings about how you treat them. Also, a highly qualified candidate is more likely to have a job that is closer to the one they're applying for, while an unqualified candidate might have a much worse job, making vJ higher for the less qualified candidate. But it is likely that the relative difference in pJ is much greater between a qualified and unqualified candidate than the relative difference in vJ. The candidate's own perception of the probability of being hired (pJ) might also be unrealistic in either direction, and I'm assuming it is a good predictor of the true probability of being hired. But I think in general the rule should hold, paid interviews would decrease the quality of the candidate pool.
> What if you consider social media to be like cigarettes?

Well, then people should show some ID before using the internet or something to prove they are adults? How do you enforce that? at the ISP level? at the device level? At the website level? Genuine question. Who's responsibility is that? In a society where nobody wants to be responsible for anything?
> Brazil is not Europe. It’s not going to be some minor inconvenience like having people to take cold showers and virtual signal on the internet. There will be famine and the poorest people will die.

I don't get your point. Where do you see this fundamental difference between Brazil and Europe? Europe was highly dependant on Russia for it's energy supply, to the point that Putin was hoping to leverage that to conduct his genocide of Ukraine unopposed, and Europe successfully shed that dependence on a dime.

In your opinion, what stops Brazil from finding alternatives to Russia imports?
Lobste.rs is HN but for tech only.

https://lobste.rs
Difference is that in tech you can retire with 50. Few people who still work at 70 do so by choice.
Being a long time personal friend with the author I can assure you the more obscure the better :-) His interest in esoteric things and solutions are "well documented" if you browse around his github repos.

Some examples:

https://github.com/wader/jqjq
https://github.com/wader/catgolf
It's amusing how in many accounts in the comments the authors assume they're endowed with an intelligent brain...
I don't see regulators pushing for Meta and Google to be broken up, or for ISPs to nuke TikTok in the USA. It's been talked about for years but nothing ever happens.
False

The fastest rate of home building was in New York during the 1950s. The strictest rent controls were in New York in the 1950s.

The slowest is today when rent controls are weakest.

It's not that it doesn't have an effect, but it is small and is absolutely overwhelmed by the lowering of property taxes. When property taxes are low, even the shittiest units making the most inefficient use of land like yours can tick over making a small profit and this eats land which would otherwise be used to build denser housing.

Lowered property taxes also kicked property values sky high which in turn led to the NIMBY revolution. This also inhibited home building in a massive, massive way.

In order to fix the housing crisis landlords who use land inefficiently to start losing money in a big way. That way they will finally dump their properties and the land can be redeveloped efficiently.

They must be subjected to market discipline otherwise the housing market will never be fixed. The velvet glove treatment of their rent entitlements is entirely unsustainable.
I feel like other countries might try to tackle these kinds of issues with legislation instead.
Ashamed to say still Slashdot, have it in my RSS, old habits die hard. Otherwise various reddit subs since people are quick to post breaking news in whatever field I'm interested in. Then a bunch of newspapers/sources from around the world to try and get a balanced overview of things.
HN should really have automated threads like this once every year or so.
My kids are in middle school.

Almost all of their friends have no restrictions at all on phone use, electronics, video streaming, etc. A few have been on TikTok and Instagram since they were in 5th grade. The amount of pressure I hear to let them have Snapchat is constant.

Regardless, we maintained the restrictions. Apple Family makes it fairly easy to manage. Xbox controls are a little more of a pain but they work too to moderate.

I’ve talked to my kids about the addictive and psychological elements of how certain games work or videos. They listened but didn’t understand.

Last week, they started talking to me about how a lot of their friends have a phone in front of their face all the time and they see what we’ve been trying to warn them about. It was a struggle to get there but seeing that they finally really understood was big.

The flip side though, the reason they understand is because they see people who have fallen victim to it. It’s like understanding why your parents warned you about drugs because you see what happened to your friend who fell into it.

We know the consequences. At this point, parents shouldn’t have to spend so much time worrying about this. It’s not easy but it should be.
"...we’ve become aware that there are risks associated with permissive open source licenses that corporations that don’t care about open source are happy to take advantage of..."

Interesting line from Plausible. Isn't this how commercial/non open source/propriety software came about in the first place?
The Register has a good range of news articles, presented in a slightly satirical style. Avoid the comments though.

https://www.theregister.com/
It's not required but it’s a best practices to not get your secrets into the nix store. There are solutions like env vars or Agenix.
Freshnews (https://www.freshnews.org/)
> I think you maybe seeing things from a capitalist perspective.

The argument is that marketing has made cities more intensely colored. Its not a value judgement (maybe calm natural colors are better for the soul).

It is also not a universal rule, there are places here and there that have a tradition of painting, e.g., house exteriors in intense colors (these days they are invariably tourist attractions - precisely because they are exceptions).

> For example west African counties have always used bright colors in fabric due to culture

Red appears in these photos in clothing context so not sure what this (dis)proves. Sourcing dyes for clothing has been a global trade mainstay from the earliest days of human civilization.
The picture captioned "Driving down Novinsky bulvar, Moscow" does anyone know the automobile brand from the hood ornament? Search engines spat out Ford Victoria or Fairlane from the '50s (text not image search) but the wings don't quite match.
Well I think it still is a correct headline.

In a linux distro, when it "support" a package means that you can contact its maintainers for help (bugs and etc) on the package.

So the headline means that RHEL won't help you to install LibreOffice. There are always other way to install it though.
Don't you know ? The sheer fact you're posting on HN and not say Reddit means you're in top 20%! /s
was this written by chatGPT ?
Same way for exams, too, especially when essay writing is included. Good ideas comes in a flash, you don't know how, you don't know when. Most of the time, if you can come up with a great solution and can express it in a clear and structured way the moment you hear the problem, that just means you're familiar with the topic or it is something you've solved before.
> And now they depend on US for the same things paying a much bigger price.

What? Germany is now reporting record drops in it's energy prices.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/energy-costs-german-hou...
How much have RH been contributing to LO?

They warn that it's a lot of work. It would have been interesting to know how much ... is this a sign that RH can't afford to run their business?

People are saying 'well, easy enough to install it from elsewhere' but surely the point is a major Linux company are no longer willing/able to support a principle business application. I'm assuming that support also included bug-fixes, packaging fixes, and such.
Do you have, by any chance, an invitation for Lobste.rs?