skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to "discuss decentralized or distributed designs". I'm trying to get somebody to explain to me why I should prefer something like dgit to GitHub on the basis of it being "decentralized". So far the answers I've gotten are:

(A) It's decentralized! Woohoo! (I'm paraphrasing.) Which tells me nothing about why "decentralized" is better than GitHub.

(B) It's distributed! Woohoo! (Again, I'm paraphrasing.) Which, again, tells me nothing about why "distributed" is better than GitHub. Not to mention that "distributed" is not the same thing as "decentralized", so if I'm supposed to prefer something like dgit because it's "distributed", the goal posts have been moved.

(C) If GitHub goes down, you can automatically switch to pushing to <other place>. Which amounts to "this solution has better failover than GitHub", which, as I noted, (a) might or might not be true (I'd want to see your uptime numbers), and (b) has nothing whatever to do with <other place> being "decentralized" or "distributed" since "decentralized" has nothing to do with failover reliability, and GitHub is just as "distributed" as <other place>.

(D) You can keep all the "non-git components" in <other place> along with the git repo. Which might be an advantage if it's easier to get them from <other place> than from GitHub, but, again, has nothing to do with <other place> being "decentralized" or "distributed", it just has to do with how accessible <other place> makes the "non-git components" as compared with GitHub.

Is there an (E)?
VW hit by €2bn-a-week cash drain
Nuclear Weapons Spending vs. Healthcare
> Preclinical data have indicated that microorganisms associated with periodontal disease may contribute to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease.

I read damage to the nasal epithelium can allow pathogens to reach the brain:

"New research from Griffith University has shown that damage to the lining inside the nose increases the risk of bacteria sneaking into the brain via nerves, potentially causing long-term health issues." ... "Bacteria and viruses, and resultant neuroinflammation, may even contribute to neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases"

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-injury-nose-bacteria-...
If you know what kind of company/situation you're in, you can certainly select for candidates that are more likely to thrive in that environment.

As you mentioned, people gravitate toward their strong suits. So by asking behavioral questions, you can learn how they approached situations in the past and whether their strengths/weaknesses are the right mix for your needs.
Zoom was developed in China

Look at the top of page 21 of their sec submission. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1585521/000119312519...
> The answer is: It just works.

I've actually found the opposite to be true. Google Meet is an example of a product that just works. Zoom, by contrast, pushes you very heavily into downloading and installing an application on every device you want to use it with, and provides a secondary degraded experience in the browser if you find the right link to use it (which you have to do EVERY SINGLE TIME; there doesn't seem to be a way to permanently opt out of the "install this application" nag flow).
I see them pretty regularly running GGP.
While your experience is interesting and instructive in general, I think it's not completely relevant to the specific loans outlined here. These loans are issued directly by the SBA, from federal treasury funds, for the purpose of assisting businesses that might otherwise not survive the economic impacts of covid. For any small business in that situation, it seems a reasonable option.

IANAL, but the collateral terms as I read them are very specific and limited to business machines and such, not your house or your car.
Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions
NLP Research Highlights – Issue #1
No matter how exotic a topic is, somebody will show up who has first hand experience and actually is an expert.

And one of the nice things about HN is that usually when that happens, others do acknowledge the expert status and those contributions get moderated up to higher visibility fairly quickly. Interesting discussions often result, sometimes on quite surprising topics that might not be among the usual "core topics" for this forum yet still interest a lot of the same people.
This looks really interesting—I could see our team using this for internal support and discussions around our services!

Couple questions:

- It does OpenAuth right now, and mentions enterprise auth as an advantage for StackOverflow. Is enterprise auth (e.g. LDAP) on your radar as a future thing you just haven't been able to get to yet, or not considered part of the product at this point?

- Is there a capability in the product to disable specific components? For example, the discussion and StackOverflow/Quora-like features look great, but we're already using a messaging system so we don't need the Slack-like functions. Is there a way to not present those so users don't stumble into them thinking they're going to be used?

Thanks for all the work you're doing--this looks really interesting!
ACloudGuru does not allow you to pay for subscriptions via in app purchases, Udemy allows both. A company can decide whether it is right for their business model to allow in app purchases exclusively or along side their own payment options.

Hulu for instance allows in app purchases for the regular Hulu service but not Hulu Live
But the lungs are full of blood, that's how we breath.

So it's spreading mucosally or through connective tissue?
Zelos (YC W20) Is Hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer – Los Angeles / Remote
# About Zelos

Zelos is a rewards program where gamers earn points and redeem in-game prizes across multiple games. When you play your favorite game, simply finish a challenge (e.g. get 3 kills) to earn points and trade in your points for a prize (e.g. a new game or a skin).

We built Zelos because games today focus on monetizing off their most dedicated players (whales). For gamers like us who play multiple games, spending money in each game quickly becomes expensive. When we move to a new game, all the money we spent in the old game is effectively lost.

So we built Zelos for the 55% of gamers who play 2 or more games and they LOVE us. Having launched only 2 months ago, we already have 50K+ weekly active users across 30+ countries.

Zelos graduated from YC W20 and just closed a heavily oversubscribed seed round. We are only a team of 3 and you will be our first frontend/fullstack hire. As such, you can expect great responsibilities, huge opportunities to learn & grow, and of course significant equity.

Being a gaming company, we have a very laid-back and open culture where people care about having fun as much as doing great work. You would be a great fit here if you enjoy playing games and building things.

# About the Job

You will be working very closely with our backend engineers and designers to build amazing UI/UX for our users. As this is a startup with a very small team, we expect the following qualities from you:

- Initiative: you must be able to make decisions independently and be productive even without clear directions. We won't be micro-managing you and you should thrive because of that.

- Passion: for an early startup like us, passion is what allows us to overcome inevitable setbacks and obstacles. We want someone that appreciates the magnitude of their work and works hard accordingly: if we do this right, we will change the gaming industry forever.

- Playfulness: we are gamers and we care about having fun. We work hard but we are not all about work. To work for us, it's essential that you enjoy playing games.

# Contact Us

If you are interested, please email us directly at founders@zelos.gg and tell us more about yourself.
I'd rather have a hard worker with an average IQ than someone who's lazy with a high IQ.

Besides, IQ tests have biases that don't translate to good job performance. For example, if English isn't your first language you may do worse on an English-based IQ test.
Agreed. I find the whole experience to be horrible. Especially having to install some garbage executable rather than using my browser. It does nothing for me that Google Meet doesn't do better.
that doesn't mention the `without noticing` part, which is the creepy not good part. sounds like it's just saying the administrators get a list of currently running meetings and can join them if they want without being invited. doesn't say they're hidden or anything.
I'm not narrowly talking about business or technology. It seems endemic that lazily poking holes in things while offering no viable counterpoint is the defacto mode of many pseudo-intellectuals. It's saddening.
I wonder if that means people with seasonal allergies are more likely to have these diseases.
This is entirely expected. Ex-positives develop antibodies, so that they are immune against further infections. Since the virus is so infectious it can easily lead to further infections, but the antibodies can contain it. Same happens with flu vaccination. The new PCR tests are so overly precise, that they can measure the new losing virus cells.

Big question is if the re-positives are infectious again. Doesn't seem to be plausible, but could be. It's a new virus with a different, stronger header.
To be fair at some level that's an argument against blood testing in general.
> What criteria do you use to determine 'health' in online communities?

Level of activity, quality of discourse (that's hard to measure, but like art vs. the pronz, "I know it when I see it"), ease of use, and the ability to get and give useful feedback on relevant topics.

> How do these differ from those criteria you use to determine ‘health’ in offline communities you are in?

Mostly the same. "If you're the smartest person in the room... find a new room" is true in real life as online. Things like culture, language, and hygiene are more of a consideration in person; I don't care what you smell like when you're posting on reddit.

> How does HN exemplify or not exemplify 'healthy' behaviors? What behaviors of your own would you acknowledge may or may not contribute to the overall ‘health’ of HN?

Active, knowledgeable, and able to refute obviously bad points (though it still has its circlejerks at times) -- I would characterize this as healthy. HN also has a specific focus -- highly technical -- and is free of ads and other unwelcome overt marketing (though I'm 100% sure there is covert marketing happening). It is an organ of YCombinator, so some degree of start-up shilling is expected and tolerated (even welcome, sometimes), but again it is expected and thus easy to avoid or ignore.

HN also is able to get rid of or generally marginalize the few, obviously toxic posters. They show up, no doubt, but are fairly hard to find compared to some of the clearly bad-faith subreddits like fatpeoplehate or the like.

>How did you get into HN? Who introduced you? What makes you stay?

Regular reddit and slashdot user, lots of overlap with those sites. I stay mostly because it is a fairly healthy tech forum; see the reasons above. HN also represents (generally) an older (as in, not 19-year-old wanna be hacker, but like 29-45 year old who has been around) professional crowd, with a very heavy focus on tech. That said, HN also has enough people who aren't in IT to keep it interesting. The level of education and overall work experience is considerably higher than a lot of other forums, as is the "grown-up-in-the-room", peer-to-peer feel of the place. By comparison, some subreddits like r/relationships or r/legaladvice is full of people talking entirely out of their ass, or with no sense of reality or self-awareness (or just straight up trolling).
Real Targeted Traffic
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
This whole article is predicated on the idea that you can quantitatively measure the performance of a software engineer. That seems completely unfounded.
I run it, along with other sketchy garbage proprietary software for wook, in a QEMU VM. Or I just dial in and let people suffer through me being on a phone connection owing to their choice of software.
Meanwhile, I'm still sitting with ~$80 USD in an AdSense account that's been there for over 10 years because it's still not a large enough amount to pay out.
Remote control was removed, which is an important feature for many of us.
Don't Learn Machine Learning
Interesting paper which uses machine learning techniques (bagged-multiview clustering) to analyse the results of MRI, IQ (Wechsler or Stanford-Binet), a scale of autism symptoms (SCQ), a scale of inattention symptoms (SWAN), and a scale of obsessive-compulsive traits (TOCS), across four groups: those with a confirmed primary diagnosis of ASD, those with a confirmed primary diagnosis of ADHD, those with a confirmed primary diagnosis of OCD, and controls without any neurodevelopmental/psychiatric/neurological diagnosis.

The clusters they derived had weak alignment with the diagnostic labels, from which they concluded that the diagnostic labels have poor biological validity.

(Which is not really that novel a conclusion – the belief that DSM-5 diagnostic labels lack biological validity is very widespread in the research community; the methodology of the paper is arguably more novel than its conclusion.)
> Having to download a program is also really crappy IMO. Plenty of other video chat applications work in my browser.

You know, even two hours ago I'd have agreed with you, but my thinking is evolving.

It's pretty clear from responses in this thread that there is a quality difference between Zoom and Hangouts/Slack/Teams/etc, at least under certain circumstances. In addition, anecdotal reports are that if you do insist on joining Zoom via a web browser (even though their user flow really pushes you not to), Zoom's quality goes down a lot.

So perhaps the reason Zoom is superior is because of its native app. Whereas Slack and Teams's apps are just Electron clients that use WebRTC, Zoom is doing something truly custom. It seems to be paying dividends.

Not everything has to run in a web browser.
That's an old principle, and it is, unfortunately, still true. It all depends on where you want to put the trust slider, but push it far enough in the conservative direction and, yes, you enter "build your own machine from scratch" territory.

How do you know the hardware you use doesn't have a microdot that can bypass the monitoring logic and physically manipulate the radio without the OS's consent?

How do you know the software you're running doesn't embed its own bluetooth stack and use a 0-day exploit to gain physical control over the radio?

Oh, you compiled it yourself? With whose compiler? Are you sure that compiler faithfully adheres to the spec of the language and doesn't know how to embed a bluetooth stack that, etc.

Push the paranoia slider far enough, and you end up having to care about all this stuff.
Coronavirus Solution
> see: famous HN post from Drew Houston announcing DropBox

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
When the state shifted to e-learning, a rural school shifted to the copy machine
3Blue1Brown: Simulating an Epidemic
I got my chapter 7 bk attorney in 2010 for $4k. Feel like I got a good deal now.
Please drop me a line when you're finished!
Most people don’t think parsing is the limiting factor—which is why we’re always surprised when we measure and it ends up being the slowest part of the process (not common, but it does happen)

It would be interesting to know what the slowest parts of MathJax are.
The coronavirus pandemic has shattered the status quo on drug development
Is that empirical based knowledge or theological doctrine?

The idea that an service cannot be efficiently provided by government is an idea that tend to be thrown around a lot in US politics despite evidence from Europe that on public utilities government/state/city owned/controlled utilities is cheaper/better then private companies when allowed to compete directly side by with private enterprise.
The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux
Skepticism was a big jump in intellectual development when religion dominated and you're seeing a similar reaction now. Pieces of technology that make our lives easier without taking something else from us (such as privacy) or punishing workers (gig services stealing tips) are so rare. Better tech is possible, but profit seeking seems not to be able to deliver it.
Even if you do everything perfectly a PCR test will still not be able to tell working virus copies from shattered remains.
We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars. It's not affected by downvotes or flags.

We're happy to take the rate limit off (and often do so) when people give us reason to believe that they'll use the site as intended in the future. Emailing hn@ycombinator.com is the best way to do that.
Exactly. People are decrying this because it gives governments capabilities, as if decrying its existence changes that capability model or implies that in the absence of this tool and in a state of emergency, governments wouldn't be stuck trying to accomplish the same goals this tool enables using cruder methods that would be more intrusive to people's lives.

It's like hating gunpowder exists because people can make bullets and fight wars with it.
thanks for offering an example with which to contrast HN and for being open to disagree with the premise of questions from my original post. I'm interested in this 'healthy enough' bit that you bring up - do you think there's a threshold of being 'healthy enough' that online communities should reach? is this threshold constant? can it be met then lost then met again?

I also find your suggestion of examining places that were 'fantastic for year but died to events' unrelated to the core function of the community really intriguing as well.
Not sure how to delete this but just found out we are in a hiring freeze.
That is exactly right, but as Medallion takes advantage of them, they become efficient with respect to Medallion's trading strategies.
I can think of two answers.

(1) The "senior" members do not set a good example, to say the least. People who have spent ten years honing their rhetorical skill and accumulating karma/fans so that their comments float to the top of every thread have a disproportionate influence on the overall tone. Too many of those seem to think their own startup idea from ten years ago was the absolute bees' knees, therefore anything else must be lame by comparison, and they're eager to say so at every opportunity.

(2) A lot of newer members have grown up (professionally) at FAANGs that are very opinionated in their own way, which is quite contrary to how startups work, and they are accordingly skeptical of anything startup-related.

Put those together and a torrent of negativity is pretty much inevitable.
Boeing to Emerge as Big Stimulus Winner
That last video was just lovely
Email the mods.

hn @ ycombinator dot com

Mods have my express permission to also delete my comment to clean this up.
> The answer is: It just works. It's easy. It does what we want it to, with a minimum of fuss.

I think the real reason is "it's just what everyone else was doing." All of these apps "just work," as someone who has used a veritable gaggle let me tell you there's scarce difference between them. Except zoom makes it more difficult to join without the app (others work in the browser outright, zoom tricks you into installing).

Zoom I think just happens to be one of the trendiest. But with this kind of behavior there's really no reason to use them.
Eric Schmidt, as in Google's ex-CEO, is the second author of this paper! I didn't know he did any scientific research.
Electing Trump was already a response to these events but unfortunately people chose a billionaire who mainly cares about themselves. The Russian revolution and the nazis were also a response to events but in either case the people made bad choices....
If your company knows what situation it is in, and if that situation persists for more than a year, your company is already better than many. The company I just left had an endless parade of new missions, new "values", new career ladder descriptions, and the median tenure of managers in engineering was about 6 months. The idea that you can either rate the performance of your staff or predictively hire engineers who will succeed under these conditions is a joke.
Build an Encrypted Messaging App for Android
That's formulated the wrong way. An IQ test per se cannot be racist because it is not a human being with intentional behaviour. This means blame must fall on the test designer or test conductor to introduce a racist biasing. In places where accurate results matter, the best available methods of psychometrics are used: http://enwp.org/Progressive_Matrices These are free of bias: culture, language, reading/writing ability does not matter. If these are used and assuming the test conductor did not screw up, and if white evaluees score better than black and brown ones, then it is an objective measurement of reality, not racism. Thus I think the "accepted wisdom" is wrong. If you know of any examples of racism through IQ tests, indicating intention, I'd be glad to hear of them.
>no mechanism a small minority can use to be over-represented when administration considers the wishes of the community (i.e. the Metafilter problem.)

I agree that is a decent criterion for health, but is metafilter really so notorious for special interest coddling? I always found the administration there fairly transparent, especially around topics of decision-making. Did I miss something scandalous? I tend to hold them up as the only example I know of for a healthy general-purpose discussion forum.
I purchased a Kitchen Safe for $50 and lock my phone up 14-15 hours a day. In an emergency, I can smash the safe for $50 and get my phone out. Works wonders for productivity.
Yes, I think we shouldn’t label kids as autistic or something else. A theory of mine is that people on the spectrum always existed throughout the history. I think it’s also not true that an autistic person cannot hold normal jobs.

For example, I work as a lawyer in a law firm. There are a couple of associates who I suspect are in fact on the spectrum. People sometimes make fun of them, they generally like to work alone and in isolation, but they are brilliant attorneys and praised and respected for their work.
The iOS and Mac markets are almost the same size?
Those little guys are so cute. Our Eastern coyotes are about twice that size, having hybridized with timberwolves.
Embracing modern image formats
My blind guess is; one hand not know what the other is doing.

Ive left projects and come back to find the developer between had done things like, pull in a library to handle slideshows when one already existed. Things like that.
It sounds like this whole thread should be nuked because it doesn't cover the new loan program. Let's wait a few days to get more accurate information.
This is why methylene blue probably works as an Alzheimer's treatment. It's an antiviral that can cross the blood brain barrier.
How Interactive Shells Work
So I'm clear: we hit walls using the normal process. It was abnormal from my prior experience too. Then it was escalated and a CSR called me. Then the issue was resolved.

I disagree specifically with the "no way to talk to" part.
This would be quite hard to discover bar someone having access to army records of that time or having a family connection, I think. Not only has more than a century passed, there's also the issue of the letter simply being signed "(Sgd) Roy". Roy isn't that uncommon of a first or last name.

One fact that could help the search is in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22703434

If, indeed, the Burt that the letter is addressed to has the surname Bouell or worked with someone named Bouell, that could help narrow things down substantially. If Burt is found, the Roy in question could be found as well.