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I would like to start contributing to existing projects instead of starting my own. What is a project you recommend?
I too would have favoured setting up the endowment by investment over the longer term: the kind of approach which could have been discussed in a community-consensus way.

It speaks to me, that ISOC decided not to explore that and then went single-buyer, NDA+Lawyers.
this is what happens when you fucking liberals try to spread lies!
Why do you think this is different from impostor syndrome?
i see the same herd mentality on reddit and hn. everyone just echoing their favorite liberal news source.. too afraid to speak against the groupthink; especially if it may be negative.

everyone is looking at the the number of deaths and panicking. "50,000 people died" omg. since march 15 300,000+ americans died of other causes. oh but this is just starting.. only 30k died from flu last year! (well 60k died the year before, thus making 2017-2018 influenza 2x higher fatalities across population).

let's just pretend this novel virus spreads throughout the population until herd immunity is obtained at say 0.70. well influenza only reaches 0.1 of pop. so if ifr of cv19 and infuenza is the same puts the deaths from cv19 at 250,000 (based on 7x deaths of 18/19 flu season).. well we've got a long ways to go still

lets say this virus is TWICE as deadly as influenza. okay, 500,000 deaths to be expected

i'm okay with a 0.2% ifr. not worth staying home for the next 2-5 years until 1) vaccine is proven effective >95% efficacy and 2) production capacity is ~250mil (just for us) (influenza is maybe 30 million units?)

flatten the curve! uh, in most municipalities, it's way flat. so why are we staying in?

containment! we aren't going to contain this. took us 200+ years to contain smallpox... we going to wait 200 years?

save lives! we're saving people from dying of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and influenza.

to really assess how bad this virus is, we really just need to wait ten years, then compare the deaths in the past decade to the expected deaths in the same decade. then we can see the excess deaths caused by the cv (and the self inflicted deaths of despair). picture two alternate universe where no one did anything in one universe and the other committed economic suicide. in both universes the same people died over the 10 year period, in one universe everyone goes about life as normal, but in the other universe, they are still fighting a great depression.

.. i opine most of hn readers have salaried jobs and can wfh so its really easy to prescribe behavior for others when that behavior has little to no effect on the hn reader. maybe the opinion will change when the tech bubble implodes and half of you are out of jobs.

stop looking at this as an emotional issue and look at it as a programming function.. and stop trying to make projections when the input data is garbage. GIGO, right?
how about math is perfectly fine without fucking liberal pieces of shit fucking it up!?
I'm actually quite excited by the curiosity/comprehension ratio regarding Urbit. Those who don't understand it dismiss it entirely.
Can someone honestly explain what this is doing on the front page of HN? I am completely at a loss.
Yeah, this was Scott Galloway’s take in an early Prof G podcast.
conoravirus is confusing because the fucking vcs and startup community in the bay area is FUCKING SHIT UP

we should round up all these fuckers on twitter and lock them up for high crimes against humanity
Maybe I’m just a dummy but... that sounds a lot more complex than systems I am familiar with
>>Maybe, but it mostly behaves as one hivemind.


Wait, are we talking about the internet?


On a more serious note, there isn't a huge difference. Sure, the media may seem to all be pushing one story/agenda, but the same things happen on the internet as well. Much as we like to think we are individualist free thinkers, humans are very much a social animal. It doesn't need to be anything nefarious, The Guardian was covering the same things everyone else was from the same angle for nearly-identical reasons to the redditors who repost nearly identical meme formats. A few months back, everyone was posting "stinks" memes because that's what got upvotes. News outlets hopped on the 'YouTube will corrupt your kids' bandwagon because that is what was getting clicks and ad impressions.

It's not that complicated of a phenomenon; there certainly doesn't need to be a spooky man behind the curtain to explain it. Even Hacker News is subject to this, where all of a sudden everyone is deleting their Gmail accounts. There are just broad trends in society, and it shouldn't be surprising that many people/organizations follow them.
These are incredible and I hadn't seen them, thank you!
Hmmm yeah I can’t find a solid source for any for how much anybody is getting their pay cut. I saw some articles from around April 1 that said the executives were getting up 20% pay cut. Some of the current articles are saying 30% for the execute and some are saying up to 20. I’m not sure
Oh, I'd forgotten about Tlon. Well, I looked it up, and what he claims to retain is "a few thousand stars" and a "non-voting minority in tlon". I guess the latter could be valuable monetarily (in some hypothetical future in which urbit is successful, anyway).

from: https://urbit.org/blog/a-founders-farewell/
> Yarvin wrote a blog.

An openly racist, far right blog. By an author who has stated that he believed some races were more suitable for slavery (he also seemed to have no problem with slavery of course) and that some races have genetic superiority to have better IQs.

(Just added it since I thought you forgot mentioning it)
Even without the privatization there's been a big push for full-stack generalists that wear half a dozen hats and experts in many niches seem to be getting phased out. It's like a corporate version of grandma thinking you can fix her computer because your a "tech person". I get the impression this is happening in other industries too.
Smartphones have been out-selling PCs for 10 years now. Nearly all of them are ARM. The median consumer CPU is a smartphone CPU.
Aviya+Mattress+Coupon+Save+$200
Since we're on anecdotes, my father was a firefighter who never got a degree at all. Never went into debt. Worked his way up to become Battalion Chief. It's cool the janitor had a passion for classics and wanted to learn about literature. As long as he did that with no expectation that there would be a writing job for him on the other end of that, all's fair in my mind. The guy worked for Columbia, so he probably got free classes as an employee. That being said, these anecdotes aren't sufficient to capture the broad trend which is students going to school to get a degree because they're told that's the thing to do. And for a significant portion of the population, the myth of a degree leading to automatic prosperity persists.
isolation!?

how about HOUSE ARREST

you fucking NAZI FASCIST POS!
The Murky World of AI Benchmarks
Seems like they are essentially arguing for the ol' "move fast and break things" - though I guess in a slightly more responsible manner: You can't catch all problems with thests, so it's important to be able to react quickly to problems - and in fact, being able to react quickly is already important from a business perspective anyway.

Sounds reasonable, I just wonder what kind of practical differences this advice does make.

I do hope this isn't a lot of talk to go back to the Facebook style of "moving fast and breaking things" in the end. The "let your users be the QA" part somewhat sounds like that...
I don't think the idea is that it's meant to be competitive against extraction on land. What it does do is expand the potential uranium supply to make nuclear power viable as a global power supply on the order of hundreds of thousands of years at least.
What advice would you give to those of us who struggle with our weight, regardless of the size of our plate, who came here to discuss lisp and not what the author of the blog post said to you one time about food portions?
go try shooting your favorite politician - that will relieve some stress
Awesome! Feels like an important detail that Bloomberg should have in the article.

Difficult times for everyone right now, it might be a small gesture, but it's something.
In Cuba, it's quite common.
and then $1M++ to design parts, molds, fixtures, machine processes, finishes, coatings, and QA for the new custom chassis. Using ODM standard designs is the only practical thing to do at small volume.
Taxi drivers with literature degrees make more interesting conversation :)
Having a sophisticated supply chain in place is a big part of manufacturing prowess!
Combined cycle plants have been around for a while. Another common thing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration, which dates back to the start of electricity production. Both are more efficient than the days when no one cared, but they still spew carbon. Your heat pump can run on wind.
9/11 happened, basically. All the money went to surveillance and merging ISPs to make that easier.
covid is a lie
If they've asked you a specific question, answer honestly. Otherwise, there's no need to bring it up. It's not relevant. I've been the hiring manager at several companies, and not once has a problem from a background check like this come up, nor would it have blocked employment if it did. In my opinion, other responders here are way overthinking this. I also think most forms ask about convictions for felonies, not misdemeanors, so you're not hiding anything.
I’m surprised a16z are still falling for the cryptocurrency meme. It’s been so obvious from the beginning that this will flame out.
since when are scientist ALWAYS right? they can't even determine if this virus effects respiratory system or circulatory system. they can't even agree on where the virus leaped from (bats! pangolins! snakes! WIV!). since when are scientist immune from biases?

and why should the nation take economic advise from a epidemiologist? they probably know as much about the economy as an economists knows about programming. not much.
Amazon gives employees option to work from home until “at least” early October
Exactly. Organizations shouldn’t be governed by ORG who in turn shouldn’t be governed by ICANN. This action thoroughly makes clear that ICANN controls DNS.

Alternatives like Handshake [1] move the root zone to a blockchain as a root of trust avoiding any centralized control and is currently used by many [2].

[1] https://handshake.org

[2] https://dns.live
This is a neat app, thanks for creating it and hosting it for us to use.
From the article:

> Earlier this week, Atlantic magazine – fast becoming the favored media outlet for self-styled intellectual elites of the Aspen Institute type

Genuinely curious, does anyone know what insinuation is being made here? What does it mean to be of "the Aspen Institute" type?
No, my argument is that it will eat the whole financial system over the next few decades. Buying ETH or BTC is like buying a share of HTTP. The value of the ecosystem is captured at the protocol layer. If crypto bulls are right, the market cap for Bitcoin and Ethereum will be in the trillions and a significant portion of the financial system from banking to insurance to derivatives to stock market trading will all be traded on these chains.
That sounds like masochism. I went to a decent public school, worked hard sometimes, partied whenever, and yet I work for the same kind of company as you. A good 25% of my class ended up the same way.

If your goal is to make money, then I don't think hard work matters nearly as much as figuring out the social aspect of how to fit in with working professionals.
Bottom line, if you don't want censorship, build, use and support systems that are designed to make censorship impossible.

Instead of censorship, demand robust filtering, applied locally. So everything remains available, and users get to choose exactly what they want to see, and what they don't.
SoftBank actually put emoji into the Private Use Area of Unicode before they were codified (just as they were in an unused area of Shift-JIS before that). The original iPhone 3GS use the PUA method.

The encoding of emoji was in order to unify Softbank/docomo/au under one set so that iPhones/Androids sold by the different carriers could send emoji among each other without relying on email translators (as had been the technical solution with feature phones until then)
This is old news. Just run Lumen on any Xiaomi device and see for yourself.
Google is still expanding fiber. They wired a neighborhood near me and theres a vote on my HOA to wire our neighborhood.
> This is not a fair characterization; I was very clear that this represented my "first draft" and that I was looking for feedback specifically to have people poke holes in it.

Where was this made clear? The closest I can see is at the very end where you call it a living document and will accept pull requests that match the "style and intentions of this document" which to me sounds like you are only interested in meeting pull requests that strength your argument to further your intended narrative.

I appreciate your adding a disclaimer about your lack of relevant experience, but even it says nothing about this being a "first draft" that you expect to have holes poked in.

So I fully stand behind my characterization and I find your use of the term "sanctimonious gatekeeping" to far less of a "fair characterization".
I still use hushmail for "throwaway" type emails where I have to sign up for something I'm pretty sure will be used as an email marketing platform. Then if one alias gets compromised I just delete it. hushmail has decent anti-spam measures also. I wouldn't trust it to send that really important email for Snowden only but it works great for basically unlimited email aliases. Then I can also see more easily who's probably selling off their address list and stop using their product.
How does one enforce nuclear non-proliferation if any country can extract uranium from seawater?
Sarcastic.
Given the vulnerability we're talking about, the boot loader is already unlocked (because it's vulnerable) and can be exploited by any malicious USB device if the phone is placed in DFU mode.

The dongle idea I'm talking about would be to have a convenient way to exploit the vulnerability for the benefit of the user to boot the device into a jailbroken mode in case of an unexpected restart (battery runs out and you're away from your computer).
32 bytes = how many jigawatts
You don't feel like a fraud, you are not "attributing your success to luck, or interpret it as a result of deceiving others into thinking you are more intelligent" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome. It is something else.

It is like you always feel that there is a huge amount of detail in every topic, and whatever you do, you don't get the feeling that you really know the topic.
I don't understand how those aren't also descriptions of Language null. Haven't you seen programs that use null in those ways (and several others)? I certainly have.
"Stripe records cursor movement on customer websites as part of its fraud control efforts" - that's probably the real title. But obviously doesn't get the traffic.
> typical Australian

Speaking of Australian YouTubers, Dave Jones (EEVBLOG) has permanently infected my brain when it comes to pronouncing some names in electronics. Beauty
That was my point right? It has nothing to do with the DB.
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The lack of consideration for how ssh will work (authenticating with ssh keys etc.) is a bit worrying, I hope they come up with a good solution.
Yeah, both are widely used in Aus/NZ/UK. It’s not like the USA where some people only know the 24-hour clock as “military time”.
Things change, US itself has changed. Why do you expect Canada to lick the boot of Trump if they get the treatment they get today ? Why does one expect that an uranium cartel will not be formed the moment that it gains significant market adoption?
It's not as if there haven't been many attempts at distributed dns. Zooko's Triangle [1] is one hurdle. Namecoin and related block chain technologies have similar drawbacks to Bitcoins when it comes to transaction volume.

There are also legitimate concerns with many distributed techniques in terms of domain squatting that need to be addressed.

I'm not trying to discourage you from creating your own system to try to solve these issues, or support one you think is close. I do find it a bit insulting that you just seem to assume that this problem has never been tackled before.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
Write down what you eat. Even if you change nothing, you'll re-consider grazing/snacking. Write it down before you eat it for extra effectiveness.

Shameless plugs in my post history. But to be clear, even a sheet of paper can be tremendously helpful.
After some minutes googling alternatives to MediaWiki, right now in 2020 it seems there is a very small group of suitable ones:

https://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/xwiki+moinmoin+gwiki
It's mostly a component of how deliberately obtuse the terminology behind it was early on (with no clear explanation), and how smarmy the early adopters are/were about describing it early on. I knew a guy who was big into it back in 2013. He refused to describe it as anything other than 'everything you could ever want computing to be'. Ask for specifics, and he'd just use the project's own terminology and act like you were stupid if you wanted clarification.

Personal server doesn't really do the project justice, because it does nothing to differentiate it in someone's mind from spinning up a vm on digitalocean with no specific intent. It will make more sense once the platform actually has software you can point to, but it'll still need more explanation to justify its existence.
An Apology for Buffalo Bill
Cryptocurrency was invented to remove middlemen. Everyday I hear about another company trying to hold your keys for you. Exchanges are the new banks. DeFi helps get rid of them. Now if only you could buy crypto from your neighbor, we truly could get the efficiencies of fast and nearly free, instant payment. Exchanges benefit from the accidental regulatory capture of security theater making it so you can't sell crypto to others out of fear. Perhaps I'm biased as a cryptocurrency founder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

I'm not an electrical engineer, so all of this has been my lightly informed opinion. I don't have the right words or depth of knowledge to convey my impressions, sorry.

I don't know about big problems, but there are certainly complications and concerns when converting DC to AC at grid scale, as you can see in the Disadvantages portion of the wiki. Sorry I don't have a better source.

I don't think batteries are "bad" for frequency stabilization, I just don't think they're good at it.

With regard to spinning metal, I think you may be referring to flywheel storage? Flywheels do have lower energy density than batteries. I was referring to base load generation by spinning generators.
HN is a platform dominated by laymen in this field. Posting this article here is an attempt to publish and widen distribution. It is not an attempt to reach out to people with expertise prior to publishing.
I consider myself able to write production quality code.

When I started with Go I thought it was awesome. As my projects grew I found them to become less maintainable than my previous Java projects, and still less maintainable than my newer Rust projects.
Unfortunately, unlike simply buying stock a short position exposes the trader to unlimited downside.

You can be completely right about what's going to happen but a miss in timing could ruin you.
Wait, people still use stock MIUI after they bought Xiaomi phone? It was nick named ADUI after all.
Just to support your philosophy a little bit, most git users are very surprised to learn that a "branch" is a single commit. When they need to do something where this distinction matters, in my experience they are usually stymied. Using a precise model where it doesn't sweep the details under the carpet is good for me. However, I suspect that it will limit adoption to a certain extent. Pretending that something is the way you wish it to be is pretty common in the world ;-) Refusing to use tools that show you truths that you do not wish to acknowledge is similarly common, I think. Still I appreciate the precision and if you are targeting users like me, I certainly won't complain!
one immediate unintended consequence I can think of is flattening the distribution of net tuition paid. For example, a 40k sticker price University might cost 40k to a wealthy foreigner, 25k to an upper middle class student, and be practically free to a poor student (after need based grants and scholarships, not loans). Tuition is capped at 20k, so suddenly everyone has to pay 20k, at least if the university wants to maintain the same income.

Of course, the numbers are already flatter than that at most public institutions but the general effect could still occur. Not saying tuition caps are necessarily a bad idea, but I can see potential downsides.
> Most companies I've worked at have software engineers putzing around for the few days/weeks getting their dev environment set up.

I'll second this as a real pain point. And I would absolutely love to be able to spin up a staging/test environment for myself[1] when needed instead of having to wait for someone else to refresh staging and not knowing what precise combination of commits are on there.

[1] I'm new and on a Mac, everyone else is here years and on Linux; my local dev experience has been somewhat challenging as a result due to their assumptions.
Thanks for offering to contribute to open source!

I own the secure electron template open-source library. It's a template for building secure electron apps. There are a few low priority issues if you'd like to work on them. Otherwise, there are various dependencies such as context menus, i18n support, etc that could use new features if you want to think of some that could be useful.

https://github.com/reZach/secure-electron-template
>Never ever underestimate what people will do for even mediocre amounts of money.

or even just for thrills or for nefarious purposes!

Reminds of me of that backdoor in Notepad++[1], an app many developers I've worked with used.

[1]https://www.hackread.com/wikileaks-vault7-cia-docs-notepad-p...
Great news! Now they should find new stewards for .org, since PIR/ISOC have shown they cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
This is really funny; Back in the warcraft 3 days, we used to do the same thing inside its scripting language --- to attach some data to a timer, we would exploit the fact that a timer is in fact just a 'void *' underneath: so the pointer address gave us the unique ID. We would stash data associated with the timer in a global hash table. Then, in the callback of the timer, we would read the data back from the global hash table!

Your exposition took me a trip down memory lane to middle/high school. Thank you for this :)

- References: https://www.thehelper.net/threads/jass-timers-and-how-to-pas...
I was thinking the same. This very act shows a severe lack of judgment in stewardship. ICANN should find another more deserving, more trustworthy organization to oversee .org.
There seems to be a great, unresolved difference of opinion about whether information entropy and thermodynamic entropy are commensurable.

In trying to connect Shannon entropy to thermodynamic entropy, I always get stuck on the fact that you need to have a defined alphabet or symbol set.