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On announcing that they'll support git [1]:

> > > You guys should be taking my money

> > One way to pay, if you want to help ensure their success & longevity, is to evangelize for them, and get other people hooked on their product. Getting other people hooked on it like you are and seeing the potential and get over the adoption humps... that's valuable! They're not taking money because it raises the barrier to entry, and growth is most important. Pay them by helping them grow.

> It's valuable, but not in the capital sense. Each person you get hooked on their product increases their burn rate, and both makes them more attractive as an acquisition (which is scary for users) and more desperate for cash (which makes acquiescing to acquisition more tempting).

> Without a road to profitability (or at least a road to revenue) even attracting equity is difficult; investors who enter with that knowledge will be looking to exit through acquisition, since that's basically the only way to exit, other than just getting more capital.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15403772
Zoom's decisions did not feel like mistakes so much as an expression of their values. The company repeatedly prioritised ease of use while doing the absolute minimum on the security front. Are there any grounds to believe that that calculus has changed?
There are a whole bunch of people who do not qualify for any benefits, have little savings, and are blocked from going to work.

In a recent press conference, New York Governor Cuomo failed to provide any reasonable response to a reporter when asked about someone in a very similar situation (the person qualified for benefits, but checks have not arrived).

What is to happen to these people? Is the lockdown to protect them from something truly worse than not being able to buy food?

Anyone care to address this single point without going off-topic?
I suppose it's only fair that if software engineers think they can play epidemiologists, that epidemiologists could think they can play software engineers.
Reminds me of the Japanese Kezuroukai - Thin Shaving Competition (Wood Planing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ubv3kS9fhs
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Mozilla is going on the completely opposite direction of what their supporters (and previous contributors) want them to go.

Yes, they provide mobile browsers, plus a browser with "private mode" (focus) and now this. But on every single one of them, you have the same philosophy of Google Chrome (tm) adopted, of treating the user as a dumb gullible person that should not have access to important settings.

Why would they waste so much effort, and clone all the things people should avoid from Google Chrome?!

For example, any new tech introduced that can be used for browser fingerprinting and user tracking (e.g. canvas, webgl, webrtc, etc) is enabled to every single site by default, just like chrome.

Some you can install extensions (you can't on this and on mozilla focus), some you can fiddle with user-UNfriendly settings in about:config (desktop and full featured android, not focus or this) where you have to guess setting names and cryptic values (what does 2 means in a setting named somethingEnabled?!)

Only on mozilla desktop you can standardize sane settings by importing a user.js file from the dozen of crowdsourced efforts (i recommend the most complete one from https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/ ). think about this, there's more then a dozen community led effort to provide sane defaults, not hardcore user optimized settings, sane defaults, for a project that should be open source and the users could have been able to send in patches to have sane defaults in the first place! now, why would those sane defaults everyone want would be denied in the main branch? because mozilla do not represent the users for a long time!

Mozilla is now a corporation that looks for Advertisement companies grants.
Funny to see Norsk Data being mentioned in Hacker News. I actually had the pleasure of attending a guest lecture in 2014 at my university (University of Tromsø) during my studies where founder Rolf Skår, and multiple other notable people from ND, talked. It was extremely interesting to hear their stories, and also especially seeing how bright and engaged they were even though they all were almost in their 80s.

Something they talked about that wasn't mentioned here is how tightly Norsk Data worked with the military, and that one of their most powerful computers was specifically designed to analyze Sonar signals from sensors in North Norway to listen for submarines of the coast.
My employer is a mid-sized university. Cost is the main issue.

Our environment is a mixture of in-house developed apps and COTS. Until recently, our major COTS vendors didn't have cloud solutions. Now they have cloud solutions but they're far too costly for us to afford. So we need to keep them in-house and continue to employ the staff to support it.

Our in-house apps integrate the COTS systems. Our newer apps are mostly in the cloud. But the older ones are in technologies that need to stay where the database server is, which is in our server room for the reason stated in the last paragraph. Rewriting the apps isn't on our radar due to new work coming in.

Historically, outsource vs. in-source seems to ebb and flow. The clear path is usually muddied when new technologies come out to reduce cost on one side or the other.
Hydrogen is the most efficient fuel and the one they claim to work with. We are already within 25% of the maximum theoretical ISP rocket fuels can provide, so their 25% claim is highly suspect.

https://thephysicsofspacex.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/isp-u...
I recently posted this comment during a recent Keybase/Keys.pub thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22996981

Looking forward, none of that seems to matter due to this acquisition/acquihire - it seems clear that we'll not be able to count on Keybase in any meaningful way from now on.

This is the most disillusioning acquisition to date for me.
God, that cryptocurrency scam. If ever there was a clear message screaming "we have no idea how to turn this into something profitable/sustainable," that was it.
That's true but you're only cooped up because of stay at home orders. Were people who worked full time from home complaining about being cooped up? Maybe a little but not enough to want to go into an office 40 hours a week. Sure it's nice to get out and escape from your family a little bit and socialize with different people but why does this have to equate to going to work?
> Wolfram went ahead with a press bonanza to announce that he had solved physics

If you read/listen/watch the announcements (which I'll agree are a bit over the top), the position is very clear that they have "found" a new avenue of research that they believe has the possibility to bear fruit. They are clear that it _could_ form the basis for a "theory of everything", once much more research has been done.

They are optimistic in how they talk about it, and many may disagree with that, but they are not claiming they have "solved physics".
Exactly, the person I replied to was saying there's no need to open source the code, it's enough for the paper to describe it. My point is that unless it's re-implemented and verified (which obviously it isn't) as part of reviewing the paper, that's not the same at all. It's like reviewing 'Assuming X, Y' and saying 'well I can't verify X, but yep, X->Y checks out. Y.'.
There are two basic frames:

(1) Most jobs were make-work. Parking everyone up doesn't really matter.

(2) Most jobs add a little bit to society. Shutting everything down substantially reduces the buffer between people and a 1,500AD standard of living.

Which frame a person accepts as more reasonable probably determines how they feel about the shutdowns.
Ohio’s setting up a snitch website for employers to report on employees too scared to return to work, so that benefits can be stripped.

If I were reading this kind of stuff in a history book and the next paragraph said “and the revolution started in...” I wouldn’t be surprised. Punishing people for being afraid of a pandemic is not a smart move.
S3 ListObjects calls are eventually consistent (i.e. list-after-put).
EMRFS [1] and S3Guard [2] mitigate this for data processing use cases.

[1] - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ManagementGuide/emr-f...
[2] - https://blog.cloudera.com/introducing-s3guard-s3-consistency...
Journals need to start rejecting submissions without code, or with code that doesn't pass peer review by people with a modicum of software engineering skill.
Sweet, i kind of knew it already existed, but this type of structure is just so damn rare.

I guess most founders are really just motivated by the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow :/
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The team put a lot of effort on dialog safety. You can find more info here: https://parl.ai/projects/dialogue_safety/ and the paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06083.

Still, unlike Tay, we purposely did not create a service for it and do not advise creating one. This is for research purpose only and more effort needs to be made on safety before it can me more broadly consumed.
> It's a strange mix of instant messaging, web of trust, and cryptocurrency scam.

They ended their Stellar airdrop early, but I guess it didn't help that bots were joining the platform, and affecting the other parts of the Keybase community, just to get a share of it.
> I miss the days when businesses existed not just to serve investors but also their employees and the common good

Uh when was this? For-profit businesses have always been created for the primary purpose of making money. Any side effect like employee well being happened to coincide with what maximized profits at the time or due to regulation.
Even your examples seem to acknowledge that getting back to the actual work is not what people are after.
There are many drawbacks to a lockdown. Not having to do the actual work, as some sort of guilt of not being a productive member of society, very rarely seems to be one of them.

What people want is financial and health security (which in the US are strongly linked), social interactions and some other liberties like working out and traveling.
The actual work aspect mostly benefits the owners of the businesses. And I can see that as a small business owner you'd be exposed to the same pressure for financial security, many times over.

But don't confuse "not wanting to stay at home with nothing to do and no clear idea of whether you'll even have a home in a month" with "wanting to work", it's not helpful in analyzing what's actually happening.
Background: I've been studying Japanese for about 20 years, starting in grade school. Self-studied through high school, took Japanese in college and spent a semester in Tokyo at a Japanese language school.

What worked for me was grabbing raw (physical) manga (something from Shonen Jump, they have furigana over the kanji), a English-Japanese dictionary, a print out of hiragana/katakana, and a notebook. I then started to slowly and painstakingly translate the manga, first getting the hiragana sounded out; memorizing hiragana/katakana as I went. I wrote down characters I didn't know. I looked them up. I would translate a volume of manga in about a week.

Those exercises helped cement foundational characters, vocabulary, and grammar without having to use a computer. I was able to go into college and skip the first 2 semesters of Japanese just by slowly translating my favorite manga. This might not work for you, but it certainly worked for me.
By this argument nobody ever wants to work. If you hit the lottery in normal times would you continue to work at your current job?

What we do want, basically always, is for the "average" person to work. And we want that because if most people aren't working we stop producing enough food and other goods/services and we all suffer for it. That's as true now as ever.

The government handing out money doesn't create food, or tractors, or houses, or nails, or clothing, and so on and so forth. It helps continue the distribution of the goods we do have in the short term, due to how we choose who to give goods to (i.e. selling them to people with money), but without people directly creating goods or indirectly creating value to sell to other people for goods (the other people being in other countries that are still producing goods) we will run out in short order.
> Your web browser (Safari 13) is out of date. Update your browser for more security, speed and the best experience on this site.

Going to the website it wants me to install .. Safari 13.
Unacademy hacked, 22M accounts offered for saleSecurity Affairs
Criticism: Academia fails to model the real world, in contrast to industry ("is way behind industry").

Response: An entire industry of competing and well-funded actors that specialize in modeling and predicting expensive failure states also failed to model the world accurately.

Implication of Response: Where is the evidence that this is inferior to industry?
Quick JavaScript Switcher extension for Chrome.

I've been browsing TechCrunch without JavaScript for years - it works fine.
It is not really a captcha, but I used email for people to submit comments to my website. You could rely on a third party mail provider for for filtering, which would make it even simpler.
Liability shields would help. Not sure they would solve the public reputation problem? (I've seen the public reputation problem take down restaurants even when the restaurant did not poison the claimant.) But they would give restaurant owners confidence that there would be, at least, no legal liability.

On the balance of probabilities, I'd bet that many people will just eschew dine-in experiences. At least for a year or two. Can you survive the year or two with decreased dine-in traffic? That's the question owners should be trying to answer. If your footprint is small enough, I'd suspect the answer is yes. If you've got a larger footprint than is prudent in the new reality, you'll likely need to make some changes.
We’re a long way short of running out; this is a political choice at the highest levels to do nothing, not a fiscal choice.
https://github.com/crpietschmann/AzureSphereOS
>Office and data center rent expense was $194 million and $221 million for the years ended December 31, 2017 and
2018, respectively.

https://s23.q4cdn.com/407969754/files/doc_financials/2019/ar...

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Ask HN: How are you networking from home?
Being stuck at home is making me rethink moving to a major city. The main benefit for moving would be the capacity to find smart people doing interesting things. How are you making up for that while stuck at home?
There are so many navigation keys and combinations, that's kind of what is great about it. A lifetime's worth, in the case of vim and neovim. I personally have got a lot of mileage out of f, F, t, T, /, ?, G, 0, W, w, e, E, b, B, }, and %.
No, the right response is social democratic floors and an effectively managed response, both of which impinge on the power and wealth of the American oligarchy. That’s the obstacle. To prevent confrontation with that obstacle, the rich direct anger away from themselves into unhinged fictions and scapegoats.

Again, not a new phenomena in American politics and life.
I first heard of ND about 15 years ago when I inherited the source to a hoary old set of C libraries with a long history behind them.

I found an #ifdef ND5000 sitting in a header somewhere, and had to investigate.
Having your repo in Amazon's cloud instead of Microsoft's cloud doesn't mean that you "own" it to a greater degree, does it? It's just a different company holding the keys for you.
Codespaces on the iPad (Demo)
Looks like a bad PR stunt. One does not need to acquire another firm to implement direct secure video channel.
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Link to the paper (paywalled):
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525001620...

They regenerated neurons through upregulating a molecule known as lin28, an RNA binding protein with a lot of important roles in cell differentiation etc. In the paper, they detail that they did it through the delivery of the gene for lin28 via an adeno associated virus type 2 (AAV2) viral vector, which is basically a modified virus that, when it infects your target cell, instead of replicating and making more viruses, instead just delivers and starts expressing the gene you want. This is the basis of gene therapy, and the first FDA approved gene therapy in the US is also an AAV2 vectored gene therapy[0]. So, could mean that, if this finding holds true, gene therapy with an already established technology could be a way to regenerate neurons and accelerate healing of spinal damage which is an exciting finding.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voretigene_neparvovec
I honestly, genuinely believe that people are a) too divided, and b) too content to complain online v organize actual change for any sort of revolution to happen.

I genuinely believe it will take a failure of an absolute overwhelming magnitude (internet goes completely down and society collapses) for an actual, classic-style revolution.
Pong, Tetris, Forth
No, but now they see that the minimum is not where they had thought. As someone who does security professionally, of course a business wants to do the minimum necessary for security. The point of security systems is to break things that would otherwise work.

TLS is there to break sessions that would work under TCP. GPG is there to tell you to discard some mail.
> They haven't said that one of them is, and they know they haven't found the one that is yet if there is one.

In other words...they haven't made any significant discovery, yet.

The physicists are just saying "OK, get back to us when you have something concrete we can evaluate."
> I think you now have a concrete answer regardless if this is true or not.

How do we have a concrete answer if this is not true?
github pages and only html, no css or js
The bot is really optimized on engagingness rather than humanness - in particular this is how we chose the hyper parameters. We did evaluate Meena vs. Human (31 vs. 69) and Meena vs. BlenderBot (35 vs. 65). But didn't do BlenderBot vs. Human. Good suggestion though.
Does it work with the browser version?
That's the SaaS sales mantra repeated. It may or may not be true no matter how appealing the argument is.

Ultimately, your weakest point ends up being humans who are prone to mistakes. You can mitigate some of those mistakes with technology but you can't mitigate all of them. So SaaS may help shore up certain attack vectors but it may increase focus on the remaining vectors and may potentially make failure points more significant (more impact for a security breach from a large provider vs less impact of a security breach from systems of independent providers). Some of that can be mitigated with smart designs, but you lose some advantage of traditional "security through obscurity" which has some value (though it shouldn't be relied on as a failsafe).
> ... the software is garbage.

I try to be slow to jump to that conclusion ... so often there are reasons for things to be the way they are. The software tools and the hardware capabilities were very, very different in the aughties, and many people currently writing software don't really seem to appreciate by just how much. It may be the case that things could have been done differently, perhaps better, but then again, once you know the full story, maybe not.

Some time ago I wrote up a war story from the mid-nineties and had some current software people crap all over it. When I started to explain about the machine limitations of the time the bluster increased, and among the replies I got was "The software was crap".

Ever since then I've been interested in the contexts for these stories. So often I hear "Well you shouldn't have done it like that!" rather than an enquiring:

"OK, let's assume some clever people wrote this, I wonder what the pressures were that made them come out with that solution."

I've learned a lot by approaching things that way, instead of simply declaring: The software was garbage.
Maybe "losing Ubuntu if Canonical went under" is a better analogy then?
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019)
Whatsapp announced encryption to the world in 2012. OWS helped secure their app further after the 2014 acquisition by FB, but encryption was something stressed by Koum and Acton from the get-go. Integration of E2EE into Whatsapp/FB Messaging is one of the few examples of Zuck being on the right side of things.

Long term it ended up pretty good, with Koum and Acton taking their acquisition money bags and pouring them into FOSS projects like FreeBSD and the Signal Foundation. Maybe malgorithms will do the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_WhatsApp

> pushes for backups to Google (and maybe iCloud?) servers.

Yeah, I was incorrect. They backup to Google servers. Not sure if that's better or worse. :)

Since then, FB has offered willingness to cooperate with foreign governments to break encryption. I guess we will see what happens with the EARN IT Act.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-28/facebook-...

RHL might be a bad example too, since Fedora is still pretty prominent, even if not often used compared to debian or debian-based distros these days.
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MVCC for filesystems?
I've found the dev experience with nuxt to be more enjoyable overall than it is with vue-cli. The main reason for that I would say is that you don't have to bother with routes and the generator can set up Tailwind (or other CSS frameworks/tools)

Generally, it feels like it strikes a good balance between being fully configurable boilerplate and opinionated framework.
Yes. Most teams are using git repos in Azure DevOps. Anything in GitHub is supposed to be made public pretty quickly.
One scenario in which Zoom's rep matter more, to me, is that they keep keybase alive, but now Zoom's slop infiltrates keybase.

In one way, good job Zoom for looking into security. In another way, I'm still looking at this awful UX that's buggy as hell and thinking it's gonna be a real slog for the keybase team to overcome that momentum.
Make sure you sell your free Lumens before you delete your account. I got $55 a few months ago.
It does work pretty well with changes of topic (often integrating the broader context as long as it fits into a few turns).