skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fine example of an expert in one field believing he is an expert in every field.

In reading the section describing psychometricians, he clearly is not actually reading what they publish.
> If keybase ultimately gets secure video, and zoom a security architecture overhaul, how is that a bad thing?

If.
Microsoft stands to benefit from getting their private code exposed, because they can use it to claim that open source competitors are ripping it off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/03/reactos_windows_res...
The original Dutch article is a few months older even. This article is great journalism.
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I think this is the driver I'm using, but I have it in line to fix for my next release, thanks!
A copy of Scientific Advertising and some thinking are about all that's needed to do the job well.

There are essentially 4 rules for effective advertising:

1) ignore all metrics from online platforms (especially the ones that sell ads)

2) ignore all metrics from ad agencies

3) run tests that make sense*

4) measure in dollars

The hard part is convincing the founder/owner to stop messing with stuff long enough that you can actually measure the results. Also, companies tend to way overspend on ads and data scientists while underspending on skilled advertisers. (They can be forgiven for the latter, there are too few skilled advertisers, and lousy advertisers usually sell themselves as experts.)

*Example: your job is to advertise a business with 20 locations in 2 cities. You want to know if radio ads are better than search ads. So you do the obvious thing: buy radio ads in city A and search ads in city B, then compare sales. If the difference in sales is big enough that managers get defensive and start pointing out why the test wasn't valid, you may have a winner. Run it in both cities and see if it still works.

(Rule of thumb: if nobody is upset with the outcome, the variations were too similar. Run bigger tests.)
>If we're going to lock-down, we might as well do it until the crisis is manageable.

I thought the purpose of the lockdown was to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed? Maybe that is what you meant by manageable?

My two cents:

Why shouldn't we remove the lockdown if we can manage to do so without overwhelming hospitals?

We have been locked down and covid still circulates through the population, and appears that it will do so until we reach herd immunity and/or have a vaccine, with the likely/hopeful outcome, based on how these types of coronaviruses often behave, being a decrease in the danger posed by this specific virus over time.

Playing devils advocate: How much of a difference do mandated lockdowns even make? Sweden doesn't have a lockdown and they are doing better than a number of other western countries, worse than some others, but pretty much well within the same bell curve given the fuzzy data we have at the moment.

When does it become selfish to tell tens of millions of people they can't provide for themselves because you are scared of the coronavirus. They might not be. The risk profile can be very different for different people.

As long as the hospitals are not overwhelmed why not self-isolate, and let other people do what they want? That was the justification when we started these lockdowns, to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed, right?
> Presumably, though, you agree there should be SOME criteria for what is notable enough to deserve a Wikipedia article? For example, in order of increasing mundanity these topics probably don't deserve a Wikipedia article: Me, my cat, my cat's water bowl, the water in the bowl on May 5, 2020 etc.

Well, there are a few criteria that are inherent:

1. Something is at least a little notable if someone is willing to write about it. In a literal sense, it's notable because someone noted it.

2. There's also the citation factor: even if someone cites their own work, they've at least gone to the effort to note it twice.

> Like, there must be some line that separates what deserves an article and what is does not.

Citation needed.

Why must there be such a line?
This got me thinking.

How many companies, in terms of Market Cap are currently relying on GitHub Private Repo for their source code?

And how does very large enterprise, or financial institution ( Which is like the foundation of modern day society ) handle their source code? I presume they wont use Github for anything important?
The UPS guy making deliveries is fine. Having family over for dinner isn't. The situation would look different now, had there been proper leadership in January. When the President says "It's a flu. HOAX!" his fans believe him, and that's why in France, Germany, Italy and Spain new cases are declining but in the US they are still going up.

In my deep red corner of the woods there's different cars in front of each house seemingly every other day and music, too. That's what you do in the face of the plague, you party!
It's ambitions and potential versus its current adoption make it a relative flop. Plus, since it's made by Google it may randomly end up in the graveyard without warning.
No, when businesses were owned primarily by single individuals, their priorities were much more aligned with the goals of a single individual. The owners cared not only about profits but respect in the community, influence over politics, etc. and made choices that today’s publicly traded companies would and do not.
> Right now, in the (presumably) developed US, 1 in 5 children don't have enough food, 3x the amount during 2008. That's a result of years of policy choices, but one particularly policy choice caused it to spike.

Yes, the policy choice not provide the kind of mass aid (whether directly to citizens or through firms in a way which reasons the mass of the citizenry to protect empmoyment and pay) to the population that pretty much every other industrialized country facing this crisis has, even the ones (like Sweden) without mandatory lockdowns.

The US federal response to COVID-19, both in narrow public health measures and broader, including economic policy, measures (and structurally much of this has to be done at the federal level because of the way state and federal financing works) has been nothing short of mass murder by depraved indifference.
"Want[ing] financial and health security" is a funny way to say "Wanting to be able to buy food and pay the rent."

Not everyone has the luxury of a work at home job that allows them to put half of their salary in the bank each month.
I can't even bring myself to read your comment, getting so angry because someone brought up eugenics -> YOU'RE RACIST BITCH
Thanks. Wish they could add 2019 in the title.
Zoom is only a pariah on Hacker News.
The general bound of worst-case scenarios is about equal to all-cause mortality risk over a year. That's bad, but not apocalyptically bad - well within the range of risks that an individual could rationally decide to accept.
Well I'd say bringing up hard problems like morality and eugenics is part of being objective. It's not like they could be ignored.
Or maybe people that are unemployed want to get their jobs back?
I would wager that under 30 it's probably a good bit lower than 0.1% IFR. This is the problem with trying to come up with an overall IFR for the disease. It makes a certain sense at a macro level, but for assessing your own exposure it doesn't mean a lot. People under 30 have a really low risk, people over 70 should probably weld their doors shut.
Show HN: Web app that contributes to social distancing
Basically the website lets you set the state of your establishment as "empty", "crowded" or "closed" to regulate how many customers will show up. I am hoping that this will minimize the risk of covid-19 spread and reduce waiting times for customers. Additionally you can send text updates such as "Admission only with mouth protection".
Could you point to examples that support the existence of this alternate history of which I've never heard of?
You should get double points!
Yes, from Dan Carlin's podcasts I learned of the book The Great Illusion (1909), the illusion being that nations gained through war. In it, the author wrote that "the economic cost of war was so great that no one could possibly hope to gain by starting a war the consequences of which would be so disastrous," concluding that a general European war was very unlikely to start, and if it did, it would not last long. This was a popular view, yet WWI still kicked off just a few years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion
Well, "shunned" might be a bit too strong, but I don't speak native English. I certainly didn't mean to put down the author in any way, which is why I prefixed it with "Not that it's a big thing", it's just a helpful note regarding how to respond to feedback.

Let's cool it down with trying to start up some heated argument around this, no one is interested in that.
I had a Priv and my roomate has a Key1. I enjoyed my Priv. BlackBerry has some cool software features, and using the keyboard as a trackpad was nice. The phone had issues overheating (with things like mapping with the screen on) and eventually bricked it’s self.

My roomates key1 also has those cool features, but the screen format didn’t play well with some apps, and the phone was running low/mid tier specs for a premium. He eventually sold it, as the slowdown really hurt the phone.

BlackBerry promised me 2 years of monthly updates, and didn’t really follow through on that. They did good at the beginning, but faltered near the end.

At this point both of us moved to iPhones. I honestly don’t expect anyone but Apple to support a phone 5 years.
First time attempt at booting an ND-computer:

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"No, 32 utropstegn, not 32 utropstegn, like this":

"32!"

"Ahhhhh..."
After I published this people gave me suggestions for reducing the latency further, and I've added an update to the end of the post with the (much better!) numbers.
And I just started to use Keybase 3 days ago...
Show HN: Beamsplitter – a new possibly universal hash
IQ is probably more well studied than any other phenomenon in the social sciences or psychology.

Also IQ is not science, it is something that is studied scientifically.
I'm skeptical that the jvm would have allowed anything we haven't had. Just look at the crap show that was eclipse and the module system they came up with.

I am actually somewhat convinced that s global namespace is one of the major factors of growth for Emacs. Yes, namespaces can be nice. But there is something about a playground that encourages all cards on the table.

And, notably, what makes elisp great is that that is largely the language that Emacs is implemented in. Even if you moved elisp to be hosted on the jvm, I shudder to think of having to do a ton of jvm inspired boilerplate to get a quick extension in.
>This is the cost of a profound lack of leadership.

From the second the federal government put the "opening up" in the hands of each State it seemed like a massive effort from the top down to distance themselves from any bad outcomes and take credit for any good outcomes.

Maybe it is better to have the Governors in charge, but once traveling/airports begin picking up again...State boarders and policies become pretty meaningless.
> Why?

Not sure what you are questioning exactly.

Why does it have a cult following? Because there are enough people to keep the project going and it makes them happy for whatever reason.

Why does it have far less usage than Vim proper? Because it's a young, niche project, and Vim has been around forever. Same reason CentOS and Ubuntu have a far bigger usage share than any of the "trendy" distros.
> The requests for these things have already been made and are not reasonably being acted on.

Is your argument that we should then give up, force people to go back to work and die? That’s a hilarious failure of imagination; are there actually 0 other solutions?

We can do way better than this line of reasoning.
And the question that gets lost somewhere, whenever we talk about those is that it does not just appear without any consequences down the road. The current spending spree practically guarantees higher taxes on everyone if the existing system is to remain in place.

For the record, I agree with the gist of your message. It seems a little too easy to conjure up magical money out of thin air.
Is wayland support even a femto blip on Zoom's radar ?
Place some skin in the game and hire a bunch of 87 IQ people as financial advisors.
Negative Dialectics: the destruction of everything, specially if it's good
https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
I don't know how many people here remember the excitement when Android was new and, OMG, it's Linux! Open source! Finally we have a Linux-based, free and open phone platform!

I actually think that this played a non-trivial part in Android getting early traction - similar dynamic to Gmail where tech people got excited about it eventually "my friend who's good with computers recommends this" becomes a factor.

Not the exact same formula as you formulate above, but I think there are parallels to draw.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish, and all that.
Magnets in salmon skin aid migration
Instant dev environments for cloud-native apps
Sure, but:

> "We tried this idea under conditions X,Y,Z and it works with A,B,C metrics and I, J, K assumptions".

Is what I'm calling the assumption (the whole sentence). The implementation is essentially the methodology, and IMO therefore needs to be included.

Note I'm arguing against 'academic, paper-supporting, code does or should not need to be open sourced', I'm not saying it needs to be 'software product' quality, written in the same way, to the same expectations, packaged, or anything like that. Just available for someone to say 'wait a second, you didn't try it under conditions, X,Y,Z, because Y gets negated here', or whatever.
Enhancing cell packing in buckyballs by acoustofluidic activation
These are arguments for a verifiability guideline, not a notability guideline.
Let's not forget about Packet! ;-)
Codespaces and Discussions headline GitHub Satellite 2020
We use Nuxt on a fairly large project. One of the biggest problems we’re having is that there’s no routes file you define yourself, you structure it by putting views in folders. This is a nightmare once you have more than a few models. It also leads to highly confusing page names, and if you have more than one variable in a route, completely screws everything up. We’ve ended up grouping things together in folders just to make it easier to manage, but that directly effects the URL.
Which subreddits specifically? I have a largely different experience on Reddit.
Pentagon officials testify FCC-approved Ligado 5G plan will interfere with GPS
I think dedicated servers are used when you think about performance first. In that case the approach to scaling is probably to just over provision, which works perfectly in a lot of cases.

I would also use OVH for dedicated servers.
I agree, plus a total lockdown such as what GP described would require military enforcement. Urban society would be reduced to Humvees rolling down the streets past empty Costcos and Walmarts with frightened citizens starting out their windows. Instead of protests we would have looting.

It seems lockdowns cannot be implemented successfully no matter what you do. Perhaps a simple public mask requirement would have been better.
The observation is that above roughly IQ 70 the test is not even correlated with SAT scores. And below 70 one does not need a test to see that.
Hey, sorry for the situation with your son and how IQ tests failed us here, but could we stray away from clear anecdotes on HN comments?
Oh man, can't wait for the conversation about this one. So much of people's identity can be wrapped up in being intelligent, which makes sense when you are still in the phase of your life where what you _can_ do is more important than what you _have_ done. If you're concerned about your IQ very much over the age of about 12 years old, that's a sign that you probably aren't focusing on the right things in your life.
Even as someone who agreed in large part with the conclusion before coming to this article, I find this virtually unreadable. It's just so full of vindictiveness and pettiness that it loses sight of its argument, and the images and graphs it uses aren't particularly coherent in their framing.

> you're saying that people with an IQ of 60 are equally wealthy as those with an IQ of 110?

Actually, if I understand his point correctly, he's arguing that the test "correctly" identifies the low tail of intelligence (because they would fail at any task), but is pure noise for people of average or above-average intelligence.
Keybase was useless for the most part anyway. It became a vehicle to airdrop and shill shitcoins. Anyone saying it was some kind of bastion of user privacy is being overly nostalgic.
Another possibility is to have it in the positive: have a notability flag.
GCC 10.1 released with Static Analysis
Static analysis in GCC 10:
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/03/26/static-analysi...

C++ standard status in GCC 10:
https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html

GCC 10 on phoronix:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=GCC+10
Well, only if they make it work with natural gas. Right now they're using hydrogen.
> 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.

GeckoView exposes a wide range of privacy (including anti-tracking and anti-fingerprinting) features in a (hopefully) comprehensive API, see https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/javadoc/mozilla-central/..., and continues expanding its privacy settings.

> Some you can install extensions (you can't on this and on mozilla focus)...

GeckoView also exposes a WebExtension API, see https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/javadoc/mozilla-central/..., and continues to expand extension support.

> ...some you can fiddle with user-UNfriendly settings in about:config...

You seem to have answered one of your own questions here.

I also have the impression that you might have not commented on the GeckoView library, but on some range of Mozilla products (you named Focus).
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NeoVim certainly got a lot of press for a while. I think it has faded quite a bit in the past few years since Bram stole their thunder somewhat by integrating their biggest selling points.

I am fairly certain I have NeoVim starred on Github. I haven't used the editor except for an hour to try it out when it was new. I use Vim all day every day for work.

I would expect a similar situation for many of those stars.

Stars on Github really don't mean anything.
There are plenty of opportunities to monetize once there are lots of users.

I think with FOSS it's more important to outline how I'm NOT going to monetize. For us that means never charging for core features, eg having 'CE' vs 'EE', and never doing anything sketch with personal data.
Zoom?! What a twist! Congrats to the Keybase team! Although it's time to drop the account and move further, I'll keep it for a while in case of another twist.
I've done a few "aptitude" tests for interviews, and so has people in my closest circle. It seems common across business sectors and taken as a major indicator of employee "success" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557354/
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I don’t think the OP meant a numeric calculation. it might be more a balancing of pros and cons.

An example might be:

PRos- I am young, healthy, and my work involves no human contact. If I don’t work I will lose my house

Cons - I know there is a non-zero risk and I need to find a new caregiver for my elderly parents.
This is my understanding as well. The Federal government isn't actually funding the $600/week/worker extra to the states yet and so states are running out of cash.

Obviously the only solution is to drop the states of emergency and order people back to work. It's the only possible way out of this quagmire. /s
That only covers some cases, not the absolute of everything in the cloud eventually being hacked. Plenty of people are competent at secure cloud based systems. Your claim and your support don't match. I expected this to go more in the direction of: cloud providers are such big juicy targets they'll just be infiltrated by advanced persistent threats who in turn gain illicit access to everything hosted.
> It does. We are seeing a dithering half-assed response to the pandemic in the USA.

> If we're going to lock-down, we might as well do it until the crisis is manageable.

Exactly. At the start of this it was made clear that lock-downs would be pointlessly destructive if they were eased back too quickly: we'd get all the economic pain for little gain against the virus. But it seems like that's roughly the course our leadership is taking...
You don't seem to be taking into account that stocks shooting up is itself the inflation. The stock market is completely disconnected from the economic forecast, because money remains easy for wall street despite everything happening on main street.
> So... you're saying that people with an IQ of 60 are equally wealthy as those with an IQ of 110?

Literally the first paragraph states that it can discover extreme unintelligence.
Would be nice if git could store encrypted data and decrypt files on checkout. Repositories could be truly private that way.
What will happen to uber's employees working on jump?
This is leaping to a huge conclusion, but you are correct that if this was a Github data breach, this is clearly a much bigger issue. However, if this was the case, and 1) this "leak" happened on March 28th, and the individual claims to no longer have access to the account, I trust that Github would have proactively communicated with their users about such a large scale event, especially after having fixed it.

This, if true, is almost definitely a compromise and use of a single users' access credentials, which were then rotated (thus the attacked losing access).

I'm not saying that credential stuffing isn't a large-scale problem (I strongly believe that it is, and have even dedicated time to some potential solutions in the past), but jumping from "someone lost their credentials" to "omgz github can't be trusted!" is a bit of a disingenuous leap.
Has it? The argument could be made that US financial health is worse now than in 2008 and not better. Wall Street gorging on free money is not really a good argument right now if the country is literally on the verge of falling apart.