skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...but is pure noise for people of average or above-average intelligence.

Maybe not pure noise. He pointed out in many paragraphs that further to the right of the distribution you would find "nerds", salarymen, and other sorts of boring people that would never write such revolutionary medium articles as this one. People ill-adapted for "real life"; academics and their lot. Oh, and "suckers" who don't have the instinct, "why is he/she asking me that question?"

The impression I got from the article was not that Taleb believes that IQ is useless, but rather that all the ideal people are at the middle of the distribution. Too low and you're genuinely unintelligent. Too high and you're "in on it", one of those "lifeless bureaucrat" metrics-obsessed pocket-protector types.
Isn't the point of Keybase that they let you control the private keys? I don't use it so I don't know, but my impression was that they were trying to make encryption and key management easy.
Have not read myself but Åsa Schwarz could be something for you. Security expert and author

https://asaschwarz.com/category/novels/
>>The virus is responsible for the economic issues. Lifting the government mandated lockdowns will not change the presence of the virus.

The lockdown undoubtedly magnifies the economic damage, given it prevents many people who would otherwise be working, from working, and businesses that would otherwise be operating, from operating.

The only possible rationale I can imagine you having for believing the economic damage without the lockdowns would be the same/worse is that the virus would have hurt productivity even more than the lockdowns did, by killing workers.

But the virus has an extremely low mortality rate for those of working age, and especially those in good health who are disproportionately represented among the most productive, so I don't know how you could reason that absent the lockdown, productivity might have taken an equivalent or larger hit due to more people being infected.
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This article motivates an extension of yesterday's xkcd comic [1]. A Type X error: a correct result, interpreted correctly but communicated so poorly that no one wants to listen.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2303/
Efficiency isn't what you need. High thrust and reusability are much more important. For applications like BFR and Starship you need high thrust to surface area -- a rating you never see. Otherwise you need high thrust to weight. Efficiency does matter, but the other things are first. Finally, a more efficient burn cycle will help more if you can also make the fuel pumps more efficient. (Classic engines have pre-burners. A detonation ring engine might need a plain burner turbopump.
Piketty is a fool. End central banking and lender of last resort. That is it. There will still be a natural order of poor and rich just like every other natural system but it will not be as extreme and it will not reward the wrong people
The problem I have with studies like this one is that they only measure the effects of getting a stipend during a limited amount of time with a limited amount of people. It's not universal and it's not basic.

From a non-scientific view point, of course giving people free money makes them feel better.

But from an experimental perspective, they aren't getting the 'full package' of UBI. The participants aren't seeing increased taxes and they aren't seeing inflation from this. Chances are, their landlord doesn't know about this extra money and hasn't raised their rent.
Please open source keybase
If it’s so easy, why isn’t everyone doing it?
I don't think I am rejecting the community's answer, I'm encouraging the community to be better at communicating their answer, rather than brushing off questions from lay-people with impenetrable answers. I'm very keen to have things explained at my level, because I get the "crackpot" feeling from Wolfram, I just don't know enough to understand why he's wrong.

I've done science communication myself, I helped run a science festival, I know many people who still do it and are very good at it. I know how important it is to communicate well and how much impact it can have! I've even seen good science communication turn creationists and antivaxxers.

I must admit I had seen the parallels while writing these things, but I've also seen people who unfortunately do believe these things turned away from mainstream science because they aren't yet at a level of understanding that the community mandates they operate at.

Unfortunately for the mainstream scientific community there's often a disdain for communication like this. The fact that Wolfram is relatively good at it makes the whole situation more difficult.
the democrats and democratic media (npr, nytimes, etc., which tend to be my news sources) are absolutely playing up the fear and panic for their political ends (elections, legislation, fundraising, and everything else). if you don't see the politics of it, you're just not using your critical thinking skills.

the science is not on the stay-at-home side. the science is on the don't-spit-in-other-people's-mouths side. how you effect that has been absolutely politicized.
I hate to rag on new stuff, especially in the HDL space where I think it's desperately needed, but the syntax of this language is so foreign that I think it's extremely unlikely you really get a large amount of adoption. We can't even get Verilog 1995 people to switch to 2001, let along SystemVerilog.
You are getting down voted, and I'm not sure why. I've grown the opinion that you cannot have any discussion around any measured approach related to COVID.

It seems some people view COVID as guaranteed death and any questioning of lock downs ending means that you are or are about to be a mass murderer.
Isn't this kinda the same of what the article is explaining with selection bias?
> Several C++20 features have been implemented:
> P0912R5, Coroutines (requires -fcoroutines)

Nice to see a bunch of C++20 features making it in. Coroutines seems like a big one!
That's really cynical. It could also just be that bounties like this are a useful way to improve security of software.

Linux's security isn't in question anymore, certainly not among developers who would be choosing whether to use Azure Sphere. Linux has been battle-tested for decades, and Linux already won. This is Microsoft embracing it, for better or for worse. And frankly I'd rather have a Microsoft Linux distro on my fridge than a slimmed down version of Windows.

I'd rather just have a plain old fridge, honestly, but we're talking about IoT OSes right now.
Slightly off-topic but I glad that the article mentions "Mother of all demos" [1]

I watched this for the first time last year and I was shocked - Douglas Engelbart demonstrated what happens after 50 years. The mouse is the least amazing one but the demo featured real-time video conferencing and Google Docs-like real-time word editor with shared mouse pointers.

It is hard to believe it's 1968 and he actually implemented them 50 years ahead.

[1] https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY
I think there are still two concerns here even if everything is intended to eventually become open source.

One, this doesn't address exactly how the repo was compromised. Likely one of the many folks with access had their credentials compromised, but until we know, there may be risk to other projects. Two, as the article mentions, it may not have had all passwords or API keys scrubbed.
> what exactly are they trying to do? Is this just a bug

It might be important for SEO:

It assesses the number of people who leave your page by hitting the back button to return to the search listing page. If Google sends 1,000 people to one of your web pages and each of those 1,000 people hit the back button within a few seconds, it tells Google your web page isn’t relevant.

https://www.quicksprout.com/ranking-factors/
Correctness of Hive on MR3, Presto, and Impala
> 1) ignore all metrics from online platforms (especially the ones that sell ads)

This seems counter intuitive at first, but the more I think about it, it does seem quite insightful.

Of course, this is because we live in crazy-land, where the ad companies can never be held accountable for anything. So if they say you got 100 clicks, you're paying for them no matter what.
That makes sense and is well argued.

I want to agree with you with 100%, but something is nagging at me a bit. Just like free software that ends up in a paid product and then winning or settling in court because the company has more resources to use the judicial system, when we apply this directly as a societal value this starts to break down in practice.

The freedom you are talking about ends up justifying (in practice) a situation that only provides real freedom for a small few that happened to take advantage early and use other asymmetries in society to consolidate control. Sure, we fix those we're all set! (maybe?)

But until then perhaps we can agree that as a society we expect (and might ask for, by law) a little something extra from companies that have benefitted to help ensure others after them have a chance to use this freedom as well.

My argument is not as well thought out at this point, I grant you. Thanks for providing me with a lot to think about.
Yeah I don't expect them to debunk every crackpot, but a large project with multiple people involved, the backing of a large company, and several papers submitted for peer review feels to me like it passes the bar of "worth engaging with".
What do you do when the epidemiologist are wrong? Those in the West have ignored the fact that for people under 60, a vitamin supplement of A,D,and C would protect most from the disease, at least from a terrible impact. Further, by locking everyone away, we are NOT developing a herd immunity. We’re going to get fucked when we leave the house (again because our experts are not telling people about prophylactics). Finally, the at-worse-number was 200k dead. Most of those are in old folks’ home. Is preserving them worth the crippled futures of millions of others?
Mentally, tell your self there are some very personal photos in the data.

Then most people think more carefully about where they store it :)
> IQ is just a metric from taking a standardized test. I don't know why people have a hard time understanding that. It's like being mad about people's SAT scores.

Metric for what? That is the point. The main argument as I understand is that "intelligence" is not something one-dimensional that can be measured with a number.

If IQ tests were a simple pass/fail filter for detecting some kind of learning disability, sure. The problem is when you have a whole army of people trying to infer something tremendously complex from a single scalar point.

> It's not like IQ is even used for anything important, people don't put it on their resumes or anything.

Yet, how many psychologists rely on IQ data and IQ "science" to justify their research grants, their books and their consulting fees from companies? How many people parrot Charles Murray to justify their racism with "science"?
> in general are not robust

Sure, but they are robust enough to be relevant to everyday life.

> circularly defined

g is circularly defined, which is the nature of how a latent factor is defined. But g also does correlate with school and work performance (around r = .5), so it IS related to everyday life. Though you can only make extreme decisions based on single tests. E.g. you can say they are "likely not gifted" when they score low or "likely not an imbecile" when they score high.
Trump and Republicans are pushing to open up as an excuse not to pay people to stay home. They are pushing this back on the American people and it is not right. If we get a UBI or 80% wage guarantee (like the UK did) then we could wait this out. Instead the Federal government is refusing to do its job and putting the blame on the states and individuals. We are being played.
Too bad it doesn't detect the mismatch between new and free.
A novel reproductive strategy in an Early Devonian plant
If you assume we've only tapped 10% of the planet's economic capacity (raw materials, energy, human support capacity) then we're only about 30 yrs from exhausting this planet. To continue doubling we'll need a new _a new earth_ every 12 years to continue it's growth rate.

This is the point of the video, that when you're consuming a finite resource, you cannot have infinite growth and when you're 1 doubling away from complete exhaustion you'll only have consumed about 50% of those resources ... if doublings are 12 years apart that means the span between rapid growth and halted growth could be as small at 12 years.
Don't we already know how that works? Folks on a pension; folks in a state that provides stipends (e.g. Alaska); folks who are independently wealthy. Their behavior has been studied repeatedly, I imagine.

In fact I'm confused why this keeps being 'tried' like its some new idea.
Realizing that time speeds up for us when we grow up. Maybe this sounds obvious and silly, but thinking not only how short life is, but also how faster and faster it passes by gives you something. (I had to pick one idea though!).

Here some article:
https://qz.com/1516804/physics-explains-why-time-passes-fast...
>U.S. Space Force Gen. John Raymond told the Senate Armed Service Committee

>U.S. Space Force Gen.

I know it's unrelated, but it is very strange seeing this title actually written out.
The correlation comes from low scores. Moreover, above 70 IQ is not even well correlated with itself as variability between results for the same person is like 20%.
Carl Sagan’s Papers Offer a Window into His Literary Pursuits (2012)
I am building a startup, invest in me. Not kidding. No really.
The solution to this is to teach clever kids from a young age to be compassionate towards the less clever. Right now our society does a terrible job of this; hating and mocking people for being stupid is far too common. Much of it may feel justified under reasoning like "Stupid people [bullied me|voted wrong|didn't follow instructions|did something wrong and broke things] and for that reason my negative feelings towards them are valid." But clever kids should be reminded that hating their peers for being stupid won't make them any less stupid. Compassion is constructive but disdain is not.
A full lockdown would have to include hospitals, firefighters, EMTs, cops, powerplant operators, food distribution, etc. And unless you quarantined every person individually (and did a perfect job, at that), two weeks is not sufficient. Several months at least.

And even then, the odds of successful containment are pretty low.
Alphabet abandons plan to build smart city in Toronto
Not always what you want. I'm sure many people think the pun that the top 50 comments race to make on Reddit is the most hilarious thing in the world. But it also gets in the way of discussion as you have to scroll/collapse your way past.

I think we could do a lot worse than anecdotes, but what I find weird is how the anecdotes on HN are always so smug, like this one. "Heh, my old co-worker thought my 'little hacker buddies' couldn't hack his website ;b Let's just say they put quite a dent in it heh ;b."

Bit of an eye roll.
Bitfields Forever: Why we need a C-compatible Rust Crate
Trump could order a nation wide shutdown if he wanted to.
What are the chances that Matten & Wiechers would have designed the Synthorma without Kraftwerk commissioning it?

Large pepperonis can be ordered from any pizzeria, this is hardly the same kind of engagement.
I'm not saying paid IDEs are necessarily better. But I am saying that in practice, commercial IDE vendors have been making superior products to the free-as-in-speech ones, and have been for 20 years at least.

You blow a lot of smoke here, with "sometimes" and "might". Sure, Microsoft could have been taken over by angels straight from heaven, and is now only intent on doing charitable works until the money runs out. Many things are possible. But possible doesn't mean true. If you'd like to argue something's true, by all means do it.

I think the only substance is "the community would just fork". One, there's no particular proof that a bunch of volunteers can make something like that. Two, that's an enormous effort. Look at how much work and time it took between MS using a free IE to kill Netscape and the emergence of Firefox. And that only worked because Mozilla found a revenue model that let it afford the large number of full-time engineers needed to produce a browser.

So if you're serious about your argument, why don't you explain exactly how "the community" will afford to do that fork. And why your imagined destruction of paid developer tool vendors like JetBrains and handing MS a monopoly in the market is ok as long as you're getting something free right now.
So make them demands, not requests. Organize collective action like rent strikes.
How's this different from doing the same thing in Azure?
That was were i worked, in Kiel/North Germany! Though I didn't work on the elusive compiler stuff (only being there on an apprenticeship, and then on my first "real" freelance gig).
Long term bonds benefit from low interest rates.

https://portfoliocharts.com/2019/05/27/high-profits-at-low-r...
Well yes. I'd put a brick over the pot if that happens.
downvoted for the truth? OP claimed I should not care about fake nappies - why would I want a fake if it's something I've ordered that sits against my kids skin? HN is full of fucking virgins with social anxiety issues.
Cost notwithstanding (heh) and as a relative novice to the cloud world, it looks to me like there is no bounds to the level of redundancy in the big three clouds. The trick is to use cloud-native tooling vs. EC2.
I'm much better at debating than you are. Maybe you're too stupid to notice? Using a simile to describe a poorly written blog post isn't the same as an ad hominem. Good try, though.
> Congress is currently considering liability shields for precisely this. https://www.wsj.com/articles/liability-shield-is-next-corona....

I guess the real priority is to make sure the brunt of the costs of these decisions are borne by those towards the bottom...

Legal liability will incentivize business to take steps to contain the virus and reduce transmission. Take that away and in many businesses will just go "¯\_(ツ)_/¯, not my problem."
Thanks! Most of those (Goldman, SFDC, Liberty Mutual) don't seem to be laying people off, though, so I'm not sure why this is a problem.

I won't bother getting into a discussion about "what the oligarchs have stolen from us."
protonmail for mail/chat and
protondrive (when it's released for kbfs) or tresorit
Fun note: it's one of these proverbs that people know the context for but not many (at least, not me until recently) really understands why it means what it does. Apparently it's because the old English usage of "have" included to keep/retain something, so it goes that you can't simultaneously eat your cake and keep it for later.
Your argument applies equally strongly to every scientific finding.

I think this means that either science is poor or the argument is.
Alaska is highly underrated in terms of UBI experiments.
Drawing triangles on a screen is a push-style operation, isn’t it?
The lockdowns were pointless to begin with, where governors shut down all business but let 24/7 subways keep running. In addition, lockdown was only going to flatten the curve, not get rid of the virus. Point being to not overwhelm the medical system and increase IFR. The medical system in the US was never overwhelmed, not even close (40k ventilators demanded by NY, needed 1/5 of it). So, we spent $5T for the same effect of never needing to lockdown (look at countries that didn’t lock down), knowing we’d need to open up anyways because this is unsustainable.
My grocery store definitely does not charge slotting fees. Which is part of why I use them. They're a small, family-run market.
There is a lot more to GDPR than the consent popup.
> Why shouldn't we remove the lockdown if we can manage to do so without overwhelming hospitals?

That's a big if. The last stats I saw showed Sweden experiencing 4x deaths per capita compared to its neighbors, which is a clue that eschewing lockdown does make a difference. Every country is different. How do you know that Sweden's approach used in a different country wouldn't overwhelm hospitals? Once you let the pandemic get more widespread in a population, it gets hard to stop. Think very carefully about irreversible decisions.
I know for me personally, I am still working full time from home. For me it's not the desire of financial security, it is the heartbreak of seeing our entire community being destroyed. All of the small shops, restaurants, breweries and things that made this a great place to a live are slowly going out of business one by one. The PPP loans were a joke for saving main street.
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Lockdown was pretty successful in Italy and yes, there was military on the street and police checking if you were allowed to be around (grocery shopping, essential worker etc.), tracing you back and arresting you if you were lying. It wasn't a looting race.
After I read your comment, I checked my Feedly because I have a folder there that contains about 80 active news sources, mostly journalism and news sites covering a broad range of politics and perspectives. The amazing thing about this particular folder is that it seems like every time I open Feedly to check the news, the counter is maxed out at well above 1000 new updates. It takes very little time for stories to accumulate at that level.

What this makes me realise is that so many of these updates are complete unnecessary, blown-up and exaggerated "news" (even when legit) and often just clickbait. What you say is rather depressing when I think about it.
You are correct. People also don't seem to take up fulfilling and meaningful jobs /w low wages even with basic income support.

One of the arguments in Finland was that basic income would encourage and enable people to take on meaningful & important NGO jobs and community efforts despite their low pay.
That's what I meant by clobbering. The thing is that you can't use that flag to say "shorten it by half" to keep the first half, but you can with truncate(2).

My point was that if you can't shorten it by an arbitrary amount to avoid the redundancy of writing the same beginning of the file, then there's really no advantage to it over writing a new file to replace the old one. In fact, I thought clobbering (i.e. O_TRUNC) was nearly equivalent, only with the additional risk of data loss if there's an error while writing.
To be more accurate perhaps:

He's pretty good at sounding like a good science communicator. For someone without a Phd in physics, this is unfortunately indistinguishable from actually being a good science communicator.
can someone ELI5 why this is useful over existing hash functions?
What, the Senate Launch System?
Emacs is the beast.
If it goes long enough, perhaps some Darwin effect will kick in...
The Gatling Gun
Ask HN: How do you keep your hiring process short and efficient?
How do you manage a good inflow of talented candidates but in the same time move the process fast?
>Delivery is expensive. It's time-consuming, and customers are rarely willing to pay the true cost of it.

>Most of the restaurant delivery services were bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars last year. They've had a resurgence because of the Covid-19 but that's a blip compared to a normal situation.

>If people think it doesn't cost that much money to operate, then all restaurants shouldn't have a problem having their own delivery service.

This is the comment I was responding to. Someone was discussing how much it costs to deliver and why people should be willing to pay more than 5% fees. And my comment that it's a luxury on top of a luxury is nothing more than an explanation of why people aren't willing to pay more.

>It's not very insightful to stick your nose in the air and loftily proclaim

Honestly I'm not sure why you took a comment calling food delivery a luxury so personally, I'm sorry it offended you.