skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I miss the days when businesses existed not just to support free users but also their revenue model and profits. It's like the 0%-er meta profit model where the actual business is in building and marketing the userbase and the core business is really just a temporary front that is designed to never make a profit, just create fancy MAU charts and eventually bait and switch free users when it is sold to the highest bidder and the free users all eventually lose their service.

One day, revenue models will either be illegal or required. Considering the outflow of users in this exchange, I'm betting on the second.
It's actually a pretty good example to be honest.

Keybase was a centralized key storage with value-add services such as file storage and chat.

That was absolutely comparable to github, as you could've just gone back to manually syncing pubkeys and encrypting msgs. If github went away, you'd be without a lot of value-add services as well such as wiki, issues user management etc

Realistically speaking, nobody is going to do that... And tbh, it was already dead in the water when they added crypto currencies... Just took a while for their money to run out.

The actual difference is that there are enough competing products for github, not for keybase however, as that is just too niche
For me it was this : (job) interviews are not a one-sided judgment of your worth and value as a person where you have to do your best to convince the party, but a discussion of whether what the opposite side is searching for is in line with what you have to offer as a person / company.

It's not obvious at all, especially early in your career but it has really changed the way I handle interviews in very positive ways. It's OK to get refused, it's even expected actually. And even if it doesn't work out today, taking the meeting with proper framing can bring opportunities further down the road. Some friends are now hired in positions I was chased for, and it's a win :).

Kalzumeus has been an inspiration for me on all those things couple years back : https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Not the person you are responding to, but:

> Honestly, the thinking could have stopped there and that would have been perfectly adequate. A rough finger facsimile as pointer. But the concept is pushed further. As you approach an interactive element, the circle reaches out, smoothly touching then embracing and encapsulating the button.

> The idea of variable cursor velocity is pushed further here too. When you’re close to an object on the screen, it changes its rate of travel to get where you want to go quicker, but it does it contextually, rather than linearly, the way that macOS or Windows does.

Could be shortened significantly. The passage repeats each point twice, including the main point, and is mostly flowery language that doesn’t add anything.

> The thinking could have stopped there, but instead of being a rough finger facsimile, the circle accelerates, then reaches out to elements as you approach them, embracing and encapsulating the button. This is unlike macOS and Windows, which vary velocity linearly.

The entire article is like this. I think the author was padding for word count or seo or something. I didn’t read the wired piece.
Coronavirus: German plan to restart shops, schools and football
This is from November 2019 so pre-COVID-19
Sunsetting a Product? First Use HCD to Understand Who Uses It
Umka: A new statically typed embeddable scripting language
Predicting if, or when, a revolution will arrive is a tricky thing. There are plenty of cases where revolutionary participants themselves dismissed the chances of a revolution hours or days before they kick off. They only look inevitable in hindsight.

Regardless; even long short of kicking off a revolution, punishing the populace for being scared is bad politics.
I drink coffee. Take a deep breath put headphones with noise cancellation enabled and focus... is it a hack maybe ?
HN is generally focused on thought provoking discussion. Anecdotes can be very thought provoking.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that actually is how it works. I have Firefox Preview (which is built on top of GeckoView) installed as my default Android browser, so I believe webviews from other apps are rendered using Firefox's engine instead of Chrome's.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla but not on this)
I know we all like to pretend it's all passion projects, but the reality is that with very few exceptions, developing large-scale, end-user-ready software costs money, regardless of the license. If devs aren't getting paid, they're not going to work on it. Keybase is dead.
I was about to complain about your desktop Electron app but it seems that spectral[0] is already usable without any hassle (build from source, ...) at least on Fedora, time to reactivate my Matrix account, keep up with the great work

0: https://gitlab.com/spectral-im/spectral
What I don't understand then is why the fed doesn't just print a million dollars for each and every citizen. That's only 300 trillion dollars. We would be the richest country in the world by far, poverty would be solved.
America’s Leading Employers Commit to Pay Different in the Wake of Covid-19
AMERICA’S LEADING EMPLOYERS COMMIT TO

PAY DIFFERENT IN THE WAKE OF COVID-19

Taco Bell, G4S and BrightSpring Health among the hundreds of leading businesses that have joined forces with DailyPay to change the antiquated way people are paid

NEW YORK, May 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DailyPay, the leading fintech platform and premier provider of the daily pay benefit, today announced the launch of a new comprehensive campaign, “Pay Different.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has shattered the workplace as we knew it. Every business has had to embrace engaging and connecting with their employees in a smarter, more efficient way. As companies re-emerge, normalcy will look different in many ways - including how employees are paid.

DailyPay is already defining and revolutionizing the on-demand pay experience for the post-COVID-19 world and is at the forefront of the movement to “pay different.”

“In an instant, our entire business changed like never before as the COVID-19 crisis unfolded,” said Pinny Faska, Chief Operating Officer at Rockaway Home Care. “Every single company workflow or process we relied on was thrown into upheaval. That is, except one - DailyPay. We feel fortunate to have been partners beforehand because, without it, many members of our incredible staff would have been in an insecure position during a crisis.”

The Pay Different campaign is anchored by the new PayEx platform which comprises a series of premier capabilities that, for the first time, enable the entire workforce to experience payday on their own terms. It provides a unique approach to pay that enriches and differentiates a company’s employee experience at every stage of the employee lifecycle, from onboarding to departure. The majority of DailyPay’s large companies that are launching this month, including OSL Retail and Jernigan Oil, have asked us to accelerate launches in response to economic and employee needs.
It used to be possible to click on a list of items and hit a alphabetical key and it'd go to the result starting with that key. Also typing more would go to that particular matching item. This isn't possible in WinUI as far as I could test in native windows apps.
You can't ctrl+f in settings - it won't highlight the search

And there're tons of more missing features like that. Did anyone try that UI with just a keyboard?
> Classes look familiar, but that's misleading because they don't actually work like one would expect.

Can you give an example for that? So far, they worked pretty much as I expected. (Coming from a mostly Java background, which is relevant for what I expect).
I'm trying to imagine what browser is so outdated that it struggles to parse 100kb of javascript
= Most jobs are not useful, so if they stop nothing important is lost.
The authors give the following factorization with their algorithm: 231037 = 499 * 363. Not only is the product not equal to 231037, but 363 is also clearly not a prime as it is divisible by 3.

There is no discussion whatsoever about this failure, except for "The low noise D-Wave 2000Q factored correctly all integers N up to L_N= 17"
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Wow, it didn't take them long to dumb down https://keybase.io - no mention of all of the cool nerdy crypto stuff, git, etc at all, now it's just another chat app.
It's a problem exactly because it's up-voted, it's derailing. Happens on so many articles recently. Either derailing by a personal anecdote, or by the "middlebrow dismissal": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

Both are equally derailing. In this case, I would much rather the comments be about the actual OS in question or the trend of big companies crowdsourcing security (penetration testing).
Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GPS, national security
How Much Power Do GPUs Consume?
True. It's just a lot safer because of how AWS has their permissions/access/ACL setup. Not to mention the attack surface is less since you don't expose your repo organization name, repo users, etc like they have it out in open in GitHub.
This study considers seven semi-primes (without justification why these seven) and reports an average(?) runtime of factoring each with D-Wave. No conclusions should be drawn on so few data-points.
The proposed "Block Multiplication Table Method" will only affect the constants and thus has no effect on the asymptotics.
The embedding from logical to physical qubits appears to have an exponential gap (but again, we shouldn't draw conclusions from so few data-points). However, if this is indeed true then even a polynomial runtime for annealing would still result in an exponential runtime for factoring.
All in all, it eludes me why authors conclude that the obtained results are promising.
Oh you're right!
In their Chicago HQ (ironically on Randolph Street), McDonald's has an "Global Menu" where they serve a rotating selection of items served around world. It seems that chicken is king in most other countries.
Don't think there was ever a setting for changing color and cursor shape native in macOS (though size and such is in Accessibility), but it's always been possible by digging into the system a bit (just like all the icons are simply .icns bundles in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/ and can be easily replaced to change the mediocre current icons with better ones). There have long since been many 3rd party utilities to make it easier/more automated, though some of them seem to have gotten abandoned. Here's an open source one called Mousecape if you're curious for example, but you have to fork it and remove the sparkle framework to make it work in 10.15:

https://github.com/alexzielenski/Mousecape

There's various commercial pointer modification utilities, as well as simpler highlighter-effect ones like Mouseposé and Pinpoint.

Theming on macOS was a big awesome thing at one point, kind of too bad it seems to have fallen away a bit (in part because Apple's new security efforts have made it ever more work). At least it's still doable though.
This is one of a number of accepted papers for a conference on History of Programming Language. It does a good job of telling the story of the history of Emacs Lisp. Publicly proclaiming that you are critical of it for doing that is rather unreasonable.

https://hopl4.sigplan.org/track/hopl-4-papers
Hah, I also came here to post that my dad worked for them in the 80’s (though in Oslo, even though he’s Irish). Didn’t expect to see two other people saying the same thing!

I think there’s still a Norsk
Data coffee mug in his house somewhere.
Make sure I can go undisturbed for long periods.
It's unrealistic and unfair to expect scientists/experts to do the hard work of debunking every crackpot that comes along. The crackpot needs to be more apparent and enticing if he wants to break through.
Regarding Lagrange multipliers: I don't know if this is fake or not but it made me laugh when I saw it for the first time:

https://htbimporter.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/wow_customer...
Enable them to collect benefits: pay for them to buy food, cancel their rent payments, cover their healthcare.

It's not hard, we just have a weird culture in America that couples all these basic human essentials to your work.
Interesting. More splitting the baby than splitting the difference
Basically he means that many jobs are created just to give people something to do and the jobs do not actually do any real contributions that couldn’t be rolled into another job.
Possibly because of the confidentiality agreements everyone signs at the start of an acquisition?
> So the point is to improve SEO of Vue apps

There are other points in favor of doing SSR + hydration besides SEO:

1) Reducing the amount of JS you are sending to the client.

2) Not making a SPA and keep the native functionality of back/forward behavior (scroll behavior, cached pages, forms are filled when going back).

3) Simplifying development. You don't need to manage central state anymore as you're dealing with one page at a time. You might not need an API as you're rendering the page from the server. Etc.

I've been making SPAs for years and for my current project I'm doing SSR + hydration (not using Vue) and loving it.
Haha it's a struggle. On most days these days, I manage to time-box Hacker News to about 15 minutes while I have my first cup of a coffee, plus an "as long as I want" session in the late evening.
On a higher level than just Stephen Wolfram, I find the practice of immediately dismissing people who are "outsiders" from academia (or from a field) disturbing. In our history, some of the most insightful work and execution has come from outsiders. Computer science seems to be quite good when it comes to this, but fields like physics seem to be so violently against people who are not doing research at a top tier university that they're preventing their own progress. Looking at the state of physics research, I've personally decided not to go deep into the field on my own, it feels like there is no way I could contribute to progress.

I'm not sure if this is because of the hyper competitive state of getting tenure or if this is just an example of group think against the other, but I don't think it's a coincidence that the field of physics has gone from the most exciting and impactful field in science to being largely stagnant.
For low end android devices on a network in rural areas, that's a lot.
Which leads me onto the next gripe

As this is all templateable and composable. why in living fuck isnt there a GUI to do this sort of thing?

I mean, on a large website you need to make widgets, then you need to compose those widgets into screens. Those screens maintain state (basically flash, but with 100x worse performance)

the people that are styling the widgets are not always the same as those adding the logic, so why not make a tool where a visual artist can actually work visually?

So why on earth is it not drag and drop? Yes some things are auto generated based on context, but a lot of things are static screens where the widgets update the state.
If you just said the first two sentences and we could have inferred that you don't work in frontend. Every technology has tradeoffs, and frankly I'd like to hear about this mystical backend panacea you're implying.
Have you tried calling it with the same profile multiple times? I've been running into "Firefox is already running" a lot while trying to use it to integrate web apps with the OS ("site specific browser"). Also the WM-Class would never be set according to the command line parameters on the second call, but you probably don't care about that.
No, that's not how this works.

This outcome is almost certainly seen as a failure by the VCs. It looks like an acquihire. If so, it's quite possible that the VCs didn't even get their money back. Acquihires generally do not return money to VCs -- obviously, given that the employees are free to work anywhere, the acquirer's interest is in paying as much as possible to the employees and as little as possible to the now-worthless acquired company.

It's likely the employees are the ones benefiting most from this outcome, in that their pay has probably gone up considerably and they are no longer nervous about their job security, after many years of high stress and low pay.

It's possible the VCs were even offering some more cash to keep going, but at unfavorable terms, and the team said: "No, we'd rather take the big paychecks from Zoom."

Given Keybase has only had one funding round (according to crunchbase), the founders certainly still had a controlling stake in the company and the VCs couldn't force them to sell or not sell.

You can blame VCs for a lot of things but this kind of outcome is just not one of them (except insofar as that it allowed a company with little viable business strategy to exist in the first place).

(I am the founder of a failed startup. We had multiple "acquihire" offers, none of which offered any money back to investors.)
3rd world perspective: They're not far off from the mark.

You'd want to co-locate with ISP who already has infrastructure for continuous services through blackouts et al, or you could have a datacenter if it's small-ish, because you already have some infrastructure to keep operating during blackouts.
This is why we can't have nice things! Be sure to transfer any crypto out of keybase now before its too late.
We want to encourage people not to work; so much so that we have, as a matter of policy, made it illegal for them to work [0].

Everyone recognizes that some work is still necessary, which is why these bans make exclusions for "essential" work; so that we can continue to produce an adequate supply of essential goods.

The current discontent is not about supply shortages; it is about the segments of the population who are having difficulty accessing those supplies.

There is also the issue of rent/mortgage, which is closer to an issue of financial bookkeeping that real supply concerns (although, medium term, maintaince becomes an issue)

[0] More precisely, made the work that they would be doing illegal.
Here’s the snippet on YouTube of “The Raven” from “The Simpsons”

https://youtu.be/bLiXjaPqSyY
It's a classic dilemma. The revolution only succeeds if the "revolutionary group" has a substantial majority support. But if it fails, the "revolutionary group" suffers exaggerated negative consequences. Same for those who jump in too early. Without solid coordination very few risk those odds.
Pre-1970 or so. Before Milton Friedman, there was a general sense that companies existed to fulfill some mission, with profit as a means. The CEO of Kellogg commented on this in an interview ca. 1980, that money for a business is like a gasoline for a road trip. You need it to get where you're going, but the point of a road trip is not to accumulate as much gasoline as possible.
> Enable them to collect benefits: pay for them to buy food, cancel their rent payments, cover their healthcare.

> It's not hard, we just have a weird culture in America that couples all these basic human essentials to your work.

The requests for these things have already been made and are not reasonably being acted on.
TL;DR: Microsoft failed to protect its own secrets
Thanks! I didn't do it for very long on my calendar as that got annoying fast. I did it with pen and paper for a while (few weeks) before I decided to just write this simple app.
I agree. The German lyrics are very skillful whereas the English version feels just flat. You see the same in movies when you watch the English version vs the dubbed German version. The English movie has a lot of depth that usually gets lost in the German version.
The problem with this way of thinking is, fundamentally, you don't determine what is self-contained.

(What you can do is remove unnecessary coupling, but you're doing that anyway...)
Lush toy from them
As an accountant (working on becoming a software developer), I've started to develop a reluctance to working with different tools because there are so many bad ones out there. Sometimes clients don't realize how bad they are, because they don't use it as much as accountants do, or they don't use the same parts of the software that accountants do (for example, bookkeeper uses data entry side, client uses report reading side) so they aren't bothered by the same issues that really slow you down when you're spending all day working with a tool.

I'd be open to working with an open source tool, but it sounds like some of the little issues you already noticed imply there'd be a lot more issues with smooth usability.

Odoo is also an open source accounting program, that's been around for awhile, aimed more at ERP side.
I think this is fantastic news. I expect adoption of both Zoom and Keybase to increase as a result of this partnership. I love both these platforms and this feels to me like a really perfect match. I'm so glad that people aren't going to be forced to use Google and Microsoft for everything -- it is good for monopolies to be challenged with innovative tech.
Master org-mode.
This. In fact I've found it pretty useful just for just personal files.

There's Tahoe-lafs, which ahs been around for years but, although secure was originally pretty notorious for being hard to use. Maybe it's improves since...
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If so, it would be in the unusual shape that it is a top-dollar one rather than cover-the-failure-with-a-pretty-ending one. But in this case, Zoom is probably actually interested in the security tech that Keybase has apart from the talent, they're just not interested in the product.
> 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.

Even if it is re-implemented and verified it won't be the same. There are a million possible conditions for "re-implementation". Where would you draw the line? How many "re-implementations" and "types of conditions" do you need to be sure?

You probably need to have expectation mismanagement from a scientific paper. A scientific article will only say "We tried this idea under conditions X,Y,Z and it works with A,B,C metrics and I, J, K assumptions". That is the crux of ANY empirical science - Computer Science or otherwise. That's all that they are paid (and incentivised) for. A computational scientific experiment is not a software product. If you want more, you need to pour in more funding and give them more resources explicitly for those purposes. Either that, or if you want to be 100% verified - you can choose to read theoretical papers where mathematical proofs are "verification".
Private github repositories are private the same way that facebok messages are private - private from your roommate, not from the people who own the platform or determined attackers.
Good thing I already finished my coffee before seeing this headline. With no disrespect to Zoom, who might even have the best intentions, seeing Keybase just get acquired spooks me, and makes me glad I wasn't seriously invested in it. I had been under the impression (as a very casual user) that it was using a foundation finance model to ensure its independence.
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That depends on context. There are cities and counties without a single Covid case to date. If I lived in one, I would feel more comfortable going back to Work. Also, those with low Rick businesses or mortgages are probably eager to go back
This is hilarious to me, because I finally decided to make a keybase account and start making use of their service two days ago, and today it appears to be a dead product.
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