skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, clearly we should just be printing even more money...why stop at 80% wage? Why not 100%?

What works in England doesn't necessarily work in the US, and presuming that Republicans are just being greedy is naive and counterproductive.
This is great news. As a Torontonian I found their plan to be nothing more than a money grab on public space and the public in general. They also massively overreached in all their applications to the city.
Maybe they volunteer? Maybe they turn to hobbies and music? Maybe they have a life?

Not everybody measures the success of UBI as "How many folks can we keep slaving away"
I agree that the limits maybe inconceivably high from here. But disagree they'll always grow. When populations are doubling you'll only at 50% before you're 1 doubling away from collapse / exhaustion.

>That means, at US levels of consumption, the ceiling on just using the sun for our energy needs is 23 trillion people. The earth's population is 7.6 billion now. Even taking Bartlett's estimate of population doubling every 40 years, that's over 400 years of growth.

I think we're starting to see the that the current limiting factor is not the inputs on earth's energy balance, but on the outflows. If we do not reflect a good portion of that energy, but instead utilise it (w/ a good portion being converted to heat) we'll eventually cook ourselves.
I fully agree with you, but I intentionally made it two-sided because AFAIK HN guidelines don't like it when a comment thread becomes clearly politically one-sided.
My point is that just because you get the zootopia fox out of a GAN doesn't mean the zootopia fox is public domain.
Not saying the education system is perfect, but even though IQ is partly determined by education, science indicates there is not much one can achieve this way.
I spent three years "managing upwards" on that point. Was like a breath of fresh air when I got a manager who listened in that way - he needed some education, but soon came around and pushed our media agency to stop BS-ing us.

Oddly, up to that point I was senior enough to daily manage the budget, but not senior enough that my opinion on what to do was taken seriously. We're talking > 50% wastage, so I just didn't do my job in the end and stopped providing the creative for the wastage part, saved money, made no difference to the end result.

Never underestimate how so much of bad advertising is because of clueless people in the chain of command.
>The big question is whether the bottom end should starve. I think they should not starve and should have certain minimal living standards met, but they are going to be lower than the top end. You risk dividing the population trying to convince the smart to settle for less than they can get. They will simply band together and manipulate the system until they achieve it.

This implies that poverty is largely a product of being on the wrong end of the intelligence scale, which ignores the substantial impact that social and economic structures play in determining one's economic success. When looking at factors that perpetuate poverty, IQ isn't even on the map.
You probably shouldn't readily confess to hoarding stolen property in an online forum.
> a private key encrypted with a password is not cryptographically different from a plaintext private key

It is different. Keybase could update the app to steal your key, but that’s a visible attack that can’t be done retroactively.

> If it was truly secure, then you'd be using a new private key to encrypt your real private key

There’s no reason to use asymmetric crypto for symmetric encryption.
IQ is more like lead additive in gasoline. Unnecessary to the main purpose, created with very dubious motivations, yet for decades people took it for granted that you can’t do without.
Maybe, but his track record is not great. If he's really got something, I'd think he could easily draw people into it rather than create skepticism. But I don't know much...
I mean, there's a fatal flaw in the broken window fallacy anyway:

>
It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added another book to his library. In short, he would have employed his six francs in some way, which this accident has prevented.[1]

Capitalism is about acquiring capital, i.e. money. There's no such evidence that people with money actually spend it in ways other than investment, and the sole purpose of that isn't to donate to companies that need it, it's to profit off it and essentially hoard more capital. Sure, poor people with either very little or no capital spend that capital on necessities, and thus drive the economy, but there's no evidence that people with large amounts of capital spend that on anything at all, there's more evidence that they hoard it and seek only to acquire more capital. The entire system is built to favour those people.
Lucky for us it is open source? I was hoping to use it to replace Dropbox but they kept not taking my money... small wonder they went for the acquisition.
Would you mind sharing your Instagram? I'd love to see your progress - I'm sure it would be inspiring for others to follow your lead (even if you're not quite Picasso yet)
That's the premise of low-code, right? "I don't need a fully general language with configurable everything; I just need a simple tool for this one common use case."

I'm excited about what Dark (https://darklang.com/) is doing with this idea. As you said, "a clean abstraction that allows them to glue a few APIs together with some custom forms."
Isn't this all obsolete thinking? America (and nearly every other nation in the world) is at replacement population, or nearly. The idea of geometric population growth is some 1950's meme that won't die.
Well, I think they’re corroborating the article with a relevant anecdote, which is fair.
"the Fourteenth Air Force/Air Forces Strategic was redesignated as Space Operations Command (SpOC)."

Because of course the Space Force would have something named Spoc(k).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force
keys.pub does the signing/validation part
You Rust borrow checker requires special annotations and restrictions put on the code to do its job. I don't think you could something like that automatically on a C or C++ full codebase without having to manually annotate and refactor it somewhat. There are many common (and safe) C and C++ patterns that would be outright rejected by Rust's borrow checker, for instance initializing a structure or array partially if you're sure that nobody is going to use the initialized portion. Or having multiple mutable pointers/reference to the same object.

You could do something like that at runtime though, but then you have Valgrind, basically.
> This virus kills 0.5 to 1% of infected people across population. It can infect more than 50% of the population. Everyone would know somebody who died because of the virus. The economy can not function when people are dying left and right.

Doesn't around 0.8% of the population die each year normally? So at worst (everyone infected) we'd have a year or two where all-cause mortality roughly doubles (concentrated in people 65+ year olds)? That's a big increase and by no means easy to handle, but surely that shouldn't end or stop the economy like you're claiming.
At the start we still collectively believed it was about flattening the curve, not containment. For some reason a lot of folks have become convinced containment is/was a real possibility. A competent response from the gov't would be to bend all our resources during the lockdown phase towards correcting our ill-preparedness.
Thanks your for your feedback, I I can see that such device would not replace a normal screen ... but still I think even the writing experience of ereader is ok for me to alternated after a few hour working on a emitting light monitor. I see it as a complementary device not a substitute.
> 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.

You have to start somewhere before being "universal" and "basic".
,,helping to make Zoom even more secure. ''

Wow, this means that keybase stuff thinks that Zoom is secure already. Zoom should have hired people who don't think that way.
An RSA break only breaks key distribution. If you can securely get someone an AES key, you are all set.

That is why asset managers are experimenting with quantum communications channels [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-14/the-super...
I'd suspect this is jumping the gun a lot bit. Keybase was running a free service for years and has matured a lot in the last year (post crypto debacle). There's nothing stopping them from 1. Letting Keybase go into maintenance mode. 2. Donating the server to a foundation. 3. Open sourcing there server.

In all these scenarios Zoom gets better security which is a win for the world :)
Work somewhere where you have a hand in the process.

Observe and reflect on what makes something good when you go about your life and use different products.

Learn some basic principles of design so you start to develop an eye for some of those concepts and so that you have the vocabulary to express why something is good.
I'm expecting Matrix/Riot has some of those like chat, and will develop some more.

And there'll be definitely alternatives, which is the beauty of FOSS.
> The default S-box

> This was obtained from random.org by requesting 8,192 random bytes, as were all S-boxes tested so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number
I doubt the skill of test taking is unrelated to aptitude in those fields, or any other field in which it's important to learn a great deal of information from books and to keep that information in mind for rapid recall during high pressure situations 'in the field.' Law or medical school is certainly harder for halfwits to get through, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong (in that respect) with that schooling. Rather, it reflects the complexity and importance of those fields.

Edit for response:

I don't know anything about the MCAT in particular. However I'm confident in saying that the class of people unable to perform well in any sort of test that requires reading and recalling large amounts of information (as learning medicine surely requires, no matter how you structure the education system for it) should find a career outside medicine.
Just a big tech company hyping up a project they were never really up to. Hopefully the city didn't spend a fortune on this. The fizzling out will come to no one's surprise.
Aerospace and Defense engineering in the U.S. is almost exclusively in the standard system (imperial outside the U.S).

If you want to know why we STILL have not moved to metric, compare the cost of replacing manufacturing assets calibrated, designed, and manipulated using standard units with training an engineer to use standard units and convert to metric when necessary.

Fun fact: U.S. standard units are defined precisely in terms of metric units, and are often different from their British cousins.
Because it’s not always easy to see the technical solution.

Trying to say that the law is bad because it doesn’t conform to some idealised version of it you had in your head doesn’t mean the law is bad.
Unfortunately, can't find it in the Fedora's repo
I am also curious here. I have used and advocated strongly for Keybase with a couple of local government clients to send sensitive files back and forth (not sensitive in the sense of national security, but more to preserve privacy and store encrypted at rest).

But I want to get ahead of the concern that Keybase is now owned by a Chinese company, which instantly compromises it.

PGP is dead on arrival, since it's an overcomplicated mess.

Keybase felt like WireGuard for its use case, just dead simple and also secure.

Update: I just want to clarify that I am happy for the Keybase team. This is clearly an Aquihire meant to bolster Zoom's security talent. And as a Zoom user, I'm generally happy about this development. But there will definitely be a concern about them being acquired by a Chinese company.

Update #2: I thought about FooBarWidget and others' comments, and I'm going to alter my wording. Zoom isn't a Chinese company, but their development team has been entirely based in China all this time and there have been concerns about that (which are entirely legitimate for certain groups like governments, in my opinion), especially given their communications aren't e2e encrypted.
Looks interesting! What is meant by a “universal family”?
> This is the cost of a profound lack of leadership.

Also a profound lack of reading the future.
Intermezzo is back. They rebuilt it after the building moved down. Not quite the same, the prices are through the roof.
I generally work in go, where the standard library covers the vast majority of use cases. If you have some crazy specific performance needs there are frameworks for that, but generally vanilla go will get you where you need to go.

I’d love to see a “modern” web app built in pure JavaScript without a framework.
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a really good book to that effect. And has some practical tips on how to learn to enjoy doing things you might not otherwise.
They will lost all the people working on it. The ship has sailed.
I agree with your criticism in that the form and tone really do get in the way of a clear communication of his point. But I don't think it negates that he does have a point, which is that IQ is "scientistic" rather than scientific.

And furthermore, not only is what you're saying ("that people with an IQ of 60 are equally wealthy as those with an IQ of 110") a disingenuous reading of his point (he actually says that IQ is closer to a step function where correlation exists below the median but not above), but so too is the tone of what you're saying. To state that science is "a method to ascertain facts, entirely indifferent to our human affairs and feelings" is not something he is even arguing, it's the other half of what you say ("science is never unfair, never has an agenda") where you indict yourself.

He says this:

```

The “best measure” charlatans: IQ is reminiscent of risk charlatans insisting on selling “value at risk”, VaR, and RiskMetrics saying “it’s the best measure”. That “best” measure, being unreliable blew them up many many times. Note the class of suckers for whom a bad measure is better than no measure across domains.

```

When you say "science is never unfair, never has an agenda, never backward", shouldn't you be saying "science SHOULD never be unfair, science SHOULD never have an agenda, science SHOULD never be backward"? History is littered with examples of scientism masquerading as science that were only later on unmasked (such as Lysenkoism, phrenology, the humors, VaR as he mentions and so on) as frauds by the purportedly "scientific" concept's inability to _work_, and only then after causing a significant amount of ignorance and damage. For what reason are we to believe IQ is not one of these? Taleb's argument is that assumptions about IQ which misinterpret it as a linear function when it is a clipped linear function injected with noise lead to erroneous conclusions. If you have any criticism of Taleb here, then by your own reasoning, shouldn't it be because his hypothesis is wrong? And shouldn't you have a compelling argument for that? What are you doing but proving his point?
Would be interested to read more about their attempt to port the MIT Lisp Machine software to the ND-500.
100% agree. Shows the power of wrapping anything in “freedom words” can get people to support it, even if it means putting themselves in harm’s way.
Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy
I just bought Adidas socks at Costco too, but I would have bought whatever brand they had. I know the Adidas (and Nike) brand products of varying quality for various price points at Walmart versus Costco versus their outlet stores versus their Soho stores in manhattan.
If we made it our goal? If all our technological effort went into automating away drudgery? If all our persuasive marketing was not driving ever more consumption but making the simplest and cheapest lifestyle changes to improve our happiness?

Sure.
Intel can't match this performance to price ratio
> this title and entire premise of the essay is the definition of false dichotomy

The article's very first words are: Nuxt.js is a frontend framework built upon Vue.js so I think it's more of a semantics thing on what he meant by "over" (i.e. on top of vs. replaces).
When did that happen? I'm interested in the timeline.
$50M and two years later - where are the conclusions? The results? A blog post of what happened? Two years seems like enough time to say we tried some amazing things and this is how it did or did not work.
I'm by no means a DBA, I just have to wear the hat sometimes.

That said, I'm always hesitant to connect to production databases with relatively unproven products like this. How do I know there's not a bug that's going to wipe out my database?

Is that a valid concern? I'm curious about other folks' take on this.

(Looks great though!)
Before the internet, there wasn't an endless fleet of robots subscribing to the local newspaper.

Metrics did exist, though more rudimentary. X subscribers, X viewers, etc.
Well that sucks. I'm glad they got an exit. I won't be using them moving forward due to trust issues with Zoom.
I like not having to run another commercial tool[1] that will likely not be in use whenever I move on to the next project because no one has heard of it.

Biggest advantage I see is it's integrated into the compiler and so sees the same things the compiler does.

Having gcc do this out of the box helps people port their experience/skills with static analysis to other companies.

We already have clang-tidy and I like it too but it's nice to have a fall-back to compare when one produces a strange result. And a bit of competition is always good to have between such projects. And on most big projects it's not like you can just change the build system to use another compiler.

Also I found some interesting cases which valgrind didn't see because it was in an unreachable branch.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712338
That's the case for a lot of FMCG marketing - the aim isn't to drive immediate conversion, but to be so pervasive you take up all of the possible mental capacity a user has for (example) a "cola brand".
Not really. In the event of an untreatable disease, no amount of free healthcare would make me feel better about being obligated to work in a factory if I'm vulnerable to the disease; even if factory work were the best damn job in the world.
I read the Demon Haunted World by mistake a long time ago and it really challenged my belief system at the time. But then little by little it won me over.

Not without damage in the form of missed education opportunities, I managed to overcome a lot of the bullshit magical thinking that had managed to cloud my thoughts in my teens and early 20s.

It's interesting to me, just today I've been respectfully challenging a friend for their belief in some or other Covid conspiracy. After some introspection, I realised that the ire this raised in me and which I was directing at my friend, was actually anger at my young self for the years "lost" in the form of education not pursued.

What a day.
NASA-Developed Ventilator Authorized for Emergency Use
https://archive.vn/FBKmt
this study does not represent a step forward, however.
The Fed doesn't buy back anything. It buys government and corporate bonds just like any other investor. It just does so with an arbitrarily-large pool of money.
You are safe until you are not. That's how the exponential works.
Google’s Sidewalk Labs cancels plan to build high-tech neighbourhood in Toronto
I guess conditioning over time has enabled consumers to develop resistance to ads, companies have to change things up otherwise they will see no value in online advertising. I will say that it's ironic that often companies buy in to the marketing produced by advertising agencies.
> Maybe they volunteer? Maybe they turn to hobbies and music? Maybe they have a life?

... and maybe they want that funded by other people doing the work. Sounds like medieval nobility to me.
No, no, I'm not debating you. I'm genuinely asking you to examine the possibility that you aren't competent to evaluate Taleb's arguments. Do you even have a basic background in probability?

Statistics is garbage in garbage out. If you misuse it you will get utter nonsense. Your flaccid appeal to another statistical correlation when we're talking about the misapplication of statistics to complex phenomena just demonstrates that you're not engaging with the ideas.

It seems that IQ is one of your sacred cows. Why is that?
For all the privacy stuff that Apple does on Safari, it does absolutely nothing against the tracking issues in the mobile app ecosystem.

The unspoken rule is because apps make money for Apple and websites don't.
Tech companies are using deceptive Covid marketing tactics to sell invasive tech
The priority is to make sure that businesses essential to our way of life keep operating. No attempt to reallocate the brunt of the costs will matter if meat stops showing up on the supermarket shelves.
IMHO, exposing issues at the company does not guarantee its stock will go down. After all, investors (broadly defined, as in individual ones, 401k, mutual funds, pensions, etc) can keep momentum up. Something about the market can stay irrational longer than an individual investor's account positive.

So it is risky no matter what, just perhaps risk/reward ration increases maybe?
We know everything–and nothing–about Covid. It is data–not modeling–that we need
I actually think it is a very insightful point, just not for proving either sides of this argument, for this purpose it is useless.

In the case of astrology, I find interesting how a few millennia of human culture, stories, and epics have been projected on celestial bodies and carried along our history through this shared medium.

I would say that (if you really want to find a strong point) astrology can be seen as trying to distill human knowledge from our cultural substrata.

Whether we should do it or not is another topic.
god forbid existing hash function gets broken suddenly, another unbroken hash function with similar properties would be welcome
This is being framed as a military issue, but the reality is that this would cause havoc with aviation as well, especially precision GPS approaches.

Reminds me of a similar issue from 2012:

https://www.gps.gov/news/2012/02/lightsquared/
Millions more Americans seek jobless benefits; productivity dives
Ask HN: Does anyone else want to chat?
As a social experiment / way to meet new people, I'm spending the day meeting new people at this zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/7852785404

Come say hi if you'd like! You also welcome just listen in / work silently.

A little bit about me:
I graduated from college in 2016 with a degree in CS. Then spent a couple years in management consulting and private equity, before starting a SaaS company in SF this past winter.

I'm broadly interested in economics, finance and politics. I've also been thinking hard about what changes to the world will persist after the quarantines end. My golden-doodle may make an appearance from time to time as well :)
You want a bleeding edge release in your non-bleeding edge LTS distribution?
UBI should be coupled with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization
Size is not the only thing that dictates whether one should use a PaaS. It's entirely possible for a tiny generalist team, or even a single developer, to develop an application whose requirements prevent it from running on a PaaS. But that doesn't mean the team or solo developer should have to handle all the hassles of operating physical servers. (Source: I was that solo developer for many years.)