skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I myself mostly use the following features from Keybase: Chat, KBFS, Git repositories and encrypting messages sent out-of-band via PGP in Keybase (and the various cryptographic tools [signing, validation etc])

While all these features are individually nice, I kinda started to worry about Keybase as a product when they started bolting on stuff like this.

I think the key (pun intended) to stable & ongoing success in this space is to focus on doing one thing well. Keybase was incepted as a service for signing & validation. There's currently https://keys.pub for that. I'd be interested to hear if there's others.

For chat, there's a lot of competitors to choose from. I like Riot.im.

For KBFS, Tresorit has been mentioned. I signed up, but haven't been super impressed with their clients yet. I'm not sure what better options are out there.
Yes, websites are starting to look more similar, according to an ML analysis
A lot of people use Google to find things. A lot of those people click the first search result that matches what they're looking for (low cost, certain feature, prestige, there's no right answer, just right answer for them).

Some of those clicks are for products and services with short buying/lead gen cycles. Once they've clicked, many are only going back if they don't like what they find.

The value of search ads is being the link they clicked. You can buy that click. You can literally insert your website into a demand/supply match. If you don't mess it up after they click, those clicks become transactions. In dollars.

Oil changes are a great example. Some of the people who type "oil change near me" in maps don't really care about the brand. They click the top result, schedule an appointment, and get their oil changed.

If the click was $3 and it took 10 people/bots clicking to set one appointment, that's $30. Now let's say the oil change is $39 so profit is ($39 - oil $7, - filter $3, - labor $5, - ads $30) = -$6 before the cost of skilled advertiser.

Are those ads profitable? It depends. If you can upsell 1/10 on replacing a cabin air filter for 10x cost, then yes.

Every other upsell becomes profit.

Also, at a car dealership you can sell 3-5% a car while they're there for a nice $1700-$3200 profit, which nicely covers the cost of the skilled advertiser.
Parasitic wasps murder insects with a smallpox-like virus
Sidewalk labs has a LOT of good ideas but, even putting aside privacy concerns related to Google ownership, the simple fact is that these good ideas are nearly intractable even when planned by trusted organizations with the best of intentions. Western cities just don't move very fast nowadays, for better and for worse.

Maybe this would work better in a country where cities develop faster and with less protest from citizens, but a lot of sidewalk labs best ideas boil down to "more affordable housing and less cars" which are mainly Western problems that derive from a lack of good urban development in the first place.
Analysis of data from the Canadian Mincome experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome) by Evelyn Forget showed more concrete benefits. People's health improved: "Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidents of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from accidents and injuries. Forget also compared proportions of women with children and suggested lower lifetime fertility as a possible outcome by comparing birth rates of young mothers with those of a control group. Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals."
The Anti-Viral Campaign: Supporting Healthcare Workers and People Out of Work
What's the performance like with compiled languages? I'm using rust and compiling in containers always seems slow.
I feel vindicated for my own insistence that private repos also get scanned and purged of secrets
The statement about lawful intercept can only be considered a blatant lie. It’s a requirement in China and CALEA applies in the US. Europe, India and Australia have their own laws around this.
I do not understand how such innovative organizations end up falling apart. Bell Labs had a similar objective, only researchers were able to do basically anything with unlimited funding. Many salient innovations were made at Bell Labs, I wonder if such organizations exist to this day on the scale of Bell or Norsk Data.
Instead of a JS-centric approach, how about an even simpler, HTML-centric approach with Apline.js? :)
While I think you have a valid point here, I think matlab marketing department has caught on here and thus offering free student licenses. This is the same strategy employed by MS in at least India. Let them get it for free or give it for free. Also, companies which use matlab and develop a technology lock in are not after the language features, they are after the toolbox features. I hate matlab as a language as much as the next guy, but there isn't any competition for its toolboxes like antenna design, RF design, Risk management, OPC, instrumentation control (this one labview is another horrible but not alternative), etc.
This reminds me of Reef: https://github.com/cferdinandi/reef
It would have been far better to select numbers generated by the NIST Randomness Beacon https://beacon.nist.gov/home

And whilst you can sort of selectively choose which values to take from the beacon, it should reduce the ability to add a backdoor.
This is what I meant - some sort of strings-free income is great in encouraging people to pursue passions and things that fulfil them. Turns out those things are not part-time precarious jobs. I'd say that's a finding worth understanding.
Keybase product and engineering do not think this way. Corporate PR thinks this way. Don't get it twisted.
Why can't we "raise the garbage vegans eat where we grow animal feed?"
The immune system of children: key to understanding SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility?
I don't propose that compassion towards the less clever will raise their IQ. When I say that compassion is constructive, I mean that compassion paves the road towards mutual understanding and social harmony.
Yes, from the POV of lists of polygons. But from the point view of textures it is pull (you go through destination pixels and fill them with source pixels fetched through transformation).
The argument is that the amount of attention paid by scholars does not make a field of inquiry more or less valid. It does apply to all science. Do you think science does not suffer from fads and community bias? When did we move past that? Even a very rigorous field like mathematics suffers from these problems. Cf. Mochizuki getting published in Nature or the controversies about the foundations of symplectic geometry.

What is your relation to science? Have you done any yourself?

Science is poor in the sense that it can be arbitrarily wrong and for arbitrarily long as humans can be. Yea, it's true. Does that trouble you?
Appears to be the same company:

https://ligado.com/press/ligado-networks-launches-with-goal-...
Zoom is not a Chinese company. The founder merely was born in China. He is US citizen.

I am very put off by this anti-China rhetoric. Everything that even has a remote connection to China is now under suspicion. This is madness.
The past and future are memory and fantasy. There is only this now.
What's an S-box (substitution-box)?
Not if you’re looking for an easy life. Self-actualization doesn’t always result in wanting to be a productive monster, it’s subjective and depends on your goals.
How Will AR Transform Advertising?
That's the problem... I'm currently doing a Brother hackathon and have started noticing brother ads as I browse into and out of their developer documentation.

I wonder if there is some theory on clickthrough rate on ads you have seen versus never seen versus companies you know or don't know.
OP’s comment still seems pretty on point though even with your example. Taking the exampling to another field in programming that’s also diverse like gamedev and you run into a similar “too many choices” problem. The solution of course is to just pick a popular tutorial and start. You find and fill in the gaps along the way. Chasing for the elusive best practice is just setting yourself up for failure as a beginner.
Most epidemiologists say the threat won't pass. The idea that there's some policy response to eliminate the threat, rather than finding ways to mitigate and live with it, originates with politicians.
I saw that coming when they shoehorned a pointless cryptocurrency that nobody uses into it.
The article is about big brands. What if the big brands launched thousands of smaller brands a day based on advertising value and user trends?

Think of paying for customers like paying for electricity or water. $3 will get 1,000 people to look at it. $10 will get 20 people to sit down and listen.

Instead of buying ad space, you are buying purchases and customers outright like a utility bill.

Scared?

That's nothing.

Imagine the supplier of customers changes your product on that same scale. Not little things either. You start off buying investors for waterfront development. You end up selling beverage racks for gas station convenience stores. <-- that really happened.

No one knows what's what anymore!
> Never underestimate how so much of bad advertising is because of clueless people in the chain of command.

Hello fellow person with in-house advertising experience.
> Be as cynical as you like. But people's lives are their own.

Are they though? Who exactly would fund the self-actualization adventures of the lucky recipients, if not other people? I'm guessing here, but I assume the funding wouldn't be voluntary. In that case, those people's lives are not their own, those people's lives (and the results of them spending parts of their lives at work) are shared.

> Now that it's approaching, all anybody can think about is "Keep the lower class working! God forbid they have a life!"

I live among the lower class. A good part of them do not work and still have a life.
What about 99% of companies that are hosted in the cloud, and never had a breach?

Your logic is akin to don't drive a car, and you'll never get into a car crash.
I actually believe the nukes are a great deterrent for common people until they are used. Then people will figure out that NKs tiny nukes are toys
Isn't there a subreddit where individual bots are trained on single subreddits, then talk to each other?

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/ (doesn't appear to have an archlinux one though, based on the bot naming scheme)
The biggest pain point of "programming" hardware is the vendor tools. Imagine if all modern languages from Swift to Rust, from Python to Fortran, will all compile to C. The same situation is with HDLs - most of them compile to Verilog (some to VHDL). The world needs an open standard to rule them all - low-level HDL IR, that like LLVM can give birth to the endless variations of the cool languages, while giving them all flexibility they need. The synthesizing part would have to be written only once too. I proposed joining efforts[1] on building such a language either from scratch or based on something existing.

[1] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues/19
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"low paid" work doesn't automatically mean things people will only do given no alternative. Plenty of people want to work in jobs like childcare, nursing, writing, farming, gardening, etc because they actually enjoy the work and find it rewarding but they can't because it doesn't pay well enough to live.
I thought Handshake was decentralized DNS server. Keybase is primarily a secure chat app. Does Handshake have chat, chat room, and team chat functionality too?
The culprit would now have the ability to merge pull requests and make changes to the open source codes master branch. So if one of these owner accounts was hacked. Then yes this is a hack.
If you know how to make that work I’m all ears. I run Debian testing, wayland, gnome. I tried to screen share yesterday and got a popup about how its not supported. Maybe mu zoom client is out-of-date?
I haven't tried rust, but I usually work with Go.
The performance really depends on the resources assigned to your container. Okteto Cloud gives you 4 CPUs and 8Gi RAM.
Also, it is important to persist dependencies and cache information using volumes to take advantage of incremental builds.
What I mean is that on today's standards for some SMEs, you either have a lead/sales generation campaign, or nothing.

There's no space for brand positioning campaigns, or brand awareness, or anything that it's not tracked into a direct sale/lead.

Like you said, branding takes time, with huge investments - and usually it's almost a leap of faith because of the sheer amount of budget and pressure it requires, namely in terms of GRPs.

That's why testing used to be done in focus groups, and other forms of market research, to support a brand strategy.

Maybe branding is a "luxury" SMEs can't afford, but the thing they don't get is: it's a long term investment.
Do they ever not say that?

News would be "Pentagon official admits that <thing> doesn't actually threaten national security of largest military on the planet."
He wasn't criticizing Rust, he was just stating facts.
Taleb's article is debunked here https://greyenlightenment.com/wealth-and-iq-part-3-continued...

Studying popular subs such as /r/wallstreetbets, /r/investing, /r/personalfinance, /r/fatfire, and /r/financialindependence is useful because we have a generally homogeneous population in which everyone tends to have similar individual preferences, that being the accumulation of wealth, so we have already controlled for that important variable. To a high degree of statistical significance, regarding the aforementioned subs, members who accumulate a lot of money at an early stage in life such as through investing and or STEM, again, tend to high high IQs. Even inheriting a lot wealth at an early age is positively correlated with IQ, because of the correlation between between family wealth and IQ.

Taleb fails to account for individual preferences as it concerns the accumulation of wealth. Obv. if you compare aspiring actors to aspiring t lawyers, IQ will not be as useful versus comparing aspiring physicists. It's not so much that IQ predicts absolute outcomes, but rather relative outcomes among a homogeneous population who have similar goals/aspirations for g-loaded activities whether it's writing, publishing, stock trading, law, math, FIRE, etc.

Aspiring lawyers who have high IQs will have high LSAT scores and GPAs and get into competitive programs, whereas low-scoring applicants may quit or find it harder to get into good programs and make as much money. On trading and investing Reddit subs , top traders almost invariably have higher IQs than traders who lose money. An extreme example of this is Renaissance Technologies, founded and staffed by some of the smartest people in the world, and by a huge margin the most successful hedge fund ever..
The kind of copy Google encourages is at least as big a problem, I'd say.

Do you ever search for something, click a result, and find you have to skip down fifteen paragraphs to get what you wanted?

It's a real problem on the Web these days. Pages with incredibly low information density, on purpose.

Even the simplest piece of information may be buried way, way down a page with no actual content above it, just inane rambling.

This is a real problem for search results on all kinds of topics. You may have seen it yourself, these garbage pages with high search rankings.

How bad a problem is it? Often the entire first page of results is nothing but pages that waste your time on purpose.

(but seriously, imagine the sheer count of person-hours wasted writing and reading this useless fucking crap, making the Web worse on purpose, and it's been going on long enough that I guess... Google just thinks that's fine? Ugh. I swear it's like they just gave up on good search results around '08 or '09 and settled for whatever as long as the pages serve ads and get clicks)
The MCAT is a difficult test. It is not clear that the difficulty of the MCAT is the same difficulty as practicing medicine. You can't test that question without having doctors who don't do well on the MCAT.
> How could any sane human approve an interference with this traffic?

I think your assumption that people in charge at the top of the United States are sane isn't a valid assumption.
Is writing an extra API service layer for what could otherwise use the database directly cheap on developer time?
All the medium grocers in my area offer curbside pickup now.

The larger ones have had home delivery for a fee.
A clear, concise & clever blog post.

Quizzing the community on its supposed expertise, is such an effective way to separate rhetoric from reality.
I... wow.

Many thanks to whoever sent that complement, as well as dang for pointing it out to me. It's been a pleasure to be in this thread, lots of interesting questions and honestly unexpected (but certainly welcome!) positivity.

I'm printing this out and hanging it on my wall.
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I'm a little worried that GPS is so vulnerable that these satellites could cause such disruption to be honest. This is satellite based, any country could be approving this plan and the impact on GPS would still be present since orbits go everywhere.

I guess I'd rather they just... not... I don't really even think the trade-off in increased seemingly real health risk is worth making the cell network even faster.

It's going to happen though, if there's no mitigation that makes GPS more invulnerable to interference it will inevitably fail when actually needed.
An interesting threat vector arises here for Huawei...

Ignore all the stuff about backdoors and such for a minute. I wonder if the administration fears that Huawai could simply attenuate their cell tower signals at a high wattage to disrupt all sorts of things.

I never thought of that before - "5G as a weapon".

Definitely a weird world. I need to start reading Judge Dredd again to start getting caught up on the future.
This is how I feel when people start talking about cryptography. Definitely feel my university underprepared me on this topic. :(
CNN is now just a distributed chumbox.
Agreed, this is a huge distraction that gives cover to bad domestic policy and surveillance over-reach.
Congrats to the team for having a nice exit. I myself removed all my data from keybase und stopped using it. There is just no trust left on my side for Zoom and those who join Zoom in a business relationship. Indistinguishable from malware it has been for me. Disrespectful of my privacy and hard to remove from my machine. No, thanks. Nevertheless, wishing all the best for keybase.
Not based on population density.
True - we did a slow roll-out whilst testing. It should be okay to turn on everywhere now :)
Travel, immigration, entertainment, restaurants etc are severely affected. A lot of people have lost their income, and spend less.

There is also some feat that this will exacerbate problems with an already stressed financial system. Banks are massively increasing their cash reserves, and many organisations have a grim outlook on the upcoming months.
There are plenty of digits in pi.

If the hash is secure independent of s-box selection, I'd much rather bet on pi being normal than "the NIST beacon values aren't generated by AES in CTR mode" ;-)
> This is how newspapers have operated for nearly a century, and how television operated for over 60 years.

Yes. They depend on advertising revenue and are worse off for it.

Journalists have a duty to report facts accurately but they must also keep the advertisers happy. Due to this conflict of interest, newspapers lose trust and are perceived as having little integrity. Gotta wonder if the article is presenting a truth or some version of it that happens to be aligned with the interests of the people with the money.

TV shows are sanitized for maximum advertiser appeal. Even when they push boundaries, it's carefully controlled by the networks. There are numerous and well-documented cases where they actively influenced the creative process. Gotta wonder what shows would be like if creators had true free expression.

> What do you expect will replace it?

I don't know. Hopefully something better.

> A reversion to the patronage system?

Perhaps. Would be great if we had some kind of crowdfunding or patronage system that lets people directly fund the creators they like. Art should work like an investment: large numbers of people invest in the studios they like and the work starts once enough capital has been raised. Since the money is guaranteed, creators get more freedom to do what they want. Since they'd be compensated before the work starts, copyright becomes irrelevant.
You don't change internal variables; you change top-level goal conditions (in imperative programming terms, the "test suite"), and retrain the system, and all the internal variables change together to find a new equilibrium. That's kind of... how ML works. It's how brains seem to work, too. (Think about the order in which you learn to do something like typing. Think about what "levels" of that learning that you need to practice over again, if you switch to a different keyboard layout.)

Also, to be clear, this is already what subway systems do. And roombas. And a bunch of other types of robots. It turns out to work better, in practice, than the alternative (= networks of leaf-node controllers with individual top-down-issued config parameters, like computer networks are.)

Although, they don't do it because it's an easy system to develop in. Subsumption is operationally robust—it continues to do the right thing in the face of failure of components, or even "subverted" components producing malicious input. This is a little important when you're a Mars rover whose firmware chips could be hit by gamma rays; but it's even more important when you're an organic lifeform with parasites constantly attempting to hijack your nervous system to their own ends (e.g. the Toxoplasma bacterium and the Cordyceps fungi, two cases where the host isn't strong enough to resist the hijacking. In the 99.999% of other cases of parasitic onslaught that you don't hear about, the host does still manage to "do the right thing" despite the parasite.)
I do update banking and critical apps (say, VPN clients, PDF reader), though.

In the consumer app cases, either I'm hitting somebody's backend with wrong data, which fails and so I update the app, or more frequently, those whiny apps with almost daily updates are just a WebView shell to some website.

Otherwise, what a hacked iOS sandboxed app can do? If there's an exploit to escape the sandbox, like in the WhatsApp case, we have a way larger issue and I wouldn't expect a random hacker to waste such an exploit that could be better targeted at Jeff Bezos or so.

Other exploits are for system apps (Mail, Safari, etc) and are handled by OS updates.
Correct. An example would be to look around military bases or colleges that cater to the military. Rents are often on par with BAH (Basic Housing Allowance) and college's per credit hour is often near the $750 rate.
No, to be clear, I wasn't including you in the internet fanboys.

I and others are just suggesting Wolfram go through the same process as everybody else instead of using his power to subvert it. That isn't motivated by being threatened, just by a sense of fairness.

As for his good ideas, absolutely - but they are all in business and unconnected to the grand theories he is now promoting - his prior physics experience is junior and long ago, and certainly doesn't warrant special treatment.
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