skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be onto something. Most of the people seemed to have been mollified by the ability to share their plight with others via social media or gorging on streaming. Internet made current issues somewhat acceptable in that regard.

If the internet went down, people might not like the silence and their own thoughts.

I initially thought ISPs removed data caps and all those for WFH, but now I think it is part of the effort to keep the society intact.
I've been looking into Matrix as a "personal IM bridge" and I'm thinking this could be a way for Matrix to get traction.

Let's say you're in a position that I think may here are: You would prefer to use IM in a secure way. Let me qualify "secure" for this purpose meaning: Encryption of communication in rest and transit; not relying on a single infra/network/service provider; being able to communicate with new peers easily without having to sign up with new providers; not requiring sign-ups leaking PIIs such as phone numbers; being able to sync message history across devices; all of this should hold for group conversations.

matrix.org seems to be on the right track towards that. Feature-wise there's some missing pieces in terms of federation but the roadmap looks like the ambition is right.

But in practice, it's realistically years until you can meet a random person in a bar and ask to join you on matrix to stay in touch, so many of us will still keep our accounts on the not-as-great platforms such as FB, Skype, WhatsApp, Signal.

Given that, wouldn't it be nice to facilitate using those platforms in a way that 1) absolves you from the behavioral tracking that comes with most of the first-party web- and smartphone apps and 2) integrates them in the same UI?

There are, of course, solutions to this end. Bitblbee (IRC gateway), libpurple (pidgin, finch), third-party clients like franz. I'm sure there are many here who have or are using libpurple or bitlbee for this.

But matrix also has bridges!

I'm thinking one potential way that matrix could really get traction and seed the network infrastructure would be just that. Given stable gateways for the IM networks people already use, it's suddenly a much easier sell to get enthusiasts and power-users to self-host matrix servers just to solve their own bridging needs and get a unified flow for disparate protocols.

As that grows, eventually there's a large spread-out flora of matrix servers that can become part of something larger.

I think if there's one thing that can make matrix succeed in it's mission, it's stable, feature-complete (or at least ticking the important boxes for the majority) bridges to mainstream services such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Signal, LINE, Skype, Google and Keybase.

I think this should be a focus for Matrix, and amazing it would be to have these be the fruit of voluntary contributors, some funding is likely required if it's to be sustainable as proprietary protocols and endpoints will inevitably break.

What's your take on that? I realize it's a long comment and I'm in a bit of a rush, but I'd be really curious to hear how you think about these things.
The way I read this, they're making it a disqualifying condition, but many, if not most, disqualifying conditions can be waived -- they simply need medical records and then a medical review to ensure the condition is no longer continuing and the person is fit for military service.

The way the instruction is written is confusing and I'm not sure it's written exactly as they intended it, but that's how I interpret it anyway.
I want to stay inside. Most people I know want to stay inside. The economy can limp along for the rest of this year just fine. The sensible way of re-opening involves not doing so now.

Texas is still gaining new cases and deaths at a high rate. Our curve is not flattening. And yet with one eye on the unemployment coffers, Governor Abbott is overriding the same local decision-makers he deferred to just weeks ago, and forcing business to re-open. Hair salons open tomorrow, while four of the six days of May so far have set new records for new COVID-19 cases.

Everyone I know who works retail jobs would rather be home. Some of them are being forced back, some have never been able to stop working. None of them are happy about it.
Well, "from Mozilla" is a subset of the larger and more valuable "not Blink"/"not from Google", which is handy if you're worried about an adtech company owning the entire web ecosystem.
I'm concerned that would magnify shortages due to hoarding, among other problems.
Congratulations to the keybase team.

Most people here seem to be making a self fulfilling prophecy of keybase's death.

But I like to think that Zoom intends to reuse large parts of keybase codebase:

> Logged-in users will generate public cryptographic identities that are stored in a repository on Zoom’s network and can be used to establish trust relationships between meeting attendees. An ephemeral per-meeting symmetric key will be generated by the meeting host. This key will be distributed between clients, enveloped with the asymmetric keypairs and rotated when there are significant changes to the list of attendees. The cryptographic secrets will be under the control of the host, and the host’s client software will decide what devices are allowed to receive meeting keys, and thereby join the meeting. We are also investigating mechanisms that would allow enterprise users to provide additional levels of authentication.

Will the founders be interested in releasing parts if not all of the server code to the public? I believe the founders' mission is still achievable and can be carried out, should they be willing to release the code in public.
There are people over on reddit who say that EVERY project should use nuxt. from the lowly todo app, to huge erp projects...

Yet, especially for ERP projects, most of those features are problematic. Like SEO. I don't want a search engine to ever see my content. In fact, my robots.txt says not to index it. SSR is a non starter, since everything would vary based on the user, we're just shifting the rendering back to the server, for no real gain other than the round trips on the api. The routes can be a problem as well. My routes have different navigation guards depending on permissions and state for the user, i haven't checked but i doubt auto generated guards based on folder structure wouldn't handle our weird business logic. COmbined with the difficulty of dealing with errors server side, nuxt.js isn't going to work in these kinds of cases.

TL;DR Nuxt.js does not work for everyone, even if people say it does.
Yep, as it stands we are just pulling off the band aid in the slowest and most painful possible way. The handling of the crisis by the Trump administration has been so far beyond stupid that there isn’t even a word for it
I'm sure, I just found it amusing that it comes so soon after I directly asked about it!
For a long time, I had thought that A New Kind of Science is an excellent math popularization book on cellular automata, prompting to do computational experiments in mathematics, and having an emphasis on beautiful visualizations. Also, his science education posts (e.g. on analyzing FB data) are wonderful.

I just read a few chapters. And later, I was surprised by the criticism. It turned out that "A New Kind of Science" is not a tongue-in-cheek title (vide "Freakonomics"), but that SW actually believes that it not only is a new kind of science, but his science (Turning, Conway, Feynman, anyone...?).

Some cellular automata simulations are nice. And in general, many concrete in physics are not general, yet are useful e.g. for numerics (with known limitations). They are not considered crackpot (even if not useful), as long as they make clear what they predict, what - not. Any toy model usurping its right to be the TOE, without a sufficient proof (not just the lack of proof it is not) is likely to be crackpotism.

(Side note: for quite a few years I used heavily Mathematica. Only a decade ago I switched to Python, for a few reasons, but mostly for open-source (and quite a few of its implications). Jupyter Notebook, which IMHO was a game-changer for data science in Python, clearly had quite a few inspirations from Mathematica.)
Sidewalk Labs Announces It Will “No Longer Pursue” Quayside Project
Is this another thread where everyone argues for their preferred side of the lose/lose situation we're encountering (lose income vs risk to health)?

Unfortunately, each state will make it's own decision on how to resolve this situation, and your state's decision may not line up with your preference. I can understand the frustration for those in a reopening state who are terrified of a big outbreak & getting sick, or those in a shut down state that are terrified of not having the money they need to survive from being out of work.
Ever since Taleb blocked me on twitter for such a minor pushback I gave in the replies of one of his tweets, I've lost interest reading anything he writes. His unbridled emotion is uncouth.

And it's not that I think IQ is "the most perfect psychometric ever created(TM)".
The first question that comes to mind is: can you still have a pre-burner and turbopump? I think the answer may well be "yes", but it could be complicated. What if having any exhaust contents (water, in this case) mixed with the fuel and oxidizer prevents detonation? Then you'd have to exhaust pre-burners separately, but now it's not a pre-burner but a small-burner for running the pump.

Maybe that would be a simplification: you wouldn't need high pressure pipes conducting pre-burner outputs into the main combustion chamber,. Then the only high-pressure components would be the small combustion chamber for the turbopump, the turbine, and the main combustion chamber. And there'd be no fuel rich/lean/full-cycle pre-burners, just a single separate and small burner burning just enough fuel and oxidizer to power the pump into the main chamber.

Another thing is that hydrogen is a terrible fuel because it's so damned light. It damages pipes and pumps and everything by making materials brittle as it invariably seeps through. That makes hydrogen/lox engines less reusable than methane/lox engines. Ideally the detonation engine could work with methane and lox.
> failure of an absolute overwhelming magnitude (internet goes completely down and society collapses) for an actual, classic-style revolution.

Once unemployment goes too far past 20% and stays there long enough, we'll see social safety nets fail and serious numbers of folks penniless and dependent on aid for basic survival. That's enough, I think, to precipitate revolution or at least angry people not cooperating, breaking things, making demands, and overwhelming anything the government/police can do to stop 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. It's not like IQ is even used for anything important, people don't put it on their resumes or anything.
Prior to the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_value
Disney is the easiest one to find, I’m sure there are many many more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/22/disney-heir-cri...
The Post-Pandemic Economy: The Great Reboot
Considering Microsoft owns GitHub, there's no reasons their internal teams aren't choosing to host more code on there.
>The real problem is "seasoned programmers" who don't work in web development

Problem is some of those seasoned developers didn't just "put together a GeoCities homepage twenty years ago" (which is itself a weird knock on some devs in the midst of a rant that appears to be knocking people for knocking devs). They worked on "actual" hard stuff that even you might consider hard--let's say kernel or database development or even challenging Web development problems that actually existed prior to the current state of things (audience gasps).

So the question is whether there is a mismatch between the objective and the level of difficulty/complexity? Some stuff is just hard by consensus (and the relative number of people who can actually do it). Other stuff is needlessly complex. Another category is both hard and needlessly complex.

So, instead of parsing the complaints here into a personal attack on certain developer skillsets, then rebutting with the same, it might be more useful to earnestly consider whether things have been made overly complex and can be improved.
> While pushing for safety is a good thing, ultimately essential workers are the same as non-essential workers, except with an option to work. This is except for anyone being forced to work (there are certainly a few categories here, like the military).

But getting that "option" may not lead to much of a real choice, since gaining it may mean losing better options. IIRC, nonessential workers who've become unemployed due to shutdowns qualify for unemployment, but workers whose employers have opened do not.

Giving them the "option" to work just presents them with a choice between going back to a potentially unsafe workplace and having no income, while not provides it means they can stay safe with some income.
Been realizing how the global pandemic is exposing what a complete and utter disaster advertising supported journalism has become on the web. It's really now a race to the bottom--even the largest media brands basically exist to make you click fake articles. (It's bad even without considering astroturfing comments, entirely fake news sites, etc.)

Newspapers had their yellow journalism days and have always been adverting supported, but it's never been this bad. The internet solved the information availability problem, now we have a huge trustworthiness / curation problem. My hope is a marked return to subscriptions, the way the NYT has done. I just loathe any hybrid where you subscribe and _still_ get ads. I want to leave that crappy model way behind.
This article is written so polemically it's hard to take it seriously. Also Taleb seems to be constructing so many straw men I wouldn't even know where to start.

IQ isn't a swindle, it's a very real thing. However, it is only one factor among many in determining most practical real-world outcomes, and it is well-known to be affected by environmental variables at population levels.

But IQ isn't a "fraud" or "immoral". These are bizarre claims Taleb makes, with zero evidence or even definition of what he means.

What a strange article.
Wow, great feedback, thanks!

Yeah the data-formatting in the table is something I need to work on, everything is just treated as a string right now, just so I could ship in a reasonable amount of time. That will improve for sure.

Other information for tables will be my next big feature release I think. Probably as a tab-view. Still not figured this out exactly yet.

Thanks for the monitization callout, although I'm committed to keeping all core app features totally free forever. :-)
I'd think you'd also have an easy time cutting it up to sell as comb honey.
As best I can tell some advertising is probably necessary; if customers don’t know about your product it genuinely doesn’t matter how good it is.

But chances are most of the programmatic ads are a waste.
There is a part I really like about this and a part I don’t.

The part I like: the linearity in IQ vs ability is driven by the low end. People who have cognitive challenges cannot complete the test and cannot perform the task. At the high end the correlation disappears.

This is — you can argue with it — an interesting observation.

The part I don’t like is the attack on “nerds.” Come on! I don’t even have to explain why it’s okay to wear socks with sandals. (Am I defending my own sloppy sense of style? You’ll probably never know.)
Very interesting. I'll try it - thanks! Sometimes I'd start with a worked-out example, and I'd go back to the immediately preceding section until the example makes sense.
I'm pretty sure the worst-case scenario for a healthy person under 30 is around 0.1% IFR. Other estimates are better than that.
"It does correlate to very negative performance (as it was initially designed to detect learning special needs)"

It did a crap job detecting learning special needs with my son. Because he has a weird intelligence profile of being above 98% on some tasks and below 10% on other tasks, the IQ test simply wouldn't score him, and put him in the "he's not taking the test correctly" category. Yeah, not at all useful, thanks. There were plenty of other more useful tests however that teased out his learning difficulties and actually gave us useful information to help his education.
Ah. I have Vue with DRF, so I can already skip routes if I don’t need them.

I don’t send JS, my CDN does, so not a big win there.
Keybase launched in 2014 as a directory for public encryption keys and has since grown to include secure messaging and file-sharing features. Keybase profiles are meant to serve as the center of your online identity: Keybase verifies you, and it verifies that you actually own other online accounts that belong to you. From there, people can visit your Keybase profile and feel confident that any account claimed is an authentic one. Usually, these profiles include encryption keys that can be used to securely contact a person.
Caring for Employees During Covid
Executive compensation tends to be tied to bonuses and stock, not base salary. Taking a pay cut is much more minor than it may seem.
IQ is not science.
I suspect that's not entirely accurate. The ND-5000 series was a real upgrade to the ND-500 series, with distinct silicon.

However, I have seen the cutting-a-wire-on-a-board in real life. We bough an upgrade from an ND-530 to an ND-570, and a technician came with a knipper. It was surreal: The upgrade was north of 100KUSD. And all they did was cut a wire.
It is clearly a typo. 231037=499*463.
"Just asking questions" and then rejecting a community's answers seems like a fruitless strategy for learning.

It is also uncomfortably close to the tactics of creationists, antivaxxers, and other conspiracy theorists.
Did we forget that the Supreme Court is a Supreme Court that can overrule Zuckerberg? This feels like another step towards the creation of a private, shadow legal system designed to give the impression that corporations can self-regulate.

If we feel there are issues of justice at stake with these large social networks, maybe we should actually enact laws to regulate them. Then the public's courts can hold them accountable without the need for a pinky-promise by Zuckerberg to follow his advisory board's decisions.
Heh, was what I thought initially, but didn't want to call out anything! Certainly fine and no hard feelings! Good luck :)
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Sabba Keynejad launched and grew VEED.IO to $52k MRR
> doesn't even mention the tarnished reputation Zoom has acquired lately

I'm interested to know if you thought keybase doing the whole unsolicited Initial Coin Offering was a reputation tarnishing or polishing event for that company. (I'm circumspect about both of these outfits to be honest.)
Limits in how to best "share" that money to regular people do in fact mean that money is not limitless, de facto.

Assuming you go over the logistics of what's the best way to actually hand in money to people: through tax rebates? through an envelope sent by the Post Office? through citizens' bank accounts? (then how do you handle the non-banked population?) etc etc the powers that be still have to decide what criteria should they use to send said money: according to one's needs? what are those needs? according to one's contribution to society? but then who decides about another person's real contribution to society?

All these questions were first asked at least 200 years ago (I'd say starting with the French Revolution, maybe even with with the Levellers in the ~1640s), questions for which we haven't found any reasonable and definitive answer so far and we'll probably never will.
> You can do this without synchronization by exploiting the fact that all "lanes" of a SIMD vector execute simultaneously, e.g. by doing vector scatters "to the left" and then "to the right" those writes will not race with each other, and don't require locks or atomics.

Well, SIMD is implicit synchronization. Within a SIMD wavefront, all instructions have an implicit barrier between them (because all instructions begin, and finish, simultaneously).

This implicit synchronization may be all you need.

> Whether pull or push is faster heavily depends on the algorithm - there is no silver bullet here. To write efficient parallel algorithms you need to know how to do both.

I agree. The terminology in HPC seems to be "gather" and "scatter" operations.

It should be noted that "gather" can be converted into "scatter" with some tricks. But the programmer should be prepared in using both methods, depending on the circumstance.
The most likely explanation is they phished an employee. How does self-hosting prevent that?
And now your comment planted the seed for a bunch of other readers. It's infectious!
I would have thought to go to Costco. Because of decades of quality experiences and knowing their business model. Or Uniqlo, also based on experiences and knowing they are moderately priced. I've never seen an ad for Uniqlo though.

All of my experiences with Nike are it's either overpriced garbage, or very expensively priced good stuff, but not good enough that it makes it worth the marginal cost over what's at Costco.
What will change after the Covid-19 pandemic in your industry/field?
i have the strong impression that the tech startup scene will not be the same again after

this Covid-19 pandemic. But i can't really tell what exactly will occur . Can you share with

us some insights about the changes that are about to come? Which industry, field or sector

will see changes and what are the opportunities ahead of us?
And, people are going to be very angry when they learn that you can get the coronavirus when locked up at home. [1] They will wonder why they had to lose their job from the quarantine.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/05/06/majori...
I use the VLC app (I'm on Android). I use the SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Go USB Type-C Flash Drive which has both a Type-A and Type-C connector so it's easy to transfer files.
Science is never unfair, but statistics and psychology as fields often misrepresent science for personal gain. The article is arguing that it's a useless (or harmful) metric for what most people use it for, which isn't science-denial.
Non-technical users are driven to rely more and more on the web app than direct-to-OS-apps due to how easy to build they are.

> What I am missing is not a Web replacing operating systems, but better operating systems!

But, that I cannot argue.
Sure, but if time is of such importance here, copy+pasting the feedback into a new issue is faster than replying to the author and ask them to file the issue. Then it might be that they don't because of X, so you have to file it yourself anyways.

In both scenarios, just filling the issue yourself is faster
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You’re very wrong.
Yeah, key to programming the ND500 and ND5000 series was to utilize the ND100 properly. Way too much software would overload the ND100, while leaving the ND500(0) running idle.
did he 'fail' an IQ test?

taleb sometimes makes some great and interesting arguments, but I can't take rabid monologues like this seriously.
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That's just one point. Nuxt is the best way to built a multi-page web app with Vue components. Once you're using vue-router and Vuex, you might as well use Nuxt.
because cloud security (and cloud configuration in general) is hard.
people check in sensitive stuff to github repos all the time, misconfigure IAM policies just so that it works (capitalone).

It is a new and ever changing field, there are many cloud vendors and their product line and configurations change all the time - meaning it will take a lot of time until majority of IT specialists become familiar with configuring secure cloud and majority of users of those cloud services will not make security mistakes.