skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...

>Damore said that those differences include women generally having a stronger interest in people rather than things, and tending to be more social, artistic, and prone to neuroticism (a higher-order personality trait)

Imagine thinking that you can literally publish and circulate several revisions of an internal company memo telling 50% of your coworkers that they should be paid less because they're genetically inferior to you in regards to the job and then when people tell you that you're kind of a dick and they want nothing to do with you, getting outraged and making a grandstand about being unfairly and terribly oppressed, while bemoaning of course that people nowadays are "too sensitive".

Sadly, you can find many examples of this amazing exercise in woke coherence right here on HN.

#Edit, since I've been accused of "being ignorant" and not having read the memo by people who clearly haven't read the thing themselves. In a section titled "Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech", wholly dedicated to justifying, among other phenomena, gender pay gap for reasons other than sexist bias, in James Damore's own words:

> Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness.
This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading.

>Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance).This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs.

>Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from women in the following ways or that these differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

I've not cherry-picked these quotes. There are no omissions, they're whole, untouched paragraphs.
Zero-based budgeting. It effectively means that a project is no longer getting funded or staffed and is therefore dead.
From the way the phrase is turned, I believe they released a fix that covered all previously known PoCs but not those from that submission.

Generally speaking, that really illustrate the dumb way Intel is going about it, fixing on a PoC basis rather than going after the strong underlying problem. It basically screams "there will always be issues, the question is can you find them !".
I'm always amazed by how few shooting fatalities there are in the US. 330M population, 33K gun deaths per annum [1]. And two thirds of the gun deaths are suicides. So that's only 10K homicides per annum. That's 1 in 33K. In the UK we have 65M population, and 800 murders per annum. That's 1 in 81K. Given that the US is so heavily armed I'd expect the gun death rate to be much higher. IMHO that demonstrates that the average person is equal to the responsibility of firearm ownership.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
You cultural background probably very different from mine (I’m coming from an ex socialist country).

I’m pretty sure there are much better ways to put time into a relationship upfront, since probably nobody said on their deathbed I wish you worked more to get me a bigger diamond for our engagement. Spending time to actually know each other instead of working for piece of carbon which is very useful for some industries.

Also this weeks of salary is also something I cannot wrap my head around, I was engaged a few times, breaking off the engagement had nothing to do with the value of the engagement ring.
I didn't want to include the much longer list, if we look to more recent events, Google Play Music is in the process of being replaced by Youtube Music, but with way fewer features.
I was also a Google Wallet user, and they killed it, Google Notebook, I'm sure I can keep going if I try to remember for a few more minutes.
Speak for yourself, I love my touchbar, add was hoping they'd keep it.

Rather then getting hung up on hating, learn to like it. Pretty useful if you give it a chance.
Ask HN: How do you backup your Mac?
Four months ago, the hard drive of my MBP went dead, I was lucky that just have a backup using Time Machine so I got most of my files back. But there is no backup now (the drive used as Time Machine is also dead), worried.

Guys, how do you backup your Mac, iCloud, Time Machine, or any third party solution?
The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention
"Every jeweler who has cleaned it has thought it was a diamond"

Moissanite has a higher refractive index and higher 'fire' than a diamond. Any jeweler worth their salt should be able to discern between them with only a visual inspection.

https://i.imgur.com/Cm6gwyL.jpg - I design and make jewelry, from scratch, as a hobby. I can just look at a stone and tell you if CZ/Goshenite/Moissanite/Diamond/Glass. The differences in the stones when cut is quite apparent.
Your graph would be more legible as a matrix of (day of week) × (time of day).
I'm interested in why Google is partnering with Citi, assuming the rumors are true. Citi is notorious for having some of the worst tech amongst the churning community (churning is when you sign up for credit cards/bank accounts solely for the signup bonus which are ludicrously valuable in comparison to the ongoing rewards/perks of having the account; after the bonus is obtained you close the account and reopen it later once you are once again eligible for the signup bonus).

I originally thought the adage was a joke, but it really isn't. I signed up for a Citi checking account (purely for the signup bonus) and they have two interfaces for transferring money to other banks. One looks new but outright doesn't work. The other looks old, but does work. 90% of the links on the Citi account dashboard point to the new/non-functional interface. The other 10% point to the old/functional interface. All of the confirmation emails received for transferring money were clearly generated by a very, very old system (plain text HTML with spaces/asterisks used to space out content).

I also literally could not find the routing number for my checking account on their website. I had to use the live chat to ask for it.

A non paywalled (but different) article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/13/google-ch...
“Facebook data hacked by Google intern”

Bad: 1.0000 - Good: 0.0000

It really disliked this one, even though it probably would get attention on HN.
I wonder if the screen reflective coating is better too. AFAIK, since introduction of retina screens of MacBooks (2012) it's a matter of time that the reflective coating will start to peel off and will leave ugly blotches.
As long as Swift supports #ifdefs, I'm sure with some minor coding conventions, they could make it work.
A similarly passionate talk written for Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/WhyDebian
> Guns fucking everywhere is a problem.

Which is a bigger problem - guns everywhere or cars everywhere?
Yeah, you can, you can pawn it. 3 days = 1%
For m, it's "" ad "" kys.
Thanks, I've had a good laugh.

As for Perl, it's dead and that is good. Python fits the bill just nicely. Now if only Python could replace Javascript so there would be one language less to learn...
Spectre was exploitable from javascript, so all of your same questions apply there. The answer is that a virtual env like that doesn't really stop an attacker, they just have to sort of meta program what they want the emulator to do rather than writing native machine code themselves. A little harder, but still doable.
I had one for two months and could not get used to it, I don't even use the functions keys that much. But I also can't stand a back lit keyboard, it's just so distracting.
A Bucket of Hot Diarrhea Was Randomly Poured on a Woman by a Homeless Man
>FreeNAS is a free and open-source network-attached storage (NAS) software based on FreeBSD and the OpenZFS file system [0]

So its a BSD, but not OpenBSD

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS
Same, I use a iPad mini for music & phone conversations because I will not give up my headphones, unless they produce a wireless one that I can charge once a year and it can transfer ALAC/FLAC, and it has the sound quality of the previous one.
The TPM can be used to store and protect Bitlocker keys.
> I'm perplexed as to why they are trying to do this.

Money, as always.

>They're probably not going to earn any significant amount from providing a checking account.

That depends on specifics of the accounts and how they work. It's possible to make a lot of money off of just temporarily holding someone else's cash. Transfer firms like Moneygram make most of their cash off of interest on other people's money when it's being "sent" from one location to another.

>I can only assume that they're after the transaction data itself (looking for patterns, etc.)

This is the correct answer. The more data they can aggregate and cross-correlate, the more accurate their derived conclusions about the spending habits, psychology, and behavior of people can be. The more accurate those are, the more control, power, and money Google will have. I'm sure they don't "intend" that it will be used for anything unethical, but presently there are no laws forbidding them from doing anything at all with it as long as it's derived data.

The overall effect of them doing this research is similar to a twilight zone plot... imagine a psychologist discovers a principle within the human mind that exists within everyone.

When used, this discovery very strongly influences the target to buy whatever is on offer, to the level almost of a compulsion. Use of this knowledge is undetectable, but allows anyone who knows it to sell anything to anyone for any price they choose (within reason).

That's what Google is trying to build.
Thank God. I'm so sick of Apple making their machines worse just to shave off a few nanometers from the chassis.
Section 230 supporters turn on it, its critics rely on it
Australia has a secret ballot and uses paper ballots, as does France. I’ve voted in both countries and both see you drop a piece of paper into a ballot box, and both have seen me offered to hang around after the vote is complete to help count (I’ve not been able to find the time to do this in Australia where it would be watching more than counting, but in France I got to help count the vote). While I never saw ‘my’ vote, the process was such that it was a secret who I voted for, there was a hard copy of my vote, and it was more-or-less impossible for my vote not to be counted (marked off on a list of voters at the moment of voting, had to show ID to vote in France).

If the machines won’t offer a solution, maybe a traditional paper and pencil (Australia) or simple piece of paper in an envelope (France) could do it.
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote
It's funny but I've been using Emacs for almost 25 years and still use ESC instead of ALT/OPTION, guess that's muscle memory from using Emacs via telnet sessions.
same with me - the big price difference does not seem to be there - where can one buy these amazingly priced moissanites?
The Launch Story of Hipmunk
Given the past news about facebook and fake data and users / trust issues people have with them etc. etc. how seriously and with how much legitimacy can one take a dataset from them?

further you read this:
Analyses Performed:
>>> Noting that the data provided was already attributed to the GRU by Facebook <<< , researchers:
• evaluated the content within the folders (within Pages)
• investigated relationships across folders (between Pages)
• evaluated the content, and closely-related content, as it appeared elsewhere on the internet
and on other social networks, assessing narrative, authorship, and distribution patterns
• evaluated the content against the previously-provided SSCI IRA data set, to ascertain the extent
to which there were thematic, temporal, metadata, or collateral-based similarities between the
operations (this process is ongoing and will be addressed further in subsequent papers).
----

So, researchers/investigators started their complete methodology based upon the assumption facebook is/was correct in their attribution, didn't complete their research, and subsequently went on to write a paper about it.

Not saying theres no troll farms / fake news farms and other such practices, by private and government entities, but every time someone post anyone about it, the data is worthless, and often important items like how was this attributed to a specific entity, are completely left out. What is anyone supposed to take from such a write up?

There's nothing to learn, just to assume from it... - that's practically on par with what they are writing about...
They request all benchmark done with SMT off, they insist on doing their bench without the security fixes for Spectres/Meltdown applied, they use dubious TDP counting, ...

AMD has its fair share of issue in their own self published benchmarks, but at least when third party publish they're not forced to cripple other companies' chips.
Blackberry used to sell modified versions of their phones without cameras or the sound recorder app, to corporate and security-conscious clients. Common sense product to sell if your sales channels are B2B rather than B2C.
The brain processes and integrates emotional/instinctive responses, not abstract concepts -- even in situations where said responses are themselves caused by abstract triggers (e.g. stock market crash and subsequent loss of wealth/job/etc.).

In fact, the reason why some people are more resilient to the effects of PTSD than others is already well understood:

"While the presence or absence of any of these responses are not necessarily predictive, people who take a more active, problem-solving approach to the traumatic event are less likely to develop PTSD, while those who dissociate are more likely to develop PTSD."

https://www.voa.org/understanding-ptsd
It's very unlikely, but I would like Apple to release the touchbar as a standalone piece of hardware (not attached to a keyboard at all). That way we could have the best of both worlds: physical function keys and a nifty touch device. Would be really useful for music/video editing
Lockheed’s Stealthy F-35 Breaks Down Too Often, Pentagon Says
I think we would probably both agree that it wasn't the only factor, but it was a factor.
> Instead of thinking about what's technically possible with cache index servers, we should think about what humans typically do that inadvertently recreates centralization that nobody seems to want.

The comment you link to above makes a technical argument. It asserts what you believe is and isn't technically possible. In that sense I feel like you are moving the goal posts.
Is it really that different from a crab or a langoustine?

It does look alarmingly like a woodlouse/pillbug, but I'd guess the meat is quite similar.
Linux vs. Zombieland v2: The security battle continues
I'm thinking about using PopOS on my Thinkpad X1 Extreme, as it's rumoured to be the only Linux that supports hybrid graphics, and it's specifically designed for developers and other creators (which Macbook Pros once seemed to be).

Their hardware, though, seems to be meh. Give me this on some high quality hardware.
Not surprisingly so if you've worked with Android's Camera(2) APIs
They have been married "a long time", tweets Hansson. How long do you think is long enough?

She's a millionaire too. And with a higher credit score.

How do you know that she doesn't also collect expensive items? Because it sounds like you are fishing for a reason.

Her credit limit got raised, so apparently GS now thinks the algorithm messed up.

You write: "GS have stated that they don’t know your marital status or gender when they make the decision".

That's great - so, can they explain how they came to their assessment?

And can these models be published or otherwise made available for review in case there are mistake or systemic errors? Why can't customer service do anything better than say "wait 6 months and see what happens?"

What information does GS use, and does that information include an implicit gender bias? For example, even if gender isn't known, it can often be inferred from someone's first name.

Finally, Hansson also tweeted:

> It gets even worse. Even when she pays off her ridiculously low limit in full, the card won’t approve any spending until the next billing period.

How does that make any sense for a millionaire with a high credit score?

What would you consider a good enough argument that you wouldn't have written your comment? Because it seems impossible for either Hansson to present an argument that can satisfy you, at least, not without lawsuit and publication of materials found through discovery.
I don't understand how with all the email evidence there should be, how is it not possible to find and prosecute the person(s) responsible for ordering an illegal act by the government.
An Apple store employee texted intimate photos of customer to himself
Is there a history of people who went from entrepreneurship -> industry -> became rich -> opened a Bank? In older times these would be loan sharks but have other industrialists done that?

And is this the best use of the mountains of cash that these companies (google-apple-facebook) have hoarded?
Just like one diversifies their investments, clearly it pays to diversify services you use as well. Which is the exact opposite message companies like Google push: "use us for everything, it will be convenient!" Until you lose everything in one fell swoop.
Well, the bank might cut you off if you do some really weird stuff with money. Google tends to shut down your access to everything in their ecosystem for minor and arbitrary reasons, like commenting with emoji on a lifestream, or logging in to GMail after a few years and setting a mail forward.
Notification Permission Changes for Firefox
That's easy to claim. Ever done a blind test?

Anyway, I imagine no jeweler when asked to clean a stone, is going to blurt out "That's not a diamond!" No positive customer reaction possible there.
>There's rumors that a couple of the big cloud vendors use them on network cards for SDN.

No rumours needed, the papers are out there in the open.
How does 1mm travel distance compare to the external magic keyboard for iMac?

I REALLY loved the short travel distance of .55mm :( I could type so much faster, bordering on 160wpm
I think USA Today has forgotten how dangerous most industry is. Especially construction work. 8,000 workers in an environment that hazardous are going to injure themselves. At a concert with 8,000 people you can expect that there will be medical emergencies, fights, and 911 calls galore. That's without heavy lifting, and machinery that can remove limbs.

What's surprising to me is that they haven't had a fatal accident yet. After a couple years of operation you would expect at least 1-2 people to die actuarially speaking in a worker population that large.
> Do you need $200M to operate a twenty person firm for four years and to keep the lights on to make follow on investments for the next six years? Not really.

What a joke. Ofc you do. Like all satire aside, that's a middle-class statement.
Astroboffins baffled as Curiosity rover takes larger gasps of oxygen
Tack on a piece of mostly-transparent tape, to give your video calls that authentic softened look.
Then it's not capslock. By using it to switch input layouts, you admitted it's useless.
I touch type everything but the function keys, including using shift, alt, and control.

I'm sure the lack of a touchbar is very annoying to people who have taken such a class but I'm skeptical that most people, or even a significant portion of developers, have taken computer typing.
Rivers can sometimes feel like surface-level details, but it's surprising how ancient they can be. One of my favourite geographical factoids is that the Amazon and the Congo are thought to have once been part of the same river system in the supercontinent of Pangaea more than 100 million years ago, with the Amazon part then flowing east to west and emptying into the Pacific.
Our VIM Overlords
Not OP, but I had never heard of them before.
Oh that's great, alleviates my concerns, which was like, how do you know you're even asking the yubikey to do key generation rather than a malicious actor generating a private key and placing it on the yubikey. Thanks!
I have had my current bank (Chase) steal all the money in my checking account for a lot less than an emoji comment, to be fair.
isnt this a bit like psychohistory from foundation?
How do you step through code? I use the Function keys to step over/into/out of methods/functions when debugging, without having to look down at the keyboard.
So what happens if I'm posting too many emojis on youtube? [1]

I know I'm losing my email account as well all my personal data on Google Drive and in Google Photos. Am I also going to lose my bank account if I'm careless enough to bank with Google?

[1] https://www.insider.com/markiplier-youtube-fans-heist-lost-a...
Tesla Boss Elon Musk Reveals Berlin as Location for Euro Gigafactory
Training my brain to focus helped me to build two profitable businesses
Making It Easier to Manage a Production PostgreSQL Database
Disclaimer: My apple experience is pretty much limited to trying to figure out why Safari is the only browser once again not doing things right, to helping my mother with her iPhone and to trying to make iTunes work in an (imo) sane way.

> Now imagine I'd make the switch from macOS to some other OS - I'm quite certain that it would be worse.

My impression of everything Apple has always been "There is one god-given way to do a thing. And it’s wonderful". But as soon as you don’t want to do it that way, things become weird or impossible.

If that’s even close to the truth, it would make a lot of sense that the opposite road is hard as you are trained to do things one certain way only.
That one is a keeper.

Here's a similar story: https://hackaday.com/2013/05/20/adding-leds-to-an-engagement...
According this article (https://www.businessinsider.com/us-gun-death-murder-risk-sta...) your chances of dying from a motor vehicle incident is approximately three times higher than dying from a gun assault.
Database Is Not a Queue – A Live Example
Pick up a physical activity.

I do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) and I liken it to learning how to program. It's got a huge learning curve and you can go months/years feeling like you've learned nothing, but eventually something clicks and you become proficient at certain aspects, all while being clueless around people that are much better/more experienced than you.

While it's a combat sport, I liken to think of it as "playfighting for adults". It's also great to get out of the house/office for a while and to socialise with people outside of your immediate friend/career circle. On the mat your ultimate currency is nothing to do with race, gender, career, or earning potential - all that matters is skill, and that's a great thing.

Finally, for a sport that can be rough, I find it does wonders for my back and hands. Sometimes I feel rough after 8+ hours of typing in a chair, and BJJ seems to make my hands/shoulders/back feel much better.
You can also factor out gang-related gun homocides since your average American/tourist is not involved in organized crime. Basically, the chances of being killed randomly by a mass shooting or random murderer are extremely tiny.

I will say though that even ignoring gun homicides, our average homicide rate in the USA is rather high compared to other western countries.
Well, you also get $1550 in cash when buying the base model. I am sure that this is more than enough to pay someone to make it just as user friendly.
Google Partners with Citi to Offer Customers Checking Accounts
Most of that traffic is probably peer to peer (they use ICE), you only really need traffic relays for a few degenerative NAT cases.
Convoy raises $400M, to a $2.75B valuation
Anyone know why they didn't use the latest 10th gen processors?
The peer pressure is stroooong for women.