skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not understand how people say there's virtually no latency. There is, and it's _huge_, because light is actually quite slow and no tech can improve on that.

Makes me think people that say this have never played on a high end PC, which in turn has lower latency compared to a last gen console. And that's considering the fact that even modern PC have a TON of latency. NVIDIA seems to be working towards that, thankfully.

I bet playing Quake 3 Arena multiplayer on Stadia would be noticeably worse that on a PC from 20 years ago.
but it's not even ransom, "ransom" is the situation where something/someone is held until money is payed and then it's returned.

There is nothing being returned here, since the hospital has not lost access to the data, and the threat is that private data will be published.

This is just blackmail.
git name-rev?
hmm, good question. I guess I'd heard for a while that he was one of the best writers out there. Maybe he's just hyped in the corners of the internet that I wander.
Weird. It seems like the female children would almost always propagate their genes, while the male children would either rise to the top and have many children or lose the competition and have very few or none.

It's always weirded me out for harem species in particular... the odds of producing a male that is competitive enough to be a harem leader seems pretty low.
I don't remember the exact language of the training but there's a "use your head" element. Someone you don't know is emailing you something that doesn't really make sense - stop and don't comply. There are lots of reasons the email could have internal addresses (a misconfiguration, a similar-looking domain, an internal threat, whatever) - don't rely on that if other red flags are up.
You might notice the enormous rigid wingsuit in those videos...
How common is it across species that males are larger? It's definitely not universal.
In the context of an action sci-fi western blend, that’s good writing to me, I enjoyed watching it.

Even though the formula is simple, the events didn’t feel predictable to me.

And I could easily imagine more complex plot that would be less satisfying to watch.
I can't think of a worse idea than telling people their mobile app should be scrapping their desktop page for data.
I haven’t tried a national chain’s version. I have tried Honeybee in Los Angeles. I thought it was better than Beyond Meat patty but I do still like pure veggie patties too. https://honeybeeburger.com/
Worst case scenario, Intel becomes the "new IBM" and is left supporting roughly ~3 decades worth of legacy equipment.

Literally worst case scenario for Intel, which isn't really that bad.

In a medium / better case, Intel simply has to deal with opponents who are slightly faster and/or power efficient than Intel, but still gets a slice of the general market.
> Nobody is asking or even suggesting that you develop software in a notebook

It doesn't have a huge audience at present, but https://nbdev.fast.ai/ is doing just that. I'm personally of the opinion that those looking to use notebooks as a programming environment would be better suited by something like Smalltalk. That is, something that seamlessly blends between stored programs and the runtime. You can see some progression towards this in VS Code (I believe there's an issue about exposing variables evaluated in the ipython REPL in autocomplete), so I'm not terribly bullish on Jupyter-style notebooks being the next big thing.
They're out: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
They have been available for a while. Lookup AWS Graviton instances.
If you are a member of a species with 3 females to every 1 male, that means the average male of your species has 3 times as many offspring as the average female.

Under those circumstances, if you have a mutation that causes you to produce all male offspring, you will have many more grandchildren than average.

This pressure will always favor producing whatever sex is in short supply, pushing sex ratios to 50%.
They're also not close enough to a monopoly to worry any regulators.
That nickff's comment asked whether both a promise of a bonus and a promise of a bribe would be equally considered a "promise of compensation"? That's who I was replying to.

Whether or not a promise of a gift is a legally binding contract, there's a vast difference between a promise of a gift and a promise of a bribe.
You can’t become the world’s first trillionaire by sharing extra profits, silly rabbit!
When their internal memo about "connecting people" was leaked to the public, some FB employees wanted to actively select for loyalty in their hiring process:

> Leakers, please resign instead of sabotaging the company

> How fucking terrible that some irresponsible jerk decided he or she had some god complex that jeopardizes our inner culture and something that makes Facebook great?

> Although we all subconsciously look for signal on integrity in interviews, should we consider whether this needs to be formalized in the interview process?

> This is so disappointing, wonder if there is a way to hire for integrity. We are probably focusing on the intelligence part and getting smart people here who lack a moral compass and loyalty.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/30/17179100/facebook-memo-le...
file.pizza does not work between Win10 & android. Oddly, sending from W10, receive on android, when I enter the url into android, it successfully transfers the file name - but the actual file bits are 404.

I agree with the sentiment: Why is this so hard in 2020? Normally, by now, we would have routed around the damage.
I like python, python3 might be ok but I dont care
This sort of thing is why people need to stop thinking that the digital world is analogous to our analog one.

In digital, information wants to be free and many kinds of resources are effectively unlimited. There is no material scarcity. Therefore, theft, in the digital world, can't be the same as it is in our analog world.

To be fair, this also applies to copyright and peoples' foolish notion that they can protect data without a great amount of preventing otherwise normal "physiological" processes. (Ironically, rather than having a wake-up moment where people realize their folly, we've institutionalized these resource-scarcity regimes into resource-abundant versions in the digital world)

To summarize, info wants to be free, and since theft requires extra effort to deprive someone of what you stole, does that definition of theft really apply here? Or does it need to change given the context? And, as a secondary point, people like to think they can protect data but their brains are stuck in our analog, resource-scarce world
The Wire: Way Down in the Hole is a podcast that talks about each episode of The Wire. The hosts are Jemele Hill and Van Lathan.

Some of the background they give is that the cast and crew didn't think there would be a Season 2, that David Simon wrote Season 5 without Dennis Lehane or George Pelecanos, etc.

https://www.theringer.com/way-down-in-the-hole Now that The Ringer has been bought by Spotify you might have to be a subscriber to listen to it.
Why would they have access to the number plate database? Surely that's a GDPR violation.
I have a Pinephone. Its incredible. We need more users. Buy one! The next generation is on it's way and it's supposed to be pretty awesome.
Hey if your work on OSS infrastructure, it's not really that bad.
Yeah I can easily get 2 days when I turn off always-on. Sometimes I do because the watch distracts me sometimes when its always on. But the screen is also bigger, that doesn't help.
A company is not an army.

You don’t train your employees on active shooter drills by having a guy barge in shooting blanks.

Source: was in the army.
I don't dismiss the use case, I just bemoan that they are becoming increasingly draconian in enforcing that use case on everyone, even those who would like to gain some of the benefits that Apple does offer, without having to deal with the cruft.
Fossils aren't bone. They're mineral deposits in the space the bone used to be. In rare cases there might be some original tissue but for the most part fossils are formed from sediment(?) infill. Preserved bones are...bones and not fossils. Think of fossilization like lost-wax casting.
It's in general availability at AWS today.

AWS Graviton2 is available for the M6g, T4g, C6g and R6g instance families, and more. (variants with more networking and local storage ones too)
Another new Covid-19 virus variant found in Nigeria, says Africa CDC
I guess my question is, even if they are different, why is that difference material for the purpose of the conversation?
Nice, thanks totally missed them. Do we know how performant they are compared to their x86 offers?
Ask HN: What do you think of Ross Ulbricht?
There is a recent push to have Ulbricht pardoned by Trump. I reviewed previous HN threads and found these primary sources. The one I find most damning is from the appeal's court decision [1]:

"The district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht commissioned at least five murders in the course of protecting Silk Road's anonymity, a finding that Ulbricht does not challenge in this appeal. Ulbricht does not mention his orders for the commission of those murders until his reply brief. Even there, he does not argue that the district court erred in concluding that he deliberately commissioned those murders; rather, he claims instead only that the murders did not support a life sentence because they did not actually take place. But in evaluating Ulbricht's character and dangerousness, the most relevant points are that he wanted the murders to be committed, he paid for them, and he believed that they had been carried out. The fact that his hired assassin may have defrauded him does not reflect positively on Ulbricht's character. Commissioning the murders significantly justified the life sentence."

Given that Ross, his lawyers, and his mother didn't deny that Ulbricht commissioned the murders in Ross' post-conviction and pre-sentencing letter [3], his appeal [1], nor the recent push for a pardon, I lean towards Ross having commissioned the murders.

[1] Appeals court decision with a good summary of everything: https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-ulbricht-10

[2] District court judge's denial of request to preclude evidence of murder-for-hire: https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/New_York_Southern_District_Court/1--14-cr-00068/USA_v._Ulbricht/142/

[3] Ulbricht's post-conviction and pre-sentencing letter to the judge: https://freeross.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ross_Letter_to_Judge_05-22-2015.pdf#page=2

[4] Original indictment: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/2015/03/25/US v. Ross Ulbricht Indictment.pdf
This article is basically numerology (TA) and offers very little insight on Intel. Unless you are interested in the intel stock you don’t need to read.
Also, long and short positions aren't symmetric, because there is no non-margin way to enter a short position. This makes the ability of the market to stay irrational more likely to go bite you in a short position than a long one, ceteris paribus.
They don't, which is why a lot of the money for YouTube premium goes to the content creators videos you liked and watched. The only way that they don't get paid is if the premium user clicks dislike.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en
My theory is - it's probably on purpose. If you spent $100 to reach your audience, your ROI would be pretty good for the $100. What if you spent $200 for the same audience reach? You still get results, albeit it's a bit more expensive now. But still better than other competitors out there because they don't have as much granular data about a user as Facebook does. Not even Google has this level of detail (Who are your friends, what you like to eat, What topics you like to chat about, etc.)
This move by MS should drive AMD and others to invest in Linux adoption and to push Windows to the curb in desktop usage. There is no good reason Linux didn't gain higher percentage market share besides no one being upset enough about MS monopoly and concentrating the effort against MS market power.

Now AMD and Intel have strong motivation to invest more in the Linux ecosystem. Windows can be beaten and it will be.

And investing in adoption doesn't only mean improving the stack and etc. It means putting some effort into making desktop Linux available as pre-installed on computers consumers can easily buy when they need a new PC.
You might find this channel interesting https://youtube.com/c/DankPods
It’s a guy taking iPods and breathing new life into them
Fact check: True
I guess that's subjective. In my old company, people generally just felt "yup, people are out to get us, and this test is making me realize how vulnerable I am to screwing it up and is therefore a good reminder."

However this one makes you feel, how would you feel if this was the real phish and you were the one who leaked sensitive customer data because you fell for it?
> While many VPNs strive to keep customers private and secure, this company clearly crossed a line

Really wondering where is the line and why aren't other supposedly no-logs VPN services not getting shut down left and right?

Is it the "5 layers of anonymous VPN connections"? Many other VPNs today offer 2 hops out of the box and it's easy to chain multiple VPNs yourself

Not operating in a 14-eyes (or however many there are now) jurisdictions and cooperating with LEA behind the customers' backs? Many VPNs are based in shady offshore places as well

Ignoring abuse reports and DMCAs? Pff, everyone ignores them or responds with non-answers

Targeted advertisements on hacking forums?
A Tesla has 40+ Electronic Control Units. Even if you just look at that, it's way more complex than a phone. Sure, the powertrain has fewer parts in an EV, but everything else is still the same as a regular car, and all of that stuff is a lot of stuff.
We actually don't know what the usual communiqués internally at GoDaddy look like. In a vacuum we can also judge this to be an effective test. In practice there are many unknowns and factors we don't know about though. In my opinion phishing is also an issue at scale when we talk about companies; meaning, there's a likelihood that some will always be more likely to fall for it.

Given how the world has been this year and what some employees maybe have gone through the employees that will fall for this particular phishing emails may actually need more support from their employer.

Either way, this isn't a vacuum and we are talking about a test that is unnecessarily cruel.

Edit: just to make this more constructive, there are always alternatives. Instead of relying on emails only employees could be informed to check in via a second channel in all matters relating to money or a company's IP.
Actually, I'd love to see this sort of hue-only varying comparison to several other popular color spaces, including CIELAB and HLS, too.
Makes you wonder at what point FBI etc will go crying to legislatures to ban all VPNs because of the potential for someone to do something naughty with it.
Thanks. I'm getting trounced on Apple posts. Open computing is why we are all here. Without it, where would we be, right?

Short sighted profiteering.
Yeah but guess what - employees put their families' well being ahead of the company. And a company that expects otherwise is cruel or delusional.
Just found that: http://junsun.net/wordpress/2020/06/geekbench-performance-of...
For the curious
Theo makes Linus look like Mr. Rogers
> I personally find it unlikely that YouTube Red will inevitably have the same fate.

Do you mean "won't"?

Unrelated: I believe Netflix already makes some money from product placements in its "Netflix original" content.
The one made in China? 10m40s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KiItd6I3VHU
Thank you for your service. Hopefully you can appreciate the tradeoff between mental/emotional discomfort and an actual problem that was the point of my analogy.
This piece has a list of about 60 things he signed off on. Not sure which were promises and which were carryovers. Maybe you can explain them all as not his doing, or too insignificant to give him credit:

https://medium.com/@DavisJames/making-the-decision-from-a-st...
To clarify, I'm not saying your assumptions are necessarily wrong, or that you shouldn't try to test them and see what happens.

I'm just proposing another possibility is that everyone playing on both sides is a "punter" having fun (or deceiving themselves). In any case, that everyone is losing long-term. With 5% vig I'd guess that's the most likely possibility.
I really like Stadia but I've been using GeForce Now and it's a VERY similar experience but I like the model of buying the games on libraries you already have. Stadia is a tiny bit better in the networking but GeForce Now has better graphics I feel like. Both are an amazing experience on a good internet connection. I actually think that once 5G is wide spread there is a chance it could have a MASSIVE impact on the gaming market.
The thing about season 5 is that it doesn't stand up well to the other seasons, but it does stand up reasonably to most other television; I'm not sure it's quite in this category.
The method to get fair flips from an unfair coin is interesting and was recently on hackernews. say a coin is heads(H) 70% of the time. that means it must be tails(T) 30% of the time. If you flip it twice, and calculate the odds of each pair of flips (multiply the probabilities) - HH 49%, HT 21% TH 21% TT 9%. The middle two outcomes are equal probability, aka a fair coin. So ignore HH and TT flips and use HT and TH as Head and Tail of the 'fair' coin.
From Amazon Prime: "In 1948, Claude Shannon introduced the notion of a 'bit,' laying the foundation for the Information Age. His ideas power our modern life, influencing computing, genetics, neuroscience and AI. Mixing contemporary interviews, archival film, animation and dialogue from interviews with Shannon, 'The Bit Player' tells the story of an overlooked genius with unwavering curiosity."

https://thebitplayer.com/

Released in 2018; 85 minutes.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08D291YQS/ref=atv_wl...
Intel is a major investor in SiFive [1]. I think they're aware of the need to diversify in the CPU space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiFive#Growth
Melted fuel removal at Fukushima delayed by pandemic
The Italian Immigrants Who Grew Fig Trees in Unlikely Places
There are other examples of this. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/11/prehistor...

> it revealed that between 30 and 50 percent of big game hunters could have been biologically female.

> This new study is the latest twist in a decades-long debate about gender roles among early hunter-gather societies. The common assumption was that prehistoric men hunted while women gathered and reared their young. But for decades, some scholars have argued that these “traditional” roles—documented by anthropologists studying hunter-gatherer groups across the globe since the 19th century—don’t necessarily stretch into our deep past.

And that's just looking at the first hits on a search engine.

Whether or not there is indeed a systemic bias in archeology, this makes it worth mentioning that in that case, we're sure it's not bias.
Who are you and how are you me?

I'll throw in Saturn Bomberman with 2 6-player taps for a total of 10-player mayhem on a single screen.

Also, if you haven't seen it... https://bravewave.net/panzerdragoonsaga
I worked on Piano in my 20s and a bit in my 30s and had several different in person teachers. I did almost no music as a kid.

Sometimes you just picked the wrong instrument.. The day I officially gave up piano (with RSIs from piano even) I bought a guitar as a consolation "I didn't really give up" thing.

That was about 6 years ago.. I've taken guitar lessons the last 4 years and have had great success compared to piano. I would say my guitar teacher is a much superior teacher than the piano teachers I had though.

Sometimes you just picked the wrong instrument. I don't miss piano at all really. I still love the piano but it wasn't for me.. and guitars are far more affordable which is very nice.
The iPhone.
At first there was hype, confusion and criticism (who would use a software keyboard?).. and with time, it redefined computing in a way few devices did.
Slightly related, and of interest to minecraft players and speed runners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iqpSrNVjYQ
> Isn't that a market failure then?

By definition, every non-ideal behavior of real markets is a “market failure”.

Real markets, as opposed to Econ 101 idealized ones, are full of market failures, both due to structures that Econ 101-level analysis ignores about basic market structures and human irrationality.
It wouldn't have been such a mean thing if they then gave the bonus to every employee, regardless of them passing the test or not.
OF COURSE! We're not talking about prioritizing the company over people. We're talking about training people not to fall for what they could discern as a phish if they took a sec.
Will the intersection of deep learning and differential geometry obviate the need for Euclidean representations altogether? It would be amazing if these functions became almost like fossils. Historical curiosities of a bygone civilization ;)

Differential geometry for deep learning

https://metacademy.org/roadmaps/rgrosse/dgml
A lot of fantasy UI's were a reality back in the day with FVWM.
Check their gallery, and look up FVWM screenshots in the net.

Proof:

https://www.deviantart.com/xevz/art/FVWM-2-5-14-X-org-6-8-2-...

https://www.deviantart.com/topperharley999/art/FVWM
Even in harem species, on average, each male gets exactly the same number of offspring as a female. If say 75% of the specimen would be female, being a male would yield on average thrice as much children compared to a female, so it would be evolutionary beneficial to be male.

The only species where the ratio is different are those where sex is determined with different genetic mechanisms. For example, in hymenoptera (ants and wasps), males are born from unfertilized eggs, which results in a 1:3 ratio between females and males.
When sending, it should appear under the share menu when you share something and to receive you just need to go on WiFi direct which can be opened under the WiFi screen.
Dead link for me, but archive.org has a snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20201224185231/https://rise.cs.b...
In my experience HIPAA is taken very seriously in the sense that people are willing to have meetings about HIPAA, with furrowed brows and serious expressions and a lot of signatures. Are the actual end-products more secure? No probably not. Of course this probably varies drastically from place to place.
SeekingAlpha contributors are paid per click, and this author's article has a clickbait title, is short, light on technology, light on fundamental analysis, and instead is just technical analysis and chart reading.

People are clearly just upvoting based on the title.

(No position on INTC.)
Check FVWM themes/styles. Those were revolutionary and inspiring. And, well, usable, as they were used by real life users and not just for showoff. Ahem, Edex UI and similar crap.
HIV Research Laid the Foundation for Covid Vaccines
wasn't the bonus real, though?
In fairness though, mainstream articles aren't much better.
Just note: you're throwing away 58% of your results! The original coin flip runs 230% the speed of your new RNG (that throws away so many results).

The Von Neuman method is a great way at demonstrating that removal of bias is possible, but not necessarily practical (especially at high bandwidth). In practice, you want to just cryptographic_hash(coin flips), which should maximize your entropy up to the entropy limit of 1/2 the hashsize (assuming you have a perfect cryptographic hash function).

A 512-bit perfect cryptographic hash can only support 256-bits of entropy, due to the birthday attack.
Quantum wave in helium dimer filmed for the first time
It was sent from “@gocladdy.com” and tried to trick users with the kerning between “d” and “cl”, where are you seeing it was an internal address?