skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"digital gold" was a line that was made up when the people in charge refused to make the throughput more than a few kilobytes per second. It doesn't make any sense.

Why would people use an illiquid currency when there are others that have the same advantages of being able to use money electronically except for actually being able to make cheap and fast transactions?

If there was a version of gold that fluid and easy to transact with, people would use that instead gold.

There is no reason for bitcoin to exist without transaction throughput except for speculation using IOUs from exchanges.
If they leak the photos after they get the money, they might have less chance of getting the money next time.

They probably don't care for the photos. They care about making money and want to keep making money in the future.
For a counterexampel, my personal experience is pretty different. I had read almost every one[1] of Asimov's novels and short stories by the time Deathly Hallows came out when I was 16, and I was still a big enough fan of Harry Potter to finish each book the day it came out.

To this day i'm pretty confident I could pick up a Harry Potter book and enjoy it. There are different types of storytelling, and not every kind has to have balanced stakes or world-building that stands up to scrutiny. And it's not like Asimov's work doesn't have similar flaws: as much as I love the scope of the Foundation series, it does settle into a bit of a pattern of setting up seemingly insurmountable challenges and then resolving them through neat changes to the rules of engagement of psychohistory (though as a much more ambitious series than HP, it's more understandable).

[1] Literally; I was ravenous
More accurately, they are NOT tech professionals, the type of people who do IT for small private practices are not that good either and they really just don't know for the majority of it. You really can't expect these people to understand the full consequences of stuff like encryption, offline vs online media and more. To them, if it has a user name and password, that is safe right? Use the HIPPA lockbox software and it should be good right?

In the past before computers they would be putting these in files on a large file folder shelving units with colored folder tabs behind a counter and the only real security was a receptionist that would stop you if you tried to interact with it, and they locked the door to the office when they left. If someone broke into the office back then too, your medical records would've been stolen & unencrypted (beyond the illegibility of most doctor's handwriting) and as a society, we were ok with that security level.
or a security department justifying their paychecks
FB signaling is not targeted at you or me, Grandma, or most of the rest of the public.

It is to show a credible commitment to Apple's other adversaries, in an attempt to rally enough power to take them down a peg and (more importantly) win some control over the Iphone platform.
Do you think a near-quarter of the market held by a single product line counts as 'isn't that popular'?
Lex Friedman podcasts.
Бутчер is one of the best steak houses in Moscow, Russia. Steak is not $100. Here is the menu: https://butchersteak.ru/en/menu/
Christmas 2020- all hell breaks loose
What difference a year makes
They probably meant misogyny from today's archeologists rather than from bisons and mammoths. There are known instances of gender stereotypes influencing archeological discovery. For example: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/09/viking-warri...

> Since the remains were found alongside swords, arrowheads, a spear, and two sacrificed horses, archaeologists had considered it a warrior’s grave—and, thus, a man’s.
Entering personal info might also be understandable. My employer gives a Christmas gift. This year they asked us to update a form with our temporary address if we were in a different location.
If somebody breaks into a psychiatrist's office and threatens the release of embarrassing or sensitive data unless there's payment, isn't that just classic blackmail?
Cyclist here. Sibling comments are suggesting to wear shorts with pockets. That's a big nope for me; anything there will be an annoyance at best, or worse, cause chafing.

Cycling jerseys have pockets in back on the waist, which aren't annoying and, bonus, are accessible while pedaling. Another alternative is a fanny pack -- as long as you don't overload it, it can be quite convenient
Why is it not feasible to short Tesla?
It’s defense in depth. Just because you have one line of defense doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have another. The way defense in depth typically works is assuming the previous lines of defense have been thwarted. Even if you can’t foresee that happening, assume it did.

And it sounds like these employees were trained on this.

The thing I don’t like is the XMas bonus aspect. But the general idea doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Plenty of young adult books, which is what Harry Potter was, especially after the first book, engage with difficult moral situations. Harry Potter instead tells you that you can have your cake and eat it too.
Most of machines (a dozen or more) run gnu/linux for the longest time; not long ago the only deviations were lone openbsd box and the macbook pro I got issued at work (because of an ios apps development).

Apple Silicon was hyped and that hype was backed by some early benchmarks; I still was sceptical because it goes against all my Ryzen logic essentially :D

Got my hands on the Air M1 this week finally and this thing is absolutely impossible. Single-core math benchmarks (scimark4) are 10-15% faster than my trusty ryzen 3900X. Synthetic tests apart - C/C++ compilation is more than 2 (two!) times faster than macbook pro with 6core i7 CPU, that is a huge deal for me. All that with passive cooling!

On a different not another hyped thing that I really want (and waiting for) is a new Raspberry Pi 400 - it is a quite capable tiny computer embedded in a keyboard, those things are a piece of beauty I think :)
Mediafire to Delete Files and Purge Inactive Users
Ach so ja, frohe Weihnachten oder so
A company I used to work for conducted an operation with fake emails using KnowBe4. The helpdesk received an increase of "is this spam?" type tickets afterward. I think it helped for a time but don't have hard numbers. What got most people was the fake Amazon receipts.
I understand the limitations mentioned for reencoding, which are perhaps likewise applicable to other software vendors also. It does limit usage though, in my opinion. It may be fast with GPUs, but the difference on my high end machine is still of an order of magnitude if reencoding is avoided.

>> This is an interesting idea. Do you mean, have a special extension, and when you open it do your editing + auto save + at close, you've already saved the video project?

Typical video software has it like a build process. So there are these project files maintaining the list of all resources, edits performed, settings, etc. Editing a Word document needs none of it. For many casual edits, it would be great to just open a video file, make edits (e.g., rotate the video, remove some segments, increase brightness, etc.) and click save (which overwrites the original file), and all done. There's no "project", no auto-save, etc.
Frankly I think you're reading what you want to read here. I get that those are hot button issues for many people but here I really think it's just a small joke because, as you point out, obviously the distribution of fossils has very little to do with gender politics.

That being said if you want to take it more seriously sometime sexist bias does taint research in unexpected places, such as expecting that certain tools would've been used by males instead of females for no real reason for instance. It's important to be aware of these biases if you want to do good scientific work I think.
They all died, male and female alike, but a higher percent of the males left behind fossils. Meaning getting yourself killed is only part of the equation. The other part is that the manner in which you get yourself killed has to increase the odds of fossilization.
Maybe an elephant in musth chasing rhinos pays less attention to where it's going and accidentally get itself trapped in a tar pit.
For Many Bars, Christmas Could Be Last Call
Men were more likely to die in circumstances conducive to corpse-preservation, or the reverse for women. That's my guess.

At home with the compost vs out on the dusty cementicious steppe.
When you create or a edit a vm you can add a file system passthrough.

You mount this in your guest vms fstab and specify 9p in the options
You're talking about the runtime aspects of executing concurrent code (OS threads vs green threads) but these are orthogonal to the idea of async APIs, which are one way of modelling concurrent programming flows.

For example, futures in Rust can be used with both OS threads and lightweight tasks. Tokio is mostly agnostic about the choice of the executor.

It definitely takes some time to grok async Rust (even if you come from C#/JS), but I think it really shines once you get to know it, similar to the benefits you get from learning
about iterators & higher level functions as opposed to plain loops.

For instance, I've recently implemented the Raft protocol as part of a distributed algorithms course. Using Tokio and a single threaded executor made the implementation fairly readable, mostly relying on few async constructs(futures, tasks, channels and select loops) to model fairly complex behavior (bidirectional messaging, multiple states, timeouts, etc..)
Doing so in a more traditional callback oriented style would've required maintaining a very complex state machine(in addition to the state machine of the algorithm itself)

Also, Async/Await originated in C#, a language which already supports threads(and many other concurrency models), not JavaScript which historically relied on callbacks
AirPods

Not even the pros, although they're even better in some ways, but just the original AirPods. They don't even sound all that great, but the sound quality was an acceptable compromise for the freedom and convenience that they brought. I used headphones far more often in situations when I didn't normally use headphones because they were so much more convenient to use than any other headphones I've owned.
> then with inflation it’s cheaper than the handsets were in 2018

Inflation has consistently outpaced increase in salaries, so it still costs more on real terms

> I’ve got 7 Apple chargers here as well

And yet there's a substantial market for third-party chargers, even the smallest convenience stores sell them.

From personal experience the majority of everyday folk have one or two chargers in their house, and as many cables. If they sell or giveaway an old phone then a charger has to go with it.
Biggest Apple Product News Stories of 2020
"Community" made their lost season part of the show's lore by having the characters refer to it as "The Gas Leak Year": https://screenrant.com/community-season-4-gas-leak-year-expl...
That's my guess too.
Well doesn’t that make it bullshit then?

I don’t see anything about the certificate kerfuffle that in any way justifies the statement.
I don’t usually complain about spelling, but you used it twice. It’s “free rein.”

https://grammarist.com/spelling/free-rein-free-reign/
Release of GnuCOBOL 3.1.2
You have 7 chargers and not a single lightning cable? Or a wireless charger?
because you don't have a good idea as to when they will stop being overvalued?
Good point. I started to notice a lot of the Spotify recommendations sounded like half of an EDM track I might like, mixed with half of something that it should’ve never been mixed with.

Spotify also seems to think I’ll like literally anything with a house kick.

It’s an extremely difficult problem to solve though so they have my sympathy!

Nobody can really explain why they love one song and hate another, and the overlap of the Venn diagram between any two people is usually very small.

I can eat any dish at a restaurant and think it’s not very good, just ok, pretty good, great, or amazing. The same for any movie, TV show, painting, drink, book, article, ... but for a song, I either like it, love it, or hate it so much that I can’t stand it.

Music recommendation algorithms have such a narrow surface area to land on, and when they miss, they go right into a volcano.
I do like things to be called with their proper names and capitalization. I really get pissed when people refer to GitHub as "Github" or to WordPress as "Wordpress". It's Opsgenie, not "OpsGenie" or "Ops Genie", as well. I also think the profanization of calling a SoC or a CPU a "silicon" is like the "plastic" example I referred to. Let's not be lazy when referring to things.
Looks like that has a range of 11 miles, I can't seem to find an estimate of how far off land this sighting was.
I think where they deserve praise related to process is the pragmatic and frankly pretty brilliant way they worked around 7nm processes yield issues in Zen 2.

To improve yields they used a number of 8-core "chiplets" manufactured in 7nm tied together with a 14nm I/O die. This meant that while a certain blue competitor was still trying to get 28+ core monolithic dies, AMD could scale to huge core counts without reducing yields by tying together more chiplets.

Their 64-core 128-thread Threadripper workstation parts should have yields almost exactly as good as their low-end CPUs. The Xeon W 28-core monolithic monster? Not so much.

AMD did a lot of things right this time. Intel's got some catching up to do.
Not a lot of synergy from the end user’s perspective, but the value of those platforms is the advertising network, which is a massive synergy for Facebook operating all three platforms and owning all three audiences.
I don’t know how exactly a split would work but I see more downside than upside to having to recreate the ad network on each platform.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25529956.
They are referring to the Dead Sea effect: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
The fact that pressing tab x times is so slow is exactly the point. Our support for keyboard navigation is really crappy.
You’d need to be a “long-term short” - which is difficult to pull-off.
To borrow a line from Churchill, "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"
Very true. The Blackberry "pearl" was amazing at the time.
Same reason it’s not been profitable to short them for the last 3 years.
Because it assumes a rational market. And the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Sure! In Python 2.x, "class" was an instance of "type." In Python 3.x, "type" is an instance of "class." (This is, of course, an over-simplification of a much more complicated reality.)
My complaint is the anthropomorphization of animals.

Unless we know what drove animal behavior, we cannot make such attributions.

It would be like saying dinosaurs raped each other. From a human perspective their mating behavior if we knew it might look negative, but we cannot attribute intent to animals like that.
Ask HN: Data Scientist without a PhD?
If you're working in data science and don't have a PhD - do you ever feel like there is a ceiling to your career potential since you can't get any of the top research jobs? How did you manage this in your own career?

Those with a PhD working in data science - do you feel like it makes a difference? Was doing the PhD worth it for you? What advice would you give to anyone considering it?
Not that the places are likely to preserve, but a larger diversity of places.
"why haven’t we run out of suckers yet"

New suckers are created at a rate of approximately 1/minute.
>We lost the Art of interface building and turned it into a complete science

If only... Most modern companies seem to ignore any kind of science and thoughtful consideration of their UIs. The only considerations seem to be: (1) looks good on screenshots, and (2) is modern (for some arbitrary definition of modern). The only "scientific" tool they emply A/B testing, blindly and massively.

Look at some reports about beta testing for Windows 95 and you'll see how far we've fallen.
There is some sort of math behind why a 1:1 ratio is almost always selected for. It intuits like, if all of the other elephants are breeding 1:2, and you breed 2:1, you will be significantly more likely to spread your genes.
My suspicion too
Apparently if you spend all your time either working or interviewing, even at places you don't want to wind up, it'll all just come together perfectly because that's all your schedule is.

These threads get depressing real fast.
It immediately moved onto my all-time favorite list. Once I realized the main theme, I had to watch it again and loved the details and clues that were presented along the way.

In terms of visual spectacle, it may be tops. The detail and research highlighted by this 'coincidence':

https://images.news18.com/ibnlive/uploads/2020/09/1599807108...

I hadn't thought about it until now, but these days, science fiction and fantasy movies that end without everything exploding should get bonus points.
It's not likely to be the end of Facebook. What's the alternative? WeChat? But it may make Facebook less profitable.

Facebook probably doesn't really need info from tracking users outside Facebook. They already have plenty of info about what people are doing while logged into Facebook.
This Happens when the jungle is destroyed in the Mayan territory
Sad it's only in the Mac ecosystem. Would love to see this on Linux.
Marketing teams at companies are always a risk vector for security IMO and their practices should be looked at by infosec people. Not just concerned citizens (but thank you for spending your time trying to help).

I've seen some wonky stuff being put out by them and they are oblivious. As their work often crosses the line into actual web-dev stuff that has security implications. ie, landing pages and emails. And not 2FAing the countless marketing tools they use nor letting the more experienced devs know what they are up to.
The Elephant List
A law has to pass the rigorous test of court. Soft pressure just has to get a mob going on.

> Like the strange and consistent finding that people are shockingly unmotivated by monetary incentive

I find that hard to believe. Maybe again there's some strange societal pressure against voicing that money is a motivation.
Securing payments is much simpler than securing medical data in many ways because payment processors are centralized entities with established protocols for data transmission, where communication is largely many (vendors) to one or few (the processors), and where only one type of data is being moved. Health care organizations are HIGHLY decentralized entities where authentication is extremely difficult; where orgs employ many different protocols and software stacks; where many different types of data need to move freely between many orgs, with various levels of sophistication, in many different directions (patient to provider, provider to patient, provider to provider, provider to payer, payer to provider, patient to payer, payer to payer, provider to regulator, provider to researcher, provider to vendor, etc), with few established standards for how that is done (paper, phone, email, web application, fax, API, snail mail, CD, hard drive, USB, etc), with many people having access; and where organizations need to be porous, with high turnover by design. It should also be realized that a failure to access payment data or process a payment results in lost business and headaches. A failure to access medical data may kill someone, so tradeoffs between confidentiality and availability are much more nuanced.
Isn't that a market failure then? If the founder and CEO of the company says the company is over-valued, there should be someone in a position to capitalize on that information.
TBH DVDs / Blu-Rays are too low density, expensive and labor intensive, and tape drives start at $1000 and most non tech professionals don't know they even exist. 2.5TB of 25 100GB writable BDXL disks cost about $250. A 4TB drive costs $80 and a computer to throw in 3.5" HDDs pretty cheap too.
I have an anecdote from a mobile device manufacturer: a new sensor module was able to provide all sorts of biometric data to a smartphone and just snapped onto the phone, no other configuration. The device was shown to a team of top engineers and they were given a couple weeks to develop an equivalent system.

The sensing was easy and worked fine, but at the end of the project they could never replicate the seamless pairing of the device to the phone. Left with all sorts of theories about hacked network stacks...they admitted defeat. Only to then learn: the device was transmitting data with inaudible soundwaves picked up by the phone's microphone.

What you're hinting at can cut both ways: you can fake the magical, while often the magical is far simpler than you thought.
Same. And we have external audits and experts checking what we do.
Patents are currently only 20 years.
> It's a bit of a red flag if someone is in complete radio silence with all their exes, frankly.

Why?

> I'm surprised you dated enough that there's a "breakup" if you don't enjoy each other enough to have something to salvage.

Some relationships are mistakes; not all of us are prescient enough to know how they will work out. Other times you simply grow apart.
Absolutely, in the context of a physical item being shipped to you (especially if they can't just distribute it at the office), if it's not through payroll. (e.g. we had site-specific fun events in lieu of the annual holiday party)

But a cash bonus? That's the epitome of something that 1) should go through payroll and 2) should just get direct-deposited into your bank account as is the case with your regular paycheck. There's no reason why you'd need to provide any additional info.
Or, accept that many women enjoy being nurses and doctors, such that man->doctor | woman->nurse/doctor isn't weird.

It's not a competence thing, or stopped being since woman doctors are a thing, and is a motivation thing. Not to a 'better' place, but a different one.
Most EU laws are getting grandfathered in post Brexit, but the UK reserves the right to change them whenever they want. In essence, they've branched off their legal code from the EU bramch and can now commit changes to their orivate UK-only branch.

GDPR rights will most likely get eroded in the UK.
I just googled it out of curiosity and I gather from Wikipedia, if a species has more females, the families with male children will reproduce more than the families with female children, and the give birth to male genes will then rise up to 50 percent of the population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle
who is this a quote of? seems like common knowledge here.
They think they’re Don Draper making a dramatic statement against Big Tobacco
I'm sorry, but your 3 months to get Photoshop approved demonstrates why so many wouldn't want to work in such locked down environments.

And what was the cost to the company in having those debates between senior managers? Just to get a standard tool that they already approved onto a developer machine? Can you imagine the overhead that they are causing themselves?
Do you consider:

a) Being gifted a TV by a friend

b) Someone telling you they'll help you steal a TV from your friend's house

To be the same thing? Because one involves a perfectly reasonable and legal promise, and one does not. If you can't tell the difference, remind me not to invite you over.
I can’t believe this flight school does training out over open water like that. As a pilot from the Midwest I actively fly around the Great Lakes in light piston engine aircraft, even in the summer.