skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is an insane sample bias, when women look at men in ACTUAL research they tend to rate in a bell curve, and are actually kinder to age than men that tend to rate older women super low.

I think that the survey was pretty controversial and has since been quoted to death in all sorts of contexts. It would be nice to see this actual research which paints a different picture, so that folks here might actually discuss the findings.

I might have nothing to offer there, but people who work with statistics and whatnot would probably offer a good point or two.

> Women rate look as the 4th most important thing in a man.

I do think that the problem with most surveys is that there will certainly be biases in self-reported answers.

For example, if asked about what I'd prefer in a country, I might claim that I value human rights and liberty really highly, but then turn around and vote for politicians that would promise to lower the taxes instead. I would actually be picking a different set of characteristics/priorities than I had indicated previously - regardless of whether I actually believed my own answers and didn't know, or simply wanted to appear virtuous.

(just a made up example, I'm not sure how one would even measure what people actually value outside of asking them, maybe try to classify people based on various indicators)
heh, i watched a video about putting a carrot in an oximeter and it showed a reading. i swept that as covid costcutting making shoddy equipment but i had a 2016 bought oximeter and i saw 50-60% saturation on a carrot and mind=blown.

the problem is, you cant really say "ignore less than 70% saturation as that is most probably a carrot" because covid patients got as low as 50% so i don't know what to make of it
No. I am comparing matches on app with matches at a bar.

Both cases would be gender-skewed. But to have the bar scenario be as skewed as the app, one man would go home with all the women in the bar. This is not the case in reality.

There are physical limits that prevent skews from being as extreme as in apps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGGOjD_OtAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhCuzxNvv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxGQgAr4OCo

Softbank invested. What else do you need to know?

By contrast, this is not stupid:

https://gravitricity.com/going-underground-why-gravitricity-energy-storage-makes-sense/

They might still not execute well, but the idea is sound. What is different? They use a single weight, up to thousands of tons. It is suspended in a disused mineshaft, up to a kilometer deep, protected from weather. The one weight just goes up and down, i.e. it has just two moving parts, the weight and the winch. Winches are extra-mature technology.

They are talking about sealing the shaft and compressing hydrogen into it. And, maybe storing heat there, besides. Both ideas are also simple, but they don't have to work for the product to be viable; if they do work, they add value. My impression is they added those so their solution could seem more "innovative": the weight in the shaft, by itself, is a sure thing, so probably missed out on some long-shot seed subsidies. Funding in the energy sector is not well aligned.

They will probably need to figure ways to get their cost lower. Batteries are approaching $200/MWh, with people expecting that to hit $100. Certain chemistries ("Form") are quoting $20, but are probably over-optimistic. 50 years operation with no degradation could beat a nominally cheaper system that needs the expensive part replaced regularly.
A decade ago, "Agile" not "DevOps" and everything else about that statement was also true.

It's an industry cycle.
I am glad that you are doing better. The purpose for this is to reduce stress on my loved ones. Including in something that I might recover from like a coma or potential degradation of cognitive skills.
Not sure what you mean by "pseudo-economic value" How is that different from "value"? It's not like people are putting dollar values on their dating prospects, from what I've seen.

I get that the "market" framing is not very endearing, for a lot of people, and maybe not very healthy. But I don't think it's wrong. Worrying about your position in the labour market also isn't particularly healthy or endearing, but I don't think it's wrong. How are you supposed to ununderstand what you've understood?
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Thanks!

I am, however, looking at something more up to date. Like an analysis of recent events, why the market is down and etc.

Do you have a specific youtube channel you recommend?
Isn't IPFS free? This looks like a system that takes money from those who pay for storage/computing and pays those willing to allow their idle machines for use.
Here's a tweet from Elon: "... There’s no evidence whatsoever of an “emerald mine”"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1375212880790913025

and more detailed article: https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/i-talked-to-elon-mus...
There is still a gender-skew in the bar scenario, but less extreme as in the app.

If bar scenario had same gender skew as app, one man would go home with all the women in the bar that night.

There are physical limits that prevent this from happening. When a man is paired up with a woman in the bar, the man must ditch potential opportunities from other women in the bar.
Look up inflation as it is used by governments and economists, journalists and really everyone except internet 'Austrian' fans.

It's a measure of the increase of prices compared to currency value. Currency supply change can be one of the forces which affect it, but it's far from the whole picture.
I'd tend to agree to be honest. Consider this: a group of thieves jump you and pin you down, they want to perform a banking transaction on your phone. They grab your hand, extend your finger and press it against the phones sensor. They're in. On some mobile banking apps, they can perform the same.

The use of a password only known to you cannot be physically taken from you as your mind controls that authentication mechanism.
I think that someone with enough motivation can easily use your fingerprint against you.
Thanks, this is however more "mainstream" and more adjusted to the masses. I'm looking for something deeper with analysis, rather than click-bait titles.
If you're in the US than the cops can't force you to give up your password but they can force you to unlock your phone with your finger.

I think that's far more important.
1Password forces users to enter the master password at least every 2 weeks, super annoying and insecure. Eg my master password is super hard to enter, even more on smartphones, so I’m considering moving to a less secure one to avoid the PITA. All this technical innovation with Touch Id is great but then companies keep reverting to old annoying approaches when facing innovation…
Bitcoin was meant to be used.

It's being held instead of used.

Its primary purpose is destroyed.

We keep pretending as if crypto market isn't a get rich quick scheme that draws in naive people who invest (and lose).

Everything you wrote is true, except that the tool isn't being used for what it's made for and we keep playing possum, refusing to realize that each and every one of us is the same as these "evil" regulatory bodies that we're apparently at odds with.

Crypto, used for money purposes - failed. And the reason is human selfish nature and desire to get ahead with little or no effort.
Why was it disappointing in them? Don't they need to compete with Chrome and Safari's UX, that just allow those cookies?
That’s a dangerous notion, because you might be overestimating your ability to think things through in detail. It’s typical to revist a spec and iterate on it. Also a program literally is a specific spec for a given computing environment, and there are often many interesting things to figure out.
The complex journey from an idea to a final astronomical image
Most people there would probably come into work between 8 and 9am. Even if the phones were deactivated before then, most might not even have noticed (those that did notice might have had a premonition, but what are you going to do about it on your commute?).
>somehow thinking before doing got a bad rap recently (for reasons beyond me).

I've seen plenty of software devs engage in detailed forward planning for a future that would be utterly different from what they expected.

Best case this rendered all that forward planning moot and a waste of time. Medium case is they did a lot of pointless work. Worst case they technologically straitjacketed themselves and dug multiple holes they couldnt extricate themselves from easily.

Then they'd pick themselves up and do it all over again thinking that if they (or more usually somebody else) just managed to predict the future better then this kind of shit wouldnt happen. E.g. those idiot PMs just need to provide better requirements.

It's a hard rut to get out of because in so many other spheres of life forward upfront planning is critical and the future IS predictable. Software intuitively feels like it should be too. But it's the exact fucking opposite of that.

This is, at least, why certain kinds of thinking before doing got a bad rap with me.
Can You Be Addicted to Stress?
The stock market isn't down 50% over the last 12 months
> Somebody is forgetting that comparison and arithmetic operators are an interface on a type, and that almost every popular language (even many that are ostensibly “statically typed”) have ubiquitous nightmare scenarios surrounding implicit casts.

For what it's worth (and in the context of the article), Go doesn't do implicit conversions like this: you get a compiler error if you compare an int32 to a uint64, for example, and you always have to convert one to the other type explicitly. That goes for comparisons and arithmetic (neither of which are overloadable in Go).
Use It or Lose It: Why Language Changes over Time (2007)
Biometrics are not being used as a password directly. They are typically used as an identifier to unlock the secrets store on the device and then retrieve an access token (which has previously been obtained via username/password authorisation).

The biometric information never leaves the device.
They continue to be correct, the major difference when it comes to phones is that
you're constantly typing a number in plain view of everyone around you.

So you're making a tradeoff and with phones it works out slightly better if you unlock with biometrics most of the time; but you should know the five clicks method for disabling the biometric unlock temporarily.
Don't use biometrics as a password if your threat model includes: Person cloning your finger print from a glass you left at a bar, manufacturing a fake fingerprint from it and getting physical access to your device to unlock it.

Otherwise for most people it's probably better than easy to guess passwords or not using a password at all. Especially if it's annoying to type every time (iPhone passkey). Many people didn't use a passkey before, since there's TouchID or FaceID everyone uses something and it's better against a random thief than nothing at all.
> Literally anywhere, they are 50% of the world population

In a bar that plays soccer games, 3% are women. In a dancing class of bachata, ~75% are women. In a kickboxing class that have active fighters, 7% women. At least it is where I live in Europe.

> Do you need a card? Or is this one of those "if you are 6ft tall and rich women swoon over you like a disney movie" spiel?

Something like this is my opinion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31750692

> Courage, getting out there, skill, practice, being fun to be around, are skills people value much more than looks.

Agree.
> you could set up a "suicide pill" alternate password

By... rewriting or modding sudo AND the login screen of macOS? Doesn't seem like a realistic option.
You’re right that there is non-random allocation to the exposure (taking glucosamine), but this is something that can be addressed to an extent with a bit of statistics.

I was disappointed to see the authors didn’t take the additional step of doing propensity score matching or weighting to account for propensity to take glucosamine.

Here’s a good reference about propensity score matching: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144483/
You’re probably referring to Linode’s block storage. These Hetzner services are like Linode’s object storage service.

Hetzner too has block storage volumes but they cost more than storage boxes. I think block storage typically costs more because it supports higher IOPS.
A $5 wrench will retrieve a password https://xkcd.com/538/ :)
I can tell you from harsh experience that having to enter your password after a few months and struggling to remember it is strictly the worse option. It might be a PITA, but it definitely makes sense to refresh the memory once in a while.
> “You can change a password, but you cannot change your fingerprint”

I’ve never understood this argument.

I could just as easily say “someone else can use your password, but they cannot use your fingerprint”.
No the lag would drive me nuts
Probably depends on graphics and configuration, I have AMD graphics and 2 monitors.
Congratulations on graduating, if you understand the basics such as DS&A, Discrete Maths/Big-O, and theory of computation you should be fine.

I wouldn't worry too much imo as in CS there is always something to learn.
Many tech companies hiring grads are under the assumption you wouldn't be great at SWEing so they would teach you stuff and you would pick it up.

If you want to have more CS knowledge, I'd recommend joining a FOSS repo and just work on code and ask questions. Surprisingly a lot of people on the IRC channels actually like to help you out and answer questions. Plus code review is always something useful. Probs suggest something like memory is more efficient using this or using a map instead of a list.

Once again congratulations on graduating. It is good you are reaching out as many others just graduate and think it be the same as uni and just not expand out or anything.

P.S if you need any links to books for the things above I've mentioned just lmk and ill comment it.
You can do that for free and faster (and also transferring actual money, not virtual coins you need to re exchange at the end for real money to be able to anything in the real world)
So they beat you until you give the password.
> because workers produce the riches, create the value and know what it's worth. Why should the value be given to said bullshit jobs so they can do whatever they want with it including not giving workers their fair share ?

Workers only play one part in this, not the whole. The factory was built by someone who had a design for it, and you need investments, with returns for that to ever happen.

The "workers" never build any factories, it's impossible to get a large amount of people to pull in the same direction and realise such an idea, without having a central single point of leadership.

And for anyone to take on that leadership and take that risk, there needs to be a reward.

You need to think about the future, not only today. If you share everything with the workers you will just exhaust that resource, and then get outcompeted by others who allow more innovation.

As we have already seen in history for example with the car industry in detroit, or England in the late 1970s. So what is your argument for why it should work this time, and why we should apply the politics of the 1970s? No argument whatsoever other than "trust me, I know a better alternative to capitalism". Sorry but that's just nonsense.

The most important thing for everyone is to be as close as possible to the next jeff bezos. The only way you can have a good job is to be close to

1. innovation or
2. extraction of natural resources.

Because that's how value is created, and how opportunity arise. There is no pie being delivered by "someone else" for ever and ever, that you just have to divide.

Leftist always assume that these opportunities come out of nowhere, and will also last forever.

It leads to stagnation.

Sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
Am I the only one who actually finds it faster to type a password than to remove my hand from the keyboard and perform Touch ID auth?
I think this depends a lot on your threat model. (specifically referring to phones/mobile devices)

If you're at all concerned about being targeted, this is a very valid concern. On the other hand, I think using fingerprints/biometrics is "good enough" to prevent non-targeted attacks (theft, lost device) from retrieving sensitive info, and is far better than no password or a short numeric PIN.

Obviously, using a rotating alpha-numeric-symbol password is more secure, but unless you only very sporadically use your mobile device, is pretty inconvenient.

(of course, it'd probably be best to use MFA here and have a PIN code along with biometrics, but I'm not aware of any consumer devices like that)
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>Cows are very intelligent, have long term memories, and feel desolation when their calves are taken away from them

Have you ever met cows in the farm/paddock? Most cows I've come across are huge assholes, like the kind of person that hangs around a bar trying to start fights. In my mind they deserve to be eaten.
>because women ultimately bear children for multiple highly desirable men but from small pool (either through multiple marriages or staying single)

Source?
I could agree, on the other hand though it would become very hard hiding your true identity if you were using a thumbprint to identify yourself, not to mention the ability to have multiple unlinked accounts, or signing in with someone else’s account (eg your children or your partner’s) on the same service.
And that applies to only the smallest of percentage of people, and those it does would be receiving specialized trainings.
I think there is a filesystem extended attribute that marks that file as part as the rootless system. If you exclude that attribute it might prevent it from being overwritten. I haven't tested it tho.
> Everything has to have some immediate business impact.

Or more specifically, explainable business impact.

But it's hard to explain how the code has become horrible and needs a refactor to makes it easier on devs, reducing stress, reducing likelihood of both bugs, and developers leaving.
Yeah it was more theoretical speculation, probably not doable on Mac (and I don't see Apple adding this feature tbh). I wouldn't be surprised if someone's implemented something like that in Linux though.
I think you can if you pay. However, in my experience people often put Christian to indicate they were raised that way and it implies very little current belief. Unless hardcore atheism is itself a requirement I’m not sure it would be a good idea.
The 2000 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded for the discovery of organic/polymer semiconductors. The field's come a long way and there has been lots of innovation happening since. Prototypes of polymer-based ICs is nothing new (I've seen plenty of them over the last decade). Metal is still preferred for interconnects, but that's pretty cheap to process in roll-to-roll. I can vouch for this being legit. That said, polymers (soft matter) doesn't do well in heat (or light), so applications are (and will forever be) restricted to low-cost throw-away devices IMO.

Shameful plug: I'm first author of this paper reporting a world record for transistor transconductance (all technologies combined). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/advs.2015003...
Native bee key to social evolution: Bridge between flying solo or as a colony
That's why you write down your important master passwords.
Imported answer from 3rd party:

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Texturally it's similar to goat or pork. Almost like chicken but stringier. Same color as pork, same general fattiness.

That's where the similarities end. Granted both times were in seaside towns, but the flavor was akin to the way it smells when you open a can of tuna. Fishy, pungent and strong. Basically cat tasted like cheap cat food smells.
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Norwegian hydro follows an annual cycle. They get a certain volume of rain and meltwater each year, and they have to use it before the next cycle, or it goes to waste. The terrain is not suitable for the kind of massive reservoirs you may see in the US or Russia. There is often something like 5-10 TWh/year excess power they have a hard time selling.

The big issue is that electric markets are not particularly flexible. It's no longer the 20th century, when people regularly burned fuels in easily adjustable plants in order to generate power. There is nuclear, which provides inflexible base capacity. There is cogeneration, where the demand for heat is seasonal and a corresponding amount of power is generated regardless of whether someone is willing to buy it. And then there are solar and wind, which fluctuate wildly and unpredictably and produce an ever increasing share of total power.

Hydro is primarily used for filling the gaps. And if it was a rainy year and/or a mild winter, the demand for hydro, in places where it can be exported to, may not be high enough.
Vaccination-hesitancy and global warming: challenges with similar solutions
They can also threaten to cut off your finger, in which case you'd probably want to enter the password anyway. Also, your password can easily be found by looking over your shoulder or by you unlocking your device in front of a camera - which is quite likely, given how often you unlock your phone. You can also collect and fake a fingerprint, but it's a lot more effort.

On the other hand, in a few countries police can force you to use biometric authentication, but not to release your passwords. In the end, you really need to think about your threat scenario and act accordingly.
Ask HN: How to anonymize/alias emails submitted in forms?
I have a form where the user enters an email on which they want to be contacted. However, I am not legally allowed to collect anything that could potentially identify the user.

I am looking for a solution that would automatically generate a random email alias on form submission, so that I would be replying to xyz123@aliasprovider.com and they'd receive it on their john.doe@ibm.com, without me ever seeing their real email address.

This should be a solution that works fully on client side (without need to install browser plugins or perform any action), maybe hits 3rd party API or mail server, and their address is impossible to retrieve on my side.

Thank you for any advice!
Hmmm, I think it depends on how much documentation. Design docs are important to clarify and communicate the intent. But typically (at least in my personal experience), designs evolve during the implementation as better understanding and consideration of edge cases comes to light. I now personally favour light weight PoC projects for any non trivial development projects.
Does anyone know why Apple doesn’t make this standard? I’ve been using this on and off for many years and only stop because I get frustrated after an OS update reverts it. Are there licensing/security/compatibility reasons this may be the case? Seems like an easy fix.
I type a password to unlock my device, so I’d like having the option to use just touch Id in this case for 1Password