skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the camp where I don't want systems to do fancy validations on passwords but I do think expiring passwords is not a bad idea. The thing is that many times your password can get stolen and you might not even know it. I've seen people writing down their passwords on sticky notes, saving in Chrome, get stolen by fake apps etc. At least for Windows, expiring passwords wasn't huge pain because of integrated authentication everywhere.
you're right. it doesn't. i've seen pits that have germinated and taken root all by themselves in the leaf litter below an avocado tree.
Right clicking in a Finder window should allow you to open a "New iTerm2 Window Here" if you are an iTerm user.
A bit off-topic, but it seems articles with "in Rust" or "in Go" tacked on the end are consistently upvoted to the front-page. I wonder how well this reflects actual usage of the languages Rust and Go...
> aren't we making people a lot more selfish?

It depends. When I dug deep, I realized that I get a lot of pleasure out of being a good guy: I currently mentor a kid (and have been doing so for 10 years). Very satisfying. A really shallow analysis might make it a case for using drugs.
It sounds to me as though the setup only appears wonky and unnatural to us because it's an equilibrium of various needs and interests that clash against one another.
Google seems to be sort of like a sect of narcissists.
That's also why hyperbaric oxygen therapy is an effective treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning. Even when all the hemoglobin receptors are bound to carbon monoxide, enough oxygen will diffuse into the blood to keep the patient alive.
>Twitch streamers famously lose so many subscribers to even a day away from their stream

Are you saying people will unsubscribe from Twitch channels because it didn't post a video for a day? That sounds crazy. Why does it happen?
Levittown
How is that different from the comment you're replying to?

"...and sold how you want"
A bit of backstory:

NZ has socialized medicine, with a central drug buying agency (Pharmac) who tries to save costs where it can. It also has a drug safety agency (Medsafe). Not uncommonly, Pharmac reckons they can save money by switching brands, and Medsafe may raise concerns.

In 2017, Pharmac moved from funding a branded formulation of venlafaxine (Effexor) to a generic formulation (Enlafax). A lot of patients reported issues (almost 2k, which is a fair number given the size of the country), and it was a bit of a black eye for Pharmac. So Pharmac went and paid a researcher at a local university to study brand switches in general and the 2017 venlafaxine switch in particular, and show (hopefully) that the issues weren't real, hadn't caused significant problems, and that it was totally fine to switch psychiatric meds. (Which is relevant now, because Pharmac is looking at switching another medicine, Medsafe has raised strong concerns ("potential significant safety issues", "goes against international consensus", etc.), and Pharmac wants to find a way to move forward while covering their ass in case it turns out Medsafe is right.)

In any case, the result was this study. It could well be right, but uh, do keep in mind the context, which is that the researchers got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to conduct it by an interested party hoping to save millions of dollars and fend off accusations that they had harmed people and risked lives.

Any study funded by people with such a strong interest in it having a specific outcome that then comes out with the exact outcome should be taken with a grain of salt. Doubly so when the study omits to disclose that funding!

Local NZ article with a good roundup of the current controversy, the 2017 issues, and the linked study: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/390615/guyon-espiner-inv...

Note: The article says that Petrie received NZ$400k from Pharmac for the study. For anyone wondering if that's right, the answer is: Yes! Although it took the NZ equivalent of a FoI request to find out. See https://www.pharmac.govt.nz/news/oia-response-2018-12-12-res... And note that the study itself disclosed nothing about funding. Given that Pharmac has a very strong and very obvious vested interest in this matter, I find this ethically troubling.
I've watched this interesting (but long) talk by Brian Sheron, retired director of Nuclear Regulatory Research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryI4TTaA7qM

It gives me a better understanding of the risk of nuclear power, particularly for current US reactors, and what our regulatory agencies actually focus on: really it's on preventing direct radiation induced deaths, and not so much on property damage. So: It's not so much that accidents directly kill people, instead they kill the land. The idea is that loss of cooling incidents are contained for a significant amount of time- at least 8 hours. I'm dubious, but this is thought to be enough time to evacuate people from the land that will eventually become contaminated. Only when people move back do people die, and then only from increased cancer risk (Brian says this becomes an EPA problem). So now the land is lost, because who would move back? [of course this focuses only on deaths from radiation, and not for example, deaths caused by stress to elderly people forcibly relocated].

I did not remember when people were evacuated after the Fukushima accident, but it was pretty quick, here is a timeline:

https://www.oecd-nea.org/news/2011/NEWS-04.html

There is another question I'm still trying to answer. If the final heat sink is lost (someone blows up a dam), can the reactor be shut down without incident, assuming no blackout? This would require that the decay heat is spread across a large enough surface area. I'm not sure if the containment building provides such an area (a 1000 MW reactor generates ~70 MW decay heat after shutdown). It reminds me that this is another area that NRC does not focus on: "terrorist attacks are a military problem".

Edit: well I answered my own question from wikipedia entry on containment building: "While the containment plays a critical role in the most severe nuclear reactor accidents, it is only designed to contain or condense steam in the short term (for large break accidents) and long term heat removal still must be provided by other systems." So if the heat sink is a man-made lake held by dam, it's a big risk (of course dam loss would cause direct loss of life anyway). I was wondering about this because my inlaws live near Duke Energy's Oconee Nuclear Station, on man made Lake Keowee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Keowee
>> People are either French or not French. It doesn't make sense to say that someone's not very French, for example.

> Genetics exists.

What would you mean if you said that someone is genetically French?
What is up with the Millenials Do X, Millenials do Y? I don't remember reading this kind of stories for previous generations. Why are things attributed to a collective like this, it's weird.
It's not just the brain. All the body's organs require perfusion. The heart will also quickly die without perfusion. Other organs will survive a little longer.
HBO seems to still be producing very good dramas. Prime has had one or two offbeat gems recently. I think there’s still a strong market for it, but Netflix is clearly pursuing something else.
That's a very good explanation! But it's certainly worth looking carefully into it to reach/validate that explanation.
There is a huge psychological difference between 1% and -1% interest. People do not react logically to loss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion). Even though regular bank accounts have provided negative real interest for years, once they actually switch to explicitly "paying" negative interest, accounts will empty fast.
Well not really. Cooling the patient down will give you a few hours at most under ideal conditions. Metabolism isn't turned off, just slowed down. If you freeze the patient the ice crystals damage the cells so much that revival becomes impossible.
Haha touché.
The Constitution also gives Congress the right to regulate immigration and naturalization.
I suspect they're gambling that once people have sampled the "don't get off the couch" convenience of streaming, piracy won't be an appetizing alternative. I did always think that piracy was more about convenience than price for people who aren't broke college students.
Obama promised to close Guantanamo, and sent plans to Congress to do so. Congress never approved those plans.

You could try to figure out the expected costs of doing what you propose. What are the odds that (for example) Warren becomes president, the plan gets passed by Congress, and is substantially unchanged? Oh, and how long does it take? The analysis changes if it takes 1 month or 3 years.

Then you need to work out what your debt would grow to, assuming minimum payment.

Warren's plan only cancels the first $50K and only for those making under $100,000/year, so you'll also need to figure out your expected salary.

Even if the expected value says it's worthwhile, you also need to consider the full effects of paying a minimum. Are you willing to risk the worst case? Perhaps the political winds change and your debt situation actually gets worse? How will it affect your credit rating in the meanwhile?
The front page isn't an indicator of usage, it's an indicator of interest, and specifically the interest of the type of people that read HN. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Rust seems to have garnered the interest of a lot of those types of people, whether or not they are currently using it.
Author here. Would also love to know if any chemist/physicist knows the definitive answer to this :)

Also: why do some watches purposefully leave an air bubble in the watch? Is this an aesthetic choice or is there any benefit/detriment to it?
New drug therapy slows spread of pancreatic cancer: study
It might be difficult to provide the truthful answers. For example, I don't remember all of my current phone numbers, let alone those that I might have used in the past. Also, I don't remember all the names of fake SNS accounts I created, and don't remember throwaway email account names.

Also, US three-letter agencies already have access to Google, Twitter, Facebook and have all necessary information, as Snowden has said, so I guess it makes no sense to provide it again.

Maybe they just are trying to build a cause to be able to deport anyone from the country or reject entry. In this case it would be better to pass a law that allows to do it.

Also this is a good reminder that you better not post too much details about yourself in social networks, otherwise it can be used against you. And Hackernews is not considered a social network, right?
On the contrary, it's not weird at all. It's incorrect, but such thinking in collectives is entirely natural. It's seeing past such things and recognizing that one should not to attribute things to collectives like this that is unusual.
Recreational dive limits are usually set at about 100 - 130ft (30 - 40m) depending on the training standards in use.
Preferential attachment [1] can generate power law.

Barabási–Albert model [2] is one model of that process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barab%C3%A1si%E2%80%93Albert_m...
I think Hyundai warrants hybrid batteries for the life of the car. California considers batteries to be part of the emissions control system. So has a longer warranty.

Actual experience seems to show that hybrid and electric car batteries are lasting longer than expected. Except for the Leaf with it's crummy thermal management.
Politicizing domestic/civil legal issues is historically a failure and has huge blowback.
As far as I know bucket policy operations also require global consistency.
How in the absolute fuck is this the top comment? There's so many platitudes stuffed side by side it just needs to be flagged.

That is to say: citation needed. For all of it.
Yes, I haven't read the Bitcoin is down or BitTorrent is down status yet.
Even when I am using Xcode or some ide that requires I use it, I still pop open Magit in Spacemacs. Love it.

The discover ability of Spacemacs is really second to none and makes it much faster to learn and keep learning.

Spacemacs is Nutella to keep the analogy going...
step 4 is pretty hard.
> safeguard your money for free.

I'm stating the obvious here, but they never did keep the money for free. They used deposits as leverage for loans and received 100% of the interest as payment for keeping that money. Even then, for the longest time a lot of banks didn't have a "free" tier account like they do today so they were double dipping so to say.

Negative interest rates aren't a new thing though. I'm more interested in where modern monetary theory will end up taking us and if that will make negative interest rates more common. It seems like a lot of people want to go in that direction. I don't know enough about it yet to know if that's good or bad.
Yes, you're right. There's been a real difficulty getting central governments to invest to turn around a recession, so the monetary angle is the main direction allowed.
As said above it is a feature. They make the process happen outside the US so that if you are refused you are already outside.

And I will not accept sad stories from H1Bs that are by far the most privileged group of Indians that decided to move to the US mainly to make a crazy amount of money. Everyone knows the rules of the game when they decide to apply for a visa to the US.
Is adding new posts easy?
Where are these communists you speak of? Are you talking about the state government of Kerala?
Could be to help drive out any dissolved gases.
> Removing an API that let's any extension peep at every single request you make is many things, but I don't see how it's "a dismal stance on privacy".

I've seen this argument come up multiple times on HN. The V3 Manifest doesn't have anything to do with whether or not extensions can monitor network requests.

Google isn't removing the observation abilities of the webRequest API, just the blocking abilities[0]. All of your extensions will still be able to spy on you after these changes in exactly the same ways they did before. The point of this change is (ostensibly, at least) to increase performance, not privacy.

Safari on the other hand completely removed the entire webRequest API. This was not actually widely regarded as an uncontroversial, positive move, and today ad blocking extensions on Safari are almost universally less effective than their equivalents on Chrome and Firefox. But at least Safari's change did actually improve privacy by some metrics because it deprecated everything, not just the blocking bits.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nPu6Wy4LWR66EFLeYInl3Nzz...
Fair point, I'll take it out next time I go diving and report back!
The owner of the content you didn't stream would lose out on the (presumably tiny) fee from Hulu.
I think uber recently killed of it's in-house leasing program. But I imagine they may have a huge amount of liability on the books depending on how many of those leases haven't expired yet.
At least for recreational diving each diver has two regulators attached to their tank, so if you have N tanks you can provide breathing gas to 2N people.
Maybe this is a fundamental flaw that needs to be engineered out of a large percentage of the population if we are to survive? This seems dystopian to me and a better solution would be to embrace our desire to grow and expand out to the solar system/stars.
On what grounds would someone sue the company? Bad parenting?
Central bankers will keep reducing borrowing costs to extend-and-pretend forever - they built their own trap over the past 40 years by asymmetrically lowering rates over and over again. There seems to be no escape from this global credit bubble.

German 10 year bonds are yielding -0.20%

https://www.investing.com/rates-bonds/germany-10-year-bond-y...
One thing to consider is that Twitch streaming is primarily a live event. The interaction with the streamer and community is part of the appeal.

Also, missing a day of streaming might mean that people whose monthly subscription ran out (and would have been reminded that day) end up not renewing. It's much easier, psychologically, to extend a subscription than to renew one you let lapse.
Thanks a million. Those prices look similar to what I've used in the past, it's just been a long time since I've gone shopping for small scale dedicated hosting.
North Korea swine flu outbreak puts South on edge
"What on earth are people purchasing, that the AVERAGE price is a low-to-mid range Mercedes?"

I think that's a classic median vs average situation. The median purchase price is probably a lot lower than $37500, while the average is skewed up by a minority of buyers purchasing very expensive cars.
Multiply that by about 10 subscription services each? Each at 7-11$ a month. I see a supernova
Feels like we're on a pendulum. For most of human history most rapes went utterly unpunished unless there were signs of a physical struggle, since it's usually utterly impossible to prove what happened in a bedroom between two people.

Now we're swinging the other way in some cases and ruining peoples' lives based on a mere statement from another person. In some cases this delivers justice where there wouldn't have been any in previous times. In other cases an innocent person gets their life ruined.
We'll I for one find this as a great opportunity to speculate where its cheapest to do so with max payoff on this not ending well :P
The main reason Western media doesn't much criticize the actual policies is because it's "boring" and doesn't generate advertising revenue. It has nothing to do with whether they're allowed to or not.

Instead, they criticize the politicians themselves (particularly Trump, right now). This would never be allowed in China.
I think the question about terrorists is in fact a hidden lottery that allows to win a free trip to Guantanamo with unlimited accomodation and catering.
...except for the "proven solution" part, Quobyte marketing VP.
Decaying Evidence and Contextual Bandits – Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain
Possible to have small bad communities no? I'd argue % of bad actors (vs size) is the tipping metric. Also smaller communities like HN probably have a larger % of bad actors (small denominator).
Well treated pets seem to be happy nearly their whole life. By that I don't mean constant ecstacy, but on the positive side of feelings.

I'm glad you asked the question it made me look at things from a new angle.
Japan considers facial recognition for use of My Number cards at hospitals
Medically there are policies in various countries that differ on the term 'dead' or 'clinically dead'. Various places have different standards of dead.

This has a huge effect on organ donation rates. For my medical emergency thank god I live in the US or my organs would have been donated already.

some places may have a policy for either 'respiratory arrest or cardiac arrest after x period' to be considered clinically dead. If I had been in one of those countries my organs would be in many different people's bodies.

I thank god every day that I was born in the US.
These technical friends may exist, but I'd guess most of the people would rather pay 15$ / month to some provider than bothering their friend to set them up with a Plex server, maintaining it, figuring out what file to download ("What is this 1080p, 720p?), waiting for downloads to be done, clear out old torrents so they have disk space again.

These are all things that are fun to "us" technical people and I don't mind doing them for myself but if you have to choose between relying on someone else to keep your setup running or just paying someone and have a hands off solution most people will do that. Don't forget that this is very biased community here, it makes comments like this sound a bit like the dropbox vs a pile of shell scripts post.
The Truth About the Effectiveness of “Behavioral Advertising”
Didn't people also spent large amounts on one cable provider with different packages? Now it's just a bunch of different providers essentially.
How to Work with Files in Scala
AWS lost data in Australia a few years ago due to a power outage I believe.
I took a semester course that dealt with the installation of solar power with the hope of getting into the field but decided it was not worth the trouble since for most homeowners it does not make sense to install a system. The payback takes decades and that's if you're lucky enough to get tax breaks and you can keep maintenance costs low. And it's unlikely that you can disconnect from the power utility since it's too expensive to buy the battery system that will keep you self-sufficient.

Solar for the home makes no sense for people in large cities. The way to help is to buy renewable power from the utility and encourage them to install their own utility-wide solar/renewable power systems.
foxbusiness.com? couldn't someone find a more rebuttable source like the National Enquirer?
Piracy is alive and kicking in a lot of countries still, as I'm sure some of you know. Netflix is probably partially at fault for this.

When I travel to different countries and pull up Netflix, I see shows available in that country that aren't available in another. It's annoying.

Of course, a VPN takes care of this (to an extent).
Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down
The text of Title IX is almost irrelevant.

What controls its application is directives from the Department of Education.

The controversial and important one here is the "Dear Colleague" letter the Obama administration sent out in 2011 that substantially chipped away at due process rights for defendants in sexual misconduct cases on campus.

https://reason.com/2017/09/22/breaking-betsy-devos-withdraws...
More info please. What happened?
Well H1B is a terribly managed skilled migration. Countries like Australia and Canada do it well with their points system that is very fair and transparent.

H1B is based on a lottery. Which there are organized that openly abuse the system and the US gov doesn’t do much about it.

You either let people in or out. H1Bs are stuck in limbo for years with false hope. It’s a very sad way to live and it’s not good for the country either.

But US gov bends to corporations and H1Bs fucked up system helps them keep the wages low.

So there’s that.
Have you had good experience...flakiness, coverage, availability, etc?
Counterclockwise: The quest for the all screen front in numbers