skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't recommend e-banking enough. Through Fidelity you can purchase CDs from a number of banks across the country, shopping for the best interest rates. And you can create an auto-rolling CD ladder if that's your thing. I presume other e-banks like Schwab have similar features. Then you can manage all these things in one place, while getting the benefit of having your funds FDIC insured because they're technically CDs at multiple banks behind the scenes.
> Capital has replaced our values. We need to bring back real values like honesty, integrity, humility, experience, pursuit of knowledge, empathy, efficiency...

But how?
I quit smoking several years ago and started putting in the work to repair my cardiovascular system. The overall improvement to my wellbeing and state of mind cannot be overstated. I gained far more than I lost. My only regret is not doing it a lot sooner.
China, sure. India, I am not so sure. All the popular social media platforms(except TikTok) in India are US based. English being the gateway language for most of the influential users, makes it trivial for platforms made in US to capture market there. Also, US has much more cultural exports to the country than China. There is no advantage a Chinese clone startup would have over a US one in India unless the product is vastly superior; this is why even Chinese firms are investing in Indian startups rather than entering into the market directly.

Hardware, they might dominate but for that to happen they need to have a solid alternative to the US based services.
... not counting all the people those people emailed or otherwise communicated with, whose information is now queryable by the US government without their consent or knowledge (not that it wasn't before).
Who would be eating that much of it 10 times a day for a year?
Yup, this type of feature is the answer.

It's not foolproof-perfect, but from personal experience it tends to work quickly and effectively. It requires "surveillance" of your browser/computer, but you should assume that with a work device anyways, and it can work with hashes and password fields so it's not storing your actual password or logging everything else you're doing.
> Oh all of a sudden we should just accept some pathetically weak argument of "we just don't know".

But we don't know, despite enormous and ongoing effort. Hopefully we'll understand eventually, but right now we don't. I'm sorry if that fact is upsetting, but you can't will knowledge into existence.
And are you proud?

(Stop flagging)
I’d like to take a positive spin on this. Applying what we’ve learned from the article: It would be interesting, in addition to selecting cattle for quality, to also select them for carbon efficiency.

I wonder whether there are similar genetic markers that can be used to estimate the methane output of one of these animals over its lifespan and breed accordingly.
How can they possibly guarantee eleven nines? Considering I’ve never heard of this company and they offer such crazy-sounding improvements over the big three, it feels like there should be a catch.
We all know that Facebook controls React and Google controls Angular and so on., similarly Salesforce will control LWC
> keto

What? You mean keto practitioners aren't following a strict vegan diet of avocados and processed soy protein? /s

More seriously, though, in fewer than 20 years, meat substitutes will be ubiquitous and people will tend towards sun-fed burgers (if for no reason other than cost).
I don't think you are right about people not enjoying their work, in the US context at least. The vast majority of workers seem to have pretty high job satisfaction. In fact, a quick search shows concern when average nationwide job satisfaction drops below the mid 80%s, which seems phenomenal. (https://news.gallup.com/poll/147833/Job-Satisfaction-Struggl...)

As for wanting to work less, that's probably true, but I'll bet you could get that result for almost any question involving extensive time commitment- for example, I love my kids dearly and love spending time with them, but if grandma offers to watch them I'll take her up in a hot second.
What Makes a Graphics Systems Paper Beautiful
The definition of a highly skilled worker kind of hinges on the fact that there are few. If everyone was skilled then we'd raise the bar.

Your argument makes sense, but I'm suspicious that there is that wide of a gap between the 2 classes of people described.
For sure!

It's very important that I actually make sure I'm happy if I manage to get 30 minutes in though. It's important that I'm able to trust myself. If every session turn into a 45 minute session and I start feeling inadequate because I "just got 30 minutes in today", then I'm back on a downwards moving spiral again.. More than 30 minutes is great, but so is 30 minutes. Way better than my default mode, which is wasting 100% of my time :)
South America is down for me.
But youtube works OK, I can watch Google IO and they talking about all Google greatness while their outage impact second class clients on their cloud.
It depends. If you mean is it more or less credible? I don't think it matters.
But, if you mean will people be able to remember it if it isn't a. Co.? Probably not. I teach college courses and sometimes. I will have students go to kahoot.it or a bit.ly and there will be students who go to kahoot.com (which takes you to the log in page for people to make kahoot reviews not play them.) or bit.ly.com or something.
For the Americans, bitumin is aka asphalt.
fully agree, i used to have an io site, it was trendy at the time, but came at a premium, 99 usd per year, nowdays i just try to find the cheapest i can get that has a reasonable name to it that's easy to remember. i also like the get<appname>.com pattern, because usually domain squatters havent caught onto it yet. my algorithm for domain names is essentially about subverting domain squatters without making the site too cryptic. it's kind of like when delicio.us came out, that was a very big fu to all domain squatters and also l33t because it opened up so many doors for me regarding domain name possibilities.

the user base matters, too, if you're targetting older folks like 50+ then probably .com is a safer bet.

my domain names:

madsportslab.com
getsdone.xyz
getmathd.com
I didn't know that Russia was a paradise of social and economic freedom, can you elaborate?
I work in the identity management space of a household name financial institution. We have varying levels of outages, but the top priority one is if people are unable to reset passwords through our UI. It's an absolute nightmare.
I believe there are some demos still online, but in any case I think he still uses his Google account aronetis ;)
So what do you think about the strategy to emphasize the names of the victims instead of granting the killer notoriety?
From all of this, don't you think it's more likely long term impact is that other countries realize how dependant they are on American products?
How often have you had information stolen off a credit card, passport, driver's license, insurance card, or other item with sensitive information printed on it that you routinely carry around in your wallet?

For most people, the answer is "never".

We are actually quite good at safely keeping secrets on paper in our wallets, and so generally writing down a password and keeping it there is fine, especially if the choice is between doing that with a strong password or using a weak password that you memorize.
The co-sleeping seems to stem from all the SIDS research / literature which when you go and read seems especially questionable. The topic of SIDS was hit so hard by our hospital and pediatrician. It scares the shit out of you. And then you go read the sources, and it's... well underwhelming at best.
Also in regards to India, China is a much more geo-strategic rival than the US. I do and China have actually had a shooting war. They also have territorial disputes. I suspect India trusts China less than it trusts the US.
Here's the actual policy instead of a news article: https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...

"Other questions seek five years of previously used telephone numbers, email addresses..."
If I cured cancer (and I won't), I'd want an obituary in The Economist (at the apposite time), not make front page on HN.
Looks like my Gmail is back, but I don't have any emails from while it was down. Yikes.

Edit: just got one email from the downtime, so perhaps my initial conclusion was incorrect
Ironically I can't read that page because, since it's Google-hosted, I'm getting an HTTP 500 error... but which means at least that service is SLA-covered...

Cloud services live and die by their reputation, so I'd be shocked if Google ever tried to get out of following an SLA contract based on a technicality like that. It would be business suicide, so it doesn't seem like something to be too worried about?
Incorrect. GCE us-west1 is the Dalles, Oregon and us-west2 is Los Angeles.
Got it. Though it was pretty common in big parts of The West (as in The Occident) in the first half of the 20th century as well. At least via my understanding of things.
Had something similar last year because of a core router fabric issue. A few years ago, there was a batch of new servers with buggy motherboards corrupting/dropping packets, can't begin to imagine how hard it was to diagnose.

That's in own datacenters, not cloud.
My concern other than the privacy implications is that I have so many throw-away social media accounts that I can't keep track of them. If one of them is discovered because of an old phone number of email address and is considered a valid reason for denial of a visa that would really hurt.
Ex quant trader here.

There's no arbitrage in the strict sense, that's clear.

But there's none in the statistical sense, either. Yield curve inversion doesn't happen all that often, how are you going to confidently bet that what happened the last few times will happen again this time, given that n is so low and there's always the issue of regime change?
One guess would be that people have become afraid to step in.
That's cool and all but it does not seem any more copyleft than AGPL, in fact it seems even less copyleft than GPLv3 as it lacks the Tivoization/drm/etc clauses.
In other words, marketing is very important. I think as technical people we like to "evaluate things on merit," but the reality is that the technological complexity of our society has become such that it is virtually impossible for someone to gauge the quality of a product in a field where we're not an expert. That's part of why marketing takes on such importance.
they still have general users? hehe yes I am trolling
“A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.”

Immigrants are non-citizens are among the weakest members of American society (an outsize number of laws that impact them and zero capacity to participate in its political machinery)
Then please stand by your username and explain me, with rational discussion, why you think I'm wrong, and how Russia is so much better.

And FYI it's not a mockery - I'm watching TV and eating, for real. It wasn't a metaphor, but I guess you didn't give me the benefit of doubt.
Of course customers don't care about the root cause. The point of the cloud isn't to have a convenient scapegoat to punt blame to when your business is affected. It's a calculated risk that uptime will be superior compared to running and maintaining your own infrastructure, thus allowing your business to offer an overall better customer experience. Even when big outages like this one are taken into account, it's often a pretty good bet to take.
Two submissions discussing this topic on HN:

2 days ago, over 70 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142

8 hours ago, over 80 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075608
This is how I use it too, and I probably have a problem with it. I've set up timers so that I don't use it more than a few hours a day.

Basically I've maxed out the filter on /r/all (yes, it's actually called /r/all and there was a time when it wasn't...) And then I visit just the communities that I'm interested in. I am subscribed to some of them, but I don't use the home page at all.
+1- imap gmail is down for me in Australia
Former NFL Player, After Settling Title IX Lawsuit, Plots a Comeback
"Periodic password expiration is a defense only against the probability that a password (or hash) will be stolen during its validity interval and will be used by an unauthorized entity. If a password is never stolen, there’s no need to expire it. And if you have evidence that a password has been stolen, you would presumably act immediately rather than wait for expiration to fix the problem."

Full post:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/secguide/2019/05/23/secu...
As the article itself points out, there is much debate about Oster’s claims and many physician scientists disagree with her claims. Personally, having reviewed much of the same source material - around pre-natal diets in particular - I disagree with her conclusions as well. I’m not questioning her motives but it feels to me like there’s a certain amount of pop-sci hubris in her work.
That's good to know. What confuses me is why they're saying "We continue to experience high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA", when I'm in us-west2 (Los Angeles) and none of my CloudSQL instances, nor is my k8s cluster showing up or contactable...
Maybe misunderstood what you meant, but vim's undo is not linear but rather tree-like. You can undo, make a change, and still get back to the initial state. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Using_undo_branches

Edit: this also seems to be in the original post
A lot of people live a "payment" lifestyle. They'll just keep buying/leasing new cars every few years. If something's gonna break it's gonna be the CPO market.
All the more reason to use Europe-based email hosting?
What do you think is more cost effective?

Do you actually think there are sufficient LEOs to run around chasing phones for every petty outstanding warrant? Why bother even trying when they can just be delivered by a robot.
For data durability? I believe some AWS offerings also have an SLA of eleven 9's of data durability.
Google Outage Takes Down YouTube, Gmail, and Snapchat
> if auto is under valued

What does 'auto' mean in this context?
Not sure what you mean, because e.g. ioctl() call has many functions which are not sensible for regular files.

In any case, the article has 17 occurrences for "file(s)" versus 28 for "object(s)", so the author seems to agree with me :)
vim also has "undo tree" functionality built in, the interface is just different than emacs's.

:help undo-branches http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/undo.html#undo-branche...
"Glowing ceilings" are relatively popular in office spaces, e.g. in the form of large LED-based panels covering much of the ceiling.
3% is typically only available for a primary residence if you haven't owned in the past X years. Otherwise, it's pretty much impossible to find anything less than 5% down.

That's not a terrible thing either. If you are not able to save up for 5 or more % down, odds are good you will be house-rich and money-poor, which can really suck a lot of enjoyment out of owning a home.

Say, for example: a $300k home with a 285k mortgage will work out to around $2,000 per month. Add in a vehicle payment or two, maybe a higher bill if you have high property taxes, phone, internet, paying down credit cards, whatever, and you're easily in the 3-4k per month just in bills. If you can afford that and not feel financially constricted, then you can afford to wait a bit, get more saved up to put more down, and you'll have more available for vacations, repairs, additions, appliances, etc.
> It's been done to absolute death dude. Its the same points, over and over and over and over again. We all have heard all of this 10,000 times.

Speak for yourself "dude". I, for one, find these discussions to be valuable. If you don't like them or are fed up with them, then don't partake. Even if you aren't in a position to change your mind, spectators like me are.
So I will force them to waste money compared to if I used a more permissive license? Sounds good. Plus I could offer proprietary licenses this way.
That was an interesting read. Many things wrong, but many things right, and perhaps nothing so sobering as the closing thoughts:

> Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014. The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

> Indeed, the most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 is that in a society of enforced leisure, the most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work!
Does Amazon treat smaller customers any better? I am genuinely asking, as I have no clue.
Ask HN: Where do you sell unused domains in 2019?
You don't need a function, this is my little trick to convert an array to object

peopleObj = peopleArr.reduce( (a,x) => (a[x.username]=x, a), {} );
While I would totally love to see a used vehicle price crash because it would be good for me personally and to stick it to the "hurr durr, muh resale value" types, I'm not convinced that wouldn't have reverberations throughout the market.
As of this writing, this post is 2 hours old, ranked #96 (4th page of HN), and has 117 points. I believe it was on the front page 30 minutes ago. This is a steep drop in ranking -- what are the factors in the HN ranking algorithm that could contribute to this?
At one of my previous employers the default password set by the help desk was [company_name]@123. They did a password audit and a full third of the employees had a variation of this password for their real password. It's not Google, but if it were, passwords were things like: google@321, google@456, etc.
Do I have to submit all my spam email addresses as well? Madness
It's the yearly outage. You will be fine for next year.

Better than the monthly outage from Azure.
NSFL might be more appropriate?
Emu: Language for Programming GPUs in Rust
Socialists won't stop until police robots shoot kids for jaywalking.
This will have a chilling effect on speech in this country, which is extremely sad. Academic and trade conferences would be best taken elsewhere. And job seekers? Prefer remote.

For me as an American, this is, I guess, fine now. I won't be affected right away. But I fully expect other countries to institute reciprocal policies.
If you were living in that area and eating local food, such levels wouldn't be impossible to hit - especially if you account for the fact that 'grain of sand sized solid chunk' is pretty close to minimally bioavailable, and so you could hit equivalent dosages with significantly less material.
That made me rage the other day when I had an internet outage. I am honestly fed up with Nest esp after this new Google Nest branding, and just disconnected my thermostats from the internet. I rarely changed it from my scheduled settings via the app anyway.
Strong password policy. Reused passwords are often simple.
the automotive market
These things happen. That's OK. Here's what's not OK:

>
We are investigating an issue with Google Compute Engine. We will provide more information by Sunday, 2019-06-02 12:45 US/Pacific.

The next update is at 12:59. Just ... no.
I prefer to use `df -T /path/to/mount`, personally.
Just filled in ESTA application, it is not demanded as the question regarding social media does not have to be answered.
My instance in Belgium works fine
Do you mean cars?
Pay once often becomes steal once which is why customers lean towards online gaming and micro transactions.
Wow, had no idea about fallthrough in Go and I've written plenty. Thanks.

That's a seriously ugly solution, but I guess that could be considered a good thing.
Snapchat is fixed but snap maps is still disabled
Microsoft has a pwnedpasswords-like service you can use:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/auth...
Require all employees to use a password manager?
Snapchat is back up but snap maps is down
How did this idea of expiring passwords arise in the first place? Misguided intuition or did the infosec people back then just get it wrong?
> More egalitarian economists will tend to value the utility of the poor and disadvantaged more than the utility of the wealthy, but fundamentally it’s still about giving people what they desire.

That's not true, I think. What egalitarian economists would argue is that an extra dollar for the poor and disadvantaged buys a lot more utility than an extra dollar for the wealthy, and therefore (because said economist values their utility equally) extra dollars should go to the poor and disadvantaged.

(Though most economists shy away from interpersonal utility comparisons, which is what gives rise to the concept of pareto optimality.)
Concluding “the vast amjority of online content […] comes from a small minority of people who are probably mentally ill” is not warranted by your citation.

For one, the current top comment in the thread to which you link is careful not to take the word “insane” at face value, in keeping with the spirit of the featured (OP) article.

> The OP uses the word "insane", not outlier. It's clickbaity, and used in jest, but I think it better captures a subtlety of this phenomenon: The prolific commenters are molding every discussion in their image. [0]

The OP also observes

> Edit: I guess my tone-projection is off. A lot of people seem to be put-off by my usage of the word "insane." I intended that as tongue-in-cheek and did not mean to imply that any of them literally have diagnosable mental illnesses. I have a lot of respect for all of the individuals I listed and they seem like nice people, I was just trying to make a point about how unusual their behavior is. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884146

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
What I'm saying is that yes, we do switch name order for Korean. Maybe I met a weirdo, but he was from Korea and he did put his given name before his family name ("Moon" can be either) when living in the USA.
> the purest poison against rational discussion

Unrelated to the thread, but I find unmotivated disagreement (expressed with downvotes) also poisonous. I think it would be interesting to allow downvotes only in combination with a "downvote comment" expressing the reason of the disagreement.
Whoa, if confirmed this would be really bad. Downtime happens, but data loss is much worse.
Not only this but Uber even give you the passenger's destination, tracking a phone doesn't give you that.
Fired from tech company for being “unlikeable” while openly autistic
I have been openly autistic in my office. I have been diagnosed with ASD level one. I'm definitely a bit "weird" in that I enjoy sitting on the floor over a chair and other small and harmless things, but my understanding is that under ADA, as long as I can complete all essential functions of the job, I cannot be fired for simply being "weird" as that would be discrimination.

My employer did exactly that. Decided that they didn't like me, and made up some crap about people not wanting to work with me. I immediately checked with all of the people I regularly work with and they all said they enjoyed working with me (I have this all in writing).

I have been very open about my diagnosis with my boss, and have asked him for assistance on multiple occasions while I was having stress induced difficulty at work. There is no question my former employer knew I was autistic and required mild accommodation.

I was also very easily able to perform the essential duties of the job. I was easily the best out of all other engineers in the office at doing the work that we do. My productivity by one metric was equal to 40% of the total productivity for the entire office (for an essential job function).

Should I sue?