skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but I wonder if we restricted the statistics of internet access to the highly non urban areas, does the number of options increase? I personally don't know, I live in a rural area, small city.
Server hardware is actually quite expensive. End users "smart" phones are cheap hardware, running dumb software which renders them as terminals for the cloud. That's sad because smartphone hardware is quite capable of doing useful work.

(For instance, I have a 500GB MicroSD card in my phone which contains a copy of my OwnCloud)
Sure. You said:

- if they had liberalized both the economy and the social laws, economy would have grown even more.

And I pointed out (sarcastically, I admit) that the transition to freedom and market economy didn't work out very well in the other example of communist superpower. It might not have anything to do with the transition, per se; it might just be that Russia was culturally unprepared for it and it managed it very badly. But I find easy to believe that a sudden switch from a single party system and an entirely planned economy, to free market and democracy, is in itself extremely risky.

China has been doing great in the years since 1989; Russia, that has tried to follow the path of democracy and market (of course, with very mediocre results), has not.
It's completely different mode of failure - when part of search is down somewhere, it's just routed to the same service in other location. If part of the GCP is down anywhere, some customers are affected.

Since original Google infrastructure was developed specifically for first kind of services, cloud org still has problems adopting it to its needs.
Author here :) I am very excited about WASI, but as I mentioned in a comment below, wanted to keep it to the fundamentals so you can appreciate what WASI does for you.

And definitely agree with the shout-out to Twiggy (which I mention in the previous post in the series)!
I would think money market mutual funds are a more liquid, easier, higher yielding version of that. They don’t have the FDIC insurance, but they’re well diversified and invest in the highest grade of bonds, and “breaking the buck” (holding less than enough to redeem all deposits) is extremely rare.
Not sure about Australia but the situation of living without a car in the US is dismal. We spent decades making sprawling suburbs and exhurbs that cannot be lived in without a car and there is much apathy and even antagonism in the US to change that.
Well it didn’t support overlapping windows so those are the only remaining options.
Can't tell if you know the answer to your own question and just can't talk about it due to NDA...
The funniest thing I heard, which totally makes sense, was from my 16 year old cousin. Apparently it’s common to sneak out, walk a few blocks and take an Uber to a house party!
Do you live in a city?

We've been able to get by on GoGet and Car Next Door for the occasional trip to the shops (although we mostly get groceries delivered; it saves time and allows you to pre-plan what you need easier) or for a weekend away. Works out much much cheaper than owning a car.
There is a possibility that the first explosion (there were several) was nuclear-based and not steam-based [1] and produced radioactive plasma, but the plasma jets cut through both the bottom and top of the reactor.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...
I think it's more complicated than that, with the constitutional protections from US government action being narrower outside the US border depending on the legal status of the person(s) in question and the context of the imposition on their rights.

So-called unlawful enemy combatants have limited rights and the Supreme Court has upheld all sorts of limitations on the rights of US citizens apprehended in a theater of war, but even foreign citizens have a constitutional right to habeas corpus when apprehended by the government on foreign soil (Boumediene v. Bush).
Agreed! WASI is the logical next step. It’s the “universal glue code” I wanted to have for the longest time.
Not in, to pick an arbitrary example, biotech.
> can't begin to imagine how hard it was to diagnose.

Yeah, when it happened to me, it completely threw me for a loop. We had reports of corruption in video files, which started the debug cycle. It was shocking when we isolated the box causing the issue.

But I guess your bigger comment has to be right: About the only way to have this sort of error is at the hardware level, because basic CRC checking should otherwise raise some sort of alarm.
Nah, it's not even her actual birthday. Different countries with the same queen even celebrate it on different days. Presumably it'll be renamed to "king's birthday" but the day kept the same when the monarch changes. Or done away with/re-purposed - there's a general feeling in Australia at least that once the queen dies there will be less support for the monarchy.
Nice. So how many years will it take until someone realizes that asking users to include specific character classes actually decreases password security too?

What I mean is that if you ask your users for a password that includes lower-case letters, upper-case letters, numbers and special characters you will probably end up with something like 'Password123!'.

Instead, we could ask our users for reasonably complex passwords without requiring to include specific characters sets. Yes, I am talking about

https://www.xkcd.com/936/
If you're assuming it is a global maximum sure your sentiment is right. The key is in the word global, where the domain is the history of mankind and its entire future.
The holiday is on the official birthday. The sovereign's actual birthday has been separate from the official birthday for centuries, so the holiday does not need to change.
Show HN: RocketJourney – a gameful app to achieve the habit of exercise
Hello HN! We’re really excited to show you RocketJourney, we’re about to launch in the USA, after years of work.

We built this because Fitness Apps are failing us, we can’t stick to our goals. We tried tracking apps like Fitbit and Nike. We tried gamification apps like Habitica and Fitocracy. But we keep failing. Is it us? Or these apps aren’t effective enough?

Maybe it’s both, but here’s a theory:

Gamification is powerful if done right, and it’s not being done right today. Gamification and Verification should go together. Games are fun because you can win or lose, in a verifiable way.

This is why we created RocketJourney. RocketJourney offers gameful challenges, with verification.

- - - - - - -

Our main challenge is the Survival Challenge:

1. The goal is to exercise at least 3 days per week to increase your streak.
2. To verify 1 day of exercise, track one of these: Gym attendance, 150-calorie workout, 30 active minutes or 10k steps.
3. You have to get your 3 days of exercise before Sunday night. If not, you’ll lose your streak.
4. Unless you have enough cheat days. 1 cheat day pays 1 missing day.

* Week after week, of those who started the same week as you, you’ll see how many keep their streak alive.

Direct App Store/Play Store link: https://rckt.fit/download

- - - - - - -

About our tech:

We’re using Elixir in the back, some Erlang for a critical service which queries multiple databases for a huge gym chain, Estimote Beacons to verify attendance to gyms, Swift for iOS, Java (and trying out some Kotlin) for Android.
Seems to have coincided almost exactly with my Chromecast stopping displaying my photos (in ambient mode).
> The actual output of society is produced by a relatively small minority of skilled individuals that are not easily replicable (ie fungibility is largely a myth)

That's a very arrogant and elitist attitude. I wish Galt's Gulch actually existed and we could exile elitists there. Let's see how they do without all the lower castes in society who pick their fruit, clean their toilets, cook and serve their food, take care of their children, pick up their garbage, and have to smile at them in order to have the honor of serving them.

Gold is more expensive than water because gold is rare. But no one would choose a world with plentiful gold and no water. Gold is not worth more, it is just priced higher by market dynamics.

Putting a value on one's work by the price the market gives it, and then justifying the market as the arbiter of value by the total price of work it incents people to do is amazingly circular.
I did not see a breakdown by age demographic in that report.

The overwhelming majority of the tourists I encounter fall into the Millennial bracket, and I don't think it is possible for them to be less enthusiastic about visiting the US.

Maybe that will change once they have kids who want to go see Harry Potter World in Orlando, but as it stands I think most of my customers would rather visit North Korea than the US.
> How does performance look for private ERC20-type contracts? zkSNARKS can be rather heavy to compute, so would that affect scalability?

For private contracts, the performance is not going to be good, so we recommend keeping private logic as minimal as possible. We looked into several different private computation models and SNARKs had the best performance characteristics, but they're still not great.

> Is it possible to do cross-contract calls without knowing the recipient's private state? How does one construct a proof for a new state without knowing the original state?

This isn't possible for private contracts, the use case here would be for "contract law" style contracts between bounded, known collections of individuals.
While elimination diets of any kind are likely ill advised for the long term if your ancestors were inuits, eskimos, chukcha or many other ethnic groups that live in arctic and sub-arctic environment that have not developed agriculture their diet would and is primarily an animal product based with fat constituting the majority of your daily calories especially during winter and even during the summer days the diet lacks any substantial calories from plant based sources if it has any at all.
I recently watched her videos for the first time (the one where she visited the reactor 4 control room and a few others). A very interesting channel indeed.
If that’s the fear then all passwords should expire at the same time. Otherwise if you reset every X days, hackers will always have access to some accounts X days.
Can I do things like get `K` to work on python commands? Including modules? Or with other languages?

I see that I can do `set keywordprg=pydoc` but I want modules too.
You'll get a 25 percent refund of all costs for the month if you ask support
> I keep trying to explain to people that our customers don’t care that there is someone to blame they just want their shit to work. There are advantages to having autonomy when things break.

There are also advantages to being part of the herd.

When you are hosted at some non-cloud data center, and they have a problem that takes them offline, your customers notice.

When you are hosted at a giant cloud provider, and they have a problem that takes them offline, your customers might not even notice because your business is just one of dozens of businesses and services they use that aren't working for them.
Bank programmers don't live. They exist.
This is a huge improvement and the free tier will really help devs better understand how "serverless at the she" can be used!
That was the idea I was trying to convey, albeit said in a much better way thank you :-).
* If you use Azure Active Directory
Just to expand on this:

One names the spread by denoting the two instruments, by convention first the short dated, then the long dated (for example, 2y/10y or 3m/10y or indeed 3m-10y, where the '-' is a hyphen).

One computes the spread by subtracting the short dated yield from the long dated one (ie, 10y - 3m, where the '-' is a minus).
I just looked at those links - none of them were even close to $900. They had crazy ranges like $1400-$2000 / month, so even at the cheapest, with fees, you're looking at $1500 to live in a general suburban area where you'd definitely need a car.

And this is Atlanta, which for the last 10 years has been one of those 'cheaper' cities that millennials have been told to move to because the coasts are too expensive.

I make over 6 figures and could easily afford a 1 BR, but like I said, it's kind of depressing that a professional in his late 30's who supposedly makes in the top 90% of salaries is now considering a $1500 tiny apartment in a 'cheap city' to be obtainable.

What about those making the average of $50K?
If services were secure then password re-use would not be such a problem.
Call it what you want, it's still people trying to make predictions based on limited signal. As the top comment says, this alone isn't necessarily meaningful.
Of those, I have only used Haskell (and F# which you didn't mention). While Haskell is a pure language, it's standard library is "unclean". Functions in Prelude have idiosyncratic names (words, unwords?) and it doesn't feel like they fit together.

But the real show-stopper for me is the five different string types Haskell has. I want to focus on algorithms and program design - not string conversions.
If you look at autofatalities (including of pedestrians and cyclists), share of public transit and bike usage, and other such related statistics over time, they closely track the cost of gas. Ironically, of course, production of new cars doesn't neccessarily mean less car usage over the <10 year term (since cars don't magically burn up), but it may mean good news for those who want to wean their cities off of cars.
Commodus did plenty as a child, even if it was overshadowed by later lunacy. My argument was poorly made though. I'll try to restate:

It's easy to get swept up in Meditations, viewing Marcus as the stoic Philosopher King that has profound lessons for us even today.

Parent tried to remind everyone about Commodus, and in my opinion correctly so; if Marcus lived up to the myth surrounding him, he'd have intuited the situation and dealt with it.

But he either didn't see what was coming, or decided to do nothing. Because for all the hype, he was just a man. Keeping this in mind is an antidote to getting carried away by what is a genuinely compelling piece of writing.

I wouldn't make this argument in a vacuum, but I saw OP get downvoted and wanted to jump in because I thought it was a fair enough point.
for any password that requires capitals and numbers I always start it with the capital and end with the number to make it easier for me to remember.
> The overwhelming majority of the tourists I encounter fall into the Millennial bracket, and I don't think it is possible for them to be less enthusiastic about visiting the US

I’m a millennial with lots of international millennial friends. Nobody likes these measures. But getting into most countries is no walk in the park. As much as I hate to admit this, the pressure to end these policies will never come from tourists.
There’s the loophole. Just send them all 500 of your email addresses!
Australia is the same, this guy probably lives in some inner city suburb but for most people in Australia a car is a daily necessity
Not really. Doctors are trained to recognise symptoms and match the therapy to the symptoms. They of course know mechanism of some (well understood) afflictions. But many are not that well understood and yet therapies for them exist that help some patients with those symptoms. Then when asked about the causes or the mechanism doctors just act like all humans do. They repeat rumours they heard.
This is an unintended consequence of social media. It is the same as it was centuries ago. If you’re known to criticize someone else, and it gets back to them, of course there will be ramifications.

I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with this comment. I’m just stating fact.
And from Home Depot's point of view, the employee thankfully helped the company avoid a potential lawsuit. I'm sure the 5-year-old will have plenty of other chances to bump his head in similar situations, and assuming he's human, he has the amazing capacity to generalize from lessons learned in other distinct ways. Nothing was lost in your encounter.

EDIT: Love the (numerous) downvotes coming here on all responses to your comment, but in the spirit of promoting healthy discussion, a reasoned argument would be better.
Both. This question seems like a way to emphasize extreme dangers of radiation.
That is normal for Google status pages.

They don't want to admit fault or place blame because there can be legal and commercial ramifications, so they can only say canned responses.
I’d like to know why info sec has traditionally been anti-science to begin with, and if they are going to adopt data backed approaches to backup their theories, what other old wives tales will they’ll be addressing next?
I regularly go weeks without driving anywhere and don’t live in a city just reasonably close to mass transit. So, while I do live in the US I treat a car as an affordable luxury not a requirement
What's left of instagram without the assets? And some of the assets required to fully load are probably in object store as well.
Also discussed a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065142
I live near East Lansing and have friends who know Keith Mumphery. In the swirl of the Dr. Nassar scandal some well meaning Michigan State administrator falsely ruled against him in this lady's appeal. I was impressed by this balanced article and I hope it finally means justice for him.

But as I said on Twitter, will the NFL listen? Sadly the scandals locally are far from over with at least two court cases against former MSU administrators ongoing.
I think people are rationally not stepping in, as those who do step in don't get recognition. They do however risk getting a lot of flak for having been insensitive or whatever.
Noob question, if it decays so quickly, how come there's so much of it around this late in the Earth's history? Or was it created only decades ago, by artificial means?
They're supposed to be God-given rights
And reputation. With this outage the global media socket is going to be in gCloud nine.
The situation is much worse than you outline, from a scientific perspective, and even well-meaning doctors aren't an antidote due to systemic distortions.

Ben Goldacre, a UK physician and medical researcher, captures it really well in the opening two paragraphs of his book 'Bad Pharma':

> Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Unsurprisingly, these trials tend to produce results that favour the manufacturer. When trials throw up results that companies don't like, they are perfectly entitled to hide them from doctors and patients, so we only ever see a distorted picture of any drug's true effects. Regulators see most of the trial data, but only from early on in a drug's life, and even then they don't give this data to doctors or patients, or even to other parts of government. This distorted evidence is then communicated and applied in a distorted fashion.

> In their forty years of practice after leaving medical school, doctors hear about what works through ad hoc oral traditions, from sales reps, colleagues or journals. But those colleagues can be in the pay of drug companies – often undisclosed – and the journals are too. And so are the patient groups. And finally, academic papers, which everyone thinks of as objective, are often covertly planned and written by people who work directly for the companies, without disclosure. Sometimes whole academic journals are even owned outright by one drug company. Aside from all this, for several of the most important and enduring problems in medicine, we have no idea what the best treatment is, because it's not in anyone's financial interest to conduct any trials at all.

His book, which lobbed a grenade into the heart of the pseudo-scientific state of 'modern medicine', has resulted in more energy being put into trying to move to science-based medicine with things like https://opentrials.net/, but I don't closely observe that industry, so perhaps someone else within the sector could speak to how far the idea of publicly available trial data has gone in 2019.
Well then what's your proposed solution?
> 1 - no. The constitution explicitly only applies to US citizens / on US soil.

Why on earth do you say such things? Like, seriously, what's the point of saying something so easily refuted? Is this just to be inflammatory for the sake of it?

The suggestion that the US Bill of Rights only applies to citizens is so unbelievably toxic and contrary to the history of the country I am saddened to even read the words.

The Bill of Rights intentionally does not even include the word "citizen" and instead uses "people."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
Nevermind a natural disaster, rush hour traffic seems to be enough...
google services also f´ed up here in middle europe; cannot reach anything google related from hamburg, germany.
The problem is, how do you remember all of this stuff? Tabdo/bufdo is as advanced as it ever gets for me.
Our Oregon VMs are up.
I'd argue qualitative data is far more valuable than mass quantitative data, the problem is that's expensive and difficult to gather accurately - especially on a timescale that is longer than the only the 2 weeks that many if not all behaviour changing psychotropic medications required for 'adequate' research under heavily controlled environment before unleashing them onto the masses.

Statistics can point you into a direction, however it won't account for nuances in most or perhaps all cases.
I don't know the origin story but (U.S.) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommending password expirations from 2003 until 2016 played a part in propagating them. But I think that recommendation was largely based on was already fairly common, I think Microsoft Windows and Active Directory accounts expired by default well before 2003 (at least Windows NT and its successors).
Wow, where to start...

1. The whole 'chemical imbalance' thing is a gross over-simplification that might help as an introductory mental model but breaks down quickly.

2. The right thing to be measuring is symptoms, not the mythical chemical imbalance. Studies do measure changes in symptoms, typically using various rating scales, e.g. HAM-D. Measuring this way has its issues and challenges, but is being done.

3. Yes, there is an element of experimentation to find the right medication, which is hardly unique to psychiatric medications.

4. Yes, some medications are hard to quit without doing so slowly. Too many doctors don't help their patients with this.

5. Antidepressants are surprisingly effective, at least compared with many other medications. A good metric for effectiveness is the "number needed to treat" (NNT). It basically means how many people do you have to give a treatment to before you get a positive response that you otherwise wouldn't. With antidepressants, it's generally low single digits, for many around 4. Only helping 1 in 4 doesn't sound great. But check out theNNT.com for some comparisons. Aspirin to prevent heart attacks (NNT of 50-200 for people with previous heart disease, NNT 2000+ for those without previous heart disease). Antihypertensives (NNT ~100). See what's considered successful in other areas of medicine...
Everyone knows that the real danger of all this tracking and social media is that governments will start stealing the data and using it against people, or else by censoring things/manipulation.

This is how it starts in-earnest, rather than half heartedly. See China for a demo of the future
Of course, today's context is capitalism, so it motivates many.

But there are other ways to motivate people.

If we're talking about a different , more utopian world, shouldn't we consider those ?