skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the same thing could be accomplished by a much more conventional means: taxation and public spending.

* Such policy often comes with substantial lag times, as it is implemented via legislation. Monetary policy may be implemented more rapidly.

* Governments are incentivized to provide stimulus during economic slowdowns, but reducing spending and increasing taxes during economic expansions is unpopular and leads to lost elections.

* Public spending is frequently allocated for political purposes, absent consideration of economic impact, potentially leading to malinvestment.

The great inflation of the 1960s to the 1980s was due to such Keynesian policies and was halted by implementation of contractionary monetary policy. Ideally, carefully considered monetary and fiscal policies are implemented and utilized to maximize potential for economic stability.
popcorntime still exists and works very well. No need to be running your own server.
My old dad would rather pirate then pay any amount of money and still have commercials shoved down his throat. He feels it is double dipping so to speak. Plus pirates get 4K streams vs Netflix which serves you quality based on what you pay. I feel the hassle was fixed a long time ago. It’s pretty much point and click these days.
In Australia, Victorian Police Add Tesla Model X to Fleet
BroswerStack. There are a few competitors to this, but sorry can't remember their names. Also Selenium. You could run Windows VMs on Azure for testing IE/Edge if you wanted and run Selenium on them.

Another route might be Jasmine tests, run them on Karma. Run them on a physical machine with the target browser. Not so great for CI but OK if you are doing things on a shoestring and want a quick check before you deploy. You could even run them on a public URL, go to a mates house with a Mac / Windows PC, and just visit that URL and wait for the green light to appear.
Yes. Ninja loses 15,000 subs every day he doesn't stream [0] (The linked article is a super interesting profile -- definitely recommend it).

[0] http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/24710688/fortnit...
The buttons were misaligned with the contact pads so I had to take it apart again.
European bond rates have recently turned negative again, and they were negative for large chunks of the last decade: https://europe.pimco.com/en-eu/insights/viewpoints/why-the-b...
Alibaba on the US-China Trade War: From Exports to Domestic Consumption
Currently locked out of my bank for the weekend because of this :)
It makes sense. Antarctica is further away from almost every place on Earth than Space is. Sea level to space is closer than Manhattan to Trenton.
China has never asked me for my social media accounts in any of the multiple times I've applied for a visa.
> It had amazing spectator functions where you could jump from player to player at will, it had the ability to host the server yourself, you could trade players from the sideline onto your team at anytime, you could pause the match, you could practice on any map you wanted, you could pick a map and run around for an unlimited amount of time practicing, etc.. etc...

Other than subbing in players, most source games have all of these features. Not sure about Dota 2, but certainly CS:GO and TF2 have all those features with a community that uses them.
The problem is that now they want us to have a cable subscription to watch all our normal shows and a network specific subscription to watch our favorite shows. Look at what they’ve done with Star Trek as an example.

They’re going hard on the content gating and distribution channel diffusion. Literally to the point where Plex+Radarr/Sonarr has become the go to for content I’m already paying for through my cable/Netflix/Prime/HBO subscription.

Plex works on all my devices no matter where I am. Netflix doesn’t even do that anymore. Not to mention their latest B.S. of making un-skippable commercials so prevalent on these pay services.

I’d be fine paying for every channel I watch individually if they’d stop creating their own little fiefdoms of varying viewing experiences each of which is designed to turn the profit screws a little further. Plex puts it all in one place on all my devices and doesn’t fuck me with a commercial every time I rewind 30 seconds to see something I just missed.
It is of course good they have enough water right now, but I worry that this will only allow politicians to further delay any water management programs until another devastating drought comes along. The ground aquifers are still being drained at an accelerated pace which means surface water utilization will only rise, even if the overall water usage drops, which I don't see happening right now.
The idea that Google spends big on expensive systems is a huge lie.

Google started using a Beowulf cluster that the founders wired themselves. From the very beginning, the goal of metrics collection was to optimize costs. While today it’s seen as the cash cow, the focus has always been on cheap components strung together, relying on algorithms and code for stability and making the least possible demands of underlying hardware.

To think that they won’t try to save money any time they can seems implausible.
>> Do you seek to engage in espionage ... while in the United States?

>> Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States?

Who are they hoping to catch with these questions? Honest spies and terrorists? Or maybe they hope to say in court:
“You committed a terrorist attack sir, but even worst is that you lied about it on the form!!”

All jokes aside I think these questions are designed for psychological effects to promote the messaging that US is in a never ending war on terror.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20070566
I grateful to live in the time I currently live in because I have no idea how much worse or better the "future" is. It is easy to look back and say that somethings are better than in previous decades or centuries.

As for 100 years from now, the future of the world hasn't been written so it is up to the people of today and tomorrow to make sure we write a good one. If we succeed then 100 years from now may just end up being a better time to live in.
Except it stops working when you can't go below 0?
Is it possible the damage caused by these animals being irradiated is less impactful than the damage caused by over harvesting? That is, if the radiation is scary enough to prevent people from harvesting them.
Also not helped by the fact that passwords have to include every symbol and their mother, cannot include sequential digits, cannot include sequential letters, cannot include any letter of your name, and a bunch of other inane rules that could be changed to simply having a minimum length of 12 instead of 8...
”showed a significant—and surprising—slowdown in Google’s ad business."

Cleverly written by the WSJ to be misleading. It was actually a slowdown in the growth of their ad revenue. They still made more $ than previous period.
Cable costs ~$60 per month. If the majority of people switch from cable to streaming, we can expect it to reach a similar price (because people have demonstrated that they are willing to pay that much and because existing hierarchies are set up to consume that much money). If a person isn't paying full price, it will be because they cannot access to every show. In either case, it will be more desirable than you are presenting for then to seek pirated content.

Systems already exist to easily mirror between computers and tvs. I once installed an app called "popcorn time". This had a small button in the corner that I clicked on to find out what it did. All of a sudden, the movie was playing on my television through my blu-ray player. If I can do this on accident, a healthy portion of the less tech-inclined can do it on purpose.
Where do you get this number, $2,392 per year? I can tell you that for me, it's way more than that.
Some of that is a put on, trolling people over something obviously silly. And some is real.
> Others buy it because of the perceived safety, larger vehicle so they feel more "protected".

It's not just perceived safety though. Heavier cars are objectively safer when crashing into a lighter car. IIHS did several tests on this. The fact that SUVs are higher means that they have an advantage if crashing head on with a sedan.
I would rather it dies, then all the sexual harassement scandals it created can go away with it. Dinosaurs are dead. It's called evolution.
Do You Know Water Tank Direction Can Change Your Life? Vastu Tips for Water Tank
I think it is designed to embed OpenCL easily into Rust, not as standalone tool or embed it into other languages.
That's not what I'm getting at, I'm not debating Europe vs "Europe". It's when a Europe area country does something, everyone seems to give them a pass. When the US does something similar, it's viewed with a different perspective.
I think the recent compromise at matrix.org [1] is a good example of how better defence in depth could have mitigated the damage done by an attacker who compromised a trusted machine. Specifically, access to a developer's SSH agent was the critical privilege escalation vector in this attack.

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues/371
Often viewers are incentivized to watch the tournament, by being offered exclusive cosmetic items in game or some premium currency for the game. This makes the view counts artificially inflated by people just looking for the handout. But the esports coordinator gets to flex the big viewer number as if it were organic.

Also esports competitors skew young because league participation means you are taking 3-6 months off work to earn below minimum wage. These young players are often delaying college educations to compete. You may mistake their hunger for competitive spirit, but they're actually just hungry. Watch their streams in the off-season and listen to them dread the return to the "gaming house" and its frequency of ramen meals.
> Because monetary policy is more effective than fiscal policy?

It’s difficult to justify such a broad statement. Consider that the Fed likely deepened and lengthened the Great Recession by reducing the availability of liquid assets (QE) and simultaneously encouraging banks not to lend out the bank reserves they received in the process (IOER).
Interesting, can you host your own servers with cs:go on your own lan and allow other random players to connect and spectate the match? If so I’m impressed and I need to check it out. The ability to swap players from spectators would be an important one as well. But even without this, I’d still be really interested.
Great, an ad for a documentary. Fascinating story but still an ad.
CalPERS should really fire their 100 Goldman Sachs advisors and really do what NVPERS is doing (fund managed by 1 person who mainly invests in index funds).
Ask HN: What's your open source policy?
Hello,

I work for a small company. We've a lot of libraries which we think could be helpful for other people too. We are planning to open source them. I'm working on a document which lays down guidelines about maintaining these repositories once they are open sourced for maintainers inside company. I'm curious about how other companies manage this. If you also have opensourced repositories how do you handle things like,
1. How many people should work as maintainers? One per repo or no designated person?
2. How do you assign your working time?
3. Do you get paid more if you help in maintaining these repos?
Any other tips are welcome too! Also if you can let me know your company's motive to opensource your code.

Thanks!
US history is more than just the post WW2 superpower era.
What are symptoms of pancreatic cancer?
This is like predicting peak real estate. Often predicted, never comes true. Nothing has changed that would affect US demand for cars. Public transit is even more underfunded. Commutes are lengthening, not shortening.
From memory their system works by a using a partial-hash, minimising the leak of the password.

So for:
* Password: trustno1
* Hash: 1234567890abcdefghij

You send to the api:

* Hash: 12345

And it returns all hashes it knows of that start with 12345 along with a count of how many times each hashed password has been breached.

You then compare that list to see if your full hash exists in there.

If it exists - it's been breached. If not - you're clear.
> At risk of stating the obvious, the entire point of such interest rates would be to strongly prod the market (mostly the very wealthy) to spend and/or invest their cash rather than sit on it.

"The rich" aren't sitting on cash, they're sitting on assets. It's the banks that are supposed to be punished for "sitting on cash" instead of lending out every last nickel twenty times over. The entire economy runs on cheap credit and "the rich" benefit by buying up the assets whose prices inflate as a result of it.

If that cheap credit dries up, the result will be a massive recession. Politically, interest rates must remain low at all costs.

> But the same thing could be accomplished by a much more conventional means: taxation and public spending.

No, it couldn't. The amount of money you can get from taxation is small compared to the money you can make appear magically in the economy through monetary policy. Almost the entire money supply is debt.
No prize for guessing why European capital has been flowing into the US for a decade.
The problem with having a short expiration is that it forces people to simply use their password with a count:

password1, password2, ... password23, password24.

This means that if you discover someone's current password, you also have their future 10+ passwords as well.
I might be missing your sarcasm (as they are not 'little'), but are you suggesting that Apple raised the 168 year old, S&P 500 Corning Glass from obscurity?
That South American manual labor workout.
In some countries (Germany) using public torrent trackers (like what popcorntime is doing behind the scenes) will result in 300+ Euros of fines pretty quickly. You also have to factor the legality in which is a pretty big factor for choosing to pay on top of convenience I‘d guess.

Now you also have to explain your non-technical guest how to use a VPN, pay for it and make sure it’s always running before starting popcorntime.
Not for cryogenics, unfortunately, but yes for hibernation. NASA has funded the study of medically induced torpor for hibernating humans for deep space exploration:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201800...

If we ever do crewed interstellar travel, even if we can get the trip time down to 50 years or so, we’ll probably want something like this. But it’s useful even for Mars trips since you can fit a LOT more people in the same space.
It doesn’t take 30 minutes to change my password from ‘password5’ to ‘password6’ though.
A couple of years ago one of my banks "upgraded" its web site, forcing me to change my password to comply with its revised password guidelines since my old password was no longer permitted.

The result was a password that was shorter, less varied, and less secure than the previous one.

Good job, Chase.
That's not true, negative interest rates and QE are means of "going below zero".

QE clearly has "worked" in that the markets were propped back up, for the time being.
> The most dramatic example of just how vulnerable automakers are came from Britain last week. The country prides itself on being the Detroit of Europe.

Now I understand Brexit. Good job, Britain. You’ll soon look just like Detroit.
This is interesting. It reminds me of the API behind JSX. But I'm not sure what problem this is seeking to solve exactly. Is it showing that HTML and s-expressions are technically interchangeable?
all your bases belong to us.
> Except it stops working when you can't go below 0?

Central banks are able to utilize other policies (e.g. helicopter money via TLTROs) to provide economic stimulus at this level.
Classically reductionist, and completely incorrect. If I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual, it's because I like my blanket-tea-kindle-bed ritual. It's not reducible to anything else.
Unpopular opinion: AGI can be achievable now
I think we have all the resources possible to make it happen, it just need someone from his beedrom working on it.
The top 20% of earners pay 87% of the tax burden. Is there something unreasonable about that amount?
I've seen Blendle and a couple of other web sites do this.

You go to the login page, and your choices are federated login, standard login, or a one-time login e-mail.
As I mentioned above -- I don't like that the only article I could find of any repute which mentioned the leaked OPCW report was the Independent (the other option was InfoWars). And yes, about half of the article does appear to be at least slightly bullshit. But the leaked report was so ignored by mainstream media there isn't even a mention of it in an opinion piece in more reputable papers like the Guardian.

Aaron Mate did a piece on this[1], who is definitely a more reputable journalist (though not mainstream). I also just found that (of all people) Tucker Carlson mentioned this on his show[2]. Then again, I have many other issues with Tucker Carlson.

[1]: https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/25/opcw-syria-gas-attack-sta...
[2]: https://www.activistpost.com/2019/05/were-being-played-tucke...
I would agree in the past, you needed something like a dedicated media center PC. But these days it is cheap as hell for an old PC, or laptop or smart phone that can handle video just fine. Even a new computer device is pretty damn cheap to have just for your TV. Also, everyone is assuming people are downloading torrents for their media piracy, but everything you can find on a torrent website you can easily find on a streaming site. The only reason to torrent a show or movie over streaming an illegitimate copy is if you plan on watching it a dozen times over and you have limited bandwidth.

While legit streaming servers are a bit easier to use, illegitimate streaming websites are only just barely behind that and also contain pretty much every tv show or movie you could ever want to watch. The only real downside I see is the usual lack of closed captioning support. If my choice is to pay money for 4 different streaming services and having to hunt around through each one to find what I want to watch, versus clicking one extra link and closing a pop-up ad for an unlimited catalog, the choice doesn't seem that hard.
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Don't live in a place that you can't afford. If enough people moved away from SF to the Midwest then they'd live comfortably and local companies would have no choice but to increase wages to keep the rest around.
That’s fascinating.
I am inclined to disagree. The N=1 anecdotes only become interesting against the rich background data. "Compared to what?" is the critical question to ask. Always.
At least some part of it, and perhaps a majority of it is due to chicken tax. Trucks in the US enjoy a level of protectionism few other industrial products do. US manufacturers, as a result, can increase their margins without losing market share to foreign competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
Log normal is something like Y = X1 * X2 * X3 * .. * XN, where Xi are iid positive random variables?

Through central limit theorem one could argue Y ~ exp(N * normal) for large N.

Strictly speaking, 1/N log Y converges to a normal rv in distribution.
Why would someone want to forge a mobile drivers license?

You get stopped while driving, cops scan it and you get caught. Although, there are no cops in Finland so you could just as well be driving without a license.

You try to pretend to be someone at a bank or a government office, they only accept actual IDs.

Only people I can imagine actually trying to make use of this are minors trying to buy alcohol, and even then the store shouldn't accept this as an ID.
Global recession fears grow as factory activity shrinks
This is trivial for somebody who studies electrical engineering in highschool
Having a safety system that rarely fails to prevent an accident is much different statistically than a safety system that rarely causes an accident.

Suppose the crash probability on a normal flight is 1/1E7, but without MCAS it's 100x more dangerous, or 1/1E5.
Suppose MCAS failure probability is 1/1E6, the probability of an additional crash due to the failure of MCAS is 1/1E11, which is acceptable.

The problem is that in practice, the crash probability if MCAS fails is empirically 2/3 instead of 1/1E5, because MCAS actually causes the crash rather than merely failing to prevent a crash.
Its an average, sometimes we go months without touching the car, some months we use it every day.

As for the 35000km in the last 3 years, that's an estimate.

It may very well be 30k or 40k and as for petrol, we used to drive a lot the first year we got the car but since we moved closer to the city, we started using less and less so, for example, during the last 12 months, we only filled the tank maybe 7 or 8 times and its a small tank, probably worth 60 dollars each time.

Again all the numbers I gave are estimates and in the end, the total ownership cost may be off by plus or minus $AUD 1k.
gf is awesome. Great for navigating scripts that run other scripts and also useful for creating links within a personal wiki of markdown files without a plugin like vim-wiki. While I do use a lot of plugins, I find it's a lot better to select plugins that add to vim's editing language (vim-eunuch, vim-surround, vim-vinegar, vim-exchange, vim-angry, vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-people, vim-commentary) rather than plugins which agglomerate IDE features onto vim (vim-wiki, nerdtree, etc).

While I do have a few of these IDE-like plugins (undotree, for example), I think it's better to try plugins which embrace the "vim way" first before investing in a full IDE-like plugin. I don't mean to gatekeep by criticizing IDE-like plugins, but just to say that spending the time to learn normal mode as a true language (verbs, nouns, and all) and using plugins that follow this idea is a worthy investment. Then, add IDE-like plugins to work around the frustrating rough edges of vim once you've milked all that you can out of it.
Yahoo Japan (not really related to the defunct original Yahoo and still very successful in Japan) recently abolished passwords for new accounts.

You can only login with reset emails or SMS codes, which is pretty annoying.
Drag and drop doesn't work on mobile.
I used to always use a VPN for Netflix but then they started cracking down and it stopped working. Are you still able to use a VPN to view content from a different region?
No there's plenty of universally good attributes. Not being prone to cancer, death and aging for one. You're trying to shoe horn a complex topic because you're uncomfortable with it. Theres more to it than waffling around idiocy in an attempt to shut down discourse on the topic.
Recently I've noticed that sometimes when I switch to a Firefox tab, it locks the whole PC for about 1/2 second to a second, and freezes any video I'm playing in vlc or other stuff I'm doing on the PC for that second while it loads/switches to the tab.

Anyone else seeing this behavior?

I have a fast machine: i7 8700k, 32Gb RAM, Windows 7. Everything is stable, this is the only weird behavior.
>I asked for some of my billing that I was unaware of running

>I have called my bank to do a chargeback

You're issuing a chargeback because you made a mistake and spent someone else's resources? And you're admitting to this on HN? I'm not a lawyer, but that sounds like fraud and / or theft to me.