skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All true. This particular one has no impact on US citizens since we don't need US visas, but other overly demanding laws certainly can affect us, and even this one can affect non-citizens We care about (even ones we may count as family).
So you’re fine with YouTube failing because Google got broken up?
You mean hash it in the browser? That's rare. Otherwise, you have the plain text password in the request you do the hashing and writing the hash to storage in.
No, 'them' is the company.

But you're missing the point. People have to be cautious, because their employers require it. Don't be mean to people who don't control what they have to do.
This was stupid when it was just potential employers expecting this information, and it’s even stupider here.

Let’s see how many bad reasons for this I can come up with in 30 seconds:

1. Social media may be popular but it is not universal (I still know people without a Facebook profile for instance). Thus, while the government should expect that someone may truthfully answer “I don’t have social media accounts”, I’ll bet money that anyone actually giving that answer on their visa application is screwed.

2. Huge numbers of social media profiles are completely FAKE. Combined with #1 above, if you don’t actually use a particular site but it seems like you do, you are again screwed.

3. Some people have extremely common names and legitimately do not want their pictures posted. Therefore, it is likely there are hundreds of real accounts with your name, many even in your city, that are not you. If the government is trying to determine if you “lied” about having an account, how many of these are they going to accuse you of owning? Or are they just going to conclude, based on the stuff being posted by those people, that your application should be denied?

4. The government does not run these sites, corporations do (and ultimately, random employees made some rules for running them). Suppose #2 above occurs, and someone is posting insane stuff as “you”; great, now your entire damned visa application is in danger, and some random set of rules made up by an employee at Facebook or Twitter is going to decide your fate. Can you get the profile taken down? Ask Facebook. Can you “prove” the profile is not you? Follow random rules from Facebook. And so on.

5. Not everything I do is on social media. And if I were to set up a secret club or criminal enterprise, do you think I’d be writing about it on Twitter and Facebook?!?!? What will exist on social media for a lot of people is an endless firehose of crap, which will mostly give the government way too much information to sift through. It will be a huge waste of time.

In other words, this policy can definitely hurt legitimate applicants and is not likely to add any useful information when screening applicants that “should” be denied.
I don't think it's actually possible to both (A) use unique passwords and (B) not use a password manager. If you can't provide one, don't expect the other.
Recent, frustrating example: My (business) bank uses FISERV software, and their software expires passwords every 90 days. Their software can notify you about a million combinations of account activities and statuses, except this one. It takes 3 values to login to the account (company ID, username, password). When logging in via mobile app, it never tells you that your password has expired, so I end up trying a few times before I remember it might be an expired password.

Login via web browser, and sure enough it'll tell me my password expired and it's time to change it. They also occasionally enforce 2FA. Passwords are also how you connect things like Quickbooks.

When I called the bank to find out how to get notifications that a password has expired, they said there was no way. "When you change your password, set a calendar event for 60 days ahead..." they told me.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20075608

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20071287
We already forcibly cut doctors hours by giving them inefficient education and excessive paperwork. A doctor working 3 days a week in an efficient system could spend more time with patients in a lifetime than the average US doctor does.

The US labor market only really has shortages by design.
Yes, discrimination costs, but the person in question doesn't care or has rationalized the costs away.
Yes and no. I don't think it is black and white. While I'd say that there are isolationist aspects it isn't like how China has been (probably deserved considering the British). There's definitely a scale. We clearly aren't North Korea, which is what people think of when they think of an isolationist country. But I also can't think of a country that isn't at least a little isolationist.

So I wouldn't say that isolationism runs deep. It is definitely there, I would definitely say that it is a escarpment but that doesn't mean it is the Grand Canyon or the Marianas Trench.
Nativism is a reaction to the decline of the middle classes prospects.

Half of America is not doing well and has been overlooked. The better educated amongst us are blinded by their own progress and weren’t looking inward.

We will see more focus on nativist policies in our lifetime as automation continues to eat jobs.
Updating a status page, sure. They aren't going to say "JamesBondService is having issues because a bug was deployed", but they usually don't repeat the same message 3 times in the same minute and they are usually pretty good about sticking to an update "within SLA"
What IP did Huawei steal, specifically? Can you name it without googling? Scouts honor.

It's not cool to accuse people of being Chinese shills, especially people with semi-obscure Greek names that they're very much in character of.
More specifically, Australian vehicle registration fees, in the three states I've owned vehicles, are based on the number of cylinders and whether the vehicle is used for commercial or private use.
There is irony in discussing this article in the comments.
has a bubble ever existed that was predicted beforehand by many and bursted shortly after?
That's some quality sarcasm. Thank you for that.
It's interesting how the US implements a policy, and is rightfully scorned for it. Meanwhile Europe continues to do similar things, yet Europe implements similar policies, and no one cares. Politics as usual I guess.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/12054754...
Parsl – Parallel Scripting Library for Python
Testing against known password lists is a huge win.
The statistics don't support the use of anti-depressants in the majority of cases.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4592645/
Wish there were more comments about this. Like you, I too worked in an industry that wasn’t technology (home repair services, carpenters, electricians and plumbers), and saw it for what it was.

It’s atrocious what some of these people are asked to do and the wages they’re expected to perform at.

But beyond that, even wages aren’t even the entire picture. I live in Chicago. I managed a fleet of workers who not only had to content with a company that paid laughable wages, workers were on their own for parking, vehicle maintenance, equipment and materials, ancillary costs of maintaining their tools.

End of the day the $25 we paid to our licensed and insured electrician translated to $12/hr coming home.

I fought for a year to get those fellas better pay. Our managing company was hearing none of it. The guy who ran the entire operation took home six figures. I know this because I saw the books.
Really impressive for a CEO to sit down and port a game! Hopefully he didn’t have to deal with too much rewrite, that would have been distracting.

Can we give credit to the developers?
Fair point, I am advocating that we discriminate against would-be presidential candidates below a Constitutional age limit.

In your opinion, at what age should we let people vote? Smoke? Drive? Sign contracts? Drink? Have consentual sex? Get married? Require them to be off their parents' health insurance? Permit catch-up retirement contributions? Allow tax-free withdrawals from IRAs? Allow claiming Social security? Etc.
Cars are a textbook example of the tragedy of the commons. Everybody would personally benefit if everyone else drove less, as long as they themselves can keep driving.

Capitalism is exceedingly poor at accounting for negative externalities, and many armchair economists don't seem to even acknowledge negative externalities exist because they are a "hidden" cost not determined by the market and paid by third parties. Any economist worth their salt, of course, says that as a mechanism created specifically to solve coordination problems like this, it's the government's job to put a real price on negative externalities.
I was finishing a university assignment with the deadline 90mins away.

I wanted to upload a video of the project to YouTube and add a link to it in the report. YouTube takes a long time to process the video, and then says it's unavailable.

I go to Vimeo: it's down.

I upload the video to Dropbox, and copy its link to the report.

But my report was a Google doc. And when I tried to export it as PDF (which I had not done yet) it couldn't do it. I never hated google more.

Eventually the video went through to YouTube, and I could export the PDF on the third try, but this really made me conscious of my dependance on Google.
Hey, thanks for this and bvckup2!

I'd definitely be interested in seeing the source.
I am happy to never visit the US due to the rules.

However it sucks that the US is the easiest/cheapest way to transit to many countries.

However I can't transit through say LA without "entering" the US.

So I can't visit other countries easily (especially Canada, or central America).
The accusation was that all five participated in the assault. This wasn’t an isolated rape in a park. It happened on the same night as mass assaults in the park that resulted in 30 arrests. There was physical evidence that the five had participated in some of the other attacks: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-myth-of-the-central-park-f...

> Was what happened to the Central Park Five completely wrong, or simply incomplete? I read Sarah Burns’ book, The Central Park Five, expecting a plaintiff’s brief, and it is that—she was an intern for lawyers pursuing civil claims on their behalf as a college student, in the summer of 2003. She believes passionately that the Five hadn’t raped the jogger; she is more circumspect in her treatment of their other felonies: “At some point, the metal bar from Korey’s house that Yusef had carried in the park had been used to beat Laughlin.” She is enthusiastic in her support of Ryan’s assessment, but doesn’t include this quote on their conduct that night: “The other crimes committed on April 19 were grave and inexcusable—unprovoked attacks on strangers, apparently undertaken for the fun of it, which left some terrorized, two knocked into unconsciousness, and one seriously injured.”

This is what makes criminal justice reform so hard. If it was just a matter of not taking completely unconnected people and beating confessions out of them, reform would be easy. What’s hard is giving due process and the benefit of the doubt to bad people, or people who committed some crimes but not others.

This is a recurring pattern in exoneration stories (and criminal defense generally). Very often the accused are bad people—the question is whether they did the specific thing they’re accused of doing.
I don't think you understand, the US has a long and well established history of this, even to the point of formal political policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-intervention...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Doctrine_of_Unstabl...
Because americans are stupid and short sighted.

We've seen what happens when you double down on isolationism. Japan sells more adult diapers than baby ones.

But hey, when you spend 8 years screaming BROWN MAN BAD it's not surprising you make dumb decisions in other aspects of your life.
I've made this request before but I would pretty interested in learning emacs the emacs way (rather than trying to emulate vim in emacs). Maybe leveraging my experience with vim in the sense that I don't need to learn what an editor is or shall basics.

Something that starts from bare(ish) emacs, includes emacs lisp, and gradually adds in plugins sort of like how this post does it but maybe more comprehensive and less individual tricks oriented.
People in the United States on tourist visas are not prohibited from bearing arms (in fact gun ranges are major tourist destinations in some parts of the country). Purchasing arms is subject to a higher legal standard, but is also not wholesale prohibited, just subject to a few extra rules. For example, a tourist who acquires a hunting license in any state can purchase a firearm.

...and in any case, this is not a citizen/non-citizen issue, as GP claims - lawful permanent residents have the same 2nd amendment rights as citizens.
Well, a good starting place would be to know what you think those are?

Those are really broad questions, and in my experience any person in a director position should be able to give a clear, articulate, concise answer to each.
"sleep benefits of letting the kid have boob on tap are enormous" this cannot be overstated. We co-slept with my youngest and the difference between that experience and our first who was strictly bassinet/crib can't be put in words.
The Surprising Complexity of Animal Memories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Origin_and_ear... - X announced in June 1984

The Macintosh was introduced in January 1984
I assumed the parent was being sarcastic. Though HN isn't really the best place for comments like that (without added context or /s)
I used to also, until this blew up in my face.

Put random stuff as the security answers in my Trial World of Warcraft account in 2005. In order to merge it into my Battle.net 2.0 account around 2009 I needed to know it, and even though I had the correct password there was no way to change security questions and I had to beg customer support (which was a long process, involving software serial numbers, scans of ID, the whole works).

Ultimately they told me what my mother's maiden name was: qewqewdfskjr3924kjasdf
Could it be possible that avocados were just smaller then and are only the size they are now because they have been bred by humans?

I didn't see any mention of avocado fossils or remains.
This is very much the model of Win32. Everything thatbexists at least partially in the kernel is exposed as a handle. There are a lot of different types of handles, but all of them can have CloseHandle called on them (maybe there are exceptions? I don't know). Most of them can be used with calls like WaitForSingleObject or WaitForMultipleObjects. So in a way, Windows implements exactly that model.
It's hard for me to say how much we agree and are simply not communicating properly, but my main point is that the people giving advice do not properly acknowledge how lucky they were to succeed.

https://xkcd.com/1827/

I largely consider execution to be what you can control, and luck to be what you can't. You can break those down much further, but I really feel those are the important categories.

Anyway, I guess agree to disagree. Cheers.
That's a very government centric definition but I prefer:

>Rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of income paid to a factor of production in excess of what is needed to keep it employed in its current use) by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth.

The important bit in rent-seeking is "rather than creating new wealth."
"There are problems in our society that we circumvent by things that cause even more problems because we can't coordinate to solve the original problems."
It's existed in some form since at least the 1990s, likely through institutional or government practice.

A (possible) example from a 1997 Sybase manual: https://books.google.com/books?id=GzGuPO5fKOEC&q="password+e...

I just checked Simpson & Garfinkel's PUIS, which does mention forced changes, but not scheduled expiry. Also 1997.

(Google Book Search is badly polluted by mis-dated publications: http://www.google.com/search?q="password+expiration"&lr=lang... )

Ngram plot: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=password+expir...
Cryptocurrency firms renew push to break free from SEC rules
If you leave them blank, they could just send you a request for the missing information and wait until you send it.

If they discover you have knowingly lied on your application, then you can forget about visiting the US for a long time.
Well traveling through the Schengen area is like traveling between US states. You don't even need a passport once you're in.

If you're traveling on a non-EU passport, I don't know if entering the EU is much better. IIRC flying through Frankfurt once the customs people rifled through my carry-on for no apparent reason.
A lot of those are because there are specific laws barring people who have done those things from entry. Ideally, having those questions on the form (and the obvious implication that a "yes" entry means a denial of visa) educates the applicant not to continue applying, or if the offense is something which could be resolved, to prepare documentation for that.
The immigration policies of the UK are very much not representative of other European countries.
The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask)
I’ve pursued some worthwhile wants in the past, and I was surprised about how much they satisfied me. I think deep down it wasn’t the things that I acquired that made me happier, but the effort I took into taking care of myself that made me feel comforted.

Obviously, that’s likely not the case with every desire, but it’s something that has struck me in the past few years.
This seems very rude to me. Like others have said, lawsuits are a reality. Secondly, concussions are no joke.
That's not my point, you don't see UK under the microscope. Just seems to be another case of "US bad/Europe good".
Dude! That is awesome... it makes sense now. I totally didn't even know bout <C-x><C-l> either!

Do you rebind your caps to control as well? That was another thing I did which is 10/10
This makes sense as giving derivatives permission to media containing political or ideological expression could make easier for adversaries to redistribute it after making subtle modifications with the intent of sabotaging the intended original message.
Absolutely. I've seen them wipe a number of bills away for companies that have screwed up something. They definitely take a longer view on customer happiness than GCP. Azure also tends to be pretty good in this regard.
The Mazda 3 is such an amazing value that buying one felt like a no-brainer. Also imo looks considerably sexier than any other car in its class if you get the Touring trim in Machine Gray.
See my earlier comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542595 .

Lotus Agenda/Chandler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software) is another part of this long Grail quest.
> Half of America is not doing well and has been overlooked.

I wasn't aware they were looking for government handouts to fix their own failings. Instead of waiting for the government to give them government jobs, they should instead take some personal responsibility for their current state.

> The better educated amongst us are blinded by their own progress and weren’t looking inward.

Seems to me like the better educated among us were busy taking ownership of our lives instead of doing the bare minimum and hoping nothing ever changed.

> We will see more focus on nativist policies in our lifetime as automation continues to eat jobs.

This has been well known for decades know, and at least for the past decade, people have been made well aware that this is coming. The previous President made this very clear that these jobs aren't coming back. This leaves people with a choice. Either life themselves up by their own bootstraps and take some personal responsibility in their lives, or give up more freedoms to government control.

Seems a shame that these nativists seem to want things for free without doing the work to get it.
"grows snails and rats" come on NYT, the word 'raises' is right there.
the article claims that the banks (the same ones that were bailed out in 2008) are the source of the capital that the shadow banks lending to companies

so the taxpayer is on the line (at least, as much as they were in 2008)
What are they going to do with these? Just take a quick look or constantly keep monitoring them?
Yes, it's optional.
I've heard it said that probability is quantifying the uncertainty you have about an outcome, fuzziness is knowing the outcome and quantifying your uncertainty about what to call it.
The standard form leases in my area allow the landlord to terminate upon conveyance to another party.
The old visa waiver form asked whether you were a gunrunner, everyone lied about that.

This was when strong crypto was classed as a munition.
I suppose not, but that would make you a... good Samaritan.
It is disturbing to more and more find myself on the other side of the culture war.

There is nothing "liberal" about what is going on here and the people who are doing it are by numbers moderate not extremist.

Where do you go when you support free expression and freedom to pursue the good life however you see fit?
Plus if your wallet gets stolen, you will know someone potentially has your password, and change it.
#19008 mentioned by parent is not the GCE one, there are two networking ones: #19008 and #19009.

The #19008 (networking) says there will be an update by "13:30 US/Pacific", but as of 17:05 there is no update.

Similarly, #19003 (GCE) says there will be an update by "16:00 US/Pacific", but no update as of 17:05.

All the latest updates seem to only be in the third incident #19009 (networking).
I answer these with random wrong answers and add the question/answer combo to the Notes section in my password manager.

Don’t just mash the keyboard or use random strings, as customer support will regularly accept “I don’t remember, I just put random stuff”. Make it believable but wrong.
iTunes is on the chopping block... don’t be surprised
Good. This will make an excellent test of the ability of Mastodon servers and users to ostracize malicious actors, and a solid driver for new features in this area of development.
According to recent UN reports, the United States is one of the countries with the most amount of resident immigrants [0]. In fact, according to their report, a whole 20% of immigrants (defined as people living somewhere they weren't born) call the US their home.

Another problem with your argument is that the relationship between more thorough screening of immigration applicants and a country's "level of isolationism" is lacking evidence. Perhaps a country's capabilities in screening applicants is simply correlated to how many people are trying to immigrate there? Just a hypothesis based on the data linked above.

But if I may counter your anecdote with my own: I am an immigrant in the US (Bay Area) and so are all my friends. Actually I think I interact with less than a handful of Americans regularly, everyone else is Mexican, Chinese, Slovenian, Indian, Ukranian, etc. I'm happy to have had the opportunity to find a home and work here, and I think so are they.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/...
If you're in need of business banking, you can use mercury.co (my company) and enjoy unlimited length, non-paste-breaking, password manager compatible, no expiration, no character restriction passwords + non-SMS based 2FA :)

Hopefully we have five years before competitors catch up to us and implement this cutting edge technology!