skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is correct; scuba divers are trained to do a controlled emergency ascent while continuously exhaling, because your lungful of air at depth will last the whole way up, and the real risk is not running out of air, but embolism from overexpansion.

The limiting factor in ascent (and therefore the reason for the recreational dive limit of 60 feet) is the risk of decompression sickness. If it weren't for that, a diver at arbitrary depth could ascend on a single breath.
General life satisfaction (which is the statistic mentioned in the article, in the context of happiness levels before and after the deletion of Facebook) is distinctly different from the acute joy one feels in the heat of victory (or more cynically, after taking stimulant drugs).

The default emotion could be relatively neutral, but the difference between happiness and sadness, in the "general life satisfaction" sense, is in the baseline.
> All that good energy and hope broke like a wave against that huge political cliff, and had far less impact than everyone needed.

He seemed happy enough with the party-line vote in the Senate on the first major bill of his presidency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...

And he wasn't too concerned about bipartisanship when it came to passing the ACA only a year later, arguably the biggest bill of the decade. There were several forms of procedural hardball happening in the process of passing that. It was certainly passed narrowly and along party lines. And, partly because of the lack of bipartisan agreement, not all of it survived court challenges.

If it's true that Obama was genuinely optimistic and down on cynicism during his 2008 campaign, he must have wised up quickly. Otherwise, maybe people read some things into the "Hope" message that weren't actually there. He came from the Chicago school of politics, though, so I'm skeptical that the narrative of broken good energy really fits.

And I think this sort of thing feeds into the Trump narrative of a "swamp" that needs draining. Obama certainly didn't come up with Washington partisanship, but the hard landing after all the Hope posters probably increased cynicism on the whole and gave Trump a chance. Remember, he didn't exactly win his election by a landslide.
I know they were convicted of more than one crime. That's my entire point. We have no idea which crimes they were guilty of, if any, or which they were innocent of.

The only thing we know is, they didn't commit the crime that we have the DNA for. And again, we know that because we have DNA, not because we have to trust some perp or some cop.

Point is, any evidence that requires trust in the police, or the defense, is suspect. And you have to choose who you should believe. But you really won't be able to say with certainty that such evidence is not of tainted colour. You just don't have honest enough people in the system to do that. What happened here, is that people ignored all the exculpatory evidence. Even though it certainly agitated against the veracity of other "evidence" that had been "collected" by the police. Once that decision was made, a bad outcome was a virtual certainty.
> ...they closely track the cost of gas.

Could you post a source backing your claim?
Bless google translate's heart I can read about half of the words on any poem presented here.
I'm not saying it should be completely unhinged, but something like a -1% interest rate, is that so much more shocking than a +1% interest rate? I don't think so. People can deal with airline miles, hotel points, credit card rewards rationally; heck some are even paid in stocks or options which are much more volatile and uncertain. They seem to do fine.
You can do that in two ways: Reduce cost of food by two thirds or double their income.

Both of these feats would be incredible. So yeah, if we could do incredible things, that would be amazing.

Let's get back to reality though: Food prices are more or less set by international markets. African farmers can't compete with other countries, because they work so inefficiently. Making more people work as farmers doesn't change that.

That's the reason why Africans import so much food. It's actually cheaper. You don't need more people working as farmers, you would need automation to be competitive, but then less people are actually employed. Even then, this wouldn't lower food prices below market price, because those farmers can now export instead of serving the domestic market.
I agree that some labor shortages are the product of artificial restriction. But I strongly disagree that all labor shortages in the US have this property. Some labor shortages are unambiguously intrinsic and very difficult to eliminate. Sometimes there simply aren't enough people with deep expertise necessarily acquired over several years to meet demand.

Take my specialty for example. I mostly work on operational multi-modal spatial and sensor analytics at extremely large scales and high velocities (as is typical for these data models). Right now, half the Fortune 500 are trying to hire people that know how to design these systems and throwing silly money at anyone that seems like they can. There is no open source software that can do it and half the required computer science is not in literature, it is an extremely deep technical specialty that takes years of experience to learn. There are, maybe, a half-dozen people in the world right now that know how to design these systems end-to-end from first principles and likely a demand for several hundred. There is no way to manufacture that supply on a time horizon that matters to anyone that wants to hire them.

Even one level lower, high-end systems engineering talent demand is at least an order of magnitude higher than the actual supply. This requires very deep experience to be competent that you can't learn in bootcamp or six months of on-the-job training. Yet despite being paid extremely well even by software engineering standards, as an industry we don't come remotely close to producing enough of them. In fairness, it takes serious devotion to craft and no small amount of talent to become high-end systems engineer -- but few people with the raw talent have that ambition or interest, even though it pays extremely well. You can't force people to do what they have no interest in doing.
> And don't get me started on the stupid fact that you cannot renew your US visa within the US

Ever been to Korea? Ever had a Chinese visa? How about India on a visa? If Indians want an easier time with US visas, then the Indian government should stop with their draconian visa process. Chinese and Korean work visas aren’t much better. Americans trying to get work visas for the EU also have a very difficult time as well. A DUI on your record years ago can mean an American can’t even visit Canada. Those complaining about the US visa process seemingly have limited experience with the rest of the world. You can get 5 year visas to the US; unheard of for Europe or many other countries.
Japan's ＃KuToo movement giving women a leg-up in the workplace
I've heard cattle described like this. Cattle struck a bargain with humans where we spread them everywhere, protect them, and give them ample grazing room in exchange for their slaughter.
Looks great, thanks for sharing.
> engage in terrorist activities

> member or representative of a terrorist organization

This is an ambigious question. For example, some groups are considered terrorists by one country and "legitimely elected government" by other. So the terrorist by opinion of country A can answer "No" without lying because in country B he is not considered a terrorist. So maybe they should add "from the point of view of the US government" to the question.
NEC initiates AI-driven drug discovery business
> Starting with the 2019 plan year (for which you’ll file taxes in April 2020), the Shared Responsibility Payment no longer applies.

https://www.healthcare.gov/fees/fee-for-not-being-covered/

Of course this is new, so fears in recent history were definitely real.
To add to that, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa are "easy mode". Those countries are far more developed than people imagine, despite massive corruption.
I got the missive. Thanks.
Why scientists believe Godzilla’s fictional growth is cause for real concern
I would bet it did. Here’s an F-91W hydro modded with olive oil taken to 3000 feet.

https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?330958-The-Little-Wat...
> "why you think it's not at all relevant"

Nobody said this.

> "I care about how my providers behave when they have issues"

We all do.

As the other commenters stated, the communication is poor because the clouds are still growing rapidly and there's not much reason to be better. We might also be underestimating just how much more better service would cost and whether it's worth the revenue loss (if any). Are you really going to shift all of your spend overnight because of an outage? And where are you going to go?

The reality of these decisions is far more nuanced than it may seem and the current state of support is probably already optimized for revenue growth and customer retention.
One problem with head transplantation that comes to me, is that of resources such as hormones and neurotransmitters produced by the body (i.e. intestines produce neurotransmitters).

Thence it is not only a problem of oxygenation of brain tissue.
Because they can?

As utility vehicles, they also tend to have really good resale value, so they might not be quite the poor 'investment' you imagine.

Because the resale is good, margins can creep up. There's nothing holding them down.
It would work until you have obstinate drunks who start fights and annoy random people. A simpler solution is to only be around people who have better self-control and aren't liabilities than shifting the externalities of habits and behaviors onto others... Tragedy of the Commons and freeloader problems.
It would only be fair that people who are subject to adult taxes, regulations and jail should be allowed to participate in the processes that subject them to involuntary actions (such as taxes and jail) - This doesn't only mean voting but being eligible to be voted for - After all taxation without representation was literally the rallying cry of our nations freedom.

Given what we have now, 18. Stupid 18 year olds you say? No problem they won't get elected. What if someone does? Well, then that person is clearly an extremely exceptional 18 year old and might be smarter than both you and I. Basically, meritocratic participation. I'm not sure how someone can argue against it.

Now, if you want to put in a requirement to have some level of public service experience before being president, that is not discriminatory, though it opens up a whole other can of worms - Personally I'm against this, but at least such a requirement would actually make sense in a meritocratic way, instead of just being silly ageist discrimination, which hopefully one day will be seen for being similar to other vile views like racism, sexism and classism.

The rest of your questions aren't really relevant to this point.
You are not accounting for the important part of sourcing the pirated movies and running a Plex server though? That's what 99% of the people who only want to consume will be struggling with, not the playback client.
My wife has an extremely difficult time going back to sleep if she is fully wakened. Our kids co-slept. She could feed them at night without having to get up, and still be able to mostly get some sleep.

As an additional benefit, she didn't have to pump for overnight, and I didn't have to get up to bottle feed. Which, I would have done! But I'm happy not to have to have done that.

I am a very hard sleeper. I can sleep through anything. But I can sleep in bed with a little kid next to me just fine. I think our unconscious minds/nervous systems must have enough awareness of those little blazing furnaces.
Back to Basics: Direct Hydropower (2013)
But doesn't proving that the person has lied also require additional efforts, and if that person will contest the desicion in court, can become a long process?
>aren't we making people a lot more selfish?

Not necessarily, we all are to a degree or another, hard wired to care for each other and to want to belong to something. I care for my neighbor because I have met him several times and I just feel within me that when he's happy I can feel better and more relaxed. It is like that Charlie Chaplin Great Dictator speech;

>"We all want to live by eachother's happiness, not by eachother's misery"

For the last year or so, I had been thinking on this topic, specially from the direction of de-radicalizing people when talking about politics, specially in today's age. I realized that the amount of time I spend talking with people and engaging them on conversation on said subjects is just a sliver of the amount of time they actually spend consuming polarizing content and altering their own neuron network to be unfriendly to new ideas, meaning that wherever I discuss things, I'm fighting asymmetrically against their set past experiences, therefore I should instead of go in long diatribes, I need to get past said wall of pre-conceved notions, arguments and dialogue trees right into shared interests and outlook, after all, we all want a better world, so we can set that as the goal and build on each other's views.

Thank you for the link btw, I very much liked that last drawing, it is super cute
When I read stuff like this I can’t help thinking something about the world economy and financial system has got to be horribly broken. How have we reached the point that banning traditional currency so that we can drive interest rates negative can be seen as a rational response to our problems?

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.

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

If you’re a government seeking to stimulate the economy, why wouldn’t that be a saner option?
A while ago there was a 65% 'Southpaw' keyboard on reddit -- https://www.reddit.com/comments/75djfk

There are others if you do a search for left-handed keyboards.
Of all the streaming services, Netflix is the one I’m most likely to cancel soon. The quality of Netflix original content is dismal. They have jumped the shark. Used to invest in serious drama, now it’s all lowest common denominator crap hidden behind a huge marketing budget to capture zeitgeisty hype.

I just watched the first episode of When They See Us today: total crap. Ridiculous over-acting, awful writing that feels at every minute like a bad attempt to modify a true story into a cinematic exaggeration (despite the content of the true story it’s based on, which needs zero punch up), choppy editing that needlessly obfuscates character development and makes various scenes feel almost comically unnatural (especially the police interrogation scenes).

It was similar with Seven Seconds. I’m tired of feeling suckered into Netflix dramas that fall apart like a wet napkin.
I'm not sure that's a meaningful distinction. The literal text of Title IX is so short it can't possibly be discriminatory:

> No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

Everything that people normally refer to by the phrase "Title IX", from Title IX offices to Title IX cases to Title IX procedure, is an application.
>Yeah but there's more to mental states than how they make us feel. They have content and meaning. Which may affect subsequent and contingent feelings, for example.

Could you explain the distinction?
It is funny like some programmers, especially from Lips/functional programming equate term "design patters" with GoF book and their list of 23 specific patterns, and then proudly declare that "Lisp does not have/need design patterns". Of course it has, just different ones than Java/C#
What’s wrong with this announcement? (2014)
> Without cash, depositors would have to pay the negative interest rate to keep their money with the bank, making consumption and investment more attractive. This would jolt lending, boost demand, and stimulate the economy.

Or... it would spawn the mother of all asset bubbles in Bitcoin and to a lesser extent gold. Watch for anti-Bitcoin legislation as a canary in the coal mine signaling that the exits are about to slam shut.
Jumbo loans have no such requirement in the US (anything over 650ish-thousand dollars).

Instead of Private Mortgage Insurance, the banks (typically?) require that you have a certain amount of cash in the bank as reserves. x% cash, y% investments discounted at 30%, z% retirement discounted at 40%, and so on. More at 10% than at 20%. And so on. But I don't think these are required; there's no reason a bank couldn't just decide to let you go without. And while they require pretty extensive documentation, you can still game the system.

When we bought (2015), interest rates for jumbo loans were LOWER than confirming loans, and no PMI requirement. win/win.
I know what kind of process generates a normal distribution, but what about power law and lognormal? I’ve googled for an answer and never found anything (just found the formula for distributions, etc).
HN is boring enough ( Java API lawsuits / Firefox perf results ) that large groups of people will never read it. So it doesn't have to defend against as big of an assault of bad actors as Reddit/FB/Twitter do. So they can curate the community with actions that scale up just a little. Kind of like a Reddit mod with more resources and power.
I’m pretty sure most of the revenue on the new TLDs is just corporate customers securing their trademarks or protecting against the squatters or spear phishing/impersonation attacks. I am curious about the returns on the 100k registration fee. IMO these tlds are a fucking terrible idea and I fully expect good security policy to just blanket block most of them within a few years.
Wonder how that's going to play out for the dams' spillways. Also, it seems essential that California should have much greater freshwater storage capacity given that weather is more variable and climate is changing... otherwise doing the same thing and expecting a different result is either insanity or stupidity.
Peru’s government looks to blockchain to fight corruption
Wow. Just wow. Having already penalized savings (by way of inflation) for so long, now they want to actively penalize savings? They're coming up with strategies to prevent a bank run for taking people's money?

Have your cake and eat it too? If this is ever announced, US dollar will just have to collapse. There's no way any country will accept this.
Except no one in a stable developed economy equates those loyalty programs and how those systems operate with how their nation’s currency operates, or should operate. Are you not annoyed at all the random games those companies play with those point systems? I don’t value those points highly at all because of the frequent devaluations they go through. I would not want the same fate for my currency. Are you willing to subject everything you’ve ever worked for to that kind of thing?

And one of the key reasons for maintaining a positive interest rate on lending is to encourage sound investment decisions by the capitalists borrowing it. Low interest rates beget more and more speculative investments, and more and more of those will go bad. And then you get a debt crisis.
> ISPs are more regulated

You must be joking. In the US, broadband ISPs are regional monopolies that can and do charge whatever they want while delivering lousy service. This happens while net neutrality is in place.

Without net neutrality, ISPs are now free to make whatever deals they want with content providers, double dipping, and providing fewer options for consumers.

AT&T is now offering uncapped access to their video services [1]. Without net neutrality, nothing stops them from throttling Netflix & charging Netflix money for "high speed access", thereby passing costs to the consumer. ISPs can profit more from their regional monopolies simply by forcing services like Netflix to pay more. Consumers will not benefit because the broadband ISP has no incentive to improve service or lower costs. They are regional monopolies.

[1] https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2019/02/13/isps-are-violating-t...
It doesn't have to be a modified version of the original app. It can just be an app that generates very similar looking graphics and animations, the "Funny Finnish Driving License Generator" or something. You think this would still break the terms/rules?
Do economies really need to go through that "farming phase" to grow? I don't see the connection. Modern farming employs less than 1% of the population. Non-modern farming can not compete at all except in tiny niches.

So how are those "native farmers" going to bring their societies from poverty to prosperity, by being completely uncompetitive, but protected at the same time?
China is investigating FedEx after it diverted packages to the United States
The groundwork for domestic implementation is already in place:

https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-la...
Most people dont know but you can get P4S (plex for share) where you pay (or free) someone to get added on their plex library. Some of these servers have CDN and have 90+TB storage with automated requests system. Thousands of shows and movies. You can also get IPTV, which is basivally cable TV through internet for 10$/month. 5000 channels. You ask how its possible? Basically fly by night companies redistributing cable. Some have sweared by it being good. Does anybody in HN hsvr more ecperience in
its more likely that they already have a piracy workflow and the inconvenience isn't enough to disrupt that workflow, unlike their experience with Netflix / Plex with the Chromecast.
i think that's the whole point :-)
We don’t usually discuss the frequency of unplanned failovers, but I will tell you that we do a planned failover at least every two weeks. The team also uses traffic shaping to perform whole system load tests with production traffic, which happens quarterly.
It’s actually Department of State databases, specifically, CLASS (Consular Lookout and Support System) and the TIDE (Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment) systems that are used. There is also (as you mentioned,) an FBI fingerprint and name check that is completed, but that’s for domestic (US) criminal records and not specific to overseas terrorism.
Couldn't you just write something like "All emails @mydomain.com" if asked you could explain how it works and they can't say that you ever lied.
Oh no, I learn "something new" every day. It's just not related to text editing. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty good at editing in vim. After all, it's been my editor of choice for the last 15 years or so, and I see no reason why it would not remain in that role indefinitely. I'm just not convincing that learning the more obscure stuff is valuable.
Most people have a friend who's technical enough to follow the plex installation instructions or install utorrent.
Yes and the federal courts are taking her side (so far): https://www.texastribune.org/2019/04/26/Texas-bahia-amawi-sp...
#32 is in the works: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/llcdfactsheet.final...
I mean this is probably the perfect attitude for the playground/park/outdoors, but maybe not a private business?
> used to invest in serious drama, now it’s all lowest common denominator crap

Given that it's Netflix we're talking about here, I find this extremely depressing as it likely means the studios were right; people don't want nuanced thoughtful drama, they want mediocre predictable sitcoms and cop dramas.
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