skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How old is your oldest password?
I just had to change a password for another service, and access broke because I had trouble with my password manager. I had to hit "Forgot your password?"

Then I just opened up my laptop, entering the LUKS password for the disk. These passwords can't be changed without re-encrypting the disk, a huge pain.

I'm sure a good password would be able to last a while.

How old is the oldest password you're still using on a semi-regular basis?
USB PD without signaling won't work. It wont supply the needed voltage (e.g. 19V), and the laptop won't charge
I hope the reason is not that so many persons died prematurely that the natural rate of illness is not sufficient to replacer them in the statistics.
Based on the decline in the following:

overdose deaths

traffic fatalities

adult-obesity rate

murder rate
The CDC considers gun deaths a health problem. They have a National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. They'd like to study it, but have been specifically prevented from doing so (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment). That has expired but they are rarely allocated money to study gun violence.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/03/britai...

"another respected data journalist, John Burn-Murdoch, calculated that without London, the UK would be poorer, in terms of GDP per capita, than even the poorest US state, Mississippi."
I personally witnessed in Deutsche Bahn that passenger ticket was invalidated because he failed to show physical payment card he used to purchase the ticket online. That's why I started to buy physical tickets at the counter which is another kind of horror story.
Any good reasons not to build web apps and API backends with Perl these days?
How would you differentiate dogma that is beyond questioning, and that which is doctrine but open to testing and modification?
you could've typed your exact post title into Google and had the answer faster.
It is endlessly and depressingly fascinating to me that we've had so much anti-drug propaganda shoved down us for so long that depicts addicts as monstrous criminals that seemingly as a society we're just unable to reckon with the fact that the best cure for drug addiction is just... being around other people. Not being isolated by circumstances, odd work hours, what have you. Just having a social life will not only keep you addiction-free but also enables you to use the same substances recreationally in a healthy way (sometimes, anyway, it's not bulletproof but it definitely helps).
The obesity decline is obviously related to the widespread use of GLP-1 drugs. The article mentions this halfway down but pretends that it’s still a big mystery.

Obesity and lifespan are favorite topics of people lamenting America as a whole but articles like these one always avoid the elephant in the room: Obesity and lifespan are very region-specific in the United States. If you live in the south you’ll have access to some great food, but the average lifespan is substantially lower.

The decline in drug deaths could be related to a growing wariness over fentanyl. Fentanyl was popular for a while with opioid seekers who wanted the cheapest option, but many of them are sadly dying off and new drug users know better to avoid it. Most of the news reports are about accidental fentanyl contamination, but the scary reality is that fentanyl was being actively sought out by many opioid seekers.

Some of the other stats feel like a return to normalcy after the COVID strange times, which the article mentions.
It's not about the battery going boom or frying the device. For that you don't need data lines, you could always just put high voltage on the wires.

The security risk emerges from the fact that the charger might be a usb/thunderbolt device, exploit those interfaces and exfiltrate data from your system. It's absolutely feasible to build such devices, the only hard part is the exploit.
Can you give me three recent instances where you were trying to accomplish something with Google Maps, and you weren't able to because it's gone to shit?

Without concrete examples your comment is just vibes.

You don't seem to be arguing that Google is a bad company actually. You're arguing that it was once a good/altruistic company, and now it's more ordinary. This strikes me as an entitled attitude. A company behaves in a good/altruistic way, people get used to it, they don't show appreciation, but they do start cursing if the altruism diminishes even a little. "No good deed goes unpunished"
Interesting. Thanks for taking the time and sharing!
I've seen people edit 180 videos in Resolve for quite some time. I don't find any details on the various formats it can output, but surely at least one of them will be editable if you have the camera today.

The article you linked mentions it uses BRAW which is indeed supported in Resolve today already.
sghiassy is so fat that one week in the gym affects the national average
How much did overdose deaths actually increase during COVID? My first inclination is it's most likely to be the effects of curtailing the firehose of opiate pain medication prescription that started a few years earlier. It makes sense that that would have a long tail effect as the number of new addicts being created was decreased.
> 15y. It should finish highschool soon.

Another password is >10y.

And then there are combinations and iterations of these two, that are also mature :)

Don't ask me, I won't tell you haha
> I've seen in these tech communities people saying it's recommended to cut the data wires and everyone is upvoting it

Right, and what communities are those, exactly?
"There is an included 8TB Blackmagic Media Module that is able to store approximately two hours of 8K stereoscopic video recorded in Blackmagic RAW, and Cloud Store is supported for fast media uploads and synchronization."

Um, okay, what is supported and what is achievable are two entirely different things. Even with the fattest of pipes, uploading media content to the cloud is only considered fast if you're a turtle or a snail. Even with 12Gbps connection it takes 10-12 minutes to transfer 250GB files.
Are you saying that antitrust law is nonsense?

The laws of our economy are not there to serve a few large companies. They are there to serve us, people, most of all. Do you think that markets will collapse if we had more fair rules for big companies?
While the junk item situation on amazon is real, I can't agree with this take about local stores. I find that local stores tend to have random crap that they want to sell rather than high-quality items.
10k is about 0.7% of their total employee count. I wonder if this will have any effect.
As a native midwesterner, I get more annoyed and defensive than I should when people complain that “you guys” isnt gender neutral. Where I come from, everyone is “a guy”.

It can mean “male person”, but that’s only if you use it in specific contexts that brings up gender (like saying “guys and gals”).
I actually much prefer Garmin watches, due to battery life, the workout app which has no analogues on iOS, in terms of how it tracks reps and sets, the readable screen, etc. However, its the iOS with it was just unusable. It worked great on Android, but I am used to be able to reply to texts, and I couldn't to pretty much anything on the Garmin watch with iOS, except see some notifications. I hope things get more interoperable, but it's been like this for a decade, so it probably won't get better.
Is that true? I have a cable here that I use to charge my laptop with 65W PD but it doesn't make a data connection. Does it do some black magic?
The product is delivered the same distance, whether it is from "Producer -> Amazon warehouses -> Customer" or if it is "Producer -> Retail warehouses -> Customer". An Amazon delivery car with a bunch of products to deliver is the equivalent of OP filling up his car with purchases when shopping in town.
It lowers the level of glucose in the blood. For certain conditions such as some cancers mentioned in the article the low glucose harms the cancer more than the regular cells.
> a lot more resources open up. Mining asteroids is just one idea there

We should certainly explore and hope to discover rich deposits of varied resources that are worth expending the time and energy to find, extract, and use. However, to our knowledge, asteroids probably consist of clay and silicate rocks, some containing nickel-iron[1]

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/facts/
Some pipe organs have keyboards that support that. I can't figure out when it started, but my guess is the 1920s. No hall effect, they had mechanical contacts. (I've never got to play one and always wondered if you could feel when the two positions were hit or if you had to guess and rely on sound - organ pipes often have a long delays between when you press the key and when the speak)
Is this an ad? Paypal's been doing this for 25 years.
NASA Finds 'Sideways' Black Hole Using Legacy Data, New Techniques
This. Mortality displacement isn’t a new phenomenon.
https://catala-lang.org/
The data lines weren't used for charging until fairly recently.

Al of those people may not be up to date, or you may be seeing old discussions.
they aren't just google search term count presented as evidence, if that's what you're asking.
This is absolutely true on both counts. For as much as social media is decried for negative effects on mental health and IRL socialization, healthy lifestyle & fitness inspos are absolutely having an impact. The nice thing about this is that it translates in obvious ways to IRL lifestyle mods, which when they show positive effects (better sleep, better skin, improved fitness, etc) become self-reinforcing habits. Among other things, alcohol consumption is way lower in young people than older generations, and although other recreational drug use is still "a thing", overall knowledge about the effects & impacts of recreational drugs is far more pervasive than in the past (as a young Gen-Xer myself, the prevailing mentality in the late80s-early90s was "drugs make fun times more fun" and that was about it).

I expect lots of formal study of these phenomena in coming years. As a parent of kids 7, 13, and 16 who spends a fair bit of time around school campuses & youth sports teams, for all the whining and complaining adults do about young people, my experience is that today's youth are by far the most empathetic, compassionate and best adjusted yet. They're going to be ok (provided we can afford to educate them and then hire them into the working world).
the second question already threw the credibility out the windows. lame.
I'm curious what makes you think tech workers would monopolize the top spots? I would expect that companies desperate for experts in medicine, research, engineering, law, business (which, like tech, already pay high salaries) would be similarly willing to pay a premium to be able to hire the best from other countries.
Not to excuse anything, but there’s a significant segment of reasonably computer-savvy users between “hackers” and the average Joe, who do know well enough what DNS is, just like they know what VPNs are and their use for streaming and the like.
er, 2 million people in America died as excessive death since 2020

that will mess with averages a bit

I mean AT LEAST two million, they don't like to report covid as cause of death anymore but rather the symptoms like death from excessive pneumonia
This would be plausible if I had ever heard a straight man talk about the guys he had dated.
New Magic Mushroom Species Suggests Shrooms Reached America on Bison Poop
That was bad phrasing on my part, I meant "Is there a modern alternative I should go with instead?" - I also don't know what it would be.

But I would love to know if there is a non-regular expression language with native support for csv, json and yaml that one can pipe files in and out of.
Website says Speech to text is done by Groq and Whisper.
It’s simple really.

Almost every software engineer strives to write code in a clear and concise manner. However, usually we produce a pile of spaghetti. Why is that? We all know why.

Now, take those reasons and imagine you’re in this situation:

You’re working on a codebase that has been around for 200+ years, you don’t fully understand the code you are editing, the requirements are somewhat vague (“i know it when i see it”), people calling the shots are demanding that you make ad-hoc exemptions for them for political reasons, the coding style guidelines haven’t been updated in 50 years, and worst of all you cant compile the code and test whether it works, so you dry-run the scenarios in your head and hope you don’t miss any weird test cases.
> using Cambrian explosion as a benchmark

I think that's wrong. And thinking of it like that provides another possibility:

The dinosaur era was a local maximum that couldn't develop human-like intelligence and technology. Then around 65 million years ago, Earth got "reset" and broke us out of the local maximum. Only after that did life have a chance to develop in a different direction and end up as us.

Seems at least possible to me that life is quite abundant, but local maximums that can't develop intelligence/technology might be more common than we think and it's easy to get stuck there. Earth just got lucky.
Pushing atoms around by mechanical means only seems plausible if you've never really studied molecular chemistry - see the Drexler/Smalley debate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate...
Y'all is efficient. It is just one syllable. Asking the question, "Y'all eat?" Is twice as fast compared to, "Did you all eat?"

Of course, I use it because I'm from the south eastern US, not because it's fast.
All these mentions of the "ScyllaDB Source Available License" but not even a link towards the actual text.

I understand it will have limitations on the data that you can use (up to a certain size) and the CPU power (up to these many cores). Will it also limit the activity type (commercial, SaaS offering, ...)?
"Also in September, FBI analysis confirmed a double-digit decline in the national murder rate."

Was this before or after they added in all the murders that weren't reported to the FBI?

https://crimeresearch.org/2024/04/how-reliable-are-the-fbis-...
From one stranger to another, this is such a nice comment. And I love this film, but never knew this arm band fact. Now I can't wait to notice it this year when we inevitably watch it. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Never understood why this couldn’t be used with PowerShell too since it’s based on .NET. But Linqpad is super cool software
They mention the pandemic and lockdowns a few other times in the article.

The thing is that's really something that could go in either direction. Has a lethal virus, which is still circulating widely, made deaths go up? Has the lockdown decreased driving, making road deaths fall? Has the strain on the healthcare system meant things like cancers went undiagnosed, making deaths go up? Has the fact the oldest and least healthy people died in the pandemic made post-pandemic deaths go down? Did the boredom of lockdowns drive more people to use hard drugs, making deaths go up? Did the pandemic-triggered rise in remote working let people convert their commute time into exercise time, making deaths go down? Did the pandemic, and seeing other people's response to it, lead to a rise in selfish behaviour like bad driving, making deaths go up? Did work-from-home replace unhealthy on-the-go meals with healthy home-cooked food, reducing obesity and making deaths go down?
If you ever need to do this in future, Logitech have a web only tool that uses web serial to pair the receiver.
Depicted in the 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson movie “The Master” - a movie I love for reasons I don’t understand.
I assumed that the threat model includes been given a power brick that is already pawned (maybe has some chip with GSM access and somebody is gonna hack your computer through it or sth, or exploits some unknown zero day). And I would assume that is nation state level of a threat, either a supply chain kind of attack or more targeted.

Personally I have come accross no-data usb cables which I hated, but i see no reason to carry such a cable with me and then carry extra usb cables for data transfer. I am happy enough that the multiple cable problem is mostly solved and I still remember and by no means miss the days that I had to carry a separate charger and associated cable for each device, plus possibly other cables to connect stuff together.
> You may want to charge without a data-wire, or use a cable with a correct power-negotiation chip if you don't know/trust the source (eg a charging nook in a library/school/bar/airport.. anywhere public).

There's an alternate charging interface you can use that's pretty widely available and I'd highly recommend--the 120/240VAC outlets all over the place!

Yeah yeah, I'm only half kidding. If you're going out to the bar you're probably not gonna shove a USB charger in your pocket. But in most of the rest of those situations (library, school, airport) and more you _probably_ have a few things you're carrying with you. Just leave a small adapter and cable rolling around the bottom of your bag and you don't have to worry about this. (Or at least you're into the realm of _wildly_ theoretical attacks.)

This doesn't just avoid the potential security issues... A lot of those charging lockers and things are not exactly well designed or well engineered. If you use your own charger you also know some weird cheap out-of-spec setup isn't going to damage your phone and there won't be any incompatibilities with the charger/cable/device that leave you charging at 7.5W.
> the best cure for drug addiction is just... being around other people. Not being isolated by circumstances, odd work hours, what have you.

Counterpoint: Most of the people I know who picked up drug addictions (all who have received treatment and currently recovered) picked them up from social situations. They encountered groups where drug use was their common weekend activity and you either joined them or you weren’t included.

Being in between jobs or having a job with low demands was also an enabler of drug addiction. Idle hands and all that.

> Just having a social life will not only keep you addiction-free but also enables you to use the same substances recreationally in a healthy way

This generalization doesn’t hold at all. I haven’t heard of any addicts who became more moderate of their use of hard drugs when surrounded by other users of those hard drugs. The correlation goes the other way. Being around other users both enables and encourages more drug use.
Seems like eink would be better, but the smallest I can find is about 3cm so much too big. If you can get them smaller though...
Braess's paradox or why more is not always better
That's the wrong page, wrong product
What brought you there?
The clampdown on opioid prescribing started long before COVID.
Yes, it's true that the UK economy is very London-centric, but the original poster was talking about the UK as a whole vs the US as a whole. (The flip side of this is that the figures would look better if you compared London to a major US city.)

None of this changes the fact that US software engineering salaries are a poor comparison to use to illustrate wealth disparities between the US and other countries, as they are an outlier.
Congrats, any plans for college following graduation :)
They could’ve had a wrong answer faster. Google search isn’t deterministic and the current LLM answer at the top for me is half right and half wrong.
Tech on the Toilet: Driving Software Excellence, One Bathroom Break at a Time
Yes, but what's about the components controlling speed, e.g. by detecting the speed limit from some map? Or the stuff implementing emergency calls?
Also there is a plethora of features I (charging station maps) which probably need all maintenance, too.
Well... congratulations?
> might need more money to fuel their addiction

This makes a lot more sense to me than blackmail.

I'd quibble though that this overlooks that quite a lot (possibly even most) drug users are able to lead productive lives without having to resort to illegal activity to fund their drug use.

The other thing this doesn't cover is that there are many alcoholics that fall into the same trap. Though there again, most alcoholics are able to lead productive lives despite their addiction.

And through personal experience, I unfortunately know quite a few alcoholics that work in defense with various levels of clearance.
Not sure which version they're referring to here but from Xiph updates...

> The latest draft of the FLAC specification by the CELLAR working group of the IETF. This more formal specification improves on the format description you can find further down this page. It provides a better explanation of concepts like wasted bits, the implications on subframe bit-depth of using stereo decorrelation, explanantion of the actual symbols used in rice coding, inclusion of various decoding, etc

So it's just likely a long process on a path for formal definition, that was only started relatively recently in the format's history.

See also:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9639/
USB-PD negotiation can be done before reaching the laptop, using a fixed-function adapter for the desired voltage and current. Then the final leg of the connection can be power-only. This is used to power older laptops via USB-c and barrel connector.
Without more information, that sounds like extra complexity. You can easily do per-host configurations using home-manager. Actually, I consider that one of the perks of the nix based setup, so I'm not sure why I'd want another tool for that.
you know that there is still offline artforms like concerts theaters opera installations etc so i wouldn see it that negative. and we have nearly 100years of music and film we can enjoy. so maybe video is a dying artform for human to act in but there is so much more.
Ask HN: How do you use HTTP status codes in REST APIs?
I am curious as to which philosophy you use when designing a REST API that returns JSON.

If, for example, no record is found do you return a 404 status code or a 200 with an error message?

I'm partial to using HTTP status codes and was wondering what the HN consensus was.
using estimates online, the sum of the cost of those programs is somewhere around $4 trillion. who is ubi for? if it's all us adults, then that's somewhere around 250m people.

so about $16k of UBI per person per year.
Why would having a lot of debt make that person have “… some aspirations of foreign travel to risky locales…”?

Plenty of people get into debt just doing normal shit at their homes
Last time I looked at Corsair they had a DLL for each device, it added up.
Anyone remotely interested in Hong Kong should read the novel Tai-Pan. That’s some great historical fiction. No idea which parts are accurate, but it’s a fun read.
That's a terrible article. Most of the numbers[1] are "last five years", which is a huge cherry pick right around the pandemic. It's true that there was an savings and inflation burst 2021-2023! But drawing your box around it and declaring "things are getting worse" instead of looking at the trend in both directions is just bad science.

As always, ask FRED, not random clickbait articles. Real (which means "inflation-adjusted") median household income in the United States: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

It's been going steadily upward since 2011, and is currently, except
for the 2020-22 correction the article is cherry picking.

[1] Also the headline isn't an aggregate number measuring people, it's citing "97% of professions". Wat? What does that even mean? Is there a formal list out there of all the "professions" such that you can count them all? Clearly there is not, so that number become non-falsifiable.