MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryandrake | 2025-11-21 18:23:16+00:00
Quicken is getting even more and more disappointing.

Used to be, you'd use what Quicken calls "direct connect" where the client software itself connects to your bank's servers and pulls down your transactions and balances. They also had this "quicken connect" where the client software connects to Quicken servers, who, in turn, contact your bank--making Intuit an unwanted middleman. Slowly, but consistently, Quicken has been dropping "direct connect" support and coercing their users to go the middleman route.

I, too, have been looking for an alternative to Quicken, but: 1. I don't want to have to go to each bank's crappy web site and download a crappy CSV to import, and 2. I also don't want the software developer inserting itself into what should be a data transfer between me and my bank.

The Holy Grail personal finance software would 1. be free and open source, 2. download data directly from financial institutions without CSVs or a middleman and 3. store the data in an open format like sqlite that I can query and manipulate outside of the application.
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-21 18:23:37+00:00
Honestly, get a small VM at openbsd.amsterdam or another good hoster and just do it yourself. OpenBSD has outstanding documentation, standing up SMTPD and Dovecot there is super simple, especially for a single user and not a whole group or family (where LDAP or Kerberos would be warranted). Just take initiative and own your data. Does it cost a little bit upfront time? Sure, but maybe just weekend. Does it require a little maintenance here and there? Sure. But still cheaper than paying for fastmail or waiting for fastmail to also exploit your data because the shareholders said so....just own your data.
by jerf | 2025-11-21 18:24:26+00:00
I fought off the local imposition of Dependabot by executive fiat about a year ago by pointing out that it maximizes vulnerabilities to supply chain attacks if blindly followed or used as a metric excessively stupidly. Maximizing vulnerabilities was not the goal, after all. You do not want to harass teams with the fact that DeeplyNestedDepen just went from 1.1.54-rc2 to 1.1.54-rc3 because the worst case is that they upgrade just to shut the bot up.

I think I wouldn't object to "Dependabot on a 2-week delay" as something that at least flags. However working in Go more than anything else it was often the case even so that dependency alerts were just an annoyance if they aren't tied to a security issue or something. Dynamic languages and static languages do not have the same risk profiles at all. The idea that some people have that all dependencies are super vital to update all the time and the casual expectation of a constant stream of vital security updates is not a general characteristic of programming, it is a specific characteristic not just of certain languages but arguably the community attached to those languages.

(What we really need is capabilities, even at a very gross level, so we can all notice that the supposed vector math library suddenly at version 1.43.2 wants to add network access, disk reading, command execution, and cryptography to the set of things it wants to do, which would raise all sorts of eyebrows immediately, even perhaps in an automated fashion. But that's a separate discussion.)
by Lapsa | 2025-11-21 18:24:31+00:00
perhaps immunity ain't confirmed. but just recently there was an article of a complete absence of documented cases. not a single blind from birth person has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia. why do you suppose that's so? if I put on my conspiracy hat and go balls to the wall - arguably whole disease thing can be painted as a hoax, as an another form of a societal control. how have you ruled out such possibility? have you read about mental disease treatment from 1950s and after-lobotomy surgery ice cream treats? I don't have visual hallucinations either
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-21 18:24:45+00:00
Yeah, some Christian evangelicals want Jewish people to go to Israel, build the new temple, and then get wiped out in the apocalypse.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical...

> One main strand of evangelical theology holds that the return of Jews to the region starts the clock ticking on a seven-year armageddon, after which Jesus Christ will return.

> Hagee, despite having a long history of antisemitism – he has suggested Jews brought persecution upon themselves by upsetting God and called Hitler a “half-breed Jew” – founded Christians United for Israel in 2006.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-21 18:24:49+00:00
Yeah, I get it. I don't want any of that, I just want a filesystem.

I'll take care of cloud storage with SyncThing (or whatever) -- I'm the kind of guy that values being able to choose the parts. I don't buy "cold medicine", I buy ibuprofen, diphenhydramine, pseudoephedrine or whatever else I decide, and I'll dose each based on my symptoms. Because that's just better than some prepackaged thing. And I do the exact same thing with computing. Works great. But Apple fights.

The whole world of mobile computing is actively fighting giving the customers the ability to compose their tools, which strips away user agency, and creates all these issues with "big tech" being monopolies and locking users in. This is at the root of what the DMA is about, I think.
Show HN: ConfigTailor – A cell based config file generator
by dschofie | 2025-11-21 18:24:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I open-sourced this configuration generator because we wanted to have a version-controlled way to generate configuration files for our cell-based deployment.

You can generate config files for any number of cells based on any schema. You can also nest your configuration to include different things like AWS account then cell name.

Please let me know what you think!
by hackandthink | 2025-11-21 18:25:18+00:00
Mearsheimer was right in 1993 (nukes).

https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mears...

He was right in 2014:

https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...

And he is still right:

https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/who-caused-the-ukraine-wa...
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-21 18:25:19+00:00
>When you buy a house, the mortgage is associated with the buyer, not the house

In the US, this depends which state you are in:

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/nonrecourse-loan...

The non recourse states are Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington.

>and you can't just dismantle the house and sell it for parts to cover payments

You can do this in every state, at least with a conventional mortgage. If you default, they can pursue your other assets, except in non recourse states.

>we'd have a lot of on-paper debt associated with empty lots that mortgage holders could simply walk away from (perhaps after a nominal sale)

I don't know what "after a nominal sale" means, because if you sell a property with a lien on it, then the lien holder gets paid first. And underwriting would not let people who have a history of dismantling a house and defaulting borrow money over and over, and people need a place to live, so I'm not sure why anyone would take out a mortgage to dismantle a house. The scenario makes no sense, as raw materials are cheap, and labor costs are expensive.

> It's preposterous, they'd never let that happen. So, why with businesses?

Because the lender agreed to those terms. No one forces a lender to lend money without a personal guarantee.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/personal-guarantee.asp
by partiallypro | 2025-11-21 18:25:56+00:00
The biggest worry are companies taking on debt or issuing equity in order to build data centers. It's a massive gamble (they are very very expensive to build.) There is a backlog for now, but in 5 years? I don't know, you might end up just sitting on a pile of chips and buildings that no one can use or wants. That would massively reverberate through the economy, maybe not akin to housing but it would definitely blow up some companies. For now, I think the math works, but I can't see into the future and that's where the risk is.
by nonethewiser | 2025-11-21 18:26:13+00:00
>We had a local story where the gist was the police said they searched ALPR for the welfare of a young woman, but it was actually more focused on a possible abortion.

Just to be clear, most abortions in Texas are illegal. That's not necessarily a good thing. Nor are flock cameras necessarily a good thing. But given abortions are illegal in Texas, it's simply being used for its nominal purpose.

So it doesnt seems like a particularly egregious use of flock. It's just as egregious as it normally is, which is pretty egregious.
by aiiotnoodle | 2025-11-21 18:26:15+00:00
This is because the metadata in OSM doesn't include the tags that Deflock looks for:

You can see the requirements here https://deflock.me/report/id but the two you're looking for are.

manufacturer operator

I think they should add Siemens Sicore cameras to their known camera database, but they do show up on Deflock despite not being mentioned explicitly on the website. Here is an example in one of my contributions via OSM. https://deflock.me/map#map=18/53.786783/-1.551438
by kevincox | 2025-11-21 18:26:17+00:00
Ugh, I hate magic links.

1. Password managers often don't auto-fill the email/phone field.

2. Have to context switch to my email client.

3. The email often takes a little to arrive. Some services have truly awful delivery time. This can be managed if you send your own email but few people do.

4. In most cases you can just click the link then. But it becomes annoying if you want to open in a private tab/container tab/different browser/different device.

5. Even if it preserves your destination (it probably didn't) you now have the original tab lying around to clean up.

Compare this to username+password

1. Click login button. (Username + password already filled by password manager)
by dawser | 2025-11-21 18:26:28+00:00
scroll is a Wayland compositor forked from sway, but with a scrolling layout similar to PaperWM, niri or hyprscroller.

scroll is mostly compatible with your sway configuration.

Aside from the scrolling layout, scroll adds many new features to sway, including:

- Animations: scroll supports very customizable animations.

- Rounded borders and title bars, dimming of inactive windows, and dynamic shadows with blur.

- Lua API: scroll provides a lua API to script the window manager.

- Content scaling: The content of individual windows (X and Wayland) can be scaled independently of the general output scale.

- Overview and Jump modes: You can see a full overview of the desktop and work with the windows at that scale. Jump allows you to move to any window with just a few key presses, like easymotion in some editors. There are jump modes to preview and switch workspaces, tiling or floating windows, or applications in the scratchpad. For floating windows and the scratchpad, it shows every window without overlaps for easier selection.

- Workspace scaling: Apart from overview, you can scale the workspace to any scale using key bindings or the mouse, and work at that scale.

- Several full screen modes: workspace, global, application and layout.

- Trails, trailmarks and spaces.

- Trackpad/Mouse scrolling: You can use the trackpad or mouse dragging to navigate/scroll the workspace windows.

- Portrait and Landscape monitor support: scroll is designed from the ground up to adapt its layout to both portrait or landscape monitors. You can define the layout orientation per output (monitor) or change it with a key stroke.

...and many other features.

Make sure to check out the TUTORIAL linked from the main README. It contains several videos explaining some of the features.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-11-21 18:26:37+00:00
That's a nice excuse from the executives, but it doesn't align with reality. McDonald's profits have been rising every year. [1] If those dastardly minimum wage workers and their fat paychecks were putting even the slightest bit of pressure on struggling McDonald's, the expectation would be some sort of reduction in profit. But it's the total opposite. Profits are outpacing whatever losses they're (not) experiencing from whatever supposed wage increases they have.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonald-q3-2025-profit-sales...
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-21 18:26:40+00:00
In daily practice you don't. Unless you host in a DC with lots of spam. Use small but trusted hosters.

But as long as you get SSL/DKIM/SPF and the other stuff right, and it's not THAT difficult, then most hosters will let you through. Unless it's German Telecom, because for some reason t-online.de decided to only allow emails from hosters they whitelisted and there's a whole approval process which even requires registering with them with an email that is NOT from your domain and even a fax, but honestly fuck anyone using that domain.
by shkkmo | 2025-11-21 18:27:25+00:00
> Moreover, I think the article author would call for those leaders to step down if he thought that would be effective.

You are welcome to believe that. However putting words in other people's mouth doesn't lead to a productive conversation and so is against the site guidlines.

> Rochko wanted to step down, which forced Mastodon to come up with a succession plan. So I'm not sure why praise is due for this.

Because Rochko chose not to go with picking a new BDFL to replace him. Instead he setup a system where there will be no BDFL, which is what is being praised. I'm not sure why you are struggling with this concept so much...

> You ignored my question, though: "how do you know that Rails and WordPress don't already have their own succession plans?"

I ignored the question since it was clearly made in bad faith. I never made such a claim.

Edit: I'll also posit that secret succession plans don't build the same trust or provide the same benefits as a public plan.
by assemblyman | 2025-11-21 18:27:28+00:00
>>You can’t avoid the reality that’s your life depends on something else dying. Either plant insect or animal

There are more nuanced ways of thinking about this. A good example is Jainism's version of vegetarianism which requires paying attention to what one consumes.

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

"Jains make considerable efforts not to injure plants in everyday life as far as possible. Jains accept such violence only in as much as it is indispensable for human survival, and there are special instructions for preventing unnecessary violence against plants."
by chankstein38 | 2025-11-21 18:27:49+00:00
This is why I fail to see the value in boycotts at this point. Anything that I boycott will be cancelled out probably 10 fold by people happy to buy from that place still or just required.

Like I'm not willing to pay certain prices for things like I fly less because the experience is worse than it should be, by a lot and I can't handle paying 10x more for the business class option. So I'm just stuck doing it. And there are plenty of people who are happy to do it still.

So you end up left with a rock and a hard place. Do I not travel? Do I not go buy that thing? Do I not do these things that would possibly add happiness to my life to fight price gouging? Especially when you know that for every 1 of you there are 6 other people happy to pay the price or buy the thing.

It feels like a lot of these big companies are just too big to fail at this point and abuse us for it.
by echelon_musk | 2025-11-21 18:28:20+00:00
If you do go ahead and fire up your old Xbox, it would probably be worth you running XCAT.

> Xbox Content Archive Tool (XCAT) is a utility that runs directly on an Xbox console to assist in finding unarchived DLC and other lost content. When run, the application will scan the Xbox hard drive for any content that has yet to be archived and upload it directly to the servers of the XCAT Team for later analysis, sorting, and archival.

https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:XCAT
by op00to | 2025-11-21 18:29:35+00:00
I think it's crazy that the SLA just gives you a credit. Even worse! In the contracts I've seen, you have to prove the duration of the outage and sometimes even that there was commercial impact using your own monitoring. What a pain in the ass.

It would be easy for me to tell my customers exactly what they need to say to get the maximum, but I've been told not to do that, so I guess it's on them to figure it out.
by areyousure | 2025-11-21 18:30:08+00:00
> The real question is why they’re paying $100K per truck

> The test equipment can’t possibly cost more than $100K. That leaves $26.9M of “you’re doing something obviously wrong”.

It seems clear from the original text ("It costs $100,000 per certification") that it's the certification FEE that is $100k. For example, https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/mac202403... includes an individual base fee of $126,358.
by dhosek | 2025-11-21 18:30:20+00:00
One of my favorites is one that you should be able to do in your head: The product of two numbers is 37, their sum is 18. What is the sum of their reciprocals?

(I happened to encounter this two times in close succession when I was getting my teaching credential: first in a teaching manual and then a day or two later, a couple teachers at the school where I was doing my student teaching were puzzling over it and thought they’d challenge me with it and I gave them the answer immediately which shocked them since they’d spent a long time on solving this with algebra and I did it in my head in less than a second. To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have been so quick at the solution without having already seen it.)
by aboringusername | 2025-11-21 18:30:48+00:00
This is a trend that's probably going to continue and widen the rich-poor divide. Take airlines, there's only so many seats they can offer day to day, and with planes retiring from service and new planes slow to be delivered the inequality will only increase, and the market will shift to more affluential customers.

The likes of McDonald's will need to understand who their new customer base is quite carefully and market around that if they are to stay relevant. Sadly their products to me are garbage now; slow service, cold fries, awful oil. Obviously they've had to adapt but it's just expensive slop.

And in the UK they have had scandals around sexual harassment, which hasn't helped their image/branding.
by focusgroup0 | 2025-11-21 18:30:52+00:00
In my neighborhood (a Criminal Justice Reform Zone), the catch and release of repeat criminals caused a surge in break ins. The citizens organized and funded the installation of Flock LPRs. Several criminals have been caught as a result, and crime is now down.

So the impetus is twofold:

- Funding provided by programs such as Operation Stonegarden and other grants

- Activists agitate for Criminal Justice Reform --> Surge in crime --> The People clamor for Enhanced Security Measures and DIY
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-21 18:31:05+00:00
Animals also grieve and mourn their dead, much like we do.

They are fellow sentient beings capable of experiencing pleasure, pain, fear, and forming social bonds. It's a lot of why I take issue with anthropocentrism, and think factory farming is an absolute tragedy. It's the industrialized denial of a meaningful life and one of the biggest examples of human cruelty.
by k310 | 2025-11-21 18:31:36+00:00
Shrink Wrap disclaimer for mobile. [0]

GOOGLE AND ANY SUCH THIRD PARTIES DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES REGARDING THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND PERFORMANCE OF GOOGLE MAPS AND SUCH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE.

Translation: worthless.

In case of disaster, contact the "Thoughts and Prayers Bot" (sarcasm)

Separately, and hopefully satire: [1]

U.S. Government Launches “Thoughts & Prayers” Subscription Service to Streamline Response to Tragedies WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a bold move to modernize federal disaster response, the U.S. government today launched a new “Thoughts & Prayers+” subscription service, allowing Americans to automatically send condolences with one click every time tragedy strikes. “Why waste precious seconds typing heartfelt responses when you can automate empathy?” said Homeland Sympathy Secretary Chad Grimshaw, unveiling the app alongside a golden emoji of praying hands. “Whether it’s a mass shooting, natural disaster, or devastating celebrity breakup, Thoughts & Prayers+ ensures you’re covered.” (more)

[0] https://www.google.com/mobile/gmm/terms.html

[1] https://allchronology.com/2025/06/17/u-s-government-launches...
by gusfoo | 2025-11-21 18:31:42+00:00
> For example, accounts with non-US banks have also been partially closed. Transactions in US dollars or via dollar conversions are forbidden to him.

So people don't think this is a new thing; when I worked in retail banking in the (very) early '90s it was made clear to us that any transaction in US dollars is subject to US regulation. The hypothetical scenario was that an Ethiopian arms dealer buys Russian product from a German dealer in Switzerland if they do it in USD it is the purview of the US to prosecute that crime.

My memory is hazy, but I don't think that when I was being taught it that it was a new thing.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-21 18:32:01+00:00
These articles deliberately skew reality to fit an anti-worker narrative. All the focus is on costs of labor and materials, with not one single sentence devoted to McDonald’s own financials - like the growth of their margins, the share buybacks performed, the executive compensation, or the franchising model itself.

When I was rallying for a higher minimum wage and was challenged on it driving up costs, I made it abundantly clear that would only be the outcome if the corporate leadership refused to budge on their compensation and shareholder reward schemes - which, surprising nobody, is exactly what they did, and this was the entirely expected outcome.

We’ve tried being nice about this and attempting to reach a compromise in long, gradual, sustainable changes to the economy so everyone can benefit from its improvements in efficiency and scale, but the grim reality is that said compromises are no longer on the table, and harms are inevitable. With no more room to squeeze workers, it should be of no surprise that a growing plurality are demanding immediate and substantial change instead of piecemeal reform - and Capital has every right to be terrified of an angry labor class.
by dangus | 2025-11-21 18:32:06+00:00
I don’t think this is very related to what’s actually going on here.

It used to be that fast food was always cheap. But now, fast food is a broad market that’s aimed at a wide variety of demographics.

McDonald’s just so happens to be closer to the “premium” side of the market. They have a strong brand and don’t have to be the cheapest fast food restaurant on the block. People don’t buy McDonald’s because it’s cheap.

There are plenty of fast food restaurant chains that still mainly serve lower income demographics.

Rally’s/Checkers, Church’s Chicken, Popeyes, Sonic, and maybe you could even count Arby’s, or Taco Bell depending on what you’re ordering.

Some of the bigger brands like McDonald’s do have some deals to be found but you’ll need to be on their apps hunting for them.
by breppp | 2025-11-21 18:32:18+00:00
I don't know, people are very persistent about this specific incidence. If I understand correctly this is a family that drove around tanks and were shot as something that unfortunately happens around live active war zones. Your depiction of "precise aerial bombing" is wrong

Let's say for the sake of argument the tank crew did not shoot due to fog of war but did out of malice, what would that prove except a single criminal tank crew? and no, I don't think Occam's razor points at that
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-11-21 18:32:20+00:00
Yes. You can still get over 2000 calories at Taco Bell for $8 (this would be five of the Cheesy Bean and Rice burrito, my personal favorite). Even a Cheesy Double Beef burrito for the meat lovers can get you over 2000 calories for just over $11 for four. And their box meals will throw in a drink for a decent price. You can spend a lot more, but you don't have to.

This isn't meant as a Taco Bell commercial, just a comparison to todays McDonald's.