skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the banks I'm with use rest APIs in their apps (you can see this by MITMing the traffic), no "private protocol" whatever the hell that is.

As for controlling load, I'm not sure I follow. If you have 1m people with the mobile app installed and all of them decide to check their balance at the same time your systems are going to crumble if you've only provisioned for 10,000.

Web/Mobile banking doesn't talk to the mainframes directly, it's essentially a caching layer which gets committed later when the mainframe does it's job. Not much different from your average web app just with longer delays.
For same reason for which we memorize alphabets.
This is a bad HN comment, regardless of your views on geopolitics. Please don't unsubstantive and flamebaity comments, especially not on divisive topics.

If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
In addition to f.lux, I also use the Dark Reader Chrome extension[1], which dynamically generates dark themes for every page you visit. It seems to make a bigger difference than using f.lux.

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...
Ok but we shouldnt pursue knowledge haphazardly for knowledge sake. There are an infinite number of interesting avenues of inquiry we could send our academics down that would be completely useless. The paths we choose should be guided by the needs of practical application. How else can we value information if not practical application?
> All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations.

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937
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What is the motive then for a for-profit company to even exist? If every insurance company has to take everybody, that implies they have to also provide the same coverage to everyone at the same rate. Barring cartel-like collusion, which is already illegal, the market price would quickly converge towards the cost of insurance. There would be basically no upside, but almost unlimited downside.
If we quickly get these articles off the front page, we don't have to think about it anymore. Then we can go back to living in the perfect world where sexism is invented by the left to bring down people in the poor, innocent bro culture.
It is worse than that: teachers are given paltry salaries with the promise of a nice pension to make up for it. So to the local governments, they can “pay for it later” unless they actually don’t.

Parents are just as culpable as they want a great education for their kids but don’t really want to pay for it, coupled with proposition 13 many schools in california are a mess.
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OMG I too am a "chronic checker". When my first son was born and my OCD was aggravated by exhaustion, and living in a relatively unsafe part of baltimore, I would have these 10 "check loops". I just couldn't be 100% certain the door was locked. Even at the time some part of me realized the absurdity of it.
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Perhaps, but anything that can no longer be done with a bot can (and will) be done by hordes of Chinese or Indian, etc., people working for pennies an hour.
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> But you’re kidding yourself if you think the current US military and its contractors won’t use those weapons to drone innocent people in Yemen

The US military actually doesn’t want that to happen. It invests huge amount of resources in developing processes and tech to minimize collateral damage and civilian deaths. Winning hearts and minds is just as important to the mission as dropping bombs on ISIS and Al Qeada.
Do people do PhDs in things similar to reciting the alphabet? What do you think the examination for a PhD involves? It's a thesis and oral example. You can't produce a thesis by memorising someone else's work.
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I don't bother with my laptop camera. The odds of it being hacked and turned on without me knowing is fairly low and even if it did i'm sure whoever did would regret turning it on and seeing me.

For my phone I disable mic and camera permissions for all my apps until they need it. Other than my phone dialer I suppose. If i'm in public or on the bus or something i'll try not to sit with my phone so the camera is facing people. I've seen more than one person get pissed about it.
Discord's user experience is incredible compared to Steam. The app is super responsive. If they add video streaming as well they can compete with Twitch & Steam at the same time. Both have abysmal ux.
> One unanswered question remains – why didn’t this code break right away, even when compiled with VS2003?

I suspect VS2003 didn't enable SSE by default and was compiling the code using the x87 FPU, in which case all intermediate operations were done using 80-bit floats with only a final cast at the end.
iOS is the same. Even on the warmest setting and lowest brightness it's still very bright. Unfortunately, there is no app to do anything about it like there is on Android.
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Android has a blue light filter, I haven't turned it off yet.
I still totally have the 'evening out' thing, in my late 30s. But it comes and goes -- I could mostly rid myself of it, I'm sure, if I set my mind to it, like you did. I guess I'm very lucky in that way. I have had times where it was more prominent (perhaps in times of higher stress or anxiety) but for the past decade or two its' just been a minor background thing with no real consequence.

I can imagine how debilitating it must be for those who truly suffer.
I just don't understand how that could possibly work - it doesn't matter if the glasses absorb or reflect blue light - as long as it doesn't reach your eyes, anything that is normally white will look yellow, as you're not seeing the blue component. You can't filter/reflect blue light and still see it.
Talking to people near you is not taboo, though.

Very confused about why my original comment got downvoted.
On Mac, the little green light that comes on any time the camera is used is enforced at the hardware level. This gives me reasonable certainty it isn't being used illicitly.

I find the camera covers everyone uses to be a form of unreasonable extreme paranoia. Agree that the microphone would be just as damaging, but since it's a lot harder to block, people don't care.
Agreed, they could have have generalized and eaten all other chat services including slack. I guess they want to take on steam but I don't know if it will work.
Oh, this is so me. Except I'm constantly convinced I'm having a heart attack. For some reason I associate a fast pulse with imminent death. Then I start to panic and the adrenaline floods in and guess what? My pulse gets faster and the cycle continues.

It usually comes up out of nowhere when I'm alone, like I'm convinced I'm going to pass out and nobody is going to know and I'll die for lack of treatment. My doctor actually laughed at me when I described taking a shower, feeling my pulse go up, and imagining passing out, the hot water running out and me dying of a combined heart attack / hypothermia / drowning situation because it would be hours before anyone noticed I was missing. Don't get me started on what goes through my head while driving alone on a highway or, the horror, being out on a lake in a canoe.

I try to ride my bike at least 16km a day, and it does help condition me to experiencing a high pulse without sudden death. EKG, stress test, heart ultrasound all came back perfect save for the palpitations, which my doctor described as "extremely, extremely benign." I feel better for a little while after every test but it inevitably comes back, as if I constantly need a medical professional to explain to me that I'm not dying.

Are you considering treatment? I'm certainly thinking about it at this point.
I wonder if natural ginger ale could have a prophylactic effect when drank at lunch each day. That would be a super thing if it did — and safe for pretty much anyone.
They have curation, which is something Steam explicitly lacks

How do you figure? Steam has about a zillion curation, discovery and promotion mechanisms.
> The biggest problem I have with it is that everything looks so much worse that I just wind up turning it off all the time.

Change the settings. What you should do is take a sheet of paper and put it next to your screen. Then match your screen's white to the sheet. It's only a bit less blue. There's no need to set everything dark orange.
Tragedy of the commons. Everyone would just sell to the highest bidder, except a couple idealists.
I made a docker image compiled from the github master. Feel free to explore

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/5222903bf4a2d040e6eee6a...
I block the camera on my work machine, so that if I accidentally have video turned on when joining a meeting I don't embarrass myself.
The annoying thing, is since there are more unreputable programs out there, all the stats about PhD students are heavily skewed by those students. Basically this rhetoric about 1/1000 phd students landing a job, or phd graduates being $100,000 in debt, or 9/10 students drop out or have mental health issues, are not about the usual PhD program we think about at universities that are household names and hear about in the news.
I think most people have a very minimal amount of capital accumulated. Life insurance exists to help their family not starve if they unexpectedly die. Its opt in which totally makes sense to me. I pay for it because it costs basically nothing for me as a healthy young person and it would provide a nice windfall for my girlfriend if for example my plane fell out of the sky.
This is a rather poor essay.

"Many academics enter science to change the world for the better. Yet it can often feel like contemporary academia is more about chasing citations. Most academic work is shared only with a particular scientific community, rather than policymakers or businesses, which makes it entirely disconnected from practice.

...

This new PhD would see students go out into the field and talk to practitioners from day one of their research, rather than spending the first year (or more) reading obscure academic literature."

So... do industry research? Let's be clear: a PhD is a training program for research. As such most research done during a PhD is generally not that impactful, certainly not to go beyond fellow academics and to non experts. In my experience most people who go into it don't have much of an idea of what they want to do afterward -- they mainly know they enjoy research and are interested in the topic. AFTER a PhD is finished they can go on and try to influence society using their skills, or not.
Regardless of your views, please start posting civilly and substantively (that you avoid women is not something that we benefit intellectually from learning) or we'll ban the account. This site is not here as an ideological arena.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You’re replying to a devout Marxist. This is not a debate over the value of labor movements.

There seems to be a reason the labor movement has squandered since the rise of the Military Industrial Complex, and what’s what I’m speaking to.
Check the spec sheet of the bulbs, specifically the color temperature in kelvin. Ignore the "warm white" and similar marketing terms, they are too fuzzy.

A LED with low color temperature and high CRI should have pretty much the same spectrum as incandescent. If you want really low temperatures look for some retro filament style LED lights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature#Categorizing...
I pay for the Economist and think it's worth every penny. Wonder how many magazines/news sites can actually get users to pay for their content though. I suspect the number is low.
Oh I thought the first tab had code and the complaint was it was too low. I guess that was a prototype build of the site. Yeah we should get that back.
Unless FaceBook is going to introduce CAPTCHAs for all submissions, bots will still be able to post just fine with a few tweaks.
Honestly? My Facebook data (back when I had one) contains way more valuable data than my bank statement.

Well let me give you a real example - my personal bank account is Monzo so there is an API and webhooks and all is well.

My business account doesn't yet have an API (it's Starling Bank - a modern bank so they're planning to have one that gives out personal access tokens without needing to be an AISP). I have accounting software (FreeAgent) that has an API. I want to make it so that every time I use the business bank card it creates a new expense (and if it's things I expect - food deliveries, etc - automatically look up the receipt in my inbox and attach it to the expense entry in the accounting software). Same thing for incoming payments - if I receive an incoming payment with a non-blank reference, look through the invoices to see if any of the references match, if so, mark it as paid and send a thank you email to the client.

Am I really asking for too much?
Is there any reason to think that narrowband blue is worse than broadband blue? It makes for poor CRI when used as a light source but if the display blue is near the peak sensitivity frequency for blue it should result in slightly less total power being delivered to the eye than an equivalent blackbody spectrum white light.
Is this the same blue light as emitted by for example the Philips light therapy lamps?

https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/HF3429_60/golite-blu-energy-...
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The article says 1/3 are "at risk" of depression. It looks like the statistic is based on a web survey (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9ac3/478bc1263be53f5150a54b...), so I suppose they couldn't do an actual diagnosis.
you could actually turn this into a business model
Computers are much better at consistently catching errors than developers
New Panasonic device sucks up your shoe smells, if you have five hours
She mentions these same claims are drawn directly from her 8 page resignation letter years ago.

What exactly would she have to gain from making these accusations up?
There's a really inspiring talk from Rigetti here, actually on Y Combinator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMvG8UO6Eg
I'm sorry, what? Steam is much more responsive than Discord.
I block the camera on my Mac ever since I saw 60 minutes interview Mark Zuckerberg where he had his camera covered.

[source] https://www.hackread.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Mark-Zuc...
qmail was written in the mid-90's, and all of the UIDs it would run as were compiled in. Meaning that if one of your mail users was UID 650 at compile time, the value of 650 would be compiled into the binary and it would always (and only) run that binary as that UID; if it didn't match up, it would fail.

There were a lot of things about qmail that were outright stupid and awful, but not being able to port binaries between systems without a lot of checking was one of my favourites.
That only happens for, what, less than a second before your eye adjusts? It's not like your eye knows it's day or night, and the pupil stays fixed.
"This means more open distribution methods (email) will be given priority again."

While that would be nice, I'm not holding my breath.
I tend to whisper when I'm having private conversations around my device. I sometimes cover them. Mostly because Google has been activating a lot more lately than ever before. I would hate for a snippet of a private conversation to be taken out of context. I'm pretty confident there is a recording with my latest argument with my girl friend on apple or googles servers.
Does the NSL have any legal authority? Is it actually bound by laws? From what I understand, an NSL is "do what we tell you, because we're the NSA".
> for multiplayer games at least, people first fire up the way they want to talk with their friends and then set about playing a game

I believe it's the other way around. At the very least, it's the other way around for me and my friends.

We decide we want to play something. Then we check whatever works for voice chat. Used to be Skype, then TeamSpeak 3, then Mumble, then Discord. When Discord had failed we've just brought back old TS3 server (and while I was doing it, we used in-game VoIP stuff, hardcore-mode).
In a gaming chat app?
This scene played out almost every night, except I learned
to be quiet so no one would know I couldn’t open the door
because of a mysterious feeling that if I didn’t do it
“right” something horrible would happen.

I didn't quite realize it, but how many people suffering from OCD are motivated by "something horrible" happening? Like I wonder how many people have compulsions that aren't motivated by something bad happen?
No. What could be the worst? That someone sees me naked and put it online? There's so much content online that it's a drop in an ocean. Even if they were to send it to my boss... so what? Every human has a body, it's not any worst than going to the beach or changing in the locker room.
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Exactly. Let’s get rid of pensions and let the market sort it out - and this is coming from a teachers kid.

If you get rid of pensions and try to pay the teachers the same amount as you pay them now, there will be a teacher shortage forcing the government to pay more. They will have to raise taxes to cover it but at least all sides will know the true costs.

I don’t think the pension system in my state is too out of whack. It’s only 2% every year worked of your final salary up to 60% (80%?).
Make sure you change it to the "Slow: Natural Timing" transition speed so the shift is gradual. The faster speeds (which I believe are default) are jarring and too easy to notice.
Discussed in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712575

And all the way back in 2007, long enough ago that nickb posted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=91811.
People cover their webcams because the news told them scary hackers would be watching them in their private time. While yes that can be true, the media blew up way out of proportion and it caught on. There are no downsides to covering your camera though, so it isn't a bad thing.

I cover mine not out of paranoia of being hacked, but to avoid embarrassment say if I auto-joined a meeting or did something which turned it on in a conversation.

This isn't to say you shouldn't cover it. There are absolutely people who distribute malware specifically for getting access to webcams and mics. That footage/recording can subsequently be used for blackmail. The media tries to make it seem like every other time you open your laptop, you'll contract some mega virus that will let people record your entire life.
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In addition to Clojure for the Brave and True that others have recommended, http://www.4clojure.com is a collection of bite sized problems where you fill in the blank to solve the problem. After solving a problem, go look at a few top users and compare against their solution.

When I was first getting into lisp/functional programming a few years ago I would find that after writing a 6-8+ line solution on some of the tougher problems, the top users would have a way of doing it in 1-2 either due to a standard library function I didn't know about or they just took a better approach overall.
I also have a cover for my work camera, but it's just to ensure I have a hardware way of turning the camera "off", not because I think I'm going to be hacked.

Besides, I don't think I've ever done anything in front of my work camera that would be of interest to anyone.
I'm using this [0] Home Assistant component. I also use a similar component to slowly turn my lights on in the morning instead of an alarm clock, which works really well.

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/components/switch.flux/
The readme has an example of unpacking Xcode and compiling a simple helloworld program using the CLI.
Isn't blue light important in the mornings for keeping the circadian rhythm aligned? I thought you were supposed to avoid it in the evenings only. Probably it'd be fine for you if you're getting a lot of light, but might be bad if you don't.
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My Monzo API allows me to go back to when I opened the account (back then it was just a prepaid card) in 2016. Somehow they are able to get the data directly from this "archive" which frankly shouldn't exist - Facebook is able to lookup stuff from 10 years ago instantly - don't tell me a bank can't do the same.

> But touch someone else's cash or account has always been regulated, yes

My argument here is about my own account. I'm even happy to send a letter stating that I am not an idiot and assume all responsibility just to get a personal access token.

> You're basically advocating for the removal of most regulation anywhere

I'm not advocating for no regulations everywhere - some stuff absolutely does need to be regulated, like massive tracking across the web. However when the user is in control and is knowingly handing over the key to their account, I'm happy for there to be no regulations. Same way nobody is preventing you from handing over your house keys to someone.
My parents are giving me a hard time because I won't buy a new car for my spouse. We currently have two cars, one is paid off and is reliable. The other is almost paid off and is also reliable. When I ask why we should buy a new car, I often hear responses like "because I want one", and "because I deserve it".

I question our society when given those type of responses.
California progressives have a sort of "feast the beast" strategy

Why is this just a progressive thing?
Apparently photos can be taken with the Mac camera and trigger the green light so briefly that it is not noticeable [1]. It would be good if Apple set a minimum activation period for the green light, so that even if the camera is only on for a millisecond, the green light is on for 5 seconds or something. In the meantime, there are tools that can alert you to any activations [2].

1: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/your-macs-camera-ca...

2: https://www.macworld.com/article/3129449/security/how-to-kee...
I recall seeing a proof of concept that disabled the light by exploiting the camera controller's firmware. It seems that the light and the camera are not wired in series, but individually addressable by the controller.
When you say community first, what do you look for?
> You can and should view women BOTH as objects and humans

But did the company demonstrate this at all? I only read about objectification. If they truly saw women as humans as well they wouldn't have laughed off her suggestion that some of the female characters in the game could be anything other than a sex object.
> as far as I can tell the reason is that they've more or less openly abandoned any pretence of political neutrality. They've become anti-Trump cheerleaders that are more in the business of helping their readers feel superior than in the business of real news... The USA doesn't have a president who hates the media for no reason.

Comically absurd. Trump injects himself into media headlines on a daily basis, more often than not because he's picking a fight on twitter with someone over something petty. He has nobody but himself to blame for his unfavorable coverage. Pretending he's a victim here is a cookie cutter case of amoral tribalism and rank partisanship.
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