skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a handful of apps that help me keep track of my finances — https://i.imgur.com/M6rzJ6i.png

One of them —“Chronicle Pro”— does exactly what you asked; the app keeps track of recurring subscriptions.

Unfortunately, most of these apps are only available in the Mac App Store, with a few exceptions, but I believe you can find quality software with the same features for Windows and Linux as well if you search the correct keywords online; try mixing the words “banking”, “finances”, “money” and “budget” in this query: “[word] app for windows”.

Here is the list of apps I use (in alphabetical order):

• https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/

• https://www.jumsoft.com/money/

• https://moneywell.app/

• https://chronicleapp.com/

• https://savingsapp.com/

• https://hochgatterer.me/finances/macos/
There was a talk [0] at Chaos Communication Congress 2 years ago about the early "political bots hype". Sadly in german and I'm not sure how great the provided translation is. It e.g. calls out "more than 50 tweets per day" being used as criteria to identify bots and concludes with more/better research is needed. Would love to hear an updated version or something alike, if someone has recommendations.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f...
Wrong.

Companies that buy advertising at games pay a pretty penny for it. Fans who buy tickets to games have paid to watch the game, not to advertise their cause. If fans want to advertise at games, they can pay the advertising rate.
I wonder if sqlite could become this in the future.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/10/mannin...

Wherin Greenwald describes Woodward as follows:

"Bob Woodward is a servant-journalist for US government officials."

That's not pulling punches. Is it fair?
So because you don't like some of their content it's a "good thing" that it's hard to find on the Internet?

I guess I miss the old internet, too.
It wasn’t, so there goes the silly conspiracy theory.
In grad school, I revived some FORTRAN66 code for aircraft sizing. (You can probably download an equivalent model from Dan Raymer's website as an Excel workbook.) This was not its first revival, according to the comments in the code. That was when it was transferred from paper tape and adapted to run on VAX/VMS. Nor was this its second revival. That was when my advisor had made the VAX/VMS version work on SunOS when he was in grad school. No, this was its third revival, wherein I took the SunOS version and made it run on modern Linux. I'm sure a seasoned veteran would have known about the magic compiler flags that made it not produce garbage, but it took me several days of trial and error, and reading the gfortran man page. Along the way, I got to learn about Hollerith constants! Some day, I'm sure another generation of grad students will renew the great tradition, adding their own comments below mine.
No the alternative is extremely reliable electricity that runs year round, and an occasional forest fire.

Which of course the fires are going to burn no matter what PG&E does. “But for an electrical spark” is a great way to lay the blame but ignores the hundreds (thousands?) of forest fires each year that start from non-electric sources.

In the scale of the maintenance required to have zero risk of fire — hundreds of billions of dollars — the $4 billion in dividends is a rounding error.

CA is going to have to do the math and decide it’s not worth $100 billion in guaranteed economic depression due to cutting power to try to save a 5% chance of a $100 billion fire.

CA is also going to have to do the math that no one is going to pay to maintain a grid that’s fire proof but charges $3/kWh for power.
I was very much on-board with his message until he brought up voat and raddle existing, "Thank goodness". Oh dear.
Similarly all the boats with mooring(?) motors that are 9.9HP.
Really? Just do:

import antigravity
There's only so much variation between people. Everyone uses the same proteins, more or less, to do the same things. Therefore, there's only so many ways to attack cells and you can bet that nature has already tried them all. There's a limited angle of attack, plus we already have broad immune systems to protect against most ways.

There's other problems with bioterrorism as well. If you make something lethal, it tends not to spread well because it kills the host too quickly. That's why way more people get the cold than Ebola. Pathogens tend to reach equilibrium within a generation inside a population. The narrower and more specific the group it infects, the harder it is for it to transmit.
Let me guess! It's probably something like this:

https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct
Fun fact: it’s still owned by Apple
??? Most people who make money on the back of X do not feel the need to give back, and most people who diligently give back do not make Musk levels of money, no?
If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work. It's perfectly obvious. Great scientists have thought through, in a careful way, a number of important problems in their field, and they keep an eye on wondering how to attack them. Let me warn you, `important problem' must be phrased carefully. The three outstanding problems in physics, in a certain sense, were never worked on while I was at Bell Labs. By important I mean guaranteed a Nobel Prize and any sum of money you want to mention. We didn't work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. They are not important problems because we do not have an attack. It's not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reasonable attack. That is what makes a problem important. When I say that most scientists don't work on important problems, I mean it in that sense. The average scientist, so far as I can make out, spends almost all his time working on problems which he believes will not be important and he also doesn't believe that they will lead to important problems.

Richard Hamming, You and Your Research

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
"So many of these access excel solutions should be a days worth of work"

I don't know why you think a lot of VBA would be replaced by a little perl. Of course, my perspective has a lot to do with the fact that it was essentially impossible to get a new perl module installed where I used to work.

But developers often don't appreciate the importance of presentation (and other) details in reports for managers. Your reference to "a minimalist UI" is telling.

Even though Access and Excel can be buggy, unstable, and annoying, it doesn't make much sense to use anything else if you are automating a report that was previously assembled by hand in Excel, and needs to match precisely.

And often IT types like to exercise power by gatekeeping - if you aren't doing "real" programming, you don't need a Turing complete solution, so Office ends up being the only option. I've been told that if I can select a list of columns from a dataset, and some filters, by pointing and clicking, that's all I, or my managers, need for reports.

Honestly, I think a lot of people find fulfillment in their work through being the person who can say "no" to people, particularly managers that are theoretically higher ranking. And also by expressing themselves through creative decisions when others fail to specify details. I think that using Office/Access/VBA may be correlated to rejecting the value system of most developers, rather than a technical judgment.
The problem is that the package hasn’t been updated for python3 :D
Sun sync is approx 98.7 degrees at 800km - so slightly retrograde (prograde being 0-90)

Majority of LEO sats are sun sync
Anecdotally, I’ve only seen or heard of one or two people in recent years use Netflix on a web browser and it being a regular thing for them. I’d expect the vast majority to be via TV or mobile devices.
ULA will have engines from Blue Origin, and both ULA and BO will have second mover advantage in designing their own fully reusable launch systems.

Once SpaceX has got Starship working even only for LEO missions, China will have a clone up and running within two years. ULA might be a bit slower due to overly zealous bureaucracy.

Eventually these launch providers will mean SLS gets cancelled with NASA funding switching more to pure science (eg: building missions to look for life on icy moons, not the rockets to get them there).

Congress will continue to hamstring NASA even as their best and brightest depart for commercial operations with bigger R&D budgets.
Voat is a breeding ground and gathering place for white supremacists.

A small selection of the top posts on Voat right now:

- "jew politician calls for war on whites" -> http://magaimg.net/img/9f2p.png

- "NFL player's wife accuses Dolphins owner of favoring 'Jew buddies'" -> https://www.timesofisrael.com/nfl-players-wife-accuses-dolph...

- "Everything's about race. Every single thing is about race. Remember that it's all about race, everything. All of it." -- member-only discussion

- "Voat in a nutshell" -> https://files.catbox.moe/se4iny.jpg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_argument_whatsoever

How about a false equivalency? You're right that if people are forced to do things like you claim, some of the consequences would come about. But making a law is not the same thing as force.
The smart thing to do (and this has already been done in vitro) is to use phages to deliver spacers guided to antibiotic resistance genes. That way, the cells delete their own antibiotic resistance genes, and the phages propagate the changes throughout the bacterial population. Bonus points if you use a budding phage.
I remember one friend back in college who constantly asked for -- and received -- deadline extensions on assignments. Usually, there was not what I would consider a good reason for this (illness, family emergency, etc) but rather something under that student's control (social obligations, just not being happy with the work so far, things like that). For a while, I felt like that student had a superpower: if I asked for any kind of special treatment for such a reason, I would surely just be lectured about personal responsibility. Our other friends were split on this question: either agreeing with me entirely, or not even understanding why one might think that.

Until one day, when a professor invited me to his office. It turned out, he wanted to discuss an uncharacteristically poor grade on a particular exam. I was honest, that I simply wasn't feeling myself that day, and I'd been up late for a social engagement the night before. I expected it to just end there. He offered to let me take the exam again, right then in an unoccupied room, and advised me that next time I should just say something.

In some ways, that was the most valuable thing I learned in college: that authority figures are just people, and while some are jerks, some legitimately just want to be helpful.
I think the knee jerk joke would be Twitter rarely has intelligent discussion too. Obviously that’s not true and I’m sure you follow people who discuss worthy things. But the toxic parts of Twitter are so bad, which is what most of it is, is so bad, unless you’re keeping on top as much as you are, it seems like you get exposed to some of it...that’s not an issue most of the time on IG. It’s there for a chill experience.
This is fantastic.

I recall seeing a Tweet from US Senator Lindsey Graham today which was essentially a hack-job attempt to raise additional defense money for Trump.

My first thought was "this really needs to be flagged", until I noticed the small little "promoted" tag under it.

Well, no more of that nonsense.
Public schools in the US and most religious upbringings (not all) teach blind submission and deference to authority. Students who question things too much are deemed troublemakers obstructing the teacher's valuable dictation time. Repeated offenders are referred to a psychiatrist for a ADHD referral and subsequent drugging and parents who object get a DCS referral and their kids rehomed in foster care where they are often then subjected to physical and sexual abuse.

It's not surprising that such disadvantaged (public school) students would so be in awe of what they perceive as the unquestionable authority of professors that they would not ask questions as that is what our public school systems (most not all) train students to do - remain silent and memorize the words of wisdom being imparted to you. There will be a test.
Not sure sonic is a replacement for Elasticsearch in terms of ELK as "Sonic is an identifier index, rather than a document index; when queried, it returns IDs that can then be used to refer to the matched documents in an external database", i.e. you will have to either find a way to resolve your ids back to the original documents (which may be difficult in case you have logs rotation, retention etc.) or in addition to Sonic store the docs somewhere else.

There's also Loki - https://github.com/grafana/loki which integrates with Grafana natively which may be the Kibana replacement you're looking for.
You're clearly coming from a very C# centric viewpoint and reacting to my statements from a perspective of: "well, if I don't do it in XML then I'd have to do it in C# and that would be even worse". Which I don't necessarily disagree with. But just because doing it in C# would be worse doesn't make doing it in XML good either.

My underlying point is with platforms like iOS and Android adopting declarative UIs, combined with languages like Swift and Kotlin evolving in parallel to better support them, I think we will eventually be able to move on from being stuck with XML.
Fixes which have winners and losers become lost in electoral arithmetic. An example of this struck me some years ago when a friend who lived in Louden County (W. Virginia) said they were subject to frequent power outages which caused catastrophic loss of the goods in the freezer, but the local authority kept losing the vote for increased local taxes which would pay for fixes to the electricity distribution issues: People don't want to socialise the costs, at personal loss of disposable income.

I predict that no measure of substance which demands people pay more to socialize fixes will get up without a fight. I also predict that rational simple fixes applied in other economies (I am thinking of europe mainly) simply won't be considered, because "socialism"
But if it wasn't called the Green New Deal, would those same Republicans oppose constituent parts?
Doesn't it imply that it must be finite, because you can use sizeof() to find its size, which yields something of type size_t, which has maximum size SIZE_MAX?
To the people downvoting this: why is this an unreasonable perspective?

The commenter isn't advocating one way or another, only pointing out that there are people that exist who are content with work as their self-perceived life meaning.

I can absolutely see how this can be true for people in the sciences. There are many academics who devote their entire career - and often their life - to finding the answer to extremely difficult problems. For those people, I imagine they must feel their work as more of a life mission rather than a regular job necessary to pay the bills.

There are a lot of people who find significant meaning in their work (perhaps greater meaning in their work than they've been able to find outside of it). That doesn't necessarily mean it's bad or unhealthy.

These type of people may be few and far between. But they exist.
Do we even agree what the fix is?
I'm not clear on why you are referring to Access as an alternative to a "SQL based application".

Access's SQL dialect is extremely annoying sometimes, but using SQL is a very significant (if not the most) reason for utilizing it rather than Excel.

I went around and around trying to find a way to query Excel "tables" with SQL or something similar, but eventually gave up. There is something called DAX, but it seems different just to be different, and nothing is orthogonal and logical - particularly external data is not on an equal footing with tables within your spreadsheet.
Trivia that will get booed out of existence on HN:

"In astrology, the sun and moon are called luminaries."

(Though Pluto throws a monkey wrench into everything. I like to call it "That heavenly body formerly known as a planet.")
When the interest rate is zero it is because if you make a mistake and miss a payment, the claws come out and the penalty rate is high enough not only to pay for servicing all the loans which earn no money but also earn a profit. There is no free money.
It solves it so long as you are happy to upload several gigabytes a day seeding nothing just to keep up with DHT chatter:

https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3429
"Hello? Whole man disposal services? Do you offer same day pickup?"
What you will actually find is that pathogens are generally pretty bad at what they do, and nature selects against them because they tend to kill their host too quickly. There are many organisms that infect but do not cause symptoms that propagate much more genetic material that pathogens.

Similarly, we don't want to be too defensive. It's expensive, and the more complex our immune systems become, the greater the chance of autoimmune disorders. The more energy we spend protecting ourselves, and not growing. Therefore we will never develop perfect immune systems, and pathogens will never be perfect killers.

The arms race analogy does a poor job of illustrating that in actuality, host-pathogen interactions are something of a dynamic equilibrium at this point.
The problem with degrees of truth is that they aren't composable into an argument. I can chain together a handful of things that are 99% true and arrive at an absurd conclusion because the 1% is the interesting bit.

In this context, the question is whether something is political speech or something else. What is included and excluded from that category will get pretty interesting.

We saw the same thing with compelled union dues in the public sector. Were those for political speech or just routine union activity? SCOTUS said it couldn't tell the difference, so a public institution couldn't compel employees to pay dues.

I guess twitter thinks they can tell the difference, but I suspect there will be a lot of controversy.
https://erpnext.com/
More anecdotal...my mother-in-law is mid-70s. Retired for the last 20 years. Plays mahjong all day. Sharp as a tack, along with her mahjong friends.
Except it is a class issue: just like you CAN learn dining etiquette from others, unless you have been presented with the idea that dining etiquette is something that you should/need to learn, there is no obvious way to pick up it's even a thing that you should be focusing on, because everything in the culture places euphamisms and misdirection between the phenomenon and what's really going on, and you've never even been to a formal dinner party (might not even know what one is).

I am in no way lower class, but I was brought up with a distinctly meritorious mindset (and one that I'm generally thankful for on the whole). But it places one at a huge disadvantage in our education system.

Office hours were for people who didn't understand the assignment or the material. To go otherwise would be borderline offensive and waste important people's time. What else could they possibly be for?

Similarly, what is there to discuss about a grade? It makes as much sense as 'I'm going to talk to my lecturer about the number 7'.

The idea of running drafts or queries about assignments past a lecturer or tutor beforehand still strikes me emotionally as, well, cheating. It's not fair, people wouldn't give individual students unique insights into the assessment. How absurd! They'd have the integrity to resign from such a clearly corrupt system before something like that took hold! No one would stand for it!

Kissing arse? Getting your face known? But assessment is objective so it would be pointless at best, unethical towards both self and society at worst...

Of course now, older and wiser, I know better. But at the time, every message most children receive is to explicitly hide how the social system actually works and reinforce the divisions that are actually there and pretend that systems are objective measurements of ranking ability.
I wonder if people assume Siri failed to understand the query when they hear its request for clarification. I think it should include some context, eg:
“Which x do you want opening hours for?”
Because it’s ridiculously inaccurate, sexist, and full of pointless hate. Whether he likes or dislikes it, the world was a better place when people were shamed into keeping ridiculous ideas like that to themselves.
"But your honor. The speed limit is 65 and I was going 64."

"You were exploiting a loophole. You may have been adhering to the letter of the law, but you were in gross violation of its spirit. We don't play games in this courtroom. Your fine is $250 and you owe $437 in court fees."
I'm a freelance web developer from rural Indiana and want to move somewhere in the US I can at least possibly stay for a decade or more. Does anyone recommend a city/state that will survive the climate apocalypse, that is well managed, and/or that is doing everything the author of this article is saying California isn't doing?

I've had a hard time figuring out where to live since I don't have to be anywhere in particular for my job.
As a Microsoft employee, do you have any thoughts on whether this will cause Microsoft to start a hiring spree of people with active US Government security clearances?
> I think the idea that someone can get straight C's in highschool and get $50k a year to study art in college is not a good use of my tax dollars.

Why Art is not a good use of tax dollars? Who decides what is good or bad to study? Should only be the free market?
I believe a cost of $50k/year/student is not optimal. I also think cost for education per student/year is much cheaper in Europe.

> I also don't think it's a good idea to give someone like me a free college education. I make $400k a year. I can pay for it my fucking self if I want to. The idea someone else should pay for it seems absurd.

It's hard to tell "a priori" if someone studying certain degree will make X amount of money. Because of that, I believe the balance is better adjusted after the fact of someone studying (meaning: paying taxes on salary once they get a job) than before (when studying).

> I don't think you should be able to get $70k a year to go to USC when you can study the same thing with better results at Pittsburgh for $20k

Completely agree. One of the issues that I see on the current system is that perhaps people start paying more for the connections that studying there will entail than for the education per-se.

> Additionally, I think students should have SOME Skin in the Game

Students should always have skin in the game. The question here is: should be mainly economical? There are a lot of other factors that can affect the status of someone that are not just about money.
However I agree with you that perhaps a formula like 80%/20% might make sense. I believe that model is much closer to the one applied in Europe... and that model is actually closer to the concept of "free education" than anything else :) (at least, when viewed from the US prism)