skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I support this big time.

Plaid is a complete joke -- "give us your bank passwords and we'll validate your account". Banks are an even worse joke -- "20,000 logins today from one IP address, nope that's not a scam".

Plaid customers are the worst. Like Transferwise, you cannot setup a business account with them without giving Plaid your business banking passwords. What company treasurer would allow that?

Now that Visa is holding the bag this fixes two problems:

1. For customers, there is less risk that Visa will steal all your money than some "fintech" startup
2. For Plaid customers, they may realize Visa is buying this for the data and they may think of Visa as a competitor and not want to support them.

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Because "just give us your sudo password to install software" and "just give us your bank password" to send money is a thing... the obvious dumber people in the future will have to do "just sign this power of attorney to create an account with us."
That's a lot better than some tuition-totals I've seen but at the end of the day, my biggest problem with this system is that it's not accessible to the poor/working-class without loans. I attended a state school for around a month or two. I don't think I knew one person that wasn't paying for it with a loan. I think lower cost is a step in the right direction but I also think there's plenty more to do.
I'm guessing everyone feels like this is what they're seeing (a decline in iq around them)
Yeah, take a look at University Affiliated Research Centers if you think Stanford and MIT do not receive federal dollars. They compete with McKinsey for highest hourly rate.
And yet Facebook appear to be successfully running a somewhat popular website while using NFS in production, which implies that the situation is somewhat less absolute than you claim.
What happens to the campus when a liberal arts college shuts down? In Green Mountain College's case it seems like they're looking for a buyer to the tune of $20 million or so. [0] I think it'd be pretty rad if old college campuses turned into hubs for remote workers; who's working on that?

[0] https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/as-green-mountain-colleg...
I would expect rates of land purchases in a country to be heavily biased towards its citizens, not be near their share of global GDP...
Very interested in working on symbolic and deep learning projects for NLP as well.
We live in a world where Julian Assange is put in prison and tortured for refusing to confess to his thoughtcrimes and for revealing the thoughts of others to the public, much to the dismay of the Party, which is all seeing and all knowing.

For those of us who have read 1984, it will sound more than superficial.
A wonderful typo, I meant no snark or admonishment
Does standing up for your rights help or hurt?

That's the salient question.

I don't doubt your confidence, and, likely, experience. Only the specific strategy as outlined in this thread and article.
Ok. It shows up now and your explanation is reasonable. Thanks!

I don't have more examples right now.
Even better deal is to go to community college for 2 years before transferring to a 4 year college. You can get a great education and come out with the exact same credentials for much cheaper.
If theoretical physics is going nowhere in particular, and we're diverting funding to "pure math" maybe the physicists should put on hats that say "pure mathematicians"?
Here is a 4+ hour class recording on the topic. I started going through it and it has helped me understand ot better.

https://youtu.be/xovq8MXVsZM
But he said $1200 a year for 4 years as an example of something he would sign up for immediately. $40K is 10x that number.
The health-care industry is letting surgeons behave like muggers
How to send and reply to email (2011)
No issues with customers linking Plaid.

If your company is ONLY supporting Plaid then your issue is that your smarter customers are leaving.
This paper is from 2005, and should be tagged as such.
I’m not sure the author is giving much consideration to the critical thinking skills of the public—- that’s more of a big company CEO thing. A lot of founders are genuinely happy to escape a failure and are already emotionally in the future by the time the blog gets written. Save the stress for the next thing.

And this is Justin Kan. Not somebody who ruminates, and somebody who went through a ton of pivots with Justin TV. This sort of result is no big deal to somebody like him.
A ruling Party which is able to watch us through screens everywhere in life?

The mere thought of rebellion is a crime?

Rewriting history is the goal of the Party, to avoid the truth being revealed to the public?

People who want to lead rebellion against tyranny are actually spies who will torture you in prison?
All three examples you gave have problems or inconsistencies and this is why they are not used. You are being downvoted because you are suggesting teaching formalisms that are known to be insufficient simply because they fulfill your personal criteria of intuitiveness.
Wait, if you don't want sync why would you pay them that much money every month specifically for that feature?

Just stop paying...
We strive to be mediocre. Remember, people are no longer important for important reasons.
> the world is Unicode. Get over it. Maybe not bytes on disk/network. But apart from that? Yes

So, just ignoring the 2 things that a version control system exists to work with directly?
That's actually one argument people make for reinstating the draft.

With the draft, people from all walks of life were enlisted. (Yes, there were ways to weasel out of it, but beside the point)

Without the draft, the army is largely built from the lower-class, conservative, patriotic populous.

The argument is that the privileged would be less likely to send people off to war if it meant their loved ones lives were on the line.
Amazon to ask a court to block MSFT from working on 10B cloud computing contract
What's wrong with taking out loans in this situation? This is exactly what loans should be for - making a wise investment in your future. This is especially true if you want to get a CS or related degree.

There is a lot of consternation regarding student loans because many students are deluded into getting way in over their heads for degrees that won't end up enabling well-paying careers. That's just not the case with a CS/EE degree at a state school.
mostly, I'm writing the tutorial I wish existed.
In the US - See https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/police-questioning-m... for example.

Read carefully and you will notice:

- they don't have to Mirandize you even if arrested or detained. If they don't, your answers and evidence based on them will probably be inadmissible, if your lawyer is not an incompetent boob.

- they don't have to Mirandize you at all with no penalty unless you are detained or arrested. If you are "free to go", for example if asked a question at a traffic stop, Miranda is irrelevant. What you say will always be used against you.

- always, in all circumstances, assume that your statements WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU.

- At a traffic stop, you say "here is my license and registration" and "please, thank you, have a nice day". NOTHING else, which is quite a bit harder to do than it sounds.

When in an adversarial position with the police, it's best to remember that it is literally not their job to be helping you. It's not their job to be "fair" or to be your ally. They are ALLOWED TO LIE to your face, and might do so.

But the rest of the time, which is most of it, they are your ally. You will know which time is which - act accordingly. In all cases, respect is wise, is warranted, and is well deserved. Remember the number of our friends in blue who have died because of some bad person. And note that until they understand you, they may quite reasonably assume you are one. Don't be an A-hole and prove it to them. Don't lie, it would be obvious, suspicious, and insulting. Just say nothing or shrug. Don't be a dick and try to argue - save that for the courtroom which is when it is appropriate.

But you still don't ever have to say things like "Gee I thought I was only doing 80" or "I didn't see that guy, he musta came outa nowhere"...
Worst of all, is their privacy policy.

> We retain information we collect about you for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, unless a longer retention period is required OR PERMITTED under applicable law.

It is not necessary to "hack" Plaid.
> Takahashi says it takes about a decade to become a true ukiyo-e "shokunin," or master craftsman, and that there are only 25 left in Tokyo today.

I was watching David Bull, the Canadian-turned-ukiyo-e carver lamenting that the printer he wanted to produce his prints was busy printing some new Yoshida Toshi prints for the late artists family from the artist's original wood blocks.

I had no idea that you could get prints made from original blocks — and, when I tracked them down, for a few hundred U.S. dollars.

I ordered a print for my wife for Christmas last year (this one: https://www.teamwakon.com/products/yoshida-toshi-hyoroku)

In the emails I got from the studio in Japan they wanted to know how they could spread these prints to more people — to keep this art form alive.

If you've watched enough David Bull on YouTube (the Bob Ross of ukiyo-e carving) you'll hear of his storied journey from being a young, enthusiastic Canadian begging an audience with a touring company of Japanese masters, the sneering reception he is often met with as he tries to excel in their craft and finally his "arrival" when he dedicates a decade of his life to creating a series of 100 prints.

And with all his YouTube exposure, all the videos he has created on how to approach and eventually master the craft, his Twitch streaming... the old masters came to him and said, "Thank you, David-san, you are doing what we should have been doing."

Or so I paraphrase....
5) Those students, now parents, not only have fewer children, but having seen their older friends delay retirement to fund their kids education, and are now discouraging their own children from overspending on private schools.
Well it is certainly possible that the labor market becomes even more saturated in software and education falls back into being an easy go-to natural filtration system.

We are seeing the big tech companies more than ever use algorithmic puzzle questions, and startups using "culture fit" as easy go-to filtration systems.

But, I imagine education might be an even simpler filter if labor supply keeps growing. It certainly makes for easy automated filtering if a person doesn't have a top-20 school listed on their resume.
Oh my goodness you’re that Jesse!

Hope the car helped - from your LinkedIn it looks like you were able to get back on your feet.
Indeed they have declines!
Stop thinking so much. They just want you to pay them. They want your money. Even if you figure it out somehow before you sign in blood, society damn near forces the median human being to go to college as a pre-requisite to survival :)

Actual parasites.
> "These aren't my pants"

I'd love to hear the context for that one :)
working with banks every day how in the heck did this pass. WOW
it is late in the cycle so it’s to be expected, but yeah I actively avoid companies by serial founders at this point.
Downside is that transferring into competitive top ranked programs is very difficult. And if you have anything shy of a 4.0, you're unlikely to get in.

Ask me how I know. :(

So, if you have good chances of getting in after high school to such programs, do it. There's no reason to risk your future on community college. Professors at all colleges are a gamble and even a slight misstep can ruin your chances of getting into a good program. (which then leads to better chances of getting good jobs - if you care) That said, if you don't get into the programs after high school then community college could be fine.
That's an article from 2005. More recent research:

https://www.sciencealert.com/iq-scores-falling-in-worrying-r...

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718793115
There's some bridge in consciousness between music and dreaming. They share some extra-rational quality that eludes language. That's exactly why I named my first album "Trampoline Dreams" That's not the point of the post, but if anyone is interested here is a link on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/album/6lQ9JWrD8tt8iP4hI6Q5eO?si=P5N...
Would you happen to have any expansion of this theory posted somewhere?

I'd add a few other observations:

- Information by itself isn't power, but is a power multiplier. Given any two entities, and an extant power imbalance, an informational equality between the two still favours the more powerful. Yonatan Zunger, chief architect of G+, made this point eloquently rebutting David Brin's "Transparent Society" argument.

- Privacy alone (or analogues such as anonymity or pseudonymity) are secondary to impunity as an enabling mechansim. For the disadvantaged, privacy and anonymity rights allow redress against the privileged. For the privileged, it's often immunity or impunity that offers sufficient protection. The "MeToo" movement, particularly Epstein and Weinstein cases, are examples of a sudden loss of immunity. For international espionage and terrorism, it's not mastermind wizardry so much as inability to effectively sanction which enables actors, state or non-state.

Some of the arguments raised against GDPR address this -- that the powerful will seek to have inconvenient content redacted, while ordinary citizens would be unable to. My read is that this risk is overstated, though it's one to consider.

The whole data-broker sector, predicated on bulk access to consolidated and well-structured data (postal address change records, DMV, voter registration, credit card purchases, credit scores, browser history, etc., etc., etc.) is a case in point of what you describe.
I developed both Yodlee and Plaid integrations for a customer last year. I remember the Yodlee sales rep mentioning that over 75% of their supported institutions are direct API integrations. Now, this is coming from a sales rep so take it with a grain of salt.
My local community college is HCC which costs $3,500 a year, and U of H the local university costs $9,500 a year. So $27,000 to get a degree, which is not a lot of money compared to 4 years of time and effort. Assuming you're waiting tables that would be $120,000 in lost wages.
literally this is how bad the industry is where this is an accepted practice? Wow Banks SUCK
Good lesson to learn: know your dependencies. Before you pull in some third party library that you think is going to be an awesome time saver, dig in to it a little and figure out what it’s actually doing. Too many Kitchen Sink third party SDKs out there.
Exploring the power of union types in Scala
I just mute until I've found what I want to watch :(
The drink units are weird in this article. Most people (in the US) think of a drink as closer to a 1.5oz 80 proof shot or 12oz of 5% abv beer, which works out to 17.75ml of ethanol. The article defines a drink as 10ml of ethanol. So the guidline for men would be on a bit over 2 budweisers per day.
Why the US refuses to go metric (2019)
There was a "classic rock" radio station playing in the store where I get my morning coffee, and it was playing the same songs as 25 years ago, from the 70s or 80s. By now shouldn't they be playing music from 1995-2005?
Could you imagine an electrical engineer hiring manager saying this? Or law partner? Or medical hospital?
Software is the only professional field that I can think of where hiring managers often disdain or disregard diplomas in favor of “skills”. I think it misses the point that developing problem solving abilities outside of a particular programming skill will quite often carry over to superior abilities within that skill. I have physics and Computer Science degrees. Often, I find that the thought processes I used to learn quantum mechanics are beneficial to the logical thought required to successfully master a new programming language or framework.
Is a diploma necessary to be a good coder? Absolutely not! Should it be disregarded? Absolutely not!
Public loans all qualify for income based repayment. At a state school with in state tuition a CS or engineering degree is almost definitely worth the loans if you're looking for a career change.
Is crypt32 supposed to be secure against timing attacks?
Only a Sith speaks in absolutes
Probably has something to do with the increase in the denial the IQ even exists or is in anyway meaningful.
Then you couldn't factory reset without access to a network, as I pointed out.
I think they meant that it'll be back on people's radars once there is a big release.
That's swell. It would also be great if there was a single button on the Control Center that would allow me to toggle global location on/off instead of how it is which is multiple clicks, scroll and confirmation.
It's something that astounded me as cultural technology.
> They still take up significant space

Not usable space.

> they often are re-enabled automatically whenever the device gets updated

This has never happened for me.
Just adding more to your point. People in the US and western hemisphere in general how many things that are just nature to them are not available to us here in India.

Case in point air and water. Just air and water. Like try breathing the dusty, polluted air. Or drinking water which gives you and your family throat infection every two months, and outbreaks of dengue killing family and friends every 6 months or so.

I'd literally do anything at this point just to breath good air. And that's just starting with the most fundamental requirement of life itself.
Computer-Designed Organisms
"Now you hear 80's music."

I heard "Christmas" music in the grocery store that was some traditional song but done in a 90's grunge style.

But it does seem like you have to go out and find music from 2000-2015 these days.
Totally agree it's a balancing act. Sometimes the existing tool is exactly what you need, in which it would be a waste to re-invent it. Ideally though, things should be evaluated case by case, rather than sticking to a dogma.

I just happen to work at a company that's experienced the flip side of your experience. We ended up wasting millions on software some managers thought fit our needs. However, turns out it really didn't fit our needs after all was said and done, and they said if they had known everything up front (rather than what the salesman had said) they wouldn't have bought the software in the first place.
“Cut up embryos and stitched back together” seems like
an uncharitable description of a multi-stage microsurgical process where the starting point was only stem cells.

This is the description from the article:

” Then the team at Tufts, led by Levin and with key work by microsurgeon Douglas Blackiston—transferred the in silico designs into life. First they gathered stem cells, harvested from the embryos of African frogs, the species Xenopus laevis. (Hence the name "xenobots.") These were separated into single cells and left to incubate. Then, using tiny forceps and an even tinier electrode, the cells were cut and joined under a microscope into a close approximation of the designs specified by the computer.”
It's no surprise with the education system being systemically broken. Since would say that's the goal as a dumber population is easier to control.
thankfully most people use android 10 as regularly as later iOS versions.
It's explicitly not "a drink" that's defined as such, but a "unit of alcohol". It's a standard measure in the UK for actual alcohol content in drinks.
Paper: A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910837117
We have a pretty good and intuitive explanation of what a photon (or other particles) is. It is an excitation of a quantum field and quantum fields stem from the underlying symmetries of space and time. It is incredibly powerful, incredibly simple, and incredibly illuminating idea, but it requires you to learn a couple of new words that humans did not need in their vocabulary when they were inventing agriculture. I am very comfortable claiming this is much simpler than any particle-related intuition as it requires way fewer "axioms". The difference is that you arbitrarily happen to have a mental image of what a particle is, but that does not make particles simpler. As a mental exercise, try to rigorously define what a particle is according to your intuition and explain why we should expect them to even exist.
wrong implication, you're right.
None assumed!
Simple. Just imagine that everybody is incredibly stupid and wants to be robbed and have their identity stolen. That's the target market.
What about Alford pleas? I thought they existed so that you could reserve the right to appeal or avoid a civil action by avoiding an admission of guilt while acknowledging that you will likely be convicted.
It was a literal life-saver. There was still quite a journey to go from where I was, to where I am now, but without help from you guys I would still be knee-deep in the struggle. I've been able to find stability, this past year. I hope that I can pay it back, one day. I owe LS and this community a great deal.
yay "solutions"
QUIC has address validation, basically if you talk back and forth with a remote party you can get yourself a token which proves you're on path (you might really be 10.20.30.40 we can't tell, but we can tell you can intercept packets for 10.20.30.40 because you received this token we sent there, maybe you're an adversary at their ISP) and you can use that token in future to prove you're still on path for 10.20.30.40, which an off-path attacker wouldn't be able to do because they can't get that token.

So this lets you prevent amplification. If somebody asks a question with a long answer, but doesn't provide the token to prove they're on path, you make them go around again first, a legitimate user sees one round trip wasted to get a token but attacks don't work..
Bloom+Hybrid+Mattress+20%+Off
i know it signals the end of something people poured their hearts into...but i do enjoy reading these kinds of announcements. i find it fascinating to see how founders communicate to their communities and now-ex-staff. in a lot of cases, i find it inspiring.
How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model (2020)
It'll serve as a means for VISA to even more strategically target customers for its financial products/services.
If there’s a real downturn we’ll see the big boys cut jobs—maybe a lot. Or even just some regulatory changes (especially reigning in spying and fruits-of-spying monetization) without a broader downturn. Wages downmarket would suffer a ton with all those top-comp folks with (by definition) above-average résumés and work history suddenly looking for a job. Probably upward mobility (into lead/senior/et c.) will suffer a lot. Doesn’t take more supply, lower demand is something we will see again.
> Downside is that transferring into competitive top ranked programs is very difficult.

What type of “top ranked” program are we talking about here? If parent is trying to get into MIT after a long educational hiatus, then, ok, maybe it’d be a bit difficult. But if they’re hoping to obtain an EE or CS degree (for example), these programs—in the states—are usually accredited and if their engineering program is not accredited, you shouldn’t even entertain the idea of entering that program.

There seems to be this constant myth that comes up when talking about higher education and that is a top ranking = better. Don’t get me wrong, a social science education from Yale or Brown will differ greatly then one at a state school but that is a given. Same goes for the select engineering programs or CS—think Cal, Georgia, MIT, etc.—but something like engineering is a program that has to follow strict course requirements so your end goal is practically the same no matter what your alma mater is.