skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the new cryptocurrency PI Network another scam or legit?
Pi is a phone APP , it makes crypto mining easy. Breakthrough chain-block tech allows you to mine on your phone without draining your battery. And you even do not need to leave the APP open to mine, Pi does not affect your phone's performance, or use your network data.

You can earn your own PI coins for free by simply downloading the (pi network, or pi, or minepi) app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Once you have downloaded the app and insert the invitation code (cakzxd), you just need to click the green lighting button once a day to start mining.

Follow the steps below, to get started:
1. First of all you would need to download the Pi app(pi network, or pi, or minepi) app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Or download the app from https://minepi.com/cakzxd
The apple store link is https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/pi-network/id1445472541
The Google Play store link is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blockchainvault

2. After installing the app, you need to verify your identity to login to the app. You can verify using Facebook account or cell phone number (minepi will text you a verification code).

3. The app will ask you for the invitation code. Use cakzxd as your invitation code.

4. The app will start a guided tour and it will show you how to use the app. In order to start mining just click the green color Lightning Bolt symbol & that all.

No cost, No risk, No hazard
https://minepi.com/cakzxd
invitation code: cakzxd
“Work or doesn’t work” is as manichean of a binary as “good or evil”.
Reading this it seems to imply that iOS doesn't support this (sorry if not!), but it does and has for a very long time.
I've had two Samsung smart TVs, neither of which were capable of letting me share my screen from a Samsung Galaxy phone..... (well, technically, I did get it to work once or twice, but I'm very good at troubleshooting and it took me over an hour and three different apps).
It just means that lactose intolerance is now recognised and accommodated. The body produces less of the enzyme (lactase) needed to break down lactose as we age, with the result that it ferments in the gut, producing gas. Undigested lactose reaches the outlet as a liquid. I'd rather be thought strange than be farting and squirting out cow nipple juice.
I find Oat Milk is also the most delicious.

I'm currently addicted to an oatmilk coldbrew latte and I just loove it.
I've been meaning to try oat milk. Cow milk upsets my digestion but I also have a tree nut allergy.
Thanks, but I also don't want to take the chance of having a kid "by accident" or allowing anyone else to make that decision for me.
Ironically, the post explicitly references that point, and calls for a ban of Joindiaspora.com as the first HN site ban.
Is this just an ad for that renting company ?
Why are you so certain about your assertions here about when they did and did not need to use explicit byte strings?
I don't have issues with Mint. As somebody suggested, Intuit has the privilege of having a different level of access unlike Plaid - maybe due to the importance of QuickBooks to both individuals and businesses.
More than slippery, I think simply some ports (ie the Pixels) are looser than others.
Paths are Unicode strings on Windows. Yes, POSIX adds a lot more spice to the mix, but if the intent is a cross-platform tool, then Unicode is a reasonable lowest-common-denominator assumption for filenames in 2020.
I would love to see what the top ten would be if you filtered out children's books and YA fiction. Or, even better, if they made a separate top-ten list for each demographic.
Killing JS normally defeats most of those annoyances.

It's a key reason why I disable JS by default, and enable it as an exception.

... and will re-disable it if any such behaviours manifest.
Fuzzers are great! I have fuzzed one or two mission critical high exposure libraries in my time. But they are a totally different thing than formal verification.
This works only if you want to do an account verification. If you have to continuously pull in transactions, it will fail, and ask you to "fix" the problem.
DoD Solicitation for Predictive Health (Scroll Down)
There's a variant of this fallacy where people are sold on GUI frameworks in which design is separate from the code that drives the logic (i.e. XAML). The argument is, the designers can't code, and the coders can't design. That too doesn't really work if you want great UI, and it complicates the lives of both the designers (tooling is shitty) and the devs (the databound visual tree code is opaque AF and therefore impossible to debug).
Modelling requires quantitative data to be useful. Data must be is statistically significant, too.

Startups in early stages by their very nature have none of that. It follows that any kind of a financial model is just an exercise in guesstimating and wishful thinking.
If you’re referring to the github link, they took it down after several Complaints.

https://github.com/plaid/link/issues/68
Per smhenderson (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22038454), you'll have to take that up with Bruce McKinney, not me; I merely quoted it to compare.
Why are you throwing out aluminium foil? Wrap it into a ball, and when the ball gets large enough, put it in the recycling bin.
Right, but as you said this

>men choosing to play video games

is just an extension of this

>status competition among men

and this

>With women reaching equality in the work force it seems that men are also moving closer to equality in free time, especially at younger ages.

is not necessarily an axiomatic good because of the above mentioned points.
Until I can get a browser adblocker on a non-rooted, non-unlocked iphone, it's not a switch worth making.

firefox mobile + ublock origin is the only way I find the mobile web tolerable.
Interesting that Keats is at the top. I'm currently reading (and almost at the end of) Hyperion, and Keats plays a significant part of the story. One character proclaims Keats to be the purest poet to have lived.
Worst of all, it's a full access, not a scope-restricted one. Imagine somebody hacking Plaid and you disabling 2FA, because otherwise you can't use some of the fancy new services you saw on Product Hunt.
SB50 Could Make California Livable Again
If the key impact is declining bee populations, it would seem that the current ecology of almond growing is unsustainable. But that should give growers an acute incentive to invest in bee populations, lest bees shoot up in price and wreck the economics of their orchards. If growers aren’t doing this already, why aren’t they?
4th panel.

https://xkcd.com/810/
I'd love to ban single-page apps, especially ones that break URLs by forcing all actual information into the #fragment.
Oh, I see -- "10ft UI".

Isn't it easy to tweak all that? It is in Debian, anyway.
I think this drives your point with incredible wit: “On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)” by Tom Wildenhain[1]. (5 minutes video)

[1]: https://youtu.be/uNjxe8ShM-8
(Nerding out should always be hilarious like that!)

[2]: Recording of a guest lecture he gave for the Esoteric Programming Languages course at CMU. (~1h) https://youtu.be/_3loq22TxSc
You say women have been shamed into pursuing careers, but I don't see the evidence for that as the root cause of their increasing participation in the career-age workforce, nor do I think it's obvious that this expanded workforce is the cause of the general modern necessity for a dual household income. Why not the opposite? That the increasing costs of housing, goods, and services, due to XX factors, are making single-income multi-person households infeasible?

Seriously, what percentage of people in households that are dual-income by necessity are happy with their situation?
This really resonates with me, but I don’t agree with it.

It resonates because there’s a problem with software development that remains unarticulated. It seems no one is happy. Developers aren’t happy, and the stake holders aren’t either.

For stakeholders, the people originating the ideas, signing the cheques and bankrolling the entire endeavour, programming really is a money pit, and programmers really are a pain in the ass. So no wonder people are so enchanted by the idea of software that doesn’t require code or coders. All they want is for their grand ideas to be realised as they imagine them. How hard can that be? If Computers can be made to identify faces, or translate French into Chinese, then surely their vision of an app that figures out the most efficient way to deliver parcels should be a walk in the park!?

For me, herein lies the problem. Computers are seen as magical devices capable of anything. Software, or code, merely the spells and incantations that breath life into those machines and commit them to do your bidding.

But! They are not magical devices. Code is not spells. Programmers are not magicians. There are constraints. Boundaries. Limitations. Great software is, in some way, defined by those boundaries. Great software is created not by people who believe that computers and code can be made to do anything. Great software is not the product of whim and whimsy. No. Great software is created by people who know the constraints, but see the opportunity within them.

Take for example, the Spreadsheet. No accountant, or any other form of number cruncher was involved in the conceptualisation, implementation, or evolution of the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet was born out of the minds of people who understood the capabilities of computers and code, and saw how they could be used to approach a problem from a different angle.

I would argue that the most significant event in the evolution of the web — after it’s invention — was Ajax. Yet no one, not even the people who first implemented XMLHttpRequest, fully understood its true potential until Jesse James Garrett came along and clarified the concept and significance.

HTTP had existed since 1996, and four years later, Roy Fielding gave us Rest — The recipe to a dish we already had the ingredients for.

What’s my point? I suppose I may have gotten off track. My point is this: The problem is not that code is hard, or programmers difficult. The problem is that software — which was once borne out of opportunity that only the programmer could see — is now born of the whim and whimsy of people who know nothing of what a computer can do, or how it does it. Software is the folly of people who believe in magic. People who aren’t thinking “what can this machine do”, but rather “make this machine do what I demand”.
I think you're thinking of marketers/advertisers, who are not, in fact, compensated based on performance.
Heard they were offering .1 percent for senior software engineers 6 months ago. Congrats guys!

(source:https://www.teamblind.com/post/Plaid-acquired-by-Visa-for-5B...)
Samsung S20 Mobile Phone to Have 16GB RAM
I am not familiar with their API - possibly it's a crappy one, but I had one integration in the past (can't recall) and there's an area in your profile for authorized apps. I've done Wells Fargo integration, too.
"Don't Talk to the Police", the video by James Duane linked in the article, is essential viewing. It's so succinct and cogent, I end up rewatching it usually on a yearly basis because I have it saved locally.
> Well, it can, except you then need to go through and update all of your internal APIs to be correct.

You do, but it's easy: run a compile, fix the errors, repeat until no more errors.

> It would have been better to just delineate that barrier better from an API standpoint.

Isn't that exactly what the Python 3 transition was? i.e. stop accepting non-unicode "strings" (actually just arbitrary byte sequences) for APIs that semantically require a string, reserve them for APIs that actually want a byte sequence.
But you are right. They are a problem. Talked to a farmer a couple years back (on Christmas Eve in the stable, watching the new born calves). They would get some 160€ per male calve, barely covering their costs raising them. That’s probably still somewhat better than male chicken though.

Anyway, we need to find ways for more sustainable meat production and consumption. This whole thing is unhealthy in pretty much any level. Really looking forward to all those alternative meat startups.
Here’s the thing: before all this privacy invading tracking nonsense advertising was a perfectly healthy business. Yes, it’s harder to know if your campaign worked but that didn’t stop people from advertising. I have zero sympathy for the ad industry complaining because of this.
>> This is directly derived from 3rd law

Then it's wrong. I will need to see the derivation to find the error. I've seen indications of a couple possible places it may be (based on simplifying assumptions people make incorrectly) but have not seen the actual derivation of the expected curve.
The issue is that software products support such “computational primitives” and their manipulation increasingly less. Things that were taken as granted in any computational environment - dragging and dropping pictures, copying text, seeing the file underlying a certain representation, etc. - doesn’t even work in many of today’s apps. It’s a huge step backwards in our systems, and is a big part of the reason why “no one knows how to use computers anymore”.
That’s really smart! Could you share your script (as a Gist or something) I’d really like to use it.
You should make this a URL submission so that clicking on it goes to that gist URL; then add your above blurb as a comment.
Stradvision’s Autonomous Vehicle Technology gets a boost with $27m funding
The hardware would perform the optimisation using typical means. Instruction lookahead can be used for caching the stack slots to be used in registers, for instance.
"This encoding may be referred to as "base64url"."

https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4648.txt
This is fairly unique to the OTA contract vehicle that Defense Innovation Unit uses, and I suspect of significant interest to start-ups:

"Companies are advised that any Prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) awarded in response to this Area of Interest may result in the award of a follow-on production contract or transaction without the use of further competitive procedures."
That is hilarious, amazing, sad, and begging for a blog post of someone walking through the nightmare you described.
That’s like saying, “Cat is a word used in a language to represent a physical thing.”
It's a feature until apple makes a moral call on software.

they banned all vaping-related software, but this also included apps to control folks' medical dosages of cannabis. while it was (kinda) laudible they didn't want to expose kids to smoking propaganda, I would have about 500 bucks in near-bricked devices just for switching to iOS.
Can you recommend any resources to learn more about this kind of stuff?
I am able to continuously transfer funds after the initial setup
What 19th century railroads tell us about the future of ecommerce (2003) [pdf]
I don't know about California, but NY State definitely treats long term gains as regular income too. You take the net capital gains number from your IRS Schedule D (total gains minus total losses) and copy it onto a single line on your NY tax form that gets added directly into your NY gross income. (There's no mention at all of long term vs. short term on the NY tax form - capital gains is just a single line item.)

(Everyone, including the IRS, treats short term gains as regular income.)
Why? standardization is nice, but to impose it? Is there any definition for 'overreach' for the EU, or those this have no end?

At what point is a product too 'complex' to standardize?

Why not standardize the phones themselves, the cars, then standardize life and give us barcodes...
Impact of Cyber War
Rootable with an unlocked bootloader?
Burisma targeted by Russia-linked phishing attack, raising election-meddling fe
I support separate modules for everything, and am amused at the thought of connecting a Roku to an old console TV and running it through a 6-figure sound system.
Ok, so now we have people claiming Wikileaks is not a journalistic organisation for "just dumping the leaks" and people claiming the exact same thing for the completely opposite reasons.. Damned if you do, damned if you don't I guess..

What on earth makes you think Wikileaks is "Hiding major stories to protect yourself"? Is there a single shred of credible data suggesting that? And even if that's what in the "insurance file" can you fricking blame them for trying to protect their lives?!

I don't know what's in the "insurance file", I doubt you do either. Maybe it's a major story, maybe it's data of no public interest but still extremely inconvenient to the powers that be. Maybe it's nothing -- just an empty threat.

All I know is that I won't condemn Wikileaks solely based on speculations or verifiable smear-campaigns.
If my team lead had a sex change it would definitely make things a bit strange. Not saying there would be discrimination right, but it would 100% change things. I can't imagine it not affecting day to day.

I would suggest stay in your current job until you decide to change, then switch it up for your own sanity. Fresh you fresh job fresh day to day, you know.
Here's your problem: you should not care how python is representing it internally.

> Go in fact does pretty much what Python 2's byte strings were just that string operations such as converting to uppercase or iteration over runes understands UTF-8 and Unicode.

Why do you care about internal representation though, what are you gaining if Go's string and Python's str can express all characters. In Go you still need to convert string into byte[] when doing I/O.
Or why not release the data so that we can run queries on it ourselves? I doubt the entire dataset would be larger than a gig. Then we can run queries on top 10 by genres, by authors, by decades, by age group, gender, etc. Whatever we want.
But iOS still occasionally double-checks. Not frequently, but if you have enough apps that you allow to always track you, the notifications might add up enough to be annoying.
Python 3 strs should not be iterated over, sure. Ban that in your linter, then you're in the same position you would be in Rust. It's a misfeature but it's still a detail.
Research identifies new route for tackling drug resistance in skin cancer cells
Some banks have tried, but Plaid has a great legal team and has argued with the move towards open banking in the EU that customers have a right to their data.

Will be interesting to see where this goes.
As the ice melts, Greenland considers its future
OK, not that old: 60.3.0esr.

And you're right, I wasn't paying attention. I did temporarily allow the site.
This is also true for me. It's a feature I appreciate a lot.

There was a time when I actively enjoyed sysadminning and updating and securing all my personal computers. But many of "computers" are now closer to "appliances" and the last thing I want to spend time on weekends/evening these days is poking at the OS on my phone (or my book or my coffee machine or or or)

I'm happy to have "let go" and chosen "I'll do things with my phone Steve's way, or I won't do them. I'm happy to 'hold it right', and not be able to install aircrack-ng or crypto miners or whatever, so long as Apple keep it updated and secure and private to an acceptable level."

When I want to geek out, I have a drawer full of Raspberry Pis, various linux and bsd boxes, and an AWS account. (I do also have a Apple Dev account, so I can "side load" weird shit if I choose. I have not done that on my everyday iPhone since about my 4GS...)

I need my phone to work properly at 7:30am Monday morning... It's an appliance to me, not a general purpose computing device.
Companies who raise $75mm don't lay off massive chunks of their workforce because they found product-market fit.

Justin raised $75mm because he's Justin, and for all VCs posture like they're contrarian risk-takers, they're absolutely not and would have invested in shit in a box if Justin said it was his.
Not at all.

It's that if light smokers self-identify as smokers in research, then it can mask the greater damage done in heavy smokers.

While if light smokers self-identify as non-smokers, it may reduce the overall difference between true non-smokers and heavy smokers.

Either way, it leads to the same kind of dangerous misinterpretation of data you'd have if there were only two categories "never drink" and "blackout drunk nightly".
How the Man Who Challenged Tesla Went Bankrupt [video]
It's actually pretty rare to not run into issues with Plaid.

It depends on your customers, too.

If you're targeting consumers, Plaid's integration works far better than if you're targeting business bank accounts.
> why aren’t they?

They won't do anything until Uncle Sam subsidizes it.
The ironic thing is, anybody who bought and hold diversified index funds since 2018, has done excellently. And it required 0 human intervention of any kind of get that return.
So, as a guy who is hellbent on not losing their ad blocking, are you telling me that QUIC allows the client (the browser in this case) to read from the stream up to a point, find a resource with a well-known name (or crypto hash) that is an ad/tracker, and the client is then allowed to just skip ahead in the stream, not downloading and never parsing the said ad/tracker?

If no, then QUIC has failed its purpose, for the tech-savvy browser users at least.

If yes, I'd be happy.
Not a bad idea, but I think Python is more likely to have hidden bugs that this will uncover. A language that accepts bytes as input and emits the same on output will probably work fine on UTF-8 for example.
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Not that old, really: 60.3.0esr.
TL;DR:

* Act like a normal, sensible person. Don't try to provoke them, and don't give them any reason to escalate the encounter.

* Don't allow police in your home without a warrant.

* Affirmatively deny consent for searches. This includes your home, car, and personal belongings.

* Assert your right to remain silent.

Unless you're reporting a crime where you're the victim (and, sometimes, even then), you should only talk to police with a lawyer representing you present.
Even so, I'm going to put in some effort to make text-only a 1st-class citizen.
Haphazard CI and using email to track bugs and patches is a fine way to operate.
My wife and I started a small business on the side doing reselling. I'm regularly amazed at what I can find for $7 or less at first-run thrift, and for $2 or less at the thrift outlets.
> A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

Identifying yourself as simply a conservative or an anti-conservative in any context as a rule, without regard for circumstance, is just absurd to me. It's like identifying as someone who walks northward or southward. Or someone who prefers large numbers or small. There is no useful across-the-board argument that can be made for either changing things or not changing things.
I suspect more ads per page with less ability to block them is Google's endgame indeed.

But if browsers like Firefox find a way to skip ahead in the stream (through the ads/trackers while never downloading/parsing them in the first place) then things could be back to normal (for us the ad-blocker users).

Still though, if used for good, QUIC (or HTTP/3) seems like a pretty good piece of tech.