skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their API is good but I hope they let you configure webhook API versions from their UI or even tie them into the API version used to trigger the webhook because webhooks do not respect the API version you used to call an API endpoint that triggered the webhook at the moment.

It will use the API version you defined when you created the webhook endpoint, but the UI to create the webhook endpoint also doesn't let you pick a specific API version. It will use their latest API version.

It's really non-intuitive because it means you have to set webhook endpoints using Stripe's API because only then the API version is configurable, but it also makes deploying Stripe API changes kind of complicated because you need to create multiple webhook endpoints in parallel to not throw exceptions due to your code expecting webhooks with different properties based on API differences.

I emailed Stripe about this once and support had to forward the request to someone higher up but ultimately my feedback got put into the "Dear valued customer, thanks for the feedback" bucket which means nothing will probably come of it.

I wish I knew the technical details on why webhooks aren't sent using the same API version that was used to call the API endpoint that triggered it. Stripe engineers are a lot smarter than me and I can't imagine they didn't think of this already. Is there a technical limitation or downside to this strategy?
I find it annoying that 3rd party analytics gets lumped in with ad tracking. Analytics is incredibly useful for improving products, it lets you see where users are having a hard time and it lets you do experiments and measure the results. It's beneficial to both the user and the company, it's a win-win.
My problem with Stallman is not the the work he's done. He's absolutely a genius and has been right too many times to count. My problem is he's been consistently undermining the FOSS movement by alienating anyone not already in the know. His inability and down right refusal to draw any sort of connection between the average computer user and his point of view makes the idea that he's working towards free software "for everyone" a hard pill to swallow.

Case and point: http://alexeymk.com/dear-dr-stallman-the-aftermath/
IMO the new context and hook are the best thing that react has done. Hats off to whoever designed them.
Incentives in the existing ACH and SWIFT systems are such that transactions are fast and accurate.

But businesses have to follow the law. If a regulation were imposed, people would feel a need to comply. If they said to block transactions from Iran, on penalty of imprisonment, then they would do so. Etc. Avoiding all of that was the exact motivation for bitcoin. Adding all of the features and drawbacks of existing systems into bitcoin would undermine bitcoin's reason for existence.

Centralization at every layer of bitcoin has been the rule. Mining, exchanges, etc. Their dominance is so complete that if only a few of the primary exchanges were to blacklist an individual, they would have a very difficult time. In the same way that Mastercard and VISA banning PornHub is a major harm to that website.

Censorship-resistance is thus out the window, and there really isn't that many benefits left for bitcoin after that.
It's not just startups and/or SV. People generally don't like me bringing this up, but there is a good rule of thumb for everything in life:

The only people who play fair are those who don't know how to cheat well enough.
That's not quite the whole story. She set a deadline (a few weeks?) after which she would resign, and Google terminated her immediately that day.
The article states that :

Ultra-processed products now account for nearly half of the average dietary intake of some high income countries, with consumption rising rapidly in most other countries.

I've never lived for more than 1-2 months in any of these "high income countries". What does it mean to consume "ultra-processed" food? Can someone give an example how the daily dietary intake can be 50% processed foods? What do you eat for that?
That's understandable, especially as the effort to make old apps forward compatible isn't being made by the application developer here, but by the platform developer.

Conversely, Microsoft is rather notorious for not making many of its own offerings forward compatible with themselves. For example, old versions of Office cannot open or edit files saved by newer versions. And while new versions of Office will open older format files, they then save the file in the new version of the format by default. This one-way ratchet "strongly encourages" upgrades in lockstep.
My understanding is that chromium is about as open source as Android is.
In Canada and Britain at least the monarch can dosplve the government, and asl the house to form a new government, or call an election
The payment for order flow piece is a little confusing as presented in the press release, but the actual SEC order makes this a little clearer: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2020/33-10906.pdf

Basically there are two ways broker-dealers that want to do business with Robinhood or similar firms can provide incentives:

1. Pay the flow provider (i.e., Robinhood) some amount per order/share

2. Provide price improvement over the prevailing market price to the end customer (which the provider can then use to market themselves as providing good execution).

Ultimately both of these are coming out of the broker-dealers bottom line, so the unit economics have to work - (1) and (2) have to leave a positive profit margin on average. Typically a firm like RH would be monitoring execution quality and negotiating price improvement requirements with the broker-dealer. This order finds that RH failed to do that, and likely as a result of their demand for high payment for the order flow, (2) was below their peers while they were stating otherwise in their marketing materials.
Rockset and Retool team up so devs build internal tools in minutes
Yeah here’s what it says about “necessary processing,” which does not require user consent.

Note GDPR never mentions cookies, or cookie banners. It regulates the control and processing of personal information (which can be stored in cookies).

https://gdpr.algolia.com/gdpr-article-6

1. Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies:

(a) the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;

(b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;

(c) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;

(d) processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;

(e) processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;

(f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.
The same without tracking users with personally identifiable information. You know how many people clicked on which button, but you don't know that the user 05475524789 who clicked on the button lives in South Europe, has HIV, and is interested in video games and vacuum cleaners.
Seems to me you have an overly simplistic view of what a corporation is. A corporation is not merely its stockholders. A corporation is accountable to multiple stakeholders, and it's stockholders are just one of many such stakeholders. A corporation's employees and customers are also stakeholders, as well as the society and nation in which it is embedded. It is perfectly legitimate for any of the various stakeholders to attempt to influence the behavior of the corporation.

If you are for tolerance and the coexistance of different values in society, you will understand that values come into conflict constantly. And you will respect the prerogative of employees and customers to push back when their values conflict with corporation management (who represent stockholders).

When you insist that employees must unilaterally disarm by walking away at the first sign of conflict with their employers, you are essentially expressing a class preference. You are asserting that the working class must submit to the stockholding upper class. A corporation requires capital to compete in our economy. And when the top 10% own 80% of the wealth, workers cannot simply walk away.

Stockholders can't walk away either. They need workers, just as workers need capital. So they will need to find a way to coexist, but that doesn't mean there won't be conflict. There will always be conflict. The virtue of our democracy is that the conflict is manifested as demand letters and PR statements instead of clubs and bullets.
Awesome! Thanks for being here to answer questions, I've got a few for ya.

The big quad thing is just to ensure heading stability? Does that imply that the rocket lights and drops at roughly the same time so there's no chance for it to tumble out of it's desired orientation? Are you going to blast all the props immediately before launch to get it to swing into a more vertical position? How much control authority do you actually have with the air so thin up there?
About 4 months too late on this. Apparently I will receive my 3070 at the end of January. Also took 2 months to find a Zen 3 CPU. Bought a 5800x simply because it was the only thing I could find.
They were fined by FINRA last year for best-execution slipups as well:

https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/2019-12/robinhood-...
They mean "free" as in freedom not free beer.
The engineering challenges of mass producing Covid-19 vaccines
Europe clears Google-Fitbit with a ten-year ban on using health data for ads
Looked for a few minutes and couldn't find the full answer. How does Plausible calculate unique users if it can't store some type of identifier on the page?

I see this... "We do not generate any persistent identifiers either. We generate a random string of letters and numbers that is used to calculate unique visitors on a website and we reset this string once per day."

But where is that ID stored?
I have a trick I've adopted recently for nonfiction that has helped me immensely to read more and keep reading.¹ If a portion of a book is unappealing for any reason -- I feel like I already know it, it's irrelevant, it's impenetrable, whatever -- just skip ahead.

It's still there if I need to come back to it. And this preserves the reading as an enjoyable and motivated experience rather than a slog that's easy to procrastinate over. In particular, if a later section turns out to not make sense without the bit that I skipped, I'm now highly motivated to go back and understand it.

If you find yourself hampered by a kind of "completionism" like I do, you might find this very freeing and satisfying.

I used this tactic on a book recently that had a lot of new-to-me gems of information at the beginning and end, but fluff in the middle. Previously I would have lost out on the stuff at the end, because I would have set the book aside at some point and dreaded coming back to it.

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¹ I absolutely didn't invent this, but I'm also not sure where I picked it up.
This is a fascinating read.

I used to work at YouTube when YouTubers were just starting to become a thing. The idea that you could just upload a popular video and earn money automatically was mind-blowing. And YouTube is still the leading platform in terms of helping creators make money.

If we were to see millions or tens of millions of people making a living off their creativity, then there needs to be some dramatically different social platform. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and the like are still largely similar to the old publishing model - you do well by serving a broad audience. That's just impossible for the so-called middle class.
Being able to produce a GUI app may be more interesting to beginners than crunching some IO with basic console C program. Really, you don't need to understand GObject much to just use GTK+. Surface understanding suffices, and you can structure your program at first in such a way to not need to create custom GObject based classes/interfaces.

Beginners will probably be a bit lost, because the article doesn't go into any depth about event loop, retained mode GUI, GTK signals/handlers, nor does it link to GTK+ docs that would explain each part of the code, etc., etc.
agree on that. I haven't changed my stripe api calls in about 3 years, and everything is still working.
Sam Harris and William MacAskill just had a really in depth conversation on this exact topic. https://samharris.org/podcasts/228-doing-good/
You could still self-host an analytics solution. Just don't share that data with 3rd parties.
I love it! As a web developer, cookie warnings infuriate me probably more than they should as at least half of the time they aren't actually either required (only essential) or effective (doesn't actually compy, just annoys).

I've had clients straight up demand I should add an ugly cookie warning to the beautiful site I spent a month designing "because it's the law". Then, when I asked them to provide a full privacy policy to go with it, I've often gotten the response to "just leave it empty, nobody actually reads that". Thankfully, I'm stubborn enough to have always been successful in convincing them that maaaybe they should listen to the person who does this stff for a living and not a sensationalist Medium article...
TOP indor polution sources from my 2 year experience with concentration detector:

- frying pan with just a bit of smoke, pm 2.5/10 goes hundres easy

- parafin candles, HCHO formaldehyde goes over 1mg/m3 (can't tell if other are better though)

- presurized cans (sunscreen, desodorant, shoe care etc) pm goes hundreds easy

- spray surface sanitizer alcohol based, registers high folmaldehyde too

And it's incredible how well air mixes in flat, spray in one room - few minutes later register in another. No fans needed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25457440
>Perhaps there are more surgical means to apply pressure.

What happened when a leader tried to move off the US Dollar and onto the gold standard for international trade? 4th generation warfare using social media to organize a civil war resulting in the execution of the leader.

What happened when a dictator tried to move off the US Dollar and onto the Euro for oil trade? Invaded in 2003 using a false pretense to delude the public in favor of supporting the initiative.

Surgical enough?
Ah, so it's a tweak for sneaking the rocket beyond those thickest layers of air, interesting. My initial impression was that it might be just a clever idea to forego the need for a dedicated rocket launch pad.
You could also do {iWantToRunThis && <ComponentUsesEffect...
Right but it still seems like this could violate the GDPR, right? They say:

>>So, we have removed all non-essential cookies from GitHub, and visiting our website does not send any information to third-party analytics services.

But you’re still only allowed to use the cookies for the purpose the user gave you them for, right?

So, if:

a) the cookies are essential for the user session, and

b) you collect the cookies, without explicit permission, to maintain that session

then you still can’t use those cookies for other purposes, like analytics, right?

Edit: sorry for all the “rights?”, just want to make clear I don’t convey high confidence in this claim.
From their analysis

Definition -- The 16:8 protocol is a type of intermittent fasting (known as time-restricted eating in the scientific literature) that involves abstaining from calories for 16 hours of the day, and then eating within an 8 hour window. The eating window can occur at any point in the day, but many people choose to eat between around 12 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Summary and conclusions -- Following a 16:8 time-restricted eating protocol seems to be a viable tool for reducing body weight and body fat, with and without caloric restriction. Some studies have found that 16:8 can preferentially reduce fat mass while sparing muscle, but further research is still required to confirm this. At worst, this limited evidence suggests this protocol can be about as effective as standard dieting, and potentially psychologically easier for some people.

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These are all small studies but it's as you expect for a diet program that is essentially free, no one has a stake in selling it.
Exploring arrays in Kafka with lateral joins
Chip fabricators are planning 2 years of record spending on capital equipment and fabrication facilities[0]. Note that when a new 'fab' is built, the spend is on the order of $10 Billion. Also note that 85% of the world's capital spend on chip fabs is in Korea, China, Taiwan and Japan. Hence, 85% of the world chips are fabricated in that region.

Notably, the bulk of the equipment that is purchased is made by US firms (about 1/2), with 1/4 from Europe and 1/4 from Japan.

[0] www.semi.org/en/news-media-press/semi-press-releases/semiconductor-equipment-2020-year-end-forecast
I'm curious if sleep aids, whether it's OTC like melatonin or Rx like trazodone and Ambien, can help this situation. Is it just the sleep that's beneficial or is it "natural" sleep (that term doesn't mean anything, but you get the point of it)? In other words, should people who have difficulty sleeping look to aids as a way of staving off dementia later in life.
Apumone
That's disgusting. And it's like saying roads aren't essential because cars can drive on dirt.
>a URL parameter

I love those systems. Especially when the unwary users share links, accidentally letting other users into the site as them. Or when google indexes it, and in addition to terrible security, the site uses regular GET links to perform site actions, so google deletes the user's content or buys a bunch of stuff as them while walking the links it finds as it indexes in beyond the user's initial account bearing link.

lol. no.
Seeking CoFounders/Programmers to connect local-shops to consumers
### 'Origin story' of 'InStock' Platform:
While I was in undergrad I began cooking traditional Mexican dishes in order to nurture my connection to my Mexican heritage. Along this cooking journey I realized that I needed to find specialty ingredients that were not available in the suburbs of Philly (which was the location of my school). Shortly after I trekked a half-day in the Philly winter-rain, to find mom-&-pop shops that carried the item I was looking for only to return empty-handed.

This led to the idea behind 'InStock':

1) Currently, there is no way for consumers to find specialty-items carried by mom-&-pop shops in their area

2) Shops which carry specialty-items are often run by people-of-color and/or immigrants (recent or otherwise) which means they often do not have the social/financial capital to have an online presence which would allow them have an online presence.

### 'In-Stock':
This situation led me to create a platform, dubbed 'InStock', where owners of mom-&-pop shops could sign-up for an account where they could list the specialty-items they carried. From there, a consumer is able to search the site for a specific item and could then be given a list of local-shops that carry this item.

At the time of this writing the 'InStock' platform is about 50% done in terms of coding but I need team-members to fully bring it to life.

### Requirements for potential partners:
1) Have more than two years of experience with React ; major points if you can refactor React 'class components' to use 'React Hooks'

2) Have two+ years of experience with any combination of: Mongo-DB, Node, Bootstrap, Express (for URL-routing)

3) Be able to communicate in an honest, timely and concise manner (meaning, short and straight to the point)

4) Have a portfolio of a past project(s) / GitHub account (or similar account)

contact me: rvazcue@gmail.com
F h simulations of Covid Nsp16 protein reveal the mechanism of its activation
Thank you, don't know why I had to go this far down in the comments to find it. Should have been included in the article.
On the flip side, RAM prices are good and SSD prices are amazing. But yeah, CPUs and GPUs are a gongshow. A lot of people are blaming scalpers, but I think it’s just demand is much greater than supply.
Right, I meant to imply that the user session is used by “backend goings on”, and I understand that that is stored in a cookie still
Anything beyond that likely falls afoul with boobytrapping laws in many (if not all) states.

Rober even calls out that he attempted to report his porch pirate (with clear video) to the police, but they didn't take action.

Now, I'd love to see the US Postal Inspection Service take up this mantel by using their authority to take legal/criminal action against these porch pirates using bait packages like Rober uses. Seems quite similar to that of police running a sting with a bait car.
AngelList's Recurring Transfers – End-to-end recurring liquidity management
Would this mean that if you shared a URL with someone you would be sharing your session as well?
I’m sure that GitHub certainly has analytics; they just don’t use third-party analytics. This means that either they’ve built their own tool or are self hosting someone else’s. I imagine that GitHub has some amount of internal tooling here out of necessity, e.g for metrics about how people use GitHub over SSH.
I had my LG enV2 for a little over 8 years, and since then I've had an iPhone 7 that I bought off Swappa. I'll own it for close to a similar amount of time. I can't imagine purchasing a phone for $200+ every year or so, I don't see any benefit.
Yes- I just checked its impact factor, looks like it’s in the top 40, across all journals, not just medicine.
> When the Khoisan hunter-gatherers of sub-Saharan Africa gazed upon the meandering trail of stars and dust that split the night sky, they saw the embers of a campfire. Polynesian sailors perceived a cloud-eating shark. The ancient Greeks saw a stream of milk, gala, which would eventually give rise to the modern term “galaxy.”

This is one of the cases where wonder and grandeur and awesomeness of reality, makes every myth and imaginative explanation pale in comparison. Our ancient ancestor’s wildest dreams were not wild enough.
This is true, but perspective is very important.

For me realizing that I'm not actually living in a democracy was what gave me an entirely new perspective on how the world works. It took me almost 30 years to realize this, so I know it's not really obvious given how we've been taught to think.

That's why I try to spread this message when it fits with the topic. And I feel so many problems have this issue at their core, including this one.
..so what's the real reason?
The EU has a legislature, it passes laws, has borders, citizens and a monetary policy.

It has limited executive functions but it does have some. It even has courts.

You sure about that? I’m open to the idea, but I don’t see it. A sui generis government that doesn’t perfectly fit the mold of prior systems is still a government. Maybe a more apt description is a government of governments? Sell me on your take.
You can get good soldering irons for less than $100.
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099595
This is great. My experience is that many people claim to want analytics for their website but end up looking at it a couple of times and then never using it again. Meanwhile they're sponsoring and bolstering the position of internet tracking giants who - despite their claims - have no regard for user privacy.

Just sell your product instead of wasting time and money on bike shedding your website with whatever you believe is going to "skyrocket your sales".
Oneness via gurus, psychedelics and the hidden code in Jordan Mechner's Karateka