skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, I was excited that I might be able to access my banking data using APIs in NZ, then I found this:

https://www.apicentre.paymentsnz.co.nz/join/api-community-co...

So it's "free for 12 months", but the idea is that I build or create an "innovation".

Not interested, I just want APIs for my data, I'm not interested in building a SaaS, I don't want that kind of responsibility for other people's data.

Back to using my personally developed scraper, driven by puppeteer.

Side-benefits, I can and have adapted my scraper to also pull my data from other institutions, like investments and retirement accounts, and dump it into a database as JSON and normalized form.
This comes across as conspiracy theorish, but sadly isn't if you consider Thumbtack/Nest? getting penalties & reversals within a week. Maybe it was a coincidence that they had GV investments? When a non-affiliated site gets penalized, Jon Mueller and Gary Illyes say "we can't 100% explain the algorithm's ranking decisions. Just publish more quality content", but when a GV company gets hit, Google acts quickly in rectifying the penalty.

The same for eBay's massive organic penalty after they published a case study showing that pausing their paid ads didn't hurt their business.
I'm confused by this sentence: <<<I know high frequency trading firms that are heavily inconvenienced by insider knowledge.>>>

Normally, HFT firms don't care about insider trading. They are trading "noise" -- finding signals from past and present trading activity to make small bets that are 51% likely to be successful. They manage risk very carefully. This is not a secret. Cliff Asness from AQR Capital has given multiple long-form interviews on this topic. You can Google to find podcasts and printed articles.

On the other hand, long-short hedge funds, such as Steven Cohen's legendary Point72, love insider information! It is the backbone of their business model. The best ones employ an onion-like defense strategy to launder inside information as legitimate analyst reports. Only the outermost layer is directly transacting in insider information. As the information moves closer to the center -- real traders -- it is carefully masked to hide its origin. The SEC was never able to catch Steven Cohen, but they caught many, many people around him and eventually forced his original fund to close.
This twitter thread is a useful read:

https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/14248736290037022...
He wasn't bragging about it. He was just mentioning it because it had a side-effect of bringing the SEC onto him.

"If your strategy in trading microelectronics stock (largely hype-based and that you have an intuitive understanding of) is so good even though you didn't actually claim it as being all that, why don't you run the same strategy in trading pork (no one has ever gotten hyped about pork)?"
No, come on. :D What's the limiting principle on these exceptions? The terms of the agreement are the most logical. The obligation of the consumer if they have risky finances is to save a contingency fund (one month of extra payment) for such scenarios. It's not DO's responsibility to accommodate crap financial planning for every person on the planet. The prospect of losing hosting (for whatever reason) is why every DO customer should be backing up their content/config/etc on a regular basis.
Seems to be Apple only?

> needs Mac, Windows, iOS, Android clients
You mean the puppet government the US imperialist imposed on them? Yeah, exile, sure.
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> all the big names in tech have been scanning everything in your account [...] without any noticeable uproar

In part because people didn't know.

And if you were one of innocent people caught by them, you wouldn't want people to know.
> NetBSD has an "anykernel" approach which separates the kernel for the drivers. So you can impose your own flavour of kernel on a bunch of pre-written drivers.

As a NetBSD developer, I don't recognize what you mean by this.
Looks like a piece of Electron webshit, which I am loathe to touch, but on the other hand IT HAS A DIFF VIEW PLUGIN TO HELP WITH CONFLICTING CHANGES OMFG :)
What is her fee structure?
is there a desktop wallpaper version?
A national security letter can do a lot, but it cannot supersede the United States Constitution. Any attempt to co-opt the on-device search mechanism would be an unequivocal violation of the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution—it's a search of private property being compelled by the Government.

(As distinct from Apple voluntarily searching for CSAM, which will be part of the terms of service. And distinct from being compelled to search cloud servers, which is exempt from 4A under the "third party doctrine".)
It seems like big techs are taking the place of court in some domains. They draw the lines and execute the rules. Even more, it is almost impossible to know where are the real lower and upper bound of rules. There are already some examples (e.g. app is banned for unknown/vague reasons).
> And do you run the same strategy for oil, natural gas, soybeans, and pork belly futures?

Some commodities have exactly the right kind of volatility and timing for these sort of trades.
I have some not great memories of trying to use it through 5.x back when there was no binary package manager. A lot of stuff wouldn't compile easily or segfaulted easily even on x86, but it was a long time ago and I was a noob at unix let alone fixing compilation issues, so I never really knew if it was my incompetence or NetBSD. Either way it was definitely harder back then without binary packages... I remember thinking at the time: what's the point on being able to run on old hardware if it takes a month to compile the stuff you need.
Lots of times they just send an executive. See the Uber civil cases.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-fined-731m-by-eu-in-...

According to Microsoft best $731m ever spend.
and poorer performance. Their S3 compatible solution is good for archiving only
I had no intention of making a detailed comparison; only to note the magnitude of the distinctiveness.
The part of the article that I was waiting for was how they got it adopted in Japan. Having worked in Japan for almost a decade I can easily say it is not an easy feat to change Japanese corporate mindset when it comes to a programming language or environment. I wonder what the elevator sales pitch was. Other than that I think this was a great article.
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Edit: Never mind, I was confusing the use of Plaid for linking accounts (like Robinhood does) with its use to actually monitor accounts (like YNAB).
OP, could you add some code to detect when javascript is disabled. A small thing, but a pretty common thing you should deal with.
Yeah, rump kernel tech seems like it should be taking the world by storm - in particular, it looks to me like NetBSD should be a "universal donor" of drivers to other systems. So for instance, as I understand it, with minimal shims, you should be able to use NetBSD hardware drivers on Linux and Illumos and HURD and Redox and [your hobby project here]. It'd be worse than "native" drivers, but especially for smaller projects it'd save a ton of work.

> I also heard that Andrew Tanenbaum ported/is porting Minix to NetBSD

Kernel, or userspace? Last I paid attention, MINIX 3 used pkgsrc for packages and I think base/coreutils in userspace, but I hadn't heard anything about kernel space. Though, as I mentioned above, it does seem like the obvious way to get drivers for a lot of hardware cheaply, especially if you're already a microkernel.
Does anyone know how I can run the VC.COM file on a macOS running Catalina?

EDIT: brew install dosbox and dosbox VC.COM works, for future readers
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it's the C++ way
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Oh I was wrong. It's the same as you suggest: it hides columns in Sheets too.
> I referred them to my broker

Did you have any legal obligation to do that. What would have happened if you choose to remain silent?
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Happened to a classmate of mine in college who had the same name as some hokani commander’s wife. Luckily her brother worked at the state department and knew some Clintons.
It also doesn't seem to have any collaboration features?
> coordinate system is not a requirement... to analytic geometry

Yes it is. That's what analytic geometry means [0][1][2][3]. If you mean something different, use a different word.

> Herons formula doesn’t count because it’s the end result.

It came with a derivation that can be found in Heron's 60 AD book Metrica, and may have been known centuries earlier.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analytic%20geomet...

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/analytic-geometry

[2] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/analyti...

[3] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/analytic+geometry
int matchThreshold = 30;

if (numMatches > matchThreshold) { snitch(customer) && customer.life.ruin() }
(too late to edit) I was wrong. It hides columns instead of deleting them.
I'd like to add a vote for word processing, as also a huge selling point for computers for ordinary people.

With word processing, if you were currently using a typewriter, and correcting tape/fluid, and editing, and re-typing pages (and, hey, change your mind about the name of the protagonist in your novel? one command)... that seems a very easy sell.

Spreadsheets also seemed an easy sell from the start (e.g., accurate instant calculations of, say, current paper ledgers, without a calculator). Even before people understood all the new things they'd be doing with spreadsheets that weren't practical or convenient before.

("Education", "balancing your checkbook", "organizing your recipes", and other early pitches for non-business ordinary people home computers... not so much. Though a lot of ordinary people tried programming.)

One distinction with the Web might've been that (at least initially) although it might've made ordinary people want to use a computer, they didn't immediately see what it was good for. Initially, you could wander around Yahoo, and click to some Web museum experiment, and that was a novelty and a nice demo you could extrapolate, especially if you were an ordinary person into science fiction or futurism. But mostly you knew a bunch of companies were suddenly throwing money at it, and that those companies also didn't seem to know what it was good for. But lots of people wanted to be there.
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Thank you for introducing me to my new favorite StackExchange. It used to be Workplace SE because of all the fun drama I got to read.
Quick summary?
Yes but the reviewers are not going to be viewing the original image, they are going to be viewing a 100x100 greyscale.

>If the premise is that the "innocent victim" would accept CSAM, then you might as well just send CSAM as an unscrupulous attacker.

This adds trojan horses embedded in .jpg files as an attack vector, which while maybe not overly practical, I could certainly imagine some malicious troll uploading "CSAM" to some pornsite.
Like most strategies it works until it doesn’t. If you’re on margin it will stop working more quickly. However it’s more likely a stock with the right beta will oscillate like this fairly often and let you make your small gains. But you also miss out on the big gains and also are left holding the bag when the stock drops 50% overnight on some news.

It’s a classic “picking up nickles in front of a steam roller” strategy. But it could work for a really long time. Until it doesn’t.
That was scary fast. Is there a point in using this algorithm for its intended purpose now?
There are a few people that are especially good at generating wealth by producing products that are a net positive for society. It's important that no limit is put on their ability to acquire wealth since it's a benefit to society and it motivates the individual to continue producing. I say that there should be not be a limit on what they collect over their lifetime.

But at their death there needs to be a way to fairly distribute their wealth thru society without destroying their contribution to society. They should not be able to leave all of it to their heirs since the enormous wealth is really earned by everyone in society that helped create it.
This is the first post that I've had a genuine 'I'm getting old' reaction to.. I was in middle school when Papers Please released and it was huge among indie game fans. I remember like it was yesterday, Yahtzee Croshaw and TotalBiscuit giving it glowing reviews... Please nobody tell me that Yeezus isn't the new Kanye album...
How would they know about that transaction I made today without my password?
Can you tell more about that?
> They want to make it sound like some sort of powerful magic box they have that can find anyone doing something dubious

It might not just be bragging. Arguably it's in society's interest because some people might believe it and be convinced not to try insider trading.
If you have ever read the book-- and I recommend it-- the movie is very much like the book and the book makes sense. Partly because you are reading and you can take the details in. But it makes sense to me.
Or you could control a city in Virginia (Virginia is unique in that all incorporated cities are independent of the surrounding county; all but 3 of the independent cities in the US are in Virginia).
Is that a calculated metric or anecdotal? Netflix shares definitely trailed their subscriber number following expectations.
"Most people don’t realize, but the vast majority of government opportunities are only released to a subset of organizations called “prime contractors”." How this works? This must produce less competition and therefore worse product/prices. It is exchange for making things easier for government or why? This is literally illegal in country where I came from (middle sized EU country).
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Is this a neutral article or am I missing some objectivity?
No data on how much work a cat is willing to do to get you out of bed in the morning to feed it?
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Gimp totally matches its name. From urban dictionary:

Gimp: a derrogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medicial problem that results in physical impairment. -- which is exactly what GIMP -- the OSS project -- is : a disabled, physically impaired image manipulation program.
> There's no difference between TSV and CSV but the separator

This is not true, though almost everyone (understandably) assumes this based on the names.
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I'm conflicted on the issue. Plaid only has to do this insane screen scraping because there's no other way to get my own financial data. The details of how it's done pains me, but I also think I should have freedom of choice with my data.

IMHO, the Canadian proposal seems like the ideal solution. Force the banks to offer a secure and more efficient way for consumers to access their open banking data. (This will also massively lower the barrier to entry for another Plaid competitor)

edit: Plaid's docs mention that banks may detect and block this screen-scraping. They frame it as the bank limiting "your ability to access your financial information", which I think is somewhat valid. They're quite obtuse about the whole scraping thing though: https://plaid.com/trouble-connecting/#:~:text=Your%20financi...
I don't understand how to handle this. In my experience this is what happens:

- You start with a PM/PO/Someone handing out tasks
- You learn the system
- You start doing more work
- They start giving you harder work
- They start asking you to manage the tasks/trace down AC for new tasks
- They start asking you to fix bugs or change AC mid-sprint
- No amount of logic gets through

We can have discussions all day about the three variables, or agile, or maintenance, but at the end of the day if it's just a free for all it's up to how much they like you/how much you can delegate/how much you can say no effectively (and on an ongoing basis) to.

We have agile/jira/all these systems. Why not use them? Why not plan 2 weeks of work... and do 2 weeks of work? Why do they always need to try to squeeze more? It's exhausting and unnecessary and annoying.

Edit: I've worked extremely hard to do everything management asks, and I think this is the problem. I always do. How do you say no? Is it in private? Does the "scope talk" work? Do you do it for every story? Do you end up doing a lot of the planning work and always know what's on your plate as things are added so you aren't overloaded?

I really don't want to be the "make a ticket" guy, but it seems management can handle little less.
I don't see how there's a "side of caution" when it comes to images classified as "A1" of prepubescent minors ("A") engaged in sex acts ("1").

What does it take to have 30 or more images in your photo library that have been all been manipulated to be a perceptual hash match to 30 or more A1-classified images, while also being able to pass human review ("erring on the side of caution") with respect to them being maybe fitting the A1 classification.

There's no ambiguity in prepubescent minors engaged in sex acts.
ssh|mosh/tmux/emacs (or vi) works okay (I've never used mosh but in theory would improve latency).

But https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh works quite well. I routinely work on my project on my Linux box via my macbook (note, I am doing this on a LAN though)... but you can give it a quick try.

On any github repo hit '.'
or try https://github.dev/vhodges/stitcherd
> permanently enjoining him from violating Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 and imposing a civil penalty of $72,875.
And that wasn’t from the Patriot act, it was from the Bank Secrecy laws of the 70s
Golang doesn’t have a proper generics support at its beginning. It is too late now.
If the intended purpose is to lead by example and eventually mandate code on every computing device (phone and computer) that scans all files against a government provided database, then yes, that purpose still exists and this algorithm still works for it.

Just wait and watch - I guarantee you that Apple will be talking about CSAM in at least one anti-trust legal battle about why they shouldn't be broken up. Because a walled garden means they can oppress citizens on behalf of governments better.
I don't know that much about this, so you could chalk it up to "great ignorance", I suppose.

I'm a software engineer, interested in crypto, and not that involved in traditional markets (except for holding an S&P 500 index fund).

I do think the exchanges in traditional finance shouldn't have required HFTs in the first place (i.e. it's an antiquated technology). I also think hedge funds and the ultra rich have privileged info, that retail investors don't have.

Anyway, I appreciate the clarification. I like learning about all this.
Biden needs to step the FUCK down NOW!

All the fucking piece of shit liberals on this site are FUCKING NAZIS!

We put up with your fake fucking covid bullshit for a year and a half now.

Now you want to fucking murder tens of thousands of US citizens?!

FUCK YOU LIBERALS. You have no future in America. Get fucked!
Is it possible to host this online as a meme filter?

I think every meme should get pumped through this, just for lulz.
Dosbox should run it
FUCK YOU LIBERAL PIECE OF SHIT!

Post your propaganda elsewhere fucking socialist fuck.
It's not secure at all, as some services (PayPal!) Allow password reset via SMS to your regitered mobile number. So if someone even has control of your mobile number via sim swap for 5 minutes they gain full control of your paypal acct. Heard of enough incidents of this earlier this year through one of the Canadian prepaid mobile flanker brands...

Paypal makes it hard to remove a mobile number from your account once it's on there too...

If a bank "MUST" have a phone number, I lean towards providing my good ol landline number since in theory thats a "little" harder to instantly take over or port out.

Worthwhile to "test" what it takes to reset a password on your various critical services...
I'm living fine with a 3GB data plan (yes 3, not 30). It's only problematic if using tethering otherwise I have hard time understanding how people can consume more data just by browsing the web. Too much adult movies maybe?
If two people invent or discover a similar thing, independently, they’re both inventors.
Not a loosing battle; let's keep the discussion; but honestly I see situations where a oligopoly is preferred.

I lived in states. I banked in First bank of Fairmont ... yes, a city of 11,500 people had its own bank. I could not do ANYthing outside of city. This was a while back of course, but even today that the notion that there are over 5000 banks in USA (down from way over 10k), with complicated inter-state financing laws, from everything I can hear and understand from my USA friends and family, is discouraging both competition and functionality/convenience/sanity, and seems like we are constantly 5-10 years ahead in Canada with basics like Interac, PIN, Chip, Contactless, Interac email transfer, etc. Basically, USA banking system is as strange to me as their health / insurance system.

A bit like, I enjoyed it when Netflix was a monopoly and I could get anything I wanted there. I don't like the "competition" we have now with myriad streaming services that don't interoperate and have different systems and oh yes all want my money.

I guess I am curious: what should I be on the lookout, as a Canadian, that I am missing in our banking system compared to USA? What should I be hopeful a new entry would give me?

(and note, I am talking about banking sector for myself as ignorant consumer; telecom is a whole other ballgame for a myriad different reasons and I'll 100% agree is an area where we are lagging).
"the order in which we write the code doesn’t matter"

What do you lose in this trade off?
People who get caught are complete idiots. The vast majority don’t.
Spreadsheet. You know you can use sas to run spreadsheet in the mainframe in those days.
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What a genius publicity move
It's even more annoying (and takes more than 2 minutes) to do so in Windows 11. I got a hand on it some time ago (though reverted, not due to this behavior) and spend some time to change the default browser to what I'm using (Vivaldi)

Apparently, there's no option to set default app for common file types (Audio, Video, Browser etc...) in Windows 11. Instead, to change default apps, you have to track down all file types using that app and change it. Considering web browser can handle more than HTML, it's time consuming to change them all. Granted, it may be one-time change, but I find my default browser got reset quite often in Windows 10. If this happens in Windows 11, it will be a nightmare to fix.
> So gcc, clang, and Intel's proprietary compiler are binary compatible modulo bugs.

For generated code, definitely. But for example their standard libraries are different so you still can't, say, compile something in gcc that uses std::string and expect to be able to link it to something compiled with clang that uses std::string unless you are careful to use the headers (and .a files) of the same libc++ or libstdc++

I consider this a feature, not a bug -- diversity in implementation is a plus.
The author's polemic only shows that his middle-school children have no intrinsic interest in the history of the Roman Empire, and also don't memorize arbitrary durations. Quick: how many years between the Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War? What's the air speed of an unladen swallow? Is this the author's idea of an education?