skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This method of banking data access (storing credentials and then screen-scraping the website) has been used at least since 2009. That's when Mint.com was founded.

It's very common in the US, 100% legal, and allowed by the banks.

In fact, I once worked on a project where a major bank paid us to write a Plaid-like scraper for their own website because their internal systems were such a disaster.

It's definitely not great, but it's currently the only way to exfiltrate US banking data. If it bothers you, consider switching to a bank with an API that Plaid can use instead.

More info: https://plaid.com/open-banking/
Reddit website -- just to promote it's mobile app.
While you meant it as a joke, your link comments that H2O "is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths" each year.

This low-balls the actual numbers. Worldwide, about 300K people die of drowning - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/drowning-deaths-by-age-gr... .

"Exposure (heat and cold)" is another ~50K - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-b... .

By comparison: "As of Jun 10, 1,884,146 people have died of COVID-19 in 2021, compared with the 1,880,510 in 2020." - https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/06/global-c...

COVID kills at least 5x more than water in the last two years. And those numbers are from only 1/2-way through 2021.
> So it's exactly the same as today's capitalists who have more than enough capital but keep amassing it.

Today's capitalists aren't focused so much on capital though. Stock buybacks are bigger than ever. Founders are happy to sell off huge portions of their ownership as long as they can keep control with super-voting shares, where the previous generation of industrialists would be happy to accept outside board members but wanted to make sure they kept all the profits. A decade ago the goal was to be a "serial entrepreneur" who would use their huge exit from one company (as it matured) to fund another, even more profitable one; now keeping control of a big company is a much bigger deal.

> Is it really true though? The median net worth of a person under 35 in USA the internet says is $14,000. How big of a loan is that kind of collateral going to get me if I'm clearly already living pretty much hand to mouth? Can I reduce my working hours, take the loan, and go to school? Or to start my own small business?

My sense (and I don't have evidence) is that getting a loan for study or business is easier than ever before (though reducing your working hours might not be).

> What is the risk I'm taking on?

Being trapped in debt you can't repay is always possible, but it feels to me like the biggest risk would be derailing your career and not being able to get back into it. A side effect of the disappearance of middle class jobs is that there's no way to work your way up from the mailroom any more, so if you do have a stable career-track job then there's a strong argument for clinging onto it as hard as you can. For those who are already on the wrong side of the line that's a much weaker argument though.
Pretty much empirical evidence that the excuse of compact design not allowing for repairs was a blatant lie and many consumers swallowed that lie with glee.

I guess the next argument is that the laptop isn't watertight 50m under the sea?
listmonk author here. Interesting to see it on the frontpage again. Some updates to the linked comment (which is from 2019):

- Tons of active development has happened and listmonk crossed 1.0 this year. 2.0 is on the horizon and there are quite a few listmonk instances in production.

- Our production setup at work now has ~7mn subscribers and listmonk works quite well. No issues with deliverability or IP reputation with our self-hosted EC2/Postal SMTP setup.

- listmonk now supports generic "Messenger" HTTP webhooks to which any message provider can be connected, allowing it to send arbitrary message campaigns like WhatsApp and SMS, not just e-mails.
Good guess, see BlueSystem in Wikipedia.
Australian Government Surveillance Bill Passed
I just went for Sophie's World which sums everything up.
Why not the built in QuickTime on macOS? It lets you choose a screen section with arbitrary aspect ratio.
> You can want what you want, but you can’t want to want what you want.

This sounds false. "want to want what you want" sounds ambiguous. To me it can mean both the desire to be able to choose what to want (which is always true because it is kind of a developable superpower making you always satisfied) or "keep wanting what you already want" (which doesn't require any effort to change).

> There’s this theory among physicists (I don’t know how it’s called) that if you started the Big Bang again, under the same circumstances, that everything would happen again, in the exact same way.

This theory sounds intuitively obvious. But isn't there an opposite theory?
Quantum algorithm directly calculates energy difference of an atom and molecule
“ Anyone required to assist with government hacking is protected from civil liability. However, anyone who refuses to comply can face up to 10 years’ imprisonment.”
Looking forward to my cheque for $2 in a few years
Ah, thank you! I didn't know about it, it looks good and is part of debian and ubuntu repos (so easy to install).
That’s a totally unreadable website on mobile. Introduction text seemed interesting.
Lack of Automation Losing Firms Millions in Revenue
> I guess what rubs me slightly the wrong way about this list is it seems focused on "who said what, and when" and not necessarily what's true.

Right, I'm just glad we don't have that in math, which is closely related. There are so much better ways of thinking about calculus than Newton's and Leibniz' works.
Autonomous System, it has to do with internet traffic routing. Some real networking person might come and give a better definition than this, but my understanding is basically that where the "internet" is a series of connections between networks and protocols for routing traffic between them, one AS is (as bgp, the routing protocol, views it) one of those networks.
Being pedantic, the suspension of the xm700+ doesn't have a shock. Its a simple coil spring that gives the wheel some room to wiggle. Shock absorbers actually dissipate that energy with oil/air/rubber.

If you ride it like a bicycle and try to avoid potholes and curbs, simpler designs work great.
NFTs are the absolute epitome of crypto; totally moronic and with zero use cases unless you are an Austrian Economist cult member
For those of you who saw the "instrument", noticed that it's a bagpipe, check out the huge range of bagpipes from round the world: http://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/guide/
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> the dedicated low-byte delineator characters don't have corresponding keys on my keyboard

[Alt]-[(NumPad:)0031]

[Alt]-[(NumPad:)0030]

Yeah, not quite dedicated keys. But once you've typed in one of each, you can copy and paste. Somewhat better text editors hopefully display them in some fashion (e.g, NotePad++ shows them as little black blobs labelled "FS" / "GS" / "RS" / "US").
Agreed, and, from a comment below:

> this is one of the reasons Founder Vesting is a thing. There should be a mechanism in place which strips the founder of equity when they quit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28387927
Bootstrap a micro-SaaS business with these services (2014)
No joke, I'm really starting to understand the mentality around public execution. I don't condone violence in any form, but given these acts of non-action by the government, it brings to light, in a real-world sense, why these uprisings occurred.

I no longer read about the past with wonder; I wonder about our future.
With Apple, you're usually getting a free replacement once they acknowledge the issue. I don't think they ever issued a $2 or other low amount in cash rather fixing the hardware.
Has a class action suit ever benefited anyone except the lawyers handling the case?

Yes, this is a genuine question. In every case I've seen, the payout for the class members has been too low to even bother getting it paid out - but perhaps there are exceptions?
What is Docker and why do developers use it?
When will we stop seeing this vague click-baity titles?
"new studies suggest" - not conclusive.

"Protection increases in the weeks following a third dose, but it’s unclear how long the effect will last"

"by more than 10-fold 2 weeks later."

After the first paragraph, it was only established that it provides short term immunity against Delta variant. How long will it last? How well will it do against other variants? Also, the demographic receiving booster shot in Israel are mostly elderly. So this impressive infection rate drop was observed only in older demographic. The effect probably won't be as good among younger generations. Repeated vaccination adds more risk, even if it is small per dose, it is being accumulated. Can we keep up with booster shots every six months? Even flu shot is only once a year and choosing next year flu shot strain is a year long challenge.
Oh, so image data? I got the impression they used a text-only description as input.
Mechanical grip is entirely a function of tire compounds. In fact, ebikes can have even more tractive grip because you can make them AWD! This makes them much safer in snow and ice compared to other two wheeled vehicles.
AFAICT, they're mainly running those transistors in the linear region.
Why would it kill a lot of people? Wouldn't people prob stop flying with them after the first crash?
"If not managed correctly, monorepos can cause the build process to take just short of an eternity."

DAG Pipelines to the rescue! Even our horrific 40+ services with 5+ React apps monorepo only takes 10 minutes to build because we build everything in parallel!
What founding a crypto company in 2018 was like
I know he didn't say that. I tried to say (perhaps unsuccessfully) That this is a different between taxes and "protection" by crime groups.

Rubbers like the one we're discussing shot you where you stand there is no "system" or "state" or "prison".
What do you mean with "message notifications"? This should be a matter of the client, once it syncs, as opposed to the server, right?

I'm still on Synapse but I don't see how it could be any different in the regard. Server-to-client push is still WIP though: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/issues/611
It should be possible to examine the crack, find where exactly it started and figure out the cause. If it was an object lodged between screen and chassis it should be easy to tell for an expert.
One big difference is that the XPS has the cooling on the bottom which means you can connect the heat pipes to the bottom aluminium chassis. That makes an insane difference.

But 28W continuous is very promising!
A thousand times this!

There is evidence for this emerging from Neuroscience. Something about using Pen and Paper engages our whole body and brain and seems to aid and cement the learning process. This does not happen with a keyboard and mouse. I have now become a strong advocate of limiting technology usage in the classroom and learning to use it appropriately.
Not sure about operating system readiness besides the presence of an ipv6 stack though.

Can you imagine most consumer pc, barely updated, being publicly exposed?

Can you imagine the average senile pc user having to deal with a firewall? firewall exceptions?

NGL I have ipv6 at home but made sure it's disabled at my parents' home. It's just a recipe for disasters.

I'm well aware that ipv4+nat is not "security"... yet it removes a whole class of problem (eg: windows print spooler is listening on [::] by default or something like that)

EDIT: and some appliances too. I had to check twice last time I got a network enabled printer... It has an ipv6 stack, I had ipv6 enabled at home, and it had got a public ipv6 (besides the ULA address and the link-local address) and it was happily listening on the public internet for something to print.

I have looked at some consumer internet routers and there's still not enough ipv6 firewalling at router/gateway level (which become a necessity when NAT is lifted)
Yes, Joe Rogan is a moron. And those guests he has on? Chosen by a moron. It's morons all the way down.
How would Bob Ross NFTs have similar value if he hadn’t become famous through traditional media channels?

NFTs appear to provide some technical solutions, but AFAICT they don’t solve the general problem of becoming a well known artist whose work draws a high value. Seems the artists benefitting from NFTs are already well known, and an existing contract would probably put their proceeds at risk in court (eventually)
> Well these are scientific articles and as such must be preserved

What guarantees about preservation do journals give, though? (Hence my remark about papers being carved into rock)
What if one founder is incompetent or doesn't work much, but also doesn't want to quit? Just wants to work 15 h/week and keep all stocks, the others working 60+h

I wonder if there're founder vesting agreements that handle such cases
Because what constitutes "bad" benchmark is subjective and db providers are incentivized to stop publishing benchmarks that put them in bad light.

And even if all they do is filter out actually crappy benchmarks - other db providers (like postgres or mysql) don't do that - so the comparison still isn't fair.

It's like you had 2 candidates for a job and phoned their previous bosses, but candidate A forced you to only phone guys he approves of.
Simple answer: It can't, since you don't own the server or the data on it.

Long answer: It could be, if proper protocols and data structures would be employed that make it trivial to move the data off the server, mirror it or dual host it on multiple servers at once. So far there is however barely anything that does that, git for version control, IPFS for simple file hosting, but that's about it. The tools to build a "Libre Cloud" don't really exist (and federation is snake oil).
Not possible on Intel chips any more due to Plundervolt.
The point of this is to teach the company good behavior.

Any case has more goals than restitution to the victim.

And I think it is actually good lawyers get well paid here. They are representing public interest and fighting large organization.

That's hardly something you or I can do, even assuming you had time to put your life on hold to fight Apple over broken LCD.

In a class action like that usually, if it is won, judge orders the company to right the wrong, depending on some estimate of culpability. If they just made an honest mistake they would probably be punished much less than if they did it knowingly.

A lot of times it is difficult to show they knowingly deceived customers and that's why you might see those seemingly unfair payouts.
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That's a bit of a stretch (pun intended). The release page clearly says "Security updates have been discontinued as of July 6th, 2020" and that updates are only available through long time support.

That said, according to packages.debian.org it ships with OpenSSH 7.4 and support for sha2 have been included since 7.2. And ed25519 has been included since 6.5, so you should be fine.
Mullvad supports split-tunnel. Sure you can somehow set that up manually with the standard clients, but with Mullvad you can simply run a command with "mullvad-exclude" and the process will be exempt from VPN. Pretty convenient.
I’ve found Stephenson a mixed bag, I enjoyed his early work, especially Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, and Reamde was fine. However Ive struggled to enjoy his more recent work, I’m usually excited to see a book coming, but recent works seem to lack something for me.
Apple support is the reason why I have never bought a MacBook again, i have an unused MacBook air full of horizontal lines and i can't imagine being so inept in learning other systems to submit to paying 600 something to fix a design defect
I feel like Europe and the UK tends to have a better approach to these things. We don't leave it to private litigation with class action lawsuits to enforce consumer protection standards, but instead we have various regulators both locally and nationally that can fine and force remedial action. We also have statutory warranties that set certain standards about the lifetime of goods - often times going beyond the advertised warranties of the manufacturer.

In the UK one concern is a lot of trading standards offices have been gutted locally over the past 10 years due to austerity cuts hitting local councils hardest meaning consumers have some difficulty getting action without going to court when it concerns local businesses.

Actually going to court is an act of last resort for exceptional cases or when a regulator fails in their duties (and even then regulators have their own regulators, ombudsman, often times for escalating complaints).
How do you "approximate" stuff like retrying failed jobs and persisting them to disk then? You use whatever the Elixir community came up with which is Oban that uses PG or Exq that uses redis. Sure hobby projects won't need an actual queue. You don't need Sidekiq for toy projects as well with Rails simply use the memory store, it can take you pretty far.
What a refreshing bit of real journalism. Of course it's not unbiased but it feels as though it's reported accurately.

Out of curiosity, is the New Yorker an outlier here in this regard? I almost forgot what it was like to read a real article like this.
It is very difficult, and often impossible with all systems operational, to get a modern airliner outside of its flight envelope. I'd imagine a tiny glider with a rocket bolted on is a different story.
Why would Walmart allow Kelloggs to advertise their products availability for less in a different store, on Walmart's shelves? Or Kelloggs saying that you can pay them direct and the just help yourself to their product from Walmart? It undermines the whole premise of commerce. If you want direct sales (sideloading, which should be optional), pay for the infrastructure. Don't expect to sell rent free on someone elses...
Just about to post the same.My copy disappeared but I think it had great photos. There was a vengeful account of a tribe killing a boy left alone. He was trapped inside cliffs with no escape.
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In the first months after starting to wear a watch (smart Apple or any other kind, really), I kept forgetting that it also tells the time. The habit of looking up the time on the phone was so deeply ingrained, if I tried to find out the time while in a bit of autopilot mode, I'd always reach for the phone, instead of looking at the wrist.
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>Linux binaries need to be recompiled on BSD

Ehhm NO:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/

>BSD and Docker or Podman is probably not a thing.

True but you can try:

https://bastillebsd.org/

>Working with containers and Kubernetes means I need to compile about 100 Go projects

Ehhm NO:

pkg install kubectl

It really sound's you dont even read the FreeBSD Handbook.
I'm not sure if they were part of the settlement from a class action suit, but often I've seen recall/repair programs and extended warranties instead of the coupons or meager checks I often see from class action cases. It sucks that even the extended warranty period will expire and your screen/keyboard/battery might just break again, but it gives me an opportunity to repair it and decide if I want to continue using it for the next few years.
Back in the 90s in Germany, Heyne Verlag was infamously inserting ads for Maggi Instant Soup [1] into the text of many of its Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels.

[1]: https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and...
So... this is clearly Art (with a capital A). If I'd been told this was the work of a new artist, I'd believe it, and I'd think they were talented.

What does that mean for the philosophy of Art? Art is meant to communicate emotion [0] but how can something that has no emotion communicate it? And if we exclude this from being Art because of that, then how do we tell "real" Art from this, when there's nothing to distinguish between them?

What happens to Art when you can get an off-the-shelf ML algorithm to produce original, creative, works like this on demand? And what happens to commercial artists and illustrators once we train the algorithm to do their job?

Though that's not all bad - Art could become a hobby done for the joy of creating, rather than a profession done to make money.

Interesting times.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion
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From the moment some company put that Plaid process in front of me, I was horrified. I could hardly believe it existed. If somebody had wanted me to work on such a thing as a programmer, I would have refused. The existence and success of Plaid helped persuade me that in the technical solutions world, having good taste and morality is often a hindrance to business success. Plaid shouldn't exist. If somebody had the bad taste to bring it into existence, it should fail from non-use. But here we are.
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If memory serves, there were a bunch of news stories of someone doing it. Other idiots then copied...
I don't think they look as if movie posters were the training objective. No texts, no large faces of leading actors, wrong aspect ratio, unusual colour palette.
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