skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a lot of words again.

> No. But an injunction doesn't put these people into jail.

Literally lol. What are you talking about? If the cops are able to arrest you on sight, that means they take you to jail on sight without you having to have committed an actual crime. That is literally the intent of this injunction. The SFPD huffed and puffed about their inability to secure a conviction so they tried to reduce the burden of proof to justify a “crime” has been committed to “a cop saw you on the wrong street.”

It is a blatant and shameless attempt at a power grab, nothing less.

Serious question: Where do you think the police take people after arrest?

Anyway, so for question 1 your answer is “Yes.”

As for question 2, your answer is “No.”

Your entire view of this situation is that you support police power overreach because you don’t think it’ll be used against you. It’ll only be used against criminals and bad guys! And you could never even be mistaken or accused of that because you’re just so gosh darn polite to the cops (a sign that you’re more intelligent and a more productive member of society than anybody that could _ever_ be targeted by police.)

Third yes or no question: Do you work in law enforcement?

This sort of huffy propaganda tends to come directly from cops and the sycophants that tend to surround and idolize them.
I always say to people that CrossFit is my church, and while I say it with mild sarcasm, internally it is true. Everyday I turn up, see the same people, build a community to the extent we do socials, help each other out with all manner of things, and honestly it gives me fulfilment more so than anything else I do.
I wonder if this could be summarized as something like:

Efficiency is only useful until it imposes on some degree of slack, or spare resource, which allows you to respond to aberrations which (inherently fragile) efficient systems can't accommodate very well (Although you could argue that an efficient system would accommodate systemic aberrations well, but then I wonder if it would be a semantic argument).

Sort of like with finances. You could optimize your spending and investing as though economics are totally determinate, but they aren't, so you keep some cash as slack to accommodate cases where the shit hits the fan.

When working on a project, you could schedule your time down to the wire and work as hard/smart as possible to hit the deadline perfectly, but it's not going to work out well every time (or often at all in software). So you figure alright, it seems like something that should take 3 days, I'll bank on 5. If you come in over or under, it works out well for everyone. There is not point in trying to max out on efficiency in these cases.

In determinate environments where things really do work exactly as you'd expect, well, it's a different story. But human beings aren't that.
Why is so much of Stripe's dirty laundry aired out in the open? It never looks good.
It's true that companies are having a hard time finding employees. And it's also true that fewer people are in the workforce than before, largely due to retirements. So that paints a picture of an economy where there are plenty of jobs available and not enough people to work them, which is low unemployment.

But high employment seems a little different to me than just low unemployment, just because my read is that there's fewer people working in general than before the pandemic (IIRC). [1][2]

[1] https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-l...
[2] https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fittch-rati...
This is why, as much as people love to complain about it, the big tech companies might actually be doing hiring right. Hire for the core competence and skills and not for the frameworks/languages. The thing that is missing in the process is the core skills should be tested only once, not every time you interview.
The author of this post and I saw wildly different documentaries. It was obvious to me that Paul knew exactly how every part should be arranged and played in his songs, and that half of his battle was bringing folks along.
> If self-hosting Sentry is a problem I would start doubting the skills of your
> tech team.

I can't think of any team I've worked at in the past year for whom reading the self-hosted Sentry docs and standing up an instance would be impossible.

However, my experience is by and large at early-stage startups, and so I also can't think of any instance where I'd want to have my team working on that when they could be working on adding value to our product. If I can pay Sentry to handle setup, scaling, maintenance, etc (and I do!), then that's worth it when weighed against the dollar and opportunity cost of having my team handle it.

That's not to mention maintenance or other issues.
US Govt Sanctions Crypto Mixer Blender.io
This was a great article -- would love recommendations of anything else in a similar vein!
And Steve Jobs was an asshole who died believing citrus would cure his cancer while parking in handicapped parking lot zones so, maybe don't idolize him.
If them studying hard is what got them there it makes sense to demand that from kids as well.

Now I wonder about more recent African immigration. And I don't mean refugees, but professionals. How do they compare to genera population.
> One app, Flo, was cited by the Federal Trade Commission for sharing data with Facebook even after it promised users it kept data private.

At first I thought they just sent some basic tracking stuff or something like that, but they actually sent health data. How can this not be a company-ending move? WTF?

And how can one have the chuzpe to send this announcement (https://flo.health/flo-ftc-settlement) to their users, where they pat themselves on the head for not additionally sending the name and date of birth, deliberately trying to confuse their users? Why not also add "Your credit card information and passwords are safe!"?
This is me so bad. I have it in the good and bad ways.

In the good I will run couple marathons a month and in the bad I will eat whatever I can find.

I always felt like an outcast, good to hear I am not alone :)

For media consumption it is exactly the same. The good is that I get to the nitty gritty of technical problems. But I also read the unless crap till no end.

I have been able to ditch Twitter, reddit, Facebook and Instagram but I just substitute it with hackernews and YouTube.
> The more the Fed distorts normal market signals, like interest rates, the less efficiently capital is allocated

It seems like a 0% fed rate would corresond to a complete lack of 'distortion'--the effective rate is then 100% a 'market signal', no?

I would think--at least according to this author's thesis--that a moderate level of fed 'distortion', in the form of a moderate-but-certainly-not-zero fed rate, would be desirable.
Alas, no. Inside the barrel (or any other spinning frame of reference) you get various pseudo-forces - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force - with objects traveling in curved paths, and other weirdness. :)
Beef consumption doesn't appear directly tied to development. According to https://sentientmedia.org/beef-consumption-in-the-us/, beef consumption has been falling in the US since the 1970s. Even so, the US is only second in consumption per capita for all countries, behind Argentina.
I tried it just for that reason :D
It blows my mind that HR people are so medically illiterate.

All that coming from the folks which supposedly like to hack around, while this machine called body is taken by totally different standards. I see next to 0 curiosity, exploration, auditing, logging, do-it-yourself attitude. Stakes are higher, eh ?

Or did I imagine sentences like FT works only in mice, are there downside of messing with gut bacteria? (omg?), do people really eat shit (wtf?), how poop transfers during birth (:S) ...

Amazing. Bring it on now!
> And who wouldn’t want to talk to him? In interviews — and a lengthy Forbes profile — he talked about turning his life around and getting his M.B.A., stints at Wall Street heavyweights like Goldman Sachs, and staggeringly profitable crypto investments

Yeah, this wasn't a "Forbes profile" that appears in a print magazine or anything. It was a Forbes 'contributor' article, as can easily be detected by the URL forbes.com/sites/[writerName]. These links aren't any better than your average HuffPost or Medium.com content mill.

Here's the interview:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rorymurray/2020/11/23/this-cryp...

And the Forbes interviewer himself focuses on "growing deFI and open finance system", and is invested in cryptocurrencies. Doesn't disclose which ones though.

No wonder Binance is basically taking ownership of that site. The name recognition is apparently enough to pull the wool over enough people's eyes.
Because homes are overpriced, because they're treated as capital instead of a durable good & because all financial / building policy advantages existing homeowners
For several years, searching "client/server database" on Google would return a first result for a web page with a pretty explicit description of a sex act, and then a million results referencing this page. At some point they fixed it, and evidence that this ever happened is hard to find. It survives in an urban dictionary entry[0]. I suspect the cause was pretty similar to what you describe.

[0]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=client%2Fser...
Arjuna
A lot of comments here saying that this is the death knell for Plaid, but I wouldn't be so sure. Stripe has launched competitors to existing fintech products and failed to gain traction plenty of times before.

Example: Remember the Stripe Corporate Card? It was "launched" as invite-only 3 years ago and is still invite only today, with little signs of traction. Meanwhile both Brex and Ramp have become decacorns through crazy revenue growth.

It's not really just a Stripe thing either. I think people are way under-estimating how hard it is for a large company to launch and succeed with a product outside of their core offering, especially when the competition is a small nimble startup with a singlular focus on that one product.

Startups die all the time, for all sorts of reasons, but "large company started competing with it" is a rather rare one.
I actually find him to be too defensive instead of passive aggressive. It's his job to create new products, new features, and new tools for his customers. He shouldn't be so sorry like that. Should any CEO be sorry every time they start to compete with someone else? And what about Plaid here? It's weird if you think about it. That you will have to feel sorry and go public statements and things like that to have to talk about it. Finally. Plaid should have seen that coming a long time ago. In fact I can't even imagine any of their chief officers never having to see that coming.

Edit: the classy way as an example is Airbus response to Boeing after their failure with the 747 Max or what. Now that's some clean PR well done. And they never had to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWaTjYpczKQ
The environmental benefits of getting India to convert coal power plants to natural gas would be huge.
I don't, nor do I consider it social media. I'm aware that we're socially interacting through the medium of HN, but when I say social media I mean things like twitter or instagram; I hope the meaning is clear. The reason I don't consider HN news is because I just see HN as just a link aggregator. By news I mean things like Fox News
No one mentioned, but when we are here, looking anything at the screen, we aren't thinking about those thing we don't want to do, and this could be a coping mechanism to avoid doing those things.

After a severe burnout I would also say that we need some time everyday to not do anything who require some mental or physical energy, and that could be browsing the internet, watching the TV, or just laying in the sofa looking at the ceiling.
I really want to follow it, but what about the bad breath?!

It's definitely a thing, you can smell when people are in ketosis
Hi everyone, I finally got around to implement my version on the wave function collapse algorithm.

WFC uses rules to define what tiles can be placed around each other. In order to achieve this rules, I wrote I simple tool that helped me to visualize every tile and all the tiles that can be placed around it (top, right, bottom and left sides).

My code is very simple, I haven't looked at the original WFC code at all, I just "learned" the concepts.

So, first I place a random tile at a random position, from that I grow the map chosing the neighbor with the lowest entropy (smallest number of possible tiles).

Hope you like it.
Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in 1 stroke
No as I don't do much.
If we eat less beef but twice as many people, or more, eat beef then the net effect is still not sustainable and may even be worse than now.

The crux of the issue is that we are too many. So either population drops and we can all enjoy life or we survive with a lower quality of life because we have to watch everything we consume.
To clarify, your app isn't designed to fix the issue of privacy (which would be a wild project), but you're effectively offering an app for free so long as you can collect data on users, while giving them the option to pay while you pinky promise to not collect data on your paying users and their behavior?

At first glance, this seems like a very difficult business model to scale, as if it works as described you would be denying yourself insight into what makes a user pay and their behaviors.
"The sound you make is muzak to my ears"
Oh, no worries. I didn’t think of it as clickbait!
If there's fecal transfer I would think its between the baby and the mother. A baby poops a lot and a mother cleans up, probably gets some on her hands. Maybe a baby regulates the mothers digestive system in some beneficial way to the baby.

Many women never get back to the shape they were in before birth and stay fat after? Could be a permanent change in their gut bacteria, caused by the baby to get the mother to overeat to produce more milk for the baby.
Infrastructure is one thing that seems to catch a lot of people off guard. So many infrastructure tools are based on monitoring HTTP codes, but even when there are errors graphql servers send 200s unless modified. It turned into quite the headache for us.
Ok sure, but these are also somehow people who are requesting and installing TLS certs?

I’m just flummoxed trying to imagine a person who can install and run certbot, but doesn’t know how to (or think to) configure locally, or even set a basic HTTP password on the site until WP is configured.
No, he dislikes the idea of handing login data over, and if your business requires someone else create an API that doesn't exist and they don't want to make, you don't have a business.

The reason they need login info is because thats the only way to get data, and a huge security risk for everyone (users, bank, and the service). Nobody is required to build an API for your financial business so it can work, and building such an api is not a small challenge in highly secure areas of business.

Personally I won't use any service like this that asks me to break my bank's TOS and hand over login information. That's honestly crazy. I'd rather build my own spreadsheets and dashboards.
> For example, McDonald's isn't looking for their frontline staff to do any thinking.

They tend to punish it. I say that I learned from fast food: how to mop a floor, how to remove burnt coffee, and the value of an education/career.

I think because they work with a lot of teenagers, they tend to get away with belittling people and getting because you’re two back-talks from fired, and you’re not sophisticated enough yet for the subtle burn they can’t write you up for.

“Give a man a little power” was never more clear to me. They have their little empire of dirt and they are going to defend it.

The biggest asshole had a brother who was a pro baseball player. As if what your brother does makes you important (my own brother hated that idea). Congratulations, you sell burgers all day. Your parents must be proud.

The best of them had a mild case of impostor syndrome he tried to cover. Told too many dad jokes, but still top 3 for managers in a clutch situation. I hope he did something with himself besides ace school field trips dropping in on us unannounced.
You can see the EU a little bit like a microservice mesh standard; once your microservice is integrated, data flows, resource sharing, statistics/observability, and so on become easier in various ways, although you may have to adapt to common standards.

In legal and practical terms, the UK is still currently strongly compatible with the EU, despite Brexit. Another way to look at the situation: the UK is currently in an early fork stage of the codebase, and remains more-or-less compatible.

The biggest opportunity from Brexit -- which, strangely, may not only be available to the UK, but also to keen observers within the EU -- is the chance to introduce some local code changes without all the usual code review stages and interface negotiations.

Will everything that the UK does as a result create improvements? No: plenty of these attempted changes will fail -- some badly -- and hopefully we'll all learn from those mistakes. But there will certainly also be policy and procedural changes that result in unquestionable improvements that are re-usable elsewhere.

(disclaimer/context: I believe that Brexit was a mistake in economic and political terms, but that the UK could eventually rejoin the EU if-and/or-when the upsides are clearer to people, and that it's an opportunity to learn)
That's not how I interpretted the github thread and blog post. It seemed like the MS team was saying "yes we know this is one way to solve it, but it's incredibly difficult", and one year later they post "we finally did it and this is how difficult it was". As the author of the blog post mentioned here, the sentence about how "trivial" it was, was actually sarcasm, and the rest of the blog post highlights the technical challenges
ORM's are fine for the majority of simple use cases. When things get complicated you end up either fighting with the ORM or just overriding it and writing the sql yourself anyway.
Re: Plaid itself, having used some of their competitors, specifically Finicity, which is one of Stripe's partners for this, I wouldn't be too worried if I were them.

IME, Plaid is lightyears ahead in terms of reliability and overall developer and end-user experience.
Journalists with sources that leak classified information are not unusual and they almost never go to jail for it or get hounded for it to this extent.

If the same rules were, as you say, being applied to Assange, he would have been freed a long time ago.

Hard to see where you're coming from. Trials aren't the only stage at which accused people can be released.
This is probably one of the more embarrassing and shameful parts of Google's labor ecosystem.

These "Google $title Experts" work as uncompensated customer support (a legal requirement that they treat as such, if the quality is any indicator) on various social media outlets like Reddit and Twitter. They don't just provide free labor, they also go to bat for Google's reputation, acting as marketing and PR liaisons to prevent backlash from users who've been failed by their official support processes.

One 'expert' I spoke with justified working for free by the "connections and access" they received. When I asked if Google would be flying them out to the events they have access to to meet with the people they have connections with, they said they were told they would have to cover their own travel and lodging. I suppose if Google doesn't pay them, they never have to worry about any Experts connecting and starting a union.

We're talking about a multi trillion dollar company. Absolutely ridiculous.
Ok, so if you can’t or don’t want to buy you rent. No one is entitled anything. Or you can move to a less desirable area that’s cheaper.

Overpriced or not, people still buy.
Try these guys - https://www.psi.org/
> the UK was not part of the EEC/EU for most of it's existence, so did the EU/EEC 'stop wars'?

Not for lack of trying. The U.K. very much wanted to be part of the EU/EEC almost from inception. Going to war with a union you want join isn’t generally seen as a good way prove the advantages of your joining the union.

Additionally the U.K. and France did build extremely close economic ties during and after WW2. Much easier to trade with your neighbour than random countries on the other side of the planet.

Switzerland and Finland are both part the European Economic Area, the treaty the provides the underpinnings of free trade in Europe. All joined the EEA because it was clear that building wealth and prosperity through economic integration was a smarter approach than trying to invade your neighbours.

> South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Canada, US, Mexico have not fought wars against each other either.

Many of these counties are separated by significant physical distance, making war unlikely and difficult, or simply don’t have resources worth stealing via war. What to be gained by invading Singapore or Japan? They have no natural resources worth talking about, and country under force foreign rule tends to be an unproductive one.

Canada and US almost went to war several times before WW2. Primary preventers of those wars were either colonial rulers not wanting to get into a shooting war with another colonial country, or the simple fact that both countries had plenty of natural resources already, so bother with the expense and difficulty of invading a neighbour for resources you can dig up in your own back yard?

At the end of the day, there’s only a handful of reasons that make warfare worthwhile. Primarily the reason is access to naturals resources you don’t have within your own territory. But why bother invading if you can just trade instead? Much cheaper and easier, hence economic integration becomes an obvious path forward. Once you’re integrated, why would risk easy cheap access to resources by invading? You pour huge amounts of money, time and people in to a war, and gain what? Slightly cheaper access to resources, but if you consider the cost of war, it’s obvious that just trading for resources is cheaper, faster and easier.
The repo goes back to 2011 and someone has posted links from submissions back then.
I'm aware. I have relatives who have had nasty, chronic infections cleared up by fecal transplants. But that wasn't for anti-aging.
I'm young enough that even in elementary school we had computers, but they only taught us typing and Microsoft Office. Even in high school the most advanced courses were using Dreamweaver to fill out templates and calling it web design. If I hadn't gone looking for "free software" because I wanted to play games, I probably wouldn't know anything at all about computers.
> pull a stunt

You mean growing their business?
I can't think of a single post-Beatles McCartney song that I like.
> If you could help me quit the news I would appreciate it.

If you find yourself actively consuming news, do something else. Physically get up and go for a walk, watch a movie, cook something, do some sit ups, take a nap, whatever. One thing I did when I was breaking my social media habit is to literally just do nothing. Very likely you'll feel bored or not know what else to do with yourself, which is good. That's where you start putting in the work to build a new, healthier habit, like a hobby or exercise or something.

> But here you are on HackerNEWS so maybe I am asking the wrong person for help?

I comment based on my own definitions, and I don't consider HN to be news. By news I mean newspapers, news companies like NBC, etc. HN is just a well-curated link aggregator, and I check it for interesting links or useful information, not with the intention of learning some latest update (which is part of what I consider to be news)