skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate fintech apps for demanding information that's none of their business. I can't make an ACH payment on Paypal without giving them my bank login. It was an arbitrary requirement that Paypal started imposing after using the same account for years, now I simply don't use Paypal. On Cashapp, I can't withdraw via ACH unless I share my bank login(so I have to pay for "instant transfer to debit" instead. Apple Pay is my p2p of choice now because they don't engage in this nonsense, and I only deal with others on the rare occasion that someone can only pay me with one of the aforementioned abusive services.

I would be OK with Plaid if they let you manage what you share with apps via permission management.

For example: If fintech app wants to make sure I have $500 to send to my friend, I should be able to tell Plaid NOT to share my entire transaction history and it should simply give said app a binary "sufficient/insufficient" balance. No institution should get to look through my transaction history without having a damn good reason. No, I won't give companies the benefit of the doubt in our "ask for forgiveness not permission" tech culture. Assume that any information gathered about you will be monetized or used against you.
It's true that at the end of the day unnecessary complexity is largely a matter of programmer discipline or lack thereof. However, some languages give the programmer considerably more opportunities for unnecessary complexity than others. And some language/runtime combinations make writing correct software impossible. For example back in the day Perl wasn't properly reentrant, so any signal could possibly lead to undefined behavior. There were ways to mitigate the problem, but not to eliminate it.
> "Geofenced"

That's the word. That's the plan. We will be geofenced, there will be a kill switch. You will not be able to go where you want, except if the government allows it.

In fact, I think Uber is the best example of geofencing we have for the long run. In the medium term, self-driving cars you still own will fill the gap.
First, you shouldn’t blog for others. I did it to index my knowledge, practice writing and document my thoughts. I almost consider them my public notes.

I’m in the category of a casual personal blogger. That said, Ill have articles get >100k unique views once or twice a year, average 25k views a month. I share the articles and people like them. That’s about it. Some of my niche stuff ranks on Google and DuckDuckGo because I did something people found interesting (hence the regular traffic).

My last update was Feb 7, 2022 so it’s not as if I’m active. And my most detailed analysis https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/ actually receives relatively low traffic (it’s a censored / touchy subject and took me six weeks to write). However, it was something I did to understand a topic myself and have shared with others as it’s come up.

I took joy in writing it and frankly assumed it was a purely intellectual exercise. If you go for clicks, you don’t pick censored / deranked content, but imo that’s where interesting topics actually are.

Anyway, a bit of a ramble. I just find it interesting people start blogs for traffic. Instead it should be intellectual exploration first, then sharing second. Those are the blogs I’ve always enjoyed anyway.

If you want traffic you need a regular topic you cover. Most personal blogs are life events, which is covered by social media now. Blogs are for long-form content and can cover more practically what I would call essays or research topics.
The same is true of GraphQL, if you want to control how much of nested objects you get (eg. introduce limits on the number of nested objects).

Basically, with GraphQL you hide all the complexity behind generic-seeming API requiring one API call, whereas with REST you'd usually hit multiple endpoints for different data types.

GraphQL has the benefit of allowing the backend to smartly decide how to restrict the data (eg. do the joins between what would have been two bigger REST queries), but that incurs a development cost. The complexity is in marrying all the familiar optimization tricks for SQL databases with exposing that in a generic but still restricted way.
I'm curious about why it needs to be low power. The electricity needed for most computers doesn't cost very much, at least not in the US. You could get away with using an old laptop instead of a Pi and difference in cost of power consumption is negligible. You could also check out Mac Minis and SFF PCs as your budget allows. I have a 2009 Mac Mini server with two drive bays. It's not the most powerful thing but it can be yours if you want it.
What I'm saying is that people aren't efficient, and that's not a flaw. It's not wrong to prioritize your family, friends and community in how you want to spend your charitable giving. If you, and everyone elses, actions says "Actually we want to sort out this problem of stray dogs and cats in my community" maybe we need to examine why, rather than turning into a robot and say it's illogical.
I think similarly. If you have control over the back end environment, it's not worth the extra effort, additional complexity (e.g. caching challenges) and performance overheads to run a GraphQL server.
>playing Civ instead of Europa Universalis and thinking you understand geopolitics
My habit of scrolling through my FB feed endlessly went away after I unsubscribed from every "friend"'s feed. I had random people in there, people I had met just once, or people I had dated just once, or even one-night stands and FWBs.

One day I scrolled through the feed and for every item in the list, I clicked "unfollow". Soon, my feed was practically empty, except for the feeds of a couple of cooking pages I follow, and friends who rarely post.
I can only dream that I were half as passionate about computers as Santore is about plants, and a tenth as articulate. The foulmouthed Carl Sagan of the plant world.
It is not it seems https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/faqs/#:~:text=Amazon%20QLDB%20ca....
Because not many banks have such an API.

Plaid just relays the 2FA question.

I think websites would have a tough time preventing users from sharing username/password. It would certainly be acceptable in a power of attorney situation.
Right, okay. I get that would have been much funnier if I'd heard of either term ;-)
Reminds me of that old SNL sketch: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99adillon.phtml/
While the specs sound very underwhelming at first (geo-fenced on some roads, very low speeds, no bad weather), they seem to be so confident in their system, that they will take responsibility for the car when in autopilot. AFAIK, no other manufacturer does this for their systems (which capabilities they often make rather wild claims about).
In the specific case of the Mercedes-Benz system, if the driver does not take over in a timely manner, the car will find a safe place to come to a stop, activate the emergency lights, and unlock the doors, so you'd probably live even if you did fall asleep: https://group.mercedes-benz.com/documents/innovation/other/2...
In the world of food it was a watershed moment for me in controlling my waistline when I stopped checking the unit price on items at the store.

The brain invents its own portion sizes that are more dependent on the size of the container than the total supply. I don't know how you introduce portion control to the Internet, but we definitely need it.

Some people have strategies for avoiding a shopping cart full of junk food. I wonder how far you can stretch that into media consumption before the analogy tears.
completely blank on Brave. All requests to a sentry.io URL are being blocked and the page fails to load.
I’ve had a continuously updated record of my reading since 1995. It began as manually updated HTML and then I made a PHP script to back it with a database. I never got around to writing the admin page so I still update it with phpMyAdmin after writing the entries in TextEdit. Some day, when I have time, I may fix some of the CSS and other formatting issues, but I think most of the traffic it gets is me using it to refresh my memory about something I’ve read in the past.

https://don.dream-in-color.net/books/
Yes, but without stacktraces, so all you get is an error code. Good luck debugging.
It's true but it just doesn't need to be interjected into every conversation, every film, every time something even moderately related comes up.

You can come up with negativity about how X is being ruined or is awful in some way or another for every X.

The almond milk in your coffee uses scarce California water supplies, cows are mistreated and use water and produce methane, coffee farmers are threatened by global warming and have these other environmental concerns, Starbucks employees are mistreated and have these union issues, you drove a car to get coffee and emitted this much carbon, coffee is addictive and has these awful side effects, strip malls and big corporations ruin local economies... and on and on and on. Pick a topic and you can ramble on about awful things as though being "woke" about it and mentioning it at every opportunity makes anything better.

It's cheap proselytizing for a certain morality and doubtful actual impact of mentioning it over and over in shallow ways that don't actually explain much to people who mostly already know. It's pointless and should be avoided. If you want to make a documentary about destruction of habitat, go do that, people will watch. But maybe stop trying to shoehorn it in at every possible opportunity.
The thing I like about debug logging is that it forces you to be more deliberate about what you are doing. It also provides good visualization of the program state over time. Plus, you may discover places that really should have permanent logging and improve the production code.
You're making a pretty big leap there from "our experimental self-driving mode only works inside the geofence" to "the government won't let you drive where you want".
That depends on their cap table and exit. In some high dollar exits even the founders don't make any money, because the sale price was too low to pay out anything but investors' preferred shares.
there should be a qualification level for vehicles that can fully self drive at low speeds in heavy traffic on the highway so you can nap through traffic jams and then later enjoy your performance automobile by driving it yourself when it's clear.

half the point of fancy cars is that they're fun to drive.
Second large Hetzner outage in a week caused by DDoS attack
Why not go back to WordPress? It sounds like it was working well for you. It may not be the shiniest tech anymore, but often, boring tech is good [1].

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
I just made the first new post on my personal blog in almost two years. Because it's a self-hosted site that I step away from for long periods of time, I accidentally rsynced my entire .git/ repo and some supporting scripts before finding the simple deploy.sh file I wrote last time I messed things up. :)
Seems like we need to re-run the DARPA Grand Challenge.

Local car clubs should be happy to work together to define a route and run the race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AcMnfzpNg
Context IDs are often even better since the physical thread executing some high-level operation might change (i.e. if you use a thread pool).
I own a Model 3 and love it. But you're 100% right: the "full self driving" claim Musk/Tesla has been making for years is bizarre. I live in a major city and have never had a trip using FSD where I didn't have to take control multiple times. At times, updates seem to make it get worse. Simple example, on a highway, it can't even keep the car in the middle of the lane through moderate curves. It almost always drifts to the outside, sometimes onto or over the lane marker. And I know it's doing this because I can watch it on the display, so the car clearly knows it's not centered. Surely this should be a trivial task (as self-driving tasks go).
Web hosting is "economy of scale" which means hosting one site cost a lot, but hosting +1 site costs very little for that extra site, so if you are technical enough to run your own server, also host other people's web sites!
If you think Teslas driven by fleeing fugitives, OJ Simpson style, can't be remotely commandeered or disabled, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Geofencing is a big part of the dystopia that the Valley crowd is getting paid a small fortune to shove down our throats.
Not if the system is designed to achieve a minimal risk condition by itself or give the driver sufficient warning to take over. Level 3 includes systems that can handle an emergency situation but require the driver to respond within some limited time.
I wonder if 40mph is a magic number that is a good tradeoff between speed and survivability (and injury-related out-of-court settlements)
That was a bit of a gambit on my part. Operating as an internet rando myself, I knew I didn't need to communicate like a CEO. In fact, I calculated that my message would distance myself from typical CEO-speak, imbuing myself with a bit of anti-authoritarian branding that might actually appeal to the people who least understood my first message.

You're probably right that there are some fence sitters who were put off by that aggressive follow up. I hope they can judge the initial comment on its own merits, and challenge or ask for clarification if it's helpful.
Unless you’re at work, on vacation or meant to be spending time with others at dinner or some social event it’s ok to waste time on the internet.

You were not going to do something useful anyway. Before the internet people watched too much tv, played video games, read the newspaper, watched the news on repeat, read crappy books, ate crap, drank, smoked. We need downtime stop the self-flagellation.
Not just cURL; most of the time I want something from the GitHub API it's something fairly simple; using REST from Python, Go, Ruby, $preferred_language is easier than using GraphQL, too. I'm sure there are libraries out there, but hard to beat a simple "fetch me data from that URL yo".
I slid the sliders to the extreme and held space bar and managed to crash it to a black screen :)
Well, Yodlee & Finicity pre-dated Plaid by many years. But Plaid executed much better.
I don't think there is anything particularly new in that. For most of human history, cities relied on migration to maintain population levels. Both because cities were so unhealthy places to live in and because people had better things to do.
Jest was also heavily pushed and is in an awkward place right now.
Yes, a huge leap. I can't possibly imagine that government would pass legislation that all the automakers would comply with. /s

https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/biden-infrastructure-bil...

"Deep within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was signed into law by President Joe Biden is a passage that will require automakers to begin including what can be best summarized as a “vehicle kill switch” within the operating software of new cars, which is described in the bill as “advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology”. The measure has been positioned as a safety tool to help prevent drunk driving, and by 2026 (three years after the enactment of the Act, per the text) the kill switch could be mandated on every new car sold in the United States. Then there’s the broader reaching RIDE Act, which we’ll touch on in a moment."
You're partly correct, but (possibly?) incorrect because of the "socio" part of socioeconomics.

You're probably right that it's relatively rare that a family couldn't save every last penny possible to pay for at least a little of those benefits (though still not nearly as much as other families). Although there are families where parents are already working crazy hours and still really don't have money to spare, where a surprise $300 car repair means rent will be late and the next few weeks of food will be peanut butter sandwiches and spaghetti.

But there are two factors on the "socio" side that also hinder things even when finances are a little less extreme:

1) Families that lack a strong educational tradition may not really understand the dynamics of what is necessary to achieve the highest levels of academic success. Sort of like not having strong financial planning skills because they were never taught to you... You don't know what you don't know, so you aren't aware of what it takes to be successful.

2) There's at least a little bit of a mental health aspect to things. I can't easily put it into words, (and I might be wrong) but it seems like it could be bad in some ways to exist on that extreme of a level, for kids to practically never see their parents because they're always working, and for the family as a whole to have little ability to catch their breath and have... I don't know, a bit of decompression. Again it's hard to put into words, but I can say that I grew up pretty poor, and it was stressful as hell even without being at the very extreme edge of things, needing food banks etc.
> You will not be able to go where you want, except if the government allows it.

Sounds like in your model Elon will be the one deciding where you can and cannot go.
Just one thing, I became really interested in this too. It made me very unhappy that I didn't have it it. Sort of jealous of everyone who does have it. I see a contradiction now in what I wanted: living frugally to be free of pointless desires but in the end craving that so badly it was ruining my best years.

(Ps I still throw as much as I can afford in a pension because I'm terrified of being poor with no ability to earn when I'm older)

Anyway just my take, I'd still love to be financially free but I've accepted I won't be.
I'm trying to remember if you could play with the dual controller method in PvP games. That was a weird little glimpse into the future at the time.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/09/poll_did_you_know_...
UK to make fake reviews illegal and tackle ‘subscription traps’
The community of my church is probably keeping me there more than my faith is.
> is so true nobody would argue it.

You mean: is so true nobody would argue AGAINST it.

The ambiguity is whether argue means FOR or AGAINST.
A blockchain is just a data structure. A consensus algorithm can agree what the current state / last block of a block chain is, but they are separate.

Similarly if one says B tree or LSM tree that doesn't mean they are also talking about a consensus algorithm.
That's the last thing I wanna do, and she's alive (and calls me). D:
It's a good analogy, but that study was retracted: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/1...
That concept was a big part of the data modeling story when I was helping people understand how to use Riak, a distributed key/value store. Generate your results as you receive the data, whenever possible, and run batch processes to generate them when you can’t.
1. The people he stole it from did not notice for four months.

2. He eventually turned himself in due to the guilt

3. The court system "struggled" to prosecute him because the bank couldn't be bothered to actually show up.

I wouldn't feel too bad about stealing from a megabank, and it's cool to me.
I think your point is a fair one. The distinction is that it's easy to write a contextual SQL query for any one GraphQL query when your database model closely matches your API objects. "Contextual" means that sometimes this requires a "side effect" to happen (eg. creating an index on a column in the SQL DB).

Making it generic and performant at the same time is where the complexity is.

It would be akin to saying how, since knowing that you might need an index in the SQL database is simple, a RDBMS could decide to create those indexes for you.
According to the article, they’re mostly comparing it to income.

I agree with the sentiment though, in which case maybe the currency in which the assets are denominated is overvalued.
This is one of the reasons rent-control is a bad idea. It is foolish to leave an unrented apartment empty, provided you can maximize your revenue when market conditions change. Only when locked into a low-rent does it make sense to keep it off the market. Not to mention it disincentives investment and improvements.

We need to make it easy to use the the housing we have, build more housing (of any kind) and subsidize those who need assistance.
No, what I mean is that capital owners can do badly while workers increase their income.
Especially since Stripe indicated exactly what it was doing via RFP.
Please see my other response to your peer comment. It's a better example of how I typically communicate and describes why I chose to say what I did in the more controversial comment I posted.

I agree with everything you said, and I'd add that this is not unique to women. There are many creators who don't want to operate in a bro culture.

Personally, I consider it a strength to be able to work with _all kinds of people_, and communicate in ways that are effective to each of them.

Edit to add: My default communication is more inclusive. But there are definitely situations where a leader needs to be aggressive (e.g. against an external threat), and failure to do so can jeopardize the well-being of your own employees who aren't prone to that communication style themselves.
few things inspire confidence like companies putting their literal money where their mouth is
I meant back squat, bench press and deadlift.

Testosterone increases dopamine in a lockstep fashion - increase testosterone any way you want and you'll increase dopamine level too. Dopamine, on its own, increases the desire for exploration.

Testosterone is also linked to improved logical thinking, you wouldn't believe.

I also mentioned walking. Walking increases serum level of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF. Serum level of BDNF i positively associated with the volume and density of hippocampus, which is responsible for the ability and quality of learning.

Basically, you need to walk (jog, run, bike, swim, row - whatever suits you) as much as you can to be able to learn as good as you can and you also need to lift heavy to increase testosterone. You need to lift heavy to balance catabolic processes induced by endurance exercise and to make yourself seek something new.

As a nice side effect, you will look and feel great. ;)
The algorithm.
It can offer you a very decent local maximum. So you keep riding the wave of decent local maximum. If you stray from this path you might find a better value but you also may find (more often than not) no progress at all. For the bigger journeys "career" and what not I do not recommend to follow local maximum paths you will go very on the surface and true fun is in the depth.
Wow. That was pretty convincing. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting, I had the same thought about the size / price ratio recently. I want most bang for the buck but it kills my waistline
> Any sufficiently good idea

There are all sorts of good ideas. Some are easy to communicate, some demonstrate, some both, some neither.
Is the use of daggers for processing animal carcasses exclusive to their use as ceremonial items? Why not both?

Anyway articles like this are humbling about how little we know about our in the scheme of things not too distant ancestors.
No need, the problem in the bay area is density.
There are more than religious arguments for prohibiting abortion and the Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe vs Wade has zero religious argument contain therein.

Beyond that, the law says the Supreme Court and legislature decides what is or isn't a violation of the separation of Church and State, not activists deciding for themselves what law should or should not be observed.

>>If the law is working against the society - like in this case - then it needs to be fixed, not blindly obeyed.

There is a legal process for changing the law. What you are attempting to justify is undermining the rule of law with haphazard rationalizations.
Arguments for deleting your social media accounts
See: Zuckerberg's response to the launch of Google Plus.
NASA climate research scientist awarded World Food prize