skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically the whole episode revolves around one character's emotional difficulties and Will feeling a bit ignored by their mutual friend who is in town, all while Will's mother has suddenly left town the night before after giving a hasty, extremely vague and obviously fake excuse to her sons & other characters – read through the lens of "it's supposed to be Will's birthday" it makes all his close friends and his mother seem insanely cruel to be completely ignoring his birthday when in fact that wasn't what the writers were going for, they just didn't realize the visual date matched a line of dialog from a prior season.
social media addicts bounce from one app to another desperate for the attention they crave to feel something
How do you think about hosting? Should cloud providers not exist b/c if the provider fails, the business grinds a halt?

Should products like Gmail, Auth0, Duo, PagerDuty, or Okta not exist because if their infra fails, the business operations would grind to a halt?
I have little to nothing to contribute as usual, but I feel compelled to come out of the woodwork to state that I, for one, am stoked to see E2 appearing on HN in currentyear.
Even on TV, HBO retroactively edited out George Bush's head from the spikes Joffrey makes Sansa look at in season one of Game of Thrones, all the way back in 2011. George Martin just joked about it in his interview on the upcoming House of the Dragon.
Which is repaid via?
Gas isn't the only thing that is responsible for inflation it's only part of the equation.
Ask HN: PCI-DSS (level 3/4) for a one-man business?
I wonder if someone with a one-man business app already implemented a debit/credit card payment system fully compliant with PCI-DSS level 3 or 4 ?

Indeed you could integrate components/drop-in's/plugins from any platform such as Stripe or Adyen, but what if you want to keep control on the full payment flow ? Such platforms allow you to use "only" their API to process the payment under the condition that you are PCI-DSS compliant. Therefore what's the effort required to fulfill the Self-Assessment Questionnaire[^1] ?

Many thanks for your feedback.

[^1] https://listings.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/PCI-DSS-v3_2_1-SAQ-D_Merchant.pdf
The ones that brings in all the tourists and money?
1. Gas prices are regional

2. The economy is more than just gas
https://archive.ph/RkWNN
I think you're right, but I'm a little pessimistic after covid relief and the 08 crash. we have 9.1℅ inflation and the damage control from the reigning party trying to explain away an obvious recession makes quarter point increases seem like performance art. student loans are already such an untenable debt bubble that the same potus that stumped for their perpetuity is now forgiving them. auto loans are an equally prime disaster waiting to happen as their average term is now 72 months and the average monthly payment is $700
> Now if we can only get states (like California) to stop giving out stimulus payments (they literally calling it inflation stimulus;

I agree with you on this. They're ostensibly to help people afford to buy more gasoline. We should let the high gas prices change behavior instead.

> drop student debt forgiveness nonsense.

Not sure I agree with you on this. While I don't think it would be a great idea to forgive all student debt, I think a targeted forgiveness (under certain income/net worth threshold) of some student debt makes sense.
Gas isn't a great indicator as it's currently being subsidized with the US + allies from their strategic reserves to the tune of ~240,000,000 barrels

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0887
https://archive.ph/FF2d1
Thank you for explaining this!
100% not true here and not in Eastern Europe. People in villages don't have guns everywhere.

Also, the one subgroup of villages who do have guns are actual mafia members. But their power is mainly in organization and in having bought cops. You having own gun will in no way help you if you are targetted. The rest of people have them generally only if they need them for job, very rarely otherwise.

Villagers don't have guns for fun either all that much, it is also costly. The self defense laws are also such that gun is likely yo get you in serious trouble.
Hmm, you might not be wrong about the DALL-E based image there, albeit, definitely some post-processing.
This is what it generated for me
https://i.imgur.com/T2DsBCq.png

DALL-E will be an incredible tool against DMCA-scraper bots that just run rampant scanning for images that have a copyright and submitting to the registrar.

DALL-E finally shuts this loophole down, for now at least it seems.

EDIT: and it seems like the real keyboard was found! The mere fact that we are having trouble distinguishing a real or fake keyboard leads me to think of greater problems that will lie ahead; authorities or figures claiming they did or did not do/say certain things. The world of artificial intelligence is going to be an exciting time, that’s for sure. :)
> Funny that this would rocket to the front page so quickly. Shows where everyone's minds are at.

I don't find this so surprising. Inflation (and rates as a consequence) has been affecting a good number of people directly or indirectly (cost of goods/gas, stocks, layoffs, etc).
Would it read differently if instead of a manager, it was said by a more experienced co-worker?
Which is also why there's bipartisan consensus on giving lots more money to police and the military. After all, someone has to control the violent rabble as they are priced out of decent living!
Amazon and S3 availability – 99.999999999 percent
I had an A.C. Gilbert set. It had a lump of sulfur that I lit with a match, and then leaned over and took a big snork. OUCH! I learned respect for unknown chemical phenomena.
I'm skeptical that interest rate hikes will curb inflation. I'm even skeptical that a recession will curb inflation.

We have significant shortages of so many products and services that people rely on and the only way I see the situation improving is if supplies increase, maybe dramatically. It's too difficult to curb demand for things like food and housing if the population is growing. Those are things we just need to make more of. And I don't think raising interest rates is going to spur housing starts or investment in production capabilities.
Interesting to hear this from a Nim developer. Do you think Nim would be a good fit for what facebook needs?

(Normally I don't check author's names in hacker news comments. But I wanted to check if this is WalterBright posting here)
I gave the police a 4k camera video of a crime happening and they did nothing with it. This is pretty standard police laziness in the US, individual cops might care but departments overall give zero shits for small people except as revenue sources.

Data ownership issues like this in the US will never be pushed by existing political interests, hopefully we'll see more EFF-ish PACs in the future that take a page from the fascists and provide the written laws and bills they would like enacted to state and municipal governments so local representatives can edit the title block and get back to harassing their interns.
No, your analysis is completely wrong. Many people make the same mistake, so don't feel bad.
Inflation (food, transport) is still about 10%.

> The CPI figures in the latest report were grim. Food prices rose 1.0% in June and are 10.4% above year-ago levels. Food at home costs 12.2% more than a year ago. Energy prices overall rose 7.5% in June and stand 41.6% above where they were in June of 2021. Gasoline prices rose 11.2% in June and are a whopping 60% higher than a year ago. The so-called “core” inflation measure of goods and services other than food and energy rose 0.7% in June and are 5.9% above year-ago levels.
Senate passes bill to reduce reliance on China for semiconductors
For someone who understands C++11, I don't think FP concept _in rust_ will be hard.

But someone who understands Haskell, may still find some memory stuff clumsy.
How would printing more foreign currency make their total dollar-measured goods/services/estate that people actually want to trade dollars for any different in terms of dollars?
Twitter shareholders to vote on Musk merger a few weeks before court trial
Fed hikes interest rates by 0.75 percentage point for second consecutive time
> In the case of SARS-1 the actual progenitor virus was only found 10 years later in bats in Yunnan.

Why do you keep saying this? As you know, the closest animal viruses to SARS-1 were found in civet cats and raccoon dogs, within about a year of its emergence in humans.

The bat viruses that Dr. Shi later discovered are scientifically important, because most of SARS-1's genome probably evolved in bats. They provide no new insight as to how the virus came to infect humans, though.
What passes as economic stability these days just makes things more fragile, e.g. propping up failing businesses w/ other people's money.
lmao definitely not
Obviously, crime sucks and society needs criminals to face some sort of consequence but your take (vengeance) is pretty sad and lacking to me. You need to understand that most of these sorts of crimes are committed by people in terrible socioeconomic conditions and you seem like you have the privilege to not know what that sort of despair feels like and how it can break people.
No, it's ageless. It's why the United States has a Congress and a Senate. It's why the Jews left Egypt. At some times some minorities will truly be oppressed by a majority. That's not just human nature, it's nature.

The trick is always eschewing pareidolia.
" Dont over estimate how dumb they are."

I don't know... you setup deterrents, as a bluff and it took a while before one worked.
It's not your age showing. Coming from a guy who comes off horribly from his posts online, if you are self aware enough to put a disclaimer (might be my age), maybe uhhh ????

This person proposes the OPPOSITE of a weapon. A constructive tool to disarm potential issues in the workplace to redirect focus to the task at hand is not a weapon. That you view it as such might be a flag for yourself to look at how you view workplace discussions.

You want it to be ok to STEAL the effectiveness/contributions of MARJINALIZED people from the company for irrelevant purposes. These people were not placed ( placed, these are not your friends who can choose to hear your funny quips, these are co-workers just trying to do their job) to work with you to give you opportunity to offend, they were placed there for a business purpose. Why do you want to STEAL potential contributions from the place you work while at the same time reducing quality/effectiveness instead of just being, you know, professional?
Broadly speaking, if complaints oscillate between the central bank punishing savers one year and workers the other, that bank is doing something right.
The student debt issue is a complicated one that we shouldn't want to recreate, but I don't see how debt forgiveness on education is nonsense.
Yes but the "direct observations only" crowd, which includes various conspiracy theories, would have them only report on evidence without drawing any other statements. Some historians would have archeologists do only dig reports, leaving everything else to historians. Conspiracy nuts would have police only create evidence reports, leaving everything else to lay juries.
You can play with the meaning of words, but in the end I don't care how you call things or how you define existence. You get funny results like dragons and elves existing, whatever, suit yourself. I just care about how the world actually works and not what labels we put on it.

So if consciousness exists in the same manner that imaginary lines you draw between stars - fine. Why does it matter?
I feel like HTTP is too heavyweight for microservices. For monoliths, it's great. And the only way to proceed in your case is to convert microservices into mini-monoliths. Particularly the authentication side, which needs to be revalidated with every request.

gRPC might be better, but supposedly so was SOAP, CORBA, DCOM, XMLRPC, and finally REST.
What stops us from inducing a CCR5 delta 32 mutation in hiv infected people?
I didn't know about the --force flag. You can also whitelist files in .gitignore with !filename.[0]

Is there a reason to avoid symlinks? I've been using this setup for a few years now, (using an artisanal, home-rolled script before I discovered stow) and it's worked superbly.

[0]: https://monkeyfacts.io/git-whitelist-directory-subfiles/
Apple Maps is honestly no where close to Google Maps. Especially in dense Indian cities with multiple roads to reach a place, some roads are not even there on Apple Maps. It also (like OSM) lacks in contact details of businesses, open/close time, etc. which are a real value add for Google Maps.

Hopefully some real competitor emerges.
Huh, I guess I implemented something like stow for myself without realizing it.

I keep my dotfiles in a private git repo, and in that repo is a shell script that creates symlinks (or creates folders with symlinks inside).

Paths are hard-coded in the shell script, but that actually reduces my cognitive load.
> There's absolutely nothing wrong with the technology

Oh, but there is. It's subservient to the manufacturer, not to you.

I'm still annoyed that no country decided to classify "selling" things where the manufacturer keeps complete control and denies you access as fraud. But just because no legal system decided it's a crime, it doesn't mean it's right.
It was about 6.5% in the 1998 recession and 5.25% in the 2007 great recession. It's unlikely we will head into a recession anytime soon. Numbers are all over the place, but I see most of it as temporary (Covid, Gas Prices) and not structural or risky behavior from investment banks in 2007. Remind me if I'm wrong, but I think inflation will drastically drop next report.
>We should let the high gas prices change behavior instead.

Yeah, quit their jobs to save money on the commute.
> how does one enforce this?

You’re asking how the U.S. government is supposed to enforce its contracts?
I would find this acceptable as well. As long as it's an actual loan, not like the PPP "loans".
I've made the mistake of trying to add an extra statement to a one-line if and forgetting to add a block too many times. Although now GCC has -Wmisleading-indentation which should catch that.
Sure, but in this case this could be easily avoided by turning it into something useful to society, eg a museum.
Ah but now we have the informal-internet-speak version of using capital letters to emphasize things that are Very Important.
This is confused. The Transparent Society is by David Brin[0]. Two of the founders of Google are Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The confusion is understandable given the name collision.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society
Amazing work. Thanks for sharing! Having experienced my fair share of pain in this area, I’ll definitely be looking into the possibility of integrating your solution in my upcoming endeavour.

I share other folks concern regarding a remote api call for authentication, but I think your Edge Agent solution would address most of these concerns. I’d thus hope to be able to terraform-apply your edge agent into my infrastructure.

As for UI, I imagine that I could use your supplied solutions with minor styling for admin-and-powr-user-facing use cases, while having to customize for end-user facing solutions.

I’d love to see that you also provided native mobile app samples for that, if you don’t already.

Also, at first glance,I don’t see that you take care of my third-party integrated login headaches. If not, then I’d just love to be rid of that thorn in my dev-team’s side in one fell sweep. Just sayin’, and probably revealing my ignorance at the same time ;)

My worries are towards vendor-lockin and inheriting uour attack surface, although I imagine that you will actually handle the security aspects better as part of your core business model than I would. Regarding vendor-lockin, I imagine that you could solve this with legal licensing. As a European, I’d also like to be 100% sure that all of your infrastructure was running in the EU.

Just sharing in case my opinion is of value to you, as I appreciate the solution you are attempting to bring to the world.
> So, while I appreciate greatly the attempt to politicise the world and make this topic greyer than it needs to be: but it’s a little at odds with reality unless you’ve entirely internalised the notion that everything is political always.

No, not everything is political, but many things are, especially when we're talking about how to govern corporations, which are political entities with a charter from the state and often have a great deal of power over their employees and the communities in which they operate.

> The status quo should not be considered political. In order to be apolitical one must live within the status quo; only excluding the inherently political things like protesting or denouncing/promoting politicians or parties.

And who defines what is "within the status quo"? Doing so is a political act.
The linked Implementation Note says $60B / month of Treasury and $17.5B / month of MBS, with the latter doubling to $35B / month in September.

The Implementation Note says it only applies as principal is paid, so this is an upper bound.

According to the maturity distribution at https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/ the Fed has effectively all of its MBS with maturity > 1 year, with the vast majority over 10 years.

AFAIK we don't have any other maturity information that "over 10 years", but I might assume it's 20 years on average because it's uniformly distributed between 10-30 years (AFAIK 30 years is typically the max mortgage time in the US). Dividing $2.7 trillion by 240 months gives $11.25 billion per month.

Which implies an increase of the cap from $17.5B to $35B is a no-op, as rollover would already be maxed a little over $11B. So why bother?

Any bond / Fed experts able to shine a light on what's wrong with my numbers?
Congratulation on the launch

Check similar product for more complex use case (like Menu/Tree level authorization, Web/Non-web based/Terminal/Daemon based app, LDAP/SSO/Hardware token based authentication etc.) https://arxsuite.com/

PS: I was part of Arx product suite for 5 yrs (before rebranding) :)

1. Demo is targeted towards developer & target market is B2B/Enterprise
2. Usually developer does not have purchasing power/influence + We can build it too attitude.

Happy to help

Raxit Sheth
I wonder if us D800 owners will ever get a fix for the awful right side focus issues that plagued that camera.
All the map data of google is public, it's probably been copied/vectorized/etc, add some errors to it, remove some streets, shift the street a meter or two, you got a comparable service. Probably google has a lot of checksums in there to see if it's their data you're drawing, but since maps is almost an essential service I don't think they can abruptly remove it without consequences, one of which would be to allow a new service even on stolen data.
For starters, I don't think SLS has even gotten off the ground yet, as in literally.
I am skeptical of job opportunities for Rust in my country. However, I get a sense the language appeals to a specific audience (and company), and most of the companies here are only building SaaS applications so it might not benefit them to transition their codebase.
A buddy has a wood shop and one time after a router spun down, one of the bits had gone missing. Undoubtedly lodged in a wood roofing element somewhere, but at least it did not go thru anyone.
https://everything2.com/title/C%2521
Ask HN: Scanning Packages for Malware (Mac)
Hey so I have been wanting to download packages .pkg for various GarageBand plugins, audio units whatever. I’m new to Mac but since these packages are downloaded from the web not the App Store, how do I check/scan for malware etc? Last thing I want is a plug-in doing dodgy things. Thanks in advance
> In a lab environment the virus is repeatedly exposed to human cells and gets better at infecting human cells with each iteration.

That is just replicating what nature does when it hops from individual to individual. Nature has billions of animals to do serial passage through.

And we still don't know that the species jump happened in the market, and I'm somewhat skeptical of the claims of this author. I tend to think it was circulating in rural Hubei, probably coinfecting domestic animals and people, getting better and better at infecting people until the market event happened which was where it found a densely packed human population where it spread with R0 significantly greater than 1 and took off. There's no evidence of that though because when the grandparents of farmers in rural villages die of pneumonia nobody bothers collecting samples because that's normal.

And we only noticed it when it started to efficiently infect human beings because that is when the pandemic started. The initial poor cryptic spread between humans and animals before that wouldn't have been detected because poor spreading couldn't cause the pandemic to start.

And we know that its possible for the virus to jump backwards and forwards between humans and minks, so the idea that an intermediate animal reservoir would have been infected with this virus and would have repeatedly attempted to jump to farm workers until it finally got good at spreading in humans is not that far fetched at all. Then the intermediate animal host becomes a massive bioreactor in close contact with humans, giving it many opportunities to roll the dice until it finds a combination that unlocks its pandemic potential, and then the first time it was transported into a dense human population it takes off.

There could be a hundred other viruses in animals in China all knocking on the door, occasionally infecting humans and not being good at it all right now, happening every day in China. This one was very good at infecting humans, along with being very good at infecting all kinds of other animals (mink, deer, dogs, cats, etc) because in order to cause a pandemic it had to be good at that, if it was bad at that it wouldn't have happened. It is like the anthropic principle--the virus seems incredibly lucky, because it had to be.
Odd article. This strikes me as the same idea as one of the touted benefits of web development, that bug fixes can occur in one place and roll out to everyone.

I might be concerned with outright censorship. And maybe Lucas took it a bit far? Suppose productions could get lazy. On the whole however, this does not seem "worrying" to me in the least. Bring on more 'bug fixes' I say.
I’ve wanted to jump to something sexier for a long time but finding data deep in my notes is so fast on Evernote. It’s also the only way I’ve found to stay in eats sync btw laptop and iPad.
Inflation hurts labor, not the wealthy. Bill Gates doesn't care if his groceries are 10% more expensive.

Inflation is outpacing wage increases so effective wages are actually lower in terms of buying power.

Housing is getting more expensive at a faster rate than wages are increasing.

If you are pro-labor you want the fed to aggressively raise rates because that makes life harder for business.
"Free firearms inside"?
I think all’s fair as long as they use semantic versioning and make all versions available.

Patch release: edit out small cosmetic issues like visible booms or bad audio levels.

Minor release: correct plot holes, re-add deleted scenes, re-write cringy dialogue.

Major release: soft or hard reboot, major rescore or script rewrite, upgrade to more attractive actors.

The latter would clash with use of integers in movie titles to mean sequels, but they’re going out of fashion in favor of colon-delimited sub-titles anyway.
Ask HN: Why not allow adults to be adopted as “adult children”?
Such adopted adult children would be expected to take care of you as you get older and in return you would give them life advice and some/all of your inheritance.