skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the context of the analysis and the desired outcome. What does that have to do with my comment or the GP's?
This is actually amazing, I put in the title Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

And received:

hncynic 1 minute ago

I like that it's just Javascript, not Node.

I see that it runs in some sort of Node.js/java application with a JIRA plugin.

Maybe you have tried a "nodejs" based alternative to SQLite and it's a little too early for something you don't like, like PostgreSQL etc.

hncynic 1 minute ago

This is really cool. I'm going to try this out some day and see if it's useful for other databases... especially with the JS support.

If the idea is to do DB migrations/transforms and make that simpler for non-tech users, then I like the idea of using SQL to get it working.

hncynic 1 minute ago

I'm glad the "learn new tools" section has a "Rewrite all the files on one file" option. I'm currently using a Dropbox instance to do this on my Mac.

The context and coherence is a little confused but the grammar and tone is spot on!
Intento builds a universal AI gateway
> Would be nice if more examples are found. If the user has seen other articles before, they should check out the comments.
Wow you articulated the phenomenon I've been mulling over for years nicely, trying to put my finger on what exactly went wrong with society after the advent of social media.

Do you have a blog? Would enjoy reading more of your thoughts/writing...
IDK what course of action they should take.

I just think it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the unicorns account for a big share of the cash stream which is actually accessible to a working software developer.

It's easy to lose sight of the fact that software dev skills aren't worth all that much in isolation.

A developer who spent many of their prime earning years (15 - 30 years of age) tapping into that stream at a unicorn will find it more difficult, if not impossible, to do that again later in their career.
It still seems possible that could be the case. The conclusion here seems to be “one person wrote down the words that tell the overall tale.”

Does not seem to preclude it originating as a series of verbal tales.
the WebThings gateway is an opportunity for Mozilla to help protect privacy and security, not copy the approach of industry silo's where devices connect to the cloud. your gateway data stays local.
This is amazing!

When I was a kid, this is exactly what I wanted. We had a Commodore 64, but my parents wouldn't get an NES. They eventually got me one, but it was when all of my friends already had the SNES.
I got the number from the website you linked.

However, using Google Maps, I found 4. I'm not sure how many bathrooms you'd normally allocate per person, but I imagine the number of homeless and those out and about would necessitate more than that. How many bathrooms per person are in the typical office building? Should the number of these loos not similarly match the homeless population?

Also, how is a timer in a bathroom at all dignified? If I need 15 minutes to relieve myself, will the Portland Loo kick me out?
Blazor Now in Official Preview
You are assuming long term strategic thinking. I guess that didn’t happen here.
This one has the incomplete search issue.
40 seconds is an eternity to a pilot taking off or landing. Even Air France, taken down by a plugged pitot tube from cruise altitude, was doomed after only two minutes.

Airbus has a lot to answer for on that one: averaging inputs from the pilot's and copilot's game controllers? Game controllers? Turning off the stall warning in deep stall, so that starting to recover sounds it again? Failing to teach pilots what stalls are, what they feel like, and how to prevent and recover from them?

There is more than enough blame to go around for that one.

The Boeing software, like the Airbus's, apparently performed as specified, so there was no problem with execution of the spec. The problem was that it was a bad spec, in too many ways to count.
It's pretty much impossible to decipher if you don't remember the operator precedence or have the operator precendence handy.
>Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?...

Probably not.

But an anti - "data sharing" law can. A HIPAA like law for personal data would stop, not only FB, but all of these companies in their tracks. Just make it illegal to sell access, in any fashion, to a user's personal data.

To get the government on your side, just make it like HIPAA. Law enforcement can still access your data, if they have a warrant, and demonstrate an urgent need. Everyone else is SOL. Any violations should be punished in the same draconian fashion that HIPAA violations are punished. (This will make the business of selling data unprofitable in the extreme.)
Actually this is not true. Many top athletics programs lose substantial amounts of money, even after accounting for TV deals,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/runni...

There’s some unsubstantiated claim that constantly growing expenditure on sports is requires like a marketing arms race to advertise to potential students, but I haven’t seen much data backing that.

My guessis that, just as with most professional sports clubs, college athletics programs by design are intrinsically huge loss leaders designed to be vehicles by which coaches & administrators extract money from the university.

For the tiny fraction of top teams with massive fan bases, they can get away with this while being profitable. For almost all other programs, they burn through money chasing success and profitability for a while, and after enough consecutive seasons of financial losses, they retreat to fiscal austerity and a decline in the athletics department while some other programs are on an upswing.
Unfortunately middle school and high school kids pressured into playing, or choosing to play when it is not conceptually possible for them to grant consent to bear longterm injury risks they can’t fully understand, are unprotected from these risks in highly questionable ways.
Don't fool around - use the brown.
There are multiple safe injection sites in the tenderloin and SOMA. Also those free, big, green street bathrooms all have biohazard containers.
> Considering that something like 10 pages of the report looks like its dedicated to the constitutional powers of Congress

It's largely discussng the Constitutional power of Congress to criminalize the conduct, which relates to the DoJ ability to investigate and prosecute it (the current DoJ opinion, as communicated in the Mueller report, is that it can investigate and prosecute the conduct of obstruction when committed by the President, despite the fact that it cannot prosecute any crime while the accused is President, which would mean, were the DoJ to be convinced by it's investigation that the President has obstructed justice, it could prosecute him, but only after he left office.)

Note particularly that the power being discussed is irrelevant to impeachment, which does not require a criminal statute as a basis.

> "This is Congress's issue, not Muller's issue. But here's the evidence Muller found."

It's expressly laying out why the President’s legal team’s argument that it is not a DoJ issue for criminal investigation was wrong.
It doesn't have to be a matter of principle. If the government can make pragmatic, effective investments, then it probably should.

(and if you think about it for a minute, if the government can't do that, it shouldn't exist at all. Politics is about defining what is pragmatic and what effective means.)
I don’t think that was the argument, so forgive me for the confusion. It’s really more like, “why not employ the unemployed homeless and receive the civic benefit of clean toilets, which might improve the quality of said toilets and hopefully drive up their use” not “toilet cleaners are homeless.”
Agreed, although I no longer live in the Bay Area, I grew up there and probably would not have had the same problems. Cost of living and a sense of "been there done that" kept me from going back. Luckily coming from SV, I had some coding skills just from high school and stuff I was doing on the side + internships back home, and that was a major factor in landing my current job.
The UI is really sleek. It definitely doesn't feel like a banking/financial application, so well done.

What was the process like for opening up a banking institution and getting FDIC insurance? Can you elaborate on the timeframe, requirements, or other unique challenges you had to deal with?
Why am I seeing this post again? I remember seeing this or something very similar a few months ago. To me this feels like a humble brag than anything. Its great you were able to pull 500k but it isn't very useful to read an article like this. Most of us aren't making 500kpa, and we are not you, thus most of your thought process doesn't apply to us, so why should we care? Now, if you did do something cool technically (or) served users, we are all ears.
Do you honestly believe that someone that is living on the streets, shitting in the open, is thinking about the spread of disease or homelessness PR?
"beware the jubjub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch:"

hncynic 1 minute ago

>I've always felt about the "Jubjubjub Bandersnatch is the jub" attitude, that there seems to be a few examples of this in the

> article. For example, my first album was 'Jubjabjubs on YouTube', but my next album was 'Jubjumbs on YouTube'. My first album

>is 'Bing Jubjubjub' and it's all very well worth the hassle.

>This article is a nice reminder that people are willing to use your tool and give you feedback on your work.

hee.
Pooping is pretty high up on the hierarchy of needs. Higher than social norms. People are going to poop, sleep, eat, etc wether or not a dignified way to perform these functions is available. Solution: provide a dignified way to perform life necessities.
Square's New Engineering Blog
This version is good, it doesn't have the incomplete search issue.
What are the biggest differences between a C64 and NES really? They both use a 6502 right? What prevents you from just overclocking the C64 to match the speed of the NES? Different memory layout?
I have a little girl. I care very much if someone is shooting up drugs in a public bathroom. How can she use such a bathroom safely? Maybe once she's a teenager but long before then she won't be letting me accompany her inside a bathroom. I don't want homeless people shooting up drugs in the park or in public bathrooms, unless "public bathroom" is merely to become a euphemism for something else, which seems to be a different conversation.

Let's assume we do install these toilets. These won't be cheap toilets, they will, for a large percentage of their time in service, essentially be "hard living facilities for the mentally ill". Homeless people and vagrants put very strange objects into public toilets in SF, breaking them constantly. The San Francisco public library had to install grinders[1] to handle the load homeless people were putting on public toilets. And this was after they began to constantly monitor the restrooms[2][3]. How many public toilets should we build and how much should we spend on each one per year?

[1] I can't find the source for the grinders but I do recall reading about the installation of them a few years back, maybe someone can provide a link.
[2] https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/san-francisco-main-library-t...
[3] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-library-s-main-br...
Except that once a flaw is identified it can be shared with future defendants. They do not use a unique AI for each person. This will result in the AI actually being fixed to prevent people from "getting off".
If the only gatekeeper against shipping bugs is a senior engineer catching bugs in review, then that's possibly a sign that your processes need improvement, rather than the people.
Bus lines in Germany too, to take perhaps an unexpected area.

The official and unofficial transport apps don't tell you the bus will be at platform 16 on a completely different street. Made me miss the bus more than once, the second time I planned time for it but it took me 20 minutes to find the stop. I assumed it was one of the first fourteen stop positions and I just overlooked it, went around again (inside, on the street, other side of the street...), still didn't find it, until I checked OpenStreetMap which just shows it on a map and gives the exact stop position instead of only the stop name.

The latest version of OsmAnd can even do public transport routing. It won't give you timetables that are subject to too frequent changes, but it's still impressive.
> After all, Franglen had tested the machine against humans and found a 90 to 95 percent correlation of outcomes
> There's something about planning, planting, and then caring for a garden that appeals to my engineer brain.

Boy you sound like someone who would really enjoy square foot gardening. I doubt I'm telling you anything you don't know, but here's a link for those unfamiliar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_foot_gardening
https://i.imgur.com/FXi6NXb.jpg

According to the trend, we're approaching another AI Winter
We already have football without tackling - flag football or touch football. Most of us play flag or touch football in school. Only a tiny fraction of people who play football play organized tackle football.

Frisbee is nice, but there is nothing like throwing a tight spiral or catching a football.
That has a lot of assumptions. You can argue the other way with having a sense of ownership and being responsible is what leads to higher quality in your surroundings.

Something something, fix broken windows.
> There isn't a visual indication for AOA

Private pilot here. What you say is, strictly speaking, true but that doesn't mean that you can't tell an awful lot about what's going on by looking out the window, and, more importantly, at the other flight instruments. If your attitude, airspeed, and rate of climb are all looking normal, then if the AOA says you're stalling it's almost certainly wrong. And it it says that your AOA is 70 degrees (which the Ethiopian airlines AOA sensor did) then it is definitely wrong.

MCAS was designed to blindly trust a single AOA sensor, which was known to be prone to failures. To call that inexcusable would be quite the understatement.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. - Linus Torvalds

This hits home for me, Open Source development is mainly done by people who love it and work on projects after hours.

I personally enjoy working on small webapp ideas and libraries to hopefully help others with their projects. The smaller the project the more likely it will be completed, so that's preferred.
I feel like this could be avoided by hashing the password on the client side as well before sending it to the server, no?
Why are no-reply emails toxic?
Ask HN: What's the founding story of your startup?
Where did the idea come from? Who built the first version of your product? How did the founding team come together? Did you raise money or are you bootstrapped? If investors, how did you get the money and how much? What pitfalls and potholes have you experienced? What have been your greatest triumphs?
ML and neural nets work surprisingly well on a lot of boring but important use cases. Optimizing online ad placement might be humdrum but it's the foundation of a $100B market in the US alone. [0]

In my opinion the real hype is that ML has become so popular that new practitioners tend to forget other analytic techniques like SQL data warehouses. Interestingly these are starting to absorb ML capabilities like logistic regression, which are now accessible through SQL and can benefit from MPP and vectorwise query execute in DBMS types like ClickHouse, Vertica, and Google BigQuery.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danafeldman/2018/03/28/u-s-tv-a...

Disclaimer: I work on ClickHouse.
San Francisco alone is spending $50k per homeless person in San Francisco, on top of state and federal benefits. Are you going red in the face because we aren't spending $100k? If $100k doesn't solve the problem should we spend $200k? How much?
I am sorry if this is off-topic, but is this board running phpBB2 from 15 years ago? I have used most versions of phpBB until 2015, they all came with so many security holes, I have been hacked so many times because of it, how is this board still up and running!?
Sorry for the aside but what CMS does Mozilla use for these publications? Just out of curiosity
It looks like the homeless population has remained fairly steady over the same period of time that reported poop incidents has quintupled. That leads to two likely conclusions: Either people are reporting it more often than before (Has it become easier to report such incidents?) or more homeless are deciding (as much as it can be called a decision) to poop publicly, maybe a further symbol of spite for a society that has left them behind?

I suppose there's also the possibility that homeless have been under counted, but to do so by to such a degree seems unlikely.
See if you can find online the Star UI paper - 'designing the star user interface', April 1982 in Byte magazine. If you can't I have a PDF. It was perhaps the most influential thing I've ever read on UIs.

This may be it https://tech-insider.org/star/research/acrobat/8204.pdf but my browser's playing up so can't download.

I'll give at least one more recommendation tomorrow, it's late here.
Even Watson wasn't a general AI. Hearing all the anecdotes from folks that tried to use it.. Narrow AI has the attribute that it can't be ported from one field to another. It might win at Jepordy but sucks at Oncology and Drug Discovery. All AI isn't the same. We are general AI and we can solve problems in asymmetrically bad situations. Narrow AI is not portable
Yes, but while "storing passwords in plaintext is bad, mkay?" is accepted in the industry, "transmitting passwords to the server is bad, mkay?" is, in fact, not accepted. It is usually considered "best practice" to transmit passwords to the server, which is obviously wrong.
The garden is too dangerous for the kids because there are a lot of sharp things around. :) I didn't build it with kids in mind, so for example all the wire fencing is just cut with no ends. We'll get out there with them in a few years. My daughter helps with the front yard sometimes.
Just build the damn public toilets everywhere, make them free and clean and almost nobody but a small number of the craziest people will poop at the streets.

If we had to choose just a single thing a state should solve this is it - the most fundamental and unconditional yet simple need everybody has - a way to defecate comfortably whenever and wherever and in a city they are, regardless to how much money they have. The only need for every human that is more basic is breathing. It's ridiculous it still isn't done in a well-developed country in the 21-st century.
"According to the lawsuit by Maritz Holdings, investigators also determined that the "attackers were accessing the Maritz system using accounts registered to Cognizant. For example, in April 2017, someone using a Cognizant account utilized the "fiddler" hacking program to circumvent cyber protections that Maritz had installed several weeks earlier.""

Someone misplaced the parentheses. They should be around the word "hacking", not Fiddler. According to Wikipedia, it is a debugging proxy written by a former program manager for the Internet Explorer group at Microsoft.
Slightly off-topic, but I generally found IEEE Spectrum having more interesting articles than Communications of the ACM. Maybe they're more inclined to the industrial side whereas CACM is more academic?
That was what I found most interesting too. But then I’m a hardware geek!
you can't shut MCAS off AND also NOT train the pilots on the system and MAX flight characteristics. Conflicting system goals.
The real answer is to figure out some interesting or profitable activity that you can do there and then let the details take care of themselves.

Of course the government could pour massive resources into it to see what happens, but we aren't really at the point economically or technologically where that makes sense, at least in my arrogant opinion.
Why should there be homeless if there are toilet cleaning jobs available?

(Of course it's not so simple.)
UK agencies are recently doing pretty good. UK government however...
Download+Oleya+By+pastor+David
> I now think it’s madness for anyone to be in charge of anything if they don’t have relevant experience in the relevant domain.

This.

In support of that idea, here's C.A.R. Hoare, from 'The Emperor's Old Clothes', the 1980 Turing Award lecture:

'At last, there breezed into my office the most
senior manager of all, a general manager of our parent
company, Andrew St. Johnston. I was surprised that he
had even heard of me. "You know what went wrong?"
he shouted--he always shouted-- "You let your programmers
do things which you yourself do not understand."
I stared in astonishment. He was obviously out
of touch with present day realities. How could one person
ever understand the whole of a modem software product
like the Elliott 503 Mark II software system?
I realized later that he was absolutely right; he had
diagnosed the true cause of the problem and he had
planted the seed of its later solution.'
Yup, this resonates with me. I hated academia and wanted to get out there and do some real high level engineering work, so I took my BS in EP and left. Luckily I had some decent programming skills and it helped me land my systems engineering job doing simulation work. Yes I reversed engineered system in order to understand how to simulate them which applies to my degree focus, but without the software background I could never put theory into practice. Now I'm a project engineer leading teams of other systems engineers, so it worked out ok for me. If you are the more mathematically inclined theoretical type rather than the build systems hand on type of physics major, you will have a harder time. First thing I do when I go back to visit my Alma mater is dispell their "infinite possibilities" myth.
Because the person is actually a business that:

a) employs enough scientists who know what they're doing and lawyers who know what they're doing to file relevant and defensible patents; and

b) has enough entrenched relationships that they can pay for a sales force what knows what they're doing; but

c) doesn't employ enough engineers who know what they're doing to develop actual competitive products around those patentable ideas.
Try and stop me! However I’m not going to spend hours coding at home, and I’ll do fun and simple stuff. What I find hard is working on a complex ongoing project because that feels too much like what I do at work.

On the other hand I don’t think you need to code at home to be good. If you have a job with some freedom to learn stuff during the day that helps a lot.
Looking at the source, it looks like they're just using WordPress.
Refcounting makes sense when latency and responsiveness are more important than throughput. That’s true of both native UIs and most kinds of servers, which between them cover a good fraction of code being written today, maybe the majority of code.

I’m not yet convinced by Swift the language, but I think it’s positioned in just the right place.