skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What features make a secure credit card and how can a consumer verify their presence?
> Um it's shouldn't really be down when you show it to people

Everybody gets hugged when they front page on hacker news, it is a stress test all on its own. There is no reason to be rude about it. FWIW It seems to be back up now.
Gotta hand it to you, this looks really slick. Also, the call to action at the bottom was well made;

> Skip the waitlist, this week only

> We're opening access to BaseDash for the next week during our Hacker News launch.

Usually when someone is like “act now” I’m like “yeah right”. But in this case, whether it really matters or not that I sign up exactly this week, the fact that you put some effort into connecting the text to the HN post made it feel more genuine and was sufficient to instead make me go “alright I’ll do it”.

I don’t immediately have time to use it but I can tell that this product is useful so I’m making a mental note to log back in in the future and check it out more. For now I was happy to see that in addition to the UX niceties that were mentioned on the landing page, you guys make it possible to configure a connection with SSH between your servers and the db servers of the user. That is very encouraging to see :)

I think on top of that it would be neat if you also offered users to configure connections that go through Wireguard, as I run Wireguard on my personal server and I know other people do too. I guess one guy asking for Wireguard is probably not going to convince you to add it. But who knows, maybe others will request it too ;)
They're still around, though not as common. I got a slight childlike excitement last time I saw one drive up my street.
> What if you sidestepped all the chip cleverness and just put cameras to capture the name, CC number, expiration and 3 digits?

Apple Cards have just the name on them, which is a nice step in the right direction. (No contactless, though, which is weird.)
Try Graphhopper. You can download the GPX track. It has three bike profiles, the default for touring which avoids hills, one for MTB which uses single/double track and one for road bikes. There are three options, the middle one gets you the track. Test with geojson.io which can save to github gists.

Ah, the bell with compass, it's cute. Looks a bit like sailboat nav gear.
> "We realized that the original daily table structure wasn’t ideal. If we needed to query something over several days or months, it was terrible — lots of UNION ALLs or loops to crawl through days or even months at a time was slow."

Seems to me rather storing traffic logs in an SQL database is a very bad idea, especially if you have 40TB of it. Anybody can explain why SQL database makes sense for large time series data? Why not just dump it into linear files?
Typical Forbes ridiculousness.

While yes if you are bad at doing your own research it can lead you to make the wrong decisions, and some decisions you really don't want to get wrong, telling people not to learn about things and verify claims is beyond absurd. If institutions like Forbes put in the effort to write quality pieces which used verifiable evidence and sound logic to distinguish themselves from the absurd claims of fake news, there would be no issue.

Trust no one, especially those asking you to trust blindly.
Where you store the type information and when you do the type check is a separate question from whether you do the type conversions automatically or not.

I think a more interesting question is typecasts, like happens in languages like Java and C#. These languages are nominally statically typed, but they retains some type information at run-time, so that you can perform run-time type conversions, which requires run-time type checking. Which is the defining feature of dynamic typing.

C# is a little bit more straightforward about being a hybrid static/dynamic language, with its reified generics and dynamic references. But teasing out the details of where, how, and the extent to which Java is statically or dynamically typed would make a decent topic for a master's thesis.

It also hints at a deeper thing that one must be mindful of: static/dynamic and strong/weak are not binary categories. They're not even the extremes of two binary scales. They are somewhat vague descriptions that are meant to serve as useful shorthands for certain sets of choices that one must make when designing a language's type discipline.

But the fact that they're not cut-and-dry terms does not mean that they're meaningless. It just means that one must disabuse oneself of the notion that they're cut-and-dry before one can have a conversation about type discipline that goes beyond a certain level of detail.
One of the things that became really apparent to me during a brief period of dating a hearing-impaired person, was the utility of sign language as a supplement to spoken language. Sign language works better than speech in noisy environments.

But this drew my attention to situations where sign language doesn't work: in the dark, around obstacles, when hands are occupied.

Guess which situation our ancestors were more frequently confronted with?

EDIT: The article does address this, but I'm not sure I buy it. Maybe it's a function of my limited ability with sign, but I don't think signs pressed against the skin are particularly effective, and while our ancestors may have had fires, the most survival-critical situations could be ones where no light is present. I agree that sign remains extremely useful, but I'm skeptical of the claim, "[I]f language had first built a home in the hands, it would have had no compelling reason to leave. Thus, it must have been spoken from the start."
Vendors get much less protection when doing a card not present transaction. They also usually pay higher fees. There are also cases where an additional layer of security is used, visa secure
Slightly Meta:

I wish HN had a parallel community for these kind of silly posts. I use it as a worksafe site to take a break at work and sometimes jokes like this, while not being in the spirit of HN, are things I very much appreciate.
We're more so positioned as an internal tool, so competing with products like Retool and Internal. Main difference is that BaseDash gives an opinionated interface rather than a UI builder. We're betting that most companies can get away with a really polished Airtable-like interface, saving them from needing engineers to build the UI themselves.
Why would you need it, you've got an iPhone right?

(semi serious here - I'm sure they want you to use Apple Pay)
Yeah we still have a milk float doing its round (England) and it is electric (and quite beat-up, looks old). When we hear that "wizz" sound in the morning we know it's the guy.

Edit: Our local one looks like a "Dairy Crest Smith's Elizabethan milk float" in the Wikipedia page's pictures.
I like markdown a lot, but the fact that there's no standard is leading developers to create new tools with support for "new features" every day. Text editors and static site generators now have so called plugins. Markdown was created to be simple to use, and I think the Project is what should be evolving, not the applications, or soon the most rich feature app will neither be open source, nor free.
If you run CodiMD in Sandstorm.io, you get very specific fine-grained sharing to a single document as an inherent capability. :)

Probably the biggest perk Google Docs/Sheets/etc. has is that each app isn't beholden to develop it's own account and sharing model. A bunch of apps with very limited or non-existent security models can work really well when you put them into a larger platform that implements those things instead. Etherpad, EtherCalc, etc. are similarly awesome apps that kinda need outside help if you want secure sharing.
>Science is not advanced by eliminating everything that disagrees with the establishment.

It is also definitely not advanced by presenting fringe theories that very few scientists actually consider relevant as actually being about as close to the truth as a theory that is believed to be the most accurate by the vast majority.

The article is not saying these theories should be suppressed, but that they are presented as more relevant to current scientific consensus than they actually are. There's a huge difference.
Yeah, this poke my eye as well.
Hiring bodies to perform the administrative work required by law. Lots of compliance - title 9, etc at the federal level, plus more at the state level.

We have several teams of developers pushing out state-level regulatory updates to our software (and these updates are frequent and often done on short notice), plus more teams doing annual federal regulatory updates.

And again, I'm not claiming this is the largest contributor, only that it's one of many reasons (easy access to loans included as well).
> Books remain viable because there's a business model to support them

If you mean "viable" business-wise, that's a tautology. If you mean "viable" as in "writers feel compelled to write books", that's simply false. Writers write. Many writers like writing books, and would do so even if it didn't put a single cent in their pockets.

Writing books can be turned into a business, but it's not inherently a business.

Also, a book is not its physical form. An electronic book is no less of a book than a paper book.
Looking good!

I've been looking at ways to organize the retros done in our company especially nowadays where we are all in distribute mode.
It would be helpful if there was a video demoing a fictional startup using this product so we could see how this fits into our workflow!
Well, stretching the analogy a bit, a lawyer could argue that Netflix's act of streaming a piece of content is a live performance - you're not paying for the video, but rather to access this "Netflix theatre".
What fraction people in the world have ANY IDEA what that sentence means? And how does that square with the Internet Archive's mission?
Obviously there are no guarantees that all of the mentioned sources are completely free of bias or are non-sensationalized, but I find this list offers a good starting point.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/pro-science/

Also, from the same group: https://newsfactsnetwork.com/about/
I’ve never tried Wim Hof’s techniques — I’d like to — but I have practiced bhastrika a good amount and do nadi shodhana every morning before meditation. Does his technique really resemble tummo? I’ve tried to find a tummo teacher (haven’t found one), but I’ve read “The Bliss of Inner Fire” and from what I understand a fundamental part of it involves mula and uddiyana bandhas being engaged in conjunction with the “vase” breath. Does Wim teach these things? I’ve seen photos of him practicing and he’s definitely doing uddiyana bandha, but I’d be surprised if he teaches that, it requires deep transverse abdominis activation to do. I only started getting that awareness in that layer of muscle after a couple years of yoga practice.

If he’s not teaching the bandhas then the technique really is just bhastrika with retentions. It’s a totally great practice, but I’d say it’s just the beginning step in the path of pranayama practice.
Starting to?

It's been pretty standard for over ten years...
(I'm in the UK, I have no idea how our market compares to yours)
Just say you don't want to learn more than the absolute minimum when it comes to programming language theory. No one will give you shit if you are honest about it.
Printed money is also something based on perception and belief that it is worth something
Agreed, it's questionable why a company needs to save raw traffic logs for years.
Summit Route is my default starting point for all things AWS security related.
"Apple Silicon" is a literal truth. The silicon design, the microarchitecture, is theirs, not ARM's. The architecture, this includes the ISA but also many other things that have to be taken into consideration in CPU design (exception model, consistency, virtual memory, virtualization,...), is ARM's. They simply don't want to tie their brand to ARM's, which is fair enough, Apple's brand is much more valuable than ARM's.

Regarding the push for a 64-bit chip, I've heard the exact opposite. Aarch64 (64-bit ARM) was an ARM design without a customer, Apple were the first to buy into it. I've heard that many said it was a premature jump, and there was a lot of scepticism within ARM that they'd be able to sell it (this happened when ARM was selling mobile designs exclusively, with no intentions of getting into servers). Still, they went ahead with it, and was an unexpected success.
That's why you just send the doctor down to the sea lab!
I said "starting" to include the US which I expect to be still far behind. I agree that in the UK it's been standard and in fact EU regulations now make this mandatory anyway.
A 9000 page law from Congress is inevitable.

They literally survive by using their power to placate whoever they need to, voters in their district broadly or special interests specifically.

They will never not choose to carve out as much benefit for their supporters as possible. Look at every piece of legislation in the past generation. Why would this be any different? Given the vast amount of resources UBI would be directing it is absolutely inevitable.
I've been living in SEA for a few years now, my expenses usually range between $1-2k/mo in BKK, what were you doing and where were you that you're spending more than $2k/mo in SEA? I've lived everywhere from $150/mo studio apartments to $1k/mo condo's in BKK and it was hard for me to break $2k/mo if I tried. Usually closer to $1.5k/mo for me.
This is actually being done in some journals--with registration of studies. I have arguments at times with people about Scientific Reports--I think that as long as the results are technically correct, I think we really need to encourage people to publish "boring" results. I have done this as community service, but it takes a lot of time and effort--even more so if you are correcting a previous boring with result with another boring result.
So what if you made up a reason and completed the process as required?

My point being - regardless of access control the people that are allowed to actually have the data could still leak it in the end.
> Perseverance has better instruments, but is the same platform and weight because there's no rockets capable of putting anything larger on Mars.

Actually this statement has two mistakes. First, despite Curiosity and Perseverance indeed share the platform, later is 150kg heavier (1050kg vs 899kg). Second, there are rockets, which are more performant than Atlas V 541, which launched the Perseverance [1]: Atlas V 551, Ariane 5 ECA, Long March 5, Delta IV Heavy, Falcon Heavy (expended).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_launch_s...
How would that explain things? If there were significantly more pro-climate action press releases than anti-, you'd expect to see similar a proportion of coverage, not the opposite. A better explanation is that the news likes to focus on rare, novel, and/or controversial statements.

It's also worth noting that the article doesn't seem to differentiate between positive and negative coverage. So anti-climate action press releases might be receiving significantly more negative coverage.
Not necessary, I can emulate in software which I am doing now.
I'm not sure if validation software works as intended because the concept isn't quantum physics and for traditional it has no explicit and/or/xor gates. Quantum might be a dangerous word now as the meaning has been hijacked, I should be more careful. This design has a new type of gate which is more like a vector of switches. It doesn't differentiate between the logic type because those have been broken down into terms of that switch. It's all about connection. Memory is also different, more like bit sequential memory. But ultimately I do hope to get it running on dedicated hardware. Also dreaming of the possibility with polarised light and crystals because of the uniformity of the switch.
Combined with "The database was initially designed to have a single table for each day." Oy.
Not sure what you mean by "real" but I use Strava to plan the route. I try to look up real routes that people have done or use their popularity feature. It then syncs automatically to my Garmin bike computer. Wahoo bike computers are popular too.
Switzerland has low taxes and restrictive immigration. Sounds like capitalism to me.
Using Postgres Jsonb Fields in Django
That's neat, but I can't help but wonder how it's more cost-effective than having the possible future mission reach a scoop out once it gets there and collect its own samples.

"Hi Mars Recon 1! I'm Mars Perseverance! I brought you some decades-old rocks and dirt!"

"Uh, thanks Perseverance. I, uh, might get my own though." ;)
This is an article about a giant pot of questionably earned money buying influence in a software ecosystem that he's been a big part of. But this is hardly the first time for this, in other cases the pot of questionably earned money came from selling people's data for ads or from Windows licenses.

The question in all of these cases is what specific bad influences the money can have on the software ecosystem and how community standards and governance can mitigate them. I don't really see a lot of answers in this article besides ill-defined ethical compromise of developers. I skimmed the book he mentioned (The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism) which sounds interesting but it doesn't really make its own case very well: half of the "extremist" citations are from anonymous online commenters and you can't go 2 paragraphs without straight up name-calling and ham-fisted guilt by association.
I am watching and listening intently the ones that I am interested in. Episodes with Guy Ritchie, Robert Downey jr. or Russel Brand, I watched in full in one sitting. I can also watch bunch of episodes cooking, checking other stuff.
How to Kill Your Tech Industry (2018)
Herman Cain has died
Most jobs like this pay minimum wage and are seasonal or part-time. At least with UBI, you can do it on your terms.

How do you know you suck at writing novels until you try?
This really doesn’t matter because the work was duplicated regardless of the fact that it was time limited. They had a limited number of licenses to produce works and they produced more than that. Doesn’t matter if it was for 5 days or 5 minutes.

If I own a DVD and distribute more than copy simultaneously even if it’s time limited and even if I keep the DRM I’ve still violated copyright.
There is no way that my current organization would buy this, but it would free up a lot of developer hours if customer support or even operations analysts could do this instead of needing a dev every time they wanted to run a custom report.
Just the opposite. It's priced entirely by monthly page count; IIRC the first 100 pages per month are included in the base fee ($3 a month, last I checked), and you pay an extra $1 for every 10 pages in a given month. Since it's a subscription, they just tack on the extra charges after the fact. (I think the extra page rate, at least, depends on plan; trust their pricing info over mine, ofc.)

In exchange for the subscription, your printer automatically requests replacement ink cartridge sets to be shipped whenever the installed set runs low. That doesn't cost extra, and if there's a rate threshold past which it stops happening, I've never hit it.

Ultimately, this works out, by design, as a terrible deal for printing documents, sold entirely on the idea of convenience. But if you're printing photos, in which every sheet that goes into the printer comes out with ink all over it, the deal turns upside down, because the incremental cost of that ink is zero. And, as a nice side benefit, you get fresh cartridges shipped to your door a little before you need them, without having to think about reordering at all.

Last I checked, MSRP for a full CMYK set of first-party cartridges for an Officejet 8610 is $160. At $3 a month for the "Instant Ink" thing, it takes a little over four years to add up to the same cost as one regular replacement set.

The only true drawback I can see here, for the photo printing use case, is that while a printer is enrolled in Instant Ink, it won't take cartridges not provided through that program. That might be a headache if you want to keep an extra backup set handy, but it's never been a problem for me since I set my printer up with the program some time in 2017. It definitely does prevent using remanufactured, refilled, or third-party carts - but, again, that's never been something I felt the need to do while getting first-party ones for ~free, and I doubt I'll change my mind on that as long as HP keeps playing themselves this way.

(For what it's worth, I thought twice about describing all this in such detail, just in case somebody at HP might notice and care enough to make a change. But what the hell, right? This stuff would take five minutes of BI work to find out, given the data they must certainly have for the program to operate as it does at all. That they leave it as it is tells me they don't care, and why would they? Almost all the program's enrollees are no doubt getting the bad end of the deal, and I'm sure it helps them sell printers, so it's no skin off their nose either way.)
Looking at his comments I see insults coming 3 hours after his original comments were voted down. Apparently, being civil did not worked out for him either.
At this point, the entire financial sector is decoupled from actual productivity, and to pass moral judgement of one highly exploitative industry over another solely due to one's ability to be regulated seems myopic, at best.
> I have some friend who have been working at a company who went remote-first and after 5 years they do not feel identified with the company anymore. It's just a job. You could work for someone else and you wouldn't even notice.

I think feeling “identified with your company” is kind of pathological. If remote work gets more people to realise it’s just a job, it’s not their company, and they shouldn’t work themselves to death over it, good.
I wouldn't call it necessarily a "mistake" but certainly something you would want to avoid doing if you want your code to be performant.
In my experience, empathy has an inverse relationship to your position on the org chart.
vim works quite well with standard keyboards. Put this in your .vimrc:

set nocompatible

behave mswin
$50/user/month seems a bit steep to me, you can easily get something like https://retool.com/pricing/ for $10/user/month. Granted it's a bit of a different market, but it does a lot more in addition to having editable/searchable/filterable DB tables.
Data might be bought and sold in aggregate when it comes to advertisers, but the data itself is rarely anonymized. There is ample evidence of, and case law that points to, governments using personal data and technology to spy, gather evidence, entrap, blackmail, etc.

Also, "don't worry, your personal data is being mined among millions of others' data to destabilize your society" isn't exactly comforting, either.
Not sure if I can say any general reason why I downvote sometimes. Perhaps mostly when people complain about being down-voted ...

I've come to the conclusion that one needs to have a healthy distance to ones points, and realize that it's just a gamification of discourse that is helpful up to a certain point, but that it quickly gets counterproductive when that's mostly all that people care about.

I sense that many people are extremely strategic about what they submit or comment on, where they comment etc, and therefore get sensitive about the downvotes as well. Unfortunately it is a seemingly unavoidable consequence of introducing scores in any context.

Better just accept that people downvote you for whatever reason, don't worry too much about your karma (what on earth for?). Care about the content instead.
Trump floats idea of delaying the November election, a power granted to Congress