skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hightouch.io cofounder here! Thanks for the S/O. Our online presence is quite limited so I'll post a summary here...

We've built an e2e marketing automation platform on top of your data warehouse. Marketers can interactively explore their customer base, run targeted campaigns in downstream email/ad/etc tools, and analyze results leveraging all the data they have in their warehouse.

RE: "messy data" -- Totally agree with bleonard's point that overall, the trend is towards data enablement. That said, I don't think any of the solutions in the markets (even Looker) suffice. I've attended dozens of calls with Looker users who first say that Looker offers self-service exploration but then fail to retrieve fairly basic information via a Zoom screen-share. The truth is it's really hard to do self-service data exploration generically. I think what's lacking from the "BI market" are more verticalized solutions on top of your warehouse (think UIs like Amplitude's funnel analysis, Intercom or Kustomer's segmentation interface, etc.).

To make our product work, we've built UIs that are super focused on particular tasks as well as a pretty nifty graph-based "modeling layer" that sits above your warehouse (which ideally, you use DBT/Dataform on) to abstract over complex JOINs and such.

This whole space is super fascinating to me. Always happy to exchange notes and talk shop RE: marketing, warehouses, customer data, etc. If you have thoughts, hit me up at tejas [at] hightouch.io.
Just for general interest, how can you see their comment or assert they have been shadowbanned?
A breaker panel isn't just used for overcurrent protection, though—it's also a standard point to disconnect power when needed. The possibility of house wiring being energized even when all power to the house is cut is dangerous for anyone not familiar with the setup. This could be lethal if work needs to be done on it and OP isn't around to explain how it's wired up.
Getting timely, accurate feedback on your C++ from the SonarQube ecosystem
I am a bit disappointed that only the look&feel was cloned not the internals. It's just a PIC24FJ128 in an over-sized case. I would much prefer to have a clone that comes with a thick manual and that you need to solder for 2 days. That would be fun. Something ala Ben Eater computer but more pro.

The pricing page is funny, especially the old price listing saying how much you get for "free" with this kit. You start expecting an unreasonable price after that and indeed you are not disappointed.
> anyplace that can store photos online is likely to be used for illegal images

This is a valid point, and I'll have to figure out a way to craft my T&C such that I'm not held accountable for the decrypted data.

As for the rest, as someone who is okay with paying for convenience and bells and whistles, while I understand your view point, it's hard for me to relate to it. I can only hope for there to be more like me.

But I'm grateful to you for taking the time out to share your feedback. Thank you.
> It seems clear to me that "even factoring in" means that there is a net gain for the employer, at a net loss to employees.

It may seem clear to you, but it is neither well measured nor well understood.
Having built a lot of glue apps with Airtable it’s definitely the case that coders and middleware get involved fairly quickly beyond spreadsheet use cases. I’m quite certain that Airtable > Spreadsheets, if for nothing else that field types, views, comments, and permissions are far more ergonomically implemented.
The 50K row limit is quickly met for some use cases. Airtable proved out visual SQL and now is going full no-code with their Apps system. I think this makes for a big opportunity for a novel no-code OSS tool. Node-Red is fantastic, but having that central data layer at hand is a killer feature.
Uhm, no...? The obligation was on Softbank, not on ARM.

> you'd just get out of it (if you wanted to) with some creative corporate governance

... aand you've just "discovered" how large companies routinely get out of their commitments to politicians.
There is also https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/screensharingtest.html just to have more resources to check
That is quite the ironic article in its lack of understanding in claiming that the laws were meant for textiles and not technology and then suggesting mercantalist attitude that fit the dawn of the industrial revolution when they originated it far better than when they essentially more likely a waystation to the US to bypass their daft Cryptography as a munition export laws. Britian can act but it wouldn't serve their national interest at all as it destroys your own sources in a misguided way to try to claim power - exactly like Brexit.
There is no connection but one of theories that was proposed for the unknown absorbers was that they are in fact microbes.

So not only do we have no good explanation for phosphine, we do not have a good explanation for the unknown absorbers. Well, we do have one good explanation although it seemed unlikely and that is life. Given that this is second effect that could be explained with microbes I feel it adds that much more weight to the theory.
> How does Airtable compare to Notion? What are the features that they have in common?

Unless im missing something airtable = database and notion = wiki how are they supposed to be compared in the first place.
American-made drones available for US law enforcement: Pentagon official
I suppose that in every RDBMs that makes the distinction, it's an optimization matter - VARCHAR being stored on-page, while TEXT off-page (although there can be optimizations for short TEXT values); the latter will cause an extra page seek on access.

Some database [versions] may also be unable to apply certain optimizations in certain cases, when TEXT is used (eg. temp tables on MySQL <= 5.7).

That doesn't prevent one from always using TEXT, and possibly, for most of the use cases (surely, if one uses SQLite, that's the case), the performance impact is not meaningful.
Maybe title should be changed to "it" rather than "them" otherwise I thought the owners get put into a coma...
I thought that Tajmar already debunked it in August. But no, they postponed their results to February. But then it will be dead for sure.
I think there's some overlap with fame culture here too.

I'm a nobody and I'm sad. If everyone knew me I'd be happy.

A finger closes on the monkey's paw; You're famous now, for getting your drunk ass taken down in a restaurant waiting area. Now everybody hates you, and they recognize you while you're grocery shopping.

I think the reason why a big fraction of success stories comes from people who built something for themselves first is not just that they have a subject matter expert, or a captive audience (which doesn't hurt!). It's that they know the work is important, even if nobody else knows.

I have a project I used to work on where I got wedged on a rapidly shifting API for a dependency. I had grand plans for solving a problem for a niche that is one of my hobbies. Part of getting back into it has been trying to figure out how to be more... selfish. What parts of it would help me, as a tool? Not the bits that would improve my resume (turns out that doesn't motivate me very well), but me personally. Then maybe my friends. Then if I'm still going, the groups that were my original target.
That was a tedious read. Most of the article is just filler text. There is a whole page of it before the point: give yourself 3 years. Why 3 years? Because Rome wasn't built in a day. That's pretty much all there is to it.

The advice feels pretty circular. To stay motivated, do it for 3 years. If you can commit to something for 3 years, you already have the motivation.

Regardless, I disagree with this advice. Give it a month, tops. If you don't enjoy the process after a month and the goal is 3 years away, you won't get there.

From my experience, I stick to doing things because of the rewards along the way. After a month of playing an instrument, learning a language or trying a hobby, I will likely produce something that makes me want to keep going. It won't take 3 years.
Youngsters are not typically known for patience with adults (witness progs vs liberals). I think it would be very socially destabilizing.
I'm really interested; could you point to some walkthrough/demo of such a workflow? I'm having trouble seeing it.
> Provide a rooted phone by default.

As a freedom-, privacy- and also security-aware person, I disagree quite strongly. Phones should by default provide a way for people to modify their phone as they see fit but they should definitely not be rooted by default. The reason being that root access is, well, the root of all evil. Practically nothing has advanced end consumer device security in recent times as much as Apple and Google enforcing a secure boot chain (in particular: read-only root file systems), implementing heavy sandboxing and cutting down[0] on apps' permissions. All this is worth nothing if apps can obtain root and do whatever they want.

People often claim Linux (as a desktop OS) is secure. It's not by any standard. All the apps you use in your day-to-day tend to have full file system access to all your personal files and full network access. You've merely been lucky so far that you (hopefully) haven't gotten pwned by any rogue application.

I'm eagerly awaiting a time when my root file system will be read-only, my entire boot chain will be verified[1] and all my day-to-day applications will be fully sandboxed and only very few of them have network access.

[0] Granted, one might argue whether this is actually what Google has done.

[1] https://safeboot.dev.
Ever since I was 16, I had a rule: never save money on books.

If you try to save, you introduce disincentives:

a. You may not buy certain books

b. You may end up waiting for some books (lib etc), and reduce your chance of reading them

c. You may take excessive care of the books (esp ofc if you need to return them): this makes it harder for you to mark it up, which is a great way to learn

I don’t think these disincentives are worth it.

Instead, let this be your luxury. Books have an tremendous ROI (potentially millions for ten dollars)

Compared to saving on books, there’s probably areas in your life you can save much more on, restively more easily. Ie reduce rent by 200 bucks and you can get 15 books a month.

This all may seem privileged, but I can guarantee you can make it happen, and it will make you feel great. I did this myself when I had very little money
How do hydroelectric plants unnaturally cool water going through them?
I originally trained to be an electrician. That said, the argument for ground pin down was if a plug "falls" out due to gravity, the ground prong will be the last pin to break connection. Though honestly this is really unnecessary as if the hot and neutral have broke, what current is there to ground?

Another reason is a lot of manufactures of grounded/polarized wall-warts and GFI plugs tended to orient the damn things for ground pin down making ground up installs prone to falling out. So you wind up with electricians following ground down to accommodate this design flaw (or habit).

I dislike the nema 5-15 blade design as it doesn't hold up well to wear. I'd much prefer a pin and sleeve design with the plug recessed in the socket like CEE 7/Schuko. But that's another argument.
I'm the author of the post - yes, of course. best i can remember, a handful of people asked to not record. almost all were fine with it.
Yeah but what entity did the reverse IPO? A private company? How was it funded?
I suspect many of the cases where things are not documented as to what they'll produce or how the layout will look are intentional, as SwiftUI seems to have the (somewhat idealistic) goal of "looking right" and not only does it have to infer intent from what you've written it also needs to be flexible enough to adapt to Apple's design roadmap for the future. So there's no documentation, not only because there are so many special case quirks they've added to support layouts that are considered "best practice design" in UIKit that nobody can really keep up or discover, but also because if they tie something down too much they won't be able to change it to a new design or paradigm. I suspect that they really want for 2022 to roll around and be able to come out on the stage at a WWDC and say that all apps using SwiftUI already get support on their new AR headset, and all standard controls have been mapped to analogues on that platform. If you document NavigationView as being a vibrant view on the top with a large title and a scroll view under it, you can't do this.

Many of the bugs probably have more to do with the unshippability of macOS at the moment.
I'd use #1 and try and pick up serverlesspage.com while you're at it, if you can. Because you know people will go there instead.

If you don't think people will end up going to serverlessass.com if you use option #2, you clearly live on a different planet than I do.
> I really think that false statements made by commercial entities should be prosecuted as fraud.

In Germany, we have the "Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb", roughly translated as "law against unfair competition". It's a pretty old piece of law (1896), but unlike other laws in Germany this one is held reasonably up to date.

Stuff like we see here would be flat out prosecutable by any competitor.
Chinese state hackers are exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Exchange bugs
Interesting take. I think Datomic is a low hanging fruit. A lot of people get excited about it and is fairly easy to do. That being said, I saw quite a few examples of companies migrating from it. Complexity to operate for simple things being the biggest reason. What is your experience with it?
I saw this essay in Arts and Letters Daily (https://www.aldaily.com/) and added it to my blog's next links post, with a variation of this comment: I've never heard of this guy and yet his work sounds like just the sort of thing I'd like to read: I'm not interested in most of the standard political and pop culture stuff that's endlessly written and re-written. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to have a link list of his recent works anywhere, at least that I can find. His website (https://russellsmith.ca/) appears to be pretty generic, and its RSS feed seems to have last been updated in 2015. How are we supposed to find his work and follow him, if we are interested in his work (and I am, after reading this)?
If the guy shows you a video, are you gonna actually ask him whether it was what it looks like?

I guess you ought to kick the tyres on the real thing though.
This is the problem. You cannot rely on the circuit interruption capabilities of whatever devices happen to be installed on that circuit at a given point in time. If these were permanently installed, you might have an argument that it is passable.

The situation that is dangerous here is if a power source were to be connected to one of these inlets and it did not have a sufficiently-sized breaker and the other side has a dead short, you are looking at a fire inside your walls.

I just installed a 50 amp generator inlet on my main panel, and even though my generator has a matching 50 amp circuit breaker, I installed a separate matching 2-pole 50a breaker on the inlet circuit. This protects the electrical system from even the most screwed up of generators being connected to the panel.
“it” refers to a single object. As the title references multiple (“iPhones 6”), “them” is appropriate (there isn’t an equivalent word to “them” for inanimate objects).
Codify similar structures for programmers and engineers and we will reap the benefits. Organize.
You could buy this racing sim or this 2014 Aston Martin Rapide S.

https://www.livermorehonda.com/used/Aston+Martin/2014-Aston+...
It will have the same effect the DMCA did on piracy after Napster. That's what will happen. Even if the big companies come clean and start policing, that will just move the extremists who have already built their army into decentralized encrypted chat platforms, and they will still recruit over these tools too.

You've gotta basically build the entire Internet from scratch, with some kind of government and some kind of identification system so that if someone comes to take down social discourse they are removed from not just one platform but all of them and they can't come back without some kind of appeal. In addition, all political discourse held should be required to adhere to scientific and scholarly standards. I have no problem with people who aren't from institutions to challenge the status quo, sometimes that has benefits but if they aren't armed with a pile of evidence to prove why the status quo is wrong, they should not be amplified and that regulation should be central.

Until you have both of these things, anything else you do will be a waste of time. It will either become like some sort of Vegan alt-lifestyle or morph into yet a new set of big platforms. Both are untenable, as fixing this has to require the participation of the entire social system.
If that was true, powershell would dominate programming.
On the first two, bacteria are pretty much ubiquitous and constitute a significant chunk of total biomass on Earth. They can form spores some of which are exceptionally sturdy. It's not too hard to imagine some sort of conditions in which c) can happen - you sent a yeast probe to a sugar water ocean planet but that doesn't sound too much like Venus.
Exactly. I do not think that contamination by Venera probes is likely suspect. The atmosphere of Venus has no oxygen and most life on Earth needs oxygen. Even extremophile life on Earth isn't extreme enough for Venus so it would be extraordinary set of circumstances that Venera probe is contaminated with just the right type of bacteria that is then able to adapt to Venus and spread planetwide.
Why the negativity? I think Repl.it is a great place to prototype ideas and work on things without needing to spin up an entire environment on your computer. I think of it like a scratchpad, and with some of their new functionality, it's also become somewhat of a CodePen type platform where you can host tech demos and fun projects—all for free.

I've used Repl.it ever since it became publicly available and I've used it to teach some classes and camps. As a college student, it's also a great environment to quickly open a coding scratchpad to do the occasional LeetCode problem and share my solution with others.
In my specific case, the questions couldn't be answered by anyone else. They have a specific issue that could only be solved by the company in question. What else can you say but "have you called customer service"?
>The effect is miniscule //

The effect of a human on the planet is miniscule, but we're still in the bad state we are.

We're looking at covering the planet in solar panels, worth considering how the albedo changes will effect things on a planetary scale.
> wildfires are down

14 of the 20 worst wildfires have occurred in the past 15 years, and the size of fire season is growing.

https://laist.com/2019/10/28/california-fires-explained-why-...
I didn't look super closely, but it looks like your database works similarly to DynamoDB, in which case it could use similar data modeling. Here is a great post on single table design for DynamoDB that would probably be mostly applicable here:

https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb-single-table/

The post author actually wrote an entire book on data modeling with a single key/value table.
Apple: New AirPods Pro Firmware (Spatial Audio Support and Automatic Switching)
> That said, the argument for ground pin down was if a plug "falls" out due to gravity, the ground prong will be the last pin to break connection. Though honestly this is really unnecessary as if the hot and neutral have broke, what current is there to ground?

The ground prong being the last to lose connection means it will not lose connection while the others a plugged in. In the reverse case, where it is the first to loss connection, it will lose connection while there is something to ground.
On the other hand, our main fraud discovery mechanism is short selling. No public market means no shorts...
But this is still compatible with Java slowly dying. It is possible that in a future Java role in the JVM will share some similarities with C's role in CPython.
On the other hand, you might be facing an XY problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

Sometimes it's better to question a person's motives than to hand them a shotgun to shoot themselves in the foot with.
In my experience this scenario is very accurate. Add to it the growing usage of tools like Pipedrive, Pipefy, Airtable, that sometimes prod-eng team is not even aware.

As a Rudder and Fivetran user, I can see a very complementary use case for Grouparoo. Where the first two are responsible for unifying events and external data in the DW and Grouparoo to sync user data to other tools.

Two other tools that I saw in this space (not Open Source): https://www.calixa.io/ https://windsor.io/
As one of those who do care, I think the charitable and more likely interpretation is that this behavior is a response to a lot of the self-righteousness that environmentalists have exhibited. I think if our messaging were more humble (i.e., do we really care about the environment, or is it just a moral issue that we can use to prop ourselves up and cut others down) we would encounter less of this kind of blow back. Moreover, this is all worsened by an increasingly divisive media and social media, so we need to be more careful than ever about our messaging and demeanor. This is just my humble opinion; I'm sure many will disagree.
I assume you are referring to the upcoming elections with "soon" - the problem is, the Fed won't be stopping the money presses so soon, and with all the cheap money in the market it will always drive to find even the most tiny returns. Even if these "returns" are scams.
What's changed three years after Equifax breach?
> Edit: I see mpolun left a similar comment here, but it looks like he has been mostly shadowbanned for about 8 years.

Yeah same. I don't have enough karma to vouch for their comment but I see no big reason that said comment should be dead. Their account is from 2012 and the vast majority of their few comments seem to be contributing to the conversation. Their first dead comment is also from 2012 but at a glance said comment is the only one that stands out as not contributing much to the conversation. And that's being harsh even – I've probably made less substantial comments in the past myself. Yet like 30% of their 3 pages of comments are dead. And looking at their submissions they have ever only submitted 3 stories, 2 of which appear to be from a domain that they themselves control. Hardly enough to be subjected to having so many of their comments killed I think. Though of course there might be other factors at play, but from what I see on their profile page I see nothing bad enough to warrant this.
More specifically was slated to earn 700 million, if the Nikola ponzi had been able to slip under the radar and continue. I'm absolutely sure NKLA does not have 0.7 billion lying around in cash, those are new investment that they need to raise. Fake it till you make it, they say.

In the current situation, all investors will require substantial proof of working technology. No working tech, no new investment, the company will probably fold before paying back a cent to GM.
Maybe they move you up the waiting list for one of the higher end cars if you buy this?
> I don't think anyone has done as much damage to the climate as environmentalists, by opposing nuclear power.

I think suburban homeowners and their organized interests have had much more to do with nuclear power. I am an "environmentalist" and am largely pro-nuclear power (although less than before due to increasing cost competitiveness of renewables).

Actual environmentalists (ie. people who are passionate about saving the environment and also analytical thinkers) like Stewart Brand have been on top of this for a while.