skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What could go wrong?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696369
Sadly, I am as fallible as the next guy.
Factors Linked to Radical Attitudes and Intentions
No, it's not "literally just spelling". It is additional manual steps vs. having the computer do things for us.

You keep arguing for inconveniencing users and developers, who still need the conversion tools anyway, to avoid standardising the conversion tools. It makes absolutely no sense.
I think the GP was assuming the reason sysadmins worry about running DDL is the danger of overwriting/modifying tables the application depends on.

If this is the main concern, you could have two databases (or schemas, if your database supports it).

One for application configuration/storage that the application never runs DDL on and another for user data, where the tables can be created/modified dynamically.

That separation means that, at worst, user data is screwed up if there's a bug in the DDL generation, but the application should still be able to run.

At least, that was my read.
Asking basic questions might be annoying for a spectator who is already an expert and is just trying to find the latest tid bits of information in the field but for the vast majority of people the basic questions are the ones they want answered. Having a specialist engage in an open ended conversation with a non expert is often more interesting because it is a better approximation of the conversation the listener would have with the same person. I’m not sure what you mean by filler, to me shorter interviews have a higher percentage of filler since people usually have about 40 minutes of standard dialogue on hand. It’s only when you go well past the hour mark that you start to get the unscripted stuff that you wouldn’t normally hear without getting to know the person.
Author is wrong about the underlying cause of that disaster.

From my point of view, the cause is different:

1. Lack of design a.k.a. designed by coders
> At 5 months the team has happy path coded the entire feature list, the screens are ugly and non-intuitive, ...

It's obvious, that the product wasn't designed. Feature list isn't design. Competitors app isn't design. When you have UX/UI/API designed, it doesn't happen that the result product is ugly because of the lack of time. Lack of time may cause, that there will be nicely looking, but slow/incomplete/unreliable product. You need blueprints before building. It can be designed upfront by one designer who is in contact with user and stakeholders. When not, it has to be designed during coding by software engineers which are drowning in technical details and cut off from users.
So just having some more time wouldn't make it a good product.

Also with some plan, they could have created estimation based on something. That would help them to get a realistic timeline.

In the end, the boss and PM should have known better.
Of course I would campaign for it to be accessible. It would be a complete revolution in archeology, architecture, engineering, maintenance, rescue and firefighting and geology should it also work on rocks.

Not sure I see the relation to Apple laying Fully Automated AI ThinkPol groundwork though.
There was quite a few. I remember building stuff in Microsoft Frontpage back in late 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage
They sell Cheerios in 260g and 350g sizes where I live. The boxes are literally identical except in the corner where they print the weight. Same exact dimensions, look, writing etc. except that weight. The 260g box costs 12% less for 3/4s as much. The 350g box goes on sale more often too and is often cheaper. I have no idea what the point of the 260g SKU is except to trick people. It's not like Cheerios spoil easily. I have to pay extra attention when buying them. It's complete utter bullshit.
postmarketOS mostly only supports well very old devices, and the Pinephone which is also based on completely outdated hardware. I wish there was something a little more recent with Linux support.
> if using the same version of Postgres should be enough
Entity–Attribute–Value Model
That was Microsoft Frontpage I think. Dreamweaver was very similar to Frontpage in the 00's, I'm surprised it still exists.
It's too late to reform SAML, but this where TDF shines. [1]

This is what we use in the military to provide provenance assurance, classification markings, and authorize dissemination destinations for digital intelligence products, and also what we use for manifests to enable trusted data transfers from unclassified to classified networks.

It's pretty interesting to be on a network where everyone has a PKI identity. Your client certificate gets sent to your sponsoring agency's personnel database, which returns the exact set of clearances you have, that gets sent to the server you're requesting information from, and you get back a web page with exactly what you're authorized to see and everything else redacted. No need to login and you can access any page you know the name or address for. You just may not see anything on it.

[1] https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/organizations/ic-ci...
Just use old reddit. It's fast. On mobile
https://www.reddit.com/.compact (with a dot before compact) still works.
I just picked up a tom-tom on ebay for $30.00, I forgot how awesome having a dedicated GPS can be. No hot phone, no worries about data connection.
These are some shocking differences. How did you come up with this expression?
No-code is just like serverless!

It's made of other people's code!
>Of course it will be a securely guarded technology, so that it won't fall to hands of random strangers, malicious hackers, or burglars; only the law enforcement agencies would use it, and only for legitimate purposes! Honest.

Here lies the problem. You can't guarantee that. Law enforcement itself has criminals. In some countries law enforcement is even one of the largest collection of criminals.
And then something like Trump happens. Do you really want to give such powers to people like Trump and it's followers, not to mention more malicious ones?

There is no way that this technology is only used for good.

And what comes on top, it doesn't stop crime, just it's modus operandi.

If they can't use their computer to handle certain data, they use hacked ones and hide it there. You know the trick how drug smugglers use the suitcases of tourists to smuggle their drugs?
In the UK a higher percentage of people in ethnic groups live below the poverty line, but in real numbers there are many time more poor white people, as the UK is 90% white. That means that someone living in poverty in the UK has a 6 in 7 chance of being white.

Poorer areas might have worse health services, but people in those areas tend to also live more unhealthy lifestyles which is the realthat lifespans in those areas tend to be lower than more affluent areas.

Being poor isn't the reason people in these groups aren't getting vaccinated; it's out of choice driven by ignorance or fear; as it's free to be vaccinated. The groups your mention are often are less educated and have cultural conflicts with medical and scientific advice.

Many communities have willfully ignored public health advice simply because they think it doesn't apply to them.
Living near the University of South Carolina (Gamecocks), always tickled my inner twelve year old to see a constant stream of garnet hats with "Cocks" on them.
> And as the "app too busy" error message proves, there is a lot more to a site than it's front end alone

I get at least monthly "our servers are busy" messages when accessing Reddit, and their (redesigned) website is so bloated that it takes great effort to replicate such bad performance in a simple clone.

Reddit is the one site where you really can't make this argument, it's bloat incarnate.
What’s the difference between blowing or sucking air through a filter?
Working on Multiple MS Office Files Is Fun Now
Whether it is a student or a teacher, a researcher or a project manager, a writer or an accounts officer, Microsoft Office files are used by everyone around the world. Millions of businesses rely on the MS Office suite to create documents and keep records. They use multiple applications of MS office files such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Wordpad, Notepad, etc. on a daily basis.
Every Apple Child Safety Document
I heard from a friend at home (I'm an expat) that in the age groups where everyone has been offered a vaccine by now, the acceptance rate is between 95% and 98%.

I'm happy and proud to come from a country where the "many people who can't vaccinated" are so few.
Hard to meet a person that doesn't at least dislike reddit, but at least old.reddit.com is quite an efficient page.

I had an internet outage that left me with a few kilobytes/s upstream/downstream. Most of the modern web was plainly unusable, often requests got terminated before all data was transmitted.

But reddit among few other sites did work quite well. Of course not for pictures and media, but the text and comments were quickly displayed. In hindsight I am not sure if that was better than a complete outage, but that is a content problem.
It makes little sense to talk about "lower OS level here". It's a library and a spec that can provide most of its functionality in an entirely portable manner. Datatypes basically consists of two separate parts: The class structure that provides the loading and saving and format conversion, and a widget ("gadget" in the Amiga world) that displays the loaded data. The latter would be hard to do on Linux without tying it to a desktop environment, but the former just needs a way to load data, save data and load and execute plugins.
Likewise in China, I had Italian friends whose embassy helped arrange covid vaccines for Italians living there while the US embassy was no help whatsoever to their citizens. At least among expats, the US embassy has the reputation to be the least helpful embassy to their citizens.
https://www.alieward.com/ologies/phallology

This episode was rock solid.
I think there's a difference between an incel and someone who's simply lacking success in relationships. For a start thanks to coronavirus and lockdowns there's a lot of otherwise totally well-adjusted people who would be put unfairly into that category, and secondly I'd categorise incels as people who specifically make their lack of romantic success part of their emotional identity. This is unsurprisingly a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy as people who do that tend to have pretty insufferable personalities as a result. Instead of working to improve their attractiveness they tend to fall into this nihilistic belief system where all the blame is placed on external factors (usually women) and there's nothing they can do personally to improve their lot in life.

Everyone has dry spells, sometimes even quite extended ones. That's perfectly normal until you start adopting this as part of your personality and taking this frustration out on the world around you. Incels who self-identify as such often have a somewhat organised and deeply revolting ideology too, whereas "people who've not got laid in a while" is a set that nearly everyone has been part of at one point or another so isn't a marker of anything specific.
Cairo makes very few platform assumptions in general.
Proxy.golang.org allows many Go packages to be silently broken
But why would the client need to know about the specific claims and conditions in the IDP assertion? Isn't it the SP that's supposed to verify the claims, not the client?

(note that I don't know anything about SAML except how to configure certain applications for it).
You forgot a step - the elites will ban any community attempts to self-organise and solve their own problems. Note that in the COVID pandemic it is typically illegal (at least in the West) for non-government actors to decide what controls and remedies are appropriate.
Tell HN: Stripe shut down my 4-year business with no explanation
I'm posting this as a warning to other startups who might be thinking of using Stripe to process payments.

I was employee #10 at Eventbrite, founding engineer at Reforge, Techstars alum, startup founder X 3. I can't imagine treating my users like this and I am really upset with how Stripe is handling this situation.

The situation: I own an online SaaS company that processes $500k+ per year through both Stripe and Braintree. I've been using Stripe for years.

Today I received this email:

[b]"Our systems recently identified charges that appear to be unauthorized by the customer, meaning that the owner of the card or bank account did not consent to these payments. This unfortunately means that we will no longer be able to accept payments for

Refunds on card payments will be issued in 5–7 business days, although they may take longer to appear on the cardholder's statement. Please refer to your dashboard for a list of the charges to be refunded[1]."[/b]

I have NO idea what payments they could possibly be referring to & support doesn't respond to my numerous messages. They won't tell me which payments are being refunded (dashboard link they provided just sends me to the list of ALL our payments).

There was a button to verify my identity, which I did, and an hour later, I got:

[b]"Thank you for completing our verification process. Unfortunately, after conducting a further review of your account, we’ve determined that we still won't be able to accept payments for xx moving forward."[/b]

I have messaged my friends who work at Stripe, and edwin@stripe who works there who responded to the last HN thread there was about this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21030633).

Until I get a response through a backdoor way in, my business is at a complete halt.
Understanding the people around you - be it more junior engineers, managers, PMs or other people. They all have motivations and skill sets that are necessary for the big picture.

You get more effective by understanding their needs and why they are asking you for something.
Also sometimes known as 'margarita burn' or 'Mexican beer dermatitis'. So in this case that name definitely refers to the beer brand.
Launch Your Code into Space
> why not do the hashing on Apple's servers when the photos are uploaded to the service?

Their reasoning seems to be that it would break E2E encryption.
That's a good idea. It will likely be trickier to apply a method like this for text. Decomposition of the problem is less obvious than with vision tasks.
Additionally would freely use the toilet, masturbate or have sex if you don't know if someone is just watching even if it's regular law enforcement?

If a police officer is in your house and you need to go to the bathroom, do you close the door?
What has really changed?

Now in the West there're just as many taboos. You can't openly discuss lots of things. Maybe there's no criminal penalty for this (although in some EU countries there's already a criminal penalty for wrong^H^H^H hate speech, same is planned in Canada), but by saying "wrong" things you'll be expelled from society, expelled from your job.

Is taking one taboo and just turning it upside down actually good? Punishing homosexuals was wrong but is forcing people to change gender, brainwashing children with homosexual propaganda and persuading children to change the gender by chemical and surgical means better?

I predict that in 5-10 years in USA it would become obligatory to participate in "pride parades". People who avoid them would be put on "the list".

This situation is not symmetrical and it looks absurd.

There's a writer famous in Russia - Victor Pelevin. In his last book he stated something that was almost obvious to us: USA now is the same totalitarian society as was USSR.

«Современная Америка — это тоталитарный совок 1979 года с ЛГБТ на месте комсомола, корпоративным менеджментом на месте КПСС, сексуальной репрессией на месте сексуальной репрессии и зарей социализма на месте зари социализма». Но разница в том, что «в совок 1979 года можно было привезти джинсы из Америки, а сегодняшняя Америка — это такой совок, в который джинсы уже никто не привезет». «Американская культура в современном виде — это проект ГРУ. Яд "novichok" отравил североамериканскую душу и заструился обратно в Россию. (…) Когда все, связанное с Россией, демонизировано на Западе, сетевые дурочки, прививающие здесь американскую культурную репрессию под зычный храп ФСБ, кажутся по-своему трогательными: геройкам слава! Но если рассказать им, что на самом деле они внедряют созданные ГРУ химеры, они столкнутся с таким сарказмом судьбы, который перенесет не всякая душа», — пишет в своем романе Голгофский.

(too long to translate, but basically: "Contemporary USA is a totalitarian Soviet state from 1979 with LGBT in place of comsomol, corporate management in place of Communist Party, sexual repression in place of sexual repression, and dawn of socialism in place of dawn of socialism. But the big difference is that it was possible to bring jeans and bubble gum from USA into Soviet state of 1979, while there's no place from where you can bring "jeans" into contemporary USA" (mocking the myth that jeans and bubble gum were tokens of western "freedom" in USSR).
> they do what many guests do: they look at the interviewer's previous episodes and see if they like his style.

Unless you have some inside information, you can't know that this is the case. I find it difficult to believe given that some of his early guests are

Steven Pinker - episode 3

Guido van Rossum - episode 6

Eric Schmidt - episode 8

Elon Musk - episode 18

It's naive to think that you get a retired-Google-CEO-billionare by cold calling and getting him to review and like the first 7 episodes of your newly started podcast.
You should probably not be very honest. Any criticism will likely on put you in a negative light, and you might want to have some references from that company at a later point in time.
The irony is the Big Tech giants rub shoulders with known pedophiles (Bill Gates + Jeffrey Epstein).

George Orwell was right, he was just not enough pessimistic about how bad things would get.
In Defense of Dumb TVs
>Not debating you but it's an interesting observation to me that different people will see contradictory evidence

So what do you think that means in a deep, pilosophical way-of-life way?
* Do try to get an HRV/ERV if you live in places where the outside air temperature gets >30C or <10C. Otherwise bring in fresh air will cause issues.

* Make sure your system can handle MERV16 filters: they catch more things, but may create more back pressure, so the system has to be designed to handle it. Further nice-to-have upgrades would be HEPA capabilities, and (if you live in wildfire zones) charcoal filters (for smoke/fire smells). You don't have to (always) use the finer filters, but having that option is useful.

* The filter should ideally be 4"/10cm, as they have more surface area, so reduce back pressure and often only have to be swapped every 6 months (sometimes even every 12). They do cost a bit more because of the extra material, but you get convenience. Don't go less that 2"/5cm though.

* The mentioned Zehnder is a good brand, but AFAICT, are higher end systems, and so may be a bit more pricey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrG7oG8Tvp8

https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/urban-rustic-in...

* Consider getting a separate whole house dehumidifier, depending on your climate: sometimes the indoor air temperature may be comfortable (20-25C), but if the relative humidity (RH) gets too hight (>60%) it will feel hot. But the AC won't run because its thermometer will say everything is fine. Temperature and moisture needs to be dealt with via separate mechanical systems.
This is a surprisingly to-the-point "acronymisation", though!
Thanks for the detailed answer. The way you handle JS is very interesting.
There were price controls in the 1980s in Brazil, so producers changed their products so as to introduce a "new" product.

This never went away and now we have 90g chocolate bars (down from 200g) and you can find toilet paper rolls with as little as 10m.

Some supermarkets will give you the unit price to help you compare.
Thanks! I might do a follow-up article on the topic and will think about how to incorporate this in!
Space flights at Virgin Galactic start at $450k a seat
Reading back now, I realize my comment was indeed just dumb and borne from not properly reading the OP's comment and thinking of the anti-vaxxer movement in general, not the actually rational aversion to untested ones during the Covid crisis.

I would have editing a disclaimer on it but it's too late.
And the Framing continues:

in the course of the last century, the AMOC *may* have evolved from relatively stable conditions to a point close to a critical transition.

The PIK Potsdam was founded in the 1990s by a controversal professor named Schellnhuber [1]. This nature article says that the AMOC may have moved to a point of critical transition but diliberately chose a headline that reads like there is an imminent collapse. And just in case, if the narrative isn't hammered enough into your cortex, every repost, link or citation will be slightly rephrased to make sure the message sticks.

[1] https://www.pnn.de/wissenschaft/katastrophenmythen-und-druck...*
KDE suite just seems too modular. When something doesn't work, I can't figure out how to reconfigure.

Evolution seems to have a similar architecture, but everything can be configured from within evolution's gui
Also good:

Article about global distribution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_lightning

Global strike density to 2015 - https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/85600/global-lightn...

Canada density to 2018 - https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services...
spicy as in "hot" or as in "full of spices (flavours)"?
Respectfully, it seems like you didn't take the following comment to heart.

> You sound pretentious, hence why you don't inspire VPs enough to follow your projects. For that purpose, being skilled in SWE is barely important comparing to relational skills. It's time to question yourself.

Instead you deflected, re-asserting your internal monologue of: it's not me, it's them. It doesn't matter what your backstory is if you're not likable. That isn't a judgment on your character -- you may be a wonderful person and friend. Likability is a skill that can be learned, and one that is arguably more important than any software skills you may have (as you may have implicitly observed).
I have been telling Alexa all along that “Biden is not my president”. Do you think I am in trouble? (Please don’t downvote for a joke).
I had to double-check the date of the publication of the article: August 2021. And in this day and age the author found the time and patience to write an article on profanities with exactly 0 profanities, instead referring to them by circumlocutions. The joy of writing has not completely left the world of journalism, then (even literary journalism, I guess?). I'm moved almost to tears.
It's not a bad change as such, the motivation seems sensible. Although it does seem like a bit of a minor issue, and also a rather weird/confusing way to solve it.

I think the main problem is that Mozilla consistently underestimates just how much people hate it when their software changes behaviour in surprising ways, and also how little control they give to users over these kind of changes.
As a non-English speaker, I am amazed by the fact that people named "Richard" are happy to be called "Dick".
When I lived in the States 10 years ago, my employer had to to get me an international bank account (with credit card) and a cell phone. I had to wait six months to do anything.