skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care about that. I am not asking for a browser or a linux distro that forbids the installation of extensions not in the repository. I want a browser that has a repository I can trust, as already exist for linux distros.

I cannot trust either Mozilla or Google's extension repositories, they are 'managed' in a substandard manner relative to Debian or android's F-Droid. Both of these extension repositories are managed so poorly it seems farcical to say they're managed at all.
this is super helpful! are you an attorney? I'd love to connect if so!
Lots of denial and sarcasm in the comments here. A person close to me had many of the experiences described in this, including the psychotic episodes that I had to help them through. Try to imagine how frightening and difficult it is to see someone you care about experience that, from a substance that's portrayed as safe and harmless and fun. they are still working to get back to a healthy place after years of cannibis abuse.
Any athletic shoes that fit properly. Nike, New Balance, Adidas, Puma all have options.
> Self-driving cars will save tens of thousands of lives a year and hundreds of thousands of expensive fender-benders, whether due to sleepiness, inattention, or drunk driving.

This claim is the part of self-driving cars that has become boring. People keep making it, but they never specify when, nor do we get any information about whether full-self-driving is really that big a safety leap over the automatic braking and lane assist that we have already had for a decade or more. Meanwhile there remains no appreciable effect on the slope of the graph for annual deaths per vehicle miles traveled.
> to model mathematical theorems,

You could also say that mathematics is a model of how Sets behave. It is a generalized model of reality. We don't create models of mathematical theorems, the theorems are a property of the very generalized and abstract model which is mathematics.
And most important: IQ is predictive. If all you were allowed to know about a set of people were their IQs, then you could make money all day using that information to bet on a variety of life outcomes.
Call me old fashioned but I generally don't trust a communist country that caused a global pandemic and tried to cover it up.
An incredibly unhelpful comment.
By replicating the SQLite transactions to other SQLite databases.
This victim blaming has to stop. These companies shouldn't be able to just shut down an account like this, especially for something so critical and core to a business survival. We shouldn't have to live in a world where you need multiple backups for every service you use in case one decides to fuck you over for no good reason!
This is why we need a decentralized Internet payment system, like email.

This was a non-controversial opinion not long ago.
Yet the supply of office buildings continues to increase, exacerbating the imbalance.
1) I used it purely for satirical purposes.

2) Occam’s razor. I will give you that sleeping with newborns in bed and accidentally smothering them happens all too often, but anything more malicious can in my opinion be safely discarded, because parent’s killing their child require way more presupposition and proof would be on your side.
flip flops (not cheap styrofoam ones with hard plastic loops, but a decent 20$ pair with cloth loops)
It doesn't matter if you're 400 Tb/s, you still can't help the speed of light. You're still going to be waiting for a round-trip or a few.
This is really sad :( There are 2 tech companies that I really hate. Whatever they touch they ruin - Oracle and Adobe.

On the other hand, there's now a lot of room for other startups to go Figma-way and try to capture market.
With ETH off there’s going to be a significant loss of profit to be had and people stopping because the expected value of mining has gone negative. Store stocks of graphics cards are booming. There absolutely will be a reduction in PoW power usage globally.
243 times their revenue? From what I can research:
Figma took $332M in funding and has just $82M revenue for 2022.
Adobe must be betting on Figma's 60% YOY growth and probably see them as existential threat.
Could a report to the CFPB move the needle?
Is it all companies that can no longer decide who they do business with in accordance with the terms of the contracts in place?
I've been using 2 HDDs for the past 3 - 4 years, I did not have any problems yet.
Maybe 15 years ago I ended up fencing the CC stuff off with firewall rules because it was the fastest way to deal with its awfulness.

With the next computer for half a year it was always this queasy, i should probably install illustrator now, but once I do I can never go back. Maybe I can hold out another few weeks. This is for a corporate paid for version that would make my work easier. Eventually I buckled and it ruined another computer.

10 years free though!
"I can’t find any documentation on where these colours came from — they seem to have been passed down from terminal to terminal since the dawn of time. But this can’t be a coincidence!"

Is it really hard to understand why these colors were chosen? #000 = black. After that, just iterate through the combinations of each combination of replacing the 0 with an F. Full on, full off. That's your choices. never mind 1-E of the in betweens.
I should have included the /s tag as the humor appears to be lost on most.
Oh that’s really cool! Seems like it’s just a well designed chair for most heights.

I agree on all of your points. Bless the designers for saving our back/knees/hips etc!
I've heard accusations of companies purposefully hiring bot farms to click on their competitors' ads and blow their budgets / get them dropped for excessive click fraud. It's rough out there.
Maybe that's how you think, but I'm not interested in counterfactuals. In *Reality* Microsoft made a lot of useful products and they were compensated for that (probably too much)
No true for me. I was banned and recovered my account within 2 days by emailing abuse@discordapp.com.
that is too much
Tourist traps are overrated, not traveling. Learning languages makes you wiser and more valuable. Cast iron lasts a long time, and it is better for searing meat because of it's heat retention. Machine learning has a lot of potential, including predicting climate change, changing the way we create everything from media to drugs, changing wars and so on, it's the opposite of boring. Software is just as much engineered as a bridge is, and software engineers should aspire to be responsible, especially because software tend to be used by more people than a bridge.
$20b? I guess hyper inflation is a thing. How long will they need to recoup the purchase? How many customers does figma have and how much do they pay to justify $20B?
I refuse to co-operate with those who use diaresis to separate vowels.
Maybe I've just drank too much of the kool aid, but it seems that prohibiting things like the equivalent of wearing a rainbow pride shirt or Ukraine flag pin is too much. If you don't want politics - or for that matter, discussing the latest Marvel movie trailer - to distract from company business, then why not just make that you policy instead of banning politics?
This kind of stuff really scares me. I'm bootstrapping a SaaS and my big competitors could crush me real easy with stuff like this.
Are you sure it's not a medium risk business that IS benign, but STILL is considered medium to high risk?

For example, selling video game digital products like a strategy guide is benign, but gaming industry is ripe with fraud so most processors will give you shit if you're in the gaming niche, let alone (non-crypto) digital currencies, crypto, health products, non-snakeoil supplements, etc.
Weed destroyed my life and left me with crippling anxiety. That was 2 decades ago. IMO - it shouldn’t be legal. And if it is, it should at least have giant warnings all over it.
That doesn't really cover the processor under discussion here, only the shader cores called the QPUs.

This work and the processor under discussion is another core called the VPU that unfortunately gets confused because with the default firmware it runs the majority of the OpenGL driver stack, controlling the QPUs.
Okay, then they leak their private key.
In classical-econ I think they call it the water vs diamonds problem. People just have an intuitive sense that some abstract absolute-value matters more than subjective-value, or additional effort should be rewarded more than less-effort. These are wrong, because the real price is about the tradeoff one must make on the margin. The value something has is always about the alternatives I can take - to go to another supplier, to implement something myself, to forgo, etc ...
If that were true, you'd have to explain how they got the self-esteem issues in the first place if there wasn't discrimination.

FWIW, I have known a lot of people in sales and it's not confidence that makes you good - that's just a stereotype - but the ability to make the other person feel like you have their interest in mind. Sure you have to be willing to approach someone but without the ability to establish a connection, the confidence would be misplaced. It also seems like anyone can train themselves out of cold call anxiety.
Ask VHN: I have recently been ejected from my Gentleman's club without explanation. I am neither a scofflaw nor a charlatan. Do I have any recourse ?
They did say they had been running the business for several years and have prior discussions with Stripe about TOS on file.
I work at Stripe. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can dig into this?
You can see my other post. I am also quite short. However I do not have this experience you are conveying here. I think it is a matter of attitude, more than height. Of course being a quiet guy who is 190cm would be better than being a quiet guy who is 165cm.
"No politics" has always meant "the boss's politics."
I wonder at what point this stops. We have a certain subpopulation saying these things in Europe while companies actively vest in cities.

But hey, apparently the answer is to burn 10 hours of your workday instead of feeling 'entitled' to a modern, average-sized apartment while earning far above median. Next up, stop feeling entitled to a personal toilet and kitchen, middle class plebs.
Background: I worked in the pressure vessel manufacturing industry as a design engineer and have pretty deep experience with designing around brittle fracture.

1) Just because the testing requirements say -100 °F but the temperatures will "never" get there is false.

2) There is a direct correlation between fracture toughness at various temperatures and impact testing, but testing may need to be at a different temperature than operation conditions to successfully validate the material.

Regarding 1, rapid release of a compressed gas can reach cryogenic temperatures shockingly fast, even if the surrounding environment will never reach those temperatures. This principle is widely used[0] and the correct conditions can occur in everyday situations. For example, vessels meant for operation on the Texas coast are routinely designed to withstand -20°F temperatures despite the fact that the lowest temperature ever recorded in the area is 10°F.

Regarding 2, there has been nearly a century of intense research into fracture toughness and how it correlates with low temperatures. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Petroleum Institute (API) have published gobs of (paywalled) articles about correlating minimum design metal temperatures and fracture toughness, although here's[1] an older U.S. DOD document from 1981 outlining their findings in guns, specifically.

[0]: https://www.nexflow.com/blog/vortex-tubes-use-compressed-air...

[1]: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA099736
Private clubs still exist, though, and they can still ban you even if all your friends are there. I'm also reasonably sure Discord can't ban you for being black or Jewish. They can, of course, ban you without giving a reason at all, but so can physical private clubs.
100% this. They're basically saying "I know nothing about it, but from afar it looks disgusting."
Noooooooo!
Usually you would start with a “lawyer letter” and hope it adds some urgency to resolving your issue. Those are way faster and cheaper than actually filing suit.
GM and Ford vehicles were deathtraps until the mid 2000's when Ford bought Volvo and borrowed several of its platforms for their own vehicles. Ford literally cheaped out on the steel used in the roof pillars of their SUVs and pickup trucks, for example - deciding that the cost of lower-strength steel was worth the additional profit and they'd eat the cost of any potential lawsuits/settlements.

Honda and Toyota, similarly, were death-trap cars until around the same time, because a)the Japanese have a much lower crash rate and travel far less on high-speed roadways so it wasn't a domestic issue, and b)they had to compete against Ford in the US market (and GM, who had to compete against Ford.) In the EU, Euro-NCAP crash standards were forcing safety improvement among the non-luxury brands Honda and Toyota were mostly competing against (and GM/Ford brands/models sold in the EU, too.)

> I don't think anyone car argue that modern cars don't perform several orders of magnitude better in severe crashes - however for light crashes, your hunk of 50's-70's metal will often end up with significantly less damage, and at a minimum can be driven home.

Performance isn't judged based on damage level and "severe" versus "light" are completely arbitrary standards you picked aka "wiggle words."

Less damage to the car in any crash means more acceleration on you. Human body repair bills, especially in the US, cost significantly more than body damage to cars. Unfortunately, due to the sad state of US healthcare - getting to the ER and the first hours of medical care could cost more than the value of one's car, easily.

Given car crashes are a significant cause of injury and death in the US - and that modern cars are significantly less polluting (multiple orders of magnitude so) and more fuel efficient, quieter, more ergonomic and comfortable - I'll take a modern car, thanks. Side benefit: modern sedans and european SUVs are also significantly safer for pedestrians.
Thanks! I try my best to stay up to date, but haven't looked much into this. This is super cool.
If I were helpful, I'd probably drop a comment on HN for the first time in a week to shit on someone's advice for moving forward with no advice of my own and nothing else to say.

Talk about the ultimate hypocrite.
I believe you, but I was also triggered by this line here

> They know exactly who our customers are and what services we offer, and have approved it as such.

which sounds like you offer services out of the ordinary.
https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/acceptableuse-full

always read the fine print
Hm, I wonder if there is a term for this. I too like to try and keep in a pattern, and it never works out and often feels very unnatural when speeding up or slowing down a run.
For most of these actors this is going to work just fine until their org ship a laptop with a gps device.
If only there were some kind of permissionless, censorship resistant payments system, so that we could operate our businesses without being arbitrarily crushed by faceless corporations.
Ask the star-bellied sneeches.
Self custody means having/being a custodian that does not make mistakes, ever. That is not sustainable either.
A law firm probably has an escrow account set up for this.
honestly you're just going to have to start buying and trying. even if it ticks a lot of boxes on paper it might not feel right.

on the logitech front i've tried all of their bluetooth multi device keyboards, the MX series is the only one that felt right. but they're heavy. (im in banking so needed the 10key version. 10key less is going to be lighter but probably not enough to want to drag it around with me)
Admittedly, that definition as given leaves most Zelda games qualifying. You go around gain abilities, there are often optional rewards for backtracking and using those abilities. (BOTW is a pretty major exception here, and so are the NES zeldas).

One notable difference is that there is rarely benefit to backtracking into previously completed dungeons. Even for 100% it is often possible to get everything with the first pass (without even using glitches or unintended interactions), which is not like most metroidvanias. However, most Zelda games but the games do tend to favor overwold backtracking for optional rewards.
New Balance 880, on my 4th pair in 5-6 years and they are the best
I will take the OP's story at face value, but I think a common theme in these sort of posts is the "Stripe not happy with my business model" angle which typically does not actually include any details about the business model.

For example, a few weeks ago the founder of Tailwind tweeted [0] about how Stripe had shut down their account when they were set to launch the Tailwind Job Board, despite many other job boards also using Stripe and there being no obvious increased risk. Any rational person would protest the fact that Stripe does not approve of this business.

Compare that to what I've seen on various Facebook groups about Stripe shutting down accounts. People aren't descriptive about what exactly they're selling and it usually boils down to "coaching" or some other gray area.

[0] https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1550092016242946049
Your sentence caught me off guard, maybe I am reading it wrong. Do you mean email as a payment system, or do you mean email as an example of a decentralized system?
I read mostly disappointment here that Adobe will harm/destroy Figma.

We have to remember, though, that Figma leaders think otherwise…
CIPIC HRTF Database Reupload
Well there is a third way: bring the massive camera setup with you where you’re going. ;)
I've used all of these tools as well. Recently I was clinging to the side of Sketch with white knuckles while bringing over stuff from photoshop and illustrator and exporting to zeplin. The process was cumbersome but created excellent results. But I finally forced myself to check out figma.

Within about two weeks I never looked back.

For me, figma was just SO much better. Some of the behaviors are so head-smackingly, "Oh my god, why doesn't Illustrator do that?!" it's nuts.

I still need PS and Illustrator on occasion, but for embracing Figma I was able to dump 2 programs (Sketch/Zeplin) and actually improve my company's overall design consistency and brand like never before. And I use the Adobe products - which I've used for over 30 years - so much less, it's stunning.

I must sound like an advertisement, but figma has been a total life/career-changer. The news of the acquisition this morning slapped me hard. I fear the unknown. I remember what happened to Macromedia, too.
Huge warning signal to not use Stripe if this is their level of support for large business. If you're this large how do you not have one guy right accessible through a direct phone call? Stripe's slipping.
Barefoot sock-shoes are my favorite
Here it is! The raison d'etre of these posts to HN!
Reads as literate pearl-clutching to me, but I skimmed.

Pointing out excesses of "good intentions" is shooting fish in a barrel. Without examining the subject as a whole (history, prior mistakes, lessons learned, etc.), it's just pandering to fear and anger.

News flash: drugs can be abused!
> Having your livelihood at the whim of an algorithm is not only not cool. It is not sustainable.

Yeah!

> all payments will transition to crypto based and self custody

But... but... you said...
Why is it pathetic? Men have a smaller pool to date from unless they get out of the filter bubble. They're wagering they can still win despite the physical statistic.

It might create noise on the other end, but they are heavily incentivized to lie.
Meticulous raises $4M to make UI testing better
> A spermwhale's brain is about the size of a basketball

Well said. Here's another expression I often use: Stupider than Jupiter!

Jupiter is big but not very intelligent as far as we know.
If gmail/outlook/yahoo bans you or mark you as spam, you are not gonna get much done.
No, I don't use an @gmail.com address for important communications. If Google banned me I would still be able to communicate with the government on the internet.

It turns out there's more email providers than just gmail.
Not to agree with the grandparent comment, but we do live in exactly that world. Even as a private citizen I deliberately carry more than one kind of payment card.
Which is besides the point.
It was just last month that all of the big players in the cryptocurrency space blacklisted all addresses that have ever interacted with TornadoCash from using their services, essentially transforming that monopoly money into even less than monopoly money.

Crypto is not at all decentralized.
It really depends on your weight. If you are overweight and not used to walking, comfortable shoes and socks make a big difference.

Nike makes some good walking shoes that skew wider, but definitely read the reviews first to confirm, since they change between model years/revisions. For a while Downshifter was my go to, recently the Revolution 6 has been a good replacement.
The phrase "3rd world" was invented to continue the status quo of Western colonization of said "3rd world" countries.
The problem is a social one, if everyone expects everybody else to do something about a problem, it never gets done.

"I thought you were doing it"

If you want to give, then give and I recommend giving to charity, the world needs lasting regular investment.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, someone is ultimately paying. If everybody assumes everybody else will pay for it and nobody is willing to add funds, then that service shall pass away.

Look at any social good and the investment it receives and the state of repair of those same services.
As you are, I'd focus on my business first. How do you get Stripe out of the equation? Stripe exists, in part, because of how bad the incumbents were, and could never innovate. But now that they have competition, could you switch?

I mean I love supporting startups, and YC, but Stripe has a $100b or whatever valuation... They'll be cool.
Maximize profits with infinite number of ads per video.
Ok but is that a green flag or a yellow flag?

How many companies using Stripe have had multiple conversations about the TOS? I would guess it’s a minority. Not a topic anyone is usually excited to talk about.
With defi, if your money falls through the cracks of automation you can kiss it goodbye -- it's gone for good. At least here there's a chance of a resolution.
No - this would be an example of GETTING fucked by a company, BECAUSE you trusted them. Which is exactly the kind of thing we write laws about; you shouldn't be able to get fucked because you believed what a company told you. You should only be able to get fucked by a company because you agreed to the penalties of how they intended to fuck you, should you break that agreement, and proceeded to intentionally and/or maliciously break that agreement.

Consumer protection is "good, actually", and while a financially robust entity is always better served by having options and backups, it's reasonable to assume that those luxuries are not available to everyone and should thus not be the expected modus operandi of a standard enterprise.

Charitably, I'll assume you meant "you should have other methods, as backup", which is decent advice. It's just really shitty when you frame it as a default expectation that was "fucked up".
Just switch to a different merchant. This entire post seems weird to me because it seems like you are doing nothing here but just being a middleman in between Stripe and people who need to process payments lol. Why cant they just enable Stripe themselves?

>So currently, my product doesn't work for 35% of my customers. Cue torrent of pissed off customer emails.

Okay? You should have always had a plan for this bc its bound to happen eventually. Switch them to a new merchant or drop them as clients and take the heat. The cost of just being a middleman.