skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why[1] am[2] I[3] not[4] surprised[5] in[6] the[7] slightest[8]?[9]

Stripe even ghosts people in their job interviews[10].

I've only been on HN for a few years, but I repeatedly see people having horror stories with Stripe like this. Are there really no acceptable alternatives?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32854528

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28522784

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9738717

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30535572

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32261868

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34233011

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712023

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035581

[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870886

[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264
I started probably as a 12 year old but don't regret it. That being said, I think the main thing for teens or whoever to understand is that these are actors and this is purely an entertainment production. Most women are not interested in non-emotional, non-intimate sex (although a small minority is), but watching porn at a young age might give you the impression that it's the case.
Most of them allow to select exit nodes.
There is some promise with NAC and the bladder nightmare that can happen, but yes agreed, those bladder problems can be heinous, and accepting a mildly reduced efficacy in the short term for the trade of being able to maintain this longer term is the risk argument that I think I'd be making here. <3 :))))
It's not an HN discussion if there's no discussion there.
Tangentially to secant, BTC community resistance is in the spirit of maintaining a solid base layer that is not perpetually in startup mode given stakeholder motives. Use other coins for that purpose.

Regarding changes that still maintain or even enhance this goal of long-lived store of value, I bet they'd be fine with that, even if the work effort of BTC transactions increased.
Jet-A is the commercial diesel variant. Military uses JP8 which is Jet-A + anti-corrosion/static additives.
You divide the number of physical qubits by 5 to get the number of fault tolerant error corrected qubits. [0]

If their algorithm works, they need a 1860 (372*5) qubit computer to break 2048 bit RSA.

IBM expects to get there by 2025. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-qubit_error_correcting_co...

[1] https://www.ibm.com/quantum/roadmap
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I think that this issue is really universal across all banks in Korea. I was told (but couldn’t confirm) that this is a liability question. Supposedly, there was a court ruling that held a bank liable for a customer’s losses due to lack of security precautions. So now all of them implement “security precautions” to avoid liability.

Thank you for the hint, I fixed the typo. Not being a native speaker, I had to ask a search engine what I did wrong in this sentence. :-)
Ask HN: Have IRL tech meetups rebounded in your area?
My area had plentiful IRL tech meetups before 2019. You could find meetup groups for specific languages and technologies, or just communities of enthusiasts who were learning or hacking together.

These days, it's very hard to find events in my area that aren't online. And the online events are usually prerecorded videos and marketing pitches. Even extremely popular topics (like web development) have basically zero IRL presence within a 50-mile radius.

I keep waiting for the community to rebound, but I'm not sure it ever will. I've started a group of my own, but it's also very slow to grow.

Have IRL meetups and communities in your area rebounded to 2019 levels yet?
Seems like it'd be super useful for maintaining a virus-free environment in an ongoing manner in a circumstance where they would contaminate your results, but where the virovores wouldn't. Maybe there's a virus that you're able to account for in your methodology that you feed the virovores with, and they stick around and clean up other viruses that get into your culture.

Or maybe in an industrial process they could help dampen the spread of viral outbreaks in your bioreactor.
Yes, there are. It’s well known there is an opioid crisis happening in the US, and this is the impact.
I think the prison has a fairly simple winning argument here.

1. Births attended by medical staff are much safer

2. The movement of dangerous prisoners is complex and time consuming and is significantly more dangerous during a health crises (imminent birth)

3. Moving prisoners ahead of natural birth to a medical facility and inducing at fullterm leads to more attended births

Inductions at term are extremely safe and routine. There are times preterm inductions are done but that isn't what is happening here.
Utility-scale solar is far more efficient than rooftop solar. With rooftop, the panels face whatever direction the roof does. But utility solar fields have panels that rotate to face the sun.

Considering that power generation depends on the cosine of the angle between the sun and the panel - angle matters a LOT. Efficiency falls off fast if your angle is bad.
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> the manosphere

You're talking in circles here - you brought up what "sort of person" is in the manosphere, and your answer is people in the manosphere. Not exactly insightful.

The so-called manosphere is a wildly diverse grouping with different experiences, complaints, and conclusions. Lumping in Andrew Tate with Men's Rights is just nonsensical.

> bash feminism rather than a reason to fight things like rape culture

I can do both and it's served me very well. When feminists like Koss et al. downplay female abuse of boys, that is rape culture and I'll fight them all day long.

> If even with your experience can't figure out why serial rape victims might murder their attackers

This is a schizophrenic strawman. I understand that perfectly and I've said nothing that could lead someone of sound mind to think otherwise.

I've been called a feminist in real life (much to my annoyance) in arguments about abortion, or about behaviour online or at work. There's nothing about Men's Rights that requires taking legitimate rights away from women. I can be a good person without identifying as my own enemy.

If you were actually sorry about my experience, you might like to prove it by not making up lies, cut from whole cloth, about me and men like me, in what looks like a desperate attempt to paint yourself as One of the Good Ones.
This is clearly unconstitutional.
This sounds excellent. Will be keeping an eye on this. As I've been spending more time doing data viz recently, I've started to realize how little I remember about stats from college and am having to study back up. Unfortunately, the resources I've found have left much to be desired. My best bet at the moment seems to be going through MOOC courses to essentially retake my stats courses. But your guides here seem much nicer.
Interesting post. I find myself moving away from the sort of "compare/contrast with humans" mode and more "let's figure out exactly what this machine _is_" way of thinking.

If we look back at the history of mechanical machines, we see a lot of the same kind of debates happening there that we do around AI today -- comparing them to the abilities of humans or animals, arguing that "sure, this machine can do X, but humans can do Y better..." But over time, we've generally stopped doing that as we've gotten used to mechanical machines. I don't know that I've ever heard anyone compare a wheel to leg, for instance, even though both "do" the same thing, because at this point we take wheels for granted. Wheels are much more efficient at transporting objects across a surface in some circumstances, but no one's going around saying "yeah, but they will never be able to climb stairs as well" because, well, at this point we recognize that's not an actual argument we need to have. We know what wheels do and don't.

These AI machine are a fairly novel type of machine, so we don't yet really understand what arguments make sense to have and which ones are unnecessary. But I like these posts that get more into exactly what an LLM _is_, as I find them helpful in understanding better exactly what kind of machine an LLM is. They're not "intelligent" any more than any other machine is (and historically, people have sometimes ascribed intelligence, even sentience, to simple mechanical machines), but that's not so important. Exactly what we'll end up doing with these machines will be very interesting.
> If you are in prison and have a serious tooth infection (and that can be fatal though rarely) then yes, the state can absolutely force you to have a root canal.

This isn't really comparable; it would be like the prison forcibly removing your teeth because you may get a serious tooth infection and they don't want to be liable for that.
Hopefully you'll focus on more than yourself. The issue is folks who will consume the media while shaming those in it. Nobody forced you to lie about your age, and these age checks are hard to do in a privacy preserving manner.

(I had a Maxim subscription when I was ten-ish, the issue was conditioning folks to only be attracted to airbrushed, surgery laden folks with heaps of makeup and gym routines that are only accomplishable if "being pretty" is your full time job, those issues are the same whether it's porn or "just" modeling.)
1) Besides access control, having an unencrypted WiFi network is not great because your entire internet/local traffic is open to be sniffed. High-gain antennae, etc. You are essentially screaming the contents of (what would be) your ethernet cable into the void.

2) Access control is exactly the point. I suppose you could ban the TV's MAC address from your open network (and I suppose a sufficiently malicious TV firmware could randomize its MAC address), but your stated purpose (allowing open network access) is not exactly compatible with what you presumably wish to do (disallow network access to a smart TV).
You already can do that. Albeit it doesn’t detect it as a zip code specifically, but you can format the cells so that values that look like numbers aren’t automatically converted into numbers.

Excel does have its quirks (CSV handling is one of my pet peeves) but it does also have a surprising amount of sophisticated adjustable logic that is often hidden in plain sight.
On the other hand I bought a smart TV for youtube and other movie streaming apps.

I am in UK and don't even need live TV and pay its licencing fee. Smart TV where I can watch movies, songs, play videos from my phone or computer is the TV i need.
Hey! I've built something similar (Audioread.com) before pivoting and building a text-to-speech API (UnrealSpeech.com) myself due to the high costs of existing TTS APIs. If you're interested, I'd love to collaborate.
Not to take from the (very real I am afraid) dangers of substance abuse (starting with alcohol and sugar, of course) - I am curious: who you trust more to decide for the individual: the person itself or the larger social group?
No practical quantum supremacy or anything like it has been demonstrated has it? Is it sort of expected that will co-occur with QC breaking encryption? I'm just trying to gauge how "almost here" this actually is, or if it's still talk
>there is a natural vacancy rate, which is defined as the vacancy rate at which owners and renters have roughly equal bargaining power, leading to roughly inflation-pegged rent growth.

That's not natural. That's just holding landlord profits constant.
> I think the main thing for teens or whoever to understand is that these are actors and this is purely an entertainment production

Do you think that will be the case for the majority of preteens? Maybe once you become a teenager you can better understand, but the average age of first viewing porn is before the teenage years.
Thanks I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to A/B test within the USA rather than per country.
The backend OpenAI APIs are not deterministic even with temperature 0, and they might upgrade the model weights/tuning behind your back too? (Not sure about the upgrade, they might just put out a new model id param...)
> At some point, people have to give up "that first dose" effect and take what Ketamine does offer in the long term.

Yeah, I was quite sad that I could never quite achieve the bliss of that first dose again. If I didn't have things going on in my external life right now to keep me busy, I definitely would have chased that bliss to a dangerous degree.

> That's why doctors tend to lock the dose at one single point. This is what happens with nearly any drug like this, but Ketamine is certainly severely strong in this aspect.

Do you happen to know what that dose is (or could point me at a paper/some other reputable source that states it)? Would love more information on being able to dose myself responsibly.

> Let's not have another opioid crisis please.

For sure - hence why I stopped using it once I became uncomfortable with how my body was responding to it (or rather - not responding to it).
Block Pull Requests that made tests slower
Unit tests tend to get slower with time, wasting a lot of developer hours. BlueRacer helps you keep them fast by posting a unit test performance summary on every Pull Request.
Makes sense, thanks, I don't know much about Julia.

Another counterexample to AOT compilation being a feature of application languages is Java and C# -- both are clearly application languages, with strong focus and presence there, but both are interpreted. Although I can argue that it depends on the terminology regarding "compile", whether transpilation to .class bytecode can be called compilation (and everyone do call it "compilation", but if it really was, there would be no point in real AOT compilers for Java/C#).
A solitary programmer, as in someone who never has to interface with another person?
Sounds like its time for a wifi password unless you want all your neighbors smart TVs using your bandwidth to update firmware and send telemetry and download ads :)
Sceptre is a brand that makes dumb TVs.
Pervasive government surveillance and censorship "for the children" is not great.

Personally, I'd opt for teaching my kid to be the odd one out whenever it makes sense.
It's different for everyone, it may be that it works better for my neurochemistry that it does for yours. And for what its worth its never really helped my anxiety, only the depression. You can also try doing it in a more clinical setting with a therapist, that makes a big difference for some people. It can allow you to work on deep-seated emotional issues in a very profound way.
Is it unconstitutional to require an id to get a gun?
Ask HN: Has anyone built a template library for a SaaS company?
Template libraries quickly get users into a product and provide value. They've been key to the success of a lot of PLG companies.

They also seem very complex to build, which prevents companies from adopting them sooner than they probably should.

I'm wondering if there are core components of template libraries that could be productized so companies could build them out faster.

Some components could be:

- Directory (in-product & public): searchable with tags, voting, comments, commerce, SEO, etc.

- Admin: allow non-technical employees to create, edit, delete templates

- Template builder: might be tricky, but there could be something there

Here is a good article that does a deep dive into template libraries:

https://peersignal.org/research/how-template-libraries-unlock-growth-for-b2b-unicorns-and-23-of-plg-startups

I'm curious to hear from folks who have built these to see if this could possibly work as a product.
Because that typically doesn't pay the bills unless you are both talented and fortunate enough to get noticed. Creativity takes time and effort and pouring it into a silent void void is demoralizing for most people.
> I don't really think microservices are fundamentally more scalable

It depends on what you are scaling. I think microservices are fundamentally more scalable for deployment, since changes can be rolled out only to the services that changed, rather than everywhere. Unless your language and runtime support hot-loading individual modules at runtime.
> it is available to everyone with no authority deciding who can access it

So why are you using a Microsoft product, where Microsoft decides where and when the service will be available?
The answer to you having a difficult time parenting is for everyone to use a government issued id for any content you want to ban your kid from using?

Why not install filtering in your home router and kids cellphones?
Not quite 2019 levels, but here they have mostly rebounded.
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Disclaimer: I am neither pro-Cloudflare nor anti-Cloudflare...

To me, it seems that Cloudflare is just another additional abstraction layer / proxy -- between web sites / web apps / SAAS providers -- and the Internet.

There might be benefits from such an arrangement -- such as Cloudflare's ability to block DDoS attacks...

But there also might be drawbacks from such an arrangement -- such as what do if Cloudflare for whatever reason -- blocks/bans/or otherwise limits you?

Opinion: A good website / web app / SAAS -- would be as distributed as possible -- that is, it would use the Internet natively AND it would Cloudflare AND it would use N Cloudflare competitors/proxy services -- ideally all of them -- at the same time!

In other words -- let the user choose their own route to a provider!

Do you want to use Cloudflare?

Great, we have that!

Do you want to use the Internet natively?

Great, we have that!

Do you want to use a competitor to Cloudflare?

Great -- we have that too!

If it is technically impossible to do that with one domain -- then mirror your site/service/SAAS -- to multiple domains.

Let the user decide what they want...

Incidentally, towards that end, I found the following excellent list on GitHub:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443747 -- for related discussion)

It's non-canonical -- but it's probably a step in the right direction...
I wouldn't really honestly recommend it like that, there are too many asterisks to say 'PSA ket should probably not be taken orally '

Oral has the least bioavailability, but unless one is taking dangerous doses what I've heard is it doesn't likely matter. People will lose so much more in the dosing runaway spiral than from administration method -- you're going to reach a stable point either way if you're holding a certain dose, I believe. I've heard oral is less than ideal for trying to maximize dose response time and efficiency for amount-taken, but IM for example even far outstrips oral or nasal (once again, as implied earlier, I only recommend and advocate for appropriately medically prescribed and dosed Ketamine.

Edit: also a bit of a wtf after the fact but who the heck is taking Ketamine subcutaneously? On first blush, that sounds certainly nightmarish compared to any of the other injection methods.
Im sorry, but item (5) means less than nothing without context. Can someone who read it please add some?

I'll go looking for it & will edit this (if I make it in time, before the editing window closes)
Ban on cash: impose negative interest rates.
CBDCs: all manner of restrictions to fungibility.
There are open questions about whether any PQ algorithm is truly quantum-safe, given the limits of our knowledge about QC.

But it's also just the case that any "new" (for values of "new" that include "old but never deployed at a scale sufficient to attract scrutiny") encryption primitive, PQ or not, stands a decent change of being breakable by a laptop, at least in its initial implementation parameters. That's what happened with the supersingular isogenies you're referring to. That's just to say: there's nothing special about the "PQ-ness" of these protocols that makes them risky; all cryptography is risky. It took a surprisingly long time --- well into the 2000s --- to figure out how to safely deploy RSA.

Virtually every serious PQ implementation proposal pairs the PQ key exchange with a "conventional" key exchange, for this reason.

If you believe that QC is going to break "conventional" cryptography, Bitcoin is toast; I don't think there aren't a lot of extra "ifs" to that. Smarter people than me think there might be a window of time where RSA falls and ECC survives; maybe you could hope that Bitcoin would react quickly enough inside that window.
That's one of the options I've been considering. Another is to switch to heat pumps instead of natural gas burners, which has the benefit of being drop-in for the existing furnace.
A lot of VPNs have multiple cities available in the U.S. I usually pick the one closest to me for lower latency. Mullvad is one.
Do you have any sort of citation to back this up?

Capital gains tax is a thing, and in most cases that capital is taxed multiple times through its "lifecycle". The reason capital gains are taxed at a lower rate is because we want to encourage capital investment. It's what makes things. Food. Jobs.

You're also following a flawed premise (many people do this) that wealth is a finite pool, or a zero-sum game.

It isn't.

There's no upper bound to wealth creation. It's not a limited pool. It's unlimited.

Wealth is created when a person, or group of people, create a product or service that other people desire. That's it. Anyone can do it, and successful people do - through a combination of work, opportunity identification and luck.

The ideology I see behind "wealth inequality" in the U.S. typically boils down to some derivative of envy.

The solution to "wealth inequality" isn't taxation - that only has the power to destroy.

The solution is individual, different for each person, their life goals and what sorts of things are important to them, but rests in creation and innovation.

That's what's created wealth through human history, and it's what will continue to do so, if we allow it.

Taxing others and giving it away is lots of fun until you run out of people to tax, and you've managed to disincentivize and destroy what wealth remains.

Take a look at Prodrazvyorstka [1] to see how that works out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodrazvyorstka
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Do you have tips on a good tape deck model, or manufacturer that consistently made high quality decks? A friend gave me his old Sony TC-W365 which worked admirably, until recent mechanical failures.
PG&E is a designated as a Utility by law. This means that their profit margin is fixed (at 9? percent). Basically this is the discount they should buy the power from you, which should be fine.
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Honestly it is a pretty interesting argument. Again, they are arguing this, not the OP.