skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Access is the perfect tool for an intelligent, technically-minded person with limited programming experience to create an application to replace spreadsheets.

There are a lot of those kinds of people out there, and they're extremely useful in introducing minor optimizations that other people wouldn't be able to find. Access is for that guy who says "I know there's a better way to do this," but doesn't have access (no pun intended) to a team of programmers and a project manager.

I didn't major in programming in undergrad but I've taken classes here and there, so in my first job out of college I replaced a really awful system of spreadsheet-jockeying with an Access DB.

I considered other options, but that it's self contained and NOT a web application is a feature, not a bug. I couldn't get access to the corporate database, so I just ran the Access DB on a network drive. It's still probably there, ten years later, running happily on its own.

Honestly, it seems like the fix for Access... is a better version of Access. It fills a very useful niche, between spreadsheets and full-fledged applications designed by programmers. It's so much easier to make a quick app that works for your organization than get an external team of programmers involved, who will probably tell you "no" or remain unconvinced that you're worth helping.

With Access, you don't need political clout, you don't need years of experience, you don't need a title. Just build an Access application and get kudos from everyone in your team for making their lives easier.
Curiosity used aerobraking, parachutes AND a skycrane to land. There's a great video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s

Previous solutions weren't used because they were less crazy, but because they were more mass efficient for "small" payload sizes.
Well, pedophiles are also people. And if they show remorse and moved on (or in therapy) etc. I do not see a problem.

The problem here is just, that apparently he did not moved on at all and just continued undisturbed.
Employee morale probably goes through the roof?
same apply. ACLU can ask for donations or talk about their services, like representing people who can't afford representation.

PP can as well. They can't say "vote pro-choice" but can advertise that they provide women's health services including abortions.

Basically: you can talk about what you do that isn't related to elections or votes in congress.
when we get there?
Mavic is very far ahead in terms of functionality compared to Phantom 5, given that Phantom 5 does not exist.
If you compare Mavic 2 Pro to Phantom 4 Pro, then the only arguable advantage the latter has is the mechanical shutter.
No problems with stability, and despite being lighter the smaller aerodynamic cross-section actually helps Mavic to fight the wind. Not sure what advantages P4 has against Mavic wrt ease of use. I sold my P4P and got Mavic 2 Pro and consider that a big upgrade.
Correct.

That is why you hear reports that even when the battery has more than enough energy stored, but the controller (lifespan logic) purposely reduces output power, I believe mostly under cold conditions. This is a purposeful mechanism to ensure the temperature of the batteries stays within a defined range as much as possible to maximize the lifespan.
> No, I just don't have the time or interest in reimplement language analysis tools when I don't need to.

And I don't have the time or interest to do it by hand when bazel already has that.
I think Developers also underestimate IT Setup Costs for a DB since its so easy to do it locally. Setting up a simple RDBMS like MySql or Postgres and skinning with with a basic, out of the box UI is an afternoon of work if you need to look up commands, or minutes if you have done it recently.

But setting up something for a Team immediately opens questions like Access Rights (Can we limit this just to the team, or even have profiles?), Security (Needs to plan nice on the VPN/intranet), Scalability (in theory easy, but provisioning/managing VMs is hard), and Recoverability (where are the backups stored and who makes them). Those are all hard problems from not just a technical perspective, but also a business one.

But that is just the technical hurdles, not the process ones. In a well (overly?) managed system it can take a handful of people multiple meetings and possibly hundred of man hours to add a new field to a form. Adding the field is trivial, but deciding all the business rules around it is hard. If you run your own system, you can ignore any established process.

So its two fold. Its not just IT start up costs, its also getting everyone to agree on changes to an existing system, versus running your own.

I would argue many of the costs associated with migrating from Access to a "real" DB, is not the actual migration script, but the reassessment of all the business decisions that went into the design of the Access schema. Usually a committee evaluates if they are valid, and what to do with existing data to make it conform to a new schema.
Google forms + spreadsheet
Dorsey espouses some very libertarian views and yet he's generally leaning left of course. Still , he s the only one who dares give Trump a megaphone. I think he handles the whole situation exceptionally well.
This is pretty good, 30 min flight time and 4km range.

> 4 km for FCC compliant Model (MT1SS5) and 2 km for CE compliant Model (MT1SD25).
Most of this is just pure dumb luck combined with vascular health (to the extent that isn't dumb luck).
The EU is absolutely happy to interfere with internal matters when it suits them, to a huge degree. Look at how they have been treating Poland and its reforms of its court system. Or look at how the EU is trade sanctioning Switzerland due to a dispute over Swiss internal working regulations.

The Commission is all about "European values" and how they're going to impose penalties when a country is doing something unaligned with their own agenda. But their agenda is to destroy all European nations and merge them all into one super-nation controlled by itself. As part of that they desperately want people to feel patriotism and nationalism towards their new nation called Europe, not existing countries. See how disrespecting the EU flag is now illegal in some countries.

From their perspective Catalonian independence = more countries = harder to unite Europe. Therefore it's fine to crush the resistance. "European values" have mysteriously gone missing.
Presumably the linux container would be considered an "aggregate", the container as a whole is not a derived work of any of the installed programs. Those are distinct copyrighted works. So you should be fine, and your software would not be covered by the GPL. IANAL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#MereAggregation
Let me know when you find any near a major city!
I Miss the Old Internet
Your descriptive points are closer to Pakistan than NK.
It makes me wonder if Zuckerberg has seriously considered doing this as well for Facebook. Considering he's been in congressional hearings twice, I'm sure the thought has crossed his mind once or twice. The money is too good, so he's likely willing to walk the tight-rope. I think Twitter is setting a good precedent here, whether other similar social media sites will follow suit is the question.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and speculate. Epstein was probably an agent for CIA and/or Mossad, and orchestrated honeypots where prominent figures were lured into sleeping with underage girls. It's such a predictable way for intelligence agencies to gain power over powerful figures.

Once he was headed for a long prison sentence and logically had nothing to lose, the powerful people he had blackmail material over would obviously choose to get rid of him to prevent the chance that he revealed everything. It's really not that far fetched.
So if everybody is out there murdering people, that makes you unethical?
You are putting words into my mouth.

Plenty of individuals pursue high-paying jobs because the financial security it provides their family [including children, spouse, and possibly infirm parents]; and to pay back the student loan burden that the American institution levies on their best and brightest.
MacStories and Six Colors created graphs comparing the data from this quarter to past quarterly results

https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-q4-2019-results-64-bil...

https://sixcolors.com/post/2019/10/apple-results-64b-in-reve...
This dilemma right here is exactly why modern communication platforms are so dangerous.
Hemmingway.
Or all the cameras malfunctioned because a Mossad team rescued him and deposited a dead look-alike because obviously Epstein is a highly valued member of the child-raping elite.
Turning goals into growth loops: the PARI system of mindful productivity
To be fair, working with text is really hard on mobile and has regressed a long way from general purpose computers like the pc. To undo you have to shake the fucking thing, and text selection takes time and patience (if you can select the text at all!)
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. vs. WTV Systems, Inc
Eating popcorn could lead to bleeding from the eyes. Or not.
Can't think of anything more horrifying than trying to deploy apps via MS Store
That would make sense if it were numbers for my tweets. I don't get any dopamine hit from seeing that Jack Dorsey is getting another thousand retweets every three seconds. It just makes me give up on reading and close the tab.
Preventing paste is a really strong contender for that title
Kierkegaard’s Leap
Do you park for free on the street?

When we visit Brooklyn we usually get free street parking.
Oh come on. Access is way better than both these things. So much easier to work with too.
This isn't even news or arguable and it's highly relevant.

Most people in SF are aware of how horribly managed the entire project was. The GC suit reads like the WeWork S-1:

https://www.docdroid.net/sJBBHEb/webcor-obayashi-lawsuit-sta...

and the person in particular that I'm pointing fingers at is Maria and her cronies:

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle/2018...
Smart. The revenue is hardly worth getting regularly dragged in front of Congress. Best to leave influence over the political discourse to the Internet Research Agency.
At least it will take away the incentive from the all-powerful tech companies to stop pushing and optimizing political messages with their core-business interest. If they can't make money off of it, I'm sure these botnets will get more attention from their anti-abuse teams.
The really wild thing will be if autologous CAR-T or CAR-M can become a thing. Then you can just dump in already targeted and angry T-cells or macrophages to fight the infection. Additionally cool, fighting things like mold, yeast, and protist infections could then become "routine".

If the patient isn't too sick, you could even get to in situ programming of endogenous lymphocytes and myeloid cells a la Matthias Stephan's nanoparticle loaded with DNA or mRNA. https://stephanlab-fhcrc.squarespace.com/research-projects
One thing about the first amendment is that it doesn't have conditions. This type of thing that Twitter is doing will be full of them, ie selectively defining what's political or not.

The question is whether this is a lesser evil than allowing political ads but selectively blocking stuff with very broad and potentially inconsistent moderation rules. I personally think totally blocking is the easier of the two in terms of decision making but I expect this will generate far more false positives in the end on the fringes and grey areas.

It's a good thing we'll now have two different experiments, on a large scale, to see which one is more self-destructive.

One of the main problems that I see is the outsized influence we've given to the very-vocal but small parties on social media to have on silencing other people and groups, going well beyond the limited free speech exceptions we previously observed in society for over a century (culturally, not just legally). Neither of these approaches really addresses that problem at FB/Twitter. Which is why I'm curious which one is going to expand those grey areas, where the abuse/downside risk remains, rather than reducing it.
Good, I'm glad that we're agreed on the individual right.

Now what is the right of the group? What rights does Spain as a nation have and what right to do the Catalonians have as a people, and where do such rights come from?

The answer to each question will have a lot to do with how much you love each one.

Someone who hates Spain and the Spanish would certainly suggest that their course is to be a grubby landlord, trying to get every cent out of a tenant before kicking them out the door. Someone who loves them would hopefully never think of them as the sort of nation that would wish to impose on a free people or steal anything from a people, especially not land or property.

Lovers of Spain, properly, will think of their rights as rights of attraction, and free association, and from the governors to the governed. Haters will think of the Nation's rights as something to be imposed, and their duties as something to be extracted from their subject peoples.

What do you think of Spain? Is it love or hate?
He also died in prison, with a tarnished reputation.
> People say the US constitution doesn't allow secession of a state (as opposed to a territory) without a constitutional amendment.

Congress granting a territory (or state, directly) independence isn't secession, whether or not it is allowed. Secession is unilateral, grants of independence are a different thing.
Access is the "too much for Excel, not enough for an RDBMS" solution. If it's too much for Excel, it's way too much for Google Spreadsheets, which is far behind Excel in functionality.
Talk First, Code Later
The controller comes in a box. Not sure if you can fly the drone without the phone connected similar to the Mavic, my guess would be yes.
> Which I cannot read in any way but “f-you, Facebook.”

He was even more explicit:

> For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well...they can say whatever they want! ”
I have a special place in my heart for Access, its where I first started making money writing software and learned SQL and VB. Its where I really felt like I was making something that solved real world problems for people, quickly at that.

It was actually amazing how far it could scale, you could put a shared MDB file out on a Novell network share and have 30 concurrent users with no server app at all, users just doubled clicked the MDB.

I still think there is a killing to made on a modern day Access "Done Right". DB, Gui framework and printable report generator all in one sharing the same language front to back, top to bottom.
clearly. But if that is the paid ad, is that a political ad?
Inmates - does this means the legal team?
An acquaintance of mine is an accountant. He uses it when his spreadsheets get too big/busy/complex. He's not "technical", but he is quite intelligent and is very familiar with Excel, has even written a few VB macros here and there. It's perfect for him. I assume the thousands of people just like him are the answer to your question.
What terrible charts.

I won't go through it line by line but why highlight Q1 vs Q4 instead of prior year Q4 vs current period Q4 (ie, year vs year).

Highlighting periods with holiday sales against current nonholiday periods is ridiculous.
Also, since they now just text you, they can make the algorithm more stringent.

I've had BoA fraud detection ping me about a monthly rent check before, so I'm not sure it's really good.
The Perils of Modernizing SQL Apps with NoSQL
Since this has a range of 4km, it requires a controller. There is now way to get that distance without one.
> I mean jesus for the first time ever, a company is going to put up a drug for approval to treat alzheimers.

Derek Lowe isn't quite so optimistic about it: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/10/23/th...

(tl;dr--the anti-amyloid hypothesis you should be extremely skeptical about, and the inconsistency in the trial data here is signalling that statistical fluke should be a high concern).
It warrants to be careful with analogies though, because no matter how clever or graphic or seemingly appropriate they might seem, the point of analogies is simply to make our human mind understand complex processes better - they don't necessarily provide any new information about those processes or what would work to affect those processes and what would not. Empirical evidence is what is interesting and applicable in practice. Analogies can be used after that evidence is already collected, to put in a biology book to make students sweat less. But trying to use analogies to make up new information is over-intellectualizing - rarely a wise thing to do.
My conversation about owning a similar "utility" store with SO came to grinding halt at "We'll talk once you find someone who's actually done this".

Well, now I do! Thank you !

Would you please share some details; how you started, what it took time and money wise, what to avoid, what really matters.

It may seem silly to you but I really need this. I'm willing to communicate offline/in-person/chat/phone whatever works for you. You will not believe how hard it is to find someone who's done what you have.
As someone who uses FreeCAD on and off, I thank you very much for your efforts! There are a lot of features.

It is definitely not lack of features that holds FreeCAD back, though. It is the UI/usability/stability. In fact, I'd prefer a solution WITHOUT cloud features as it's a liability in my profession, and in general ends up putting an expiration date on the program (as eventually servers get turned off, etc).

Again, thank you SO much for your efforts.
Cédric Villani: mathematician challenging to be Paris mayor
There may be ways of doing and recording which differentiate sufficiently to compensate specific stakeholder interests.

Dividend payouts aren't the only way of generating extractable rents. LIBOR comes to mind.
I am a fan of Twitter. It is a much better social network then Facebook and Instagram. But when it comes to development quality, Twitter reminds me of Ebay. The technology just does not seem solid. Every other month, something goes wrong.

I wonder if there is a systematic difference between companies with solid development and companies with wonky development. Is there a different hiring philosophy in place? A different type of tech stack? A different management structure?

Just a week ago, Twitter lost over 20% market cap because they noticed that they were showing people device-personalized ads even though they were opted out of that. After they fixed it, revenues went down.

In other words, a stunning 10 billion dollar of Twitters market cap was based on the illusion that the tech was working as expected. While in reality it was wrecking havoc.

Is it really possible that a feature that makes up a quarter of the companies value is not being tested?
He is wrong about that. Herodotus says that they were an advance front to buy time for the rest, who were at a religious festival and at the Olympics:

“The force with Leonidas was sent forward by the Spartans in advance of their main body, that the sight of them might encourage the allies to fight, and hinder them from going over to the Medes, as it was likely they might have done had they seen that Sparta was backward. They intended presently, when they had celebrated the Carneian festival, which was what now kept them at home, to leave a garrison in Sparta, and hasten in full force to join the army. The rest of the allies also intended to act similarly; for it happened that the Olympic festival fell exactly at this same period. None of them looked to see the contest at Thermopylae decided so speedily; wherefore they were content to send forward a mere advanced guard.”
I've always wondered where karaoke bars get vocal-free versions of seemingly every track that would ever get requested. Do record companies make them?
Professional audio person here. RX is the tool to use, but even for someone skilled at this, it's going to be tough and will likely result in some degradation of the rest of the music.

Get in touch and I'll give it a shot, but no promises.
http://archive.is/PhUZW
gdi another wave of nostalgia :o) The Amiga showed what amazing things can happen when you combine a community with great tech and basically get all the lawyers to piss off =)
Exactly, they think transportation==driving. That's the problem.
He brings in the Spanish Inquisition because it seems to portray the Catalans at the right side of history.

> Regarding the libraries comment, it happens plenty

Plenty? It happens, yes, but it is not just governments: individuals organize book burnings, authors too: Vergilius wanted to burn his Aeneis. Meanwhile, the RC church had another tool (the Index), and almost no government burns libraries. I think even the Nazis didn't, and certainly the government of my country isn't burning them. I can see one right across the street, and while it's ugly, it's not on fire.

The comment above mine is all hyperbole and whataboutism, probably meant to provoke.

I'm not condoning the approach of the Spanish government to github, BTW. All of their governments seem to shoot into a reflex when the unity is at stake, from the Second Republic up to Sánchez.
Camera feeds are looked at hourly as a SOP in prisons. What a ridiculous attempt to "prove" no wrongdoing.
To be fair, they probably mean dBase II and dBase III. Although they could mean Vulcan and dBase II, which is less likely. I started my "database" programming career on dBase II in the early 80's and never bumped into Vulcan.
"Everyone talking past each other because of unclear articles" stifles creativity too. And HN isn't mutually exclusive with reading Reuters and BBC (at least if you plan to go to the links being discussed here):

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=reuters.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bbc.co.uk
If the area is filled with tourists, for me drones would not make it much worse.
They have cash that they don’t use neither for operations nor for investments. It is inefficient. Reaching net cash neutral position would mean that all assets are used in the most productive way.
As the owner of a company (a shareholder) it is desirable because if your company isn't in the business of capital allocation then excess cash accumulation is reducing their ROE and your ROI.

And yes, the company still has to grow. But as a company executive you are viewing existing and new business opportunities through their net present value. If you don't have business opportunities that meet the thresholds you have in place for a project, then extra cash serves no purpose.

This ignores a whole bunch of complicated other stuff (stress testing capital requirements and what sort of balance sheet has great enough margins of safey, long term capital allocation given market dislocations, etc). But that's why being net neutral on cash is in general a good thing.
A friend of mine mentioned the Tobacco Master Settlement, and its so unbelievable I thought it was a conspiracy theory, but its absolutely real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...

What a perverse set of incentives it creates.
> When will you be able to hack your car to get better performance?

Hasn't car (ecu) modchipping been a thing since nineties or something? Essentially the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_tuning
> ... drone laws do not apply ...

It's good practice on forums with a global membership, especially when talking about a Chinese company's latest product, to specific where you are / which country's laws you're talking about.