skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Access is highly underrated.

I was able to build a CRUD app with 20 concurrent users in a month just using a shared directory to host the backend database.

It would have taken a team of engineers 6 months to do the same properly developing a Java web app with Oracle database.

Access does have such easy WYSIWYG reporting tools that I still miss.
It's very hard with depression, but work is also hard with depression, though getting some stuff done is much easier with an actual job.
Tried some woodworking stuff but it requires a lot of learning and patience.
But I guess a lot of hobbies don't require that sort of effort, ie hiking. But you sort of need some sort of social contacts to encourage activity. It seems very easy to just stagnate in loneliness while consuming media these days.
While halting warming is important, a Solar shade is an absolutely terrible way to do that. Shading out 2% of the light has obvious implications for global crop yields and for non crop plants that all rely on solar energy. It would also obviously reduce efficiency of solar electric power collectors, impeding their ability to replace fossil fuels. Global warming is a big problem, but a global food crisis is an even bigger one. A solar shade would buy time on the global warming problem while also creating a much bigger problem.
That is the best argument for "spinoffs" that I've heard. Well done.

I still think it's pretty weak though; the inspiration benefit seems unlikely to overcome the lost efficiency, in general. And different people find different problems inspiring; some people can be inspired by practical problems (e.g. "how can we lighten the backpacks of trampers").
> I mean, what if starbucks shareholders decide that, lets say, african americans are no longer allowed to buy coffe on their shops.

If the shareholders are motivated by religious belief? Great question. I'm afraid to consider how the supreme court would decide
Yes I agree that building declarative UIs in code does require language support and some languages are not well suited to it. But I think this is an area where we could see real improvement and we should want our tooling to evolve to better handle these problems.
Except when Google shows another domain as the first (ad) result.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

If the children of the wealthy were forced to remain in the public school system, then their parents would be forced to have a stake in it, and would therefore be forced to participate in its improvement - as voters, as donors, as volunteers - instead of jumping ship and leaving it to the people who don't have any choice. That would help intellect to be added to all children, not just the children of those who happen to have money.
Practical question: how the heck do people manage subscriptions for personal (not enterprise) use? Do you know all the services you subscribe to, how much you paid(whether the amount reset to a higher number after the introductory offer), whether you’re being auto-billed for something you’ve barely used, etc? Further, have you cancelled subscriptions as a result of such analysis?

I wonder how many people would pay a couple of bucks each mont for a no-hassle subscriptions management platform!?
Not sure how to say it, but however brief your involvement was, I'm glad to read your comment here on Hacker News.
I'm serious. Pakistan relies on it's military state more than you would think. Nk is actively corrupt and all-worshipping of the diety-leader kim jong in a way both Sparta and Pakistan are not. Nk actively seeks to control and suppress domestic traders with power where it can and enslaves people into work camp gulags. Those are unique distinctions from Sparta and Pakistan.
Try the developer site, link below. You’ll need to register but it doesn’t look too invasive. It is expensive for small businesses. The main part is an ITSM suite but I’ve built workflows for call centers and account managers.

https://developer.servicenow.com/app.do#!/program/developer
Obligatory:

"I included emoji in my password and now I can't log in to my Account"

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/202143/i-included-...
This debate comes up all the time. Does freedom refer to my freedom or everyone's freedom.

My freedom to shoot you is limited by your freedom to not be harmed. My freedoms have been limited but this is very fair.
DJI and iRobot may be the only companies to date who managed to produce pro/consumer robotic products sustainably.
Keyword "Terrorism" is a backdoor used by some to pervert law based democratic systems.

GitHub should ask further information regarding this statement:
'''Tsunami Democratic has been confirmed as a criminal organization driving people to commit terrorist attacks. Tsunami Democratic's main goal is coordinating these riots and terrorist actions by using any possible mean'''
While this metric is technically the most accurate, it's (to me) uninteresting and not useful because it is essentially a constant function (the closest planet is always the one with the smallest orbit).
In the classic web forum sense? Culture and all? I haven't been able to find any (but also I haven't looked very hard in the last 2-3 years). How are you finding out, just word of mouth?
I know this is about people paying for posts with money, but if one zooms out a bit to think about this -- any user of a platform like Twitter is paying/spending time (aka paying in their time and attention). IMO, trying to police and stop people from spreading their ideas online (political or otherwise) is a fools errand, and the antithesis of how social networks function.
> Poor kids who don't get a crack at high performing programs before college end up floundering.

The number one factor I look at in a kids future is parental relationship. How attuned is it? Is it stable, or are they on the brink of foreclosure and moving place to place? Does the child have emotional support? Are their parents substance abusers? Do they fight each other and scream every night? (It can be hard to do homework!)

When we bring "poor" and other characteristics into this - man, I feel we're missing an iceberg. We're just getting further from "fixing" anything, we don't even acknowledge the most impactful thing that effects people regardless of some characteristic that's so often a facade masking the family system.

Home life can be a matter of maternal / paternal deprivation or abandonment, or over-controlling, or abuse. On the other hand, it could be the gift of having chill parents, a stable base.

When college comes up, I worry. Commenters speak of colleges as if they're an annuity that pays out. Financial outcomes are almost always implied, if not explicitly mentioned.

If you're not getting a license in some way, maybe it's just not needed. I see names at prestigious law firms, hospitals, business, gov at all levels that have gone to schools I never heard of. I've read academic papers and I have to tell you, very seldom do I ever see an "elite school" (whatever that means?) behind it.

I'm not against any of these, it's more important for certain people's goals than others, but man does having a supportive family mean a lot.
That's what confuses me, a bit. Consider just as a hypothetical that Facebook is the single most unethical company on earth. Just as an example, whether you agree with it or not. I still wouldn't necessarily agree with what's being asked of them, to actively disallow political ads with lies. I think there's a good case to be made for just not having political ads (because of all the reasons you'd expect)... but I can understand having them, too, and it's a bit weird to me as someone who doesn't like a lot of what FB does to see the politicians die on the hill of "you must fact check everything"
From what I've seen, few people use Mercurial's heavy branches, except for things like release and maintenance branches, where it makes a certain amount of sense. Some do, but most people seem to use bookmarks, topics, or multiple heads.

Everything else you're talking about sounds like ancient history to me. `hg record` is now `hg commit -i`, so it's back to one command. `hg histedit` intersects with rebase, in that you can do some types of rebasing with it, but you tend to use them in different scenarios.
Does it matter? The point isn't that tickets will become unaffordable, the point is that the sports leagues themselves will disappear.

Sports isn't something people need. Some sports leagues cost a lot of resources to run. If these sports leagues become less profitable, then some of the investment will move into other entertainment and your sports professional league will slowly disappear.
This aspect has puzzled me deeply.

I imagine the following scenario: I'm the CEO of a social network trying to raise a new round of funding. I go to investors and say that we have 100M users on the platform and growing by 10M users per month. The investors like these numbers and decide to invest. A few years later, the investors find out that when I said 100M users, I actually meant 50M real human users and 50M bot users. When I said growing by 10M users per month, I actually meant by 5M real human users and 5M bot users per month.

At what point does this become criminal fraud?
I’d take it a step further and limit who is allowed to vote. You mention competent adults; an adult in 1800 was probably competent around 16 years of age. An adult today is similarly competent at a later age.

Regardless of competency, there should be some eligibility requirements to vote. Holding a job should be one. Proof of citizenship should be another.
So, not so quick Google search, found this Honda kit...

https://www.electricgeneratorsdirect.com/Honda-EGD-HONDA7000...

Two 5.5k inverter generators w/ a parallel cable.

So, 11kw with a 50amp 240V socket for about $5k.

So, about 2 hours for the Leaf, or no?

Seems a Tesla would give you about 30 miles for one hour of charge?

I don’t know.
The device needs a factory reset. Deleting the Files app itself does nothing, even though this warns you that all associated data will be deleted. Which is unsurprising at this point. The latest OS updates feel like I'm a beta tester for Windows ME.
Raspbian disabled that as a default a while ago because there's no good way to have ssh login by default without having default username and password be public info.

They could do something like have the default password be something embedded in the silicon like Apple's SE master key? And the print that key on the underside of the Pi so only people with physical access can read it.
Is that wikipedia page out of date? Seems surprising to me that no one has computed a stronger 10-square since 2004?
Indeed. https://rsf.org/en/ranking
Does this follow?

I run a site. I want to get rid of all fraudulent spam but allow legitimate commercial product advertisements. I train a model to tell the difference (or maybe I just make a human judgment call). It is better than guessing but worse than perfect: false positives and false negatives exist and expose me to criticism from interested parties.

Your position is that this renders the concept of spam meaningless because I promised to get rid of spam and allow non-spam content.
Hi Thank you for checking us out!
What's the best way to preserve them
Not only I taught him how to copy-paste, I also had couple of sessions with him where I showed him how to do tax estimation using Google spreadsheet.
The entire point is that more money doesn’t lead to disproportionately more speech.

And if readers were ‘mostly competent’, and able to decipher the truth, we wouldn’t even be having this convo
How is that Thiel’s “philosophy”? That’s an attitude taken by nearly everyone.

There’s not some weird purity test being run that’s stopping Left and Right from “finding common ground”. The Republican administration forwards and agenda including many things people just won’t compromise on, like say Climate Change action.

Thiel is a techno-libertarian, so in the main he’s pretty well aligned with the Republican platform. Sure, he probably despises the homophobic evangelical part of the Republican base, but as a billionaire he’s pretty excellently insulated from their influence.
Reading these comments really brings me back! If I remember correctly, developing a simple project reporting system based on Access, and using forms, was my first foray into professional software development (I had actually trained as a Mech. Eng.) - a career that took me from sleepy Surrey, in the UK, all the way to Silicon Valley! One thing that sticks in my mind is tab ordering of input fields - the difference from an occasional user to those who would use a system heavily every day.
Is this valid HTML, anyone?
Yes, but making a mistake on what is and isn't adult content or people seeing it when they shouldn't or vice versa doesn't have much negative impact on society. A private company that lets political gray area ads slip through from one side, but not the other, will likely have an impact on society.
Thank you for introducing me to David Allen.
That depends on what we mean by "successful." The early chans were very moderation free -- 4chan initially didn't censor, then they started censoring furry content but not pedo content, then the furry ban got removed, then the pedo ban finally kicked in, and they've had more censorship since... but the initial seed was practically not moderated, and most of the moderation that has been put in place since seems like a result of legal fears (the brief furry ban being an obvious exception). The bitmessage chans are still moderation free, and will be as long as the bitmessage network has nodes, but of course that can't scale (for anyone unfamiliar, every bitmessage node tries to decrypt every message -- this means that there is no need for metadata concerning where a message was sent to, and since packets are forwarded across the network you'd have to be running multiple nodes to even guess where a message is coming from, but there's no way that everybody could recieve and try to decrypt everybody else's messages if the whole world used such a system). I'm not arguing that I want a system without moderation, just that such communities have existed, have grown, and do exist. My ideal would be a community with opt-in/opt-out moderation, but I also don't wish every community to reflect my ideals.
VBA in the current version of office. Keep the databases in MariaDB. Scary but it works.
Great move. This will push some communities to move away from Facebook and use Twitter as the main political discussion medium.

I'm wondering how that'll affect Twitter's business model though. Assuming political ads counted for a fair percentage of their revenue stream.
We redefined a planet as a star.
A guide to using your career to help solve the world’s most pressing problems
Thanks so much for taking a look! I'm happy it resonated :)
Squinting at Power Series [pdf]
These hardware tokens usually support PGP as well! It's possible to generate a full set of keys on the device. Combining this with an offline primary key makes for a very secure system that's also relatively easy to use.
It's because they were all Mac users -- in the early days it was an Apple (Claris) product.
>>> particle physics is just harder now

This is something I've thought about. I'm a physicist, but am now happily working in industry. My job is to solve problems, and for most part I do, but it always seems possible that one fine day, someone will walk into my cubicle with a problem that I just can't solve. I'm always faced with the fact that I can't honestly predict how long the next problem will take. Maybe a day, maybe a week, maybe... forever?

Despite a string of successes, we never know for sure when physics will be hit with a problem that takes a decade, or a century, or even a millennium, to solve. As I understand the history, the ancient Greeks could formulate quadratic equations that they couldn't solve, and it wasn't until something like a millennium later that Al-Khwarizmi cracked it, at least for real roots. Now we teach it to children in middle school.

Finding a testable theory of quantum gravity might be the problem that takes a millennium.
This Wizard https://www.samy.pl/
When I was 14 or 15, my dad paid me to do work for him over the summer. He was in real estate and wanted to have a file/database entry for each of the floorplans and properties he was selling or building. Because I was so young, I used Access to create a CRUD app of sorts that kept details on all his projects. He used it for years.

It’s embarrassing for me to admit how long it took me to make the connections between what I did in Access (and later FileMaker) and MySQL and other database systems.

When I look back, I’m half-annoyed with myself for not just using a better SQL tool, but I’m equally pleased/impressed with what I built as a kid.

Airtable is probably the closest we have to “modern” Access - but I agree with the other comments that point out the value and potential of these types of tools.
Two reasons.

From a social justice perspective, allowing free labor is an insult to human dignity and leech in society. It is often associated with coercive behavior, and when events happen, like “workplace” injuries, society is stuck with cleaning up the mess.

From a revenue perspective, free labor is an untaxed gift to the company, and it’s highly likely that “free” really means compensation by some indirect, off book means.

A corporation isn’t a group of friends. You’re welcome to do anything in a group or charitable endeavor.
Would you have any interest in pulling in CDRs & text message logs to give a broader overview of interactions with clients? If so, I'd be interested in helping write bindings for the open source PBX we use...
It's like horse serum. It isn't a less deadly infection conferring the benefit, it is the immune system components of the blood, the antibodies.

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/horse-serum
I very rarely downvote comments here as a matter of principle but yours here is almost comically absurd.

1. Do you have any evidence that people were more competent at a younger age in 1800? In fact I would think that the opposite is probably true - but again this seems impossible to prove so I'm simply asking you if you have any reason to believe what you're saying is true other than your feelings.

2. People without jobs have just as many rights as those with jobs. Do you also think people without land should not vote? Perhaps not women? Maybe black votes should have less of an impact? I'm curious if you're not American- maybe this would explain a cultural difference I am missing?
I'm starting to see Twitter and Facebook more like the newspapers, and really, more like the delivery service. Perhaps I could print anything in a newspaper, which I can't, but even if I could, someone would have to deliver that newspaper to the doorsteps of people for them to read it or they would have to go try to find a copy in the store. These platforms already have delivery routes determined through algorithms, already choosing who receives which newspapers.

What role do you think these networks should play in distributing these posts to our door?
You mention that political ads are archived for anyone to scrutinize. I am not aware of this and my belief is that this is both not the case, and in fact very difficult to execute due to the ephemeral nature of internet advertising.

For example, imagine my TIMECUBE PAC ponies up for 2500 targeted facebook micro-campaigns with very slight variations depending on the target demo with an ad spend of $20, $50K cost. Would it be actually possible for anybody to get Facebook to tell them who I was advertising at, or what those ads were?
Here's the source of that line of code:

https://www.karma.fm/p/hJibw7y/eric-migicovsky---how-to-talk...

The way I presented it is certainly weird, but Eric's articulation resonated with me. He also describes cohort retention iirc.
The branch is a wad of metadata included in (attached to?) the commit. It'll somehow have to roundtrip the various metadata.

I doubt it'll ever be 100% complete, but you should be able to get quite a ways. Certainly far enough to make it work using github as your repo of record (and as someone who regularly submits github PRs via hg-git, I have evidence that it can work.)
The place I work at has an access app with 250 modules. It's a nightmare of "access has run out of memory" and other fun errors.
Wait til we redefine the moon as a binary planet.
Was it suicide or was it murder?

Epstein, alive and well, doesn’t really care which side of the false debate you take.

Of course there is a deadman’s switch...
It wasn’t triggered.
This isn’t rocket science.
"democratic infrastructure". jack dorsey is selling you something.
React and WebAssembly to Rewrite Native Apps (ReactiveConf 2019)
So which planet is mostest closest to Mercury?

The next largest circle?
> like most journalists I know, are eager to do work that makes money; we are even willing to compromise for it.

Is this journalism in 2019? Pump out content to make a buck and fuck journalistic integrity because they have kids to feed? Real journalism takes too long and doesn't generate enough revenue?

One could say the same about Russian troll farms, they too have kids at home to feed.

What a sad world we live in.
It feels like th true replacement for Access right now is Excel/Google sheets. Not nearly as versatile, but it serves the same audience. I wish we had a good general purpose widely available Access replacement that's just a level above spreadsheets
Oh good, we can just use 星 for everything now. Much simpler.
Because sometimes you want to pass data between blobs of code, (possibly separated by time, environment or language), or even to and from humans who may not understand code.
I'm only familiar with XAML+WPF+C#+VS.

One particular pet peeve of mine is the fact that it won't catch typos in data binding. If I have IsEnabled={Path IsEnabeld} in my XAML, the designer won't catch it. At runtime, the error is silently ignored. It just doesn't work, and no tooling, nothing other than triple checking every line of code will catch it.

Also it's really bad about picking up dependencies cross package, although it might be a problem in my org's config.
Coming from a banking background, I know that Access is heavily used in the financial industry, including Investment Banks.
Son of Anton can handle anything.
It's easy to think of it as a possibility, but the amount of effort to put a satellite into space is still extraordinary (space travel is still far from a commodity all these decades later). My point was they would not go through the trouble of first creating satellites as it would be considered too exotic of an idea. It would be like thinking of Uber 15 years ago before smartphones were ubiquitous, and deciding you first need to invent the smartphone rather than shelve the idea.
In a way, this is backwards. hg is and has always been totally fine with multiple unnamed heads; git is the one that insists that topological heads have some ref pointing at them.

But I agree with your basic point. Unnamed heads in git and unnamed heads in hg are not treated the same, and could be easy for tools to mix up. (I hadn't realized that this was even possible in git??)
I'd ask someone with high brain glucose metabolism for advice.
The Neverending Story at 40: A Children’s Book Grappling with the Legacy of War
Thanks! It does like look interesting. Somehow a combination of graph database and prolog? I'm trying to think what kind of customers you're looking for. Medical research? I know things like Prolog are common there for ontologies (think I said that right).
In Copenhagen at least there are rules for when you can turn left on your bike:

http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2010/07/not-really-so-g...

I don't know how other European cities do it.
It’s not weird at all, it’s a power grab. The politicians want to use social media as an excuse to become arbiters of the truth.

It’s repulsive and short-sighted, it appears to me they have forgotten or disregarded the old adage to not claim a new power you wouldn’t trust your opponents with.