skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" BI tool so people that don't know SQL can explore data, create/look at dashboards and export data." - We had exactly the same requirement. Use Looker, its expensive but worth it. The requests to our data team has reduced by 90% We are a small startup with 20 employees
Not sure why you are having this impression, seems just fine for kids interested in tech
I want a full working application with the equivalent of global hotkeys. I use deadbeef on GNU/Linux, but I still haven't find a way to force mono.
And QMMp! https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
This was a real issue with the V2 rocket as related in Irving's book 'The Mare's Nest'.
Pretty sure I've got this in my GH stars.
Cherry picking cases to prove that an entire institution should somehow be disbanded in spite of a mountain of evidence to the contrary is arguing in bad faith. That you disagree because you and the other commenter here agree on the basic premise that you both believe FDA is bad and should be disbanded doesn't change that.
Not if your goal is to extinct the flu virus.
But that is not a vision issue. That is providing people with incorrect information.
That is my understanding from german cartel law (very similar)as well. However how do you structure a deal to take retroactive actions by regulators into account. I don’t know if there is a set of established best practices there, but I‘m no M&A Attorney so this could well be a solved problem.
As much as the Law can bore me at times there frequently are questions such as this that pique my interest again.
Saw your recent (6mo ago) ask HN. Did you end up changing careers or stick with the law ? I‘m in a similar situation.
I think some of the responses are missing the larger point here. Every new tech has unknowns and potential issues, some of which don't come to light for years. If it takes 20+ years to go from initial small-scale uses to volume production on big projects (e.g. Airbus), then sometime during those years many of the issues will come to light.

It's pretty clear that technology is accelerating (and has been for a long time). What is not as clear is that our ability to artificially age products, in order to test how they will stand up over time, has always only been part of the way in which problems were found. Another, perhaps more important, and certainly more authoritative way, is to look at how they actually hold up over time. If technology takes long enough to go from small-scale uses to volume production, that's good enough. At some point, and perhaps we've reached it, the pace of technological change is fast enough that we end up relying almost entirely on testing methods that try to simulate long-term aging in a short amount of time. These methods won't always do the job.

Notably, none of these issues are unique to aerospace.
Maybe put a sticker on the conference table that distracts them?
This is a really stupid amount of work for a supposed Easter egg.

I develop in this ecosystem regularly and I'm still waiting for the day that everyone else acknowledges that downloading and running arbitrary code is a bug, not a feature...

I think I'll be waiting forever - this sets a really bad example.
Ethereum continues to promote designs that lower fees in the future. Users anticipate a more usable system in the future, even though it has very high fees at the moment.

If Ethereum was not working on lowering fees, users would quickly migrate to another chain.
Although influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another person who's been influential in the process signing off on the big ticket things.
What Twitter used to be good for is following a particular niche of people. For example, if you start following just a handful of developers who post content you like, and follow other developers who they interact with and retweet, the idea was that you'd end up with a feed perfectly curated for your interests, made up only of people who post content that you find interesting.

Unfortunately Twitter doesn't want you to use their service this way, so they inject other (usually divisive) content into your feed in an effort to increase engagement. Because of this, I'm not really sure what Twitter is for anymore. I guess you could make the claim that it's keeping your finger on the pulse of what random people in the world are talking about at any given moment?
The author might be correct. I would like to spare him his disillusionment and take his ticket because I feel just selfless enough.

I think I would be disappointed with a suborbital trajectory that just touches space. Might as well combine a parable flight with a high altitude balloon. Less fuzz for the buzz.

But getting into a real orbit is obviously far more laborious and expensive, but maybe more "inspiring" than sitting in a plane that flies a bit higher.

I get the subtle hit the author fired at billionaires suddenly realizing ecological problems at the edge of space in a rocket that just burned insane amounts of liquid and solid fuel. That is a truly sad and sudden realization. Sounds a bit like the abuser that says that he doesn't want to hurt you while recoloring the skin around your eyes.

But to be fair, it isn't on a few billionaires that we face ecological problems. They also wouldn't be the people that could effect change, regardless of their insane capital. It is just the rules we give ourselves in the end.
So its an aggregation technology that strips out the work from the people who make those terrible recipe ad blogs (but on most sites they do have a jump to the recipe button). Though without the people making the recipe blogs (with agreeable terrible revenue models & likely low revenue) this would not be a value ad technology.

Not sure this solves the problem - only a short term solution to a poor market structure. And how long does this run until it has to make revenue in some way?
> After the swine flu’s relatively harmless nature became apparent, many people asked if the alarm it provoked had been warranted. A Swiss survey found that trust in institutions had decreased. Some scientists and officials accused the World Health Organization of stirring up a “faked” pandemic to justify its budget.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Agreed. And it just gets worse. The latest generation of 'VC chains' are more complex again. One popular one even failed to produce blocks for 17 hours.
Even when >50% of the miners were kicked out of Chinam Bitcoin didn't fail. It took a few weeks of slower blocks until the consensus agreed on a lesser difficulty.

Complexity is the enemy of security. These systems just grow more complex and fragile as they progress.
I completely agree, but that's a very big "if". I'm not terribly familiar with autonomous vehicle driving systems, but my passing understanding is that there are multiple components working together that help make predictions, and these systems do not rely on any single point of failure.

The classic example of a sticker on a stop sign is, in my view, more of a dramatization than a real threat surface. Designing an adversarial perturbation on a sticker that can cause misclassifications from particular angles and lighting conditions is possible, but that alone won't cause a vehicle to ignore traffic situations, pedestrians, and other contextual information.

Plus, if I wanted to trick a self driving vehicle into not stopping at an intersection, it would be much easier and cheaper for me to just take the stop sign down :)
Control with an iron fist is better than extermination, but it's a pretty low bar...
Ask HN: Good alternative to Cloudflare for wildcard subdomains protection?
Cloudflare asks to subscribe to their Enteprise plan of min $5k/month to use their service for any subdomain. Even if they give a large number of DNS records (3500), if you run a free tier and your users have their own subdomain, 3500 is nothing and they won't let you increase it unless you are on Enterprise.

The only option would be to find some alternative that doesn't charge $5k for subdomains protection.

Any options?
I am quite hesitant to post, not wishing to offend. I do see positivity in healthy activity.

The documentary touches on mental illness, but it is needlessly vague, as anyone familiar with the subject's mental illness would have recognized it within a couple minutes of watching, at most, confirmed at the mention towards the end of the subject's deep anxiety. I suspect it is more common among body builders than the general population, as the culture seems to encourage it.

The mental illness, once thought to be uncommon, has an accurate, poetic, yet unfortunate name, one perceived to be pugilistic. It affects successful individuals, football quarterbacks, captains of industry, and presidents. Better it was called "mental illness x452" or something harmless, but instead it is called narcissistic personality disorder. Other than the deep anxiety, NPD itself hardly affects the sufferer except through how it affects others in the life of the subject, and from social feedback, hurt leads to hurt. One doesn't need to be a narcissist to be confident, but there is such a thing as overconfidence, arrogance.

It is tragic, in the original sense of the word, that Zyzz died so young. It is not explicitly stated, but I suspect heart failure could have been due to an enlarged heart, which is not all that uncommon among body builders. My understanding is it occurs due to focusing on anaerobic exercise, which weight lifting is, and not also or not executing enough aerobic exercise, like swimming, running and calisthenics. As the heart gets larger, the heart chambers get smaller, pumping less blood and less oxygen, in the right circumstance leading to heart failure and death.
What's notable is that the Russians were not able to exploit the huge lead that they had built in rocket engine technology. The RD-170 series of engines (RD-180, RD-190, etc) were so ahead of their time. Imagine if they had focused on reusability instead of aping NASA's foolish shuttle ideas.

A reusable Zenit or Energia would have been a real game-changer back in the 80s. Russian launches would have cost a fraction of what they were in the west. With cheap launch costs, MIR would likely have been maintained and expanded; maybe even to this day. The ISS would likely not exist since one of its primary goals was to engage the Russian space industry and prevent it decaying away to nothing. With Russian primacy in space, perhaps we'd see more of the 'exotic' Russian space ideas realized... like Kliper, TKS & Polyus.
>It's listed at the bottom of the page

Thanks. Somehow I completely missed it.

But Wow that isn't tiny at all to be honest. $30MM profits is massive.
Interesting, and this will sound very off-topic, but it's actually completely connected - there are any number of technical domains in which, if a given project is taken to an extreme in one particular circumstance or another, can feed back and cause havoc on many who aren't even involved with the project, or who have the slightest clue about it and therefore didn't have agency to internalize the risks involved. I'm going to list in no particular order:

• tetraethyl lead under Thomas Midgley Jr. and Charles Kettering

• chlorofluorocarbons (also Midgely and Kettering)

• Chernobyl (I would include other nuclear disasters in this bullet as well)

• [90% probability] 1977 Russian flu pandemic

• a [50%] probability research-related leak for the current pandemic (simply calling this 50% for this post's purposes because nobody knows and probabilities are difficult to weigh absent more data)

They all involve insufficient, blinkered, or mis- or overly-incentivized oversight of the activities at hand. At some level, they all employ an attitude of "prove the work is likely to cause harm" rather than "prove the work carries acceptable level of risk".

I don't necessarily know how to solve this without causing scientific and technical progress to slow to a crawl. But I think that stakeholder incentives to the green-lighting of any given project with a remotely global scope, and committees who could intervene to stop it in case of overwhelming safety concerns, should be mapped out in excruciating detail to ensure there isn't the faintest of COI (conflict of interest) that could influence decision-making however subtly.

So circling back to the parent comment, the idea that one can modify weather, presumably confined locally or temporally, seems innocuous enough - - it would be impossible for that to have global-scale consequences, right? Fact is, I really don't know, and this article is a good example of such an artificial climate-shifting project. What I would want to be assured of as a member of the public, though, is that the oversight for considering such a project wouldn't unduly benefit in some way - financially, career status, family nepotism, etc. that could cloud sober judgement on whether/how the project should be allowed to proceed.

To first-order, I'd like to see a problem-domain-agnostic approach to ensuring the human incentives across all aspects of approval couldn't possibly be operating out of the wrong place. I don't want to have to be able to understand the underlying respective technologies involved to feel assured that the risk-to-public-benefit reward trade-off has been undertaken through an irreproachably sober lens.
I wonder what happened to NSIS, the NullSoft InstallSystem?

Used it myself as a teen to have a professional looking installer for my software releases.

I still occasionally see software with NSIS installers and Nullsoft copyright.
So I wonder what entity is behind it now days.
How does this compare to Calibre? I very much appreciate Calibre's extensibility of metadata and make use of it in my own digital library collection, and despite being (seen as) a desktop app, has a nice and well-working server mode which allows me to access my collection from any device I want.
Love the "Hi mom!" shout out at the end
Winamp 2.xx was generally the favorite. And there's no reason to talk about it in the past tense -- you can still just use it even now.

I do. 2.95 works fine right up to Windows 10 and probably 11, and still plays any MP3 and pretty much any other format with a plug-in. It even has a double-size display option built right in which makes it perfectly usable on modern 4k resolution.
You mean to say you like that he banned Donald Trump. A fine opinion to have of course.
Adult onset allergies typically appear in peoples' 20s. No one knows why but nasal allergies effect ~6% of US adults, many developing them as adults, almost none of whom live on US war ships.
what kind of "protection" are you looking for?
> since their launch have had a ton of issues and realized why ethereum made the decisions they've made.

could you be more specific about Cardano issues?
Can you elaborate on how this is implemented? I find the actual EIP language to be obtuse.

Are they changing how calldata is processed? or are they changing an ordering mechanism? or are they privileging calldata to have lower gas cost via a simple conditional statement? something else?
If you're a web design shop, the best way to support Firefox is making sure the sites you build work on Firefox.
Mainstream media has no problem with Twitter because it's not eating their lunch.
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> they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing

None of them are products people actually want. They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them.

> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed.

You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one every few weeks of use. They've stopped doing that but that is such a minimum effort thing I do not want to give them any credit for fixing the thing they broke on purpose.
When you activate it the first time, it asks whether it should be active for all websites or only the current one. You can also change that later in the settings. At least on iOS; I’ll need to check but I think it’s the same on recent macOSes.
I can totally understand the feeling, but I read this as just as much an opportunity for the other way around.

However this may now make it possible for a person who can't afford the hardware to make his own projects by renting the actual hardware a little at a time, as he has needs for it.

Gitlab codespaces works even if all you have is a locked down school issued Chromebook.

And it is not as if you don't have plenty of options if you want to run the entire thing on your own machine(s).
I think the takeaway is that failure is always an option.
> Agrawal in November 2020 interview: "Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment... focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed."

Expect accelerating changes to the “free speech arm of the free speech party”
What caused Water on Earth? The answer may surprise you
Can you imagine writing: "pandemic-era lifestyle adjustments that lowered cost of living for many people"?

Is that a fun way of saying workers are getting pushed out of areas where workers are needed? Yeah that's a preexisting crisis.

What part of cost of living lowered? Food and building materials were already tariffed and pandemic made doing anything more expensive so prices soared even more.
Gonna draw a comparison here.

People loooove dynamic langues, no-sql etc.

But from all my experience, once you start getting into bigger projects, maintenance etc. they become a detriment.

So they start with a simple IDE and avoid the IDE with the kitchen sink. Because ultimately they don't know what they are losing/going to lose.
Thanks! I was reading this on my computer, though; I did that, and chose Google Translate, and they translate it as "Gullible Tourist", so I think it's likely an idiom.
We seem to agree entirely.

Many developers would prefer a single, universal browser. A single platform. A single input mechanism (a single development language, compiler, RDBMS, filesystem, cloud provider, backup system, etc). All for obvious, practical reasons, at least in the short term.

That would be devastating for the future, but if it makes projects easier today, many developers are entirely onboard.

That was very much a dominant position among developers in the IE days. Other browsers were a nuisance, and maybe they should just be cut out entirely.

If Safari weren't such an important part of the market, Firefox would have been cut out long ago and we'd be awash in "Made For Chrome (and skinned Chrome)" badges. It is only the economic necessity of supporting iOS users that keeps cross browser development alive.
> At the end outside MBAs always try to take over and destroy the companies.

Yup. Many once great companies, for one reason or the other, believes they have to at some point bring these people in. Who then of course bring more in, who bring more in, etc. And the people that built the company from nothing to something huge are slowly runout and all the leaders from engineer and technology backgrounds are replaced by the "business people". And the culture dies as the company becomes one of abstract "deals" and "efficiencies" and growth stops and it is sold off.
The attack also means you can't use a system based on it for content filtering unless you get it to reliably identify multiple objects in a picture. A picture of a conch shell is harmless, a picture of a conch shell and a beheaded person may not be.
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While not unknown in the west in the past, "better algorithms" are in a way a dying breed in aerospace - these days a student will easily have a CFD package brute force through the problem overnight and be done.

My father, upon taking over his promotor's office in Warsaw Institute of Technology, found among other things a book in Russian that described analytical, symbolic methods allowing "good enough" approximated results for many airfoil/wing design tasks that are now exclusively done through CFD.

As described, in 30 minutes with pen & paper you had maybe a more coarse, but valid and in desired precision result that takes overnight run in ANSYS CFX.
It's sadder to have to sell when things are looking really bad.
Hm is that really true? I thought that there was quite a lot of sharing from industry leaders at the research paper and dataset level, and that these could be used imitate production systems given some hacking. Kinda seemed like the majors were enjoying the benefits of the scrutiny afforded to public scientific research, while keeping their monopoly confined to the silicon/speed/throughput axis. Hence all the free AI software toolkits and also high priced specialty hot-off-the-wafer chips you'll never get.
Is your setup open source? I'd love to know more about upsides of erlang/otp on top of k8s. Do you use hot code reloads?
The New Covid Drugs Are a Bigger Deal Than People Realize
Ona tangentially related matter: Interesting that Parag Agrawal is being named CEO. This makes 3 CEOs (that I know of) that are of Indian descent (other two being Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai).

I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
I think we'll cope without Twitter.
You've liked his hard stance on free speech? What stance is that? That some speech is okay and other speech is not okay?
Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
They can work, they work wonders for me. There's also no "magic pill" and they have their downsides. For me, the pros vastly outweigh the cons, and I've tried several times to make a happy life without support of medication and it's just not as good. (Even with trying a more alternative lifestyle, not being in an environment where I need to sit and focus all the time, etc.)

But also, every body and mind are different. Consult a specialist. There's many different types of ADHD medication out there now.
Not always true. For country B = China, which has has plenty of trading power of its own, embargoes/sanctions can hurt the US, so that stick must be used sparingly. For country B = Cuba/Iran/North Korea/Venezuela, they are already under heavy embargoes/sanctions by the US, so why should they care about US intellectual property laws?