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Show HN: TowerBI – Simple programmable business intelligence tool
Hello, my name is Marwan. I am glad to show you what my team were working on during the past year. TowerBI is a simple programmable business intelligence tool that gives you a platform to build data collectors on, monitors store, and a simple way to represent the data.
It all started out of our frustration with current BI tools. You will notice (after the store gets more monitors) how simple the monitors are, and how not using charts (yes, no charts) is better most of the time.

Right now, there is no way to connect to databases, only monitors that get their data using HTTP, and monitors that use data collectors (docker containers) can be developed.

We hope we start to develop more monitors with you and build the next generation of BI tools.

Happy to answer your questions if you have any.
Yeah, but if you try to bullshit a proprietary license as "open source" you're going to catch hell from a whole lot of people. It's not just the OSI that has a stake in the OSD.

A few companies have tried it and backed off.
The thing that makes Wordle successful to me is the fact it allows and encourages actual social interaction, not the fake "social" of having to hear what every yahoo has to say about something. I don't post mine on Facebook or Twitter but my friends do and it's nice to have a small fun thing to chat about. I talk to my wife about it once we're both done. We need more of these kinds of things that are social without being "social".
> There are organizations other than OSI which have their own opinions on what they consider a “valid” open source license.

What other organizations have credible claims?

I’ve only heard of companies that have created non-open licenses and are trying to redefine the term (eg, open core, etc)
It's not TSMC capacity that's the problem. It's the large nodes that make everything except cutting-edge processors. Nobody builds a new large-node fab, but demand for large node components keeps rising.
> I separate file backup and version control. I keep every git repository I'm working on in Dropbox, and don't ever worry about how often I'm committing and pushing.

Motivated by a slightly different use case (seamless syncing across multiple machines), I built a custom tool that solves this concern within `git`: https://github.com/rraval/git-nomad

You can toss `git nomad sync` into a systemd timer (or cronjob if you prefer) and forget about it.
At least the three dots look like the ellipsis, which has a standard meaning of "there's even more..."

At the end of a list of other menu entries, there's a chance that it can be inferred to mean "let's me see some more".
Professor sues students over exam posted to Course Hero
Yeah, the worst part is this:

> For those of you that don’t care about pixel-perfect macOS with no scaling, $1,599 will sound frankly ridiculous, and there are lots of other fascinating displays to think about, including a number of OLEDs, some neat ultrawides, and plenty of displays that support higher refresh rates.

Umm, yeah, the form factor and resolution are all the matter with this display. That sentence is like saying "For those of you that are vegetarians, $15 for a hamburger will sound frankly ridiculous." Of course there are much cheaper products that don't have the thing that is the only reason anyone would even consider buying this monitor.
OSI is not random and, while not perfect, are a pretty good steward of the concept. They’re a non-profit with a clear goal and broad membership.

Not sure who else would be better.
MIT's Mini Cheetah robot runs faster than ever
Causing tens or hundreds of thousands of wasted hours by (relatively) high-earning software developers in Russia (who average about 20k USD a year, or $11/hour) is only, generously, a few million dollars USD in "damages".

To clarify, not refuting your point. Just providing napkin math that I agree it doesn't do much.
I think possibly the most succinct illustration of the rapid progress in robotics driven by AI is the switch from 'Video Played at 10x Speed' to 'Video Played at Half Speed'
Very cool. I had no idea antiprotons -- well, an antiproton and an electron -- could orbit a nucleus. Does it fill up the usual quantum state of the first electron, or does it have its own set of quantum states to fill? Can they get a second antiproton to take the place of the second electron? I imagine that should be at least somewhat stable as the electrons of the enclosing container should repel the antiprotons just fine.
You asked: "who are you to decide?". That's not questioning their opinion but rather their right to voice their opinion.
I'm not sure that's true. While they have been very good at using antitrust as a leverage for trade disputes... they have been more or less toothless against european conglomerates. They seem to care a lot less about the type of anti competitive behavior that (partly or fully) state owned corporations and large conglomerates would be more likely to indulge in.

>One complaint of industrial policy in European antitrust came from no
less than the then President of the United States. President Obama suggested
that some European antitrust enforcement targeting U.S. tech companies
might be essentially an element of European industrial policy. President
Obama explained in an interview with Kara Swisher: “We have owned the
Internet. Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it, in ways
[that inefficient European competitors] can’t compete [with]. And often-
times what is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is
designed to carve out their commercial interests.”59

[...]

>They note that the European case law more readily accepts refusals to supply
and refusals to deal than U.S. case law (although the duty is not broad).
Something Gifford and Kudrle fail to mention, however, is that, importantly,
in addition to the limits on the European case law, the Guidance Paper also
shows deep reluctance to create blanket obligations for rivals.
The context for refusals to deal is different in Europe where, unlike the
United States, there is a history of state-owned enterprises. In what is per-
haps still the leading economic policy book of European competition law,
the most recent former chief economist of DG Competition, in his prior
academic writing, also shows great reluctance to undertake an aggressive ap-
proach with regard to refusals to deal.

Source: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

The reason we hear more about their enforcement actions is because big tech is mostly American. The US also has a much less arbitrary and more transparent process, where the main focus is economical costs to the customer is the main concern. Not so much for for the black box that is the european DG. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, europe has no reason to want itself dominated by big American tech corporations. But I think some perspective is needed, and I think the paper I linked shows the pros and cons of both approaches pretty well.
Bosch was a really good one. Will recommend it. It is among all-time-bests, I will say.

Tales from The Loop was unique and dream-like. I liked it for being so original.

Wheel of Time bloopers made me feel like it was "manufactured TV". So, didn’t watch it.

I hated Amazon for killing Mozart in The Jungle.
Honestly, when the OP title is as opaque as this one, I wouldn't mind of the submission title just summarized the key point.
I hope we get similar advisory about agile coding factories in future. In my personal experience, they are also brutal.
Did you read that poster's comment?

> Simply putting your head in the sand or attempting to debunk this documented phenomena with patently absurd explanations like "a lens flare" or "it was only Venus" isn't good enough for thoughtful people.

So yeah I'm nitpicking that the poster inserted an invented fact that these were the Navy's "top pilots" to support their position while being a dismissive jerk.

He or she deserves no better.
On the one hand, the original recordings & models might not be sufficient for a true 'remaster' from original sources.

But on the other, ML-driven upscaling has improved so much that a model trained specifically on the full series – so that it inherently "knows" what various characters/sets/props should look like, at higher-resolutions, from other closer-in shots – might offer acceptable results.

Definitely worth a research project from a tech-smart outfit like Amazon.
If using netsnmp, it will work without problems, always (in my experience). Anything that doesn't work exactly the same (bugs and all) - good luck. The reason is that everyone seems to use netsnmp when developing, and when it works, the work is done. Doesn't work elsewhere? Yeah, that's too bad.
Why it's almost impossible to lose things in Japan
They don't claim to own it, because they legally do not have a right to it. They tried to register it and failed.
> Why isn't it on by default?

Because git was written primarily for the Linux kernel and the defaults reflect that. The workflow of the Linux kernel is completely different from what most people outside of it do with git. "git pull" is used for opposite purposes in both worlds.
Hydrogen has 3x the mass-energy density of kerosene, what is called "aviation fuel".

However, LH2 takes up too much room to fit in the wings, so the LH2 tanks need to be somewhere else, either inboard or in nacelles. And you have to liquify it, which takes up some more energy. But the weight advantage will prove overwhelming, particularly as raw electricity costs continue on down.

The reason the weight advantage is so overwhelming is that each kg of fuel not carried is another kg of cargo you can carry, instead, and collect revenue for. For example, an Airbus A320 carries typically, say, 25t of fuel and 50t of cargo. Replacing that with 8t of fuel and 67t of cargo yields a 34% revenue increase. If kerosene-fueled planes are getting a 20% gross profit margin, you can absolutely undercut them anywhere you fly. So, you pick up all of the most profitable traffic, and they are left to fly the routes you don't want.

That presumes the per-joule cost of LH2 is the same as for Jet-A fuel. But as the LH2 is synthesized on-site, vs. Jet-A mined, refined, transported, and maybe carbon-taxed, a joule of LH2 could be substantially cheaper. With time, kerosene will come to be synthesized, but it needs carbon captured from somewhere, either from the air or from somebody's exhaust, and the oxygen stripped off, and hydrogen stuck on its place, and chains built up, so will cost more.
I don't know which short-minded executive keeps pushing for these ads in Windows, but they are directly sabotaging the golden goose and the goodwill that took a painstaking amount of time and money to regain in the last decade.
I've found that headerdoc-style documentation works very well.

It does require a teensy bit of extra discipline and vigilance, on my part, but it is usually supported by many tools.

If I do it that way, it's automatically displayed in mouseovers in Xcode, and can be compiled into organized sites, by Jazzy.

I write about my methodology, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
I don't understand why you can't just have some wiki/bluetooth/RF/powerline module that turns your electric heater on and off depending on a signal from some random home automation controller?

"fil pilote" was probably useful in the 90s but it sounds outdated to me.
I was curious what it looked like.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lcmVvIeiFGc

I love this idea, I think there is a lot of potential for learning this way.
My wife is a university professor and has found her materials posted on Course Hero. She has asked them to take down the materials, but it's a game of whack-a-mole. For each new document uploaded, she has to submit another request. It's not even clear that a document that has already been taken down can't just be reposted again by a different student. The whole process is incredibly cumbersome, presumably so professors just give up.
1,872-Piece Lego DeLorean Is Packed with Back to the Future Details
If it's an intentional dark pattern, they may take A/B testing into consideration, but still decide to make usability tradeoffs.

https://www.darkpatterns.org/
That doesn't seem so wise. Consumers install a lot of apps. On the Google Play store, even some obscure apps have huge download numbers.
> Since our founding, Flickr has been a home for all photographers, no matter their subject. This has been especially valuable for community members creating restricted and moderate content that would be unwelcome or even incur bans or have their content removed from other photo sharing platforms.

> But we’ve been lax in truly defining a space for these photographers, until now. To support these creators, and ensure that their communities continue to thrive, the ability to share restricted and moderate content will be reserved for Flickr Pro members.

What do they mean by "moderate content"? I assume "restricted content" means porn, but the "restricted and moderate content" pairing doesn't make sense if you interpret "moderate" in a straightforward way.

So, reading between the lines, are they reacting to that PornHub fracas from a few years ago by requiring people who upload porn to flicker to identify themselves and pay for the extra moderation effort involved with that?
Webglc: Gpgpu for Web Browsers
Are there legitimate instances where we actually need to break a name into parts? In my latest project I just have a single free-form text field for "name", and another for "nickname". The latter is always entered by humans, not something I attempt to generate automatically based on "name".
So, like... SNMP Traps? :-)
I'd use Pareto security for starters if I had a Mac https://paretosecurity.com/
Fascinating, haven't heard of this. Some googling suggested there is some active research in this area, and at least some active use by hobbyists and by the military in target drones. Seems like a promising angle for a cheaper cruise missile, at least on the engine front.
> unless you can bury the plants.

Maybe this is a naive question: but why not bury plants? We got into this mess by digging up long-buried plants, so why not literally reverse the process? With intentional effort, maybe this could be a viable solution? (Probably not -- but I'm curious why.)
It's a separate package in some distros since it's written in Perl and uses Tk. gitk is often in the same package.
Updating Linux and FreeBSD Systems for New Daylight Saving Time (2007)
Bold of you to assume that requirements are properly defined.
Rights are owned by Warners via Turner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry#Tom_and_Jerry's_...
This is related to a long ongoing court battle between Neo4j and Graph Found (ONgDB). Basically the latter forked the former but removed some clauses from the license they weren't supposed to remove, and this tangential ruling is basically stating that they can't call it open source in their advertising because of that. Related reading: https://casetext.com/case/neo4j-inc-v-graph-found-inc
I love the name. As soon as I saw this link at the top of HN, the Totoro theme started playing in my head. https://youtu.be/p1KVuFStqEM
Commit early. But do not commit garbage. Each commit should be a small but meaningful advance. All tests should pass. If working with compiled code, off course it should compile. No todos. No clunky var or method names. A branch per merge request.

If you do it like this it is great for everyone. Do not squash commits or rebase. Those are antipatterns. We are lying to ourselves when we do it. We cannot learn from history we rewrite.
Step backwards throughout my life and watch the outcomes that came to be if I chose A instead of B and vice versa. Then carry out what happened in the opposite in the present thas creating infinity.
HEIF was finalized in 2015 and was standardized by ISO in 2017; not sure where you're getting a 2020 date from.

It's been in widespread real-world use since at least 2017, when HEIF support was added to the built-in camera app in iOS 11.
> That's why Green New Deal want them: living on such "food" demand living on industry, without you perish, while living on classic fosterage can be done

This is a hilarious conspiracy theory. (((They))) want to stop people from being able to live without industry because … there is such a huge population willing to do that? Right.
> The court order is “hand over the money”, which is hardly an unusual one.

I admit I haven't read the court order, but that sounds surprising. A more proportionate demand would be "don't move the money" (while the court decides who it should belong to), and I don't see how the government benefits from having the money in escrow, unless they fear the user is a flight risk, in which case they should have jailed him too.

If the money is actually being permanently forfeited because it has been proven to be part of a crime (rather than just potentially being used in the future to support a crime) then I would expect not just a court order but some sort of verdict proving the existence of the crime.
Thanks for the question. It's a tough & good one we want to take it directly as we can.

At our early stage, we are focused on developing our capture technology & thinking carefully how to best partner with folks who can do sequestration.

The fossil fuel companies know how to compress & inject gases underground at huge industrial scale. They, as well as the oilfield services companies that support them, have expertise that is difficult to access otherwise: they know how to build & monitor wells, find & characterize saline aquifers & other geologic formations where CO2 can be stored, and so on. Coming from our industrial background, we know that their expertise in these areas is not something we want to categorically ignore. Applications with the EPA for Class VI (non-EOR) wells are in the pipeline process around the US, and similar injection-only wells are being built/planned in other parts of the world and we are keeping a close eye on those developments. In addition, mineralization is a possible path too.

I wish we could give a clearer answer. No doubt it's a complex question & we are thinking about it carefully in our planning.
> Incessant questioning is a fantastic way to learn. The only other way than painful experience.

I am a questioner, but my group seems to be filled with people who aren't. How do you mentor those that seem to enjoy the pain route? I have trouble assuming that they'll ask questions when they need help.

I think my group is unique where most are highly educated, but from a non-software field, now doing software probably 50% of their time. From what I've noticed, the higher the degree in this non-software field, the fewer questions they ask, and the more comfortable they are with their confusion, even making up strange illogical explanations rather than attempting any real understanding. This group has cemented the idea that knowledge and problem solving ability are completely orthogonal.
The concept has been debunked over and over, e.g. by Thunderf00t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsqIjAeeXw
Worth a read : http://netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html
That's put there by the platform. I don't have access or interest.
For what it's worth, I'm glad they/them is catching on and I use it all the time.

Growing up, though, I was taught to use "he or she" / "she or he" in English class and they/them was always used in the context of third person plural. I don't consider it a newfangled thing, but the embrace of it feels new.
Another similar app that also works with video: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anonymous-camera/id1504102584
i've looked into air to water machines before and one downside i've noticed is that the energy use is really really high. one device I looked at was like 1 KW per 1.5 gallons or so! definately not something to water your lawn. At that energy usage, I'd say these are more useful for survival situations where you're only producing enough water for people to drink and survive.

Other than that, I'm very excited about the propsects of air to water machines, I really really hope they become a lot more energy efficient.
Plug in the US poverty line for one person, $12,880, and you're in the richest 16.3%.

American poverty for a family of four, $26,500, and it's 6%.

This is more making the point that West is incredibly wealthy than anything about you in particular.
Somebody should carefully explain to the wsj exactly what "decisive" means. The outcome of this war is a foregone conclusion.
The iOS app doesn’t come up as the first result in the App Store. Not sure if it’s because Zotero isn’t popular enough yet.

Regardless, here is the direct link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zotero/id1513554812
Thanks. This is interesting to hear as we are also eying additional industries where our product could be useful. Though the present issue is with developing features that would be welcomed by all users within our current vertical.

From what you've described, it sounds like you shared infrastructure (db, etc) between markets? Different versions or one monolith with feature flags?
> I have seen enough war crime photage

You have participated in too many instances of two minutes hate and were gaslighted by propaganda.

I laugh hysterically (in a very sad way), as I scroll through /r/Ukraine and see yet another video headlined as "Another Russian war-crime in Ukraine", that I had already seen few years ago headlined as "Ukrainian war-crime in Donetsk".

There is no truth anymore, literally every man for himself.
In architecture school, my partner had to map a landscape using old-fashioned triangulation: using measurements between fixed points to build a map of triangles. The problem is, your measurements are usually a bit off (e.g. you measure from different points on a tree's trunk, the tape was sagging, you assume measurements are planar but there is topography, etc. If you aren't careful about the order in which you build your map, errors compound.

We developed some software to optimize for least squared error and then plot points. Not a sophisticated algorithm, but it worked well! https://github.com/cproctor/triangulation
I think it's the usually public vs private branch issue.

If you're merging a public branch with another public branch, then if you a rebase, rather than a merge commit, then you mess up the history for anyone has pulled that branch.

For private branches that isn't an issue.
I used Zotero quite a bit in the past, the thing that ultimately drove me away is that when synchronizing you couldn't easily access the PDFs just via the filesystem. I use a nextcloud and also wanted to access PDFs from devices without Zotero installed and this turned out to be a pain at the time. Is this possible with more recent Zotero versions? Is the sync still cumbersome with a zotero account + self-hosted webdav?
It's been a long time. But I remember I started with this page [0]. There are also many resources on github, like [1] or [2], but I haven't tried them.

0: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Debug/MacroblocksAndMotionVecto...

1: https://github.com/LukasBommes/mv-extractor

2: https://github.com/jishnujayakumar/MV-Tractus
Statistical regression is algorithm. I think I fail to get the sentiment of this comment though (as someone not in data-oriented profession)
Here is another: https://wafflegame.net/
setjmp, longjmp, jmp_buf are defined in the CRT, not in kernel32. Of course their implementations will eventually depend on kernel32, but that's not relevant to the callers of setjmp/longjmp.
Many people don't qualify to pay 'income' tax, but most people just think they have to do it. And employers withhold it from wage slave paychecks, which does make it challenging to opt out.

Definitely possible to not have what is known as wage income. Many do it. The super rich structure their affairs to avoid being in that system of voluntary contributions.
If the software issues are true and can be repaired with a firmware upgrade then I don’t think it will be a problem for long.