skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Retool itself was heavily inspired by a Palantir internal project (https://twitter.com/barrald/status/1550496754335875075?lang=...), and started in 2017 AFAIK. And as was mentioned above there have been other tools like Outsystems, Mendix, Appian for a while, however those were primarily built for an enterprise context and weren't very developer focused.

Appsmith (I work here) started around 2019-2020 and decided to take an open source developer focused stance, because the core philosophy was that open source is a better alternative for internal tools, because they were substitutes for other OSS alternatives (like React Admin, Django, Angular and the likes) and we believed tools built on Appsmith ideally can proliferate across the organization and so it was important to have a model that that a) was easy to try, esp in larger companies (OSS helps there) b) was easy to adopt without worrying too much about the additional cost of every new user you add.

Budibase started around 2018 I think, but became OSS after a few years. There were a few other players like Internal.io as well as vertical specific ones like ForestAdmin, Jetadmin etc.

2021-2022 saw the rise of many other tools in the market, many of which trail their origins back to the Appsmith source code (Tooljet, Superblocks, Openblocks etc) as well as others like Airplane etc - some of these are open source (like Tooljet, Openblocks), while Superblocks is not. This to some extent explains why you're seeing so many companies come out in this space.

Even within the OSS options, there's also a difference in the licenses that each of them use. At Appsmith we use Apache 2.0, which is more permissive than others.

Starting an open source project means that you're ok with commoditizing some aspect of the product (and as a result the industry), which gives developers of these tools to focus on the next bigger challenges, which in turn further the industry.

This is still a nascent industry and there's a lot that each one is learning from the other. For e.g, Retool was a cloud first product for the longest time, and Appsmith (and other OSS tools) invested heavily in the self hosted experience. It was in 2021 after seeing the reaction the market that builders of internal tools prefer self hosting (since you're dealing with sensitive internal data) that Retool decided to offer a self host option (albeit at a steep cost), and I believe they've benefited from that quite a bit. At Appsmith, every day we also learn a lot about the use-cases for internal tools from our customers and users as well as from the other players in this space.

The user today is often still confused about what these tools are useful for (since internal tools themselves are custom software with endless possibilities), and hence you see a lot of companies in this space trying to educate their users on how to use these platforms and how they can integrate it in their existing workflows etc.
Current wargames on YouTube based on DCS show the F-35 reaching kill ratios in excess of 5:1 against 4th gen fighters in bvr. Modern f-16s and f-15s are only slightly cheaper than the f-35.
It would be a hard no to do street drugs now-a-days. Back when I was in college worse case you get some weak coke. Now you can get laced coke and OD and die. Scary times!
There is more to my rant than just autotools and C compilation though, and it applies equally.

I went into more detail for you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34319254

(btw, most of times I've used "Make" has been times where the pain has been done for me or I'm using Python, Go, Docker or in one case: Rust. I have never touched Autotools or C-compilation myself with Make, my arguments have nothing to do with C compilation at all.)
Now imagine that in Australia, with snakes, spiders and drop bears.

The amount of tourists that dont die is actually pretty amazing. Some tourists do however follow "google maps" off a dirt road to nowhere, which turns into a dirt road that doesn't exist then they find the hard way that fuel efficiency in knee deep dust or mud isn't as good as the car predicts.
They certainly have the right to strike and argue for better compensation packages, but that will be reflected in the price of UPS shipping in a world where Amazon is currently demolishing them. Hell, even the USPS undercuts them as they run it as a jobs program for vets instead of a real business. Fedex has virtually no unions and will get a competitive advantage here.

I wonder if the end results will be a temporary boost for current employees, but at the expense of new ones as UPS loses more and more market share.
It’s not easy to tell two login attempts are from one bot. This kind of workaround unfortunately doesn’t work in practice. Otherwise of course this whole problem wouldn’t exist.
> I'm not into web "programming"

Elaborate
The threat in blowing up NS isn't “do what we want or we don't turn our gas back on”, its “do what we want or we blow up Baltic Pipe”.

> It also forces Europe to find other gas sources…

That was forced a while ago, the threat here is against those other sources.
The article completely omitted that until 1999 UPS was an employee owned company.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/22/business/ups-going-public...
I'm not writing C. so I'm not sure what you mean, I mentioned ./configure as a solution to a problem because it was obviously a big enough problem;

To go into issues though:

Make itself executes by default with `sh` which is wildly different between platforms.

Even if you write portable enough shell; Paths are still incompatible between OS's and distros.

You still must ship your tools, which is a direct contradition of what is mentioned.

In fact; I just googled it and this chapter from Managing Projects with GNU Make; talks about the issues in making Make (GNU Make, as opposed to BSD Make, which is different enough to have broken my things!): portable

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/managing-projects-with/...
> The age of the amber monitor lasted from about 1987 until 1990

No, it was longer. Earlier in the 80s until later in the 90s (for dumb terminals)
It shows a lot about American schools, especially Universities, that "elites" in the US have no clue how a real insurrection even looks like. :D
>The company offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs and is enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming?

Heh. Most UPS workers are working-class in traditional classification.

"American middle-class" is extremely stretched concept.
The example you've chosen reiterates that currencies have a price (letting you out), not a value.

If you had only Deutsche Marks to pay would that help you avoid prison?

No. Because they have no value, same as USD, on top of that, they have no price either because there's no demand for Deutsche Marks.
There's nothing else they can really buy and expect to have before 2026. The US won't sell F22s, they obviously can't buy Russian or Chinese jets, and Eurofighters and Gripens have radar cross sections bigger than the super hornet. They could get even older plane designs, but that's not good enough.
But what about the other 99% of us that aren't living internationally in multiple countries we have no history in?

The idea that everyone is forced to create a public profile so you have the option of getting a mortgage sucks. You have no right to a mortgage at other's expense. If you want folks to trust you, get a co-signer, put down roots and stay a while.
It's just like the Scientology Winter.

Nobody could stop Scientology until South Park did a series of episodes about them.

And South Park recently did a number on NFTs and crypto currencies a year ago:

Crypto Curious - SOUTH PARK: POST COVID: THE RETURN OF COVID

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8f-BQFo7lw

>Vic Chaos presents a proposal on the potential of selling NFTs to Denny's Applebee's Max customers.
> The supply is finite

Until It isn't.

Miners will one day decide to hardfork bitcoin to increases the mining rewards, hence increasing the supply. They will of course need to prepare the narrative, and say "it is for the good of bitcoin".

It might be in 10 years, or in 50 years. But on a long enough time-scale, you can be sure of one thing: Bitcoin will change, because it's man-made and because it's mutable/forkable.
I figure it's less about the airplane and more of a tribute to the US. Being a valuable customer of a powerful lobby means the US is more likely to take your interests into account in a way that could be worth the price of the planes.
Always impressive and a bit saddening seeing the Apple shills crawl out of the woodwork when news like this hits the airwaves. What is it about apple that turns people into such rabid fanboys?
We've heard that argument for a decade now, cryptocurrency has still failed to find any use cases besides speculation an law breaking.

Banks have experience maintaining trust and not losing customer deposites. Cryptocurrency is struggling with this and I haven't seen any evidence of any radical new approaches to mitigate these issues.
150 ft + 150 ft so 300' ... in perfect conditions?

Are we straight and level? What conditions are the tyres in? Wet/dry/oil slick. Brakes in good order? Vehicle size?

I recall driving a fully laden 7.5T box van for my diabetic brother (diabetic, hence he couldn't drive the van) moving house. I followed along the A40 (Oxfordshire), UK) behind him and then he cut off down to a roundabout on a slip road - my lorry wallowed quite dramatically as I followed suit and came to a shuddering stop behind him. Luckily I had six large tyres. If it had been wet, I would have shunted him into a busy roundabout. I would have tried to hit a barrier instead but who knows?

As someone else said: "2 second rule". When you are my age you can even see it!
I just had this entire argument in my head today before seeing this post. But swap ups for FedEx. Amazon has the de facto service and for some reason others haven’t even tried to replicate it. If anyone wants to reverse engineer the data matrix tracking code (think Amazon packages) side of things hit me up.
Well, at least the Plane lower-stage is rapidly re-usable, even if the rocket itself was a total loss.
Edit: And the 9 Satellites!

Would be even worse if they needed to fabricate an entirely new lower stage. Maybe they just need to launch even more rockets, failing faster and faster, to figure out the best way NOT to have orbital failures

Two Rocket Launches per Plane Launch would be an Awe-Inspiring strategy to achieve more rapid iteration!
Now that so many people are non-religious, I wonder why groups are not being formed to take the place of churches, and have choirs and organ music. Clearly there is a desire for such things. If churches can do it, surely secular non-profits could do the same thing. Gather together one or more times a week to sing and listen to music. Maybe have talks about whatever people want to talk about (hopefully avoiding things like politics so everyone feels welcome). Organizations to replace the community that churches used to provide. It could provide service opportunities, a resource for the poor and needy to get help. Even a place to find a boardgame group. It would need a one word name like church/synagogue/mosque so people could move into an area and ask “Where is the local …”
In the USA? Not much. Bitcoin is a decent choice for sending your money across borders though! It could also be a gift if you think holding it long-term would be valuable. I remember my grandma buying me bank bonds as a kid for the same reason.
Ask HN: Quora account deletion; at risk of LGBTQ persecution
Hey HN, I really need to get in touch with someone at Quora who can expedite the deletion process of an account I no longer have access to. The longer the account is public, the higher I’m at risk for LGBTQ persecution in my home country.

When I was younger, I naively started a Quora account with my real name and photo attached. I posted answers that reveal my LGBTQ identity. Right now, I’m being recognized in my (conservative) community for an accomplishment. Someone reached out to me saying they’re confused by the posts in my Quora profile and how they go against my national identity and (assumed) religion. If the person chooses to share this profile with authorities, I’m at stake to be persecuted and possibly lose on scholarship money that helps me stay in the US. The profile page is a top search result for Googling my name, which makes me even more worried.

I don’t remember the email address associated with the account and I tried enumerating through all the emails I remember owning—to no avail.

I would appreciate all the help I can get to delete the account. Thank you all in advance.
Oh I know — that's why I assume the web will be choking on AI-generated content marketing in the foreseeable future. The killer app will be the search/information/answer engine that can suitably ignore the AI-generated tripe.

I wonder if we'll look back one day and say "remember back before 2020, when the internet was filled with junk, but at least it was human-written junk?".
If you’re complaining about ./compile or valgrind, you’re soundly in the world of autotools and C compilation.

Not make.
At least in Telegram, this works for at most one link per message, and quickly fills the screen if you send multiple such messages.

And I believe that there is no standard API to get previews of non-public websites in a work chat, you need to develop site-specific bots or something like that?
$163m a pop is, actually, pretty chill. The U.S. habitually spends more money upgrading decades old jets.
Alan Kay was one of the few people in 1974 qualified to make predictions about computers. I'd compare that to Andreas Antonopoulos making predictions about bitcoin in 2011. I wouldn't trust your average journalist's predictions in either situation.
if it's not in the same repo, it means that the deployer can be updated and rolled out independently, and scale with its own resources.

if it's in the same repo, you add complexity -- now I have to ensure my deployment of two unrelated code bases don't collide, there's more cross-team conflicts, and I have to clone down a 200gb repo.
Link for the curious. http://augmentingcognition.com/assets/Kay1977.pdf

It's a neat read, from 1977 to be pedantic. It does miss networking - the DynaBook misses the forest for the trees in that it is a personal computer that doesn't account for the advent of the internet and how PCs/smartphones are a communication tool right after being a fancy calculator at their core.

In a sense that's an apt description for how a lot of people view crypto - they see it as purely a currency network, but don't realize its much more than that.
Constantly amazed by the number of product names that are just an Esperanto description of it's form/function.

(In this case, skribilo => ilo por skribi, basically translates as "tool for writing").
Euro and Yuan are mainstream, but I haven't bought either in years.
> against the ToS of Facebook users to give their password to any service like that

What if it was not a service but an application I download and run on my PC? I'm not sure how ToS could forbid that, me running an application on my PC.
I'm guessing mainstream means that it's enough that traditional finance has had to deal with requests to invest in it to some degree. https://michaelwgreen.substack.com/p/do-not-buy-this-etf-1e8... (May 2021, Michael Green of Simplify) sorta touches on this.
Then why did you bring it up? Please don't waste everyone's time with such empty talk. I regret thinking you were trying to make some sort of serious point.
I really enjoyed this website. There are many more interesting topics in addition to the 3D CSS stuff
It occasionally does. But it’s biased against it. It doesn’t make things up as it’s default behavior.
You getting a mortgage is not a problem I'm willing to pay for with my privacy. (Not that I was given a choice.) Buying property here is a pipe dream, period.

I've rented apartments without credit by showing paycheck stubs and bank balance.
“PepsiCo shares down sharply after Canada announces $142m purchase of Pepsi Points ”
You might find the concept of Ikigai interesting. Also, Arthur C. Brooks recently wrote a book, From Strength to Strength. I think his audience skews slightly older than you, but it's about how people find meaningful second careers by leveraging the wisdom they have gained in their first career.

Just my opinion, but there are tons of ways to find meaning, e.g. advising startups, angel investing, teaching, giving talks at your alma mater, generally helping people in different ways. It's not for everyone, but lots of people have kids and find meaning through them. You can also do stuff for your parents. Looking back on it, I wish I had just paid for a home improvement project at my parents' house rather than simply suggesting it to them and hoping they'd do it.
My first computer had an amber monitor. With a Wang keyboard. And a turbo button.
Are you comparing it to a non-burr grinder of a similar price, or are you comparing it to a much more expensive burr grinder?
The comments he made about the medical examiner's office aren't exactly empty comments. It wasn't hard to find this information, so consider googling before being so dismissive with comments like yours.

The FBI ended up raiding the medical examiner's office in 2019: https://www.newschannel10.com/2019/09/24/texas-rangers-fbi-u...

Whistleblower lawsuit: https://www.kcbd.com/story/29837207/lubbock-county-medical-e...

“We have evidence of tampering with government documents, backdating of autopsy reports, in an apparent attempt to try to make them look as if they were done on a timely basis. We have alteration of Dr. Florez’s reports without her knowledge, and re-signing of those reports by Dr. Natarajan. Dr. Natarajan delegated a large amount of authority to his nurse, his head nurse, and allowed her essentially to practice medicine, to make decisions that only he and the Deputy Medical Examiner were allowed to make, by law,” said Kerensky."

Unlicensed autopsies of children: https://www.kcbd.com/2019/02/20/lawsuit-former-lubbock-medic...

“He (Matshes) made one comment multiple times that literally made me sick. He said, ‘Oh you should have seen a case I was consulting on as a second opinion not long ago and by the time I was through with that autopsy, you could take what was left of that baby and put it in a cup.' He seemed to enjoy that statement, and it just turned my stomach and everyone else’s that heard it too," Graves said.

Two year backlog of autopsies from 2021: https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/autopsies-...

Investigation into autopsy backlog going back to 2018: https://www.kcbd.com/2018/11/20/kcbd-investigates-exclusive-...

Review of the medical examiner's office, with claims of alcoholism on the job, accepting bribes to change autopsy results, and using government resources to fund his ME's private practice: https://media.everythinglubbock.com/nxsglobal/everythinglubb...
Absolutely nothing was stopping wotc from getting a bunch of actors in a room and paying them to play with someone like jeremy crawford on twitch...
Being required to pay back sign on bonuses, etc if you leave within 12 months is fairly typical, though I think often amortized or some such based on time.

Now some of this seems excessive (one account in the article says 2 years, which is BS), but in this particular case it seems she was employed remotely and then they changed the terms of employment to require in office work.

In that case I would argue the relocation costs are entirely the fault of the business, not the employee and morally they have no right to charge her. Of course that has no meaning in the law, especially in anti-worker countries like the US.
The goto labels can exported much more directly using inline asm. Further, inline asm can now represent control flow, so you can define the labels in inline asm and the computed jump at the end of an opcode. That's pretty robust to compiler transforms. Just looked up an interpreter in that style:

#define LABEL_START(TAG) ns_##TAG : __asm__(".p2align 3\n.Lstart_" #TAG ":" :::)

#define LABEL_END(TAG) __asm__(".Lend_" #TAG ":\n")

#define PROLOGUE(TAG) LABEL_START(TAG); ip++

#define EPILOGUE(TAG) __asm__ goto("\tjmpq %0\n" "\t.Lend_" #TAG ":\n"::"r"((void)decode(ip))::ALL_LABELS())

Followed by opcodes implemented in this fashion:

{
PROLOGUE(add);
{
apply_opcode_ADD(&s->data_stack);
}
EPILOGUE(add);
}

Because the labels are defined in assembly, not in C, accessing them from outside the function is straightforward. I wrote a whole load of these at some point, there's probably a version of those macros somewhere that compiles to jumps through a C computed goto as well.
I don't understand how does that relates to calling a cryptocurrency a gold-like asset.

There's nothing in the world with such a long history of a solid investment that goes back to ancient times on a global scale.
I am not a fan of the F-35 but I have to admit that most of its problems (well, the egregious ones) seem to have been (expensively) resolved or at least adequately mitigated, and its air fighting performance now does appear better than anything else in the US armory, so likely better than anything else made by CN, much less RU, today.
Verifiable Software Development Estimations
What if they were on the other side of the bull run where it went $3.5k -> $65k? Why only focus on the maximum loss scenario?
I'm building MonsterWriter and I'm actively looking for an alternative to LaTeX which does not has a copy left license and is not multiple gigabytes in size.

It is so surprising that there is just nothing comparable. I solved the problem by providing a webservice to convert content to LaTeX and then compile it to a PDF.
Universa Investments. However, I think minimum investment is too high for a normal individual. It's geared towards institutions.

You can also take a look at https://www.eurekahedge.com/Indices/IndexView/Eurekahedge/64...
Why can’t the customers hand the specs direct to the software people?
Have you tried making a new Quora account, and contacting them directly? If you can offer proof of identity (and Risk of Persecution), maybe they will be able to help.
https://www.quora.com/I-forgot-the-login-email-id-of-my-Quor...