skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At present it's just the data being dumped from TaxonWorks and re-integrated into the existing front-end (separation of concerns nicely done). In the future we hope efforts that wrap TaxonWorks APIs and tooling, "companions", will evolve to make things look better. For example it would be trivial to wrap AntWeb in TaxonPages (see Github for everything) to get a new front end there, though that software is focused at the Taxon level. Multiple groups are looking to build out similar efforts at the specimen level (perhaps SpecimenPages).

We've recently has some amazing success with previously "unknown" people contributing to our open-source framework(s). These contributions, and hopefully future ones, will let us deliver additional features in a more timely fashion, for example things like multi-entry and "traditional" taxonomic keys. TLDR - there are opportunities to chip in to the "refresh" efforts on multiple fronts.
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They sold their soul to make the people at the top rich.

It's not about airplanes, it's about human nature.
I love it that the reddit post asks him straight away to make a post on HN. Its like everyone knows HN is the default customer support for these 10x web 2.0 hyperscale companies...
His work is always a good reminder the open web is still an amazing place!
Reason 1: This would confuse users.

Reason 2: it's easier to use a tool like Cordova and create an Android and iOS app.
They show the input. I would not consider that to be usable for a human reader. Add in that you’re relying on visual cues to connect the numbers to the legend and it’s even less useful to the human reader.

Consider the simple case of a two-item pie chart which would be, say, <font color="red">40</font>+<font color="blue">60</blue> followed by somewhere else <font color="red">lemurs</font> and <font color="blue">cows</font>.

That doesn’t seem very accessible compared to an alt text on an image that reads “pie chart showing fraction of lemurs (40) and cows (60).”
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>millions of jobs will be lost. Truckers, cabbies, truck stop workers

Don't worry. They just hit the same truck. There is still a lot of work to do and, until now, cutting corners didn't help. /s
And that's completely out of line with the general picture on aviation.

The fact that Boeing doesn't think it's their business doesn't mean that nobody thinks it's their business.
I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing to begin considering. It's clear that the markets by themselves are not capable of addressing various concerns about our planet's limited resources. If we want our society to remain viable long term, we need to start being smart with how much of any given commodity is committed to how much of any given effort.

A new one, to be sure, and worth scrutinizing as we begin. But the market has demonstrated quite clearly it can't be trusted to manage finite resources.
Cool project! Looking at starting a group of people to lobby my small city to invest in muni fiber. Would love to see what you have if it ends up on GitHub.

Quick typo fix on the main page: neigbors is missing an “h” (neighbors).
If you lived through it, at a young age, you were on Slashdot or similar places, and Linux was riding high on the server (it was absolutely massacring Unix, and for kids at college, Linux + Samba was a quite powerful combination compared to even a few years before (think: Novell Netware).

Few college kids have experience with really massive enterprise setups and solutions, and so those were just entirely discounted out of hand.
I think many of us were taught in school that airfoil shape was somehow magical -- that the fact that it was bowed more on the top was responsible for the fact that it worked.

This is only partially true, though; a totally flat wing can also support flight. The shaped nature of the wing contributes to its efficiency (and other factors) but do not make other wing shapes incapable of supporting flight.

The reality is that the Wright brothers' innovation was not the airfoil shape or even the lightweight motor. It was the control surfaces, to allow the operator to adjust the plane's attitude on the three axes of rotation, allowing actively stabilized flight.

Paper airplanes and kites demonstrate all the same principles of heavier-than-air flight (the Wright brothers even had a kite version of their airframe they used for testing), despite the fact that they generally do not exhibit shaped airfoils.
Thanks for explaining.

Something that makes me feel uneasy about the fact that the post gets hidden is that this strongly benefits Netlify. It seemed like lots of people moved off Netlify after reading the post.

I'm not suggesting that HN actively took an action in Netlify's favor, but the potential is there. Is the algorithm for flame war detection open source? Or do we essentially need to trust you that there was no interference from Netlify? (I do trust you but others might not).
> it's pretty hard to imagine wiping out the entirety of humanity.

That's kinda my complaint here. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. If we started much earlier in education explaining to kids
how remarkable and fragile our existence is, how intricately
interconnected we are with nature, birds, bees, mushrooms and
microbes, then maybe Hollywood disaster movie plots wouldn't seem like
the only route to the end of humanity.
One thing I miss in Caddy is something like Nginx-unit to avoid the need of setting up application server.
This is the way most companies work unfortunately. Paypal limits your account and makes you wait 6 month to (maybe) give you a way to get the money back.
You've never seen trees in the street? They're fairly common here in Dublin, either along the midline or separating cars from cyclists.
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ok - why is the US Fed following the PRC and building a "one owner" Federal Crypto Currency then ?
I think NASA also has higher public/pr standards they’re held to. A few spacex failures no one cares much about. If nasa fails a few times everyone (particularly more conservative leaning folk) starts complaining about their precious taxpayer money. Hence NASA likely sticks to project that are very low risk. I’m not saying this is good or bad per se, but public opinion is what it is.

It’s also a bit of damned if you do, damned if you don’t with nasa - play safe and people complain they’re not doing much, why are they funded. Play more risky and inevitably end up with a failure, get questioned why they’re wasting money. I don’t think I’ve seen much criticisms of when SpaceX or blue origin win govt grants for funding.

Again, this isn’t to say that enterprises don’t deserve govt support if they’re truly helping (lobby concerns aside). But it’s a multifaceted issue.
The difference is between viewing exploded as simply something going wrong and viewing it as an indication of general failure.

A starship prototype exploding in a flight right now is completely different from a Falcon 9 exploding in a flight. With the former it's almost desirable by making points of improvement obvious, with the latter it's a potential capacity crisis for the US launch industry.

Yet that's not really how most journalists will report it, and also isn't how most people who don't actively keep up with developments will interpret it.

Also, as you say, retarded replaced imbecile, and since then retarded has also been replaced, same will happen with RUD. Not really a big deal since they'll just change their language usage too.
Honestly I'd probably commit suicide if a hosting provider gave me a $100K bill.

Collect this from my corpse you scummy fucks.
If you'd like to see more of their work, ranked by what HN thought was most interesting: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
FB maybe but meta has not been around for 12 years
Another case of something being done for the right reason, but in the wrong way because our legislative branch refuses to lift a finger.
Its killer feature is simplicity. The biggest thing is automatic HTTPS without having to install/configure anything but the base server, but even configuration is easier than other options.
If you've got freeze/thaw cycles, then your asphalt roads will be bumpy as well. Trust me on that one.
I don’t think it’s normal for a heat pump to just stop working completely like that vs. just getting more and more inefficient. Wonder if perhaps it iced up and the defrost wasn’t working.
Traffic doesn't cost money. Bandwidth costs money. Unused bandwidth doesn't cost less than used bandwidth. So, no, you shouldn't pay so much for something that doesn't cost them any money?
It’s not possible to know EVERYTHING about anything. If you think you know everything there is to know about something, then you don’t know enough.
> The point of Ferraris is to look sexy and show off your wealth.

This is why I wonder why anyone (at least in the West) would buy a Yangwang, instead of a Ferrari. A handbag could be nicely designed and crafted excellently, but many would still rather pay more for a Louis Vuitton.
Since the new aircraft carriers have this new fancy electromagnetic catapults. Why don't they just use regenerative braking like the hybrid cars? They could save a lot of energy recharging those catapult accumulators.

I'm joking, of course.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:Wo...

We don't live in a utopia, but we also don't live in anything close to a Malthusian collapse.

It's hard to get middle class people in the developed world to see this because life has in fact gotten harder in many ways for them, but those are entirely self-inflicted wounds. The #1 problem is failure to build housing to meet demand, leading to housing cost hyperinflation. That's a policy choice, not a result of any hard limit. Other problems include spiraling university costs due to institutional inefficiency and spiraling health care costs for a variety of reasons, and these are also policy failures.

The rich world basically decided to make life hard on its working classes and young middle class people by perpetuating runaway cost disease in critical areas.

Overall the world is getting less poor.
Didn't SpaceX stop streaming their launches?
NP! I like it too :D
Was there ever any consideration given to building a "testing harness" to physically simulate the F35 landing? Something like the "dead load" testing that the EMALS undergoes. Just in reverse. Anyway, that was great read.
Thanks for explaining! Can you maybe tell me why this question is hidden as well? Did it get flagged or trigger the same algorithm?
> after Moon lander tips over

That's why i always say to my wife: Check the weather forecast when you are leaving the house. /s
a Federal Government has unlimited time, lots of money and personnel, and the ability to immunize itself when it makes serious mistakes. Comments here that want new powers for government are unaware or uncaring about how horribly wrong that can go, and for how long.
The people I watch don't get paid from youtube ads, don't like youtube ads, don't like Youtube forcing ads on videos they do not want to put ads on, don't like random companies forcing ads onto a video THEY made based on some nonsense "contentID" system that is trivial to cheat, and can't rely on youtube not shutting down their channel over "copyright" reasons that aren't even valid.

Patreon means all they have to do is exactly what they want to do, put that on the internet, and make a livable wage. This isn't exactly an isolated case either. Every youtube creator between 100k - 1 million "subscribers" is better served by just doing what they want and being supported by patrons. It is the single most direct and viable form of talent funding.

Most of these creators actively dislike youtube, which is why they push their literal replacement; nebula.
That is an excellent summary, but I would prefer to engage with the thoughts of other humans on this site, not computer-generated summaries.
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Sure that is directly possible without further tinkering:

\notebookpage{todo={[bottom,draw]3},fill dotted,paginate}

This will create a dotted page with 3x2 todo notes at the bottom. The todo fields are surrounded by a box (draw), and the page is paginated.
This is done on purpose. They've put so much effort into bullying casual gamers to splurge $300+ on a GPU. Why release a $150 SoC that's good enough for 95% of people? Free market, my ***!
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You can also see all-time top posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The mechanical watch post is 6th on the list
It's also "obvious" to many at the time that the huge names would continue to dominate; names that don't even really exist anymore.

Predictions of how it will be are always worth writing down, to see how correct they are.

Microsoft and Apple are huge today, but it's entirely conceivable that both are shells of themselves in a decade's time.
They’re simple shaders and it’s amazing what a computer can do billions of times per second.
>The social media platforms took 230 beyond what is was initially intended for as a premise to weaponize it against people who's politics they don't agree with.

So what? And I mean that quite seriously.

To clarify, I despise the big social media platforms and refuse to use them even if that inconveniences me (and occasionally it does). At the same time, those platforms have the same free speech rights that I do, and curtailment of their free speech (and property) rights (in this case, the right not to publish/amplify the speech of others) also curtails my free speech (and property) rights.

And since I want to protect my own rights, I support the right of those rapacious scumbags to moderate/censor on their own private property.
at 60MB it is still one million downloads
I thought there's also the net they can use if, say, an aircraft lost tailhook
> He could as easily made the lives of countless worse if he wanted to or as an unintended consequence of his projects.

As an unintended consequence, sure, but that's more true of scientific/technological progress specifically than what Bill Gates did, which was closer to business and tech popularization. If a scientist invents a super-virus that kills everyone, then yes, obviously, they've made the world worse, but that's not really tied to money.

As for "as easily" making countless lives worse in other ways - I kind of disagree there. He made countless lives better because people voluntarily bought his products. He didn't coerce people, they chose to do it. There's no analagously easy way to spend money to ruin people's lives, and especially not if you consider the kind of scrutiny and backlash he'd receive.
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> Also, that's the benefits of credit cards - that you can still issue a charge back, and credit card companies very much favor the consumer rather than the merchant.

That has not been my experience. I've had to do a few chargebacks for services not rendered, and I've never won. I will submit my evidence, then the vendor will submit 100 pages of random emails, and then I will have my claim denied. Then I will appeal, will point out that they sent 100 random pages of email, and then they will reply with the same 100 pages of emails and I'll get denied again.

It seems that the vendors have found the hack for chargebacks -- just inundate the credit card company with so much data that they assume the vendor must be right.

It makes sense -- the vendors pay the credit card companies a lot more than I do. They'd rather keep them happy than me.
It is currently the 6th most popular post on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533
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But what I see is innovation and trying new stuff.

I like your positive attitude. Though I think there were some engineering shortfalls that should have been avoided with common sense.

Eg. The original hook didn't work because the shoe was angled up too high to catch the wire. The engineers designed it based on a flawed simulation model. The guys field testing took one look and knew it wouldn't work. Heck, I showed this photo to my partner (non-engineer) and the first thing she said was "it's not pointing right".

https://the-engi-nerd.github.io/posts/welcome/images/clipboa...

You can see the original (blue) vs revised (red):

https://the-engi-nerd.github.io/posts/welcome/images/clipboa...
Tailhooks do predate the F-35C, but this particular airframe needs to maintain certain properties (low observability, aerobatic performance, weight, etc.). You can't simply enlarge the tail hook compartment and use the other aircraft's hook without compromising some of these properties.
I've run all of my hobby projects, including personal web pages, a Wordpress site that serves a local club, a small single-JS web app, and E-mail hosting for my family and a few other domains, on a single $5/mo VPS, and have never received a bill higher than $5 for the past, I don't know... 15 years.

If your web site makes you money in proportion to the amount of views or bandwidth you use, by all means, go with a provider that increases your costs when your traffic rises. But if your web site does not make you money, why not host it somewhere for a flat rate?
The point of 230 was to eliminate the "publisher" distinction.
Otherwise, you can't eliminate spam withouth accepting liability for whatever psycho comments.

If anyone wants to delete spam or kick people off their own servers, why should they be denied?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
What’s the price difference? $100? I’ve seen used ps5s sell for 250-300 in my area.

I got a PS5 last year (my first non portable console since the N64) and what I was expecting was the old feeling of playing with friends on a big tv. The only game I enjoy doing that in is FIFA/FC24. Unfortunately my gf is not into it. Other than that… not a lot to choose from.
I ended up building a PC and now I’m considering selling the ps5. What’s the point of having this in the living room if I can only play alone? The games are basically the same now. Pc has more games, especially indie, I can also use the pc for other things, and I don’t have to hoard the living room for my individualistic activities.
Also shooters with a controllers is just frustrating when you’ve played with a mouse.
A policeman in my city could arguably have more impact on my life than Jeff Bezos does. What kind of impact do you think Jeff Bezos has exactly?

And obviously, a policeman is the lowest-power individual in this scenario - my city councilman probably has more impact than that.
I do math art (https://gods.art), and I've noticed that when I try to take photos of my art, the compression algorithm typically washes out the image - I think as a result of the Fourier Transform-based compression algorithms (which rely on wave convolutions). Anyone seen this kind of thing before?
I think you mean Textron and General Dynamics. Cessna and Gulfstream haven't been independent companies for 10 and 20 years, respectively.
I don’t see a market need for a new one. Python’s own stdlib urllib is pretty good for most cases, except async, and aiohttp is covering that gap.
> I’ve wondered if forcing them to use a very restrictive langage could help channel the mess somewhat.

StyleCop in C# (and ESLint/Prettier to a lesser extent in JS land) works extremely well for this. It's very quick to red squiggle your style problems when you're writing, can often automatically fix the problem, and keeps everyone committing code that looks one way.

It drove me nuts when I started doing work in a team, but I got used to it quick and we rarely bikeshed now.
> - another one I missed?

Taking into account that they just released the "NewTeams", which is the same crap like the old one, i would say, yes. /s
Somehow I missed that. I get why you wouldn't want to do that, but IMHO they're inseparable. You couldn't possibly use it in movie titles or marketing without evoking him.
Why listen to a professor for business admin instead of climate scientists? Are you an idiot?
What is thoughtful to you is likely not to be thoughtful to somebody else

What is generally accepted as thoughtful in one world region, will likely not be considered to be generally thoughtful in another world region

Furthermore, the concept of "thoughtfulness" may not exist in some world regions -in fact, it may be a concept in a minority of world regions

Should these thoughtful regulations (whatever they may be) only apply to denizens of a certain region or regions, or everybody in the world?
I see them as overlapping. Protections against jailbreaking are often but not always relevant to prompt injection.
From minimum parking requirements to minimum park requirements :-)

Ok maybe minimum forest requirements is more accurate but had to do it
As the "bysantium bureaucracy" is becoming more and more commonplace in the united states and the european union, it has become a priority to convince the population that it's actually a good thing. It's for the common good guys.
Yep, Intel stagnated hard. I’d say it serves them right, they didn’t care to innovate when they were leading and now they’re getting served.
> the threat isn’t so much “more” as “mystery.” you can plan for four fries instead of five if the cost goes from a buck to a buck and a quarter. but what if you don’t know how much it will cost?

i'd imagine that 1) cost difference may be but a few cents / half a dollar, something on that level. extra $0.27 across the country at lunch translates to millions later, but may not be especially noticeable to the average consumer. even a dollar or two might still fly.

and 2) going by what I'm seeing each time I'm in a Wendy's or similar, there are a non-trivial number of Skip / Uber Eats / Dash orders moving out the door. Presumably this is to tap into that credit card paying demo, esp. since in most cases they're not going to argue about 27 cents and don't have to worry about being literally short-changed at checkout.