skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When is someone going to make this:

Example 1

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Me: "Create a new Customer Record"

DB: "Customer Entity doesn't exist, shall I create it?"

Me: "Yes"

DB: "Customer Entity created. What is the Name of your Record?"

Me: "Larry Ellison"

DB: "Customer, Larry Ellison created"

Example 2

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Me: "How many customers are there?"

DB: "There are 123 customers"

Example 3

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Me: "How many customers have accounts that are past due"

DB: "I did not understand past due"

Me: "How many customers have accounts where past due is true?"

DB: "There are 5 customers where account past due is true"

Me: "Send me an email of those customers"

DB: "Email has been sent"
OTOH, there are young adults now who've never known a time when there weren't humans living in space.
It's only been ~1yr since the election. You have to be patient for big cases like this.

Until then we have to trust the US intelligence community. Their messaging has been consistent that their arch-enemy they've been competing with for decades pulled a fast one on them and was unexpectedly effective at influencing an election.

Government sources have been leaking a bunch of stuff to the press in the meantime. This week it was alleged "Russian-linked" sources supporting the Republican party had bought Facebook ads [1] in the critical swing states:

> A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

Two states which Clinton's $500 million campaign reportedly neglected [2] despite the pleas of her former-president husband and advisors:

> Clinton made no visits to Wisconsin as the Democratic nominee, and only pushed a late charge in Michigan once internal polling showed the race tightening.

The other big leak was that of the hundreds of people the Trump campaign staff met and had phone calls with in 2016, it turns out 2-3 of them had connections to the Russian government. But it's not clear if they had any follow up meetings.

I'm looking forward to the full report showing the "critical role" Russia played in getting him elected...

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/russian-facebook-ads-...

[2] http://wtvr.com/2016/11/11/bill-clinton-strategy/
Hopefully your last point gets remembered at upcoming elections.
I remember Chips&Dips and got confused one day when I couldn't find it. Started searching and found it again under Slashdot and have been a fan and loyal visitor ever since.
Thanks a lot for this awesome write-up of Internet History :-)
all of these need a false/fake entry so when adversaries compel information and you give it to them the result is useless and they have "the truth" and nothing at the same time.
Points 1 and 2 are great options. If you have the time, you can also host engineering-based events, talk about tech, etc.

Good developers are hard to find for the fact that there's a high probability that they are in great demand. Everyone's clamouring for their attention.

Also, for the applicants that you do get, are they fundamentally terrible at coding/problem-solving or do they just not know the tech stack you're using? If it's the latter, you might want to re-evaluate as good to great developers are capable of picking up languages easily. You just need to give them some room to ramp up.
Not owning a TV is pushing my kid to watch a lot of YouTube. I'm seriously considering buying a TV, after living for 30 years without one, just so that I can have a quality entertainment feed that doesn't bend to the new media's idea of what my kid should watch, because what that ends up being is endless advertisements ("open this egg! What's inside? A Ken doll!! Wow!!") and videos of pandas killing each other with chainsaws, then reaching into the body cavity to find their surprise egg.

What a world.
Coloretto (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5782/coloretto) is really good at this.

For Set, it might not be enough to bridge the gap: being able to differentiate by colour and some pattern might still be faster for a player than relying on pattern alone? (But still better than the status quo.)

My vision ain't gray scale. I'm just red-green deficient.
They hired Stanley Kubrick to fake a moon landing but he was such a stickler for detail that he demanded they do it on location.
Maybe in theory but I don't think that's something that could be empirically verified. An axiomatic theory is rather a working assumption, because anything else is mathematically intractable. How could anyone understand something that's too big to understand?

My impression is that Multiverse Theories are a fad playing on semantics.
I gave this a thought for a moment. Since we're using a real browser, there are huge amount of different ways to get the browser display a file:// link. Redirect is one, window.location.href is another, etc. The service shouldn't be run publicly in the internet for real use cases. If you do, the server should be designed in a way that it's not dangerous if the web server user gets read access to file system. I added a warning about this in the top of the README.
Why should anyone buy the older cryptocurrencies for a pricer higher than the early adopters?

Surely cryptocoin software is more than a pump and dump system right? Hodl until you can pass off to the later bag holders?

What happens when the old networks are obsolete?

In economics, the Gini coefficient is the standard measure
of how inequitable a society is. This is tricky to
determine for Bitcoin, as it's not quiet a "society" in
the Gini sense, one person may have multiple addresses and
many addresses have been used only once or a few times.
(The commonly-cited figure of 0.88 is based on one small
exchange in 2011.) However, a Citigroup analysis from
early 2014 notes: "47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 a further 20 percent, the next 10,000 about
25% and another million about 20%"; and distribution
"looks much like the distribution of wealth in North Korea
and makes China's and even the US' wealth distribution
look like that of a workers' paradise

Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir found in a 2012 study that only
22% of then-existing Bitcoins were in circulation at all,
there were a total of 75 active users or businesses with
any kind of volume, one (unidentified) user owned a
quarter of all Bitcoins in existence, and one large owner
was trying to hide their pile by moving it around in
thousands of smaller transactions. (Shamir is one of the
most renowned cryptographers in the world and the "S" in
"RSA encryption")"

[1] via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgerard
Please stop these personal attacks; they'll get your account banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is lot of somewhat-researchy work on this topic, the primary one being the effort at Microsoft Research, called AutoAdmin, that started about 20 years ago. They looked at automatically creating indexes, views, histograms, and stuff like that. Peloton@CMU is a more recent incarnation of the same idea with newer tradeoffs.

Although it might sound easy, this turns out to be a very challenging problem for many technical reasons.

A primary reason for it not getting traction in practice is also that, database administrators don't like an automated tool messing with their setup and potentially nullifying all the tricks they might have played to improve the performance. This was especially true in big DB2/Oracle deployments, but is increasingly less true, which has opened it up for innovations in the last few years.
I think PG is already there and beyond if you consider using Citus.

We've pretty large deployment in our production with 45TB of data, across 1,280 cores 4.8TB of RAM. Most of our tables have hundreds of billions of rows that are under write-heavy pressure. Citus is currently handling around 60k writes per second. Most of our SELECT queries run under 200ms, in some cases those are fairly complex.

The current setup is a result of long tests done across many different database solutions. We never considered CockroachDB seriously for our production, but we did use or test MongoDB, Cassandra (including ScyllaDB), HBase (including Big Table) and Spanner.

We struggled with most, but we used HBase for a year before we moved to PG/Citus. Our expenses dropped by half once we done it as PG is just better suited for our setup. We tested out Spanner fairly heavily as GCP folks tried to convince us to give it a chance. The performance however wasn't even comparable.

Citus has its own quirks and it's not perfect, so definitely do your research before you decide to use it. The best part however that you the best SQL engine underneath with all the powerful features and tools that come with it. We for instance utilize heavily triggers and pub/sub directly from PG. Huge portion of our application logic is done on the DB level through UDF. The part we like about citus the most though is the team behind it. They are incredibly helpful and go beyond the scope of a traditional support even if they don't need to.
And America will go there with the help of a certain South African.
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Yes. Same effect in practice: you can't give your money to people who produce above market returns after fees.
> Russia [...] controlled states [...] e.g. bring your passport to buy a train ticket to another town

That's a blast from the past. So, for those who haven't seen these, last century there used to be a set of "we're not like them, we have freedom!" examples, which were used in popular dialog to contrast the United States with the Soviet Union. Needing government papers to travel was one. The Soviet people feeling "why blame us for the actions of the government? - we don't control it" was another.

> Russia (and China and others) have an advantage here in having recently been run as controlled states

Well, we can't let them have that advantage over us! Googling "amtrack identification" yields "What Do You Need to Travel by Train in America? | USA Today" "Documents. [...] All travelers over age 18 and all unaccompanied minors age 15 and over must have a government issued I.D., such as a passport, driver's license or military I.D."

Like, foreign graduate students need to present their passports for inspection, in order to be permitted to enter my local Irish pub (Boston - minimum drinking age 21 - as required for federal highway funds).

Looking back, I don't recall anyone predicting, at the fall of the Soviet Union, that by losing a "them", for us to not be, we'd lose track of what we intended "us" to be.
I'm going to have to insist on a citation for that claim.
+1 having done this and having witnessed the staggering waste and incompetence on the part of people who should know better, I now feel really bad when paying my taxes. Truly, it’s better to not know how sausage is made.
I was thinking he'd be perfect to be the first on Mars.
>"What about one that accommodates people who possess marijuana? What about a society that accommodates people who have opioid addictions and need medical help?"

Marijuana at least in the US, is an example of where society is actually changing to accommodate people:

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/state-marijuana-laws-map-m...

Also the Opioid epidemic is finally getting the attention it deserves at the federal level in the US. I think we will see an end to the cruel policies that are in place:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-opioid-commissio...
And Trump went in and threw them a few paper towels, then patted himself in the back.

Truly incredible.
We are a whole society unravelling, because we did the Icarus and flew to high.

Men retreating back into electronice dreams of the purposes of the past. Woman, errecting warped social pagodas to enforce freedom and basic income contracts against the building backlash.

Beeing mentally ill, as in unable to adjust to this, is the new normal.
The only people well adapted to our circumstances, are drug addicted, no life work-aholics and ironically they are the group to force its standards down humanitys throat.

I guess that never appeared in anyones singularity vision- that the species as a whole could step away from its invention, smash it all to bits and errect some codex hamurabi with just one rule:

"You shall not wrap thy fellow man in machinery."
Does VS Code have something similar to Sublime's Ctrl-Q macros?
Using average values in the drake equation, there have been have been 18 million broadcastable civilizations in the milky way.

If we take an average lifespan of 1,000 years and say those cilizations have formed over the last 5 billion years (where planets mostly cooled down throghout the universe) then there are currently only 4-5 broadcastable civilizations in the milky way. Is that correct?
I recently switched to a Macbook Pro and feel like someone sold me a paper weight. But hey, it sure has a pretty case.
The initialization is just an example to show that err is a previously declared variable. The actual code could easily be different, but the warning is emitted on seeing the assignment in the conditional.
Even now I can see it, still burned into my amygdala. Ugh.

However, the result was browsers starting showing you the link URL with a text in the info-box at the window base (remember those?) so I guess that was some positive result. Who knew this would be the wax-off training of the future?
Hi everyone I make a product called DnsLearning it turns the internet on and off based on progress made on supported sites.

We currently use PhantomJS to login to sites that don’t have API support, which is all of them except Khan Academy.

Are any of you guys who run these sites interested in setting up an OAuth API? We are glad to give some love and send users to sites that are improving.

Please respond or email me at kris@dnslearning.org

I feel bad posting anything like this on HN but it’s not often this space is on the front page and in general it’s not seen as a sexy enough subject :(
We're talking about the same people who refuse to fix the non-standard Ctrl and Fn key placement here.
That solution is so well designed, you'd almost expect a company like Apple to come up with it.

Especially since Apple made and sold their own NiMH batteries and chargers until 2016. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-battery-charger-white/120...
If it doesn't do what he says or cost what he says it costs then how is that not BS? Did I miss the joke?
Turbo button.
That's because DirectX 11 and older have a single thread draw submission queue which is being a bottleneck.

DX11 still dominates - right now there are five (5) DX12-only games and only a handful announced, because it's so completely different you have to re-engineer significant part of game engine to get the benefits.
Of course, because that drastically reduces the key space.

Before: 2^2048, After: 256^20 = 2^160 (when using a 20 key password. Obviously you could use looong random generated passphrases, but then you could just base64encode your key?)
TCC (as it was last time I looked) would have been a non-starter since it is so closely tied to a single platform.

gcc had the advantage of the same compiler everywhere.

Without gcc, you were using your Unix vendor's in-house compiler, which was usually a half-assed PCC port that was declared "done" as soon as AT&T's sources compiled.

gcc was both higher quality and had the same frontend quirks regardless of the platform. Particularly before 1989, the standard was "Work like K&R's compiler" rather than anything formal, so there were a lot of nooks and crannies where each compiler did its own thing.
This is a capitulation of Microsoft - instead of porting their engine to Android, they made a yet another Chromium/Blink shell. It is not what I expect from a big corporation.
X201 owner here. Still use it, but not as a daily driver, and I'm in the market for one.

Lenovo screwed the pooch on this one.

1) Limited production run (5,000 units) and limited target audience (the multi-color logo and anniversary badging? Really?) drastically increased the price beyond what was reasonable (base entry cost being double the non-anniversary base cost, forced spec decision due to a sole SKU aside).

2) No status LEDs

3) No ThinkLight

4) No 4:3 or 3:2 display

5) Given that the display is 16:9, only 1080p is offered

6) No physical kill switches e.g. for WiFi let alone more modern ones like for the webcam and microphone

7) 940MX is aging, with poorer driver support in Linux compared to Intel offerings, not to mention the battery hit from a dGPU

8) What is up with the letter alignment on the B key? On a machine where the keyboard is THE selling point?

It's really sad to watch the unboxing video they "made for the community" where they claim that it's unfeasible to throw in a Thinklight into a modern Thinkpad because the bezel is too thin. Well - pray tell, why is the bezel that thin?? The entire Thinkpad brand was based on making, first and foremost, highly functional machines. Like I've said before in my comments, Thinkpads were the blue jeans and pickup trucks of laptops. I don't want my blue jeans to be thin, and I don't want my trucks to ride close to the ground. Maybe I don't want such thin bezels either, if they're going to force a compromise on functionality.

A T470 with a retro keyboard is not a modern successor to classic Thinkpads. They used to be so much more. Maybe $1900 would be worth it if they developed a true successor, but not this.
It basically runs headless chrome with a JavaScript REPL console you can use to interact with the session.

That looks cool! Would I be able to run Node scripts?
I think some societal context is extremely important in understanding the situation.

Yes, Google is a search engine. Everybody who's become accustomed to modern computing technology over the past ~20 years is very familiar with what it is and what it does. At least the more technically-inclined and aware do. To you, it's a cold, logical machine that provides best-efforts based upon their heavily researched proprietary algorithms. That's absolutely correct. To others, however, it's become something else.

To illustrate:

For many people, especially the most vulnerable to being persuaded by search engine results, Google as become a word as ubiquitous as Kleenex.

When your nose is running, you need a "Kleenex", even if you mean "tissue". You probably don't care ultimately if the tissue is Kleenex brand as long as it solves your problem.

When somebody says they want to "Google" something, they mean "google". They aren't concerned, necessarily (though bias lives even in pop culture over Bing), whether you use Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com, or Lycos (it apparently still exists, at least in spirit).

To that second category of people I'm using to illustrate, the problem they want solved is that they want an answer. They've become accustomed to "googling" something delivering them an answer they can generally rely upon. It's a learned habit/behaviour and, I'd argue, hardly their fault.

Yes, North American culture could do well with become more critical in its thinking and that would probably solve this issue. Sorrily, getting there isn't so simple. In fact, it's probably a compound problem in light of who is aptly taking advantage of that system of habit and trust.

Funny enough, those exploiting this problem are the same who would prefer to remove even further the ability to think critically in US society (and others), by means of cutting back on public services like healthcare and education so that bare survival becomes the mode.

I'm starting to get off topic now, so I'll leave it there.

I don't have a direct solution. I'm not sure there is one. Google is as Google does, and yes people need to improve at thinking things through, especially what they read. But if you just resign the problem to that last point, I really don't think we'll get anywhere at all.
There was a patch for fixing #1 with new syntax for the next version on the mailing list, so perhaps in a year this'll get fixed?
Getting a hot chocolate out of a vending machine while the sky is dumping snow is one of life's many sublime pleasures.
I always press Ctrl with the side of my palm. It's much easier than using my pinky.
instead, investors with money will buy up good locations and build bigger resorts and turn PR into something more like Aruba or the resort towns in Mexico. except closer. zero middle class and lots of cheap unskilled labor.

at least thats one possible outcome.
I have the newer M5510 and haven't run into any of those issues. HiDPI screen works fine with Gnome scaling, touch screen works, no noises possible from the SSD, fans scale up & down appropriately, battery isn't as good as the Mac but I haven't optimized anything on Linux and it's still several hours, backlight works fine, etc. That's all on the latest release of Fedora (26 IIRC).

The land of PC hardware and Linux support is highly model/version dependent.
I wouldn't characterize America's space industry by NASA's budget anymore.

What about support of the privatized space industry, instead? It seems to be progressing faster than NASA did.
Why is this even posted here? It doesn't seem even remotely relevant to Hacker News.
Because most people who use a thinkpad use the trackpoint. I disable my trackpad.
Free stuff you can do:

Treat them with respect and dignity

Respond to them promptly

If you find someone you want to hire make the offer immediately.*

* I've had companies seemingly devastated that I took a different job in the three weeks they took to get back to me after the interview. True story!
Incorrect? It's a personal preference, I find it easy to hit with my pinky. Pressing Cmd+Z on Mac means pinching my thumb and ring finger together, Cmd+V means crossing my left index finger over my thumb; neither are more comfortable than using my pinky. I personally remap Command to the Control key on my OSX boxes for this very reason.
It sounds like maybe you want privacy badger?
Facebook blocked me when I tried to delete my account
Today I tried to delete my Facebook account, but they stopped me and now they are demanding that I send a photo of my face to gain access to my account again. I can not even login anymore.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/r2O8W21 (In Portuguese)
My college laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046) had a Transmeta Crusoe chip, running at 800 mhz. It was slow as molasses, but could easily do 15 hours of battery life (screen on) with the drive-bay and extended batteries, all in a sub-note form factor. It was a perfect note-taking machine (all of my real dev work was done on desktops or via SSH/telnet). Transmeta may have had a short lifespan, but I think they played a big part in jumpstarting Intel's movement to focus on power consumption (remember, this was the Pentium 4 era).
I can never resist naming Assembly variables ass. Also leads to lots of fun variations: dynamicAss, assBuilder, assTypes, ...
Is that similar to buffer.com or https://hootsuite.com/plans (35 platforms)?
87 people. Probably far too high. But maybe over a year 87 different people fade in and out of a group.

But those 87 people know and talk to 100 other people each,that's 10% of the city.

Go two degrees of separation and it's the whole town.

Students in a town generally only know other students. Students are actually pretty secluded. But normal people? They know their families, they know their friends, they know their colleagues, the people they do their hobbies with, their local shop owners, the people in their local Baby groups, the other parents in their schools, the people who the volunteer with, etc.

It's about how ideas spread, not about how many people are in one group.
They sent pizza to Kuro5hin during a difficult time. That showed real class.
Puerto Rico's population has been falling for the last 10 years or so, which is a strong factor in why they had so much trouble with debt. This is going to make it much worse. See https://www.cfr.org/blog/puerto-rico-maria for a lot more detail.
Agree. Sounds like "piggybacking."
You could always just disable the discrete graphics card...
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