skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Mikrotiks for over a decade, they just work and are pretty cheap. They do require you to know a little bit more about networking then the regular, end user oriented, routers.

Only negative I would mention is that some things are a little bit harder to setup, like a VPN for example (and it doesn't support OpenVPN over UDP).
In the past Denmark used to use Dankort, an entirely local payment system.

Often they were used in combination with MasterCard/Visa, but in local stores, only Dankort is used, and the transaction stays in Denmark
This is a fascinating account of the happenings. I'm sure there's an entertaining movie in all this. Perhaps Neumann can profit from a book and movie deal
I think it’s not only the procedural vs declarative difference but also just the plain syntax. To me SQL is just hard on the eyes. It feels a little like FORTRAN in the good old days.
Minimizing the amount of busines logic in the dB is exactly what makes the dB structures long lasting.
Jiggling your leg counts as stimming? Hmmmmm. I do a few of the other things too...
WhatsApp is testing a self-destructing messages feature
Yes, as mentioned by the linked article. Which was written by David Dunning.
Either way, that's cool. More research needed. Funny hats is less invasive too.
Interesting. Time to switch ISP then.
Young people are wrong about something: news at eleven. I can see how people who didn't live through any war, or catastrophic event in their entire life would believe that.
> Facebook can wait until one proves to be the winner and buy them out.

Isn't it Chinese government policy not to block such transactions?

Google didn't buy Baidu, and Ebay didn't buy AliExpress, and Paypal didn't buy WeChat Pay.
Anyone here who uses Nvim-R?
Honest question:
If people don't like their job, why not just quit?
> Little by little, undermine them by agreeing but disagreeing with subtle sarcasm until they doubt themselves.

This tactic is more toxic then ego itself.
> where you can at least write a test and assert it's doing the right thing

SQL is code. PL/pgSQL is code. Code can be tested. Code should be tested. You don't even need to leave the database to write tests for SQL or PL/pgSQL[1].

[1] https://pgtap.org/
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> How many people do you know who frequently took flights right at the time when this was all happening?

They’re still being cancelled daily now! I know AA alone is cancelling over 100 flights a day. It’s not something in the past.
I saw this link on Reddit and was interested because I already knew a little bit about Morland.

He was an early inventor - he designed some mechanical calculators, which is where I first learned about him.

https://history-computer.com/MechanicalCalculators/Pioneers/...

https://history-computer.com/People/MorlandBio.html

He's also involved in early mass surveillance. On of the reasons Britain set up a state postal service was to spy on communications.

https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/today-in-lond...

I'm struck by this quote:

> Morland also recorded what he saw as the basic function of his devices and of surveillance in general: “a skilful prince ought to make a watch tower of his general post office… and there place such careful sentinels as that, by their care and diligence, he may have a constant view of all that passes.”

I haven't found much information about his machines (but I haven't looked particularly hard), so I have no idea how they worked. The reddit post has an answer that talks about sealing letters in the Spanish manner: https://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/sealing-wa...

> It was then that the superior qualities of the new "Spanish" wax came to be highly valued. The basic formula of this new sealing compound was a blend of shellac, mastic, turpentine, chalk or gypsum, and a coloring agent, to which essential oils and/or fragrant balsams might be added to facilitate melting and impart a pleasant fragrance. This "sealing wax" could be melted to a thick viscous fluid which would readily and firmly adhere to the parchment or paper on which it was placed. While warm, it would take a clear impression of any seal that was pressed in to it. It would remain solid, even in the heat of summer, and was flexible enough to remain intact while affixed to the document on which it had been placed. However, it was extremely difficult to remove a seal made of this material and replace it after the contents of the sealed document had been read. This compound was more brittle than beeswax so it could be easily broken, thus providing clear evidence of tampering. Even if the seal could be removed unbroken, any attempt to re-affix a seal was nearly impossible, since, with such a low melting point, the image which had been impressed into it would loose its crispness, if not melt completely, if additional hot wax was used to re-attach it, yet another sign of tampering.
Thanks for mentioning this, I'll be more critical in sending submissions from Vice.
> But the concept is fine.

Is it? What’s the point of a processor that we don’t know how to build compilers for? We still don’t know how to schedule effectively for that kind of architecture today.
She is incredibly privileged and does not acknowledge her privilege. Her home country has literally zero risks or downsides from global warming. Her crocodile tears convince nobody because most people don't have rich parents and own a fucking boat.
NISS is probably NIST.

> But what about people who want to protect their privacy?

> BB: Then you invent your own encryption. And don’t pass it through [NISS?] because then the NSA will have it. So, you don’t use anything publicly because they’ve already got that.

> AM: The encryption methodologies that are available now – the NSA was involved in constructing themselves.

> BB: They also know the algorithms, all of them, they have the software for it. Because it has to run through NISS to do testing. They do the testing and then they approve it for public use.

> So, I say, ‘hey, if you’re talking to your little community, make your own encryption.’ You’re not doing this publicly, we’re just doing it amongst ourselves. That would cause them a real problem.

So Bill Binney's recommendation is not to publish your crypto? Security by obscurity? You have to be pretty good at it though.

South African underground did exactly that not to get caught.
How do you blind an admissions process to race, and then offer spots for people who have suffered racial prejudice? That sounds like a contradiction.
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I'm not OP, but work with MIP solvers. Yes, there is a massive difference between the commercial (CPLEX, GUROBI, and maybe XPRESS) versus the best open source solvers (CBC/CLP and GLPK). My industry can only use the open source solvers for prototyping small models and could never use one for production with the size models we have. The commercial solvers are extremely expensive too.
Why do you target Jet fuel/aviation specifically?

After all, there isn't so much special about Jet A: I figure a PT-6 could run just fine on automotive diesel.
It does (did?) seem to happen mostly in Scandinavian countries if you scrutinize the search results.
Unfortunately that will not help: if the requests to other servers are NATed when they hit the router it will look like your request went elsewhere when in fact to went to Sky. nslookup is reporting what it tried to connect to for an answer, not what actually answered.
The following has been repeated quite a lot on HN, but for people who are new to vim or new to reading HN it bears repeating.

1. Go to your terminal.

2. Type in vimtutor.

3. Spend half an hour.

4. Congratulations! You are now able to survive in vim, while you're by no means a master yet, you're probably around 80 to 90% as productive in vim as with a general text-editor without plugins.

IMO it's 30 minutes well spent.
I have lots of ideas, but have very little success. It's super annoying that I'm not able to generate as much interest or momentum on them as they deserve.

Why is it so difficult to move us forward?
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This may be a useful or a detrimental comment, but I would say if you see yourself as a developer, then Pycharm may win out. If you see yourself as a more low level coder then vim may win out.

The main advantage of vim to me is homogeneity across different platforms and languages. Oh yeah, and the next question is do you love your terminal? Are you the type of person that would browse the web with your terminal and write ToDo lists in your terminal? If not, again Pycharm may be the preferred candidate.
This thinking really intrigues me, as it seems like it fell out of fashion (at least for greenfield projects), but it might have a come back.

Could you share a few cases where it is better to use a custom type as opposed to a relation? The only things I can think of are generic things like uuid. Would there be a need to create an Employee type vs an Employee relation?

Also, how is the experience with using Python for stored procedures? One reason they are not used is that the language pl/sql is non-familiar to most. If anyone has any experience with that, could you share some of your thoughts?
Yea, but Lisp and Smalltalk machines were tied to hardware that couldn't keep up and most of the government AI projects died during the 80s AI winter.

Adacore is (I'm guessing) the main vendor for lots of aerospace projects with deep pockets that aren't going away soon and it runs on mostly anything GCC runs on. They're also expanding their business into areas where cyber security is a concern.
> I can write a test for the db logic, too.

I agree but I would add that having testing niceties like branch coverage isn't really possible for SQL queries / PGPLSQL functions.
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You’re basically experiencing impedance mismatch first hand ;-)

The term is usually applied to mapping from object-oriented to relational systems and vice versa but it’s perhaps more of or also a mismatch between imperative and declarative programming styles.

I think we just have to accept that these two are different and that each is great at what it does instead of trying to shoehorn a relational approach into object-oriented and imperative ones.
I do state that we should never halt technological progress. All I was saying is that while progress moves forward, we (as a species) should ensure that we don't just consider the shareholder value of decreasing Payroll costs, but we should also consider that the hell will happen to those thousands/millions.

This is not a threat, this is the reality. If we take the food from the table, and exclude them from retraining etc, then at some point they will go hungry and will seek food that is in other tables.

This is already happening to a small degree in some countries. Let's make sure it won't happen to a higher degree and in more countries.
Clearly the feature should not be abused, but calculated columns are great for stuff that's obvious and always true (i.e. independent from applications), e.g. a trade value computed from a trade unit price and a trade quantity.

This way I can select the top N trades for a given key without having to do the computation in the application, or storing redundant information in the DB.
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I hope this design isn't true or scrapped because that initially looks like a sore thumb in a typical living room.
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> But tbh our school system just teaches a baseline of abilities we think our youths should know.

Just teaches? You mean forces upon children maybe? So what about being punished for not reaching that baseline? What do we learn from that? We learn so much more than the stuff in the textbooks. Our schools and surroundings teach us to be stupid about so many things, it's completely overlooked.

If the result of schools were to be good, how come this civilization is characterized by: war, pollution, destruction of species, poverty, etc, etc.. Something must be wrong there, it must be our education not coincidence.

> a baseline of abilities we think our youths should know.

Yes interesting. What 'we' think.. I think differently, for sure.
I'd like to know how big adoption is for the other commercial Ada compiler companies.

I imagine Adacore has a larger share, but have no data to back that up.
Thank you for this commeny.

Also, old people are not necessarily only use-less consumers. Giving them Uber is nice, but if they can and want to offer/produce it would be a waste to put them in the sidelines just because they can't use the latest technology.
How long does a housefly get to live?
What about southern Europe's technology hubs (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon)? Are they evolving differently?

I don't remeber it exactly, but I spoke recenetly on a party with somebody who lived for a few years in Lisbon and he quite liked it (and didn't spoke negativly on the IT-enviroment there, be it management or other stuff like meetups). Their universities are also not to underestimated (at least what I've heard from barcelona and lisbon. I've heard bad things from the CS at one of the universities around madrid).
> These people that were replaced didn't just go off and die. They found other more advanced work ...

This almost never happens in real world. The next generations do benefit that. But the current generation is fucked.

You wont retrain 40> years old truck drivers into anything that will pay even remotely the same. Most of them will be stuck doing minimal wage jobs somewhere, and be happy that they have them.

(of course there are exceptions)

I have seen that play out in ex communist countries, where whole swaths of jobs became obsolete over few years.

It's been almost 30 years, newer generations have moved on somewhat, but there are still a lot of people that were better off before.

Industrial revolution was great in general, but its effect on people also gave rise to communism (i am not defending it).
> How would that affect a VPN?

If your DNS requests are going over the VPN then you will be fine as they will be in the encrypted tunnel before they travel through your router so it can't do anything about them. A change to the router firmware won't be able to override DNS server settings on other individual hosts.

If your router is providing the local VPN endpoint then that is another matter, but IIRC PIA runs on your local station. Do check that it is in fact setting your machine to send DNS requests over the link. I'd be surprised if it wasn't, but you never know.
I can not point to any public references, but I have met individuals who have been involved in cases with people disappearing. When their relatives reach out to investigate their disappearances, there will be explanations along the lines that they eloped or disappeared at their own accord and they have no idea where they went. People who have fears that this could happen to them will agree with their SOs on hand signs and codes they can use when walking past security cameras to indicate that they are being forced somewhere. These cases don't end up in the news.

> It does not take away from the fact that Hong Kong still has a functioning judiciary system independent from mainland China, and the vast vast majority of Hong Kong citizens have no reason to fear the same fate.

This is the case today. The proposed extradition treaty would flip that around significantly.

Also, the treaty has not been withdrawn at all, it has been "suspended", meaning it can still be picked up again at any time when/if the controversy has died down. Lam said a month ago that she plans to withdraw the bill, but that has not yet happened.
I don't think finding a spouse is an art. You don't typically find a (good) spouse by actively looking for one.
Not 100% true. Being tied off and islanded (well, besides the DC ties) means they have to be a lot more proactive about frequency response and inertia than the Eastern Interconnect which is the biggest machine in the world.
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Libra feels to me as a step towards big companies trying to break free from governments. If they control the money supply the long term effect would most likely be that they have the control of everything.

I think Libra is very frightening and I hope it fails. I have nothing against decentralized systems, but centralized ones that is controlled by a few companies is very scary.

I cannot read the article, since it's locked but you can get the gist of it and if companies are leaving the coalition it's probably for the best.
That all depends on what you do with the meta-data in the commits. For example, in my work, we analyze the history at the level of merges, not commits, and that works pretty well for us.
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You could make a burqa using conductive fabric. Silk, cotton, or nylon. Either plated with silver, or woven with fine silver wire. I don't find that online, but close:

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You either lack reading comprehension or have an axe to grind.
What he said (using more words) is that most probably she was coerced (by Epstein) to lie about her age.
Is that not plausible? Is stating that being pro-rape? Is that statement pro-pedophilia?

It is just a statement accusing Epstein of coercion and lying in addition to pedophilia.

Was it tone deaf of Stallman to defend a dead man who was tangentially involved in this scandal? Sure. But it is disingenuous and evil of you to alter what Stallman said just so you can accuse him (and anyone defending him) of being a pedo.
Time to go back to subsistence farming. Heck I should create a start up for subsistence farming as a service
The article is referring to contact center (support) automation with this kind of thing, which is a pretty far cry from Selenium scripts.

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/contact-center/
Thank you, I'll be sure to use it before deleting.
Haha! I love it! Family that VIMs together...
Because DoH is supposed to hide the DNS traffic from ISPs (among others). Sending the DNS traffic straight to the ISP defeats the purpose of it. That's like MITM on the first hop.
That all depends on what you do with the meta-data in the commits. For example, at my work, we analyze the history at the level of merges, not commits, and that works pretty well for us.
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Stated vs actual goals. Listen to the rhetoric of the people who campaign for affirmative action and then judge what they'll really do, not what they say they'll do.
PostgreSQL is a pretty good document store, and when you need it you have the relational model available and integrated.
But you don't need that. That's an issue for whoever implemented your DBMS.

To test your queries all you need are unit tests of the standard form: for given inputs, assert(output).
I just got into Scheme this past month, but I started with GNU Guile, and really like it.
https://akkuscm.org/ is a seemingly vibrant package manager for Chez and others. It is also by the author of the article.
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> I can hardly fault a police officer for shooting someone in the shoulder when they are being hit with a metal pipe

There's plenty of occasions where HKPF just brutalized people who were no threat at all, and as far as shooting guns goes, good luck blaming this on the protesters: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dc4fc8/another_hk...
What's the end game of apathy? The whole world a concentration camp?
Python2 was not there to support it. Python3 is fine.
I guess one could argue that. I sort of saw Linux as more of the anti-establishment angle.