skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those missing Delphi, have you considered VS/C#/Winforms? I gonna tell you than its binaries as portable as Delphi/Kylix(e.g. major platforms covered).

The language is much less annoying (oh how i hated Type and Var sections in the times).
The gui programming style can be similar or can be modernized.
The designer and component library is vastly improved. Third party components are cheap compared to today's "cloud" prices.
There are libs for everything.
Its free.
Can be compiled to native binaries(not sure this will leave 'experimental').
Feels like a direct replacement to me.
No. He uses a temporary array for swaps. It's in the swap example he provided.
Happy Birthday Delphi!

If Borland's management hadn't messed up, .NET and Java probably would never had taken off on PC world.
It irks me to no end that in 2020 we are still using outright incorrect math for image processing, practically everywhere, with visible consequences (another one: this can also be blamed for a good chunk of the moiré artifacts when resizing images containing patterns, it's not just about subpar filters).

Ironically, Photoshop does this wrong by default, but the open source GIMP does it correctly (in current versions).
I would roundly disagree. If you find an unexploited niche and effectively corner it, there are still opportunities out there.

Just look at Bitwarden. It started out as a free and truly secure answer to password managers that were cross-platform and web/browser-based, but had issues with trust and privacy. A lone developer put his money where his mouth was, and built the product up into a SaaS that is now a small but profitable company. It’s now the fastest growing password manager out there, and certainly one of the more popular among techs.
The author was concerned with true psychopaths (in the clinical sense), but I guess this timid tactic is as usable towards the narcissistic types.
total nonsense. they even agreed to let billionaires such as Jack Ma to join their COMMUNIST PARTY. how hard will it be for an average person to join the party? I have not heard anyone who failed to become a CCP member.

for the mentioned "Communist Youth League of China" thing, 95%+ of the suitable age group are members. you need to do something really naughty to avoid becoming one.
I've basically learned programming and database design in Delphi 7, using a couple of thick textbooks + Win32 API reference (.chm; no internet back then for us). The smoothest developer experience (build, GUI design, debug) I've ever had. Despite I had a rather mediocre PC at that time, it was snappier than anything modern, save for not-quite-IDEs like VS Code.
Here's an overview of Pascal implementations for Amiga: http://fpcamigawiki.alb42.de/index.php?title=Workshop:Amiga,... (however I think when they wrote "development seized", they actually meant "ceased" ;) )
Eesh. My monthly plan in the UK is about $10 (£7), for 2GB, unlimited texts, 500 calls.

I suppose an Indian commenter would 'Eesh' at that too though!
Not if you replace the keys with your own.
You entirely missed the point that there is 33k of them. Your list does not even have 1000.
3NF or more is good. Else its poor. Number of tables does not matter.
I'm happy to see this, however I'd be far more excited if I thought there was a chance of it landing in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 release - else I'll likely be waiting impatiently until 22.04 for server-side support.
Actually, if one wants to try out Delphi,

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter

Lazarus and FreePascal are great, but they aren't 100% Delphi.
I'll add youtube to the list! Hm, I hadn't thought of that angle, maybe a white background and small text is a better default
Zero, one, two, Freddy's coming for you
Not to mention that thermodynamics and classical/quantum mechanics mean that in our world chaos is basically inevitable.
It was clearly written in the non-interactive part of the instructions. Apparently I can't read. Thank you for your patience!
its not poss!
At least in what concerns German community, there would be a couple more showing up.

Delphi is alive over here, even if only on corporations with big pockets.
I have 15 whitelisted sites. I think it took negligible effort to add them, you whitelist a site once and it stays there from there on.
New orders in legal dispute between Cloanto and Hyperion
when navigating the history with arrow keyboard keys, you need to do a full keypress (instead of a keydown) each time to advance to the next day. It would be great if you could just automatically fire some events when the arrow is hold down otherwise the natural repeat behavior feels broken.
Turnstile+: Dependent Type Systems as Macros
Still, to this day, I know of no other solution that beats Lazarus+Free Pascal in easiness of stitching together a cross-platform GUI program and just works out of the box.
> Cars are not national communication infrastructure.

Sure, but are you saying the tradeoff is worth it? It's fairly simple: if Europe begins taking protectionist measures that harm Chinese companies, then China will respond in kind.
Not open source, but Swinsian is a sort of spiritual successor to iTunes 1.0. Runs fast, none of the modern bloat: https://swinsian.com/
I find it ironic they describe it as “25 Years of Excellence” because, as much as people go on about the competition, what really broke Delphi was its poor quality control

I bloody loved that language, but all of the components had serious errors that resulted in crashes. To make it worse, they are their own dog food, meaning the IDE itself crashed all the time.

This wouldn’t have been so bad, but then VB5 happened, which was much, much worse semantically but absolutely rock solid.

Of course, then C# happened, but devs like me had already left the ecosystem. (And the less said about all that bundled cruft the better.)
Yes, that is my daily driver nowadays, however .NET AOT experience still misses a bit compared with Delphi.

And Delphi is still around, no need to talk as if it was dead.

In Germany, it has a regular section on the .NET developers magazine and an yearly conference.
HTTP: //Thesupplementcop.com/Skingenix-Reviews/
Skingenix
performing a headstand also can offer you with higher blood stream. on the equal time lessen Wrinkles it lets in your heart to take a relaxation decreasing heart strain. due to the fact that there may be higher movement, sparkling blood, oxygen and vitamins will be capable of go with the flow on your mind cells. Skingenix which means that your questioning electricity, concentration and reminiscence will improve. everyday exercise do now not motive your brain tissues to degenerate both.
http://thesupplementcop.com/skingenix-reviews/
Macron's Paris mayor candidate quits race after 'private video' leaked
I use it for some non-personal stuff. I don’t have any followers (doesn’t matter to me). I’m eagerly waiting for the mobile app, since that’s the biggest barrier when suggesting it to people. Beyond network effects, better integration with the camera and the photos library is what many people seem to appreciate (and filters...but Pixelfed has those already).
Another point I want to mention is that Japan was never invaded on its own territory by a foreign power and it wasn't ruled or politically influenced by outsiders for many centuries. This helps a lot to build and preserve a business.

On the contrary if you take the Balkans in Europe every few centuries the ruling power changed. First was the Roman Empire, then the Byzantine Empire, Bulgarian Empire, many other nations come to power for different periods, then the Ottomans, the Soviet Union and in the present day most of the companies and corporations in the Balkans are very proud if they have a history of 20-30 years (after the collapse of the Soviet Union)
> you need to plug the device into its bigger brother

This exactly is the challenge. If your first computer is a mobile device, you would not have that “bigger brother” available.

iOS does have Swift Playgrounds [1] and Android has the excellent Termux [2] but access to the built-in JavaScript engine would open a whole new set of possibilities.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/

[2]: https://termux.com/

I was introduced to programming on a dinky little graphing calculator. My hope is that other “first computers” could offer similar opportunities for tinkering.
I apologize, I may have made my point a bit unclearly.

I don't argue that "it's ultimately hopeless". I think, with effort, it's quite possible to create a pseudo-private safe space online.

I just think that the bulk of your benefit comes from vetting the intentions and judgement of your participants, and not from technological means like removing search.

If you're able to trust your participants, technological means can be like a simple fence/lock, keeping honest people honest, but don't otherwise add a ton of extra benefit.

If you're not able to trust your participants, removing search will help _some_, but it might not be enough.
Consider submitting a bug ticket. You are the customer after all.
Implying that we ever found ourselves before.
> When I read about database schemas with thousands of tables I wonder what kind of problem could possibly require so many tables.

They're probably mostly small (in terms of columns), many of them done just to have foreign key constraints, separate indexes, and arguably easier querying (joining) on just the data you need.

But I think it's a particular style, rather than a 'problem' that 'requires' so many.

(IANA database expert though, just my tuppence.)
Cf. last month's discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180374
All this research when the correct answer is "you are holding it wrong"
The problem is that explaining the upfront cost to 'the business people' is an issue. In many cases, budgets for dev are yearly and that is kind of an horizon for most people (even some who should know better), so even if i'm going to say that your TCO is probably (which is a problem in itself, but probably statistically) going to be lower with formal methods than without, that assumption is spread over many years. There are enough systems that require vast refactoring every year because they were badly done in the first case, but that's the concern of every year's budget/manager, not of the one sitting the current year.

That goes for verifying code as well, however that is even harder to sell as it's so much more expensive and even though I 'feel' it is a good idea, I cannot really estimate if the TCO would be lower than just patching with bandaids over the years.
Interesting examples I have seen are The Frauenkirche in Dresden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche) and The Bratislava Castle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratislava_Castle), both complete rebuilds (and both were ruins for a long time before they were rebuild). I have an uneasy relationship with these buildings. On the one hand, I understand the appeal of old buildings, and that people want them to be around again. On the other hand, I find it weird to build a building today that looks like it is an old one (Historismus?). Somehow, these buildings feel like lies to me, like a Disneyland or Las Vegas version of history. So I guess my (German) view is indeed quite different from the Japanese perspective described by GP.
I had to install Mojave on another partition and I dual-boot to that if I need to use Unity. But the last time I used it was about 3 months ago, Unity might have gotten a few updates in the meantime.
Wunderlist Moving to Microsoft to Do
Pretty much the first thing you learn in game development (OK not the first thing), is the difference between linear-RGB and sRGB and the need to do lighting calculations in linear space in your shaders. It's crazy that professional graphics software doesn't get this right.
This question of infinite progress really makes me think. Do we really want progress that grows exponentialy indefinitly?

Humans should have finite needs so if we are competent enough for solve them is only natural that progress will stall. That should be a good thing, is a sign that the most relevant problems were already solved.
Delphi 1 on Win 3.11 and 4MB RAM. Long long time ago.
depends on which bubble you find yourself in, I guess.

And I think depression and anxiety comes more from all the terrible "news" you get from around the world, it probably applies to "news" in general.
OpenFaaS Comes to K9s, the Kubernetes CUI
Sorting sorted or mostly-sorted arrays is not uncommon in many use cases.
Technology Connections is so great. Never dissapoints.
Actually you can, in any country but the US and Japan. Software patents aren't enforceable anywhere else AFAIK (and at least not in the EU for sure). For a commercial product that's a show stopper indeed, but for an open source emulator without commercial ambitions that wouldn't be much of a problem.
Hello ktpsns! Many thanks for your feedback on https://developer.ing.com/. For the moment, the "Account Information API" is indeed only available to companies with a PSD2 license.
But, there are discussions to open the API to individuals so they can programmatically consult their accounts only.

Do not hesitate to post this question/request as a suggestion on the website, https://developer.ing.com/openbanking/support
That is the reward for positive people sharing. Like Point on Reddit, Steem or HN. The world will lose its balance if the powerful have the big ego.
Data can be partially sorted and it happens quite often. As I understood, it's exactly the purpose of quadsort - to leverage locally ordered sequences.
How does the default NLP tokenizer work with transfer learning? Are all the fast.ai pretrained NLP models pretrained with the same tokenization scheme?
Were you in a bright room? That would have given you context, which is what he warned against.
> You can't make money out of shareware, so now everything is SaaS.

This is mixing two concerns: Selling stand-alone applications and the specific shareware distribution model.

The SaaS world is struggling with the "freemium" model, too. Nothing pretty much changed there, you get your nag-screens, limited features etc.

Selling apps still works for a lot of people. Sure, it's harder when there's a popular free version available, but the same is true for SaaS again.

One major issue is the pernicious "growth" mindset: Today it's often not enough to earn some decent money, you have to "found" something. And sure, it's friggin' hard to grow a company out of a shareware product.
Hunting Warhead – a new podcast series that shines a light on the ‘dark web’
I noticed the same thing. Maybe I should have got a quote from elsewhere as it's not particularly well written. Nevertheless, it still gets the concept across.
“too new”. Would you say the same about he new Boeing plane, then - too?
diaclaimer: theoretical opinion.

I think the primary problem of giving examples here is similar to teaching software engineering, which needs complex projects solving complex problems - too big for a semester project.

A good schema depends on the problem it's solving.

A secondary problem is similar to code that has sacrificed clarity for performance. The tweaks made for performance are not intrinsic to the logical problem, but are an additional constraint.

For performance on common queries, schema can be flattened or "denomalized". The ability to do so was one of the original motivations for Codd's relational algebra.
Nintendo claims the same about emulation of their consoles. It hasn't appeared to be much of a deterrent.
... I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.
more pretense. I'm condemning you and your stance in no uncertain terms, the way I would a man who stood by and allowed the rape of children while they considered the act from the perspective of the perpretrator.

People like you actively make this world worse through your rationalized inaction.
But who gets to decide what legitimate needs are?
I doubt people will not find additional utility in new/improved products.
> his brother, a chiropractor, had helped him write the software for prTMS and designed the protocol

Well that is seriously not a good sign.
Obviously I now need to repeat the dark room trick but with cut-out pictures of chocolate, coffee, nuts, dirt and bears.
I would say what changed is the fact that Slack stopped being developed completely :)

The only features they work on are the next-gen features while the more comprehensible login flow wouldn’t get you a promotion.
You may be interested in Qmmp - a Qt-based winamp-style player. I use it every day, it's pretty great.

http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
Yes and no.

This is about which frame of reference you use to look at the world. And how that can severely distort your view.

Consider isolated amazonian tribes, or tribes on islands in the South Pacific. By our standards, they live in abject poverty: no electricity, no clean water, no jobs,... Then again, these tribes do not know anything else. They have lived like this since the dawn of humanity.

Then consider native tribes in America, Alaska, Greenland. People whose traditional way of living have been replaced by the affordances of modern technology. And that hasn't been for the better, necessarily. We are talking about fundamental lifestyle changes that happened over the course of less then a generation.

And that's even without the historical violence we tend to discuss / guilt trip over in the modern world: such as traditional colonization, imperialism and such-like.

Take Inuit tribes. Just 2 generations ago - some 50 years - these people lived in small traditional fishing communities, mostly secluded from the world. The lived according to their own ancestral culture and that worked out fine for them.

Today, their way of living has entirely upended. Sure, they still fish, but they now have social security numbers, salaried yet often low-wage jobs, Internet and television, pollution and noise from cars, snowmobiles and so on. The net result is that unemployment among the active population is a serious issue, as it also causes mental and physical health issues including crime and substance abuse.

When native tribes protest against oil pipelines, that's not a take against the benefits modernity itself. It's a protest against the fact that the arrival of modernity literally implies the disappearance of an environmental and cultural context in which they have been rooted for thousands of years.

To them, the benefits of electricity, healthcare, modern jobs and cars also come with a great cost: giving up their identity, their way of life and the risk of ending up in abject poverty due to the dynamics inherent to modern economic systems rooted in Western / European values and morals.

As such, when we talk about progress, it's presumptuous to assume that anyone who doesn't have access to modern affordances is "living in poverty" and "more progress" is the only answer going forward.

The big thing that traditional tribal cultures have going for them is sustainability. Sure, individuals lived precarious lives and relied on magical thinking to explain the world, but these communities as a whole have persisted for many generations with a low impact on their environment.

From their frame of reference, their way of life totally make sense. Assuming that their way of thinking is backwards or obsolete, or assuming that them ending up unemployed or struggling with modernity is them not pulling their weight in "accepting progress", well, that's just our own superiority bias clouding our thinking.
Wish I could add more value to this comment.. but I also upvoted for the name.
> if hard times ever come, there will be no true believers

That is where brain washing and xenophobia come in. Just like in Russia, the CCP is already preparing for the hard times by blaming ills on the Other. I.e. the US (especially around trade war, and military alliances in the pac rim), Japan (reviving WW2 resentment), Western Europe (propaganda around "century of humiliation"), Taiwan, HK and so on.

The strategy is to create brainless followers who will reject foreign media output just because it comes from "the enemy".
Sounds like a reasonable quest for Step 2.

(Step 3 is profit)

I just spent a month doing something enjoyable difficult, but that even if I'd succeeded, would not have produced even close to a month's paycheck worth of value. I'd say "trade?" except there's not much upside to offer.

But seriously: Consider "accuracy" versus "precision". Reaching accuracy from precision is calibration; but AFAIK there's no way to reach precision from accuracy.

You're producing value. Now it's just a question of aligning that value with, well, broader value. Which you can take your time to do.
Australian dentist granted court order forcing Google to unmask anonymous critic
If construction had a reality TV component, we might be more comfortable with the idea of death on TV. That being said, millions watch LiveLeak.
Abstraction and Reasoning Challenge
I was stating my initial interpretation from the title alone.

It should be a given that responding in a chain with the OP stating 'By crypto they mean cryptography here.' I have ascertained the 'crypto' in the title now refers to cryptography.
My wife's familys business has been up and running for well over 100 years.

As it was told to me...
Her great great great grandfather had a small bank of sorts, then he or perhaps his children, I forget the reason why, moved into food. Primarily sourcing food for upscale restaurants.
Her uncles and mother run the business now, although they are in their late 60s so I doubt it will stay going for another generation.

Her two brothers have their own careers, we live in the other side of the world and her cousin lives in the US.

It is a strange combination of having smaller families, career aspirations and globalisation which makes it less appealing I guess.
Social media-predicted personality traits can help match people to their jobs
| the incredible biodiversity of life we had a few hundred years ago.

I've been thinking a lot recently about the biblical creation story in the context of trying to understand how I can effectively communicate regarding climate change with those around me who are religious.

Some Christians are amenable to the concept of human destruction of the environment being sinful, but even then, I sometimes wonder if their tendency to rely on grace hinders their ability to be proactive in their worldview regarding it.

Anyway, most people know the story of Adam and Eve as an explanation of the imperfection of life. "Why did God make life so hard? Why is there evil?" Humans did something knowingly bad and we now have to pay the consequence of having a harder life. Fine.

I just can't shake this feeling that maybe that story is a prophecy more than a prologue. I look around and see all the incredible beauty of the natural world; the amazing cornucopia of life, the incredible desolation of space, the warm gifts we give each other in the form of culture, food, love. Seems like life is really ok if you have family and can put good food on the table every night, right?

So what happens if we keep breaking the natural order of things? What happens when all the animals bigger than us are dead? When the soil drys up and blows away? When we've put enough pesticides and antibiotics and plastics into our rivers and oceans and overfished them to the point where our children won't know the concept of seafood like we did because it doesn't exist anymore? What happens then? I think only then we realize that what we had before looked pretty close to Eden.

It's completely thinkable that we've already caused the extinction of some organism with an adaptation that humanity will desperately need in the future. Our science is good but it's almost nothing compared to the machinations of nature itself when it comes to revealing fundamental truth about reality.

I only hope we can turn the tide.