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Ask HN: Anyone use a good MSSQL proxy
<asking for a friend>

Does anyone use a standalone SQL proxy that supports MSSQL? I'm looking for something that can do throttling, load balancing, query filtering, etc. Thus far I have found only one thing in my limited search: SQL Relay (http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/index.html)

Anyone have experience with SQL Relay?

The key problem I'm solving is a set of MSSQL DB's that have become brittle bottlenecks for a constellation of apps, and I would like to exert greater control over what's happening on those DB's.

Is there a different way of thinking about this problem?
In this case, you can download the prebuilt binaries from the Github repo page itself under the 'Releases' tab. But as with anything in Brew, if you can't find the installable binary or tarball online yourself, you can simply look at the Brew formula to find the URL and download+install it manually.

https://github.com/github/homebrew-gh/blob/19a5398d3c022e80f...
Hunters and ranchers benefit from having no wolves around, but everyone else takes a hit as a result. There's a lot of costs related to deer damaging crops, and managing all the hunting required to keep the population down.

Besides, you can just run a compensation program to offset the damages. If you scroll down in the article you'll notice they already have an estimate for that.
> There's plenty of psychology close to the neuron

Brain.

> and there's plenty of psychology where invoking neural substrates is unnecessary or even impossible.

Mind.

I already discussed the flawed algorithm/hardware analogy in another comment.

It's so strange that the two commenters claim psychology isn't predicated on mind-brain duality and yet in their same comment show that psychology requires mind-brain duality.

If psychology isn't predicated on mind-brain duality, it wouldn't exist any longer. We'd just have neuroscience.
The issue is that psychosis/schizophrenia isn't like testing for a bacterium or looking at an x-ray. It's really a label for a set of presenting behavioral patterns, and is heterogeneous (I don't mean this critically, just the way it is).

So let's say someone is blind, and they come in. They will almost certainly be more likely to receive attention than someone who is not. But how their presenting disorganized thoughts, etc. are described is likely to be different given their history of blindness, especially if they had a lifetime history of associated cognitive deficits or issues.

It's also the case that overlapping presence of two pathologies is not necessarily same as them disjointly. So blindness etiological factors + psychosis etiological factors may not equal schizophrenia with blindness, but rather a more severe cognitive and/or physical disorder that receives an entirely different diagnosis. This latter scenario isn't necessarily a measurement issue, but it could be construed that way.
> A bit like fitting your car with reigns for steering and a whip for acceleration.

I just spent far too much time pondering the feasibility of a reign / whip controlled car. The trickiest part might be designing the filter to detect the crack of a whip reliably. Also wondering if there are any laws regarding the form and location of steering and acceleration mechanisms.
It doesn't help that developers pretend this crap isn't going on either. Verbalize and acknowledge it but everyone's so worried that unrealistic requests and budgets are somehow actually realistic and they're just underperforming compared to their peers. So many actually suffering from imposter syndrome and worried that they're suffering from the Dunning-Krueger effect.

Every group I've worked with seems to start in a defensive state projecting confidence but I casually admit to my struggles with everyone on the team and folks start to open up. By the end, you have a team of developers who can help set more realistic expectations. The less developers communicate amongst themselves honestly, the more they can be exploited by unrealistic expectations for development.

It's a much nicer environment when everyone knows and admits they're slinging garbage code because of resource constraints than everyone pretending they're not.
This is why IBM have historically done so well.

You didn't have to have all the capital. They'd rent you the machine on a long lease and you could say you'd bought a million dollar computer.

Sun tried to get into similar markets but it was always a tougher deal on minis and micros.
hm.. China backs their multinational corporations into competing with other businesses globally. For example TikTok or all the construction firms that compete in Africa, Asia, etc.

Now let's imagine I am an American citizen/businessman competing with a Chinese businessman. I have a better product, better networks. Let's also imagine the scenario where the Chinese govt has more power and dominance than anybody else in the world. Do you still think an American citizen is none of their business?

How about if an American citizen happens to write an article criticizing Chinese govt? What would happen in the above scenario?
Application entitlements were required shortly after the Mac store launched - over 10 years ago and only for App Store apps. If Apple wants everything to be App Store only, they really are taking their sweet time.

Signed drivers have been a requirement for Windows forever. Apple is actually late to the game.

It’s also well understood that from a security and stability standpoint that moving drivers into user space was preferable.
The same sorts of things were built using analog electronics.

And even these have fallen by the wayside to digital electronics.
To be clear, I was not commenting on skepticism, but on making accusations of lying without evidence.
Cisco Sales Fall in Latest Quarter
For the sake of argument.

Hiring practices are pretty random garbage anyway. I don't belive they necessarily find the best fit, best skills or anything else.

Thus bypassing a messed up system that doesn't even get what it wants, simply isn't egalitarian (or whatever word we want to use here), doesn't seem so bad.
I had a pearl for work and a personal one because uhm, yeah. Anyway I was always sorely disappointed that Google didn't simple buy blackberry and port their apps to the android ecosystem.
> The most saleable good (the most marketable and easy to sell) is usually the good available to them which scores highest on the following five properties (imagine a radar chart): Divisibility, Durability, Portability, Fungibility, Scarcity.

That's why you see certain agricultural products like grain and olive oil in the ancient Mediterranean serving in the role of currency prior to gold. While less durable than gold, these goods met all the other criteria and ultimately were useful as well. Gold comes on the seen when there is a significant economy-wide surplus of output.
Or "POP" for Plain Old Phone
If x ray doesnt work, try some other stuff, infrared, led, radioactive, ect. Could even try something as simple as attach multimeter leads to the pins.
IIRC my first WM, on RedHat 5.2
I feel that if Verisign wanted to actually do some good, they would have negotiated a retail minimum price rather than just raising their wholesale price. The registrar space is already a race to the bottom, so if Verisign made that bottom more profitable for the registrars rather than themselves, that would make this action seem to be a little bit more charitable.

That said, I do agree that domain squatting is a problem which should be addressed. I don't think this is the way to do it though.
just ignoring hundreds and hundreds of characters. all of which deal with behavior towards women, just to pull this one string that you could respond to. absurd and terrifying.
This link reflects the extension pack, not Virtualbox itself, which is CDDL licensed.

Virtualbox represents exactly as much threat to your business as an OpenIndiana or FreeBSD server. Are you sure that a sysadmin is not using (CDDL licensed) ZFS?
don't worry, if American hadn't done these, it will. for starters, how about make Chinese govt. the evil force and every Chinese a potential threat?

seriously, I'm not even going to blame America. it's the tragedy of great power politics. to maintain its hegemony, it will and has done whatever takes. any illusion of moral superiority, is just illusion.
Through the joys of expensive real estate I don't have the luxury of separate rooms but personally I've never found it that important. I have a desk that is almost exclusively used for work that seems to fill the role, but even that is more for ergonomic reasons than anything. I feel the social isolation others mention, but that's solved with more regular nightly visits to the pub.

The big thing I need to improve on is simply getting outside more and going for walks during the day. A significant part of my commute was walking and now that's gone.
Need a feature comparison between

* NextStep

* macOS

* GNUStep

* Nextspace

* Étoilé

* KDE/Gnome themes emulating any of the above
Of course. This is simply a cat and mouse game at this stage. PatchGuard on Windows has the same weakness, and its defense is simply by being implemented through very obscure means. Pretty much every version of Windows has changed the techniques being used, so disabling PatchGuard is very much hitting a moving target.

So yes you could, but you'd have to know it was running in the first place.

The suggestion elsewhere to create an eBPF variant might be interesting to explore.
Human waste contains medicines, hormones, heavy metals etc. which the waste water treatment plants can’t generally remove. You don’t want these things back into the human food chain, without further treatment.
I'm conflicted about the whole "Mental Model" thing that has sprung up in the last couple years. In principle, naming and sharing useful patterns of thought is useful. In practice, every time I see them like this they make my skin crawl. Mental models are supposed to just be models, but, like, in your mind. People are building a pyramid on a mole hill instead of just noticing the hill...

Ah, just realized the applicable Mental Model according to TFA. They're blurring the distinction between the map (mental models) and territory (actual thinking).

Ed: first paragraph was largely superfluous.

Ed2: "building a pyramid on a mole hill" describes so many things. Did I just invent a Mental Model? I think I did.
HTML Instant Messaging System
I'm attempting to make an instant messaging system of sorts for me and my friend to be able to communicate fairly quickly/easily. I'm fairly certain I'd have to use html, but I'd rather use javascript or batch to make a program. If I were to use HTML, however, how might I be able to compile the html code as well as the resources (storing passwords) into one .html file? Also I'm not sure how I'd get the two computers to be able to communicate.

The question is titled html instant messaging because I was thinking about coding it as a .html file that I could just send to my friends, so it would be like a shortcut to a webpage of sorts, rather than having to install it. The only problem with this is that I think both users would have to be online for one to message the other (if this is remotely possible). If not, then I was thinking of having it act similarly to a batch or cmd file, which I would like more, because I'm used to using batch more than html.

Where I'm At:

I've taught myself batch coding, as well as some javascript, and I'm attempting to learn html. I know very few ins and outs as far as how html works, though. I'm much more familiar with javascript and batch, but as far as those two are concerned, I've been coding batch since I was about 9, and javascript since I was about 12. What years I do have under my belt, however, are somewhat botched, because I stop every now and again and forget about it for a while.
Weyl semimetals exhibit unusual electron transport behavior
Objective-C is ranked as among the least loved of languages, but eclipses Swift in the in-demand rating. Ruby is also least loved/in-demand.
Hah that's pretty good. Thanks for making me laugh.
I’m talking about the ledger between sovereign governments, you’re talking about the ledger within a single sovereign country. Two completely different things.
This is outdated information. Most newer studies put R0 >3 (e.g. [1]) and there are many well documentated cases outside of China now which confirm at least partial presymptomatic transmission (German cluster, Signapore Conference, British prisoners).

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.20021675v...
I have heard this phrase used before. Would the Skype acquisition by Microsoft be an example of this?
These examples blow my attempt at an interpreted programming language (thousands of lines over multiple source files) out of the water.. so impressive.
Fashion. We're not bad at software engineering. We're bad at correctly labeling what is "software engineering" and what is not.

"Software engineer" today is just a job title. It makes us sound cool, but it has about as much to do with engineering as "Scrum master" has to do with rugby. In lots of places, you don't need to have an engineering degree or be a certified engineer to claim the title.

Teams that actually practice Software Engineering, like the famous Lockheed shuttle group, are as good at it as we are at any other branch of engineering.

It's wildly misleading to use the same word for an app written by a few programmers in a couple of months (like the Iowa Caucus app) and the Space Shuttle control software (maintained by hundreds of people, with an average of 1 bug per release), and everything in between. It'd be like letting anyone call themselves Doctor.
Oh I got it now, thanks. Two different ends of the workflow.
And Superdome Flex supports 48 TB.
Why is that? What’s special about lisp?
nope. the means justify the means. what I am saying is that in this situation, in this society, in this instance, I see a lot of people saying a lot about a lot of things that he did that should have ended his role at MIT and should have resulted in a conversation about how to keep someone like him from doing these things again. And, more than that: I myself, a person, a real person, really saw him do some of those things, too -- enough of those things, in fact that just what I saw myself would justify "the ends." no one needs to lie. and many people didn't, I think. And I know that I haven't.
Now someone fork it and re-skin it to look like OSX.

(nice job - feeling very nostalgic)
For RAM TB = TiB.
Money, time and planning. Agile is, for the most part, the absence of planning. "Figuring it out quickly and changing it if we need to." But, by design, most "physical" engineering tasks require tremendous planning, and include (from what I understand) very little "Just figure it out as we go."

The reason for a lack of planning, is because tremendous planning increases time to ship, which effectively costs money.
Let's be clear about this. Sorry I didn't make myself clearer in my post that I'd never entertain the idea of doing internet banking from a smartphone or any online PC or other facility (except an auto-teller using my card).

In fact, the last internet banking transaction I would have made would have been at least 10 years ago!
> A similar situation plays out in cities like London - a ton of people move out to raise families; historically it's been possible for the middle class to have children and live a few zones out, but it's getting much harder for anyone without inheritance.

> The problem is that there are very few cities that aren't either tiny, or endless car based sprawl.

not to be trite, but isn't "very few cities that aren't ... tiny" sort of definitional? england only has the population for 6 greater londons, if you crammed them all together. would spreading the population across six of them bring prices down enough for everyone to have the nice flat they want? how long would that remain the case?
If you don't set it, you can't guarantee that a:visited contrasts sufficiently with a:link or the background.
I have nothing against buying cases but let’s be honest, if the answer to a genuine solvable hardware problem is to buy more hardware then you have to sympathise with those who complain about the insanity of the current market.
OpenAI Performs Surgery on a Neural Network to Play Dota 2 [video]
In the airline industry, it might be

President -> Platinum VP -> Gold VP -> Silver VP -> Bronze VP
it would be just my luck to be born in time to witness the technological singularity, but it's all just infinite paperclips.
I completely agree. At the some point, businesses need to to have reason to say "no, what you want is feasible, and we won't risk the consequences of failure."

For safety critical applications, technical decision makers need to have reason to say "no, we can't do this, and we won't because my career and possibly freedom are at stake if we do."

Right now a huge portion of the risk of software failure to software builders is reputational. This can be sufficient, as pointed out in many cases in the article, but as we see in these examples is often not.
Exactly. QED.
I have no interest in joining your semantics game. Quoting an unqualified biased person, who lives in the mentioned region and has a track record in defending a right wing zionist position, which opposes the established international consensus and historical evidence, to rewrite history, is deceptive.
Here are a few starting points.

- https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started_for_non-US_i...

- (book) The Simple Path to Wealth by J. L. Collins

- (Podcast) ChooseFI
I understand that restaurants and bars in the tourists area of Niagara Falls charge this, but if you say you live there, they usually take them off.
Missing the forest for the trees. Those three functions of money are the “cliff notes” description of money, but there is a deeper abstraction that all of those properties can be derived from: money is a ledger. In the case of cash or bitcoin, the ledger has a constraint that negative balances are not allowed.
For what it’s worth, Burbank actually has a really short runway.
I have an account with Vanguard directly and research their funds when investing. Currently my US employer retirement fund partner has very low cost access to Vanguard funds I follow already so I am linked into that.

It really depends on your goals and starting point. Avoiding management fees is one of my priorities as well as direct visibility of my accounts and numbers (all offered via Vanguard directly). There are a lot of great, free information sources. Some are directed at people who are paycheck t paycheck and need to start setting like $100/month aside while digging out of debt. Others focus on middle class style employer retirement plan+personal savings like for a down payment on a house. Others focus on those willing to toss thousands on what becomes a bet on the market and YOLO it (not recommended).

I started by just looking at Vanguard funds and using open/free tools to understand terminology and get a grasp of the history or background like lessons learned.
Tell HN: Google halts Gmail and Drive apps and forces them to do security audits
I found our Google App's OAuth permissions were decertified today after seeing some users receiving permissions errors. Google did this without so much as an email to us. Upon digging in further, I discovered that they changed their policy on February 7th, effectively revoking our existing app permissions, and requiring anyone requesting those permissions go through a 3rd party security audit (3P) at the cost of (in their estimation) $15,000 to $75,000 before getting permissions back. They also state this process will take 4-6 weeks. This is not specific to us, as noted in the post below:

https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914?authuser=2

As of now, we are limited to 100 users connecting accounts before we will no longer be able to accept additional users. Maybe we'll get a helpful response from Google, but considering the lack of notice, I doubt it.

This is why you can't build on a platform like Google; you never know when they will suddenly change policy (or shutdown) without notice and shut you down. No company can stop accepting users for 4-6 weeks while a security audit goes on and stay in business.
There are many, many, many reports. The fact that you are focusing on one and then questioning the veracity of just that one report to make an argument like this is vile. Vile. As in if this is the way you're rolling you are vile. Literally a perpetrator of rape culture. Many reports means that if you don't have mitigating information you listen instead of speaking. Me? I witnessed, with my own eyes, RMS committing acts that merit is firing. And it would seem that I am far from alone.
Is the panel on the top left a right click menu or is that always there?
A very cool style gear is a harmonic drive. It has a somewhat flexible inner gear driven by a cam which engages it to the outer gear. It allows for extreme gear ratios with high torque in very small packages (think helicopter pitch control).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_drive
We should be drinking water. If you have to drink a milk, then do a variety in moderation.
A more recent thread with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22313379
> It doesn't (well, except maybe behavioral psychology, which arguably could) exist without the mind.

Okay. So psychology requires the mind. Good. Does psychology deny the brain exists? If not, you have the mind-brain duality.

> Mind/body” duality isn't just “the mind exist”

Yes. I suspect that's why the part about the brain and duality is in "mind/brain duality".

I'm glad we are agreed. Otherwise, if there was no mind-body duality, we wouldn't have psychology but only neuroscience. Maybe one day, hopefully.
China plays a much longer game than the US. But sure, let's say next decade then. Your analogy is poor. I'm describing the behavior of all hegemonic empires in history. You seem to think the US is a special case. Why is that?
Follow up: I know it seems crazy and hate to make it political but there is data to back this up...

https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1227343129696702468/photo/1

Try to have an open mind
Is this a bad thing? Can someone expand on the implications of this? I would think that it doesn't matter who owns an ISA.
He did a LOT more than voice opinions. That's how you get fired. You do a LOT of shit and then finally you do the last thing that you end up doing before your org decides that you have to go. Don't be willfully ignorant.
Gitlab for CI, Nexus for jars and docker containers and routing traffic with traefik.
Its super easy if you setup them using docker. I will move to jenkins CI tough. Its plugin/ecosystem brings you much more value over gitlab.
Fortran Artifacts in Modern Languages
On the other hand, a law could be passed where all large companies have to report on diversity hiring numbers so that the general public would know what the current reality is like.
Kim Dotcom, Julian Assange, Iraq, Iran etc.?
Israeli Laser Drone Dome System Downs Swarm of UAVs in Newly Released Video
Not sure of attenuation since according to the Wikipedia page they are now excluding asymptomatic infections from the statistics, which lowers the number of confirmed.

The Wikipedia page says:

"On 6 February, the Chinese National Health Commission started to change how cases were reported – asymptomatic carriers, who tested positive for the virus but did not show clinical symptoms, would no longer be included in the number of confirmed cases. This had the effect of reducing the total number of cases reported, but also meant that potentially contagious individuals were ignored in reports."
Enabling the kind of behavior that RMS has been reported to have engaged in (reported by myself among others) is the evil path. Firing people for violating the standards of their org is a good idea. It should be done more often.