skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends where you are. Some countries require ID, some don't. Last I bought one in New Zealand it didn't require anything, but I know Australia does.
Well, PL/pgSQL is compiled but there is no semantics checking at compile time.
So while you may have better performance depending on use case etc. it can be a bit hard to work with.

I wrote a lot of Oracle PL/SQL at my last job* and I will say if you're not familiar with that kind of database language I would highly recommend Python over it. First think about whether you really want to have business logic in your database and then choose what you know best.

*: It was messy and I am glad that that job is over.
What is shown on the Web is often not very accurate for fine-art color. Are the colorized versions posted somewhere in 48 bit depth in a wide-gamut color space?
Zerodium is a good starting point, you can find individual grey market brokers too, you probably already follow one of them on Twitter :I
Python also has one of the most outdated and dead libs in stdlib out there.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/
You can very easily build your own WhatsApp server today by simply deploying https://www.ejabberd.im/ on a box and using https://conversations.im/ on an Android phone.
I hope that the power produced to grid will be priced on market rate. With no caps to either direction. No bullshit like net metering, just fair spot price with transmission also charged.
Actually I'm kind of glad it's difficult to do those sort of things in Chrome.
Well, what number would one expect? Surely, the workforce doesn’t scale linearly with users.
A lot of webservers now have ACME built in and you can just have it automatically handle the entire certificate life cycle.
Electric motors can autorotate just fine: https://youtu.be/QADYnVeHQOQ

You can't descend quite as slow as a normal engine because the motor has somewhat more friction at low RPM, even though it's similar to free-spinning at higher RPM. That makes for a rougher final approach but just as much glide distance and control.

Small rotors will make it more of a hassle but should still be quite safe. Even if you do end up touching down hard, there's way less angular momentum stored up and you wouldn't have the chaos of giant blades exploding. Of course there's still the batteries, since li-ion cells have only slightly less energy than kerosene when burned.

A parachute is... not the kind of safety feature that should be relied on. Parachutes take >100 feet to open properly. 20 foot falls can easily be lethal.
Some subway systems display two maps for that reason: one is a schematic map of the network, clear and legible. The other one is street map of the city including the actual station entrances. You can use that to figure out which station to use.
Oh thanks I was looking for it recently and I couldn't remember the name. I remember using it a few years ago with my daughter, she was able to create something simple, playable and enjoyable in an hour or so, using cut-out photos of her family. I remember the scrolling was very smooth and the final result was nothing to be ashamed of. Thank you for giving us hours of fun! I'll download it today and see what's changed since.

EDIT: OK so it was Construct 2, the next iteration seems so much more powerful. The pricing is reasonable, both for individuals and businesses, thank you also for that.
Nice work! Reminds me of the old days of the 'Boss Key' in most games of the 80's. +1 on the suggestion to actually make this a VSCode extension so you can have it running in a tab in your actual workspace and check it from time to time.
What are the challenges in crossing the Pacific Ocean by boat? How much hardware would be involved with making individual containers seaworthy? Disposable cargo ships, anyone?
Excellent!

Reminds me of those old MS-DOS games that often had a "boss key" which switched the game display to some fake spreadsheet.
Thanks for your blog, it's always fascinating to read about my city.

I'd like to comment to "Astana is quite the opposite. Nothing here is old, large parts of Astana were build within the last two decades. Dirt or waste in the streets was almost zero and the traffic seems pretty civilized. Until 1997, Almaty was the capital of Kazakhstan, due to some complicated political compromises, it was moved to Astana and there began the growth of this boom town."

Actually Astana was that average town just 20 years ago. And of course there's plenty of old buildings in Astana. And some areas are outright poor. Here's link to street view of one example, you can move around, and that's the same Astana: https://yandex.kz/maps/-/CCUqnJEh0C

There's "old city" (or "right coast", contrary to "new city"/"left coast") where ordinary buildings are everywhere. It's not poor, it's just usual.

Of course capital status means much more money for everyone, so people generally are more wealthy compared to other cities.

There's no point for tourists to go to other city parts, though.
> I had never had a job in the past 15 years where you couldn’t open a sports page once in a while

Good for you!

But do you really not realise that other people work under less favourable conditions than yourself?
I think I've reinvented trigonometry at least fifteen times in my life when I needed to animate something roughly circular, spherical or wave-like. I still have no freakin clue which thing is a sin, cos or tan. I failed precalc (and they still let me work on video games!) But I do remember that a hypotenuse is the square root of A^2 + B^2 and from that I can pretty much figure out the rest.
> brake elements that need exactly as much servicing

Brakes are generally used a lot less thanks to regenerative braking (kind of like trucks use eddy current brakes to lessen wear on mechanical parts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current_brake https://www.klamretarder.com/en/retarders/truck-brakes-cfk ).

> They are fixing fluid leaks

There is also much less fluids circulating (some cars, not all, use liquid-cooled batteries and engines; add windshield wipers and that's about it). So less fluids to worry about.

There is just a few orders of magnitude less mechanical parts that can wear out and require servicing.

Suspension, tires and body work is still required, of course. There will probably be maintenance needs on auxiliary systems like the in-car entertainment system or headlights.

However, most of the maintenance work on regular cars is related to the combustion engine: timing belt changes, oil changes, gearbox issues, brakes, exhaust, differential, shaft, fuel pump, air, fuel and oil filters, spark plugs, starter, lead battery. A whole class of issues is avoided (timing belt failure, running without oil or coolant, inadequate fuel). Generally, control electronics should also be more integrated and prevent major (expensive) failures.
Years ago ( 15+ ) I created not to automatically send cricket updates to office chats.
Same here, I read this article via rss, good article. It helps me to be informed about the recent trends without being mined for my data by tech giants
I guess to get some food money
I wouldn't assume ill-intent, or even that the company sucks.

This might be just a fun joke. At my previous job we had a company-wide shared folder with some stealth Excel games [1], my boss loved them.

[1] https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-iconic-games-recreated-micro...
Drupal.

I've been a Drupal developer for 15 years and started using it for it's low code abilities. In my opinion it still is an amazing low code platform which is extremely versatile. If you really need to customize, it's all there under the hood to hook into, override and extend.
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My point is that this status does not influence those aspects, it does not matter if they are or claim to be law enforcement/military/intelligence, the practical consequences are the same.

They can be held personally responsible in USA criminal courts no matter if they're civilians or uniformed SA government employees - if a foreign government agent does something on your soil, you can (and should) apply standard criminal law can no matter if they're an uniformed employee in their service or not - for example, the Russian officers UK charged with Salisbury Novichok poisonings. However, USA courts can't enforce any judgements without cooperation of the host countries.

And Saudi Arabia can arbitrarily ignore the victims' complaints, foreign charges and convictions and their enforcement if they want, no matter if the violators civilians or uniformed government employees, that's only a difference if SA chooses to make that distinction. Uniforms would imply some differences in their rights according to Geneva convention if they would be captured as prisoners of war in an active armed conflict, but this is not an active armed conflict and they have not been captured as PoWs.

With respect to extradition or local prosecution Saudi Arabia can arbitrarily extend their protection to whomever they choose to, no matter what their status or citizenship is - if they have not made e.g. a bilateral treaty with USA where they agree that they will extradite such people, they do not have to do so.
I think your description is sound, but only for people managers of some kind. I burnt out pretty hard trying to meet similar expectations as an IC twice though. The first I was just trying to get code written when I was constantly being dragged into bureaucratic agile planning meetings, or talking to the PM about why my thing isn't done yet, or joining an "all hands". The 2nd had very little of the former, but I was responsible for fixing customer reported bugs, communicating with them in a timely and asynchronous manner about those bugs, and then also delivering features. It didn't help that they put me on some incredibly mundane React project near the end, but I reached a point where I'd sit at my computer and just feel bad about the day. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in meetings all day, but I don't know that coding is what I'd want to be doing with the time in between, at least not to try and meet deadlines. To me, that'd be a recipe for deep depression.
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2 good life hacks that I've learned is:
1)Get to know the basics
2)If you become a trader, better use exchange aggregators, rather than exchangers (that helps you compare and save you time and money), for instance https://swapzone.io
To those saying that this experiment is useless and provides zero information: Check out the results page.

https://artvote.net/results

There are clear tendencies there regarding colours, contrast and complexity, and they do provide some (limited) insight into what viewers expect in art.
Oh, this should be causing a massive outcry from the public, yet we are seeing none, these tech giants need to be controlled, else they will control us
An open source cellular modem firmware is long overdue, but there's no government on Earth that would be keen on allowing it to happen, the best we have is 2G/3G stuff that has been illegally leaked and reverse engineered.

A lot of dragons lurking in the dark there.
A few years back I worked for a company who had a UK branch. The boss at the UK office was generally nice enough, but very strict about what was allowed at the office. We managed all IT from the Danish office, and would notice that a certain hours in-bound traffic would increase a lot.

When we look into why we figured out that it was a few guys, working insane hours, who where streaming Champions League while working. Technically not allowed at the UK office, but the decision from the Danish IT Manager: "Fuck it! If they're still at work they should at least be allowed to watch a game".
It's been used as a general purpose programming language for over a decade. It is a 'boring technology' nowadays and hardly exotic.

Of course, you could decide to do something exotic with it (edge rendering, data programming, whatever) but that's not a problem with the language but people wanting to stretch themselves...
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Never had that as an issue in India as well for me. No one has questioned what I do in my desk or my computer, even in some of the large consulting companies.
GitHub Code: https://github.com/mlcommons/hpc
I really like this but I need multiple people to have access to my calendar for scheduling. If you can figure how to build this for small teams I'd love that.
While I also find long 1-1 meetings tiring, the camera does nothing to improve this for me regardless of who has it on.

What about seeing a face makes it less tiring than not seeing a face? Is this possibly an introvert vs extrovert thing?
Fair concerns, here's my take: there will be edge cases for a long time to come, so there needs to be a way to handle this. The car needs to detect these out-of-distribution events and hand over control to a person. Now, if we require a driver with a license to be behind the wheel ready to take over in 100ms, this will obviously not be worth the trouble.

The first part of the solution I think is first to make the car fail gracefully in unknown situations, e.g. slow down curbside. This would be dangerous on the free way, but free way driving is also the simplest part of driving.

The second part is allowing human control of the car without "driving it". For example, the if there is a police directing traffic, the car can alert the occupant and ask what it should do. You could even "paint" out the desired path to take on the screen. Basically you're just telling the car where to go and not controlling the steering wheel, gas and brake directly.

I'm sure you can conjure up cases where this will also not be enough, but at some point when the tech is good enough and there are enough cars on the road, then people will naturally adapt to self-driving cars in mind. If you're doing road-side work and you know there may be self-driving cars passing by, you'd do your best to make the signage and cones as clear as possible. Perhaps laws will be passed to make it illegal to try to fool a self-driving car, or to put up new signs without first giving car companies time to retrain their models. It's a small cost compared to making all roads digitally adapted to cars using sensors and what not. It's also a small cost compared to the 1.3 million people that die in accidents every year.
Have you evaluated PivotData Microservice (https://www.nrecosite.com/pivotdata_service.aspx) too? It supports dynamic schemas and beyond just API it comes with sample report builders (for end-users) and built-in pivot tables.
Lead-acid batteries cannot sustain high amps for a long time, so they are less dangerous in that regard. I should also point out that electric drivetrains can be in excess of 400-800V to reduce amperage.

Any well-designed battery pack should have some kind of integrated short-circuit and temperature protection, though.
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Looks like some one else already built one[0]

[0] - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=KavinDes...
> with thousands of users bug-testing it for me

Replace this with:

> with thousands of users just like me that once picked it as a dependency and then forgot about the project
If your job prevents your from taking your mind off temporarily off of a task, then this is nothing short of abuse.

I cannot focus on the task for more than 10-20 minutes, then I take few minutes break, sometimes more. If I couldn't do that, I wouldn't get any work done because quickly my brain would sort of shut down.

I've been through this many times - manager would get me to a meeting room and say "people complain that you are browsing the internet rather than working". I'd say "do I deliver on time?" the answer would be "yes". That would be the end of it. I would also say he or she should talk with those who reported this, whether snooping on other workers is a good use of their time.

Nonetheless nice project! I remember doing similar thing to browse Reddit ages ago ;-)
I live in a forest between a river and a winding road... I see people do craaazy shit all the time, from death races in expensive sports cars on the road to wave running way too close to the dock to loading paintball guns with ball bearings and shooting them in the woods; and I'm telling you it's not if someone does an Endor race with this thing, it's when.
I created a profile on a freelancer portal. I got 3 calls and a LinkedIn message from recruiters the same day.

After 3 weeks, I was able to sign a project contract.
PL/pgSQL is a first class language with first class semantics. As @sureglymop mentioned, you're probably going to get better performance than an interrupted or compiled language.

Another consideration is portability. Perhaps you're migrating to or from another database that has its own Procedural Language. You're probably going to have an easier time dealing with PL -> PL when migrating stored procedures.

There are times when it's just easier and more intuitive to glue a bunch of SQL together using a PL, than whipping up some python/js/etc...

Also keep in mind that depending on the DB, you may get a scripting language like python or js, but you can't use any third party libraries.
And iMessage is compromised bloatware
Anyone remember Ghostzilla?
Traveled several times across Kazakhstan by rail and my impressions are quite the opposite. You wait to arrive to your destination for days and nothing changes outside the window: just the same scenery with endless sand or steppes with no sign of trees or animals or people. Probably the most boring experience I had in my life.

Funny how western media can't resist poking the dead enemy at every occasion:
> Adylet: ‘Anyone who still mourns the Soviet Union today is out of his mind!’

Well, if you'd really talk to people, you'd find out that significant percent of population still mourns the Soviet Union and they have all the reasons to.
> Most maintenance is basically going to be replacing tires, topping up some fluids (e.g. windscreen wipers), etc.

You don't know much about cars, do you? Other than oil changes, filters and plugs, what exactly do you think needs constant maintenance on an on internal combustion engine?

As far as reliability goes, in the cars I've owned (+300000km on a single car sometimes) none had needed ICE-specific repairs. The things that break the most in an ICE vehicle are still present on the EV (drivetrain problems, coolant system problems, electrical problems).

I want an EV too, but I am under no illusion that my maintenance work and repair work is going to drop significantly.

In fact, it might go up initially (new things to learn about the EV, for example the software/hardware diagnostic tools needed are probably different to what I am used to now).
In my experience, one of the hard part when learning OCaml is that you can write your own code without modules, but to use someone else's code, you have to know how they work.
While not quite the real deal, the aerodynamic test vehicle OK-GLI is at the Technik Museum Speyer in the same-named German City, open to the public (the nearby (30min; car) museum in Sinzheim has a both the french and soviet supersonic passenger planes (Concorde/Tu-144) in it's exhibit).

I can recommend both museums (interests have to match, of course).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI
From wikipedia:

>Before the Snowden incident, Lavabit had complied with previous search warrants. For example, in June 2013 a search warrant was executed against a Lavabit account for suspected possession of child pornography.

From the register:

> After much wrangling, Levison eventually handed over Lavabit's cryptographic key in digital form, after earlier trying to satisfy a court order by printing out and handing over a copy of the key in 4-point type, a move that irked the judge handling the case.

From vice / the US Attorneys Office / Eastern District of Virginia:

> At approximately 1:30pm CDT on August 2, 2013, Mr. Levison gave the FBI a printout of what he represented to be the encryption keys needed to operate the pen register," a motion for sanctions signed by James L. Trump from the US Attorney's Office reads. According to the case docket, the documents were unsealed on March 4.
They're basically saying that he's a terrible person because he... has sex with women.
In small to medium sized groups, body and facial language helps to understand how a person feels about something. Most people like to imagine everything is completely rational but most things at work have a human component. If I feel like someone's unhappy with the work they're allocated I will ask them about it. It's like watching a movie without the image.
Totally agree with this sentiment. In javascript, there's only one number type: Number. And it's a 64-bit float. You don't even need integers as a programmer, it's a low-level implementation detail that JIT sometimes employs to speed up your code.

If you absolutely have to, there are escape hatches like Uint8Array/Buffer/etc which allow you to deal with bytes. There are also ways to force JIT to treat your numbers as integers with tricks like `i = i|0`, but that's barely used.

Obviously compiled languages are different, but to me you could rename `signed integer` to `integer` and `unsigned integer` to `rawdata32` or `byte4`
I'm sure there are plenty of ineffective doctors/therapists and plenty of effective chiropractors.

I believe a genuinely scientific doctor wouldn't merely use heuristics and would use actual science and personal examination to determine the best way to treat someone's problem. I believe some who may who title themselves "chiropractor" possibly may be good at accurately diagnosing and resolving people's back issues, but with a chiropractor you take on additional risks, like risk that your chiropractor happens to be one of the many who believe all diseases stem from spinal problems and can be treated through spinal manipulation, along with many other pseudoscientific, untrue beliefs.

It seems the best professional would be someone who titles themselves a doctor and attempts to be scientific and empirical, without believing anything about spinal issues causing all diseases, but who otherwise fits the description of the chiropractor you saw.

It's true that someone with a false, unscientific theory may end up more effectively treating particular patients than someone else with a true, scientific theory, but someone who's both effective and has a true, scientific theory will surely be superior to the alternatives. I see no reason why a scientific doctor can't specialize in back pain, use x-rays, use the devices you mention, etc. I believe many do.

Perhaps at that point it merely comes down to semantics of the title they use and the school they went to, but the pseudoscientific associations are so historically strong that it seems like it'd be a red flag that anyone would want to consider themselves a part of that profession in the first place. At the very least, you'd think they'd want to "fork" it and take the good parts and leave the bad parts.

If I couldn't seem to find a doctor who meets those criteria I describe above, I'd possibly consider trying to find a chiropractor who seems to use a science-based approach, but only if I had no other choice.
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Node-RED co-creator and project lead here. Happy to answer any questions you have.