skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s interesting to me that the majority of those suicides are by gun. Only one is a hanging which fails, two jump and another is implied on the train lines.
Forget about waiting. Think about state machines. Let's say that that there is a rule that, if the machine is on state S1, on reception of message M, send message M and move to state S2. This the only rule for state S1. Now if two actors implementating this state machine and exchanging messages find themselves in state S1 at the same time, they are stuck. This is a bug in the state machine specification of course and I would call it a deadlock. How would you call it? How would the actor model statically prevent you from implementing such a state transition rule?

Edit: BTW, not sure why you got downvoted.
Yes that would be great, happens a lot when moving between pal and NTSC regions.
I can't say they're common, but they definitely happen. We usually get 1 or 2 small groups each year.
> a small first-stage bootloader written in a safer language than C

Given that most of what a bootloader does is calling arch-specific opcodes to initialize the memory model et al (and C is used mostly because it can embed the assembler to make those calls, but also lets you break away from it now and then to do some complex math more readably [i.e. on named variables instead of using explicit registers]), what do you gain by using a language other than C?

> written in a memory-safe language

What does this even mean in bootloader land, when you're starting off in real mode without the GPT enabled, and writing to raw memory addresses rather than to any allocation known as "the heap" or "the stack" or "the data segment"?
Would his money be better spent lobbying politicians largely by swelling their campaign war chests, or directly funding charitable causes?
Previously: Fiddle with the subtitle/audio offset factor (and then they drift apart again slowly, driving you mad!)

Now: subsync

Soon: Players run subsync internally the press of one button or commandline switch.

The voice audio detection and then mapping is such a neat solution. I would have embedded parts of the surrounding audio in some base64 format into the subtitle file and then used that as an alignment clue. But this won't work when the languages don't match.
This is cool stuff homie, count me in, I'll use it! I am sick of this apple book thing crashing,
You are stretching everything to such absurd levels that you effectively have no argument. Not everything is a crime and enforcement makes all the difference.

Nobody is afraid of people leaving the country famous for individual liberty, it's just administrative cost. You're attributing another reason without any evidence. And really, why blame the fees as if that's what's really keeping you here. Get your visa, move your stuff, and then worry about the renouncing when it matters.

Perhaps we can have free and automatic citizenship renunciation and revocation for failure to register for service, would you take that deal?
And then there were 16: https://xkcd.com/927/
The Salesforce tower is very recent, and you can see it from everywhere. It even lights up like an Asian-style building. Not saying you’re wrong, these projects seem to be much harder now on political and financial and other measures, but not completely impossible. Then again we can’t seem to open a glorified bus terminal successfully....
By speech recognizer, are you referring to a method that would perform speech-to-text transcription? If so, you could probably do better when your video and subtitles are in the same language, but you would lose the ability to be language-agnostic (unless you manage to solve machine translation well enough :)

Interestingly enough, I haven't actually found any cases where the synchronization doesn't work (assuming the only problem with the subtitles file is a time offset), so it actually looks like simple voice detection might be good enough for the target use-case of longer TV episodes and movies, although further evaluation is necessary.
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> Mr. Richard said California’s strict environmental regulations have become a pretext for anyone who wanted to stop the project.

> “The environmental process has become about litigation protection,” he said. “You’re going to get sued so you’ve got to go out and basically do process upon process, study upon study to make sure that somebody cannot find some toehold for litigation.”

Not to knock on the environmental regulations but I think this illustrates why big monolith projects tend be very difficult or to fail outright. In the U.S. the system is setup to completely de-risk large-scale construction projects. We want a large project with a huge footprint to have zero environmental impact, zero negative impact on any community, displace no workers, and benefit every potential stakeholder. No trade-offs allowed: either everybody wins or the project is not completed or even started.

So the era of big top-down monoliths may be over in the U.S. Local, low impact solutions like Seattle's Link light rail are the future.
The AWS Chinese regions were handed over to a Chinese operator. They're "AWS Regions" in name only.
Razorpay (YC W15) Is Hiring a Lead Front-End Engineer in Bangalore
Razorpay is hiring Frontend / Senior Frontend Engineer in Bangalore

Razorpay is India’s first converged payments solution company. We act as the payments layer for businesses and provide end-to- end solutions required for operating payments at scale in their business models, not just as a software but as an actual extension of their business. Our clients characterize Razorpay as the entity which builds the future of payments for them today. We have designed products to help organizations control their entire flow of money, starting from accepting payments to managing them internally to disbursing required payments to vendors. These products serve as a layer on top of the payment gateway and provide different functionalities like charging recurring payments, collecting bank account transfers in the same dashboard, generating payable SMS links and mail invoices and so much more. In its 3 years of existence, Razorpay has been able to garner over 75,000 merchants who trust us including the likes of IRCTC, Swiggy, Zomato, Zerodha, GoIbibo and may more. We are on a mission to simplify the journey of money throughout India and we are just getting started.

As a Frontend Engineer, you will get to:

● Design and lead our web payment strategy

● Work on our powerful, cross-browser javascript library for payments

● Own and drive our merchant dashboard to make it faster and simpler to use

● Get to experiment and work on cutting edge technologies on a bunch of microsites

● Contribute to open source as we set the standards for online payments

● Brainstorm and create new directions that Razorpay can take in our quest to make online payments easy and accessible to all

● Proficient knowledge of any popular JS framework like React, Ember, Angular or Backbone

● Experience with common frontend tools like SASS/Stylus, Jade, Grunt/Gulp etc

● Good understanding of REST API

● Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion

● A willingness to learn new technology, whatever lets you deliver the best product

Apart from these, we also expect the following, but we accept that you can be an absolutely great developer without fulfilling the below. So go ahead and apply even if the following aren’t applicable:

● Have working knowledge of a backend programming language

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Please write to hn.jobs@razorpay.com with few lines in case you are interested.
The fact that you don't know about the consulting fees that PE firms charge makes me think you are just spitballing here.

The PE firms put up around $1.3B for Toys R Us with a $6.6B total leveraged buyout. The received around $200mm in consulting and other fees during their tenure. They also received interest payments for their portion of the capital. And there were several other deals and consolidations that are estimated to have netted the P/E firms several hundred million more. But these deals are far to complex to get exact numbers. It's likely that the PE firms lost big on deals like toys-r-us, but they definitely skim off the top all along the way thus making their final losses less. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/toys-r-...
You can factor the drift into the time expression or you can simply agree to use earth time or Martian time or any other time. No fundamental need to base time units on Mars on Martian astronomy.
> Everyone and their cat wants to live as close as humanly possible to the hip center of the hip city

No, people want to live near their jobs. If we build enough office s for X people and in order to find X home, you have to include places more than an hour away then you're going to fuck up housing prices.
Nice! Have you seen this similar project? If not sure if there are any ideas to be borrowed, but it sounds like it achieved excellent accuracy: https://github.com/AlbertoSabater/subtitle-synchronization
Yes they can do all of that! I am having mine do my taxes currently as well as shipping my belongings, calling businesses and booking meetings with clients.
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Sorry for the rant. But it really is a bit insane to think about.

In a time long past, there was a vast cosmic war. A weapon so final and terrifying -- a vacuum catastrophe weapon -- was unleashed, destroying the entire former universe in a colossal inflation of spacetime itself. In its wake, all there remains is a cooling, vast, empty, expanding void, so barren that life has almost no chance to begin and essentially zero chance to meet other life.
Because I'm paranoid, I usually use Turbotax then do a sanity check by filling the paperwork out by hand. My return is probably slightly more complicated than the average one since 90% of people don't even itemize, but I can still do everything in an afternoon. Unless you have a particularly gnarly tax situation (own a business, exercising stock options, etc) it may be doable to take care of it yourself and save $500. Even if that $500 is a write-off :)
Some of the legislations implemented in the past 50 years has led to a bunch of projects becoming prohibitively expensive, even for the private sector. The Hyper Loop is a good example of the exceptions.
Speaking as someone who would love to see Silicon Valley dissolve and its firms relocate throughout the US, I wholeheartedly support this.
They came in both flavors depending on rev level -- mine is a 64-bit / Core2 Duo version (can't see exactly which CPU at the moment 'cause it's at home) -- it's currently running CentOS 7.6 x86_64 like a champ with no compatibility limitations in re : modern software

Total agree with regard to hardware design / ergo superiority over the MBP -- that's exactly why I made the switch
Couldn't have said it better myself, that's exactly been my experience and what I'd like to share with others both experientially in sessions and through my writing. And I'm having a lot more fun just being with all aspects of life from a human connection perspective leaving the striving, money, etc., on the side (even though it's hard and creeps back in).
Carnegie was worth only $5 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars. Gates is worth $100 billion, so we can expect him to have a philantropic impact 20 times greater.
Why? Detecting whether there is speech or not should be enough to align video and subs. It's not like the word order would be scrambled in the subtitle file and needs to be sorted according to the video. :)
People who extract billions in economic rents from society, then return some of those rents, are the real heroes.
Following that logic, a robot vacuum that can have itself charged is conscious?
Youtube - money loser
Maps - money loser (but we will see after their recent huge price increases shake out)
Phones - money loser. they are selling fewer phones annually than apple sells in a week.
why is that alarming?

"i know there's an h in the name, but i forget where it goes..." => Ghandi seems like an extremely understandable mistake for an english speaker
Some do, some don’t. Bill and Warren are of course prominent examples of billionaire philanthropists.

Conversely I could name on famous multimillionaire frequently in the news these days, that has a track record of treating charitable foundations as tax dodging piggy banks. So there are all sorts.
S3 website hosting for static pages will be cheaper than VPS unless you are running an app.
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I've never worked retail, only been a customer, and I hate christmas music in stores.

Playing christmas music is surely the quickest way to drive me away from your store.
I don't claim to know much about California bureaucracy, but in my own state, just in the past decade:

- The 787 was years late and over budget

- The 520 bridge was years late and over budget

- The 99 tunnel was years late and over budget

- Microsoft doesn't seem to schedule releases (publicly) or use calendar years for version numbers any more, but from where I sit, Windows hasn't exactly been a shining example of success in the past decade, either

These are public and private, across completely disparate engineering fields. California may be dysfunctional but everybody else is, too. If someone in this country can still "build big", who is doing it?
DjVI was specifically designed to contain scanned documents. It was never designed for documents which were digitally authored.

Using a rasterized technique is certainly not a good idea in an era where the DPI of screens is increasing.

Also since PDF is the standard in the printing industry I think we can safely say the margin of differences is so small they are non existent.
Is that why there's so many herbivore men in Japan these days?
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One of my family members would go with a group caroling in Winnipeg.
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These kinds of side channels often contain alternative data which is of very high interest to the financial industry. I don't think most companies leaking this information are aware of it, but it's very actively mined.
I agree.

What's wrong with a bit of quiet reflection?
Europe can do mega projects: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
Can anyone point to a list of problems the Gates foundation has solved through program(s) it has funded?

Edit: took out some things about Gates and the dual nature of his work at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation.
The “script async” attribute may not be the best option for non-critical scripts
What? I mean your provider ships you a computer that's dedicated to authentication your device on the network (a sim card) - it shouldn't be infeasible to authenticate the nodes when you can bootstrap off an actual trusted device.

With roaming, your provider could cross sign other providers - and for long range/international roaming you could maybe allow forwarding of encrypted requests for authentication over an untrusted channel.

That would probably be enough for some level of (location) tracking - but there'd be no need to allow any regular traffic over such links. In theory. In practice, that'd probably be too expensive, and you'd get better service and security relying on wlan and something like signal....
I distinctly remember that one of the marketing features of DVB-T was "perfect picture or none at all" while I haven't seen any consumer grade DVB-T receiver that actually behaves that way and instead marginal signal results in various ugly MPEG artifacts.
I worked at a coffee shop that played a fixed set of songs which included the Sarah McLachlan song from her SPCA commercials. Every time it came on somebody would run into the back to change it, because we all grew to hate the "sad puppy song"
> let the compiler/VM take care of whether a piece of data is persistent or not

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. If a user starts a session and writes a value to a variable, how does the computer know whether the value should be temporary or permanent after the user ends the session?
Or remove their economic power by allowing more home to get built.
> Something that is a little more useful than "seconds since UNIX epoch"

Milliseconds since UNIX epoch!
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That's just false information. They didn't take any domain down. They stopped offering their CDN/proxying service to a customer. That customer is/was free to host their own content using their own or a different service. No company should be required to offer services to anyone and everyone unless they are the only option on the market. And cloudflare is very far from the only CDN on the market.
Nope! It doesn't visit each node like vdom. VDOM visits every virtual node. lit-html looks at only the expressions. That's where a lot of the speed/performance comes from
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I love the click-baity videos that carefully spell out what you can plainly see on the screen.

Some people have a strong urge to socialize. I was on a long drive with one guy like that, there were four of us in the truck. He'd go for almost exactly 3 and a half minutes before he'd start talking, then get an "uh huh" response, and go awkwardly silent again. He was pretty consistent, this pattern repeated a good dozen times.
They moved here, to our farm in Sweden. I just finished cutting and splitting a dead and partly rotten tree. The core of that tree was filled with a good approximation of soil which again was filled with earthworms. They were also slithering between the bark and the trunk in droves - this tree being partly rotten the bark was loose on the trunk - as if they were getting ready to evolve into treeworms.

When it rains it is crawling with the things. Living in the forest and having an unpaved lot probably helps here.
This makes me laugh out loud. Forced to listen to the same music is a form of torture. Glad you rebelled against that.
OK they'd call them underpaid at 56k. Regardless, they are being underpaid at 28k.
I'm the same, but I guess we're not the target market then.

They want mindless binge drinkers, not talkers.

It's weird because I feel I'd drink more when I'm comfortable, with music audible but not loud enough to drown out conversation or be too offensive.
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This is why I'm talking about specific model with static handlers per actor, where you can't choose handlers dynamically depending on the state you are in. Whether you are on state S1 or S2, all handlers are still able to receive messages, what they can't do is run at the same time.
There are real, standardized protocols [0] for this sort of thing, now. Early in my career, when I worked at JPL/NASA, I did a bit of work to test these protocols on Linux in a simulated Network of spacecraft. Fun stuff!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCSDS_File_Delivery_Protocol
The irony is that ultimately Gates and MS did relatively little significant or lasting damage to the world, and FOSS eventually took over many important parts of global infrastructure.

Afterwards, Gates went on to create the most effective and well-funded philanthropy since the Carnegie Foundation, eradicated Malaria, etc. While his former competitors spent their riches on superyachts and the like.
Loved your post, would love it even more if you included some citations to back up the Neuroscience claims.
Your not reading that line correctly. What that line is talking about the physical nature of the device which I agree is not the focus of the article. The article is talking about the human side of engineering.

Now this is suppose to sound like an engineer "But then one day you’ve missed a bunch of launch windows and it’s 28F and the overnight temperatures were 18F but you did a quick check of the designs and specs and you probably have enough safety margin to launch, so you say GO."
But in reality the engineers never said that. The managers made the call in opposition to engineering.

If you want to have an example of when there is a Normalization of Deviance in engineering you need to have the engineers say actually say "GO" and for there to be a disaster. You cant have the managers "dismissing the engineers' concerns" and then turn around and suggest that engineering Normalized deviance. Thats simply the wrong lesson here.
Ten years ago the answer was also no, but with a bit more lip service.

The US hasn't bothered with such things as the ban on landmines, the ICC for war crimes, and the U.N. convention on rights of the child. The U.S. is only interested in law that binds other countries.
> a lot of the housing shortage is artificial and it has a lot to do with the local legislation that is designed to conserve the status quo

Visit San Francisco for where this ends up.
This is a symposium of nerds so I suspect we will all agree with you.
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the person you're replying to will probably never agree with you because the idea of everybody individually contributing the taxes that they desire to pay to accomplish the means they desire to accomplish is a core part of hardcore libertarianism. It's like trying to argue with an antivaxxer.
Do you collaborate with for-profits that do cover these fields (s.a gro-intelligence)?
It's horrible. They do everything to prevent more housing from being built.

The fact is, the city is just popular, so people are moving in, which drives the prices up.

The government of Berlin consists of incompetent socialists. Just look at the disaster of the new airport for a popular example. Please don't take any cues from them. They only persist because Berlin get's a lot of subsidies from the rest of the country.
$372 billion for Carnegie in 2014 dollars: http://money.com/money/3977798/the-10-richest-people-of-all-...

3x gates.
This has big implications for the Fermi Paradox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

In particular, the jump from unicellular to multicellular life is (was) one of the top leading candidates for the Great Filter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

Importantly, it was one of the filter candidates "behind" us. It will be exciting to see if other potential filter steps can be so conclusively eliminated over time.
The tree I'd most like to know about is the one at the top of the page. I think I saw one once and I've been wondering what it is ever since. Anyone know?
> I would argue that it's not authoritative.

I think the word you're looking for is "enforced". Where there are multiple schemas, one can certainly be the "authority", even if it's not enforced across all data.
There is a big difference between late and not finished at all. Those are all examples of successful big projects.
You should make another post which explores private APIs and (undisplayed) data sent to mobile clients. For example, many (perhaps most?) delivery apps have an API endpoint which will send information about every single restaurant location within a bounding box to the client. You can often make the bounding box arbitrarily large to pull down a JSON list of every location and its metadata (like store hours, age, number of orders per day, menu, unique promotions, etc).
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I'm having difficulty understanding this "SVB currently charges $25 per month to maintain your bank account and waives this fee with a $25,000 monthly balance.?"
What does it mean in plain english?(especially the waiver part)
I've had the same experience, unfortunately, so I think we're going to change it back.
The same lawyers who invented the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich can start working on this problem.