skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Segovia/Taptap Send | New York, NY | Full-time, Onsite | https://www.thesegovia.com/

Segovia is payment gateway infrastructure primarily used to move money to Africa. Customers include charities that want to transfer cash directly to people in Africa as well as small businesses that maintain workforces across developed and developing world.

Open Roles:

- Software Engineer: https://thesegovia.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0hqg5/

- DevOps Engineer: https://thesegovia.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0jqgv/

Taptap Send is remittance app to send money to Africa. We are specifically working towards meeting one of UN's 2030 Sustainable Goals to allow cross-border payments with less than 3% fees (currently at ~9%).

Open Roles:

- Head of Engineering: https://thesegovia.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0jgmw/

- Software Engineer: https://thesegovia.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0jvp5/
There were plenty of cases where they would raise an employer's premiums and let them know why, and sick people lost their jobs and their insurance.
So you got to PH#1 the first time with your product v1, now worked a year and try again. What are you hoping to achieve? You already had it the first time, what is it that you hope to gain this time that you didn't get the first time?

50% to charity sounds like a lot to me. Makes me see a risk your service goes down at some point in time. If anything I'd rather see a lower number and know more money goes into the product. That might just mean your service is not for me, there might be plenty who see it as a unique selling point. I see it as a risk.

Other then that, well, it is still the same thing as last time right?
There were substantial decreases in 2012 and 2013; I think the military budget has increased in every other recent year (though maybe sometimes by less than inflation?). 2019 is indeed down on 2008. (But not 2007, or any earlier year: there were big increases in 2006, 2007, 2008.)
Okay so you have a device driver that exposes your underlying hard disk as a single contiguous segment of blocks of a given size. You have objects which are blobs of heterogeneously sized arbitrary data with an addressing scheme.

The software that marries these two things is basically a filesystem driver (in that you can implement filesystem semantics on top of it -- hell Ceph does it right now).

Nothing about a modern Linux/BSD system really stands in the way of doing this.
The Quest for Bread
With C++, a million errors are oftentimes one error a million different ways.
In software development there are direct short term goals and benefits, like bug fixes and features, which easily show up in the next quarter result and there are long term objectives which are hard to measure but equally important.

If a company only focus on short term quick wins, then it will most likely not survive in the long run. One reason for this is that as the software/stack gets outdated it becomes much harder to find new good developers that want to spend a significant time of their life with legacy software and stuck on a dead end language like phyton 2.7 with no future. Eventually the niche will be covered by a new company with an up-to-date tech stack.

Uprading the codebase from python 2.7 to 3.X definitely only pays (the bill) in the long run. If a company plans to shutdown one of their department anyway within the next few years, well then stick to python 2.7 and die along with it.

But if a company plans to continue for the next decade, then the upgrade to python 3 is a no-brainer.
The two parties are functionally identical for the handful of issues I really, really care about. Those issues you've mentioned are not among them -- furthermore they are not as black-and-white as you imply. As a relatively high income earner the only significant tax increase I've ever seen was under Trump.
As abhorrent as the "San Francisco" multiplier probably makes them you could drop it and the sentence would have the same meaning. The Sierra club won't be happy until humans are not impacting nature because we've left the planet.
can't tell if you're serious, the beginning sounds crazy but the end is a mundane practical issue
This sounds pretty similar to what goes on now, except that the channel processor sits on the other side of the (e.g.) PCIe connector.
Vendor-specific/non-standard?
Surely there's a lot of middle ground between "it's wrong to sell your company to a PE firm that will suck out all its money" and "once you hire a single employee you must operate that company until death".
Better to just read philosophy & psychology from respected sources of academia than an ideology that ruined many lives unjustly. One major negative of religious influence is creating an assumption of free will existing and thus clouding the judgment of the person which can result in depression. The person becomes less aware to how everything effecting them is external forces they have no control over. Then blaming themselves instead of accepting reality.
This is the same in India too. Even if you have the resources, people are discouraged from anything that isn't academic.
Couldn't agree more with that. Despite some of the talented thinkers the Roman Catholic church has produced, there are too many obviously despicable things they've supported to hold them in very high regard in my views (their refusal to allow women in leadership is another one which just doesn't jive). It's not honest to ignore that the bad parts were created by the exact same doctrines and structures that enabled good parts. After all, "By their fruits you will know them."
Not gonna happen, for multitude of reasons.
Think of all the people in prison, justly or unjustly, under our current system where humans have to interpret and carry out our legal code. We may extend these practices into every domain at negligible cost. Why do we desire authority without conscience? I can think of two reasons: one, we do not wish to hold ourselves accountable; two, we desire to see the strong afflict the weak.
A lot of these site (like RedTube and such) originally just posted videos and straight up violated copyright claims until they got DMCA takedowns. Eventually they started workout out deals with the studio for low-quality version and clips, sharing revenue for people who clicked through to buy full or HD versions.

Then eventually the big studios just started buying the toob sites and cut out the middle. Most of them serve a subset of studio content or clips. Tumblr's limited video size/length really helped contribute to this model. Most people watch the clips, but the people who buy can get sucked into a lot of hidden subscriptions they forget to uncheck, or even direct up-selling they'll intentionally select.
What if there aren't any such stories?
> very rich people almost universally travel by private car.

Do they? I thought this would be hard to know, has there been a survey? And is this true even in cities with decent public transportation?
Professional Debugging for IoT with Particle Workbench: Go Beyond Serial.print()
That logic is incorrect. The base 2 Liouville number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville_number) is transcendental, so surely irrational, but mostly contains two repeated characters.
I thought a lot about this a few years ago when my son was very much into building train tracks. I had just taken a first course in linear algebra and started to work out a mathematical solution to this very problem. It is still one of those projects I wish to complete... someday when there is more time. Guess it will be when I have grandchildren.
I don't understand the point you're making. If I was to read the same number of articles in blendle in a month, that I read for my fiver subscription, it would cost a lot more. The model doesn't work for me.
... or if you had read the HN comments on that article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19768864 :-)
PDFs can even contain JavaScript...
The difference is that with e2e encryption the carriers don't see your plaintext, while they do with TLS since they terminate the TLS connection on their end.
>Am I the only person here to actually like cars and enjoy driving?

Probably not. You might be the only one willing to take the inevitable scorning you'll get for admitting it though.
It's difficult to talk responsibly about some kinds of security practices. One reason is that you don't want to tip off bad people who don't already know. Another reason is that you don't want to inadvertently give mistaken advice to good people.
Someone did create a Mastodon instance called "Humblr"
This happened to me. I had what is considered a "Cadillac plan" which my employer offered generously as a benefit. After ACA, the government began to tax that plan and our public company could not justify that while other companies in our market were offering much lower quality plans. Thus my medical spending rose by thousands of dollars per year (also thanks to an unfortunate @$3000 hospital stay but that would have cost me $250 on my old plan). The old plan did of course come with a lifetime max but obviously was not a factor at my age yet.

I think the ACA does good things for people who needed it. And generally I've been against repealing it, but only because there has not been an adequate replacement as part of the repeal, only "trust us, we'll do something great".
All of us with pre-existing conditions that couldn't buy insurance no matter the cost feel different of course, but you acknowledge that.

I'm interested in why you think ACA itself has made anything worse. Surely premiums have gotten worse, but it's not clear to me how it is nec linked to the ACA. (And it should be said that the insurance industry basically wrote large portions of the ACA, and arguably its weakest parts or because of that!)
a transaction system in which its impossible for transactions to ever fail kind of isn't a transaction system.

see above comment from abadid - its entirely possible to impose a global ordering of all transactions either up front or retroactively without admitting deadlocks.
I can see how the memory hierarchy will have layers removed, but it still exists because registers are where operations on data predominantly take place. So you still need to identify small working sets of variables that you extract return values from.
I can see how a lot of caching logic will be obviated but not the principle of memory hierarchy, which says ‘load small batches of problem set, solve, store results and repeat’.
You don't even have to go all the way to veterinary medicine. This is an old article, but compare the $100,000 cost for a joint replacement in the USA vs. $13,000 for that same procedure in Belgium. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/health/for-medical-touris...
There is a constant dance at the fringe of high performance systems. It leads to a recurring pattern of "revolutionizing" with some kind of bypass or coprocessor architecture, then eventually reverting to traditional structures as the new performance realities reach commodity levels.

Part of it is the economics at the fringe can pursue speed at any cost. And part is the heady appeal of doing things differently for researchers and advanced practitioners. But, in the long view, I think you are right that it is a bad idea. If you care about maintenance and sustainability, you usually find that these bypass solutions get abandoned as soon as the more conventional approaches can approximate their speed on newer commodity hardware. So there is huge churn in these specialist devices with specialist APIs and tooling.

There is a recurring theme in high performance networking where crazy things are tried and all sorts of fancy protocol offloading written, then eventually deprecated because it is seen as a support burden and a source of bugs. Because each of these specialized stacks has a smaller user base, they are have less economy of scale to invest in maintenance and stabilization.
That's a pretty frothy number; the rest of the names on the list of biggest IPO pops all come from '99/'00.

I'd say "Good for them", but it's more accurate to say "Wow - their bankers left a lot of money on the table."
Your customers are going to ask if it's cheaper to buy your library or build out the functionality on their own. If I were pricing this, I'd try to be at the highest number possible where the answer to that question is a no-brainer.

Personally, I'd do a fixed one time fee for each major version of the library.

Another option is to scale your pricing based on your customers' revenue like Unity does (minus the subscription part). Smaller companies can get a better deal on your software, but when they cross a threshold of annual revenue, then they pay more.
Because instead of serving it as plaintext they (stupidly) serve it as HTML and are then forced to wrap it in pre tags as a hack to preserve formatting without fully converting from plaintext to HTML.

Any other approach but this would have worked fine.
I'm not the one advocating exclusivity.
I was just linking that as a reference for the declining life expectancy. I don't think they even come close to establishing opioid and suicide deaths as the cause, that's just journalistic conjecture. If you look at the number of opioid and suicide related deaths it's very small compared to the total population of the US, so the math just doesn't seem to work out for me. I remember an HN comment a while ago that worked out how many deaths you'd need from those causes to lower the life expectancy as much as we're seeing and it was a lot higher than what we're seeing now. Unfortunately I can't seem to unearth the comment.
Database migrations are not hard when you have hardly any data, when you are still building something, and they aren't that hard unless you have enormous amounts. On the other hand, having data where records have different attributes is annoying to have to handle everywhere at runtime, especially if it is because of something you have changed, and no new records are missing it. You just end up with code littered with handling of differences due to old design.

This is, IMHO, not a good reason to use NoSQL.
There's no exit passport control in Canada either, at least when going to the US (ground or air).
No it's not worse. I think the author you replied to was stating that it's nicer to pay a flat fee and get unlimited viewing (itunes, google play, spotify, netflix, etc). Can we have that for journalism?
Satoshi Website Triggers Countdown to ‘Live Unveiling’ of Bitcoin Creator
That's the design of the System/38, AS/400, iSeries and System i. The unique IDs are 128bit pointers or capabilities.
Postscript is a pretty interesting stack based language on its own. Its size is intimidating though. If I remember correctly there was a toy web-server written in postscript just to show that it is possible.
Great. They should do that.

The reality is, way too many of us are more prudish than we should be, and we are all humans after all.
I would ask "why not say both?" but you just did.
But did Facebook force you to read Farrakhan or Jones before they got kicked out?
I didn't know they were available. I thought it could be open to everyone, but employer ones do have advantages.

https://www.fidelity.com/go/hsa/why-hsa
> You could also use it in place of an employer HSA. If you do this, you may miss out on opportunities like pre-tax payroll or employer contributions, so check with your employer to see what they offer.
Elon Musk Makes $500B Autonomy Pitch to Investors
Like everything else, it depends.

It would cost me approximately $23/day to drive to work accounting for gas + parking, even more if I wanted to pay to use the HOV lane. Instead I drive to a park and ride and take an express bus. The total estimated cost is around $6 including my gas costs.
That is really total rubbish. How could 1-2 year old regulations go back 30+ years to stifle the European "tech scene"? By the way, there is other technology than that which is used to sell advertising on the internet.
That sounds closer to anti-spam than target censorship. WeChat (and even the messaging feature in DiDi!) have keyword filters that block messages with certain words.

That sounds like the direction Facebook is headed with this banning of people and talking about them.
Yeah, the harsh truth.
I tried and did not have funds to spend after not trying it first yet took test which was nice and said the Alpha Chill was good for me too I found an alternative by an article in ScienceAlert 2015 ,
. https://www.sciencealert.com/the-best-music-to-listen-to-for...

I found comparable to sample if not better.

For sure better .
Portland Is Again Blazing Trails for Open Internet Access
You still really think that? I am not so sure. A self-hosted blog, e.g. Ghost, is much more user-friendly. The amount of popups before you can read an article on Medium is embarrassing. That "You have a moment?" is really getting old. Besides, I can't remember last time I read a quality article on there.
Eh, they're an organization I'll never give money to because of their anti mountain bike stance, but the national level one is pretty good on most 'urbanism' type issues. They understand that denser living leads to less sprawl, that cars are horrible for the environment, long commutes are bad, and so on.

The SF group seems to just stick their fingers in their ears and shout "I'VE GOT MINE GO LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE LIKE STOCKTON OR MAYBE IOWA".
> Why would it be a 'big issue'?

Let me flip that around - why wouldn't it be? Surely corporations shouldn't have the power to change laws to let them squeeze citizens for every cent? Surely laws should be there for the benefit of the populace?

> lobby to get laws they like passed. Par for course whether you're in United States or Britain

Lobbying is indeed a thing in the UK, but not remotely to the degree it is in the US. And on this specific issue, there isn't even a remote possibility that the UK would legislate against free tax filing, regardless of ludicrous lobbying (and I say this as someone with a very low opinion of UK politics).
Eh, after fees most standard 401Ks are only marginally better than a bank account at this point.
>The 7 year loans could just mean people are choosing to buy more expensive cars,

That's exactly what it is. Cars are lasting longer so more of the market is shifting to various types of used (e.g. CPO Avalon is bought by people who would have formerly bought a new Echo) and there's a bunch of secondary mechanisms and financial incentive shenanigans that further this.
The last 80 years have had a string of successes for arranging simple calculators in ways that produce impressive results. Google search, world champion chess players, Fortnite are all examples.

I don't know of any impressive results with arranging forks. If there were, you could model the fork behavior on computers and probably run it 1000000x faster.

It's certainly possible that some other elements than the simple calculators we use today will lead to the big breakthrough in AI. Perhaps quantum computation is needed. But right now, arrangements of simple calculators seem like the most promising.
I worked on something similar like that 3 years ago as a sub-sub-subcontractor for a company making DCs for Alibaba. It took them almost 2.5 years since me signing off on work to roll it out in a limited commercial trial in their alicloud hosting.

The original idea was to let purpose made hardware be distributed across DC rather than every server having to carry it: video codecs on FPGAs, hardware wire speed crypto/compression, databases and k/v stores exposed over RDMA, and remote block storage on SSDs.

I was invited to the opening ceremony for the DC. When company's bosses were showed sfx infused 3D graphs allegedly representing their AI things running on it, I was unable to restrain myself from ruining the atmosphere by asking how it is running when all servers in the DC were shut down :D
When you want to change how your data is stored you have two options:

1) Don't touch the old data, and make sure all your code knows how to handle both the new and old layouts

2) Update the old data to comply with the new layout

#1 is cheaper in the moment, but makes your software more fragile because of the special cases: you now have two codepaths to check for every change instead of one. Also, whatever improvements the new layout is supposed to provide aren't available to the old records.

#2 is more expensive right now, and scarier because your migration will be touching everything at once. If it starts trashing data, it'll trash all of it before you have a chance to stop it. On the other hand, after you've successfully migrated, all your data is consistent and you don't need to forever deal with legacy records in the active codebase.

Both approaches can be used with either SQL or NoSQL datastores, and there's no reason you have to pick the same strategy for every schema change. There's pros and cons to both approaches and which one is better will depend on your particular situation.
Which issues do you care about? Because I hear this vague-y statement ("the two parties are functionally identical") without specifics, and I can't for the life of me figure why people think this.

Also, to your point "As a relatively high income earner the only significant tax increase I've ever seen was under Trump.", and don't see how this could possibly be true. For example, Obamacare added significant taxes for Medicare payroll and the surtax on investment income for high earners.
While there is some good writing and occasionally rigorous journalism on the Guardian, I won't accept the claim they don't manipulate their readers, I won't say they lie explicitly but they certainly remove context and omit when it is convenient to a certain editorial position. The timing and number of very tenuous anti-semitism claims against the Labour leader, for one.
Summary:
"A grassroots group called Municipal Broadband PDX is agitating for construction of a publicly owned open-access fiber network across the region. The city of Portland has contributed funds for a feasibility study and Multnomah County is on board with the idea."

I hope it gets built!
Sure it does. Want to pick up some beer on the way home from work? Kid had a rough night and you want to sleep in 30 minutes later than usual (taking you out of the AM peak train frequency)? Don’t want to have to walk 10 minutes through the rain (or a 150% humidity DC day) to get to your office? Driving is much better for that.
Hey, it's porn. It basically sells itself.
I'm sure that there are far too many use cases of varchar(255) out there for anybody to deprecate such a feature without causing huge pain to everybody involved.

Just look at the python 2 to python 3 transition, which is still ongoing, more than 10 years after the python 3.0 release.

Also, warnings usually simply don't work. Developers or admins google the warning, see that it can be switched off, and switch it off. DDL is often generated (for example for migrations), and you might not want to add a special case for postgres if you can avoid it. Suppressing a warning is definitively easier than changing code generation in potentially non-compatible ways.

Plus, I haven't looked it up, but given how prevalent VARCHAR(N) is, it might be part of the SQL standard.
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Need is just flat out the wrong word in the context of hobbies, it's like asking how many stamps or cars a collector needs. In the context of collecting, 2-3 guns is _crazy_ low.
Isn't Pornhub filled to the brim with illegal content as it is?
I'm sure the bureaucrats in charge of the EU will have great success with their "EU last" policy.

(apologies for cynicism by a disappointed European)
The artwork on the cards was drawn by Susan Kare, a legend in the industry starting with her work on the original Macintosh.

https://www.aiga.org/medalist-susan-kare

You can buy a set of playing cards with her art on them.

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Do advertisers know if their ad is getting blocked? I'd assume that they do but are being willfully ignorant about how ineffective adverts on the web really are. I mean who even clicks on an ad on the internet, Grandma?