skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really get irritated with this pattern: a lot of times, people will add subtitles due to a 100% understandable foreign accent. It feels like it's being disrespectful to the speakers.

On the other hand in the age of "auto-play-with-mute" videos on social media, a lot of people just add subtitles to every type of online video. And as a sibling comment points out, there are hearing impaired people out there.
Considering the poor quality of userland software, this seems like a terrible idea.
I suppose my point was more along the lines of “what else could there possibly be to justify this that you haven’t screwed up already?”

I guess come Sunday/Monday we’ll see...
An MBTA local bus and subway pass is $84.50 per month

$84.50 * 12 months = $1014 per year

As someone living in metro Boston, that is a large difference in cost from my perspective - approximately equivalent to 2 months of rent.
Are you positing that you can just acquire any company without the owners (shareholders) consent? Because that's not how this works...
Speeding up a blockchain to meet real-world speeds
Andreessen Follows Trend, Raises New, Larger Late-Stage Fund
This appears to be the norm for the BBC videos based on the ones linked on that page, not just from the Africa series. It would be a little odd if it were used because his English was unclear, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Build WeChat for the West
Which part of your quote has anything to do with "racist", "pseudoscience" ?
Ask HN: What are your favorite/dreaded Real-Time collaborative apps?
I run a company focused on real-time collaborative software: https://convergence.io

As a means to improve the status quo, we're looking for some really great (and really awful) examples of multi-user co-editing software. In our opinion, there are a whole lot of poor examples out there: totally broken undo/redo, not knowing what other people are doing, etc etc.

Some common examples to get you started: Google Docs, Figma, Invision Studio
Scientists develop software to balance data processing load in supercomputers
That's a good point, and it may net out to be an advantage for a gig employee. But is is a complicated calculation. Throw in the higher payroll tax rate for gig employees, and tax deductible healthcare expenditures by companies on employees and it is unclear there is any advantage in overall taxes paid.
Stories about how the Enigma code was cracked
How to Get Your Startup Pitch Tight
Early Warning System Predicts Risk of Online Students Dropping Out
Can GCC compile to WebAssembly yet?
Amazon's facial-recognition AI is supercharging police in Oregon
We're working on revamping our international acceptance and should have news on that front soon.

Drop me a mail at nemo AT razorpay DOT com with your number and I'll give you a call back?
Not a rebranding. I am looking for a way to not have to build the group/channel chat, DM, push notifications part as this part has been build hundreds of times already.

I want to modify/add something on that part in a way that creates value.
Which is nuts when you think that something like ~70% of twitch users have an active ad-blocker.
There's also a weird income range where in effect the government funds the HSA.

For example, in my state for someone of my age, someone making just enough to not qualify for expanded medicaid gets a subsidy of $1000/month. As income rises to 400% of the poverty level, the subsidy amount drops to $660/month. The subsidy drops to $0 if the income rises above that.

Since an HSA contribution, like a 401k or IRA contribution, comes before taxes, it lowers the income used for ACA subsidy calculations.

The result is that if your income, after 401k or IRA contributions, is such that you do not qualify for an ACA subsidy, but you missed qualification by less than the HSA contribution limit ($3500 in 2019, $4500 if you are 55+), then if you go with an HSA plan and contribute enough to get under the subsidy limit, the subsidy that will get may be more than your HSA costs. Whether or not it will be depends on your age, and how much over the cutoff you were.

It's a ridiculous situation.

Even more ridiculous, the way the subsidy goes from several hundred to nothing as you cross the cutoff means that there are people who are better off taking a pay cut to get into subsidy territory. I know someone who by putting the maximum into his retirement accounts and his HSA was able to just get into subsidy territory, but is now going to have to watch carefully near the end of the year to make sure dividend income from investments doesn't push him over. If there is any danger of that, he might have to go on unpaid leave for a while from work.
Arguably it actually is plain text, but I think you can build a case for at least a dozen file formats that they’re the most important file format in the world, so arguably, none of them are.
I imagine in that scenario that Google and Facebook would get particularly good at resilience and security.

Once you've got enough people, 5% of them may as well have been hired by lottery, depending on what you're measuring. People get less productive, more productive, want to change the company, decide to steal things, etc.

I think it's interesting to think about.
Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
Where PhDs get hired matters more than where they trained
Cynically, Dems want to tax the rich, and GOP wants to "starve the beast".
It is much more approachable, especially moreso than JSX. It combines the benefits of React but with single file components where HTML, JS, and CSS are all included in one file.

https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/single-file-components.html
Korea's New 5G Futuristic Hospital
Toyota to invest $100M in autonomous driving and robotic startups
Businesses’ Adoption of AI Is Expected to Surge
I think the comment was about bulk extraction of data. For instance, it is pretty difficult to do bibliographic studies if all the articles you have are provided only as PDFs (even if it is text pdf). For starters, I do not think PDFs have a notion resembling a "paragraph of text", because every symbol is placed separately with its own unique coordinates.

Extracting tables of numbers from PDFs is also a pain.
I think the only problem with this, is that there is still a solid 35% of the user base that doesn't want porn. So, there is a very fine line.
Also in the Amazon, but a few decades later, the Jari project had some aspects in common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jari_project
How tech is bringing Israelis and Palestinians together
I did not write anything about author having/not having technical skills. You're reading it between lines, and in my opinion it shows (again: for me) kind of insecurity. I suspect that emphasis of 'being competitive for the positions we were hired' also shows it. But it's my opinion.

What I wrote (and what I stand for) is that it is good to know that this article was written by 'content marketer' - meaning person with a SPECIFIC agenda for writing that article (by definition of 'content marketing' itself).

Thats always good to know. If anybody praises something I always prefer to know if there is something (e.g. salary?) which may created/influenced/PAID such opinion. We (hackernews) derided it on many ocassions. To give different example: I personally ask all bankers if they have commission on me (for specific recommended product), or not. And I consider it healthy to know and ask.

To make it clear, I think that there is a good content marketing, and that there is a a bad content marketing. The bad for example can be seen easily with searching google for "blog 10 best sleeeping bags" and similar.
At Mess (my agency), we were sort of forced into going with a HDCP, but we found a way for it to be a win for everyone.

Our absolutely-perfect no-deductible no-coinsurance plan was retired, and every year, for five years, the cost of our reasonable-deductible no-coinsurance plan kept going up.

Eventually, our broker convinced us that HDCP was the only way.

But I absolutely hated it.

We have quite a few employees with chronic, expensive conditions. Moving a HDCP (in our case 2K/6K family), effectively meant we were cutting their salaries. They were absolutely going to be paying that deductible.

We also employ a LOT of younger people, who just don't go to the doctor more than once a year, maybe. The HDCP wasn't that big a deal for them.

We looked into HSAs – the thing our broker recommended. These are garbage. In theory, we'd put in some amount of money each month, and eventually, over time, the entire premium would be sitting in an account for the employee. For the young and healthy, this was free money. The move to HCDP+HSA was basically a raise for them.

For the chronically-ill, the rate we'd contribute to their HSA was never going to be fast enough to keep pace with their expenses. And for most people, with most savings levels (near $0), a $1500 bill you'll "eventually get back" is just as unaffordable as one they'd never get bet.

I hate HSAs.

"Look, we know most of our folks are NEVER going to hit their deductible. We know a few folks will. Can't we just give everyone a credit card with a 2K limit that they can use to pay for stuff?"

Meet HRAs.

HRAs are like HSAs, but they're not incrementally funded. Instead, it's basically a credit card whose balance I, the employer, pay. It has an annual limit, which matches each employees annual deductible.

These things are amazing.

1. The employee never has to worry about out of pocket cost. They go to the doctor, the doctor charges their HRA.

2. The company has MUCH lower premiums, because we're on an HCDP. I think we saved like 30% or something moving to it.

3. We have a maximum annual additional cost each employee can ring up in medical costs. Worst case scenario (every employee hitting their deductible) isn't fantastic, but we can plan for it.

4. The normal-case scenario is a that a handful of employees hit their deductible very quickly at the beginning of the year, and the rest barely use their HRA at all.

I do not understand why more companies don't do HRAs given the above.
Patterns of compulsive smartphone use suggest how to kick the habit – UW News
It's important to differentiate between the file format and software that renders that file format. Admittedly there are better and worse PDF viewers, but that shouldn't be the final (or even most important) determiner of how important it is.
Chinese quantum prize rewards international stars of the field
HDD Success Story
Right. I'd think a bike would charge quickly.

Tesla S require 4h45m at 240V/90a, and 52 hours on 110v (prusumably 20a).

https://www.cars.com/articles/2013/11/how-quickly-does-the-t...

Both range and recover matter.
I might get downvoted for this, but...I can't believe you didn't think of the name "Cumblr"
Even if they are not his original creation he has talent and he deserves to be in an environment where he can be nurtured and grow. Sadly I fear that won’t happen for him but I wish him the best.
50k companies exposed to hacks of 'business critical' SAP systems
For contrast, MS SQL Server has `NVARCHAR(MAX)`. It's generally bugged me with MS-SQL that they added `NVARCHAR(MAX)` rather than just changing the behavior of `TEXT`
Distracted by Tech While Driving? The Answer May Be More Tech
It also very inefficient especially if you want things like images embedded in it.

Its not like you can read text without the right program, its still binary, there just happens to be a mostly agreed upon standard and a lot of programs that can decode that standard and render to screen.

PDF viewers are built into most browsers now and allows rich page perfect print ready results.

If I had it my way we would settle on a binary data serialization format, I don't care MsgPack, Protobuf, heck maybe even sqlite and then everyone could have a viewer to snoop around in it. You would still have to understand whats being encoded but you could always "view source" so to speak.
If you live outside of the subway system and need to get places (particularly in/out of the city) within a reasonable time-frame you're likely going to need a commuter rail pass. That jacks up the price substantially.

I did the whole "live in Boston and just use public transit thing" for awhile. Then I moved to one of those cities that MA likes to pretend doesn't exist and my transportation costs stayed about flat. If I had made heavy use of Uber/Lyft they probably would have decreased. My friend commutes in from Worcester and rides the train because of the tolls and the fact that his work subsidizes the rail pass. In a sprawling city with free/cheap parking there would be no economic reason to do anything but drive.
I have a HDHP with an HSA. When my company first rolled it out I barely gave it a glance (why would anyone want a high deductible?) and stayed on the low deductible plan. However, the next year I looked at it closer. I ran the numbers and realized that I could have x dollars come out of my paycheck to the insurance company under the low deductible plan, or I could have y dollars go to the insurance company and z dollars go into my HSA. And y + z = x (within a $100 or so).

So I could give all the money to the insurance company and that money would disappear at the end of the year, or I could give a portion of the money to my own HSA and I would get to keep any leftover at the end of the year. Well, now I had instant regret that I didn't sign up the first year.

The first year was rather rough because we had to pay all health care expenses out of pocket until we met the deductible, but we couldn't reimburse ourselves out of the HSA until the money was in the HSA. But, we met the deductible by April and after that our health care costs were equivalent to what they would have been under the low deductible plan.

By the end of the year we had $4000 left in the account which we then used to pay health care costs in the new year until the deductible was met. Now our HSA is growing year over year.
"Democrats are against outright hostility and blatant marginalization of certain classes."

There are tons of YouTube videos on college campuses that prove otherwise.
No, Datomic storage is unbundled, prod configurations target basically DynamoDB.
Show HN: FindRemote – The remote job board of remote job boards
I wouldn't mind seeing the change, to be clear. Engineering it is the problem.
This is some nice work on the issue from Peter Bailis: http://www.bailis.org/blog/understanding-weak-isolation-is-a...
They simply saw their stats drop; did some math, and drew conclusions. :)
This is my favorite interview question.

If you have to make N (not fixed) requests, and only want the result of successful ones discarding failures, how will you do it with native Promises only?
Perhaps because it's ... boring?
There's another guard against it, which is the ability for congressional representatives to negotiate deals. They are not obligated to do whatever 50.01% of the population prefers on an issue by issue basis, but rather to do what they think will win elections. Issues that people care about more are more important for winning elections, so politicians can compromise on broadly-supported issues people care little about in order to work on niche issues with intense support.

In practice, this looks like things like pork-barrel infrastructure spending and farm subsidies. These sorts of things are pretty unpopular with most people, but they keep getting passed, and the above is why.
> Oh, sorry; I'm sure you're entirely careful and responsible, all the time, just like every other firearms buyer. So there's clearly no problem with having an ever-increasing number of them around.

Fully agree.
Yeah sort of agree here.

I don't head over there often, but I use a tea mug from that place every day in the office.

I used to like visiting those stores when they were "Chapters" whenever we'd visit the city (read extent-suburbs) as a kid. It was especially exciting when we didn't have internet or up-to-date computers and I'd get to browse the multitudes of computer and music magazines. Always left me jealous. I think that place had a bit better of a thing going—it was less frenetic.

That said, the buying power of Indigo makes it a worthwhile place to search for a book if you can't find it locally.
Greetings Jani! (maybe you remember visiting in London the guy from Germany)

Really interesting to read this and from you via hackernews :D
I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I live in one of the most expensive cities in the US and make barely above the local minimum wage. I decided to learn to code, but there's all this anthropological stuff that I don't know, and I don't have a network at all.

I keep getting discouraged and giving up. I write code and don't publicize it. It's all niche anyway. There are months where I don't apply to anything, but I hardly ever get called back - I graduated from college, but with a liberal arts degree. (I got really bad advice.) I apply to fifty jobs and get one phone screen, and then I teach my friends in the Bay Area about how compilers work and so on. I know a guy in a similar position who gave up and became an expat, and I've been helping him learn Python, but I don't let on that it probably won't pay off.

My lease is almost up, and my roommate is going back to college anyway, so I'm going to move back in with my family and work full-time on getting a job and grinding interview problems. But they don't even have an internet connection! Maybe I could get dialup to work. I don't know. I'll probably become a regular at the local McDonald's.

I don't think I'm any good. I'd give up, but the alternative is aspiring to someday become an assistant manager of a fast food joint.

Working these crappy jobs, I've met a lot of people in similar positions. Smart people from hopeless backgrounds who ended up working nothing but retail, or IT guys who can hold their own in web development shop talk but lost their jobs in 2008, ended up homeless for a while, and now push carts in warehouses.

How the hell do people without traditional backgrounds make it? Do I have to go through a boot camp and give up another few months of my life? (Besides, I tried that once already and it didn't pay off - although that was right after I finished college and realized I had some toilet paper, so I had hardly any work experience.) Does it all come down to networking?

Is there any hope?
Look to GPUs for better solutions: make more discrete -- less functional overall but higher performance -- cores, and move them closer to the data; then let the CPU just handle coordination of the discrete processors. Think of SIMD but on a massive scale.

Think of blocks of RAM with math processors. Or the same in your NVMe/NIC/etc.
Not really. These are all incremental performance improvements on POSIX but don't address the author's concerns / desires in the paper. All of them continue to require the kernel to mediate IO between userspace and the hardware. For some reason the author is fixated on direct user access to partitioned hardware queues.

Netflix's CDN operating system is based on FreeBSD, and they did add a kind of kTLS implementation, but they did not add it to FreeBSD upstream for a host of reasons.
Lessons to Learn from the Boeing 737 Max Fiasco
My gripe with PDF is that I don't understand why a standard format which is almost 30 years old, requires seemingly weekly updates of the Acrobat Reader, which in turn requires reboot of my work laptop. I upgrade the reader far more often than I actually use it.
I never saw it portrayed that way: it was always higher-level programmer ease of use pitches along the lines of “isn’t this easier than doing a JOIN?” pitch shortly before the speaker had a valuable learning experience about the value of data integrity and consistency.
PDF is based on Postscript, it designed for print perfect output, its essentially a bunch of rendering commands for a printer its not supposed to be a word processing format that can be edited later its the final output from a word processor or whatever.
The assertion that "for most of human history boredom and loneliness have been the norm" is idiotic. The 19th and 20th centuries in america are not "most of human history". For the actual vast majority of human history, we were hunter-gatherers. We operated in tight social circles, and, and I'm just assuming here, we were rarely alone. I don't know how bored you would be as a hunter gatherer, either, but I suspect not terribly.
PDF files begin with %PDF, not sure you have a valid PDF there
"They spend 30 percent of their income on housing and 20 percent of their income on transportation. The second household lives in a city and owns one car. Their house is more expensive than the suburban one, so they spend 40 percent of their income on housing, and just 10 percent on transportation. Is it really accurate to describe the second (city) household as any more “cost-burdened” than its suburban peer?"

The answer is yes. Comparaing housing costs to transportation costs is not accurate. Housing costs are fixed based on neighborhood so most residents are forced to either pay the price or move. While transportation costs can always be budgeted lowered by many methods. EX: using fuel efficient vehicles, car pooling, sharing vehicles, etc.
-spits out energy drink all over my keyboard-

....Thanks for that.. LOL
IIRC you can still set the index, it's just that you can't do matching if the match/content is over the length and it can still do begins with matching.

That said, I still don't get why they didn't just change the behavior for TEXT/NTEXT vs adding (MAX) options.

edit: I am mistaken, when setting an index, the index max is now the insert limit (from response below).
>Given this, apparently the problem is that strong minority preferences are being snuffed out by majority preferences? Of course, this is the inherent flaw in democracy.

That's not the problem Quadratic Voting tries to solve at all. The increased cost of additional votes actually reduces the voting power of certain minority groups, such as one-issue voters. The system tries to fix the opposite - a strong minority preference winning a vote where it is not the first choice of the majority.
I don’t see what the purpose of pointing out the fact of health insurance being cheaper when it doesn’t have to provide coverage for people who actually used healthcare. Goal is to provide all of society with healthcare, problem is voters didn’t want to pay with their tax dollars. Now they get to pay with their insurance premium dollars. There never was a free lunch, only people who were unable to get health insurance.
And Australia. We got rid of 1c and 2c coins back in the 90s.
No, it doesn’t. PDF files start with “%PDF” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Mag...)
Sure, but the CPU can amortize that cost over many packets if it is infrequent, while maintaining the same throughput. Also, cache line sized packets are relatively tiny.
Depends who you ask.
>Netsol charges $35 for a 1-year .com renewal! (It’s $15 here).

And $8 at cloudflare.
Not exactly, no. With membership stores you need to be a member BEFORE you can shop there, which means you need to really sit down and make a decision if you want to sign up. It’s a very high cognitive cost of entry. With Amazon, you’re ALREADY shopping there, so you “might as well” add Prime for the shipping benefit. It’s a very low cognitive cost and it’s not until after you’ve joined do you realize the effect of the membership is to make you always go there first, because that’s not why you signed up.

Some may think that is a subtle difference, but I think it’s huge and the effect is clear.
A separate questions. Are their any common practices for recovering the system from message bus failures (such as SQS in your case).

Seeing your post made me realize if SQS goes down, a lot of random things will be happening in my application.