skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. YouTube is being an * with content creators (See MonkeyJones ban and other creator permantly removed)
2. YouTube rewind was a mess
3. Competitors are better for consumers (and many competitors aren't in position to defeat YouTube)
Author must not realize how many businesses, government organizations, etc. have operations that are completely dependent on .xls files that someone first created in the late 90s.
It's because there's nothing to gain by lowering costs.

If you get a bill from a ER for $36 dollars, you'd be less likely to buy a $200 insurance plan, so we have to make ERs as expensive as possible so we can guarantee customers for the poor insurance companies. They won't pay that full 2K anyways.
The Guardian has become a clickbait rag in the last decade. I can't say I'm happy their bad behavior is being rewarded.
In the same vein, "Human intelligence" led to the 2008 crash. Human's aren't infallible either. My problem with this argument is that there is no logical basis for how exactly human intelligence is different. Computers aren't there yet in most domains, but there is no evidence to say they can't get there. How soon is anybody's guess right now.

While AGI might be far off, I can certainly imagine computers running larger and larger sub-worlds. e.g, if all cars were self-driving, I am reasonably sure we can design traffic to be more efficient with all cars coordinating with each other instead of humans trying to do so.
I don’t know what is worse, extracting text from a napkin or a PDF. At least with the napkin you know it is going to be lossy going in.
I tell you all that my company works with employers to move their employees to HDHPs based on sketchy data, sketchy calculations, no transparency, and based on profit motive, and,,,, nothing.

Interesting.

Side note: The chances that some HN readers have used our software are, very good.
Is it somehow worse than browsing a bookshelf in a bookstore or the magazines in a kiosk?
Many base models still do; they're just hidden behind the OEM's dash panels. Aftermarket equipment makers sell vehicle-specific adapter faceplates that will let you swap out the factory radio for a DIN / double-DIN device.
No Safe Amount of Alcohol During Pregnancy
Show HN: Looker Data Actions to Update Record in Snowflake Table
That's not really true, though. Costs as a % of GDP went down from '05-06 and went up slightly from '06-07.

In real numbers, in 2008-2009, the increase in overall cost per year was actually lower than in 2014-2015, when the exchanges opened.

You're right that the rate of growth in Medicare cost fell after the ACA passed, but that's much more specific than overall cost delta.
Well then our intuition is wrong.

If your finances throughout your life are not in order, if you have high debt, regardless if it's because of medical bills, student loans or too big a car and house, you are in a weak position. What good does a nice car do if you worry about bills and if you try to avoid to look at the balance in your banking app?

You don't always know how rich some folks are, but for the most part it's easy to see if someone is living above their means, if you get a little anxienty on those people's behalf, then good!
The means may be different, but the ends they aim for seem to be similar. The ends here are improved latency, throughput, parallelism, non-blocking APIs and security.

The above-mentioned improvements aim to address the first four without completely bypassing the kernel, instead changing APIs so they step out of the way most of the time, limiting them to coordination tasks and then either offloading to the hardware or directly piping the data to/from userspace mappings without additional context switches where needed.

VMs using SR-IOV address the security aspect.

It's basically the difference between a green field design and tacking all those innovations onto the glueball that is linux. The latter may be ugly and complex, but it has the advantage of being backwards-compatible.
the finitude of being

Companies are man made so the have a limited live span. There is no exception, every man made organisation will end. While this is sad for every single case, the finitnes is a good thing at all.

Thinking on finitnes of companies, stock market indexes have a mathematical limit.
I find this concept of the "history of emotions" unconvincing on so many levels. Between the mind-body problem and our coarse understanding of the brain, it's hard enough to talk sensibly about emotions in the present. That language changes and new words are invented is hardly evidence that the spectrum of human emotions (and where we lie on it) has undergone a fundamental shift. The problem space here is complex, mysterious, and rife with opportunities to conflate the map and the territory. The authors are exploiting this confusion to sell a pre-determined narrative about social media which, while great for Vox articles and Ted talks, doesn't actually offer any new knowledge.
True. I just skipped the header lines and grabbed the start of the lines after the headers.
A man named Null: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
I was discussing companies who use Tumblr for official communication, like System76 and NPM, on another story earlier this week, and how it's cringy and not a good look IMHO. (My comment was flagged for some reason despite having 5 points and 8 replies. How does this site work?)

I hope PornHub does buy Tumblr! Can you imagine how quickly all the corporate blogs would scramble off of the platform to avoid association with a porn site!?
What happened to HTML? Nobody could read nor discuss about PDF here without it.
A lot of people don't get this. When I tell I like companies, everyone's fine.When I say I equally like being on my own, a lot of people get funny about it. I could sit in a room just with myself for weeks and I'd be fine and I'd enjoy it,while a lot of people would go crazy pretty quickly.
Because it probably has the knowledge and infrastructure in place to do so. At least, that's what I inferred from the statement.
Doesn't pure-blooded just mean "this group of humans hasn't intermarried with other groups much since the not-so-recent past"? How is that nonsense?

And why limit it to humans? What makes us so different from other animals in this regard?
As I said elsewhere, I'm leaning towards being required to register for the lottery exactly once every ten years or so. I think that'd be a reasonable compromise to ensure a representative sample of the population without inconveniencing people excessively.
You missed the second paragraph. It's "Mozilla’s experiment with a new approach to code review that lasted from about 2014 to 2018". This post isn't about the technical details.
If he means, from a mathematical point of view, Mathematica's ability to both symbolically and numerically solve advanced mathematical systems of equations, he's not technically wrong, even if his oversized ego oozes out of every word he utters.

If, however, he's talking about general computational systems vis a vis creating programs to run on today's microprocessors, he has obviously drunk too much of his own kool-aid.
It gets printed to the screen for reading and still retains the text for searching. The ability to easily edit can actually be liability in many situations.

Its literally a replacement for paper documents, except you can search and view them on a computer and still hit print and get a great paper reproduction.

Word processing/editing has so much more going on, PDF actually removes features from postscript for security purposes, nobody wants to be sending word docs around just for viewing.
sumatrapdf works fine
Most people won't make use of this kind of research. However, CRDTs aren't just another way to architect the same kind of software. They are an inversion of the tropes and techniques we've zealously stuck to over the last decade, and they grant us brand new technical capabilities that no SAAS player will ever be able to offer:

• Offline-first support with real-time collaboration

• Real-time collaboration with local devices over Bluetooth/ad-hoc Wi-Fi

• End-to-end encrypted real-time collaboration without the server having access to any of your content

• Transport-agnostic sync: use Dropbox, iCloud, and Bluetooth all at the same time with no consistency issues

• The ability to switch to a different cloud provider with zero friction, and to grab your (mergeable, collaborative, and versioned) documents from your current cloud provider without conversion to any intermediary format

• Anxiety-free sync: the user can be 100% confident that their changes will never fail to merge, even if they spent a month in the bush editing their documents

These are off the top of my head, but there are many, many others. And they are features. If enough people build software using these tools, people will get used to them and start seeing the big players as annoying and clunky. ("Why can't I make changes to my spreadsheet when I go through a tunnel? Why did I lose all the changes I've been working on over the last hour? What do you mean this .doc file is just a link to a webpage?")

Is there Big Money in it? I don't know (or care), but I'm going to try hard to make sure that any software I write on the side follows these principles, and I hope others start to do the same.

You could have easily said that "the reason that software is online is a business one" about time sharing versus personal computing, and yet here we are. Focus on the user instead of your bottom line and you will (eventually) win.
> Imagine being so unlucky to have an extra 12 minutes of travel time every day if you take the train.

Imagine having an extra hour of travel time every day because the orange line is on fire again and you miss the commuter rail by five minutes.

I know that this article isn't US-centric, but over here, the biggest barrier to greater adoption of public transit is that taking public transit is miserable.
I have to agree. PDF is the biggest pain in the rear I've had to deal with in my development career. I am also not crazy about the fact that such an important standard for storing information is so heavily influenced by one company (though PDF is an open standard at least).
If he does, they really need to work on the UI/UX side of things because FB and Messenger already feel like bloatware and they're difficult to navigate. WeChat on the other hand, along with KakaoTalk but WeChat especially, does it very well without feeling heavy and annoying to use.
Clearer Catholic Thinking About Islam
Now if only attractive backpacks were sold with nice thick padded straps instead of glorified shoelaces!
Also, those can both be problems at the same time. Both parties cater to corporations heavily, but also they are very different on many policy issues and shouldn't be treated as equivalent in those areas.
A bummer this perspective is shunned. This is exactly what I realized when I went through many years of depression. I never saw a therapist: "If I can't fix or accept this on my own, it's not worth fixing."

I slowly started seeing more friends, thought deeply about why I felt so horrible via substances, and eventually came out the other side. Now, you simply cannot get me down, and I'm lovin' it. :)
Princeton IoT Inspector Now Works on Linux/Raspberry Pi
Used to be macOS only. Now the open-source tool works on Linux and Raspberry Pi. Potentially can be used for long-term monitoring of IoT devices on home networks.
> Why would you need to communicate with any process? Maybe I need to communicate with the currently running instance of "HTTP Server App" or "Database Engine App", not with an unrelated process my program knows nothing about.

Today, I piped the output of some process I was running into grep. Neither of these programs knew about the existence of the other.

Later, I used an image editor to create an image, then used a web browser to upload it to a website. The web browser and image editor were unaware of each other's existence.
Very interesting ... I wonder when did they start to work on this? and how long until we see this in use?
And most employers will have some sort of transit benefit. $84.50 falls well within a lot of the wage works style benefits people get!
Maybe, on the other hand, an appeal to "civility" is often used to squelch criticism of bad behavior. There are plenty of business and political figures who, for one reason or another, deserve little more than a "fuck you" and getting booed off the stage.

We can debate whether Zuckerberg falls in that category!
Instagram is good.
I love PDFs. The first time I used one was Acrobat 2.0. I bought a shitty SAMS computer book that came with a bonus shitty SAMS computer book on the CD. As a PDF of course.

It was cumbersome on a Pentium 75MHz with 640x480x8 graphics. I'd be blown away 20 years later viewing those same files on a Macbook Pro with Retina display.

However, it was easily the best way to distribute printed documents EXACTLY the way they were meant to be seen.

They weren't meant to be edited, modified, data extracted from...And adobe went from a quick, minimal viwer to a bloated security nightmare by adding 'features.

Luckily, 3rd party and open-source projects came to the rescue.
See https://iot-inspector.princeton.edu/
Which is why we have Windows with the NT family of kernels. It's a reimagining that contains great ideas like a flexible file system stack that allows you to dynamically add drivers that add encryption, compression, antivirus checks etc, and a few bad ideas like a flexible file system stack that's orders of magnitude slower when working with small files than unix implementations.

Windows is a mainstream OS that is very different from Unix in many regards (even if it still has files). And it really shows that the grass isn't greener on the other side: some parts are great, some parts are terrible, but there aren't a lot of things that offer a universally better tradeoff.
Private Language Argument
Its coverage of the Labour party is also very partisan, very anti-Corbyn.

I also wonder the free model, dependent on ads and donations are leading the Guardian to have more click-bait articles than would a subscription paper.

Also their football coverage looks as if written by Manchester United fanboys.
Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform
Windows Solitaire Inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame
I used to have good luck using pdftk for filling out forms and the IRS seemed to encode them well, but it looks like pdftk is mostly dead. Nowadays, evince seems to work OK, sometimes, for filling out forms. And, yes, Acrobat seems to be the only piece of software that does all of them.

That said, my personal favorite for a complete screw you to the format comes from Texas and form 2382:

https://hhs.texas.gov/laws-regulations/forms/2000-2999/form-...

If you decompress it, you'll find that they encoded an HTML webpage into the PDF and, as far as I can tell, this can only be viewed on Windows with Acrobat. It's almost like Texas doesn't want people to apply for medicaid funds.
Setting up a registry is easy and actually pretty fun. You can even run it in a docker container (https://hub.docker.com/_/registry)! The complicated/non-trivial part is getting a front-end set up if you want more than the command line. I would recommend most people at least keep backups of their important images in a private registry. It really doesn't take much to keep one running, and you're covered if Docker Hub has an outage.

For most people's needs, command line access to the registry is more than enough though. There are a couple of options out there already for a registry web UI, but I've never had the chance to use any.
I'm sure most of HN is aware of where selfish behavior can go wrong. My favorite personal example would be a "tragedy of the commons."

For certain, groups where individuals all act in their own self interest sometimes come up with the best solutions for everyone. It bothers me that people believe either maxim must always be true for all circumstances. (this is effectively socialism vs. libertarianism) It seems very clear to me that each camp has supporting examples, and that there are very few universal maxims.

Getting back to the main point, I think there have been many instances were selfish private equity has made things worse for people, which does not discount instances where it has made things better.
Are you buying a family plan, because I'll bet there is a significant difference in cost to you if you were buying coverage for kids or spouse too.
You really don't remember the "web scale" memes about Mongo? It was always primarily about "performance".
it's a historical plateau. if you were born in 1899 you may have lived as:
baby (vaccinated), child (student), farmer (subject), citizen (worker), ally (soldier), employee (consumer), retiree (investor).

if you were born in 1999 i am hard pressed to imagine over the next 100 years you will see this much of a sea-change. in the most hyper-optimistic development:
baby (ivf), child (self-educated), teenager (self-starter), adult (colonist), neural map (biomachine), rebirth (clone).

far more likely you see space stagnation after a manned mars mission in the 2060s, and various forms of "new" movements arising arguing for ethics around engineered reproduction both for humans and animals to be reworked around a global utility model due to various food and water shocks, a type of one-child-world policy.

it could very well be that a dominant monarchy reappears, since empires with long lived monarchs provide at least 50 years of stability if managed correctly, and we are approaching various global inflection points in the 21st century which could cause a large and unnecessary loss of human life due to poor long term planning (family management in the developing world, too many abortions/immigration in the first world causing genetic displacement and social revolutionary movements, extreme weather events stretching global insurance/banking/money markets and the typical decline of the concept of civil liberties for an new enforced set of social civilities with fragmentary groups echoing radical ideas in secrecy - which historically leads to insurrection and civil war).

people don't really change as quickly as their technology does, so it's very dangerous to hear all thoughts without also having some type of pan-humanist framework in which to put them and try to form relative links between superficially disparate ideas. it's much easier to jump to contrast and division, and then force the issue, the radicalization of at risk youth into violent murder in public spaces is especially concerning, the school shooter phenomenon is mutating into a church shooter or a mall shooter, a park shooter, a club shooter. half a dozen coordinated shooters could shut down an entire city, at which point every city will need check points and will have to become gun free, a sort of TSA for metropolitan and then suburban areas. i wonder if at some certain point life would be safer in a prison than outside one. technology will advance towards safety and must necessarily lead to schemes with voluntary basis of total monitoring, eg food credits if you allow permanent personal surveillance. the cheesy 80s dystopia now creeping over the horizon. the hug and squeeze technique of totalitarianism, where you're crushed between abundance and fear is a model that is being exported globally and seems quite profitable and certainly preferable to war, famine and disease.
They're also responsible for paying for their expenses, and i'll bet they're not as good at getting writeoffs as the in-house CPA.

So you might actually see increased revenues as a result.

Decent question though.
As I once heard it put: the US doesn't have a left and a right party, it has two parties to the left and right of capital.
Man, I have only heard horror stories about Network Solutions. When I started out I was using 1&1, turned out they weren't that great either so switched to hover.com and have been very happy there. Not sure if it is true but I have heard people say they check if a domain is available on Network Solutions, then check the next day and suddenly it is more expensive, very shady if true.
In postgresql at least, serializable cannot deadlock. It uses predicate locks to provide serializable consistency with high levels of concurrency. You can have serialization failures though.
I think Wikileaks wanted to sue them, not sure where that's at, but as far as some watchdog doing so, no, you never get prosecuted for printing what suits the establishment. I guess is similar to how the media pushing for the Iraq War on the premise of WMDs were held accountable, not.
Qualitatively, humans are likely to say, "Whoa! Hold on. This doesn't make sense." when presented with unreasonable data, while algorithms are likely to proceed and do whatever.

We don't have good programming abstractions for "This doesn't make sense." You want something between proceeding and aborting.
It's plenty efficent. It's just a container for an image. It's really, really efficent if you use vector graphics.
If there’s one thing PornHub is good at, it’s generating positive PR for itself. I’m always very impressed how much of Reddit - often very skeptic all about corporate manipulation- will roll over to have its tummy tickled by Pornhub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cFOsAzigyQ
Except for many, it doesen't. Why glorify a closed format that we spent decades trying to aviod just because its common now? The inherent issues persist.
The one true number base: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quater-imaginary_base
That’s a smear against conservatives and blatantly untrue.

There are activist organizations on both sides calling for violence and both should be condemned.
to be fair, they think there are wings on their pullman cars. There aren't, but still...
I thought Slate or someone did a story on this - by making porn so easily available they make the market for performers low, they can lowball the creatives who appear on camera/make the videos, and also make money on the advertising on the illegally uploaded porn.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/mindgeek-porn-monopoly-...
Updating your business model to stay afloat; I don't see anything wrong with this.

I think the major issue currently with books is that most people only listen to audio books or podcasts. As well as books take up physical space. I regret to say that I too have been buying less physical books because of running out of room on my bookshelves! I used to be very proud of my ever growing personal library... Now I'm unsure if the investment was worth it.
Could this be used to remove potentially-malicious content from a PDF, e.g. anything executable?
It's still a wretched way to die.

Most of us posting here will die of old age before things really get ugly. It's our children or grandchildren who will suffer.
So what would be wrong with the following announcement:

"In three years, varchar no longer takes an argument, char and money do no longer exist, psql's password flag will be removed, all tables will be lowercased, BETWEEN will require fully qualified values, table inheritance will be disabled unless you specify a config value, and this page will be shortened to only include NOT IN and SQL_ASCII. In one year, a lot of these things will raise warnings. In two years, it will raise suppressible errors."

(I left out a few for brevity, but only a few -- this would actually resolve most of this page.)

Most of this strikes me as common things (varchar and psql --password in particular), and aside from NOT IN there appear to be easy solutions to make people stop using it without big changes. It's not like python3 where you have to change a core thing like text handling, it's removing a flag from your cronjobs (--password), omitting a value (varchar(n)), or telling the database what you really meant (BETWEEN X AND '2019-01-01' -> '2019-01-01T23:59:59.999'). For stuff without obvious fixes, a "do not do this" page is much more reasonable.