skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s good for manuals, which often have complex formatting and layout that necessitates precise control. It’s not appreciably worse for mobile devices than the incredibly bloated HTML that you see nowadays. It’s completely orthogonal to versioning, and PDF diff tools are quite competent. It’s not only spectacular for printing, but completely unmatched for paper <-> digital round trips.
Maybe if the EU adopted China's model of tricking U.S. giants to come there for the "huge market," then steal/coerce giving away their tech to the local small companies that can become billion-dollar giants a few years later, and then kicking the big U.S. companies out of the country or making it almost impossible for them to compete locally would've been a better strategy for the EU, too.

Instead, the EU has allowed the U.S. tech giants to come and take over the local markets, and then crush or buy out all the smaller competition (UK's DeepMind anyone?!), and then wonder "where are the European competitors?!"
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AI Is About to Completely Change the Face of Entertainment
If you're into this, check out the TechMoan channel on YouTube. He's got a ton of old tech like this, including portable TVs, old portable cassette decks (both consumer and professional), older audio and video formats which never made it to the format wars (some that were very popular in the UK where he lives, but never made it to the US markets), etc.
From the title, I thought they would list the one mistake I've seen junior sysadmins make: not changing the default values for resource allocation [1] in a fresh install.

Good to know that I don't need to calculate the size of my varchars, though.

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serv...
Pres. candidate's climate plan calls for banning sales of new ICE cars by 2030
> the majority of people do understand the YouTube + Google/Alphabet relationship

I think this is very tech centric view. I asked my wife (tech savy enough but doesn't work in the industry) and she didn't have any idea who owned Youtube, and had never heard of Alphabet.

I know it's only one data point, but I think it's easy to be blinkered when actually the truth is probably that most people outside of tech have no idea about tech company relationships.
> [...] and was killed fast.

I'm /r/OutOfTheLoop... what happened that Hail Corporate was killed?
Police just took down a dark web marketplace in Germany
Garbage Collection in Go: Semantics
Until the batteries ran out two and a half hours later (if you were lucky) :-P
They're irrelevant differences to me. I care about local and state issues. For instance local infrastructure, local school districts, local road maintenance, local taxes, etc.

Federal politics is a distraction. A useless distraction that you're obsessed with. That's the kind of thinking that's "dangerous".
I find telling when people say they don't deploy because on the potential impact on the team.

What about the impact on your customers? That should be your priority.
They're an excellent publication that publish stories[0] that the New York times, LA times, and other institutional newspapers would not dare to touch.

If you value your privacy and your constitutional rights - please consider donating to the Guardian. They are one of the very few news organizations that are not censored by the US/UK gov't.
[0]:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/the-nsa-files
You're right, that seems better.
Paper from the same (co-)author (Martin Kleppmann) is at:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.03960.pdf
If you're interested, you should find Jon Ronson's podcast on the topic. It's a finite series of shows called "The Butterfly Effect", and it covers what happened to the porn industry as it was overrun by Mindgeek. If I remember correctly, the gist is that the consolidation of the industry drove down rates for production and pushed a lot of participants into independent projects like custom videos.
Illegal content? I am under the impression that it was more about the advertiser unfriendly content.
YouTube is still very permissive about what content can be uploaded. What type of content can be monetized has changed.

Advertisers don't want their brand associated with content they find questionable. They pulled their advertising or at least threatened to. This lead to the "Adpocalypse".

A lot of creators argue that content is unfairly or incorrectly demonetized. That's an area where a competitor could improve. The competitor would still have to deal with the fact that advertisers are sitting on the money and want a say in how their ads are showing up.
Migration possibly that’s locking auth tables?
Not so much zealotry, as N-way decisions. There's no perfect way to make N-way democratic choices. Yet sometimes you need to make an N-way choice.

Brexit needs something like a ranked-choice vote. As in,
rank these options - a) no deal Brexit b) Theresa May / EU plan c) no Brexit, revoke Article 50 d) Northern Ireland independence, border in Irish sea. None of those can get an absolute majority in Parliament. They've tried and are deadlocked. A ranked-choice referendum would provide a way out.
Why do we need physics in the first place, to explain life? Shouldn't chemistry be enough?
I don' think you have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Almost all my 401K funds charge less than 1% a year and if you're in mostly equities you average 10% returns per year. Most bank accounts offer less than 1% Interest rates on deposits so its really not even close.
In the case of VMs, null means "throw NullPointerException". How often do you see that happening?
Samsung Galaxy's real problem has nothing to do with screens
I hope they succeed.

Tumblr is not really my thing and neither is porn, but I have been dismayed by the seeming trend to criminalize and stamp out all expressions of consenting adult sexual behavior on the internet. It would be nice to see some successful push back.
I would argue the exact opposite. Tumblr is pretty agnostic when it comes to the way your content is presented, you can even hide all social features without a problem. I roll my eyes when I see a serious company using Medium as its blog platform, with its absolutely obnoxious "haha lets make it official ;)" popups.
My mid-2000s Subaru still has a standard double din. Even a 2000s Audi I solid, had worked with DIN with a curved adapter. We are seeing more flush/curved/integrated dashes today though, which really sucks. I agree, standardized components and sizes are good. In 15 years when that Honda GPS dies, it nice to have other options you can replace it with, without needing weird adapters or having to 3D print plastic parts.
That's true, but I wonder how much of the porn-seeking user base remains? Surely they left in the 40%(?) traffic exodus.
Though (if both spouses were working & had access to employer sponsored insurance), wouldn't the husband being fired result in a qualifying change for the woman, allowing her to enroll on her employer's insurance plan, thus covering the pregnancy?
>Monbiot still has a regular article there, he's as far left as it gets.

Ah come on now.
Tesla increases price of Full Self-Driving to make its cars appreciating assets
I heard it once said that America is a one-party system, but in typical American excess we have two.

Both in service of capital.
Everyone knows that's a real phenomenon. The issue I was addressing was people's tendency, unfortunately very common, to conflate every Chinese commenter, indeed anyone advocating a Chinese perspective, with CCP astroturfers. That's a serious problem on HN. (I don't think it was colanderman's intention to do this and I'm sure that's why he edited his comment after I replied to it.)

The temptation is strong, when encountering views one dislikes, to regard the person expressing them as disingenuous and pushing some sinister agenda. This is why the site guidelines explicitly say "Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data."

As geopolitics between China and the West heat up for reasons totally beyond this site, users here need to remember that HN is an international community where all are welcome. Being welcome, among other things, means not being slurred because of your national origin, language, race, and so on. It's nice that HN feels like a small and intimate place, but it's not a living room—when you post here, you're broadcasting to an audience of millions. Many come from very different backgrounds than you or I or any of us does, and they have just as much a right to be here as you and I and any of us does.

The image of "warding off Chinese commenters", which you invoked in your comment upthread, is dismaying and exactly what we don't want here. People need to listen to each other more, not less, when there is distance between them. I don't want to be part of any site that works against that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The problem is that there are activists who campaign to get advertisers to leave platforms that host certain types of content. Eg sleeping giants. This means that YouTube has to either start removing content those activists don't like or they have to start courting those advertisers themselves.
Ask HN: Does anyone have any resources to learn more about Medical Devices?
Specifically, learning about the manufacturing process, distributors --- how the engineered products get commercialized, sold/distributed?
What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008)
Enterprise Architecture: Engineering Platforms
Please dont tell me this is the next 2048
I think ultralight scripting languages are an interesting quadrant of language space, but I'm not sure the strengths of Lisp would be evident in a language without lists.
Is it really the advertisers or is it activists pushing the advertisers? The adpocalypse started with activists.
> 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.

Truly this is what DC hardware been about for 20+ years.

Look at HPC space, and than look for "uncle Joe hosting." The moment Joe starts looking for HPC and invest heavily for some super duper RDMA powered disk, a mainstream hardware maker comes and spoils everything by releasing a mass market product doing just that if not better, thus ruining the grand scheme of gaining competitive advantage through some "secret sauce hardware"

Look at video transcoding or that new "AI" neural network thing. After few years of entertaining themselves with idea of purpose made hardware, big boys simply went the route of just using a lot of mainstream hardware.
There's no reason Europeans can't just do it from a place where they get better access capital and a more business-friendly environment (unless the EU tries to stop this by creating a 'safe' website list like China, or penalizing US companies in other ways). One problem with firewalling Google, Facebook, is that the fines bring in more money than European tech.
Again, consumers have absolutely been harmed by the skyrocketing cost of health care. But every bit of evidence shows that the ACA slowed that growth.

The only connection you’re making here is that your own costs went up after the ACA. It’s a post hoc fallacy.
Its one error after name mangling.
Resisting Antibiotics: The social challenges of drug reform
>You arent going to see a $2500 a month house next to a $600 a month house

Maybe not in a modern cookie cutter subdivision, but in older neighborhoods, definitely. My street has a lot of variety of size and occupancy. We have big single family houses, smaller single family houses, duplexes, triplexes, and a house with a mother-in-law apartment.

>Roommates are an option for singles. But not feasible for families

Roommates can work for families with the right architecture, I've seen it work before, personally. Of course, if you're completely closed off to the whole idea just on principal, it won't work.
> Most of the cost and page views on Tumblr came from NSFW.

Do you have sources for that? Because from what I know, I think that's unlikely.

Based on what's happened since December, it seems like the number is closer to 30%. Now, that's still quite significant, but it's a long way from "most".

> The screen caps of that would be on youtube in half and hour and on all TV channels by the evening news.

That also seems quite unlikely. It might make it to YouTube, but it's unlikely that it would make much of a stir; certainly not enough to get on the evening news.

> So it at most a lifestyle business, not a multi hundred million dollar operation.

Does that mean that it doesn't deserve to exist?
>>I just believe in true and honest discourse and to let the idiots keep talking to be able to show how stupid they are.

When it is just idiots, fine.

The problem is when it goes beyond idiocy and into dishonest discussion, spreading lies, and state actors weaponizing dezinformatsiya, and such lies being spread either directly by state actors, by their compromised assets, or merely manipulated Useful Idiots.

At that point, it is beyond the question of Free Speech and into yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

It is already getting people killed, undermining democratic institutions around the world, and deplatforming is the least we can do to protect the society.

There is also the paradox of intolerance. If the intolerant people are allowed free speech, they will not tolerate anyone else's free speech, and will bring the end of free speech.

Being absolutist about rules (e.g., absolute free speech for everyone) makes it easy to think about, but reality is messier than that, and we need to deal with the complexity.
Yes. Pekka works at ScyllaDB, and the paper references Avi Kivity's work at Scylla twice in the endnotes, as well as the underlying Seastar engine that Scylla is built upon (that's where DPDK is embedded).
Agreed. PDF is intended to accurately render a specific presentation format - often desktop. There is nothing quite like the melange of frustration you get when you are trying to fix something and realizing you have to open up a PDF product manual on your phone. Dragging and zooming all over the place like it's Google fucking Maps. Bonus points when the text isn't even searchable.
"Left" doesn't imply illiberal economic policy at all, though one might get that impression when dealing with all these vocal armchair marxists that haven't actually read any economics.
It does pass the limit down. I've just verified my schema that has a varchar(128).

One of the reasons given in the bug for it being difficult to fix is down in the depths it assumes it is a varchar() -- with parentheses.

Here's the relevant comment:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/14094#comment:13
You're assuming votes are public, which is not usually the case. If there's no way to check someone else's vote, there's no way to enforce a voting block.
>Absolutely, employees should be a concern and a founder looking to be acquired should do whatever possible to ensure a successful future for them as well.

Well then selling your company to a PE firm in a Leveraged Buyout is among the worst possible scenarios for your employees so by your own logic this is a bad choice.
I would assume if you got audited, you would have to justify all withdraws. I doubt they would be impressed with multiple copies of the same receipt.
Jayapal and Sanders Medicare for All Bills: One Is a Lot Better Than the Other
Flame detectors work via video feeds typically and analyze a video for flame and smoke patterns. Those come in both stand alone detectors and systems that work off of existing security camera feeds. (see also UV based detection)

They were referring to a photoelectric smoke detector vs ionization types. Both are still available but photo is much more common now days. They look exactly the same exterior wise, but it works by having a tiny light box where smoke goes in and changes the light the sensor is seeing. They can still cause false alarms because they are sensitive to dust and particulate matter, but they operate on intelligent addressable systems now which can adjust their sensitivity to some degree over time.
Definition of "porn" is too much different for Pornhub and Tumblr. For former, it's kafkaesque-lovecraftian movies with Hollywood-level effects depicting impossible forms of multi-person sexual intercourse, for latter it's usually just photos of women with uncovered breasts.

I can't remember seeing "real porn" on Tumblr.
I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion. The question is whether information about the refugee crisis is dangerous or not. Every attack carried out by a refugee or asylum seeker wouldn't have happened if they hadn't been there.
I always get a little tingle up my spine when I hear someone in a video append an isotope number to a chemical element. Cool beans.
Wired's Paywall Worked -- Mostly
This brings up fond memories of Waterloo's CS 452: Real-time Programming.

"Here, we've got this model train set hooked up to a PC with nothing on it. Here are some specs. Write an RTOS and control program to make the trains do something interesting."
It appears to be open, the most recent post was 27 minutes ago. I'm not sure what OP is referencing.
> Hardware vendors don't like to share. They don't share code, they don't share common interfaces, they don't even share documentation. As it is now, these are all problems which most userland developers don't have to care about -- those problems get dealt with in the kernel, by developers who specialize in building support for uncooperative hardware.

Thus more money for us :) I think this fact almost begs to be taken advantage of. See, how things work in corporate storage products, with EMC being the prime example
I'm not. Economics can never be a hard science. Neither can sociology, or psychology, or even medicine.

Shall we dismiss these fields altogether on those grounds? That would be foolish.
Great, seems it does the job. 'Cause sometimes 'test passed'/'test failed' isn't enough, you should go deeper.

CircleCI supports SSH connection for max 2h, then shutdown the task.
Many many years ago, auto mechanics would gouge customers after fixing their cars. This resulted in laws in all US states requiring written estimates in advance.

We should expect hospitals to meet the minimum ethical standards of auto mechanics.
Facebook's plan is the opposite of WeChat.

WeChat is strictly monitored, pervasively censored and rigorously controlled to align with official dogma, stifle rumors, suppress dissent and promote harmony.

The new Facebook would be end-to-end encrypted so Facebook can't read messages even under court order. It will be physically impossible to monitor, censor or control how the platform is used and abused.

Facebook lost control of the monster they created, and this is their solution - abdicate any responsibility whatsoever.

I don't want the WeChat model, or the current Facebook model, or the new Facebook where their toxic waste is externalized to governments and the public to clean up.

These are all anti-patterns.
> American universities have rushed to move as much lecturing as possible to adjuncts... it's only immoral if other people do it.

No, it's just plain immoral, not to mention short-sighted. American primary and secondary schools are also squeezing their teachers, by hiring Filipinos on J-1 visas, just like tech companies do with H-1Bs.

It's a bit like like making room in your fridge by pushing everything back, then adding new stuff. It works for awhile, but eventually leaves you with a mess of spoiled milk and rotten vegetables in the back. You can only strip-mine a hill for so long before it's gone.
IIRC the IBM Microchannel stuff was perceived as a ploy to recover control of the PC industry by licensing a new bus. The licensing terms were pretty bad (it could be that "free" was the expected bar at the time, though) and the implementation was expensive, too. Unfortunately for IBM the industry was pretty happy using the existing buses, and when more performance was needed the industry was equally happy to invent new buses that didn't involve paying royalties to IBM.

So regardless of MC's attractiveness from a systems standpoint, it was a nonstarter in an industry that was headed towards an ecology of clones and racing to the bottom in manufacturing costs. Many PC manufacturers ditched parity memory, too.
In my circles, it’s been a running joke since about 2014 that the porn was the only quality content left.
That's a slightly maddening thing about many these comments. If you were getting your healthcare through an employer, you had a lot more security both on the pre-existing conditions end and on the keeping coverage end.
You'd hope, but a number of smaller plans have that entire advantage eaten, so you end up with no growth. Getting out of a lot of 401K plans and into something like an IRA is... advisable in many cases.

I'll admit that this is mostly a problem for small businesses, from what I read, and there are plenty of 401k's that aren't actively screwing people.
You aren't required to complete an application form when you sign up anymore, so they don't even ask you medical questions.
In the case of ET302, you are ignoring mistrim at high airspeed being essentially impossible to retrim manually (by handcrank). If they followed the runaway trim procedure exactly, and did not re-enable autotrim, they would have died, they were mistrimmed, decending, and with increasing airspeed. How do you propose they get out of that without enabling autotrim, in order to have the electric trim motor help them retrim?

In the case of LNI610, you are assuming MCAS upset and approach to mistrim looks anything like runaway trim. There's quite a lot of evidence that it doesn't look like that, but is rather insidious.
Nothing to do with object orientation. We just use a lot of views, both to abstract away common complex queries, and to allow external systems to interact with the data in a controlled way.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can penetrate to the core of my soul, leaving wounds that never heal.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
Ransomware targets Git repositories/commits
> However a modern lifestyle also comes with more "almost necessary" expenses, such as home internet, cable ($150 - $200 a month), plus cell phone ($160 per month for two lines, to get unlimited calls and data). But electric usage is lower due to higher efficiency appliances and lighting.

The "almost necessary" level of those bills is ~$60 for internet and netflix and ~$45/line with a company like straight talk.

Paying $150-$200 for TV and Internet is on the very luxurious side of TV/Internet, and $80/line is both a luxurious amount of data and a premium cellphone carrier.
I Think Private Schools Should Be Banned
> What was the lifetime max on this plan? It probably would have left people out in the cold when they most needed it. I don't think it's wrong to expect insurance to cover people when they most need it, which was largely not true with million dollar lifetime caps.

Note that lifetime caps are a lot more generous than what they have in say the UK, where you don’t get treatment if it costs more than $50-75k per year of extended life. (So to blow through a million dollars, the treatment would have to be expected to produce 15-20 years of extra healthy life. Most treatments offered when people “need it the most” can’t make that sort of promise).
My experience with being online, is that: if you're in a messy online environment, you can comment or raise your voice, but it's nessesary NOT to follow your comment's responses. Our brain unfortunately accept everything that we don't want to put in our brain. And it hurts.
Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests