skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the EU and European countries could've fostered an environment where tech companies could've been successful as well?
Due to rising healthcare costs, and employers reducing the portion of health insurance premiums that they want to pay for their employee (aka a paycut), that's going to be true regardless of HDHP or not HDHP.
Anecdote, but the two years pre ACA my premiums went up about 9% each year. After ACA it was about 6% each year. Pre ACA my employer said "Sorry. Premiums went up from insurance companies." Post ACA employer said "Blame Obamacare."

Employees being people bought the "Obamacare made my premiums go up!"
Mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy Jeff Bezos is
I was under the impression we were speaking of government officials, not 19 year old college kids.
that's weird, i never get prompted to contact anyone except for the default thread that opens when you have a new friend, which admittedly i don't like
Seems so, or you found a train faster than 26min.
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With Uber’s IPO, Dara Khosrowshahi Is Taking Travis Kalanick’s Company Public
At this point this whole conversation's fucked imo
.xls runs half of the world economy.
It depends heavily on the market.

For B2B products, it's a huge win for driving market penetration on otherwise locked-down work computers. While development and IT sometimes get exceptions easily, the majority of business users have pretty locked down machines with minimal flexibility in installing software.

For consumer markets, you're right that it may not be as big of a factor, other than user expectations on the Just Works(TM) model from app stores.
No. It’s the worst bad :). It’s only good for printing.
Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion?
198 CHF to obtain ISO 32000-2:2017 from ISO, however.
Would the ACA prevent that kind of scam? I genuinely don't know.
Bloomberg says beware......... Why are these guys not banned from the front page yet?
Cars are more expensive compared to many people's salaries, as evidenced by car loans getting extended to 7 years. However they are more fuel efficient, last longer, and have lower maintenance costs (oil change at 10,000 instead of 3000 miles, for example).

For food it really depends on what you get. Meat seems to be higher, but I'm always amazed at how cheap bananas and potatoes are (and rice). Paying per minute for phone calls is a thing of the past too.

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.
Remember when Facebook and Messenger were once a single app? One of the main reasons they separated was to simplify user experience, aside from allowing sms login without a Facebook account, and I can't imagine the two together again at their current state. The reason why WeChat works so well is it's always been chat forward. Their 'moments' works moreso like a lite Twitter feed than Facebook's mess of a newsfeed. And all the misc third party integrations and apps are neatly organized and don't get in the way of chat and moments. Nothing about the interface or experience feels spammy or unnecessary and I never have to think much to get to what I want. At least that's just how I felt heavily using all those apps. There's something about all-in-one/mega apps that Asia does really well.
previously posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19662816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17485297
JP Morgan Quorum
I wanted to come back and ask the same thing, only to guess there would be some snarky replies. Sure enough, there are, but sometimes we have to make the best of what we do have. I can't switch to PostgreSQL because some posters on Hacker News think or say MySQL is terrible or shouldn't be used for technical reasons. There are many highly successful profitable companies, small businesses, and start ups that have built their backend using MySQL. I'm not saying MySQL is better either.

To the topic of the post, if anyone knows about succinct list similar to this for MySQL that would be great. I tried to search for something after reading this, but wasn't having much success.
> Channels have some privileged functions through which the OS tells them where the data is supposed to go in memory.

So the channel controller system has DMA; just not the peripheral.

> Minicomputers of the 1970s had low transistor counts and slow CPUs. So peripherals were usually put directly on the memory bus, with full access to memory.

That's "bus mastering" DMA. There is such a thing as "third party" DMA, which uses generic DMA controller, which is programmed to push data back and forth between memory and relatively dumb peripherals.

That approximates the channel concept.

PC's have had DMA controllers since 1980 something. The IBM PC had it in the form of the Intel 8237 chip. This is documented as having four "channels", wouldn't you know it.
They used Livecycle (XFA) forms. It's not part of the latest PDF standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA

Here is a plain Acroform version :-)

https://send.firefox.com/download/3d2da3ccd62d4ce9/#CJRCa5XO...
'systems code' like protocol implementations and device drivers tend to be very control-flow centric. on a simd machine in the worst case this means narrowing the 'vector length' to effectively 1. since these are throughput machines, thats often pretty bad.

I do agree with you that lots of little processors is a good way forward here with a careful eye towards reducing sharing of state, but maybe its useful in this case for them to have their own instruction streams.
Yes, just submit a form 8889 when filing taxes.
I actually think Instagram is a better candidate to become the next WeChat
> "You argue against the state having control"

Do I? I've reread what I wrote and don't think I made any such statements -- but if I did, that was _not_ my intention. State and planetary intervention seems to be our only way forward.

> The only reason people consume unsustainable energy is because the alternative is expensive

Yes, absolutely. And this is further complicated by the emissions that developing nations tend to output as they advance and grow. As long as coal remains as cheap and as sought-after by developing nations we will have a hard time reigning in the harmful emissions.
That's how Mitt Romney got rich
As long as the government never builds anything around a Facebook API I don't care what zuc does with his company.
I might agree that full on kubernetes infrastructure may be overkill... but there are a lot of smaller options for using containers. Simplest that I've used was 3 dokku servers behind a load balancer and all apps were deployed to all three servers in the same way. DB managed outside the containers.

I don't even do development in containers, but run services I'm not actively working on in them locally... this lets me have them nearly always on in the background and work on the piece I need to work on in the foreground. It's simply a matter of automation with a fast reset to zero.

The code that gets exercised the most is the code you can trust the most... by automating it once, you can repeat it. By automating with a container, you can isolate it. You can ensure the boundaries are proper, well defined and enough detail/documentation to repeat again and again. I do containerize the DB locally as well. I can reset and spin up the application stack I'm working on in under a minute total. Generally only resetting the db (around 18 seconds) or api (around 5) when those parts of the application are changed. I can work on the front end locally and just have the background in the background. I can tweak the background without touching shared environments. I can tear it all down and work on a different project without borking my host/local environment.

Yeah, orchestration setup and config in a cluster for hosting can be hard to learn (still learning current kubernetes myself) ... that doesn't mean that containers themselves are overkill.
Because it's a very simple HTTP 1.1 page with a block of text wrapped in <pre></pre> tags with fixed newlines. Preformmated text means your browser doesn't reformat it.
I agree and didn't mean to imply database filesystems are necessarily bad. Just wondering.

I forgot about BeOS! Do you remember which version of Windows was going to do it, or at least had preliminary plans for it? I distinctly remember reading about it. Was it an early version of Windows XP or what? I can't remember...
Europe's tallest skyscraper nears completion (2018)
I don't think 'not dealing with other people' really applies to driving. You're still dealing with people, but now they're in large machines that can quickly kill you if the other person is on their phone, drunk, angry or just plain bad at driving.

Public transit is generally safer and less costly when you start taking into account accidents and injuries resulting from them. There's also the immense value of being freed from having to focus on the road, which gives you the ability to multitask and read, write code etc.

I used to do just that back when I rode the bus to and from college.
What does Pope's death penalty shift mean for Catholic politicians? (2018)
In case more than one service writes to the same table, either both should be under control of the same organization, or a stored procedure layer should be introduced for the external org (there will probably be more things to check that just the limit). The phrase "untrusted users" is concerning in GP's post.

For users of older postgres deployments (<9.2) it's worth noting that changing the limit on varchar is not free, it triggers a table rewrite.
When people say "public transit", they don't mean the periphery of a commuter rail system. They mean the core bus network and usually the subway. You're comparing the worst case of meaningful public transit to a city only built for cars. My hypothesis, if you lived in Somerville, Dorchester, or at most, Quincy, the numbers would look different.
There is a fediverse instance called humblr where a lot of porn seems to be posted. I believe it was primarily for ex-Tumblr users.
This is why I'm glad Google is supporting RCS [1] to improve our outdated SMS system. Many of the reasons I use these chat apps (and I think my friends as well) are having a responsive and modern chat system.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
I wrote a custom ARM assembler that generate prolog that uses genetic programming techniques to optimize the interface. I've found the best interface to be my set of 8 multi-colored LEDs driven by a custom build arduino system that talks serial. Unfortunately I have to use a usb-serial adapter these days, and then a usb-c-to-usb-a adapter. My dongles have dongles.
> You cant lower costs in the US without having a more aggressive regulatory body which 50% of political bodies strongly oppose alongside lobbying efforts

Here is the fundamental problem from my point of view. Compare human medical costs to veterinary costs. Yes, people expect a slightly higher standard for themselves than they do their animals, but you can get a major knee surgery for your dog for a small fraction of what they charge for humans. The process is performed in a sterile environment by professionals in either case. We're smarter than animals on average, but our bodies and medical needs aren't vastly different.

The problem is price gouging because the providers and insurance companies know we have no real ability to shop around. They conspire with each other to publish false rates when the true costs are much lower after you agree to them.

You could maybe solve this with regulation on prices (a socialist approach), but you could also solve it by mandating they advertise true prices and re-enable competition (a capitalist approach). Either way could fix this, and the problem is corruption (lobbying) not party ideology.
This is in a way a variation of what Playboy did for porn back in the day. You claimed to read it for the articles (and the writing was good) but got to glimpse at porn as well. With tumbler quite possibly pornhub is wanting to do the same thing. In other words give people a legit reason to use tumbler (content that is non porn) so they can sneak a peek at porn. Now they can't do that now with pornhub (at least under that brand and domain) and even if they started a new brand from scratch how would they build up non porn ('the articles') content. If the price is right (big if) no doubt this is a legitimate strategy.
Am I the only person here to actually like cars and enjoy driving? Being free from public transport timetables and the ability to go anywhere on a whim are so precious. As an introvert, I see my car as my private space.
And in the other direction, fewer states are requiring a permit, so no doubt some people are not bothering to renew their permits.
if voting was mandatory in america for all adults you would get more competent people running and third parties carrying elections until the major parties shifted away from extreme positions. you don't need to feed into madness, americans are sane people who want unity and common sense.

it's not hard to do, make voting day a public holiday or put in on a weekend, use stamps on peoples hands or use name-residence registries and discount multiple votes.

this would make american elections harder to buy, and the dollar doesn't buy you what it used to anyway...
No no no.

This work should be part of your total, main, comp. Working on open-source projects directly contributes to your employer's business, even if the code of that project doesn't get used in those systems. You're building your team's brand (and yes, your own, too). Because other Engineers want to work in an environment where OSS is encouraged, this reduces costs of hiring and retaining Engineers. At $20/hr Formidable is getting recruiting on the cheap.
Just use pandoc[1] — assuming the blog platform accepts a well known markup language.

[1] https://pandoc.org
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Park-n-ride has great quality of life but costs a ton because you inevitably wind up paying the cost of driving, parking and public transit.
I'm not too familiar with postgresql, but isn't that serializable snapshot rather than serializable? I'm pretty sure all RDMBs have deadlocks in serializable. But in serialiable snapshot, a transaction doesn't deadlock, but simply fails.
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Both Pornhub and Disney have entertained and benefited many reddit users over the years. By that measure, haven't they earned that goodwill?
I see his post as lamenting the fact that people are not honest with him about how his HIV status affects them. Instead, they choose to lie to him and beat around the bush.
Correct. There's a higher contribution limit ($7k in 2019) if you have family HDHP coverage. Also, after retirement, money can be withdrawn without paying the 10% penalty and just paying the regular income tax, in case you don't have receipts for medical payments from the past.

I wonder how the IRS would prevent a tax evader using the same receipts for payments for medical expenses for different withdrawals in different years.
I agree and disagree with you. Agree 100% on the strengthening. What is often lost in the Instagram posts is you need a plan to attack things like sitting back pain that come at it from different angles such as Yoga, PT, Pilates, cardio and/or strength training. That was more of list of possibilities but you should work with someone that has experience in the field build something that fits your needs.

When I first came out of college, I had incredible knee pain when sitting for longer period. I couldn't go to class without taking motrin or something stronger depending on the day. I worked out, played sports etc, was very active, and felt no pain when doing those activities but something in my body was out of whack/alignment. I saw a few specialists, did an MRI and they couldn't find an obvious cause. My only option that route was getting cut open and maybe finding something that wasn't being picked up (which knee surgery is a miserable recovery). I started doing PT where I was told my hamstrings were like old rubberbands. So I started stretching but it wasn't progressing. I ended up seeing a rolfing masseuse once a month. Things progressed slowly. I got to a point where seeing a trainer was a good option. Eventually the kneed pain vanished but was in my back. More work and direction and the pain was gone. It took two+ years of dedication but it was worth every penny.

I'm sharing this because I understand how desperate people can feel with pain management and how confusing everything can be. My point is plenty of the information is total bullshit, but if you put the energy and money in, you can find the right team and try a few different things, you can get better. I would have never believe in the actual effects of rolfing if I never tried it. You don't have to live with the pain, try to keep working and don't ever give up on it.
Personally, I am very much not on board with RCS at all. But if I had to choose between RCS SMS and anything by Facebook et al, I'd learn to tolerate RCS.
This wasn't asset stripping. They did a dividend recap. Asset stripping is transferring assets outside of the credit group.
No, thanks. Surely not from Facebook.
PDF/A-1a is a form of PDF where the text is embedded in structured way. It is a 'tagged PDF'. This is meant to make PDF files accessible. It makes it possible to extract the text well.

Some governments, e.g. Dutch government, mandate that PDFs be tagged PDFs.
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I'm actually delighted to hear this. Every company seems to have slapped on a send money button on their app (gmail, fb, snapchat come to mind). My understanding is they were all taking a loss in hopes that it massively took off and they could capture that market (venmo is still unprofitable). I would much rather someone find an efficiency that allows them to run a profitable payments platform than have all these big players drown the market by dumping money into it.
Advertising is so ubiquitous on Reddit that you almost do it a disservice by enumerating one example.

But something that makes me roll my eyes the hardest is when an indie dev makes a single post to /r/gaming and the gamers complain about advertising. As if that subreddit isn't one constant advertisement for the top three games out at one moment. But just launder your ads and gamers eat it up.

A dev posting their own content for once should be some of the most welcomed content. It's usually accompanied by Q&A and insights into the design process, the rare opportunity to actually talk to the creator of a game on that subreddit. Sad to see so many people attack it because it's just obvious advertisement.

Something seems very miscalibrated.
My family went bankrupt because the insurance companies decided my mother having a stroke and falling down the stairs constituted a pre-existing condition.

I don't think people understand how pervasive the usage of pre-existing condition bullshit was used to deny payment.
Verizon (cable specifically) already sells "adult content" in the form of premium channels, like most cable providers in the U.S. In fact they have defended carrying of such channels by saying consumers want the choice. While they don't produce it, they are certainly making money off of it and defending the choice to do so.

See https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/verizon-defends-decisi...
He's that way because he's a narcissist, not because he's a genius. Those kinds of people have difficulty stepping outside themselves and lack the ability to situate themselves in a world of different opinions. I imagine he's perpetually confused why anyone would use a different language.
I always thought it was kinda understood that WeChat was the Facebook for the East? To the point where Facebook once made their own phone and no one really batted an eye.
Hah! I hadn't noticed that.

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Surprised by the amount of negativity in this thread.

My interpretation of this is an organization recognizing external contributions as personal growth and community enrichment and seeking to reward that behavior. I would put this in the same vein as healthcare providers subsidizing gym memberships, or organizations paying for people to attend training, conferences, or higher education.

In any case, you're making the choice of self-improvement though in this case with community enrichment as an additional benefit. I don't know how Formidable compensates but anyone who thinks the compensation is anything more than a nod is missing the point.

The purpose is not to place a monetary value on the work being done, it's an acknowledgement of gratitude. If you won't accept that then consider it a small supportive investment in a person who is choosing to invest in themselves and their community.
I believe those are « fire detectors » as they sense the flickering light of a fire.
> How many guns does one need?

I saw several estimates that agree on average somewhere between 8 and 10.

A couple of bolt action rifles for hunting, rimfire for plinking with kids, a pump-action shotgun stashed somewhere for home defense, a pistol to carry concealed, another pistol as backup, grandpa's revolver that is now a decoration, and three old rifles in various state of decay at the back of the safe that everyone forgot about - those are all very typical.
> So people who vote in isolation have less influence than people who organize and vote as a bloc.

I think that’s a feature not a bug. It would encourage people to propose plan or candidates that are acceptable to a wider part of the electorate.
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> In time, the thinking goes, it may become as indispensable to Westerners as WeChat is in China.

And this is a good thing? Not only that, but we're supposed to trust Mark "Privacy This Time" Zuckerberg with something that indispensable?

> “The future is private,” he declared grandiosely.

Nearly 10 years ago, Zuckerberg proclaimed, to paraphrase, that the age of privacy is over. Forgive me if I don't take what he says today seriously at all.

> It could argue that a single dominant social network is easier to police than lots of smaller ones and has greater financial and technical capacity to keep users safe from harmful content.

I'm reassured by this. /s

It's the same old story, but with a new coat of "privacy" paint.