skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is it really worse for society to have single mothers on welfare than to have mothers trapped in toxic marriages for financial reasons?

Surely this is an empirical question and not a theoretical one. Unfortunately it's hard to measure fairly. Let me offer a clearly flawed first pass.

If you take, just as a reference point, pre 1960 US society and post 1980 US society as exemplars of "lots of toxic marriage" and "lots of welfare mothers", then I think one would be hard pressed to show empirical evidence that the latter is doing any better than the former. Certainly by conventional measures of success, one could argue that the latter is worse (though there are so many confounding variables that I personally don't feel comfortable having an opinion).

My point here is that I don't think we can presume the welfare-single-mother outcome to be, a priori, obviously better than the old toxic-marriage status quo, when measured by society-level outcomes. There is ample evidence that both cases are clearly inferior to stable, non-toxic, two-parent households. So the question is an empirical one of the lesser of two evils, and I don't think we have a clean way to answer it so far.
>"Researchers have demonstrated learning at a rate that is a 1 million times improvement compared with other typical spiking neural nets as measured by total operations to achieve a given accuracy when solving MNIST digit recognition problems."

>"Further, it is up to 1,000 times more energy-efficient than general purpose computing required for typical training systems."

Wow. That is tremendous.
I seem to recall hearing that myself. Steve Blank has "The Curse of the a Building":

https://steveblank.com/2009/05/15/supermac-war-story-11-the-...

There's the economy-wide skyscraper curse:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-03/16/content_758...
Street View cars map the way to cleaner air, block by block
Also Talk [1], which you can self host! (Disclaimer, engineer on the team!)

[1]: https://github.com/coralproject/talk
Database Wars: SQL Awakens
I'd guess that authorities would also have issues with situations where one purposely encrypts a hard-drive and disables decryption until later / confirmed safe by a third party. At the very least, that is what "Possession of encrypted data whilst being unable to decrypt it" sounds like.

It then becomes a grey area between having been sent encrypted data, and having used the previously mentioned scheme to avoid decryption.

I also wonder how this interacts with the new 5-tap SOS function on iPhones.
For the thought exercise, I suppose. With the already entrenched services, it seems unlikely to change to whole new services. At least not any time soon.

There were services that came before, but they lacked the inertia the current incumbents have. The userbase of Facebook, Google, etc. is huge in the Western world. Even if another company came along and built a great service, I doubt it would see mass adoption due to the massive numbers involved with the current providers.
How do you create a prosperous startup community?
As a side note, while EnvKey's server is not open source, the app and client libraries are all MIT-licensed, and they are designed specifically not to trust the server.
What about that DetectX software on this site, anyone use that?
> I hope you know that women were also historically accompanied by dowry?

In some cultures. In some cultures, the groom (or his family) paid her family a bride price, and in some cultures the groom paid her (personally, not her family) a dower. In some cultures, in fact, a combination of these existed simultaneously.

Of course, pretending that dowry alone was the dominant tradition is necessary to your argument that what the wife brought was viewed as insufficient value on its own, but it's not actually accurate.
dd, no, they're also setting bs=N which means they're testing the speed of /dev/zero copying to that block size as well.

They also don't know if either hfs/hfs+/apfs have anything like zfs' "oh you wrote an entire block of zeros, yeah I'm not doing that, I'll just mark the block as all zeros" optimization.

Never use dd to benchmark file i/o! At least use something like ioperf which has the ability to tell you more about what you're benchmarking. Using dd without bypassing any vm caches is... misguided at best.
For what it's worth, it already is.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla...

Builtin functions for adding, removing, toggling and querying classes on elements.
I haven't used kinesis myself, I've just heard that it's "SQS with the FIFO issue fixed", and wondered if it might also be suitable for you. Judging from the other comments, it wouldn't be a silver bullet, though.
Haven’t noticed a huge difference on my 6 plus, but it’s there.
YouTube Made North Korea Even More Opaque
Agreed. I think about the analogy of interchangeable parts and if that might apply to education. Maybe teachers should just teach and assessors should assess. Interchangeable parts made it so equipment could be more efficiently be manufactured. But that didn't preclude there being a lot of different types of equipment. In fact, there's probably more types of equipment because of interchangeable parts. So for education, having an assessor focus on assessments, independent and separate from instruction, might make it so that there could be easier to assess and more types of assessment, so the teacher doesn't have to always do it. And that might help compare results across teachers.

College Board owns SAT, AP, and (essentially) Common Core so there's been a trend to tighter coupling. I like the idea of an AP Test that anyone can and be assessed separate from the teacher. Same for SAT. I think we need more of that model, not less.
Exactly. Most of America would love an employer to come in and bid up jobs. Most of America doesn't suffer from insane housing prices.
What do they do with devices that have soldered in storage?

Hilariously enough, an Intel Management Engine-esque system could come in handy here for nuking data.
From this post:

"Our first paper is Scalable Distributed Subgraph Enumeration or "SEED". We will have a future post about rules for picking acronyms."

I suspect the author would agree.
This would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. You realize this is exactly what every evil dictator in history thought? They didn't wake up one morning and decide to be evil, they were trying to do what they thought was right. In their minds they were good, they were actually trying to make the world a better place, according to their world view. They had great plans, and the foolish mob didn't know what was best for them. And one thing led to another.

So what if the right-wing people in charge had the same ideas as you? Several democracies with cancerous social media networks have been teetering on the brink of left-wing national socialism, the mob needs to be controlled.

What we dislike about fascists and their ilk is not the right-wing or left-wing part, it is how they deal with those they disagree with. Stalin was responsible for more deaths than Hitler, Mao for more than Stalin, neither of them right wing. If you were able to enforce what you suggest, you would be worse than those you oppose.

But you are right about democracies devolving in certain times of stress. How about this statement instead? "The mob needs to be inspired by the self-sacrificial service of good leaders for progress to be made"
> For instance, we believe there’s potential for a company to build a service that meaningfully connects schools and parents, and to charge parents for the service.

I disagree. I already pay taxes, book fees, technology fees, extracurricular fees to my school district. I would not pay another cent for anything I didn't have to pay.

A big problem in K-12 education today is actually over-involvement of parents. Helicoptering, or whatever you want to call it. Sure a teacher wants parent support -- but from home. They do not want to, do not have time for, and should not be dealing with 20 parent interactions a day, technology-assisted or not.
Those are problems, but surely they're not purely caused by tech? As in, it should be possible for Chicago, being a fairly large city as is, to absorb new tech peoples without causing too much of a problem?
Well deserved :-)
> This only ends up helping the already wealthy

How? Care to elaborate?
I think in all but the most extreme cases, even then, there will be an interest in the health and well-being of the whole community, prayer lists for parishioners who are ailing, and so on. Perhaps not for the TV guys who preach out of converted sports arenas but I think it's a little questionable if that really represents a community.
Someone has been attacking me.

> has massive advantages

I don't see their advantages as being massive or even significant. The best possible dispatching is not very good and not very difficult to do.

All around the world, for nearly all customer trips, the locals can offer in nearly all respects better service at lower prices. The prices can be lower if only due to the lack of Uber overhead.

For something like a taxi service, an app is not the way to go. The UI/UX of a good Web page with a Web brower is plenty good and much easier 'system managament' for both the client and the server.
Thanks for this - I've been wondering about a way to manage environment variables securely within AWS itself. I hate the way that the keys are readily viewable within the Elastic Beanstalk 'Configuration' screen.

EDIT: Looks like Parameter Store only works directly with EC2 instances, rather than with Elastic Beanstalk? Looks like I cannot set up a load balanced environment which can use the same Parameter Store across (potentially) multiple dynamic instances?

EDIT2: Also looks like it is tricky to run multiple sets of parameters which will auto configure the instance depending on its role (i.e. development, staging, production)? I may be misreading the docs though. Must admit that reading the config docs and options makes me lean towards a quicker solution like the OP's EnvKey.
I've seen start-ups that blew all their money in ridiculous ways - to me - without ever crossing that line. You can burn a lot of $ once you start shopping in SF for hip office space, create an irresponsible marketing budget and hire some expensive VP's of something or other. And VCs will applaud you all - or at least most - of the way when you do that.

I see venture capital in the United States exactly the way I see record companies: for the most part they try to get the noob's signature on the dotted line on a contract they will wish they never signed a few years later on the off chance that they too will end up like a few of the mega stars did.
For some reason I really hate the name "Service Merchandise". I'm only familiar with it from Wheel of Fortune, I don't know where the stores were located. Something about the name, though, like "soft serve". Grammatically ambiguous is the best way I can describe it.
Spend More Time Alone
“All sorts of things” is a broad statement to toss around without at least some links. I primarily work in python and had never even heard of the py2app issue since it’s not an incredibly common tool and most python developers I know use newer versions of python.

That’s why I questioned the original broad claim: I know there are edge cases but most of the developers I know work on Macs and SIP just isn’t mentioned often enough for it to be anywhere near as bad in general as a few random commenters claim, not to mention that anyone I know who’s at all security savvy appreciates that it’s a trade off rather than a unilateral bad move.
Oh, unions are fighting for workers, just not very successful. They can lower the impact of market forces, but they cannot negate them. Who they are notoriously not fighting for is temp workers and future temp workers who have it much worse than barely matching inflation. Darkly logical, temps are not members.
Because, for instance you have to be over 18 to get a job, because your minimum wage could be indexed to age, because your CV will give most of that away anyway and because various official forms your employer will need to fill in accurately contain a field for 'date of birth'.

You probably can't even open a bank account without specifying your DOB, let alone get a job or a loan.
if you're going to implement that kind of overhead why not just use libc?
Anecdotally, after updating from 10.12.6 to 10.13 on my maxed-out 2017 15” MBP, transitioning between spaces and apps remains silky smooth, even when under heavy CPU load, which wasn’t really the case previously.
Cross-border chats that previously used WhatsApp will now be forced to switch to WeChat, and thus be subject to Chinese gov't monitoring. Also leading to more international installs of WeChat.

If US blocked those sites, nobody would care, except those with ties to China. However, it would be easy to circumvent with VPNs etc., unless of course the US duplicated the GFW.

At any rate, that's rather antithetical to US values.
How many US cities have my family? just 1.

We could all move, but that's out of my control.
Were you able to predict when you were going to compulsively have sex, overeat, etc. an hour ahead of time?
yes! you are CORRECT sir!

and this is due to the "END USER" who is fooled by such nonsense.
There are studies showing respondents registering sonic differences when shown different UI...
pathetic but true...

and 100% the fault of the golden-ears golden-cable audio mythology B$ that has already ruined any pretense of objectivity in the Hi-Fi world and has basically been milking the pro-audio market, thanks to cooperative reviews and an industry that has a lot at stake if it speaks up...
> Was career a sacrifice or something that she was happy to get rid of in exchange to support?

Does not really matter what sort of words you want to call it. She still gave up her earning potential for the family. These decisions are made by two people, not one. And now, as a result of that, in divorce, they are woefully uneven going forward. Alimony is there to balance those scales. Don't like it? Don't have a stay at home family.

> I think I can find men who would be happy to do chores if a woman would be supporting them with high-paying job, and essentially zero women who will agree to such arrangement.

My friend group alone includes one planned stay at home husband, so you are quite incorrect on this point.

> Staying at home without working is a bad decision

Then don't do it.

> and you certainly can't chain man over it when it doesn't work.

Why all the concern for the man here and none for the woman? She's "chained" to lower earnings for the rest of her life as a result of this.
Do you honestly believe nobody used the term 'start-up' before Steve Blank or Paul Graham used it?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/start-up

"A Fledgling Business Enterprise"

That's exactly what it means, no more, no less. Keep in mind that outside of the HN crowd absolutely nobody would know who either Steve Blank of Paul Graham are and neither of them get to redefine the English language.
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8 Straight Hurricanes Have Formed in the Atlantic, a First Since the Late 1800s
Signal. Maybe Wire.
No one is forcing them to use Google or Facebook. I sure as hell wouldn't want the US blocking Baidu or whatever. Let me decide.
> Edit: This is not a justification or defense of internet censorship. It is an explanation of why the Chinese public may be more willing to accept strict government controls than the West.

What are you talking about? The west has completely accepted surveillance by it's governments. The ideas by Locke, Rousseau, or Hobbes have 0 effect on western society. If you think western society is an 'freer', it's only because it's the perfect illusion created by your echo chamber.
I used to work as a developer for an online charter school many years back so this space is very familiar. I even thought about starting my own company and breaking into this space because the software I worked on wasn't very good (it was miles above what was already out there, for sure, but I thought there were many places that could be improved).

The problem I ran into, which completely discouraged me at the time, was that of making money. You need a significant amount of capital to sell to a private school and a public school requires sales cycles of at least a couple of years. It just wasn't possible with me already having a family, mortgage, etc.

I would love to see the whole thing get disrupted. I even think about doing something in it from time to time. Having YC behind you would certainly be a big help. One big issue you face is that you're going to be teaching children and helping to shape their minds so you must use valid scientific research to back up your ideas less we create a generation of adults who cannot think about the world. This is the biggest hurdle, IMO, because it's so easy to just appeal to someone's bias narrative. For example "brain games" which "train" your brain basically only train it to play those games but they're still hugely popular and sometimes marketed to the same demographics.
What you are describing is an error in your internal mental models, not objective reality. It is a thing I also wrestled with.

Until earlier this month, I was homeless. I spent nearly six years on the street. I still am quite poor.

Like a lot of homeless people, I had income, just not enough to purchase a middle class lifestyle. I made choices about how to spend my money. I bought cheap tablets because I make my money online. I don't make much, but a cheap tablet could readily pay for itself in short order.

I also blog. Among other things, I try to provide health information for people with CF. There is a drug for CF that costs around $300k annually, so there are people providing high priced solutions for this same problem space. My difficulties in making money aren't actually the fact that people with CF have no money. This is not stopping drug companies from putting out very expensive medications for the condition.

So, there are reasons why I, personally, cannot up and charge people with CF big bucks for my help. But those reasons are not actually because they simply don't have the money, even though it is true that people with CF tend to be dirt poor.

While homeless, I shopped sometimes at second hand stores that had a lot of homeless clientele and I got payday loans. That was an eye opening growth experience for me.

If you provide real value and the right price point, even poor people can buy your product. If you think this is not true, you are dealing with some kind of emotional baggage, not actual market reality.

Best.
One issue I see is that it seems to be based on domains.

(Ex: if I want a container for my streaming apps, there's no way to segregate Amazon Video from the rest of the "shopping" app)

Then again I may be getting too fine grained with my personas but segregating Reddit, HN et al away from my Google account and away from my streaming accounts seems to kick tracking in the ass.
Police shouldn't need to make a formal request, because Uber should have reported it after the first instance.

Police are not asking for hidden confidential information here. They're asking Uber to obey the licensing conditions, which are to report criminal behaviour of their drivers.
Broadly Speaking:

- A good understanding of Functional IT, knowledge about typical Systems and Processes in an Industry(BFSI/Tech/Life Sciences), what sort of things are being protected from hackers (Windows Heavy Environments/MacOS Heavy Environments)

- Must have hands-on knowledge in Network Security and the tools/processes being used in a company

- Must understand Regulations related to the Industry (For e.g: HIPAA)

- Must have atleast 10 to 15 years of experience in 3 or more areas of Security like - Network Security/SOC , Audit/Compliance, Risk Management, Sysadmin/Network , Security Engineering.
The last paragraph also happens to perfectly describe how Russia works. All exactly the same.
The equivalent of WeChat in HK is WhatsApp.
The lightning must be quite intense for a time lapse to capture such density of strikes - he did mention that but even so! Awesome.
The tale of aux.c
Yep, I just run nfsv3 and samba4 on it to share things out to my internal network.

Its plenty fast for all my needs, though nfs over wifi is... slow in general its fast enough to not care a whole lot. I have a few bhyve linux vm's running that just go straight to the ssd's so they're silly fast with like 3g/s read speed or whatever. Its more than enough for all my home needs.
1. These are foreign-owned infrastructure platforms and China is protective about its markets. Foreigners can't set up businesses of any kind, let alone infrastructure.

2. You seem to assume the bulk of innovation is going to be happening outside China and that blocking consumer access to Western platforms would somehow inhibit a flow of information to China. I'd disagree on both counts. The Chinese government is acting as the word's biggest VC and is also very practised and willing to take on long-term transformation plans at the national level. Shutting down foreign platforms only drives adoption of home-grown ones. In addition, they are explicitly targeting a future position as the world leader in AI. In the West I'd be betting on the MIC over individual privately owned companies to put any kind of dent in that ambition. I think any moment where Apple or Google alone could outspend and outcompete China in tech is gone.
Cool never heard it before and that explains it, thanks!
https://staticman.net/ if the idea of having static comments is a plus for you.
I looked into this recently--Isso is heavily tied to sqlite w/o good reason. I would not recommend from a high availability or even simple backup perspective.

The other key feature I'm curious about w/ Disqus alternatives is spam filter performance. Isso does not have any besides manual curation of comments.
What about non-x86/64 platforms?
I think we have our script outline for The Social Network 2.0
I'm going to go against the consensus here and agree with you. Sure it would be great if Amazon moved to your city and added jobs, but that's not what they are doing. They are trying to start a bidding war between cities so that in the end the city gets as little value as possible and Amazon gets the most. This is especially true if you end up in a situation where Amazon gets some tax break for X years and the city expects a return in X+5 years, but Amazon just moved again after the tax break is gone.

Cities do better when they set themselves up to be attractive to companies naturally, not when they try to bribe an company to come to them
The proper term for this kind of activity is money laundering.
analog metaphors to physical world objects are INTENTIONAL here!

otherwise why would you pay MONEY for software when you already bought the computer and you could instead shell-out for a glorified paperweight ermmm a dedicated processor running the same software in a fancy box! (replete with slow knob-control response, just like the plugin running on a 486 and the worst midi interface the market doesn't even sell anymore, as it was made with desktop software tools and that guy who coded the original 6502 synth that ran 500 oscillators oversampled 5 million times retired last year and he's busy doing cobol for money anyway...but I digress)
How appropriate. I was just watching Simon and Garfunkel perform 'The Boxer' in Central Park, 1981 on YouTube.
"It’s a future where first responders using image-recognition applications can analyze streetlight camera images and quickly solve missing or abducted person reports."

Erp. That's also known as "a massive surveillance network", right?

"It’s a future where [your government] using image-recognition applications can analyze streetlight camera images and quickly solve [whether you're involved in pre-crime]."

This stuff is going to happen (or is already here) so perhaps it's time to switch to managing pervasive surveillance rather than preventing it.