skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in the long run people take care of their parents and you will not hear of older people being alone let alone die alone.

You are assuming these people have children at all - that's becoming less true every year.

Also, you should consider that people sometimes prefer to be alone. My grandmother now lives with my mother, but that was only after she fell at home at 85 years old, because before she preferred to live by herself. Had she died in that fall, she would have died alone too, but not because her children didn't want to take care of her.
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I'm not saying it's true for all countries, but it is true for China. The government is putting development as priority instead of human rights, and since the government is unlikely to change anytime soon, this is the reality. Only when China is prosper enough, the government may start caring about human right. It's also a big culture shift, and can take a long time and lot's of mistakes.
If you are referring to tax incentives, then in the US it depends on the variance in income and children:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/16/upshot/marria...

High income couples are actually penalized, and even worse off once they have a child!
Sure, but it was just an example. What about if I was with my lover, and I didn't want my wife to know? If someone from the staff knew my wife, how do I know they won't send the video to her?

What if I was drunk and tripped or made a fool of myself in some other way and I didn't want that to end up on YouTube or /r/PublicFreakout on Reddit?

Etc., etc.

We just don't know. Of course I could sue the person if what's been done is illegal, but it's a video and the damage would be done and hard to repair.
I'm realising that The Circle was documentary not parody.
I don't have to trust the site, since these facts are already well known. It's an article from 2011. Also I'm very familiar with the defunct Soros/OSF Foundations activity during the 90s and 2000s in my country and George Soros' own discourse. I used to read his articles before 2013, when the EU was all rosy.
Until the divorce, then men get wrecked financially most of the time, losing houses, half the money, forced to pay alimony.
Organisational data protection is no data protection at all.
Does it? I'm about to get married in the UK and I cannot name a single break that we will get while married. I think you can transfer some of your tax-free allowance to your spouse, but only if one of you makes less than 10k/year, so with both of us working there is no benefit here.

It's slightly easier to get a large loan or mortgage as a married couple, but it's not exactly impossible if you just live together as partners.

The way I see it, it's an absolutely enormous expense with almost zero financial/economical benefit for us. I love my partner and want to get married because I think that's the right thing to do, but if I looked at it outside of the "romantic/traditional" angle, there is absolutely no reason to get married.
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For me, that time is life is "always".
Could you add a contrasting colour for the "Zoomed In" portion of the map? The would provide a nice juxtaposition.
"Cellphones are one of the past century's greatest contributions to public safety."

Don't you think that's a bit if a neurotic and control freak way to look at it?

Humans survive splendidly on oxygen and agreeable temperature for days and are really hard to kill.

If we lived in a Syrianesque dystopia all around I would get your anxiety but any above median income metropolis should be just fine for supporting a humanoid lifeform for brief excursions out of ones home environment.

Phones are fantastic for public surveillance, but that's another thing entirely.

I'm a parent and I get the anxiety but worrying too much and helicoptering the children out of all rough spots is really not a skillfull way to worry through ones life.
I heard about this via John Arundel @bitfield: https://twitter.com/bitfield/status/956167710156746752

> This is genuinely amazing, not just for the content, which is excellent, but it's also one of the most innovative websites I've seen
Perhaps you and your friends group fall out of the majority? But I do know there is a certain pressure from parents and personal ideals when it comes to money that are still very present when it comes to dating or choosing a partner. Even if it's only subconscious...

Most of my friends and relatives (NL) don't even get married, but rather have a partnership agreement that is pretty much the same status as married but less hard to unbind or set up.
Hehe I was kidding.
I’ve only sort of internalized it.
"Target users by manipulating their attention and directing it towards their own commercial purposes."
There is whole lot of other industries that do this - marketing, food packaging, adding additives like sugar, advertisement.
He just described what every business does. It is ironic to hear from a billionaire who made his money investing in free market that Google and Facebook should be regulated.
GP felt matter-of-fact to me and didn't seem to have negative connotations.
Thanks for the response! These are very good references. I like the breakdown of message and/or service definitions into separate files so it is easy to browse through the repository. I am assuming the version bump (v1 vs. v2) occurs when you introducing breaking changes to the API? I am aware that protobuf does a good job at allowing forwards and backwards compatibility at the message level..
Human nature hasn't really changed in the last hundred years. My great grandfather was imprisoned as an enemy of the people and my father was tracked by the Securitate political police - it's not such a distant dystopia for me so I empathize with Soros.

The danger here is that we might be lulling ourselves in a complacent state "it can't happen to us", because of our values, democracy, political system, etc. while at the same time putting in place massive infrastructure ripe for totalitarian abuse.

At a moment's notice, the situation can transition radically with the monsters lurking in the shadows taking full control of an unstoppable surveillance machine, indeed of a capacity not even Orwell could imagine - now capable of autonomous decision and self enforcement for absolute compliance. The trigger could be something as banale as a military conflict - our capacity to chose freedom as opposed to complete physical security has steadily gotten worse. Once in place totalitarian rule is strongly self enforcing and very very hard to shake, it corrodes all social cohesion and institutions, turning individuals into survival or full denial mode.
Interesting article. It is suggesting there is a smaller supply of marriageable men.

On the demand side, we are also seeing more and more educated, career focused women.

I feel like there are many who have a desire to have children and therefore would like to marry someone who can support them. Typically this means marrying a man who earns more than you. The thing is if you're a women, the more you earn, the smaller the marriageable pool becomes.
Qmails direct competitor Postfix? Postfix has more, but Qmail has one with a higher score:
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-8450... vs https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-86/p...

Postfix is also much more widely used than qmail.
And let people know why they are there.

I've been in countless meetings where it's been unclear why y presence was required.
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Interesting, can you link the paper please? I'd love to read it
Looking at this from another perspective:

As a modern woman who makes good money, I'd be comfortable in theory with marrying a man who makes far less than I do.

The problem with that in practice is gender roles in marriage. It's still the norm for women to be responsible for the lion's share of cooking, cleaning, and childrearing. Even in the marriages with the most "woke" husbands I see among my friends, the wife almost always ends up both doing more and spending more mental energy on the home.

That means that for men, marriage lightens the burden of (for lack of a better term) managing life, leaving more time and energy for career. For women it's the opposite. This is the primary reason IMO why marriage is a good deal for both parties if the breadwinner makes more than the homemaker. It's just that men who are willing to be the homemaker are vanishingly rare. And if both are breadwinners, almost invariably the homemaking burden falls more heavily on the wife.

That means that from a practical (as opposed to a romantic) perspective, marrying a man who makes significantly less than me is liable to be an enormous burden. Why would I want to support a man both economically and practically?

Yes, there are some men out there who would make the fair trade and do more of the homemaking if I were the primary breadwinner. There are also a bunch who say they'd be willing to do it, but aren't aware of what that fully entails and aren't willing to put in the emotional investment. (See [1] and [2]). There are also more of those men in younger generations in general; and the ones who exist in my generation are likely to be already married - and happily so. So I'll stay single - and happily so.

The solution, in my opinion, would be to continue to erase traditional gender roles. If most of the men out there were ready to take on the homemaker role enthusiastically, I would be far more willing to consider them as partners even if they make a fraction of what I do.
"CONCLUSIONS
We found a significant association between respiratory infections, especially influenza, and acute myocardial infarction.

RESULTS
We identified 364 hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction that occurred within 1 year before and 1 year after a positive test result for influenza. Of these, 20 (20.0 admissions per week) occurred during the risk interval and 344 (3.3 admissions per week) occurred during the control interval. The incidence ratio of an admission for acute myocardial infarction during the risk interval as compared with the control interval was 6.05 (95% confidence interval [CI], 3.86 to 9.50). No increased incidence was observed after day 7. Incidence ratios for acute myocardial infarction within 7 days after detection of influenza B, influenza A, respiratory syncytial virus, and other viruses were 10.11 (95% CI, 4.37 to 23.38), 5.17 (95% CI, 3.02 to 8.84), 3.51 (95% CI, 1.11 to 11.12), and 2.77 (95% CI, 1.23 to 6.24), respectively."
> Why would people abuse opioids en masse unlike anywhere else in the world? They must be living genuinely traumatic and desperate lives, in which there is little healthcare, so they have to self-medicate the terror away. But what is so desperate about them? Well, consider another example: the “nomadic retirees”. They live in their cars. They go from place to place, season after season, chasing whatever low-wage work they can find — spring, an Amazon warehouse, Christmas, Walmart.

These traveling workers in many ways were an involuntary Oxy distribution as teens would raid their grandparents medicine cabinets (as well as other thiefs who would going looking for anything).

If true, the way the conflation of events can transpire always amaze me.
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I am an architect at one of the companies that has a representative on this committee. When I have brought up discussions of localized broadband public partnerships I have been mercilessly shut down.
Capex is a limited commodity, but so is qualified legal and engineering resources. The short and medium returns on investing our growth capabilities on limited return partnerships is insufficient to warrant the effort.
> This sounds a bit like a conflation between Product Managers and Project Management.

And what's the significant difference between these two titles? I can invent
half a dozen more pro-something manager titles by myself, which doesn't mean
they will be in any way useful.
The time is just a proxy for the importance you place on the meeting.

Simple examples:

In a one-on-one meeting, you're not going to open your laptop. You have to hold up your end.

In a meeting in which you know you will be answering questions, you'll be paying attention.

In a meeting which is about your work and decisions will be made, you pay attention.

Then again, in a meeting which is about work you care about, you pay attention.

Now the antitheses: if the meeting has many attendees, and you don't need to answer questions, and decisions about your work aren't being made... why are you even there? In fact, why are most people there? Is it a group bonding activity? That's a legitimate thing, but it should be fairly infrequent.
Well, I'm not into forcing things on others, so I can't agree with your perfect world. However, I'm more interested in what "socialized" actually means: it seems like just another phrase like "treated as public utility" that doesn't mean much to me on its own. Is this about the government taking control of the company?
Please fix the submission url to point to the article, not to google.

That is http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/09/10/the-hoba-meteorite-...
Two things:

1. That's a disaster waiting to happen. Lots of actors are targeting governments, not just hackers and criminals (other governments and people from inside the gov itself).

2. That doesn't stop terrorists from using secure encryption.

What you are proposing gives government unlimited access to innocent citizens data while it does nothing about access to malicious parties.

Sorry but this proposal makes no sense! At least the backdoor is a wolf in disguise for government intervention in citizens everyday life.
When I first started using Webpack 4 years ago, it had the most finnicky, difficult-to-configure (perhaps even magic) API I can think of. It worked really well once you got it configured, and wSokra was incredibly helpful and supportive in the chat room; but if you didn't have a known-working config and/or access to wSokra, well, good luck.

I'm highly supportive to anything they can do to make it easier to configure and maintain, even if the cost is breaking the old APIs and making folks migrate to newer ones.

Hopefully as someone works on a library and learns a problem space more thoroughly, they have better knowledge of what an ideal API would look like. I know migration can be painful, but I'm very supportive of long-run improvements to a project.
I think you make an excellent point around gender roles.

The modern world of work (i.e. modern career focused women) clashes with the status quo/tradition of marriage (i.e. housework).
> Google’s main business, Search, is still about getting you away from Google as quick as possible

Google Analytics.

On virtually every website, tracking everybody, all the time. Google is trying to get as much data about us as they can, and if you are an ex-Googler, you are pretty blue-eyed.
Agreed. And I would even say that the traditional gender definitions will shift automatically if it's really the case that women can be the major bread winner in a relationship. The basic deal of "I give you a home, you give me financial stability" is a good one, no matter who's who in this relationship. It's just a transition that naturally takes 2-3 generations, and the people who are caught in the middle are a little F*d.
> Use python as a preprocessor

It’ll become harder to find developers, and longer for new ones to start being productive. Also it’ll become harder to do cross platform development because you’ll have to port, and then support, that custom pre-processing tools/DSL for every platform.

> Use python to call into C

Last time I’ve checked Python can’t import C headers. To call into C, you somehow need to negotiate function prototypes & calling conventions between the two languages. Regardless on how you do it manually or automatically, it’s very expensive to support. People do it when the have to (e.g. to interop Python with C libraries), but for tests, the approach is way too expensive for most project.

> it is trivial to use Racket to write tests against shared object files (once you know Racket)

I don’t know Racket but I doubt it’s trivial. SO libraries export C functions, they use C structures for arguments and return values, and these can be very complex. Pointers graph, function pointers, pointers to pointers, variable length structures, other advanced features are pain to use from any other language (besides languages specifically designed to be backward compatible, like C++, objective C, and maybe D). And if you need to test C++ code it’s even harder, unlike C it doesn’t have standardized ABI, i.e. the ABI changes between compilers and their versions.
MGTOW!
Seems to overlook how irrelevant some meetings are to some staff.
> And if both are breadwinners, almost invariably the homemaking burden falls more heavily on the wife.

Which is why I'm in favor of outsourcing (i.e. cleaning, take-out, blue apron). My friends (she's a doctor and he's a product manager) say getting a cleaner is the best thing they could have done for their relationship
That requires the largest hole in the cage to be smaller than the signal wavelength, which makes it pretty difficult to get in.
> If you are encrypting where all the tokens are different, you can't do a join or analysis.

That would hopefully be part of the reason for doing it this way.

I once worked on a system where we encrypted most customer data on registration and took it entirely off line once a day (so new data was in encrypted form online for a day, and then was air-gapped permanently).

The fact that marketing etc. had to request reports to be run manually on the airgapped customer database was an important barrier that made them think about how they could meet their needs without it.

Sometimes, of course, they had genuine needs that needed access to the unencrypted data, but it was rare.

I'm a big fan of making it take extra effort to do these things - time and resources seems to be a far stronger barrier than requiring authorization.
Too many assumptions, too many ways how developers can make mistakes, by declaring code side-effect free while it has some.
Last year I went to a King Crimson concert. There were no "phone prisons", but they repeatedly informed the audience to keep their phones pocketed until the end of the show. This seemed to work wonders, as I didn't see a single phone for the duration of the show.
Now, naturally this was a somewhat different audience than e.g. a Chris Rock show, but it does prove that it's possible. Maybe it all comes down to respect?
Although I suspect it will end up taking more than 2-3 generations, I admire your optimism and hope you're right!
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You could argue its the appendage of a robot.
To be fair, I know men who absolutely do their fair share around cooking, cleaning, and childrearing. However, obviously, they are not the ones bragging on forums about constantly working overtime nor are much visible in their hobbies etc.

Edit: for those who downvote - there is opportunity cost for doing these things. At minimum, he is more tired when he does that. And it is not possible to do fair share of house work if you work 70 hours a week every week. Nor when you train or work on hobby additional 20 hours a week.

It is not like men who did all those things would have longer days or magically needed less sleep.
It often starts with a meeting being called with too many people and no clear agenda. If you waste 10 people's time with your meeting, you better have an idea what's so important that it costs 10 man hours.
I liked the article. I have worked in the field of AI since the 1980s and this article gave me a different perspective.

Of course the elephant in the room is privacy concerns. It concerns me that Facebook and Google track our actions in ways that we can’t really opt out of. Facebook is worse.

As a decades long supported of the FSF, ACLU, and EFF my attitude has changed. I still occasionally donate to these organizations because they push back for our benefit, but, I live and work in a digital world and I want to be as effective as possible in that world.

Google Assistant helps me getting stuff done in ways that Apple’s privacy respecting Siri can’t do because of the information Google has. I would love to own the camera showcased in this article and at family and other social events get a few good pictures at the end of the day without having to think about taking pictures.

People get to make their own choices and for myself I mostly use duck-duck-go and a VPN so Verizon does not have my web history, but I compromise on using select Google Services.
Oops, missed the links and for some reason my edits won't take:

[1] https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/

[2] https://www.themarysue.com/emotional-labor-pdf/
> The solution, in my opinion, would be to continue to erase traditional gender roles. If most of the men out there were ready to take on the homemaker role enthusiastically, I would be far more willing to consider them as partners even if they make a fraction of what I do.

The solution is not merely one sided. Women must also be willing to 'give up' those roles.

Say what you will about men stepping up but my ongoing experience in a marriage with the woman as the bread winner and me as the home maker (with kids) is that my wife puts herself under a lot of 'self' pressure to be the classic mum (baking, cleaning, ironing, washing whatever). She also receives a ton of pressure from her mother and from her friends, intended or perceived it doesn't really matter, to maintain the 'mum to the kids and running the house' meme.

Believe it or not we've had stand up arguments about her not doing the washing and ironing and leaving it to me, because she just can't let it go. The most recent one is wrestling control of the kitchen from her, not in the sense of shutting her out but letting me in. Even food purchasing, I began to solely do that last year but New Year, New Resolutions has brought a return to the 'we'll eat healthily, I'll cook every evening and bake at the weekend' pantomime. Despite the fact we already ate great food and she's away with work for at least 1 week in 6 and the weekly late evenings still in work or day trips away for conferences/meetings.

All this might sound like one big complaint but really it's just to illustrate that it takes both sides to change in order to actually affect change.
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That's factually not true, women rarely date down. Women, on average, prefer slightly older men, equally or more educated then themselves, more successful than themselves financially, in good physical shape, dominant/aggressive.

That's why we always hear "where did all the good men go?" from women, even though they are surrounded by guys who throw themselves at the women.

So since more women and fewer men started going to college, the dating pool for women shrunk a lot.

Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson is famous for talking about these issues on YouTube, highly recommended.
I think that "I give you a home, you give me financial stability" deal does not really work in practice. The one that is supposed to give financial stability is very likely to end up spending so much time at work, that home does not really matter. And if the work ends up not liked by him/her, resentful. And the one at home is very likely to end up feeling unappreciated, useless and so on.
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As a self-taught programmer, I realize I've many blind spots. I would like to get better well rounded when discussing software engineering topics.

Things like data structures but also modern software engineering practices.

Any books, courses or other resources I should focus on?
>hearing the billionaire cry foul gives me pause.

I guess from Soros point of view the underlying issue is that the social media amplify outrage driving up lobbying costs.