skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article claims a lot of things and assumes many more.

I think "affording" children has never been the primary goal of folks having children. Most folks aren't all that good at predicting what it will cost to raise a child or three. Some costs aren't as much with multiple children (used clothing, for example, or sharing rooms makes housing more affordable). Others are higher, such as child care and food costs. Some things are improved if one parent stays home. I think the main thing that drives folks to have smaller or larger families is desire to do so rather than costs themselves. Oddly enough, education can help as well, if you are in a country that thinks it needs more or less children in total.

I find it appalling that it is socially unacceptable in many places for the man to stay home while the woman works. If my immigration status didn't depend on my husband working and we were at all keen on having children at all, I'd work while he stayed home with children.

I'm not sure jobs are any more satisfying, as it is a difficult thing to compare. Many parts of the world simply didn't allow women the same sort of opportunities as men 100 or 150 years ago. Some didn't 40-50 years ago. I got turned down for a job 20 years ago because "females just couldn't do the work required".

We also don't actually need large families any longer, not like we did in the past. Between better infant mortality rates, better survival of giving birth, and birth control, and the financial reasons given earlier, it really isn't as necessary. It's OK to do, but it should be a choice. I think society should have laws allowing maternity and paternity leave and time to tend to the children. This should include a parent staying home... at least until the child is in school and/or mature enough to spend some time alone. In so many places, this is missing.

There are opportunity costs if someone has multiple children, though. What chances does a woman have to be CEO if she also wants 5 children in a 10-year time frame? If she takes the proper time off for both her pregnancy and infant care, it becomes difficult. This can be worked around with strong paternal leave policies: After all, once a woman is healed enough to do her job, she doesn't need to be the one staying at home. It also puts the opportunity costs on both sexes.
I'm confused. If you've always been tall and lean and are trying to get strong, why are you restricting your eating? Tacos, eggs, bacon and chicken are all great foods to fuel a program like Stronglifts.
Wow, surprised to see “One Million Jobs” still here, from back when Uber was widely praised, and even so it encountered rampant skepticism[1]. Especially curious to see it on the same list as the “Future of Work” which implicitly contradicts its premise.

But hey, maybe there have been some compelling pitches for it. Does anyone have an idea for a One Million Jobs startup that isn’t another transportation company?

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7978163
a kid can't really walk to school if it's 5 miles away because it's a suburb
No forgive and forget, got to admit it's a powerful deterrent. Betray us and you're dead.
The Wire: 10years on
Apparently also not well-known enough. But by what criteria, I have no idea...
Washington governor signs landmark net neutrality bill into law
Chess is Too Easy (1998)
I could not disagree more with this article's tactical advice (though the intention is great). If I could go back in time and tell myself anything when I first got into engineering it would be "Be sure to take at least 20% of your day to not code, but rather to think about / engage with / socialize with others. Do not optimize for personal output, you will help the system most by improving the system rather than executing 25% more. And you can't improve the system unless you learn the social graces, speak the lingo, are in a good mood, appear patient, and aren't counting all the seconds that are 'wasted' by these interactions"
> The strength of this technology is the great exhaust velocity, which is great for space applications.

Ah, that makes sense. Given the speed that these satellites are typically travelling at, the exhaust probably needs to go faster than that to work, right?
land isn't the issue. building out the infrastructure to support urban sprawl isn't cost-effective, and the property taxes alone rarely recoup the cost
There’s another delusion around spending 20 hours on the wrong code and declaring success. You were efficient but not effective.
What valuable skill or quality does this show?
Apples Mania – addictive catch the apples game
Cheaper healthcare, education and available public transport (less need for car). That matters greatly. Also, not having much money seems to be less stigmatized and less criminalized then in America. There is some stigma, but there is less of "you are not rich therefore you are stupid" attitude.
x: How much do you need to live for a year?

y: How much do you need to retire forever?

y = 25x
> So, which exact parts are self-driving?

Just enough of it that they can skirt the DOT hour rules about hours worked while still blaming the driver for any crashes or tickets would be my guess.

That's the obvious lowest hanging fruit as far as trucking is concerned. If you can automate enough of the long haul grind that the driver could possibly be sleeping then you have a massive competitive advantage over everyone else.

If you don't automate enough to be able to skirt the DOT time rules there's not much of a competitive advantage.
A New Border Security App Uses AI to Flag Suspicious People in Seconds
I also recommend the foundation training. It's helping me a lot and really simple to do. Have a look: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOkRpabTWz-G5dRqsABppDQ
Who Threw Westmoreland Under the Bus?
Yeah it's all trade offs, the OP mentions he works until 8pm at the end of the article; I wonder what social life that leaves for after work exactly?

Also if he doesn't get his work done, he skips his fitness (ju jitsu) training and works instead? Does he think this is actually a healthy attitude?
You need fuel for more than just propulsion. A hybrid engine that provides trust to offset the drag while also powering a ship is very viable.

Remember, drag is a function of relative speeds. A hypothetical example with zero velocity would allow you to gather fuel without any drag.

Now for a very large and 'slow' generation ship you need a lot of energy to keep the crew alive, able to manufacture repair parts, keep the lights on etc. Now, say you want need 1 ounce of fuel per hour that does not seem bad but if your talking a 100,000+ year trip that's 54+ million pounds.

Sure, that kind of trip does not seem appealing, but remember taking 4x the mass at 1/2 the speed takes the same energy. Further you are going to want to bootstrap a civilization at the other end which means outside of grey goo taking a lot of stuff. With the added benefit of being able to go somewhere else.

PS: You also get more energy from hydrogen the further up the chain you go. A multi stage reactor that's spitting out lead provides more energy.
> Jeremy told Who, me? that his mate asked to be relieved, as he was in a bit of pain. Those requests were denied due to the risk of the power going off and also out of a desire to make the poor chap suffer for his error.

I think that's just awful.
I've been researching lately technology news & commentary from 20 years ago and most of the headlines feel weirdly actual.
Java has generics but they are only reified for arrays.

C has types that are only generic in the case of arrays.

There is a difference.

In Java I can write this function

<T> String getTypeOfArray(T[] arr) {
return arr.getClass().getComponentType().getName();
}

and that will return the name of type T at run-time. If I instead of T[] I use List<T>, getComponentType will return null and there is no way to access what type T is at run-time. At compile time List<T> and T[] behave the same, but at runtime the List loses what type if contains.

In C I can't write a function with that signature at all because it doesn't support generic functions.
The downvote suggests I said something unacceptable. Maybe it was this:

> Make them feel that thinking such thoughts has consequences.

I do not condone actually carrying out dire consequences, we've had enough dictatorships to show us how this plays out. I'm talking about manipulating people. A little. Because nothing more innocuous that I know of will do.
Was RFS Water removed from the list? I tried to apply for RFS Water last year, and while it was on this list, it wasn't in the application page dropdown when you actually apply. I emailed YC and asked about it, and was told it would be added shortly.

Looking now, I can't find any trace it ever existed. Was RFS Water deleted? The URL used to be http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#water. Thanks!
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Hiveway blockchain scam is shutting down
How do you know that they actually fired anyone?
I was swapping tables on a live production server,* and accidentally removed all rows on the production table rather than the auxiliary one. With autocommit on. I immediately confessed to my boss, and luckily, there was a backup.

However, I never did what I saw other people do at another job (more than once), which was to run a delete on a live production table intentionally, but unintentionally leave off the "where" clause. And commit without thinking.

I'm not aware of anything I've screwed up that had a dollar figure attached.

*I am not and never have been a sysadmin per se.
> which they don’t believe is criminal in nature

With all the silly things people want to regulate, I'm always baffled how intentionally deceiving people with the intent to cause harm isn't just plain illegal, and your only recourse is civil court. It seems to me it would cover a lot of situations that people try to fix with very specific (and thus loophole-y and high-overhead) regulations.
One thing to consider is it’s harder for animals to be poached in a zoo than in their natural habitat.

Zoos are suboptimal but do provide some benefit at least
> However, the economic pie will be enlarged and there will be more to share. How the fruits of technology will be distributed will depend to a large extent on negotiations and politics.

If recent history is any indication of how this will turn out, it's not going to be pretty. The rich get richer and everyone else gets screwed.
Kubernetes hits key milestone as CNCF lays out a cloud-native road map
Politicians don't listen to you or me. They listen to Moneybags McGee and his PAC. The vision of democracy that you described in that comment doesn't exist in the United States.
Absolutely. Automated trucks will allow shipping costs to be much cheaper which will stimulate the economy in 1000 different ways
The literal clown is a decent deputy, even above average. He is as educated as the majority of the the population. He was present all the days that the Congress opened.

Your talk if full of prejudice.
From the same company who asked their users if it was ok for grown men to ask nude pictures from 14 year old girls.
It's not a major point, but I'd be curious to know the average age that the over-45 drivers started driving. Did they drive from their 20s, or did they pick up truck driving as a 2nd or 3rd career?
The sad thing is you both sound like intelligent, upstanding members of society, and are rationally limiting your sadly expensive kids.

Meanwhile, the dredges of society have multiple kids, Bc they actually make money from them with their subsidized housing and other benefits they pick up having more kids.

And then you factor in “undocumented” immigrants, who also seem to roll in with way more than 2 kids, and your taxes also end up paying for all those kids to go to school with your one kid.

Idiocracy indeed. When will liberals actually wake up to some of the realities around them? Our productive, intelligent members of society are the ones being most discouraged to reproduce!!
You can set a custom number...
Linux has ~1% market share, though, and probably alreay has a pretty large proportion of firefox users. I doubt linux will affect anything much.
Here you go!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/irkk2z2g35w2uru/debt-spreadsheet.x...

I've used this to pay off $112,000 in student loans in 30 months, which is 4x faster than the loan term!
Mastering Linux performance – CPU time and CPU usage
Check out the usage statistics.

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

Most tonnage shipped by rail in the world, with 10x more than the EU.
Double Yikes!
I'm 71. I program several hours every day for my own purposes. I'm a little slower, I make more mistakes, it's more difficult to get a broad grasp of an issue, and I tire after a few hours (no more 18 hour marathons). Still, I feel that I am effective and creative. I'm fortunate that people in my family do tend to age slowly. Others may find this harder.

My current software project may be my last. I plan to spend more time writing and socializing. These are interest that I have forgone in pursuit of programming. If you plan to continue programming, great! But, I believe it's best to pursue diverse interests in your career and private life.
Silicon Valley is basically full of midwestern millennials engineers.. If that doesn't show the value of the midwest, then I don't know what would.
Without wanting to sound too cynical: Why would a private company care about the wear patterns of public highways?

Unless it's affecting the operation of their fleet, in a negative way, they don't have any reason at all to improve anything about it.

Especially considering how this does not look like a trivial problem to solve. Wouldn't something like this require an additional sensor suite to check for more detailed road conditions?
What about the future, when other companies start doing the same, wouldn't that require some level of cross-company cooperation to make sure trucks take somewhat randomized lines on the street, to reduce wear?
It's not just phones.

The Toyota Prius is also vulnerable at extremely low temps. From the owner's manual: "When the hybrid battery (traction battery) is extremely cold (below approximately minus 22 degrees Farenheit [minus 30 degrees Celsius]) under the influence of the outside temperature, it may not be possible to start the hybrid system. In this case, try to start the hybrid system again after the temperature of the hybrid battery increases due to the outside temperature increase, etc."

edit: of course, gasoline-only cars have a similar problem. Oil gets THICK at -22F and without an electric engine block heater, the starter may not be powerful enough to turn that engine over.

At least you can put a phone inside your jacked to warm it up. Not so easy with an automobile.
1. How are you at dealing with stress?
2. How are you at dealing with the instinctual desire to hide your mistakes, and instead immediately take steps to remediate them?
I was not stating what you believed. Your comment set off a knee jerk reaction to this narrative that is all too common in today's media coverage of corporate malfeasance. It seems, to me, that the PR play book is to blame a single individual and then fire them.
From my own experience working in Poland (albeit in Warsaw) engineers usually communicate better in English than their managers.
Honesty and the ability to own up to your mistakes. It can also show arrogance depending on their response.
Social Security will exist in some form because Americans won't let the elderly starve en masse, but there will likely be partial means testing (people with higher incomes or possibly assets get lower benefits), higher eligibility ages, and lower basic benefits.
Show HN: EKG – Healthchecks in a Sidecar on Kubernetes Deployments
How to be productive in two steps:

1. Use the right tool for the job - pen and paper when the idea is new in order to nail it down, then code later once all the obvious pitfalls have been ironed out on paper first. It's amazing how going through a few use cases can drastically speed up development time instead of just diving straight in.

2. Think about maintenance - write clean code, keep it simple, and write tests (or at least write testable code).

This article seems to suggest that you should work all day, consider toilet breaks as non-productive, and skip over exercise if you don't get your work done. A great plan if you want to work yourself into an early grave.
Declarative data processing with pandas and pyarrow
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It is very usual to buy votes in USA:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/selling...

"The price of one bona fide, registered American vote varies from place to place. But it is rarely more than a tank of gas."

A good book that descibes it is "Washington, D.C: A Novel (Narratives of Empire)." of Gore Vidal.
I generally disapprove of zoos or animals on display at all.

But I used to visit some caged tigers occasionally. The guy that had them - something like 4-5 tigers and a large black cat - would educate folks on them. It turns out these were cats people tried to keep as pets. These were cats that simply could not be returned to the wild. Some were abused or had been otherwise harmed as well.

He very strongly warned folks that these large animals are not pets. Not good at all.

I completely approve of zoos keeping such animals. Same with animals that have been injured and saved, but can't return to the wild. I also don't mind them trying conservation efforts, but I think if we kept the animals out of the public's eye, we'd do better. I think funding might go down, however.
I'd say there are lots of things that should be better discussed: royalties that mining companies should pay, fairer income tax, how much foreign companies get in fiscal incentives, inheritance tax, excessive use of agrochemicals, etc.

There is a long list of things that are not been adequately discussed. Sure, this is important, but it shouldn't take up as much of our collective attention as it does.
Can you give an example?

Most of the time when reflection is needed I see something like this instead of just a plain list type.

<T> void foo(List<T> list, Class<? extends T> type) { ... }
You haven't heard of Paul Ryan?
Me too. I just want to hear the "funny" part of losing that much money. I think the story would be a bit more somber, something along the lines of "...and that's how I ended up blacklisted from the Financial industry, and living in a van down by the river."
I've got an S8 and had no problems this winter using it while skiing.

The lowest temperature I was out in was -25C, I think keeping it on your body is the best way to combat the temperature issue.
So, I Stopped Using Google
I uninstalled every Facebook product from my phone. Turns out I really didn't need Messenger after all.

As I still concede to using Facebook, I have decided to install a Chrome shortcut to mbasic.facebook.com. It does everything I need without tons of scripting, doesn't optimistically download content, and loads fast when my bandwidth is reduced. It never notifies me, and that's a good thing. Without infinite scrolling, I'm less likely to waste time.

Maybe I'll decide to ditch Facebook entirely, but for now, using mbasic has been a healthier alternative.

My 4g LTE bandwidth seems to last longer, too.

With HTTPS and a mobile connection, I can't see why I would need a VPN for Facebook.
It's worth noting that this is targeted at FIRE folks - people who want financial independence (don't need to work to live) and want to retire early. To be able to retire 10+ years before the average american, you want to have a much higher degree of confidence that your financial plan can sustain you for 30/40/50 years. That requires much more complicated financial planning.

Or you can just max our your 401k, IRA, HSA, save enough of what's left over to make sure you can have a comfortable retirement at 60ish. The math for everybody else actually isn't as tricky as it seems for mid-to-high income folks. It's generally more about reigning in spending than fancy spreadsheets.
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Opened the Class 7 book, immediately found multiple references to Ghazni, one to Ghori. For perspective, Maharaja Ranjit Singh also gets one passing mention. So I guess I'm not seeing the systematic effort so far; perhaps there is more in other textbooks but my attention span is limited.
YMMV: It is overwhelming sweet.
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That seems like an uncharitable interpretation.

What I have said is that this particular AI approach changes the risks and incentives for politicians so that they are more likely to commit a greater number of small, but more real offenses, than the few outward anomalies the AI flags.

Which is worse? Expensing a bottle of wine, or having a vendor pick up the tab for an entire meeting? I would argue the latter has more impact on perceptions of corruption, yet this demoralized AI approach disproportionately punishes the former.

There is a style of argument that I'm starting to think of as "argument from tyranny," which begins with a denial of the coherence and legitimacy of the speaker, and ends with a defamation of character. They call it "sealioning," on the internets, but it bears more scrutiny, because it is part of why people are reduced to using pseudonyms.
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I could respect hunters if they went out with only a knife or a spear, alone on foot, but killing an animal at a safe distance with a high powered rifle, a vehicle to make a quick getaway, a whole crew of guards and guides, is just base cowardice, those people are the scum of the earth.

And even then, no reason to hunt some animal unless you plan to eat them.
I'm not sure that was what the article was suggesting. I didn't read the advice as only being directed towards the production of code (though I'll admit that that was it's focus and I didn't read too closely) but rather the setting and completion of set short term goals which may encompass affecting social, bureaucratic or systemic change.
10 PRINT “ZX81 at 37” 20 GOTO 10
It just uses the protocol.
Quaternions have a bunch of properties that make them awesome:

* Compact storage compared to matrices

* No gimbal-lock

* Multiplication is cheap (mult + add, very similar to vector operations)

* Interpolation is cheap

You really only pay the sin/cos costs when translating out to a Mat3x3 at the end.
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I believe that craig1f is claiming that if most women did not work, wages would be higher for those women that do work (due to reduced labor supply), so increased labor participation for women has lowered the opportunity cost compared to a hypothetical world in which women work.
You should get better at negotiation and/or with your skills. Many companies struggle to hire any dev below 50K.
Much to fathom in those words... :)
Wouldn't really want to listen to that any more than the jackhammer.
Untrue. I've lived in Arizona for a year; have you heard of sheriff Joe Arpaio?

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/criminal-enterprise-a-cu...

One could say the US is just as corrupt, or more, than Brazil.
>my own cultural experience of what matters and makes a real difference in the world.

Could you elaborate?
Ah, that’s a good point. I didn’t think about it that way
that does not appear to be the case.
I could see validating the domain after the @, but yes, delving into the username portion of an email address... that way madness lies.
The world's largest economic power and largest democracy, aka United States, elected a Western movie actor and a Reality TV star as presidents. The clown pales in comparison.
2013 13”, but probably the same general issue.
I'm on board for moon computing
It's very interesting that you are aware of the difference yourself. Is there a reason why you can't let your kid be like you? Is it spousal disagreement, living circumstance, or a change in your own attitude?