skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that low income Hispanic and Black birth rates says anything about their ability to afford those children. In other words, just because they're having more children doesn't mean it's a financially wise decision, or even one they can technically afford.

Many middle class white and asian families are putting off children because of the cost of living. Just to make a decent 2-earner income, you need both to have at least a college degree. After graduating college and landing a job you're still making historically low wages relative to the cost of living.

Take those historically low wages and try and buy a house. Home ownership (a staple milestone for young families) is still wildly unaffordable in most healthy economic zones. When home ownership is pushed later, and later in life, couples don't feel "settled" and ready to build a family.
Many workplaces require college degrees when they aren't required for any direct reason because it shows the applicant is willing to bend over and take it in the way a good worker should. It's peacock feathers signifying you're willing to fit in.
That was actually part of the point of using an "old school" software package for this. I totally understand that there are newer/arguably "better" ways to handle online conversation, but some of us grew up on forums like this so the nostalgia is just right.
One of those rare times that lack of any comments speaks louder than any actual comments could.
As this overlaps with another thread, I'm just going to link there [1]. Suffice to say that the fact that blacks in particular were unarmed during the most oppressive days of the US was absolutely not a coincidence and there were laws passed preventing this both directly (e.g. literally blacks may not own weapons) and indirectly (e.g. - you must pay a $200 'tax' to own a weapon).

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17095043
Job market is different now, some of those Bay Area jobs are mobile, at least within the Pacific time zone.
The beginning of "The Handmaid's Tale"
How did you suspect?... (And, who's the other person in the plural?)
Android S -- not 'S' version
When you are an aunt or an uncle caring for nephews and nieces is super cheap, and once you no longer get the same joy of spending time with them as they grow older you can back off without guilt. Similar to grandparents.

At the end of the day, the kids go home with their own parents.
“Appear”? The posted article outright identifies them as a short seller. I’m not disputing that someone may profit from the consequences of this allegation. I’m asking if we have reason to believe that the allegation itself is questionable, just because it may harm a company’s stock performance. Did the short seller fabricate it or conspire with the plaintiff?
>> Genetic diversity is not a requirement for a species.

It is for any species on the edge of extinction. By definition, they are not adapting. Saddling them with the further burden of inbreeding isn't going to help.

Bacteria can also die in record numbers without much impact. If 1/2 of bacteria "children" die early due to genetic issues, little would change. But mammals invest much more energy into offspring than bacteria. Mortality rates matter.
No, I'm saying that both personality and material conditions have an effect on who has children. Or it might be that the personality traits that cause people to have children in 21st century America are different than those that caused people to have children in 19th century America. But in any event the traits that seem to cause people to have more children in current US conditions are substantially heritable. How many generations will it take? Quite possibly a lot but it'll happen eventually baring further external shocks.

And there are lots of other factors involved as well. I think the differences in fertility between Germany and France are particularly illustrative.
> The last school was closed in the far distant year of 1996. Do you really think Canada in 2018 is that far removed from 1996? What exactly happened in that intervening period that will prevent such an atrocity in the future?

Do you think the school in 1996 was doing the same things as the schools in, say, 1896? Don't you think it's more reasonable to see the 1996 closure as the end (or near the end) of a longer, continuous process, not a binary state change?

Unsurprisingly, things are more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
You must live a very boring life if you never go anywhere other than where you plan to at the beginning of the day.
Copy that doesn't require JS:

https://gist.github.com/jwilk/8b63759674e9413186c507bd30a0ad...
Just the opposite: If you ask questions they can't understand, then the survey is meaningless. You always have to make sure the respondents understand the question.
They have published multiple major TTS papers since the original WaveNet paper in 2016. Including the recent Tacotron results with impressive style control.

Tacotron (Mar. 2017): https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10135

Parallel WaveNet (Nov. 2017): https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10433

Tacotron again (Mar 2018): https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09017

Tacotron 2 audio samples: https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/global_style_...
> No legal use case found to date

Even if this were true, and it's obviously not, what about the illegal use cases? Aren't they important?

Bitcoin has helped people gain access to a wide variety of medicines that the state has improperly and violently prohibited.

That's not nothing.

And if it can do that - if, in the face of such overwhelming opposition, this technology has aided people in need, then doesn't it stand to reason that it can help other groups of people also?
Your intention is irrelevant, limiting your opportunity is not theft. You're using that analogy as an emotional appeal to present the ip holder as a victim.

Any competitor could limit your opportunity by releasing a functionally similar non infringing product. Would you choose the word 'robbing' in that circumstance?

One would have to use your ip to create a competing product before it would even be copyright infringement, and it still wouldn't be theft since you cannot steal somthing intangible since by definition it only exists as an abstraction which is not the same as zero valued tangible inventory.
> Do you have people on staff working on building flying cars?

Does Uber? They sure talk about things a lot and yet, there is very little - if any - proof of them doing actual work on "flying cars".

I'm inclined to agree with other comments that this is mostly a PR stunt for Uber.
Insert some random Moore's law comment here
Store of value is a legitimate use case. How bitcoin is useful for that is debatable, but cryptocurrencies do have some advantages over precious metals. There should be a niche for 'internet gold' (https://medium.com/@zby/proof-of-work-8d8265def194).

The energy wastefulness is proportional to the block rewards and fees, the rewards will be exponentially declining to zero and fees should be proportional to the usefulness of the system. Also most probably some other more efficient cryptocurrency - possiblly PoS or DPoS based (https://medium.com/@zby/proof-of-stake-can-be-cheaper-than-p...) - will replace bitcoin.

Having said that - yeah - there is just too much scam in all of this crypto-world, this will end up badly.
I think it's a fundamental principle, but definitely not the only one. For example it is also a monopoly on violence.
Would have been nice if they actually linked to that original mashup: http://www.housingmaps.com/

(Gosh, it's been a while since I've heard the term "mashup" :)
Your résumé is a marketing document. You don't have to put anything about your education on there if you have other stuff worth mentioning, like work experience and personal projects. This may increase your hit rate.
Just tried calling a bunch of restaurants in my neck of the woods. They all identified the restaurant right off the bat, along with the person speaking.

Is it some wierd Bay area thing that businesses don't identify themselves when they answer a call?
Algo all day every day, good stuff, use it.
Herd Behavior in the Sciences
Associating brain size with intelligence is facile. As the article points out, no one knows why cranial volume is shrinking, and there's no clear connection to intellect.
I think it's fairly obvious that I didn't mean this situation would apply to everyone, I just wanted to supply another view/data-point.

Out of curiosity, what does your github look like? I know you said you have a lot of open source contributions, but what about personal projects on your github?
I live in Massachusetts and after the experience I did some reading. It seems that magistrates have a job for life with little scrutiny and frequently dole out favors to people they know. So in this respect a lawyer might have been a wiser decision.
It'll be changing in the sense that YT Music will be a merge of the existing service + Google Play Music.
European Court Rules Netflix Must Contribute to German Film Subsidies
FWIW I'd pick the latter in a heart beat - in it right now, if anything. I can't name anything more life fulfilling than having kids.
Sounds more like you have a relationship problem than a financial problem.... if you are worried about things going south between you and your partner you have bigger issues to work out than having kids.

Also, you'd be insane not to get married before having kids. It's a legal contract between you and your partner that kinda comes in handy if you get disabled, die, etc...
>> You're technically correct, but minorities are only slightly higher (birth rate wise) than whites.

I'd bet the ones that have closer incomes to the black/hispanic population have closer birthrates
38, and unless I find a seriously convincing argument from the next woman in my life. Not happening. I don't have a desire to have a kid, but it's fun to interact with them in short bursts(friends). This of course can change tomorrow, that's life.
What honest purposed TelCos would have to even sell this data?

all of them replied saying "we will cut clients not following the program guidelines"... what are those guidelines?! and why is that arbitrary for the companies to decide, and not mentioned anywhere on the consumer agreements other than some vague "we may share your data with whoever"?

This sounds like Cambridge Analytic for TelCos.
>A small difference between college drop out salary vs high school diploma salary only says that the key is to actually get a degree. half of a degree is worth much less than half of what a full degree is worth. That doesn't say anything about how much a degree is worth really.

But the debt remains whether you attain a degree or not. For marginal students, this is useful information as it should give them even greater pause before matriculation.
The amount of people working as programmers with degrees in non computer science related fields does kind of imply that, though

My first degree is in Mech Eng, I think there are very few people in that field without a relevant degree. Computing is the exception, not the rule!
I'm not having children. There are a lot of reasons.

1) I'm a woman married to another woman. Yes, one of us could get a donor, but it's one more hurdle, and it means we won't ever have one accidentally.

2) Debt. We've got some debt that needs to be paid off, and babies are expensive.

3) We'd need a bigger home. Right now the house we're in is paid off in full, and we'd have to go through the whole home-selling/buying process if we wanted enough space for kids.

4) Health concerns. I'm depressed, diabetic, and have fibromyalgia. My doctor says I also likely have PCOS and due to that I might not even be fertile. So I'm not a good candidate to try to get pregnant. My wife has her own health concerns, which are genetic, and she doesn't want to pass them down to a kid. I don't want to pass on the fibro or diabetes either. They both suck.

5) We're happy as is. We've got cats instead of kids (insert lesbians-with-cats joke here?). A lot of our friends have kids, so we're both pretty content to just be "aunties" to all our friends' kids.
Your comment about needing a great problem statement resonates. For me, I only achieve this by really obsessing about a problem in some form of deep thought for a while.

What I wonder, based on your comment, is if I can distill exactly what I'm trying to do down to a simple statement or phrase, can I use some sort of technique to "imprint" the thought to my subconscious so it knows to go "work on this" for a while. Mind you, this may not even be a thing and this concept is all pseudo-science placebo, but it at least anecdotally rings true for me.
I thought nukes solved that. What's the point of them if someone can overwhelm you with soldiers...
You can be open to things but also be skeptical.

I got a degree in finance in college (in addition to MIS/Economics) because of all the scandals of my youth. I wanted to see if I could avoid those issues.

Being a software engineer it's actually pretty easy, being a business owner you're certainly riding the tides that are our joke of a financial regulatory system (up to the highest bidder to make the laws/regulations).
Anyone else see that clickbait about lil' Hercules? FML.
We don’t have the stats on the number of households the payment processing industry and banking industry could power. Not saying that it’s more or less, just something I considered.
> LocationSmart’s home page features the corporate logos of all four the major wireless providers, as well as companies like Google, Neustar, ThreatMetrix, and U.S. Cellular.

Funny how they removed the corporate logos they had on their website from yesterday to today:

Yesterday:
http://web.archive.org/web/20180516060611/https://www.locati...

Today:
https://www.locationsmart.com/
How was your experience using Rust as a target language (instead of C)? I understand that Rust has lots of features for when you want to write code by hand but do those also help when you are working with generated code? Or does the borrow checker get in the way all the time?
These working people who can't find jobs are addicted to opiates or refuse to educate themselves. Dirt cheap illegal laborers slave over jobs a white American would never, ever do.
1) Jobs wasn't wildly off on every technology deadline NeXT ever set itself? Really?

2) Same "question" - which was actually just an analyst gainsaying the firm's estimate, not a question at all - three times in a row as if it hadn't been answered the first time. It's not childish to refuse incivility. It's childish to pretend incivility is civility.

3) "Moats" - actually Network Effects that are typically leveraged as illegal extensions of market power. (As was the case in question: with Musk refusing to illegally block the interoperability of Tesla's charging stations.) Musk felt maybe staying on the right side of the law (enforced or not) might be cool. You don't. That's nice. This realm of law hasn't been enforced much since the end of the seventies, but it's still there. The fact that it's usually grownups who go to jail, doesn't mean it's childish to obey the law.

Why shouldn't Musk start a candy company as his responce to Buffet's chortled taunt if he cares to? Gotta be more fun than production hell. Or even start a tunnel company. (He said he was serious re candy. Maybe he likes candy.)
The monetary cost of a Swedish child might be lower (though to some extent, the cost is just distributed across the population in the form of taxes), but the opportunity cost is not. Scandinavian countries have high rates of post-secondary education, which delays parenthood, and even with progressive workforce policies, having children can slow career advancement [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/sep/22/books.famil...
I am no coyote or raccoon. I'm more like a German Shepherd / Corgi cross.
This is a long shot but, do you think it is at all possible that they've had some kind of a breakthrough using their quantum processing work, and are using that to accelerate machine learning models and produce much better quality generative speech? After hearing about Bristlecone I can't rule it out.
Your employer can record your phone calls at work. Google's testing of this service would have simply required Google to obtain permission from the restaurants enabled in its tests.
Clearly infinite growth is the only way. /s
I thought this was going to be the big twist reveal at the end of the demo videos.
But on the plus side:

- easily switch between multiple Google accounts (vs. the utter pain of using multiple AWS accounts)

- the "cloud shell" is nice

- switch from wizard point-and-click to generate the equivalent SDK CLI command in the "cloud shell"
I believe it's also about new computational techniques that allow more to be concluded from e.g. planet wobbles.
I don't like the idea of a "full time, career teacher".

This one - I still remember her name but I won't doxx her obv - I happen to know had gone from school to university to teacher training to my school. She had never been outside the education system in her entire life. But her job was to advise 16- and 18-year olds on how to set themselves up for career success...

(I think she also taught Home Ec or some similar fluffy subject)
Durr Durr but the next Einstein
Every single interview I have ever seen with anyone who actually worked for him, they said that was an exaggerated caricature. Not that he couldn’t be demanding or opinionated or had outbursts, but none of them ever used words like toxic.
Places crypto has been used isn't evidence that it was the only thing possible to have been used, which is the question -- what does PoW-consensus blockchain ledger make possible that isn't possible without it?

It's not a matter of what they've been better than status-quo broken finance systems. The question is "if we replace these broken systems with something, why does it have to be a blockchain using PoW for consensus?"

In many of the cases people use crypto because otherwise they'd have had to been a bank or a money transmitter or file with SEC and uphold their legal obligations as such, and in those cases using blockchain didn't make those obligations disappear.

In other cases, the hype around "blockchain" created solutions that could have been served by any form of digital currency or any form of distributed database -- not just this specific form.
So, what’s the plan when the boomer menace is over in 15-20 years? Where will their wealth go when they die?
Gee, I was going for ironic, missed, and hit moronic. Close enough for horseshoes. :)

I've started referring to software developers (like myself) with intentional irony as "mutant lizard people" after hearing one too many times how a particular OS/tool/programming language needs to be designed "for humans" (i.e, n00bs with no prior exposure to it).
> fathers often still don’t involve themselves in childcare.

Are people really living in marriages where the husband does nothing? This is a genuine question. My family is Indian, and I grew up in America, but from what I remember, my mom and dad spent most of their time taking care of my brother and I, whether that be by cooking, paying bills, cleaning the house, taking care of the car, driving us around, etc. Our grandparents lived in India, and only immigrated permanently in our teenage years, and both my parents worked (my mother even went to college). Indian culture is not known for an equal sharing of responsibilities, but that was my experience in my family. What are these husbands doing, if not taking care of their families? Watching TV? What? How is doing nothing productive for your family considered societally acceptable for men? As a man, I've always felt it was a societal imperative that everything I do directly benefit my wife and children.
LineageOS 14.1, on a Moto G4.
One of the things that Microsoft's Inclusive Design efforts have made really usefully clear is that everyone is "differently abled" circumstantially/over-the-course of a day.

It's a silly example: but if I'm eating a sandwich one hand and trying to use a computer, in that moment I'm a one-handed computer user, and can benefit from many of the same one-handed benefits of someone using a computer one-handed for more permanent reasons.

But as silly as that example is, there are so many tiny moments in your day like that that maybe you dismiss them or you don't appreciate how differently abled you are at different points in the day.

It's a bit like thinking through the classic riddle of the sphinx ("what creature walks on four legs in the morning, two during the day, and three in the evening?"). Our "ableness" is never a static constant, and its so useful to think of all the more transient states we live in every day. The more we include everyone, sometimes the better we include ourselves, too.
- The space is littered with fraud.
>> Fraud is everywhere, you are just filtering this topic in particular.

- Wallets have bugs that lose hundreds of millions of dollars
>> Software has bugs that cost lives. Losses in the millions are terrible events but they raise awareness to information security and that's priceless.

- Energy consumption forecasted to hit 0.5% of the world’s electricity consumption by end of 2018
>> PoW uses electric power to secure billions of euros in assets. Bitcoin miners were paid ~3.5B USD last year and paid an estimated 1.5B in utilities not to mention the thousands of jobs it creates. In any case right now Bitcoin's PoW spends as much as 3k US households so I don't think it's quite 0.5% of the world's total consumption...

- Promoters yelling “decentralize everything” while exchanges, development teams and mining are all highly centralized
>> It's quite evident that realistically it's near impossible to start decentralised, but many teams and projects are adopting loose structures and contemplating moving their governance to a DAO.

- No legal use case found to date
>> Among those who disagree with you are all the G-7 governments, almost all major exchanges, many of the major banks, law firms, etc. I'm not saying you're wrong, but you are not even wrong.

Blockchain is a parasite on society.
>> FU. This is my job you are talking about.
Wow, I didn't realize putty was so new in 99. I just used it because I needed a set of good client tools on my windows box.

Many thanks to them, they made my life so much easier in the early 2000s.
If I got lost somewhere where there are no stores for miles around I would never walk up and ask for directions at someone's house or if my car broke down (https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/us/michigan-woman-shot/index....).

The "anecdote" is even in my own neighborhood, if my son invites some of his White friends (who are his guests) to hang out at our neighborhood pool. He gets asked does he belong there? Do you think I would leave him in a position to have to walk up and ask a random stranger for directions if he got lost while driving?

It was sheer luck that both the teenager didn't die and the guys own camera showed he was lying. If the boy had been killed the man would have gotten off. If the camera hadn't been there, they would have taken the word of "upstanding member of society -- a retired fireman" over the word of "just another teenage thug" and the boy would have been arrested.
It doesn't claim that at all.
Interesting comparison, but I think it breaks fairly quickly. If Enron were in fact like Bitcoin, they could not have committed institutionalized and systemic accounting fraud. The books are fully open and transparent. It's fair if you think that Bitcoin will fail at becoming anything significant in the history of the Internet, but calling it a fraud seems unjustified.
Any system that creates winners also creates losers.
Providers who uses these services need to agree to follow guidelines such as obtaining opt-in, sending notifications to devices being tracked with option to opt-out by replying with STOP, etc.

The guidelines are not enforced or audited.