skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has any country come up with a suitable solution to the issue of maintaining a career before, during and after pregnancy for women? I know many countries have paid maternity leave (usually paltry) and some organizations will hold the job while they are away. Is this good enough?

If the issue is dropout because women are forced to make a decision between career and caring for/watching their child grow surely we can come up with a better solution?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert

I think this rule is just wrong. Some mathematicians come from privilege, some do not. Even for the ones who do, it's rare that they come from _great_ privilege for the time. They are the children of mayors, not kings -- professors and engineers, not the financial aristocracy.
I can’t accidentally read top secret because it is secured much better than public places. I can’t disclose it by mistake. Its guards don’t expose it when they want to protest.
People privacy can’t be more important than government documents, because protecting each citizen is much more complex/pricy task than protecting those documents. Disclosing those documents is a problem for all citizens. Disclosing citizen privacy is a problem for him.
You can’t restrict good willing citizen rights because of bad guys.
Thanks. Just the one page at present.
Show HN: Lambda function to make a hosts file from your running EC2 instances
I was so annoyed at how hard it is to identify instances in a VPC I wrote this to make a hosts file and put it in an S3 bucket.

If you give your EC2 instance a "hostname" tag then this will be added as an alias for that host.

https://gist.github.com/bootrino/7ae38d38dabf0a4be1093742471...

This article gives an overview for how to configure AWS to run a Lambda function like this, triggered any time there is a state change in your EC2 instances.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/L...

Output looks like this:

ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-229:~$ --> curl https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bucketname/hosts
10.0.0.196 ip-10-0-0-196.eu-west-1.compute.internal
10.0.0.229 ip-10-0-0-229.eu-west-1.compute.internal somecustomhostname.foo.com
10.0.0.138 ip-10-0-0-138.eu-west-1.compute.internal
10.0.1.53 ip-10-0-1-53.eu-west-1.compute.internal
10.0.0.4 ip-10-0-0-4.eu-west-1.compute.internal
ubuntu@ip-10-0-0-229:~$ -->
I'm with you on UPS, but among "existing package delivery services" I find FedEx to be pretty shit overall. At each commercial location I've had in multiple counties, they have delivered at a giant range of times (e.g. one day 9:20 AM and the next day 5:20 PM) with a lot of different drivers and about a 20% chance that they're busy today so they won't even come around (i.e. the business was open all day and there is no tag on the door) but they'll still flip the status to "customer not present". I've bitched to Amazon about using FedEx a lot, and now it seems they don't use FedEx for me very much anymore... of course other stores haven't gotten the message.
Even better, what happens when a mining operation decides to mount a 51% attack and take over a root resolver? If I’m understanding the point of this correctly (big if...), then they’d be able to route any TLD anywhere they’d like. Combined with DNS caching for extended chaos.
I find Yonatan Zunger's "financial shock wealth" far more useful:

This number is probably the truest measure of a person’s real wealth: What is the largest unexpected financial shock you could sustain without the cost of that to you suddenly becoming ten times the original cost or more?

https://shift.newco.co/your-financial-shock-wealth-4845e6dc1...
You may find surprising how the system may demand 9 years of prison for a father who made shots of his weakly child here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_A._Dmitriev BTW He is in prison for about 2 years now.
You shouldn’t demand the system to protect your privacy because you will pay for it with your money and freedom. You can protect privacy yourself if you will.
I gave some examples above when it can happen by accident/stupidity.
I'm using the quotation marks to indicate quoted opinions.

The difference between the two opinions that is significant: one is an opinion in a legal ruling and therefore carries force of law.
> Having to hunt down tasks you're working on and reading through each task can create an unnecessary mental load that can be solved with a single 1 minute "ESPN sportscenter edition" summary of your current issues.

Some people indeed need spoon feeding. That above statement only strengthens my view.

Or how do we interpret "unnecessary mental load" out of the mouth of someone likely in management when it comes to simply reading a task board?

Sometimes I really wonder what most of the management is good for… Really.

Running around, having a lot of meetings, but nevertheless not knowing what is happening all around them, so they have to ask every day anew…

But now I understand: It's only a unnecessary (too height?)^^ mental load to read the task board. :-)
These days that's what rackjure re-provides: http://docs.racket-lang.org/rackjure/index.html#(mod-path._r...
"It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove." - Antoine de Saint
I doubt NSA is that mad at Princeton overall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Defense_Analyses...
Apple wins race to be first trillion-dollar company
Hey! Yes - well I found your blog to be gorgeous and I think it sets a standard for the Indieweb (which is generally very practical.) Which - I like that you don't sacrifice practicality for appearance. The layout of the metadata on your posts is sterling.
That'd probably be either Ambrosia, the food of the Greek gods, or Manna from the Torah.
This looks really cool! Any chance of showing an animated progression so we can see what each of the steps looks like?
North China Plain Threatened by Heatwaves Due to Climate Change and Irrigation
On a percentage basis, I would bet fewer crypto projects have working code now than two years ago. There are plenty of legit projects... and a huge flood of other stuff.
How about the recent lawsuit about Harvard and Asian candidates scoring lower in a subjective criteria?
Alphabet has two stock symbols (GOOG & GOOGL); they have a combined market cap of ~$1.6T. Does this not count?
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Yes, of course, but until then, that is the price to pay in the desirable markets.
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I thought about it. So what if I’ll present the BASIC Engine to the public, and some kid comes along and says, "WTF, one GPIO? My dad’s Arduino Uno has more than that!" And instead of joining the peaceful forces of the BASIC Salvation Army, she walks by, straight into the arms of a recruiter for a military equipment manufacturer, spending her life developing drones that kill innocent people in Central Asia. Would I be able to live with myself after that?

I suspect the author is only partially joking here. Having worked with kids on robotics projects, and seeing the near-total apathy/ignorance to the countless atrocities being committed by the US government on behalf of its citizens, I can only wonder how much harm is being done by well-meaning people.
It wouldn't surprise me - I'll often do the same with Python on non-Windows systems rather than bothering with the native calculator; I'm not even sure if Linux has one (or if it's the same across distros), and Python is ubiquitous, fast, and has familiar syntax.
Everyone cribs from each other. :D

Really - find what elements attract you and reshape them. I think the more pages you look at, the more your brain will get stirred up about it.
Ask HN: Suggestions for managing incoming customer/vendor email?
We've got several departments that could benefit, but in particular two of our departments get hundreds of emails per day CC'd to a group of 5-8 people. There is wasted time and effort in everyone in the group reading and triaging every email.

What tools could we consider to help with this? Ideally all emails would go into a queue, with possibility to pre-filter emails to specific users based on some criteria. All members could access all threads, but more importantly, there would be a single overview where it's easy to identify whether a customer/vendor has been helped or responded to. If not, flag it yourself and take care of it.

I tried searching around, but was not very successful if there's another similar question I'll gladly check it out. Thanks!
I like your site, think I'll steal the Changelog idea.
Could you get similar results with the following procedure:

1. Represent the world as a grid graph where each cell has a bidirectional edge to its orthogonal neighbors.

2. Randomly weight the edges. The distribution of these weights will affect the texture of the results and is a tunable parameter.

3. Compute a minimum spanning tree of the graph.

4. Fill in dead-ends ends of the minimum spanning tree unless the dead end contains a goal endpoint (in other words, prune branches of the minimum spanning tree that do not end in an endpoint).
In my mind, the root of the problem is that companies haven’t figured out a way (or refuse to figure out a way) to buck the 9-5pm, 5-day, butt-in-seat workday policy. At the extreme case, if people could choose exactly which hours in a week they wished to work, completely independently of the company or team or anything, and perform that work anywhere they’d like, this wouldn’t be an issue. Women could take whatever time off they need to physically deliver a baby, and people in the family could arrange their working hours in such a way that all adults involved could agree on a preferred work/parent schedule that maintains whatever level of employment the adults desire.

With 9-5 this doesn’t work. Remote work helps alleviate some of these issues, but not all. There need to be organizational innovations to make this happen.
I used to live in Kingsgate. There is a section of 124th that runs parallel to 124th. It breaks Google maps :)
The form of the T-38 was apparently determined by Lee Begin at Northrop. Who, you ask? Well, good luck finding information about him on the Internet.
Yes, that’s also a good example of obfuscated racial preference in college admissions (assuming the case has merit, and looking at the numbers I’m under the strong impression that it does).
Trusting root certs is a lot less worrying with the advent of certificate transparency. It's now very noisy if a CA issues a cert for something like google.com, and smaller sites can get notifications about cert issuances for their domains from various free alerting services.
It wasn’t always this way. Films like Rosemary’s Baby, Night of the Living Dead, and pretty much the entire Hitchcock collection were some of the most iconic films of their times.

In my opinion, the popularity of the late 70s to 80s slasher films (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St, Texas Chainsaw Massacre to name a few), combined with studios’ ever-shrinking tolerance for risk, resulted in a particularly bland few decades of mainstream horror, with the well-known Saw franchise and, to a lesser extent, the somewhat satirical Final Destination series as typical examples of the era. Personally, I’m partial to the Evil Dead films, Army of Darkness most of all. Groovy.

Horror can be excellent when done well, and pathetic when done poorly. It is easy to go for cheap scares and bloody massacre scenes. There is a lot to dislike about modern horror films that can turn off audiences looking for more than jump scares and blood splatter. If I hadn’t dated a girl in college who was super into the horror genre, I would have never gotten into it.

Horror is best when it floods you with an emotional high that lasts long after the initial shock. For a most masterful example, try playing Silent Hill 2, if you dare.
are you really on a team then?
It this leads to room temperature superconductivity, it could allow MRI scanners to operate without the need of expensive helium-based coolant system. And this could also mean that if they can use it in PCB, you could have a CPU that doesn't release heat.

The implication of heatless CPUs and less need for cooling would have a tremendous impact in datacenters.
>As a relatively healthy someone who has experienced both universal and US healthcare (Kaiser) I can tell you that KP is far superior to any experience I've had in Canada.

Some questions:

1. Did you pay the full premium for KP, or was some of it employer funded?

2. How many people are you paying for?

I once had KP through an employer. Best provider ever. However, at some point I was pondering quitting my job and looked up how much I'd have to pay in premiums to get the same copay, coverage, etc. It came out to over $900/mo for me + my spouse. That's almost $11K per year. Imagine how much more it would be if I had 2 kids.

I thought I'd just check now to see what the cheaper plans look like. The cheapest plan is $527/mo. Deductible is $6550/person (over $13K for household). So I'd pay over $6K if I didn't seek any treatment. And I could pay as much as $19K out of pocket (premium + deductible) before insurance kicks in.

KP is an awesome provider when I'm not paying for it :-)

BTW, I do have KP currently, under a different employer. Current wait time to see my PCP is 3 weeks (I've seen as high as 4 weeks). It used to be 1-3 days - I always wonder if changing employer plays a role (same PCP).
First, very cool.

Second, now that we've got the terminal in a browser, we've got a linux subsytem for WebAssembly (https://github.com/cervus-v/cervus), and we've got QT for WebAssembly, we seem to be ~2 years out from someone pushing a real "web os" – as in an adult could probably boot to WebKit and perhaps not know that they're in a WebBrowser. Sure that's an opportunity for Google and Facebook to finally "compete" against the incumbent OS market.

The snake will inevitably eat itself again in some 30 year supercycle.

This is along the lines of the "birth and death of javascript" slides. But as it really is happening, are we really gaining anything? Anything at all?

And again, not to take away from DomTerm which seems really cool.
There are a lot of information in requests metadata.
For example, even without accessing any encrypted data you can identify:

1. Client (user IP).

2. Service (server IP).

3. Amount of traffic.

4. Direction of traffic.

4. Just watching timestamps, you can identify patterns that will give you information on what type of content user is accessing (e.g. if you are oppression nation state, and want to know who watched or reshared a certain video on youtube, you can get that purely from requests patterns, mainly timestamps). By correlating those timestamps with others, you can identify user's friends/collaborators, or other identities they use.
http://gregorywieber.com

Would love to hear your thoughts.
>> all teaching was a process of lying

> Well put!

Shudder. Consider a thought experiment - a military briefing. A captain briefing generals. One must necessarily simplify. But imagine a briefing that is grossly incomplete, assortedly incorrect, very misleading, written without understanding and without mentioning and characterizing that lack, and pervasively incompetently bogus, and that captain later on the carpet before the generals, defending the briefing with "well, all briefing is a process of lying". Shudder. I consider the "teaching is lying" meme to be vile. I've heard it most often associated with pre-college chemistry. Chemistry education research describes pre-college chemistry education content as "incoherent", leaving both students and teachers deeply steeped in misconceptions. Oh well.

You mentioned microscale, so I write just to note the top "How to remember sizes" section of my slowwwly-loading wasn't-intended-to-be-public page http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms . It might help you provide a framework for your kid to think about small things. FWIW.
Would Union-Find-Delete not be better than DFS? You remove a candidate point and if the all of the vertices you care about are not members of the same set you don't do that? (Assuming a copy of the UFD structure is faster than the DFS.)
You do realize that 2 out of the 3 major gaming console runs on some form of UNIX kernels right?
Not to mention the success of mobile games like Fortnite and player unknown battlegrounds that run on Linux.
There is also SteamOS and the work put into platform agnostic graphics APIs like Vulkan.

10 years ago you might have been right, but you are dead wrong today.
MINI: The future starts now
We've over-qualified doctors to a ridiculous degree. After that, 4 years med school, then an internship, and then a few more years of residency. The average doctor finishes with almost $200,000 in debt (around 15% finish with $300,000+ in debt).

The biggest issue here is that the government has effectively fixed the price to become a doctor at $200,000 (via stupid requirements) which in turn, fixes the price they must charge patients in order to be profitable. This is in addition to all the unnecessary requirements artificially restricting the supply.

Consider Cuba. In 2016, they were spending $813/yr per person while the US was spending $9,403 per person. Despite this, life expectancy was/is about equal. They graduate loads more doctors than the US. Most of these doctor's don't specialize, but instead become primary care physicians. When there are a lot of them, the cost to visit your doctor for day-to-day complaints decreases and disease is caught and treated much earlier (an ounce of prevention).

Degree inflation is a real killer here. A doctor must have a Batchelor's because it was decided that nurses should have one (though everything past the first 2 years makes basically zero difference on the floor). Then there's a huge middle area, so we train nurses to be not-quite doctors in an attempt to deal with the problem, but the schooling requirements for everyone just keep soaring.

Eliminate the Batchelor's requirement and instead require only the classes that are actually pre-requisites for med school. These are more than sufficient to weed out all the really unqualified individuals, but would reduce the cost of schooling by many tens of thousands (allowing lower charges to patients) and reduce the time-to-market by 3-4 years.

That time to market is extremely important. That's an extra 3-4 years of work before retirement. That's also an extra 3-4 years of experience (experience often being the most important thing) and those years are shifted earlier to when learning is easier. For more dexterous (eg, surgical) professions with long residencies, that 3-4 years is a huge amount of the useful lifespan.

Finally, open a few more medical schools to allow more doctors to be trained. With lower costs and faster time to market, costs for all medical visits (but especially primary care).

The only potential concern here is "unqualified people", but none of the tests have changed. Med school hasn't gotten easier either. The big change is more people are able or willing to give it a try and the risk is much lower.
Not a chance.
They're rats out to make money for near-zero effort.

No better than lawyers and used car salespeople.

Scam artists.
Show HN: Keepcli – Simple and Unofficial Terminal CLI for Google Keep
In my experience, employers are much more flexible than the state employment department and the health insurance companies.

Ask to work 4 ten hour days, for instance instead of 5x8. The state will force the employer to pay overtime for the hours past 8 in a day.
Ha amazing, maybe this guy shouldn't be writing to non-US audiences. Or maybe his next article can be "A Case Study in responding to A Case Study in Internationalization (2013)"

There are more than 2 countries out there, and more than 2 countries that speak english.
>Isn't that basically saying "lucky to be full-time salaried"? I don't know anyone in such a position who has bad insurance.

I do. A friend of mine had a cushy tech job in Chicago. He recently quit to start his own business. I asked him about health care. His employer provided insurance was quite bad (high premiums). He's paying only about a $100/mo more than when he had the job.

And then there's the issue of what you mean by "bad insurance". I work in a top tech company which gives us multiple options for insurance. For most people, it works out alright, but for each option, you won't have much trouble finding some employee who thought he got shafted with a high bill (things like someone in the chain of care ended up being out of network even though he had done due diligence to ask all people involved).
Exploji a Timeline of Emoji's Sudden, Drastic Rise
Except all other things are not equal. Someone who has achieved at the same level while also fighting sexism/racism has had to work harder and be better to get there. They’re playing on hard mode.
A boat costs about as much as a nice car, except boats are purely recreational. I can justify the cost of a $10k car because it'd be taking me to work every day, but $10k + upkeep for fun is ridiculous. Additionally, you need enough space to store the boat, which already puts you into bourgeoisie territory.
Show HN: Soundtrack to My Life – Handmade playlists that aren't boring
Different sources wrote that the ICO may be retired for all the mess with regulations agencies.
But at the very least, Apple lets users disable automatic update (and always have, always will). The default is automatic updates, but it's far from forced.
Love it! Very cool concept.
From the article in your comment:
>“As far as we recall these are already public,” WikiLeaks wrote at the time.

>In 2014, the BBC and other news outlets reported on the cache, which revealed details about Russian military and intelligence involvement in Ukraine. However, the information from that hack was less than half the data that later became available in 2016, when Assange turned it down.

So the source was trying to piggyback on the well earned publicity Wikileaks publications get to bring attention to an old leak by adding some uninteresting documents to it. I suspect if his addition had contained revelations, we would have heard about it, especially given the anti-Russia bias of the corporate media lately.

On the Syrian payment, why is Russia giving money to an ally something I should find questionable? How much money did the US give Israel that year alone?
Examining Gender and Race Bias in Sentiment Analysis Systems
We're not talking about consoles.