skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you probably need to push men into taking leave. Incentivizing may work better than trying to force them. For example, go a bit further than just having parental leave, and have some of that time be paternal leave that the mother can not take. You don't have to use it, but there's an incentive to.

Of course that's not going to fully even the books. Men don't get pregnant. They're not going to breastfeed or recover from giving birth. But that doesn't mean that you can't make things better.

Look at it from the perspective of the family: requiring women to bear the entire burden of childcare in terms of time off work puts a serious damper on their career prospects. By allowing and incentivizing the man in the family to also take time off for childcare, you improve the woman's chances at building a strong career. That should translate to higher income for the family.
Oh yes it's beautiful. Though I wish I could view and listen to the audio after the call. The screening makes a hash of the speech to text sometimes.
It's looking like a very large problem... It's definitely in the seafood. Garbage should NEVER have been just dumped into the waters... There's plenty of land for managed landfills that work much better.

I'm not against plastics, but some decisions are just plain stupid.
My guess is that it's a motivation problem. With email there was a huge motivation for email providers to fix spam. Email providers don't make money based on the quantity of emails sent and it's a well functioning market. The cost of moving your inbox to another provider is pretty low and there are many competitors. Contrast to this problem: telcos make more money if more calls get placed; there aren't many alternatives; barrier of entry to the market is very high; switching provider is painful; you cannot just try a different telco like you could for email.
You can make your own Ringtones on the iPhone, you don't need to pay for them on the Ringtone Store.
From my own experience slicing slightly overripe tomatoes that have some give to them are much harder to slice with a non serrated knife than a firm cucumber. Wonder why cucumbers became the standard haha.
I used to own a Honda Civic with a large digital speedometer above the steering wheel. With my eyes focused on the road, I could see the speed I was traveling at.

Of course, newer cars have HUD speedometers which project your speed onto your windshield glass.
I hit the limiter on my X5 at 145mph. It was jarring as it was really smooth right up to that point.
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(This turned into a bit of a rant...)

So, AFAICT, Hustle provides a service that's nearly as bad as robocalls. From their front page: "Hustle works because people read and respond to texts—and to communication that feels more human." So it's a bait and switch, just like a robocall: you contact me in a way that makes you feel personal, approachable and reasonable to me so that you can gain my attention.

Look, try to see this from my perspective. Without saying anything about the honor and motives of those behind Hustle, it's like I'm being attacked from all sides - Facebook, Robocalls, and now Hustle - to gain my attention. This has always been the case, perhaps, but our modern technology – coupled with a knowledge of human psychology – is a powerful tool (weapon?) for gaining access.

Here's an idea: I don't want to be assaulted all the time via the always-on electronic device I have in my pocket!

I still want to have access whenever I want it. Maybe I can't have it both ways?
Defeating a speed limiter is extremely easy. It's done all the time on German cars, which are sold with a 250 km/h limiter, usually for racing purposes.
Agree, there's still room for blocking tech. Blocking calls from outside the country is simpler though.

I still think privacy laws are more effective. The only time I've had really bad robocalls was when I transferred a domain. Now, ICANN are muppets and wilfully ignore GDPR et al. Okay, so WHOIS "protection", right? But insultingly, transferring domains doesn't work with WHOIS protection, and you need to supply a real number.

(Oh well, at least in the UK I can still buy pre-paid SIM cards with only cash in every major supermarket chain.)
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"Of course the mother doesn't HAVE to take time off - just do a planned c section on a Saturday and she can be back to work on Monday."

This isn't based on reality. Recovery time for a c-section is a week or two at least (planned or emergency). I would think 5-6 weeks before anyone would be talking about going back to work.

It's a major surgery.

Only way you could do a Saturday delivery and back to work on Monday is if you were a superhero and dropped the baby the classic way early AM Saturday.
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That argument goes both ways though - they crucial fact is that they disclosed up-front whether they paid for the service.
Because it's not their responsibility. Also, they would lose so much money if suddenly no one is getting speeding tickets.

There are also groups of car enthusiasts and people that legally race cars and modify cars to squeeze every ounce of performance.
> More than half (53 percent) of Americans ages 21 to 37 have received some form of financial assistance from a parent, guardian or family member since turning 21, according to a 2018 report by Country Financial, a financial services firm in Bloomington, Ill.

This seems like a weird age range to pick when talking about 30 somethings. Many kids are still in college in their early 20s. I'd be interested in knowing how many people in their 30s are receiving family aid
There's a lot of confusion about various types of more or less dishonest market behavior. I get downvoted every time I point out that it makes no sense to call bootleg books and movies "counterfeit".

There are a few problems a listing might have:

- Product not as advertised.

- Product as advertised, but not made by the asserted manufacturer.

- Product as advertised, but vendor doesn't have the legal right to sell it.

#1 is just fraud, and defrauds the customer. #2 is a trademark violation, and defrauds the customer without the customer suffering harm. #3 is a copyright violation, and defrauds the copyright holder.

Consumer advocates should worry about #1 and to a lesser extent #2. Most policy debate seems to focus on #3. But #2 is what's at issue here, so hey, progress.
Those are great goals! Honestly I have heard the same from my Dad and also from my friends' parents. But nothing really incentivizes you apart from just the will to do that!
Actually, I do like this incentive structure when put in this way. I think incentivizing people to take responsibility for themselves with only limited amounts of help from the federal government is the right thing to do.
Who ever flagged this "away", I would really like to know why. Flagging is not feedback; you can't fix people by flagging. If I'm wrong or bad, please explain with strong evidence & logic how I am wrong or bad. Is that asking too much? Arrrrg. -tabtab
yeah bad phrasing on my end, knowing the max speed you could interact with a common obstacle (say a highway barrier) could lead to targeting harding to prevent fatalities, as opposed to general harding for all speeds.

Cars could still drive into lakes or off cliffs, but knowing the max speed a car could rear end another car may lead to minor enhancements that could save lives
> Still I wonder how a speed considerably higher than the highest speed limits I could find in a google search was determined.

My assumption is that they used the tires' speed rating. "S" rated tires are intended for a maximum speed of 112 MPH, while "H" rated tires are intended for a maximum speed of 130 MPH.
Recognizing that fact, you adapt, utilize all the cards you have been dealt with, turn your disadvantages into advantages.

For example, when you are born poor, you develop skills that someone who is wealthier does not have the opportunity to learn.
> Restrictions exerted by the market are easier to bypass than China's social score system, but nevertheless they exist.

You're still talking about a massive difference. People in China can be expressly forbidden from, say, staying in a Hotel in any particular town, simply because they are on some "list" somewhere that they don't control. And the government then exerts pressure on others to not be associated with those people. Again, we're talking about something categorically different than "market restrictions."

> Limiting someone's ability to live their life in the way they desire is what limiting their personal freedom is.

I believe this is fundamentally a worldview issue, but the truth is that we as humans aren't completely autonomous. We are restricted in numerous different ways. We can't go too deep in the ocean. We can't go more than say, 15k feet above sea level without assistance. We can't buy top-of-the-line Teslas unless we can afford it.

Being unable to travel, buy, or move around the way someone wants to isn't a limitation of personal freedom. It's a restriction on their environment. Now, if you had the money to do those things but someone forbade you, then I'd be in agreement. If we define "personal freedom" simply by what one can buy or experience, then we are in a situation in which people will never be able to find true freedom.
I share the overal nostalgia here (I learned BASIC on an Amstrad 6128 with nothing but a book and some teenage summer nights to waste.)

I also agree that I don't know which took I would point out to a kid wanting to start today, that would not involve a probably complicated setup.

That being said, I also remember being pretty frustrated that the best I was able to do - lacking resources, books, Internet, etc... - was put a couple of pixels around, and pretend it was a game (and be ashamed of it, even if it was in 1993 or something.)

A kid starting Unity3D today, on the other hand, would probably, (after a few hours lost installing stuff), create a decent-looking game in a few weeks of following Youtube tutorials and stealing art assets all over the internet.

Or is it not even possible ?

Anyway, my questions would be: what kind missions where you doing, entirely solo ?

Do you think the language itself had anything to do with the ease of starting ?

Do you think it would be satisfying to someone to start with something that lets them draw stuff, bounce a ball, etc... in a "limited" language, in a "fake" environment, before diving into the "hard" part, trying to do it by hand, etc...
Globalisation doesn't help with that. It's now easier than ever to move to a "hot spot", most of the time for work. But no one knows each other, everyone come for "the game" and their career. Social networks and instant messaging gives you the illusion that you still have a community.

It's all good in your 20s, when you're in good health, and when it's easy and cheap to make friends.
Then you hit your 30s and find out that you don't have any community, everyone moved somewhere else, the city is too expensive for a 2-3 bedrooms flat, and even if you stayed you'd have to work full time (if not overtime), which means you'd need someone else to bring your kids to school and take care of him/her after work, which isn't free.

It's a lot like the "get a loan to buy a car, buy a car to go to work, work to pay the loan" analogy. It's not a life, you merely exists for work and pay other people to take care of what used to be the core experience. At the end of the day the only thing you're looking for is a meal and this new netflix show your heard about.

The worst part is, as you said, that it's now frown upon to rely on your community because it's "free", and surely you haven't made it if you rely on free things.
Unions are also like macros for action. All the work that goes into organized action is streamlined when you do it permanently as a union. It makes little sense to stick your neck out, and then wait until something goes wrong again and having to do all of the legwork all over.
That seems like a non sequiter. Plenty of people are still paying off student loan debt but hardly living paycheck to paycheck, myself included.

The article, by contrast, has it exactly right. I, for example, have a savings "maximum" that I've identified (for savings other than the ones with significant tax advantages, like IRA contributions), such that whenever I exceed it, that surplus goes towards more quickly paying off student loan debt. So, indeed, while I'm not living paycheck to paycheck, my savings also are not as strong as they would otherwise be.
Thanks for the feedback! That's a good idea; I'll add it to our list!
They also don't mention the closing of the US Steel plants in this article, even though for the time frame they're discussing it was probably the single most important event for the south side middle class.
Washington state.

Both Texas and WA state have no state income tax. They have higher than average sales and property tax, these are still state tax which are deductible under SALT.

The point is they have a similar state tax system, but one is a blue state, the other is red. They both have in common a relatively low overall state tax compared to CA/NY.
If it were that, I’d understand. The main issue my friends had was with declaring their “official activity”. In spain you need to declare what activity your bussiness is into, and the categories available are so restrictive and ill defined that a lot of people end up just making up something and going with it.

I’ve seen contractors with numbers in their paperwork that was obviously made up by putting a completely random number (they even admitted to that privately).

It’s important? No, is a risk that could destroy your bussiness? Certainly.
Isn't it better to ask before you quit? If Bezos agrees, you've just saved yourself a lot of hassle. Manufacturing "hit pieces" puts more pressure on Bezos to agree. Is that so hard to understand?
Is this title and content supposed to be ironic?

I quickly perused the article and I think this link should be renamed "What 99.9% of programmers don't need to know about memory."

I've managed to go from Associate to Principal without knowing 99% of what's covered in this document, and I'm struggling to understand why the average Java, C#, Python, Rust, <insert language here> programmer would need to know about transistor configurations or voltages, pin configurations, etc. Let alone 114 pages of low level hardware diagrams and jargon!

This document is for someone working on low level drivers for memory, or working on the hardware side. For any normal software engineer, this information is not helpful for doing your job.
They came of age at a time when blue-collar work was precipitously falling

Tangent: I wonder what we'll read in the history books 30 years from now about the shift in labor to becoming a globalized commodity in the era of the Internet, and how it affected economic groups poised best to take advantage of the changing era--compared to how the group equivalent of today's millennials fared during, say, the Industrial revolution as economies swiftly mechanized and labor responded by becoming more-increasingly specialized.

(Edit: and then I wonder, would the people writing such history in 30 years have been millennials today?)
> What confuses me about this is that Apple could solve this in two seconds by allowing contact whitelists where only incoming calls in your contacts are accepted and everything else is sent to voicemail or dropped.

Now you missed the reminder from your dentist, a call from that relative whose new number you forgot to save, and you have 600 recruiters and other stale business contacts in your address book because you wanted to hear from them but you're still getting spam calls because the spammers were smart enough to start spoofing numbers like the local utility companies for your area code.

There are many technical fixes which sound good until you think about what an adversary with a profit margin would do to work around them. What will work is fixing the underlying telephone system so Caller ID / ANI are reliable enough to use for filtering and law enforcement. The major telephone companies didn't want to spend the money last time, and they profit from all of these calls now, but if it became a regulatory requirement that would change.
As I mentioned in another comment, tires with an "S" speed rating go to 112 MPH, while tires with an "H" rating go to 130 MPH. I'm guessing they either downgraded the factory tires or were concerned about lawsuits from owners who installed aftermarket "S" rated tires.
The term 'Quantum Advantage' sounds more marketing than science.
What you are missing is, the people abusing the phone number are typically not the owners. For example you can get a phone number from Twilio for $1/mo, and spam people from it. Just like you can upload a copyrighted song to YouTube, or download an MP3 from your ISP-provided internet. Owning the "platform" puts some responsibility on you, but it's not expected that you can stop ALL bad activity in its tracks.

What can be done though, is monitoring for massive calling patterns at the PSTN level, but big telcos are not interested/incentivized in stopping Robocalls because it generates a lot of $$ when the calls travel over the legacy phone network.
Well....my mom and grandparents are dead and my dad is worse off financially than me so...not sure what options I really have when it comes to that.
Also, while the speed limit on I-40 through Arkansas is nominally 70 or 75, it's not at all uncommon for traffic to be moving at 85-90 MPH.
Phone companies are required to connect all phone calls in the US. So they can't really do anything about it. Spam callers can go to any disreputable carrier and all other carriers have to connect their calls.

There was actually a really weird phone scam going back a while that was just making calls that tried to keep people on the line as long as possible to make money off of the interconnect fees companies can charge each other.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/251

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/104-case-phantom-calle...
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https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/licenses.shtml

https://www.hex-rays.com/cgi-bin/quote.cgi/products

if i'm reading this right, it looks like $1879 for an individual license of IDA Pro, plus $2629 for each decompiler (a decompiler targets a single OS and architecture). the licenses are perpetual and come with a year of support.

so about $7k just to work with x64 and x86 .exe and .dll files. yikes. but if all you need is disassembly, i guess you're covered with $1879.
It makes it harder for young people from escaping an abusive family. Sure, they "just" have to leave without a safety net, but when those are widespread, society adjusts to reduce other kinds.
98% of drivers won’t do that. Let the racers do as they please.
My new iphone will actually ask me to confirm that I am not driving before unlocking when it thinks I am
iPhone at least has the option for a contacts only whitelist, I only get notifications from contacts and everything else gets ignored. No point in even considering answering a call from someone I don’t know, if it’s truly important they can leave a message and I respond asap.
I probably make two or three phone calls a year. And that’s just to companies behind the times not offering chat support. I think it’s high time we just deprecate phones altogether. It’s pretty crazy I use a 10 digit number to identify myself. ICQ did that and it was considered archaic.
There's a pattern where people go along with technology and progress because it's the thing to do, rather than by making a conscious decision. We're constantly sold new ways of doing things by getting bombarded with messaging about their strengths. We have to figure out their weaknesses on our own and they creep up on us more quietly. There's no industry shouting at us about the pros of physical books the way Amazon does about the Kindle.

So it's not hard to believe that there are people who switched to e-books by default and later could realize they miss real books.
I've seen them also use daikon radishes to demo "sharpness". Maybe it is a true test, but part of me thinks this is like demoing how good wipers are by using window cleaner instead of water to demo how good they are.
I don't think this is true across the board- do you have a source? Looking at https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi..., I see a lot of relatively low tax states that have a positive net transfer to the federal government.
Tires. Manufacturers rate their tires for certain speeds.

https://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/tires-101/tire-basics/about-...

Many cars use S-rated tires and that's the 112mph limit. It's all about liability.

Sports cars usually use higher speed ratings, whereas a truck or van might be limited ~ 100mph. They typicaly have off-road or tires with higher towing capabilities which have lower speed ratings.
Short-term day care that's available with minimum notice.

As opposed to "default" day care that's expected to cover most days for months or years, and where it's possible to make arrangements long before you actually start.
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I agree 100%.

Which is a shame, because the primary reason I like ebooks is because technical books are so much cheaper in electronic format. Likewise, I'd much prefer to read a paper electronically than kill trees, but (even if you reflow a pdf [grr!]) it is so hard to follow the text when it references a diagram or a code sample on another page, as I want to see two different things at once, and it is so easy to have two pages open in a book (or, more likely, one two-page spread open flat) and switch between them quickly.

One more thing I'm torn on: I really like reading on a dedicated reader; it has much less eyestrain, and doesn't come in with built-in distractions (like the internet being a click away, or notifications popping up). OTOH, the responsiveness, being able to zoom in and out, for example, on a tablet, is really nice.
Why is CA so expensive? Is it something intrinsic to the land (weather, natural features, etc.) or is it something more variable, like job & entertainment opportunity? If it's the latter (and I suspect it is), it is a solvable problem, at least for most G8 countries, since there is a lot of un(der)-developed areas out there.

I would not have a home without significant assistance from my parents.

I don't know your specific case, but on average, you could have bought a home without assistance if you wanted, just maybe not when & where you bought.
Legally carriers are required to connect all calls in the US. That provision is pretty important but leaves the system open to abuse. I hope we can find a way to block out robocalls without allowing the phone system to balkanize.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/251
I downloaded an app that automates the process of disabling voicemail entirely. I don't need it. Anyone whose call I miss can just send me a text or email.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.teltech.nov...
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The government needs to mandate or fund it with taxes it so all companies are under the same burden.
How do you figure that? The House controls the money. The GOP house in 2017 is the reason the Trump administration failed to repeal the ACA, which was the GOP's signature platform promise (the Freedom Caucus Republicans, who support austerity, couldn't reach an agreement with purple state Republicans). Individual Senators make bigger names for themselves --- they serve longer terms and are elected statewide, rather than by a state district --- but the House itself is arguably the most powerful branch of the government.
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