skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's easy: this doesn't happen in a vacuum of supply/demand. Not everything is a perfectly efficient market.

A daycare, like any other business has costs associated with rent (which has gone up a LOT) and employees (who are taking care of my kids and should be paid a decent living wage in a rising-cost-of-living environment).

What evidence do you have that they are price gouging rather than simply trying to maintain a working business. Why do you think adding more daycares would significantly change this dynamic?
even if nigeria’s fertility falls dramatically there’s what’s called demographic momentum[1] which will continue population growth through the rest of the century barring unprecedented migration or catastrophe. 800m is the UN’s middle of the road estimate. the low estimate is around 600m iirc, and the high estimate is over 1b.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_momentum
Paul Dirac: Projective Geometry and the Origin of Quantum Equations [pdf]
Congrats to Touchtech! Acquisitions are always exciting :)

I'm wondering what this means for multi-factor authentication with regards to payments. Why bio-metrics instead of a physical security key and U2F? Convenience? Customer reach?

If the U.S. implements something like SCA in the future, would it be likely that biometrics will win out over PINs or security keys, given different legal protections for both (https://pilotonline.com/news/local/crime/article_25373eb2-d7...)? What might this mean for future legal precedents regarding biometrics?
Unlikely, it’s probably a lot like a sensory deprivation tank. You likely start to hallucinate after a period of time and deteriorate to some strange state of existence.
Correct. Fishing gear amounts for the largest portion of plastic by volume in the oceans.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/03/great-pacific-ga...
mmm I was pretty sure I read it. I cannot find the reference so I think you are right. I'm going to edit my comment.
Yes, that's the "making other people pay" part.
I didn't turn a 180. I laid out that housing supply cannot keep up with the rise in demand in my first two paragraphs, which leads to the conclusion that the rise in demand will result in a rise in prices.
What is "the pro-trans dogma" that you describe?
It is very unlikely that western doctors in a major hospital would use a traditional jungle remedy that has limited clinical support. I did a quick skim and the clinical support isn't very good.

(none of this is to say it's not effective, just that it's unlikely western doctors would do this based on current clinical evidence)
Salt and sugar are very effective flavor enhancers that cost pennies compared to higher quality food preparation. It is good to think of restaurants more in terms of entertainment than nutrition because they want customers to come back for portion size and taste. With salt there is a kind of bliss point that you want to get to without stepping over. At that stepover point the food is revolting. But near that point is where the food is the most appetizing. I am not suprised to find a lot of salt in the meat. Chicken breast meat doesnt have a lot of flavor. A ballenced seasoning approach with spices is trickier on mass appeal than just the cheapest route, salt. And sugar is really the only macronuetrient or psuedomacronuetrient that tastes good alone. Salt is revolting by itself.
Software is eating the world:The simplest ways to understand the market
Isn't the R&D money for scientists and labs coming from the US government?

business drug R&D follows the "which drug patents can we buy and Jack the prices up for extra profit?"
Airbnb Leads $160M Investment in Business-Travel Startup Lyric
Fair enough, I can work with that.
this is going to be worse in your pocket in every way.
This is why I use OmniFocus for my travel checklist: nested lists. If I’m not going on a ‘work trip’ I can just tick that whole sub-list off with one tap.

Checklists FTW. Nobody above me has mentioned Atul Gawande’s book ‘The Checklist Manifesto’ so, just on the off-chance you’re not aware of it, there you go. I loved it. (Gawande is the doctor who implemented the checklist in this article.)
This presumes that you are the same person after a seizure, or even after a nap, or even after half a minute of ordinary life, or even a unitary "person" to begin with.
That's not the _whole_ point. You also can have financial benefits.
> In many ways I believe that Zuckerberg is the sole reason that Facebook hasn't crashed and burned at this point.

Him and Sheryl Sandberg.
If I’m not mistaken, the video was made by someone else.
Not this stock. It's split into two classes, one of which grants vastly more voting power than the other. Zuckerberg still personally controls a majority of the votes.
Well, all that's going to do is create an incentive to lie about your medical history so you don't get DQ'd and/or artificially limit the size of your pilot candidate pool, thus creating an even bigger shortage.

Non-pilot millitary personnel get deployed and are on the ground in war zones 10x more than pilots (especially in the army) and they aren't disqualified for having allergies.

It's just not a big deal except in the most egregious of hay fever cases
1. They aren’t really fed up, investors who are fed up sell, they don’t whine

2. It sounds like investors want to eat their cake and have it too; they want the profits without the man, it doesn’t really work that way, you knew the shareholding structure when you bought, if you were uncomfortable with it, you shouldn’t have bought.

3. This shareholding structure gets changed by regulation or Facebook having its stock price collapse. Facebook’s profitability is improving so that won’t happen anytime soon. Government action is a possibility depending on how the 2020 election goes.

Note: The shareholding structure is probably a perverse incentive that will lead Mark Zuckerberg to self destruct in the longer run (Bezos, Gates etc all run the risk of being fired, but they run their companies such that the shareholders always wanted them there), for now, he’s safe.
Right I guess you were being rhetorical then, I'm saying I'm okay with it
Re-reading my comment, I can see that I rambled quite a bit.

The overall idea that I'm trying to get across is that the best homes of today are not nearly as durable as the best homes of 500 years ago. The historical home would have had likely had stone walls if the owner could afford it, and a heavy timber-framed roof with lead or zinc overlaid for protection from the elements - exactly like Notre Dame, in fact. A modern home of the same cost (i.e., belonging to a person of equivalent economic class) is going to be much more comfortable but is much less likely to stand the test of time - at least, unless it substantial ongoing maintenance.

To put it another way, after a hundred years of abandonment, the historical home would likely still be standing. Barring extreme weather, the roof would likely be still in place. A modern home however would decay much more quickly, because of the assumptions that we make today about the availability of quality materials for repair and maintenance - and yes, because the materials to which we have access today allow architectural styles that were previously impossible, like huge bay windows.
Absolutely nothing.

But I find "someone else might do it" to be a bit of a weak excuse to do anything. Every bad thing that COULD happen that HASN'T happened is because someone (usually multiple someones) chose not to do it.

It's really that simple. The first step in no one doing any particular thing is to not do it. And while there are cases where this forces a tough choice, the majority of such cases aren't that tough. Like here: The question is not "do we make mega bucks and be evil, or be poor but good". The question here is "Do we make mega bucks being evil or do we go try to make mega bucks elsewhere?"
...and removing it breaks the display! Not like leaves some weird residue that makes it unpleasant to use... it makes large swaths of pixels stop working...
A new digital currency: unit-e
A digital currency advertised to be better than bitcoin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18931989), now open source: https://github.com/dtr-org/unit-e
Don't forget the worst heat issue the MBP dealt with[1]. If you can't even hit your base clock at idle, someone really didn't bother with QA.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8J125s4cg
The concerning (mis)interpretation of your statement is what I said on the third line above:

> "accurately predicts...56% of the time" implies that half of predictions are 'accurate', which most readers would interpret as 'correct' i.e. knowing SAT + HSGPA allows you to state FYGPA _exactly_ for about half of cases.

This interpretation is easy to arrive at, and clearly does not correspond to a reasonable understanding of the source, even for a general audience.

I provide two suggestions above:

> One could say it tells us about 30% of the information we'd need to know to perfectly predict the outcome, or that the relationship is better than random, but doesn't predict perfectly
A company I worked at bought Firewire driver code from them (this was 15-20 years ago). The code was really, really terrible and we eventually had to replace it with our own code (which was 20x shorter, faster, and more spec compliant).

In retrospect, and as much as we in engineering hated their code, it was probably worth what they paid for it just because it got us 75% there and took pressure off the team while we created the replacement code.
How does snappy compare to lz4?

Also, for gzip, you might want to consider using its multithreaded version, called "pigz".
Apple’s innovation is and always has been on the manufacturing side. The fact that they can make such well designed devices AND manufacture millions of them that meet such precise tolerances and high quality is what really sets them apart. Apple has been doing this for over a decade, while other manufacturers have only (possibly) caught up recently, if at all.

I’m sure someone will chime in about the butterfly keyboard or something else, but the number of those issues is small compared to all the devices they create.
It requires many passes through the list, and even O(LogN) is probably enough to make it slower than a hash based O(n) approach depending on list size. Hashing is fast. If space is an issue, just use an appropriately sized bloom filter.
The current winner is a SIMD-ish solution using 32 bit math as 4 8-bit lanes. This has been added to the repo, and is discussed in the comments.

https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/...
Yes, because trial and error over thousands of years of trying local flora couldn't possibly yield a solution from an eco-system that has to actively fight off fungal infections. /sarcasm
>were evenly distributed across races, then that's no big deal?...

These are the perverse incentives when the standard is "equal treatment under the law", or "equal protection under the law". If they can find some way to treat everyone in a crappy fashion, the law doesn't have a problem with that. The successful class actions tend to come only when it can be shown that you are only treating some people crappy.

That would be fairly easy to show in this case. Simply have random whites and blacks stand in front of a camera running MS software and compare the accuracy rates. (Come to think of it, a demo like that would be pretty powerful in a courtroom too. Maybe there is more to this than just PR MS is worried about?)

EDIT:

I just realized how bad that sounded. To be clear, I'm not saying we should treat some people unfairly. I'm saying the law doesn't care whether we treat people fairly or unfairly, so long as they all get treated the same. I was positing that maybe it would be better if we could try to make the law incentivize treating everyone fairly.
Per the article, the fungus was in her bloodstream - I think mainlining fried coconut oil is probably contraindicated.
I dislike the dual share structures but that's not why these resolutions will fail.
Plummeting battery prices to make electric cars cheaper than gas cars in 3 years
Replacing the commercial wild-caught fish with the more expensive farm-raised fish will bring the most roi if you enjoy fish.
It’s also not taxed as a medical benefit. Also, companies have to maintain certain enrollment proportions to avoid non discrimination testing, and so allowing people to take cash in lieu wouldn’t work out for employer.
I get my hair cut at a place that from the outside looks like a traditional barber shop but once inside it's run by Thai women.

I explain what I want and then they talk amongst themselves and I can just close my eyes and relax. The only things that come up are "look good?" and "eyebrow?".

I see no reason to look for another place.
I had the iPhone 4. The antenna was a non issue.
There were some discussions for a more general system -- e.g. Int[Seconds] would be a typed int indicating the contents represented seconds.

We needed to think more about all of these usecases and how things worked so we decided to start with just strings as the most useful. It is great to see you had the same idea though and would definitely like to revisit this in the future.
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This is a nice explanation of different models: https://youtu.be/QsBT5EQt348
OK I see what you're getting at. Sure, maybe MS is pushing MIT out of sneaky bastardliness. But, it kinda sounds like what you're saying is that as long as it's good for the owner it can't also be horrible.

I mean, my auto shop exists to benefit me however I decide is best, and there is a good argument to be made that I benefit from sabotaging my customers' cars. So what!
You know that unaccredited private universities (besides the phoney diploma mills) do exist, right?[0] The discussion shouldn't be about whether they can exist, but rather how much recognition they can garner across how broad of a spectrum of disciplines -- which goes up and down over time. I think we (as a civilization) are about to lose faith in academia, and I expect more opportunities in this space to open up, but I could be totally wrong.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unaccredited_instituti...

Edit: s/rime/time
Maybe think of it this way. How many people watch movies by going out and renting/purchasing a dvd. I'm willing to bet a lot less than 10 years ago. We're all doing it on-line. It sort of sounds like these cloud based gaming services want to mirror what netflix is doing. Sure, this is already happening to an extent.. but we still have to purchase the gaming console (dvd player vs just using your computer/smart tv). I guess that will have implications for the gaming blockbuster stores out there. If you look at it from that viewpoint it seems almost inevitable that it will happen eventually. Plus, from a consumer perspective you are isolated from having to cycle one less piece of hardware all the time. 10 years from now, how many people will have dedicated gaming consoles vs streaming online.. I'm willing to bet a lot more than today. I own maybe a handful of physical dvds and movies now.. its is all online. I'm totally happy about that too.

Same thing happened with cell phones. You used to have a walkman, dvd/cd player, a camera, a calculator, a pager, flashlight, notepad, etc. Now, you just have a phone.. add the gaming console to this list (and most other electronics too).
That was a software issue which they patched soon after. Dave Lee did re-review the unit after the patch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTguywiC9aw
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"Easter" is just the English name, which is indeed related to the Germanic goddess associated with the Germanic month which the holiday occurs. The Latin and Greek name of the holiday is "Pascha", which is a direct cognate to the Jewish holiday "Pesach", or passover.
My family uses water bombers to put out all of our cathedral fires.

Ok, back from sarcasm land. I have faith that the anti-fungal researchers have an expansive view of anti-fungal treatments, and the likelihood that a random person on ycombinator knows about a treatment that these professionals don't, is about zero.
1. Do a whois on those domains and you'll see they're owned by Google.

2. The privacy policy on amp.dev is Google's.

3. Both sites are hosted by Google.

4. The license in the amphtml repo says copyright Google.

5. The OWNERS.yaml file in the amphtml repo list 3 people, all of whom work for google.

6. Per the contributing code readme, contributing code requires signing this Google CLA: https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual

7. Looking at the last few merged PRs nearly everyone involved is a Google employee. I realize this could be a coincidence but I'm not going to analyze the whole repo.

8. The TSC is 3/7 Google employees.

Regardless, until Google issues a legally binding release of the project to an independent organization it is owned by Google. The TSC and AC could be removed at Google's whim.
Bank of Japan to be top shareholder of Japan stocks
The academics/experts in the field generally consider 2.1 to be replacement level fertility because:

Accidental deaths before having kids

Gay/Lesbian kids

Kids that “want” to have kids but for whatever reason are unable to
Because it would decimate checkout conversion to save a few basis points in fraud losses.
While I don't agree with the initial assertion of Oxygen masks being incompatible with seasonal allergies I will say that the Docs are looking to disqualify you as early in the pipeline as possible, reason being: $$$. In addition, the only times I've heard of specific pipeline disqualification is if you "anthro out" of certain aircraft, i.e too big or too small for the cockpit.

Source: Marine Pilot.
Not op, but I'd sell if I think there's no upside anymore.
Here's the best article I found supporting at least the garlic as a natural and viable cure: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/remedies-garlic-fo...

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“Garlic has long been considered a powerful natural antifungal,” said Dr. Lawrence D. Rosen, chief of pediatric integrative medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey and a pediatrician at the Whole Child Center in nearby Oradell. Dr. Rosen pointed out that studies have found garlic effective against a number of fungal infections, including those caused by Candida and other common pathogens.

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Here's the supporting study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12174037?itool=EntrezSys...

And conclusion: "Fresh garlic extract has a greater efficacy than garlic powder extract as indicated both by its effects on morphology and inhibition of growth."
> "Edit: If anything I want NO mechanical components on any handheld device I own because in the last 40 years of my life everything has broken mechanically eventually."

your anecdote seems to suffer from cognitive bias. screens are non-mechanical (except in this galaxy fold) and yet they're still the most broken component in a phone.
Fracking bills stall despite concern over oil spills
After living a full life? Probably?
The ultimate answer to any skill shortage is always going to be "pay them more." However, that falls apart quickly, so the problem is finding a better answer.
They probably keep it as a way to restrict both.
That's a great point. People should be able to opt-out.
Bandwidth increases do not fix latency. If a document has to round trip from the other side of the planet, that adds about 200 milliseconds until we break the speed of light. If that same document must make several round trips to be able to initially load (very common!) this adds up rather quickly. The only solutions are localized caching and prefetching.
If there are 500 daycare slots and 2,000 people that need daycare then only the wealthiest 25% are going to be able to afford it. If this gets expanded to 1,500 slots then 75% can get daycare. That's how scarcity drives up supply. If the demand for something exceeds it's availability then its price rises.

Are there operational costs that make operating a daycare at lower than $X per child per day unprofitable? Maybe. If it's rent then the discussion shifts to the supply of real estate. If it's wages then it's about the accessibility of labor.
I have seasonal allergies and have never had issues with nor heard of this.
This is a significant part of the reasons I ultimately decided against cyropreservation.
IOW, not much different from corporate management.
Very good point, thanks for clarifying.
>Why is it not possible for a private non-accredited college to establish an industry-recognized degree of reputation?

It is absolutely possible. In fact, it doesn't even have to be a private institution. I have a CS degree from a public California university. The university itself is accredited, but my particular degree is not. There is no outside body that says that I learned anything at all about CS, just that I learned the bare minimum to get a bachelors degree from a UC school. The weight of the universities name is more than sufficient on its own to answer any question of whether my degree is worth anything.

Of course I suspect that it is in fact much easier to go down this path if you're already a globally recognized research university than if you're "Joe Schmoe's Computer Science Degree Emporium".
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Designed for long term storage, supports multiple storage backends and can replicate them.
How about the idea that you can make tea from the leaves and bark of a willow tree, and use it to treat fevers and aches and pains? Does that sound like a ridiculous folk remedy?
The rumors of very nasty behaviour between competing saas companies is confirmed by tech at the top of list with 34% bad bot traffic. Is anyone providing bad bot as a saas service? Send an army of automated bots on your competitors e-commerce website.
I can see you've never tried a keto diet.
Yes everything that 'comes from the earth' is automatically better for you than something that was rigorously clinically tested!
Or it would be like Robocop 2, which would not be fantastic.
I've seen lambdas and virtuals inlined dynamically. AOT would need to be statically typed and instantiated all the way to do the same thing.

I could create a sample program that would be hard to make as fast in C or C++, with the constraint that the code needs to be dynamically loaded at runtime.

In practice, it's easier to modify a more dynamic program and be sure you're not breaking much. Highly tuned C tends to bake in assumptions about memory lifetime, layouts, call graph, etc. The flexibility to modify is what gives you the ability to target higher level improvements in a shorter amount of time.

Given any concrete implementation, after it's been designed in a more dynamic language, you can convert it to something fast in something like C. But starting from C is probably not a great idea. And not everything can be written multiple times economically.

E.g. the .net GC was prototyped in Lisp, and initially converted to C++ with a translator.
I don't understand your comment neither the downvotes. The comment I was replying to was criticizing the government for wanting national companies to help it, which I think is the reality in all countries.

Either way, good reply. /s
‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy
I'm interested in reading more, do you have a source?
He is probably too old for a faang.
another chat for the collection thanx for the link.
Im curious schlowmo, do you recall hunt4eva?
how about L!G! or trollster? If not dont worry your handle is similar to someone, ive not heard from in a long time.