skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow talk about nostalgia!

Mrs. Sale was the elementary principal in the 1990's. She was nice, though I never got sent to her office in elementary school. My trouble years started after 5th grade. In 5th grade my teacher was Mr. Davis. The only man teacher in the elementary. There were plenty of rumors going around about how he had the hots for Mrs. Sale. And in the article's date of 2001 and with the new name of Mrs 'Sale-Davis', I guess the rumors were right!

I was a Karankawa in 7th grade and a Mayan in 8th. I never knew what the purpose of the 'pep rallies' were. Just figured it was what all schools did. I don't even know what was talked about, I was just happy to get out of class. Sometimes my buddy and I would try to pick up rocks on the way to the gym to throw at people from the stands. Or a couple of times we'd sneak to the bathroom and hide out there but that was really boring. I did think it was somewhat strange that we organized our grades and classes into Indian tribe names. Gang violence was all around us and it seemed to be an inappropriate parody.

Even more interesting is the resistance in 1992 it speaks of with some teachers quitting over the new ideas. I know in the early 1990's, several teachers and counselors moved from Brazosport to its rival a few towns over 'Brasozwood'. Perhaps that was the reason. I only knew of that because I briefly attended Brasozwood in the 8th grade and later in life found a collection of year books from the two schools and was perplexed that many of the administrators I knew from Brasozwood were listed in the Brazosport year books of the 1980's.

>"Brazosport is unabashed about admitting it teaches to the test."

I guess the question is, "but is that right"?

"I know you're heading to the bathroom to tuck in that shirt," she tells a 10th-grade boy, who smiles widely before ducking into the men's room." <-- heck that was probably me!
> But it wasn't, because every night I run a PG backup and copy it to AWS S3

Which is probably much easy on DO than AWS. For whatever reason AWS seems to go out of their way to make it as hard as possible to backup your RDS data to a separate AWS account.
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Indeed, it is the #1 destination for children to be offered Nazi propaganda as related content on episodes of Teletubbies.
"Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19610357

They've got a monopoly on kids devices.
just bring back the RSS Reader again FFS.
Fair point, but I think scale of the problem matters. That info sounds like the monthly fee will include ONE game - Destiny 2.

That's tangibly different from Amazon's mixed models. Especially since I get Amazon prime for the shipping...the movies are just nice to haves.

Which means the 10 USD is effectively a hardware rental fee only. And Google becomes a game distrib platform and eats Steam's lunch.
Is it really possible to stay anonymous for this long? Nakamoto bought the bitcoin.org domain at one point - we know this for sure. Surely someone can track how this was paid for? Someone running the forum he posted on has IPs it came from. Even if it was through a VPN, that can be traced by going to the host provider, right?

This person left a long digital trail. How is this not traceable?
There is Google Apps which is a paid service but most people gravitate to the free stuff.
i'm 26 and have traveled a fair bit and lived/worked in the US and UK

young people go to the cities for high status, high paying jobs to pay off student loans and/or save up for the future in an increasingly uncertain world

competition is extremely high for these jobs, compounded 1000x due to the rise and use of social media among my generation, which always suggests that next thing to buy or that next vacation to go on, either from corporations or your "friends" (it's hard to tell which is which after a while) - get that raise so you can unlock the next tier of stuff you see wealthy people doing

gone are the days of getting an intellectually stimulating and well paying job with IBM/Ford/GE and building your career off it while having a family young, people my age usually stay in a job for 2/3 years then on to the next startup/job/"adventure" (if they have the right degree to get a job in the first place)

then there's a completely separate cohort of people my age who have settled outside the city, gotten married, looking to have kids in low cost of living areas and figure out job stuff as they go (very risky unless you own your own biz or work for a family biz)

dating is a similarly competitive game in the big cities, one that warrants its own 10 page essay per city based on the conversations i've had with single friends in LA/NY/London/SF

the gap between generations is growing more and more pronounced/quicker due to technology grouping similar people together and amplifying their cultures...it takes effort but you need to continuously bridge this gap with those younger than you, otherwise their needs, desires, motivations will be completely alien to you - i almost don't understand the fortnite meme generation, but i make efforts to

most young people are acutely aware of life outside work and money (especially asians/immigrants due to pressure from conservative parents), but it's getting harder and harder to find the middle class/balance between earning enough to have a family comfortably and affording a place to live while keeping your job options healthy/open for whatever BS is coming next down the economic chain
And on the child-parent relationship front, we are not doing much better. As a result, kid going to schools that make them fit in cutting out creativity. It is much more rewarding to home school your kids and spends time with them bith in terms of their success later on and emotional development.
You sound mean, and too prone to burning fossil fuels to jet you and your family's fat asses around the world for no particular benefit to humanity.
This turned out not to be quite true!
It really, really sounds like you haven’t done the math. The average per-capita CO2 emissions in the USA is about 15 tons (among the highest in the world) and a round-trip flight between SF and NY is about 1.5 tons, 10% of that. So if you flew to conferences 10 times per year, you would be using the entire carbon footprint of an average US citizen, which is among the highest in the world.
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Electronics testing is obviously not the same as chemical analysis.
I know two sisters who each got married.

The older one practiced worldly prudence, courted during high school, got engaged at beginning of college, and waited almost a decade until after her fiancé graduated before they got married and started to have children. But now he can't get a job with his degree (pharmacist), she works at some retail job as a manager, and the whole family lives with her parents. He's in >$100,000 debt and briefly went to a medical facility during a nervous breakdown after realizing he realistically can't pay it back.

The younger sister had no such ambitions. Courted in high school, got engaged, married right out of high school, immediately started a family, he works at Walmart making higher than average money, and she stays at home raising the kids. They also live with her parents in the same house.

True stories. This all happened over the past 7 years.

I would say the prudence of the second couple vastly outshines the "prudence" of the first couple.
Probably referencing the use of the phrase "scientifically proven" and doubting the assertion being made and that there is in fact "science" that backs it up.
Nice, use Docker containers in it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z525kfneC6E
I'm of the impression that "the universe is getting bigger and bigger" is the other side of the coin from "space time is curved in this really weird way". Also, I'm under the impression that a curved spacetime doesn't contradict the notion of 3D space or 4D spacetime. As I understand it, a flat spacetime is one in which space neither expands nor contracts, and convex or concave spacetime refer to space that either expands or contracts (I forget which is which). Based on observations that things are getting farther apart (or perhaps that they are accelerating away from each other?), we think spacetime has a curve.

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something; hopefully someone can jump in and correct me.
I don’t know if it’s optimal, but it sure is intimate and stable.

Your spouse will never move to another city for a new job w/o you. Your kids won’t leave the nucleus, at least not until they’re college ready.

Unlike family, different kinds of arrangements between people result in relationships that are less committed and less durable.

So maybe if you take stability and intimacy into account, it might as well be optimal.

I guess it begs the question, what are we optimizing for? And on what time scale?

What might seem optimal for the time being, could unleash a series of unforeseen circumstances in the future.

But I guess we can keep an open mind, allow people to choose for themselves and then report back after 2-3 generations the consequences of different paths taken.
Some interesting things for multi-region availability planning. For example Pub/Sub is global, but it seems like if a Publish happens in a region that is having issues, a Subscribe from a region without issues might fail, even if the Publish succeeds.

On the other hand Cloud Storage multi-region buckets seem to really work. The 'us' location experienced 3.5% error rate, higher than the non-affected single regions (~1%), but still much lower than the affected regions (43% - 96%).

It is unclear how Cloud Spanner fared when the instance had only two regions and one of them was affected.
I feel you've said more or less the same thing the article is saying, just in more casually dismissive and incendiary terms. TFA refers to many of these factors as being driven by the second demographic transformation. Yes, feminism is a very important part of the SDT, but one needs to be careful with cause and effect. Did feminism cause the SDT? Unlikely. Did the SDT cause feminist ideas to become attractive to more people? That seems far more likely. If that's the case then I wouldn't necessarily lay this (more old people living/dying alone) at feminism's feet. Feminism may provide an ideological argument in favor of certain relationships, but we are the ones choosing to live and die alone, and when we choose we do so for myriad reasons.

Also, women haven't been liberated from the home [1].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/0c9f068c-711f-11e9-bf5c-6eeb83756...
Top in attractiveness. Lookup the OKCupid 80/20 study.
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My point wasn't so much a plug for iTerm2 or anything else in particular. The purpose of a dev setup app would be to (a - primarily) provide a great default dev environment for curious kids, and (b) pave the way for some of the most popular dev configurations.

I know homebrew and iTerm are pretty popular, and that there are other popular options as well. Why not list the top n in each category, in randomized order, with short descriptions and "learn more" links?

Every time I start work on a different Mac, it usually takes me at least 30 minutes to set it up. It would be nice to have a quick button to set up command line tools, iTerm2, homebrew, zsh, and git. Making such setup available from an app would not only speed up the process, it would also gives the dev environment visibility to newcomers and "first class" status from an IT perspective.
I think what the parent poster was trying to get at is people tend to lump themselves in the "barely scraping by" bracket, no matter where they actually fall on the economic ladder. It's easier to see the people who have things you don't than to realize what you have that others don't.
Ya can keep cutting this up; it’ll be exclusively filled by kids that survive. Infant mortality rates and suicide among adults are up. Parents have to consider raising successful adults is not guaranteed.

Maybe the measure for loneliness is just wrong?

Lonely relative to traditional values family model? Which had problems with depression, infidelity, parental anxiety 24/7... in other words, rife with emotional dysfunctions of its own.

Are we concerned with decline in family because it’s the best model for organizing communal life or because we’re used to it? It feels different and weird, which can feel sad, but allows other models for socializing to explore.
Makes sense, I went to their site to look more in depth and it seems with the Pro subscription you get some free games periodically and also a discount on select titles. That feels like a good middle ground actually
> data transformations, access level (sharing) and deep integration put us apart from those

I couldn't find anything about these features on my first pass, though I do now see the "Cleanup" bit on the "Data Visualization" page. I would have really liked to see more about features/tools/strengths and less nebulous marketing promises.
> if our universe has an external superuniverse

This is also meaningless, scientifically: there is nothing you can measure which is outside the universe. Things like a holographic universe are inherently untestable. I hope we continue looking for testable things, but this speculative path rapidly leads away from science and physics and into "linguistic tricks to confuse humans". It's not even philosophy at that point, it's just arguing over semantics.
In this case, do clouds with physical bare-metal provisioning capabilities like EC2 / GCP / Azure / OCI kill the Joyent value proposition?
I’m fairly right wing, but I would never comment on HN unless it were through an alt.
I find the HN comments on an article like this fascinating. So many people that admit to not having kids who think they are experts on what it means or is like to have kids.
What's your point? That we should collectively bury our heads in the sand and keep living the two-kids-and-a-minivan suburb life right up until the end?
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I'm kinda surprised an orbit that low as been stable for a year. Is this an unusually circular asteroid or is there a fair bit of eccentricity?
The original pitch of Node.js matched well with Unix, it was a simple programming model that exploited async I/O abstractions in Unix.
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I work for a company in the bay area that has about 1/4 of our employees as remote now, and 5 years ago had none. A PEO like SOI/Trinet is what makes this possible
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Pure nothingness has no potential for creation. The laws of physics don't invent themselves, so it would seem that true "nothing" never existed. I'm not talking about the quantum soup of the vacuum of space, because that is something.

If we take Hawking's idea that the universe smoothed out to a zero point where there was no time and nothing else, how does that point because laws of physics, gravity, etc? What properties of a zero point (that had no properties) cause it to create an inflationary universe?

Everything breaks down at that point, because trying to use mathematics or physics to explain something that existed before mathematics and physics doesn't work.
My first wife might agree with you, me? Not so much.

I'm not the same person I was 10 years ago, so why would I expect her to be the same women I fell in love with 10 years ago?

It's not a crime to change, grow, evolve; so why punish the person you are with?
Looking forward to starting working with you!
> I go to the gym so she does not have a skinny boyfriend.

PSA, there's nothing wrong with being skinny, and some people prefer a skinny partner.
There is nothing that can be an order of magnitude better than DO/AWS/GCE on multiple aspects.
> To go smoothly from 0 to 1, the system transitions through a series of superpositions of both states, i.e. it starts out entirely in state 0, and then transitions smoothly to being mostly in state 0 and a little bit in state 1, to being half in each state, to being mostly in 1 and a little bit in 0, to being entirely in 1.

Not really. An atom can be described by its quantum state only if it's isolated and in that case its energy is constant. If the states s_1 and s_2 have different energies E_1 and E_2 then the quantum state may be a superposition of the states s_1 and s_2 with an expected value for the energy between E_1 and E_2 but no "smooth transition" is possible.

For the transition to happen the atom has to be coupled with an external field. One way to think of it is as the evolution of the system composed of the atom plus a photon, where the transition between the states "excited atom and no emitted photon" and "unexcited atom and emited photon" happens at constant energy.

Edit: See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_emission#Theory
Well, you have to make time for things you want to do. What we have done raising our kids is that we have one parent going to the gym, the other one is taking care of kids. You can do it if you are committed. Do not give up!

Yes, it is rewarding to be a parent at the end of the day when they fall asleep. :)
I assume you calculated the average force and relative velocity experienced in the 450m circular orbit. At the perigee of the polar orbit (when the picture was taken) the force and the relative speed should be bigger. Also due to the small size of the asteroid the gravity should be quite uneven during the approach.
The irony is crypto it really depends on a private entity or government to provide consistent electricity and internet. Gold is still good in the apocalypse, maybe not as much as seeds and tools, but your crypto wont be accessible. Invest $100M in pumpkin seeds! :D
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Market share is different from monopoly. Apple is not the only phone manufacturer. There are many companies out there making phones. The fact that everybody likes or chooses them doesn’t mean they are a monopoly.
Uh, cross-platform gaming will be huge. It says it will work in a Chrome browser. This is running on Linux and using Vulkan as well, so I imagine the open source community will want to try to adopt these technologies more and more since it is clearly scalable and efficient enough to run a live streaming service of this magnitude. I'm happy to see less games developed in proprietary frameworks and to be supported on more operating systems than Windows.
I'm glad Venus is getting more attention. Mars seems to get the most attention as a place to visit, but we seem to ignore Venus.

Venus has a few things going for it that I think make it a better choice for permanent human habitation than Mars.

* Venus has nearly Earth-like gravity (8.9 m/s² instead of 9.8 m/s²)

* The atmosphere 50 km above the surface is the right temperature for liquid water, and has a similar atmospheric pressure to Earth at sea level. [1]

* Venus has suffered a runaway greenhouse effect. It's a good place to experiment on how to mitigate or reverse that without risking Earth. And what we do learn may be applicable to Earth in the not-too-distant future.

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200300...
Sad to hear. I selfishly hope the company does well for the sole purpose of keeping Bryan Cantrill employed so he can continue to give fantastic talks that I watch on YouTube.
That's a pretty big jump. In one case, I create a human where one does not currently exist. In the other case, I choose to impose my will on a human that currently exists and has a will of their own.
There's an interesting philosophical line of thought that distinguishes between things that are necessary and things that are contingent.

A necessary thing must exist; it can't not exist. A contingent thing may exist, or it may not.

In the classical definition of God, he has no beginning or end. He was not created by some other force. He exists necessarily. He just _is_. In fact, many theists describe God using terms such as "being itself" or "pure is-ness". Even the Hebrew name for God -- I AM -- makes references to this. And if God is necessary and uncreated, it gets around the question of, "Well, who created God?"

But I've heard people point out that if you can say that God just is, without having been created, then why not say that the universe just is, without having been created?

I think the answer to that question lies in this distinction between necessary and contingent things.

Theists who have a classical conception of God would argue that God is necessary, but the universe is contingent.

If you're interested in the philosophy behind this, here's an interesting resource: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being/
I'm with you on the syntax and I'll point out (as people may forget) that the "compulsory reliance" part is the real stickler. It's only in 1974 that the US passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act; before that, a man was required to cosign for any loan or credit a woman applied for (if you were unmarried for any reason, including widowed, you'd have to find a guy somewhere). Before the 1960s, in the US women could be required to have a male attached to any bank account they opened, or could be denied the opportunity to open a bank account.

It's not that men are terrible. It's that if you have to find a man to avoid homelessness, sometimes you are stuck with terrible men, as polygamy is illegal.
The architectural idea behind Stadia is interesting. The tacit assumptions here seem to be that the only games worth playing are multi-player, and also it's a real PITA to build a good gaming rig these days. The first assumption allows that there must be some shared state; and with the second, you extend the shared state to include the entire UI, and you use a video codec to ship it.

Lots of benefits to Google and game authors in terms of DRM - players no longer even have access to the game code. Nor do they have access to the "low entropy" network messaging stack. There will be literally no opportunity to write low entropy bots (although Sikuli style keyboard/mouse bots will always be possible, of course).

It's interesting to compare/contrast the trade-offs with traditional shrinkwrapped and more modern Steam/Blizzard style game distribution. It seems clear that Google wants to leapfrog Steam here, and go toe-to-toe with Netflix.
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SFO is quite far out of the city - SF itself is on the other side of the range of hills SFO is south of, about 15 miles all told.

If you have that big hill between you and SF, all you're going to see is the northern end of the south/west bay, particularly San Mateo.
I think this should fix that:

https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/commit/1ac200cbbbe...

This change will be in the next release, v1.8.5.
Microsoft came out of no-where with the original XBox. You had Playstation, Nintendo, and Sega. It can happen, just need the right motivations for customers.

And if 5G lives up to it's promises, this will be one of those first great products to take advantage of that extra bandwidth.
If you feel that these voices are stupid or even callous, why can't you just see that as that, and prompty ignore them? You're not the problem, they are.

It's more problematic if you're depressed at the state of the world, i.e. that so many people voice wrong and hurtful convictions - that I can somewhat sympathise with.
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You're disregarding future procreation in those calculations[0]:

[0]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541