skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the risk of wading into deeply controversal territory, I'll add some personal observations. One of the harsh realities I have seen is that it's very difficult for women to "have it all" meaning a fulfilling personal, family, and professional life, especially in the most competitive fields. Yet for many years this idea has persisted in a mythical sense as broadly achievable. I am now in my late 30s. I've watched my female friends and classmates have productive and inspiring careers, but often at the cost of their personal lives. The writing is on the wall that many of these women will likely never end up having biological children due to declining fertility. It makes me sad because while they are awesome entrepreneurs, physicians, lawyers and so on, they would have been awesome mothers as well. And at the societal level, from a selection standpoint, these are the type of genes we should want to pass on. I'm not sure what the answer is, but we should at least be honest about discussing the reality of what people wrestle with and why and how.
The really important bit, comparison to lithium ion:

>She did say that large battery banks that might be spun off from this research stand to not only have higher capacity, but also be substantially lighter than lithium ions. Although, she adds, perhaps the greatest weight savings will come not from comparing one battery cell's mass with another. “The biggest difference would be that you don’t have to have the same stainless steel bunkers in each of the cells,” she says.

Not flammable is a big deal in battery tech. We try to pack more and more energy into smaller and smaller cells, so continuing to improve the capacity makes inadvertently releasing all that energy even more dangerous.

Here's another cool project working on that problem with a solid polymer electrolyte. Video shows it continuing to provide power while being sliced into pieces with scissors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-cNNYb1Ik
No kidding. Probably quite gruesome to the spectators but a very quick death for the condemned.
Feminism has brought about a lot of changes, but I don't think we can lay this one at the feet of women trying to escape their compulsory reliance on unreliable, selfish, and inconsiderate men.

Most people are alone because they don't prioritize the families they already have (parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, etc). They graduate high school, attend college in another state, move to another city far away for work, etc. Those are choices and they carry consequences. It's not good by default to follow your dreams if the only way to follow your dreams is to be alone and isolated in a strange place. Career is only a portion of our lives and it is far from the best way to draw meaning and purpose for ourselves. It's much better to draw meaning from something that is more permanent and guaranteed, like your identity and your home, not the job you just so happen to be doing at that moment.

There are exceptions to every rule, but it should be understood that when people graduate from high school, they should pick a trade school or university that is close by, not far away. When they choose a focus/major, they should ask what jobs exist in their area, not what kinds of jobs exist in the whole world. When they graduate college, they should be looking for work near their home, not on the other side of the country. Work and career is unreliable and people fail a lot. It's not the thing you should rely on to make you happy or satisfied.

It's better to have less of a career and more of a family than less of a family and more of a career. Your career accomplishments are not as important or valuable as they seem. If you didn't do them, someone else very probably would, and you will also very probably be forgotten quickly after you retire or quit or die. But more humane pursuits like family, home, faith, and community will always be there if you invest in them.
I guess it needs clarification that I'm not trying to indicate they relied on proprietary hardware platforms like SPARC or a 1990s big-iron licensing model. These days, it's acknowledged that rent-seeking by a million cuts is the only viable way to make money. Even Microsoft is acknowledging that.

SmartOS may've been indirectly implicated in revenue, but let's be real, illumos and Joyent have always been tied at the hip. Joyent was never going to become a Linux-centric alternative public cloud like AWS, GCloud, etc.

If there had been less ideological fervor and with Samsung's backing, maybe they could've offered more serious competition to the incumbents, but the Solaris style oozes out of Joyent's every pore. It's fundamental to their way of thinking. That purity and commitment is certainly admirable, but it's simply not commercially viable anymore.
Thanks for trying to help me debug. This is with notes on front screen in an easily tap able spot.

I currently keep a paper notebook for the reason you give.
Not much evidence would be able to survive those temperatures and acidity levels. If you really want to dig through the molten earth, bring a titanium shovel.
I'm sure feminism plays a role. As the article said, women can now more freely leave abusive husbands. That's one example of how it would increase divorce rates.

However, I don't think it is the sole reason. For example, why then are wealthy people more likely to have families, as the article describes? The fact that wealthier people have families more seems to support the idea that it is at least partially caused by neoliberalism.
People pushing those ideologies.
Are they? I usually feel like the last thing I'd ever do at a gym is talk to someone, and someone talking to me would be really surprising...
FCC allows AT&T, Verizon and other carriers to block more suspected robocalls
> Name one major bank not working on blockchain tech right now.

Name one major bank actually shipping something blockchain related that works better then what we had before.

Major banks occasionally announce that they are tinkering with it. There's a couple of reasons for why they do so.

1. Some senior engineer who is personally interested in cryptocurrencies with political clout wants to work on a hobby project, and is chums with his boss, who said yes. It's never going to see the light of day, but who said big institutions are smart?

2. They want to be seen as hip places for engineering talent. What better way to do so, then to claim that there's people in the organization working on magical unicorns (Even though none of their work will ever see the light of day.)

3. Idiot board members/shareholders who don't understand anything about banking or crypto are asking directors 'What are you doing about crypto,' so the company builds a Potemkin village, to tick a checkbox on their next quarterly earnings call. The village will be torn down, and the villagers shot, as soon as this checkbox disappears.

In short, the list of valid reasons for a bank to work on cryptocurrency are:

1. Someone with pull started a vanity project that slipped past the beancounters.

2. Cynical marketing for purposes of developer outreach.

3. Covering-your-ass against a powerful idiot, who wants to know why you are busy doing real work, instead of chasing a fad that he read about on Buzzfeed.

Notice how this list omits "Building a useful product that will make us more money."
FWIW I do the same I have backups of everything.

All that said in close to a decade (actually might be a decade) I've still yet to have any issue with linode (tempting the computer gods here) or their backups.

I remember when DO was first starting out and they used to knock their own stuff offline updating router tables.

Ever since I have a jaundiced view of their capabilities.
Then you are illusional. None of their safety guarantees are real. Memory, type, concurrency, none. But talking to them fall on deaf ears. Its called hype driven development and very popular amongst HN folks. There exist plenty of real safe languages though.
> I can't wait to hit the phase of life with a partner and/or family living with me.

You're in a phase of life where you could live with others, although there's no guarantee of there actually being a good opportunity near by.

I spent a chunk of my 20s living in a student housing cooperative in Ann Arbor, MI, and for the most part it was a great experience. It was big enough, and enough of the population was grad students, that it was easy to be left alone when that's what you wanted. But it was also plenty easy to find someone up for a game of chess or whatnot at pretty much any time of day.

It was also inexpensive, I still had some space of my own, and while some work was owed to keep the house running it was in practice substantially less than I spend on my own apartment with typically better results.
Sad times we live in that you have to say it twice that you don't oppose feminism, otherwise you know your comment will get flagged, which means your opinion will simply be hidden away. That is the state of the debate, if we can even call it a debate.
we as a society have underestimated the effects and consequences of rapid change

That's the fundamental bias of human beings. Alvin Toeffler and other authors have been banging on about that since the 60's and 70's. Vernor Vinge used to talk about this. (He helped popularize the "Singularity.")

we should take a step back and think about what is really happening

Do this, if you want to grab hold of a piece of intelligence which is invisible to the general public. This is something of a corollary to, "What you can't say."

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

If one has tried to talk about evolution to an anti-evolutionist, one is familiar with the depth and surprising strength of mental defenses working against evidence. If one wants to have an awareness beyond the ordinary, one has to do self analysis at this level. (While not succumbing even more to one's deeply held biases.)
That sounds great! Just be careful not too become too dependent on someone else.
The Great Lakes have surpassed the 'high-water-level' record set 33 years ago.
Therefore, High-Water levels in the Great Lakes cause loneliness.

Correlation != Causation

If you are looking for things "to blame" don't forget about:

-decline in religious-group (church) participation

-stagnate wage increases for 20 years while cost of living increases (result: less of an ability to afford "going out") Also related: more people needing 2+ jobs

-increased internet access/duration/interaction

All of these equate to less 'recreational' time available. Lack of recreation time = less chance to participate in social settings = more loneliness
Does this occur even after switching from the level 1 blocklist to the level 2 blocklist under Content Blocking's customization options?
The patent wouldn't be for the flower, but for the use of that flower for producing that particular compound. Or they can patent useful derivatives of that compound.

The idea is to find man-made process involving something unpatentable and patent that process. The pharmaceutical industry is doing it regularly. And I would say it is the patent system working as intended. Others can still do research on that flower and you get rewarded for your discovery.
I agree with your first point — like other structural problems, loneliness adds up over time.

But on the second point, I'm really not sure that online social networks are just a "surface-level mirage." I met my spouse online, and many of my closest friendships have developed online, by instant message, etc. I don't think the alternative to "online communication" is necessarily that we will all socialize in person. If we got rid of the internet and instead (just for a random example) we were all alone in our houses reading books by ourselves, I think that would be a step back.
This is a common misunderstanding of the AGPL. It has the same combined work rules as the GPL. It just has the additional condition that a modified work offered as a network service must make the corresponding source available.

If the AGPL program is unmodified, you don't have to share its corresponding source no matter what it is integrated with.

If the AGPL program is modified, you only have to offer the corresponding source of that program, not all programs that connect to it over the network.
The Daily Mail is neither fake news, nor propaganda, nor a content farm. These are ludicrous suggestions. It's an unpleasant sensationalist tabloid, but it abides by the UK press standards authority. There are equivalents in every western country.
Seems a bit circular to me. If the most important thing a human can do is bring life, then that life also has as its most important mission to bring some more life into the mix and so on. You end up with an endless chain of causation and no real answer as to what makes the entire thing worthwhile.
Also forestry.io is a pretty good free backend for a static site with WYSIWYG editing.
Sure it can, but you know what? I think "traditional family values" as defined by USian conservatives are abject nonsense and the only "meaningful" relationships are the ones you create for yourself for no other reason than that you enjoy the other person's company.
Unions, Media Companies and TPM
My experience was that established religions got hungry for tithing and thus optimized their messages with new ideas that ignore tolerance and abuse pluralism. Former adherents are more than excused to dissociate with groups that lack transparency, foster cultures of abuse, or otherwise require rigid in-/out-group splits.

The new world views you refer to that former religious adherents adopt aren't usually terribly radical, and it's a thought-terminating pitfall to call them religions or even spirituality. Much improvement over the new cults of the 1970s.
I think it was a combined persona from Nick and Hal, with Nick doing most of the writing in the forum.
There's imo a stronger argument that economic/financial factors are far more significant than "feminism." The closing in the employment gap in the 1980s was driven by hyperinflation and consumer debt - everyone had to work to pay the bills.

Similarly, contraceptives aren't the reason people have fewer children. It's the fact we can't afford childcare and housing for a family.
Is bringing another being into the world the most important thing one can actually do? I'm not sure if you've noticed but we're getting pretty full. And we're living longer. Feels to me like the bus is getting full.
Politics has always been attacks and pandering. The only time you get really grand vision is before & during war, and that usually has the worst outcomes for the most people, including permanent loss of liberty when the whole thing is said and done.
Better technology and a doubling of the potential workforce probably had more to do with stagnating wages than anything else.
>Birth control has only been available for a short period of history,

If you are talking about the pill sure, but there are forms of birth control that date to ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, And China. Not to say these methods were effective and the book of Genesis did regress things a little with God slaying Onan for practicing the old pull out method, teaching that procreation is for reproduction only.
> The Founder’s Edition will launch in United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland.

Disc: Googler.
my conspiratorial reaction to all these conspiracies about paul le roux is that this is propaganda to defame bitcoin by driving a narrative that bitcoin was created by a convicted vicious crime boss and informant. im not buyin
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But assuming that the latency gets reduced to acceptable levels for competitive games, I see this distribution model as the only one to effectively fight cheaters. I would love to hear alternatives, though.
Re:keep

Keep is now a core gsuite app, so while it could also get canned or have a total makeover, it will probably stay, atleast for enterprises, like Google+ continues to.
Alan Turing, a hero murdered by his own country because he liked a good stiff one up the arse.
My mother, dad, aunts, etc. all immigrated to the US in a period of about 5 years. They all settled in Brooklyn and a few even lived in the same apartment complex. Growing up the extended family was HUGE and someone new was over every Sunday.

The next generation has become geographically spread out, I moved to the West Coast, a few of my cousins are in college out of state.. about half of this generation is likely to build their family outside of the NYC metro area, my children's generation is likely to split off from wherever I settle as well.

This is an unfortunate cost of the "American dream", my parents, aunts and uncles didn't have great paying jobs but they were close to family.. for the cost of a higher salary many of us make decisions that make communication with those we love difficult. Yesterday was my brother's 30th birthday but because of the time difference and work schedules we did not speak on the phone, only through text.
The FreeBSD/VPC hypervisor efforts ran into a few “corporate speed bumps.” A few folks, myself included, are working to merge this code and make it generally available. The FreeBSD hypervisor effort certainly was the best systems work I’ve seen in my life, especially in such a short amount of time and given the resources at our disposal. My favorite anecdote was that the internal first-pass review of the benchmark data was that we had cheated because we had “exceeded the laws of computer science physics” when we saturated 100GE with VXLAN encap’ed guest traffic with no hardware acceleration, and we were only using a half a CPU core. If someone asked me to do this type of work again I’d use FreeBSD as the base again in a heartbeat. Good systems engineers are invaluable. Working from a solid technical foundation is equally critical, so is the community.

The control plane work likely won’t be made available (it was Linux specific, anyway). :-/

As for both the FreeBSD work and control plane work, it was good times, good memories, and a great team while it lasted.
Well, the TrueCrypt link (if proven) is very interesting. Both TrueCrypt and Bitcoin share similar ideologies and both are extraordinary ambitious feats of (anonymous) C++ engineering.

I'm inclined to think there aren't many people in the world who possess the skills necessary and at the same time the need to preserve absolute anonymity at all costs.

The number of (non governmental) people in the world who intersect those two things really can't be more than a handful.

To be clear, I'm not saying I believe all this - just that there is a fair amount more to it than similar aliases. I'd be interested to see some analysis of the C++ code in both projects to see if they share any idiosyncrasies.
Part of public domain now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_(website)#Criticism_and...
Could be interesting to see a service or company who's sole purpose is to fight lawsuits aimed at its members. Or in other words, lawsuit insurance for the common person/small business.

Maybe then this sort of behaviour would stop, as large companies would realise any attempt at legal action on spurious/questionable grounds would result in a battle with billion dollar opposition, and their intended target not paying them a penny regardless.
Feminism was motivated by the minority of women that wanted a job in 1950, and their legitimate frustration with how the system was trying to stop them from doing that. Somehow that got switched around into a society where almost every woman is required to have an income. It's like we went from oppressing half of all women to oppressing the other half of all women.
It’s not a broken system. It’s a limitation of the current state of human knowledge. Perfect information about X without the state of knowledge to interpret that information prompts flawed action.

You are not living at the end of time, at the peak of human knowledge. There are things we know enough about to interpret; there are things we don’t. The former we test; the latter prompts scientific research.
Then when she develops more serious health or mental problems, and you have nobody to help look after your children, relationship therapy has burned through a couple therapists, and you're telling each other how lonely you each are but avoid real conversations because they inevitably lead to more loneliness, then you will again have a new perspective. Good luck.
For both of you, I think you should also factor in the previous companies you're seeing originally also got the benefit of the Medium network effect and you won't.

With the switch to paywall focused incentives that went away. The value exchange for free articles is pretty minimal: easy and simple web hosting in exchange for letting them run "read next" links which are essentially ads for their subscription service. That's a huge step down from the old value exchange which had them also sending you readers and subscribers in exchange for giving them the opportunity to burn their own cash. IMO, the step down in value is severe, but also fair.

To get the readers and subscribers, you'd have to publish within their paywall. I don't think that makes sense at all for your main company blog. Easy and simple is good though, so maybe Medium still makes sense. It's just not as good of an option as it used to be.

However, I do think you could make the case that engineering blogs or other recruiting oriented efforts would benefit from focusing on distribution through cross posting or guest posting. I know the pubs that are focusing on Medium's subscribers would happily put an article from one of your engineers in front of as many subscribers as they could.
> Most of it i would have rather read on someone's personal site as IMO that adds a lot of character and context.

And there are probably LOTS of people who don't care. Feels like folks on HN miss this important point.
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Less sweaty, though.
> My experience was that established religions got hungry for tithing and thus optimized their messages with new ideas that ignore tolerance and abuse pluralism.

Monotheism is against pluralism where polytheism was not. That was there from the monotheist revolution.

> it's a thought-terminating pitfall to call them religions

No it's not. Just go listen to what Harari says in his book Sapiens. Ideologies like Feminism, Liberalism, Conservatism, Humanism, etc, are all parts of a modern syncretic religion and their adherents are syncretic believers that mix and match different ideologies to fit their tastes. It's just a bald faced lie that these things are so much different from the stuff they replaced. Buddhism has no necessary Gods as don't some forms of Hinduism.

https://www.ynharari.com/topic/science-and-religion/
I don’t say “I failed high school maths” because I’m proud of it. I’m not special. I’m not particularly clever. I don’t know how else to drive the point home that you don’t need to be a genius to build software and enjoy doing it in Haskell.
First of all given the issues with reproducibility within both hard sciences and especially soft sciences I will have to take any results from reading research with a grain of salt until I am able to actually read the specifics of any study. But even for purposes here if I say I accept the results than still the best it can produce regarding a fixed character length is a number which best meets the need of the population as a whole. Which means it might not be the optimal number for me. The great thing about my computer is that I can adjust windows and text view sizes to what I find optimal for myself. It is not unreasonable to expect text adjust to the setting I have chosen as optimal for myself.

Both the expectation that text will reflow and that 66 character line lengths are too short is not unique to me. A quick Google search returns a large number of hits regarding people looking for ways to have either the emails they send or receive be reflowed in their email app.