skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very complicated. Having kids at home makes you less happy (because they're work). But men who have had kids are significantly happier than men who never had kids once the kids are out of the house: https://ifstudies.org/blog/does-having-children-make-people-...

> By the time the 2016 survey rolled around, fathers were 40% more likely than childless men to see themselves as very happy.

"Happiness" is also not the right concept here. Having kids doesn't necessarily make you "happy." But it's something people almost universally want: https://news.gallup.com/poll/164618/desire-children-norm.asp....

By age 45, 86% of people have had kids, and only 6% of those wish they had not had kids. By contrast, out of those who didn't have kids, more than half wish they did. Even more remarkably, among all adults age 45+, as many people wish they had five or more kids as wish they had no kids (11%).

There is pretty much no other life choice (college, career, etc.) that almost every body does that almost nobody regrets.
Oh brother. An alternative take on that criticism is that FCC pulled off a huge copyright heist:
https://dev.to/ben/i-m-concerned-with-the-move-that-freecode...

I'm pretty sure that what FCC calls extortion was actually just the end of a free ride. Based on what I know of the ecosystem and the offer that was made to me as a publisher, I think the content of the Medium's approach would have been along these lines:

"For the past several years, you've been getting a free ride where we gave free hosting, free traffic, free readers and created a situation where most programming authors on our platform looked to you as the first place to publish, i.e. you got free authors. That free ride is over. We think you have these options:

A) We have pivoted to a subscription business. Do you want to pivot with us and publish within our paywall? If so, we'll continue giving you readers and authors, along with an editorial budget and a page-view based performance bonus. Also we'll start paying your authors out of our end.

B) Stay on our free platform. You'll still get the benefit of the SEO traffic from the articles you've already published and you can continue to publish as much as you want. We won't algorithmically promote your articles though and that will probably mean that fewer authors will choose you as their publisher.

C) You can leave. The problem with leaving though is that you don't own the copyright to any of the articles in your publication or your subscribers. So you can ask your current readers and authors to move with you, but on the surface it looks like this will cost you quite a bit of traffic."

I'm not sure about FCC's actual numbers, but I imagine the option A would have paid $20-50k/month in "profit" after costs of editing, authors, etc. It also would have significantly improved the quality of the articles. Not that the articles were bad, but a bigger editorial budget would have made them even better.

What it looks like FCC actually did was option D. Copy all of the articles in their pub (clear copyright infringement), taking a few million views per month in SEO traffic and then basically dare Medium to sue them. But Medium doesn't have standing because they don't own these copyrights either, so Medium's not doing anything. Instead, it's up to about 1k FCC authors who each individually are having to decide whether to take legal action (usually a DMCA complaint to FCC's hosting provider) or jump through FCC's hoops. FCC didn't even auto-create accounts for the authors, so in order to reclaim control of their article authors are having to either get on the phone with FCC or go through Twitter DM. However, if the author does that work, it does appear that FCC is willing to delete the article and/or give control back to the author.
> I am everything wrong with the world because I am an evil, cis, white, monogamous, straight male.

Maybe work on the part about being evil. The rest of the the things you listed grant you an advantage in life even today.
Jonny Ive would you this to go thinner.
I’m in Providence but have no idea how to send a DM on HN; if you can see the email on my profile feel free to send something
Election Rules Are an Obstacle to Cybersecurity of Presidential Campaigns
Could someone tell me from where this excerpt is?
Yeah agreed, I was expecting streaming to be streaming - I don't purchase individual titles on Netflix. Maybe if it was transferable to PC or another platform I'd be more open to it.
The "science" you're referring to shows that parenting makes people less "happy" in any given moment while doing it and more "content" overall, more "satisfied" in older age. Moreover, there are significant country-by-country differences in these stats that seem to be tied to availability of high-quality, low-cost childcare and healthcare. One place to look for some overview of some of these studies is https://contemporaryfamilies.org/brief-parenting-happiness/
Thats not wishful thinking. I did it from day one with my startup with GKE. You can blow up any of my servers, and a new one gets spun up and dockers deployed while the glitch is load balanced around. All for only a few hours of work.

GKE has given me the infrastructure of a 10 million dollar company, with me as the IT guy doing 1h or less a week of IT work.

I would not be able to do this on a $35 hertzer machine.
As someone in the same area, I'm curious if you did this post-grad-school? I can't imagine the co-ops in e.g. Kerrytown are very welcoming of non-students, but I don't know.
We're still building out schemas, so I wouldn't rate the protocol based on the current number. I just didn't want to speculatively add a bunch without having the live system to test against.

If I thought any of the existing standards were winners, I would've gone with them. If you really want to get mad, you can read why I decided not to use RDF or JSON-LD: https://unwalled.garden/docs/why-not-rdf
I turned 28, and I will need a wife soon.

My demands are so high.

I only date cute girls with degrees in engineering, math, science or in rank of first lieutenants and above. And preferably with good cooking skills.
https://robwalling.com/2018/10/12/my-next-act-the-first-star...
You sure? People with families tend to spend more money (out of necessity). It's easier for people without kids to save up more money.
According to a professor a few years ago, nuclear power has a maintainability problem: a reactor is only good for x (50?) years, so you have to rebuild them perpetually. Since the construction and cleanup are very complex, it isn’t feasible to power the earth with nuclear. Only solar seems able to scale enough, iirc
If you are running a business then always have a good disaster recovery strategy. Split services between cloud providers and make sure your backups are good and offsite. You can do this all with opensource software if you dont want to pay for anything too (and if you have the staff that can do it).

If your business can be "killed" by your provider losing your data you have set yourself up to fail. I am not saying the provider is not to blame, but the burden should also be on the customer for not protecting themselves, what if DO burnt down?

We have yearly DR exercises, we have to bring up about 40 of our 120 production instances, it is a difficult task, but we know we can do it.

Never depend on your provider to save you, always make sure you have planed this out.
> The idea that the FDA can test every batch of every drug imported is ridiculous,

Why? I'm pretty sure that large scale manufacturers of electronic devices test every batch of components that they receive. Why should drugs be different?

It's not as if they have to test them for effectiveness, they just have to check that they contain certain compounds and don't contain others.

Also they could put that duty on the distributor.
Since you mentioned you read 100s of individual blogs what do you think of https://diff.blog. Its a side project that I have been working for a while. Do you see yourselves using something like this?
Because the Google brand is still orders of magnitude more recognized than Alphabet especially in mass market. I would wager a decent chunk of their target audience doesn't even know what Alphabet is
Thank you pastor, I feel this confessional has been powerfully beneficial to my moral soul. I didn't realize I had lost touch with Justice due to my lack of prayer. I will lower my head and continue my labors, as morality demands. How many "fuck white men"s does Justice require to purify myself of this black mark?
The New Scramble for Africa
And it seemed to be going really well! Why kill it? Everyone loved it, and I can earnestly say that the new version of Gmail hasn't really made it to the level of experience we already had on Inbox.
Is there a "Google Deathwatch" website? Not one that can be easily googled, as of this moment.
New Exim RCE vulnerability impacts nearly half of the internet's email servers
Yep, it was a comment in jest.

I use the readability button and "Dark Background/Light text" on Firefox when things get a bit too wild and bright for me.
Where do you live that has this attitude? Perhaps you could relocate to someplace more friendly. I live in the southern U.S., volunteered in a majority womens group and never heard comments approaching anything like what you described. Everyone was very welcoming and nice. Try a different industry or location. You don’t have any obligation to put up with being insulted.
> A free tier will be available some time in 2020, as will a paid subscription tier that doesn't require the upfront purchase.

Wonder if the paid sub won't require a payment for games in the future.

Even with a console you still have to pay to play online, so I don't see this as necessarily a huge problem if I have to pay $10 to get the online aspect and still pay for the games
It helps to be working on something you want to exist and use every day. You've already validated your product/market fit at that point, even if your market only consists of 1 person.
and it still breaks things if you've built things yourself because they're not part of your distro
Well, none of his code is public. Furthermore, on his blog he wrote about a lot of topics - economics, history, politics, crypto contracts, but not even once about a programming topic.
LOL what a politically correct way of saying feminism has destroyed society.
> I’m still rather unwilling to hand over my email to a third party.

Didn't you do that already by having a Gmail account?
> My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it.

The main selling point is/was being closer to the hardware and thus getting better utilization. Virtualizing at the machine level was a lot slower (especially before Intel VT-x and AMD-V came along) and so one wouldn't lose (say) 30% right off the top:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualisation
I'm pretty sure reproduction/biological success is considered the prime biological directive of any species. There's no romantic explanation for it be worthwhile.
You might be interested in Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark. He tries to argue that, fundamentally, the universe is "just math." In other words (glossing over enormous complexity here) if the basic axioms of math are true, the universe must exist.

I have to admit I didn't fully buy the line of reasoning. But it's very interesting.
Google is much more than that; think Google Cloud, which I think this falls into. Also even hardware (Chromecast, Pixel) falls under the Google umbrella!
> Even a first class compartment on a train is frankly uncomfortable compared to sitting in a car.

I strongly disagree. On a train you can stand up, walk around, go to the bathroom, etc. and the ride is usually smoother than anything short of brand new shocks plus pristine road conditions.
I don't think it's a very good analogy. Martin Luther didn't blame early Christians that medieval Catholicism failed to look sufficiently like early Christianity; however, that's roughly what we see today--third-wave feminism wants something that looks very alike chivalry (esp with regard to sexual purity, women as inherently moral and men as inherently immoral, deference to women, etc) and blames traditionalists (not first-wave feminists) that we live in a less chivalrous world. I'm sure this observation will be unpopular; hopefully it at least sparks some interesting debate.
Ask HN: Are Cloud Certifications Valuable?
Are AWS/GCP Professional certificates comparable to previous (common) certs such as CCNP/CCIE or do they require less knowledge?
Is it any wonder with the rise of no-fault divorces, feminism attempting to dismantle the patriarchy, women entering the workforce without wages adjusting in proportion to the increase of workers, and the general attitude that women seem to have toward men now?

How can someone look at the situation of how men are under attack from essentially every direction, yet they are expected to still marry women who have been with an unknown number of partners and have kids when the rate of divorce has skyrocketed.

It's really confusing how anyone could be confused about how people are more lonely now, marriages and childbirth is down, and how society feels to be unraveling.

This is what dismantling the patriarchy looks like, it's dismantling the family unit, thus forcing people to look to government for assistance and support, thus getting the next generation to be for more government and more government control.
Can you clarify what you mean with a use case?
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> after 5 minutes of Googling. downvoting my personal research results after 5 minutes of Googling won't get anyone to answer with the corrected version. I had never heard of agpl until I googled it and summarized what I saw.

Honestly we should be downvoting comments like these more. The AGPLv3 isn't new and the original text isn't that long. We don't need incorrect third hand summaries of the license text with additional wild speculation and unfounded advice. Everyone writes comments here like they are an authority on every topic, but it's a good reminder that many authoritative-sounding comments aren't any better than gossip.

Basically everyone I've talked to has an incorrect understanding of the AGPL and it's not because the original text is ambiguous (although there are parts that are ambiguous). It's because people read and write bad summaries and until the common knowledge is completely wrong.

Here is a good summary: the AGPLv3 is essentially the GPLv3 with the addition of section 13:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

> 13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.

> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software. This Corresponding Source shall include the Corresponding Source for any work covered by version 3 of the GNU General Public License that is incorporated pursuant to the following paragraph.

> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the work with which it is combined will remain governed by version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
"Top" defined as how?

80% of women go for the men they like the most.
I don't typically worry about my level of income or whatnot, except when I think of retirement (which I also don't think will happen, honestly).

I'm more concerned on whether my family (wife and dogs - no kids - talk about a money sink) is happy and safe. On that level, we are doing very well.

We have a roof over our head in a relatively safe, if older, neighborhood. We have reliable vehicles (ok, both of mine are money pits - but off-roading ain't cheap). We have electricity, water, cooling and heating. We have time and money for regular entertainment and minor "luxuries". We have good health, and can afford a doctor's or dental visits. We have vision care. We can and do eat well. We have time for leisure and laying around doing virtually nothing if we want. We can afford hobbies and other interests.

By such a measure, and yes it is arbitrary and may not fit with other's ideas - we are "rich". But more than that, we are happy and safe. We have decent incomes, modest savings, and virtually zero debt (other than our mortgage, which is secured debt and doesn't really count - we didn't buy our house as an investment, but rather to live in - amazing idea, huh?).

Yes, we both know we are rich. To that end, when and where and how we can, we also donate to charities and other non-profit causes, respective to our values.

At the same time, I know monetarily I am not "rich" compared to even my local peers in the software engineering realm. I am sure that if I tried and looked (though my age might be a hindrance), that I could probably break six figures as an SWE here in the Phoenix area. It kinda irks me that I haven't yet, despite having over 25 years of experience, but it's mainly because I tend to enjoy and thrive at working for smaller software engineering businesses which tend to have few employees, and smaller client contracts. I'm fine with that, as I am happier in such places than in larger ones with more internal politics; or at least that's how I perceive it.

I don't make as much as I could - but I make enough to keep my family and I happy, safe, and comfortable. That's my definition of rich, for as little as it's worth I guess.
Like this?

https://gcemetery.co/
Brand identity, I suspect. They're the only folks in the world who are allowed to (legally) prepend "Google" to a service or product, which is essentially free marketing.
Being a non-student, I needed approval from the house. Being student age and working on campus, it was easy to get - but it's sometimes granted to people for whom neither of those is the case.
Step raises $22.5M led by Stripe to build no-fee banking services for teens
I'm curious. Is it less creepy if someone's looking out a window at the street, maybe drinking coffee?
Mm, a radical idea these days! :) Lately I have come to realise that searching for the “cultured, polished being” and the “ideal life” actually made me feel even more insecure and trapping myself to my comfort zone. Oh yes doing a marathon is really stretching me. So is trying out new food. Watching a horrific war drama ... from a sofa. They’re all things that _I_ want, that _I_ control. When I get thrown into something totally random, especially when it’s stupid — like why is that kid crying? It’s just a sticker! — it distresses me a lot. Which is silly! Life is meant to be full of all sorts of randomness and silliness! So bizarrely, I am trying to do more normal things now. Like cleaning the house manually, talking to the old man next door, falling in love. All feels uncomfortable, but I feel more alive too!
Feminism can't avoid taking some of the blame for the economics.

If some households are multi-income, then they can pay more for housing.

This bids up the cost of housing. More households decide to become multi-income in order to pay for housing. This of course makes the housing price go up even more.

It's an arms race.
That works, sort of, but how do you even ensure the hardware is actually working? Trust Intel or ARM after what they've shown?

And trying to fully bypass cache and speculation when doing userspace to/from kernel transfers is going to suck. Remapping pages also. And if MMU is untrustworthy, well...
But the kind of data you are talking about in this comment - wearable device data, IOT data, map use data, etc, is exactly the kind of data that risks compromising the user's privacy, and worse.

Anonymising the data is hardly sufficient to ensure that the user is protected. The data you're talking about is data that relates to peoples' everyday activities: driving, moving about, using home appliances and personal devices, etc. They can be used to model a user's characteristics, and then the model can be used to make decisions that affect the user intimately, such as the costs of medical insurance, say, or employment offers and so on. And I do mean that all this can affect the user whose data is used _even though the data is anonymised_.

I appreciate your assurances that you will never sacrifice privacy, but how will that be possible if all the users' data is free to access?
That's the biggest crock I've ever read on HN. Where did this "science" come from? A bunch of self-obsessed journalists I'm sure or maybe /r/childfree?

The people who are unhappy with kids are the people who are unhappy, depressed and bitter to begin with, lacking all empathy. You have to be a pretty self-absorbed individual to not love the innocence and charm of children.

Every person I know with a family loves their children to death and are very content and happy. Happiness consists in pursuing the ultimate unchanging good and increasing in virtue, nothing passing in this life can give you ultimate everlasting happiness. It is a philosophical, metaphysical and theological question, not a question of children, free-time or money. Children are a good thing, but they're not the ultimate object whereby one becomes happy.
Rain or shine: Watching the weather for 250 years
Ice and snow as well.
Managing cybersecurity break-ins using BLE devices to verify attackers
I think the key is to keep your necessary expenses low. For instance, don't go buy a house and a couple of cars that you can only afford because you are now making 5x more money. If you keep those things in check, then you should still have the freedom that your previous lifestyle offered.

The other thing to think about is are you happy and doing these extra things or are you doing these thing to be happy. As long as you stay in the former, you should be able to cut out the extras if you need to.

In the meantime, do you. You've earned it.
> I volunteer a tremendous amount in education, where I’m the only male I generally even see in my field, and I constantly have to listen to my coworkers gleefully talk about how excited they are at how few young boys show up to our events. I hear them blatantly express disdain when a couple do.
I find myself an anomaly and doubt my life choices sometimes for deciding to stay near family rather than chasing the career dream. But perhaps it's because I saw the cost, in my parents' generation, of immigration and long distances. I saw the benefits too...
Concerned readers could consider donating to the Canadian civil liberties association, who has also taken up the cause

https://ccla.org/open-letter-ccla-calling-reset-waterfront-t...
I see a lot of places where tech people call what Medium did above "pulling the rug" or "bait and switch." I'm always shocked to hear this from tech people.

We know how startups work. A pre-revenue company is by definition going to pivot to a business model or go bankrupt (or often both). I think it's a bad look to act entitled to that pre-revenue period lasting forever. And certainly, it's disingenuous to act surprised.

Then too, if you are an entrepreneur building a partnership with a pre-revenue company, you have to understand that that partnership is not stable. I'd consider it a first principle of business partnerships that both sides need to make money.

So, in the old days when Medium was hemorrhaging cash, that is by definition an unstable partnership. Of course it's going to change.

To me, for the first time ever, Medium is now a stable company to partner with because you basically know what their actual incentives are.
That's a little like Planet Of the Apes where they find out that they are actually on Earth.