skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Full disclosure: non-parent here.)

I think attitudes toward parenting are completely impossible to rationalize, so your puzzlement isn't at all surprising.

Consider that many (most?) people who have kids don't do so out of a 100% independent choice, with 100% foreknowledge as to what it will entail and be like.

People have kids because their parents pressure them to give them grandchildren. People have kids because their peer group is having them. People have kids because their religion wants them to. People have kids because they don't know enough about contraception to avoid getting pregnant, and then their religion or moral code prohibits an abortion.

People have kids because they really really do want to have kids. But they vastly underestimate the work required to raise a kid, and feel completely natural amounts of regret, even if they truly love their kids and want the best for them. But it's still a bit of a taboo to suggest out loud any regrets about becoming a parent, so they keep it bottled up.

So just remember that every parent arrived there due to different circumstances. And regardless, every person -- parent or not -- has different likes, dislikes, desires, and levels of patience. What gives you a sense of purpose could easily be someone else's tedious drudgery. That shouldn't diminish your happiness, or demonize their boredom; it just means that you and some other people are different. Which is basically what being human is about, no?
Can you explain more about what your working on?
> Most of the achievement gap between black and white American students is in place by kindergarten. Meanwhile, dozens of studies of preschool programs since the 1960s have shown that early-childhood education can slash the black-white kindergarten achievement gap in half.

The common orthodoxy is that the achievement gap is caused by and solvable through the schools, but the reality is much different.

Interestingly, the achievement gap between black kids from two-parent households is almost non-existent, however since 70% of black kids are in single-parent homes, the effects of those homes is borne out in the statistics — but the cause is misattributed. “Black” students are treated as a homogeneous group, but really the gap is between “black students from single (or no) parent homes” and white students (of which the majority are from two-parent households.)

The destruction of the black family is what is really behind this so-called achievement gap. The origin of that destruction is a discussion for another time, but the Moynihan Report foretold this back in 1965. The Coleman Report from the same period, also described the achievement gap as being primarily originated from the family, rather than schools. [1]

This article is long, but it relevant: https://www.city-journal.org/html/black-family-40-years-lies...

[1] https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2016/07/13/50-years-ago-t...
The problem is not a monopoly, but abuse of a monopoly in a way that stops competition. If the bar owner started charging $100/beer and then forcefully stopped anyone else from opening a bar, that’d need to be broken up for a fair market. Short of that, you don’t have an issue
Away Appoints Lululemon COO Stuart Haselden as CEO
Because the WSJ article specifically talks about the number of bitcoins traded as a percentage of the whole number of coins mined. This is why I keep asking for this percentage for other assets like gold and stocks.
As long as what you're doing isn't too involved, I guess running without ops is completely realistic nowadays. If all you need is a database and a relatively simple monolithic app plus stuff like logging, metrics, and if a little downtime here and there isn't the end of the world, there's lots and lots of managed/cloud offerings that'll cut down ops to a point where it's very much manageable for capable devs. A lot of small shops run like this and do so successfully.
Hear hear. That's a very good documentary, about a very interesting person and his times.
There have been many surprises. Microsoft making C# dockerizable, making the best lightweight opensource IDE, and having a literal version of Linux running inside windows, have been some of the big shockers for me.

And yeah, I totally hate XML, would still never use it for data or config, but for some reason JSX just kinda feels good.
How has this been so effective, when Panopticlick still says my Safari browser has "a nearly-unique fingerprint"? (And based on what I've read from other users's experience, this is normal.)
Yeah, and only two ports so it's not useful as a switch. It could be useful as a router though.
This is just as true for new SF as for the old, and I love it. eg. Andy Weir:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/read-an-excerpt-from-andy-weirs-spac...

> Hermes is powered by ion engines. They throw argon out the back of the ship really fast to get a tiny amount of acceleration. The thing is, it doesn't take much reactant mass, so a little argon (and a nuclear reactor to power things) let us accelerate constantly the whole way there. You'd be amazed at how fast you can get going with a tiny acceleration over a long time.
I agree that it's entertaining and I see the appeal to role-players. It
appeals to me, too (well, I'm a gamer). What I don't understand is how come
someone's paying $10k a day to keep it running if it's not really returning
anything. $10k is not a small sum. It sounds like a heck of a lot to pay to
keep a game running just because people find it fun.

Basically, I don't think I've heard of anything like this before. Usually when
people put something on the internet for free either it's very cheap for them,
or they have a way to recoup the costs, e.g. by serving ads or asking for
donations etc. To just throw money at something that doesn't return anything
is very uncommon.
Yes, LLC don't protect from many criminal charges such as fraud.

It would indeed be difficult to prove this was deceptive and not just really poor, even idiotic, business planning.
I think the problem is that there's no way to tell if it's just an unintended correlation or if the test was chosen intentionally because it favors the racial majority. In that case, the only way to prevent the latter is to ban all of them.
If you want inspiration the Computer Chronicles was a show on PBS documenting in real time the process and rise of computers. I believe all episodes are on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT
Bubble sort is popular because it's provably optimal... under extremely restrictive circumstances: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3274203
Those circumstances stopped being semi-relevant when even the cheapest computers started using (floppy) disk drives instead of tape drives, but somehow bubble sort is still being taught.
It is if you're a juggler, but even the best jugglers in the world don't get paid well.

Juggling and mathematics are both useful skills, but 95% of SWEs don't use any for their jobs, and aren't going to get paid more if they pick either one up.

The other 5% aren't always paid more.
When did you drop out? I went straight into the workforce rather than college 11 years ago but I feel like especially in the US the situation today might be pretty different for entry-level positions. Your average hiring manager might just put you at the bottom of a long pile of CS grads.
Not a super small nitpick at all, but rather extremely valuable feedback. I read through the whole article assuming the author forgot each and every link.
More probably it'd be up to a judge who would throw it out.
If you are a client for Signal, rubberhose cryptoanalysis is a much bigger issue.

Here is a story what has happened to Doubi (SSr developer.) He was a very well aware of anonymity risks, and he evaded police for years on end. China literally tried to do geolocate him by turning off the internet in entire cities, but to no result — he caught on to that, and started randomising his release timing, and avoiding releasing "hotfixes". So, the entire Chinese police and MSS been looking him for 4-5 years.

What has happened? A few month before his arrest, he registered a Twitter handle with a throwaway SIM card. Those are being usually sold by "grannies" in Chinese 2nd tier cities who peddle things like fake tax receipts, anonymous train tickets and such.

China either hacked Twitter, or had somebody bribed there, and they got the number. They then tracked down the granny who sold him the SIM card, and went on and checking every person door to door in that small town. Then, they found him.

He got 5 years prison, and 4 years of laogai (gulag)
Elvis used to fly himself and his posse to Colorado (from Memphis) for fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

Then back, right after the meal.
dual income houses have more money to spend...
The undoped ones will be able to compete, just not under an official Russian team
But you don't need a bachelors to be an EMT. You just get specialized training for the specific job
This article is severely misguided if it uses actual transactions on the blockchain to measure Bitcoin trading volumes.
They’ll be able to compete on an individual basis under a neutral flag if they can prove they cannot have been part of this scandal.
But only once before getting back to the same state, so it’s a bit confusing.
I'd love to know this too--maybe fingerprinting isn't yet being used most places? Or maybe fingerprinting isn't that useful without additional cookie tracking?
Which, I'm guessing, just leads to cringe moments as adults? Sounds like you've turned it around nicely though! Do you feel like you caught up eventually?
And I'll point out that your parenthetical is one of the points of the article: that stay-at-home parenting is apparently extremely costly to replace.

So it's a double-edged sword: you flood the supply side with new laborers while keeping the demand side static, and you increase the general cost of living because you now have to pay for childcare that you used to get for free.
> They could support this new scheme AND just store every thing in plain text.

Store _what_ in plain text?

Right at the top of the article are some commonplace things other "chat" systems, even if they claim end-to-end encryption - store in a central database. Metadata, like the name of the group, a logo or "avatar" and then also the core fact of the group, a list of its members.

Signal's server doesn't end up knowing /any/ of those things. It doesn't need them for anything it does, so it never gets told what they are. It couldn't store them in plain text any more than it could your Signal messages.

With the proposed enhancement Signal's server would store the data so as to serialise access, but it would still be encrypted with keys the server does not have so it's meaningless to the server.

Members of each group learn a key (picked at random by the group's founding member) -- which Signal's server doesn't know -- and that key lets them decrypt the metadata about the group and encrypt new data if they e.g. decided to change the group's name, invite somebody to the group or remove someone from the group.

The part we can't _prove_ Signal is doing as a result of this work is the new use of Anonymous Credentials and Roles. Maybe Signal will actually let Alice add an entry to the members list for my group Carolines And Tiaras even though Alice isn't a member. This won't work very well, because since Alice isn't a member she can't add _correct_ entries, for example she can't add herself or a collaborator, but she can add gibberish and maybe annoy the group members.
Modern cell phones are a hellish technology for people trying to plot stories. Every single person's carrying a superior version of a 1960s spy's kit, and can magically send anything recorded on it to anyone else in seconds. It takes serious effort to make any event or information plausibly known only to a limited circle, should any of them wish it to be otherwise.

It's become almost an in-joke how horror movies so often have to find a way to dispose of or disable cell phones early in the plot.
You could also go with radix sort (O(N)), since your insertion times are presumably some kind of integer.
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>I think subsidized daycare is a great idea as long as it isn't too much of a disincentive for those who want to stay home with their kids.

Why would you be OK with any kind of disincentive to parents staying home with their children?

>There are other advantages to group care like being able to spot issues that aren't age appropriate. As a parent I don't have a large sample size for most milestones. "Normal" can have a range of a year for many developmental skills, but others can stick out in a group setting.

You don't have to dump your children off to be raised by minimum wage daycare workers in order to put them in a group setting. You can also create these group settings, and gain a larger sample size, by spending more time with your friends and family members who also have children. As a bonus, you and your friends and family members can observe the behavior yourselves, and not rely on the judgment and interest of minimum wage daycare workers, who could get a new job at any point in time and be perfectly content to never see your child again.
> I suspect this is news only because of the financial crisis last decade, otherwise it would be a footnote in the financial pages.

This is a footnote in the financial pages. I looked for the article yesterday in the wall st journal, and it was on the back page of the markets section. It didn't make News or Economy.

Over $4 trillion in fake money created in a month, when the entire national debt since inception is $23 trillion... why should people care about anything, right?
Just as comparison, in Finland the max ratios are quite close:

<3y: 4:1, max 12 children per group (3 educators)

>3y: 8:1, max 24 children per group (3 educators again)

Two thirds of educators need to have a bachelor's degree in early childhood education.
I was talking to my friend about this the other day. He's an executive at an ad company (not Google). He had an interesting take on this:

Yes, it is in fact working and breaks targeting and retargeting. But what is the outcome of that?

The CPMs (how much the website makes) are 10x higher for re/targeted ads. So as they stop working, do you think the website will cut their revenue? No, they'll either put up a paywall, or put 10x more ads on their page. And those ads will frustrate you even more, because they aren't targeted to you.

And in the meantime, Google and Facebook will still know everything about you. It's just the smaller websites who suffer by not getting ad revenue. And they weren't even getting your personal data in the first place.

I still side with Apple on this one, but he has a good point. Overall what they are doing will probably just make things worse for everyone that isn't Apple, Google, and Facebook.
Investors Gird for Year-End Turmoil in Cash Markets
The conclusion of the article seems to be backwards.

It's likely that growth concentrating in few cities is outcome from agglomeration effects, not some random fluke or error. Cities have more growth per capita than non-urban areas. Big cities have more growth than smaller cities. Largest cities have even more growth.

It's likely that you can't spread the growth more evenly without slowing it down, but you can reduce the negative externalizes. Help big cities grow even larger and help smaller places to prosper as much as they can.
Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)
There are pretty clear differences in what a BS in Computer Science represents from different schools.

1st Tier schools a Bachelor's degree holder has most of the fundamentals of mathematics within computer science. Complexity of algorithms, complexity of operations on various data structures, models of computation, problems that can be solved with different models, etc..

20 years on from going to school it took me a long time to figure out a lot of schools don't cover almost all of that until you're working on a Master's degree or Ph. D. It's really surprising.

I think some of CS questions in interviews are because the degrees are so variable. I don't think this is a problem when you're hiring a Mechanical Engineer or a Civil Engineer who is licensed. All the schools need to teach to a uniform enough standard that their graduates can pass the licensing requirements.

CS is a mess. The Top Tier schools seem like they may be so much better that a Bachelor's degree is worth more than a Master's degree from other places.
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Bitcoin has about $133 bil marketcap.

NYSE symbols with the twice (2X) this marketcaps according to Yahoo Finance:

UNH (UnitedHealth Group) mcap: $262 bil, trading volume: $1.2 bil

KO (COCA-COLA) mcap: $231 bil, trading volume: $0.6 bil

MRK (MERCK) mcap: $225 bil trading volume: $0.7 bil

Therefore, for Bitcoin to be tradeable as similar stocks it has to show $0.25-0.5 bil for $133 bil mcap or $0.5-1.0 bil for $250 bil mcap.

Binance alone showed $0.3 bil today but the volume is usually $0.5-1 bil. I don't think that Binance is wash-trading, so all this FUD is mostly due to a lack of understanding.
Editorialized the title due to title length constraints when adding the 2017 tag -- would appreciate if the original title can be added
There is a hardware vulnerability in the first ~18 months of Switch systems produced. It’s a USB boot mode (like DFU mode in iPhones) from the underlying Tegra chipset and is triggered by pressing the Tegra “Home” button (not the Switch Home button!), one of the Volume buttons, and Power while injecting the software you want to boot over USB. That button is exposed as one of the pins (#9, iirc?) of the right-side Joycon rail, so all you have to do is short that to ground with anything you like. 3D printed jigs are cheap and common.

Your system will get banned from Nintendo online services if you run any Switch-mode homebrew—for good reason since piracy and online hacking have unfortunately become rampant—so the most I’ve done with mine is run the standalone Hekate to dump my system’s unique keys and internal storage a few times. I’m still enjoying the system for its intended use too much to want to go offline forever, so I’m just holding on to an exploitable system for a few years until the Next Big Thing comes along.

As for obtaining an exploitable system, all you need is one manufactured before July 2018. I keep the following in the Notes app on my phone for when I see a used system for sale in the wild:

Exploitable Switch Serial Ranges

Serials beginning with XAW1:

- XAW1007XXX and below are safe to buy

- XAW1008XXX not safe to buy, probably patched

- XAW1009XXX and above definitely patched

Serials beginning with XAW7:

- XAW70017X and below are safe to buy

- XAW70018X not safe to buy, probably patched

- XAW70019X and above definitely patched

Serials beginning with XAJ4:

- XAJ40052X and below are safe to buy

- XAJ40053X not safe to buy, probably patched

- XAJ4006XX and above definitely patched

Serials beginning with XAJ7:

- XAJ70042X and below are safe to buy

- XAJ70043X not safe to buy, probably patched

- XAJ7005XX and above definitely patched

Happy hunting!
I am convinced the isolated stay at home parent model is not normal human behavior, but a pathology of our particular society which represents an unreasonable expectation derived from an excessive commitment to individualism and independence. It is not psychologically reasonable to expect one person to care for children all day every day. It is not historically or broadly culturally normal. It is not healthy for either the parent or the children to isolate them together like this.

It is normal for children to be cared for by many adults throughout the day, from birth - be they older relatives or simply members of the community. It is abnormal for one person to have to deal with all of their energy and issues. It is normal for children to wander and play and experience a wide and varied world. It is abnormal for them to be kept in a small, unchanging indoor space. It is normal for new parents, especially new mothers, to be intensely supported by their community. It is abnormal for them to be left alone unsupported. It is normal for homemakers to accomplish their daily tasks communally and to be active in their communities. It is abnormal for them to endure years of social isolation, primarily spending time with their children.

I am not sure what a healthy pattern for family support and child rearing looks like in this society, but I think public support for young child care, better connections with older relatives and neighbors for light child care, and light or part time but potentially meaningful work and social connections for parents is a lot closer to normalcy than the current locked together in isolation suffering silently pretending to be happy wondering why you're the only one struggling model we have now. The current model is insane and it is a testament to our toughness as human beings that we all try so hard to make it work and survive as well as we do.
That 37% of people really needs to be understood as bifurcated though. There is the (smaller) group that do the degrees that lead to high skills and gainful employment (medecine, engineering, finance), and the other (larger) group that are enrolled in mostly cotton-candy degrees (Communications, Business, Media) that lead just to debt.

Paying for the Party is a good book that explores this modern issue.
That is really the saddest thing to me. I remember with great amounts of happiness when I was between 5 and 10 years old and would ride my bicycle around the neighborhood with my friends, go traipsing around the woods, and exercise my imagination. (Getting home and having to sit still while my mother dug through my hair and scalp for ticks was torture, but was worth it.)

My nephew is not yet four years old, so he's probably still too young to be outside playing on his own, but I fear he'll be in the same boat as your daughter in a few years, unable to do anything outside of his parents' line of sight.
Does this cover iOS apps, too?

If so, that could mean fewer iOS apps will get written.

If not, is that only on technical grounds (it may be easier to hide what data apps send out) or (also) because it is good for Apple if one has to write an iOS apps to better track users?
Wow, that was fast. I guess The Verge article[0] struck some investors.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo...
Can I fix it though? Is my unemployment somehow going to fix the multi-trillion dollar pipeline that the education and business sectors have carved their way into?
For the individual I would just recommend you play the game. Just like with leetcode questions in SWE interviews, its stupid but you have to get a job so..
> Given your statements about distributions... most likely yes.

Hello there, ad hominem.

Linux distributions are overreaching. They should offer those services for core software. I should be able to install Inkscape 0.91 and 0.92 at the same time, easily.
Hej Yetanfao, can I randomly ask you if you're aware of any tech positions you could refer? I'm seriously considering moving to Sweden (and it's not just the 1Gbit fiber).
They say "nearly-unique" - I get an odds of '1 in 50,000'. Granted, that may be enough combined with IP or some other factor as a transient/session cookie. However the hash might change as soon as a plugin or some dependency is updated.
The problem is they had a great solution with advertiser ID which is already used in apps. Expose that to websites and they would get a good compromise for both sides.