skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point. Busier airports have less ability / tolerance to cope with inexperienced pilots interacting with ATC and understanding the flow.
> Unless there's an apriori link between some people making money and universal good that I'm unaware of, there's no way you can step around that.

The issue here is that there is no such thing as an objective "universal good"; that's just code for "things of which I happen to approve". The closest analogue which actually does objectively exist is "actions agreed to by all participants which do not actively harm anyone else". Granting the participants the barest courtesy that they are in the best position to know their own concerns, such actions can be considered at worst neutral and in general a net-positive on the basis that the action would not occur if anyone affected by it did not see it a priori as being in their own best interest. Others may not perceive the action as "good", but as these others are by definition not impacted and thus have no standing in the matter, their opinion is irrelevant. Participants may be wrong about whether the action will benefit them, of course, and you are welcome to attempt to persuade them to your view if you feel their judgement is in error, but right or wrong this is ultimately their decision to make, not yours.

Obviously actions which harm non-participants should be out of bounds—that's something the anarcho-capitalists (a.k.a. libertarians), minarchists, and most others can agree on in principle, though for some reason only the anarcho-capitalists are consistent in applying the same rules to governments. With that caveat, however: companies exist to make money, and they do so by engaging in voluntary trades that each participant expects to benefit from. These trade are thus both individually and collectively a net benefit to the participants and either neutral or beneficial to everyone else, according to the only objective measure available.

If your happiness depends on others doing only those things which you consider "good", and not what they collectively see as their own self-interest, then I'm sorry but I really don't know how to help you. This is harm you cause to yourself and not any result of others' actions.
Trump wanted to cut income taxes for the poor down to 5% to 10%. That would have represented a real tax cut and policy far more effective and beneficial than UBI. Even without exploiting tax loopholes Warren Buffett went on record as paying 17% income taxes, which is far lower than what the poor pay. Based on the above: no the poor definitely do not have tax cuts and many taxes target them indirectly in ways that are not clearly visible / often ignored.
We definitely felt this. My wife ended up quitting her job when we had our first because all of the child care options we investigated were going to require basically her entire after-tax income to support.

It only made sense if she was planning to grow her career and just ride out the daycare for 5 years until the kid went to school, but even then it's contingent on not having another kid during that time.

At the end of the day being a stay-at-home mom made a lot more sense.
Yet another virus for OSX that you have to manually download a DMG and install to be vulnerable to. Not to be obnoxious, but I'm still waiting for a Windows-style virus that can proliferate with no action on the user's behalf. That would be legitimate cause for concern.
I don't get the downvoting for not understanding.

But well. In Haskell assotiation lists are also the default, as they don't impose any stictness and are very fast to iterate. So that is what you get from libraries.

If you need a map, you will have to first construct it, then run your code. But of course, if you are the one creating the lists, it does change very little.
The name portion was added by the provider. The cellular providers don't add it, the phone generally just tries to match it to a number in your address book.
Isn't a byte supposed to correspond to the smallest addressable unit of memory?
"As the Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg showed in 1964, the existence of a spin-2 particle leads inevitably to general relativity"

Huh?!?

spin-2 particle leading to GR was the prime essence of Feynman lectures on Gravitation, 1962
You were demolished.
The listed reasons:

> First, although child-care workers aren’t expensive on an hourly basis—their median hourly wage is less than that of non-farm-animal caretakers and janitors—labor is the biggest line item for child-care facilities. Unlike, say, car companies, they can’t cut spending by moving labor to poorer countries or by replacing human workers with machines.

> The industry is highly regulated, perhaps reasonably so, given the vulnerability of the clientele ... Other costs include insurance to cover damage to the property and worker injuries, as well as legal fees to deal with inevitable parent lawsuits.

> Finally, there’s the real estate. The most expensive child-care facilities tend to be situated near high-income neighborhoods or in commercial districts, where the rents are high. And they can’t downsize in a pinch, because most states require them to have ample square footage for each kid.
The thing with female workforce participation: isn't it just symptom of the society getting poorer. My wife worked her ass off. I was making about 130k / year. She was making about 60k / year. Then we not only moved from the US to Poland (where live is just so much cheaper). But I also started making about 330k / year. All the willingness to work evaporated on her part :-) Instead we have another kid. She stopped talking about work and started talking about having more kids. Of course, that's anectodal, but also common sense, isn't it?

My little theory is that while men still made enough money to support good life in the US (50s, 60s) most women just didn't want to work. If you can have a house, nice car, four kids, vacation home, 40 hour week, no credit card debt, no school debt, and all of that on carpenter salary -- why not to enjoy life instead of spending 50-60 hours at the office?

The dirty secret is that most women work because they HAVE TO. It's not a choice. It's sold to the society at large as something glamorous because -- what? They're going to tell the truth? Yeah, you need to work your ass off 50-60 hours a week, with credit card debt, student loan debt, two cars loan, etc, etc. just to be able barely make it to have two kids at 35 ? Because before that you need advanced degree or two. Actually both of you do... I mean how is that a better deal?

I can see that also from the reaction of my wife friends who stayed in the US working to basically help their husbands as one salary won't cut it. It's not like they wouldn't prefer to stay at home with kids. But, again, it's not like they have a choice.
On macOS GUI, I like ImageOptim.

On Linux/macOS CLI, I like ffmpeg and ImageMagick, as appropriate.
Sounds like they’ll have to increase their leetcode requirements in the interviewing process. This is one of the “obvious fundamentals” that leetcode challenges screen for, right? /s
Kotlin barely has a standard library outside of the JVM. They only recently introduced experimental io support and the concurrency model is just plaim weird.
Magic Leap Sold 6k Units in 6 Months, Successor 'Years Away'
I am interested in using tailscale as an individual user.

I'm essentially worthless as a user: I'm a college student and would be unwilling to pay much; I might possibly convert to a serious customer but that would be years and years down the line when everything is different.

I'd also be massively underutilizing it to connect a handful of devices and max two or three users.

I put my email address in your system, and am crossing my fingers.
"Other People's Blood".

“...to establish its credibility, the Federal Reserve had to demonstrate its willingness to spill blood, lots of blood, other people’s blood.” - Reagan’s economic adviser Michael Mussa on Volker

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/reviews/other-peoples-blood...

I've been desperate to learn more about this since watching Mark Blyth's talk "A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJoe_daP0DE&t=1243s)

And while Blyth takes the opinion that Volker and Friedman were just the next steps in the evolution of capitalism, and I am still desperately lacking knowledge about this context, I can't help but have a feeling that if the future is continues with worsening inequality and political instability in a neoliberal context, we'll look back and be able to say it started with Volker.
Userspace already has a package https://www.freshports.org/net/wireguard/
It doesn't have to be this way.

Québec has had subsidized daycare for almost 25 years, and the program literally pays for itself (and more!) via increased income taxes from parents that would have otherwise chosen to stay at home.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/12/affordable-daycare-su...

> In Montreal, Quebec’s largest city, a day of child care cost on average $10 in 2016

> Quebec’s program, which introduced low-fee, universal child care in the province in 1996, centered on a few core premises: that if the government helped make child care accessible and affordable, it would allow more women to join the workforce, increase childhood development and social skills, and ultimately raise revenue for the government through increased payroll taxes. In at least two of those objectives, the scheme has been widely successful, says Pierre Fortin, an economist at the University of Quebec at Montreal, and the country’s leading expert in the economics of subsidized child care: It’s increased participation of women in the workforce, and cost efficiency.

> Since beginning the program more than two decades ago, Quebec has seen the rate of women age 26 to 44 in the workforce reach 85 percent, the highest in the world.

> Early estimates anticipated the program would generate 40 percent of its costs via increased income taxes from working parents. Instead, it generated income taxes to cover more than 100 percent of the cost. “In other words, it costs zero, or the cost is negative,” Fortin said. “The governments are making money out of the program.”

The program isn't perfect; there are a variety of issues that have popped up over the years, but since we were literally the first in the world to offer such a comprehensive, sweeping, subsidized plan for the entire provincial population of ~7.1MM in 1996 that was then used as a model in various Scandinavian countries, I'd call it a rousing success.
More media attention at zdnet:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-kills-email-accounts-o...
This is a reasonable question, so I’m unsure why it’s downvoted.

It usually makes sense to talk about the memory overhead of the JVM itself, rather than talking about one of the languages specifically, like Java or Kotlin (but maybe Scala and Clojure are a bit different).

The tradeoffs for GC systems are complicated and not easy to understand. Go supports only one GC system, as far as I know, which does not move memory and attempts to minimize GC pauses. It sacrifices throughput and CPU utilization to achieve this.

The JVM can be tuned in many ways and there are a number of different options, from choosing different GC algorithms to different memory models. Most JVM algorithms will compact memory. Some are optimized for throughput and others are optimized for shorter pauses.

In practice, my observation is that Go’s GC pauses are, out of the box, shorter than what most people will get by tuning the JVM. This is probably the most critical property for writing backend services with high fanout, which is very common at places like Google.
New Sources for Alpha: A Different Way to Do Data
I Built a Mobile App to Manage My Subscriptions Without Code
Maybe in the countries where unions are unregulated. Not in my country, where union would get me way lower pay, longer weeks, inability for various work hours adjustments that I normally do, etc. IT sector is very fortunate to not be regulated.
This is why I still use Tinc for my personal use cases. The nodes can route through each other in user space. No kernel ip forwarding required. Downside is, it's very slow compared to Wireguard. For my uses cases, that is probably ok.
It may be just a lack of practice (I don’t own a bullpup rifle), but it’s always felt rough and I can’t do mag changes nearly as fast.

And great point, the charging handle not being part of the actual bolt. On the AR the forward assist is only doing work after the bolt has been “released” from the catch. A crappy charging handle can definitely cause more malfunctions. It’s also another part to clean.
I just can't understand how someone can be so irresponsible. They knew exactly what their ad spend was and how many pre-orders they had in the pipeline. Since they only had several hundred pre-orders, they could have easily set that money aside for refunds, but they didn't.
I take photos of receipts to protect against those scenarios, I just don’t cross reference them unless something looks “off” when I categorize monthly.

I suppose I could have fallen victim a few times on tiny amounts never knowing, but in total couldn’t be more than $100 over the past several years. I also tip pretty well on smaller bills, so that probably reduces my exposure a bit.

I respect the discipline it takes to audit everything, but for me it doesn’t seem worth the effort.
Why do you keep submitting essentially the same exact thing?
Yet another article at TheInquirer:
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084557/verizon-bl...
It's not completely voluntary. Men are discouraged from leaving the workforce, due to societal norms, and receive less time off or accommodations for raising kids.
You forgot mandatory ratios. This sets the limit on how low costs can be.
I don't think that's necessarily woman-specific. I'm a guy, and if I could stay at home all day and spend time with my kids, I would too. Certainly, I would if my wife was making 330k/year :D
Sadly, T-Mobile at least only provides the name now (on the call screen, can still get the number from the call history afterwards). It's quite annoying as the number is usually more useful than whatever name is in their database for anyone that's not already in my contacts.
To be fair, you can bundle JVM with your app except e.g. Android.
I didn't know that. Ubuntu user.
> Cyberpunk, although influential, was a short flash in the pan.

Which is why The Matrix and its sequels were a huge box-office flop, why the most anticipated game of 2020 isn't cyberpunk (and definitely doesn't have 'cyberpunk' in the title), and why there haven't been half a dozen extremely successful adaptations of (mostly recent) cyberpunk works over the last few years. /sarcasm

Seriously though, cyberpunk never died, it just became the default for most sci-fi works due to the fact that we now live in that world.
Amazon: Trump used “improper pressure” to block AWS from DoD cloud contract
Re: the bank loan scenario. The model was implemented by people. The assumption is everyone considered for a loan has had a fair opportunity to reach the threshold to be approved. That is not the case.

"A national effort to correct historical injustices" is one way but not the only. The people who create these models can refine the model or create others that determine acceptable business risks to provide loans to an under-served market.
See this Liz Warren book:

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Income-Trap-Middle-Class-Parents-...

Henry Ford realized that the automobile was not going to change the world unless auto workers were so productive that they could easily afford the cars they made.

That kind of productivity increase is not possible w/ Childcare. I remember a Z Magazine cartoon more than 20 years ago where two women were pondering the mystery of why a child care worker can't afford child care and the unspoken punch line was that it was the perversity of capitalism but, no, it's not that economically efficient to pay somebody else to watch your kid for you. It makes money for the day care center, it makes money for your employer if you go to work, you pay taxes on the money you earn -- it makes money for a whole lot of people who aren't you.

You, not so much.

Universal child care is currently reeling from the discovery that recipients of universal child care in Montreal have turned into DQN adolescents. Maybe "the kids will be alright" in the end, but it is not looking like a program that pays for itself like Head Start.
Japan has some pretty severe confounding economic factors however.
next they should make an article titled “Why getting into great physical shape requires a lot of effort”.

Is anyone really learning anything from this article? Or is this just a general complaint looking for a boogeyman.
took me a second to realize company's name was unicorn.
I'm a software engineer, but I've started reading about this time period recently. I don't understand most of it, but what appears to be obvious, is that stagflation was largely a fight between capital and labor. Volker ruled in favor of capital, and crushed labor.
That's still common today for subsequent interfaces as it makes it possible to write macros for preserving API compatibility. For example, to upgrade (struct stat).st_mtime to sub-second granularity you could do:

#define st_mtime st_mtimensec.tv_sec

POSIX preserves many prefixes for this reason. C99 brought anonymous unions (a Plan 9 invention), which makes many of these API tricks possible without using macros.
Gladwell's Autonomy: The Future of Our Cars but Not Ourselves?
You either have to trust the server operator not to keep logs, or assume they are keeping logs and _do_ know what groups you’re in. In either case, what is this fancy crypto scheme actually buying you?
Harvard Geneticist George Church
Feynman lectures on Gravitation, 1962
Moreso, they should know their conversion rate and cost per click, and could adjust their spend at any moment. Sounds like they're just trying to pass the blame.
As to how the laws got where they are Lee Smolin and Roberto Ungar say that it's possible they were not always the way they are and that they evolved spontaneously over time. And that the spontaneity just is the way things are i.e. there's no explanation for it. At least that's my recollection from reading their book.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singular_Universe_and_th...

The other explanation seems to be the multiverse. i.e. we just got a random set of self consistent laws. Again there seems to be no explanation as to why or how the multiverse came to be, is there?
When women work, their hours are actually evaluated in monetary terms and the cost is added to the cost of childcare instead of ignoring their unpaid working hours. That's just better accounting.
>was just lucky to have things come together at the right time.

Yes. In one interview Volcker recalls having told Carter "Yes, I can end inflation. But if I do, you won't get re-elected". Carter: "Do it anyway." (Can't find the reference now, anyone know it?)

From a few years back:
https://fortune.com/2015/10/31/paul-volcker-jimmy-carter-don...

Lots of people knew what had to be done, but Jimmy Carter was the rare sort of electee who would act in the country's best interests, even to the ruin of his own career.
It hasn't been removed. I can see it at position 43 at the moment, but it is showing as flagged for some reason.
iPhone. But the desktop is super easy too.
You haven't described it, actually.
People seem to be trying to answer the practical question "How do we build a non-racist model?" the answer to whi h depends entirely on the philosophical question "what does it mean for a model to be racist?" the answer to which no one can seem to agree on.
Servers are a CapEx purchase, and can be depreciated or re-purposed.

10k/day makes sense for a short project, but if this is going to be an on-going thing -- like 2-3 years -- then absolutely buy that hardware and have an internal team run it.
That's an edge use case.
It seems they "only" had $150,000 in funding, but as they were basically white labelling the Segway ES2[1] I'm surprised they didn't just hold onto their sales revenue to purchase the product...

Interestingly enough, about 2 clicks around their site and you realise they didn't even put the effort into setting up their Shopify site correctly... - https://unicornrides.com/collections/all

[1] - https://unicornrides.com/pages/unicorn-shipping-update
Perhaps the first half of my first sentence made you so furious you didn't notice the second half :) Anyway, I really love Go, but I haven't written any in a long long time, which is a bit ironic since the cutoff point was when I joined Google.
One possibility comes to mind. "Someone" does not, themselves, know how to write SQL by hand, having always relied upon an ORM to do so for them. From that vantage point, to them, attempting to write some SQL by hand is an error prone experience (because trying to do anything you do not yet know how to do is going to create some mistakes along the way).
Well it's a chicken and an egg thing. Did women entering the workforce hurt labor? Or was labor hurting and that's why women entered the workforce?
I never used Vista. My last Windows was XP. Vista is only 14 years old. :)
North Korean Provocative Actions, 1950 – 2007 [pdf]
I assume that the LSI-R is something that is actually trained based off of how much those factors actually predict the rate of recidivism, though, no? If friends/family/neighbors who have committed crimes is an accurate predictor of recidivism, the fact that black Americans in the inner city have more friends/family/neighbors who have committed crimes does not make the model racist. They're either good predictors or they're not. A black kid in the inner city with friends/family/neighbors who have committed crimes very likely does have a higher rate of recidivism than a white kid in the suburbs, and if this weren't true, but was being predicted by the model, then this would simply be a bad model. If it turns out that there are many black kids who happen to live near neighbors who've committed crimes, but actually do not have a higher rate of recidivism, then the model is as racist as it is using a poorly correlated indicators of recidivism.

Your indicator for whether or not a model is racist cannot simply be that the model produces outputs that are delineated by race in such a manner that is unpalatable. So long as the model is actually not using race as a means of predicting outcomes, though, any behavior that is racist would simply be due to including poor features.
If they took customers' money knowing that they could neither deliver the product nor refund the money, wouldn't that be fraud?
So the three reasons given by the article.

* Primarily labor driven. You can't automate, you can't reduce hours, you squeeze 9 hours of child care out of an 8 hour workday.

* Regulation. This prevents the one way to lower labor cost: increasing child to adult ratio. Laws prevent this.

* Real estate costs. Child care can't be moved to cheaper cities and there is even limits on the extent it can be moved within a city before it becomes to costly (in time) for parents to utilize it.

Overall... I think the second reason can be wrapped up into the first one. While legally mandated insurance and such do have an impact, the biggest impact is the limit on child to adult ratio which has the largest impact on costs and that is because it limits the efficiency a single worker can have. If the ratio is 4 kids to 1 adult, the cost will never be below 1/4 the adult's salary. If you expect the adult to be paid a living wage, then in terms of others earning a living wage, 25% of their income will have to go to child care, and that is before counting any taxes or other costs.