skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of incorrect facts in that comments that need to be corrected.

The program was measured to be productive in the sense that the increased expenses for the program was paid back by the increase income taxes generated by more parents going to work IN THE PROVINCE. 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 (and in Canada). More taxes paid by moms (and dads) paid for the price of the program. So yes, you can measure the success of the program and has nothing to do with the provincial perequation system for having a lower GDP.

Also, the birthrate is not among the lowest, it's actually right in the middle (per capita) and ahead of Ontario (which has the most similar economy). Quebec used to be among the lowest rate in Canada and what the program has done is increasing it dramatically, this has been measured by multiple studies.

Source:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/daycare-difference-quebec-fert...
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2018001/article...
My company does a good job of recruiting college students as interns, and then converting them to junior engineers when they graduate. Unfortunately they all leave within a couple years and generally double their salaries when they do.

This has been happening for the five years I've worked here and likely longer. For whatever reason no one can convince HR and senior management that we need to give significant raises (%10-20) each year for the first couple years after they graduate in order to keep decent engineers. The last time I brought it up I got some bullshit response about loyalty.
The original JP Morgan essentially "saved" the US Financial system in 1907.[1]

Jamie Dimon would probably love to get credit for duplicating that feat.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._Morgan#Panic_of_1907
I did this last summer and managed maybe 1-1.5 months until it drove me crazy having to fiddle to get (way too many) sites to work with a minimal amount of accepted JS. Which is a shame, because it's quite a fool proof method of rendering most malicious actors helpless.
The reality is that the atomic family model is antiquated. In our society, the individual is the unit We must therefore make the individual strong, meaning that we need to support both parents independent all the while having children.

We can observe that the old model was better in terms of a certain metric, but that's not going to help. We need to invest in making child rearing effective in today's world.
meditation

cooking

physical fitness

empathy
I remember it differently.

There was 'stagflation' then, which made things more expensive as jobs became more scarce. It was slowly strangling the wealth out of everyone.

After Volcker killed inflation, the economy boomed through the 80s and into the 90s. It was a great time, right up until the crash of 2000 stopped it all.

I'm sorry your family was negatively affected. But please know for most people (this is assuredly provable by Ronald Reagan's re-election margin) found the policies an improvement.
My "favorite" part of The Diamond Age was when he had a whole scene solely so one character could explain to the reader what another's (lame) motivation had been for the last half the book or so, as it had been in no other way established or explained up 'till then and the book was about to wrap up.
This is why I think "decentralization" will never work. It's just a power vacuum, that will be filled/abused one way or the other.
There are as many reasons to do it as there are reasons to buy bonds!

The five-year US treasury currently yields 1.658%, and SOFR, a measure of repo rate, is currently 1.55%, so that looks a bit like free money. As long as interest rates don't go up.

You might be selling bond futures, and want to cover your position.

You might think some specific bonds are undervalued relative to others, in which case you can buy the undervalued ones on repo, short-sell some overvalued ones, and wait for the market to correct itself.

I'm sure there are many far more ingenious things you can do with bonds.
From what I understand, a lot of the ad networks still work off cookies, they haven't moved to using fingerprinting yet. I think as browsers implement more anti-tracking features they may start to though.
Just a small caveat. When I quit my PhD (computational protein folding models) in 1987, it was because I didn't want to spend 10 years working on a problem and getting nowhere. Turned out I was wrong - way too optimistic!

Until the recent ML-based announcement from Google (and maybe not even with that in hand), protein folding research went nowhere for at least 30 years. So I wouldn't be too critical of a 10 year gap.
> No, they'll either put up a paywall.

Personally, I think I'm fine with that, provided the paywalls get cheaper—right now, they're all very clearly more expensive than what you'd make in ad revenue. Of the two options, paying content creators for what they produce seems much more "healthy" for society.

> or put 10x more ads on their page.

If the site becomes impossible to browse, I will leave.

> And those ads will frustrate you even more, because they aren't targeted to you.

I don't find targeted ads any less annoying than untargetted ones.
> My view is that 99% of jobs are either unnecessary or replacable.

I think this is a very upper middle class white collar view.

Over 2.1% of Americans work as cooks (!!)[1] and another 3.6% work as grounds cleaning. Just keeping buildings somewhat functional is a lot of work.

Then you have all the people working on sales floors, not everyone wants to buy from Amazon!

3.5% in construction.

7.8% spread across all maintenance occupations just keeping everything glued together.

Another 5.9% in production (manufacturing), even with the incredible amount of automation that has taken place there.

So we're well above 10%, and that is just taking a look at hard to automate categories that have more than 1% of people in them!

https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/emp-by-detailed-occupation.ht...
Once transaction fees exceeded $20 back in 2017, it was pretty clear Bitcoin was an asset not a currency.

Horrible properties for a currency. Usual properties for a collectible asset.
About 15 years ago, when there was a big push to get creationism into textbooks, academics at universities were warned not to publically debate creationists. No matter what their background was, they would lose against a trained debater and then feel extremely ashamed after. There is no reason to think that creationists do not believe in creationism.

What I'm saying is, we can't accept positions that are based on nothing more than heartfelt belief, and debate is not the way to find out what the correct path forward is. Socrates powerfully demonstrated both statements.
First off you just stated that 63% of the US population 25-34 is either illiterate or non consceintious, so, yikes.

Secondly, I'd love to see some real data on college as a misallocation of resources. Everything ive seen would suggest the opposite. The "college experience" is kinda the height of a true free market place for ideas and people leave better for it. The government should be funding more for education, not cutting people off from it.
Away Replaces CEO Steph Korey After Verge Investigation
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A thought I had recently is that science fiction and fantasy should really be called society fiction. If we had robots/dragons, how would people behave differently, and how would that restructure society.

Traditional western literature explored all the ways that people could behave within their current society, and it wasn't until the industrial revolution/world wars/space race/information revolutions that people started seeing and imagining how societies could be changed.
oh my god, this is horrific. I suppose you are just trolling. There's no way this can be an accepted practice anywhere.
> 8-10x the median russian salary

That's not awfully high and probably less than most of HN readers can earn in a first world country.

Completely agree with everything else though. Just pointing out the obvious.
When you load Panopticlick, you'll notice it takes a minute or so to fingerprint you. That's a pretty long time and a lot of CPU.

Re/Targeted ads require the decision to be made in milliseconds, including network transit time. They just don't have the time to fingerprint you on every request. They could do it once, but then they are back to the problem of having to set a cookie to keep track of you after that.
Overall this doesn't make much of a long-term difference. Ad serving will shift to first-party with DNS or entire reverse proxies and is already in progress.

Apple has made some solid improvements but should now focus on not letting Safari become the next IE. The real impact changing the adtech industry is new regulations around data and privacy. That will change everything in a few months.
You can thank the military-industrial complex for that. Ditto for LA.
> Community booster orgs? The PTA?

Yes, yes, and.. social networks. You know, the kind where people call each other and make plans like play dates and canning sessions. These days that seems to be only available to the upper middle class. All of it is still here, but weaker, less pervasive, and unavailable to many.

> Were families really that better off?

You're absolutely correct, and to answer that requires better and more data than I even know how to look at. The 50's is maybe not even the best time to evaluate since the suburban boom was creating some of these problems for the first time, too. How many families were really doing well, vs how many families were struggling? Perhaps the data would show that in fact it's better for families that women can choose either (or even in exceptional cases, both) paths. The good news is that this subject is not as taboo as I'd feared, the comment is not being obliterated.

> alcoholism

There is no evidence I can find that shows we are any better off now than we were in the 50's with regards to alcoholism. In fact, according to [1] and [2], we appear to be in a low point of per-capital consumption, similar to a low that occurred in the late 1950's.

[1] https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-1/30-38.htm
[2] https://vinepair.com/articles/americas-consumption-beer-wine...
Icarus is a really good documentary about the Russian doping program. In won the Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature in 2018.
> No one teaches at the jobs anymore because those people then leave.

This is circular though. Companies don't invest in their employees because they leave anyway <-> employees leave for better opportunities because their companies don't invest in them.
You can read the article for free if you make up an email. It does not ask for confirmation.
Thanks, its great to see a dedicated public servant. Here is the link to his foundation. https://www.volckeralliance.org/
No that's my fault, and you're quite right. Sorry about that.
Maybe that’s the business model? It may be cheaper to train than to retain.
I think this is the killer untapped market for Uber. Just book a really long Uber ride and let your kid spend 8 hours in the car while you’re working. Driver can still pick up other passengers and your kid can interact with them for enrichment. Doesn’t have to be a complete waste of time. When the kid is old enough, give them a raspberry pi and let them learn to code or something while they’re riding around. Driver can stop at Whole Foods for Soylent or whatever else the kid may want to eat/drink.
I'd be afraid my best customers would be alcoholics and I'd feel guilty in running them off.

It'd be hard to earn a living off 13 other people.
Sweden has a top marginal tax rate of 70% that kicks in at around $98,000. That $149 per month is deceptive when you are paying very high tax rates.
I’ve always thought of the Zachtronics game TIS-100 [1] to resemble programming an extremely simple transputer. Definitely worthwhile to try the game, if only to find out about all new kinds of problems you run into if you have to distribute your processing over multiple independent nodes that communicate over serial links!

[1] http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
I have a question about:

"Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds"

I read "The Female Brain" by Louann Brizendine and all it makes sense to me but I am beginning to think that I (and this book) are wrong.

¿How is it possible that two opposing theses could be maintained in something like neuroscience?

I can imagine that it is possible in Economics, Philosophy, Psycology and other similar sciences but in neuroscience it does not make sense to me.
Combine my Canvas fingerprint (which a plugin update won't change) with my rough location (based on IP address), and I have to imagine you'd get very, very close to identifying me.
jOOQ is an SQL library, which in addition to an internal SQL DSL for Java also includes other goodies like an SQL parser and since very recently (still under active development) also a schema diff tool (also available as CLI): https://www.jooq.org/diff/.

One thing which sets jOOQ apart from most other tools out there is the fact that it supports many different SQL dialects. Thus the schema diff tool can for instance also parse DDL in one dialect and render the diff in another SQL dialect. For certain applications this could be of interest.

Disclaimer: I am an active committer on the jOOQ project.
This is incredible. I think I've just found my new late-night / fall-asleep 'fictional' TV show — because it really feels that way, in our weird cognitive perception of the past.

Thanks a lot for the pointer. This may spark funny and uncanny world-domination ideas! ( :

A serious hint/note for the "futurologists" / innovation-driven folks out there — my people: look for what was true back then but is no longer, especially in the form of limitations or roadblocks or axiom (hard limit) to a design. Remove that piece and see what you get...
Emily Oster mentioned on a podcast [1] that although she enjoys spending time with her kids much more than she enjoys working, the marginal value of kid time declines while the marginal value of work remains steady. In my experience a lot of parents feel this way. We may agree that the intrinsic value of family is much higher than that of work or the economy, but spending too much time with one's kids can feel like a drain at a certain point, even for very loving parents. At that point, the parent probably isn't doing anything great for the kids. It's good to have another outlet.

[1] https://newbooksnetwork.com/emily-oster-cribsheet-a-data-dri...
"shutting down operations after blowing all its cash on Facebook and Google ads but only receiving 350 orders for its glossy white e-scooters"
Nice ! Its been a while ive been out of the game, handnt heard of lightning in a while ! I tried googling some stats, but its always hard to get grasp at them. I dont have the knowledge to understand how much shares each participant represents. Could you hand me some refs i you have to better understand How lightning is used currently please ? If you have any ? Cheers :)
We separate and migrate state all the time. The database is a persistent heap for many shortlived execution contexts. HPC relies heavily on check point and restart. Many on-prem and off-prem cloud environments rely heavily on migration.

The mechanics required to implement migration unlock many other architectural wins. I don't think process migration has been abandoned at all. I think for too long it was controlled by the OS, these new VM environments liberate migration by being able to run it from userland.

All of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSIX was predicated on globally addressable resources within a cluster. In an SDN environment, connections don't even need to be _forwarded_ because they are already an abstraction for user code.
I don’t get targeted ads. They’re quite dumb. If I look at product X, ads for product X follow me around the web, which isn’t that useful because I’ve already done my research and am not quite ready to hit “buy” no matter how many ads you show.

Ads for similar products I might be interested in, but I’ve not seen too many of those served up by these ad networks.

Untargeted ads at least might show me something new and interesting.
For example, if the yield on a long-term bond is 3% and repo rates are only 2%, you might buy the bond, financed with a repo transaction, and bet that over the term of the repo, the bond’s price will hold up enough to allow you to profit from the transaction. If it is a one year repo, the bond could decline in price by 1% and you would still make a profit because its yield is higher than the cost to finance the purchase.

A more relevant example is if futures are trading rich relative to bonds - say they are too expensive by 1/32th (about 0.03%). In this case you buy the bonds on repo and sell futures against them, expecting to profit when the price gap closes. Of course, 0.03% is not much profit, so you use 50x leverage (which you can easily do on repo, because it is secured borrowing) turning it into a 1.5% profit.
Brilliant Strategy, Deadly Attack – Ding Liren vs. Vachier-Lagrave [video]
It's probably because the implementation of the algorithm is the simplest, because you don't need to modify the existing data structure. You don't need to merge or create new arrays. You just repeatedly loop and swap two elements when needed. Super easy by all metrics.
It's mobile Safari that is hard to fingerprint and getting harder with each version. Most adtech still runs off cookies to share data and store identifiers and those have been basically eradicated.

Having to fingerprint every pageview also creates latency and still isn't that deterministic so everything will need to shift to probabilistic and contextual targeting. That's a hard change to make for most legacy networks.
Good. If the ads are served from the first party domain that should make it a hell of a lot easier to attribute mal-action to that specific first party instead of offloading blame elsewhere.
My father was the lead of the chemical safety lab of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Hungary. He told me and it stuck with me, how at the start (meaning 1990) he was able to hire from trade schools but by the end (early 2010s) he needed everyone to have a university degree because that's how complex every instrument became.
> College is only partially about getting educated directly - it's also about proving you can adult on some level. Can you get to classes on time and manage a schedule that's more complex than "be at this building for 6 hours a day"?

If that was the real requirement companies are interested in then wouldn't someone working variable shift at a fast food restaurant proving that they can "adult" just fine? Those jobs have very real repercussions for not showing up even once unlike college.
> Is the socialization problem for homeschooling solved?

Really? All the homeschooled kids I met at our top-ranked STEM college were way advanced technically compared to the other students and are now all married, with children, while the 'regular' kids are still dating around, no kids, no families.

Perhaps homeschooled kids don't fit in to overall American socialization, but given that overall American society is one of falling (below replacement) birth rates, increasing loneliness, more suicide, etc, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.
> which I think is a baloney concept

Understandable but we cannot ignore how history plays into these decisions you know?

> No discrimination found other than that black people didn't do as well on a test as white people.

I don't know the details of this case but there are a lot of systemic effects if the history of racism in the US that have lingering effects in society today.

Consider how practices like redlining significantly affected finance and education access. Jail sentence time disparity and a lot of other often invisible ripples of what happened in the early years of this country.

It's very hard to know what causes some of these disparities and sometimes a society tries to deal with it by using equal/similar outcomes as an admittedly flawed proxy for equal treatment while we try to address the underlying factors ( better schools, representation, access, etc.)
How to get maximum backlinks if you have a startup company?
That case actually covered disparate impact of high school degrees as well, and the trend towards requiring college degrees is also exhibited outside the USA.
If you haven't seen it before, Fred Rogers' 1969 testimony before the Senate in defense of PBS funding is very moving. He was able to prevent a $10M cut to their $20M funding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
This brings to mind how Noether showed that conservation laws of physics must exist if universe has some specific symmetries.

Like translation symmetry, the simple fact that the laws of universe don't change as you move a bit to the side mathematically implies conservation of momentum.
Well, physical Bitcoins aren't being traded either.

Because there aren't physical Bitcoins.
> And those ads will frustrate you even more, because they aren't targeted to you.

I would have thought that the frustrating part of an advertisement is the presentation of the ad itself--not necessarily its content.
I unplugged the phones and turned off my modem speaker.
I like targeted ads, but I want them targeted to the content I'm consuming, not me personally. If I'm reading a blog or article on rock climbing, then, yeah, show me ads for all the gear. I'm interested. But don't show me an ad for an Instant Pot because I googled it last week. That's creepy.
My guess would be sample bias. ie. there aren't too many people going to Panopticlick from their iphones, so it thinks your iPhone is unique.
I don't think it does and, as an advertiser, people mostly exclude apps from a lot of display/video campaigns at the moment but it's being touted as the next big opportunity because of moves like this.
I don't really know what you mean. Can you elaborate?
Right, children shouldn't be socializing mainly with children. That trains them to interact with children. Children grow up to be adults, who interact mainly with adults. Children need to be socializing with adults. That is what most children lack today, but is much easier to do with homeschooling.
That triggered memories... happier in Python.
I don't agree that America is getting ready for Civil War 2.0 -- but there is a huge problem of 'Despair' in the US. There are, it seems, more and more 'roadblocks' to achieving the Good Life (tm). Working hard -- by itself -- is not enough. A lot of folks -- for whatever reasons -- will not get college degrees. Should that mean they are forever unemployed and unemployable? Or be stuck in dead-end jobs? If so, that's damning those folks to a life filled with Despair and Uncertainty - who may turn to drugs and liquor to mollify the pain. I've not seen a single viable solution to this problem so far. It is this unsolved problem that is mostly the cause of strife in the USA today -- and, unless solved, will indeed shred the fabric of society in the USA.
How many AAPL shares have not been traded for the past 2 years? And how many BRK.A?

Bitcoin gives the opportunity to answer those questions contrarily to the complex and somewhat opaque equities ownership rules.
Thanks, that actually explains a lot!
It may be a side effect of suburbanization and the mass migration to single-family homes.
It works great on mullvad for me, never any issues. I just installed the PPA for Ubuntu 18.04 and everything else was easy peasy. Some people say it's faster for them but I don't see that on my Gigabit connection, just a bit less CPU compared to openvpn, but neither really uses all that much, it's a fraction of a single processor on my 6 core machine.