skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That isn't a thing. You can argue this specification minimizes the residuals at the high end if you want,

No, but yes.

>> So if you have data about healthcare prices not being out of order, that seems a lot more relevant

> https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/2018/01/06/its-not-the-pr....

> It is the consensus view amongst researchers that have published long-run analyses:

>https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

So I think it's interesting here that you make no mention of the explanation for HCE increases provided in the "consensus view" link.

>In health care research, the impact of medical technology on health care cost increases has always been a great unknown. Yet 81 percent of the leading health economists agreed with the statement, “The primary reason for the increase in the health sector’s share of GDP over the past 30 years is technological change in medicine”.1Growing attention to the role of technological change in driving growth in health spending, and to the costs and benefits associated with new medical innovation reflects an acknowledgement of the long-term dilemma posed by historically unsustainable rates of growth in medical costs, combined with an increasing consensus that technological advance is a major factor in driving this growth. The current acceleration in health spending growth - following the quiescent period accompanying the spread of managed care - brings troubling implications for the long-term viability of our current system of financing and provision of health services. Understanding the magnitude of technology’s historical contribution to growth in costs is vital to the analysis of the future path of medical spending. Of course, in most areas of the economy a rapid pace of technological advance is regarded as a good thing. That this is not the case for medical care reflects a second point of consensus. Throughout much of history, imperfections in medical care markets have failed to provide incentives for the cost-effective provision of medical services, encouraging the development and diffusion of innovations beyond the point that would prevail under competitive market conditions. Low out-of-pocket costs for medical care due to insurance coverage, combined with patients’ lack of full information on the services they consume encourage the provision of medical care to a point where the marginal benefit of treatment to the patient is small relative to its marginal cost.

You can hand-wave this as "increased consumption", if you want, but it is:

- recognized as an anomaly

- considered a point of concern

- likely to lead to cost reductions if fixed

In other words, this is precisely the sort of phenomenon you are arguing does not exist in US healthcare!
Subsidizing something tends to increase the utilization of it, so more kids will be in childcare if you subsidize childcare.

Intuitively the extremely poor will benefit (the kid would have been neglected or malnourished &c. without subsidized child care) at the expense of the slightly less poor (the kid would have had a stay-at-home parent without subsidized child care).

Policy is full of tradeoffs (and politics is full of lying about the tradeoffs to get support for a particular policy).
The solution is simple: extend the public school system to the newborn. It's widespread, the background check system is in place, the logistics are in place. The only question is funding and the legislation mandating it.
Separating San Jose and San Francisco obscures how much the Bay Area is dominating this data. That'll be even more of an issue if they're failing to count the rest of the Bay Area (Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc.) with those two. Are they?

Edit: the report seems to define the areas as "San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward" and "San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara", so it looks like they're including more than just SF and SJ. But the strange way they draw those lines seems arbitrary, making me wonder why they split up the Bay Area to begin with. And again: are they leaving other parts of the SF Bay Area out? and how much bigger would the total get if so? Edit: they're not. See below.
Sounds like my reaction to Neal Stephenson. His phrasing is godly. His plotting is godawful.
Exactly. This offends so many people to even bring it up, but I agree 100%. Our children are the most precious people in our lives, but we're willing to give them the worst of our time. If both parents are working, they come home at the end of the day too exhausted to invest in their children. Why are the kids getting the left-overs? Does that seem fair to them?
Um sorry to play devils advocate ver.di isn't exactly doing a lot in Germany - not that recruiting in tech is easy.
Because IF you are going to be sarcastically dismissive you ought to at least get the details right.
I think if anything, the suburbs/exurbs are what is preventing what you're describing.

Right now it's too costly to blanket a city with public transportation, for example, because the density isn't there. The same issue happened when electricity was invented, and when the telephone was invented - to build the infrastructure in less dense areas, the taxpayer had to subsidize.

Houston and LA have worse air quality and worse traffic than NYC does, despite having less than half the population. Yes, NYC and SF are very expensive, and they also happen to have very strict zoning laws that prevent the suburbs from adding density.
Highcharts for Any Framework with WebComponents
Why would 1 mac per port be proper security? Seems needlessly restrictive and ineffective to me.
Totally incorrect: https://reason.com/2019/01/22/homeschooling-produces-better-...

> "Mean ACT Composite scores for homeschooled students were consistently higher than those for public school students" from 2001 through 2014, according (PDF) to that testing organization, although private school students scored higher still.

Graduates of religious schools also outperform public school graduates on the SAT: https://www.capenet.org/pdf/Outlook399.pdf
>My parents are like that.. my mom even moved to live close to one of my siblings and the grandchildren.. but complains every single time she has to watch them because it takes up her valuable retired time... ok.

That can't be serious complaining since most financially wholesome retirees are bored out of their minds. Besides the few vacations they take a year, what else is there to do all day?
This example definitely assumes familiarity with a 12-hour clock, which indeed spins around twice before getting back to the same time.
> an airgapped network for security classes
That sounds pretty interesting, thank you!
My path was working minimum wage while doing side work for people, eventually I had more coming in from the side work than the day job but kept doing both because day job at least covered the rent/bills eventually someone I was doing side work for offered me a full time job at enough to match both day job and side job, three years later I moved on and have kept moving every 3 years or so since.

At this point with my CV no one even asks about academics and hasn’t for a decade or so, the work/references speak for themselves.

I’d hate to be young in this market though which is why I’m so happy a good chunk of my time is/will be spent on the mentoring side.

Helping people get started in a rewarding career is itself rewarding.
I have thought about this a bit. It would be awesome if there was a camera next to the recycling bin that could recognize the container and give advice on what to do with the material and any rules on it. Such as cardboard can be recycled if it's clean but composted if it has any grease. Some places don't have compost so there it'd say to put it in the trash.

It would be nice just to know what to do with specific materials rather than guessing half the time.
The Never type should be stable in 1.41, I believe.
No one said it does. But if you tell someone "fix whatever is causing the disks on this machine to fill up" they're going to be more motivated to do so, and more able to make the best decisions about how to do so, if they know what the purpose, or "story," is, that they're a part of.

It's just like if you told someone to play the part of a random extra in a convenience store in a movie, they will do a better job if they know what the movie is about. Even the way you play an extra is different in a slapstick comedy vs. a movie about blood diamonds, for example.
Agreed. I also moved from Chicago to the West coast for similar reasons. Doubled my salary overnight and have since more than doubled that again when counting my total income. The other thing is that the tech jobs in Chicago were all pretty bland enterprise jobs which didn't interest me. I moved away from family and friends (although many of my friends were headed out here anyway), and while it was a difficult decision, it was by far the best one I could have made. I might move back after retirement when I'm more cost-conscious and less active.
Sorry but this seems to hit one of the age-old arguments of documentation: can you truly rely on everyone using your code downstream to read your docs?

This article makes a strong assumption "yes". Because it must, it relies on non-executable and non-verifiable documentation to implement a security gate. But for a very small performance overhead, you can likely do those checks in code, and never worry if your documentation becomes lost, outdated, or simply ignored, and more importantly, now that the requirements are embedded in executable code rather than dumb documentation, you can automated testing of the requirement.
I'm actually working on a decentralized alternative right now! I didn't expect custom domain support to be so in-demand. Would love to know any other "must-have" features on your list?
> and, in the right position, highly compensated.

Nursing is the only field on there that could be considered well compensated. There's this mystique around nursing that it's some crazy well-paying position, but it's really not. When you consider the education requirements and the work involved, it's alright. $35/hr is pretty good, except you have to maintain a license, clean up peoples' shit, be nice to assholes, and get berated by doctors. Or you can take a huge pay cut to go work in a doctors office. (source: married a nurse that couldn't make it 10 years before changing careers)

Teachers make a bit more than the median wage, but most jobs require a masters degree to progress beyond a certain point. Hair dressers require licensing and a surprising amount of education (up to 1,500 hours) to work in mostly flat-rate jobs, sometimes without benefits. And clerical work is basically the lowest tier work in an office.

Not listed: dental hygienists. Also a traditionally female job which has crazy education requirements for mediocre pay.
Shut the fuck up, you have no idea what you're talking about and should be "ashamed" (not proud) of speaking like you do.
The deal works both ways in most Asian societies. Grandparents take care of the grandchildren, children take care of the grandparents.

But in the West many children shuffle their folks off to a home. Kind of tragic all around.
Purely anecdotal of course but the kids I met in college who were nerdy and studious and sat out that kind of social jockeying in high school were the biggest jackasses in college because they hadn't gotten any of that out of their systems yet. I kinda think we need to learn a lot of this stuff from experience - we don't learn compassion by being told to be compassionate, we learn compassion by looking back with a more mature perspective on our own actions and how they affected other people. Middle school and early high school made Mean Girls look like a documentary and while it wasn't the best time in my life I learned how to be a much better person from those experiences where I was on both the giving and the receiving end of the teenage nastiness. People are going to learn these things one way or another because we're not all born saints; in my opinion it's better to do so alongside immature peers when the stakes are lower than to do it later on as an adult.

Edit: this is in reply to ksdale, not sure why I can't reply to your comment
There's a number of problems w/ doing interferometry in space, which vary a bit depending on the frequencies you're working with—

Thermal: Parts of the detectors need to be very cold. Depending on what you're doing you may have to cool parts of the satellite down to 5 kelvin (-450°F) or even lower. You need to use a cryocooler than won't vibrate too much and impact your measurements.

Power: Each VLA antenna uses about 18kW just for cooling. That's a lot of juice— back of the envelope math says you need a lot of solar panels for that. An area smaller than a football field but bigger than a tennis court. It's manageable if you're only building a few of these, but less practical if you want to build 64 or even thousands.

Positioning: Most proposals for space based interferometry didn't actually consist of individual satellites. They're typically one big satellite with telescopes sticking out on different arms. If they're free-flying, it gets a lot harder to know the precise relative positions of the different receivers.
That's funny. That same situation (not understanding that git and github are different things) has happened to me a couple of times but with older engineers.
Something both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch had in common was that they normalized and humanized personalities that were usually disparaged in our culture.

It's a stretch to say that Big Bird was gay, but Big Bird was certainly an effete, gentle character despite being bigger than anyone else. Big Bird's character let a lot of young boys know that it was ok to be gentle and kind.

And Oscar the Grouch... He was a homeless person, living in a garbage can, with some kind of anger issues. This is a character that society tries to hide to this very day. And once again, he was normalized. We learned to see him as a person, not a stereotype.

When Sesame Street was good, it was very, very good, and these two characters weren't just good, they were great.
It can cause more confusion though, if say you write O(kn), but the oh-notation hides a factor k^3, then it would be better to just write O(n). Or write O_k(n) to signify a hidden dependency on k. Or best of all, just write out k^4 n without any ohs at all.
People with large environments that needs to be managed homogenously would beg to differ. How else would people manage these things large scale? It's exactly the kind of functionality that this software provides. Expressing rules in code might be radically different to someone used to a product like AD, but the learning curve is pretty quick and it is inherently more powerful.
I've been taking an interest in issues around this:

"child care in general does not affect test scores, but has a negative effect on non-cognitive outcomes, such as impulsivity and risk-taking (Vandell et al., 2010)."

Lately. I believe this is serious factor in the seemingly exponential rise in juvenile crimes in our city lately.

I have also been exploring bad learning / testing in the schools along with lots of other problems like bullying and violence.. talking with some people who work in these areas, it appears no amount of money thrown at the schools / teachers / in school counselors / resource officers is going to fix it...

unless things are fixed at the homes of all the kids in the community. I believe in many of these communities one of the prevalent factors is no stay at home parent..

and sadly this has been going on for so long, in many cases the parents do not have the right knowledge or skills to teach the kids as they likely grew up in a similar no at-home parents, stare at the tube and get bigger kind of situation as well.

I am interested in any research into these areas.
What is DSL?
Just to clear something up: CRDTs, op transforms etc. only work well when your collaboration is near real-time. The oft-cited "work off-grid for two weeks and magically sync your work with everyone else" doesn't really work out in real life. You will need merge and diff tools. The equivalent of CRDT's behavior would be to merge git conflicts by time — whoever commits first gets merged.
This is exactly where the phenomena of "college-educated person who loses out on low-level job to a GED-holder because they're overqualified" comes from.
Pretty nice tool :-)

But what if the data store would do all of that already?

- retaining the history of your data:
- free deduplication through copy on write and sharing unchanged structures
- further store space savings through page-level versioning (not all records in a page have to be written: just the changed/inserted/deleted ones plus depending on the algorithm a few more to fast track it's reconstruction)
- read and write performance is balanced using a sliding snapshot algorithm: This avoids having to read long chains of incremental page changes and it avoids write peaks from intermittant full page snapshots. Instead they get trailed over a few (usually three or four revisions).
- the sorage manager stores timestamps for all revision in a RevisionRootPage, which itself is indexed

- Optional commit author and message
- Reverting to and committing a past "good" revision is just adding a few bytes to index a new RevisionRootPage which references the past revision data (simple pointer)
- You can diff taking rolling hashes into account
- Currently I'm working on a diffing JSON format and a web front-end to display these in special space filling approaches
- Sophisticated time travel queries
- typed, user-defined and versioned secondary index structures (based on AVL trees)
- a path summary kept up to date always
- a lot of metadata stored and kept up to date for each record/node

It's already implemented in https://sirix.io / https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix

I'm working on getting it stable, but help from you, the Open Source community is always needed :-)
The author is very hard to take serious in this wrap-up. Saying "Mirantis’ KaaS promises to be resilient, scalable, secure, easy to integrate and operate" indicates they have zero knowledge of previous promises made.
Studying Quebec's universal daycare launched in 1997 (with slogan "Children at the heart of our choice"), Jon Gruber @MIT and colleagues found... they didn't fare so well. Negative effects especially for boys and aggressive kids.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/measuring-the-long-term-effects-o...

It's weird to me the goal would be "make sure everyone has daycare" instead of "make sure people can raise their children".

What would taking the same amount of money and using it as a direct cash transfer subsidy look like?
Yes I was referring to Kendall Sq. day cares when thinking of $36-40k/yr. I worked there when my child was born.
I think there is strong contrary evidence for this claim. Please don’t think I’m shilling for Likud when I share it, I’m also very opposed to US foreign adventurism.

Invading Iraq was broadly popular among Americans with strong interests in Israeli security, but it was broadly unpopular in Israel’s military establishment. The closest thing to the Israeli military establishment’s consensus view was that invading and occupying Iraq was a poor choice for their own security. Given that, I cannot see why they would agitate for it. I also cannot see how, since the US decision processes that lead to Iraq 2, which were farcical, are well documented and do not suggest that Israel agitated for the invasion and occupation.

There are plenty of things to be mad at the Israeli government for. This is not one of them.
Another idea is to try on different personas: Put yourself into different roles, e.g. the person who just looks at the examples and skips wall of texts, the person who wants to read up on every nook and crany, the person who has no technical background etc.

The cool thing about text is, that it can be many things to many people and this is even more true with hyperlinks. Try to cover all bases at least a little bit and people will ignore the stuff they dislike and go after the stuff they like.
(Admittedly I only skimmed through the article, but) Isn't the article saying that because of the program, child care is reduced to costing $10/day, but otherwise would cost much more?

For example, in lower COL places in the US, it usually costs the range of $100/day for a nanny that works 8 hours a day, and for higher COL places (e.g. Palo Alto) it could even be say $300/day. Daycare (with groups of children) can be a bit cheaper, for sure.

But the point being, to have tax credit that matches that kind of effect, we'd need at least tax credits of $90/day/child for stay at home parents, to make sense, and including weekends too (i.e. 365 days a year).
Re-Slaving a Crashed MySQL Master Server in Semisynchronous Replication Setup
You're not wrong. They should have focused those monies on building the actual product first and then shipping it. At that point, once the kickstarter units are built and shipped, grow your business accordingly. To have nothing to show for the efforts is deplorable.
If I recall, there was an HN thread a while back where it was discussed that humans are hired to read the stories that are the most popular.. or something like that..
added it to my bookmarks, and considered doing some reads for it, but have not been back there yet.
I think he/she means "when will Debian ship with kernel 5.6 or greater".
> So in reality I think the only really scalable part here is the database. And scalability in databases has no universal solution and the ones that exists come with the load of caveats.

I do wonder what limitations and caveats you are talking about. That is true for many databases who are only consistent on one row/collection/region/snapshot, have strange limitations such as no joins, require your data to be preformatted in a certain way etc. DynamoDB also has a few limitations in those aspects. I have both love and hate memories from my experience with DynamoDB. But nowadays you get to choose between databases like FaunaDb, Spanner, FoundationDB, CockroachDB... So what are the Caveats you still worry about?

If you would combine such distributed databases with edge serverless frameworks like Cloudflare workers I could see amazing possibilities tbh. It's strange how front-end programmers seem to be picking up distributed databases at great speeds due to the benefits of low latency for their users, zero configuration and autoscaling. But it seems that we backenders are reluctant and still prefer our hardware for some reason :). Is it pure pricing?
This is very true. Also, it's pretty cool.

Most people forget what a difference technology makes and someone should appreciate it.

Or to put it another way "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4
If you're interested in transputers, you will likely find this interesting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation)

The Atari Transputer Workstation was a technological oddball of which there were quite a few around that time.

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

The 80's were a wonderful time for computer hardware...
Ironic name of the company, comes off as a Onion article, sad that it's true
This is a discussion about corporate hiring requirements, not government hiring requirements.

I completely understand the anti-bureaucratic standpoint, but it is good recognize that bureaucracies can be found in organizations that are not "the government". I'm sure you can even find them in large enough families.