skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sociology has standards.

Mostly political and much of it unreproducible. Desperate political academics using non science to argue their opinions and right and citing each other into fake legitimacy.

Garbage studies garbage standards garbage journals from people who couldn't hack it elsewhere.
Intel creates chip to control quantum computers
The best books on Critical Thinking
Can you be more specific?

What is the nature of this toil?
Who said anything about diesel? Airlines can already purchase biofuel-derived Jet A.

Distribution is still limited, but it is available at a few major airports. For instance, I just took a flight on SAS. They have an option to pay extra to use biofuel for one’s share of the flight.
women these days... having kids is too much work, let someone else take care of them. I feel bad for you brother.
That too is an undergeneralization. People work because they want to just like they breathe because they want to. Claiming that there is some sort of innate desire to work or not work is ludicrous.
After scrolling for like 20 minutes or so, the most interesting part is to realize how empty is the outer part of the map (75% of the total distance comprises just neptune, uranus and pluto). Even if we would be able to escape to mars or even jupiter, to colonise further and escape of the solar system would be really, really hard.
Why would Signal (a drop-in SMS replacement) be compared to Slack?
What we're missing in the CCPA de-identification debate
You are right: this tool offers no guarantees whatsoever. It's intended use is for development and staging. You could theoretically use it in production, but not on a live database server. If you have that use case, you need to think carefully about your tools and your processes to guarantee a consistent outcome.
> If people can make more working than childcare costs, then they can make their own decision about how to invest their own time and money. Why does the government need to pay for this, if they argument is ultimately that the wages of women now working is what ends up paying the cost of the service?

Before a stay-at-home parent enters the workforce, they may not have the money to pay for the childcare that would free up time to work. Essentially only governments have both the money and the incentive to invest in making childcare widely available.
100 hour workweeks kills people, 40 hours of work and 60 hours of parenting doesn't, 100 hours of parenting doesn't. Parenting therefore isn't work, parenting is life on the work-life balance spectrum, so it isn't soul crushing in the same way work is. Parenting can still be a lot of work of course, but it isn't work in the same way a job is work, it is more work in the way a vacation trip is work or a hobby is work.
Everybody dies. The lasting impact of those who die lasts longer for some than others.
Sorry, but doesn't the client check the published keys itself? According to this document the client verifies the key that has been published on twitter or wherever else the user you are interacting with has publicly confirmed his/her identity. https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/following

My understanding is in the event of a server compromise in the beginning then the fake public key for the user that the malicious server would be sending would be easily detectable due to this client side check that is occurring. Whoever is behind the MITM attack would also have to compromise Twitter and all other places the user you are chatting with has published, no?
Must be a typo. Since he was working with graph and I am assuming the problem is NP hard. Probably was of the order of 2^9
They do, to some extent. See this link for example[1]. But states are constrained in ways that the federal government is not.

The main difference is that the federal government can 'print money' to fund spending (the most recent tax cuts were essentially funded that way) and hope that long term economic growth from the policy change negates the increased deficit.

The second reason is that the Federal government takes more of the tax pie than states do. According to this link[2], the federal government gets 65%, states take 20%, and cities/municipalities 15%. And keep in mind that a good chunk of the federal money goes back to the states via federal programs. So if you are going to target your policy initiatives, might as well aim for the biggest slice of the pie.

[1] https://www.chs-ca.org/child-care-payment-program
[2] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-breakdown...
> WireGuard is much faster than OpenVPN

Not relevant for most home internet connections

> much simpler to set up than OpenVPN

+1

> and it's much, much more secure than OpenVPN.

That’s uselessly vague. Do you mean the protocol, the implementation approach, the underlying crypto, or what?
And it was about as vague as could possibly be:

> But young Canadians who were eligible for the program experienced, as teenagers, “a significant worsening in self-reported health and in life satisfaction” relative to Canadians from other provinces. So, did the Quebec child-care experiment “work”? Yes, for parents and public financing. Perhaps not for the kids.

The paper itself expands on it a little bit more:

> A recent view of effects of previous child care exposure on outcomes in adolescence suggest that more hours in 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).

These negative findings have nothing at all to do with subsidized vs. non-subsidized childcare. They're essentially comparing children in daycare vs. children that are able to be raised by one or more parents, full-time.

Would kids be better off being raised by their parents more than being raised by specialized childcare workers? Perhaps. But not everyone is given that opportunity, regardless.
n^2 is polynomial, not exponential. If it was truly exponential (which a sort should never be unless you've decided to solve an arbitrary 3-SAT problem while sorting a list), then it would've blown up in your face much sooner.
Eh, I don't want babies in my building. They are distracting and we would definitely get a lot less done. I'm fine with there being a daycare center within the office park, however I'm not fine with it being a communal thing where all the parents take work-time to watch the kids.
> It's the default that you can always reach someone now and you probably have to provide some rationale if you can't.

"Sorry, I was in a mine shaft"
But can your 4 year old set up Wireguard on a Debian server?

Psh, didn't think so. Amateur.
I'm fully aware of opportunity costs, the investment was made because an investment needed to be made regardless to stand up 2-3 more servers. Doing so would have raised costs to perhaps $400/month if we simply copied existing setups (plus 2-3 days of work, probably, since we had not revisited CICD in over a year)

So by that, I've saved $5,000 in pure server costs. It probably cost me 10 extra man hours to do this way... But I also resolved a bug that was not terribly worth fixing before but took up 30 minutes of time every few months.. and improved the security by taking the servers off the public web.. however you want to quantify security improvements.

I always look at opportunity costs and the automation cost/benefit! The article was researched and written on my own time for my own enjoyment (so this was actually "free" from a business perspective, but my responses factored it in as if I did it as paid work. Just clarifying in case someone wants to claim I'm publishing "work"
Honestly, the one and only feature I'm missing in Signal that would let me use it and recommend it to everyone without reservations (rather than exclusively for ephemeral-only communication) is the ability to keep identity and full message history when moving to a new device.

Today, on iOS, you can't move your Signal history to a new device, and on Android you can only do so by manually making an encrypted backup file and writing down a 30-digit passcode, completely separate from the normal Android process of moving to a new device.

People keep long histories of messages, going back a decade, containing pictures and memories that aren't stored anywhere else. Message history is valuable data.

This doesn't seem like a "new cryptographic research" problem, this seems like a "well-established crypto (encrypted files) plus integration with standard device backup/migration" problem.

I really like Signal, I think they're doing things very well, and I wish I could use it without being constantly at risk of data loss. And this doesn't seem like an uncommon request, from what I've found.

Is there something I'm missing that makes this a hard problem? Or is it just a problem that nobody has prioritized?
Given the amount of research that shows that the amount of resources kids have directly impacts their success later in life doing that would severely impact your kids' ability to have a salary of $120k in the future.
While this is technically correct, idiomatic javascript differs from idiomatic ruby, which (that is the point) differs from idiomatic C.

So either no idioms are correct, or it is correct to apply the idioms pertaining to the language of choice.
Exactly.

"At the time you coined “cyberspace,” you’d supposedly barely spent any time on a computer. That’s hard to believe.

Oh no, I had scarcely seen one. Personal computers were not common objects at all, and I had been writing short fiction on the kind of manual portable that hipsters are starting to pay really good money for now. And then a friend of mine called from Texas and said, “My dad just gave me this machine called an Apple IIc, and, like, it automates the writing of fiction — you’ve gotta get one.” So I went down to a department store, which was the only Apple dealership in town. I bought the IIc and the printer and the bits you needed to make it work and took it all home in a box, and never looked back. It was a godsend for me because I can’t type, and having this endlessly correctable, effortlessly correctable way to write was fantastic."

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/cyberspace...
Not sure if you know this, but dropping interest rates is a policy that is strictly speaking opposed to taming inflation. It in fact creates inflation. You might have your history wrong?

> Everyone talks about how taming inflation is so wonderful. Taming mostly benefited the wealthiest - as interest rates have tumbled asset prices have soared in value.

After Volcker's deflationary policy, the authorities got scared from a small bump, instituted a reactionary inflationary policy, and that inflation has helped the wealthiest.

> Ever since working people's salaries have stagnated.

That is a designed consequence of inflation:

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...

> Yet when you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis.

Or, to put it differently, inflation is necessary to cheat the working class out of the value of their money, in the name of posting good employment numbers. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law on a societal scale)
Using the interface wouldn't block scrapers, yes? They do use the interface. But, this is academic I think. They offer a broken way to get our stuff, and say that we can't do anything else. Should we acquiesce to this?

As for bogging down the servers, my understanding was different from what the author said. They hadn't started to archive, but were in script testing mode and were accumulating yahoo accounts. What I saw of their activities, they were very careful about not overloading the servers. (I know that because I was backing up my own groups independently at the time, and I was able to do it. Luckily.)
I'm inclined to agree with you, but the GP said "hyper-exponential", whatever that even means.
Depends. Sometimes the key isn't easily hash or comparable. For example, I know of a few case where the keys looks something like "if (a > b and c < d) or (a < b and d == b)".

Now, that doesn't mean you can't hash a, b, c, and d. It just means that the logic around doing the lookups is nontrivial.

When you are talking about < 100 elements, sometimes the consideration is "Welp, this is < 100, so lets just n^2 it".
And the difference is that other the economy's full time jobs pay a lot less than they used to, relative to costs like housing, education, and healthcare, which have all vastly outstripped wage growth.
An LLC does not protect anyone from fraud...
https://clarity.fm/ for business advice, less technical questions.
> not always the way they are and that they evolved spontaneously over time

But how did they get any way at all? How and why do they evolve?

> multiverse. i.e. we just got a random set of self consistent laws.

This raises even more questions. Why are there any multiverses with any laws at all? From where did the stuff in the multiverses come from? What initiated this chain of multiverse creation, or why is it inevitable?

A bootstrapping theory would explain why anything is inevitable, or why there is something rather than nothing. Otherwise it is just a low-level physics theory.
Great point.

Somewhat related, but I have hard time watching older shows/movies where the plot only works because people do not a have cell phones. I even grew up before cell phones, but they are such a part of our lives now it is hard to look past when they are missing.
I did read the article. It didn't link to the CityLab article that I posted, which I found to be a bit easier to read.

If you read the meta-analysis paper that they link to that describes the "not so good for the well being of the kids", you'll see that they're comparing children that attend daycare to children that are wholly raised at home with one or more parents:

> A recent view of effects of previous child care exposure on outcomes in adolescence suggest that more hours in 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).

These negative findings have nothing at all to do with subsidized vs. non-subsidized childcare.
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At the stated 150,000$ to irrigate 25 acres this is in no way viable.

At a guess this is generally viewed locally as rather pointless as you can store far more water with a simple earthen dam. Basically, the hard part is having water in the first place not storage.

In terms of efficiency, spraying water into dry winter air likely resulted in quite a lot of evaporation. Further 150,000 liters of water sounds like a lot but it’s about 1.5 inch of water across an acre. Which is why you would need dozens if not hundreds of them per farm.
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Yes, the protocol, yes, the implementation approach, and yes, the underlying crypto. That sounds like a snarky response, but you really did kind of cover it.
Those are all valid points, but aren't those all (edit: mostly) examples of women being forced to work instead of choosing to work? Also I'd say those are exceptions to the rule, not the norm. If anything I'd say you bolstered the top comment's argument (I do not know your stance and am not trying to be combative).
It's nonlinear. With `git add -p` you can press keys to go back and forth through the hunks. If there are a lot of them then it can get tedious. With Magit, on the other hand, you see everything in a window and you can use all of your usual emacs commands to scroll/search that window, and then hit the key to stage the hunks as you desire.
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I worked in mobile for a while pre smartphone and we were talking one day about stupid patents (filing wireless patents for the same tech that had expired patents in wired equipment) and weird fees and somebody asserted that in the diaspora after Ma Bell got trust-busted, a lot of those executives ended up at mobile carriers, using the same bag of tricks. This explained quite a lot.

When I left the industry, I left because all the profits went to the carriers and all the risk to us. From my perspective, VC money was funding the telcos. But an earlier thing that left a bad taste in my mouth was that the teclos were trying to white-label phones from then-unknowns like HTC (who ISTR was already white-labelling for Motorola and Nokia?) so that they didn't have to negotiate with the manufacturers over tech and prices. You would get exactly what the carrier wanted you to have and not one bit more.

This was just when the Razr phone had its first price drop, and rumors of the iPhone were beginning. This is definitely one time when a Cult of Personality saved us from something much worse.
Because we're talking about group messaging here.
Every security product has an excellent track record until vulnerabilities are found. Once it hits production and sees a 10000x increase in usage so it becomes a high value target for nation states, then it will be put to the real test.
Consumers are not the ones using tracking pixels
Chamath Palihapitiya talked about this problem in an interview from 2018. Many tech startups spend 0.40c of every VC dollar with FB/Google/Amazon.

Here is the original interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRZtZQoLtQ
How does the tag suggestion work?
The day I would be comfortable giving out my phone number to stranger is when it becomes mandatory to whitelist all callers, much like how just about any non-PSTN systems work.

Maybe this is because of the social expectations of that it will work without such overhead but I just simply can't notice how all the "countermeasures" phone industry (and governments as this is a heavily regulated industry) are ignorance to elephant in the room...
The most solid argument in this direction (IMHO) is that quite a lot of the extra spending seems to have gone on positional goods, like housing. It's mostly a bidding war, and once every family has two earners, the winning bid is much higher.

And, making that worse: Once you have two careers to plan for, it's much harder to move to a smaller cheaper city to escape. Perhaps both of you can find good jobs in the big city, and in 5 smaller places... but not the same 5! So you have to pick the big center.
The problem is lack of helmet. If the injured party wasn't wearing a helmet, and the scooter clearly stated that a helmet should be warn, the case will get thrown out.

Everybody knows that nobody wears a helmet while riding scooter company. The manufacturers know, the ride-sharing services know, and the riders know. But if a helmet warning is clearly displayed, that gives the scooter company virtual legal immunity from injury lawsuits.

Even if the scooter's unsafe with a helmet, the situation prevents any serious legal damages. Only a small minority of riders will actually wear the helmet, and the company can just settle with on an individual basis. This pool is too tiny to attract high-powered class action attorneys.

The vast majority of riders, and therefore injuries, will be helmet wearing riders. Proving the counterfactual that they would have sustained the same injuries even with a helmet is very difficult. Head injuries by far are the highest damages, so again the pool of non-head injuries is too small to attract serious class-action attorneys.
So then you need more layers of management. It is impossible for a CEO to tell everybody what to do. If the line engineers can't prioritize themselves then there needs to be layers of management who interpret the vision and convert it into priorities.
I think for a lot of conservatives, more than the cost, is the philosophical question of whether the Fed Govt should be involved in social welfare programs like healthcare. The original role of the Fed Govt was foreign policy and the economy in a republic of strong states. The country is pretty well split between conservatives and progressives and a one size solution for all 50 states is always going to piss off 50% of the country. Why not look to your state for Healthcare? When a Democrat was in the Whitehouse, Texas talked about secession and now that a Republican is in the whitehouse California was talking the same thing. The thing is why does CA evern care about the whitehouse. It's the 5th largest economy in the world. If it wants healthcare for it's people then go right ahead and leave the rest of us out of it. Massachusetts offered healthcare to it's citizens under Romney before Obamacare and people who were opposed to that in MA were free to cross the border into NH, a libertarian state.
Agreed - how would anyone buy a car without financing?
I thought that magnetism is the result of lots of aligned spin?
> where the keys looks something like "if (a > b and c < d) or (a < b and d == b)"

Confused, what do you mean when you say the key is an "if" statement?
The cloud providers all have public lists of their IP ranges, so there's a fastly ACL for each provider/zone pair and for matching IPs, some custom VCL serves a HTTP redirect to the HTTP url for the appropriate cloud provider's cloud storage solution (S3, GCS, etc.). On the VMs, these resolve to appropriate internal IPs to obtain data from the storage service without charge.
i wouldn't call it basic - the materials and fixings are very very very expensive, and the actual patterns of the clothes are ungodly complex. cobrax buttons are ~$5 each for example.
FYI, if like me, you didn't know who he was -

Caroll Spinney was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street.
> I am not going to say that I am much better off for not having a dog.

But why not? It doesn't diminish dogs or other people who have dogs in any way, it just means that for you personally disadvantages outweigh advantages. So not having a dog will, on balance, make you... well, better-off.
If you think that, you should probably be using the commit-patch tool:

https://github.com/caldwell/commit-patch

Works on generic diff buffers, and is not tied to git specifically. And you can just edit the diff buffer, which gives you infinite flexibility. Since emacs already has vc mode, the only extra thing magit does is rebasing. For everything else, vc-mode and commit-patch are superior.
I messaged the author on Twitter and he changed the text of the article.

"Eh, you could argue it either way. Answering machines + Caller ID often used together."

"I added a line about Scream and gave "Spiderwebs" a little clarification. Thanks for keeping me honest!" + image of "Author's Note" at bottom of article.

The content of the song is that the singer just had a breakup, and recorded "a likely story" as the outgoing message on her answering machine, for the purpose of screening incoming calls. So when he calls, she won't pick up. "It's all your fault." Take it from someone who heard it over and over on the radio at the time it was released as a single.