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Wouldn't everything that cannot go on forever, eventually stop?

I mean, that is the definition of forever.
>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.

Although interestingly, it's much shinier and prettier than we expected. And most of the grimy/slummy parts of the world still seem trapped in the past.
College-educated workers are taking over the American factory floor
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 5 Is Generally Available
The founders of this company likely broke the law in the US
>"In Massachusetts, which requires one caregiver for every three infants, the average annual cost is more than $16,000. In Mississippi, which allows a one-to-five ratio, the cost is less than $5,000."

Even if the workers were making 100% of the costs of childcare, This means that the Mississippi employee is being paid half as much as the Massachusetts employee. Mississippi's economy is clearly not comparable to Massachusetts's economy. Why is the Atlantic treating this comparison as valid?
That is interesting. I wonder how other national programs are generally funded (or would be funded, Medicare For All for example). Are they massive wealth transfers from low tax to high tax states?
Don't miss "Staging parts of a hunk", which is Magit's killer feature, IMO. You can easily go through your current diff (from staged) and add/remove single lines from the staged delta.
One problem is that it affects not just her, but whole family. When she is in full time work, then husband have to say no to later meeting, to switch with her on all those celebrations and competitions and so on. There is more coordination, work and stress for everyone, not just woman in question.

When kids are sick and they are often, you have to deal with it somehow - again either risk own employment and status on the job or own projects or demand that husband stays home some of those days.

The same goes with part time work. I know multiple women who do less then 8 hours a day not because they want to, but because they would need husband to come home from work sooner otherwise to be able to make it all. Had he had a job where he could (or if he was willing to - at least in two cases it is not job but him making excuses), they would prefer to work full time (due to those positions being more interesting).
I've tasted expensive Baijiu. It's also pretty nasty, possibly even moreso to my taste than the cheap stuff. I think it's one of those machismo things where everyone pretends they like something that is objectively terrible to prove their manhood, or something. Comparable to ultra-bitter IPAs in the west.
oooopssss... and what do we have here? A little colonizer mentality? ;-)
Demystifying NDCG and ERR Search Metrics
A class action lawsuit against who? You cannot sue a company that no longer exists. It is unlikely consumers would be able to defeat limited liability, particularly with the argument that "the company should have allocated resources differently."
> foreign au pairs

https://www.steffanslegal.com/blog/first-circuit-holds-that-...
The right to do something is different from the want to do something. How many people have fought for their right to vote? And yet how abysmal is voter turnout every year?

The desire for education is very different from the desire for work.

I am not saying there are no women (or even the majority of women) who want to work because it is their choice. But I think we are making it a gender issue when really it isn't. Do most men want to work or do they have to? Social mores have dictated the man be the provider for centuries, if not millenia.

I think it depends on the individual more than the gender.
That's why latency is always measured in p99:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12808934/what-is-p99-lat...
This is not an on demand company. They were selling physical goods to consumers
Goodhart: When the metric becomes the goal, it ceases to be a good measure... (paraphrase)

Seems like we've been moving all domestic productivity into the realm of Taxable GDP. Some say it's a conspiracy, for me it's just an observation.

Home cooked meals has become meal prep kits, home delivery. ChildCare has been outsourced (out of the home or a small community of cooperating parents).
Household cleaning to cleaning services etc.
I think the comment you're replying to meant that there was no time lost going through the security that common people have to.
I have a problem with either generalization. I think we, as a society, need to support all choices a family makes (both parents working, or either parent staying home with the kid), and not judge parents for making any choice that works for their family.

I find it very troublesome that you keep referring to women staying home to care for the kids as 'following their maternal instinct' and men working outside at an office as the natural state for men. Saying that "Women define male attractiveness based on his socio-economic status" is downright offensive, and is getting into red-pill incel territory.

There is nothing 'natural' or 'evolutionary' about how we divide up labor in our society. Up until 100 years or so ago, we didn't even have the idea of 'childhood' that we do now. Parenting was not a full time job, kids were just expected to basically raise themselves and tag along while mom and dad did real work. In evolutionary terms, men haven't 'evolved' to work away from home while women raised kids; both parents did work (varying by society type, e.g. hunter-gatherer or farming) to provide resources for the family. Both men and women worked to provide those resources, and kids just hung around. Obviously, women fed babies the first year or two, but after that kids were pretty much on their own.

Your view that men and women naturally live together like a family in the 1950s for all of our history is a great example of a 'just so' explanation for our current gender politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
Cyber attack cripples Pensacola, Florida just days after fatal shooting
Japanese slang for "Delinquent"
Airbnb invests in Zeus Living at $205M valuation
The article specifically calls out the Quebec experiment as having a negative impact on the children:

>So, did the Quebec child-care experiment “work”? Yes, for parents and public financing. Perhaps not for the kids.
Muse – App to Develop Ideas
Puzzle: Does Nature Need Elegant Math?
But isn't the value of the automated system the engineer produced to the business the sum of the value the system will create minus what has to be spent on it (compute power, maintenance).

(Emphasizing to the business to avoid a tired argument about value really being what the market will pay. In technical econ terms by value I mean the private benefit of the consumer of the automation)
Bareback horse ride from LA to a meeting in NY just for those extra respect points?
The Nintendo Switch Switch
I’m not sure what you mean by “his output is so little”.

Just because he hasn’t become the overly verbose waster of words that so many others have (ahem...) doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a solid body of work. I count 15 books on my shelf that bear his name. “So little”?
Arduino boards (the ones based on AVR chips) use the GCC C++ compiler adapted for the AVR. The current IDE version 1.8.10 uses avr-gcc-7.3.0 (https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/master/hardware/pack...). The previous IDE version 1.8.9 used avr-gcc-5.4.0.

The compiler is configured to follow the -std=gnu++11 variant. Here are the flags:
https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-avr/blob/master/platf...

If you use other Arduino-compatible boards (e.g. ARM chips, ESP8266 or ESP32), they will use a different C++ compiler and different settings. See for example:

* SAMD uses 'arm-none-eabi-g++' (https://github.com/arduino/ArduinoCore-sam/blob/master/platf...)

* ESP8266 uses xtensa-lx106-elf-gcc (https://github.com/arduino/esp8266/blob/master/platform.txt)

* ESP32 uses xtensa-esp32-elf-gcc (https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/blob/master/platf...)

So Arduino programming is "just" C++ with additional libraries and an IDE. Though I wrote "just" in quotes because they've done a lot of work to make things easier and approachable for beginners, so I don't want to diminish their work.
Digital advertising can be as addictive (and dangerous) as heroin. You give FB some money and customers start to show up - it feels like you suddenly have a real business. If your analytics are off or you don’t even have the right KPIs to start with, you can kill a business very fast, even while the intoxication of traffic distracts an inexperienced team until the very end.
> I've yet to experience this low cost of development

In my very limited experience, the yaml configuration was a pain, and the testing environment was different enough from production that it felt cumbersome to keep up with both of them.

So now instead of using Serverless, I use expressjs for my API controllers, and I build a Docker image that works exactly the same for testing and production.
Harder doesn't mean worse, necessarily. There are lots of things I'd rather do than my white collar programming job, and most of them are at least as much "work" as it is—they just don't pay nearly as well.

[EDIT] that includes staying home to teach my kids—much rather do that, and it'd 100% for sure be much harder. Pays zero dollars though, and someone's gotta keep the bills paid.
" Stuff like that pisses her off to no end, with good reason. She's smart and accomplished and very much enjoys the challenges of a professional career."

No, it's not with 'good reason'.

If your wife is 'smart' as you say, then she (and you) will recognise that generalisations having nothing to do with your particular situation.

That women may be inclined to want to 'stay home' more than not, has nothing to do with the obvious fact that many women (such as your wife) 'want a career'.

That your wife is 'pissed off to no end' to hear what might be actual fact it actually the problem with society. You're afraid to talk about it, as is everyone in the press because it 'upsets some women' to hear some genralizations which may be true.

It's actually very problematic that your wife is 'pissed off to no end' when she hears data that might not be consistent with her lifestyle - because it closes down needed conversation.

Second - your statement "she's smart and accomplished" is arguably sexist and denigrating to the very 'smart and accomplished' women who chose not to have a career.

My belief is that most women do want some kind of meaningful work, until the time they want to have children, in which case things change. At this time, my bet would be most (definitely not all) want to focus on the kids, but have 'some kind of option' that keeps them professionally engaged to the world, but with 'maximum flexibility'. These choices may not be 'careers' in the sense we think of them.

Example: women studies years to become licensed acupuncturist, works hard to set up practice and community, then settles down with partner, working with a limited number of clients while raising young children.

The work requires intelligence, it's 'helping' (or at least people think it is), it's social, it's independent, it's 'green', it's related to the community etc., and it's not exactly high stress / corporate / careerism.

Given an array of life choices for women - something like this example I believe would be highly popular. In my own life, if you replace 'acupuncturist' with 'therapist', 'designer', 'homeopath', 'makeup consultant', 'massage therapist' it would cover a good many number of the women that I know. Of course it has nothing to do with the other good number of women that I know who are engaged in more or less professional career paths.
You can have an accurate prediction which also reflects systemic bias.

There was a story recently about NYC cops being given race based targets for arrests. If that data was fed into a system and predictions generated they could be both correct and racist.

That's maybe an extreme example, I think the person you're replying to was trying to illustrate the same thing but with greater indirection between the racism and the arrest.

To give a non-race example, I've heard that ugly people get convicted at a higher rate than good looking people. So a 'hot or not' rating could help predict reoffending conviction rates. I'd assume we would want to adjust our models to avoid that, even though it's not an incorrect prediction.
This is not super-relevant to the article, but I thought I would mention:

It often strikes me that the opening line of Neuromancer, which is something like "The sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel" must be losing its meaning to newer readers.
Things end users care about but programmers don't
Actually O(2n) did not convey this for me at all, all it did for me was cause confusion. If this ("turn it into two not nested loops") was indeed intended, I'd suggest to spell it out, not abuse notation
Your point about childcare being difficult is absolutely correct, but I don't know if you're correct that a "LOT" of women (I assume you mean counterintuitively more than the commentor implied) would not want to stay home to raise them, all things considered. Based on personal relationships with my wife, sisters, and close family and friends I believe it is very, very common for mothers to find returning to work very difficult (even though it's a lot of work to stay home). I don't think anyone intends to imply that there aren't men who feel this way, that there aren't women who don't feel this way, or that the reason for anyone feeling this way is because work is hard and staying home with kids is easy.
With a possible exception of before they can talk and are potty trained, child care is not harder. And it is far far more enjoyable spending time with your kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMN17uBzCw4

Very insightful interview with Ray Dalio
Playing devil's advocate here but the Shopify issue is because they removed the only products they sold on Shopify (that's why it 404s at /products/unicorn-scooter-product), that results in the collection being empty and that page showing up.

So their Shopify was likely fine until the business went under. Then they quite correctly stopped letting people make additional orders.
The easiest solution to 'child care' -- allow children to come to the office. Most people have cushy office jobs. Kids 0 - 5 do not take up much space.

Parents can take staggered lunch breaks to watch the children. Children would be in a common area that'd be appropriately gated off. In dual-income families, either mom or dad can take the child to their office.

Benefits:

(1) Both parents can work and be with their child

(2) Children see adults working, not just playing. This is good as children want to be like adults

(3) Non-parents get to spend time with babies and children, which is wonderful!

(4) For nursing working mothers, having the baby there would make nursing much easier than pumping. Babies could even be given little bassinets to sleep and wiggle around in near mom and dad, if they want that.

(5) The child/children can share in mom and dad's lunch.

(6) Cute babies in offices!!! How great is that!?

Speaking from personal experience, when my colleagues have been forced due to circumstance to bring their young children in to the office, the experience has always been positive. However, my colleagues seem worried that one of us may be offended and apologize incessantly. We should stop this and just make it a policy that children are allowed in-office. I mean, a lot of companies I've worked at have allowed dogs, which can't be potty trained, don't wear diapers, and sometimes bite people. Why are children treated worse than dogs?

EDIT: responses to this thread are the #1 reason why we will never have affordable childcare. Americans, as a group, highly highly dislike children, even if they won't admit it out of fear of sounding like a misanthrope.
Also https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/caroll-spinney-big-bird-os... and https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50705508 (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21738323)

A thread from when he retired last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18240502
Heh - they don't have the one I created, so it's missing at least one! Don't worry, though - I'm not proud of it, it was one of my first Perl scripting efforts, and interactive web-site efforts too (perl cgi - ugh). So it's best if its never looked at again...
That's actually one of the not-so-great facets of this program.

It demands a minimum of 80% participation, meaning that if you wanted to stay at home to take care of your children but use subsidized daycare 1-2 days a week to give yourself a break, it's currently not possible. If a child is absent for more than 20% of the "regular" schedule, then the daycare loses that subsidy spot due to it being under-utilized.

There's a movement to help correct this, but it's not simple due to how funds and resources are allocated and planned for.
My mother always said raising kids was a full time job.

The difference today is that we measure it.
> There is an implicit "x != 0" in: if (x), while (x), ... etc.
> An explicit "x != 0" in these contexts serves no semantic purpose.
> And "x == 0" in these contexts might be better written as "!x".

I disagree with this advice because the idea is not portable across languages.

For example, if we let the variable x hold the integer value 0, then:

Java 'if (x)' is a compile-time type error.
Python 'if x:' is falsy, similar to C.
Ruby 'if x' is truthy!
There it is! Thank you!
Please keep in mind, I said socio-economic status. But, homeless looking, constantly drank, smelling of urine Charles Bukowski had plenty of young, attractive and willing lovers. My point being exactly his high socio-economic status. We're talking about one of the best American poets. How many of these you get to meet? Hey, he might even write a poem about feeling he has for you if he likes you. That's what was so damn hot about the guy. Not money. With no money at all, his status was extremely high. I'm not pushing this vulgar simplistic idea here that women are all about money. They are after men who are really, really good in their niche. Even when the niche doesn't provide any money. It's about status they're after. This usually translate into money, but not always. Bukowski was dirt poor. With high status.

EDIT: grammar
Why is this on hacker news, lol.
Think of it this way. Imagine if when you went to work, you only got to do the "fun stuff" for a hour a day, and the rest of the day you just filled out paperwork and moved things back and forth in a predetermined pattern. And work lasted from the time you woke up to the time you slept.

Being a parent is the greatest joy I've ever known, but the joyful parts are the punctuation on the mind-numbing toil. That toil is only bearable because of the fun bits, but it's still there.

Being a parent is very important work, and can bring great joy, but it's possible to both love the joy and hate the toil in between.
Title has a mistake. The abbreviation of “venture capitalists” is “VCs” or “VC's”, not “VCS”.

I see this same mistake often on Hacker News. Does the site automatically make this “correction”?
When I was a Boy Scout, I probably hauled and schlepped 3 imperial tons of newspaper for recycling before San Jose implemented their first program with those diamond-patterned yellow, olive and green recycling plastic crates (about 48" x 36" x 24" / 1.5m x 1m x 0.75m).
Any Accounting Book or Course recommendation for Tech Entrepreneur?
I'm SW Engineer and planning to start a SaaS business. Which books or courses can you recommend me for Financial & Managerial Accounting ?

Thanks very much.
Exactly right. People also forget that while the parent works 8 hours a day, the kid is dropped off before and after commute time which means the kid may be in daycare for 9 or 10 hours. So if you get infant care at $175/week for four infants divided by 50 hours, you get $14/hour and that is gross revenue to the business. If you happen to lose an infant to a parental move, now you are losing money for that class. You can do better on the 10+ kids because the ratios are much better.

As you said, we are valuing time more and more. I can't imagine what childcare would costs with a $15/hour minimum wage. A lot of mothers would probably be forced to give up their job.
Every kid is wonderfully different. Mine loves anything that's large. Loves busses. 18 wheelers, any construction equipment.
If you could prove deliberate fraud, which seems unlikely, then you could probably pierce the limited liability shield.

Seems unlikely though.
Support the content creator with Patreon and then skip the in-video sponsorship with a clear conscience.
don't badger the man,

the world (and Earth) is much better off with fewer people,

it is called quorum-sensing in science, many organisms stop reproducing then they overpopulate, humanity should do the same, if it is a philosophy that is followed, so much better, everyone is better off
Predictably, lots of replies stating that remote workers outside the area are good too. As someone who works remotely outside the Bay area, I certainly would agree, but that is different than the point PG is making.

People get testy about this issue, which is kind of silly because empirically a huge portion of top companies come from there. So, ya know, something is working. And, to boot, working well enough that the extra cost is worth it.
Since Windows 10 1703/1709, if you have at least 4G of RAM or so, every service will run in its own svchost (for the most part there may be some exceptions). There's some registry key to tweak how much RAM is needed to trigger this.
> I'm sorry but this is just how it works

No this is not how any of it works. This is extremly sexist, and has no evidence to support it.
They are, even at a more local level. New York City, for example, has a free pre-k (4yo) program. But in order to be effective, some of these policies need to be applied nationwide. In other cases, state budgets are simply too constrained for them. Like someone said in the comments, this is a program that could paid itself with the income tax from both parents working, but in the US the majority of income tax goes to the federal government, I think.