skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They discovered that tightening those laws had no detectable effects on the rates of births of first and second children, but was accompanied by a drop, on average, of 0.73 percentage points in the number of women giving birth to a third while the first two were young enough to need safety seats. That may not sound much, but it is a significant fraction of the 9.36% of women in the sample who did become third-time mothers.

> The authors also made two other pertinent observations. The reduction they saw was confined to households that did actually have access to a car. And it was larger in households where a man was living with the mother. The latter point is relevant, they think, because this man would take up space in a vehicle that could otherwise be occupied by a child.

Yikes. The front passenger seat is not an acceptable place to put a car seat anyway.
This is an actual conversation I had to have with my wife, having a third kid definitely requires a larger vehicle as the vast majority of cars today simply don't work for a family of five. Child car seats are too wide and the backseats of most cars are too narrow, and the price jump to a vehicle that would be able to handle three child car seats at once is enormous. Throw in some dogs, a couple pieces of luggage that any nuclear family would have to tote around, plus a stroller and it becomes prohibitively tight.

It took me MONTHS of shopping and playing child-seat-jenga in various car dealership lots before I finally found a sedan that was actually able to hold everything (thank you, Volkswagen, for making an actual family sedan that could fit a family!).
Wrong.

A reminder that Nancy Pelosi turned down not one but two $1 trillion+ stimulus offer from the White House before the election.

Trump makes $1.8 trillion economic relief offer, but deal with Pelosi remains elusive (Oct 09 2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/10/09/trump-ec...

Nancy Pelosi blasts the White House's $1.6 trillion stimulus plan, saying it's not even 'half a loaf' (Oct 01 2020)

https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-blasts-white-ho...
Big city mayors, some of whom then turned around and dined indoors at $400 a plate kind of restaurants.
I don't want to start another "SF vs Miami/Austin rest of the US" but! An awesome thing in the Bay-Area is all the insane stuff you get on eBay and Craigslist. I bought a Velodyne VLP-16 LIDAR for my mobile robot side project and met up with a guy in SF. He had a startup that ended up using vision only so they sold off their LIDARs.
I really like a). More broadly, I’ve thought for a long time that we should to make it turnkey-easy for people to deploy their own services, to start re-decentralizing a lot of the services that have trended toward centralization - email, blog/personal news hosting, photo sharing. Like built-into-their-router easy, to avoid the need to set up port forwarding. Mozilla seems like a great place for a lot of this to start, given their focus on the open web, privacy, etc. Many of the details involved in hosting this stuff can be a bit messy for laymen, but I think defaults could be chosen and a minimum subset of the features could be polished to the point of user friendliness.
It is very real, but if you can somehow escape from it there are huge advantages.

Not caring that we might look poor has been the biggest factor enabling me and my wife to build a good, stable life for ourselves while peers who out-earn us perpetually struggle on the brink of ruin.
Is it? Why is that so important that it's worth not aiding millions of people who are dropping into poverty?
https://facebook.com/privacy/explanation:

“When you share and communicate using our Products, you choose the audience for what you share.

[…]

You should consider who you choose to share with

[…]

When you choose to use third-party apps, websites, or other services that use, or are integrated with, our Products, they can receive information about what you post or share”

So, what do they object to?
I feel like rural areas are going to keep their small businesses alive and well, while city restaurants and service industry will collapse. Seattle and Portland will be Detroit within 2 years. Even after COIVD, that type of devastation would take a decade to recover from, if they had sound leaders. They don't, and it's only going to make it worse.
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That's the point. They don't do it to be nice, they do it because it helps the bottom line. I don't think it's helpful nor accurate to conflate the two, as it only serves corporations who want to ride on paper-thin "social responsibility" PR.
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I have elementary school age kids, so I know lots of parents. Anecdotally, there is a big jump between having two kids and having more than two. I've had a lot of conversations with friends on their third pregnancy about having to upgrade to a bigger car because with the size of car seats, you can't fit three of them in one row of a typical sedan. And I've likewise had conversations with parents who decided (like my wife and I did) to stop at two, and many of the reasons are fundamentally about logistics and resources. Transportation is a real component of that.

If you take a step back, it does make sense. The difference between zero kids and one is a major qualititative lifestyle change. It's the transition from parent to non-parent. It means not easily going out at night, schooling, etc. Everything changes.

The transition from one to two kids is a qualitative change for the kid because it means going from no siblings to siblings. That transitively makes it somewhat of a qualitative change for parents. It means the kids always have a playmate and someone their age on vacations. But for parents, it's mostly a change in degree. More work, more cost, more time parenting, but the overall lifestyle is basically unchanged.

The transition from two to three is really just quantitative. 33% more space in the house for sleeping, 33% more food costs, 33% more car space for transportation, etc. So the decision about when to stop is mostly just "how much of this experience do you want?" The transportation overhead here in the US where you do a lot of driving is a pretty big piece of that.
Now I can say I'd rather have ALS than use Google Maps.

Joking aside, this is cool, pricing is good. Hopefully the mobile SDK provides more features than Google Maps'.
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From the website:

> GTK is the core of the GNOME development platform, but it can also be used to write applications for other Linux environments, as well as applications targeting Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS.

I'd love for some hn folks to share feedback on portability and overall value of using GTK for multiple platforms.

What other engines/platforms exist? I know of Kotlin for mobile/web but besides Electron, I'll have a hard time picking something for desktop apps, should portability be a requirement...

PS: I have a love-hate relationship with Electron. I guess I'm not the only one, so I won't elaborate.
You learned something really important about what you don't like. That's not worth regretting.

Get back into academia with newfound commitment. This time you won't be looking over your shoulder wondering if you're missing something in "the real world."
The other thing not being mentioned is alot of families who could never afford to buy homes can now buy homes.

It has also allowed alot of people to move into nicer areas of NYC that could not afford to before.

Alot of people's quality of life has increased, and alot of people who lost their income on paper also lost their requirement to pay rent and avoid being evicted or just moved into their parents homes.

There are some who have lost their income but also still have to pay bills and their quality of life has not improved. I think those numbers are not reflected in this article especially in relation to all of the people who could not afford to live in nice areas or buy homes who have now been able to.

In NYC when asian demographic no longer could come to the u.s. To invest $300k into an empty apartment building that they will never inhabit to expedite their green card process, are now being inhabited by hardworking Americans who were able to buy condos that previously they were not able to compete with with international millionaires using real estate for tax and legal loopholes.

None of this is reflected in the article.
Can you cite those use cases?
Class warfare is pointless. Businesses are shuttering. Sure, make accusations of fraud (do you have any proof?) - but those expenses can't be frivolous unless you want a huge issue with the IRS. Should relief be so strict and policed (its own cost) or should it be flexible for businesses that may have had to build outdoor accomodations?
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Because then Amazon can't track all your users. Imagine a delivery company uses Amazon's API for its in-truck apps or route planning. Amazon drinks your data, it drinks it up.
Things like motion sickness and the screen-door effect are results of lower refresh-rate/resolution than what should be used for VR.

It's very sad that as of right now, you're forced to choose movement freedom (e.g. Vive Wireless) OR the highest refresh rate / highest resolution (Valve Index). And don't get me started on the proliferation of low quality "mixed reality" headsets. Honest enthusiasts have no options for high quality "world scale" VR. The best VR experience is STILL found this way, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DvB07X84HM - but it requires a shitty headset compared to the Index.

VR most likely would have ended up with the same experience (but better quality) if the manufacturers built better quality headsets with wireless and higher resolution (most likely attached to a high quality laptop in a backpack), priced it more highly (1500-2000$+ in kits like the youtube video), and then let VRs merits sell itself, rather than allow half-baked headsets to frustrate and dissuade people.
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When VR starts delivering on the "virtual" part of the "reality" concept whereby my girlfriend, uncle, or neighbor can put on a headset and say "why go back?"

or

When VR doesn't merely solve for an "immersive" experience, but rather provides for a better way to interface with 3D "space" than does a 2D monitor.
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Our election processes have never been fair. Big money has typically been the largest factor. This year solidifies it .. at least for half the population. The American psyche has been split in two by a corrupt and runaway media.
I worked for a VR/AR platform helping 3rd parties port apps onto the platform for a couple of years. Low traction seemed to be a combination of the following related problems:

1) ROI for the platform's premium was not worth it, due to...
2) lack of must-have apps, due to...
3) poor ratio of difficulty designing a great user experience vs low number of outfits trying to build that software, due to ...
4) fragmentation in technology (AR & VR) which results in different user experience in each platform, and low rates of adoption especially given dispersion over different platforms, consequently there was far less financial motivation for a company to invest long term resources.

With VR/AR, the obvious killer app is 3D model generation, because you could turn efficient workflows into money, but the amount of effort that has been thrown into desktop publishing is so much that the bar for a VR/AR app to get over is very, very high. If your audience is professional 3d modelers. The mouse is such an excellent precision instrument, it's going to be a long time before we have a 6 degree-of-freedom input device that can match it for precision and ease of long term use. The existing CAD companies with funds sit on large portfolios of software, and a fantastic VR/AR experience would devalue them, so they don't have a lot of motivation.

Long story short, it's going to take longer than the PC revolution, because the adoption-conformity numbers are not as good. I'd guess another ten years?
For the reader: Using no-cost Oracle software is playing with fire. Oracle is a machine build to extract license fees and, when necessary, to litigate.
I sure do hate it when I slip and fall into poverty as if it were some silly accident of my own making and not entirely caused by the actions of state and local governments.
I'm not sure I follow your logic here. You're saying that central banks are keeping interest rates low in order to prevent global warming? Generally speaking, I would assume low interest rates = higher economic activity = increased CO2 emissions; not the other way around.
> I wonder why Firefox even has to beat Chrome.

In that sense, Firefox's competition is not Chrome: it's the other "non-mainstream" browsers like Chromium Edge, Brave, or Opera. What can Mozilla do to attract those users to Firefox? Google doesn't want to crush Firefox to 0% because Google profits from Firefox searches and presumably wants a non-Chromium browser to exist to avoid antitrust scrutiny regulating Chrome.
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It's silly git nomenclature for "human readable output". Except it's not even used consistently within git.

What the parent mean is that some tool rely on the human-oriented, potentially unstable output of git commands instead of using lower level layers.
I have a Quest2 and motion tracking is great, but the resolution/blurriness bothers my eyes a lot, to the point where it gives me a headache. Now it could be with not wearing glasses, but I tried it with contacts and it still bothered me. My wife meanwhile has no issues. Is this a common issue?
Agreed it is mostly used interactively in the IDE. FWIW one can compile into p-code (=underlying virtual machine), package the p-code files of the application with the matlab standalone engine+libraries (MCR), and deploy using standard shell tools (e.g make with Makefile).
The description says change is described as yellow nodes though, also all three addresses are different
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I've never used Pop!_OS but I've heard that it takes the "Just Works" polish of Ubuntu in general and extends that to proprietary video card drivers.

For an absolute beginner, it's probably better for gaming. For people who already know what they're doing, it's probably not a noticeably better gaming experience.
Is there really that big of a gap? I was under the impression that things weren't that different and they are working on an initiative to make things even closer (https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap/FAQ/ClosingTheLeapGap)
> Just saying "this will help the poor because they have nothing" over and over with no real plan, let alone action, doesn't make it true.

I used to work at a bitcoin company, and we had large user communities in countries where the local currency was subject to very high inflation, and access to stabler currencies (like dollars or euros) was severely limited. We were actually helping proper deal with real problems, and we were proud of it.

Then the investment-tool-for-rich-white-kids mentality took over. :(
When I was young, this was what minivans were for: families with three kids.
Just a small correction. The Quest can access all PC software that the Rift S can through Oculus Link.
What's incredible to me is how completely incompetent GOG/CDPR are in this entire episode. The whole incident around Devotion being removed originally, unsavory as it is to the Western Audience, is also well in the past and for most people not anywhere in their active mindspace. Then along GOG announcing its release on their store only to backpedal a whopping, what, 4 hours later? No one 12 hours ago was actively condemning GOG for not having this game, they sure are now. And it's not like they didn't know about the previous drama.

Unless their goal all along was to publicly signal to China their willingness to kowtow, I have absolutely no idea what happened on the corporate end here, and it just makes the whole organization look incompetent all the way around.
Just to reinforce your point: the idea that Americans are deciding not to have children because they can't fit modern child seats in their cars is outright laughable. Americans drive massive cars compared to the rest of the world; if there is any society where car size would not prove to be a hindrance to having children it would be America.
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Don't leave the governors out! They're enjoying the party too!
Chinese script is logographic, Japanese only partially so.

But a language is not its script.

By approximation all modern languages that have been written have been written in the Latin script. That doesn't make them "similar languages" in any real sense. And conversely, many languages use several different scripts for the same language in different regions/groups depending on politics.
It's all good! Happy that we have many open source distros to choose from. I've used Linux since 1995, and have always a soft spot for Debian based distros. For some weird reason though, Arch has been my main driver for some years and right now, I see the distribution to be not an issue anymore. I see no reason to change, and what I have just works fine for my main tasks.
Wow, that's horrifying to look at that chart. I live in San Antonio, TX where we sometimes have air quality days which have specific restrictions. The trigger point is that we expect to rise about 10 AQI which is the WHO guideline. Our average for 2019 was 9.4. Living in a city where the average is over 100 sounds terrible to me. I'm asthmatic, and I have seasonal allergies, and there are days the air quality here bothers me.
Qt is the main alternative. It's C++ but has bindings for many languages.

All cross platform frameworks are a compromise though so you should avoid them unless you know you will definitely need it.
> If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work.

You need js to view a png. What a time to be alive.
Anybody know when this will be available? I heard in a Shepard Smith segment that it'd be available "by summer". Who cares by then? We need it yesterday.
Yeah and the emissions are in one place so capture should be more economically viable I’d have thought.
You combined a source with a follow-up statement that appears nowhere in that article and is factually incorrect.

I don't know where you came up with your made up number of $22,000, but this isn't some big conspiracy, what is forgivable is directly viewable in the SBA's PPP Loan Forgiveness Application: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-11/PPP%20Loan%2...
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Hi! I don't recommend using Rust to learn data science. Unless you're an exceptional Rust programmer, you may end up spending most of your time negotiating with Rust instead of putting data science concepts to practice.

The difficulty of the language aside, the ecosystem isn't ready yet... I've been keeping an eye on https://www.arewelearningyet.com/, I hope it's still up-to-date. For this reason, I would recommend Python for data science/ML.

I try to cover both Rust and data science in my book (https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/data-analysis-with-rust-...), but it can be tricky!
WebRender has already been integrated into Firefox.
Most governors and mayors didn't perform a rigorous cost benefit analysis before making shutdown decisions. Many of the lockdown orders were arbitrary and capricious, full of exemptions for politically favored groups. These were largely faith based policies without proper scientific backing from an evidence-based medicine perspective.

Free money from the federal government wouldn't have improved that situation. If state governors want to shut down businesses then state governments should be issuing relief payments.
>I use VS Code and Vim. Are they suitable for learning Lisp?

Better install Portacle, that's the only thing you need to install to edit, compile, and debug Common Lisp code.

Then you can learn by reading a good book like a "Gentle introduction to Symbolic Computation" or "Practical Common Lisp".
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I believe you're thinking of Australia. There are very few (if any?) places in the US with helmet laws for adults.
SCP or Kool-Aid Man, I have to squint to tell which
I wanted to do Astronomy or Astrophysics as a degree/career choice when I was growing up. What changed my mind was every single astronomer or astrophysicist I spoke to about pursuing the career literally told me not to. No jobs, no money, don't do it. Being young and unfamiliar I listened to their advice and went to university for a different career. Academia research seems like a lot of politics and bs to put up with however I think I would have enjoyed that career much more than software development I am in now.
They didn't abandon the technological effort that went into Rust & Servo - they just decided to bring it into Firefox piece by piece under the name 'Quantum' rather than launching a brand new browser with a different name. Although there was a marketing push with Firefox 57 when the new code started to land.
Gnome 4 has gone the way of PHP 6.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/iu2dbj
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Stock Vim got all of that.
Do people really go into industry because they’re expecting to enjoy it? I thought it was to get paid.

Academics are supposed to like their work more than us industry stiffs, aren’t they? Because if that’s not the case........ what exactly would be the draw?
Common genetic variants identify individuals at risk of severe Covid-19 disease
I was pretty happy to port some small Go programs using Gtk from Linux to the Mac. Just a recompile would do, worked out of the box.
I remember the robot story and it was not it.
> Class warfare is pointless.

The position of the capitalist class, built on successful class warfare first against the pre-capitalist aristocracy and then against the working classes within capitalism, proves this to be false.

As, for that matter, does the (arguably modest, but still very real) progress of the working class from the height of the system first described as “capitalism” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through its replacement by the modern mixed economy from the mid-20th century to today as a result of class warfare by the working classes against the entrenched capitalist class.

Though “class warfare is pointless” is always what those defending class warfare by the capitalist class say when the working classes fight back.
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I second that, and here are the reasons why choose Debian: https://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian

Also, the most dependable docker images are Debian based, Google distroless image is Debian based, most single board computer's OS are Debian based, Tails, Kali, Ubuntu, all Debian based and the list goes on and on.

It's the most mature and stable disto out there and is reference in the Linux world for more than 27 years.

EDIT: ...and is more up-to-date than CentOS, I just checked and CentOS seems to be using an old/non-LTS kernel :/
You say deadlock as if it's a bad thing.
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It seems correct as a matter of policy to not earmark PPP loans directly to employee wages. We don't want to set up a scenario where a bunch of small businesses fail the instant the PPP ends because they haven't been paying the bills.
Kinda unintuitive, but if you look at processing power as a currency, it is actually undergoing hyperinflation (number of computers + processing power increases every year). Meaning you buy a computer, assuming its value will drop (due to the inflationary nature).