skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a marriage, mothers own half their husband's income.

... and half of asset appreciation, and in some cases (it varies) half of pension.

I will also add that it’s not just mothers. It’s any spouse. I’ve seen successful women come out on the raw end of this deal during divorce.

I mention this not as a grievance, rather just an observation that people who are married, both male and female, are sometimes surprised at asset allocation during a divorce with regards to “passive” investments and business ownership (e.g, a self-owned business that has grown).
That's a weird contortion of logic. Your point is still that raising children isn't an economically valuable activity, unless you also think that men should be paid somewhere around 2x if they are supporting a stay-at-home mom...
> But we seem to want to be paid. It's interesting that socializing the payments seems to strike people as more freeing than just social obligation.

It's not that we _want_ to be paid. It's that we _need_ to be paid, because in order to raise a child you need a stable source of critical things for many years:

- food & water

- shelter (and heat)

- clothing

- waste disposal

If I wanted to take several years entirely away from work to raise a child, I would still have to have those things. How can I afford those things if I am not getting paid?

It's not about valuing _being paid_, it's about valuing the things that are necessary to raise a child.

You tell me how to acquire those things without being paid, and then we can analyze while people value being paid more than the social obligations.
There was no luck about it. It was a meltdown, and the pressure vessel was compromised. Secondary containment saved the day. Three Mile Island didn't become a Chernobyl not because of luck, but because the US didn't cheap out and skip building concrete condom over the reactor like the Soviets did.
The issue is that the US dollar is actually achieving something. Bitcoin is just causing people to froth at the mouth and burn up huge amounts of energy while polluting the environment heavily. When it pops lots of people are going to be left hurting because they bought into bitcoin fever.
Los Angeles was founded pretty far from the coast, and at a decent elevation, roughly 77m / 253feet. It just expanded in every direction. Santa Monica is protected by cliffs as well. Farther south isn't so lucky.
> outside of 737 MAX certification / regulatory capture issues

Well there's one example! Why would you discount it?
Did “profit” just get redefined?
> I know the common refrain is "Delete Facebook!" but that's the equivalent of abstinence-only education. We need to start talking about how to configure Screen Time on iOS, or how to use Facebook's built-in tools to hide content you don't want to see.

I see it more akin to the opioid crisis. Just like drug manufactures shouldn't be pushing opioids as a way to deal with minor pain and depression because they know it hooks users. Maybe social media companies shouldn't be pushing hateful and outrageous content to hook their users.

You can sing about personal responsibility all you want. But these companies pay scientists millions of dollars a year to come up with ways to keep you hooked. The only way to win is not to play the game. Normal people are seriously outgunned here.
Well, I thought so too. Until I realized six months later that I hadn't gotten my refund. Turns out that I'd gotten an email shortly after submission that had gone unnoticed saying that my return had failed xml validation, just like you. What was the point of the frontend validation before submission? Why isn't the full validation done before submission properly? Total nonsense.

I re-filed with paper... still hasn't showed up on the IRS website.
> The XXX-acre rural farmland wasn't as valuable as the same space in town when purchased as a lot, but now it holds as many homes as that downtown space used to. Is it worth the same today, relatively, as that space was then?

Yes, they are. It's hard to make a direct comparison, because falling interest rates have caused housing prices to go up, and as people have gained income they have chosen to buy much bigger houses. But the per square foot price of a median-sized new home has been stagnant at the $100-120 range (based on CPI) since 1973: https://donsnotes.com/financial/real-estate.html. And falling interest rates have meant that the monthly mortgage payment per square foot has actually gone down over that time.
Historical trivia: CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) pre-dated CPAN (.. Perl ..) by about 1..3 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAN
Try this: s/men/paypigs/g
100Mbps up as a standard? One can only dream. Comcast's highest residential offer is 1Gbps down (yeah right) and 35 mbps up.

My other option is DSL with Att, a max of like 30Mbps down...
I recall some debate around the oldest buildings, and how (I think) the Ise Grand Shrine [1] is disqualified because it is rebuilt regularly -- for the past 2000 years. Of course, one may resolve this by more carefully defining "oldest building", but this quote by Feynman makes me lean towards a definition that includes this shrine. Who are we to say that some building is different because the atoms of its beams came from different trees, and in the same breath claim individual continuity across decades in the face of this fact about our brain?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Grand_Shrine
I think you quoted the wrong number for Okta's revenue. The first hit on Google said:

> Okta revenue for the twelve months ending October 31, 2020 was $768M, a 43.77% increase year-over-year.
Okta annual revenue for 2020 was $586M, a 46.79% increase from 2019.
Let's make basic internet(10Mbps down/1Mbps up. just throwing out some numbers ) free and anything faster, you can pay for.
Most of Africa would do a whole lot better if their birth rates declined rapidly. They still have huge child mortality rates despite the advances in the west and all the aid that comes from that. These things take time to make their way to all corners of the remote world.
Not to mention all sort of "review" websites where your company is suddenly flooded with extremely negative reviews and you get a helpful call from the website owner being like "hey, I see you got a lot of bad reviews, but don't worry, for only $5000 you can get our premium membership that lets you get them removed".

Ask me how I know.
Actually this is kind of telling with regard to the "brown M&M principle."

The the items in an effort/response validity measure reflect some kind of systematic schema on the part of respondents. It's very non-arbitrary.

The brown M&Ms in contrast are sort of trivial and arbitrary. That is, there's nothing about M&Ms that has anything to do with actual stage safety or management, and the assumption that attention to M&Ms and stage safety are the same is kind of odd.

In fact, one might argue that the brown M&M clause pulls for a sort of cargo cult phenomenon, where people are following something to the letter without regard to deeper principles or understanding of what's important or not.

Sometimes psychological tests do have items that test for random responding, which is maybe more comparable. But even then I don't think it's the same, because it's still item responses that are critical. To me the brown M&M test is like looking at the response time to an initial consent page, and arguing that if that is unusually long the person probably isn't responding to the items per se.

I think there's maybe something to the brown M&M test but to me it pulls for the wrong things. Why not just actually, you know, make sure they abide by the long list of supposedly safety-critical items that you specified? If you as the performer are so sure that they're safety critical, but can't be bothered to check those, and instead rely on brown M&Ms, because it's easy to check in your dressing room, who's the one being lax about the stage?
You can always choose to work and send the child to daycare.

Providing your own daycare instead of working is a lifestyle choice, why does the opportunity cost of that choice have to be shouldered by someone else?
But isn't that a consequence of D "mimicking" C to some extent?

Disclaimer, my compiler background was the Java compiler and its bytecode generation but I would expect both gcc and clang/llvm to have lots of optimization cruft hardcoded for how C programs are written. If you deviate from that, you get potentially less well optimized code.
It definitely is more reasonable for Google, and probably many users too.

But I always liked the idea of never having to worry about storage space and was willing to pay a premium for it.

I doubt that in the end I had more than 100 or 200 Gigabyte stored there, so Google would be a better deal for me even as a fairly heavy user, but I'd be willing to pay that premium for peace of mind.

If Backblaze can offer unlimited backup data for $6, I bet Google could make something similar work for a restricted domain like photos.
Emphasize the principles more.

The one thing I've consistently seen absent in many Scrum attempts is the sprint retrospective. When this is included and is permitted to include not just code/product issues but also process issues, it has worked very well even when they skimped out on other elements of Scrum. But most often the retrospective is absent or the process is not permitted to be included in it. This makes you fundamentally anti-Agile as you literally have a rigid, static process.

The one consistent element that I have found across nearly every reading of Agile I've done and my experiences over the past (now almost 20 professional) years has been that the critical element of agile is its responsiveness and introspectiveness. Lacking those two things you do not have anything that can be called Agile, at best it's an imitation, at worst it's SAFe and you should run fast.

DevOps, Lean, Scrum, Theory of Constraints (realized in software, at least in part, as DevOps) to the extent that they have defined processes they are not the same. But the consistent element is introspection and responsiveness leading to adaptation to the team, organization, customers, and systems being developed/maintained.

This is the critical element missing from many organizations and teams at the time of the manifesto. See Waterfall, any CMMI office. They become static, they delay their feedback loops to extraordinary time frames. Waterfall (may it die a fiery death), in some spectacular failures I've witnessed, had 5 years from start to delivery for customer test, not deployment. CMMI has a strong association with Waterfall (unjust in my opinion), but it still promotes a static process that is only reviewed when it's time for your next appraisal (technically it promotes continuous monitoring and improvement, but like with Scrum everyone ignores it).

It's still a crucial element missing from many organizations who have cargo culted their way into Agile or adopted "Agile" processes (like SAFe, may it suffer the same fate as Waterfall). If your processors ever become truly static, you either found The One True Process (for your team and situation) or you're failing to recognize and adapt to your circumstances.
Not only do most VW brands (Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and Seat) use the same MEB platform, so does Ford Motor Co. That's real scale advantage. Porsche (another VW subsidiary) is an exception. They make their own.
Right, because that other side of the trade is purposefully trading against this bought flow thinking they can earn more opposed to competing with institutionalized investors.
All of the time when I hear that commentary, it has to do with them finding stay-at-home moms unintelligent, petty, vapid.
Had my one and only child at 21 (wife is 10 years older than I am, mind), never once regretted it and my career never suffered (went from a $12/hr tech support job to being a decently paid DevOps engineer over a 4-year time span following our daughters birth).

Am I on a more extreme end of the spectrum? Absolutely, and I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone; but I’m happy with the choice I made.
...That sounds perfectly reasonable?

I don't want questionable preservatives in my pasta sauce, but they probably have their place in MREs.
Great, just what we need... more updates, downloads, and EULA changes.

I am tired of updating everything, and it often leads to rushed/less performant software because - hey we'll fix it soon anyway as long as we meet the deadline right? Or, even worse, like Microsoft openly using customers as beta testers.

Also, anyone notice these days how we used to be excited about buying or getting an "upgrade" and now we get pestered about "updates"... interesting semantic difference..
I don’t buy it. The odds that Baidu only crawls that page immediately after it is connected to by a chinese IP are astronomical.

EDIT: Ah, unless the page containing the link was accessed via a Baidu search. That makes sense.
I think the US (and power nations in general) have a history of reverse engineering the foreign war tech they can get their hands on.
The handling, as in, the reaction once the top officials actually understood the magnitude of the situation, was nothing short of spectacular.

No expence was spared cleaning up the mess, removing top layer of soil at a massive scale and enclosing the failed reactor in sarcofagus. This expence and reputation damage contributed considerably to bringing the end of USSR.

You've got to keep in mind how little was known about lethality and handling of radiation back then, compared to today. In fact good chunk of today's knowledge comes from Chernobyl.
You can't measure thrust in MJ. With perfect efficiency your rocket could produce 5385 N.s of impulse. There is no meaningful comparison between this and thermal energy.

You most certainly can use rockets on levers to turn a shaft and power a generator, it's just impractical and less efficient than the alternatives in most cases. Turbines work on the same principle but can have efficiencies in excess of 90%, far superior to a rocket, and with far simpler construction. That said, there have been proposals to power rotorcraft like helicopters with blade-tip rocket engines. By this point though you are getting very far away from the Aeolipile, which was an ancient steam turbine.
DC's Lost Radio Station Still Transmitting Inauguration Road Closures from 2013
Poverty is not even a mere "attitude problem" in countries with somewhat functional welfare states.
So what do you think would happen if the US military disappeared tomorrow leaving China and Russia as the two big guys? World War 3 for years? How much would change if bitcoin disappeared tomorrow? Probably a stock market dip.
A World Driven by Incentives
I don't understand how your conclusion follows from the graph. That data would appear to indicate the opposite: that regulation had no effect.

The graph shows that vehicle safety improved steadily throughout the entire 20th century, without any sharp discontinuities. The key line is deaths per billion VMT. That is the figure which is invariant to how much driving people do, and which thus accurately measures how safe driving as an activity is. You appear to be looking at "deaths per million people" but that figure is confounded by big changes driven by the economy, which is why the 1970s energy crisis is highlighted on the graph. All you're seeing there is economic change, not change driven by regulation.

If regulation would have actually made a difference then it'd show up in the red line, but it doesn't. Conclusion: the regulation is useless. Private companies were doing fine at improving safety and always have been. And as regulations have costs, that in turn suggests they should be scrapped (zero impact + non-zero costs = repeal).
Ban building new office space in overcrowded areas. Big corps will be forced to build their offices elsewhere, in remote areas with plenty of land, workers will follow and so do small businesses.
> signed a day after the EU contract.

I have been following this quite closely, and this is complete new to me. I would really like to see a source on this, otherwise it should be considered false information.
Not a joke actually. Here's their About Us page https://katharostech.com/about-us
That's not my reading. I think they are saying that models which *can* over-fit the data in both theory and practice, appear not do so when there are in fact generalizations in the data.
It's weird that these books got pulled from circulation in the first place; the offensiveness is relatively mild (especially for the time), and quite a few of these have historical and literary significance (including the very first children's book published under the "Dr. Seuss" pen name).

eBay deciding unilaterally that people can't buy or sell already-printed copies is just icing on the weirdness cake. This is the same website where searching for "minstrel" or "mammy" turns up a veritable smörgåsbord of racist caricatures, and yet some Dr. Seuss books cross the line for them?
China already throw in the big fund back in 2014. i believed they started the big fund II. we'll see how that goes.

>recruiting experts and specialists and designers

they already did that by poaching engineers from TSMC and else where.

>I'd be surprised if a Chinese firm does not reach parity in ten years

that's if the leading foundries just stand still. GlobalFoundries drop out of 7nm. i'll be surprised if the Chinese fabs can catch up in just 10 years.
> Being poor in the US is mostly an attitude problem

This is provably false. Upward mobility, the self made man, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps are all modern myths sold to keep an unjust social order afloat. The poor work harder than the rich, and VERY rarely manage to make it out of the social class they were born into.
> If a service is monetized with ads, then the user is the product

false. The derived data and access to eyeballs is the product. The user is a resource for creating the product.

Some analogies:

- Cows are not the product, milk is the product. Cows are a resource/asset.

- Prostitutes are not the product, sex is the product. The women are resources.

I feel this more accurately dehumanizing than simply stating users are the product.
My wife and I waited too long to try IVF, and at that point, we had only one shot because we hadn't frozen more eggs sooner. (and our once chance was unsuccessful)
Thank you for a valuable contribution to this discussion. Could you explain what is "CH"? Can you link to it?
There's a spectrum of generalization-memorization. The extreme case of memorization is that it would only correctly classify images with precisely identical pixel values to the ones in the training set. When we say that people have "memorized" something, we are still far more general than that. We might key off a few words, say.

The behavior of highly overparameterized networks is basically what you suggest: they will memorize if needed (which you can test by randomizing labels) but will usually generalize better when possible.
I agree as long as China and Russia also eliminate their military down to equivalent levels with unlimited auditability between the 3 countries.
The UK signed a day later than the EU (August 28th vs 27th), but that was the 2nd agreement. They already had one in May last year that legally committed AZ to "a dedicated supply chain for the UK".

The UK contract says the supply chain "will be appropriate and sufficient", and the EU one talks about "best reasonable efforts".

The UK contract gives the power to penalise for non-delivery, whereas the EU one waives all rights to sue other than for bad production practices or wilful misconduct - and even then all it can do is withhold money.

The EU also agreed in regard to other contracts (eg the UK one) that when being "impeded by any such competing agreements, AstraZeneca shall not be deemed in breach".

Given that (plus the AZ vaccine belongs to a UK university and the UK government has been on the decision board for the project since April 2020) it was inevitable which 'side' would go short if production slowed.

(I'm British, but hopefully not too biased)

PS. IANAL, most of the above came from https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-... though I've also seen similar analysis elsewhere.
Also the biggest provider of educational aid for elementary school in Denmark
HN, in the general case, values civility over decency when the two conflict.

I regard it as a fundamental flaw; your mileage may vary.
I think it's important and may explain a lot. The fact that they started looking into this is a good sign.

I've always wondered what the slowdown with having chrome or not was and this could explain it.
Extended support release = 8 weeks? lol
It's likely this license is illegal and/or unenforceable in many jurisdictions. Also, given the craziness contained in it, it's that much more certain. Probably better off avoiding lunacy in the first place.
> Larger house sizes. From a median of about 1000 sq ft in 1950 to 2300 sq ft today.

Maybe it's a California thing, but not so sure about that.

House I grew up in was over 3000sqft and can't think of any friends that had houses smaller than (estimating here) about 2500sqft (in the 70s to 80s). Myself and friends were all lower middle class families. Land and housing was just so cheap then that it was normal.

And yet today, not a single house in this (much more recently built) neighborhood is over 2000sqft. Most of the models are 1300-1500sqft. And of course these houses cost ~40x what my parents paid for the house.
Sorry but I don't trust any nuclear plant in the US to put safety over profits over the long term, especially after all the illogical deregulation done the last 4 years.

There's also already some questions on safety in regards to current plants. They're constantly loosening tolerances and changing the way tests are performed to make otherwise failed tests fall within acceptable limits. Plus the plants are already operating 2x their engineered lifespan. Yeah, no thank you.
Nice to see. I would have hoped to see more of a mention around latency. A lot of tools are sensitive to this and a theoretically fat pipe is not useful if you have 100ms+ latencies.
I don't see anything inaccurate or insulting about referring to people without financial education or experience as commoners in the context of finance.
FWIW, Postgres already has good support for representing and querying graph structures using the LTree extension https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ltree.html
Age can affect this. We didn't freeze my wife's until her late 30s; only 4 eggs were created.
Wait till you see what they are doing to women.
Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously
Ah yes, bender was in the robots file. But we also had a funny X-header. Maybe you can find it in GitHub in the haproxy config.
No tracking is obviously the best choice.

But if FLoC requires the browser to do the tracking itself, would it be possible to fork Chromium, disable tracking, and have FLoC return fake or random data instead?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26343394
Old SGI workstations and the things people make with them....I loved the surplus you could buy in the Vally in the early 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPvIs0I-gmg
Just tested the pure HTML version and was pleased to find out that it does not force a minimum browser width upon the user. I usually set my desktop (1080p) to use a 3-column layout with i3 and am always bothered by the fact that I cannot escape from horizontal scrolling on every search I run on DDG.

I needed to add the HTML version as a new search engine option in the browser options to have it running as default, but hey, it works! Horizontal scrolling is now a thing of the past.
> There are clearly instances where policy is wilfully racist - slavery, redlining, and so on. But even once the system is gone, the repercussions continue until corrective systems are put in place.

I’d argue this has far more impact than poorly trained AI.