skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting factoid is that Nanny share, split 3 ways, costs the same, or less, than daycare. The only disadvantage of nanny shares is the unreliability, when one family drops out the other families have to work hard to fill the vacancy, which involves doing what amounts to personality interviews.

New daycares, at least in Seattle, also have huge costs associated with property. Basically the majority of existing home based daycares have been around for awhile, since land prices prohibit opening any new locations. E.g. buying a "house" for daycare would cost $4000 a month in mortgage payments at minimum, which sort of ruins the finances. Lots of exceptions and such of course to quibble over, but after spending over a year looking at daycares, very few new locations are opening.

Figure 4k a month, at 15 kids, is $266 of the expenses.

Labor is of course the main problem, but labor costs are high because living in cities is so expensive, and that is expensive largely because housing is expensive.

When touring daycares I like to talk to the child care providers one on one w/o management there, and I always ask how well they are treated. Universally they have said that the large chain locations treat workers badly, and that you also get what you pay for with the higher priced providers, workers who are paid better (but not great), are also treated better, stay around longer, and burn out less.

> GONZALEZ: You need one teacher for every four infants, at least.

Infant care is obscene. This is where long childcare leave can help, if parents both have 6 months off at 100% salary, that gets the kid through the first year, after which childcare becomes a lot more reasonable.

There is another huge drop off in complexity at 18 months, but I don't see a good way of getting families to that mark. Lots of daycares do 18m+ because the logistics are just way simpler.
> by 2001 virtually all new software you bought at retail would require you to have one.

Yeah, but a piece of consumer electronics requiring someone to own a computer produced in the last five years (as a Firewire Mac would have been at the time) is a surprising choice, and especially so in that era. The majority of scanners and printers produced in 2001 were still parallel-port driven, because peripheral companies couldn't be sure that most people even had a computer with USB1.0 support yet. Windows XP was CD-only, but Windows 2000 still had a floppy-disk edition!

I wasn't really implying that Apple forced the spec of "a Mac with Firewire" in order to guarantee access to a CD-ROM drive; but it certainly did help, in the sense that if they had supported USB (or god forbid, parallel) from the start, and perhaps Windows from the start, then there would almost certainly have been people who bought an iPod for use on their Pentium 120 (like the one I was still personally using in 2001!), only to belatedly realize that they had no way of getting music onto their PC in order to then offload it onto the iPod.
Like all claimed QC breakthroughs, best to wait for Scott Aaronson's response on his blog.
Meta loses bid to toss $175M verdict in streaming patent case
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34866808
Global warming will definitely lead to mass extinctions.

But the opposite does not work that way.

Even the most optimistic outcome with the lowest amount of warming, or even none at all, will be accompanied with a drastic change in habitats around the world.
I completely agree. There is an assumption of one or the other and not enough childcare supply to meet the true demand of two working parent communities.
Exactly.

Layoffs aren't a bad thing.
That's really disappointing to hear. I stopped using One Medical because I moved out of the country. I loved One Medical and was thinking about moving back to it this year now that I've returned to the US. Good to know that it's not a good idea.
> I imagine for a lot of people they, unknowingly?, subscribed to a lot of things they don't end up caring about

Driven largely by being forced to give an email address for almost any online interaction/transaction, and then being automatically placed on a subscription list with no notice or opportunity to opt out. I thought that had become illegal, but either I'm wrong or there's no enforcement. (I suppose the fact that I don't know how to report these offenders indicates why enforcement might be low.)
> The company itself is a prime source of division in the United States of America

Devil's advocate but why don't you see Facebook as a blank canvas where people can post whatever they want, and it's the people posting the dividing content responsible?

Facebook is just the medium, no? Could be Reddit, could be Twitter. Why are you holding Facebook responsible in your mind?
hehe I'm literally in the middle of your actual hiring challenge with "Fix the Glitch" 6pn networking. But I've hit a wall with it. Maybe I'll switch over to these :)
The ones I've seen post Telegram handles and ask people to send a message.
The big reuse: 25 MWh of ex-car batteries go on the grid in California
I am just curious, is this a hypothetical or do you know of many people who actually made the explicit choice to break even working, just to have continuity of resume?

It smells a little like BS to me, both because it seems to be often repeated (so sounds like a talking point) but I can't imagine any parents I know to actually decide this way
Wow, you’re so cool.
When was the last time a "torrent case" even went to court?
Children are not in daycare for their parents' entire lives. Once children reach kindergarten, many public school systems provide after-school care for working parents that is significantly cheaper than private daycare. Some provide before-school care as well, but usually schools time their starts to community work schedules.

If you make just enough to pay for childcare now and decide to, instead, leave your job to spend time with your children, you are giving up some number of years of professional job growth. When you return to the market, you will likely not have grown your skills and will most likely enter around the same pay level as when you left. If you stay in the market, you will have spent that money on childcare, but you will now most likely have grown your salary through wage increases and job transitions.

In addition, while you may be giving up some time with your children during their early years, they also gain substantial growth with their peers and outside influences which may help them as they grow older.

My wife and I made this choice with our children, and that was what the heck we were doing. Childcare was expensive, but we knew it had a time limit, and when our children finally entered public school, we were substantially better off than if one of us had left our jobs. We feel the experience for our children was great as well, considering they still speak fondly of their pre-K experiences.
If they don't like your content on YouTube, they can punt it instantly. And it can be for ANY REASON

Certainly. But Section 230, at least from my reading, does not protect them for the promotion of content. I could be wrong about that. The Supreme Court will decide. Personally I'd find it delightful if the rage-engine got smashed with a legal hammer and my Youtube recommendations were as useful as they were fifteen years ago.
It’s a social failure that we put the cost of caring for very young children exclusively on the shoulders of their young parents. As a society, we collectively pay for the healthcare of old people as a shared burden spread across our whole lives. We do the same for care of children ages 6-18 via public schools.

You have kids age 1-6? Tough shit, pay up.
In markets without regulations, disreputable daycare will straight up sell children. Doesn't quite qualify as "hilarious" in my book.
Everyone wants to work for a FAANG and be a cog in the machine. Now that tech is shedding people left and right perhaps the picture is starting to become clearer.
> entertainment is in for dark, dark times

Sadly, I share this pessimism. It's why I've started collecting DVDs of movies that I know I'll want to see again. Mostly used, because so many aren't even available on disc anymore.

I see the day coming when these movies will simply be unavailable to me, and so need I need to archive them myself.
> librarians would close new questions I was in the middle of penning a non-trivial answer to because they'd misunderstood what the user was actually asking

By the way, if you don't want your answer go to waste in this situation and the question was on-topic, you could open your own question (reword the original question if it wasn't clear) and then immediately self-answer it.

About half of my questions are self-answered. Many because I found a solution before anyone else answered. Some because I found a solution while preparing a question but didn't submit it yet (this happens quite a lot to me). Some I even planned as self-answers from the beginning, when it took me a lot time to find a solution an issue that wasn't on SO yet. All of those questions were well received.
One of the first challenges was the Zeran v. American Online case where a business owner was harmed but was never able to compel AOL to provide the identity of the person creating the harmful content. Forcing platforms to provide identity information in pursuit of legal action would allow action against the formally anonymous poster. As it stands today, an anonymous person (or botnet) can post whatever they want with no fear they will be exposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeran_v._America_Online,_Inc.
How do I get continuous deployments without k8s? I value being able to deploy new code quickly, easily and fearless, especially in high speed low drag environments like startups. I don't see how I can do GitOps like workflows with any other tools that have the same large mindshare and breath of commercial, managed offerings.
I seem to recall typically being able to buy major CDs in the $14 range in ~1995, but the expensive stores (Tower Records) charged $18.99 and up which is very clear in my mind. That's more than $37 in today's money.
Excuse me sir... that language is simply inappropriate here!

The fact that a lot of this output is almost complete inscrutable means you have to build a tool or something to translate it from that back to something a human can quickly read/grasp... and translation mistakes can happen there too :/
Might take about 10 minutes to migrate your mouse from one corner to the other!
What I meant by bespoke can be illustrated by thinking about an example...

Why are we still hand writing HTTP JSON APIs out of base language primitives in 2023? You can generate correct docs and a skeleton implementation in with JSON Schema and Open API for example. Why spend weeks-months writing endpoints + validation code + docs, when you can define a JSON Schema in slightly more time than it takes to discover what the PM wants to build. You can take it a step further and add the validations to the JSON column in your datastore and now you're correct all the way to the DB.

I feel similarly about most folks who think they can write a better queue than their favorite cloud platform (eg AWS SQS) . Just use the tools that you can buy for pennies on the R&D dollar. The reason a team cannot compete with that is due to amortization. AWS can amortize the cost of development and maintenance across 1000s (millions?) of customers.

This is what I mean by writing bespoke software. not sure if that lines up with everyone else's interpretation.
"says the jail staff has endangered the fetus by refusing proper prenatal care and putting her in situations like the incident in the inmate transport van."

"That would require Harrell to be released until the child is born, the writ argues."

I'm inclined to believe that the lawyer really does have the child's best interest at heart, and anything they're asking for that helps the mother is really intended to help the child.
What you are proposing is adding bureaucracy and red tape. The government has billions of money and they can afford many people doing various checks and compliance work; do you want to work for the government?
How many nine-month-olds were among that group?
I think "service" is the key word here: I have an RX 580, and while it's kind of an incredible card in its longevity, it's really creaky at 1440p even with older games.

Performance per watt has really come a long way since GCN.
Big fans of Depot here at Wistia, keep it up!!
Scary that the path Elon Musk showed is being followed almost to the T.

- Efficiency by cutting staff as much as possible (even after promising 'no more')

- Subscription service for verified accounts.

Next - Bankruptcy declaration?
I'm not sure why anyone takes any statement from management at face value. Of course every layoff is the last one..until it isn't.

The same goes for M&A - "Nothing will change"..until it does and "We're a family"..until you're not.

Once you've been around the block a few times, you learn that taking these statements at face value is a recipe for disappointment and being proven wrong. Just nod, give a "sure buddy," and hold your cards close. Min-max your plays and understand the difference between words and actions.
The article even treats an Elizabeth Gilbert quote as though she invented memetics, a claim she would never make.

It's an incredibly shallow and ignorant pastiche of pop-culture science-like voodoo nonsense of the Carlos Castaneda/I am Ishmael type.

Fun conversation to have at 2 AM while drunk at an undergraduate party but pure cringe in the context of a published blog entry.
Sinatra.

You want something more than Wordpress and less than Rails? Sinatra.
That must be a NYC thing, none of the childcare options we looked at asked us to pay to be on a waitlist.
"The petition by attorney William M. Norris says the “unborn child” is innocent and should be discharged from jail so it can receive proper care. That would require Harrell to be released until the child is born, the writ argues."

"Without proper care, though, Norris said he fears the fetus will be harmed before or during childbirth."

"In 2018, Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that all pregnant defendants should be granted habeas corpus and allowed to await trial at home."
I go through ~18 eggs/week. I already bought better eggs though, so the price increases have not been as noticeable.

Something I will notice is when my local grocery stops selling chicken breasts for $1.99/pound. I'm surprised they haven't upped the price every time I'm in there.
This really needs examples. There's a single one on the homepage but that's all I could find.
> There are not high prices in the part of the bay area around San Jose or in in Southern California

I haven't been paying close attention but I haven't seen big price fluctuations in San Francisco. Several weeks ago there were "limit 1 per customer" signs on egg cartons but that's about it. I volunteer at a food pantry in SF and we were giving out free eggs in that peak shortage time, which I think has passed; we often had extras when finished, though they are normally a popular item.
There are clearly internal incentives to not pay taxes in local jurisdictions. Till there are penalties or clawbacks for employees or tax advisors this will go on all the time. Obviously small countries are routinely ignored and their only choice with tax evaders is to ban them outright.
obnoxious pay to win items in garbage pvp games definitely cater to this
It honestly wasn't during this period. in 2001, computers did not last as long as they do today, with performance doubling often every year to 18 months. Ask anyone who lived this period - by 2001, virtually everything had CD-ROM. If you didn't have CD-ROM in 2001, you literally couldn't buy or run most software, and again, CD-ROM had been standard in most pcs since around 96/97.

For what its worth, Microsoft Office 97 was last version to come with floppy disk release alongside the CD-ROM (46 floppies too...). That tells you a great deal about the state of CD-ROM in the late 90s. Office 2001, CD-ROM release only. There are many other examples you can point to. The PC game industry was ~100% CD-ROM or optical media in 2001 too.
Now THAT is a market failure. Create a company staffed with parents who have a gap in their resumes. Pay them slightly less than market rate. In theory, that should be very profitable. In practice there are too many confounding issues and I doubt this would be successful, although I do think the companies can do quite well by disregarding explainable gaps in one's resume.
What is going on with the comments here? I've never seen such blatant comment spam on HN before.
There are hacks like "everything in a huge global object", and technical debts like "no unit tests for internal detail and no detailed software structure documentation until we know which code is actually worth to maintain".
I know Elon Musk invented many things, including batteries, electric toothbrush and tiramisu, but he didn’t invent layoffs.
With all due respect, you sound like someone who doesn't have children. Most of the argumentation for "parents should stay at home and care for their kids" is based a different world to the one we now live in - a throwback to times where we lived in small communities and child raising was more a group effort with grandparents and relatives helping out.

Today 56% of the worlds population lives in cities. That means childcare is essential for socialising a child.

A child at home with a parent until kindergarten is probably going to spend the first 4 years of their life in a small apartment with one adult, bearing in mind that many young parents are generally not well off. This is not healthy situation for the child or the adult.
How long until WaPo is categorized as relevant as the grocery store checkout isle tabloids?

It's like they made up some drama out of thin air without even caring that it contradicts their own "journalism". How does a once professional news outlet turn into this? Is this really what people want?
The problem isn’t the definition it’s that companies want the common carrier status without actually acting like one. The phone company doesn’t editorialize and we would think it insane if they started doing so.
For GPUs startups can now leverage serverless GPU cloud providers: https://ramsrigoutham.medium.com/the-landscape-of-serverless....

Much simpler than setting up K8s with scale-to-zero autoscaling nodegroups.
The government can step in to fund areas that shouldn't be a free-for-all market. Parents struggling to pay for childcare is the government saying a parent's job is to stay at home if they can't cover childcare.

It's a big issue in the UK and likely to be key in the next election as prices have gone sky-high.
Congrats on the launch!

Sorry to ask this silly question, but since your team is an expert in the "fast Docker images" area, could somebody avoid the traditional `docker build` with say NixOS or Bazel and achieve the same results as Depot (aka, fast building with the output being an OCI/Docker image)? Is that what Depot is doing at a high level? Was this considered?

> Our CLI is wrapping the Buildx library

I'm surprised you're able to build Docker images faster than Docker using their code/libraries?
They are trying to make a fetus get the same rights as a person in an effort. It's an attempt to open up another front on the pro-life:pro choice front opening up.
Great project!

I'm curious about the set of available parser annotations. I went through the list but I didn't see anything which allows for optional elements. One example would be dangling commas. Did I miss it or are there plans to support such constructs?
All (or most) of the above, hopefully.

If fetal personhood made any sense at all, it would have been introduced at some point in the last 6000 years of human civilization, and not invented a couple of years ago by the Republicans. Arguments like this serve to highlight both the impracticality and the sheer goofiness of the idea.
Because anyone who has ever worn a mitten has probably already figured it out.
that is pretty much what Musk did with twitter - and he was vilified for it.
Nah, it's no big a deal, its not like cambridge analytica will happen again. They're just using your data to train AI. Who knows may be based on the way you comment, you may get suggestions on which medication you need, or if it's time for the Redbull/starbucks coffee. Nah, all is good. Nothing bad will happen in allowing companies to scrape comments and build models. They're very ethical.
In fact, people here are suddenly not so concerned that the model is not open. There is no oversight on how data is being used
They are just proud to get answers from a text generator.
Moreover, it’s generally accepted as a standard part of economics that the market only ever begins to fix things (be efficient) when property rights are enforced, barriers to entry are few, and transaction costs are low.

It’s not clear that “aviation” manages more than about one of those items.
I am talking mostly about replacing the ugly cut-off at the top with a "smaller hole" instead, not really caring about any software functionality from iPhones.
It really is too bad that you decided to start our relationship on such a petty note (I would also humbly submit that the optics aren't especially good, in a professional venue).

I suspect that we could have actually found a lot in common.

In my experience, I have found friends in the most unlikely places.
They can regulate all they want, this is still a popular and often necessary option.
Agreed with just one comment:

> The way Meta is operating is if they don't know anything beyond two feet in front of them.

Have they had to up until now? Some of these social media companies have had money printer business models for their whole existence, and now they actually have to consider long-term consequences of their actions.