skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anyone interested in the cost of child care and how broken the current systems are, there's been some great work happening in Texas to understand solutions which has been driven by research and feedback from childcare workers, childcare company owners, childcare advocacy groups, and parents: https://pn3policy.org/resources/workgroup-recommendations-to...

I'd recommend reading the linked briefs for a high level overview.
In many cases developer resources are more expensive than hardware or network resources and the decreased efficiency of modern software reflects that.

We can all agree software is not as resource efficient as it used to be on the whole.

Beyond that we’d have to discuss specific examples and benchmarks.
YouTube as a Form of Hard Drive
Hi! Rust Sitter creator here, happy to answer any questions about the project and where it's going!
Maybe he is thinking about "the flattening", but that hasn't happened yet (if it is happening at all). Or maybe this is the flattening. We don't know!
This doesn't match my experience. We've got two young kids. Both went to daycare from an early age (6 months or so). It's been great for everyone. I think there's pretty significant upside to the kids to spending time both with other kids and also with multiple different caregivers. It's also great for us adults to have interests/activities/ambitions (like, a career) outside of the kids. Not saying there are no downsides, but overall we're very happy with the decision.

I'm not saying you're saying this, but there's this fallacy/myth out there that if you don't want to spend 24 hours a day (or all waking hours of the day) with your child and responsible for their well-being, then you're a bad parent or damaging them or something. It's possible to love your kids, enjoy spending time with them, be a great parent, and also find it exhausting or even untenable to be responsible for them all the time.

There's also this idea floating around that people used to raise kids with an extended network of adult caregivers, and that that was good for everyone. That resonates with me. For people who don't have family around to help, daycare has sort of taken that place, for better and worse. (Daycare providers are not faceless service providers -- they become close members of your extended community!) The downsides of this are widely talked about. But I know folks who've had loads of family help ... with significant associated emotional burden.
the fact that the browser extension can have access to shared memory is the root problem though x)
Great point, but then, I went for an art degree before I turned to computer science, so I know exactly what you mean. The act of artistic creation itself is rewarding, in a way very different to looking at art created by someone else.

As a counterpoint, though, I note that I've done some work on language generation and that, too, is something that can engage the user, and can be almost as rewarding as e.g. writing a story. Though that's much more so if the language generator is your own piece of work.

I'll also add that we appreciate artists who develop their own, unique personal style much more than artists who copy those of others. So far, neural net image generators have not been shown capable of creating their own styles, unless of course one considers artifacts of their generation process (e.g. monster hands) as a "style". People severely overestimate the "creativity" of such systems.
I'd call 'hostile media bias' on this one.

I have the same impression about all parties, but with a bias towards liberal politicians instead (without identifying as republican as far as i'm concerned).

Perhaps this in itself is evidence I'm more conservative leaning without realising it. I wouldn't know.

PS: Not an American
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A company that has been hemorrhaging money to push a failed VR and “web 3.0”-verse is laying off people. I never would have imagined this will happen in 1000 years.

I have said this before and will say it again. I will never work for “Meta”/Facebook/Zuckerberg. The company itself is a prime source of division in the United States of America and has the worst business practices and culture.

I will however continue to interview, waste their time, drag my feet, and use their offers to increase my salary offerings at other companies.
Yes, there is already a Rust version (https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p) that behaves well at this level but I think we can reach a higher level of performance on this point with Zig. Also, if you look at the long term roadmap of libp2p (https://github.com/libp2p/specs/blob/master/ROADMAP.md), the mobile devices and IoT integrations for example are part of the considerations.
Hopefully their AI doesn't permanently ban the wrong account.
I'm not saying that and it is unreasonable to imagine that I am.

That said, I have no idea what your second sentence means.
> Cal-Maine’s gross profit jumped 10-fold from one 26-week period in 2021 to the same period in 2022, according to the company’s most recent quarterly financial statement. For the 26-week fiscal period ending in November 2021, gross profits were $50.4 million. In 2022 for the same period, gross profits were $535.3 million.

This is pretty damning especially given the more deadly avian flu of 2015 did not cause prices to rise so significantly.

Collusion of the biggest producers would also explain why the more expensive eggs at the store did not rise as much as the cheaper brands.
Glasses help with focusing, but they don't help if your sensors (retinas) are just degrading.

Putting a very fancy lens on a 0.3MP sensor doesn't give you higher resolution photos.
Are we to agree with you that its clear because your a known expert in the field? Many people don't think its clear, that you can't have more verification without disenfranchising many, many voters. (My grandmother is 90, legally blind and hasn't had a drivers license in 10 years. How is she supposed to show ID to vote?) What is your alternative?
There's a fun little fact most don't know. The typical meme is that modern movies suck, but they're being made that way to pander to "the masses." But the numbers don't support this! When you see headlines like record breaking sales, it's measured in gross revenue. When you actually look at tickets sold, movies have been dying for decades. Here are the data (US only): https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

Peak movies in terms of both tickets sold and total real revenue was 2002. Everything since then has been a rapid decline, paired with lots of inflation and ticket prices going up even faster than inflation. I'd also add that those data don't consider another aspect. Since 2002 the US population has increased by more than 45 million. Seeing ticket sales plummet alongside this is especially telling!

So, while you may personally find what passes for a movie now a days as "more engaging", even "the masses" would beg to differ!
Show HN: Gitlink – Switching Out Git LFS for Cloud Storage
I wanted to share an open-source package I created to help deploy a Git LFS server in a Docker container that can point to AWS or GCP with a single configuration. The project is still in its early stages, so I only have a few of the plugins I want, but it's already beneficial to switch out the Git LFS black blob for S3/Cloud Storage.

I drew inspiration from two excellent projects - giftless and truss - for the project's architecture. Both taught me a lot, and I wanted to build something similar to giftless but contained in an image so that I could more easily move around, test and deploy to different cloud backends without worrying about managing dependencies.

I split the codebase into a plugin architecture that allows you to specify which backends and manipulations to add to a configuration file. Additionally, I had to figure out how to handle secrets better. I opted for a source-drain technique where the config specifies the secret's source, such as Vault or an environment variable, which is then funneled into a "drain" (e.g., a hidden folder mounted on the Docker container). Could this approach be safer than using env vars? I also worked on some deployers and got the ECR upload working, which sends the Docker image to the registry for later deployment on App Runner.

While working on this project, I realized I had inadvertently built a Docker wrapper that could work for any Python API. This wrapper abstracts away Docker, secret management, plugins, and deployment, among others. I could run the build-context command and switch out the API file for whatever I wanted. I'm considering spinning that part out to make it a more API-agnostic tool.

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback. I'd be happy to discuss this further.
I live in one of those cities that regularly makes the best places to live lists. I’m not able to get a spot in a before or after school program for my children, regardless of price. The one child center that serves the school has already filled their slots for the fall.

Seems like this well educated, high income market is still organized around one parent not working full time or a grandparent living nearby.
Are there any benefits for users that tree-sitter is used under the hood? Can we benefit from the killer features of tree-sitter? Namely incremental parsing, fallible parsing, lossless syntax tree, or being embeddable into editors supporting tree-sitter syntax highlighting?
> They got hired for leadership roles. They make big leadership money total compensation. Then, they make business 101 mistakes (don't over hire during COVID under the expectation that the escalated demand will remain permanently forever), then nothing happens to them and they continue making big money. Is that not more or less how this is playing out?

You forgot the part where right before he did all of that, he made Facebook, one of the biggest money printing machines on the planet of its time. Even after all the mistakes, Zuck is still vastly net positive (from a business perspective).
The New New Product Development Game
This is the paper that inspired Jeff Sutherland who cofounded SCRUM. The two Japanese authors described the properties of agile companies' skunk works. Notice, the paper was about green field, new development projects.

1. Built-in instability. "I believe creativity is born by pushing people against the wall and pressuring them almost to the extreme."

2. Self-organizing project teams (scrum team). "exhibits three conditions: autonomy, self-transcendence, and cross-fertilization."

3. Overlapping development phases (iterative sprints). "In the relay-like PPP system, the crucial problems tend to occur at the points where one group passes the project to the next. The rugby approach smooths out this problem by maintaining continuity across phases."

4. Multilearning

5. Subtle control

6. Organizational transfer of learning
If a company claims they're data driven, then they should use data to make choices.

In this case, they'd need to look at the cost. "will my employees being in office perform so much better despite having to drive through an hour of traffic?" I'm not sure how you'd go about this one.

"Will increasing risk of becoming sick be worth the extra productivity increase, assuming there is one?" If there's a 10% increase in getting sick, and the median number of sick days per year is 5, then will 0.5 more days of being sick for every employee be a justifiable cost?

RTO also has all the costs associated with office space, employees to manage those facilities as well. I always hear that building costs are miniscule in the grand scheme of the business, but I never hear the number as a percent of overall costs.

At the end of the day, some attempt to justify the decision beyond "collaboration" is what I personally want. I don't think putting a bunch of introverts in a room together is going to suddenly increase socializing.
The "market failure" is that daycare is a low-margin business that needs to service cash-strapped parents near where they live. The "market" that's been keeping wages stagnant while cost of living, especially cost of land, has been skyrocketing.

That policy wonks are laser-focused on the "market" is the problem. This is one aspect of the capitalism-fueled social collapse.
So who owns it? What happens when you cross countries or state borders?

And if people don't own it, why would they take good care of it?
Well, they still do have to shed some crocodile tears and make a post claiming that they take "full responsibility".

Perhaps the latter could be outsourced to ChatGPT though.
Ask HN: How to give up on my startup
About my situation: I am an ex-FAANG software engineer manager. I recently co-founded a startup as a CTO with 2 other friends. We raised a really big seed round from reputable VCs. However, 6 months into this journey, I realize I am not cut out for it. This is 100% on me and not a reflection of my team/product/vision

1. I have been in the managerial role for too long that my IC output is subpar

2. I made some bad technical/hiring decisions that led to tech debt

3. I cant keep up with the pace and stress.

This is not imposter syndrome. I genuinely think I am not measuring up and holding my friends back.

I think if I can quit to take a year off to recharge and hone my skill, I feel confident that I can go at it again either 1) bootstrap 2) raise a smaller round at a more reasonable valuation. But obviously this will raise all kinds of negative signals if I ever try to raise funding or building a team.

I don't really know what help or advice I am asking for here. So any input would be appreciated. Did anyone go through a similar path?
> a high success rate when getting a response

This is where I think you're undervaluing what's going on with what I said.

Often getting a response is all you ever need. The same is true when going out to a bar or whatever. If a woman finds you physically attractive - you really just need to not shoot yourself in the foot when interacting and it's mostly smooth sailing.

What I'm trying to say to you is: you might think you're not attractive because you're not a celebrity ("I don't stand out") but you're probably quite physically attractive to a certain amount of women. You discredit that because you don't succeed with every woman and you don't think you have incredibly high status or whatever.

You're also in your 40s now but I'm talking about when you were single and younger and how you're using your life experience then as justification as to why men aren't doing well. How you look now is not a reflection of how you looked then.
New Collaborative PCB Design Tool Launch
Is that an Apple thing? I don't remember seeing anything like that in the android Play Store. That would be useful.
then you also need to factor in tax rebates for childcare, which won't cover 100% but it will lessen the impact
> and we had a DNS server where the zones could be updated via SMTP

Interesting — what was the message format (MIME type) you chose to use to describe the zone changes? Actually, were they even patch-files at all, or did you just fetch the zone data file from your DNS server, update it client-side, and then send an updated complete copy back in the body of the email message, to get de-enveloped directly into /var/named?

With the benefit of hindsight, I'm guessing you'd agree that it would have been simpler to use an LDAP directory for service discovery; then you'd at least have a specced-out message format for updates (LDIF) to be sending to the queue. But then, OpenLDAP as a project only got started in 1998, so maybe you weren't even aware of its existence back then, and were stuck on YP/NIS for Intranet directory management (which has no similar useful extensibility.)
> Why would it be done on the aircraft, and how?

Pilots carried a paper performance manual for the aircraft and did the necessary calculations during preflight, I believe - though they stopped doing this because the computerised figures were much more accurate and reliable.
What's the endgame here? It's not clear from the article.

Assuming they're not suggesting that the fetus be removed from the mother, are they aiming to get the mother freed? Are they just aiming to have the mother temporarily moved to somewhere with better healthcare? Are they aiming to make a point about how fetal-personhood doesn't work with many aspects of the law?
> And really, the real number is probably closer to $140k/year, since who would work to just break even on childcare and not see your kids?

Career progression paths tend to yield highly backloaded payoff.
Costs are really out of control. My friends in a relatively low cost of living city (San Antonio, TX) are going to pay upwards of $1200/month for daycare for their soon to be 6 month old, once their family member providing childcare needs to return home. That's essentially an extra mortgage payment in this part of the state. There are also very long waiting lists, so long that my friends are encouraging families to get on waiting lists prior to conception!

This is all anecdotal, but I believe they did their research on this given their childcare needs.
Feels like people have been saying this for years yet nothing has materialized.
Consider what you're actually getting for the price difference and where the extra money goes.
Probably most of it doesn't actually go to the employees, so are you sure that paying more makes any real difference?
There's lots of things to criticize google for, doing fundamental research isn't one of them. I hope the recent chatbot hype + market pressure isn't going to force them to change strategy and drop more R&D in favor of products, though that seems to be what happens historically
Congrats on the launch!

We've been using Depot with Plane (https://plane.dev/). Prior to depot, I had to disable arm64 builds because they slowed the build down so much (30m+) on GitHub's machines. With Depot, we get arm64 and amd64 images in ~2m.
Every – GOFAI is dead – long live (NF) AI
Look carefully. You may be missing something important.

Revisit level 10 for some ideas where to look.
> You'd think the political right would be for a market solution to global warming

My experience is that they take "carbon tax" as only the literal interpretation and opposition to taxes and bureaucracy outweigh everything else, there's hardly a "market solution" in it. Fee and dividend should be more popular, but it gets ignored and eventually won't be enough.
Frankly your tone made yourself sound like an entitled armchair expert, whereas the paragraphs you have labeled as "irrelevant" sound extremely relevant. Why don't you use a few words to explain why you think that paragraph is irrelevant?

Even though he didn't take responsibility I walk away convinced that he's doing a good enough job.
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so in that case, not a failure by leadership whatsoever, it’s actually them doing exactly what they should?
The thing is that the law as written allows them to do just that. If they don't like your content on YouTube, they can punt it instantly. And it can be for ANY REASON. And that's not even including their first amendment right to refuse distributing or listing your content.
Seems like you forgot that Mathematics is a field that has journals and conferences.
But they do.
Espresso isn't easy to get a home or the office. My pour over home setup makes great coffee, but I have to go to a coffee shop if I want an espresso.
> I just think it’s absurd that we expect daycare to be cheap when you are entrusting the most valuable thing in your entire life to strangers.

They aren't strangers if you take the time to get to know them, and their current customer families, beforehand.
I miss flash.
Question: if I stop paying my taxes will the sheriff come with guns and toss me out? How many people want to find out?

This happens with social security and other taxes too, just usually takes a bit longer and they wait until you owe a lot more. The violence is there, it's just under the polite veneer of pay up or get got.
the questions are more important than the answers. there is nothing to give an answer to if there are no questions. If you have a backlog full of questions, its just a matter of figuring out how to get answers to them. there is nothing you can do if you have no questions.
I abandoned my tile and am considering getting an iPhone just for AirTags.

Tile is close to useless for tracking lost items [1] except when it's in you own home. Also, I am very annoyed they try to get you into a subscription model for sending you replacement batteries, but also for app features that have no business being locked behind a subscription. Juicero, anyone?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wefUV_bR0Y&t=83s
Again, there's a whole book that you could write about this topic, and a single comment in an HN thread is not going to do it justice, not even in summary.

The CIA may act as an agent for implementing right-wing policies, but if you're trying to explain CIA behavior, you would use a variety of both ideological and pragmatic explanations. Anti-modern art movements have close ideological ties with fascism and authoritarian beliefs, which can be far-left or far-right.
I have been thinking about similar problem. I have a few TBs of hard drives lying around my house. And I have 180GB of photos in my iCloud. Instead of paying iCloud, can I compress my photos and save them in my hard drive.
Next up: people whining because crooks use AirTags to stalk them and Apple isn’t doing enough to stop it
Wouldn't you prefer to hire contractors to fill short-term demand and transition them to full employees if the demand ends up being more robust than expected?
Have you seen those, though?

The "sender" name is always "Text me on telegram (hand-emoji) @channel_name" and the text of the body is always the same. This has been going on for months now, in some channels.

This is something that pg's 2002 Bayesian filter would very easily catch. http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
They're barely even related. It's like the difference between, on one hand:

a) studying the structure and functions within fruits, and similarities in structure and functions between different types of fruits, and on the other hand

b) ranking fruits by how tasty they are when made into pies, and closely inspecting them in order to find their intrinsic pie potential.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230222164232/https://www.wired...
Well, that and the general impact of rent control.