The cost of raising a child in America has soared (2018)

The cost of raising a child in America has soared (2018)

Child care has become one of the most expensive costs that a family bears. Yet despite the costs associated with having a child, many parents report overall satisfaction with their marriage and family life. Considering the high costs of having of a child, coupled with the tension in balancing family-work life matters, states and companies are starting to invest in family support policies, parental benefits and competitive education.

Source: www.marketwatch.com

Digitaljs, digital circuit simulator in browser

Digitaljs, digital circuit simulator in browser

Under is a list of all devices forming the circuit, represented as an object, where keys are (unique and internal) device names. Example device:

Under is a list of connections between device ports, represented as an array of objects with two keys, and . Example connection:

Under is a list of subcircuit definitions, represented as an object, where keys are unique subcircuit names.

Source: github.com

RailCar: Rust Implementation of the Open Containers

RailCar: Rust Implementation of the Open Containers

For more information on the development of railcar, check out Building a Container Runtime in Rust

Building can be done via build.sh:

By default, build.sh builds a dynamic binary using gnu. You can specify a different bundle directory where your config.json is located with -b:

can be used as a backend for docker. Currently, does not support the following commands:

Also, always runs an init process separately from the container process.

Source: github.com

Scientists discover new way to provide plants the nutrients they need to thrive

Scientists discover new way to provide plants the nutrients they need to thrive

Scientists discover a new way to provide plants the nutrients they need to at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a new method for delivering key nutrients to plant roots – without having to ensure they’re present in the soil where the plants are growing. This method, described by researchers in detail in a new academic paper, would manage to improve efficiency to nearly 100% absorption of nutrients and pesticides delivered as nanoparticles (particles smaller than 50 nanometers across – a human hair is about 75,000 nanometers wide, for context) sprayed onto the leaves of plants, which then make their way through the plant’s internal vascular system all the way down into the root system. It would be cheaper to delivery all nutrients and pesticides, too, because the big bump in efficiency of uptake by the plants means you can use much less of anything you want to deliver to achieve your desired effect.

Source: techcrunch.com

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in SF or ATX: Must Love Food

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers in SF or ATX: Must Love Food

ZeroCater has successfully launched our core product, Managed Catering, into 6 markets and are excited to offer Snacks + Beverages to clients in San Francisco. With our $12M in Series B funding, we plan to expand Snacks and Catering nationally to new enterprise and Fortune 500 clients. ZeroCater is changing a $169 billion industry and continues to sustain year over year growth.

Source: zerocater.com

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

Like many AI researchers, Nord is also concerned about the impenetrability of results produced by neural networks; often, a system delivers an answer without offering a clear picture of how that result was obtained. Quantum physicists like Roger Melko of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the University of Waterloo in Ontario have used neural networks to solve some of the toughest and most important problems in that field, such as how to represent the mathematical “wave function” describing a many-particle system. Whether Schawinski is right in claiming that he’s found a “third way” of doing science, or whether, as Hogg says, it’s merely traditional observation and data analysis “on steroids,” it’s clear AI is changing the flavor of scientific discovery, and it’s certainly accelerating it.

Source: www.quantamagazine.org

On Ocracoke Island, the only American dialect that is not identified as American

On Ocracoke Island, the only American dialect that is not identified as American

Located 34 miles from the North Carolina mainland, Ocracoke Island is fairly isolated. For several decades, he dropped out of sight, only to reappear in 1759 when he bought Ocracoke Island for £105 from a man named Richard Sanderson, a justice and later a General Assembly member in mainland North Carolina. Even today, things are a bit different for the island’s 948 residents than on mainland North Carolina.

Source: www.bbc.com

D is being used for autonomous driving research – Audi and Mercedes

D is being used for autonomous driving research – Audi and Mercedes

As Laeeth says, could you let us know whether it would be ok to add a mention to AID to the Dlang website? On Tuesday, 18 June 2019 at 19:05:05 UTC, Dragos Carp wrote:Thank you very much for sharing.You work at AID? As Laeeth says, could you let us know whether it would be ok to add a mention to AID to the Dlang website?

Source: forum.dlang.org

Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than 4,500 gallons per day

Longest-running oil spill in history releasing more than 4,500 gallons per day

(Gerald Herbert/AP)
Darryl Fears Reporter focusing on the Chesapeake Bay and issues affecting wildlife

June 24 at 10:00 AM
The federal government’s first study of the nearly 15-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico estimates that up to 108 barrels per day — more than 4,500 gallons — is flowing from a site where an oil company’s platform and wells were destroyed during a hurricane. Even one of the federal report’s authors — Ian MacDonald, the Florida State professor — estimated that nearly 150 barrels, about 6,300 gallons, spilled from the site that Taylor Energy once leased in an underwater canyon 12 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The study concludes that the oil and gas releases at the site are coming from multiple wells, contradicting Taylor Energy’s explanation that it’s rising from oil-soaked sediment.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called ‘Overlord’ to Spy on Users

When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called ‘Overlord’ to Spy on Users

During the social network’s heyday, multiple Myspace employees abused an internal company tool to spy on users, in some cases including ex-partners, Motherboard has learned. While the tool was originally designed to help moderate the platform and allow MySpace to comply with law enforcement requests, multiple sources said the tool was used for illegitimate purposes by employees who accessed Myspace user data without authorization to do so. Even though social media platforms may need a tool like this for legitimate law enforcement purposes, four former Myspace workers said the company fired employees for abusing Overlord.

Source: www.vice.com