skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit changed for the worse when they shifted from community focus to business focussed. There are so many ways that changed the website and everyone will tell you the same. The redesign was the last straw that got me to leave the website. These days the website is packed with adverts, incredibly slow (it takes about 15 seconds to load on mobile) and its packed with an incredible amount of tracking.

The content quality has gone down as well but I can't ever say reddit was known for high quality content.

Also the fact it has so many users has caused its decline. Reddit today has so many obvious shill/advert posts.
Probably the two that I find myself thinking back to most often are Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein), The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim), The Great Shark Hunt (Hunter S Thompson), Several Bukowski short stories and most recently The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (Steven Novella, Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, Evan Bernstein).
In drive&icloud(?) AFAIK, so that would be linked to the owner of the phone at that time.
From what I could find, Canada offers 52 weeks total for both parents. Whereas the Gates Foundation was offering 52 weeks per parent (about twice as good), and is now rolling that back to 6 months plus daycare. So that seems totally on par.

I couldn't find exact figures, but it looks like the Canadian policy pays up to 55% of earnings, and usually closer to 33%. I couldn't find how much the Gates foundation pays.
I think you make it too short. Isn't it interesting that people "like Kissinger and Gen. Mattis", hard and experienced men, allowed themselves to deceived by basically a pair of crooks?
The Periodic Table Turns 150
The dichotomy is poor="interior"=values community vs. rich=coast=does not value community.

> are you saying that they're not true even on average?

Yes, absolutely.
Most people know how meat is prepared. Keep in mind that the worst of what we do still isn't as bad as a typical death in the wild, where animals are either eaten alive by a predator or die from starvation.
Canada can do it because Canada is not the US. In the US, we have too much emphasis on the individual. In other societies, there is more emphasis on the collective. This opinion may not be entirely accurate, but it's worth stating this basic difference.
Well, they lock threads after 6 months, probably to save moderation time. It's always possible for someone to re-create a discussion topic and get new responses going.
Can you elaborate more about the part of being messy? Is it really like the open sourced of lobste.rs with messy code that just works? Also I am sorry for your job experience.
There is 0 substance to that link. How did this hit the front page?
"I suspect that firms have learned to deal with it, but by doing things like passively selecting against women and younger people for critical roles. Is that how they manage? Is that an improvement?"

While that probably happens, in Canada this is parental leave that either parent can take advantage of. I would imagine this decreases the amount of gender discrimination.

It also worked out really well for me. As a father I was able to take several months off after the birth of our twins to help care for them. My wife had quit her job earlier due to a toxic workplace and medical issues.
Google. Shipping Chrome OS.
That’s why it’s parental leave not maternal leave.

Women are usually away longer but it’s not uncommon in countries with long parental leaves to have some part (e.g 1/3) reserved for each parent.

Employers aren’t wary if a 30 year old man is as likely to leave for 6 months as a woman is to leave for 12. Orgs don’t avoid hiring all 30year olds out of fear they might become parents.

Other reforms such as free/subsidized daycare can be needed if you want to help parents return to work after the kid is 1-2 years.
If you're interested in a web app (not downloaded). you could try Redusa. It's still early in development though. It's built in vuejs.

https://github.com/redusa/redusa
A little over a year ago we heard some squeaking and determined that there was a mouse in the apartment. Maintenance set out glue traps, which eventually yielded a terrified wriggling little grey intruder stuck to a piece of plastic. The recommendation was to just throw the mouse in the garbage, but I know starvation is a terrible way to die, so I took it out back and killed it with a knife.

It was not a fun process. I drank a lot of whisky to get up the nerve. It took a few stabs before it stopped moving. But honestly I didn't feel that bad about it afterwards. It's a mouse. When we clear a forest, drain a lake, pollute a river, or build a road, animals die worse deaths, but we don't see it happening. When we reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone a bunch of herbivores were hunted down and eaten by beasts they had never known to exist. I did the best I could to give it the least painless death I could, which is how all livestock are harvested. Other problems weigh much heavier on my mind.
Reddit was a like a bridge between old-school vBulletin forums and nascent 'social media' when it launched; it explains why a lot of newer users find its UI hard to deal with. It never even seemed like they cared about revenue, because they didn't mess with API access for third party app developers, and didn't even have a responsive website until relatively recently.
They bought the best Reddit iOS app and then scrapped it. Although the 3rd party APIs still exist I imagine they will eventually disappear.

It's already frustrating to view v.reddit content in 3rd party apps.
Good questions. People wear lots of hats in startups, and cross-train to avoid bus factors. If someone has highly specialized skills, cannot pass on their skills, and cannot be replaced, they are irreplaceable and the company needs to take other steps to resolve that for its own sake.

Here's the question that answers all of your questions: What happens if that person quits?

And the answer is, the company either adapts, folds, or had plans in place to handle it. Either they were essential and irreplaceable or they weren't.
Just because there's no database doesn't mean a gun can't be connected to an owner. Manufacturers keep records of which serial numbers go to which distributors. Those distributors keep track of which dealers get which guns. Those dealers are required by law to keep a record of who bought what guns. It's not a database query, but it is a few phone calls. And in California (where this happened), all private sales must go through the DROS system. Getting a gun not connected to you requires breaking the law these days.

NIBIN is a database of shell casing toolmarks that can potentially link shell casings found at different shootings together.
One pass is usually good enough for me to know how many minutes I have before I might get soaked. :-)
Large companies have economies of scale and a back bench of qualified labor to step up when necessary.

Small companies frequently lack that - for instance, your team members might share responsibility, but are you sure areas such as payroll, legal or facilities are as generously staffed?

It's in large companies' interests to get such rules instituted across the board, as it raises the costs to enter the market for a potential disruptor.
Ask HN: Is anyone else career-apathetic?
I feel like a shit person. I just can't bring myself to care about having a traditional job. I've worked at startups before and now I work at a corporate job - thinking the stability and change of pace would make a difference. It hasn't. In both cases I end up in the same bottomless pit without direction or motivation.

For lack of a better way to describe it, I just can't function as an 'employee'. I can't deal with having a boss and a manager that I have to listen to. I'm not enthusiastic about being another face in a building working to support some business that isn't mine that I don't really care about. I am polite and courteous to my co-workers, but they don't particularly interest me, and I am not intrinsically motivated to be their 'buddy'. I hate having to deal with strict schedules, mandatory meetings, and listening to people drone on about nonsense to feel like they contributed something. I don't even have the desire to bring up ideas for work anymore because I don't even care if we do them; plus management isn't particularly interested in following ideas that don't come from their own mouths. I feel like being an employee is more like being a child that sits there waiting for their parents to give them chores. I feel like a mindless drone that goes to temporary prison everyday before going to home to loathe to myself until I have to do it again the next day.

I don't know what to do. I'm just not interested in having a career track of working away at a job to maybe get recognized or get a pay bump. I am tired of hating work.

It's not that I don't do the work; I do the work to a quality standard that people appreciate, but it just gives me no satisfaction or fulfillment in return. If I'm just being an asshole, I will own up to it. Maybe it's burnout, depression, indifference, or some other combination. My apologies in advance for the stream of consciousness.

Has anyone else ever dealt with this? What did you do? What was the outcome?
A packfile delta in Git is arguably an implementation detail — a compression technique — not part of the data model.

Git's data model consists of commits, trees, refs and so on. Not patches. You can implement Git without deltas and it will work the same. But in Pijul, the patch is the data model.

The whole idea of Pijul (and the project it was inspired by, Darcs) is that if you think of patches as units of data that fit together using a kind of formalism (usually called the "theory of patches"), you end up with a very powerful system that makes certain things — solving conflicts, figuring out what commits a single commit depend on — super easy. The patch isn't an implementation detail, because you cannot reimplement Pijul without it.
Google Warns Data Privacy Changes Could Hurt Its Business
The examples are complex to follow because Swift model works just fine for all the normal cases. It only becomes problematic in some edge cases that regular programmer rarely meet.

And with all the help that the compiler now provides (even before swift 5), it's becoming really really hard to shoot yourself in the foot.
I've been getting a consistent 10% from eREITs for several years now.
There is also stay at home parents. Somewhere around 20%.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/24/stay-at-home...
... so more than two thousand words into the article, having built up to the title of "assaulted" in the context of casinos (which have a movie reputation of hiring big boys to beat you up for things like counting cards and, apparently, vulnerability disclosure), and being a security guy myself, this is the entirety of the assault:

> When one of the security researchers [approached Jessie at a conference] and introduced himself as the researcher who Jessie had been dealing with, Jessie suddenly lunged at the researcher and violently grabbed him by his clothes on his chest before then tearing his attendee badge away from him, telling the researcher that he didn't need it anymore and that he would keep hold of it.

It was in front of other people, at a conference, and all that the article admits to happening is "grabbing by clothes", "taking his badge", and angry words.

That was not worth my time.
Workers works pretty differently than regular script. The way it is being loaded, how to import other scripts into worker and have it communicate with your main thread (window) is quite a standard on its own, it is just that it happens to use javascript as its language.
Using those numbers, when an SE hit 0% after 9.27 hours of usage, the XR would be at 28.5% (12.97-9.27)/12.97. That seems reasonable and makes my original claim that an XR would be at 40% was a hit high, but in the same ballpark. There’s certainly no doubt that the SE’s battery size and power management doesn’t compare to the current phones’.
I've never thaught about a PM that isn't "involved" and only relies on metrics.

My experience is that PM's are part of the team ( and mostly a senior developer), not part of management.

They translate management decisions to their team and take responsibility for it. They shouldn't live in their ivory tower and not know what is going on.

Their experience gives them insights in developer efficiency issues and can solve more advanced problems.

Sometimes they help program, sometimes they are doing infrastructure ( Eg. Cloud management) or deployments.

They did good in the past and now do something else as a way of promotion and encounter new social aspects in managing a team and deploying a project.

Some should better stay developers and some like the challenge.

And if I interpreted the OP well, he's a promoted developer close to the team. And not a hired worker that thinks he's a PM without Dev experience.
You are making your point by definitional fiat, i.e. poor people are people who pay less in taxes than they take (which is not the implication of the statement in your previous post). But it's not at all clear that most people on low incomes do that. You would have to show it.
The Hero with 1000 Faces, by Joseph Campbell.
My wife started watching that Marie Kondo TV show. I came to realize that there are few possessions I own that I would really be upset about losing.

"Only keep it if it sparks joy"? Yeah, just burn the house down, I'm fine.
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

I'm only a quarter of the way through but it's already giving me vast amounts of insight into the roots of western civilization. It's also equipping me with mental models to analyze modernity and determine where we are in the history of civilization. It looks like we're in the decadent period.

My Struggle series by Karl Ove Knasgaard

An auto-biographical novel that's over 3600 pages for the entire series. It's really just the most accurate literary experience of modern man. I'm finding it quite useful to analyze my own conscious experience through life.
"The Big Change - America's Transformation 1900-1950" by Frederick Lewis Allen. It's a financial history of the first half of the 20th century.

His other books are very good as well, "only yesterday", "since yesterday", and "the rise of the 1%".

This book really helped me see the cyclical nature of economics.
I know a couple of people who permanently negotiated 4 day working weeks after becoming parents. One of them has his daughter at some sort of parent run day care, where each of the parents spends one day a week staffing it, so they all work 4 days (at most) and spend at least one day looking after all the kids.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (I don't know which translation I read).

Imagine the plot of three or four excellent movies woven together. It struck me how little human nature changes over time and across cultures. It also features some fascinating Russian history as a backdrop. As a person who almost exclusively reads non-fiction, it changed my view of how powerful fiction can be. I can't fathom what must've been in Tolstoy's mind to have the ability to create something like this.

Honorable mention to The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

I'd like to learn more about Russian literature - I don't know if it's these authors and books that grabbed me, or if it's something larger.
you know there is an entire industry of recruitment agencies that specialise in interim directors?
the_donald subreddit is basically not allowed on the front page from what I understand
There are plenty of recipes that are made for people that do know the basics, or where the basics are literally factored out separately in the same cookbook. The latter is more common in large cookbooks with fairly deep coverage, the former in ones targetting a more specialized, experienced audience.
And it has zero incentive to use its data other than to sell joining YC to entrepreneurs.
Could you elaborate? I got nothing out of that book when I read it.
The Lessons of History, by W. & A. Durant changed my view on several "big topics" of history and society, such as biology, religion, economics, and war.
Surprisingly few people are actually trying to answer this question on this thread. The answer is straightforward: you either structure your organization so that there are enough overlapping responsibilities to account for parental leaves (e.g. good business practice of not making a fragile organization), or you hire a temporary employee explicitly on a 1 year "parental leave" contract.

The labour market is quite good, and there is no shortage of qualified individuals for almost all positions (CFO, specialists included). Often, a good temp ends up getting another position at the same company after doing the 1-year contract. There is also a small cottage industry of successful individuals who basically take such jobs.

Maybe hard to accept for some, but the world doesn't end when people go on leave to have kids.

It also turns out that most people (that I know) are quite happy to buy into this particular social contract. There is a tacit understanding that you might have to pick up the slack a bit for someone else, but one day you might need the same in return - borrowing against the future is another way to think about it.

Source: Canadian, have worked in organizations and involved in hiring policies where this is successful.
There's also something unsettling about "here's how [countries where the native birth rate is pretty much 0 or 1 babies] do parental leave!" feels a bit like... the women already did half the corporation's work for them.

There's the rub, can you (at a population level) have a birth rate at or above replacement if both parents are expected to find employment outside of the home? I don't think that's realistic.
You might be surprised. The core of the MacOS is nextstep (thus the reason that modern MacOS system functions begin with the prefix "ns") and even the software development tools will feel familiar to modern XCode users.
There is a lot of elegant refinement in modern MacOS, but the bones of it are solidly NeXT.
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I work at a company that does embedded development and our engineers are very age-diverse. The team I am on consists of people directly out of college, people with over 30 years of experience in the industry, and everywhere in between. The last few programmers that we hired were 55+, and they were able to breeze through our interview process and quickly become invaluable members to our team.

I think that older engineers definitely have an advantage when it comes to embedded and other low-level systems development. The Javascript framework that you worked on 5 years ago is now obsolete, but the experience you got writing kernel drivers 25 years ago is still very useful today.
It would be interesting to compare the cognitive load of the Swift way and the Rust way. Rust gives you better guarantees, but you must annotate your code.
Salaries especially for specialist jobs tend to be quite a bit lower in Germany (as is the case in Canada) than in countries like the U.S. or Switzerland which have much less generous parental leave, though. Of course, parental leave is just one variable here, but in a way this is the obvious trade-off: You can have more parental leave and lower salaries, or less parental leave and higher salaries. (The same is true for all other non-monetary benefits of a job such as job protection etc.) On a country-level, both options can work equally well.

Me, personally, I would pick the "more parental leave and lower salaries", but I get that other people might feel differently.

(Edit: This cuts the other way around, too, by the way. Often people in Germany will complain that people across the border in Switzerland -- or in Silicon Valley -- will earn much more, but they ignore that working days are longer, with less vacation time, less parental leave etc.)
That's not actually true.

Also, Michelin gives awards for fine dining, meaning a specific style of service. Any type of restaurant that meets the service requirements can be awarded Michelin stars, there's a Nigerian restaurant in London that's recently been awarded a star.
Every couple of years I reread Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. It is a short read, but it really grounds me and I always interpret it slightly differently based on what is going on in my life.
Siddhartha by Hermann Karl Hesse [1]

It's an outstanding book though I also liked his 'Beneath the Wheel' and 'Steppenwolf' a lot. Siddhartha has an unusual depth for the topic it tackles, namely achievement and meaning. Highly recommend, and the best part—it is free!

[1] https://bubblin.io/cover/siddhartha-by-hermann-hesse
And the potential death of one's career.
I find the front page basically without value...
...but individual subreddits for can be quite valuable global public spaces for specific topics. They're centralized, searchable, and generally don't put any walls in front of non-registered users. A lot of internet searches will lead you to years-old posts on a subreddit dedicated to the subject, with a long discussion thread, and links to more of that same content on that same subject. Forums previously filled this function (and usenet before), but Reddit has the advantage of a more modern and consistent interface. Facebook groups could have potentially filled this role, but are totally opaque to outside searches, and so are not easily discovered.
> I don't understand why this is an example of an unsafe operation. Wouldn't clearly defined behavior of closures clarify the "3 or 4" question?

I believe that it's possible to specify this, and that's basically the behavior we had before SE-0176 was implemented. The issue with this is that it was slower for a dubious benefit (the semantics are obscure and non-obvious), so it was decided that it's just better to disallow this and get the benefit of clear behavior and better optimization opportunities, at the cost of removing this somewhat uncommon and not-all-that-hard to-rewrite-for-clarity pattern.
It’s not the quantity of maintenance that’s at issue. It’s the lack of ability to schedule that maintenance.

GP is talking about unplanned maintenance, which is a huge problem in many industries, like air travel (any transportation, really), or software.
Google should of thought about that before they choose the route they are on. Maybe go back to not being evil?
A company that needs a GC as an employee is no longer a startup
There is this file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vietnguyen91/QuickDraw/mas... (4.5 MB) but github won't preview it.
David Foster Wallace: This is water

It's even more easy to watch the speech itself on Youtube, ofcourse.
There's the rub. Many distributions hardly add any substance, yet the topic is so popular.
From what I've understand, upper management at Walgreens was very skeptical of Theranos but the CEO was very enamored with Elizabeth Holmes and wouldn't listen to anything negative his staff was telling him.
Isn’t a solution to allow parents to work part time instead of being completely off or on?

I feel like most people could still make valuable contributions at 50% time, at least for knowledge workers. Maybe like build up from time off back to full time over many months?
Agreed, the "assault" was a big let down. But it did serve as a good hook to draw more attention to this company's awful security practices and apparent unwillingness to fix them.
So why is it called regression anyway?
Reddit ads at this point seem to be worse than Twitter. Given what they know about people they should be able to target very well, I assume that the inventory just isn’t there.
For what exactly? What would they spend 3 Billion on?
In most countries where parental leave is mandatory, it's the government that pays for it. So no issue then. (Some companies offer additional benefits, don't think it's that much misused or at least the good outweighs the bad since they still do it)
"Don't make me think"