skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This Freakanomics episode is what got me thinking about this: "Why do we really follow the news" (http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-do-we-really-follow-the-...).
It seems very odd to me that parental leave is paid for by companies and not by taxes/society. It completely messes up incentives.

Should it really be the case that if you're unemployed when you give birth that you have go a significant time without work?

Or if you start you 1-year leave 5 weeks into a new job that the company has to pay you for a year?
Probably through your lawyers.
This book was extremely influential to me and changed my outlook. If you’re reading the book and sense insincerity, I’m not sure how to address that beyond encouraging you to read it with a lens that it is completely sincere.

Since reading it, I have been amazed at how unclear many people communicate. They say things to express some basic emotions - anger, frustration, etc - but so many people do not express in clear terms the root of this feeling.

In your example, the woman does indeed want the boyfriend to stay at home. But saying you want someone to do something, at a minimum, doesn’t explain why you want that. It also doesn’t give them much recourse to either object, or come up with alternative solutions.

I’d be happy to discuss it more!
How to make a decision when you are uncertain of what to do, Ben Franklin style
"Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered" by E.F. Schumacher.

Completely changed my mind on economics, how it relates to people, and what fulfilling work is. I can't recommend it enough.
A lot of people are mentioning tracking, etc..

I think another major reason is that if someone is seeking to amuse themselves then in a browser they're as likely to skip over to another website; whilst in an app there's a mental barrier to that. I imagine people are more likely to change and view another subreddit, rather than jump to another website altogether.

There's a censorship angle too, wherein the app operators get greater control over the message their users receive than do website operators.
Yes, that is also true, and my father-in-law readily admits that he was simply misusing the tool in a very dangerous way. I believe he was starting with 2"x2" bar and cutting off a 2" segment. The fence should not have been on the saw for this, and a sled would have been ideal.
God no.

I'd much rather pay like $15, $20, $30...

$1 isn't going to cover it. $1 is maybe 1 or 2 really good CPC. I am not going to attempt to use all of the acronyms but $1 is still within the range of still needing more revenue.

I'd much rather pay a large amount and have a definite "this money will make us not sell your data" than a "a $1 donation means we won't show you ads".

All of that said, I am extremely doubtful any large company would abide. Most would take the $15+ and continue doing what they're doing.

In my opinion, it's not about needing to cover costs and make a tidy profit. It's a complete failure of how tech companies are valued. They are expected to "eat the world" and therefore, their revenues have to continually climb. There is a dearth of "good enough" in tech companies.
It's a function of population growth. A sucker isn't born every minute anymore, it's more like four every second.
> This isn't the Soviet Union, nobody's going to give you a medal for that.

I don't want a medal. That's why I think it's ridiculous that some countries mandate private companies pay me money to do it.

> This is questionable in the era of global warming. Both society as a whole and maternity leave as a policy rely on very few people having a lot of children.

Sure, but it lets us be leeches on the system, which is something most welfare states should seek to minimize. One way to minimize this is by not offering this benefit. Another way to minimize it is to adopt programs encouraging people to make certain reproductive decisions. In the interest of minimal coercion, I'd think the former was better.
Really easy to rip this out. Some of the greensock demo libraries were designed to break except on certain domains, I remember I thought those were pretty clever. Also if the code is server-side rendered and you withhold the source it makes it even harder.
Re: "why so costly", the answer as to what phenomenon affects the US and UK but not other western countries. It pretty much has to be neoliberal/Reagan/Thatcherism; in particular, the suppression of wage growth through anti-union measures and excessive privatisation.

Arguments around "drained value" would have to say where the value is being to; real estate?
No, it can't. And you're missing the point of why we're doing this. Such kind of tracking is powerful not because it helps you keep track of what happened, but what could happen. There are patterns that humans can't easily discern that correlate with everything from ovarian cysts to endometriosis --- detecting the problem early on, gives people a better, longer life in the long run, and prevents potentially fatal complications in the case of pregnancy.

What you're saying is exactly like a logistics company saying - why should we enter our logs into this computer? What's the point? A pen and paper seem to work just fine... We all know how that story turned out. This story is playing out with women's lives instead of efficiency points/dollars in the global economy (though at some level it does map to do that as well), and real people are suffering as a result. They deserve better.
A neat way of getting a high-level view of current events (news) is the wikipedia page. The headlines here change much less frequently that most news-outlets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

It's also more of a log of what's happened instead of political headlines.
Pretty privilege is real.
There is a difference between saying things like women are worse employees or don't deserve same rights as men and being put in position to choose between being sexist when hiring and putting someone's else children above well-being of your family. I hope you can understand the difference.
> It's crazy to think someone could be employed somewhere 7 years and only work 3.

Alternative take: It's humane to think that someone who had four kids wouldn't lose their job because they had four kids.
We prefer both :)

We've seen amazing adoption on the EdgeEngine product, it just serves a different purpose than full on Containers and/or VM's at the Edge.

The ability to run a container/VM at the Edge enables the ability to run more complex workloads outside of scripting in a CDN like delivery pipeline.
So open season on Atrient?
The Hidden Life of Trees
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discove...
Biophotonics: In situ printing liquid superlenses
The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky

Studying and playing poker in high school changed how I thought about problems of incomplete information and how to gather the most information possible to make a decision. This book, in particular, for introducing The Fundamental Theorem of Poker and its use and application, gave me tools of reasoning and analysis of complex problems that I have built on and still use to this day.
> Agree, but it isn't like OSes also don't change their API space or behaviors.

They change, but more slowly with better backward compatibility, but more important is when they change. In a corporate environment they might update the OS once a decade and on a schedule you control which is much more manageable than relying on a layer that updates itself every 6 weeks.

> Unless one only cares about fossilized UNIX and Win32.

You say that like stability is a bad thing.
Well, I know one-person teams who implement individual features in a browser. Maintaining a fork, on the other hand, takes a much larger team.
And here I thought this was going to be something about enforcing some exclusivity of swift to apple devices...
Another provision of the article limits its scope to services that "organise and promote" user-posted/uploaded content "for profit-making purposes".

The 3 criteria you quoted then further narrow which of the services matching the above provision need to deploy upload filters.

Come to think of it, the pastebin-like site is actually already excluded by the "organise and promote" criterium, regardless of whether it's profit-oriented or not.
I suspect you were fired for trying and using the vulnerability (which you no doubt did merely to confirm your suspicion of it) rather than for bringing it forward, which merely provided the evidence for the reason for firing.

Though you probably would have done better to report the problem through the state authorities overseeing the contractor (or the general government oversight agency, like th Bureau of State Audits in California) rather than the contractor, to whom your report was a threat of revealing their poor performance.

If nothing else, a report to responsible state authorities would be less likely to meet with someone with an incentive to sweep it under the rug (especially a general oversight body) and would be more likely protected by whistleblower protections, which most states have in some form.
> As for patch vs snapshot, that's arguing at the implementation level

??

Thats the core of any version control system, namely "what exactly am I versioning?".

For anything beyond the trivial use case (and "trivial uses" probably encompass a large majority of all usage of version control systems, so thats not to be sniffed at), this fundamental difference of "what am I versioning" impacts, well, everything.

For one thing, dealing explicitly with patches rather than snapshots means you can almost have ad-hoc branches, on the fly, AFTER the fact (ie: you only realised you wanted to separate out some commits long after you actually did them).

You can't do that with git, where every "patch" is really part of a linear series of commit where the parent of each is hardcoded into the commit blob.

Not without rewriting the history. Or revisiting the past, in the future (by writing undo commits, and branching after). Or however you want to do it.
Putting the R in D
Risk = Probability * Consequence

I don't think he (or she!) is saying that the consequence is low, just that the risk of suffering that consequence is low enough to outweigh it.
Yeah, it's cause of the way their crypto works, you encrypt the next message with the hash of the previous or something of the sort. Somebody stored it in plaintext for the desktop version, and I believe it's a SQLite DB so it was easy to discover... It sucks, I wish they had at least encrypted it with a pin at the minimum or something? Maybe Yubikey might make sense for Signalin the desktop not sure.

Also the messages are stored in plaintext:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1017

They say it's a non-fix cause you can use full disk encryption, and honestly that's what I do anyway, so I'm not as bothered.
But you're making assumptions and predictions based on nothing. If someone leaves, they leave. If they come back, they come back. Male or female. Makes no difference. You can't control it. You can't predict it.

You imagine a level of control that you simply don't have.

Conversely, there is a net benefit to society that simply cannot be ignored. It's life.
Which 3D Touch features do you use the most, and consider irreplaceable?
> simple for users to get running.

This doesn't matter. Most users don't install operating systems, they just use what comes with their computer.

The real issue for most people is "Why would I use this"?
For vtables, generally you can follow the object up the call chain until you find its constructor/initializer. Then you see the actual vtable and define it as a struct; now you have method names.
Alves dos Reis is a great story. He managed to forge the central bank request to print notes, the notes were literally from the same printing presses so they weren't even fakes, as you mention.
Talk the talk, just don't walk the walk.

I understand.
I can buy a Moto G6 Plus at around $260, something around the same price after 2 years, and once again something at around the same price 2 years after that. That amounts up the the price of a single XR. How is $750 considered cheap, even accounting for OS upgrades and free apps?
Not trying to be a dick, but for info, male 'baby leave' is called "paternity leave"
> and no one has any incentives to make things better for working parents. the only incentives are to make things better for top talent. it just so happens that more experienced people tend to be that top talent. and more experienced people are older, and older people tend to have more kids. the company should try to make things better for top talent and if that is being more flexible on schedules, or vacation, then they should do it (and most companies do both of these)

Correct, which is why these government mandates are rubbish.
Can you give an example of an 80MP scan that loses detail when downsampled to 40MP?
I don't have an opinion on the subject in either direction, but I was struck by this sentence -

"ketamine doc who realizes that the situation he's treating requires psychiatry for optimum outcome, recognizes they lack said experience, and makes you go to someone with that experience, is also bad?"

The "ketamine doc" you're advocating people should see to treat their persistent psychological conditions such as PTSD or Depression, has no experience or background in treating any psychiatric/psychological conditions at all (and they get credit for recognizing that!).

Given the above, what service does the "ketamine doc" provide other than selling the ketamine? Like, what difference does it make that they are a doc? The access to an IV drip? The ability to google dosage? I can do renal function work ups with my family physician.

I'm genuinely confused on what value they add beyond a street dealer (assuming identical substance quality, home tests do exist).

Which is to say, a doctor is generally understood to be something beyond a prescription pad and should actually be involved in the treatment he's supposedly providing.
Also, I feel like this "treatment" model is highly likely to incentivize profit-maximizing-pill-pushing clinics rather than compassionate therapists.
Not sure what you mean about stock availability.

The Apple Store app doesn't show you what stock is available in each store. It shows what is available from Apple itself.
Anathem, Neal Stephenson, for me. I’ve read it multiple times and while only a work of fiction has changed how I think about the world over the years.
I don't mean to imply that Swift's array performance is better than anything other than what its own performance would be if it didn't implement COW. (My intention was to convey that the normal way of passing arrays comes with confidence that your copy won't be modified by the callee.) Rust sounds nice, I'll have to try it sometime.
Is it? Having 4 kids is not exactly something anyone has to do. Where we spend our time is a choice. If someone decides to spend significantly less time working to raise 4 kids, is it really inhumane to allow the employer to replace them with someone who wants to spend more time working?
> They are the same that build a feature on one single big commit

You can easily tell with pijul as well if they are doing that or not.
I just read that one and found it interesting, but also a bit shallow. Do you have any recommendations on what to read to dive deeper into this topic?
/r/all potentially could have anything pop up, no?
Commercial support for curl
> although there is also the possibility of there being several 'truths' for different rites or sects

There is not.

> On the minimising of pain I'm not wrong

You are. You are simply misinformed on the topic, yet writing with authority you do not posses.

> for the minute-long death process which follows.

There is no minute-long death process. Insensibility happens within 10 seconds according to Temple Grandin. Additionally when done properly the animal appears not to feel it. (https://www.grandin.com/ritual/rec.ritual.slaughter.html)

I also know this personally because I visited a shechita plant and watched them. The animal collapsed often the moment the shochet removed his knife. To me the worst part of the process was the cattle prods used to move the animal in line (the cattle really hated that). The actual killing was very painless.

> and that certainly happens in some cases

No, it happens in 13.6% of cases (https://faunalytics.org/effective-captive-bolt-stunning/) And when it happens the animal is left in severe pain, and is processed without any further regard to its pain.

Captive bolt stunning is LESS humane then Shechita. Every piece of evidence shows this, but people think "if it's new it must be better".

The only benefit is in cost - Shechita is very expensive because of the necessary training. Captive bolts need little training. But they are not better for the animals.
> close all their iOS apps when they're done with them to "clear the RAM"

Last time I checked this is technically correct.

The point was that it is often unnecessary as Apple terminates apps in the background. But they will usually leave a few of the most recent ones active.
I completely agree with Freakonomics and incentives.

I would add Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman. It too follows the thread of incentives, but also more interesting aspects of human psychology like memory, and the 2 parts of the brain. Understanding how the 2 parts of the brain are often at odds with other, has vastly changed the way I think and helped me realize times I'm susceptible to bias and misunderstanding.
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
notorious?
Please see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19090979

In short: Stunning is not humane, because it fails far too often, and when it fails the animal is left in severe pain.
Oh I didn't think you were trying to trick me or anything. I read about Lavoiser and the guillotine when I was a child and it stuck with me.

The Russian experiment with the reanimated dogs heads... I'll let you google that one yourself.
> 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.

Obviously. But doing this imposes costs on the organization. Those costs scale (possibly non-linearly) with length of leave. The question we have to ask is, what is the amount of time off that balances the interests of the company, the economy, and the parents optimally? The Gates foundation is saying 1 year does not strike a good balance for them, because the organizational costs are simply too high. That's what being said here.
I started from a conclusion (that one year parental leave is a good thing) and then argued it leads to a number of outcomes which I deem unsatisfactory. Thus, I reject the initial conclusion.

This is a form of argument by contradiction, or reductio ad absurdum. Part of it, is actually assuming the conclusion and then showing that it contradicts itself or leads to other unsavoriness.

One criticism of reductio ad absurdum is if the arguer sets up a straw man, but I'm not sure you've successfully pointed out any straw man in my argument.
This is likely a firing as Apple Retail has been practically treading water since Angela came on board. She failed to address the major issues with Apple's retail offering including:

- Failure to be a growth engine for the company. Originally Apple stores helped to drive growth of Apple and introduce new customers as the stores were rolled out across the US and then worldwide. Apple retail should have been the spearhead for greater China dominance and a strong foothold in India. Both have not occurred.

- Cultural issues. Apple retail has changed from being a pleasant experience where staff were encouraged to help customers with issues (not matter what) to merely parroting a company line about why they cannot do anything with your issue because that's the company policy. Angela also kept trotting out the 'town square' community BS as well which rubs non-US citizens completely the wrong way; a US corporation trying to co-opt foreign public space for their sales offering.

- Lack of support integration. Apple has had a number of high profile support issues and failures including battery gate and the MacBook keyboard issues. Instead of becoming a proactive support channel to help customers with these issues, Apple Retail worked as the company's PR firewall... exacerbating a bad situation for customers who experienced these problems. Support times at Apple Stores have increased and the experience has worsened.

- No innovation. Apple retail hasn't significantly changed or improved since Angela came on-board. 'Today at Apple' is a re-brand of the many sessions that Apple Stores have always had. The interior design changes and architectural changes are more Jony's doing than Angela's. In 5 years most of the change has been superficial with the core changes that have evolved actually degrading customers experience.

Glad to see the exec change. Took 5 years and should have happened earlier, but better late than never.
EU bloke here (well, for now, pending Brexit...) - do you have any more info on this? I think last time I took paternity leave it was only 2 weeks on full pay, and a further 2 weeks on half pay. Is the 2 months you mention on full pay?
None, it's StackPath under the hood. We have over 65Tbps of capacity all self built/managed at the major IX's in the world.

With a lot of our experience coming from the original founding team at Softlayer, we've built an incredible Platform.

More information on our network can be found at https://www.stackpath.com/platform/network/
Could someone from Sweden talk about how a year or more ofleave works in practice?

I am curious about:

* what percentage of parents take the full year or more of leave?

* how much of a salary reduction happens on leave?

* how much of the leave salary is paid directly by the employer versus by the government?

* does the year have to be taken consecutively, or can you break it up into chunks?

* what happens to the temporary employee once the parent is back from leave?

* if the parent has another child while on leave, can they extend leave by another year?
Just an FYI, your link, and the mlbam careers page, seem to be dead.
The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand
Man, small businesses often don't have any "organizational planning". You work every day and hope the others (maybe one, two or three people) do as well. You go by and hope for the best. Most often you fail or don't really make much.
Once you are the stage of "organizational preparation and planning" it's a different ball-game. The problem is that you have to somehow start and most of the world isn't full of VS money where starting means you get a budget of several million. You mostly start with whatever little savings you have and hope your first orders come fast enough so you can pay bills when savings dry up.
Apollo and an "open in Apollo" shortcut is IMO a much better solution.
Apes eat raw flesh. You may be be overestimating the toughness of raw meat.
Psychological techniques tend to work no matter whether we are aware of them or not. Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow" explains why this happens, with lots of examples. It's a great read.
Yes, it removes exclusivity checks and bounds checks.
Ask HN: What's the best way of learning HCI fundamentals?
If going back to school isn't an option, how should someone approach learning Human-Computer Interaction fundamentals?