skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a small business (15) and a lot of my employees are young women in Germany, so I think I understand the situation from different perspectives (young father). You just try to work with it, of course the situation for me would be easier in the US, but since all my competitors have the same problem and my customers have the same problem it is not a competitive problem. It is actually a problem for a company in a certain size, so you try to stay out of this size or grow out of it pretty fast.
But st the end, it’s a value discussion, my business partner took parental and I’m fine with that , it doesn’t make it easier but it’s definitely better for the kids and I don’t value my personal financial success higher than the chances for these kids.
The approach blucalm is offering is nearly the definition of sex discrimination. You can’t play the odds when hiring in protected classes, you need to assess the applicants on an individual basis...
Which is why you'll see increasing pressure for longer paternity leave in places like Norway, so that it's harder to discriminate to avoid dealing with this.
It's not wasted at all - people are learning and configuring, tweaking and optimizing their use of a computer. I for one really like the fact that Manjaro is an easy Arch for me. Is it wasted creativity now that I can focus on non-distro work since I found my distro?

Besides, who is the author to tell people to not waste creativity. It's remarkable to have this audacity. Even the notion of "wasted" creativity is just not nuanced.
It's a function of the propagation of technology. Everything is automated, and all code is not equal. If you're to figure out some way to steal money electronically from your bank, and there is no defensive code in place, how will anyone ever notice? The automacy of code can allow these schemes to fly under the radar in a way that physical robbery can not.
Assuming you’re on Android. Using Firefox Focus on iOS I had the same issue, but the browser icon shows Safari. Still not sure whether they are being deceptive or incompetent.
Which, to be honest, I found very liberating after having a similar reaction. And while I didn't burn the house down I came pretty close.
10 years ago when I first bought a Macintosh, the apple Store was a warm and inviting place. I could ask questions at the Genius Bar, I could talk to people who showed at least somewhat of an interest in me as a customer. Now it just seems very sterile and vacant, big open spaces but not very inviting.
Online groceries are a key ingredient to our family being able to live without a car.
We tend to order not-so-perishable items (Soda, Potatoes, Milk, Toilet paper) online from https://www.leshop.ch/en/supermarket/home which makes shopping for perishables on foot/public transit much more manageable.
> I don't see why anyone in his/her self-interest would not. If I could take all the time in the world to play with babies and be paid my current salary to do it, that's honestly my dream life.

Because your dream life is not everyone else's dream life. There are a lot of good reasons people want to work. Many people actually enjoy practicing their skill, and want to get back to it when they can.

Any such policy would need to have measures to ensure that it is not used to an extent that it is not intended for, including using it for more than N years in a row, or for more than M children.
OK. But you do understand that it costs money to both produce content and keep sites online, right?
> If I am looking for 3rd programmer in my 2 person small company I will not risk hiring a young woman

Ignoring the fact that this kind of discrimination is flat out illegal, you are forgetting to consider that the Canadian policy allows males to take parental leave as well, so the excuse for the discrimination isn't even logically consistent.

Personally, having lead teams of people ranging from experienced professionals to interns still in school, I find it extremely hard to imagine a small business that is such a special snowflake that "getting a new employee to the stage where they contribute value is a huge cost". I could get interns to be productive in a day or two. In many fields of work, such as early education, there are standardized accreditations so an employer can basically just pick and choose from a pool of qualified individuals who will be ready-to-work on day 1.

As the other poster said, standard fare in parental leaves is to hire a contractor for a 1 year contract. By the end of the year, worst case is your business grew 0%, you get your full-time employee back and it's business as usual. A more realistic scenario is your business grew by some amount that now allows you to hire the temp person full time.
In the linked paper they actually run two bots that use such strategies (they call them "hat strategies") on their platform and show how they do against some AIs.

The WTFWThat bot achieves the rather remarkable average score of 24.89 and 91.5% perfect games in 5-player self-play (that is, all 5 seats are WTFWThat bots).
I'm wondering what a personal assistant who lives thousands of miles from where I live can do for me.

- They can't pick up items from local stores. And it's harder to explain to someone what I want to order online than ordering it myself, which I can do for free.

- They can't pay my bills (no way I'm going to give someone I never met access to my bank account).

- They can't answer my e-mail, since they don't know how to do my job.

So what exactly are the benefits of having a personal assistant? The site makes no suggestions as to what kind of tasks they can do for me to make my life easier.

And sorry, I don't want to "Subscribe now for more information"! If there's anything else I need to know, I want to read about it before I subscribe.
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No it’s still decided on a country level, sounds like the German law.
I must be specially talented in this area, because I still run into memory issues fairly often. Just a couple days ago, I had a weak reference which was turning nil (Swift weak references are zeroing), and I couldn't figure out why. Both objects were still live. Property observers don't report the nil change, apparently. I couldn't figure out how to get the debugger or Instruments to provide any help, either.

Eventually I just gave up and added an extra 'parent:' argument to an interface, for the one place it was actually needed. It's a bit more awkward than just keeping parent references in the tree nodes, but not too bad.

For situations with multiple queues or threads, the situation is even worse. I wrap a lot of my GCD code in extra locks, which by my reading of the documentation shouldn't be necessary. Without them, it occasionally crashes with strange memory errors that are impossible to figure out.

I felt like I wasted a few hours trying to track down my issue, the other day, and then come up with an alternative solution, while in any other modern language I could just have used a normal reference and counted on the GC to clean up the cycles when I'm done.

Backwards compatibility with Objective-C obviously has tremendous value to Apple, and ARC is smaller and faster than tracing GC, but I feel like I'm paying for it over and over. In most HLLs, once I get past the low-level parts, I'm using a language specifically designed for my task, and I never have to touch the low-level parts again. Swift feels more like fancy C, in that I don't think I'll ever be able to stop thinking about subtle memory management issues.
How to charge your electric car from the sun, at home
The market value and construction cost are two very different things.
Whatever the original intentions, I can say honestly that an Apple Store in its current form is never a "gathering place" or a "town square".

The experience from beginning to end is always - line up at the front, talk to an Apple employee, depending on whether you have an appointment or not, get shepparded to a lineup (whether at the genius bar, the teach and learn table, or the repair pickup table, etc) and wait in line until your turn.

If you are just browsing / window shopping, the experience is jam yourself into a packed tiny space packed with human smells of sweat and farts, get a stern looking up and down by the security people, and try to get a computer/phone/idevice to look at. If you take too long, other people will either try to edge you out, or eventually you get an apple employee asking whether you want to buy it or if they can show you anything.

This is NOT a gathering place/town square. Of course. Being a commercially oriented sales space it can't be because that violates the purpose of the space. I'm not saying that you can't build a space like this, but the way Apple has structured the retail stores makes it extremely sales oriented.

Taking the Starbucks example quoted below. When you go to starbucks, get a latte, and sit down to browse your computer, you don't have Starbucks employees coming to you asking if you want a pumpkin spice latte or if you want some training on how to be a coffee barista in your own home too. You just want to take a seat and do whatever - none of the business of the store employees. It's just a place to sit. Of course, you should / need to buy something to sit there, but once you are there, you usually are left alone to do whatever, meet friends, have a date, etc. That's a good "gathering space" concept.
“The Kingdom of God is within you,” by Leo Tolstoy. It changed the lives of Ghandi and MLK as the essential primer and exposition of Christian anarchism and its consequent pacifism. It led to my discharge from the military as a conscientious objector just as the war with Iraq (pt. 2) heated up.

Second, Wendell Berry’s many essays and short-stories. His skepticism about technology can be taken to Luddite extremes, but his questioning of the full human impact of technology has profoundly affected how I think: that technology not only enables new human possibilities, but more importantly, shapes the very meaning of what it means to be human.

Finally, Paul Graham’s essays, especially his one on wealth. It’s the clearest explanation of “Make what people want” that I have read, and has a liberating affect on a mind that has been conditioned by society to be just another employee. I wouldn’t have jumped head-first into the startup world were it not for PG’s influence.
Yeah it makes sense. My friend is doing it, hiring mainly 50+ yrs old women (in his profession there are way more job seeking women than men in the first place). It works great for him as he gets great work place atmosphere and not that much usual office politics.
It's already there, but the different sentence creation + difficult in understanding moves that can vary a lot makes it not viable now.
> But the time isn't wasted, in any case. If existing solutions met people's needs the alternatives wouldn't have been created

This argument has merit. However, it also true that sometimes we developers are overly biased towards creating a new project in order to solve some set of problems, when it may be more effective and productive to get our hands dirty in an existing project.

Obviously, this isn't always the case, and there are other important factors. Perhaps the individuals involved have other goals besides simply addressing the issues in most practical way. But the mere existence of a project certainly doesn't demonstrate that its creation was the most effective method of solving the problem at hand.
I'm bothered by people being assaulted just as much as most of the commentators here. Just because I'm not parroting the same "wow Atrient is bad, security researchers good" message doesn't mean my comment is not valid.

Obviously a security researcher that has reported an issue wants to have a healthy dialogue with the company and see that the flaw is patched in a reasonable time frame. But lets not pretend that we have all the facts here. Were they in the middle of an internal investigation? If that investigation showed that there was nobody actively exploiting this issue, doesn't Atrient have the right to patch this vulnerability on their own timeline rather than the researchers?
George Boole and the Calculus of Thought (2018)
For now. Other issues with old.reddit is that it blocks web.archive bot, and their new design doesn't work for web.archive.org's captured content. It shows white page when page loaded.
On the other hand, say you and your wife each work for 40 years each. Take 10 years out, and that leaves 70 years. Take one parent out, and that leaves 40 years. You've just earned 30 years of skilled labour by granting parental leave.
I do not read headlines much but I recall hearing something about late term abortions recently. I am curious if the point is to push back against the far-right who want to outlaw it altogether? Because actually advocating for legal late term abortions would be out there a ways.

Thanks for the reply in any case. It is enlightening to hear what someone else's viewpoints are on where the current left/right ideological divide is these days. Sometimes it feels like we are in crazyland.

I personally try to avoid the religious stuff because I'm ignostic (commonly misheard as agnostic and I don't usually correct because it gets some folks a little bothered), but just a couple weeks ago we dropped off our kids with grandma for a weekend and when they came home they were telling us all about how grandma told them God this, Jesus that, etc. sigh. If I complain, I look like the asshole, but dammit, why do people think it's okay to proselytize to elementary aged kids that are not their own? So I can almost understand when people get a little nuts with the anti-religious viewpoint, even though I don't advocate namecalling and ridiculing others for their belief or lack thereof.
>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)

Sure, but once one person takes parental leave you're back to being fragile on this one aspect.

>The labour market is quite good, and there is no shortage of qualified individuals for almost all positions (CFO, specialists included).

I heavily disagree here. There are plenty of jobs that basically work because of the unique set of skills that a person brings to the table. It might be possible to manage with other people filling in, but it's often not the same.

>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.

Except for the people that won't get this benefit, because they won't or can't have kids.
Wow. Just wow.

So, in many European countries, fathers and mothers have a right to substantial amounts of parental leave. Like a year or more. In all of these places small businesses exist. In Sweden, with very extensive parental leave [1], there is a large number of start ups. So obviously, empirically, you must be missing something.

Generally speaking, if your employees care about your business (and getting their job back after the leave) they will not take decisions that destroy this business. Some laws will also vary depending on company size, though parental leave is just such an obvious fundamental need and right that I am not aware of a country where it does.

You might not think of yourself as immoral, but your post is definitely sexist, and I find the viewpoint you take towards your potential employers deeply unethical. Because people like you sometimes end up with power we need democratic states to fight back and keep a sense of perspective.

[1] "New parents in Sweden are entitled to 480 days of leave at 80% of their normal pay. That’s on top of the 18 weeks reserved just for mothers, after which the parents can split up the time however they choose. Swedish dads also get 90 paid paternity days reserved just for them. Out of these 480 days, 60 must be taken by the father or else all are lost. This leave can be taken by the month, week, day or even by the hour."

So fathers are forced to take more paternal leave in Sweden than mothers get in the US.

https://www.dailyscandinavian.com/parental-leave-working-sca...
There won't ever be a passive filter. The QUIC traffic is deliberately opaque.

If you control the clients you may be able to retain your status quo for some time (by just refusing to upgrade) but the direction is away from having anything filterable. So client software or MITM are your only options.
That would make for a good novel :))) we’ve always expected superhuman AIs to free us from work, but maybe we’ll be the ones working while they’ll have all the fun.

Damn, i wish general AI never acquires personnal taste !
The problem with RefCell/Mutex is granularity. If you wrap the entire object in one of them, the mutable borrow you need to write a field blocks anyone else from accessing the object at all, even to read unrelated fields. Note that Swift 5 exclusivity enforcement is imposing exactly this limitation on Swift "structs", but not its heap-allocated "classes".

In Rust, an alternative is to wrap individual fields in RefCell/Mutex, but that results in uglier syntax – you end up writing RefCell/Mutex and .borrow()/.borrow_mut() a lot of times – and adds overhead, especially in the Mutex case (since each Mutex has an associated heap allocation). There are alternatives, like Cell and Atomic*, that avoid the overhead, but have worse usability problems. I've long thought Rust has room for improvement here...
Patreon CEO says the company's generous business model is not sustainable
It's very hard to strictly play like that though - for example, players are allowed to look through the discard pile at any time, but that act is observable to the other players and may communicate information!
interesting. I pay nothing for my site, i pay nothing to type text into my landing page and i pay nothing for my users to post data and info, and i ask nothing in return other than common courtesy.
Kuhn needs to be put into perspective, though (just as Feyerabend). See Chalmer's What is this thing called Science? for an introduction and much more material. And Gould has some good stuff (The Mismeasure of Man is challenging), but he's controversial, and some of his ideas (NOMA, ie the notion that religion and science are "non-overlapping magisteria") are, dunno, not convincing.
Maybe trite, but the Bible. For a mind-blowing experience, read Matthew chapters 5–7, and have in mind that the topic is: “what it means for a person to be righteous, or good.” The analysis of the role of moral rules, the place of worry and anxiety in driving us to short-sighted compromise, the tension between “secret” good-doing versus good-doing for public recognition, are all potent, helpful, and life-changing.
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> Note that I charged by week, not by hour, which eliminates a lot of these issues.

A fixed number of hours per week? How did you keep the client happy when they wanted to know how many weeks?

One issue is if you work smarter or faster is you're not going to earn more and there's only a fixed number of hours in the week. Your client is likely to be unhappy in the end when the costs get out of control too.

> The problem with the project was essentially that the data was incredibly messy, and by the time I found this out the project was already well underway. So I could have abandoned the project, lost the fee, and screwed over my client...or put in a bunch of extra work to get the project over the finish line. I chose to do the latter.

- Could you have asked to see the data first to avoid this?

- Could you have offered an initial paid discovery phase that would have given you time to go over things in more detail first and even prototype it?

- Could you have broken the project into chunks where some parts were fixed price and the really unsure parts were hourly?
How they manage in Canada is that they have many fewer successful knowledge-based businesses per capita, at every level of success.
Programming the Z3 SMT solver
If the law applys to everyone then wouldn’t that one particular part of the playing field be even?
How do we incentivize atuomation at the extreme ends?
Under US law, this isn’t a “transferable license”. You have bought the book and enjoy the rights under the first sale doctrine. The fact that there exist copyright laws that prevent you from doing certain things with the book does not make this into a license. That would be like saying that “you don’t buy a baseball bat, you acquire a limited license under which you may hit balls, but not people, with it.
The Gates Foundation did not have to research it, they experienced it.
People working 6 hours will get slightly more than three quarters done. People lose steam through the day.
I tried buying groceries online with Ralph's (who uses Instacart) but items were almost always reported as out of stock during the shopping process and the alternatives weren't desirable in that I requested organic or non-gmo products but the alternatives provided were not organic or contained GMOs.
Does anyone have a sense of how useful an economics background is for data science? I've heard mixed things.
The email from support (only sent a few hours ago) stated:

> The impact to users could come in the form of not tracking opens, clicks, bounces, email sends, inbound email, webhook events, and more. Right now, it looks like the database outage is affecting up to 20% of our outbound volume as well as a majority of inbound email and webhooks.

It makes it seem like the actual sending emails were not effected, just "tracking". I landed on this thread as some reporting emails of ours weren't sent. Can anyone confirm it effected the sending of mail too?

Luckily we had nothing critical running through Mandrill, but I feel sorry for those who did, given it hit right around CNY where many people will be on holidays.
The QUIC protocol draft states that it's not an acronym:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-16#sec...
Konami is at huge risk, too, as it sounds like they were the global distributors.
Actually yes, we definitely must encourage having more kids.
According to the article, this incident took place in London, not the US. The law is similar but slightly different. It would fall under "Common Assault":

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/blog/post/assault-offen...
What problem is this really solving?

In dense areas, large buildings with small apartments make sense. Otherwise, just build normal-sized homes.

What am I missing?
Sounds like they finally learned to code
I had a company with roughly 10 engineers give or take over its lifetime. The two younger women never left. The men, younger and older, left at various times, one after 4 months, and one with 4 hours’ notice.
On Android, it used to be the case that many ad blocking apps were just Proxy services.
I stopped reading after...

“In roughly three decades, the global population will begin to decline,” they write. “Once that decline begins, it will never end."

..obviously this is hyperbole to sell a book which has to be dramatic to get attention. Nobody knows for sure what the population will peak at and how far it might fall again. The world has never been in this situation before and so everything is currently a guess.
This is a silly joke.

A good number (I won't say plenty) of people have read Finnegans Wake and enjoyed it. At the risk of being branded a liar I can say that I've read the whole thing (out loud) and found it a very worthwhile experience. Some of the language play is very enjoyable.
> StackOverlow is a small website that can run in a garage on a couple of servers, and that's with a lot of margin.

Maybe things have changed, but in 2016 they were running three or four dozen servers in each of two data centers:

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...