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Basically what happens when the developer is hit by the bus. Don't we accommodate for this in regular business by creating redundancies? When you know someone is going on a parental leave you double down on that and add one more redundancy. For cases like the CFO, it's not unusual for someone reporting to the CFO temporarily taking over the CFO role (with/without the title).

(Honestly why is this any different from someone leaving an org or being generally unavailable for any reason? In fact, in this case it's much better since a baby doesn't pop-out just like that - it gives a nice few months to train a temp.)
Electricians and plumbers are STEM tech jobs, just with a different path to entry and a social stigma.
> Apple Retail has been practically treading water since Angela came on board

It is my understanding that Apple stores have higher revenue per square foot than any other store in the entire history of retail, which is difficult to reconcile with your statement.
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They have a system where the receipts are married to your account so you also need to give your phone number to your friend.

It's a maniacal system.
I hope you realize that psilocybin mushrooms are not physiologically addictive and don't involve any needles.
Yeah I agree. I just wanted to highlight that to me the idea that doing better at games is advancing AI in a meaningful way is definitely overhyped.

Sometimes I think that the progress in games seems kind of orthogonal to progress in using machine learning to solve real world problems, because anytime you have a game it automatically gets you essentially infinite labeled training data set (each game has a score/outcome, and there are essentially infinite possible games). So as long as the compute scales up enough, any game humans can play will be solvable.
>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.

But they are much less likely to take this parental leave.

>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".

Well, everyone else doesn't get to always run wildly successful small businesses. Most small businesses fail. I imagine that if you yank out a significant portion of their workforce that they'll be even more likely to fail.

>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.

Aka your small business shuts its doors, because the market has moved on and you couldn't keep up. Half the businesses fail within the first 5 years. Only a third of businesses survive 10 years.
Just to add onto what someone else said, if all users did what you do, the companies would shut down or have to work off of donations
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows

I'd done a lot of computer systems and engineering control courses but this book put systems into perspective for me. They're everywhere and we're embedded in them. If you want to change the world this is the book to read. Its also a quick read.
I found the content manipulative and I honestly can't understand why this book is so revered. Maybe my expectations were set too high but reading it left me feeling underwhelmed.
Your recounting of your experience is really far from mine. My local Apple Store (WTC in NYC) is very accessible and friendly. If anything, I find it mildly annoying to have to chit-chat with staff when I know what I want. With an appointment, support wait times are minimal and so far always helpful and friendly. I walk my dogs through the store sometimes, and even they love it!
Yes, they've always been there since the beginning of HN that's in large part why nobody cares. I am talking about the kind of advertising for random crap that turns up on other websites, HN doesn't need to do that because frankly HN isn't that big (compared to reddit) and has deep pockets.
I grew up a lefty in the Bible Belt, so all of this looks _very_ familiar. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Wish everyone would read this book and Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.
She's ex fashion biz and worked at super high profile brand of course she can get an interview in Vogue.

Might well help vogue later on
The ones who care about their kids' education enough to pay for it themselves—not just lobby to make others pay for it—and have the resources to do something about it tend to put their kids in private schools. That leaves only those who either lack sufficient resources to pay more or simply don't care.

In any case, we actually spend quite a bit on education, despite arguably worse outcomes than some other countries that spend less. Throwing more money at the problem isn't going to improve anything. The focus needs to be on spending the significant resources already allocated to education more effectively.

The attempts to equalize outcomes regardless of the amount of effort students (and parents) put into their education certainly don't help. Assuming they get their way and everyone is assured of equal pay for equal "effort"—why bother studying if cashiering at a fast-food joint offers about the same quality-of-life as managing a successful company, or performing leading-edge research and development?
I use non-violent-communication (NVC) constantly, at work and at home. It basically is a method that forces you to listen and to speak without judgment. But “People Skills” by Robert Bolton is a much more scientific and nuanced approach that I’ve found greater success with. They key is to so ingrain these methods that you are no longer using a method. In the end, you simply really care about what people have to say, you delay judgment as long as possible, and you practice empathy while remaining clear about your own needs and boundaries. Also, being direct.

Just last week I sat through a meeting where no one was listening to one another, elephants were being buried underground, and we were becoming more divided. Taking a cue from ‘Radical Candor’, I invited the room’s abstract complaints and negativity to focus on me, specifically. Luckily, someone was so pissed at me and my team that they launched into a list of things we’d done wrong. That gave me a chance to listen, to show I cared, and to connect the dots with his previous discussion at the meeting. Basic stuff. But it opened the floodgates to honest conversation for the rest of the night.

I always say that computers are easy, humans are hard. Would love to see more recommendations about this topic.
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Exactly how much of that $2.99USD per hour goes to the assistants to help their economic conditions as stated in the FAQ? How much do these assistants actually get paid?
I don’t know the kernel versions on my phone, my Pixelbook, or my rMBP. They are all up to date from
the vendors.

I don’t understand this argument.
You are just bullshitting. By your accounting, if your employee quits, or falls ill for a month or two, which would have the same impact as the training period for the maternal leave replacement, your kids would not be able to afford college [1]?

Does your employee Ski? Because ACL tears are damn common, and medical leave for an ACL tear is up to 3 months.

[1] (which if you're really not in the US should be free anyway)
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Plenty of people eat blue steak, sushi, and uncooked shellfish by choice. Additionally, having to do a lot of hard chewing not only strengthens jaw muscles significantly, but also your jawbone strength and size.
Given my experiences with Stackpath's CDN, I wouldn't trust them with any sort of workload. They bill themselves as the "secure" CDN, yet were not validating SSL certs on the origin.
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Stranger in a Strange Land certainly changed my life and thinking for the better, and certainly made me a more accepting individual.
As one of the most addictive sites on the internet, Im surprised the valuation is that much low.
> If any company is run in such a way that bus-factor means the company can't thrive with one person gone you're simply doing it wrong.

Hacker News - where everyone forgot what an actual startup is.

VC funded "startups" with millions in the bank should really be called something else entirely. Only in the past 20 years has that become the norm. Typically a startup is a self-funded enterprise with 1 or 2 key employees for the first few years.

During those actual startup phases you likely have a bus factor of 1 or you are likely not doing anything remotely interesting enough to warrant you starting a company. Once you get your VC funding and have 50 employees and a 1 year runway? You're not a startup any longer.
Not sure but it kind of seems like they are running only one (single-threaded) Node process on multicore CPUs.
I think some people just have a reality distortion field they can project, it works best in person, and the CEO spent more time in hers than everyone else at the company. It's the reason why nobody finds a con at all convincing when it's told second-hand.

Being conventionally attractive is probably very helpful but I bet the bar is higher for women would-be con artists than men.
I want to support women having babies. I just think current regulations put too much burden on the employers especially small ones. I also think it's unfair that a women who decided to have kids just after college doesn't get any (or way less) help that a women who found a job and get pregnant right after. A system set that way encourages women to have children later in life because they will get more benefits then. I think it's backwards and we are all paying the price already.

I just want incentives to be aligned in a way that it doesn't make sense to make sexist decisions when hiring and it doesn't encourage women to postpone motherhood because of how benefits are set.
Google Colaboratory is now Ubiquitous in the sense you use the term, as is Microsoft Azure Notebooks, so the Ubiquity argument is no longer unique to Excel. The big argument in favor of notebooks is transparency and the breadth of tools that they can make use of. Economists will increasingly move away from Excel as the QuantEcon website demonstrates. Perhaps accountants will still uses spreadsheets, after all they invented them, but it's unclear why anyone else really needs them when there are better tools available.
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> explain the current resurgence of protectionism

Sorry, I meant nobody is denying the benefits of free trade in this discussion here.

> This redistribution argument has very little to do with trade

But it does. Trade only makes everything better if you do redistribute. That's the whole point. Without redistribution, it's expected and even legitimate that some sectors object to, and reject free trade.
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I just finished The Toyota Way and am getting started on The Goal. I'm very curious about the Taichi Ohno book. Do you have a link or a title?
Who said anything about anything being 'natural'?
There are no seats in the stores near me. (or you have stools at specific benches that you need to give up when the apple employee tells you to). No place to have some small table space for yourself temporarily, if you have a jacket (often times wet from coming in from outside in the rain or snow, etc), there's no place to hang it. No use of washrooms. If you have a whole family of 4-5 who want to come by to learn how to use a computer, can you accommodate that? Or do you need to "book" the lesson table, make an appt with the genius bar etc. Is it only accessible for single people or couples with money?

Just those questions alone - think about what a gathering place is supposed to be! I think people are getting way too hoodwinked by marketing speak and are forgetting how an actual gathering space might function.

As a sales space, it's designed brilliantly. People come in, they see stuff they like, they want to buy it, pay money, sale done, time to go. That is perfected by the Apple store environment, but it is very much NOT a gathering space
if all users did what S_at Work , and I do we would actually be back to the internet the way it used to be with those of capability hosting thier sites and BBS's and everyone having a jolly good time for free. I feel sorry for those who have never even experienced the real internet and think the web and facebook are the internet.
I did a meta review of translations before trying that particular translation. I found it extremely readable, and the humor comes through nicely, while also maintaining some of the long sentences Bulgakov liked and remaining faithful in general to his style.
I'm a bit confused, as far as I know, Thompson Sampling is optimal (insofar as it minimizes regret in expectation).
For me, when I was a teenager in the 80s, "The Tao of Pooh" really shaped how I think about the nature of the world and how rebelling against so many things was really holding me back and making me frustrated. Given my current disposition, it probably needs another read after 25 years :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Pooh
> AV1 can't take advantage of multi-threading the same way x264 and x265 can. Neither for encoding nor for decoding.

Dav1d is an AV1 decoder which takes advantage of multi-threading:

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d

https://medium.com/@ewoutterhoeven/dav1d-0-1-0-release-the-f...

BitMovin and Intel both have AV1 encoders which can take advantage of multiple cores. BitMovin demonstrated live AV1 video almost two years ago:

https://bitmovin.com/bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live...

https://bitmovin.com/constantly-evolving-video-landscape-dis...

https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1
I’ve done nearly the same and it was spectacular. Different people are different people.
Didn’t know that the Rules for Rulers video was from a book.
This interesting need to have a closer look, possibly refine can be more efficient? But haven't used it enough to know, just payed around with it a bit. Didn't realise you could combine it with jupyter.
Unfortunately, no. It's pretty much my only exposure to the idea.
This right here. I heard at my old job that a woman who was having a job orientation got nauseated and was throwing up. She came back stating she was pregnant and due to the law she could not be fired and was entitled to some sort of leave. For HR the position is technically filled, so they aren't able to hire someone else without making exceptions. While I think maternity leave is great, I think there should be something that stops this type of leech-like behavior. This woman didn't even work one damn day!
Thanks! I’m hoping that the XR lasts for the next five years (at least!) too. I get some smart remarks from others, but the end goal is to minimize the amount of rare metals consumed in my lifetime. I’ve been really pleased that the 5S continuously got updates for so long.
The problem is, it's generally different people in those cases. These two groups are fundamentally opposed, and satisfying them both is impossible.
All new phones replacing a several year old model exhibit the same characteristics you say here.

Of course going from 6s->XR is faster (several generations of newer cpu), has a better camera, and that brand new battery lasts a long time. Your old phone was about 3.5 years old.

You could have gotten a new 6s and it probably would have had most of the characteristics you say, because it wouldn't be throttled due to an old battery. Or just replace the battery. It would hold a charge a lot longer. The only thing that wouldn't really be different is the camera.
"The Apple Grower" by Michael Phillips [Chelsea Green] - its technical insights aside, it showed me that it's possible to attain proficiency and maybe even excellence at something, no matter how daunting it may be, though sheer fanatical dedication.

"Old Southern Apples" by Lee Calhoun, as above but more about the potential wisdom and benefit in pursuing the quixotic.

"Beethoven's Letters" by LVB trans. Kalischer [Dover] - made me realize it's OK to struggle mightily with everyday difficulties even if you're shooting for the loftiest goals.
I can't give you a specific example. The kind of thing I was talking about is called a "work council" (or, let's see if I can get German in here without mangling it, "Betriebsräte").
Turns out there's an entire academic field dedicated to this question! And a word for the concept: historiography! And over centuries, tens of thousands of academic historians have worked out any number of methods for assessing this sort of thing... there's even a history of historiography on the Wikipedia page about it! But you know, who knows if anything reported there is accurate?
Kodable is hiring engineers to help teach millions of kids to code
Doesn't work on the SE?
Why is that you never hear about Sowell and his work? I consider myself fairly well read, but I've only discovered him the past few years. I wish I had found him earlier!
Docker has been on my list to learn for ~4 years

Docker doesn't do anything shell scripts and zip files couldn't accomplish.

The only thing Docker does is distinguish a class of human oriented activities, such that everyone is talking about the same goals, and explaining ideas about the same conceptual objects, at the same time, across all platforms (Windows, Linux, Apple, BSD, AWS, VMware, Vbox), disciplines and job roles.

The DBA, the front-end JS developer, the sysadmin, the API developer, the SRE, the product team, the project managers, the tier one support and CRM call center, all of them are talking about the thing that standardizes virtual servers.

It's not that docker is particularly useful or special, but more to the point, different people are talking about doing the same thing the same way, and hopefully in 50 lines or less, because pressing the power button on a working computer, and plugging in the network cable needs to be made that simple, so that people can stop tripping over themselves about that least important of pizza topping conversations.
Reddit is going to challenge Facebook.

I have started to lose interest in Reddit too. I never thought I'd say that but it's way more noise than signal these days too.

I have also grown to prefer reading books and time away from screens more and more.

A tech backlash is underway for millions of people in the developed world. A sense of burnout seems to be common among under 40 year olds.
Because many businesses can't afford to do so. I worked at a small company where a senior dev took a year off. His replacement didn't quite fit the same roles as well and the project fell apart. I believe the company fell apart afterwards too.
Jailbait was tacky and creepy, but in line with what you have on Instagram.
It pales in comparison to the virulent racism and sexism that still pervades the site (not confined to any subreddit)
I probably won't read the book (more interested in other countries' histories) but your comment certainly makes the book sound interesting.
Repossession is one thing and is certainly a more professional, and legal, than this kind of ransom.

If a contract was in place for a piece of work, similar to a finance agreement on a vehicle, then legal recourse is the way to go. Be it repossession or a lawsuit.

The right answer is always have a legally binding contract :)
Buying a house is often a status issue.

If the Tech Worker class wants to do the world some good, then bucking the "stick-built in the dirt" expectations of society would seem to be an area where we could do a lot of good. If we as a buying cohort gave such homes cachet through economic and social power, then the cost of building homes and new housing stock would be reduced through modern manufacturing and economies of scale. More people would be able to buy higher quality homes for less, all up and down the socioeconomic ladder.
Thanks! I suspected it had some kind of niche connotation.
To me, it’s “in search of the lost time” by marcel Proust. In this hustle and bustle world where people build startups for high evaluation, money and reputation, reading this book is an oasis in the desert experience to me. It inspires me to rethink of my simple day, to pay more attention to details, to figure out why little thing become what it is, to cherish small achievements and to appreciate people. And more importantly it inspires me to be alone and use the mind to think about the world and rebuild it.

Similar book is “Stoner” by John Williams
Not in the UK the police only really get involved if blood is drawn aka GBH.
Ask HN: Finding nonprofits that need help
I want to volunteer some of my time as a Web developer to a nonprofit that helps kids. Is there a place you've found that connects volunteers and nonprofit organizations? I tried a couple of places, but never received a response.

I'd really like to find a smaller organization that is helping kids.

I have over 15 years experience as a developer and have worked for companies such as Motorola Solutions, Airbus Defense and Space and NAPA Auto Parts. So, if you know of anyone looking for help, let me know!
I teach econ, although on a break at the moment from doing this. I use Jupyter for this, the way to structure a class I think is to split into a lecture part with work on a board and then a practical part where people work through exercises with Jupyter. Both sessions can incorporate discussion where necessary.Used appropriately something like Jupyter can enhance learning and understanding as well as build skills.
You're right, when GP says "people want less X for Y" and I say "people want more X for Z," we aren't talking about the same "people."
Look at the data camp model.
China is not a free market. It is a state controlled market.
> We value individuality foremost and I believe its among the top reasons parental leave is incomprehensible to many people.

Uh... that's not valuing the individual (or individuality, the ability to make choices freely for one's self). The lack of paid parental leave adds an outside a government mandated influence to the decision of whether to have children or not.

Unless... you're talking about the individual rights of the corporation to not have to pay parental leave, through some twisted extension of citizen's united. As a society it benefits us to encourage people to have children, so making the process even more difficult is a bit silly.
Having a kid back then was a huge investment, no?

Yes, but the same investment was made in every other member of the group as well. However, everyone who made it well past childhood had a lot more knowledge, food, and material invested in them.
I can't agree with an idea that encourages you to not say what you want, for me, this is the opposite of good communication. If you want your boyfriend to stay at home, you should say so and then explain why. Not actually saying it is likely to make the situation more confused and lead to conflict.
cool! does (or will) the existing Vuvuzela client use Karaoke?
The most promising general reddit equivalent I've seen so far is tildes.net. It's the first time I've seen a fork of the reddit model with some actually fresh ideas. However, like all of the hundreds of alternatived, this site is far below the critical mass required to make browsing it regularly worthwhile.
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This wasn't a higher level stats course. It was the first and only course I took (introductory).
> At the autopsy, Tarrare's gullet was found to be abnormally wide and when his jaws were opened, surgeons could see down a broad canal into the stomach. His body was found to be filled with pus, his liver and gallbladder were abnormally large, and his stomach was enormous, covered in ulcers and filling most of his abdominal cavity.