skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-136-6-915.pdf

> Taken together, the results of these analyses suggest that ma- ternal employment early in a child’s life is not commonly associ- ated with decreases in later achievement or increases in behavior problems.
Any reason to use it instead of ConEmu?
* many drivers will be closed source; open drivers are a major achievement of Linux

This is only partially true, simply having the source code for a driver doesn't mean you can fix anything given that overwhelmingly the hardware documentation isn't open or the drivers are talking to closed source firmware/binary blobs running on the hardware itself. It makes it easier to fix trivial problems caused by the OS changing, but it doesn't help when a problem is discovered in the underlying hardware/firmware/etc.

So, the open source doesn't help as much as you would like, given the original drivers are frequently written by the hardware provider itself, or some privileged contractor given the documentation under NDA. This has been a huge problem with the ARM soc's that are "supported" in the linux kernel. Frequently they don't actually work following any given update, and no one can fix them because if they have open documentation it frequently is missing large swaths of the actual registers and device theory of operation parts necessary to assure that any given peripheral works.
The great thing about DOS is that it is basically not an OS, at least in the modern sense. It is little more than a bunch of 16bit routines that allow you to do useful things with hardware, like having a file system and handle some basic I/O.

If you have a toy OS project, check it out. Like so many people, I have one, and even though it is a protected mode multiple address space microkernel blahblah one, I not only start it from DOS, I actually still keep DOS running by hosting it inside a vm86 task in the OS. This means I can delegate all the stuff I haven’t bothered implementing, like file system I/O, basic video output and even a whole command shell, to the DOS instance (which is allowed access to the necessary hardware), and I can then focus on writing the parts of the OS that interest me.

It transformed an insurmountable project into a small and fun side project.
Will you miss not having your country swamped with hundreds of thousands of climate refugees? Because they're coming.
How would you know how it is for Musk's kids? They could be utterly miserable because their dad works 100-120 hours per week.
He was referring to the K7 architecture which includes the Athlon XP brand.
> I haven't figured out what to optimise for

People are optimization functions. Trying to define it as happiness or whatever other complex formula won't work because it quickly goes meta. Its output becomes just one of your inputs. I know that "doing what you want to do" does not seem like a useful answer to that question, but I think the problem is more in the question than in the answer.

We have these huge computation machines in our heads and we're provided with results like "I want to write a novel" based on earlier inputs and with practically all computation happening subconsciously.

Also, I don't thing you would have such a nice list of accomplishments without a laser focus. By keeping it pointed around the same direction you can achieve more in that area compared to others (because strong flashlight can provide comparable amount of energy to the same point during long enough time), but.. back to the first point (achievements are just another input)
I don't want to be too harsh, but I can't respect her decision. It's selfish, and not properly caring for the next generation is a dead giveaway of a sick society.
The point of a pressure cooker is to allow higher temperatures than 100°C, which cooks things faster. But anything higher than 60°C should kill almost all bacteria (possible exception: rice bacterial spores) if you cook it long enough. Have you done a side-by-side comparison of food cooked in a pressure cooker vs cooked at normal pressure?
> Your broad claim that DRM == disrespecting consumers doesn't seem to be borne out by the market. So it seems we've reached a bit of an impasse.

So Comcast customers feel respected? Feeling respected isn't the only variable at play.
Will WSL2 kill off LXSS?
From TFA:

> They were lovingly cared for by their father, their grandmother, my son’s preschool teacher and my daughter’s babysitter.

Sounds like there were at least two family members watching the kids on a regular basis.
Those dads are shitty parents too.
this just adds to the fun i hope the hole is plugged :-/
https://white-hackers.blogspot.com/

Microsoft has already taken steps that should assist the security vendors to deal with the new security considerations presented by WSL, including a Pico APIsthat can be used by AV companies in order to monitor these types of processes.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/11/01/wsl-antiviru...
If anyone wants to get more in depth, here is a great talk by Jeniffer Francis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtmuBoolHQg
In my experience a 1 to 1 meeting cane help avoid defensive impulsive responses. Removing the reduced fear of broad judgement I think is a factor. They also covey personal respect which helps and feels good. Cutting out distractions from uninformed meeting participants also helps IMO.
Nonsense. The feedback mechanisms are very, very weak. "Choose between X candidates every 4 years" is a ridiculously weak feedback mechanism. Compare a market, where the feedback mechanism is:

- passive (consumer doesn't spend money)

- fluid (trillions of transactions)
Ask HN: Talking in Corporate Meetings
I work for one of the big engineering companies in the Bay Area (similar to FAANG).
I am an engineer but interact with a lot of teams. As such I end up joining a lot of meetings with 10/15 people, sometimes even more.

Those meetings are extremely difficult for me. It seems that everyone is trying to talk to sound interesting, adding very little actual information. Extrovert people like to jump on every single small flow so they can show off that it's an issue. My feelings are that meetings are a way for people to assert themselves more than a way to exchange actual information.

As I'm usually not the one in charge of the meeting I'm always struggling between staying fully silent and talking up and getting into this combative mode. I'm always doubting what I have to say. I'm usually more introvert and shy than most people speaking up which makes it really difficult sometimes. For other introverts, how do you speak up in meetings?
>She just made the same choices that many dads do.

There is one difference: she boasted about it on a NYTimes editorial page. I would argue that suggests she may be on the spectrum. Her kids will read this. Their friends and classmates will read this. Terrible.
It's quite uncharitable to call this person a sociopath.
Nuclear Fusion Power in the 21st Century
Prioritizing clients over kids seems misguided if there's a conscious choice being made, but in my childhood I think I benefited a lot from benign neglect: not having everything micromanaged by my parents who let me figure things out on my own, just because they didn't feel like they had to help me the moment I have the slightest hint of a problem. Thanks to this I could pursue things that _I_ (rather than my parents) wanted to pursue, and I had vast stretches of free time to do it. I joined a volleyball team on my own, I learned electronics and programming on my own, I've read basically all of "golden age" science fiction worth reading, I got our math teacher at school to give a few of us extra lessons to prepare for the college entrance exam, etc.

This autonomy had two interesting effects. On the one hand it definitely benefited me later in life, because I felt like I had a built-in direction. On the other I don't like it when people tell me what to do, particularly if they have an unearned position of power and don't really know what to do themselves, but have to "lead", by hook or by crook.
Looking at your profile, you are not an active contributor to HN. What prompted this question? Just asking.
I'm a single father of five who obtained full-time custody last year, and trying to balance work and parenting is a never-ending challenge.

Some of my observations:

1) Kids have a great time with other kids, so don't feel bad about daycare. Having them at home full-time past the age of 2 is, I think, more about the parent than the child.

2) Sometimes kids just suck, and work can be a glorious escape.

3) School life in my culture (NZ) is still modelled like there's always one stay at home parent, which means you'll never be able to be there for every certificate, every kapa haka performance, and kids are okay about it so long as you communicate, and do get to the occasional one.

4) You can fit a lot of effective parenting into dinner table discussions and bedtime discussions

5) I'm really glad I'm a single Dad and not a single Mum because there are very few cultural expectations of me beyond working, and everyone acts like I'm amazing for just raising my kids. It's kinda insulting to both genders.

6) It's impossible to perfectly balance a 40 hour working week and family. Best you can aim for is a kind of homeostasis where work suffers for family one week and then family suffers a bit for work the next.
While others say the GPL license is what created an ecosystem, whereby the BSD-3 won't create an ecosystem of same quality.
Show HN: A self hosted alternative to Ngrok
Hi! I am sharing this because it may be useful to others. I created a simple Docker image that lets you easily expose a web app running locally on your dev machine to the Internet, via a proxy server. It is a self hosted alternative to something like Ngrok, which is a paid service if you use custom domains. A small server is cheaper than Ngrok (I use Hetzner Cloud and the cheapest server costs me 3€ per month). I use this method in particular to test HTTP verification with Let's Encrypt for a SaaS app running on my Mac. Hope this is useful :)

Code: https://github.com/vitobotta/docker-tunnel
Blog post: https://vitobotta.com/2019/06/29/self-hosted-alternative-to-...
I've used the Innolitics standard browser in the past and can attest to this browser as a very helpful reference. Of the options available, this has been the most pleasant to work with while also linking to the spec. for that occasional deep dive.
Absolutely.

https://www.statista.com/chart/15738/the-contribution-of-sel...

https://qz.com/753244/berlin-is-the-only-capital-city-in-eur...

Berlin is quite a unique capital in that it's relatively poor and contributes relatively little to the national economy. Apart from its size warranting certain infrastructure with sufficient capacity, it'd be surprising if it had much better infrastructure than it does. Its economy doesn't easily allow it.
That’s terrible advice. Kids are great (they’re also not, at societal scale, really optional). According to a Pew study, about 7% of people who had kids would, if they did it over again, have had no kids. By contrast, more than half of those who didn’t have kids would’ve chosen to not have kids again: https://news.gallup.com/poll/164618/desire-children-norm.asp.... Indeed, out of people who didn’t have kids, a greater proportion wish they would’ve had 3+ kids than people who had kids who wish they had no kids.

If you impose artificially high hurdles for parenting, you’re encouraging people to possible forgo a fulfilling life choice, because they fear they can’t live up to artificially inflated expectations for parenting. And that’s damaging.
The only question to answer is, “are you happy?” I’m almost 50, I don’t have a high profile job, failed at getting into Google 5 times, but just bought my wife a $20,000 grand piano for our anniversary without thinking about it. My kids make me happy, my house mortgage is less than 1X my household earnings, my work pays well and I have a great Work Life Balance.

We all die within 120 years, and if we are cremated, there will be no trace of us left in this universe. Who cares about anything except our happiness and our ability to make those around us happy during this short time we are alive?
So has most of western society. Thus the birthrate cratering. Since this woman has two kids she's picking kids over job more than most people. She's simply more honest than most about the whole thing.

I find the western disinterest in raising their own children (and having them) fascinating. There seems to be a widespread ideal of trying to leave a legacy through deeds rather than through your own children. Much of the right wing is agitated at the whole thing because this is gradually reducing the population of an ethnic group they're quite fond of.
It looks like there were multiple people in the children's life that cared for them, FWIW.
Forward slashes have worked in the terminal for a long time.

PS C:\Users> cd rthom/Desktop
PS C:\Users\rthom\Desktop>
This sounds like a sign of bad meeting culture. Really, the chairperson of the meeting should control this to make the meeting more effective and ensure everyone who needs a say has it. Maybe suggest via HR that training be made available for effective chairmanship?
I have two words for that page "holy sh*t" that is the most excellent performance visualization stuff I've seen in a long time[1]. Nice that it is a GSoC project this year, can't wait to see the final output.

[1] Seriously, the last time I saw something that good and detailed was an investigation into cache line miss performance back in 2002 on the Intel P4 at NetApp. That investigation figured out that the transaction rate in Intel's memory controller resulted in an 18+% reduction in throughput and up to 50% increase in latency for file system operations.
> The bottom of the ocean would be far more habitable if we faced any type of extinction event.

Yeah, space has a coolness factor, and there are things about the origin of the universe we can't learn from the bottom of the ocean, but an underwater station is one of the most underrated projects humanity could pursue.

Oceans are phenomenal shields against radiation, extreme weather, or even the temporary combustion of the atmosphere, should things get that bad. The opportunity to learn about groups surviving in isolated habitats, or about megastructures that have to survive hostile external environments, could even provide really useful lessons for space.
my house was wired by drunken baboons, which means that the stairwell to my bedroom has three different lightswitches in it, and my bedroom itself has four different lightswitches.

What i want is a simple way to turn all the lights on and off, and by far the easiest way to accomplish that is smart bulbs. Especially since i'm renting, and landlords typically frown upon tenants rewiring their properties.
Yes of course. I was explicitly qualifying what I said there because this is the internet.
clickbait article, really useless content. chinese people overseas can’t access their favourite apps and music. they use a vpn to regain that access. is this even worth an article, yet alone a topic on HN?
Ask insightful questions instead of making statements.

You'll demonstrate that you're intelligent and thoughtful without coming across as arrogant. You'll make the meeting more productive and possibly even reveal that other people are full of hot air.
Following this advice I feel more than half of our generation wouldn’t be. Perhaps there’s already too many people on earth, but it’s something I’d think about.
When did hn become inundated with so many hipster creative types ??? Where is our nerd haven ?!!
I use a chrome extension to bypass paywalls
I was vague. Talking, as in speaking into a phone, feels more laborious than talking as in typing in a chatbox to me. I more often refer to the latter as "chatting."
Airports do have to be very carefully designed as you say. They are a complex set of interconnected facilities. But the upshot of this are dozens of different specialist teams who have conflicting interests. Communication is difficult and it is hard to maintain consistent state.

In an operational airport this complexity still exists and major airports are in a constant state of flux. They are always building something and there are always contractors on site doing construction or maintenance. The difference is that it can be treated as an incremental improvement. No one can pretend that the entire system will be optimal first time. Of course the requirements will evolve.
So many I's.
That's an organization-wide culture change. Even a CEO can't easily make it happen. I understand the desire to find and fix the root cause, but OP definitely doesn't have that power.
If think there was a calculation that one 300g steak produces as much CO2 as somebody living in kenya.

It's not really about the population it's about usage and greed.

edit: sorry, wrong calculation:

2 Steaks a week produce about 300Kg Co2 per year, which is the same as 7 People living DR Kongo produce
> There are plenty of people who are willing.

Willing to what?
SMS Backup+ is a wonderful app, not only to backup sms messages, but also by creating a searchable archive of sms-es in your Gmail account. Why on earth kill off such a useful and popular app for no good reason at all???
> you need to provide them at least a parent to do that job or else you are neglecting them.

When am I neglecting my kids exactly? In the two hours of after school care between school ending and my coming home?

You're implying that there's a direct correlation between quantity and quality of parenting, that's a bold claim.
>Parents today spend more than twice as much time today with their kids today than fifty years ago

That's a good point but there's some detail missing here: how are the kids being raised. Historically, kids were raised within a tribal or quasi-tribal structure. When you have grandparents, siblings, cousins, uncles and aunts always around, room to play and explore, you don't need parents to be there 24/7 hovering over you. You learn independence as well as a way to interact and negotiate with others.

What this looks like is the worst of all words. The kids are abandoned to a set of nannies and managed activities, while the mother and father live their own lives.
for me, at least, even if something is one of the most interesting things ever (be it videogames, coding or even watching series), i just can't do 9h straight.

even for 2~3h it's hard to keep my concentration.
Ok that sounds reasonable, that these surprisingly low cost phones, cannot last that long.

At the same time, shipping phones to far away places where there is a "shortage" of phones, and selling them there, is going to be more profitable, per shipment, than shipping water to that same place.

And one needs just a few shipments of phones, for everyone to have a phone. One ships just 0.1 kg phone per person, once. Compared to 10 or 100 kg water per person and day.

With that in mind, I'm thinking phones will continue to be prevalent, in comparison to water, in areas where there's a drought.
I have to agree. The premise in the headline is so obviously agreeable, but the application described sounds like it would make for a terrible place to work. This isn't an article about building a supportive work environment that sets realistic expectations and fosters a mutually-supportive team environment. It's about the one-on-one meeting as the most effective tool to extract as much work as possible out of each individual worker—which obviously is quite hard in a group meeting.

Of course, a manager who does that effectively is also doing their job as a manager well. One reason I will always refuse to become a supervisor is that being a good manager (i.e. nice and reasonable to work for) and being a good manager (i.e. extracting the maximum surplus value out of each worker) are often directly in conflict, as this article shows.

ETA: In fact, I can think of a manager just like this at an employer I recently left. Individual meetings were a tool to push each of us to the limit, try to pit us against each other, &c. Employees hate this boss, but management loves them!
Unlike your father? You say in another comment the you "wouldn't ever disparage him" for work-related absences.
Killing spores is a lot harder. They can sit around in harsh conditions for a few hundred years until the conditions are right to germinate. And cooked foods devoid of other life (competition!) is a perfect situation.

There’s a lot floating through the air, not just what comes on rice.

For immediate consumption, it’s not usually necessary to kill them, but for storage it can be.
A thing is "inflated expectations for parenting", another thing is the person who wrote the article which has three different jobs (she could easily drop two and still manage to bring home more than enough money, but she doesn't want to for selfish reasons... Which are totally ok if you are not a divorced parent of two very young kids) and, as she herself said, prioritize all of them over her children because she prefers that way.
Gosh. This is me. I sacrificed almost ten years of my career to be there for my sons as a divorced dad. Work travel, sales, meetings - much of it missed so the boys could have me as much as possible. Doctors, judges, lawyers, mom's were hostile & cold throughout it all. It was the single biggest contributing factor to the failure of my business this year. And... It was worth it. The boys are turning out to be fantastic young adults, our relationship is strong, and they both fought hard to get even more time with me. Hard road, great destination. The courts are total shit btw.
lxss basically is part of what WSL/WSL2 is.
from what ive gathered so far LXSS is the process management, and another piece, LXCORE is the system call translator.
what this does apparently is put the linux instance in contact with the windows kernel
Fantastic and accurate description of what they do and the problems they solve.

Oddly enough, just as there are those who think MMs twiddle their thumbs all day, there are those who work with or are MMs that think executive leadership twiddle their thumbs all day.
The rate might be affected by consumer demand.

But I think that the total amount of oil that will be burnt only depends on the price of extracting the next barrel vs the price of other energy sources.
Here you go:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_One_Must_Fall_2097_1994
Where do you live, and what was your employer?
I always thought someone could try one of these driver-reuse techs with Windows drivers. I recently posted two examples elsewhere:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi04/tech/full_papers...

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/Studium/KMB/WS2012/06-Drivers.p...

Well, a mix of Windows and Linux drivers where we use Linux whenever it works well enough. Windows when it doesn't. Might also be able to tie that in Windows Embedded to trim as much fat out of the driver VM as possible.