skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a piece awhile ago where they asked a lot of people (particularly women) to describe the unacknowledged emotional labor they were doing in their relationships. (Using / misusing the term as they like. Hochschild would be appaled.)

One of the stories stuck out for me was a woman who was sick of writing birthday & christmas cards for her husband's relatives. She tried not doing it, but her mother in law got snippy with her for not writing a card. Her husband didn't care at all and refused to help. So she felt stuck doing an unacknowledged and unappreciated job.

I find this story really interesting because there are so many approaches here. To name a few, 1. She could suck it up and keep unhappily writing cards. 2. Her husband could write the cards. 3. She could stop writing the cards, but tell her mother in law to talk to her son if she didn't get a card. 4. She could ask her husband to run interference with the mother in law and back her. 5. She could just stop writing cards and tell everyone to piss off.

I understand the perspective of "I feel like I have to write these cards. People expect me to write these cards. But I hate it and I feel like I don't have an out". But I think its too simple to label it as sexism and call it a day. Her husband is legitimately allowed to ignore the card thing, and so is she. In a sense, the pain comes from caving to a bad expectation - and thats something she does, not something anyone does to her.

But its also true that we somehow raise girls to be more sensitive to societal expectations than men. The whole thing is deliciously complicated.
Seesaw isn't the best model really. A seesaw with a turbine engine strapped to it, (besides making a godawful mess and maybe just maybe making the HOA angry enough to worth the trouble of setting up) wouldn't do much since it's a fixed structure and not interacting in any way remotely consistent with a body in motion through a fluid.

Boat might be a better model, or even better, use your hand hanging out the window of a moving car.

If you taped a couple of projections under your hand, and slowly increase the Angle of Attack of your hand to get a feel for what the old design would do.

Then do the same thing but with those protrusions up in front of your hand.

You should notice that it becomes harder in the second arrangement to counter the tendency of your hand to continue pitching up after a point. Assuming your weird mini-not turbine construction stays together in the airstream.
I think it's natural to feel like the populace is heading to a more competent place as the elderly age out, but anecdotally I think the opposite might be true. I've met kids in middle/high school who didn't understand how to do rudimentary OS operations, resolve email disconnections, update apps that didn't come from a store etc. The worst was when I taught a semester as an adjunct. Most of my students simply were unable to zip files together and send them as an attachment... Internet native in the iOS era is seemingly much worse than the XP era
Too be honest that’s just poor development practice.

We run a React SPA, and our backend for initial page load & API is in PHP.

Frontend devs work with backend devs to ensure the critical path of the page can we gathered in 1 request. This usually means having some expand query params on the get request.

We also preload critical API responses in the initial page load to prevent this initial loading indicator.
Having read the article, I don't think it is disorganized. It makes an assertion, supports the assertion, explores the consequences, then returns to another aspect of the assertion. In the end, she returns to the theme and restates it.

The context switches, such as they are, come with the traditional signal to most readers: the paragraph. Yet each paragraph is built in sequels (like you would a novel): action (assertion), reaction (consequence).

Paragraph by paragraph:

Assertion from title: Novels are still important.

Question: Are they really? Reflection as context.

Assertion: I fear modern media leaves me only frightened.

Contradiction: Realization -- It won't.

Assertion: Novels exist outside of the political upheaval they arise from.

Resolution: Doctor Zhivago as example of proof.

Section break (as a notice to the reader).

Assertion: Novels are an intimate communication between writer and reader.

Contradiction: "No one reads books anymore."

Assertion: People still read books.

Reflection: Orthodoxy of publishing and consumption has changed.

Assertion: The novel's purpose is to encapsulate its own world ("to be what it is").

Reflection: Anna Karenina was not the novel Tolstoy set out to write, but it was the novel he had to write because he was skilled enough to write it. The story was in control.

Resolution: Good novels matter because they exist as complete in themselves without being slaves to the social forces from which they arise.

Break

...

She continues in this form, weaving layers onto the theme, like one writes a novel. It seems to me like a clever way to write an editorial.
Arguably, modern "fundamentalism" of many religious forms is a reaction movement that says "if we cannot have both science and religion, let us abandon science". It's something people back as recently as the Elizabethan era would have disagreed with as heretical theologically. How could God be so untrue that the search for truth had to be abandoned?
You’re right it’s probably my fault for constantly clicking “dislike, don’t show more”, not the financial incentives of Facebook. That’s nice for you that it’s the opposite.
But this is all else being equal, which is the “lump of labor” fallacy.

It’s not obvious that skilled immigrants have the net effect of reducing the wages of non-immigrants with those same skills — tons of new firms are started by skilled immigrants and/or their kids, and the current SV economic expansion particularly so.

So, sure. If you already assume that the pie is of fixed size and a skilled immigrant reduces the work available to others, then you can draw the conclusions you do. But otherwise it’s a weak argument.
An Obsessed Trance Musician Became a Disruptive Entrepreneur
It makes sense that happens, "spoon theory" is basically a metaphor for "limited resources", anyone who looks at it without context is just going to see a nice metaphor for a very common issue.
"Coffee is very bad" sounds like a very bold claim to me and should be backed by supporting facts.

Pretty much every substance will have bad effects on your health when overdosing. But thats not to say that lower doses will produce these negative effects as well.

Sola dosis facit venenum.
I have to agree. I know that for some people it's not easy to just find another job for various reasons, and I've had that problem myself over the years - but there is a line you just don't cross; this is such a line. Deliberately and purposely lying like this is never OK.
I wouldn't. Sorry to be a buzz kill, but if I wanted to sharpen my skills, I would either find an open source project to help out on (maybe even a blogging one) or work on a side project that either helped people or had a chance of making money.
To clarify, this isn’t just a cynical comment. It’s actually why digital content producers use DRM. Generally speaking, they’re not idiots, they know it will have little effect on determined pirates and will cause some hassle for some legitimate customers. The point really is so that the digital content producers can maintain control over the providers of computer hardware and distribution channels.

Here’s an old article claiming to be a big revelation, but it’s pretty much common sense and has been fairly well recognized for much longer than that:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-engineer-drm-has-nothin...
> because on Solaris /bin/sh is the real McCoy - Steven Bourne's shell from 1972 - 1977

Wow-- I hadn't realized just how wrong your argument was! Bourne's shell from the outset supported set -e!

From Bourne's "An Introduction to the Unix Shell", ~1977-1978 (converted to HTML at http://porkmail.org/era/unix/shell.html )

> The shell flag -e causes the shell to terminate if any error is detected.

and the document goes on to state that you can use 'set' to set shell flags.

It's in the V7 source, too:

CHAR flagchar[] = {
'x', 'n', 'v', 't', 's', 'i', 'e', 'r', 'k', 'u', 0
};
INT flagval[] = {
execpr, noexec, readpr, oneflg, stdflg, intflg, errflg, rshflg,
keyflg, setflg, 0
};

Along with a proper call to options() in the set builtin.

If the basis of your whole argument is history, you're complaining about something that would have worked on V7 or 3BSD. :D Apparently they are "too new."

edit: Running V7 on a PDP-11 emulator has the anticipated results:

boot
Boot
: hp(0,0)unix
mem = 2020544
# RESTRICTED RIGHTS: USE, DUPLICATION, OR DISCLOSURE
IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS STATED IN YOUR CONTRACT WITH
WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
WED DEC 31 19:15:00 EST 1969

login: root
Password:
You have mail.
#
#
# set -e
# false
login:
Over the 3.5 years I spent driving around in my taxi, I had a few opportunities to clean after messes created by the criminal justice system. I've decided "justice" is mostly a make-work program for lawyers and prison guards.

> When the formerly incarcerated are released from prison, they are given anywhere from $10 to $200 in cash and sent on their way, often with no job or housing prospects, and few contacts in the outside world.

When the people are released from the Maricopa County Jail, they frequently have nothing, not even the cell phone they had on them when they got mickeyed up. Cell phones with removable batteries are given back to people when they're released. Phones with non-removable batteries have to be claimed from property, which is open during regular business hours.

One of the more-important things I wrote for kuro5hin.org (RIP) was titled Who Are Your Lifelines? [0]. It was about the passenger who called me from jail because he remembered my number. I went to visit, got his gmail password... Eventually I bailed him out myself, as it was "only" $300... I exercise my mental phone book regularly on his account.

When I helped him out the last time he was arrested (on a 2-year old warrant for a missed court appearance), he had no choice but to write off his phone, as he had no identification by which to get his property back.

[0] http://www.taxiwars.org/p/who-are-your-lifelines.html

The other passenger was a young woman who was released 15 miles from where she was picked up [1], when the city cops found a blond-haired white woman who was a better candidate for the beer thief they were looking for. Even if she'd had a cell phone with phone numbers of people she might've called for a ride, she only would have been able to reclaim it during banking hours, not at 10pm when she was released to the street. A hotel let her use their phone to call the taxi company for a ride.

[1] Ordinary Rendition: The Public Servants' Quagmire, https://www.taxiwars.org/2017/10/ordinary-rendition-public-s...

Sometimes justice is important, sometimes "justice" is a rigged game. We all pay the price for its flawed implementation.
> Amazon or Google review the security of the voice app before it is published. We change the functionality after this review, which does not prompt a second round review

How is this not a massive red flag?
This post was flagged while I was writing a comment. I had to "vouch" for it to get it unflagged -- I didn't see anything wrong with it.
As orf said you have no idea about their codebase. And you have no idea what's included in that statement -- given that they talk about startup time, they most likely are taking into account the whole framework, a plethora of admin and analytics tools, lots of debugging / debug-only infrastructure, migrations, lots of tooling whose sole purpose is making it easier to work in large teams, etc…

(And for the record, Linux is ~37 million lines of actual code, Postgres ~2 million, and gcc ~8 million)

There's nothing absurd about one of the most visited websites on earth to be a couple million LOC.
This whole thread has been rather surprising to me, we've been enjoying Disney+ for a few weeks now and I've been amazed how wonderful all the content is. I've never seen any errors or the issue described in this article (I'm on Mac).

The only thing about the UI that I miss is that it does not respond to keyboard shortcuts (like pressing spacebar to start and stop the playback).

But overall, I've been very happy and impressed with the service.
I imagine you'd see a lot more casual piracy if it were trivial to copy, i.e., people just sending the videos to their friends.
As someone who is a law abiding citizen in the Netherlands, I am jealous.
Thanks for writing. I am not clear which profile photo you are referring to. Currently I am testing the page as a stand alone product.

The alert 'john is ...' is not appropriate for what I have in mind. What I am aiming at is a somewhat more planned meeting. My friend sees I am available next weekend, contacts me and we plan the meeting.

Appreciate your sponsorship idea though.

Thanks
I found the claim that OS/2’s difficulty to run in a VM lead to Virtualbox pretty fascinating. I can’t find any direct sources for this claim at a cursory glance but it does seem that Virtualbox supported OS/2 quite early on. Interestingly, it seems that Virtualbox began life in 2007, which makes it confusing if true; why were people so interested in virtualizing OS/2 in 2007?
Online Communities and the Primal Urge to Belong
Show HN: Aim and Shoot – A game where your opponents are neural networks
> when does it even go live officially?

November 12 in US, CA, NL. More countries on the 19th.
Ha ha, agreed that is a useful distinction. I confess to not reading the article...

But at some level I think only considering personal gain is negative

Otherwise we would say tobacco companies weren't negative to surpress evidence of cancer... Just because they want to sell cigarettes

Are coca-cola undermining the common ground? If they openly try to resolve these issues, I don't think anyone would call it negative

-- I want coca-cola to be their own main advocates for improvement
This is fair too but I think most experienced engineers for whom stack is a valid consideration have some experience with at least one dynamically typed language and one statically typed language and can self-select out of roles if they have a strong preference either way. And I don't know anyone for whom this was an actual blocker as opposed to an annoyance (in either direction) that they got used to after a while. On the whole, I think it's less likely for this to be a serious issue than, say, the details wrt how the system is architected and how the organization is run, some of which you won't really get to know until you start.
It's a shame you can't use bitmapped fonts - I find that Terminus at 9pts is the most legible whilst being still small on a range of DPIs. The truetype version of Terminus is truly awful and does not carry over the legibility of it's bitmapped counterpart.
You can learn a lot from explorations like this.

It may be a good opportunity to check out some existing solutions to make this easier / that does this for you: Gatsby, StoryForj, Webflow, Bubble.
There are some organizations (though I don't know how plentiful) that use real data to derive these alerts. And I'd say that as long as it's all above-board and not fake data, that 15% is legitimately earned.
Turns out they're absolutely wrong absolutes, too, since Bourne's shell, as it shipped in V7, supported set -e.
In order to get the highest level protection in widevine (the numbering is confusing) the decryption code and secure media path all need to be provisioned by the OEM. In otherwords the “other people” running code in the Secure Enclave is the device manufacturer. If you don’t trust them you are already sunk.
Low-level anxiety, procrastination, jittery energy useless for humdrum work, bad overall energy levels if you consume alot of strong coffee, painful wakeup in the morning, adrenalised brain geared to snap decisions rather than measured reasoning.

Or

Bounce out of bed at 100% energy, fluid easy reasoning, easier learning, relaxed, enjoy slow movies, good overall energy, fine with humdrum activities, far less procrastination. Less impatient with people.

The caffeine-energy thing is pretty bogus. The problem for me is that I find it fun.

Just realise that giving up caffine means tapering for many people as the migrained a heavy coffee drinker can get form cold-turkey can be the worst, worse than anything I;ve ever had before. Also, even decaf and cocoa have too much caffeine, and with the reduction in tolerance as you come down in dose, so you become more sensitive. You really have to give it up completely, which is a shame. But the upside is massive.
> But its also true that we somehow raise girls to be more sensitive to societal expectations than men. The whole thing is deliciously complicated.

I don't think that's true, it's more that society has different expectations for men and women. Men are expected to make money to prove their worth (hence the wage gap). Women are expected to maintain social connections to prove their worth (hence the friendship gap).
Blender 2.8 looks like an improvement but as someone fairly adept in Photoshop, Illustrator, 3DS Max, After Effects, Ableton, Unity etc I still find it one of the trickiest apps to wrap my head around.

It's not that the apps I already know have an especially good UX or that Blender is especially bad - it's just that Blender makes few concessions to existing conventions and doesn't provide much in terms of discoverability.

2.8 is definitely a step in the right direction but lets not get ahead of ourselves in praising it as suddenly becoming a paragon of usability.
This paper, linked to from that page, also has some very interesting material in it, particularly on the use of RONA (Return On Net Assets) as a metric: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2011/02/04/2014130646...
While I understand why Disney is getting much hate here at HN, I don’t think Disney really deserves it; Let’s face it, Linux is a very niche OS.

Just flipping on a switch for level 3 on Linux also takes money, as then they have to check whether it’s working at every deploy, provide customer support for them, etc, ...

And there’s people in this thread that DRMs are pointless... but IMO DRMs aren’t useless, it works as a small barrier for users to not copy. Think about two hypothetical people A and B for example;

When DRM exists:
A talking to B “Hey, I’ve watched the movie XXX from Disney+ last night, you really should subscribe to see that great movie!”

When DRM doesn’t exist:
A talking to B “Hey, I’ve watched the movie XXX from Disney+ last night, you really should see it. I’ll give the movie file in my USB tomorrow.”

I don’t like the company-tired nature of DRMs, but not much of a solution exists, esp when DRM was rejected by the web standards.
True, but none of the players that be will add one voluntarily.
Typescript was exactly what I was going to mention in reply
Focusing their attention on the platforms that are most critical at first launch, I'd guess.
This article is about a term, "Emotional Labor" being used more broadly than the inventor of the term appreciates. She thinks it waters down the impact of the word.

Her definition of "Emotional Labor" is most succinctly: Work performed with the intention of creating a feeling. Additionally, it's important in such roles that you manage your own feelings: You might need to be nicer or less nice in your role than you're typically comfortable with.

Her examples are social workers, teachers, flight attendants. It might also be a clown who is paid to make kids feel happy at a party even if the clown is really sad that day.

The inventor of the term wants to be clear that there is no gender specificity to it and that it might be a tool used by the feminist movement to classify work mostly done by women as emotional work because women are emotional, but that line of thinking shuts down conversations about emotional work that apply to all parties involved regardless of gender.
> ... that regularly hires former convicts

It's quite surprising to read this type of comments. Where I live (western Europe), I've never met anyone who went to jail, it's really uncommon. I just checked, the incarceration rate is almost ten times higher in the US.
From their response it sounds like they are on it, it's still 3 weeks until the official launch in the bigger markets and it's only live in NL as a test market right now.

To me it sounds like a normal bug for an edge case. It's made out to be much more than it actually is with this clickbait title.
Imagine if any sort of change is possible in terms of regulation transparency, etc. You are tasked with writing a tailored / scoping a way to manage human sources:

Could you describe in words how to make a friend, or courtship that applies to every situation, or every person, and every situation?

Try to quantify how disruptive it is (or isn't) to send in a source, verse tap lines, etc. How does it effect their life?

Does it involve a foreign target or a US one? Should they be dealt with differently?

Can you write a regulation something flexible enough a wide array of circumstances / need to acquire information can be satisfied, but minimize intrusion upon people?

If someone had a better idea, what's wrong with that? But most people, including informant handlers themselves - which are human beings also - can't even figure out own personal relationships. I could only imagine how traumatic their family, love and social life has been for them to get in that position.
How much would it cost to buy hardware equivalent to the Pano G2 as new?
Just bought a t495 for myself and my business partner. Returned both, the keyboard is horrendous. Lookup nkey rollover, typing on the keyboard was full of missing and transposed letters. Will never buy another Lenovo again.
Lol really? Guess what Kevin, building a fast car and not learning how to drive a fast car has consequences. I have a a 650 HP mustang, one of the first things I did was take classes on how to handle high horsepower vehicles. What an idiot.
This guy stabbed his brother to death while sleeping. I mean that is a pretty bad crime. If he wasn't white would he have a job?

Also checkr basically helps put people out of jobs by background checking them.
I don't know about iOS, but at least on Android it's easy to decompile Java. Variable names aren't going to be the same, so you won't see the deliberate intent as you see here, but you'd still see that the number was randomly generated.

Now, if they generated the value server-side then we'd really never know, whether it's a mobile app or a web page... not that I want to give scumbags ideas, but this is pretty obvious.
It was explained, I'm reading the 3rd book right now! I think it was explained in the 2nd...
I like Python, but I often wonder how many developers use Python because they actually use dynamic language features versus just liking the languages' clean syntax and library ecosystem. I'm surprised languages that offer both REPL (for development) and AOT native compilation (for production), like OCaml, are not more popular. Evidence that syntax matters, I guess. :)

mypy and mypyc are interesting but their compile-time checks and optimizations are still hampered by Python's dynamic language semantics.
Features that are "not complicated" can actually very easily be "very complicated" at scale. Which Instagram does have. 500 million users, every single day.
As someone who downloaded 2.8 just to poke around a bit and see what it can do for fun can you give some examples of "makes few concessions to existing conventions"?
That hidden files toggle shortcut is amazing! I've always used a terminal command I have saved in notes to do that.

So much easier!

Embarrassingly I am not new to OSX/MacOS.
That's the funny thing about this whole thing they keep using terms like security when what they're really talking about is anti-saving/copying/skipping/fastforwarding and region blocking.