skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I didn't say anything about eliminating jobs. Just that I, personally, see no reason to tie the idea of going back to work to a vaccine.

I think we would do better to look for germ control solutions that are already proven and available currently. As one example, ordering online or calling ahead and picking up is a way to support local eateries while minimizing the spread of germs. I'm a big fan of Little Caesar's pizza portal as a contactless pick-up option and I don't see any reason we can't actively promote such existing practices right here, right now, instead of seemingly hanging all hopes on "there will be a vaccine and after it comes out, we can just keep doing the same things the same way."

That seems like needless suffering to me. We don't know how long that will take and, in the mean time, people need to survive right now. Not having any money/resources at all coming in for X months is not survivable for most people who don't have savings and the like to live off of.
This looks pretty impressive:

Terminal.Gui - Terminal GUI toolkit for .NET

https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs

Written by Miguel de Icaza.

Hanselman wrote on it here:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/Its2020AndItIsTimeForTextMode...

and here:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DotnetDependsIsAGreatTextMode...
Yes this is what I meant, thanks for clarifying.
It's not possible to sustain in this climate.

If the parent is going to bother messing with an aggregator of this nature in today's particularly belligerent political atmosphere, they should capitulate and make it narrow. Plausibly build one for each major group (ie one for Democrats and Republicans). Swim with the echo chambers, if you want your product to be successful. You can be aspirational about creating a calm, well behaved political environment online that brings everyone together in reasoned discussion, and your product is guaranteed to fail.

The relative absence of politics in HN discussions is one of the key reasons it still works so well as a community with so much diversity of thought. Especially as things have changed increasingly in the past decade, as political vitriol has gotten worse by the year.

I can hear the retort: yeah but that's just giving in to everything that's wrong today, you should resist! Un huh, good luck with that. It's a nice sentiment and it will not work out. It's like waving your fists furiously at a tsunami wave as it drowns and breaks you. It will overwhelm your best efforts and you will suffer immensely for it.
I don’t see for what audience that would be a great app.

The questions most, if not all, drivers want to answer are “Should I drive into this street?” and “Where should I stop?”.

Street names and house numbers only answer such questions indirectly. Arrows and a marker “target reached” answer them much better.
Uhm wouldn't the 5 star reviews be for seeds? Or is it trivial to change a listing for seeds to diamond earrings?
I think this comment is correct and is something that is being missed in the present conversation. For those who disagree -- isn't it better to take realistic steps to help people instead of just crossing our fingers and waiting for a vaccine?
Come to the Midwest. Here's how we do it. First of all, you can't retire at 30 on an entry level engineer salary (poetic license taken). Second, there are no child care benefits.

Instead, parents with kids split things up. One parent (usually the one who was earning less anyway) dials down their career, perhaps by going part time. The other parent dials up, by competing for promotions. For instance, it's almost like clockwork that someone announces the birth of their first child, and shortly after that, they've become a project- or middle-manager, or they've gone to work somewhere else. A few years later, when their family life stabilizes, they might come back to engineering. That's what I did.

This is a known economic effect. More than half of workers will change jobs for higher pay shortly after their first kid is born. There was a study of unskilled single women in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. After adjusting for everything else, the ones with kids tended to work for higher pay, changed jobs more often, and worked further from home.

This is all pre-COVID of course, but is how things have worked for decades.

Is this a good thing? Well, it stratifies the career ladder quite noticeably. How do you make it so that people with kids aren't running the entire show? Likewise for society as a whole?

In my view, employer based child care benefits make about as much sense as employer based health care benefits.
Then the leadership should plan around this, given covid has so far been an 8 month+ shitshow into the future. If leadership can't handle a chronic issue within the org then this is bad leadership.
Depends on the state and employer, in California at a big tech firm you generally receive full pay for FMLA leave (since the employer will top up the reduced amount provided by the state).

But then it's the same with parental leave, which also depends on the state and employer.
That's a brilliant point.
The anti-natalism in tech is just totally unsustainable. What will it become, a race to hire the last remaining infertile young people? Who will provide new humans to replace them - other families that aren't in tech? Parents have a strong influence on the careers of their children - we expect to completely remove that influence, since we will have no parents in tech - and expect their children to discover tech careers of their own accord?
Communication. Talk to your teammates, its usually pretty obvious if someone is bullshitting you.

Decent managers already know who their over- and under-performers are. Using "time at work" as a proxy for performance generally doesn't work well in general.
> For once or twice that might be okay, but if became a chronic problem, no wonder they are not happy.

It's a global pandemic, by definition it's not a chronic problem.

I mean, look, we had this problem solved. That's what public education, daycare facilities, child care contractors, grandparents, etc... are for. And this system worked. And it's been disrupted.

That loss is real, but it's not the parents' fault that the pandemic happened either. Why should they be (per your analysis) the ones to bear the costs of the disruption to their particular (and extremely common!) lifestyle?
You're right, it doesn't. It's the principle I wanted to point out. How can there be meaningful or good-faith discussion if one party's perspective is misrepresented?
That attitude is asking to get a "needs improvement" on your APR.
David Graeber pushed us to imagine greater human possibilities
After reading Shape Up by Ryan Singer we decided to try it out. It's been incredible improvement. We are now able to focus deeply on hard problems, take guilt-free time to rest and sharpen our skills, and regularly think long term about the direction of our work. I just wrote about about it in-depth on my blog:

https://ncphi.dev/blog/implementing-shape-up
Man used online ticketing glitch to scam American Airlines out of $160K
> At the end of the day, everyone's human, so there should be a little bit of slack in the staffing - long term - so that when someone's unavailable, nobody is drowning.

I once as a very junior programmer asked a lead why we kept planning 75% of our capacity every month when we were hitting - and exceeding - our deliverables like clockwork.

Then one month we had to do a death march to build features that had some $$$ tied to them. Did I ever learn why a little slack was critical.
I'm not so sure. I believe Amazon customers are getting a push notification on their mobile device for every delivery notification, which leads me to believe (at least in the case of Amazon) they have the data.
The ProtonMail app is open source:
https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-mail-android

As is the bridge, and others.

I moved over ~6gb of emails without issue. I set up the bridge and transferred everything from Google to ProtonMail.
What harm is there in your neighbor watching you take a shower?
Oh, duh, yes. one line added, two lines changed, I've left them at their indent levels and left the variable name the same:

use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU32, Ordering};

let res_mutex = AtomicU32::new(0);

res_mutex.fetch_add(result, Ordering::SeqCst);
Dwata: Understand, monitor or manage Business data without SQL or code
so the solution is that everyone should focus on career and not have kids? that seems like a great long term strategy for society
Would anyone hate to "pickup workload" from anyone else for any other reason? I don't know: maybe colleague goes on PTO, maybe colleague is sick, maybe colleague isn't as experienced on doing something and takes longer, maybe colleague has a disability and not everything is in place to offset the handicap...etc

If the problem is chronic isn't that a stronger indication that you're facing a management problem?
This. The right way to do it is to offer ALL employees the same time off/benefits.
I will guess the sentiment is common to people who get upset when their coworkers get to take cigarette breaks and they don’t. The perceived unfairness of them getting a benefit you want (10 minute break every hour hanging out behind the store) compounded by the feeling that they are the better one because smoking is a bad thing anyway so why am I being “punished” for making the right choice?

Those of us with parents understand the other commenters point about what’s next “getting upset about cancer patients going to the doctor” because yeah...we love our children very much. Childless people can be forgiven for thinking that the time is more akin to sitting around the table playing a board game with everyone laughing and having a great time so they are resentful that you are getting a benefit in the form of extra time off and for a lot of them probably compounded by the feeling that they made the better noble decision by having no kids.

In both cases the business is letting it happen (smoke breaks and child care) for really only one reason. It makes more business sense to accommodate the issue then it does to try and fight it when the cause is societal and pervasive.
Yes it is. They should hire another person.
Not sure why previous contact with a company matters?

Here's what the U.S. Federal Trade Commission says about receiving packages you didn't order [1]:

"What do you do when you receive merchandise that you didn’t order? According to the Federal Trade Commission, you don’t have to pay for it. Federal laws prohibit mailing unordered merchandise to consumers and then demanding payment."

There is obvious nuance here [2]. Maybe receiving "stolen property" for example. But if the item is addressed to you, and you didn't order it, I think you're in the clear, and certainly nobody can demand payment and enforce it.

-edit-

This reminds me of the scams in Europe where someone will grab your hand and put a bracelet on or put a flower in your hair or something and demand payment. I've been in this scenario. All you have to do is walk away or just throw the merchandise on the ground. They'll change their tune quickly.

[1] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0181-unordered-merchan...

[2] I'm not a lawyer.
It's true of small companies too. If you don't manage well, there are negative consequences.

Is it possible that what's changed is the price of good leadership?
How many people are going to be using data storage through a web browser and not as a phone app or desktop background service?
About 40% of humans are predisposed, either through biology or upbringing, to blindly follow socially dominant people.

This is why authoritarianism happens.

A disproportionate percentage of socially dominant people are sociopaths who are unfit to lead. This does not matter to authoritarian followers, however, and this is why things like Naziism happen.
And this is a fact you have established from what data?
Are you using a self-signed cert?

I'm getting a "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" from Firefox.
> and receive significantly reduced pay.

That depends on the country you work in. In Poland you get 80% of normal pay which tbh is a really good deal.
From having worked in a different industry before tech, I would say the tech industry is a lot more accommodating than most industries when it comes to whatever employees care about in their personal lives, including parenting.

It's totally fine to not want kids, and nobody should be having kids because they feel pressured to or anything like that.

But most people do want to have kids, and if that is the case, deciding not to have them so you can focus on your career alone is probably not a wise choice. Raising children is a deeply rewarding experience that (assuming good health) lasts your entire lifetime, much longer than your career.

In general, in the west in particular, we often let ourselves be too focused on the short-term material world (how much stuff can I buy, how can I keep my costs low), and not enough on the important immaterial things like relationships and experiences that are more than just numbers in a bank account. Long-term that's a recipe for unhappiness.
But not after 2007?
It is a part of the "engineer mindset"
Honestly, this is why labor unions could help even highly-paid occupations such as software engineering. There needs to be something to serve as a counterweight to management, especially during economic downturns when finding a new job is more difficult.
I've only worked for small companies. The one company that gave me a bad impression about how it treated its employees is the only one that ended up bankrupt.
Saw @dancodes review after making a comment.

Please see here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412737
Maybe my perspective is skewed, but most of our parents in the US have many more retirement options than those of us working will. Our parents have been graced with Pension Plans, Social Security, and Medicare most of which will not exists or will be water down by the time we get to it. They have also benefited from a rise in home prices where they have been able to sell and downsize for a great profit. I don't know anyone from my age group taking care of there parents in anyway currently.
In part.

Politicians pander to their people. Most often by promising take stuff from group A and give it to group B

Killing off your constituents is usually bad for re-election. So mutual self interest.
You are right - that's ncursesw ;)
I have two babies:

- My pure math research (nothing to do with my day job). Possibly resulting in a part-time PhD program.

- My financial portfolio (again not related to my day job).

These two babies of mine are as precious and valuable to me (maybe more) than your human babies are to you. Oh, and they take way more time.

Do I get extra benefits as a parent of two babies?
I was anti-HCL/Terraform for a long time due to issues with state files, but lately I honestly prefer it over Ansible whenever possible.. although I'm still not happy with the way cloud-init works on various cloud providers.
I agree that we should try to adjust to the world we find ourselves in, but there’s only so much problem-solving effort
to go around, and I think most people are already trying to do what they can. It’s tough to reshape society on a dime.
I don't know the biological reasons behind it (I don't even know if the reasons are known, or if it's just based on early results), but Dr. Fauci's said that scientists are hoping for 75% effectiveness and 50-60% effectiveness would be acceptable. (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/coronavirus-vaccine-dr-fauci...)
... on the price of real estate in hot markets?

Seriously though: as with everything else, your mileage may vary (YMMV). Some people and companies are doing great with it and making it permanent. Others are experiencing issues. It has to do with what you are doing and the personalities in your organization.
Show HN: Remotely Controlled Escape Room
Hey, Hacker News! I launched an escape room venue in Orlando about four weeks before everything went into COVID-19 lockdown. My team and I started noticing remote/virtual escape room offerings that were just Zoom calls where players direct a game master to look at/interact with things in a physical space.

We liked the idea of playing with a real environment from home, but wanted to give players direct control over the environment. Paranormal Panic is our first stab at a remotely playable escape room.

Players have 30 minutes to catch a ghost, and must work together as two squads. Each team connects with a separate device (laptop, desktop, or tablet), and although they have live video feeds from the same room, they see different angles inside it. They also have control over different equipment, and have different information on their control panels.

It's built using Vue, Websockets, Jitsi, Raspberry Pi HQ cameras, and Python.

We got lucky that escape rooms are a reasonably safe entertainment option (gatherings of eight or less, no strangers, sanitized, etc.) during these times, so we're fortunate to have reopened and are seeing good attendance. That said, we hope these remote experiences (esp. as team building events) will be a good supplement to our in-person business. We're developing a few other remote experiences that are more ambitious, and we expect to have them ready soon.
If the vaccine only confers a few months of immunity, like the yearly flu vaccine, how long does it take to develop, produce and distribute the update?
"Purely negative"

Maybe for you, bossman.
>web.archive.org automatically converts the https%3A%2F

Did you try the link provided by the one you replied to?

Because it says "HTTP 400" here, so apparently it doesn't convert well, at least not in my end.
If the employers offer parental leave after the birth of a child then the managers should factor that in to their work allocations. You cannot blame the employee for using a benefit that's part of their contract.
Bullshit. Where is the peer-reviewed research?
They can already do that, considering that most (normal) cars have anti-theft systems (aka remote kill switches). The only thing missing is the API access, like you mentioned.
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Ask HN: Any Pros to Commercial ISP for a Consumer?
See comment below.
> This process can take years if the background rate of infection is low enough.

This is why the phase 3 trials tend to be organised in countries with high rates of infection, such as Brazil, South Africa or India. In locations with low rates of infection it's too likely that the people in the experimental group don't get infected simply because they don't get exposed to the virus.
Not sure where to start with these statements, but they aren't helpful.

"We've seen that herd immunity can be achieved (see Sweden)."

No it can't. By the end of July 2020 only 6% of the population was known to have antibodies, according to the Swedish Public Health Agency[1]. It is estimated that 70% to 90% of a population needs such antibodies to achieve herd immunity[2]

"People under 65 with sufficient levels of vitamin D have extremely low odds of dying from this disease."

Vitamin D has not been scientifically proven as a preventative treatment for COVID-19. The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published a report summarising the research studies on Vitamin D for COVID-19 and found that 'no causal relationship between vitamin D status and COVID‑19 was found after adjustment for confounders such as comorbidity, socio-demographics, ethnicity, BMI and other baseline factors.' [3]

"We're probably already near herd immunity"

If you are referring to the USA here this is likely not true. No one knows the "true" infection rate, but even if you use the upper estimates of Imperial College modelling[4] this figure is 72 million, or 22% of the population.

"... less than even the flu"

Again not true. Every age group has worse outcomes from COVID-19 than the flu. If you are 50-64 you are almost 5 times as likely to die[5]

"... hospitalizations plummeting everywhere"

The hospitalisation rate is down, but not "plummeting". There are still 32,000 people hopsitalised in the U.S. [6] and a number of forecasters predicting a rise over the next 4 weeks[7].

[1] https://bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53498133

[2] https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/achieving-herd-immun...

[3] https://www.nice.org.uk/advice/es28/chapter/Factors-for-deci...

[4] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-models

[5] businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-rate-us-compared-to-flu-by-age-2020-6?r=US&IR=T

[6] https://covidtracking.com/data/national/hospitalization

[7] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/hosp...
In the incident alluded to by the above comment, there was no sarcasm. It was pure, honest ignorance.

If you ask people why they hate Trump, "sarcasm" will probably not come up too much.
"After the program began, the vaccine was associated with an increase in reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome, which can cause paralysis, respiratory arrest, and death."

This vaccine was rushed which had deadly results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak
> The person I was responding to literally said that Haskell wouldn't catch on because most developers aren't smart enough, and then defined "smart" as those three things.

The person used "smart" in scare quotes, and defined that usage of smart as being those things. That seems like an explicit mark that they are not talking about all of the usual definition of the word.

> Second, that being "smart" does not mean that you'd care to learn Haskell.

That's irrelevant. If X is necessary for Y, lack of X is a good explanation for lack of Y even when X is not sufficient for Y.

> God forbid Haskell isn't catching on because of all the valid critiques that show up in every one of these threads and then gets dismissed under this same "Haskell smart" rhetoric.

If you're looking in from the outside, you may not be in a good place to distinguish between "all of these valid critiques" and "invalid complaints that arise because of misunderstanding, dated info, or outright FUD". There are absolutely valid critiques of Haskell. Most of my problems with it are things that are even more present in languages that have caught on, though, so they cannot stand alone as an explanation.

All of that said, "people aren't smart enough" isn't a claim I'd make, even with the reduced scope. I just don't think your argument is well formed.