skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly suspect that, among wealthy tech workers, children are a net drain when you factor in:

- These workers have enough income to finance their own retirement easily

- The additional real estate to raise children near a tech hub is often prohibitively expensive

- These kids will almost certainly go to college and maybe private school, which adds up _rapidly_

It's important to consider _who_ we are talking about here.
Are you arguing that the 1976 Swine Flue vaccine incident is the worst possible case or the worst possible case on record? If the former, then what is your evidence or reasoning for that? If the latter, how do we know that this is the worst case we can expect?
Just like most things, the answer is "it depends" since it's really not that simple. This is a great article but the answer seems obvious to me.

The web today is starting to get divided into apps and sites. HN is a site for example. It is small, loads fast etc and works well for it's intended use case.

When I listen to music or podcasts in a web site, I want it to act like an app and for that to happen more stuff has to happen in the client. Thus leading to a longer load time and execution time. This is something I can live with though, since I can do stuff on the web that was impossible just a few years ago. I am also developing apps that was impossible to do on the web a few years ago.

I want to use both sites like looking up that store and order some stuff and apps like doing design or consuming music and video.

I prefer web apps that are done well rather than native apps. I don't have to download anything and they are free from the shackles of Apple, Google and Microsoft. Also, you don't have to make them bloated and big. You don't have to use a framework. You can use web components and maybe some small router library and you have the most important stuff a front end framework gives you.

Just check fastmail, their client is super fast and is a very well done SPA app. Then you can look at Reddit, which is a horrible mess. Like any app, any language you can make the experience shitty and you can make it awesome.
> It's not fair to blame people for "choosing" to have children because, in the aggregate, the majority of people need to have children in order for society to survive. So it's not really a choice if a majority of people have to do it or everything goes to shit.

You don't need childcare for /20/ years. If you're a stay at home parent for 20 years, that is most definitely a choice.

> If you think $53k is rough for one person to survive on, wait till you see how hard it is for two people to survive on $22k!

I don't know why you think two people are surviving on $22k? It's one person and they can still get a job and keep the income. The $75k becomes $54,000 after tax. Which then becomes $32,000. So, bye bye 40% of your net income. In many cases - having a spouse living with you doesn't require spending 40% of your net income every month.
So Oxford (the Jenner Institute / Oxford Vaccine Group) developed the vaccine but they're partnering with AZ to get it tested and then manufactured and distributed if the testing goes well. Oxford sponsored the initial studies and AZ is taking over now that it's more sophisticated and expensive.

Short background here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/coronavirus-us-gives-astraze...
> I left.

You know, this is one thing I need to learn: when to bail out on a situation that's beyond repair. I have a bit of a mental block about quitting without anything lined up, and job searching is just annoying enough for me to not want to do it without the incentive of needing to replace a paycheck. But, there are definitely a couple times in my career that I should have left long before I did, and I believe things would have worked out much better for me if I had.

I'm interested on anyone's thoughts on "when it's time to leave."
Sure you do. You can locally disable their ability to remotely disable the car. Perfectly legal.
Fire early, fire often.
What the OP should teach us is that there wasn't any one mainframe approach. There were many approaches, each involving many components. The process of standardizing what we now know as POSIX involved pruning a lot of unnecessary pieces, but it also inevitably involved leaving out some features that might actually have been useful. Some of them (ahem ACLs) even had to be added back in later versions of POSIX. Just as we should never stop looking for new ideas that can make our lives as programmers and users easier, we should also never forget old ideas whose time might well have come back around. It has happened too many times for the possibility to be ignored except by fools.
The Beatles were the biggest pop act in history. They'd never crack the top-40 today.
Man that’s shitty, unless I guess that’s your thing. A few posters here would love to be in that environment
That would be a 100% correct observation if I didn't own a car right now, but I do. I just didn't buy it. I received it as a hand-me-down gift.

Owning a car certainly shifted my lifestyle, but it didn't change my preferred car type.
It's false and extremist to suggest that US response to 9/11 and ISIS etc. however misplaced in some areas, is a 'war of extermination'.

The 'War on Terror' is real, and ongoing today, and involves almost every state in the world.
> There is a fundamental difference in the urgency of attending a protest versus attending the Sturgis rally.

The constitution deliberately makes no such distinction.
While you are looking for HTML5 over an app, in app-land, there are the DragonBox games. Very, very well done. My kids loved those games.

As far as other games go that are free online, there are plenty of options. Check out Set, KenKen, Sudoku, Vertex, Tiles, and 2048.
Mass shootings (either, school shootings, shootings in church, shootings in clubs, that vegas shooter, the occasional incel shooter, etc.. etc..), are a form of terrorism, albeit not necessary with political motives.

Most of the world do not experience them either.
Not trying to make this political, but I wanted to point out my initial thoughts: It's probably safe to say a good majority of these tech employees skew left, and I'm sure a bulk of these "resenters" were the same people barking on facebook about keeping schools/businesses/daycares/etc closed down. However, the underlying causes of resentment discussed here are the 3rd and 4th order effects of keeping everything closed down. It honestly just sounds like once the "resenters" have skin in the game and are immediately impacted by the policies they're pushing, their reaction is to kick the nearest dad in the balls.
I spend a lot of downtime in what I thought was a very remote area of the Rockies. I learned many neighbors have been doing satellite Internet for years, though. Recently I started getting very good cell phone service, too. No other utilities, hardly accessible during the winter - but I can still check Hacker News.
Can you please explain in a paragraph what this book made you understand about Apple?
Try it with awwwards websites. A spinning wheel is almost a requirement.
Cmon, a guy with a sword as the first graphic? This is the Bronze Age - a club is a better weapon at that point...
Simple linkedin lifehack:

1. put utf8 emoji at start of your name with space following it and then your first and last name. whatever emoji do: smile, country flag, beer. you name it.

2. discard any connect request or inmail or message that starts with 'Hello <emoji>' - it is automated

3. profit :)
> mainly attended by locals

Significant percentage of the arrestees are _not_ locals. Look it up. Booking records are public.
This article was impossible not to read all the way through. I really hope to be able to write in such a compelling way at some point in my life. Admittedly, the subject matter of an epic battle is probably intrinsically more interesting than what I'll typically write about in my career, but still, the author tells such a vivid story by diving into minute details only to zoom back out to a broader context.
It's been three minutes, how could it already be underrated?
I would posit that no one should be working until 11 and everyone should be comfortable saying its 6pm, I'm going home. It's not the parents fault there is resentment its everyone else's for allowing themselves to be abused into working until 11.

We turn on each other when we should really be focused on those making us work the late hours.
Ok, it is not the 50s but why could people do it in the 50s and why can't we do it now?

We are hearing "automation will destroy jobs" left and right and for some reason, we can't afford stay at home moms.

The "universal child care" argument makes me feel uncomfortable. It one step short of a dystopia. One where women would surrender their child to a state sponsored center where child care specialists make them productive members of society. Freed from their child rearing duty, "mothers" can continue working efficiently.

Why not just let mothers be mothers? What's the point of progress if we can't even do that. And also turn gender equality the right way, by letting fathers be fathers instead of requiring both parents to work full time.
I haven't actually been able to verify with multiple 500GB hard drives, but the exact byte count I quoted does seem to be universally standard for 500GB SSDs.
Obesity is the reason healthcare premiums are high though. I’d rather wear a mask than pay for obese people to get a quadruple bypass.

Coronavirus isn’t the reason you haven’t met your friends and family in months. The disease isn’t violent enough to warrant that level of action. Everyone I know spent their Labor Day with their friends and families. That is your decision.
some* - the demographic is not a block, no more than married guys.

I'm a deeply introverted single guy, but personally I'm done with this. I don't like video games or TV, and virtual meet ups are so two dimensional... my pets and plants have kept me sane but I need real people again.
I'm on a project right now that's essentially all "taking out the garbage." I sort of feel like a garden gnome, fixing minor little issues here and there, but, this is all being done with institutional support, from my manager on up, so I have no doubt that I'll be rewarded appropriately for it. One of the bigger components of the project is going to end up saving one of our client teams about 9 man hours a day. In the end, I think that's a good enough result to justify a little garbage hauling.
Gas is crazy. The only time I needed to have gas pipes rerouted, it needed a change before the meter and the shut-off valve. So the gas company guys started the work ... by cutting a live gas pipe, intentionally lighting the leaking gas on fire, and welding a connection while the not-yet-welded hole was acting as a small flamethrower. Apparently that's considered safe to do with low-pressure small diameter pipes, but it seemed absolutely, totally insane.
>Seems like an exotic case,

I've worked with enough people who used adobe because "I've already payed for this month, so I have to use this" that I'm not sure it's that exotic.

And while sunk cost may not be a huge issue, it's definitely still there.

I'm not going to make any sort of comment on anything else in this thread, because I don't really know what I'm talking about.

However, I don't see how it's possible for someone to derive more benefit from an app overall by paying a higher subscription.

Your subscribers might correlate better with people who are benefiting, but for an individual, either they [Pay less and have the same amount of possible benefit] or [Pay more and have the same amount of possible benefit]. How does it work out that they get better value from the second option?
> - Log files. Append-only mode, enforced. Can't seek back and overwrite. On a crash, the file recovers to some recent good write, with a correct end of file position. It does not tail off into junk.

Linux already semi-supports this with chattr +a, which is filesystem-specific, plus filesystem-specific mount options (e.g. data=journal). unfortunately, implementing the latter is non-trivial to do on a per-file basis.

> - Temp files. Not persistent over restarts. Not backed up. Can be memory-mapped as read/write. On a crash, disappears.

O_TMPFILE exists on Linux, and I don't know of any reason why it couldn't be added to POSIX.

> - Managed files. These are for databases. Async I/O available. May have additional locking functions. Separate completion returns for "accepted data" (caller can reuse write buffer) and "committed data" (safely stored), so the database knows when the data has been safely stored. Can be memory-mapped as read/write. Intended for use by programs which are very aware of the file system semantics. On a crash, "committed data" should be intact but data not yet committed may be lost.

io_uring exists now.

these features are Linux-specific, but my point is that these features do exist now already, there is no need to wish for them.
That's just untrue.

Saying it is very inconsiderate of the efforts of everyone writing real world Haskell software.

Facebook uses Haskell, Github uses Haskell, etc... the metaphor doesn't hold and means this is just FUD.

On top of that, you're actually talking to a working professional Haskell programmer whose company depends on it.
Not tracking the real world anymore
I wish people would stop smoking. But since they likely won't, I feel the obligation to fund lung cancer research, to help the future cancer patients.

I wish people would stop having children. But since they likely won't, I feel the obligation to keep the environment reasonably clean, to help the future humans.
One feature that I’ve wished for many times is a transactional filesystem, for metadata and the actual contents itself.
Not if it involves breaking any digital locks or decryption, iirc.
How did Ramanujan solve the STRAND puzzle?
Not sure why people are downvoting this.
The US War against Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, the economic war against Iran and the shooting war against Yemen are not a misplaced response against terrorism. It is the US State Department deciding that actors opposed to US interests must be exterminated with unbelievable violence no matter the cost. It has nothing to do with terrorism, it is purely for military domination and imperialism.
They never seemed to worry about paying for those of us who don't live in year round 70degree weather to be comfortable.

It seems bizarre to say that CA is so expensive due to the poor choices of people who live there, and the solution is for everyone else to pay their exorbitant luxury bills for them.
>Did I make a mistake having children? What is this shitshow of a world I've brought them into? I'll be honest, we're already a world fraught for resources and maybe we all need to think about the duty to the next generation is to not have kids.

I've also had the same thoughts. I was content not having kids for these reasons, but the spouse wanted to experience being a parent.
That's just not true. It's precursor, Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, predates the Iraq war. It is true that the downfall of Saddam gave them opportunity, you can't definitively say similar opportunity wouldn't have come about in an Arab spring uprising just as there was in Syria. Islamist and Jihadists groups are all throughout the region and sub Saharan Africa. To claim that these are just American reactionaries is a self centered western view.
This is entirely untrue, or at least, very misleading.

ISIS (whatever the longer, more complicated history) was empowered and truly came into being in Syria during the uprising against Assad, initiated, ironically by whistleblower Chelsea Manning during the 'Arab Spring'.

ISIS was able to spread into Iraq because of the lack of US power, not because of the presence of it.
I don't see anything as to which country the group specifically emerged in, but it looks like they've been around longer than I thought they had.

"ISIL originated as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and participated in the Iraqi insurgency following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by Western forces at the behest of the United States. In June 2014, the group proclaimed itself a worldwide caliphate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_...
If the user follows an Internet Archive URL (or Google cache URL or BING cache URL or ...), then does she still she reach "the server the webmaster wants reachable".

SNI, more specifically sending domain names in plaintext over the wire when using HTTPS, matters to the IETF because they have gone through the trouble of encrypting server certificate in TLS 1.3 and eventually they will be encrypting SNI. If you truly know "how the web works", then you should be able to figure out why they think domain names in plaintext is an issue.
Everything sexual is forbidden, blm is forbidden...

Yuck.
Do the adenos actually have to infect the cells to produce the spikes?
Privatized the gains, socialize the losses?
I don't know whether or not the 10 weeks of family leave will remain after the COVID-19 pandemic slows. Maybe it will, maybe it won't.

The point is that the response to the pandemic was to give stressed parents up to 10 weeks of additional leave and to tell stressed non-parents to use their 3 mental health days (which parents also get). I don't think it's crazy for a stressed non-parent to look at that and feel like the company doesn't think (or doesn't care) that the pandemic affects them at all.
That's not it exactly. It's more about everyone pulling equal weight, not about getting freebies at others' expense. It's also about the correct realization that some problems can only be solved by the actions of society as a whole, that individual choices alone cannot sufficiently solve the problem. E.g. I alone can't solve the problem of catastrophic climate change no matter how green I live in my own life.
Thanks! I agree I did build this trying to include sources from left, right and center so that someone could get a sense of the climate in a quick glance without being in the FB news algorithm bubble. Getting people to use it is another thing entirely.
This is one of the main reasons why I do 90% of my web browsing in emacs-w3m, which does not support Javascript.

Avoiding Javascript not only lets me avoid all that bloat and slowdown, but also avoid Javascript-based tracking, malware, and exposing myself to Javascript vulnerabilities.

I also have the power of the entire Emacs ecosystem at my fingertips when I surf the web this way, which can be very helpful in many ways.

Unfortunately, some sites I find essential will not work without Javascript, and for them I go back to Firefox.

In Firefox, I use uMatrix and uBlock Origin to only allow through the minimal amount of stuff that'll let the web page work, and filter out ads.

I have a really old, slow laptop, so web browsing is slow for me, but not nearly as slow as it would be if I consented to swallow all the crap that the modern web tries to force down my throat.

I yearn for the good old days without Javascript or Webassembly. There was Flash back in those days, but fortunately not a single serious site I ever visited required it, so I could avoid every Flash-using site like the plague. But today the Javascript plague is unavoidable.
Honestly, when public policy is garbage and everyone has to deal with unreasonable demands, it is quite natural for groups to turn on each other rather than to demand more for everyone.

This entire experience has been difficult for everyone, and everyone is somewhere on a spectrum of minimal disruption to profound stress. I have kids, but it's been "ok" so far. On the other hand I know of a woman who is an attorney representing abused children. Her childcare bailed on her at the last minute. She had to do a zoom trial while her 2 year old began screaming in the background and she had no one to take over her case or her child. She literally broke down in court. There was no obvious "solution" to that situation.

I don't have a conclusion other than it is up to employers and government to provide resources so that we aren't all fighting like animals over the scraps.
Great answer! I didn't know about The Population Bomb. I was more worried about climate change. As far as I know, the planet can feed a few billion extra people.

> Raising a child is spending 20-40 hrs a week for 18 years [...] to create another person [...] who will spend ~40 years generating GDP and paying taxes

Let's not forget that this person will eventually retire and require increasingly expensive care.

That makes me curious. If the current economy can only function with a growing population, then it takes > 1 person to subsidise your upbringing/retirement. Does that mean that 1 human life costs more than the output of a human's entire life?
Cat made my day the rest of this thread is a dumpster fire
It's a fringe viewpoint but some knowledgeable people have argued that Pan troglodytes is better called Homo troglodytes. Perhaps GP is among them.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2003/05/chimps-be...
The UK surprises me. It split off into a recogniseable form far quicker than I would have expected
Letting parents with kids to arrange work schedule however they see fit is the least we can do. I understand there will be some professions/situations where it is not possible but it should be used as a general rule otherwise.

We already have large segments of populace fucked up by the growing inequality and subjecting people to even more is really bad idea I think.
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> Freedom to go to bars (closed), clubs (closed), trips (not happening), concerts (canceled), conventions (postponed indefinitely), festivals (closed), etc...

I also love all of these things. I'm sorry you're bored.

> Most things childfree people get meaning out of are canceled until further notice.

Not really. Consider the following:

- Athletics: running, hiking, boating, bicycling

- Social Activity: responsible, socially-distant, get-togethers with your best friends

- Engineering: personal electronics projects, programming projects, automotive projects

- Entertainment: read a book, watch a movie, catch up on some TV

edit: To be clear, I think a major problem with this discussion is how it's being framed as a zero-sum game: either parents work more or non-parents work more. I believe smarter companies and better bosses will try to keep pressure off their employees.
It's more fair to say "save some money for a rainy day" or "you will have to sacrifice some of your quality of life and savings due to the pandemic".