skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling this "conflating your therapist and employer" is an unfair accusation and clear reductio ad absurdum.

It is training. You are expected to train junior engineers, not just in tech but also in soft skills. Public speaking is a soft skill. It is also something they do in schools. You have to do classroom presentations and reports. I don't think you would make the same argument for them.

Your job should be making you a better employee than you were when you came in (and not just in your hard skills). This is especially true for junior positions. You will be expected to defend your work to your boss and employers. No one is saying to give a talk to an open audience. But you should be able to clearly justify your work.
If a pandemic were the only potential cause of a child not going to school, you'd be right. But it's not. Between mental issues, behavioral issues, and health issues, there's many potential causes for a child to not go to school. Not to mention the first 5 years of a child's life and summers.
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That was manufacturer's defect, not any user/aftermarket modifications, though - so probably not a good comparison.
Specialization is the nature of capitalism so what you say is true. However, not everybody has the aim to optimize "getting ahead in life" in terms of accumulating the most material wealth. A propos of the linked article, I know people in the high desert former-frontier whose ideal retirement is running a lodge or campground, constantly working as a general handyman. To them, that hits on many of the things necessary to find fulfillment: creativity, mastery, autonomy, purpose. They'd rather be put to pasture than trade that for some exorbitantly paying SV gig.
This isn’t an attempt to estimate a typical bill for an asymptomatic individual. It’s an attempt to set an expected value for the costs that will eventually be incurred across the population of asymptomatic patients. They are using a mean to describe how costs will scale with the size of that population (asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 positive) and NOT as a way to describe the typical costs of individuals in that population. The cost distribution is almost certainly a power law. I’d guess the median is zero and the mean is many thousand dollars.
But what is the market? That's a really important question.

If the market is video games in general, Apple is but a tiny sliver of control of that market.

If the market is iOS devices, yes of course Apple controls 100% of that.

Where does the line get drawn? How many outlets does Epic have to sell what it develops? I think that's for the FTC/SEC to determine.
I was fortunate enough to be working for Basho and attended the RICON where mrb gave his distributed systems archaeology talk. It really highlighted for me how so many important ideas are captured in historical whitepapers and often forgotten today.

https://speakerdeck.com/mrb/distributed-systems-archaeology

Regrettably many RICON talks were lost when Basho went out of business, but someone rescued this one. Thanks Alex Ott!

https://youtu.be/om_mAaM5sL8
If Epic was able to install their own app as a store (what they actually want), they would have at least a few tens of millions of users to start with (there's 116 million iOS Fortnite players).

Epic's in the fairly unique position of having a "killer app" that a large portion of the iOS user base would want to install to get the ball rolling on a competing store. Given their rates a much better than Apple's, I imagine a lot of game studios would want to distribute through them, and they could offer cheaper prices and still make more profit, so people would be incentivized to install and use the competing store.

You know, actual competition.
I bought a Roku recently, figuring as a more popular platform than my previous Android TV box that I would get all the popular apps. I was surprised to later learn that I wasn't getting an HBO Max app seemingly because Roku and HBO hadn't agreed on commercial terms (that I hadn't realized even existed). I didn't care, but it ended up affecting me.

The Apple/Epic fought reminds me of when sometimes content owners and cable networks are fighting over affiliate fees and it spills into PR campaigns targeting the public. Typical consumers don't want to think about it, but they can end up effective leverage in the negotiation occurring.
You must have some great doctors to ask questions like these to. In my experience there's nothing cutting edge about any answers I ever got from a doctor, and more often than not it's a predictable, nothing-to-see-here attitude. And I learned long ago to be cautious when I say something like, "I was reading about a study that suggested..." as you risk getting pinned with the loons at worst, and mostly ignored at best.
Lindybeige did a great and relatively short video on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoYj4BZdB1w
I have a 1st grader and pre-schooler.

While the district mandated google classroom for all kids, teachers of younger ages have been given the option of using Seesaw. For young kids its miles better. Even as an adult I find Google classroom to be awful. It feels like enterprise shovelware with bad UX, inefficient workflows, etc.

A lot of it is both how much work the teacher puts in, and how much leeway the school/district give. At this age, it requires an adult nearby at all times. It may be to help him stay on task, occasional assistance (finding something, tech issues, etc.), and even just company of another person. We've had to juggle help from family, and my wife is not working just to keep things going.

We were lucky last year to have an amazing Kinder teacher who did a lot to try and hold things together for the classroom (including 1:1s, summer penpals, and a lot of things on her own time). This year is a WIP, but our school has been very receptive and flexible. I worry most about the kids with two parents who must be at work and cannot give the same level of support we've been able to. They are likely to fall behind :( Thankfully teachers are trying to help those kids the best they can. It is not easy.

Last spring while my son was finishing kindergarten it was extremely difficult. Seesaw helped a lot because they enabled community sharing so kids could see each others work and reply to it. We had to put a lot of effort in to keep him engaged, doing as much work as possible, etc. There were many meltdowns over seemingly simple things like "write 1 word".

Preschool is different and in a tougher position. The primary goal is socialization and kinder-prep. Both are largely out the window for online only. Kids of this age just can't sit for that long in front of a Zoom type session.

In person is limited but now available. The main challenge is preschools are struggling. The regulatory burdens force class sizes to be a fraction of normal. Naps are basically non starter (physical space requirements), food is tricky. That means the pre-schools are losing huge amounts of money every month or laying off staff. To top it off, the recent fires create such pollution you have to choose: (1) Close windows and violate covid regulations (2) Close for the day.
Strange that BeFS/BeOS is not on this list.
Over in Android land, discovery is so meaningless that they switched from sideloading to being in Google Play. As much as I want Epic to be right here, I strongly suspect they're wrong. Apple and Google have trained people to be completely and utterly helpless which (totally coincidentally!) locks people into the app stores forever.
No one is forced to use it: just stop developing for iOS.

Same goes for any other platform like Google Play, Xbox, Nintendo, etc. Or selling concert tickets through Ticketmaster.
That's exactly how contract law works.
And do you have any evidence that well written (but still high level) Julia isn't faster/as fast as fortran in practice?

Poorly written code in any language will be slow, so don't start with that.
Yes. While I disagree with how Apple words, value and treat developers. Along with some of its guideline such as not allowing Apps with Search function that could return Website with COVID 19 information, I felt Epic is picking the wrong battle to fight.

If it was Spotify or some other productivity apps like MS office it would have been better. But Gaming.....
>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?

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are mRNA based, which means the iteration time is measured in weeks. The production process is massively simplified; it's just a chemical process like any other drug, rather than needing to be incubated in chicken eggs like a flu vaccine. The first mRNA vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 were being administered within 2 months of the outbreak. If these things work (and they do; phase 2 trials have shown immunogenicity 3-4 times higher than COVID convalescent plasma [0]), and they are proven to be safe in widespread usage, it will potentially revolutionize vaccine development. COVID could end up saving lives in the long run for the fact that it sped up the timeline on mRNA vaccines by a decade.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.17.20176651v...
Congrats! Looks similar to https://popsql.com/ who just happened to raise a $3.4M seed round in this space:

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/08/popsql-raises-3-4m-seed-ro...
The kiddos like "The Hungry Caterpillar" but other than that I've not had a single use for AR.

Edit: Yet.
Yes, it is setting a dangerous precedent. A general purpose computing device is now a "service" that you need to pay for. With that logic you can call anything a service. An OS is a service that lets you stream "unlimited" video to your display. Given the level of greed displayed by Apple, they're going to setup a tollbooth at every single spot they can. Maybe Intel can setup the ultimate tollbooth on their CPU by providing a "computing service" that lets you use their CPU for an "unlimited" amount of time. Tech is so depressing these days.. :(
I don’t think your fear is well founded. The fact that these vaccines are already in phase 3 trials, despite being developed earlier this year, is a testament to how much the FDA understands the current situation. Look up how long it usually takes a vaccine to get from development to phase three trials, I can guarantee you it’s not six months. People in this thread are quite alarmist. Vaccine trials usually take a long time, because whatever is trying to be cured isn’t a pandemic. In a pandemic you can run trials and get results quickly in a large area. Any side effects of these vaccines are going to show up quickly, it runs through your bloodstream and then your immune system takes care of it. We’re running large phase three trials and we’ll have a sense of effectiveness and general safety in a few months.
Ah, I was looking at an annualized dollar amount. Still, it would be a reasonable back-of-the-envelope number considering that the economic impact is still present and is going to continue into the future at least a year.
Minimally the 1000 five-star reviews gives the merchant account credibility as "able to ship a product".

If you can't change the product listing (Seeds2.0, now they're Diamond Earrings!), your "company" at least starts off with 1000 five-star reviews from your other product(s).
The customer is the product isn't just limited to advertising companies. It follows naturally that Apple considers you their property and believes they can control others doing business with you.

Which, in fact, they can-- if you use their products.

There is, however, a straightforward way to stop them: Don't use their products.
As I mentioned, apparently not boldly enough, there's many reasons children could go to school, the pandemic being only one.
Anything and everything. I'm serious.
I don't know how one would accomplish this from a manpower perspective until you are able to get some sort of a critical mass of devoted users (or could implement some ML analysis + afford[1] to pay a moderator, at least at the start), but I've been thinking for a long time whether a new forum with strict epistemic and logical standards might be able to spawn a completely novel culture on the internet, one where people are "highly conscious" at all times and therefore not prone to the normal heuristic flaws that exist in large quantities on every single other forum...things like mind reading, future predicting, speculation stated as fact (and "truthy" as true), binary (vs trinary) logic, elementary logical flaws, transparently incorrect representations of reality, silly hyperbole, and so forth and so on.

It would likely be a ton of work to initially coax people into such a higher state of consciousness, and keep them there, but I think it would be extremely interesting to see if such a thing is even possible at any sort of scale. And, if accomplished even to a degree, what kind of novel ideas and perspectives on human existence might come out of such a forum. I struggle to see how we turn this increasingly crazy ship around if someone doesn't come up with some sort of a novel approach to counteract what is happening to people's minds in this mass-communication world that's been unleashed on humanity with no time for us to evolve accordingly.

[1] For the right person/platform, I bet you'd be able to crowdsource funding for such an initiative if you were able to sufficiently communicate the problem and proposed solution/goals. I'd certainly be willing to contribute what I could via Patreon or something like that.

EDIT - See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412461

Crowdsourcing various ideas about various techniques to crack this nut would be a good idea.
Wanting your blog to go through an editor isn't about needing to be right; it's a "defence against the dark arts" of paparazzi quoting your words out-of-context with the intent of getting you pilloried by the Internet.
>nto S-Lang calls

So like SLRN and Jed? Amazing. I used DOSEmu back in the day for Redneck Rampage under an AMD Athlon (Dear DOSBox users, DOSEmu was zillions times faster than DOSBox, I ran it at native speeds). This is impressive.
So if stores don’t provide any utility over side loading, how come Epic gave up on relying on side loading on Android, which allows it, and ended up on the Play Store? It’s literally that exact scenario.
Portability was important and so more complex capabilities were not sufficiently used to survive and spread. I wonder how the similar struggle ends for advanced cloud features.
The equivalent is the iPhone SDK and developer tools for it. Not the store.
It's been decades since vaccine makers had any liability for their products in the US. That hasn't changed with COVID-19.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Inj...
EDIT: Downvoting someone for asking questions, even if based on a false premise, is completely shameful, especially when there's no claim to fact and it's clearly not made to be inflammatory.

A lot of inflammatory topics are raised by asking questions based on false premises.

If you assert that a vaccine is more likely to kill/injury you than the disease it prevents, it is more than reasonable for others to assume you that are trolling rather than satisfying your curiosity, especially since you could have asked it in a different manner: what is the risk of being injured/killed by the vaccine compared to the risk of being injured/killed by the disease itself?

And nobody knows the answer to that question, yet. That's why they're doing the Phase III trials right now.
>A game deployed to an iPhone could theoretically be acquired through an alternative app store or just direct download.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. A game produced with the Unreal Engine could just as easily be created through a natively developed engine or another licensed engine instead of Unreal. Unity, for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)
top-down rules to micromanage

I don't operate that way. Generally speaking, that's antithetical to how I operate in life.

I think if we have more support for remote work for people who want/need it and more support for options like Little Caesar's pizza portal which allows for contactless take-out, that helps make life possible for the most vulnerable people. Given how long people are living and our success in keeping alive a lot of people with incurable conditions who need permanent accommodation, this doesn't impinge on the people who want to do a group activity.

If anything, it frees up space for them to have their group thing without so much exposure to random people so their group thing is safer to attend.

I had someone on HN say something to me once about wanting to "hug their mom" and how my comment on HN was somehow antithetical to that. I live with my two adult sons and I have a permanently compromised immune system. I feel strongly that being exposed to "your group" is generally less problematic than being exposed constantly to random stranger with god-knows-what other strains.

I'm not at all arguing for denying people the ability to go out. I've, in fact, been given hell for making statements about not liking mask mandates and not liking the lock down.

My Walmart is closed at night right now and before it closed I and my sons were managing germ control in part by doing a lot of our shopping at 2am when the Walmart was dead. And that's not possible now and going to Walmart is currently one of the most hazardous things we have to do.

So I'm not all interested in doing what you are seemingly arguing against. And I don't see how it has anything at all to do with what I am advocating for and stated above.

Edit:

I feel like you added this after I began typing and I didn't initially see it: "Maybe we should just get used to those rules" isn't a solution - in all but the hardest-hit areas, the rules are most of the problem!

I don't disagree with that. Reading into my statement that I am advocating for "just get used to the rules" is wildly misinterpreting my comment. I said nothing about accepting our current lock down rules at all.
You exaggerate but it sure is irritating. It goes to show how someone's fame will generate all manner of excuses for behavior that would get slapped out of a beginner--or novice--or any other professional.

And--just guessing--I doubt many composers would appreciate the new, improvised parts.
It's not uncommon to have RT workloads where the "hard" RT part can fit in a small amount of tightly coupled memory, but the same processor is also used for "soft" RT workloads that need a much larger amount of memory. 64-bit addressing makes developing this kind of system a lot easier.
"Unfounded conspiracy theories and provoking for provocation sake" comes pretty close to a description of the social environment of the whole internet.
PHP and no SSL available on the main site? Pass.
I read somewhere in the real wild west people were very collectivist as they had to rely on the whole village to work together to survive. The rugged individualist is a myth. I can't find the link though, anyone have similar stories?
It's achieved in three ways

1) far less deductions/carve outs in tax law, or ones that people can use without contacting the tax service. Eg pensions and charity contributions deducted by employer, so tax is calculated. Charity contributions paperwork for one off donations dealt with by the charity (Gift Aid scheme)

2) "tax code" five digits representing your tax status, that the tax office will give your company to update calculations when your status changes. Possibly starting from a phone call from you. Eg using marriage tax laws.

3) tax summary P60/P45 provided by your last employer(required by law) that you can give your next employer so they calculate correctly

Sounds complicated, but it's all geared towards moving the burden to employers who just pay for payroll software, for everybody else it is very simple.
Before the pandemic, this resentment already existed. It's just exacerbated now. There have always been hidden benefits for people with kids. And although those benefits don't nearly make up for the extra responsibilities of having kids, those without kids feel that it's unfair.

For example, someone with kids gets a bigger insurance benefit. Usually managers are pretty forgiving when someone says they need to leave the office at exactly 6pm every day to get to soccer practice, leaving the single people stuck without the same excuse. Oftentimes the single people are asked to do the extra off-hours work "because you have no kids so you don't mind right?"

This is just an extension of that, which is perceived as unfair to the single folks.
Have it crossed your mind that maybe these people had the time and means to raise the kids, until a global pandemic has broken the plan a, the commercial plan b, the social plan c and the plan d? Because at the time the schools closed, the after school care also closed, people were told to not leave their kids with friends and no matter what never ever let them any near grandparents? Or have you totally missed that part?
echo "cough" > \\?\C:\temp\COM

edit: meant CON not COM
That happens too. People are assholes.

I worked at one place years ago where the union fought management to eliminate center centers of excellence to avoid other cuts that would have amounted to a 0.25% reduction in future retiree benefits.
Here is a free docker devops course by University of Helsinki:

https://docker-hy.github.io/
What's interesting about this particular Joe Rogan podcast?
It does if you’re about to declare things that have existed for decades with no problem as suddenly Anticompetitive or illegal.
Ignoring the obvious downsides for a moment, I'd happily trade places with one of my childless coworkers right about now. This morning I went up and down the stairs at least ten times while trying to get my 7- and 9-year old kids successfully established in their first remote learning session, simultaneously participating in two consecutive Zoom meetings with coworkers, and figuring out how to solve a nagging issue in our application that has stumped the rest of the team. I won't be cut any slack by management, in fact it works out the opposite -- as the team lead, I need to be around all day to answer questions, solve high-level problems, and fit in a bit of architecture work around new projects around the edges. I put in more work time for the office now than I did if you added up all my previous office time, lunch time, and commutes.

I wouldn't give up my kids for anything but I will be so very happy when this pandemic is safely behind us and we can get back to something approximating what we had before.
sure, but don't tie in a backend if it isn't required (e.g. adobe) sell it as a separate service.
Connected cars using a data communication module (DCM) are going to be required in every market eventually. The EU has already mandated this. In Japan, Toyota rolled out its Connected Cars initiative to all its vehicles in 2018. In the USA, Toyota put a DCM in select cars for telemetry almost ten years ago and this year they stated all their remaining vehicles will get them. All the luxury brands such as BMW and Porsche have a DCM for telemetry, safety, and service support.

States that use fuel taxes to fund road improvements will need to find other ways to tax electric vehicles and data derived from DCM will help them. Plus, autonomous transport will need to communicate.
If Unity and Unreal Engine disappeared from iOS you'd probably lose at least 50% of the games on that platform, if not more. Likely almost all of the top revenue-generating titles. People use middleware like UE and Unity to compensate for how difficult it is to ship games on Apple's platforms (along with others) instead of building for Apple's SDK. The citadel demo is the tip of the iceberg.
Do you think that I can put "Cheaper on www.mysite.com" in my amazon description? Why would it be controversial to prohibit someone from advertising a competing service on your platform?
You probably shouldn't be posting on HN.