skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every MacOS release is buggy for the initial versions. It usually takes to .3 release to be relatively big bug free. Catalina seems to be pretty nice now, but the next version is just around the corner.
Whatsapp is wholy owned by Facebook.
>Those children the parents are taking care of now will be the ones who will provide for the one complaining now via taxes as well as services rendered to them.

>when these complainers will be asking for benefits and services that would be unavailable without future adults.

But that's not the deal society is giving you. Society is forcing you to pay taxes now so that when you become old society will take care of you. The promise is unrelated to those future children. Society doesn't even give you the option to opt out from that.

People aren't committing a noble sacrifice when they have children. They want to have children, it's a pretty strong drive for virtually any living being.
But everyone was a child at some point
Yeah, I have the most ideal bachelor penthouse and terrace, living alone during phase I lockdown, but that didn't feel ideal after 2.5 months either.

I'm aware of the high chance of having a roommate/partner/children you begin to resent, and that was a useful rationalization given what nurses and police and articles were telling me.

But that 5% (or maybe much greater) chance of a fulfilling live-in companion was pretty enticing too.

But yes, the upsides rarely come without the downsides.
I think shops generally get better money when they charge you directly than when they get re-imbursed. Otherwise I could only explain their tendency to get out of warranty work as a sense of responsibility and that seems unlikely.
Program Logics for Certified Compilers [pdf]
Training Interviewers
One thing I wish I could make my childless peers grok is that THERE IS NO VACATION when you have young kids.

I’m taking this week off and people speak as if I’m on vacation. Please please hear my words literally: my job is my break. Weekends are more physically and intellectually exhausting than weekdays when I get to $&@# off to work for eight hours.

My paid time off is a way to give us a fighting chance at laundry and housecleaning and other chores.

Grocery shopping was my break today. Home Depot was my treat today.

I’m not on vacation. Please help me keep my marbles. Give me a break.
I'll suggest Goleman's Emotional Intelligence (for empathy) and Pirsig's Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (for quality and values).
Apple sues Epic Games to pay damages for violation of App Store rules
Well, I was describing tyrannical power. Certainly I would agree that there are many people who genuinely want to help rather than to achieve power for its own sake.

e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)#/me...
And in non-pandemic times, they're subsidizing the continuation of society for the childless, to their own detriment (less free time, less self time, less money, less social life, less sleep; the list goes on and on and on).
There is a lot of cognitive dissonance in this post. This whole conversation is about mega corps giving a shit, and accommodating people who are having increased difficulty during COVID. You can't get mad that they are caring, and then in the same breath say they don't care.
Except that the children disproportionately benefit the parents (unlike jury duty or military service). This is a heads-parents-win, tails-childless-lose scenario.

Your comment would be completely correct if the children ceased all communications and transactions with the parent upon entry into the labor force; but that's not what happens.
That's what they said about masks, and that turned out to be wrong too. Assuming that people are idiots never helps
People who boost their vitamin D levels with supplements reduce their risk of respiratory tract infections, such as the flu, by up to 12%, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis study of 25 randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies published in The BMJ.

https://bcmj.org/news/vitamin-d-effective-reducing-flu-and-c...

Harvard Gazette: Study confirms vitamin D protects against colds and flu

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/02/study-confirm...

WebMD: Vitamin D May Cut Risk of Flu

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20100616/vitamin-d-m...

Vitamin D protects against colds and flu, finds major global study
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170216110002.h...
{{QuercusMax}}

Know your pain. Hang in there. You're doing good work.
While the project's implementation is outdated, it still is easier for brave souls to maintain and extend it than start your own from scratch. The project is on GitHub. The link is on the website.
Honoring Labor
How Much Energy Does It Take to Send a Bit? (2018)
I don't believe they would be able to do that - you don't draw to the screen using POSIX.
While AV1 has high complexity and requires a lot more computation power to decode, AVIF picture is essentially just 1 Frame. At the bitrate used with Internet pictures, I would assume decoding power wouldn't be a problem even on Smartphone.

Cant wait to see how it compares to JPEG-XL.

I think we can forget about WebPv2 which is just VP9. I dont see its value when we have AVIF already.
I would say that the ability to declare war is one of the things that distinguishes us as humans. Even chimpanzees declare war, and for the same reasons we do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
I can't find the original article I saw this in (8 or so yrs ago), but here's one that talks about some of the infrastructure sizing issues (45 vs 100 kVA). The second one talks about current grid storage/production and the need for increased capacity.

Good news is that we are nowhere close to the breaking point, but the numbers in the article are way less than if all (or even half of) cars were replaced with EVs. It should take a long time to get to that level of adoption anyways.

At least for me, I would want access to fast charging options, whether in homes or at dedicated stations for trips. The 8 hour charge is great for daily usage though. I wonder how that time can hold up as the range gets longer (increased capacity with same 15 amp wall plug).

https://www.fleetcarma.com/ev-clustered-charging-can-problem...

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-07-influx-electric-vehicles...
And you still have time for HN!
Can you expand on your question? I'm not really sure what you're asking/implying. Being LGBTQ is not a choice, and no, we shouldn't be forcing anyone to have children. But enough people need to be having children for society to continue, and the reproduction rate for LGBTQ individuals is actually not as close to zero as you seem to think it is. And adopting someone else's children to raise absolutely counts as "doing your parenting duty" as it were, since the raising from 0-18 is still the vast majority of the total work.
Link to announcement about making the book free to access on the authors web pages:

https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/coq-club/2020-09/msg00016.h...
GraphQL Meetup: Alternatives to Caching and the Architecture Behind the Graph
Alternatives to Caching and the Architecture behind the Graph
IMO the real broken part of this system is that people are not getting legally-protected personal time.

A big part of the resentment is that a person who chose to have children ends up being able to be excused from work to take care of children, while a person who has no children is not as easily excused to do what they want to do, because it is deemed low priority compared to children.

We need to be prioritizing peoples' personal time and respecting however they choose to use it. Regardless whether someone chooses to spend their personal time raising kids or raising orphans in an orphanage or rescuing animals or reading books or hiking the wilderness or community service or being social and sleeping and watching movies, all of these things are good for their own mental health, and we need to not discriminate between these choices in giving people their personal time.

It's when people are working till 11pm and someone says "I need to leave at 6 to make food for my kids" that the resentment happens. If everyone got off at 6, there wouldn't be any resentment.
Yeah. Dealing with a teen right now who feels completely isolated. Hanging in there.
haven't read the article and just here for the comments as one does, but I recommend Conscious by Annaka Harris. The Sun, while not necessarily alive, might be conscious. No woowoo.
> When the Boston Consulting Group surveyed 3,055 people across the US, UK, France, Germany and Italy, in March and April, it found more than a third of respondents were worried their performance would be unfairly compared with that of colleagues without family obligations.

Why is it an unfair comparison and not an accurate comparison?
Ok so I don’t know much about the us legal and political system, but a couple of questions:

- why does a judge in a lawsuit get to make the decision here? I.e. why is this kind of law not debated as part of public discourse and a decision made through a democratic path?

- given this benefits a tiny fraction of people in the US, why doesn’t a particular party/politician take a stand on it as a policy to win a chunk of votes?

For the first point, a UK former judge spoke extensively on the topic of the courts overstepping their remit as part of the 2019 Reith lectures: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057m8
If you have nothing better to do with your time then go ahead! It can be a fine choice in many situations. For many HN types whose time is far more valuable than many tradespeople, it is a financially reckless choice.
Mix in special-needs children who need constant one-on-one support, young siblings, and dual career parents.

Covid stress falls completely off the radar.
You are basically asking for human civilization to end within 50 years, so yes, that is going to be an unpopular opinion.
>> eg. it’s still basically impossible to name a file CON on Windows 10 because of backwards compatibility.

> echo "cough" > \\?\C:\temp\COM

I think he's referring to CON not COM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS#Reserved_device_names

> There are reserved device names in DOS that cannot be used as filenames regardless of extension as they are occupied by built-in character devices....

> The reserved names are:

> CON, for console
It is $99 for developer organizations. It is $299 for enterprises who wish to do their own enterprise signing (e.g skip the store).
Do you just want to do more research, or are you contending that you think the harm from COVID-19 is actually less than the harm from the most severe side effects of a vaccine we've ever seen?
"I've had vaccine side effects and I've had COVID and I'd take ten more vaccine side effects over one COVID, please."

I don't know what side-effects you've had from vaccines, but when I talk about risks, I'm not talking about headaches...people actually died from from the 1976 H1N1 vaccine.
They aren’t happy but they have to deal. People with kids got fucked so hard by government mishandling of pandemic that a little bit of extra work for those without kids is minor in comparison. If we had to increase taxes to provide the additional support to even things out then I guarantee you it would be much worse.
The punitive damages are not for simply breaking the rules, this is made very clear in the filing, they are for knowingly and deliberately breaking them with a full understanding of the legal consequences for doing so.
> What's next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don't I?

Do they? Isn't that just called sick leave or time off without pay?

> If anything, I'm thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race

I thought people have kids because they want kids and enjoy family life?
The freedom to just sit down and breath. I don't think you really grasp just how much having children robs you of your "self" and your down time. Heck, even the ability to go to the store to shop for food can be seriously impacted by having a child. Having a child doesn't just take away your ability to go out for a drink; it takes away EVERYTHING and replaces it with different things.
Yes. It's been suggested that programmers are biased towards static type systems because they present interesting puzzles, and we like puzzles, even if they come at the expense of productivity. I don't want to agree with that, but I can't deny there's some truth to it.
I am talking in regards to the business they work at, but you already know that.
Not my style. You could read my past comments here on HN and see for yourself my different stories on different subjects, both good or bad (I can't please everyone, not that I try anyway).
> Since when is the OIC considered "Western"?

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> This is so far removed from reality that I'm not exactly sure how to respond.

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We're going places my friend.
An existential crisis worked for me.
I think it’s very typical of very casual and exploitable users to have product names deeply connected with a certain activity — eg. using Google or Zoom as verbs — and “cloud” storage companies would like them to think of their brand name as the main storage area on their devices (and certainly not as just rented space on normal drives in a big room full of someone else’s computers), and I think they are and will be successful, and these users won’t think of them with generic terms like “filesystem”.
I always wonder why nobody appears to try a hybrid model between product and project development when it comes to satisfying large customers which need very specific customizations that often don't fit well into a product development roadmap aiming at satisfying a more generic audience.

Like: don't just add weird features that make sense for just one customer, but are eventually delivered to all customers, but instead maintain a "core product" which provides a lot of generic, core functionality, but which by itself isn't actually usable and just serves as basic building blocks to construct the actual end products which are then built and packaged individually for each (big) customer. Each of these "end products" is a development project in itself, has its own team, its own codebase, but they all draw from a core set of base functionality developed and maintained by another dedicated team that is not directly in contact with any of the customers (or at least not permanently).

This - at least in theory - prevents custom functionality for specific customers from polluting the common core product that aims to please a general audience, while still allowing for the necessary freedom to satisfy big customers demanding custom functionality, but also offering big checks in return.
Couldn't you get kids in Vietnam who are cheaper? Are you also stack racking them?
A Taxonomy of Magic
The question of whether the virus or vaccine poses a greater risk seems like a controversial one.

I (28, no health conditions) personally would be willing to take the vaccines that have gone through stage 2 trials. I registered myself as a willing volunteer but have not been selected.

It seems to me that there is a middle ground between approving and recommending a vaccine to all Americans and completely blocking access to vaccines that have been through some baseline safety testing.

What seems like a good solution to me is to have open phase 3 trials that accept anyone willing to waive the risks. This would also accelerate us towards to a point where we are ready to approve a vaccine for everyone.
Unequal PTO is a subsidy from your coworkers. If active workers don't pick up the slack, their stocks loose value.

You want more PTO? Trade me your stock options.
The Pocket Document Camera
FWIW, I would have to check all the ones listed but if they're sane scripting languages on the jvm then they'll implement the JSR-223 interface allowing one to pick them at runtime without a huge amount of drama: https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr223/inde...
Not OP, and don’t feel strongly, but I’ll give my opinion on what might make that happen:

Mask is visible - sign of compliance. You can get a flu shot and not tell your ultra-right-wing friends. Even on the right there is a spectrum of course, and folks march to the beat with certain signals, masks seem to be one of them thanks to behavioral modeling from leadership.
I also think it's stupid to resent parents; they need the time for the kids, who aren't at fault in any of this.

That said, why do you assume we all care about having a future society? Frankly I only care about existing humans. The species is irrelevant to me.
Just my anecdata. We live in Maryland, in a middle-class suburb. I have 3 kids and a SAH wife. We're doing OK, saving for 401k, driving two cars, paying cash for house maintenance and renovations. Yeah, we don't travel much, but that's luxury. I earn the Google L4 level base, if one can trust levels.fyi. I am not sure how unique my situation is, but I have never felt the need for my wife to start working...
Do I not understand what "voting rights" means in this context? Doesn't this leave the door open for a CEO to retain 95% of voting stock, when all they need to maintain control is 50% + 1 share?
This all strikes me as the 10,000th variation of the old joke: the billionaire takes 11 donuts, leaves one in the middle, and tells the childless guy “hey, that guy with a kid is trying to take your donut.” If in the US we lived in a culture that actually treated people as humans and not as either expendable producers or expendable consumers, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
My mother in law gave up a job as an executive (where she was earning more than her surgeon husband) to be a stay at home mom. Coming back into the workforce 20 years later when the marriage deteriorated was nearly impossible.

I don’t know what horror stories you’ve seen. But for most ordinary men, alimony and child support add up to very little. If you make $75,000, maintenance for a 15 year marriage in which the other spouse earned nothing adds up to $22,000 a year. And it ends in about 11 years. A significant hit, no doubt, but if the other spouse had similar earning potential (which is typical these days—people tend to match up with people of similar education) it won’t come close to covering the lifetime loss in post-divorce earnings.

It can be different if a high earning person marries someone who has limited earning power, but that’s the exception these days.
I’m not the person you asked, but: It takes a village to raise a child. The older I get, the more I believe that. My children have always benefitted from more external input, I’ve helped many around me by taking care of their children, and people who are LGBTQ have helped me in caring for me children. I didn’t think of it that way at the time, but in the context of your question I would point that out simply to say that children thrive with a community including individuals without their own children.

We don’t all need to have children to be relevant. But that doesn’t mean that the people primarily responsible for raising a new generation aren’t doing a difficult job deserving of support, either.

I hope as I age and my children become independent, I can help people with their own children even more. It makes a tremendous difference.
Life with two working adults(both in higher level tech roles) and a toddler is absolute hell in covid. For the people complaining I wish they could spend a day in either me or my Wife's shoes and see how easy they have it. WLB has gotten so unbearable we are thinking of quitting one of our jobs and just going solo income. It was one of the main reasons we sold our house and left the bay area early this year so we are not trapped in a 2 income house payment.
No, but you do draw to the screen by reverse engineering whatever os level graphics api is available and using it, and at a 30% cut on every app here there is literally billions of dollars of funding available to do that.

I imagine if Apple tried to restrict third party apps from doing that through the legal system, we would see another suit but this time about "graphics" instead of "payment processing".
And they'll say that until that wealth could have done something useful for them, like defend their freedoms from encroachment or promote causes they find valuable.

Wealth is worth far more than fancy cars and fine clothing. I couldn't give a shit about expensive material possessions but I think that only an utter fool would disavow themselves of wealth. Don't be conned into thinking wealth is synonymous with frivolous, ostentatious displays and vanity.
Introduced async Slack stand-ups, introduced containerized artifact-based deploys, massively reduced scope and time of several engineering projects by relaxing constraints (uptime, generality, etc)
Sorry for the overly broad brush. :) But the existence of this shim doesn't mean you have to use it.
Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless?

We already heavily subsidise child-rearing through taxes and other benefits. As I said elsewhere, there are mechanisms for supporting parents already. If you tried to let any other charitable endeavour take over your work schedule, you wouldn't expect your compensation to remain unaffected.

I'm not resentful at parents. It just seems completely unfair to make childless employees subsidise this adventure, as if they didn't already do it through 40 years of tax contributions.

Besides, let's not pretend that people choose to have kids as a service to humanity. I've never, ever heard anyone claim that. People have kids because they're fun, and because making them is fun.
1) I think you are ignoring that it is possible for non-parent employees to be negatively affected by the pandemic as well. You seem to be dealing with it very well (which is great!), but others may be stuck working from noisy, cramped apartments and may be getting little to no social interaction. This is can definitely cause health issues and degrade happiness.

Those employees look at the large amount of family leave parents are getting and ask "why can't we get a little extra help as well?". If parents get 10 weeks of leave, how about you give non-parents 1 week of extra PTO or leave. It doesn't need to be exactly equal, but the pandemic is hard on everyone.

2) I think the non-parent employees are saying the company is showing little to no empathy towards their struggles. I really think it's less of "how dare that parent take extra leave" and more of "how dare facebook give parents all this extra leave and give non-parents nothing to help them cope with stress."

3) You choose to have children, but you do not choose to have cancer. I think your comparison there is misguided.
Some writing was around 1700 years ago - https://archive.archaeology.org/1207/trenches/frienstedt_ger...
Well we tolerate eugenics in some ways though. Look at the prevalence of Down's syndrome children now vs. the advent of accurate prenatal testing
How do you make money? ads?
Even worse is in relation with 30% cut.
They charge $100 per year for the development tools. Yet, the outcome of the development tools must be sold in Apple market with 30% cut.
Talking at, and not with each other is worse than both :)
But you have some broad idea if a mask is having some effect (e.g. if your mouth and nose are tightly covered). With a vaccine, the protection or lack thereof is invisible to you and others.
Do those platforms prevent you from directing people to your own website or payment system for IAP or forbid you from mentioning the fees associated?

I haven’t bought any IAPs for a console, so I’m not sure.
Apple’s delayed privacy protection won’t make much difference