skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, your social security money will be coming directly from those kids working. Just one example of non-parents benefiting.

In fact, your entire existence as an old person will be completely dependent on those kids working.
That isn't proof of anything. Name an episode, give a time stamp, or stop the bullshit.
> If this was the reason why parents get a free pass, people who provide essential services would also get to do it on their employer's dime, at the expense of their colleagues.

They do. They're called government employees, and they are paid by taxes at the expense of everyone.
I'm probably going to get downvoted for being "selfish" but I absolutely do not care about the continuation of the human race and I want as much time off as my coworkers who made the bad life decision choice of making children.
> include a user blindly approving Duo prompts

Sure, one of the reasons I specified WebAuthn is that intuitive security properties tie up better. Users have seen keys before, if I give Bob this Security Key, obviously Bob can unlock the same things as I could with the Security Key. Whereas a lot of these other technologies are a bit abstract - I should fill this six digit code into this web site but not any other web site? The phone might give me a Duo prompt out of the blue but I shouldn't say yes?

Actually WebAuthn's Security Keys have behaviour that matches people's intuitive understanding of actual keys somewhat better than the actual keys do. If I examine the lock I can make a key for it! If I see one key, I can use that to make more keys that all work! These are properties of real mechanical keys that surprise users but aren't present in WebAuthn's Security Keys.
it's not "your" second income, it's your spouse's first income! one person, one income.
A good read: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...
> the obvious downsides

They're not obvious to me... What are the downsides?
Hmm, then I must indeed be living in a bubble...
May I recommend the book;
On Intelligence

Great book on AI approach by understanding the human brain first...
I'd to try out https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui Looks like a lot of fun.
"Most HN readers time is far more valuable than a plumber or carpenter."

I think, in the words of today's youth, the response to this is something along the lines of "Big Yikes"

That's quite a staunch outlook on society. Do you like playing around in literal shit so that literal shit doesn't back up in your house? Have you automated a system to be able to do this robotically? If not, I'd suggest valuing your plumbers a bit more. Maybe somebody should be showing them these lines of thoughts so they jack up their prices for techies and extract their "value"...

Jeez. I'm being snarky. But man, you're being a dick lmao.
Gitlab is completely remote.
Google just cancelled plans to lease large office space in Dublin.

WFH was forced onto companies, think it’s a bit disingenuous to say that’s it not really effective. You mightn’t like it but people in other situations do. Personally I don’t have any benefit commuting 1hr to a noisy office when all my other colleagues are located in another office in another country. WFH works well for certain people and not for others.
Phase III tests for both safety and efficacy. The efficacy portion is the bottleneck because the experimenters do not a priori know the rate of infection. So rather than waiting for a fixed amount of time, we must wait for a target number of infections.

In contrast, since we know when each person in the treatment group got the vaccine, safety can be measured after a predetermined amount of time.
The neocognitron and convolutional neural networks were inspired on experiments on cats performed by Hubel and Wiesel.
Am I the only one who understands the title of the submission

“Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees”

exactly in the opposite way than the actual headline

“Tech firms face growing resentment toward parent employees”?
Sheldrake is the only one who gives Dyson a run for his money IMHO :-)
Someone took care of us when we were young. By the time we can be employed by major corporations for far more than the average family makes, we all owe a debt to those who care for the young.

We cannot truly pay back those who took care of us, so we pay it forward. Maybe that payment will only ever be supporting the caregivers by our side. That is worthy work.
> 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.

Or US (we are still higher than Brazil in cases per million). South Africa or India are actually much lower than us.
Protonmail should probably establish an Oversight Board to decide when to delete controversial files.
> Though Haskell is nice in many ways, I would choose OCaml for a commercial project over Haskell any day.

As a counter-point I'd say the opposite: I choose Haskell :)

> OCaml is ruthlessly practical and the culture around it is was one eminent pragmatism.

Is this a plus? Practical and pragmatism seem to be unlaterally considered a positive, but when does "pragmatism" just start to mean "unprincipled"? There's much talk about when being too principled gets in the way of getting things done, but I'm wondering what your position on the opposite is here.

What are your thoughts on 1) Real-world thinking 2) first-principles thining and 3) the balance of each that is ideal in software-engineering?

> Ocaml is designed to get stuff done, and the tooling and ecosystem strongly reflect that.

Haskell was designed to get stuff done too, just maybe not quite the same way. If you ever had an inkling of "maybe people in industry are outright dismissing research too fast" you might like it.

>> If something was going to kill Haskell, it would OCaml, not Javascript or some other language.

> I would feel very comfortable running a business on OCaml, Haskell, not so much.

I'd feel comfortable with either. I agree it'd have to be something at least as strongly typed as Ocaml to kill Haskell as well.
Security September: Escaping CodeBuild – The compromise that wasn't
What occupation? US troops have largely left Iraq and they run their own form of democracy now.

> If the US didn't invade Iraq, ISIS would have been destroyed too.

Yeah, and Saddam would still be in power, torturing and genociding. Wasn't exactly nice before either.
It depends. I believe warranty work is typically done at a flat "book rate" paid by the manufacturer based on their estimate of how long it 'should' take. If they can do it quicker, then it works out in their favor. If you read mechanic forums, they'll talk about their shortcuts for common warranty work. (like Takata airbag replacements)
Custom blocking rules based on css class / dom id... If I don‘t just close the page out or anger.

What‘s up with those videos? How do the increase positive metrics for websites?
How would one go about seeding a political news site with constructive comments?

Make friends with someone who sees the world very differently from you and has a very different political ideology from yours whom you, nonetheless, sincerely respect.

Both of you start seeding comments manually to model what a well-thought out comment looks like, regardless of ideology, so that it doesn't become a space de facto signaling "Republicans (or Democrats) only." or similar.
Prepare for the Roaring Twenties
App Annie actually banned me once when I logged with javascript disabled and privacy badger installed. I had to contact their customer support, and they just said to disable my extensions and don't do it again otherwise I'll be banned permanently.

I don't use their service anymore.
Sheldrake strikes me as a revival of the early modern scientist, someone who would have been at home in the early heyday of the Royal Society—an insatiably curious English gentleman who asks questions from fundamentals and wants to test everything for himself. Someone who sees no conflict between science and religion but is often attacked by dogmatists. Historically, this was an entirely mainstream position, though it hasn't been for a while now.

I find his curiosity charming, and his ability to consider questions from first principles remarkable. That he has been attacked so harshly ("A Book for Burning") yet always retains his good-humoured demeanour says a lot for him.
There's a difference between taking out a little extra garbage and being taking advantage of. I think the OP is referring to doing something like removing an npm warning message in a build or adding a few sentences to the documentation on a Friday at 4:30pm instead of leaving early.
> There is a fundamental difference in the urgency of attending a protest versus attending the Sturgis rally.

That's irrelevant. The virus doesn't care about the urgency. If both presented the exact same danger to the population, they should be handled exactly the same. Otherwise we are not arguing science but politics.
Popcorn time has some support to start playing before full file download.
It's possible to put up the kids for adoption, or more practically aborting them in advance.
A BIG chunk of all that drama is due to the US social safety net not including childcare.

That's the thing disturbing thing about these stories: employees are turned against each other when it's a) the company; and b) your tax dollars, not providing any kind of built-in childcare for society. In France, kids can go to preschool and have pre- and post- school childcare, which has to be paid, but it's only like $500/mo and has subsidies involved and all kinds of subtleties that I don't know about but still aren't expensive.

And I'm not saying "move to France," I'm saying that tax dollars in the US should be going toward making the lives of tax payers easier, especially in a nationwide/global situation like a pandemic.
Try old.reddit.com

Also, it's possible to browser Reddit through non-web-browsing applications that use the Reddit API.
Yes!

I have the feeling that most of modern websites use too many cpu&gpu resources. My computer is just 5 years old and each time I visit a modern website my computer really suffers.

Please designers and engineers, I don't own the last macbook pro with maxed out specs and my internet connection is quite normal.

Start creating for the rest of us who don't have the resources or interest in upgrading the computer every couple of years!
You might also be surprised to know that microwave is faster than fiber. Not necessarily more reliable, mind you, but faster.

There's a reason all of the HFT folks are using microwaves.
You'd be able to boot an x86 emulator in JavaScript to a Groovy prompt in just a few seconds, so probably faster than you can load any major news site except text.npr.org ;)
CNN Lite on the other hand - https://lite.cnn.com/en
I have a theory that it's extroverted people who are the most eager to go back in. ;)
Book Release: Machine Learning Engineering
If you intend to use machine learning to solve business problems at scale, I'm delighted you got your hands on this book.
Thanks for adding the sources. I'm 80% sure that The Grid [https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Fraying-Between-Americans-Energy...] had discussed electric cars helping solve some of the distribution/transmission problems, but that was from the view of the large power companies, not the smaller local munis (and maybe paired with smart meters? It's been a while since I read it). However, after reading the two articles you cited, it's actually just moving the bottleneck and in the wrong direction to a point where it's harder to manage changes.
The Kurds were Iraqis when he ethnically cleansed them so he wasn't nice to Iraqis either
You should probably go hide in your safe room just in case there is a squad of Spetsnaz driving to your location to fake your death.
How to re-engage your inactive app users?
To add to this, the effective reproduction number (what I think the GP is referring to?) varies not just with the prevalence of immunity, but also with the contact network of the population in question.

Currently the effective reproduction number is not 3, in most places, because we're avoiding large gatherings and, depending on the region, wearing masks and avoiding indoor gatherings.

If many more people were immune, even if we hadn't reached herd immunity, we could safely relax restrictions on gatherings without causing another wave. Concerts would still be out of the question, but dinner parties and hair salons would no longer be so concerning.
The point is this is static web content; it should be delivered by a CDN, but it's not, and that's why it's down. If it was delivered by a CDN it wouldn't be down.
Yeah, but why do you want to have a child? You're literally programmed by billions of years of natural selection to fulfill the biological imperative of reproduction. It's not as much of a free choice as you might think. And thus:

> If you told me that society didn't require me to have a child, I wouldn't care one bit.

is unlikely, because if having children actually were not required for the survival of the species, then it's much less likely that you'd ever even wanted to have one in the first place. The species needs to continue thus we want to have children. So the answer to your question:

> Do you think that 50% of parents are having children out of some sense of duty to society?

is yes. Note that nowhere here is it required for parents to be conscious of the duty that they're fulfilling, merely that they fulfill it nevertheless. Species with much less brainpower than us, even those with no brainpower whatsoever, are nevertheless doing exactly the same thing as we are and propagating their species.
The death rate for GBS from the swine flu vaccine was considered horrific at ~5ppm. I don't wish that on anyone, but I'd note that its still 10x better than the COVID death rate for the cohort you've found (average 25), and I certainly hope they don't asymptomatically spread that disease to parents (50) or grandparents (75), which are orders of magnitude worse off.
That description fits Braess's paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox more than the Downs-Thomson paradox. The latter is more about public transport being the dominating factor in congestion whereas the former is about adding roads in itself sometimes causing traffic to get worse.

In either case it's often overstated, expanding the road network (especially intelligently) usually results in less congestion. It's just a poor investment compared to other means of transportation investment in large cities.
> OCaml is ruthlessly practical and the culture around it is was one eminent pragmatism.

Also, in case Ocaml turns out to be a better fit for any future projects I have a question:

What is the biggest advantage constituted in part or primarily from it's ruthless pragmatism?
Nitpick: institutional schooling over Zoom is not the same thing as home schooling. The teaching methods are different, the culture is very different, and home schooling is normally a choice that families make, not something foisted on them.
There are have been attempts at "phase tree" filesystems with essentially transactional write semantics for data and metadata simultaneously. Tux2 was one such nascent attempt that ended (rightly or wrongly) due to patent conflict with Netapp's WAFL [1].

The interesting thing is, I just took a look at what I believe were the patents in conflict, and they appear to have expired in 2015 [2,3]. Combining the phase tree concept with, say, Merkle trees might open up very interesting possibilities for large-scale reliable file storage.

[1] https://linux.slashdot.org/story/00/10/13/2117258/tux2-the-f...

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5819292

[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5963962
I agree, it's hyperbole stemming from the fact that there are 5 times as many job openings for roles that touch Rust than there are Haskell.

What do you use Haskell for?
Sure there's always the what-if, but in the counterfactual there likely wouldn't be nearly as much cash and weapons floating around.

There are significant ties between groups. They may not be under a unified command structure, but training, funding, and fighters pass between regional organizations.

Al-Qaeda has done more than a fair share of mischief in Somalia, and there's no doubt that groups like al-Shabaab have reaped the benefits of learning from Al-Qaeda.
I've done this!!! It works _great_! I have a setup script that new employees run and I never quite figured out how to automate one of the steps, so it just prints "Go to www.example.com/whatever and paste in the API key it generates below." It's been 1.5 years and it's still chuggin' along just fine.
> Farming is critical for society. However, we don't require everyone to pull on their overalls and work the land

US society heavily subsidizes farming at the government level
> What's next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don't I?

I think the problem starts with framing the problem as parents vs. non-parents instead of considering a wide range of reasons why employees need more flexibility in work schedules for personal or family reasons. Those include sickness, taking care of children, taking care of elderly parents, a sick spouse, taking care of sick/dying pets, etc.

It's difficult to think of anybody who would not be affected by one or more of these.
I like termbox. I'm the Ada binding maintainer. A quick search and you can find many other language bindings. https://github.com/bmsauer/termbox-ada
Similar, different in design and execution. As far as I know, Outline processes the article in browser using JavaScript. Trim uses no JavaScript but instead does the processing server-side. The response of the form post is the article.
Local news tend to be more fact driven and less opinion drivel in my experience. In a lot of big stories the local news can often be way better than any national coverage.
> I suspect a fair number of the complainers are people with Democratic leanings, and I think I can describe their thought process to you.

> I think their problem is that a private company is doing this, not the Government.

Is that a Democratic take? I think it's a liberaltarian take on it. Here's the conservative libertarian response: raising children is one of the primary functions of society, and social norms that govern private actors make a certain amount of deference to that. Replacing those norms and kicking everything up to the government is a very statist solution, inviting the government into large swaths of human activity where it wasn't present before.
Renaming is commonly proposed for rewriting files but does not provide the guarantees people usually think it does. Posix renames are only atomic during normal operation. But here atomic merely means that other syscalls will not return results for some partially-renamed state. The operation does not need to be atomic in the case of a crash (where here “atomic” means “you can’t read the file system in some partially renamed state after a crash”, a different definition but one which people commonly assume when they hear that rename is atomic). I’m not aware of any normal Linux file system where renames are always atomic over a crash
Good for Netflix
They may be on the hook for a lot of money, but that is due in large part to the fact that the economic footprint of supporting two households is much larger than supporting one household.
You can set a hard cap of 0€ when you deliver static content on Netlify or GitHub Pages.
The issue with stereotypes is the same issue with comparing IQs between subsets of the population: averages do not work when its one individual applying it to another individual. Variance is very high with humans, and the idea that your Uncle Joe thinks his black friend has a big dick because of the stereotype is idiotic.
That is not what was intended. I know because I wrote it. It was a push to the most absurd interpretation.

As for anxiety, you should talk to people with it. It is a spectrum. Being nervous and anxious is not a medical condition but the human condition. Being unable to breath and having heart issues (i.e. a panic attack) is a medical condition. There's a clear spectrum here and and equating nervousness to an anxiety disorder is trivializing the condition that people actually suffer. Clearly I'm not saying you should be forced to do this if you have a real condition (ad absurdum). But if you're just uncomfortable and nervous, welcome to the human condition. While you enjoy your stay I would appreciate it if you don't trivialize medical issues. If you do have medical issues: please seek professional help, and I'm sorry if you interpreted my message as inclusive of you.
I make sure I'm up for _anything_. Give me that thing that has been the thorn in everyone's side. Yes, some rather daunting (read: frought-with-peril) tasks present themselves, but... if done well, usually yield a better 'next assignment'.
But right now you very often can’t apply money to fix these problems.
Are you sure you mean merkle trees specifically and not just a tree structure in general?

A merkle tree is a very specific type of hash tree, which Bitcoin only uses for transactions and not for blocks. Merkle proofs are used to prove that a txid exists within the root hash committed in the header block. What would be the reason to organize blocks into a merkle tree? What would that let you prove?

See this SE question for more information on how Bitcoin uses merkle trees: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/69018/merkle-roo...

> here are still multiple rebased "branches" among the Bitcoin forks such as Bitcoin Classic, Bitcoin Gold, etc. All of those are branches that share...

Bitcoin, BCash and BGold each have incompatible rule sets; A full node will only accept chains that are valid according to its own local set of rules (embedded in it software), so chains of different coins will not even be considered for chain selection, regardless of the proof-of-work backing them. They just don't exists from the full node's PoV. Validity of blocks/transactions comes first, everything else is second.
Also very curious also. At ~12km I would think it would require some specialized microwave testing equipment to get the alignment right.
What are you talking about? Nearly all American children lead their lives with the everyday fear that they are going to get shot at school.
> if you're single during this time, you are completely isolated from the world, and your colleagues. This can be extremely difficult mentall

100% this. Especially for the single folks who were living in big cities (E.g. NYC) and had gotten used to the "I can step out of my apartment building and it's ALL. RIGHT. THERE!"

At least when you have children the "kid train" never stops which leaves little time to worry about a lot of things so you just keep going. Granted, there are pros and cons to this but from an isolation perspective, it can definitely be a pro.
The dance can get even more complicated[0] if you also want to ensure that the rename itself is persisted. But you only really have to encode this in an atomic-file-write-with-callback library once.

[0] https://danluu.com/file-consistency/
From the perspective of their decision, I mostly agree with you. But I hope it's not lost on anyone that if being a nurse is not a viable career, that will ultimately be far more disastrous than any other market inefficiencies.
I’ve been thinking of creating a new browser that doesn’t have to rely on the dumpster node is and a rendering api that’s better than css.
No, but the US effectively put a stop to that with a no-fly zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones
The current behavior matches iOS.
Plenty of vaccines both today and historically used LAV or other natural strains of the virus when possible.
how do they find volunteers for such a trial? If I get it right, the risks are high (including death?) so seems like a big risk, and I suppose they need to start with someone that's healthy to avoid confounding factors?