skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in March, I had extra money for some reason and the pandemic was hitting my small town in terms of things closing and hours being limited, etc. I made a point of going every single day to get pizza from the Little Caesar's.

When I began going, the staff was standing around with nothing to do and they were scared the location was going to permanently close. They didn't have enough business to survive.

I walk everywhere, so when I get pizza, it's very visible. People see me carrying a pizza box down the street and at least once someone asked me "Oh, is the Little Caesar's open?" and I was able to say "Yes! It is!" without violating social distancing.

I began using the pizza portal, which had been there for some time but never got used. One of the early times I used it, someone stared at me the entire time and now mine is not the only order in it.

The Little Caesar's removed the two chairs from their lobby and added hand sanitizer and made some other changes, but the big change is that -- at least in part because of me modeling it -- locals began calling ahead or ordering online instead of walking in and ordering. Even when they walk in, they frequently go sit in their car to wait for their order instead of standing in the Little Caesar's to wait.

They are busier than I have ever seen them in the three years I have lived here and they were hiring new employees during the pandemic. I always have to wait for my order now because they are always busy, yet it is safer than it has ever been for me to get food from there -- which is a constant concern for me because of my incurable medical condition.

Meanwhile, in recent months I have seen multiple local eateries advertised as for sale, presumably because the pandemic is negatively impacting the restaurant business generally.

Ordering online or by phone and getting takeout is a best practice for germ control and it's available right now and we can improve on that model with relatively small tweaks, like making hand sanitizer standard at all businesses, and larger tweaks, like making pizza portal style pick up options available at other eateries. And it in no way requires any government rules trying to micromanage your behavior.

It's about opening up options that actually work and promoting things that are already proven to work and are already available so the economy doesn't have to be strangled by this pandemic. It's an approach that doesn't require us to choose between economic health and physical health. It's an approach that works because it respects the need for both and does so without asking anyone to jump through giant hoops now in hopes of some potential, but not guaranteed, payoff somewhere down the road after x, y or z happens.

Thank you for engaging me.
LOL, that's probably when I found it! There was a reddit thread of other people seeing similar issues, will see.if I can dig it out later/tomorrow.
Did you mean freetaxusa.com? (freetax.com goes to a site called DIY Tax which doesn't look like they offer free returns anymore.)

I've used freetaxusa.com for the past couple of years. They don't do the same level of hand-holding that TurboTax and TaxAct are famous for. So what I have done in the past is fill out the tricky parts in TaxAct using a free account and if the number look right, copy them into FreeTaxUSA.

I used to use TaxAct until their prices, tiers, and upsells got to be flat-out usurious. FreeTaxUSA federal filing is free but you have to pay a small (around $15) fee if you want to e-file for state. _That_ is a price I can live with. I don't mind paying it at all if it means escaping the TurboTax and TaxAct traps.
It's atomic but it might not be persistent in the event of a crash. If the metadata wasn't committed then upon remounting the old file might reappear, and its likelihood of reappearing is independent of any other operations on that filesystem. Though, traditionally rename was not only atomic but also preferentially ordered ahead of other metadata operations so subsequent renames of other files wouldn't be visible if the older rename appeared.

EDIT: Actually, I think the issue I had in mind was that writes to the new file might not be committed before the rename, so if you do open + write + rename + close, on a crash the rename might persist even though the write didn't. You technical should use fdatasync if you want the write + rename to be ordered. See, e.g., https://lwn.net/Articles/322823/ But this is such unintuitive behavior that I think that even for ext4 the more reliable behavior is still the default.
Sure, absolutely, and this is a good point. However, much of that comes from changing requirements or an unrealistic bid process to begin with. Shady business practices by government contractors should absolutely be scrutinized. It’s a complicated undertaking all the way around.
We all subsidize those who live in rural and suburban areas, whether through direct subsidies for highways and internet access, or hidden subsidies like their increased impact on global warming because of all their driving.

It's better for the planet and better for people to live in urban areas, and the only reason that rural areas are cheaper is that they don't have to deal with the shortage of housing caused by urban zoning restrictions.

We all suffer from long time urban homeowners who won't allow increased density so that they can leach off everyone else's economic productivity. It's time for permissive nationwide by-right zoning standards.
>The government already heavily subsidises child-rearing

That 'heavy subsidy' doesn't even begin to cover the economical costs, let alone the crazy amount of work.

>I'm not sure if "children are our future" is our future. This model might not be viable forever as the world population keeps growing. This is a whole other can of worms.

What's the alternative? Hoping that the children of other countries will just work for your retirement out of the goodness of their heart? Well, maybe you're rich and invested in foreign markets so this isn't a worry for you, but for the vast majority of people this isn't an option.
I thought the opposite: It campaigns against vitamin D as if it were a wolf in sheep's clothes. I've seen the author (and her partner) post and link about the dangers of vitamin D for a while now and it seems very unscientific to come at a subject with your mind already made up.

The author has clearly made up their mind about vitamin D and now they've made it duty to lobby on behalf of that belief, but I don't think they're capable of honest, unbiased science regarding this subject anymore.
>That would be like saying, I paid for my cell phone, I don't think that cellular carriers should charge me again for the monthly service -- they should bundle it all one.

Bad analogy, it'd be like buying the cell tower and getting charged for using it.
The degree to which ordinary Americans are isolated from the violence of these conflicts is mind-boggling. The notable absence of car-bombs alone is telling how privileged we are to be able to lead our lives without fear of getting murked on the way to Starbucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_car_bombings
What's the solution? Allow non parents to take 10 weeks off for health issues?

What if then a parent has a baby and then has some other health issues. Can they take 20 weeks off? Or would that be unfair because as parents they can take 20 weeks vs 10 for the single person?
Accepted as meeting the seller's obligation under the contract[1]. It's not saying that a buyer incurs new contractual obligations simply by accepting delivery of goods that weren't part of their original contract.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-601
Optional for the continuation of society. Like say Elon going to Mars, he could take a pet. Pets provide some good, but they are not essential. Notice in poorer societies pets don’t enjoy the same privileged position they do in wealthy societies.
nice opinion, but it's just that
Massive upvote for Pirsig. I did not understand Apple until reading this book. I think Tesla maybe our contemporary equivalent.
Do you feel the same about the phone you "own," assuming you outright purchased it? One brand is like you described above and another is a lot more open.
If I'm reading this correctly, then it's not relational databases/relational data models that are the problem, but instead the normalization across bounded contexts within a problem domain?
A few years ago my company had to get US dollars out of Nigeria from the sale of the products we manufactured to pay the suppliers we have in other countries. Perfectly legitimate reason, but due to currency restrictions in Nigeria the finance guys had to use a scheme using a mix of crypto currencies (mostly bitcoin, I think, but not only). I don't know the cost of the transaction, but we barely covered it from the sales.

I heard there was a similar problem in Egypt, no idea if and how it was solved.
Sciter consistently impresses me. How neat.
If the region is at threat from massive wildfires, yes!

Just the same, if there is an national pandemic that has upended all traditional childcare options, then maybe give some slack to the parents
Going to certain webpage is like cold starting jvm.
>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.

What would you propose then? The parents starve their children? What an absurd thing to have resentment over. Do you believe the parents don't feel guilt over having to duck out early while others without children continue to work? I know when I have to do it I do.

It's a pretty terrible place to be stuck between letting your kids down and letting your coworkers down.

What an awful thing to build resentment over.
>Well then, direct the anger at those who do the telling or the requiring.

I will remind you that this is what kicked off the conversation. Forcing a pay cut on people who can't reach their normal level of productivity is a perfectly reasonable choice. To do it during a global pandemic if the survival of the business is not on the line is a choice that lacks empathy and compassion, but it is a choice that management can make. At least then it will be clear who is at fault for the decision. Refusing to do anything and letting your employees fight about it amongst themselves due to your own lack of management initiative is a cowardly way to lead.
That's actually worse, IMHO. The VPN should apply to all outbound traffic.
I’ve never seen it work the other way: “we had to let go of someone so you have to do the work of two people, here take 50% of their salary.”

So why offer such a thing to management?
I've listened to every episode of No Agenda since maybe 2008 or so. Yes, I am a fan, so biased, but I see no real evidence of him fitting any definition of alt-right, but again, since you haven't actually defined what you mean by that or given any concrete examples, I have to assume you are just trolling. Seems wrong though to throw someone into that category since these days many people use the term alt-right as a synonym for racist or Nazi.
The single guys at work are actually the most eager to go back in. I think the loneliness and monotony gets to you after awhile, and most live in kind of dreary small bachelor pad type apartments. I am fortunate to have a wife and a dog and have a bit of outdoor space while also being more or less on a park with friendly neighbors- the restaurant down the street from me opened a take out window with dog treats and the minute or two of daily small talk accompanying my pup begging for a treat just went miles towards satisfying my socialization need. Its pretty much the pandemic on easy mode, and there have been moments where it has not been so easy.

Tbh my wife and I have gotten a lot closer through all of this and our relationship has never been better. But obviously YMMV on that and it helps that our jobs have been stable and both our companies are doing well during this.
Your second sentence contradicts your first sentence
I'll see if I can find anything. So far I have my own tinkering and a reddit thread or two that I seem to have lost...
I am not entirely intimate with plan9, so take this with a grain of salt.

IIRC, everything was a file, down to the graphical UI. This allowed you to interact with the GUI trough the file system, script things, etc. Network connections and computers are also available trough files.

But even more impressive is that this filesystem builds on a relatively simple protocol[1]. Programs and computers can implement this to expose a filesystem view of their internals. The protocol is still used quite a bit, to share files across VMs for instance [2], and more generally when serializing filesystem data over a network link is needed.

I think this allows you to do fancy stuff such as remotely controlling a window on another device, or displaying it on an arbitrary number of machines.

I wish Linux used the filesystem that extensively, to replace things such as d-bus, pulseaudio, gobject, gstreamer, wayland, etc. GNU Hurd has a similar, very interesting mechanism, translators [3] (basically first-class FUSE objects).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)

[2] https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup

[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/translator.html
Whether or not you agree that society should support children, your criticism of the analogy makes no sense.
Try to use reddit in a browser...
“The platform has not been used in an approved vaccine, but has been tested in experimental vaccines against other viruses, including the Ebola virus.”

hmmm... this method of vaccination has never been used in an approved vaccine.
Maybe some Toyota ads after owning a Mercedes for >5 years?
There is nothing unique about tech in this regard. Not saying it shouldn’t be on HN, but it’s a weird spin that adds nothing to the important and very real points of the article otherwise.
It’s also FUD about how complex, or really how simple, doing your own taxes can be. Filling out a 1040 for the overwhelmingly common situation of a single job is a cake walk. The vast majority of people would be taking the standard deduction now as well.
Maybe instead of focusing on parents getting some flexibility that you don't you should drop that completely and only make the argument that everyone (parents included) should be given leeway by employers to have flexibility when it comes to contributing to the public versus a private organization.
> you won't actually go volunteer with the homeless

This was in response to the parent post:

> an essential service that some people perform to ensure that society as we know it can continue to exist

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.

My point across this entire comments section is that this privilege is arbitrary. A lot of people do hard work for all sorts of important reasons, but when they miss work, it gets mentioned in their performance review.
From their FAQ: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2453995?hl=en

> If the Google Ads system detects geographic areas that someone is interested in, we may show appropriate ads targeted to that area or surrounding areas (known as "location of interest").

> The default advanced location option in Google Ads will use both physical location and / or location of interest to determine where ads can appear. You can update your advanced location options at any time.

Looks like "interest" is still the default!
This is a US trial, AZ is listed as the Sponsor for the trial, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04516746 and the PIs listed are both at US.
There is a problem with in-app subscriptions which is rarely brought up -

- apple/google cut. OK for a $2 purchase. Not OK for recurrent payments. If it is indeed a valuable service, it should have a web site. More often than not online subscriptions will be priced more competitively. See Babbel subscriptions in app and online.
A flood sensor is simple technology. Each WC in the planet has one. You just need a box, a wire, and a buoy attached to a rod. When the buoy starts floating the rod closes an electric circuit conveniently placed much higher than the highest flood.

Could be introduced in a tube drilled directly in rock for minimum visual impact. A system of an oiled hollow cylinder (buoy) inside a major tube, all placed in the drilled tunnel could move smoothly for a long time and return again by gravity after the flood as long as the drill left some empty space below (for mud evacuation purposes)

> How does it transmit data?

standard electric cable (for example), or wifi, radio... whatever appropriate for the area

> Where is placed?

The rod/buoy, At 50cm high or 1m high (or any appropriate value) in the upper parts of the cannon. This would avoid the problem of mud covering electronics also.

> What happens if it fails?

The system returns to the same point as it is currently: "This is dangerous, not guarantee, we recommend to hire a guide, do it at your own risk".

The difference is that in the meanwhile some lives could be saved, so would be an improvement over the current situation.

> How do we know if it fails

A final led at the starting (and end?) of the cannon could be arranged to turn off, for example. Trivial in design of electronic circuits.
Thanks! Haven't had a chance to write a lot about this (heads down building and selling), but https://syncari.com/a-brief-history-of-todays-data-woes-and-... touches on it a bit.

For us, it is about:

* implementing deep integrations that are commonplace

* not spraying too thin in the quest of supporting hundreds of systems

* thinking from a data model/data/eventually consistent system perspective

* completely dropping the reactive/trigger based/if-this-then-that point-to-point model.
If you look at the trend on "mainstream" OSs, it seems to be going the other way. Google and friends have been working hard to move the networking stack upwards into the userland, because they control the userland and not the kernel. I also blame Microsoft who sucks at providing timely and non-intrusive updates to their kernel, and since it's closed source nobody else can really do anything.

I always thought for instance that SSL/TLS ought to be implemented in the kernel, with an userland daemon dealing with certificate verification. That's how for instance Linux implements the spanning tree protocol: the actual bridging is fully done in-kernel and there's a userland daemon tasked with the higher level details of the protocol.

This way certificates stores and critical updates would be centralized in one location instead of having dozens of programs liking their own OpenSSL and using various certificate registries.

It's never gonna happen though. Oh well.
How so? The typo? Everyone uses the school so everyone should not complain. Everyone is not a parent so the analogy breaks down.
Sometimes it’s meaning but most of the time it’s like having a Second except job running a gas station except your night shift employees quit so you gotta work full time at both.
If you want to know what it’s like start a side hustle and put another 8hrs in during the week and 14 on the weekends, you’ll probably get the same amount of meaning out of it - no seriously. When you are ready to have kids quit one of your jobs and you won’t skip a beat
Facial Masking for Covid-19 – Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine
Interesting. I've never seen anything like that in the Northwestern US.
1. I have no figures on subsidies for child-rearing, but "heavily subsidises" seems very unlikely in most places, maybe Scandinavia can make that claim. I suspect any help provided by the government is more than wiped out by lost income from one parent staying at home or working part time for ~5 years (or more with multiple children). Or nursery costs should both parents want to work as soon as possible.

2. Donating to Doctors Without Borders is just enabling someone else to do a good deed, the donator has zero responsibility. Parents are legally required to look after a child for 16 (i think, in most countries) years.

3. The world population won't keep growing, fertility rates are only above 3 in Africa. Other "developing" countries are on course for the population to stabilise, western developed countries will see population dropping. Google tells me 2064 for current projected population peak.
>It's hard to see how far some companies are willing to go for parents today, when I see how little we do for others.

I think much of my own negative emotion about unequal treatment in many sectors of life, not just child care, stems from this. Almost everyone has special unique difficulties they have to deal with that makes their lives harder. By chance, my set are some that are mostly not recognized by others. It isn't that I want to tell others to grin and bear their problems in life because I don't care. It is instead that grinning and bearing has been the only option for me no matter my struggles that I begin to question why it wouldn't work for others as well.
They answer that in the NPR podcast the parent linked to. But it essentially boils down to the fact that taxes are constitutionally voluntary yet tax evasion is illegal.
“Trade places with” is meant figuratively here, not literally.
Reminds me of Django's build in admin dashboard...something that's been super useful for debugging, QAing, etc.
Does a bear poop in the woods?
Is the earth round?
You're not getting the point that, in the aggregate, it is NOT a choice to have farmers, soldiers* , and yes, parents. On an individual level it might be a choice, but society necessarily needs to be structured to get enough of each of those occupations, i.e. to have sufficient numbers of people making each of those choices. And the required population percentage of parents is at least 50X higher than for farmers and soldiers.

And overpopulation/overconsumption isn't a problem. What is a problem is unsustainable growth. Life is much more pleasant today for most people than it was centuries ago because simply having more people allows for more technological development, more sub-specialization, and better efficiencies of scale, and thus paradoxically with more people everyone can have a much higher standard of living than with fewer people. In other words, it isn't zero sum. If the world's population starts rapidly declining then that will be a significant decline in the average standard of living, not an improvement.

* I don't want to get into the argument here whether soldiers are actually necessary; let's just assume for this argument that they are, or replace them with construction workers or whatever.
> Seems like Best Buy would be on the hook. Your address isn't the one associated with the stolen credit card but they accepted it as payment anyway.

The funny thing about Best Buy is that they refuse to ship packages to known mail forwarders, even if my card's mailing address matches said mail forwarder.
The thing is, there is a contingent of people that support the Democratic Party assuming they benefit or, at the very least, have someone else pay for it. As an example, if you took a cross section of supporters, if they had their taxes increase by 100% to support $some_policy, they would be less inclined to support that increase. But if you say “the rich” should pay for XYZ, then support grows substantially. There are those that would pay higher taxes for altruistic reasons, however, those people are certainly welcome to write a check to the Treasury — but they don’t. When a policy hits close to home: more work, higher taxes, reduced disposable income, suddenly support isn’t quite so robust. If you aren’t charitable to your cubical mate, it’s ironic that one can expect charity for “society.” It’s easy to be charitable when someone else is paying for it, either with money or work. In other words, it’s easier to spend other people’s money and time.