skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's frankly terrifying how many people who are ostensibly not trolling will refuse to admit the simple reality expressed in this post.
I think you missed the point of the article entirely. The complaints aren’t so much about what parents do get, but instead about what childless employees don’t get.

When your parent coworkers are tossing extra work over the fence to you, ditching critical meetings at the last second without delegating, which in turn forces you to stay late and put the pedal to the metal for weeks on end to maintain their productivity for them and your own, all while not only not getting a thank-you but instead getting effectively a middle finger where your colleague is saying “fuck you, you don’t have real problems or commitments because you don’t have a kid, pick up the slack and deal with it cuz I’m on kid duty” it’s extremely miserable and open season on extreme burnout.

Let alone the wildly ridiculous idea that you might get an extra bonus, higher raise, faster promotion, etc., for picking up that slack... you’ll be lucky to get coworker parents just even being slightly kind to you and showing a modicum of appreciation for the childless people picking up extreme slack despite their own lockdown induced mental health and time crunch issues.
No, you do get to "both sides" this.

There are people on the left with national significance who say heinous things about entire demographics, demographics by virtue of their birth, nonetheless, who have their message spread via social media.

And you know, I'm fine with them getting to have their say, as long as everyone gets their say.
Finally, we can have a local markdown editor with live preview. I just hope it can read files and folders in a particular directory as well, with permission of course.
Every time Chrome adds a new API it is nearly always abused by ad networks and tracking companies to fingerprint users.

If you're bored one day you should consider reverse engineering some ad network code. You'll be stunned at the insidious practices used.
Also, the new systems have higher perceived latency than the old.
It's not inconceivable that Uighur human rights abuses are being used for political purposes. Certainly a healthy dose of skepticism is not uncalled for. Yet the people who respond to such reports with outraged knee-jerk accusations of hypocrisy against the US because it had slavery in the 1860s or because it has forced labor in some prisons today--I don't understand that.
The only version of WordPerfect I ever used was 5.1 for MS-DOS, and my comments apply to that one only. I heard the GUI version left a lot to be desired, so I never upgraded.
What macros do you use? I have some simple programs that generate documents to print out, and I use LaTeX and a bunch of packages. It takes hundreds of megabytes of software with all the packages. I've long toyed with using the MOM macros but can't get motivated to rewrite my programs and learn troff.

It used to bother me that groff doesn't support Unicode (as far as I can tell) but then realized that all I write is English so why am I fetishizing Unicode? groff will get me any accented character that I would realistically need.
It is worth it to dig a hole! Because building one tall tower is ~exponentially~ (edit: quadratically) better than building multiple shorter ones side by side with the same combined height. You can dig a mile deep which is about 10 times taller than the practical height of a tower. My startup, Terrament, is working on a similar technology, and there is a slide in our deck that illustrates this.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17FI-jrI9RWS3q7Ng44Yh...

Reusing abandoned mine shafts could have an advantage. But there is also ample researching showing that the cost of digging from scratch is still worth it. The US Dept of energy even studied it back in the 1980s when they were evaluating underground pumped hydro energy storage. I wrote a white paper on it that's linked from here.
see here https://www.terramenthq.com/uphs/
Nothing about this is “easily” once you work through the edge cases for performance and reliability. The only places which need HSM have enough data volume and range of applications to stress any simple solution (e.g. with the approach you outlined: what happens when someone runs find on that volume?). One of the more interesting challenges is how to deal with not having quite enough fast storage to batch the slow storage. Your system can appear to work well with one test workload and then fail miserably when two people start running different tasks at the same time.

After a couple decades of this, I generally think this class of software is a mistake. Any time you misrepresent one class of storage as another it inevitably leads to very complex software which is still pretty fragile and confuses its users on a regular basis, and the cost savings never deliver to the hoped-for degree.
If Apple made houses that had an amazing whole-home smart speaker system, washed dishes for you, shuttled laundry to your washer, etc, but you couldn't modify that system or run non-Apple apps on it, I see many people rushing to get one for the same reasons they stay with the iPhone (which you can find a list of in the comments sections of [0]).

0: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1599508800&dateRange=custom&...
Completely agree - there is no "both sides" here.

Modern McCarthyism, the attempt to control thought and speech is very much a problem of the left.
If you made me pick a term it would be closer to pity, not resentment.
paywalled - is there an alternative link?

Edit: thanks for the readable links!
This is immediately obvious if you install them in a virtual machine - even on the latest fast hardware Ubuntu and Fedora both lag pretty hard. Even Xubuntu is pretty slow. I use a VM for Zoom and MS Teams, so after some time dealing with it I finally gave up and installed Arch Linux with a minimal Openbox configuration.

The VM gets to the desktop within a few seconds with autologin and automatic X starting, and is lighting fast (zoom and teams still a bit slow but everything else is instant).

I set the Openbox menu to only contain the items I need - Zoom, unofficial teams-for-linux, v4l2 (webcam) test&configuration utility, pavucontrol (volume control), SimpleScreenRecorder, Thunar (file explorer) with my shared folder to get recordings out of the VM, and a shortcut to a .txt with my Zoom meeting IDs and passwords (Mousepad as the editor).

It'd be nice to make a compact disk image from this and distribute it, but there are some machine-specific things that need to be configured for the VM - not hard, but you can't make it a zero-configuration download-and-run type thing (shared folders, selecting USB passthrough for webcam, configuring resource allocation to the vm, etc.). Installing Arch takes about 10 minutes and installing+configuring all the GUI software takes maybe 60 minutes more.

Of course part of the slowness in VMs is due to not having fast graphics which GNOME etc. rely on, but again Xubuntu is pretty slow too, and if you install a GNOME distro on bare metal it still lags pretty often. Plus the boot times for Ubuntu & Fedora are also really high in the VM.
my wife is a middle school teacher and I have kids ages 8 and 10. I work at a major consulting firm but, fortunately, travel is zero right now. it's certainly been out of the ordinary having the kids at home and going to school over zoom. it's not easy but not much of parenthood is, I try to roll with it and pick my battles. I passed on some very cool projects because of LOE knowing full well I wouldn't have the time to dedicate.

ironically, our friends having the hardest time are stay-at-home moms. back to school is a cherished time for them and they're having a hard time adjusting.
Good for Anchorhead, but not for something outside the Z Machine ;)
Yeah, and as I mention above, the key thing is height. You can build 10x taller underground than above ground. And that gives you 10x more potential energy for the same amount of weight.
Being a cop (an agent of the state permitted to use deadly force) is a job. It is in no way comparable to being a member of a persecuted ethnic and religious minority.

EDIT: Amazed at how much I’m being downvoted for this. Didn’t realize how many “blue lives matter” people browse HN.
I do own the latest MacBook Pro and have a mesh network with 300 Mbps downloads speeds and even I have started finding it painfully slow to load my banking website, cnn, etc. In particular layout shift has become awful and I often click on the wrong link as the page is still loading and widgets are being rearranged on the page.
I'm skeptical. Many of those same countries regularly speak out against the US, despite the clear economic advantage of staying friendly with Washington.

But even if it's true that China's just bullied a bunch of countries into being complicit, their complicity still does make a push for sanctions harder.
https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...
> to compensate for how difficult it is to ship games on Apple's platforms (along with others) instead of building for Apple's SDK.

Apple's SDK doesn't contain a game engine.
I don’t think so. In this situation Facebook does heavily skew to the far right of politics. Here’s a Twitter account that uses Facebook’s own CrowdTangle tool to track the most shared news sources per week, and the results speak for themselves. Facebook is constantly filled with Fox News, Breitbart, the Trump campaign, Ben Shapiro, and other far right sources.

It’s possible that Facebook is censoring center or left wing news and that would explain why such extreme far right sources are so prevalent, but that’s almost worse in my opinion. Because then Facebook would be deciding the outcome of the election without any oversight or transparency.

https://twitter.com/facebookstop10
Direct PDF link: https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...
Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager Are Going Away
It sounds like the news guidelines need to be revised.
They have some other low level trolling:

> Funny how Dang has the time to stomp out any hint of discomfort with Chinese genocide but cannot do the bare minimum when it comes to getting rid of ads for cigarettes. [1]

VPN warrior, I'm sure.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24369422
Well I'm using Kubuntu 20.04 as my daily driver -- I still like it for the most part (I've been using various flavors of Linux since 1998).

Did DOSbox not work on Ubuntu 10.04? I suspect you could have run this on Ubuntu 10.04...
There were concerns because SARS vaccine attempts hadn't been further developed due to apparent cytokine storm problems. I think we're far enough along to be confident that that isn't an issue with vaccines for this virus.

Some people also make a comparison to the common cold coronaviruses which have a lot of strains and might be rapidly mutating. Honestly, it's a bad comparison because it's clear this coronavirus isn't mutating rapidly, and besides we haven't really tried to target common cold coronaviruses - why would we when rhinoviruses are the most frequent cause of the common cold?
Not sure why you would say that. Maybe try some vscode extensions such as "Markdown Preview Enhanced" or "Markdown All In One"? Those works both offline and local.
Anything involving dams typically also has to involve water release schedules, which at least in some parts of the western US will produce some of the most vicious political battles you can imagine.
The logical conclusion of the "far right" type ideologies, that seek ethnic purity, and everyone to be in their right place, is to destroy(segregate and kill) all threats to purity. The logical conclusion of people opposed to that, is to stop people being killed, and when that isn't happening let everyone go about their business. They are not comparable.
We do get to both-sides this. The thing Facebook did amazingly well is silo people who hold identical opinions, and drive inflammatory false content to them. This maximized clicks, while inflaming and radicalizing people on both sides.

Hatred doesn't last long when you talk to people. But Facebook doesn't let people talk to each other across boundaries. It's segregatory. See Brown v. Board. Now, there is no middle, and we have a mess to clean up.

This maximized clicks. Facebook weren't the only ones doing it, but Facebook is the giant in the room. Facebook could have connected people on the left and on the right, and facilitated civil discussions. It chose not to do that.

Do I blame them for it? I'm not sure. Market forces are powerful, and I suspect its hand may have been forced. Nevertheless, it's something we need to fix. Regulation is nice since it changes market forces.

To say the polarized left isn't harmful is false. I don't much care about terrorists or bombers. There aren't enough of them to matter. I care about racists on the right. I care about vigilante doxers on the left. I care about people losing their careers. I care about kids from some communities not learning. I care about people hating each other. That's as much of a problem on each side.

There was an article I ran into earlier today about how the far left which just caused a USC professor to be suspended from teaching for saying 那个 in a course on communications (which sounds a lot like an American racial slur). This stuff happens all the time in the far left. Watch the video. What he said is exactly what you'll hear in China all the time.

https://reason.com/2020/09/03/usc-greg-patton-chinese-word-o...

As a footnote, if you do want to see terrorists on the left, tune into Fox News. They play nonstop footage of BLM protesters beating people up, setting fires, and in one case, executing someone. You can't just close your eyes here; half of America is seeing one reality, and half is seeing another. To start closing the gaps, it's helpful to see both.
I will worry about radical Maoists when it's plausible that they (or people using their votes for political gain) win a presidential election, obstruct the senate, have a majority in the supreme court, stockpile 400m guns, and have elected officials that write online manifestos about the need to kill their political opposition [1]. It's time to take the DHS and the FBI at their word; far right movements are the largest danger to the US right now. It does not make sense to worry about a mosquito while there's an angry grizzly running towards us. "Antifa" protesters that commit violence can be dealt with via regular law enforcement just fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Shea
I still use vim.

And I have supported the children in Uganda.
Yes, you can and should "both sides" this.

Maybe you're unaware of what's happening with the extremes on both sides, but they're feeding off each other and rapidly regressing (thanks in large part to Facebook/Twitter). While each is enabled/emboldened by the free pass from their side, who are either unaware of their own extremes or just more afraid of the other. It's a negative feedback loop and we really need both sides to start pushing back on their own.
As someone who does a large number of these things, I am still far less happy than I would otherwise be. The rationale "We didn't plan for this" is equally valid for parents as it is for the childless. Trivializing that some people need to adjust their lifestyle in a thread about people feeling resentment about lifestyle challenges seems misguided to me.

The pandemic has actually been great for my physical health. I picked up cycling and have gone (solo) hiking and backpacking more than ever, looking forward to my gym opening with reservations. On the other hand, my apartment's walls are littered with relics of past concerts, trips, friends nights - rich social moments. I crave those moments again. Many of these cancellations and closures disproportionally affect childless people, because, as many of the other commentators have noted, children fill a lot of the time that would otherwise be spent doing those canceled or closed activities.

As an aside, it doesn't help that a lot of the aforementioned activities are predicated on the entire state of California not being a large smoke cloud right now (With many of the National Forests, for example, closed).
No doubt. Rural life does not scale past a certain point, which is why cities exist.
I think you were the one who started it here. Using extremist euphemisms like you just did will only get you outrage.
There is no way this isn't going to open up massive security holes. Even if the browser puts up alert after alert, people are just going to randomly click buttons and then all of a sudden wonder why some random web app is deleting all their files and adding malware. And the spec docs aren't exactly reassuring. This is an exact quote! "This API could be used by websites to try to store and/or execute malware on the users system."
Take a look at the "UN report" that was referenced in the article. It looks like they just interviewed 8 villagers in different villages to estimate the number of people being detained and extrapolated that to all of Xinjiang. Any evidence less handwavy than that would be a good start.

https://www.nchrd.org/2018/08/china-massive-numbers-of-uyghu...
I switched to freetaxusa.com this year after 15+ years in Intuit. I have more complex taxes than the average person and I felt like it went just fine. Really happy with the service. Went from about $150 per year to $15.
I'm not advocating some "Children of Men" fictional dystopia. There will always be kids, maybe just not the white collar tech worker too worried about career progression. For example, outside of my own kids, I'm agnostic on my coworker's kid or some stranger in Africa's.

Overpopulation is also a problem. As long as humans can migrate, I'm not convinced of some lasting labor shortage hypothesis.
> LNG is basically free

Free as in money, costly in consequences. The whole point of energy storage schemes is to allow us to migrate away from fossil fueled energy.
And ITS and TOPS-20 and some exotic lispm filesystems as well...
> Now your new network connections will go through remote-host, because a network connection is just reads and writes to files in /net.

Wouldn't this then also affect the connection to this remote host used for importing, effectively looping itself?
I really don't but whatever
The acquisition of WP by Novell was a disaster. Way different corporate cultures and leadership styles.

Ashton and Bastian had been generous with stock grants to key people, particularly on the technical side. Most of the key people below the two founders had enough money that they didn’t have to put up with the sharp elbows and confrontational styles that predominated at Novell.

Combine a brain drain with a Microsoft push for Windows and built-in integration with the first passable version of Word and you had a recipe for disaster. Some of the WP people who remained claimed that MS had mislead them about Windows vs DOS roadmap and been slow in providing Windows info necessary for WP engineers to build a decent first release of WP for the new release of Windows, but I could never determine if this was what had really happened or just sour grapes because WP stumbled badly after the ownership change.
“And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker”
This is literally just a political rant scribbled while slamming the door on an ex-employer. Seems like Facebook has reduced it's bias by one engineer as a result.
Regardless if you think Trump is actively or passively supporting Russia, leaving Russia to do as it will while stoking America vs China fires is a key pillar to Russian geopolitics. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics) “China, which represents a danger to Russia, "must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled””

Anything that hurts China and also the US while also ignoring Russia’s actions is, again knowingly or not, playing the exact hand they’d prefer the US to play.
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/23/tesla-removing-content-f... - This article lists two cases.
It's a huge red flag to tell people they are simply "X" or "X or Y", where all options are basically synonymous with stupid or lying. I agree with the parent, and I am painfully aware of what is happening with the extremes on both sides.
All I get are ads for cheap consumer products off alibaba, some even having the audacity to claim they are made in USA, when I could do a reverse image search from their shopify page to the alibaba post.

I read all the happy comments wondering how many were bots. I comment about finding the product on alibaba and my comment is swiftly removed and the option to comment is no longer on the post. So much for freedom of speech, zuck.
Yup. Correct. I did mention high energy density storage in my original comment.
I always volunteered to work more, I travel more than my married peers, I'm willing to give up some holidays and be more flexible, with the caveat that I get whatever time off I need without reservation - its a social contract, and I believe strongly that it takes a village to raise a child.
> The perfect outcome according to me will be that you could be required to pay apple tax if you use app store to distribute the app, but the user should have a way to install any app outside the store and apple has to provide user a way to let them install it.

Isn't that the current situation on Android, and Epic still sued them?
So you're a pissed off parent who made a throwaway to snarkily reply with one or two word answers to everyone who annoys you in this thread? Pretty sad.
I was born in Siberia region of former USSR. There I would do ungodly amount of things myself. To the point that I got really sick of doing those. When I immigrated to Canada one of the things I've come to immensely enjoy is the ability not to do everything myself. Well a bit later I've also discovered that you basically have to check everything unless you want it f..ed up royally.

The apogee was reached when one of the electricians I hired to change my power switch for water heater did the job and no electricity was flowing to said heater. He was doing this and that and finally said that he is giving up. This got me mad and I checked the wiring myself. Are you ready for this ? ... He screwed both of the 2 outgoing wires to a grounding plate that happened to have 2 threaded holed completely ignoring everything else that was there.
That’s a problem that no WYSIWYG has been able to solve yet. It’s probably an unavoidable abstraction leakage.

Hence the unbelievable popularity of markdown.

Imagine telling your 90s self your current machine configuration and how awesome it is. Then explain that we, with all this tech, voluntarily chose to type in plaintext format, with notations that kind of work as a more readable form of markup language, because we got fed up trying to make WYSIWYG work.

Oh yes, and GUIs are for noobs, pros use terminal emulators, but that’s another topic :)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/nyregion/school-integrati... might be an example? One particularly striking paragraph: "When I was watching the George Floyd protests, I was noticing that many of the white neighborhoods where a lot of white liberals were out participating in Black Lives Matter demonstrations were some of the same neighborhoods that resisted school integration. And that filled me with a lot of despair."
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