skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re still doing it. Anyone of any gender who ends their professional career to start a family is put at greater risk by more prevalent divorce, right?

Shitty sexist traditional societal practices exacerbated the risk of exiting the workforce for women. The fact that women are more vulnerable to all kinds of life conditions such as divorce is a simply a consequence of that.
Ask HN: What are some real-time audio only social apps?
We’re brainstorming some tech to use for a small (about 500 people) annual festival that’s been forced to go virtual.

What I want is Clubhouse, which has yet to materialize. What I’m stuck with is Discord. Are there any options that get me somewhere in between?
From a 2006 GWAS on 351 subjects? I would give 100-to-1 against this panning out as a causal association.

Also, this was done with very low-resolution genotyping. Even if it's a genuine association, rs17070145 is probably not the causal variant, just something which is in linkage disequilibrium with it.
Transverse myelitis, usually causes by viral infections, can cause complete paralysis below the level of the lesion. Just like a transection of the spinal cord. Quite serious, I would guess determining the etiology in this case is going to be critical, but very hard to do.

Can also be autoimmune, perhaps triggered by vaccine. Or, in this case, could be triggered by the adenoviral vector used in the vaccine.
>way too many people just cannot be bothered so someone has to

This couldn't be further from the truth. I don't know anything about you but I can confidently say for every person like you, there are 5 that have a lot of kids purely out of inability or unwillingness to try not to. We are so far from not having enough children that your service to humanity is nothing but a stroke of your own ego. If you really, truly believed what you're saying, would you give up your right to have children under a guaranteed contract that someone else would in your place? Probably not.
The BioNTech CEO wasn't nearly as measured in his comments.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/health/pfizer-biontech-vaccin...
Yep, I think everyone from my parents generation in morocco have a very distinguishable, large round scar that resembles a burn scar. Not only does it look painful, but it also looks like an absolutely perfect way to spread diseases. They were lucky AIDs wasn't really around at the time!
Average price to raise a child to 18 in the US is $233,610 according to the USDA. Tax benefits don't come close to this. And heaven help you if your kid goes to college. ;-)

[1] https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2017/01/13/cost-raising-chil...
Since you consult for them, what can you honestly say about the quality of rallymind.com. I'm working on a couple of projects that will need quick, simple payment.integrated landing pages and this service looks interesting. Any opinions of them?
Seems like the best option is probably to accept the parcel, then notify the sending company (or authorities, as appropriate) of the problem, and if they request you return it, you can politely say no and cite the law.

I would do this, with the understanding that A) If it's illegal (drugs) or stolen goods, the police should come take it off your hands, and B) while the company in question may not be able to charge you, they might have other ways to "incentivize" you to return it.

E.g. if it's Amazon they might cancel your account and blacklist you. Depending on the value of the item (and how much use you can get out of it), it may be easier to return it than to not use Amazon if you do often, or if you use Prime and/or Prime video/music, or worst case, your name is the main one on the AWS account for your business.

I would gladly return some Google store pixel phone if it meant I didn't have to worry about my Gmail account being locked, and all the problems that would cause me (and yes, this is a good reason for me to have a different email).
...which is pretty much completely irrelevant when it comes to the percentage of locals at a protest, because the number of people arrested at a protest is only a tiny percentage of the number of attendees and is not a random sample.
> Frontend developers are at fault for all this

As a recent front end dev, I fought tooth and nail not to include all kinds of tracking drek into the company's site. I lost every time because management overruled me.

At some point, it occurred to me that it's not my site and I shouldn't be taking personally that which doesn't belong to me.
If memory serves right, the CEOs were talking about it late August but from yesterday's announcement[0] :
"Nine drug companies issued a joint pledge on Tuesday that they would “stand with science” and not put forward a vaccine until it had been thoroughly vetted for safety and efficacy"

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/covid-19-coronaviru...
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The killer feature here isn't end-to-end encryption, other services offer that and you can trivially roll your own with rclone, but the flexibility to share files on your filestore with other users without compromising that E2E encryption. I haven't seen anyone else offering that in a usable manner.

Pretty neat stuff. I hope they open-source it so I can self-host.
One thing I've found in the change to being a parent is that I'm much more confident in saying, "No, I have this other important thing I have to do. If you want my contributions, it will have to be on these terms."

Most employers that would accept that of parents would accept it of anyone. Most employers that wouldn't accept employees setting reasonable boundaries or making reasonable requests wouldn't accept them from parents, either. There are bound to be some that only accept boundary-setting from parents, but I assert that it's a very small percent of employers or managers. Maybe I'm wrong.

What I'm proposing here is that most people are too afraid to ask for what they want. Parents have the benefit of having some of those expectations carved out beforehand, but I think that many of them also develop a newfound ability to say, "No, sorry, can't do that."
And for anyone that would rather to cut to the chase:

https://github.com/obsidiansystems/ipfs-nix-guide/blob/maste...

https://github.com/obsidiansystems/ipfs-nix-guide/blob/maste...
Teslas don't have to phone home to operate. They work just fine off-grid, and you can also opt-out of any data collection/phone home [1] if you want. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the burden of proof is on the manufacturer to prove that the modification caused the damage (at least in the USA), so removing the sim and turning off wifi is unlikely to void any warranty

[1] https://www.tesla.com/about/legal#choice-transparency
It's definitely slower and the easiest way to realize it is to use plugins like uBlock Origin combined with uMatrix and compare load times with them enabled, and then disabled. For me it's at least 50% faster when they're on.
There's a tradeoff for everything and he's mostly wrong. I'm sure for some companies it doesn't make sense, but for a company like Netflix, other than say maybe their DVD division, there's no reason for employees to be onsite. I think the biggest cost may be to managers' egos however.
There is beauty in a utility shell script. But I guarantee you, no one in this forum wants to work at an org or in a society where everything is a mishmash of shell-scripts. It's sometimes nicer to have things that scale and are standardized across the board.
Another good reason to buy local produce and demand to know country of origin/manufacture before buying things... vote with your wallet.
Win95 is running as root by default. Any process can open another's memory. It has the same registry entry as Windows NT for running a program on startup. The keylogging API is basically the same. The IShellFolder and IWebBrowser interfaces are identical, so as long as the malware didn't request specific classes or features that are outside the realm of Windows 95, it can probably do pretty well. Luckily, Internet Explorer 3 doesn't support TLS.
Not sure we need any more encouragement on that front ;)

Sure, after I'm dead, you can do with my stuff whatever you like.

But while I'm alive.... it's my stuff and I can do with it what I like. Including tearing it up because I hate it now and don't want anyone to look at it.
> We should not be rewarding or elevating people for having unprotected sex without the support network to take care of their children in the event they are unable to attend school.

Hey, I get it. Here's the thing: that "support network" used to exist in the form of close-knit local groups of parents, churches, etc. which are all fading from our society as we atomize into our own little bubbles. COVID has amplified this phenomenon exponentially.

It is an unreasonable request to expect people to weather MONTHS of their children not being able to attend school. Not without government assistance. People's lives are not structured for this kind of contingency; and if you had more perspective as to the way people outside of the tech sector lived, you'd understand this. On HN there aren't that mean people living paycheck to paycheck; but out there in the real world, where single moms scrape along on next to nothing, it's unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to handle this without a lot of things falling through the cracks.

> If your plans for raising a child rely upon schools being able to take them off your hands for 8+ hours a day (not to mention feeding them), that's your problem, not ours.

What an insensitive, hyper-individualist attitude. EVERYONE'S plans for raising a child include having schools take them for 6-8 hours a day, and have for almost a century now. Everything about the structure of family life and the normal routine people follow is designed around making this possible because no compelling alternative has presented itself.

> It's "selfish" and "immature" to bring a child into the world that you don't have the time or means to raise.

It's selfish and exceedingly immature for you to believe that it's okay to just point to the next generation of humans and say "that's your problem, not ours". There's no "ours" if you think that way, there's only "mine", and it sounds like a better summary for your outlook is just "fuck you got mine", which doesn't scale.

One day, maybe you will be so lucky as to have children, completing your own obviously-incomplete journey into mature adulthood, and at that time I hope you think back on your previous mindset. As someone who never dreamed of children when I was in my early 20s, I can see that I might too have produced some cringeworthy posts like yours, but with more perspective it's clear that community effort, sensitivity, and understanding is crucial to making sure we produce a new generation that can take on the challenges handed to it by the old. You'll get there too.
I've never gone to public school and I know a lot of other people who haven't either.
I went in hard with email security a year or so ago.
In the end I decided it was a broken system if security is the goal.
I signed up for Hey and have really been enjoying it.
I keep any secure comms on more secure platforms like Signal or Telegram.
Hmm, not really related to the story (or HN comment), but I thought HN comments became automatically dead when submitted... [0] I guess someone decided to vouch for this?

Is my guess right? Can someone shed some light on how this is not dead?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ycombinator.com (view it with showdead on)
I used this reasoning to convince my boss when I was working on code for embedded devices. "IF I can't fix it remotely then the techs don't stand a chance, so I need to be working from home all the time unless absolutely necessary that I need to go onsite"
The human race is not an endangered species. We are not in danger of going extinct due to lack of people.
> What's next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don't I?

Cancer isn't something people choose to inflict upon themselves.
Agreed, I live alone because I want space. A lot of space. Had a fulfilling long term relationship before, and not very interested in that life.

Internet dating has been pretty excellent as the priorities there have seemed to change as well, along with everything just being slower. There is less distraction and competition for attention, it feels like. Video dates were never the move, nice try though.

The thin possibly of a great collaborative partner that has a matching libido is enticing after a few months of the extreme contrary. At this point I just try to keep my own R0 to <1, if I happen to get it or are around more than 1 person/group in a two week time period.
"Pfizer and BioNTech are confident they can have a vaccine against the novel coronavirus ready for regulatory approval by the middle of October or early November."

This doesn't seem extreme to me. "ready for regulatory approval" just means they've submitted a complete package to the FDA.

However, this is a really stupid comment.

"It has an excellent profile and I consider this vaccine ... near perfect, and which has a near perfect profile,"

And at least according to FDA regulations, that statement violates a number of rules around the promotion of unapproved products.
Forrest Fenn, who said he hid treasure in Rocky Mountains, dies aged 90
I assume nothing.

I've left home exactly once since the second week of April, the next time I leave will be to get vaccinated (whether next week or years from now), and the very next time I leave after that will be to get my antibody levels checked. If the level is satisfactory, I'll resume leaving with an N95 or KN95 mask at all times until more is known.
My perspective on this is that it conflates two valid concerns, and comes to a valid proposed solution. However I criticize this solution, because it doesn't actually address the underlying issues, which I think it conflates:

* popular source code repository tools present unnecessary risks for closed-source environments

* source code repository tools don't have fine-grained access controls

One issue is that github specifically is ill-suited for the purpose of closed-source, proprietary, company-controlled source-code. The FTC analysis about Uber that's linked in this blog post, articulates this:
"Uber granted its engineers access to Uber’s GitHub repositories through engineers’ individual GitHub accounts, which engineers generally accessed through personal email addresses."

Few other company tools are inherently used with personal accounts.
Few other company tools so flagrantly violate isolation of tenants.
Few other tools make it so goddamn easy to accidentally publish private information. The idea that company source code should reside on the same platform as open-source code is insane from a security perspective. The idea that there's a public API to crawl all repositories (that were made public) on the same platform where many companies are keeping their proprietary code is even more insane. Github is caught between two identities: Their open-source past, and their popularity with smb and enterprise customers.

I always notice this complete disaster when managing access and adding a contributor to the repository, and the search-space from which I can select a contributor is EVERYONE EVER REGISTERED ON GITHUB. How is this supposed to be a tool being used by companies the size of Uber. You're one wrong click away from giving people outside of your organization access to your source-code. The answer can't be "well let's just not put the really sensitive things in there and call it a day."

Would I be comfortable adding my credit card numbers to the company repository? No, but the issue is access control, not security. If you put a password in a company managed password manager where all team members can access this item, and then subsequently move it to a private vault, you better change that password. A version control system just amplifies this risk (due to its history,) it doesn't inherently present it in a way that other shared systems don't.

It seems bizarre, the degree to which companies are fine with this absolutely inappropriate tooling for the required security.
> If you tried to let any other charitable endeavour take over your work schedule, you wouldn't expect your compensation to remain unaffected.

You fail to realize that most people (as in 99%) work in order to earn a living, not for the sake of work itself. You hold a job to earn money and use that money to pay for the needs and wants that let you live the best life you can afford (with or without children). And if your job gets in the way, you quit and find a job that better fits your needs.

Now, if you personally are in the 1% who derive a sense of fulfillment from your work itself, good for you. You ought to be aware that you are an extraordinary employee, or at least have the potential to grow into an extraordinary employee. If your salary does not reflect that, it is because of your lack of negotiation skills.

In other words, it is not fair that people that do not give their all get the same compensation as those that go far beyond duty. The solution, however, is not to force the majority to meet exceptional expectations; it is to pay a fair price for exceptional labor.
Ask HN: Need to set up a few small project landing pages, advice?
Nice and simple: I'm starting a few landing pages for some side projects I've been considering. I don't need anything more fancy than a static content page that can handle photos and possibly video (unlikely on video though) and payment processing (open to suggestions on a service for this too).

Does anyone have any recommendations to make?

Tangent question: One of these projects involves managing a mass messaging system with updates on new investment options for subscribers in developing markets (mainly Latin America), and basic advice on systems or platforms to use for this would be very much appreciated.
I just mean that having a technical discussion is not an argument. There will be disagreements, but that doesn't make it an argument unless someone involved is taking things too far.
> They didn't report false facts - they verified them.

Unless they're directly copying from press releases or, worse, police reports. Too many local (and for that matter, even national) papers don't have the money left to do actual boots-on-the-ground journalism.
For the person who downvoted me, care to refute my examples?
This gets parroted a lot around here but the last 5 years or so there's really only been a few major players in the framework space. Maybe the "framework of the day" mentality was pretty strong in the early 2010's but things have cooled off significantly since then and you'd be hard-pressed to find most shops using more than the big 3-4 contenders.
> To be honest, the "resentment" of those without children have for "benefits" those with children get strikes me as extremely selfish, immature and displaying a total lack of empathy.

Where is your empathy for the "middle-aged adult with no children"? Are you sure you are a "middle-aged adult with no children" because you sound like a person with children.

> If anything, I'm thankful for all those people with kids who will (a) take care of the continuation of the human race, and more selfishly (b) support our society and economy when I am too old to do so.

Then aren't you being selfish by not having kids?

We had another thread a few days ago and almost the same comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24384369
Pretty weak response from the US considering China actually have huge forced labor camps.

How about even stronger sanctions?

I guess the US is now so dependent on China that they can't?
Just FYI, I ran a random Washington Post article through it and it chopped off the first paragraph: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/36991
First 108 remote opportunities from more than 2500 remote companies tracked
I worked at a few marketing shops a while ago where we would manually increment a cache-busting query parameter any time we changed static assets (e.g., `/css/style.css?v=20100908`). We configured Apache to tell the client to cache these resources for a year, and this was a fairly common way of getting around that.

Forgetting to update this ended up be a common source of bugs.
> modifying and patenting your DNA
In order to do what, exactly?

Lotta money selling it, example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

"as Lack's cells were popularized and used more frequently throughout the scientific community, Lacks's relatives received no financial benefit and continued to live with limited access to healthcare"
Those aren't needed, but they are options. "he templated implementation allows arbitrary array and number types to be compatible, giving compatibility with arbitrary precision floating point numbers, GPU-based computations, unit-checked arithmetic, and other features. "

Those are exactly the things wrapping fortran and c won't give you
>Companies, Governments, Healthcare System all failed to prepare for this pandemic but parents are expected to? Should they be considering breast-feeding during a nuclear winter before having children?

And yet plenty of companies and healthcare organizations had prepared and are now doing fine. Nobody is asking anyone to consider every possible failure mode of society, that's absurd. It's not a crazy thing to plan for your kids in case something happens to you, as the parent. Having adequate finances in place to handle a year or two without income isn't some wild notion when we start discussing the well being of children, in my opinion. The idea is to be prepared in case something outside of your control prevents you from earning income. Heaven forbid on the ride to work you are struck by a drunk driver (or w/e uncontrolable accident) and are now stuck without the ability to work for the next two years. Having no plan for catastrophe when raising a child is simply poor judgement.

> What's a sufficient about of global life-altering change before they get the free pass?

Why should anyone get a free pass for their choices in life? Is it also the companies fault when the minimum wage they pay doesn't support a family of 6? What's a sufficient amount of servitude a company should pay to their employees past what is agreed upon in contract negotiations?

Maybe someone else forgot that _shit happens_ and didn't prepare or negotiate well, sucks to suck. The parents have very simple options. Renegotiate or tell the company to pound sound and go somewhere that will play ball with your demands. The people I truly feel sorry for is the children, they get throw into a terrible deal through no fault of their own.
Wow, the picture[1] he links to in the comment makes it look surprisingly capable. I remember using WordPerfect for DOS way back in the early 90's for writing elementary/middle school papers, but don't remember it being this capable. Either I wasn't aware of the features (likely, I was young and trying to do homework, not explore a word processor), or they were added afterwards.

1: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/1272670107043368960/photo/...