skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you've heard of abused spouses staying with their abusers, because with no earning power they have no options?
It's the wrong question too. Why do we have to file a tax return at all? Shouldn't the government be filing a tax return with us instead?

Same answer of course.
In this example people who’s letter starts with a basically lost a major social safety net but got a small perk instead. It’s like saying sorry you don’t qualify for social security anymore but here is 600$
Whyever remote servers need to know which fonts I have. What the hell.
There is a fairness problem, and I don't see a solution except to allow everyone to work less. Working less is not a bad thing.

As a manager, I've always accommodated parental (or other family) leave requests. I even encouraged hesitant parents or other care-givers to take paid time away from work. I don't remember ever refusing leave or pressuring anyone to return to work. This was sometimes contrary to the employer's stated policy. Had I been asked about it (and I never was) I would have made the case that it is in the employer's interest and my interest as a manger to be flexible.

I never had a request for more than a few days at a time. Obviously, requests to take an extended period (months or years) are another matter.

I remember very few requests for non-vacation, self-care time off, just the rare "mental health" day.

In my experience, it really is true that parents and other care-givers take more time off than non-care-givers. In partial mitigation, I have found caregivers to be somewhat more efficient in completing work at the office, compared to single people, especially single people under 30. Parents don't have time to waste!

EDIT: I see two fairness issues, caregivers getting more time off than other employees. And, not all managers are the way I was, and it is unfair that "my" employees had a better situation than others.
Um.... All electrolytics eventually go bad as the electrolyte solution dries out eventually. Re-capping retro computers and radio gear from the 70s through the 90s is very much a thing.

That being said, electrolytics were somewhat less common than they are now. But the Capacitor Plague is not the only reason electronics are recapped, especially older/vintage/retro electronics.
> In many parts of the United States when you call 911, you're lucky if anyone shows up within an hour.

And not necessarily only rural parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNK0VspQ0M
It's easy to say move, but much harder to actually do it. A lot of people flat out cannot afford to move half-way across the country, period, full stop, nor can they afford the added risk of getting new jobs. Plus, odds are good their salary where they're moving to is less, so it's not clear that they'll easily now be able to survive on a single salary anyway.

Plus, this solution isn't highly scalable; only so many people can do it.
Really? What professional pianist besides Jarrett has audible vocalizations on their recordings?
The company shouldn’t make promises it can’t keep. If they have to break one promise (keeping salaries the same) to keep another (paid time off) then it’s still the company that is breaking the promise, not other people to whom they have also made promises.

If they have to cut salaries because they spent all the money on magic beans do you get mad at the beans?
Where it says "serious adverse reaction" do they mean the adverse reaction was serious or that it's an actual grade 3 adverse event (SAE)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_adverse_event
Yes, I mistakenly had COM in the original comment, before editing it a while ago but maybe before jborean93’s last refresh before commenting.
non-techcrunch link: https://developers.google.com/business-communications/verifi...
TLDR: Google Ads customers can now customise the appearance of phone app when they call, for a subset of Android users
Also take a look at Repl.it's "CLUI"[0] which they released fairly recently

[0] https://blog.repl.it/clui
(Edited to clarify my intended meaning)

> I'd happily trade places with one of my childless coworkers right about now.

For those childless co-workers that wish they could accept the other end of this deal, this phrase is both common and quite painful to hear. Please consider not using it unless you really mean it, which you don't, as you actually wouldn't give up your kids for anything.
Except children benefit their parents. Before social security, children were your social security. This mechanism hasn't disappeared. Childless people already pay more taxes that are used to subsidize other peoples' children, but they don't get nearly the benefit from that that parents do.
Assuming that people will behave responsibly doesn't have a great track record either.
You can do this with a Tesla of course; either disable remote access (leaving open firmware updates and traffic analysis to the mothership) or remove the Wi-Fi and cellular antennas. While a bit involved, it is entirely possible and will leave you with a perfectly "working" Tesla.

The car doesn't require connectivity. Although it sure is nice being able to pre-heat or pre-cool your car before you go drive it.

There are also jailbreak options for Teslas.. you too can run a virtual machine inside of your entertainment computer.
Thats how i made my first 10k on the web, still have the check:)
I use WordStar when programming in CP/M. I use 'jstar' (one of the 'joe' alter-egos) which uses the same commands when programming in Linux.
> inversely correlated with age

To some degree. Immunity fades, which is the whole concept of booster shots.
Fabian strategy
Well in proportion to the time the parents spend with the kids vs the time you are inconvenienced by them spending time with their kids balances out. Of course they will have a huge benefit from raising their kids. They raised them. But you will also have a benefit from the small temporary hassle it gives you during these times.
It was a Phoenix app. Upgrading from v1.2 to 1.5 is very straightforward, the largest part being replacing Brunch with Webpack for the front-end.

There are some new choices for building releases that make it easier for people who prefer to use run time environment mentioned variables for configuration instead of compile time ones. Previous ways of building releases still work as before.

I make releases with Distillery just as I did back in 2016. The main change in my release workflow is that now I use Gitlab CI/CD, and that's unrelated to any Elixir or Phoenix changes.
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1. Government subsidies don't cover anything close to the cost of raising a child.

2. Child-rearing is a thing tens of millions of people actually do interleaved with full-time work, and has to be addressed by high-level decision makers. There are lots of hypothetical things a specific individual might want to do that maybe have high social utility, and that's an interesting question for them to sort out with their manager and isn't really relevant to how parents are treated.

3. A stable population -- not growing -- requires a little over 2 children per woman, and the US fertility rate is waaaay below that right now.
It’s cool if they don’t they should just pay more taxes to compensate
In the node ecosystem there are a few interesting ones.

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink for writing TUIs with react. Here's a project I wrote using that: https://github.com/zephraph/solitaire. It's not as powerful as ncurses, but it works rather well.

If you want something more on par with ncurses try https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit
Don't try and share the "shared line". All internet feeds are shared -- you never have a dedicated link from your machine to the server. However, their "shared line" means that they know you will, 99.99% of the time, never use anything close to 1Gbps, so you are probably not close to a 10Gbps+ line. The "dedicated line" is probably closer to a 10Gbps+ feed.

You didn't mention IP addresses, but you'll need some IPv4 addresses which aren't cheap any more. You'll need these because someone in your building will be downloading pirated movies or something more serious and you want to be able to prove that's not you.

You'll need to be able to answer calls for problems 7x24. People get all bent out of shape for some reason when their Internet goes down or their videos start pausing.

If you get a 1Gbps feed and you share that with 10 other people at 100Mbps each, you'll have no issues. If you share it with 10 other people at 200Mbps each, then you may have complaints when their speedtests don't hit 200Mbps every time they click it (and they seem to do that a lot as they don't understand that they are being sold a max not a min).

All this assumes that the contract with the provider allows your resale of the product and that you have a way to distribute the Ethernet in the building.

Finally, my ISP doesn't inject anything in to user sessions or use any other scummy tactics, but consumers don't care. They all seem used to trading their privacy for some perceived value. They want reliable Internet (few outages, no pausing in their video, good VoIP) and good support. Most will have issues with their WiFi which you'll figure out, suggest a WiFi solution for them, and then you're supporting it for all time.
In this case the basement is Apple's app store and developers who want to sell apps to users are being told to put the lotion on their skin, or else they get the hose (forbidden from selling apps to half the US population.)
I think the term "midwest" came from back when "West" meant "west" of the Mississippi. Ohio, is definitely not East, and definitely not West, but is pretty mid-west from that perspective.
> Is it unacceptable for an artist to throw her art away after it has finished its museum tour? Should a parent hang on to every drawing their child has ever made?

This boils down to the public domain, IMO. We have made a long practice of rescuing art from private caches and trash bins to make them publicly available after the artists' passing (the copyright expiring); regardless of their views on what should happen with those works.

> Consider why you feel it is unethical for the author or persons responsible for the work to ever stop selling it.

Selling something and then pulling it down is fundamentally an attempt to create scarcity for something that would otherwise be freely available. It's a marketing technique that capitalizes on our fear of missing out to make a sale.

Again, the right to even sell writings was enshrined in law as an exception to the norm of of it immediately being part of the public domain, in an effort to encourage more writing.
What is your total compensation and what is the median single earner income where you are? I suspect that you are easily in the 95th percentile for income for your location, if not higher. So living on a single income is doable for you, but not for the vast majority of your neighbors.
1. If you don't want to pay taxes don't be part of society. The government subsidizes child rearing because it should. But it also doesn't fully cover the cost.

2. It's not an arbitrary pass. A childless person's commitment to Doctors Without Borders is much more flexible than a parent's commitment to a living a human.

3. The world population is only really growing in less developed countries. But it doesn't matter because if you have too many people they will either die because the system can't support them. Or the system will innovate to be able to support them.
In game consoles you can't even start coding for them unless they happen to like you, and on top pay several thousands for a devkit.
> Overwriting a file replaces the file as a unit; other readers see the old file until the writer closes and the reader reopens.

This is the semantic rename provides, and the strength of that semantic is a common complaint from many in the anti-POSIX crowd. I suspect you knew that already, but the number of syscalls would be similar in either case except that the latter file would need to be visible before the rename. Linux does provide O_TMPFILE + AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW which provides the nearly ideal behavior. (Nearly because it still requires /proc/self/fd access, AFAIU.)

> Log files. Append-only mode, enforced

Both chflags (BSD) and chattr (Linux) provide append-only modes attached to the file/inode (instead of the file descriptor or open file table entry)[1].[2] Neither command nor their options are defined by POSIX, but adding more requirements to POSIX filesystem conformance goes against the grain of prevailing sentiments.

> Temp files. Not persistent over restarts. Not backed up. Can be memory-mapped as read/write. On a crash, disappears.

Again, the semantics of unlinking deliberately provide this, though it does make it invisible in the normal namespace. But there's a tension between leveraging the namespace for implicit semantics (Plan 9) vs adding a multitude of options and modes attached to each particular file (Windows).

It's also not uncommon for temporary filesystems like /tmp to be reformatted on boot if the backing store is persistent. That's one reason to use multiple filesystems for a Unix install.

[1] Note that O_APPEND mode is attached to the open file table entry, not the file descriptor, so the mode is inherited across dup and interprocess descriptor passing. Interestingly, on Linux /proc/self/fd (also /dev/fd, which is a symlink) has the semantics of open, not dup, so file table entry state like O_APPEND is lost; whereas on BSD /dev/fd has the semantics of dup so O_APPEND is preserved/enforced.

[2] Solaris lacks chattr and chflags, but chmod supports an append-only option.
I mean you're describing what most Enterprise Resource Planning deployments look like. There's a lot of enterprise software that follows this model
I would say that's a non factor since there are more straight people total that choose not to have children or can't for some reason.

For that matter, adoption is also an option so we can't look simply at fertility.
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The ISA board was a custom interface to a number of GPS receivers and some IO chips for time sync calibration and tracking for Pulsar astronomy.

And yes, this is the one that recently suffered a cable failure that damaged the reflector.
My favorite is the python-based Urwid library at http://www.urwid.org. It was a little hard for me to wrap my head around it at first, but once you get it, you can write TUI applications without a lot of code. Easy to install, many examples to work from.
This has to be the all time prize winner in moving the goalposts.
>There's already an effectively infinite number of phishing opportunities just on .com alone; having more available TLDs doesn't make it appreciably worse.

There's an infinite amount, yes, but in the past the amount that plausibly looked liked your domain was small. You also don't have the ambiguity of chase.com or chase.bank, although this is a bigger issue with smaller companies than it is with bigger ones.

>Indeed, Chase having .chase and .jpmorgan (which they do) makes things better, because if you see a .chase domain name then you know for sure that it's actually Chase. Any random .com could just be any random .com.

Is this significantly better than trusting that jpmorgan.com or chase.com is the "legit" address (basically, treating .com as the "root" domain)? There are some instances where this heuristic is wrong (nissan.com), but at worst you land on the wrong website. Phishers probably won't bother spending tens of thousands of dollars on a .com domain just to phish some credentials. It's probably cheaper for the company as well: buying a .com from a squatter is probably cheaper than paying ICANN the $200k application fee + $25k annual fee of a gTLD.

>Try resolving it? You never could tell conclusively what was a domain name without resolving it anyway.

This isn't in the context of "checking whether a domain is valid", it's in the context of "is this string referencing a website or not?". If I see a billboard with "foobar.com" at the bottom, there's very little doubt that it's a website. If it's foobar.technology, I'm not so sure.

> There's lots of downsides to running everything off one domain name. For example, big potential security vulnerabilities from cookie leaks between your more secure sites and your less secure sites.

While that's true, getting a whole new TLD seems like overkill, not to mention that you can get the same amount of isolation by enrolling in the public suffix list.
Not necessarily. Yes, the risk from Covid-19 is larger. But you do not know how well the vaccine works for elderly people. If the protection of the vaccine is relatively low, just vacinating elderly people does not make a huge difference in the outcome, if the general population has a lot of infected people. Vaccination is only partly about protecting the individual and a lot about preventing the spread of disease.

Take Rubella. If you are not pregnat, which means every male, you are at no risk by the disease. But Rubella gets vaccinated against these days as a standard vaccination, as the best way to preent pregnant women to get infected is, to prevent the spread in the population. And it is really nastily infective. When I was in the last year of high school, we had a breakout and to my knowledge, every single pupil in that year got infected.
I feel you. Took my first "vacation" with our son last week, it was a far more stressful experience that a week working.

My partner is seriously my hero.
>The problem is only more complicated models can improve it and the moment you do that you potentially lose customers, but at the same time you potentially don't want those customers either.

Therein lies the key paradox. Statistically, content quality usually has the shape of the the lognormal distribution, with community size on the horizontal axis and quality on the vertical. Content below a certain margin of popularity is usually unpopular for a reason--the ideas of the community are not very good! When content quality is high, the popularity of a community rises because the ideas are good! After a critical threshold though quality goes down. Once you've reached that threshold, number of users is inversely proportional to quality. I really like HN vetting process for voting: you have to have spent enough time on the site, and commented in a way that gained sufficient approval from the existing community in order to get the right to vote in that community. Keeping barriers to entry high is critical to this, but marketing people can only see $/user.

Reddit has become increasingly intolerable for me except for a few niche subreddits.
Apple uses powers of 10 now.
I am sure I'm not the only one who would actually appreciate some insight into where this accusation comes from.

Not very familiar with the guy but have heard him on other podcasts before, and did not expect there to be such widespread distaste for him here. Can you help sort me & others out?
> The issue is that I, a user of an iPhone, should be able to install whatever software I want.

And, likewise, Apple, as the platform owner, should be able to deny access whatever software they want.

You can of course, jailbreak your iphone, or install PWA's that work.
I just remember what cooking was like when I moved out of my parents' house. It was daunting at first.

Just to be clear, I was just adding to the conversation. I agree with you that the transition won't tank your productivity and make you a nervous wreck.
If you tried to take care of a baby or a toddler, you would see that it's like a second job in terms of how much time and effort it requires from you every day. Now imagine yourself doing all that x2 amount of work, would you ask for help or extra accommodations?

It's not a model, a mental experiment, or a charitable action. It's the x2 amount of work you need to do, day and night, 365 days a year.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm. I'm confused. Without children, humans cease to exist. Although, arguably there are too many humans already.
If only we didn't live in a world of property taxes...

Wealth should not be sneered at. Wealth buys a new well for your farm. Wealth buys you tools to expand your capabilities. Wealth allows you to exploit the capabilities of society to accomplish things beyond yourself. Do you want to preserve gun or property rights so you can continue to live a self-reliant lifestyle? That takes wealth(or you can cop-out and let other people do it for you).

I am well aware of the saying "sell your time to buy the time that other people sold", but that cynically omits the benefits of comparative advantage. Most HN readers time is far more valuable than a plumber or carpenter.
In functional workplaces the management should be capable of tying production to capacity. I’m sorry you can not fathom working in that sort of environment.

I place the blame with the people you have worked for, though, not you.

You could just kill all of the people whose name starts with “A” or whatever but that still won’t get you the tax rebate. The people who made that rule would absolutely love it if you did blame the people who got the rebate though, because they’re the ones who should take the blame and if you ignore their role then they get away with it.
I wish we could have a linux distro with the same configuration philosophy as the BSDs.

Slackware used to be like that. I haven't used Slackware for quite a few years now, so things may have changed.
It doesn't matter if you personally don't care; society as a whole cares about its self-perpetuation.

Also, your life is gonna be pretty damn bleak in your twilight years if everyone stops having children now. There will be no one to take care of the old people, no one to farm the food, etc. Every single job that keeps society up and running would have to be performed exclusively by elderly people, many of whom would be in no condition to work and would in fact need to be cared for rather than being able to care for others through work. Good luck with that.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-aut...

If they have the ability and the inclination to remotely disable features, you don't own the car.
True that it must be relatively close. It's about a 150 mile downstream impact. They also use fossil fuels in the extraction and processing, so it would still impact those islands anyways. It's still a step in the right direction but I can't wait to see economical super capacitors or alternative batteries (love those kinetic/gravity ones for grid storage).
Yes, most seniors survive on Medicare.

Our society has completely forgotten how prevalent and crushing elder poverty was prior to Social Security and Medicare being enacted.

The majority of seniors in this country depend at least partially, if not wholly, on Medicare/SS to not be destitute and uncared for. The numbers for retirement/health savings for seniors beyond Medicare/SS are very bleak.

And yet we are perpetually at risk of throwing it all away for some short-term political points.
When I left? Around 2016.

I'm almost certain that '95 machine is still sitting in the Clock Room to this day.

Man, I miss Angel, gotta shoot him an email sometime soon. Miss sitting around and chatting about ham radio with him!
Asking salaried employees to pick up slack to deliver to market to get revenue isnt treating employees badly though.
yeah, that is one way to do that.