skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve noticed the opposite, actually.

Working from home has meant that I often see parents interacting with their children or spouses during calls, I get to see another facet of my coworkers lives that I couldn’t before. Generally, I really appreciate this perspective, it’s very humanizing.

The lack of empathy around parents long preceded COVID, it has everything to do with the anxiety-driven “ship or die” culture that’s prevalent in startup culture.
Well then, direct the anger at those who do the telling or the requiring.
Apple fires back in Epic Games saga, seeks damages for breach of contract
What is the purpose of allowing the user to set a "budget" if they automatically refill it? That doesn't sound like a budget at all, and highly deceptive on their end if that's what they called it
Can't speak for everyone but for the way I handle promotions it's pretty simple: Impact is what matters.
But once your children get to a certain age they can take over a large amount of the work that childless people need to do themselves.

In America it seems children are also expected to support their parents in retirement, which would mean the employers should be providing more retirement support for childless employees.
Have had similar in Canada: ordered footwear from a seemingly legit website. Some time later cheap jewellery arrived in the post with the same tracking number and Paypal was duly debited for the cost of the footwear. I reported to PayPal (who promptly refunded) and suggested they shut down or suspend the account, and also the the Canadian Fraud Center (apparently < 5% of people take the time to do this)

https://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/0...
which is often BANNED
Indignation in Response to the 1890 Census
"Because she's a U.S. Senator who may be the Vice President soon. That's why people care, even if you don't."

This is exactly my point. You are part of the problem the article was pointing out. I personally, don't care what her opinion is because she's not an expert. Just like I don't care what Trump's opinion is because he's not an expert. The fact that the article says I should shows that it's politically biased, and the hypocrisy of talking about how political motivations are causing problems while simultaneous politically charging your own article is disgusting.
You may try visiting a forum based in your own country, as HackerNews is based primarily on Silicon Valley in the United States. I think you're completely barking up the wrong tree if you're looking to support communism or speak positively of communism in any United States hosted/primarily based setting and for great reason!
> He went full alt right.

Alt right is a term coined by Richard Spencer, who advocates for a white ethno state. Can you please post a link of Adam Curry advocating for this or holding similar positions?

EDIT: I am aware HN etiquette is not to complain about downvotes, but it does seem very old that asking for evidence of a very serious accusation is downvoted. For those unfamiliar with the term - Wikipedia (which is generally considered left wing) states:

> Groups which have been identified as alt-right also espouse white nationalism, white supremacism, white separatism, right-wing populism, tight immigration restrictions, racism, anti-communism, anti-Zionism, holocaust denial, xenophobia, antisemitism, antifeminism, homophobia, and islamophobia.

If you have evidence of Curry holding the more extreme positions in that list (ie, excluding anti communism etc) that would be relevant too.
Ignoring the fact the education costs have skyrocketed since they went to school
I always wonder about rise the hosting costs in the wake of people liking to the Wayback Machine on popular sites.

How do you think about it?
I don’t have kids, but this strikes me as lacking empathy in the current climate.

Choosing to have kids or not pre-COVID came with a set of expectations, risks, and choices that were fairly well defined. Parental leave, childcare, proximity to family and friends, school, increased costs, medical treatemtn, etc. Parents could evaluate those based on what their employer offered and the experiences of their peers going through the same processes.

Now, with COVID, the entire world has changed. School is no longer school. Childcare doesn’t exist. Friends and family are socially distanced or inaccessible due to quarantine. Parks and beaches are closed. Vacations are extremely limited. Any social interaction has become a risk. None of these were risks that a reasonable parent would consider, and even for the paranoid ones, it is highly unlikely that anyone considered it all at once.

Given the extreme change we are going through, the “if you can’t handle it, don’t have kids argument” is just not realistic. A pandemic isn’t “just how life goes”.
They have even more market share in the USA
There is of course trade off for having family as well as being single. One of the trade off of having family may involve lower chance to be promoted. Those who choose to have family can't expect to have the cake and eat it too.
That may have made sense twenty years ago, but more time has passed that perhaps realized.

They're quite light when no unneeded apps are installed, and time is money, as they say. Spending a lot of time fiddling is a cost that is not going to help a no-revenue maintenance project like this succeed.

Perhaps a light CentOS variant would be better as they tend to have longer support windows.
+1000 for this. If you're manager can't manage you're screwed.
Man that is a good solution. That way we get a vaccine immediately! Who cares if it’s saline. Or arsenic.
Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?
Anyone seen anything exciting/interesting in the field of TUI's? Any language, as long as the library is interesting with good examples or screen shots/videos.

For those unfamiliar, a TUI is a text mode user interface library, for building user interfaces within character oriented plain text consoles.
Aren't those two things essentially the same thing? The best way to advance your career is to make choices that benefit the most people. You're not going to get ahead if your decision fails to save lives or the economy.
Completely agreed.

But in the US we don't pay stay at home mother's for their time either.

These companies should help their employees, I'm saying that there is a much deeper problem in our society in how we handle individuals who are not profitable.
Yes, I was ignoring the fact that an options contract represents 100 shares as it needless complicates the point I was trying to make.
You're comparing your parenthood with cancer, but it's the others who lack empathy?
Windows 10 has that built in (search for "save multiple clipboard items" in the start menu), and third party ones have been available for at least 19 years (ArsClip - http://www.joejoesoft.com/vcms/97/ )

Surely they have also been available on mac and Linux for as long? Can it possibly have been a good investment to write your own?
In remote environments, some people clearly put in more hours than necessary. It allows people who are capable of making sacrifices work overtime, and therefore raise the bar unnecessarily. No matter how much a company attempts to reinforce a 8 hour work day; people will sneak around it to keep up or to get ahead. This unbalances the playing field for parents. I myself am guilty of putting in more time than necessary. Sometimes I need to get a report in before eurozone starts, so I push something out at 11pm.

It's in the best interests for a company to maintain the interests of people with children. People with children tend to stay longer and keep skill in your company, since they prefer stability. Compare this with new grads that job hop every year.
I'd be happy to do some overtime to help people with children in my company. Even as a childless single, I chose a family friendly company because it aligns with my personal values.
Have small elementary age kids.
It’s rough. 8-10 interruptions the first couple hours of work.
Then meltdown over being hungry.

Then afternoon interruptions because they are bored. Lots of crappy reasons, but also because they want me to spend time with them.

Also dealing with my own chronic illness. I was managing to cope/hide before Covid.

Between it all is a sense of guilt of not getting enough done for work and not supporting kids enough.

Other day I got a note under the door asking if I would draw a cat. Man talk about breaking heart.
How is an iOS only app a lowest common denominator?
I agree. Parents are making sacrifices which benefit society as a whole. Those children the parents are taking care of now will be the ones who will provide for the one complaining now via taxes as well as services rendered to them.

If anything, companies should be providing more childcare so that more women (as well as some men) will have less of a burden balancing career and caregiving.

I see these people as being petty complainers who wouldn’t raise their own children (own or adopted) but complain someone else is willing to be a productive member of society engaging in the workforce and raising the productive adults of tomorrow when these complainers will be asking for benefits and services that would be unavailable without future adults.

It's similar to "I don't take the bus, why should my taxes pay for public transit."

I would concede if there are people exploiting this privilege then that’s a problem and management should address it.
It will be interesting to see what impact right-to-repair laws have here. They are already forcing the release of service documentation, tooling & procedures. But does that also apply to re-certifying a crashed vehicle? Will denying charging to crashed vehicles even be allowed?
I do think there will be a permanent adjustment in society to deal with the risks created by this type of virus in the future. Tell everyone to start wearing masks as soon as the outbreak starts, instead of telling them that masks are only for idiots and healthcare workers. Isolate travelers from affected areas before it has a chance to spread, and so on. But I also expect that just about every occupation from industries that are shut down will continue to exist in this new world.
Did you even watch the video? They aren’t talking about supporting CCP, they’re examining what’s wrong with some of the protest movement’s attitude. There is literally zero CCP-sourced material in what they say.

When someone has an opinion that differs from yours, you downplay it as being an exception to the rule. For some reason, you stick to the default position that most Chinese people overwhelmingly want liberation from US, and that any evidence to the contrary is an anomaly.

It’s up to you to believe what you want. But I will let you know that I disagree, and that you ought to reexamine your axioms.
If I were managing that team, I would consider a one-time bonus to the single employees going above and beyond, and award promotions based on more long-term factors. I don't think stepping up to the plate during a crisis necessarily makes you promotion worthy. If anything, I think many parents display better management skills.

I am 45 and childless for what it's worth.
Yes, but then the pledge is devoid of content. The act of seeking approval is a submission of evidence that demonstrate safety and efficacy.

The "pledge" is essentially just saying "we'll do everything as we always planned to do it".

Why make this pledge then? What's the value added?

There is value added indeed. In today's climate of general mistrust, simply stating that you will not cut corners (even if there was never any possibility of cutting corners) can allay some fears. But then, who is stoking these fears? Should they know better than doing that?
I'm perfectly fine with working more than people with children right now, because children are as the saying goes, quite literally our future.

I don't have any but seeing how difficult it is for friends right now who do I am perfectly fine with picking up some extra work.

I wish we could stop treating this like an individual issue, as we do everything nowadays, which is probably why we're getting so screwed by this virus to begin with.
Only as far as the first bottleneck though - if 1000 customers in a neighborhood pay for 1Gbps connections, that doesnt mean the neighborhood actually has 1Tbps of capacity to the wider internet. Its probably a tenth of that at best, even in well connected areas.
It's an example of a larger pattern, which is that new execs like to shake things up. There are charitable and uncharitable explanations of why, but really it varies by individual.
Yeah, um, the point of trials is to find out what those odds are.

They can easily be much, much, much worse.
Reminds me of when I was a child and my baby teeth were refusing to fall out. I was referred to an oral surgeon who sent me home w/ orders to eat a 2 pound bag of taffy before returning to see if the operation was still necessary. That doc knew his stuff: taffy is no joke lol.
I wouldn't have thought the companies involved are primarily thinking of that. The risk to the companies is that Trump going on about skipping trials will hurt public confidence in any vaccine that is finally released, even if such skipping never happens. This announcement may serve to reassure some people that the manufacturers are going to behave themselves even if the government is negligent.

Also, probably, reassure some shareholders. The reputational risks involved in this trial-skipping stuff are horrific.
What device are you using? I'm using a OnePlus on Android 11 and it's just one item in the share sheet, nothing special about it. This is likely device-specific
Contextually it means more "remember who the sociopath really is when their mask slips" essentially. If a man lets it slip that they "want to beat the shit out of their wife for some peace and quiet" or a desire to commit genocide they aren't joking - they really are an abuser or genocidal monster wearing the mask of a decent person.
I know you're joking, but someone has actually done that: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antar...
My employer pays all my income (I don’t have any side gigs). Unless I do something unusual like take a few months off for parental leave or similar, they know I make 12x my monthly salary exactly so they deduct my taxes from the table of income tax for someone having my yearly pay. It’s going to be almost exactly correct.

Reasons for deviations on the final tax would be non-income taxes/deductions (selling stock, income or deductions from interest).
Calling it “just holding the fort” would indeed be disadvantageous. If instead the teams would be empowered and rewarded for also keeping things running and improving on them it will attract the right kind of people which do grow the product and don’t get bitter. However, I have yet to meet an engineer who is comfortable maintaining a sunset product and in the mean time getting only flak about the performance of the old sunset application/feature or their own performance.
There's theories about DMT related to this.
> Expecting a journalist to somehow balance the evidence of misdeeds between a country's two ruling parties is bizarre, and not a standard any other news outlet was held to over the same period.

True, people excuse journalists for showing partisan bias all the time (at least, when the bias is towards their preferred party, although they may not call it bias). Also, we might excuse a journalist for being biased against a politician who literally joked about killing them, as Clinton did if this claim from WikiLeaks is true (or Assange may have believed it was true):

https://truepundit.com/under-intense-pressure-to-silence-wik...
Sure, I normally have this in my .dosemurc:

$_lpt1 = "dosprint"

Which just pipes the printer port output into a bash script that runs ps2pdf, but I changed it to save to a file instead.

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/wppostscript.ps.txt
This thread seems weird to me when almost every other article here is talking about how limited and precious focus and attention are.
Or the risky approach: Find someone with more clout than them that can actually listen and think. Go to them. Show them what the Ego Monster is doing, and have them get rid of the Ego Monster.

But as I said, it's very risky. You could lose your job. If the Ego Monster has a lot of clout, you might suffer permanent career damage. Think well before taking this approach. But it's the only one that offers any hope for your current workplace.
How do you (legally) differentiate between people who put in less work because of their children and those who put in less work because they underperform?
If others have to consistently work overtime to cover for others, wouldn't it make sense to hire more? It's going to take some time for things to get back to normal.
Let's say you have a query that takes 3 seconds, and about half second to manipulate that into something that makes sense and start sending the data over. With the single page solution, you can have a spinner that is allowing the user to know that something is happening. What does it look like if you click that link?
Indeed. The comments on this article are surprisingly negative. It seems most developers, even on HN, believe you can only pretend to achieve 10X by cutting corners and leaving your coworkers with the mess.

My experience has been the opposite. The most productive developers I've worked with have also been extremely skilled at communication and documentation, and they tend to produce much more maintainable code than the average.
I agree, we saw that happen with Samsung’s Note 7
> I'm perfectly fine with working more than people with children

That’s cool. Seems like not everybody agrees with you
We do the aggregation part : https://www.thefactual.com/news

We tried a forum with comments before and it's not easy. But we did learn a lot of lessons and plan to introduce a version of it soon.
Our original plan was just to use homeschooling material to supplement things he probably wasn't learning well enough like math and some language stuff. He told me he wished he had workbooks to use, but now after seeing the disorganization and low effort from the teacher/district (I'm not sure exactly where to assign the blame), we're pretty glad we got stuff for every subject.
Berkshire Hathaway to buy $250M worth of Snowflake's shares in private placement
Pipilotti Rist's colorful worlds of video art
Personally, I would agree that it's your responsibility for your own land, but I also don't believe in forcing owners to do what I personally want them to do. If you can own a farm without polluting across the street, say,to my house, I really can't care what you do. If you want to sell the farm and throw up a bunch of houses, again, as not as you don't screw with my land and my ability to pass it on to future generations.

I do NOT agree that I an responsible for my neighbors or their land and this is part of the issue. If my farm dumps a bunch of crap or ejects a ton of pollutants into the air, this harms my neighbor and should be limited. If instead, I build my farm and is net 0 pollutants to your land, why exactly should you be able to do on 'my' land, or put another way, who is the victim?

To frame this another way that I think is fairly similar to nuclear, I think large scale organic farming is extremely taxing to the land in the long run and is a fairly terrible agricultural practice at our current scale. Does this mean we should enact laws and regulations to stop organic farming? I'm really not so sure, I can understand both sides and I don't think this type of legislation will ever be so cut and dry.
I love all the comments saying that people should have empathy for parents.

Being a parent is a choice. It cannot be compared to cancer. How stupid. Unless you think kids are cancer?

The burden of YOUR children should not fall to your coworkers. They are your responsibility, and require YOUR sacrifice.

Sincerely,
A father making it work with his partner, and coworker sick of his coworkers making excuses for never getting anything done.
Quite liked the demo video and landing page. Simple and easy to use GUI. Pricing is a bit steep.

Does this provide full schema edit operations like creating index, triggers etc ?

We are in similar space but as an API framework[1] for all SQL Databases.

So with GUI, one also gets REST/GraphQL APIs instantly on any SQL database.

However, I should admit our data browser is basic. And product is free.

[1] : https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud
My current experiment in fighting linkrot is pre-emptive local archiving, hosting static snapshots of links, serialized using SingleFile: https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/f5y8xl/new_gwernnet_...

I am still finetuning it: there are a lot of domains which should be whitelisted because archiving doesn't work or isn't useful, and sometimes pages break when SingleFile'd (the content is there, but the CSS or JS is broken, and I muck around manually trying to fix them). The resource requirements are not that bad so far (21GB) but are probably a deal-breaker for anyone who wants the usual personal-static-site budget strategy of hosting on Amazon S3 for <$5/monthly, as even assuming way fewer links than gwern.net, cloud bandwidth is so expensive they'll quickly blow their budget. It also makes server logs messy as various bots try to fetch broken relative links, which were of resources which didn't get inlined by SingleFile (not sure what exactly triggers those).

However, so far it seems like a viable strategy.
This looks cool. Why do you think this hasn’t been done before?
This feels like more of an effort to create a story than accurate reporting of what life is like inside tech firms right now.

1. Parents lives have been temporarily turned upside down as almost all childcare disappears. Temporary is turning out to be a long time... but still.

2. Most companies are composed of people of all ages and stages of life which means there are lots of parents. Particularly when you consider management tends to be older and more likely to have had kids, it's not too surprising that management in most companies has looked at the outside world and said, "you know, we're all going to just have to do the best we can until this thing is over."

3. Parents naturally feel (1) stressed out and (2) guilty when they are having a hard time maintaining their old workload given the new and vastly different circumstances.

4. Some small minority of tech workers without kids have been unable to empathize with the situation and are publicly complaining about it.

Given that saying mean things online is practically America's past-time, and trying to fan the sparks to see if you can make a flame is how news companies make money... it's not really surprising to see a story like this portraying some kind of "backlash."
This feels like a symptom of a society that has accepted the act of completely outsourcing child-rearing clashing with an event that makes that outsourcing impossible. Being able to work full time while comfortably having other people/institutions raise your child seems like a privilege. Now we are just seeing what happens when that privilege is taken away. I can't help but imagine there are a bunch of parents out there who decided to forgo full time jobs and careers to raise their own children shaking their heads and saying "this is how it is".
This utterly breaks my heart. I'm so sorry for your loss.

I too lost my mother to cancer and was there the morning I noticed hear breathing change and could tell she was about to leave.

It's hard to fathom when someone that raised you suddenly leaves your life. To this day I remember her last moments and my own wailing at both the moment she passed and when I crumpled to my knees as she was buried.