skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought most of these fortifications are thought to be bronze age, not neolithic.
It's a good question and probably depends more on your personal circumstances than the job. I have often felt like leaving when I didn't agree with some core aspect of my org (product, culture) but I try to be pragmatic and accept that I am paid to be there and although globally I want to do something more fulfilling, it is better to lo cally tough it out and wait until I'm well positioned to make the next move. So maybe one thought is to ask yourself what is missing for you to be able to make a move, and try and work on that.

Incidentally, at my last job, I realized that what I was lacking to land the next job I wanted was also what I was lacking to be successful in my then current job. In the end I made progress towards remedying that, moved to a new job but also left on a high note as a result of my personal improvement.
You could have called 1-800-ADOPTION Doreen! I think you wanted that baby, so you get to deal with it!
You've addressed precisely 0% of the arguments in my post with this reply.
Of course, this is the POV of an executive, not an engineer or low level manager...
> Maybe next Toyota will decide that they deserve a percentage of Uber’s revenue because Toyota's cars help facilitate Uber’s business?

There are many car manufacturers that Uber could choose from in just the same way that there are many platforms that developers can develop for.

Stop trying to spread the idea that the ability to make apps for the iPhone is an inalienable right.
I didn’t touch “web dev” since php/dream-weaver/myspace era.

I started working with some web developers for a simple project recently, my mock product was built with vue.js using the standard way of “including” it: But what really threw me for a loop was that the web developers told me that that’s wrong, they are now _compiling_ (Or, semantically “packing”) JavaScript blobs to make even very simple websites.

I don’t know why we as a community have started doing that, but it feels like an anti-pattern, it makes adding new dependencies opaque and we can very quickly end up including dozens and dozens of lines of code which must all be rendered by every device that comes into contact with my site.

Often this happens because we want only a small bit of the functionality too.
Kids aren't some abstract thing, they are new people that get jobs and work to pay your social security payments and fix your roads and stuff. We need kids because we need people in society. Everyone needs parents around, even if they aren't one themselves.
> Summary:

> Potential security vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT), and Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM) may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

> CVSS Vector (Provisioned, unauthenticated, network):

> CVSS Base Score: 9.8 Critical
Every time a policy suggestion is made there is always that person who will try to find “loopholes”.

If a parent has a baby and then has health issues, yes they should take 20 weeks off. People should be treated as human adults and be trusted with the time they need to take off.

Yes, There will be those who abuse the system. These would be the outliers; even if they get “away”, we should still be generous with these benefits.
Ask HN: Secure async conversations for non-tech people
I was recently in an email conversation between 10 to 15 people in which some delicate issues were discussed. As it progressed I became progressively uncomfortable ... it only takes one mis-typed email address and the entire conversation could be leaked.

Usually people will just hit "Reply-All" and it's OK, but someone might accidentally add an address list to the CCs or BCCs, and the result is horrible.

But what alternatives exist for non-technical people to have an extended async conversation?

All comments and suggestions welcome, and thanks for reading.

Edit:

Adding information about the context here.

Many of the people involved don't have a smart-phone, and certainly couldn't go through the process of linking an app to a laptop/desktop machine. Sometimes it's tough getting them to use email "properly", which is why I have concerns over them using email for confidential conversations in the first place.

They have email, they have browsers, they are almost invariably using laptops or desktops and not phones, and they are technically inexperienced. I'm guessing that anything suitable would have to be browser based, but I'm open to other ideas.

Thanks.
As a parent, I would love to have an opportunity to work part-time. Suppose I work 3 days a week, and my wife works 2 days a week, we can arrange those days so that each day someone can be with kids. (It might hypothetically even be 3 days + 3 days if one of the jobs would allow Saturdays.) Working 3/5 time for 3/5 salary would feel fair towards my colleagues. (Many of us work on multiple projects at the same time, so from the project perspective, there would be little difference between being 3 days there and 2 days on another project, vs being 3 days there and 2 days off.)

Unfortunately, in most companies this is not an option. Full time (and be happy if this doesn't include overtime) or go away. And I can't afford to go away.
Odd that YouTube suggested this to me about 2 days ago.

It seems that this 4 year old upload of a 26 year old video is suddenly very popular.

Interesting to think about how that happened.
Meanwhile, the CEOs of Pfizer and BioNTech have been talking up how their vaccine will be ready for approval in mid/late October the last few days. It's honestly a little disconcerting.
When I think of "local news", I think of this [0] video.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
> (Including, it must be said, the wayback machine itself).

Citation needed? Eg something like http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=http://haskell.cs.... produces lines of the form:

edu,yale,cs,haskell)/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/haskell-report-1.2.pdf 20170628055823 http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/haskell-report-1.2.pdf warc/revisit - WVI3426JEX42SRMSYNK74V2B7IEIYHAS 563

But there seems to be no documented way to turn WVI3426JEX42SRMSYNK74V2B7IEIYHAS (which I presume to be the hash) into a actual file. (Though http://web.archive.org/web/$DATEim_/$URL works fine, so it hasn't been a problem in practice.)
Honestly I think we'll be fine. If the services are worth something then people will be willing to pay for them. Newspapers, magazines, email, satellite radio, navigation systems etc. all existed (and were very profitable) well before online advertising became what it is now. We might even be better off that way.
Also, "we don't require everyone to pull on their overalls and work the land" is flat out just a bad argument, because modern farming with its high degree of mechanization and vast efficiencies of scale doesn't remotely work like that. Go back several centuries though before modern farming technological development and the majority of people are in fact doing manual farmwork out of necessity.
> But you know, arguably the same arguments Epic is making in terms of the app store also apply to the OS, so maybe Apple should be forced to open up IPhones to other OSes as well ;)

Yep. That's the argument I've been making for a couple weeks now. Mainly, that Apple's actions are anti-competitive, even if they may not match the current definition of monopoly. If the harm is great enough though, then we should maybe think about extending the definition of monopoly or enacting some more specific laws restricting anti-competitive actions that match the modern market more accurately. It's not like the current laws from the the constitution, they were added in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

At a minimum, some consumer laws that protect us from people locking down hardware to specific software in some instances (and thus allowing competition on Apple hardware) may help in some small ways overall, even if it doesn't directly address the App Store and OS coupling. Being able to (legally) run Android (or something else) on an Apple phone would change quite a lot, IMO, even if it took a while to do so.
>an essential service that some people perform to ensure that society as we know it can continue to exist

I empathize with parents, but please don't make it sound like it's a selfless act they are doing for the good of society.

Also, childless couples/singles get taxed at quite a high rate (after any returns) vs parents. You compound that over 21 or whatever years it takes for kids to become "productive". Furthermore, people who choose to stay childless still have to work and pay higher taxes till the age of at least 66 in US. Life expectancy for males is 78, so that gives you 12 years. Social security is in no way enough, and you must survive on pension that you paid into for your retirement. So the child that I helped raised with my extra taxes and without any preferential treatment at work will never even come close to paying me back.
Others can choose not to work at that company, right? In this scenario, nobody is being forced -- in either direction.
This sounds pretty harmless. Any idea how they got a bad adverse event out of it?
An example would be attitudes towards immigration. The people arguing for taking in more poor immigrants or refugees typically do not live in the communities most impacted by their influx.
Insane churn? Wordpress powers over 1/3 of the web. JQuery is still doing most heavy JS lifting on most blogs/CMS-driven sites.

React has dominated "real" frontend webapp development for a solid 5 years.

These things don't make headlines or get retweeted. The web produces a lot of variety because it has the widest distribution and the lowest barriers to entry.
> NATO will invade Russia overnight given the chance.

Source?
Perspective from someone with a child (1.25 years old):

When my wife and I chose to have a kid, there was absolutely no reason to think that we would have any difficulty finding a nanny/daycare or that we would have to try to work in the same environment that our son is playing in. When COVID-19 restrictions went into effect, we had basically no notice that we would be expected to work from home full time, that our building's common areas would all be closed a few days later, that our nanny would be unable to make the commute (no license should not have been in issue in NYC) and that daycares would all be closed exactly when we needed to find one, etc. We had to move just to get an extra room that could be used as an "office," because working from the kitchen table is impossible when a baby wants to crawl up to you, pull himself into a standing position, and grab whatever you are "playing" with.

Even with the extra room, we still have trouble. Our son walks (and runs) now and is beginning to understand how doorknobs work, but he still has no concept of leaving us alone to do our work. If he has the chance to run into our office he will, and if he does not he sometimes bangs on the door and cries when nobody opens it. Either way it is a huge distraction that makes it much harder to get anything done. Try explaining to a toddler that mommy and daddy are working and see how far you get. We also continue to see chaos with our childcare arrangements, which takes its toll on productivity.

Your side hustle is optional and can be put on hold. When you already have kids you cannot stop being a parent and children cannot be paused. I agree that employers should give people time for "personal obligations," and in fact mine does and my boss has been using that time to check in on elderly parents, but the fact is that parenting is one of the few 24x7 personal obligations. It is not like I can say that I am setting aside one day a week or two hours per day to be a parent.

As hard as it is to deal with a toddler while trying to work, it is harder for parents who are being told that they must supervise their children's schoolwork. It is easy to forget that part of the job of a teacher is to watch over the kids in their classroom and ensure they are not just goofing off all day, but with kids doing "school from home" that is now the job of their parents. Again, it comes down to having someone else there to take on that job while parents are working, and again it is not a question of time and it is not something optional that people can put on hold until the crisis is over.

Basically there is no way to make any of this sustainable. COVID restrictions make childcare arrangements more difficult and less reliable, but those gaps must be filled and in the end it is parents who have to fill them (if someone else could do so, then it would not be a 'gap').
> and many Western settlers were lured into the Midwest/South only to suffer a hapless fate as so many and were captured, killed, raped, enslaved.

lured? The natives ( comanche, lakota, dakota, cheyenne, etc ) didn't want western "settlers" on their land. Especially since the midwest and southwest natives already knew about the genocide committed against the natives along the east coast by the "settlers".

> It doesn't justify the violence that has come since from Westerners

Violence? It's called genocide/extermination. Lets not mince words here.

Just remember that most "history" books, even those recommended by joe rogan, are highly biased and tend to paint a highly subjective "story". Also, there is incentive to "hype" things for a targeted audience.
Tack on the geopolitical quagmire of Pakistan taking advantage of the opportunity to ensure India would never hold sway in Afghanistan, the Saudis trying to counter Iranian influence in Afghanistan, and the Iranians trying to counter Saudi influence in Afghanistan.

Just one big snowball landing at the doorstep of one of the planet's poorest countries.
To switch places, the implication is I'd not have my kids. I can't fathom a life without them. Perhaps it didn't need to be added as a qualification.
> We have a saying here: "Today for you, tomorrow for me."

It sounds most likely to be 'reciprocity', but could also be evoking either the notion of 'reaping what you sow' or the notion of 'paying it forward'
Actual title of the article is: "Sid Meier: ‘I’m not sure I’d play Civilisation if it was released today’"
That's a terrific invitation for bias.
I’d recommend Signal https://www.signal.org/. I think any of these options are going to require either configuration which could be complicated, or an app download which is often simpler.
Sure it's pretty well automated, but not a great experience.
The last time I did a test like this was on the Blekko web crawler, and page load time was proportional to number of advertisements on the page.
There are open comprehensive resources like the open book "WiFi networking in the developing world" [1] which seem pertinent here even though we're talking about North America. :P

[1]: http://wndw.net/book.html
You are right, but I think you are missing the context of the article. While I'd like to avoid generalizations, most employees of SV tech giants aren't exactly struggling to get by. These are employees that can now work from home (another privilege many parents don't have) a high paying jobs - the ones that usually afford them to be able to hire childcare so that they can work through the day.
If having children is such a biological urge (and I would agree that it is indeed a biological urge), why would society have to incentivize it?

Society should only incentivize children if society has a need for those children and nobody wants to have them. Society should not incentivize individual desires.
You don't REALLY need something like a bank account (exchange account) except to convert to/from the currency. You only need an electronic wallet. The transactions are where it gets really weird though.

That said, unfortunately, short of a large nation state, or collection of banks also allowing exchange/transactions, I don't think it will ever take off. Even then, transaction times as you mention are not fast, and often are controlled by a limited number of organizations.

What the technology does offer, is a means for multiple parties that don't trust each other to proceed with a transaction. This is often where "smart contracts" come into play, and also why banks are considering a cryptocurrency system(s) for inter-bank exchanges.

In the end, those that win will largely be the incumbents imho.

I setup bitcoin on a few machines really early on... and had a couple coins... but I had no way to "use" them and it was just costing electricity at the time... I deleted it all and didn't look back until they cleared $20k a coin. Kind of wish I at least saved a zip file of the wallets somewhere. Though if I'd kept mining, may have been worth something.
That’s a fascinating story. I wonder what procedure was actually performed.
Excellent cat A++++++++ would pet. Agree with sibling, this is the only good subthread in this trash fire.
Ask HN: What is your domain registrar of choice?
Just curious what registrars you recommend (&/or those you recommend against) using and why?
Not only web is getting slower, it is actually everything. I've read a similar article but talking about input latency(from key stroke to displaying on screen), which is also steadily growing.

The reason behind might be the same: we have far more computing power than ever, so we start to abusing it by spending lots of it on visual elements which is good to have but not essential.
Phase 1 trials are used to determine dosage. Different participants are given different doses of the vaccine so researchers can identify the proper dosage with maximal efficacy and minimal side effects.

The 29 year volunteer who experienced the 103° fever received the highest dose of the vaccine given out during the Phase 1 trial. Such a adverse reaction is not unexpected during a Phase 1 trial, but the vaccine did move forward to Phase 2 and Phase 3 so it appears that the lower dosages do not trigger such a reaction.
Zoom, Unity and the Quest to Scale Corporate Drudgery
An adoptee himself, Mars founded his first business, a nonprofit adoption agency, in his parents’ basement in 1991. He turned his own story and passion for bringing families together into American Adoptions

https://www.americanadoptions.com/adoption/scott-mars

It looks to me like that was founded less than 34 years ago and it would have been 34 years ago this November that I was learning I was ten weeks pregnant. So, no, I probably could not have called 1-800-ADOPTION.
High level ecomm experience w amazon person.

You would think so, but its really not because its a % of goods sale price. FBA merch fee is only 15%. That matters when items are cheap.

So for the cost of COGS + $5 product price *.15% + parcel cost ($4, lower for CN goods dropshipped from abroad). Assuming the good is made for pennies in CN, you are then talking less than $10 for a 5 star review.

Consider CPA in google , FB, or Amazon ("ACOS"), and you start seeing a trend.
Keep in mind reviews scale, i.e. adword dollars are spent. Reviews accumulate. They are an asset, not an expense
`The market decided to take away the power of a real programming language DSL as an interface. People are now forced to deal with terraform (HCL), YAML or JSON. It's a lobotomy` I feel this so much. Granted HCL is taking steps to become closer to a real language but its frustrating that some of the features that I used to take for granted are missing (why do we have ternary if statements in HCL but not real if-else blocks. I used to enforce a rule that you should not have nested ternaries, but now that's the only way to do if else if statements)
Yeah, I am pretty capable of procrastination. HN is a tempting alternative to drawing up another Miro diagram, or studying for my algorithms class (something else I can blame on HN, I might never have heard of OMSCS if not for someone mentioning it here ;-)). There was a time when I knew dynamic programming well enough to pass an algorithms class, but that time was in the 90s. I feel old now.
Sorry, I don't know how popular it is with respect to similar solutions.
It is a convolution. Grant Sanderson (3blue 1brown) explains the relationship between a filter and the fourier transform towards of the end of this hot-off-the-presses video: https://mitmath.github.io/18S191/Fall20/lecture2/
And this guy have not heard about IBM OS/400 and VMS yet :)
Namecheap is the least worst in my experience
By how much? 30 hours per week? 20 hours? 5 hours? GP didn't mention that the workload was bad, just than on average parents seems to get similar benefit for the lesser effort and hours than non parents. You just wrote this to evade saying anything negative.

The clear question is should the expectations be reduced for parents for similar promotion or not? And if your answer is yes, then by how much?
Google Launches Android 11
HN is often about feeding your mind. It's about getting the inputs you need.

That other stuff is about coming up with outputs, often from a dry well. HN feeds the well for a great many people.

(Just a general observation, not really intended to be argumentative per se.)
What's the point if things getting closed is for social distancing? Maybe I don't follow but I don't even see how money can solve that besides parents not just working and taking care of their kids.
From reading the comments here, it sounds like creating a great tax product that people could use for free would be a great way to get Intuit to acquire you.
Unless you're a teacher over the age of 55, your risk, even around a bunch of school children, is incredibly low (95% of fatalities in the US are over 55, with most of those being over 65).

I've read a few of these "long term damage" studies that are scaring everyone. Of the 60+ people in the UK one published by the journal in Charlottesville, most of them were elderly or in "high risk" jobs (it didn't mention what jobs for privacy. Health care workers? grocery store? who knows).
To be frugal I check registration prices using tld-list[0] before purchasing a new domain.

Generally, though, I stick with Porkbun[1]. Their prices are decent and I prefer their site over Namecheap, 101domain, and a few others that I've used.

[0]: https://tld-list.com/

[1]: https://porkbun.com/
Next week Apple is announcing new AR stuff
see apple event in ar - ios-13
But for the person receiving them, they are nowhere near what that person could be earning as a professional with a continuously developing career.

You are comparing here two different situations: one is actively working and building a career, and the other one is not having to do anything and have the money deposited to your account every month. Sure, the former usually will result in more money in your bank account, but the latter has pretty huge benefit of not actually having to do anything to earn it. I'd happily take 50% pay cut if I could, you know, quit my job and get the money anyway.
Getting COVID-19 now you would know the risk of death is very low, especially if you live in a society where you would have access to adequate intensive care.

With the vaccine trial you are taking on an unknown risk which to me seems way worse.

I think there are factors that drive people to join these trials though. For example if you have a loved one that has a much higher risk of severe complications if they catch the virus. Then it is in your interest to help get a vaccine ready.
It wasn't meant with malice nor any intent to cause negative feelings. I think it's not really possible to say anything at all that won't possibly distress someone out of all the possible readers, so I just try to keep my intentions good and avoid the obvious gaffes. In this case it's just a figure of speech.
So, lynx? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
The Native File System API allows web apps to save directly to files
The Moderna trial is enrolling, I know someone who is in it. You only have a 50% chance of getting the vaccine, but given your preferences, why not sign up for the trial?
P-hacking what?