skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would turn this idea around: instead of barring certain people from reproducing (which has obvious issues), a society could require that all new parents take a course, go through counseling, or something like that, after which if they're deemed unfit to provide a healthy and safe environment the newborn would have to be adopted. This assumes it can be done to no economic cost to the new parents. It also assumes there are uncontroversial ways to determine fitness to parent. Basically a similar system to what most countries have in place for dealing with children in distress, but proactive rather than reactive. I'm sure there are issues with this idea as well, and the pragmatic way of trying to educate prospective parents is probably the best we can do, but it seems worth exploring.
When it comes to understanding why some politician doesn’t take up an issue as their primary cause, I think it’s not useful to consider what the good-faith debate would look like. That doesn’t happen. Often the untrue things your opponents can accuse you of matter more in the discourse than your stated reasons for supporting an issue. When it comes to taxes and tax policy in the US, those untrue things are vast.
Liberal arts honing critical thinking has got to be one of the biggest scams. As for that matter most education..
'i was only following orders'
> The global $_SESSION['CATS'] is almost certainly from the 2005-2007 era.

How would you do it nowadays? I still write a lot of small scripts and rarely have more state to maintain for a user session than conveniently fits in PHP's session mechanism. It's usually $_SESSION['loggedin']=bool, ['userid']=x, and perhaps a few convenience fields that are shown on every page to avoid unnecessary database roundtrips like name and anti-csrf token.

It's file-based so it probably doesn't work on multiple servers (I think you can also configure it to be database-backed, but from what I remember that's nearly as much work as just writing a proper solution yourself if you need that sort of scale), but until your software doesn't fit on a single, medium-beefy server anymore, is there an issue with this session global?

(Assuming you don't have a runaway dev that thinks they need to replicate every vaguely user-related field into the session or something. I never saw that, but with php being a common beginner's language, I could see how some people here might have run into that or have a similar argument. I think you'd have issues with such a guy/gal no matter what.)
The problem is that we understand why animals work together in "mutual aid" and unlike what Kropotkin thought, it doesn't really apply to human societies. It's not a general instinct of helpfulness, it's just kin selection -- that is animals help other animals related to them because genes that make animals do that get spread more than ones that don't. Graeber seems to have understood this at one level and even dismissively mentions "selfish genes" and Haldane's joke about dying for eight cousins, but he seems to have thought that this is some sort of reactionary political belief rather than just actual science.
Extinction is the implication. I agree but its a bit of a boring argument. How about: Society is no social contract, you cannot really choose to leave society. Instead I'd argue, you are required to contribute to society, whether you like it or not. Helping raise children -- whether you have them or not -- is a part of that requirement. I can promise you, whatever subsidies go to parents, $$, time, and effort are still very very far in the favor of the childless.
I love the idiot politician likening enforcement of basic health and safety laws as being nazi Germany, and then said laws shouldn't allow arresting of pregnant women.
Sure, the abstract answer is obvious. I meant the concrete answer, how do you reinstate a norm that people have stopped caring about, or that has been eroded by some policy (in the worst case, a policy championed by those that claim the norm)?
The reddit API is a legacy feature that is on the chopping block any day now. Its only real purpose now is 3rd party clients which don't show adverts or insert tracking scripts. It has a small amount of use for bots but those are mostly a negative user experience and likely to be killed soon as well.

Reddit is pushing to become facebook without your real name.
My parents never got time off to just take care of me. I was on my own. Do I get a refund or a credit? Maybe a vacation voucher?
That makes it sound like raising children isn't already an extremely strong biological urge and something that tends to provide immense satisfaction to parents. If parents didn't receive special benefits at work to help them raise children, or if all adults were given comparable benefits regardless of whether they have children, I don't think that would shatter the incentive structure and result in having too few humans the next generation.

It's really not like military service or jury duty: things which in most cases people do not have an extremely strong biological urge to do.
Along those lines, one thing that has bothered me is that we can't prepend files, even with modern SSDs with fancy controllers. Those controllers are jumbling the contents of a continuous disk onto different chips, and different sections on those chips.

For things like MP4 metadata that usually need to be near the beginning of a file for the MP4 to be considered streamable, it can be quite cumbersome. Being unable to expand a file from the beginning means that fancy MP4 writers write a bunch of blank space (perhaps guessing the necessary size of the metadata portion), then after the stream data is written, go back and hope that they allocated enough blank space to fit the metadata within. If the writer was wrong, either it has to put the metadata at the end of the file (preventing streaming), or has to rewrite the entire file with a bigger buffer.

Perhaps it is a wish that requires too many layers to be changed to be possible, but I like to dream.
Is it 'inconvenience' when an uninsured motorist injures a parent badly enough such that they can no longer provide for their child?

Fundamentally, how big a hedge do you believe parents have a duty to incur before society should reasonably be expected to intervene and help carry the burden?

It sounds like you believe that only those with enough wealth that they can fully self-insure against all conceivable events of any frequency greater or equal to once a century that causes loss of ability to care, should procreate. Given our history as a species, that would be an extreme and significantly non-obvious point of view to hold at all, let alone with the vitriol that you seem to harbour on this matter.
For a real A+++ website you need a loading bar.

Also holy shit I just clicked on the first website I saw on that site and I'm getting about 3fps scrolling it and my desktop is a Ryzen 9 3900x with 24 threads, 48gb ram and an rx5700xt. You don't even get the excuse of "It works on my machine" because this desktop is literally as good as it gets. I just tried a couple sites and not a single one could scroll smoothly, one of them was live applying css transforms to about 30 images as I scroll.
An expression yields a value.
> while downtowns got parking garages

Let me introduce you to pre-condo boom downtown Toronto, Canada:

* https://www.blogto.com/city/2011/10/that_time_when_toronto_w...

The rise of lots occurred after the construction of the downtown Gardner highway:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner_Expressway

Nowadays land is too valuable to be flat, and so most/all parking lots have been turned into towers (condo(minium) and commercial):

* http://www.mapto.ca/maps/parkinglots
who would be the Bruce Lee of software?
I tried to use Gui.cs and wasn't able to. It has a lot of rough edges and I had to move on because it wasn't well fleshed out.

Other/better .NET libraries include:

https://github.com/spectresystems/spectre.console

https://github.com/TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework

https://github.com/elw00d/consoleframework
I think this used at least at late 80's in developing world, I'm 30 and have a scar (almost impossible to notice). My parents have very deep scars.
Android 11 is here:Sundar Pichai announces official release
Nice!!! - 8 requests, 120kb, .3 seconds - https://tools.pingdom.com/#5d1c094582400000
It's going back, at least on the HCL front. Have a look at Pulumi and prepare to throw TF in the trash.
> LinkedIn’s ad platform reported 11 clicks. RMG’s logs showed ten clicks.

This is well within the IAB's 10% discrepancy. Also that sample size is bullshit. I could show you the sample size of my $7,000 campaign from a couple months ago that recorded a slightly larger discrepancy, but the fact of the matter remains that LinkedIn was the best performer of all ad networks I tested.

Again: That's not to say there's no fuckery afoot but that is a hell of small sample size to refer to as a "study".
Holy downvotes
Facebook engineer Ashok Chandwaney quits with scathing letter
I dunno ... I'm pretty pro-immigration, and I live in NYC, which has one of (if not the) highest immigrant populations in the entire country. The same is generally true of large cosmopolitan cities. And the "impact of their influx" is actually net positive. It turns out that having more people, yes, even immigrants, has a net positive impact on the local economy, because more people means more consumers (not just more labor market competition), and you realize greater efficiencies of scale. So I don't actually think this is a good example.

I think the hypocrisy you're alluding to here is that coastal liberals are often NIMBYist, which has the direct effect of making housing expensive, which affects most people negatively, immigrants included. I'll agree with you on that one as being a problem, but I don't think it exactly fits into the class of issues you're talking about.
> It was not immediately clear who placed the hold on the trial, though it is possible it was placed voluntarily by AstraZeneca and not ordered by any regulatory agency. The nature of the adverse reaction and when it happened were also not immediately known, though the participant is expected to recover, according to an individual familiar with the matter.

What would be a reason why they don't disclose this detail immediately but only to tell public the trial is on hold?
Yes!!!! React/Redux and other SPA client-side rendering framework I'm talking about you! Just because you can, doesn't mean you need to make a page SPA acting like a desktop application. Stop it!!!! Stop making it a fashion industry out of web development. [End of Rant]

KISS, SSR is fine for most the time for web pages!!!

One exception to the above rule of SPA framework is mithril.

However, I understand not everyone can code in LISP/Scheme way. So I don't blame it for not being more used and popular than React camp. However, they seems to have JSX support now, not sure if the performance is still the same when using JSX.
> Your job shouldn't be your break

Sarcasm: Yeah, all jobs should be stressful, tedious, and unfriendly. How dare anyone enjoy their work.
David Graeber (RIP) and others would seriously question whether the financier even does anything for the economy, let alone society.
And "C: The Complete Nonsense", a review of another Herbert Shildt book.

https://www.seebs.net/c/c_tcn4e.html
That email will make a senior HR person have a serious talk with 10 other HRs and lawyers, because the matter is non trivial, but their answer will be (delivered by your manager): "you'll get an extra bonus at the next perf cycle." Then they will wait if you settle for this.
It's basically an exploration of the elusive quality of Quality, which Apple is obsessive about.
It’s not a service to humanity. There are 7 billion of us out here. There are plenty of great reasons to have kids but I don’t buy the “for the greater good” argument.
Good point. That was probably not the best example :) Though I would point out that government subsidies are more to do with the guarantee of the food supply and less to do with incentivizing individuals to work the farms.

My point was more around the parent comment that "society generally needs X, therefore anyone doing X should be applauded"

We have a huge number of needs in society - and yes, that includes enough children to keep the future viable. However, I disagree that on an individual level, having children is fulfilling some duty.
I admit I'm a bit confused about Microsoft's strategy here. So they're releasing two Xboxes at the same time: series X and series S, with the S positioned as the less powerful version of the X, with the promise that it can play the same game as the X.

The X seems to be a direct competitor to the PS5 [0], hardware-wise.

Wouldn't the release of the S and the X together forces game developers to code for the lowest common denominator (i.e. the S) and makes development more complex for the Xbox? Or is it a strategy to undercut the PS5 (normal edition and digital edition) in price?

[0] https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/ps5-vs-xbox-series-x-vs-xb...
Plenty of people can’t tell the difference between Bach and Beethoven, but that says more about them than it does about the artists.
It is big pharm. What else do you expect? A little research you will find no big pharm can be trusted.
Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1
Stay present. Be natural. Share your delight
> Not many people have children without knowing it will disrupt their lives.

On the other hand, the depth and extent of the disruption is not something I could have possibly imagined at the time though.

Just saying, not complaining.
In general, sure. Exceptions are not unheard of, though.

If I buy an abandoned house full of booby traps, or some property contaminated by toxic waste, or a wrecked car, I probably won't be able to use it "for what it's for" as is.

These things are still "mine" in two senses:

1. a property rights sense — nobody can just cart them away! That would be theft!

2. the sense that I have the legal right to do whatever I want to them in the process of fixing them up. I can take a wrecking ball to the house and build a new house. I can take apart the car and replace parts of it. Nobody has a legal right to stop me from doing these things.

But nobody's obligated to help me do that fixing-up, or to give me the money to do it. It's my responsibility, if I want the thing to work. For these sorts of items, you go into the purchase knowing that the purchase itself is only the start of what you'll have to pay to get a working product out the other end.

If Tesla is guilty of anything, it's false advertising: implying that they're selling you a car, when they're actually selling you a willfully-misbehaving robot that would have to be modified to turn it into a car.

But make no mistake — you own that willfully-misbehaving robot. Just like you own the wreck, or the waste dump.

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Given an entirely autonomous robot (like a self-driving car), though, there is an interesting edge-case, which (thankfully) has not come up yet in the real world: the product you "own" might be programmed to get up and leave on its own.

You have, as the owner, the legal right to stop it from leaving. You might even have a legal right to demand the robot's release and return, if someone else picked it up. (Weird pet-ownership and/or slavery vibes from this sentence.)

That, however, might conflict with another consideration. E.g., if Tesla or another autonomous-robot company gets slapped with a government-mandated recall notice, they might be legally obligated to summon your car back to their factory, at least for repair.

The edge case — the part current case-law doesn't yet cover — is the following: if you've disabled their ability to do that, and then your car later explodes because it didn't receive the mandated servicing... are you liable, because you disabled the recall summons? Even if the government never explicitly mandated you to stop using the car and send it over to them?
I agree, the middle-goal is military domination and the end goal is imperialism.
It is ok, but I would not recommend it. It got off to a great start but I ran into problems/limitations with some fairly basic stuff.

I can't recall exactly what my issue was with it however, it has been a few months.
This is a medical treatment sort of scenario, trial participant confidentiality regulations probably prevent release of anything specific about the case.
In Ontario (and Canada) the majority of healthcare costs are done via taxes through our single-payer systems (health is provincial jurisdiction, hence plural; though there are federal equalization payments).
That heuristic works right up to the second you find yourself south of the Mason-Dixon line.
I believe George R. R. Martin has said he uses some kind of ancient word processing software to write the GoT novels.
Consoles have been converging in terms of hardware a bit more each generation (closer to PC's each time).

But this time around both the PS5 and Xbox Series X are:

* AMD CPU
* AMD GPU
We make croutons or baked French toast depending on how much is left. For baguettes or batards, I'll make molletes (bean toast) with pico de gallo after they've dried beyond regular use.
Putting a new plug on your kettle is allowed in all 50 states and most if not all of western Europe.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

Even with experimental concerns like the small sample size, 55% incidence of long-term neurological effects is pretty alarming
Multihash: Self-describing hashes for future-proofness
Sometimes that means their own paper. The Washington Post has at times seemed to want to be the Journal of Foreign Affairs, and to have scanted local coverage.
What is meant by that is vaccine and all FDA type of drug should not be trusted unless they have several decade if not intergeneration studies to back it up.
They recruit from the “breeders”.

Even before going to university a certain lifestyle that encourages consumption and materialism is framed as success, respectable, and as a pathway to happiness.

Meanwhile sacrifice for others (for example) is never mentioned as something you can do. Sacrifice is something a “saint” like Ghandi or MLK does.

So they (industrialists) siphon us off to work longer hours than we should for actually little pay.

If you’re easily replaceable they’ll never pay you so much that you’ll work so many hours to have to give up having children. But your children are another story.

They’ll go to college, saddle up with debt and, with 80k, get paid more than you and your spouse combined. But she’s working 50 hr/week for the promotion.

35, turns into 40 and your daughter hasn’t made you a grandchild. Overwork has dulled her cheerful smile. Fear of (the time commitment of) Down syndrome will have her abort any children that might not be perfect.

And, as country debates it’s plummeting birth rates, the industrialist clamors to remove trade barriers so he can do it all over again elsewhere.
This is just to say: at least some people got your joke, and thought it was funny :-)
> On Linux, by default only the superuser can set the append-only flag. That severely limits its usefulness for many applications

Ah, good point.

> Get one to add it, and convince the others to copy it. If you can do that, then getting it added to the POSIX standard is likely to be easy.

In actuality it usually works in reverse: Red Hat (now IBM), which has the most dominate presence on the committee, convinces POSIX to add or modify something, and then everybody else adopts it. Examples: asprintf, fmemopen, stpcpy, vdprintf. I can't really think of an example that worked the other way around, though there may be some in the next specification.

The fact that nobody is certified to V7 is beside the point. Nobody is certified to the latest HTML5 standard, either, AFAIK. The point is to provide a shared target. Few people want to copy Linux or glibc because the semantics are invariably underspecified and in part accidental, and people would prefer to avoid those aspects even if they have no other choice but to nominally adopt the interface. Standardization provides a chance to clarify behavior and to fix the bounds of what a portable program can expect long term. If I have to support epoll + kqueue in perpetuity (and I assume I do), I'll structure my program differently.[1] However, if I want to use pselect (or the forthcoming ppoll), I'll target the POSIX-defined semantics, provide a best effort wrapper (or none at all), and tell users on slower evolving platforms to complain to their vendor.

The Linux kernel strives for strong ABI backward compatibility, but it hardly has a perfect track record in that regard (e.g. sysctl(2)), and the future is even more unclear given the various directions it's being pulled. Even POSIX can change course, but it does so more methodically than with a Github code search. And while Linux doesn't make promises regarding POSIX compliance, it's less likely to break POSIX semantics than its own semantics, ceteris paribus. Whether that's because kernel developers value POSIX compliance, or merely because POSIX-vetted semantics are narrower and less accidental is irrelevant.

[1] Also, I'll take the bet that epoll is never standardized, precisely because of its accidental and sometimes very undesirable semantics as compared to kqueue. At best we'll get a greatest common denominator interface that can be built around both--or possibly taking into consideration Solaris ports.
Making accommodation rules is hard. There's a lot more parents than there are firefighters. Maybe it makes sense to have a one off rule for parents.
I think the issue here is that, at least at Facebook, everyone is getting the same bonus this year regardless of performance. So those with children are getting extra time off, and those w/o are picking up their work in some cases but aren't getting compensated for it.

So either give everyone time off or give parents time off but make bonuses dependent on performance.
90s PC gaming was a golden era
Eh. If one wants to play the blame game, we can be here all day. The marketing dept asking to add sharing widgets are to blame. The team lead pushing for Squarespace so they can get away hiring junior devs under them is to blame. The frontend dev using half of the React ecosystem on a static site + simple form is to blame. The designer insisting on huge eye candy images is to blame. The UX person set on adding a carousel is to blame. The project manager prioritizing feature count is to blame. Etc etc etc.

The bottom line is that nobody really has any strong incentives to advocate for performance, so it falls by the sidelines.
And when you die, who will be maintaining your personal site? What happens when the domain gets bought by a link scammer?

Maybe your pages should each contain a link to the original, so it's just a single click if someone wants to get to your original site from the wayback backup.
Sure, and if we wait for too long the worldwide economy will collapse and then we'll have a gazillion deaths from side effects. We can't go down the path of wild assumptions because it won't lead us anywhere.

If the vaccine confers limited immunity we can at least do a better work at protecting the elderly who are extremely vulnerable. And then, as research progresses we'll have better knowledge on how to fight this thing.
It doesn't sound like you've actually owned a Lada. My family owned a Moscvitch for many years. They were not cheap, safe, reliable and despite being "mass" produced, you still had to wait many years to actually get one. Don't let nostalgia fool you, Soviet cars were monumentally shitty.
> The EU has already mandated this.

Are you thinking about eCall? That is only supposed to be activated during an emergency.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/security-and-em...
> cells send samples of anything they replicate to the cell wall for your immune system to monitor

Wow nature is truly a marvel! How do they do that? Or where could I read more?
[Speaking as non-high-risk person,] I'd trust scientists to define when a vaccine is safe. The pledge is a politic action, but is explicitly against politic influence.