skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Milgram experiment or its variations might come up with such a figure:

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

NB I don't know enough about the area to discuss the validity of the experiment, just that it might be a source of such a figure
The problem with this analogy is that everyone uses the school system at some point in their life, but not everyone is a parent at some point.
It is absolutely workable to write a script to bundle data with your application. And one that exports configuration data from your data store to configure your cloud provider. And one for your monitoring system. That's where we all started.

Should you at some time replace all this with a common data format, then congratulations you have invented a configuration management system very similar to Chef.

The use of a version control system or a CI/CD system does not somehow negate the need to keep configuration, neither does a configuration management system do the job of the former. Nobody builds their software using Puppet, they use something like Jenkins. In fact, I would consider having VCS and CI/CD in place a prerequisite to any type of configuration management.
It is not necessarily just hostility to parents. I see it more as hostility to the HR policies in place at some of the companies. A new parent at facebook gets 4 months leave after the birth and then can take another 10 weeks of family leave.

Alternatively, non parent employees at facebook can take 3 days off to cope with stress or else need to take sick days. Otherwise they can take sick days, which probably would be frowned upon if overused.

Yes, parents have to deal with a lot more added stress during this pandemic. But, the difference between 10 weeks off (with no questions asked) and 3 days off (to "cope with mental health issues") is pretty stark. It seems like the tech companies could at least give those who do not take family leave an extra week of vacation or something.
Not necessarily. I gave a range of options on purpose, depending on budget and safety reqs I don’t have access to. Also for desktops left behind for whatever reason. You may be over thinking it.
Can confirm that it's awesome for getting something small and useful done quickly.

I was a beginner Haskell programmer when I first used brick, and it's great exposure to building a real world application (something a lot of Haskell beginners crave learning). Docs are very good too.

Code for anyone that might find it useful: https://github.com/2mol/pboy

edit: forgot to mention that it's very "Elm architecture", so if you like modern frontend development, then you might feel right at home in that paradigm.
If I fix the car or computer for the old retired farmer down the road, but then bags and boxes of fresh, homegrown vegetable regularly appear on my porch, then that works out quite nicely, actually.
If you are an organization, Apple’s fee is still $99 per year for the standard account with App Store publishing access.

There is a second program called the Apple Developer Enterprise Program, which is $299 per year, and is only required if you wish to deploy apps for internal use across your organization without using the App Store.
I think this is more of the firm's responsibility to communicate in a better way and sort out the conflicts in one way or another. This is stressful time for everyone and indeed the conflicts will intensify here and there. As a would-be parent I do believe that everyone is selfish and if the number of people who show such frustration do increase to hundreds then the company better addresses it directly instead of letting people attack each other. It's HR's (and manager's) duty to quiet such conflicts before it gets to that point.
> Just talk to people but pretend you’re a trump supporter and I think you might be shocked what you hear

I'm. All from G5 causing COVID-19, down to microchips in the vaccine.
the Cutter Incident comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories#Cutter_inc...
Pets are optional ? I didn't expect myself to hate this statement so much
You can also say by agreeing to the terms of service, you are being forced.
I would refer you to the Parable of the Fisherman and the Businessman.

https://www.momentum-coaching.eu/en/inspiration/the-parable-...

TL;DR: try to live now in the way you would want to live once you achieve "financial independence"
I'm not on the Apple platform. The product is sold through the Apple platform.

Do you think Apple own the apps that are installed on your phone? Do you think they own your phone? Your ongoing relationship with a software developer? Do you think you are the product here?

The answer for me: no, no, no, and no, respectively.
> "There is not even complete agreement about the causal relationship between the swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome"

> "Studies suggest that it is more likely that a person will get GBS after getting the flu than after vaccination"

In the worst case, about 450 people got Guillain-Barre due to the vaccine. Counterfactually, some thousands or even a million Americans might have died from the swine flu itself.
And you can bet that Epic and many other companies reaction to that pricing would jut to be to create their own set of libraries instead of paying for Apple's...
I'm okay with car-as-a-service model as long as I don't have to buy the actual car, and pay only for the right to use a car, and any available car in the Tesla system, and in which Tesla deals with all breakdowns, charging, and maintainence, quite possibly by having the cars automatically take themselves offline from the rideshare system and self-drive themselves to a repair center when they are close to needing maintainence, while sending me an alternate car in its place. This would actually be a really nice transportation system to use IMO, and it's the maintainence-free aspect of it that I would value in a car-as-a-service model.

I'm strongly against a hybrid model in which I purchase and own the car, am responsible for maintaining it, but I can't tweak it on my own to do whatever the hardware is safely capable of. I actually wish there are laws protecting the right of the owner of any hardware to tweak anything they own. I mean, it's my property after I bought it.
They prohibit the app, that is available from their store to advertise ways of bypassing that store.

I'm pretty sure Walmart doesn't sell items in its stores that have text on the packaging about how to buy the item cheaper at Target, and it isn't particularly controversial that they do things that way.

As far as I'm aware app's web pages or other communication medium aren't prohibited from advertising whatever they want. Basically Apple is saying, "don't use our platform against us" which is what every for profit platform, ever, has done.

In some platonically ideal way it would be nice that it were otherwise, but it is in no way unusual or illegal to do what it is doing. Remembering the time of Verizon flip phones with locked down video services and tiny java apps, the freedom of an iPhone (once the app store was out) was actually unprecedented from day one from a mass consumer point of view- niche Nokia/Windows CE/Pocket phones to the side.
I hate to say "move", but if dual income is super hard to make ends meet in SV, it's time to move out of SV. The US is huge, there are tons of places with decent tech scene, but affordable housing on a 5-figure salary without needing dual income (Texas, Utah, etc.).
I've been waiting so long for it to be a bubble that pops, web ads just can't be worth that much when they are so bad.

I see some "captive" ads now, and I can imagine those are worth so much more - for example instagram play-between ads. No wonder the open web is dying.
Interesting OT question: How much does Netflix care about user "engagement"? Surely there is data at Netflix HQ, but I guess there isn't a linear correlation between viewed minutes and canceled subscriptions. If you use Netflix "enough" for it to feel as a nice thing to have available and not cancel the subscription, I guess Netflix is happy?

Even if marginal cost is very low, each streamed video have some small cost associated with it. Is it really worth it to try and increase my viewing, as long as it's high enough?

(Conversely, will people really get Netflix subscriptions just because they are WFH, if they din't have them already?)
UCC - § 2-606. What Constitutes Acceptance of Goods.

"(1) Acceptance of goods occurs when the buyer (c) does any act inconsistent with the seller's ownership; but if such act is wrongful as against the seller it is an acceptance only if ratified by him."

UCC isn't law in every US state, but is common.
He said "black" instead of "African American" during a radio interview in 1983.
In the end, everything depends on the team and the person right?

I would like going back to the office. I miss the espresso machine, the snacks, seeing people, playing boardgames after work. But that's because it's a 10 min. walk for me to go there.

For some coworkers, it's a 1 hour drive each way, having to pay for parking, and needing to leave work no later than X because otherwise they have to pay extra.

Also, I can concentrate more at home. In my previous job, I ended up moving to a small cubicle that was not being used, because I couldn't stand the noise of other people talking around me (had some loud speakers there).
Thanks for the detailed explanation, but I realize that I was misreading the whole time and so you answered a question that I actually didn't mean to ask. Apologies.

Instead of 'private member functions' my mind read 'member functions'.

For instance, I'd love to be able to create functions that operate on a Vector3 interface type in Typescript, but don't have the clunky syntax of

> AddVec3(AddVec3(v1, ScaleVec3(v2, DotVec3(v4, v5))), v4).

Classes in Typescript solve this just fine, so that I can do

> v1.add(v2.scale(v4.dot(v5))).add(v4)

But then I lose the benefits of structural typing. I still have yet to find a nice solution here.
If they are dumb enough to pull this Epic move and sue Apple you bet they will sue back
> Never were families discourages from isolating together.

False - at least in the UK different households were not permitted to mix. So if grandparents/aunts/uncles/cousins/etc lived in a different residence, well that is different households and no mixing was allowed. There goes a huge source of a lot of people's adhoc/emergency childcare options.

No mixing of groups of any size was allowed either.

There was some relaxing of this, but now we are seeing a second spike as obviously nothing has changed so people are back to infecting each other.
> I think that anti-trust needs to be a suit from the US government?

Probably, but I'm not a legal professional. But it is has actually happened before so maybe if the case for anti-trust is clear for Apple, it 'may' escalate to the US Government.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T
Why not?

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?

If you are a software developer - is all of the code you've ever written still accessible online, for free? (To the legal extent that you are able, of course.)

Have you written a blog before, or did you have a MySpace? Have you taken care to make sure your creative work has been preserved in perpetuity, regardless on how you feel about the artistic value of displaying your teen emotions?

Consider why you feel it is unethical for the author or persons responsible for the work to ever stop selling it.
It’s mathematics. Your society ceases to exist surprisingly quickly if people don’t have kids. And as one of the immigrants folks in the first world are counting on to perpetuate their society, the child hostile culture still sucks. I don’t think my parents appreciated this aspect of moving to America—raising kids without the network of parents you can count on in other countries. My wife and I had kids at a pretty normal age (starting at 27) and it was lonely waiting around for everyone to transition to that phase of their life (which for the most part never materialized). My wife and I grew up with boatloads of cousins, but my kids were alone except for highly structured activities. If you wanted to hang out with people who have kids you’ve got to go meet people a decade older than you. I’m a city snob, but I’ve been a million times happier after moving to an exurban neighborhood where there are normal people and lots of children.
What do you think of LGBTQ, then ? Fertility rates among them are near zero.
Being able to work full time while kids attend school isn't a privilege, it's often a necessity, at least in many parts of the US.

Until relatively recently, supporting my family of four required both my partner and I to work full time. Raising kids is an expensive endeavor. Luckily, I've advanced in my career enough that I can now support my family on my own.
As @wongarsu said, I think running the DB separately makes a lot of sense. Also, that (in theory) protects any ENV variables on the main host server from exposure if your DB is compromised. And the DB is likely better protected and up-to-date if you use a DB-as-a-service. But I wouldn't go extreme either. There are a lot of hidden costs associated with utilizing additional machines, whether they be via lamda functions, VPSs, etc.

One other good thing about keeping things separate is updates in theory should be easier, as besides OS stuff, you only have a handful of applications on each machine. But again, for small apps, it's generally not worth the extra complexity. 3 platforms is likely as far as I go (client-side server, API, DB) in the majority of cases with small apps, and most of the time I'd probably just go with 2 assuming Node can serve both the client and API.
> "Benefit society as a whole" sounds good in theory but rarely works in practice because people are inherently self-interested

This is a very immature POV, IMO. Self interest can, and arguably _should_, be aligned with the benefit to society. That is, in fact, the only way to get _reliable_ benefit to society in the first place. Nobody gets anywhere by trying to piss up a rope. In any situation, you get the behavior you reward. So "self interest" is a good thing, when it's properly aligned to the broader whole.

And if we were to strictly worry about "benefit to society" then one could argue that childless people should earn less, since their amortized value to society in the long term is much lower than that of parents.
According to the Reuters article: “Apple denied wrongdoing and settled the nationwide case to avoid the burdens and costs of litigation, court papers show.” [1]

It’s entirely possible the lack of clarity of what was happening violated consumer protection laws (I’m guessing, I don’t know what specifically the lawsuit was based on) without malice intended. The Apple way is to try and have design be silent and in the background. In this case it was a way to solve degrading batteries that would cause a phone to reboot, so slowing down to compensate is a slick way of preventing random reboots without involving the user. Since it doesn’t seem to be the case that this happened without battery degradation, I don’t think you can point to evidence that this was done to cause new phone sales. Am I mistaken?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphones-settlement/...
I’m not sure I buy this argument due to the disruptions of COVID. Pre-COVID, both parents working full time may have made total sense.

With daycare, nannies, and/or school it’s perfectly reasonable both parents can have full time jobs. One parent may have even delayed their career during the youngest years and only recently resumed work.

The issue now is COVID makes these childcare options impossible, so it isn’t the parents fault for both working, and they have a momentary huge increase in childcare responsibility. This is not something they could have planned for and suggesting one parent quits their job and stays at home is unfair.
You can write a game without using Unreal Engine. You can't write an iPhone app without Apple's permission, even if you don't use a single byte from their SDK.

The "the app store pays for libraries" argument is total bullshit. Apple wants 30% of your Spotify subscription because they saw it, they wanted it, and now they're having a temper tantrum about it. Not because they laid the foundation for Spotify.
Software has always, since it was first sold in the 1960s, been a licensed product/service. You never owned anything - you had a contract for a certain set of functionality and support, maybe upgrades.

Tolls like the above were how the mainframe started and are nothing new.

We had a historical anomaly with the PC being a hobby platform at its roots where everything felt so free. Legally it never was, that was a marketing fiction created by Apple, Microsoft, IBM and others.
Why would the people who refuse to wear masks take a vaccine? They think the virus is a hoax.
At a place where smokers can take random 5-minute breaks, I can practically guarantee that non-smokers can as well.
Thanks, I see another poster found a link to a statement they have on their site about it now it seems.

There is a particular leaks site that also called out Proton for routing their connection thru a similar shady service in the past.
I'm sure to many being isolated and working non stop is worse than being isolated and having more free time.
AR Quick Look
“Working towards full PHP 7 compatibility”

PHP 7.0 was released in December 2015...
> Are the vendors going to give back your $1M? No they are not. Are they going to fix the appliance? Maybe.

This means that the organizations never learn plainly which of their purchases were jank and which were not, and do not improve their decision-making over time.

I think this disables/obscures an important market feedback mechanism. If a vendor sells you expensive crap with the implied promise that it is forward compatible/spec compliant, and the version field increments and, it turns out, your box isn't and breaks, it's likely to damage the reputation of the vendor (and perhaps the person within the organization that bought the janky device).

The game is an iterated one. Rewarding the not-diligent vendor/purchaser with diligent effort on the part of client software development teams does three things, none of which are desirable:

1. it shields shitty vendors from the market consequences of selling crap.

2. it shields shitty customers from the business consequences of buying crap.

3. it massively raises the barrier to entry for someone who wants to develop good and widely-accepted client software, keeping it in the realm of basically only a few large multinationals, none of whom really give a fuck about your privacy.

It's bad for everyone.
If multiple vaccines are ready at the same time, who will decide which vaccine is distributed to which people? Would it be regional? Random?
>I'd happily trade places with one of my childless coworkers right about now.

Yes, some things come with downsides. I'm sure a lot of people would also want to trade places with you during the happy times you have with your kids. But you can't usually get the benefits without the downsides.
Google Cloud API Gateway is now available in public beta
Managing remote school sessions plus my work was a mess.

I made my 10 and 12yo kids drop their remote school stuff and work with me instead. The young one is responsible for slack, keeping everyone in the living room updated and replying with text and the occasional gif, he also summarizes with voice important incoming emails. Older one writes python code alongside me and I now mostly check her syntax. She learned git at the beginning of the pandemic and my manager is now impressed that commits from us get pushed while I am on the phone with him.

The kids drafted an email yesterday to ask for a raise and align my compensation with that of 1senior+2juniors SWE. Fingers crossed
Tuesday Letter #15 – Dates and Adventure
"Scheduling less work" means less profit for everyone. Should everyone take a pay cut because of child-caring workers ?
Where can I learn more specifics about configuring/deploying a similar setup? Thanks.
Why would they need to justify it? It does not really seem to be in dispute that the contract both parties entered into specified a 30% cut, and courts are generally not in the business of revising mutually agreed upon terms of a contract.
> You mean Mongols did not do general massacre

Based on my understanding Mongols didn't kill people for their religious beliefs. They killed entire cities if the resisted which is very different from killing population to attain title of Gazi by killing infidels.

I would be happy to learn more if you have other resources.
Yes. there's some overlap with his audience and the audience of a couple other podcasts that I like that record live on twitch. I've tried No Agenda twice and it was full of conspiracies and borderline racist.
This is a very bad look on Apple. Regardless of the enforceability of their agreements, the sense of entitlement that underlies Apple’s position is shocking.

The claim that Epic has “lined [its] pockets at Apple’s expense” implies that Apple deserves to sit in the middle of every transaction that happens on their devices and take a margin. This is the world’s most valuable company we’re talking about here; assertions like this demonstrate an unbelievable lack of self-awareness.

Let’s also not forget that Apple already extracts huge amounts of money from developers even if they don’t make a cent on transaction margins.

It’s not possible to develop for iOS without a Mac, and therefore even the smallest developer making free apps has paid Apple for at least: one computer, one of each device class they develop for, and the cost of their developer account subscription. Large companies like Epic buy thousands of computers and test devices from Apple. The idea that anything is happening “at Apple’s expense” is preposterous.

Maybe next Toyota will decide that they deserve a percentage of Uber’s revenue because Toyota's cars help facilitate Uber’s business?
This argument is made again and again in this thread, and it never got addressed.

1. There are already functional mechanisms for contribution. A single, childless person is already contributing more through their taxes. The government already heavily subsidises child-rearing.

2. Child-rearing is given an arbitrary pass that other equally charitable actions wouldn't get. A single, childless person couldn't let his commitment to Doctors Without Borders affect his work performance.

3. I'm not sure if "children are our future" is our future. This model might not be viable forever as the world population keeps growing. This is a whole other can of worms.
Obviously. And also in about 12 months Ashley Madison ads.
That's the reason I'm all for socializing child-care. Certain companies have the budget to pull out certain form of "socialized" day-care by purchasing child care from suppliers but most companies can't do that. The state should do that.
I'm not the original poster, but there have been studies on the authoritarian personality type[1] in psychology going back nearly seven decades years or so. A certain subset of the population is inclined towards displaying authoritarian traits, and those traits are about 50 percent heritable[2].

Regarding contemporary Americans, about 40 percent of Americans are in favor of non-democratic forms of government and about 52 percent support a strong leader without checks and balances from Congress or elections[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality

[2] https://psmag.com/news/authoritarianism-the-terrifying-trait...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/03/13/is-public-s...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, Sept. 2020 Edition
This visually impaired engineer periodically shares how he copes with coding on his LinkedIn profile.

He also suffers from RP, which he talked about in this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/essence-reading-victor-ogo-ek...