skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your company doesn’t give you time off to volunteer to help homeless non-profits then you might consider asking for it. Your premise is sound in my opinion. That’s a valuable and local thing.

People don’t have kids directly to service humanity. But the bet effect is kids do benefit humanity. It’s worth supporting. In fact it’s quite sad how low the birth rate has become among those that can afford to have kids.
Person carrying multicopters are common enough on YouTube videos (at least some of which probably aren’t fraudulent).

Give me $30k, and I’ll build you a multicopter capable of delivering a 500lb payload 1km away made mostly out of hobby parts. It’s no longer rocket science.
At least this US administration is standing up and doing something about it. Do you see the Germany chancellor sanctioning for Xinjiang concentration labor camps? UK prime minister? French president? Japanese prime minister?

Another reason this current administration's hands are tied because it's an election year. And wall street has already raised more money for democrats this past few months than republicans, because of the anti-China stance.
I think your argument lost the thread somewhere in there. I didn’t say the bizarre thing you are setting up as a straw man.
Odd, it works for me.

It's also an odd little page. It includes directions to buy it, if you already have a copy. If you don't have a copy, it includes some details on how to use eBay.
I don't think it's about dependence. It's just hard to drum up political support given the geopolitics of the situation. Remember that it's only Western countries plus (including?) Japan who even say that there's a problem - much of Africa and the Middle East, including a huge fraction if not a majority of the world's Muslims, explicitly endorse China's actions in Xinjiang. It's not like apartheid, where the country might actually become a pariah if we can just organize against it; most of the world doesn't think China's doing anything wrong.
The problem is that the more successful the system becomes (i.e. it's used for more valuable use cases) the more incentive there is to attack it. There needs to be a dynamic analogous to Bitcoin where the resources that go into securing the network grow along with the value of the network.
Doesn't RR Martin use the original Wordstar? I remember reading about him using an old school physical word processor and USB-floppy drive when he needs to backup/transfer his work.
> Who do you think will get the blame?

I don't care? That is not an excuse to overrule existing US law, which gives consumers a right to modify cars that they own.
I'll agree that American prisons aren't as bad as the Chinese practices but it's a very long way from what would be seen as reasonable in much of the world.

When you say paid for example, the prisoners aren't paid statutory minimum wage, and don't have access to outside prices, so both how much they get paid (often less than a dollar per hour), and how much things cost them to buy with this money are both controlled by the same people controlling their labour, a recipe for abuse.

As to "optional" many convicts don't seem to agree with you about how "optional" their labour actually is. Convict labour makes the private owners a lot of money, so from their point of view a prisoner who won't work is a problem and problem prisoners get punished. US prisons routinely use harsh psychological measures such as long periods of solitary confinement that would be considered torture elsewhere - without meaningful oversight.

And finally "safety" is very much in the eye of the beholder. The relevant US agency simply doesn't collect any safety data about prisoners, reasoning that since work is part of the punishment for a crime of which they were duly convicted† it doesn't matter if they're injured or die as part of that punishment... after all the US still has capital punishment, deliberately killing prisoners is actually part of the "justice" system.

† Of course one of many other things wrong with the US criminal justice system is that some of these people never committed a crime, the lack of a sane pre-trial bail mechanism in most of the US means if you're facing prosecution you have to plead guilty to get out quicker if you're poor...
Sure, but op said that people were resentful when they were working until 11 and the parents left at 6. Sounds like the working until 11 is not being seen as something being done to get ahead of for extra pay but as something that is expected but that parents are able to avoid.
Adoption has been an option for more than 34 years, even if not this specific service.
Irrespective of the reasonableness of the comment you’re responding to, I don’t think this comment is addressing the presented point. My experience with these policies is that these volunteer hours cannot be performed during work hours unless they are coordinated as by a manager in your organization as a team event.

It seems that situation, wherein you cannot reduce or substitute your working hours as an individual to instead volunteer, is what they are commenting on. Parents are being allowed to do this with their parental duties, which seems to be the perceived unfairness.
> The entire biological point of your life is to reproduce

There is no biological point of anyone’s life. This is nonsensical, it is also extremely offensive both to childless by choice and, especially, to infertile people.
If communication module is mandatory even only for emergency, it makes easier entire car to be connected.
More than a few years ago I worked for a legal newspaper. The editors has WP macros that converted to Quark XPress codes so we could drop the files right into our layouts.
They are dropping by ~20-30% YoY
Personally, I'd write plain, raw HTML/CSS for the static content, use Stripe for payments, GoAccess for analytics, and Digital Ocean for hosting.

For messaging, Twilio (Sendgrid) would likely work?

Check out indiehackers.com for a heap of resources and support for this kind of thing.
If OP was looking or an exclusive set of games, only these and only educational games, for their kids, I'd agree. But finding educational material for your kids is not helicopter parenting. If it is, then reading to your kids and buying book for them would be helicopter parenting.
Thanks so much for running this site - as a small start-up we often manually request a snapshot of our privacy policy/terms of service/other important announcements whenever we make change to them (if we don't manually request them the re-crawl generally doesn't happen since I guess those pages are very rarely visited, even though they're linked from the main site). It's helped us in a thorny situation where someone tried to claim "it wasn't there when I signed up".

It might be an interesting use-case for you to check out, i.e. keep an eye of those rarely used legal sublinks for smaller companies.
> It sounds like the laptop was paid for, but potentially with stolen credit cards? Is that the same as the laptop being considered stolen property?

I'm not a lawyer, but that's my logic. The situation definitely wasn't on the up an up, and I'm not taking any legal risk over an $800 laptop I don't want. Morally, I knew who the rightful owner was (Best Buy), so I returned it to them.
...Cool?
Wow! I love when C people bring so much data!

But serious, it depends, every company will have different results... changing to remote without changing policies will have a negative effect.
There are a bunch of these seemingly questionable ideas out there trying to score funding. A few years ago there was one to run a train up a mountain or create a giant compressed gas reservoir underground.

It may seem strange to use energy density in this context but in many ways those are even worse than batteries due to the massive amount of work they require and poor scalability because of all the physical infrastructure and space.

In fact, this exact scheme looks to have been posted to HN in 2014. From my understanding they are looking to re-purpose holes that have already been dug, for the most part, which is a good idea, but if the planned prototypes are only doing 250 kW nameplate with maybe 100 KWH of stored power, there is almost no way it's going to beat a battery plant you can have more or less just built to order already commercially. And said battery plants aren't even remotely good enough at purpose for meaningful energy storage, they're mostly used for what are considered "ancillary services" in the US power markets, like eating or producing reactive power, voltage support, etc, because the modern grid scale inverters can react to grid conditions faster than grid frequencies (50-60 Hz). More rarely they might be scaled big enough to shave the peak off a demand curve for 5-10 minutes to save transmission capacity or congestion.

Keep in mind all this in happening when LNG is basically free except for the cost of moving it, so you can also put in 1-60 MW combined cycle gas plants in short amounts of time with very well understood technology and proven manufacturers.
"Yeah, the worst vaccine mortality rate ever was still not remotely as bad as that"

Citation required.
> most epidemiologists think a vaccine won't even be possible

Unsourced statements like this are unhelpful.

The language I've heard is "there is no guarantee of a vaccine" which is very different to thinking it won't be possible at all. I'd suggest with the 200+ plus vaccine candidates being developed that many believe it is possible.
Just like most USB-to-parallel adapters will only work with parallel port printers and not much else.
Replacement rate is usually described as 2.1 children per woman. Basically every 2 person couple needs to have 2.1 kids, because some die of accidents, etc. Going below that doesn't cause instant societal collapse, but if you look at Japan for example, they now consume more adult diapers than baby diapers, which will not be good for the viability of their pensions, etc.

I personally decided that I did feel a duty to do my part to continue the human race, and that nothing else I would likely do could ever rival that in terms of lasting consequence. And folks who are interested in making it harder for parents or harder for children because they feel like families get too much slack or something, they are de facto aligned against the mission of continuing the human race, and I hope they change their minds over time.
This whole discussion to me just boils down to:

I don't live to work. I work to live.

Employers that forget that will not be my employers for too long. And, yes, I have quit more than one job for exactly this reason.
1&1[0]. The UI is super and focused on your productivity and not on selling you things when you're trying to edit your domain settings. I've used them exclusively for 20 years. Also, they have great prices and intro offers if you are buying a name for a new project.

[0]http://1and1.com
France and Spain are also currently experiencing big spikes again. We are struggling in the US for sure (especially due to the extremity of most opinions like you mention), but so are other places.
People would be a lot more sympathetic to parents if parents were being a lot more sympathetic about things like elder care, for example.

People taking care of parents with Alzheimer's in this mess are way worse off than parents.

You can see your children. You can take care of your children. Your children can see you. Your children can see other family members within reason. Your children probably won't die of Covid.

Seeing your elderly family member with Alzheimer's might kill them. Getting them medical care is a long dance with various doctors in order to try to not give them Covid. Maybe you have to make a choice to pull them out of a memory care facility and bring them home so they don't die. And, if they wind up hospitalized, they may wind up dying completely alone and isolated.

The problem is that parents often act like they uniquely deserve special treatment. Yeah, that pisses people off.

Everybody should have enough leave to deal with things. Period. Not just one "special" group.
And yet we need people to have children
>The point is that if my application will actually go down anyway if the WAN craps out, then really, I don't actually need P.

Can you guarantee no further modification to the data in the database occurs when the WAN craps out? What happens to in flight requests, batch/scheduled jobs, etc.? There's no situation where your application continues modifying the contents of the database even when there's no WAN link?

I've seen very few real world services where there is a 0% chance of data changing just because the application servers can no longer talk with clients but can still talk with the database. What happens when those databases try to rejoin the cluster and their data is now inconsistent, if you did not take into account partition tolerance?
I don't really care what RCT trials show.

I have suffered from bone fractures 3 times, 2 spontaneously, and I was eventually diagnosed with osteomalacia at age 46.

I therefore take Vitamin D and Calcium supplements regularly.

My Z score was -5.0 four years ago, but after taking supplementation and Fosamax for several years, it was raised to -2.0.
Both the examples you mentioned are cases where everyone in society pays to help those that do perform those roles. They seem like poor choices for counterpoints to helping people who are raising children.
And it's right to. We fought a civil war over this. (and other issues, of course.) Please don't trivialize this topic with infantile tu quoque arguments.
A 50 year transition to 50% of the current population would be difficult to manage, but if you could skip ahead another 50 years, I believe everyone would have a higher quality of life: cheaper housing, less crowded nature and more of it, less competition for natural resources, more land available per person, more opportunities for recognition in winner-take-all markets, etc.

At our current population density levels and birthrate, I believe society should (moderately) discourage having kids, and one of the best ways to do that is to say "those who want it the most should do it", which means those for whom its the most beneficial and meaningful. A good starting point for that is not to discourage having kids, but not particularly support it either. If its hard, that's ok, the people who are ok with the difficulty will do it, and those that aren't won't, and we'll have fewer new people to the benefit of ourselves and future generations.

I didn't think this until several years ago, when I got the opportunity to work at an NGO focused on carbon neutral energy systems research. This gave me a lot of work time to explore what the US looks like today, and how that has changed over the past 50 years. One of my key random personal takeaways from several years exploring carbon chains, land use, etc, a takeaway shared with several of my colleagues who already had children, was that we had previously underestimated the degree to which quality of life in post-2000 (completely aside from quality of life for other species, which is a separate topic) is negatively impacted by the increased density of people.

For example, and there's lots of stories you can tell like this, many people like having access to alone time in nature, and it's a lot harder in 2020 than it was in 1970, simply because more people in the country => less natural / fallow land. "The woods behind the neighborhood" is less and less a thing.

As an aside, my wife and I were considering having kids until I got exposed to these viewpoints, and they changed my mind. I think its better that my brother has kids, because he REALLY REALLY wanted to have them. And that's great. But, for example, he now doesn't have the free time I have to do open source.... and neither will I if I work longer hours to cover for him ;-)
The pioneers in any field always get attacked when they add safeguards.

And then later when they catch up, the laggards add similar safeguards.

Usually there are valid reasons beyond just the usual “protect profits” this gets portrayed as. Even if that’s part of it, it’s often more about protecting the brand and product safety.

Autos are different from some products in that there are real safety issues if stuff is not done right.
Secure communication is unfortunately still difficult for non-tech people. Most of the "easy" ones are tied to a smartphone, like Signal.

However if the goal is to prevent accidental leaking by using reply-all or adding an email address by mistake, then I think encryption features are nice-to-haves rather than a must-have. It's a very nice to have, but for non-techies and for your specific use case, usability is probably more important at this point.

I would thus recommend either:

* Discord (https://discord.com/), easy group voice chat should you need one

* Slack (https://slack.com/) using a free account, but they limit the number of messages for free accounts. May not be a deal-breaker for you.

* Element (https://element.io/) which was formerly Riot.im, and is encrypted and have more security features vs. the other two. Probably the most secure here.

All of them have their pluses and minuses, but all of them can be opened in a browser
and require no smartphone. I suggest you pick one that you feel is easiest for your group to register and use, and provides the feature set that you require.

With regard to Discord, please make sure to read [0] before making any decisions :)

[0] https://cybernews.com/privacy/discord-privacy-tips-that-you-...
They don't seem to have as much respect for the fire as I would have expected from say an Aussie.

Almost seems like they wanted to go South because that's the route they came in on? Even though they were heading straight for the fire, which seems like lunacy to me.
No, it's true of both continuous and discrete time/domain Fourier. Convolution in time is multiplication in frequency, and vice versa. You don't need to prove this with limits directly, just use the definition of the convolution integral and Fourier transform integral.

> technically being simpler to compute.

They're equivalent, since the only meaningful way to "compute" a continuous convolution is symbolically, and discrete convolutions obey most of the same identities.

If one can place a lower bound on the time step resolution of a simulation then continuous convolutions are evaluated using discrete convolutions, which can represent the continuous case exactly via the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.

Interestingly enough, to prove the Sampling Theorem you need to rely on the identity that multiplication in frequency is convolution in time, and to prove that it can't be realized in a physical system (breaks causality, since you multiply by a superposition of Heavisides which of course are infinitely long sinc functions in both directions of time).

And more interesting is that signals and systems is mostly applied dynamics and statistics, so it shouldn't be surprising if there's overlap.
Those boats in Texas paraded at the wrong speed
dang PTAL at this
It happens in every tourist city, I experienced roses in Paris, bracelets in Madrid, Donations in Berlin.
I have. And the poster is right: Adam Curry's other podcast (No Agenda) can accurately be described as right-wing propaganda. If you don't believe me, I challenge you to listen to the show for a week and find anything positive they might say about anyone who isn't a Republican in Trump's orbit.
I've been using intention

https://www.getintention.com/
This administration messed up any opportunity to curtail China by dropping TPP.

Everything they’ve done since then is a fraction of the massive gift they gave the Chinese.

Heck, even the Chinese know what a joke this administration is which is why they basically captured Hong Kong, are trying to destroy Vietnam, extracting as much from Australia and India as they can in the past year while the going is good with the administration.

Also, comparing to Germany, a country with a population less than 20% of the US’s which has basically no standing army by design, and hosts massive American bases within it is a complete non sequitur.

Why don’t you compare to India, for example, which within weeks of a small border skirmish pretty much eliminated the entirety of Chinese digital companies from the country. Setting aside the wisdom of that decision, if you’re just comparing the actions taken by administrations, India has done far more in far less time that has been far more effective than throwing random tantrums after Xi refused to bribe your President enough.
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It's intellectually dishonest to not compare the two.

The prison labor industry in the US is the largest, per-capita, in the world. Which makes sense, since the US imprisons more people then any other country in the world - both by capita, and by raw numbers.

There are more prisoners working for free (or nearly free) in the US today then there are prisoners in the entirety of China.

As long as the 13th amendment leaves a loophole big enough to drive a prison bus through, what you're looking at is modern-day slavery.
It is amazing how much we regress as software gets bloated with feature creep.

Modern web apps are so much more inferior in certain areas when speed, immediacy and efficiency is required. They do have their upsides but more often than not, it is just a mess. I recently logged into my medical insurance website and the fucking thing ajaxing all day and I have no idea what part of the page is waiting to load. I don't have a speedy internet connection. I actually prefer the page to refresh than some small segment of it reload without any indication. Sometimes spinners are fixed in place to indicate "loading" but it is just a frustrating thing to look at.

I've used IBM AS400 and a bunch of factory management software - it is an absolute pleasure to use. Yet, most operators on the factory floor complain "We are just stuck with this old archaic system". Every single day. I feel like one of these days some asshole consultant company is going to convince our upper management for a web-based MRP.

Large percentage of people do not appreciate old pieces of software. They look at the aesthetics of it and write it off. I really think an average joe off the streets can be completely bedazzled by a modern React app with animations and frivolous bells and whistles that takes 5 seconds to load. Joe does not know the difference between aesthetics and functionlism. Jill on the other hand is a linux aficionado and goes out of her way to make things hard. Spends ages perfecting her vim config file, and looks down on anyone that doesn't use Arch Linux and some form of a window manager.

Perhaps there is a sweet spot between Joe and Jill's philosophy towards useful, easy to learn and efficient software that doesn't require an obsessive linux nerd to use. Like WordPerfect 6.2.

The world is really a sad place. :-(
I would have said the same until I read this thread
Note of concern regarding Russian vaccine effort