skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an 18-mo old now. My company "generously" offers 2 weeks of paid parental leave. I went through similar conversations as you, only I was merely asking to use 2 weeks of PTO after my 2 weeks of paid parental leave for a total of 1 month of time off. My management and HR refused that request, I was told that my option was take the 2 weeks of paid leave and then you can take unpaid leave (the legally mandated FMLA). Due to "project schedule" they could refuse my PTO but legally they were not allowed to deny unpaid FMLA. Truly a despicable amount of leverage. I was also told by my manager at the time how atypical my requested amount of time was and was asked why I needed that much time since I wasn't the one giving birth. I too am astonished at the typical amount of parental leave used/requested by men in the US. It seems like a very deep cultural issue.

I have no loyalty and have just been biding my time. I've been just comfortable enough so far, but things haven't been great in a few aspects. They were not hard up for coverage and my absence, which should have been planned for far in advance, would not have effected the schedule in any manner.
iirc There is research with brain scans showing that in some scenarios people take an action first and then come up with reasons why after. Anyone remember details enough to find the source?
nathaniel here, writer of the article this article is referencing.

If it's okay with you I'll update the original with a link to this at the top. It's sort of hilarious that I made an whole app based on a premise that is basically just wrong.

I wish I could say I've learned my lesson, but I'll probably continue to make enjoyable mistakes like this for the rest of my life.
> Finland?

I'm not sure Finland has any universities at all in the top 100. Nobody's getting a top-quality education in Finland. I guess that's more fair?
The article is a rebuttal to this article (https://endtimes.dev/why-you-should-dither-images/), which in fact used photographic images, so definitely not a straw-man article in this case.

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When building a product, it sure helps to not assume anyone's intelligence. Even better, assuming everyone is insane helps you consider more cases where user behavior could cause an issue. Ultimately, that saves time.
Nice. I feel like that used to be common for PC microphone ports that were separate jacks, but IIRC it was at a much lower voltage than the 48V professional phantom power.
Who determines that the wine is high quality? You’ve already established taste there, regardless of the wine’s taste.
Eh. Wired headphones in theory should have a longer lifespan and a lower TCO than wired headphones, but that's not the experience I've had. The weakest link in headphones is the cord, back when I was in High School I would buy Skullcandy headphones (those $10 ones from TJMaxx or Marshalls) in bulk, because the average lifespan of a pair was less than a month before the cord broke.

Had I just bought wired headphone every month for $10. At the end of 2 years I would have spent $240, which is right around the price of Airpods Pro's.

I will say though the one killer feature for me in Airpods is the handoff functionality. I'm an iOS developer so I work on a Mac all day long. It's so nice to be able to switch off from one Macbook for a meeting to my iPhone with little to no effort.
Thank you so much for this. I think this is worthy of a separate HN post.

On a related note, these hidden features are really annoying. How hard would it be to have a WiFi diags link in the WiFi dropdown? Why does Apple think that hiding things makes for a better user experience? Is it so that the people in the know get to feel like arcane knowledge masters? As it is, I have started randomly holding down option and command to see if there are hidden options. /rant
Does anyone know of a site that catalogs these hidden macos options?
How hard did you try to find such articles?

I would imagine the suppliers of Wirecard do see it as a problem that the $2B WireCard said it has in the bank did not exist. In a blockchain setup, they would have known it.

Ducking for "supplier" and "insolvency" brings up quite a lot of stuff about this topic:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=insolvency+suppliers
Cost. It takes large orchards, and I would not be surprised if the surrounding ecosystem has some effect as well.
One day, when energy is super cheap and superabundant, it will happen.
tldr:

1. Copying bad design is not good design.

2. If the compiler cannot reason about the code, neither can the programmer.

3. Don’t get in the programmer’s way.

4. Move work to compile-time: Programs are run more often than they are compiled.

5. Customizable memory management.

6. Concise code is not in conflict with readability, it enables readability.

7. (Leverage meta programming to keep the language small.)

8. Optimization is specialization: When you need more speed, write custom code.

9. There should be one and only one programming language for everything. That language is Nim.
The focus on CLI seems to steam from the new blood on .NET teams, long are the days of "Developers, Developers, Developers" with nice graphical tooling.
It is part of the "agile" culture -- by which I mean the popular bastardization created by incompetent managers and incompetent developers, where anything resembling strategic thinking is dismissed as "waterfall" i.e. something the cool kids would never touch.

From the incompetent manager's perspective: Typing code is productive work, everything else (such as writing documentation) is not. I am paying you for implementing features for the customer, not writing notes for yourself and your team.

From the incompetent developer's perspective: Hey, my idiosyncratic code is self-documenting, and if people do not understand something, it's because they are stupid. Also, more job security is good for me.
Unfortunately I didn't see this on HN until fairly late, but I'd love to hear any recommendations for Lightning connector to audio jack adapters.

We've gone through so many here (Apple, Belkin, no-name...) and they just seem to break fairly easily. Wish there were a case solution but those seem to have fizzled out over time (presumably no demand).

Anyone know of a good adapter that survives daily use?
The Biggest Software Flops of All Time
as much as i dig protonmail, the rate at which they bring features from web -> mobile is staggeringly slow. it’s a bit frustrating, honestly
It is in the UK, or rather it's given to both, and up to them how they split it.
I'm on a Mac, so decided to give it a try. It's an interface overhaul, why wouldn't it be able to launch something though?

I tried to install a previous version. It started installing, and then ... just failed. With no description of what failed, and how to deal with it.

So eventually I gave up.

WHat's launch.json and where is it described? And why can't it figure stuff automatically like Rider? And why does VSCode create a separate launch.json and why can't the two share the same one?

So many questions, so few answers.
Why would most value system be equally valid? What mechanism would cause that to be the case? What do we mean by "valid"? Are they equally "Good" in some sense, is that different than valid? Some people have value systems where women should be killed if they are raped because they bring shame on the family, is that equally valid?
All Layer 2 scaling solutions would also be obfuscating transactions because all out of chain transactions are invisible on chain.
But two, C++ invites pedantry. I heard endless discussions about "ooh, template meta-programming", "struct or class", "but is this idempotent", "you should be using move semantics", "why on earth is this a unique_ptr".

I wonder what the result would have been in eg. Go or Rust, where that level of conversation doesn't exist. True, others would have taken place instead, but at a higher level nearer the design, where they should have been happening anyway.
PNG can have limited palette. Back in the days saving an image as 8bit PNG was a nice trick to save on size when one needed transparency and/or shadows.
I'm all for bringing back the woolly mammoth and finding out.
I don't think I want to work anywhere that has this level of angst.
Show HN: C++ by Example – A new website for learning C++
Just gotta pick on one line that slapped me harder than the gentle hypocrisy of the whole thing:

> Antivaxxers sure do love their “whistleblower” narratives, don’t they?

OK, then; someone can only claim that title and credibility if they're backed by a PR firm and a press room of their own a la "Facebook whistle blower?"

Or if the media does a complete Streisand effect on them like Eric Ciaramella?

"You're using the propaganda handles wrong!"
And Net X(Net 90 in your case) is part of business, so it' not going away because of a blockchain.
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/riverside-california-d...
What other considerations are there other than skill? Isn’t everything a skill? Graham lists a few other extraneous concerns that people judge art by. He asserts these are unrelated to the art itself, like which museum the art is hanging in.

I agree with Graham’s premise. My theory is that people don’t believe good taste exists because most people have bad taste and that’s too big of a pill to swallow. Would you rather admit to having bad taste, or posit that taste doesn’t exist? This is supported by Graham’s observation that contemporary art critics are nearly always disproven a generation or two later, meaning most critics have flawed taste.
Actually, I was thinking more of the GPL.

I read the full wikis on Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger over the weekend, and it got me thinking.

What if Richard Stallman ran the country?

How would commercial, closed source software be punished?

There is no doubt that it would be.
It seems the "reasonable places" are also nice, otherwise people wouldn't be willing to pay so much for them. It's also not the fault of the people living there if the population is growing. Why should they have to accommodate the growing population?
Interesting and thanks for sharing, I also ran into another design that is maple-seed like in terms of aerodynamics. Sadly this is one of the cases where human ingenuity is misdirected and is still causing harm today:

The BLU-43 Dragontooth mine [0][1] and the Soviet PFM-1 [2] which still are responsible for children losing limbs in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan.

The BLU-43 came with a chemical deactivation mechanism but of course that failed in a subset of dispersed mines. The PFM-1 in Afghanistan came without a deactivation mechanism, the later PFM-1S had one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-43_Dragontooth

[1] https://johnryle.com/?article=the-invisible-enemy

[2] http://www.one-step-beyond.de/en/countries/afghanistan/mines...

Edit: formatting
> Does anyone have a source for the claim “ Most of the wealth created since 1971 is a result of Intel’s 4004 microprocessor”.

If they attributed it to a Famous Important Person would it seem more credible to you?

It's just hyperbole.
I use yaml as an alternative to .properties files. It's boring. Yes, quote your strings. Know the damn config language. It's not going to kill you like a table saw.
Maybe both of you are right?

I'm sure Apple's page was factual and up-to-date at the time it was posted, but Chrome's faster dev cycle means that the Chrome data is outdated long before the next year when Apple updates Safari.
Definitely. I look forward to the measure / counter-measure fight.

... but this is the same company that currently owns the top-tier solution for ad spam and ad fraud; I expect them to be slightly harder to defeat than Twitch.
Lmao what did apple do to this guy to make him write an apology about a 7-point correction from the hospital without a thumb??
Personally, I use a local credit union that doesn't sell their loans (there are several CU's and regional banks in my area that make that commitment).
in California and New York. Salaries across the U.S. in tech jobs are far less outside of the bubble economies.

Salaries have nothing to do with education costs. There is no causal relationship. We can both fund education and have high salaries in those bubble economies. Infact the high salaries means we would have an easier time doing so, if only we taxed mega corporations.

The point of my post is that many cannot even get the funds necessary to attend a university. They cannot "just focus" on school. You have to work to afford living costs at a bare minimum.
Most people associate tiger parenting with the "you must practice the piano or I will hurt you physically, emotionally, or both" mentality. The original tigress was also incredibly restrictive of who her kids could associate with. In contrast, this article just sounds like a return on a sound investment.
Great Bullion Famine
Back in HS I would go through Skullcandy headphones like candy, I would find a place that had them on sale and buy 5-10 pairs at once. Average lifespan with a high school kid taking care of them was like 2-4 weeks.

Many of my friends had their parents get them really nice headphones (Bose, Beats by Dre, etc), I always stuck to the cheap ones because I never had to think about taking care of them. They all broke, I'd toss them out and open up a new pair.
Never let the sun play Minesweeper.
I'm told facebook is quite good at getting the timing right. My friend used to sell fancy holidays via facebook ads and they seemed pretty good at figuring when the customers were thinking of booking a holiday. I feel a bit disconnected from the whole ads scene as my ad blockers are so good I really have little idea of what I'm missing! One of my problems with the holiday ads is they tend to push expensive hols with profit margin to spend on facebook ads whereas I tend to book the value for money stuff.
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not sure how familiar you are with south indian cuisine, but the machine we use to make dosa batter also serves reasonably well for this purpose
Briar is really neat, and I hope it will land on Linux, Mac and Windows. Being able to send messages and files directly to anybody on a local network without any account just rocks.
If there was neurochemistry that was uniquely and consistently associated with depression it still would not follow that "direct physical intervention" is the best treatment approach. Lifestyle modifications and behavioral interventions also change the brain. It is standard to combine both approaches.

No one really disagrees that depression has physical causes. What other causes are there? I am guessing you are not a Cartesian dualist.

>Really turn-it-off-and-turn-it-back-on-again thinking.

Unfortunate analogy since the article you linked talks about "resetting" the brain with psilocybin.
Stitch in time saves nine. It's always better to move to a less polluting lifestyle instead of coming up with a round-about expensive way to capture what was released into the atmosphere.
Trying to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is like capturing fart. Except that it is way more complicated.
what about dogs? They can cover nearly 1,000 miles of rough winter terrain in under 2 weeks, as seen in the iditarod. Or if we're looking at long distance travel in hot environments what about camels? I think this "humans can run down any animal with our endurance" stuff is vastly overblown. We're above average, but hardly the best on earth.
> 2. This article would be better for poor people to read.

It’s also useful for non-poor people to know how poor people are conditioned to think and behave.
I would guess it was more in the line of not suspecting that it was a valid user-agent string; just one used by bots.
OTH not choosing Python for tasks where the language performance really doesn't matter at all (for instance shell scripting stuff) would also be futile. It's simply a matter of using the right tool for a specific job (and in Python's case, that 'tool' isn't even the language, but the batteries-included stdlib).
But even when it became widely available it still wasn't widely interoperable (with developer tools, filesystems ..). Interoperability is what objects are supposed to be about. The shame is that we have ended up with microservices which is such a crude developer experience (and serverless which is worse again)
> But I can't shake the feeling that much as someone might validly prefer some abstract dot on a white canvas to the Sistine Chapel ceiling,

That is straw position.

> who would more likely impress the fans of the other, that artist trying to reproduce Michaelangelo's work or vice versa?

There are many artist capable to reproduce Michaelangelo's work. They are not impressing people who admire Michaelangelo or classical art. People who admire Michaelangelo typically fully understand that people after Michaelangelo learned from him. They also understand Michaelangelo was working, learning and studying having limitations we don't have.
for a solidly backed, thoroughly researched book on living fulfilling lives that is not Positive Psychology, read Happiness Hypothesis.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS?view=...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap#/media/File:OEC...

Seems like countries with paid leave have comparable or higher rates of labor participation and (on average) lower gender pay gap.
I'm currently looking into similar ideas with auto-generation of organization in knowledge bases: https://twitter.com/uzpg_/status/1458774952786681856

I plan on releasing something soon, this is super interesting!
hi there! i'm on the workers team at cloudflare.

you're right that the ideal application would run fully on the edge (which is why we try to offer things like KV, Durable Objects, and more options in the future for you to have your data where your logic is running).

however —
moving your data to the edge is unlikely to happen overnight. and it's going to take us a bit to offer you all the data options for all the different use cases that you need (after all, there are many types of databases for a reason), so this gives users greater optionality.
secondly, if your data is already somewhere but you want to build new features on top of it, now you can. (say, i already have a database with all my apartment listings in it, but i want to add a new feature where i let my users add photos of the apts). i can now build that feature in workers, without having to undergo an otherwise massive migration.

one last thing, this is just the beginning of what even database connectors mean. in the future, we can cache data, and actually improve performance and reliability even if the dc is far (as you said, make it easier to have best of both worlds).
Yes, exactly. Indexed PNG makes for really small files. Especially when you don't use much colours (for 256-color-index, the saving is not really there, but if you are like <8, it's worth it - if the image fits, style-wise, of course).
Just of the top of my head: That cats can get it was a thing really early, the occasional instance at a zoo gets reporting, we had the entire mink-thing, and the fallout from the minks, it's in the discussions of where covid comes from, then there was deer, ... It feels very disingenuous to claim that this wasn't "permissible" to talk about.
Testing out Net-zero Energy homes, across the US (2018)
bayesian methods are also prefered due to their well understood theoretical properies. this is one of the things you really want when you build safety critical models
Having recently watched this video on Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc , it seems that "stupidity" is a result of intellectual laziness.

However, we only have so much mental energy dedicated to truly try to understand those forces that affect our lives. Sometimes spending too much time analyzing can lead to its own form of insanity (https://thekingandid.wordpress.com/2018/08/12/chesterton-on-...).

Realizing that over-thinking can lead to issues, justifies anti-intellectualism and intellectual laziness. Repeat...
I upvoted, sorry for the adverse responses.
Thanks for your contribution - this is similar to the impression I get about taste, not having studied aesthetics but having a passing familiarity with postmodern philosophy. Do you have any book or philosopher suggestions I could check out? I'm generally interested in epistemology and this sounds like a good angle for further reading.
> passed on their stolen land and wealth through generations while segregating various groups impacted by their transgressions, and to this day ask questions like you.

Im a first generation American and my mother was a refugee. Get off your fucking high horse and go virtue signal somewhere else.

People like you have no idea how the world works. You so desperately need to be seen as a “good person” it’s pathetic.
Helicopter autogyro requires deliberate control input. This one enters self-stabilizing autogyro when control input stops at any given operational state.
As autos go electric, Toyota chases hydrogen dream
It's been my experience that by large people tend to do what you expect them to do. Sadly that is not always what you want them to do...

While I'm aware that most of our motivators are not rational, I am not going to poison my mind with expectations of "stupid, lazy, and insane behavior". The confirmation bias that would lead to sounds utterly depressing.
asp.net core is a clusterfuck of over-architecture and over-abstraction.
Did not find before/after pictures for comparison in the article :(
A future episode of Friday night at your local ER:

"If you had gotten here sooner we wouldn't have to amputate your <insert extremity here>"

"yeah well nobody on scene could start their car and EMS took 30min to arrive".
> After that, convert it to a static language

I don't think you can have a hard and fast rule like this. It will depend on the situation. In many instances, a "prototype" built in Python or similar is perfectly fine.

In addition, one can make a horrendous mess in statically typed languages as well. One of the absolute worst projects I ever worked on was written in a popular statically typed language. This is of course an anecdote and not to say statically typed languages are worse, but they're not automatically better either.

Just a note too that I'm a big fan of, e.g., Rust & TypeScript, and I often use type hints in Python, so I'm not anti-static typing.
One happy addendum:

Seeing this topic on HN reminded me to try to and contact the website builder again, and this time they did get their hosting party to fix the problem.

The explanation as passed on to me was:

> There was a bit in the htaccess that was there since 2019, we don't know why.
Sometimes you just want to throw entirely differently shaped data into the same array or dictionary and be done with it instead of creating a "proper" type-safe design which most likely means writing lots of pointless boilerplate code. IMHO that's the whole point of a scripting language like Python, to write quick'n'dirty scripts, not "real programs".
Yeah, you are right, I was mistaken of course. Looks like probably the Xeon Sapphire Rapids will be the first system with dual PCIe Gen5 when it's out next year. Then AMD will be a little later with Zen 4.
Yes I point that out on this very recent submission where it actually does modify the expression of a tiger:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29202899#29213771