skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I Used The Web For A Day With Javascript Turned Off."

I Used the Web For A Decade With Javascript Turned Off.

I have been using the Web for over a decade via software that has no Javascript capabilities.

There is a conception one can detect in this article that there is only one "working" look for any website: the look that the designer intended.

However IME many websites "work" without ever engaging the "look" the designer intended. To discuss this, one needs to first specifically define what it means for a website to "work". I am not sure agreement can be reached on that issue.

It may be that the definition of "work" varies with each user. Different users may want different experiences. I know what I want from websites: data. I am less concerned with design. This may not be the case for another user.

The author cites Amazon as an example website.

When I am only browsing Amazon I do not use a "modern" web browser nor Javascript. Without a browser nor Javascript I can download product data in bulk, convert it to CSV and import it into kdb+ for easier searching and viewing. Without a browser nor Javascript I can download images of interesting products and embed them into a simple PDF for offline viewing, using pdflib.

When I am ready to purchase, then I might move to a "modern" browser with Javascript-enabled.

Other example websites he gives are Wordpress, Github, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. I read the content of all these sites without ever using a "modern" browser nor Javascript. If I want to view images or video, I can download them as in the above case of Amazon. I may choose to view the data in whatever application I choose on whatever computer I choose on the local network, and the computer need not be connected to the internet.

For this user, these websites "work" just fine without Javascript. I can always use a "modern" browser with Javascript if I want to see what the designer intended. However this is rarely necessary for the experience I seek.
How would you recommend someone with a limited audience go about becoming an O'Reilly author?
I've worked remote for 6 years. This comment echoes my experience.
Only from an absolutist vantage point where one narrative is declared universally self-evident. At the risk of descending into moral relativism (which seems is where the internet governance is heading), this is simply not the case.

Gender noncomformity theory is just one of numerous issues that are exclusive to an extremely narrow section of global society, where censorship of rejection of gender noncomformity theory is necessitated within this extremely narrow section of society.

The key here is the audience -- for some, censorship of opinions rejecting (or being skeptical of) gender non-binary ideology is important and that claims of heteronormative superiority are self-evidently inaccurate, but the (in)accuracy of such statements are subjective and as such censorship moves from being a plainly neutral act to one attempting to engage in social constructivism.

The nuance is important and yes it does leave open the possibility of communities (for example) rallying around geocentrism and attacking heliocentrists, but that is the nature of free speech.
This reminds me of Phalcon https://phalconphp.com/en/
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The bounty security program (announced at BlackHat 2016) was created to deal with these kinds of scenarios. They will pay depending on the severity of the bug and the affected subsystem.

Of course, now that this mechanism exists, I'm just waiting for Apple to sue GreyKey and Cellebrite out of existence, confiscate all the devices, and charge the founders with aiding industrial espionage or overreach related to pursuing terrorism.

(I'd also like to see the same thing happen with the NRA, but alas that doesn't seem to be in the cards for the current circus in Washington)

The difference between more legit researchers and these guys is that they will work with anybody as long as they cut a check. Real R&D has more scruples than to do that.
Isn't this the purpose of multi stage builds? To have one stage for building it and another, from scratch, to run it?
Kubernetes Advanced Scheduling for Heating Showers
That is exactly what she did.
Mapfit introduces entrance quality geocoding as a replacement for Google Maps
Somebody should build startup which would solve payroll issues with remote employees.
Too late to pursue ML as a PhD student?
Is it a bad idea to pursue a PhD in machine learning considering the current massive amounts of media hype surrounding AI? I would imagine that it will become significantly harder to make meaningful contributions in this space in the years to come, and similarly, I suspect that it will be more difficult to get a job as a professor.
Katara constructs finite projective planes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

I don't know a way around this with Amazon but it is getting increasingly annoying using a site where everything is 4-5 stars with hundreds or thousands of reviews and you need incredible intuition to tell the fake reviews from the real ones.
My dad used to work at an aluminium joinery company in New Zealand. They only used Robertson screws. I used to work there during shoot holidays. Only screws that never fell off the drill bit and never ended up a mess. Super easy to find st hardware stories too. Dad only used those at home.
Visual Studio Live Share–Something CS Teachers Can Use?
Someone is really desperate to kill the Iran deal
The Phillips is the IE6 of screw heads. Pozidriv is an improved version which has long since replaced Phillips in Europe. I was unaware that Phillips screw heads were still common in the US until reading this thread.
I agree with a caveat, Sometimes I see people take this sort of complexity (there are limits to what we know, science is fallible, there are different interpretations of pretty much everything) and run with it (YouTube conspiracy theories constitute "doing your own research", experts are no better than amateurs and therefore there's no reason to study anything hard). It's kind of a fine balance between going independent too little and too much.
I feel like another jarring comparison could be made not just by centering the red area on a low-population region, but by choosing red counties by population (allow discarding some populated red counties) you would have an even larger red area.

It might break the visual simplicity of this map though.
Country A requires all employees to receive a default-opt-in pension.

Country B requires employers to register with tax authorities and deduct tax directly from the employee's salary.

Country C allows employees to buy childcare vouchers with their pre-tax salary.

Country D has a similar scheme, except for bicycles and it's a loan.

Country E considers private healthcare a taxable benefit-in-kind.

Country F has three different tax bands for employee stock options, depending on when they can be exercised.

Country G makes it mandatory to provide flexible working for new parents...

Of course in a lot of cases you can save on admin by being less tax-efficient, like by not participating in tax-efficient government incentive schemes.
To kill the competition? Not saying that that is the case, only that it maybe a possible motive
Which is what happened here but not before a few hundred thousand files were copied.

The whole point is that these domain/IP combinations are forgotten which means it could take a long time before the issue is discovered.
It's not that clear cut of a tradeoff. If Apple were to allow limitless sideloading of apps and that became the standard way that people installed apps on iOS devices, it would seriously limit their ability to keep the platform secure against malicious apps.
Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't heard of frequency binning(1) before. It makes sense that stationary objects would be filtered out before they even reach the signal processing software.

But Uber did seem to be relying more heavily on radar than the other sensors. From an article I linked in another comment "the number of LIDAR sensors were reduced from five to just one – mounted on the roof – and in their place, the number of radar sensors was increased from seven to 10. Uber also reduced the number of cameras on the car from 20 to seven." And for LIDAR this "results in a blind spot low to the ground all around the car."

They had to know radar wouldn't detect stationary objects. So the signal processor should be prioritizing camera and LIDAR reports of anything stationary in the road. If it really was programmed to ignore such a signal it seems like gross malfeasance to me. If not, then the speculation in the linked article is incorrect and it's the same problem Tesla's system has.

1. https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278779
Yes, Specifically being able to communicate in front of a whiteboard is crucial. Exploring ideas, creating a shared understanding, etc, all becomes a lot easier if you can support this with some interactive visualization on a whiteboard. I feel disabled if I have to communicate without a whiteboard.
The point is - it is now a single point of failure and it is probably not very feasible to expect to enter long password every time you unlock the phone. And no, biometrics is not a replacement. Biometrics is a login, not a password. You can't change your compromised biometrics unlike passwords.
https://www.fakespot.com/

It's not perfect, but it's something.
1. This is not a schema language.

2. Context is for shortcuts, all properties can be expanded to full names but these are qualified and long.

3. Benefit over what? RDF is for describing things with machine readable language.
You're right. But when that anecdote doesn't surprise anyone (look at the tongue-in-cheek responses) you may have a problem.
As a few others have said as well, the biggest challenge personally has been Payroll and Taxes. A lot of good candidates want to feel part of the company which means they need to be hired as employees. But legally, a US company hiring in a different country can at best hire them as a consultant/freelancer for tax purposes unless they open a local office in that country which is a major PITA.

I have a US company and trying to build a remote team as "employees". Going crazy trying to figure out how to set this up other than the usual option of "pay them as freelancers and let them do their own taxes". Not everyone is cut out for that and not able to attract good talent.
A common misconception - parts of iCloud data are encrypted at rest, but a good chunk of it is not. They've indicated they want to get there at various points in the past, but unless I've missed an update it's not there currently.
* exiftool - photo metadata editing tool

* dcraw - RAW photo processing tool

* imagemagick - image processing library

* pandoc - convert one file into another

* diceware - random word generator (useful for creating passwords)

* csvtomd - convert csv files to markdown tables

* newsbeuter - RSS reader

* zathura - pdf viewer

* weechat - irc client

* ncdu - interactive disk usage

* ranger - file manager

* mpd - music player daemon

* vimpc - vim inspired client for mpd
Here's a venture capital funded organisation who was handled sensitive personal data of many people. They had a legal requirement to register with the English Information Commisioner under existing DPA law. They didn't register.

What fine do you think they got?

(penultimate para) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/u-k-healt...

Big fines are reserved for the worst incompetent or deliberate repeated failure.
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Right when my company asks me for a video explaining what our company does and how it solves our users' problems, I can't find any. What are you favorite examples?
Red Hat v. Debian.

Arguably, one of Ubuntu / Canonical's failings.
Not in the traditional "uncaused cause" sense, but I guess you could spin it that way. Probably a better analogue would be Adam and Eve.
I've never seen that before, and it seems like an insult. If it's only free for a certain amount of time, it's not "totally free" AT ALL. Really rubs me the wrong way.
*Offer does not apply in China.
I've gone to a bondsman twice and neither time was I presented with any financing options. Perhaps because the bail was only a few thousand dollars, with the bondsman taking 10% (state law capped at 12% under $10K, 15% over).

The whole infraction -> arrest -> bail -> fines -> probation cycle in my state is highly punitive. Trivial things can lead to a warrant / arrest. Bondsman collect their fees, the courts get theirs. If they've sat in jail for a bit, they may be getting charged for the privilege. Afterwards the person ends up on probation, which collects more fees and produces more opportunity for someone to be arrested again over something trivial.

It's nuts, and that's just one tiny aspect of the policing-for-profit economy.
Ebb-and-flow, man. Especially in NYC and SF "poor neighborhoods" were once middle-class before a downturn.
Currently not many cloud storage systems support cryptocurrencies. Might be an easy way to win more customers.
Huh? Canonical is excellent for remote work, and I know many people who work at Red Hat who say the same about it.
> the cost of delivering a salad to the customer exceeds the salad's price.

Is this mostly due to the higher cost of fresh ingredients, or the additional labor required to assemble them?
Yes, it's a weird piece, giving of a vibe of wanting to say "Palantir is super scary, don't support this deal guys", but it never makes this argument.

Possibly this piece was about how people was getting worried about the IAEA turning into some sort of spy agency and then some editor slapped a JCPOA angle on it.
Because... this is no support for TypeScript in native JS runtimes?

It would add to complexity if you introduce a compilation step before executing them in JS runtime, especially when you are targeting multiple platforms.
Any ideas about how they're solving the need to constantly update meta data like speed limits or POI names? This is the part of the OSM data set I found particularly weak when comparing vs. Google Maps.
Is there a reasonable alternative? I've worked with RDF and LD and can agree with most of your points but would like to see if there is something better on the horizon.
I can't remember if I read it here or somewhere else, but someone once made a really good point: that the incentives are strongly skewed against hiring remotely.

Think about it: the benefits of remote work go mainly to the employee, but the drawbacks (harder to communicate, harder to evaluate productivity) fall disproportionately on the manager. Since the manager is the one making the hiring decision, they don't hire remotes.

So to give a really broad answer, my suggestion would be "change the incentives so managers will hire more remote workers". That could mean internalizing costs of on-site workers, better communication tools, etc.
Anecdotally I can say that Zoom has worked the best for us.

But no software can fix variances in bandwidth or latency. I wish there was a way to test a remote hire's internet connection quality. Lack of access to a good internet connection would be a deal breaker for a remote hire for us.
I think you're looking at the wrong axis. This isn't an order-vs-chaos question, it's one of constructive vs destructive. This particular joke makes the manual worse, not better, at being a manual. Cut it and move on, and always keep an eye out for places it could be improved, whether that be through better descriptive prose or a good, understanding-building joke.
> For banks it reflected the reality at the time (2000-2007)

Today, too. Just try to get a mortgage at Chase.
It's not bad for the framework; it's bad in the sense that widgets are similar but not identical across platforms -- if they exist at all. Flutter packing it's own widget layer guarantees uniform behaviour across platforms.
But you can disable the biometric logon automatically. Either screwing it up too many times (like touching the wrong finger) or by quick-tapping the power button a number of times - upon which it falls back to the stronger password.

If you're in a position where you know bad guys with guns are coming, you can just power the phone down.

If you know they're coming but don't have much time, or you're unsure, you just thwack the power button a few times.

If you don't know they're coming, you're kind of screwed, but then again you would be anyways.
So what would you recommend instead?
The source code is a punchcard...

http://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/prog.c

Anyone able to decode what is "punched" into it?
Depends where you are. I use Coinfloor (UK). I've heard good (and nothing bad) about Gemini for US.

I also used Kraken in the past but now I actively avoid any exchange which deals in Tether, as they've repeatedly failed to produce an audit to show that the money actually exists.
Zcash Foundation on Zcash ASIC Resistance Debate
For most amino acids, there are several DNA triplets that code for it (there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids). Even if there is one magical optimized protein that the species converges to, there is no evolutionary pressure for the triplets to be the same in the two converged genes.
They're both doing the same thing. Just in Google's case, you and I aren't the customer. We're the user. Not the same thing.
It's been quite a while since I tuned a guitar this way, but isn't the trick with using harmonics that you listen for clearly audible "beats" when it gets in the ballpark? Once there are no more audible"beats" you're in tune.

Hearing loss has no impact on this - unless it's really, really bad, of course.
Not if your app is paid though, and then the $499 only covers you to 250 seats (!).

I like what they're doing, and wanted to use them for a web app with restricted access, but certainly not going to pay $499pcm for a side project.
Upton Sinclair on why Amazon has trouble getting rid of fake reviews and scammy sellers:

> “It is difficult to get a man to understand something,
> when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
What is an OP?
It's absolutely based on research, and franchised restaurants have been at the forefront of figuring a lot of stuff out.

Ever notice how the price of an individual hamburger or cheeseburger is nearly impossible to find on the McDonald's drive thru menu? That's because they want you to buy a value menu where they're making ~70% fully costed margin on the fries and north of 90% on the soda.

National level chains were mercilessly A/B testing different menu configurations for both average order size and average order margin a long time ago, way before it was cool.
Jesus fucking christ I wish stupid cunts would stop with idiotic shit like this:

> Especially severe violations: 20,000,000€ or 4% of last year’s global turnover. Whichever is higher. Yes, higher!

This is the MAXIMUM POSSIBLE fine. This is not a minimum fine. It's not a typical fine.
Exactly, you almost need to be sort of a prepper, with some cash on hand. But I was thinking of the whole vertical stack (backup email address, cell phone, credit cards). I’m thinking “continuity of business” preparations.
18% of payments are made with cards, not necessarily of the credit variety. Given the attitude to debt suggested by that article, I'd bet the majority of those card payments are debit card payments.
I'm not sure that's a valid concern given that Android has allowed that since its earliest days, and most people are content to just use the market.
Try leading with an explanation of why developers should care about JSON-LD. Its value is not obvious to me.

According to the Wikipedia article [0] this is used by Google Knowledge Graph, but there's no other examples. Are there open source RDF processors? What are they used for?

Previously I've used json-schema for documenting, validating, and testing a REST API. The tooling wasn't very good, but it worked alright. As I understand it, JSON-LD wouldn't help at all with this.

The fact that JSON-LD is a W3C standard while json-schema isn't doesn't constitute an argument against it. Standards regularly show up and die without ever gaining adoption. Maybe instead of a vacuous remark on JSON-LD offering more than json-schema with respect to linked data you could actually muster some concrete example which highlight these alleged benefits?

I'm not an expert on this subject, but isn't it worrying that third-party links can change or go down without notice? Ideally if I'm hosting a context I'll want to replicate my whole dependency graph and provide a mirror in order to reduce dependencies on external systems. However, just because I want to host my own mirror doesn't mean I want it to be treated as a different kind of entity. It seems like something such as content-addressable storage [1] could be relevant here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage
But Google's organic searches are presumably good for the vast majority of industries, right? So isn't the shoe on the other foot--ads increase competition in the few areas where Google's organic searches are not good, but decrease it in the vast majority of industries where Google's organic searches are good?
"...An Amazon spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the percentage of inauthentic reviews on the platform is “tiny,”..."

This is clearly total and utter crap, as anybody who has spent any time on Amazon knows.

What was not mentioned in the article, but is critically important, is that many times you can get more mileage out paying for negative reviews of competitors than you can your own positive reviews. Many times I've been looking at product X only to read in the reviews something like "X was okay...and enjoyed it. But it wasn't near as good as Y"

And over to Y I'm headed. It's an in-site referral.

I've read many negative reviews where it's obvious that the competitors are paying. "Great look, but why can't they have A?" (A is not important, but another vendor offers it and wants to use it as a market differentiator)

I don't see any easy answers to Amazon's problems. As they continue to monopolize all commerce, it'll just get worse.
> your own metal

It's absolutely maddening that I can't update my video card driver without logging into an nvidia account. That's the direction "your own metal" is going to keep going though.
It doesn't feel like it's "crapping all over" the post - it's just a off-hand safety tip that isn't judging anything.
My approach on iOS: install an “everyday” adblocker, and a secondary one that supports custom rulesets (I use refine). Then, tell the secondary to block all images + javascript (I downloaded the “block javascript images and css” filter, then toggled the css rule).

Next, long press the reader view button in safari’s url bar, and turn it on for all sites.

Finally, since Apple doesn’t support high contrast black backgrounds in reader view, go into accessibility, turn on the three clicks to bring up accessibility shortcuts option, and add “classic invert” to it.

As a bonus for reading this far, also add “magnifier” to it, which lets you use your rear facing camera in a surprisingly good magnifying mode that should be part of the default camera app.
What if we could?
From the comments so far, I'm hearing that your prospective clients would benefit from knowledgable consulting to help them navigate multiple issues:

- Which payroll companies, if any, will be the best solution for handling international (or even just inter-state within the U.S.) payroll / tax issues?

- What communications technologies and practices work best for various team geographies / network-connection-quality / local-hardware setups?

- What's the optimal frequency, duration, structure, etc. of whole-team face-to-face meetings for teams that are typically distributed?

- What management training is most helpful for managers of all-remote teams, or of teams where only some members are remote?