skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And they still work precisely because the user can do that.

And you can install an anti-paywall extension in Firefox.

The moment you concede the Linux "well you can work around it" argument is the moment you have to stop arguing on pure absolute principle and start arguing about practicality and the relative difficulty of workarounds.
I tried to give extensive treatment to the loneliness factor, as well as the lack of things in commit even with people ostensibly in the same profession. It was piled into the section on motivation.
That's interesting - because it begs the question, if income taxes are only contributing 8% to the coffer, where is the country's revenues mostly coming from?
Currently I'm using a phone just to tether as I move around Africa.

I turn it on do so some work, then turn it off and put it away.

It feels extremely liberating to be free of the phone.
It’s seems like that issue could be solved by tweaking the ranking algorithm to prefer recent comments/activity.
I haven't used Chrome in a while, but I was under the impression sideloading was completely blocked in Chrome nowadays. So the fact that Mozilla allows sideloading at all puts them ahead in that regard.
Its marketed as a tool for bypassing paywalls and not just a generic user agent changer
Yup, that is what I was getting at. In many ways I lamented my late access to computers but it was probably better for me in the long run.
Its a very hostile way to run a supposedly "Open Source" project.

It's under a GPL-compatible license. Fork it and do what you like.

This is a pretty FUD-y way to FUD your FUD.
But why do we seem to forget more complex stuff like playing the piano which is also procedural?
Maybe something as complex as marriage means more than one thing?
not because Chinese worker are good at avoiding tax. it is because china is not a state with an adequate legal system.
It is a tradition that a lot of thing happen under the table.
Australia has a government funded news org and its fairly good.
I’ve been writing React for 3ish years and not once would knowing any of the weird details in the blog post have been useful for anything I’ve built.
The abstract for those who don't want to download the file:

> Increasingly, the rights and capabilities to own technological artefacts, where they exist at all, are re-
served to corporations and not to citizens. There are historical, economic, metaphysical, ideological
and cognitive reasons for this situation, in addition to purely technological factors, which we will trace
by following the fate of various concrete examples, analysed into five categories of ownable elements.
These categories are those of ownable function, ownable expression, ownable data, ownable installa-
tions and ownable economies. In this paper, we attempt to align these goals of ownability into a research
and activism program by describing a set of revolutionary goals in each category, and tracing ways we
could reach them.
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Nationalized companies and tariffs

The party owns like 15% of every company
corporate tax, import/export tax, luxury good value added tax (vat), house purchase tax, etc
It would be just like a Vulcan mind meld and when it's done the interviewer would say, "Yeah, you're good."
Check out my company's travel forum for text content http://www.city-data.com/forum/ but if I'm to be honest, the most travel content is on TripAdvisor forums. Reddit doesn't compare here, it's basically random, not curated, Instagram travel photos.
I've written many times that, and I don't hate the language. But man does it have some footguns.

Tools without flaws are not the tools that get used for real work. Sometimes you have to suck it up and learn the quirks in the tools you have.

That's not to discourage work on improving the current situation, just an observation on practicality.
Huge natural resources (if you want new earth magnets it’s your only option etc,), huge moderately to well trained labour force, a smart foreign policy in building very close ties to their sometimes previously hostile neighbours

That’s what springs to mind. I’m sure the government has found some way to effectively tax its citizens but isn’t calling it “income tax”
The idea of the "average person" is always something of a red herring, though. The stuff the OP listed was:

- Safari

A lot of people run web browsers.

- Firefox (streaming audio)

A lot of people stream audio.

- A program converting a 500 page PDF to 500 300dpi PNGs

That's a weird one, sure.

- A bash script extracting PDFs from a municipal web site.

Also weird, but "average people" need to do some kind of automation once in a blue moon, so let's not discount that.

- A program downloading my video viewing for the week and converting it to a format better suited for my iPad

The conversion is unusual, but people download videos to their iPad.

- iTunes serving audio and video to TVs in two different rooms

A little niche, but "media server" is still a thing.

- An FTP program doing weekly backups

Backups are a thing. A thing more people should be doing, but definitely a thing.

- A mail client

Not niche at all.

- A VPN client

Not niche if your office requires a VPN. A lot do.

- A spreadsheet

Definitely not niche.

- An IDE (Coda2)

Sorta niche-y, but think of it as "text editor" and it's less so: it could be a word processor, or Scrivener.
What thing, that was objectively and indisputably your property, has the Wall Street Journal robbed you of at gunpoint?
You can have a spouse(s), god(s), and/or a group without playing existential kick the can.

But that's juts me arguing against biological compulsions that have existed since gendered species arose in the soup in those bygone eons of prehistoric Earth. [Ultimately futile, yes. But no more so than anything else.] Evolution functions through drives, not the satisfaction of them. If it did, Warren Buffett and Bills Gates would've (likely) said 'yeah, this a enough money' by some point before, people wouldn't stuff themselves (raises hand) with terrible so-called food items loaded with sugar and salt to the point we wanna puke, tromping over one another at Black Friday sales, etc. And in the same (I would say) every reason people come up with for this (or anything else) is the anxiety induced justification for a priori desire(s) we can neither control, nor satisfy. However, perhaps, we shouldn't look down on this, it may be the very inability to admit to such, as well as the need, to justify it, that truly separates humans from (most) other species.

But I doubt they're gonna (ultimately) solve the problem, either. Perhaps we could medicate into oblivion. But, outside of that, fundamental anxiety is (probably) welded into the human species.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDqDJJcJAOg

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2062990-we-don-t-really-wan...
Do you think Google might start removing or lowering the priorities of sites like this in search results?
New York 2140 is an interesting book examining what might happen to those coastal "drowned" cities, especially those buildings caught in the new intertidal zones.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29570143-new-york-2140
It's 8% of tax revenue. It's less than that of the budget, since they run a deficit and have other non-tax revenue sources.
Payroll taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, gas taxes, excise taxes on a mobile phone, there are lots of opportunities to pay taxes even for those who earn little enough income to not owe federal income tax.
So then how does the gov have any money to do these giant infrastructure projects?
I'm guessing that the algorithm may be the spiral rule: http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html
> There's only one Venice.

Yep and it exists in the past. Over half of the population has already left.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-death-of...
As well as ~100% of 3 of the 4 largest companies in the world:

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

(and most of the biggest companies in China as well)
I've noticed that as well, not about arranged marriages specifically but a ton of of ultra naive questions about relationships like, "Why do guys change their mind about a girl that they liked?", and "How do I know a girl is right for me?" (sic).

Those were literally the first two from my feed just then.

I used to find Quora interesting but it just has so much of this low-quality spam on it now.

For my feed it's all that or military stuff, which I do find interesting on occasion, so I do see why that's there.

I wonder if it's just our feeds or if the whole of Quora is like that.
This is when I really hate how much potential the US squanders :(
Clearly you have not had Jack in the Box tacos.
if Mozilla had sided with users for once

Yes, you should definitely switch to Chrome instead, which has a sterling track record of respecting you as a human and not as a revenue source.

Or maybe knock off the hyperbole and start asking whether there are tradeoffs being made in favor of increased security for the average user. Which does require a more nuanced view than Braveheart-style screaming about freedom.
Question: did you make these friends using the old-school text-mostly tools of the internets? Pre-good quality camera phones.

eg:
livejournal
irc
icq / etc
blogs / rss
I was responding to a parent comment that said Amazon's scale should make be treated differently than other companies.
From memory, I’d say it follows that basic strategy but is a bit more verbose and easier to follow.
Is there another use case for cloaking?
The Illustrated BERT, ELMo, and Co. (How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning)
Speed.

Obviously not a complete answer, but I think it's a component that isn't being mentioned here. Disclaiming that I don't have much experience (still in university).

One of my internships went from "applying -> interviewing -> accepting" in under 24 hours. Impressed the hell out of me. It was really the reason why I ended up accepting their job. 24 hours is obviously abnormally fast, but a week or two doesn't need to be.

One of my friends ended up rejecting an offer both from Google and Apple because the interview process took too long with no responses. They got a good offer in the mean time, and after waiting over a month for a response they decided they had to go with it. (They followed through with the rest of the Google/Apple interview process anyways for the experience... which was basically just host matching and getting an offer).
it's funny how people have almost the same thoughts and feelings, just in different space and time.
I think they provide the machines as an incentive, and in turn it can only dispense their brands.
I notice a lot of these answers focus on the technical or coding challenge. As a hiring manager, that's critical, but technical competency only accounts for about a third of the qualities my team is evaluating in a candidate.

I've given this question a lot of thought over the last couple years as I've lead teams that have needed to get organized and expand quickly. Here's my summary taken from a Google Slides presentation I put together titled "Hiring in a Time of Cargo Culturalism".

It starts with Principles and Guidelines:

- Hiring cycles will be structured and as short as possible.

- When we start a hiring cycle, we will finish it by hiring the most qualified applicant who accepts our offer.

- Every applicant will receive a response within 48 hours and be updated on the status of their application at each step asap.

- The hiring process will be as transparent as possible.

- Objective and fair-minded measures will displace biased and bigoted ones.

- Every applicant will appreciate their experience, even the rejected ones.

- The process will be agile and adapt over time to improve and meet the specific needs of the organization.

- Onboarding will begin with hiring.

Then an outline of my team's current Methodology:

- A thoughtful and literate job posting will accurately describe the job and foreshadow the company culture.

- Simple challenges and honeypots will filter serious candidates from the applicant bots.

- At the end of every step, we will inform the applicant what comes next. Courteous templated responses will be promptly delivered.

- Two interviews. No more than three. The coding challenge will represent a genuine work sample. It will be no more than one or two hours.

- Candidates will be evaluated using a simple quantitative assessment of core competencies (see Ch. 21 of Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow).

- Final decision will be a collective decision of the hiring team.

- After hiring cycle is complete, hiring team will hold a retrospective.

I've hired over a dozen developers this year. They haven't all been homeruns but no strikeouts either. A few singles or walks. A lot of solid doubles. And that's mostly what my company needs.
But the answer may not lie in promoting severance from alcohol/facebook.
Like Elrant, I believe there should be a middle ground people try to reach. Not everyone may be able to reach it by themselves but education should be put before a more extreme solution such as cutting people from alcohol/facebook in my opinion. It is not efficient to tell a alcoholic to drink less but it is efficient to educate people around you about the dangers alcohol can pause.
You don't need blockchain for immutable log with multiple validators, you just need system like the one Certificate Transparency does [1].

It looks pretty similar to blockchain, but it has lots of advantages for supply chain tracking: much better scaleability, no energy waste, no need for full chain, ability to only care about specific subset of entries, and so on.

There are a number of current CT servers, and they are generally free -- they are so cheap that a large company can run one as a public service. For supply chain, have a few competing companies and govt's of US, Russia and EU run it, and you would have very tamper-proof system.

[1] http://www.certificate-transparency.org/log-proofs-work
They are absolutely the worst burgers in the world. I'd take a burnt freshly grilled burger over a McDisappointment.
I always imagined the solution was some sort of universal bank account.

Every SSN/ITIN/EIN has a bank account with some basic defined features attached. The account might technically be operated by a state entity to solve some of the cost problems of many accounts with near-zero balances. Might fit well with the "turn post offices into banks" proposal that was big a year or two ago--let them be the point of service for the universal account.

If this seems too Bolshevik, it could be a state-run "API only" product-- consumers have to associate the account with a private-enterprise bank to get typical consumer features (cash deposits and withdrawls, a debit card). Let consumers migrate the account to the "servicer bank" of choice the way you can port your phone number from T-mobile to Sprint, and it would spur a competitive market.

You'd also get some huge knock-on benefits. Everyone has a bank account for direct deposit, so those predatory prepaid-debit cards for wages become obsolete. Distributing welfare and social security is a lot simpler. It provides a huge and uniform target for anyone wanting to do something new in the payment space-- talk to their API and you can reach every potential customer in the nation, rather than going bank by bank.
I don't think that would work for the standard es5 pattern of using functions as classes?
I had the same issues. I really liked vim for editing scripts but wanted more functionality as I was studying datascience and needed to work on Jupyter notebooks and RMarkdown files. Luckily someone showed me spacemacs which is an emacs distribution built on emulating the vim experience but with all of the power of emacs.

http://spacemacs.org/

Definitely worth checking out.
If that's the case Mozilla has no business banning the addon for everyone...
I suspect you've hit the nail on the head of why the social taboo against divorce exists in the first place.

Ceteris paribus, it's better for children if their parents stay together. Therefore we've raised the social cost of a divorce until it's only accessible to people who really need to get out.

Because of cultural changes, this doesn't work as well as it has in the past at keeping couples together. There's good points (fewer people trapped in bad or abusive marriages) and bad points (more families who have to deal with the many practical problems of single parenthood).
Do you know people with arranged marriages? They work and I don't judge, but it's based on a very different cultural paradigm than what we're (mostly) used to the west; I certainly wouldn't call them happier than modern western marriages I'm familiar with. There's a lot more extended family negotiation when there are problems, rather than direct communication.
They could add the ability to report sites that do this. That way there would be less sites to double crawl.
It's not a walk in the park. Assets need to be divided. Stay at home moms need to be supported.

Asset division leans heavily towards women. If real sexism exists for males in this country it is especially evident during divorce.
1) I strongly agree with the need for specialisation, and declared a presumption of specialisation early in the article. I also repeatedly refer to niches and other things which insinuate that the consulting subject matter is not entirely trivial or commoditised.

2) Admittedly, much depends on the talent market to which one has access, but sometimes all the tooling and infrastructure in the world can’t make a dent in the fundamental requirement that the junior associates be extensively conversant with the subject matter as well as a variety of technical skills.

I wouldn’t know; I have only been able to afford salaries entry-level folk would take. When I say entry level, I mean entry level. Like, “previously cleaned spyware at Geek Squad” entry level.

The upside of this bargain from the perspective of someone in IP telephony is that at least one doesn’t have to pay for a raft of highly marketable IT skills (e.g. web development) that aren’t needed. That’s about the only upside, though.

3) I was referring specifically to the multibillion dollar PWC and Accenture scale, and made examples of them for that very reason.

Did Joel say something like that? It sounds like something he’d say, I guess. I actually know a few fellow humanities majors who went to work for Deloitte—-people as far from a background in financial auditing and compliance as Heaven is from Earth. Yet, clearly, that’s what they do, because a group of very smart folks figured out how to dumb down, automate, package and bill that.

4) This article was intended for one-man bands more or less, not for people who have scaled up their consulting enough to fund one or more developers. Although still small and not without challenges by any means, that’s a considerably more luxurious place to be.
Yeah, I'm currently a grad student so there's definitely some bias haha.

The kind of question I had in mind would be along the lines of "say you have a tree, how could you find the nearest common ancestor of two nodes in that tree?". I actually got this question during an interview recently, and I felt it was of a suitable difficulty where I could figure out a solution without any specific knowledge other than what a tree is (which most developers should know).

I'm sure I'm still young and naive, but my line of thinking is that a question like that is good for having a person show their thought process when figuring out a problem they haven't seen before. Design questions are a bit different because they tend to just require a rehash of a codebase you've worked with before.
Hello HN, author here. This post is my best attempt at visually explaining some of the leading NLP models that came up this year and some of the context surrounding them. Given BERT relies on the Transformer model, this post builds on my earlier post - The Illustrated Transformer https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

Hope you find it useful. Feedback is much appreciated!
Are there benchmarks where the wasm engine of a browser beats the Js engine of the same browser in compute heavy code?
The number is closer to 18%, or 27% if you only look at net tax[1]. Payroll taxes are income taxes in every way except the name.

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/closer-look-those-who...
You're correct, I have low vision. Enough to code and read relatively comfortably, but not for long; so I either make the text enormous or turn on VoiceOver. Below, I'm talking about macOS; I don't use VoiceOver on iOS.

I tend to find with web apps that they're pretty inaccessible with VoiceOver, depending on what they were made with. If it's Electron or React Native, unusable. I just make the text huge. No good for blind users who shouldn't be left out of the fun, but mightn't even be able to find the voice chat controls.

Even when I'm not using VoiceOver, web apps tend not to respect system accessibility settings like text size. When they have them built into the apps as a setting, that's nice but rarely the case. It would still be better to respect my accessibility preferences; I don't go to all the trouble of setting them up for nothing. It's also not like Apple's accessibility APIs have changed drastically over the years, they're pretty stable. I imagine this to be the same for Windows.

In websites, it's usually a different matter, sometimes a bit better. In general, the web version (that is, in a browser) version of a web app is usable to a greater extent, though that doesn't necessarily mean anything, because VoiceOver knows how to inspect the DOM — whereas it isn't expecting that at all with 'native' web apps.

Proper Cocoa apps always win.
Note that this breaks with Babel and TypeScript, since I guess this is one aspect where neither strictly follows the spec. Both of these examples print false:

https://babeljs.io/repl/build/master/#?babili=false&browsers...

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html#src=function%...
does it really matter what chinese citizens think? they are under their govt's thumb
Me too. I always search how others do composition, what good photo spots are before I go to a particular place to take photo.
Anyone should still be able to consume the web as if they were a search engine.
Not even. With the anti-tivoization stuff in (L)GPLv3, you still can't comply even with LGPLv3. Even if you provide a way to relink the binary parts of the app, you can't really replace the app with the modified one because of the way apps are deployed to mobile devices.
There's also specific pressure creating cultural conformity; if you need to go to your mother in law when your husband is an asshole, you and your mother in law had better agree on what being an asshole is and how he should change. This creates a bias towards cultural stability but also limits unions involving social outsiders or non-traditional marriage partners.