skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be a supply of labor for such jobs, but why is there a demand for it?

If I run a company, my goal is not to hire a bunch of people to do useless "work". I want as few such people as possible, not just because I have to pay them, but also because they slow everyone else down doing the work that actually earns money. In a capitalist economy where inefficient firms can go bankrupt, why is there demand for people who will do useless work?

One possible answer is that we don't actually live in a capitalist society - that government influence prevents real capitalism from happening. There is some truth to that position, but I doubt that people who promote the "useless jobs" theory think that less government involvement is the solution.

I think the correct answer is that the "useless jobs" theory is flawed. No company is deliberately hiring people to do useless work. (Some empire-building managers within companies may do so, however.) The jobs are useless because of inefficiency in the company, not by design, and a more efficient company would find something real for those people to do.
No, that not true. I am an EU citizen and live in the US. GDPR does not apply to me when I deal with US businesses! Likewise a non-EU citizen who lives and works in the EU is in fact covered by GDPR.

GDPR actually applies to companies which are doing business in the EU and storing personal data of anybody who resides in the EU.
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The former does not require consent. The latter does.
Interestingly I've had this debate with at least one person on hacker news who was complaining about how people were stealing from his website by running ad blockers, and how he'd tried to fight them but it had left his website looking broken for anyone who was running an ad blocker, so he'd had to roll it all back. Why would he do that?

The answers actually pretty simple. People who are interested enough in technology to read hacker news are both disproportionately likely to discover a new product trying to build an audience, and disproportionately likely to influence their friends either for or against that product. They're trusted by their non-technological peers.

So why support script-blocking hacker-news users? Because if your website doesn't work for them, they're gonna tell all their friends that your product doesn't work properly. When I got my first job, I was told that on average satisfied customers tell 2 friends they were satisfied, and dissatisfied customers tell 12 friends they were dissatisfied. I don't know how accurate those stats are, but I do know people complain more than they praise.

I certainly go out of my way to warn friends and family away from products that I feel are committing technical faux pas. How else will they know they're using websites made by people of limited technical capability, with all the risks that implies, if I don't tell them?
I'm not a painter but I think my experience at learning to play the piano in my 50s is applicable. 30 years after college, where my musical career (clarinet) ended, I finally decided to try to learn to play the piano, having had a desire to do so for decades. I started out by purchasing an inexpensive Yamaha electronic keyboard and some beginner's books, sat down and starting banging away. A year later, after gaining some competency, and, more importantly, learning that I really enjoyed it, I went out a purchased a real piano. While my late start and relative lack of innate talent means that I probably will never be as good as I wished, I can play well enough for my own tastes and I still enjoy both practicing and playing. My only regret is not doing this earlier.

As so many others have stated, the key to learning how to do something is to actually get yourself dirty and do it. The tools you can acquire, the variety of things to paint are endless. The only thing you're missing is the will.

Good luck!
Amusingly I actually just added a ton of Prop 65 warnings to a ton of things because someone got tired of thinking about if it should be applied to every third thing. So now it is on everything ....

That was kinda vauge as I don't want to get into specifics as it is job related, but man it was timely ;)
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I agree they need to ask to track us.

But the little personal data you mention is not only given to them but to 224 different ad networks. Most of them make it impossible or difficult to opt out.
Very nice article. I was pondering the same attack surface when using luks-tpm2 package on Arch that works just like Bitlocker in basic (non PIN) configuration.
A plane crashes and kills over 300 people, in two separate incidents, in an industry where even minor crashes are rare, and you think the grounding of the planes is "political"?
So once you've determined that you like a site you are going through the hassle of figuring out how you can reenable the tracking after you disabled it on your first visit?
I disagree. Most people until the 1930s were farmers. It was the largest class of people. Farmers really needed to know a lot, about a wide amount of things; mechanics, animal husbandry, weather, markets, sales...

People also use to live in smaller communities. So they understood each others' roles. Many people in smaller communities also had multiple roles/jobs. There are studies that small towns also produce better athletes for this reason https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279469393_Community...

With specialization I think that the overall general knowledge of people has declined.
NOYB helps enforce it through DPAs, and judging by the fines that have been handed out, it's far from toothless.

It's just that basically the entire world is violating the law, and it'll take a while to get to everyone.
I’m more inclined to believe that the reason why people find less meaning in their work is due to a gap in productivity and pay: if a person’s output is increased but their income has not — income for most is a way of measuring the value of work — then it makes sense.
There is no question that the acting director of the FAA would be more knowledgeable about airplanes than Trump. While technical individuals are needed during the investigation, I don't believe that this decision warrants a full-on root cause analysis prior to making the decision to ground the planes. The FAA's Primary Mission is to ensure the safety of civil aviation, and from a safety stance, if the acting director is incorrect, and another plane was to go down, hundreds of people would likely be killed.
Wait we're trusting bloomberg all of a sudden?
Not how it looks from the rest of the world I'm afraid. More, US didn't want to ground plane built by US manufacturer...

... i mean, honestly all we're doing out here is sitting back with a bag of popcorn and channel flipping between the UK parliament on Brexit, and Trump on twitter. And they say there's nothing entertaining on TV any more...
Whether they have the numbers or not this war was inevitable from the moment Apple announced their music subscription service. Ultimately it's going to come down to who does it better and by better, I mean which one helps people find new songs the best. But I will say one thing, I have had the iPhone since the very first model and I have never been closer to abandoning IOS because its price to value ratio is quickly becoming unfavorable. Anything that tips it further is not good for Apple especially now that they are no longer disclosing iPhone sales numbers, an indicator that they are declining.
Dont know why this remembers me a Story from HackerNews...

I call this story by the xiaoming of "The Black Dice on White Table"

In October of 1994, I’d just started as an honest-to-goodness videogame programmer at a small startup called SingleTrac which later went on to fame and glory (but unfortunately not much in the way of fortune) with such titles as Warhawk, the Twisted Metal series, and the Jet Moto series. But at the time, the company was less than 20 employees in size and had only been officially in business for about a month. It was sometime in my first week possibly my first or second day. In the main engineering room, there was a whoop and cry of success.

Our company financial controller and acting HR lady, Jen, came in to see what incredible things the engineers and artists had come up with. Everyone was staring at a television set hooked up to a development box for the Sony Playstation. There, on the screen, against a single-color background, was a black triangle.

“It’s a black triangle,” she said in an amused but sarcastic voice. One of the engine programmers tried to explain, but she shook her head and went back to her office. I could almost hear her thoughts… “We’ve got ten months to deliver two games to Sony, and they are cheering over a black triangle? THAT took them nearly a month to develop?”
Yes indeed it could, I haven't tested it but according to Wikipedia, image maps were introduced in HTML 3.2, which was published as a W3C recommendation in 1997 (!), so in principle it should work. Maybe even earlier, there was a supplemental RFC for adding client-side image maps to HTML 2.0 published in 1996: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1980 A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image Maps.

Cloud Browser does use a few modern features, a bit of CSS and (optional) JS, but not for anything strictly essential. Again I haven't tested it on any old browsers, but if anyone does I welcome bug reports/patches at https://gitlab.com/epitactic/cloudbrowser/issues.

(I wonder if it would work on NCSA Mosaic? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428682 - well, Mosaic added the img tag, but not sure if imagemap was yet available.)
It only applies to sites outside the EU if the site "envisages" serving EU customers. The suggested test for this is if the site offers foreign language versions of the site for EU countries, allows payments in EU currencies, etc. For sites in the US that are intended for a US audience, compliance is unnecessary, regardless of the fact that some traffic may be coming from the EU.

From [1]:

Recital 23 provides a further clarification for cases where it’s unclear if a firm offers goods and services to EU data subjects:

Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller’s, processor’s or an intermediary’s website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.

[1] https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/who-must-comply/
> The fact is at what point do you do this? What about an extreme. Like every time there is any crash just ground every single plane until the extensive investigation is done?

Not sure why you jumped to the end there, as if asking "at what point do you do this?" is a ridiculous conversation to have. I think it's a reasonable question to ask. It seems like for most people the answer is somewhere between "ground all planes any time there's an accident" and "ground a new model that has has two accidents in six months".

Most of the world operates in shades of gray and nuance. Having the discussions about where the borders of nuance lie and why is valuable.
Most people know the difference.

App doesn’t download - Apple’s fault.

App doesn’t work - App developer’s fault.
Note there are two sides to both coins: Southwest won't have such a good negotiating position with Boeing when it comes to ordering new aircraft, as they're much less likely to go to Airbus and buy A320 family aircraft (and even if Airbus offered a good deal, the logistical costs of moving to a more varied fleet add costs on top of that, and Boeing only needs to compete with the sum of the two).
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This is so true. Apple/Samsung make it look easy, with great reliable hardware every year. At work we had multiple google Pixel C tablets for dev reasons, and they were plagued with issues.
Nor add to wish lists, or move to saved items, or move from saved items to cart, etc. The UI interaction model is in early days for sure.
And Ruby does what I expect:

> "\x65\x301".include?("\xe9")
=> false
That’s fascinating. It does seem to add a little credence that there may be a training problem with these planes, perhaps that Boeing facilitated this training “shortcut” when they shouldn’t have, and that the US / Euro carriers didn’t have the crashes because they go above and beyond with training anyway. All speculation at this point but I’m really interested to see where this ends up after the investigations are complete.
> This is simply a 'not on my watch' and 'CYA' philosophy that is what society has become today with so many news hungry sources and social media.

Please... go fly some 737 Max 8 planes to wherever you feel like it.

As a consumer, I simply do not want to, nor do I want the burden to worry about whether I actually am going to do so when I book a flight.
Your view requires the employer to be aware of its needs, how to best accomplish the goal, and an accurate view of what the goals should be. You don't need to be a "remote intellectual" to have witnessed that this is often not the case. I would say if you've ever been employed somewhere and didn't see this, you likely weren't looking very hard.

I'm reminded of when people talking about politics decry public sector waste, then I think of my own work experience and say to myself, wait a minute, they don't think private sector waste exists? Because it's quite huge, and everywhere. Perhaps in real life there is no "proper judge of the usefulness of a job", because as far as I have seen, those who confidently think they know are usually wrong. This is one reason hiring, firing, allocating bonuses, etc., is so challenging and contentious; it's all subjective, and an employee's value isn't always clear.
You can pick one up off the floor, though.

There's every reason to believe a) Boeing will take a hit for this and b) Boeing will not go out of business because of this.
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There's something ironic about a social media company being forced to rely on a competitor to facilitate communication between them and their users.
Low tech magazine is pushing an agenda ( not intended as an insult) so maybe. If you're leading from the front, I think its reasonable to tell others though.

The solar powered website, to me feels like an experiment, so I'm not sure its fair to require it to be 100% 'correct' first time.
I was curious if you were commenting on the correct story. Your comment is interesting, but seemingly unrelated to the parent story on writing long fiction.
If I remember correctly, one of the reasons for it being ignored was that some browsers (rightly IMO) had the setting enabled by default.

Some places still respect the header. Medium does - you'll get the warning for embedded content.
Not if you look at the 5 year chart
Nah, they're being totally honest. You're just confused about which meaning of "value" they're using.

A more wordy version of the sentiment would be something like, "We value your privacy. At about $1.83. Could we have it, please?"
I don't think it's the NSA this time, for once they don't have to do deep package analysis or install any MITM device since they get the whole info in bulk, maybe it's just a 400-pound hacker.
Just to add to the debate - when in was working in the music industry and had a view of the data (~ 3 years ago now), the money Apple Music would pay per stream was higher than Spotify...
>the harm isn't consumer oriented, since it's somewhat diffuse, it's about concentration of market power in the industry.

That's true, but that's not how anti-trust law works in the US unfortunately. It's consumer-harm based.
I don't feel this way at all. The more we learn, the more it seems like Boeing misrepresented the extent of the changes they made inbetween the 737 and 737MAX8/9 models in order to avoid recertification, then undereducated the pilots about those changes.

As a consumer who has flown on these plans many times, I'm glad they have been grounded until a fix can be deployed.
What if the EU instead mandated that browser makers have to keep up with, implement, and enable by default the highest levels of tracking protection possible? It would be far easier to enforce that on four or five organizations (half of which already do that) than to try and corral millions of websites into compliance.
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Tripp wasn't a whistleblower.
Since you’re watching this space... the data you have on web site attacks would be valuable in detecting phishing attacks too.
Yes. No idea how I managed that.
Because your choice of phone brand does not tie you to a specific grocery where you can buy rice crispies. You can simply cross the street and shop at a competing grocery.
> little choice but to bring legal action

Huh? A legal campaign would severely escalate the problem, cost time and money, and prevent the scientists from doing their work.

Besides, the international aspect of the issue:

"TARGET: Oxford University professor Michael Sharpe"

"INVESTIGATOR: David Tuller at his home in San Francisco": he blogs, sends hundreds of letters and emails, and travels the world giving speeches and holding meetings as supporters send him donations and praise for his CFS/ME campaign.
Also see @salawat above on nacelle lift-induced pitch instability. We now have airliners that begin to resemble the F-117 in their dependence on computers for controllability in flight.
I think that's a safe assumption. Anecdotally though, I prefer to stick with one service and if I was offered options that didn't include my primary choice I might be reluctant to sign up. I just don't think that intentionally walling out a group of potential users is a great idea if you're trying to expand your audience.

I tried to quickly find some numbers on distribution between them. Although I didn't find anything concrete, it seems to be Facebook > Google > LinkedIn. I would actually love to know more about this. Maybe someone with more experience has some more data?
> He can continue to do whatever he wants and get positive approval

Your own source shows him with a current negative 11.5% net approval.

If you mean positive gross approval, well, as long as he approves of himself he has that.
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>The center of thrust moving forward would not have any effect on the pitching moment.

Sure it would. Here's a better explanation than I care to make: https://www.quora.com/Where-should-the-center-of-mass-lift-a...

"If the Center of Thrust does not act through the Center of Gravity there will be a moment causing the aircraft to pitch, yaw or roll about the axes of the aircraft and the moment(s) must be counter balanced by design (including provision for trimming when the thrust is varied)."

Boeing chose to counteract that newly induced pitch moment with software, so that they could sell the MAX 8 to airlines as not requiring any new training or type ratings. And now nearly 400 people are dead because of a marketing decision.
They also crushed the proposal to extend the article 50 deadline to the 22nd of May and ignore the Irish backstop. Now amaizngly this is the future: they can withdraw article 50 (unlikely), they can pass a deal before the 29th (not going to happen, and can’t even bring the same motion for a third defeat), they can pass an extension which the EU has to agree to, and/or have another referendum.

I suspect they’ll go for a long extension and another referendum, it’s pretty much the only option left. Then the fight will be just what the referendum will ask. It’s likely that any referendum will end up with remain, but it’s only likely. If there are more than two questions though, it becomes virtually certain that remain wins. As a result the remainders will fight to have 3 or more questions in the referendum, and the leavers I’ll fight to whittle down to 2.

What a slow motion train wreck!
Additionally, there is an optional feature to add a cockpit warning if the two sensors disagree, which could have helped the pilots diagnose the issue in the case of the Lion Air crash. The Lion Air plane did not have this option; not sure about the Ethiopian plane.
> Then Airbus bowed out of the long distance market, leaving it to Boeing's 787.

What? They have the A330neo and A350, the only wide-bodies they don't really compete with are the 747-8 and 777-9X.
EU residents, actually, and yes, geolocation is satisfactory -- you can hit EU residents as long as you're not intending to hit them, and are doing nothing in contradiction to that intention (like translating your content into Polish, for example).
>airlines would value diversity in the fleets

aka much more money to certify pilot crew, aka more expensive fares, aka less experience for any given pilot with some particular aircraft type.
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“Hackernoon.com” is a domain. Nothing is published on a domain. It’s published on a server or platform the domain points to. In the case of Hackernoon, that platform was Medium. Medium is the publisher, the hackernoon editors were doing unpaid work for Medium.
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It's a revision of a model number. People will forget, if they remembered at all.
There are easy ways to do this though, I use uMatrix.
In an ideal economic world, yes, employees would have perfect information about a market and make changes accordingly, being rational agents and all of that yada yada. But for the average worker, that’s just simply not true: the job market is imperfect and labor is often sticky.
Yeah, which is why using their oauth is a great way to stick it to them! Obviously don't only use it, but giving their users a one-click way to leave their platform is hilarious!
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