skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are there really that many non Germans speakers that you need to use English?

I'm not OP, but also at a Berlin tech company. I always say I'm glad I learned German (in a much smaller city elsewhere in Germany) before moving here. You absolutely can learn German here, and I know people who have, but I also know people who've lived here for years and don't know enough to buy a loaf of bread in a bakery. The problem is that you can get away with it: your colleagues can all speak English (and some of them can't speak Germany, in some workplaces, including mine); as an expat, you probably live in a neighborhood with lots of other expats, where the staff in restaurants and shops speak English (and it's not uncommon for waiters to be unable to speak German); you can make your friends exclusively in expat communities, and if you arrive in Berlin speaking no German, that's a lot easier than integrating into the local community without yet knowing its language. It's especially bad if your accent gives away that English is your native language.
I was put off AT the day I noticed they forgot to cover the Threadripper launch for weeks while they flooded the front page with dry half pagers about new Intel motherboards (not benchmarks mind you, just snippets from the OEMs Press release). I asked about it in the comments and got a boilerplate answer that they strive to present quality articles to the readers.

They also had the Intel series 6 launch where they praised the 6600K and compared it to the 2500K to show “massive” improvements over the years. This while all the other websites noted “minimal speed boost for too big price”. Perhaps both true but the spin on it makes all the difference when showing the intention.

AT shows quite the Intel bias. And it’s not the Intel part that bothers me, it’s the bias part. They go out of their way to make Intel look better without outright lying, just selectively presenting the truth in a way that shines a much better light on Intel. This for me casts doubt on other articles.

I’m glad Andrei Frumusanu’s mobile reviews still have a home, being the best I have seen on the entire internet. But that’s the only segment on AT where I can be reasonably sure about impartiality.
While I don't want to imply disinformation will always sway an election, I think you may be drastically underestimating the number of people a disinformation campaign needs to reach.

In the US 2018 congressional races many of them were decided by an incredibly small numbers of voters, a tremendous amount were decided by less than 5% and quite a few were decided by margins of a fraction of a percent.

I'm literally in a car leaving for the airport so I can't verify the exact numbers, but I'm confident I'm close enough[1]: Kansas' 2nd district was decided by like .87%; Florida's US Senate Rick Scott won by .12%; Georgia 7th was .15%; Minnesota 1st was for sure .45%; Illinois' 13th district was something like .77%; New York's 27th district was like .28%. In 2016 presidential race, New Hampshire was decided by like 1500 votes. That's just a sample of the extremely close races across the country.

Now, while those races might seem concerning, it gets even more concerning when we consider smaller districts, county elections, and city elections where it isn't uncommon for seats to be decided by margins of 25 people or less.

The worrying thing about disinformation campaigns isn't that the disinformation is going to suddenly convert 90% of our population into propaganda vessels, it's our modern ability to target smaller and smaller demographics in key locations with information in ways that we previously were unable to do in cost effective ways. The concern (and it is a concern) is that the disinformation and often intentional outright lies will misinform just tiny tiny fraction of a percent of vulnerable logic challenged people in key areas where the ripple effects punch outside their weight.

And also of course how easy it is to swing local county and city elections, considering that a rather high ratio of local voters tend to be elderly people who may not have their skeptical hats on when the magic box tells them the opposing party is eating babies or whatever.

If you've spent any time having long casual conversations with many of our voters, you'd find out that many of these people have been convinced of and believe in truly outlandish things, they want to believe in fantastic explanations rather than what is usually a mundane explanation. We don't have to look far to find outlandish ideas floating around our population--just consider anti-vax and how it spread mostly organically, it was not a highly funded and highly targeted campaign.

Our people can make rational decisions and vote for their interests, provided they are given solid information and are not exposed to outright disinformation. It doesn't matter which direction people vote, as long as their decisions are not based on disinformation spread intentionally.

[1] I'll verify those numbers once I'm settled in, but I am confident they're within a reasonable accuracy for this topic. If you're still not convinced of the larger implications here, I'd be happy to list more. There were a whole shitload of key counties where elections were decided by margins of less than 10 people and quite a few were less than 5.
convenience is the primary reason I still sometimes use jQuery. Sure dropping one more dependency always seems rewarding, but jQuery is just a tool which when used properly saves a lot of time.
> Spain will fight tooth and nail as well. And Germany too.

Dubbing movies meant for an adult public doesn't automatically make you a nation of retards. And what the hell is Spain to you anyway? Are we speaking about people from Barcelona, Andorra, the center?
I'm heavily inclined to agree with this. In fact, only this weekend I was working on a very simple one page tool and from the get-go I decided to adopt this "vanilla" only approach, i.e no JS libraries really at all.

Pretty quickly I found myself wishing I had just used jQuery or at least some other library to make stuff easier and get things done faster. When I finally got it completed in the end I wasn't sure why I bothered to struggle and waste so much time instead of just including jQuery and making things a bunch easier and less verbose. Sure, there may be other libraries worth using instead but the point against the "vanilla JS is all you need" argument.

I actually found the cited website in this post http://youmightnotneedjquery.com to be so strange as examples of why you may not need jQuery that it may be satire. I was surprised to find out that it was not satire. So I actually forked it and created https://youmightneedjquery.com, on which I may change some text in the future. It may not load for you yet as the DNS propagates.

You can find the fork on my Github account here:
https://github.com/JaTochNietDan/youmightnotneedjquery

I'll make some changes later to show the satirical nature of it.
I just have an alias with the format codes I want in order of preference (youtube-dl allows that)

That's a very nice interactive ui though
I actually came to Hacker news to ask the same the question.

My Dad travelling to a different country for a month and the mobile network there was VOLTE, while at home its 3G. The phone (iphone 7) was having some issue and I was unable to help him. He took the phone to mobile shop and that guy installed a 3rd party app & made him put a passcode.

Actually the last time we travelled together & we both used that mobile network and there was no issue. So, there was no reason to put a passcode.

The issue is that when my dad has an issue, he tries to describe it to me and does not read to me exactly what he sees on the screen. It would be great if there was a remote desktop like I could see his device via my device and help him also. Also, have an admin account on the phone so that admin privileges are needed to install apps or even open the settings app.

In the past even my younger cousins or kids install apps (games or some hype app that they feel everyone must have) on his phone.
i wonder how my home based iot device will send over 5G when those frequencies are basically not even capable of going through the first obstacle they encounter. that being said, i don't have any iot device at home just due to this risk :D
> On average, the first priority of managers and execs is maintaining the power structures that make them a big deal. But true Agile processes are about empowering teams to self-organize around serving users.

But that doesn't explain the success of Scrum, because Scrum does away with the power structure of managers, and should empower the teams. "We're doing Scrum now" is the big stick I see scrum masters use to beat back Business managers to keep them from interfering with and micromanaging the team.

At least, that's what they should be doing when management interferes too much. And then address this higher up with whoever decided that we're doing scrum now, and explain to them what that means, if necessary.

There's no excuse to tolerate micromanaging managers in a Scrum process. They don't belong there. Kick them out.
Battling Imposter Syndrome by Understanding the Dunning Kruger Effect
Yes, and hopefully that will stop the problems I get with video drivers when installing a GPU which I just use for raw computation. Also, my PC has 10 video outputs now, which I think is insane!
I can recommend https://hackerweb.app/ on mobile.
It all depends on the microwave oven. The majority of ovens open with a mechanical lever (in many cases, can be also be opened by hand by grabbing the edge of the door) which will trigger a sensor that shuts down the emitter while the door is opening. Depending on how fast the door was opened, microwaves may still be bouncing around and could leak out.

OTH some ovens, like the more modern builtin cabinet microwaves, have an electronic button that shuts down the emitter before triggering the door latch/spring to open.

In any case, the duration and the amount of energy released during the opening motion vs. emission lag will probably not be enough to significantly harm you as dielectric processes need to establish a field to polarize molecules that will heat up as consequence.
ultrasound would be easier and cheaper...
I’d say negotiate away that clause or find another job. Company owning all IP outside work for the duration of employment is in my opinion a red flag. I’d not be surprised to learn they mistreat employees in other ways as well.
If you think Esperanto is the better choice for EU's official working language, sign the petition here:

http://e-d-e.org/?lang=en
The quote is in fact

> Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions...

However, given the context, I suspect that the use of the word "ought" here has a slightly different meaning than we tend to infer these days.
It’s always propaganda when it’s pillorying someone you like, and parody when it’s pillorying someone you don’t.

If the video would have been right at home on late night television, it should be right at home on Facebook.

Do you think the late night shows aren’t being used to convince people to feel a certain way about Trump?

This is the shoe on the other foot, and if doesn’t feel so right, the wrong lesson is to blame the foot.
How does committing the strawman fallacy help in producing the correct answer?
I'd like to introduce a new measure: Expected Complexity (EC)

Possible values:
--> Static webpage
--> There's a Form!
--> I can click things and the URL doesn't change!
--> I spend a few minutes on this site and click a few things
--> I spent a couple hours on this site and click lots of things
--> My office hours are spent clicking on things on this site!

How to determine at the start of development what EC value will be reached:
Using a crystal ball (as usual)

Pick your technology according to the value of EC.

There's a good chance that
(= :jQuery (choose-tech ["There's a Form!", "I can click things and the URL doesn't change!", "I spend a few minutes on this site and click a few things"])

is `true` and that's ok.
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I have had my share of grief with jquery, but I'm not quite sure it was jquerys fault or the tools built around it. Many a time I had to reimplement stuff like radio button exclusion when a pop-up would render an HTML string as is.

Did anyone have problems like that? What are the jquery limitations I should be aware of?

I am asking because I am mainly backend and infrastructure developer and feel like I have little experience with frontend tools
I'm a bit sceptical about this article... I understand the point... jQuery is a nice place to get started for beginners and see how things have been done in the past and I also HATE the boilerplate with most modern JavaScript-Frameworks, but

> I want to build webpages that are fast

I don't think that jQuery is fast... Especially the fact, that jQuery hooks in every event handler to control the possibility to remove all Event handlers is something that is slowing down every app... event if jQuery is hardly used.

> use the simplest feasible code

I don't think that code is simple, when it is ONE single function that takes nearly every type as argument with different outcome...

And I don't like that developers could use this article as a justification... especially while modern frameworks like vue.js can also be used without setting up a webpack project...

But: If you read between the lines, there is something to learn ;)
In the case of ARM they seem to have announced Neural Processing Units (NPUs), which looks more like a mass market TPU.
Some reflections on private health in India
I didn't know about http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ , but to me it seems very convincing that I need jQuery :)
That’s not mutually exclusive. Do spend your free time on your own stuff and advancing your career, don’t spend company time on it.
Isn't your example a perfect case of the comments only being necessary because the code is somehow flawed?
Try the Reader Mode in your browser. Don't know if Chrome has it, but it's there in Safari and Firefox.
Great work. At Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the biosciences (formerly life sciences) division, headed by Mina Bissell[1], one of the leading researchers of breast cancer, we developed NLP-based vector space modeling (embedding) in 2002 to augment genomic research in breast cancer, the extracellular matrix and aging. That was about 2 years after the first human genome was sequenced. The Lab patented[2] some of our methods and it helped pave the way for approaches like word2vec and a few others. There's a lot of great work yet to be in this area and we continue to make slow and steady progress defined by generating new insights, hypotheses and sometimes discoveries using approaches in NLP/NLU. We've recently been applying vector space modeling in NLU to LET radiation research (DNA damage repair) associated to space biosciences[3] which is exciting for extending and protecting human lifespan for space travel. Interdisciplinary aspects are key.

[1] https://www2.lbl.gov/LBL-Programs/lifesciences/BissellLab/ma...

[2] http://www.google.com/patents/US7987191

[3] https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/for-res...
I am not sure how this will work between "a company & a customer". But I would like filter my parents SMS, so that they can see messages from known & trusted contacts, while I can ensure that the messages from unknown sender is not spam. 95% of unknown senders are spam.
hmm, I feel ARM performance is a bit like nuclear fusion. It's always the next generation that will deliver an order of magnitude performance increase. Yet some how ARM single core performance is still shit compared to x86. (No matter how much I hope and pray for that to change, cause x86 needs to die)
What if we don't mine asteroids in space? We just change their courses and make them crash on earth. There is a lot of math to be done and we might have to pick an international location as a crashing ground, but it should be easiest and more profitable.
If it's not broke, don't change it. I could write more, but I'd just be echoing the post's points.

I think the biggest win would be avoiding all the insane complexity of a modern npm/webpack JS development experience.
Think of wireless generally, like an ethernet hub. When one thing is talking, everything else needs to shut up. Or: by making the ranges shorter, you're not shouting over the people at table on the other side of the room.
Slide 12/13 talk about how these areas are "devoid of Computer Scientists". In traditional areas like Biology and Chemistry, there is an acceptance that Computer Science is "not a science". They still view CS as IT (service / software). There are amazing broad applications of advanced computational techniques like Natural Language Processing, Probabilistic Learning Approach and Machine Learning within the space but if there's no acceptance of it, we will hinder progress.
You cannot and you should not due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_effect
The clauses I have seen attempt to claim all intellectual work regardless of when it was done or whether it was related to the job.

To me, this is an indication that we truly have not progressed beyond wage slavery. I believe such clauses should be illegal.

I think one thing we might be able to do is to create a list of companies that have blanket clauses like this and then some people (not most) will have the luxury of boycotting them. I see this as a human rights issue actually. It is an attempt to trap an individual indefinitely in a labor mode.

And yes, it's extremely common and a standard legal practice. So was outright slavery for many thousands of years. However, attempting to claim unrelated work outside of office hours is a violation of natural rights.
This seems like a terrible idea which would merely entrench monopolies further.

Phone number interoperability was to establish an unbranded phone network that could be serviced by any telco. Making every service deliver messages to and from Facebook would be an absolute nightmare.
Indeed, a desire is ultimately the habit of seeking a particular goal. The comment you replied to stands regardless.
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If you don't know about it, pcpartpicker.com is a fantastic resource for building a new system.

It makes researching and comparing a bunch of brands and parts as well as waiting for the best times to buy a breeze.
If you have 1 BTC equivalent to spend, buy 1 BTC, not bronze.
The Neo-Marxist Roots of Modern Monetary Theory
Getting a

> Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN

trying to access https://youmightneedjquery.com .
I use VPSs for personal use for exactly this reason - the bill's the same (small amount) every month, and if load spikes I'm happier not being able to handle it than handling it for a surprise Xx bill.
Absolutely, and the EU was founded on principles of federation and preserving cultural heritage and differences. Most definitely the EU hasn't given power to sacrifice even a single language for the convenience of EU institutions and nobody in the EUP/EUC wants to change that in the slightest.
I use multiple Finder windows and one of those window auto-move/resize tools which take Alt-1 for left, Alt-2 for right, and so on.

This approach lets me arrange non-Finder windows, too, e. g. Terminal sessions, browser windows, or text documents.
There was a recent small scale study[1] that suggested taking probiotics could increase the time for the gut microbiota to return to normal. The biggest bang might have been a fecal transplant of cultures taken from your own gut before you started on antibiotics. The study is more suggestive than conclusive because of limited sample size.

[1]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180906141640.h...
Yes, it’s more like a cycle of reincarnation: the same problems and solutions keep coming back in different guises.
He explicitly stated that the contract is inclusive of that context.
The Github certificate takes a while to sign so I've turned off enforcement for the time being :).
Established, "old media" news sources routinely spread misinformation as well either deliberately made up, or by omitting facts that don't fit the narrative of their owners. News outlets haven't been about "news" for several decades now, it's all about, to quote Chomsky, "manufacturing consent". It's just that now anyone with a webcam and a video editor can do the same thing on social media. Some, in fact, get more viewers than "traditional" media, too.
Facebook curates and removes content all of the time. They are 100% an editor and should have their safe harbor revoked as they can and do control what is posted on their platform.
I’m still using jquery and bootstrap for mvp web app using, of all things, PHP and Slim Framework which surprisingly is not horrible.
> Even assuming that everyone agrees on the model of policy responses - introducing tax X has result Y

This is a purely objective question, and can be discussed between honest parties until a common conclusion is reached.

> people will still have strong opinions about the distributive effects of those and even the relative importance of the environmental effects.

This is a mix of potentially subjective values and objective statements about how those values are affected by proposed solution; I argue that even if a common conclusion cannot be reached, we can usually come pretty close to it.

> People don't usually come out and say "I'm not willing to spend a dollar to prevent Miami and Bangladesh being submerged", because that sounds bad, but they come very close to it.

People don't usually think in these categories; between lack of information, misinformation, opportunity costs (no one has time to be up to date on everything, or even to think through everything) and psychological discounting ("I worry about securing food for my children tomorrow, not about some uncertain future 50 years from now"), you end up with people who believe in things that are wrong even when taking their own subjective values into account.

I feel the problem we have isn't with subjectiveness - most political issues are objective enough in principle. We have a computational problem - we can't get enough people to think and talk through issues deeply enough. Instead, people fall back to computationally efficient heuristics - ideologies and soundbites. Pattern matching everything into beliefs like "capitalism is bad", or "government regulation is bad" is a faulty generalization, but it saves on thinking.

It may be that at the scale of our current problems, this computational barrier is in practice insurmountable. If so, we're fucked, and I'm not sure what to do. But it's probably why there's so much pushback against democracy from the "intellectual elites" - because they realize that this problem only scales with the number of people you need to involve to make a decision.

(N.b. trust is another computation-saving hack humanity has used since forever, and what enables us to have societies as large as today. The trust that other people don't try to hurt me, that they have my interests in mind. It's damn effective, and that's why I'm particularly hateful towards individual, company and government activities that erode this trust.)
Interlingua is not a practical alternative. It hasn't been shown to have any real-world advantage over Esperanto and the number of speakers and material is orders of magnitude less.

For example, compare the Interlingua wikipedia to the Esperanto one.
There are many other species able to control vermin, we don't have to replace them on all the ecosystems we touch.
This is pretty much it in a nutshell. About the only use case where I will look at a framework outside of jQuery is if I want complex state management, or be able to handle LOTS of updating hotspots on the screen.

I'm a proud user of jQuery from way back in the early days, and still haven't found anything to beat it for writing a quick AJAX call to a back end from a web page.
Tables as queues is perfectly legit, one less component to worry about.