skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, you have to buy that the data actually supports this (which your last sentence implies it's not a given)

Got it, so you're saying you don't think the mass influx of new workers drove down wages? It seems like a pretty straight forward argument. Would love to hear your thoughts that contradict it.

> ... and there's the implication that women voluntarily entering into the workforce have somehow made things worse for other women; that's the implied "narrative".

That would be the outcome if this were true, wouldn't it? I don't think they're suggesting any kind of intent, but if their premise is correct, it would in fact have made life harder for single income households.

> ... there are no ways to stop the erosion of wages without driving women away from the workforce. As you can see, there are many narratives at play here that you can either buy into or not.

I didn't see this in the comment you responded to.
I guess the irony of a 'tweet this' href after every single bullet point was lost on the author.
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The consequences are too small compared to what would be needed to prevent Exxon dumping millions of barrels of oil into the ocean.

Who cares if it’s wealth transfer, anyway? If I lose my initial investment in a company, that money goes somewhere, right? Ergo, what we have is already a form of wealth transfer.
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One of the early foundational principles of Perl was "TMTOWTDI" (http://wiki.c2.com/?ThereIsMoreThanOneWayToDoIt for the unfamiliar). The intention behind this was cool: do "it" whichever way makes the most sense for your particular situation.

But the end result was horrible: everyone did "it" every possible way, and that, IMO, is the underlying reason for Perl's reputation for being unreadable.

I also think it had a great deal of impact on the development of later languages and principles, which tend to focus much more on removing freedom from the programmer and enforcing idiomatic ways of doing "it". Today, you're far more likely to encounter modern code written by different programmers which looks very similar -- at least on a line-by-line basis, anyway. At the architectural level, it's still a big game of Calvinball.
You can also delete your phone number completely - there's no real reason for Twitter to have it, especially now that it's not required for 2fa.
It is possible, but it turns out they are not a 100% compatible.
To even use FMLA you must have worked for the employer for at least a year, at least one of the major restrictions. For example if you have your baby a couple days before your 1 year work anniversary and your employer does not offer parental leave, you are pretty much forced to quit just to be able to take care of your baby for 3 months. FMLA is not the solution for everyone.
I guess it depends on how much food you're making. My girlfriend and I typically alternate cooking and will make enough for ~3 days of food, so really we only cook 2-3 times a week, and when you alternate the task it's not much time at all. I also don't mind eating the same thing for days in a row, so that helps too.
I only know one person who dislikes my savory oatmeal, and he says it's because he has lots of unpleasant childhood memories of being force fed savory oatmeal by his mother, back in the holler.
Personally I'm not super bullish on differential privacy outside a couple specific use cases, but correlation attacks and cross referencing against external data are exactly the vectors that differential privacy is intended to protect against: it requires that the results of any query or set of queries would be identical with some probability even if a specific person wasn't present in the dataset.

It's possible I'm misreading, but your paper seems to focus on the very anonymization techniques diff privacy was invented to improve on, specifically because these kinds of attacks exist. While I agree it's no silver bullet, the reason is because it's too strong (it's hard to get useful results while providing such powerful guarantees) rather than not strong enough.

I've found the introduction to this textbook on it to be useful and very approachable if others are interested: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers/privacybook.pdf
Great job Finland! This is very important for strengthening the family.

As a dad, if I were to choose, I'd rather spend a larger chunk of time with my kid from 2 and up. That is a very good period of time when the kid forms important habits and through games lots of things can be taught. This is actually a goal of mine, I want to save enough and take a few years off from work (or maybe find a part-time gig) and spend some good quality time with my kid.
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In the case of a go-playing AI, and maybe even things like self driving cars, then yes I agree.

But we are quickly moving beyond the types of applications where you can simply test in simulation. Self driving cars are probably right at the edge of this. It's what comes next that worries me. And I don't pretend to know what it will be.
> The movie : "The Irishman" used a lot of the technology successfully to take years off the cast.

Personally, I did not find the use of the "technology" to be "successful." Like so many other ridiculous gimmicks used in movies to attract the attention of the press and the Academy, it may have at times achieved its very singular visual goals, but that doesn't matter one bit. Because you can't make Al Pacino and Robert De Niro - both in their 70s now - act like 30 year-olds.

Without the massive press push about this technology, the film would have likely suffered a lot more ridicule about this "de-aging" tactic. Hollywood will not be able to convince me that they have actually achieved something good here, until they are able to prove this is not just technology meant to expand the lifetime value generated from their beloved aging actors, for whom they have no true planned replacements.
Probably something to do with the fact that central government has cut budgets for the last 10 years and if putting some banner ads on their website contributes to keeping a library open, it’s hard to say no.
These policies have definitively contributed to a big social change. And while it looks on the surface like this is about "fairness for dad", on a macro level the changes mostly benefit women who want to both have kids and a career.

It's no longer a bigger risk for companies to hire late 20-s women compared to late 20-s men - both will go on leave if they get kids.

At my job, I also see way more dads staying home with sick kids or going to "planning day" or similar, compared to when I was growing up.
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> I'm not entirely convinced that that is the case, TypeScript can be it's own language in itself. Not really a problem now but a few years back people struggled to even learn new versions of JavaScript in itself, let alone a the libraries with their different paradigms.

I think that's just a coincidence. We happen to know people who are starting to learn JavaScript (and learning new languages is always a struggle), and so naturally they also struggle to learn TypeScript when faced with those concepts for the first time. But this is more The Evolution of a Programmer kind of thing.

> Also to get where Mint is you would probably need to learn: TypeScript, React, styled-components, Jest, prettier, Webpack, Redux (or one of the alternatives), Babel and that's just from the top of my head.

A lot of these (Babel, prettier, Webpack) just need a good starter configuration and can be mostly ignored afterwards. The rest mostly boil down to concepts: Jest stands in for any testing framework, there's nothing special about it; TypeScript for a mostly-basic type system; React for a basic declarative UI framework; styled-components for mostly-just CSS encapsulation.

> There will be dependencies sure and you will take care of them as usual, what I am saying is that with Mint you will only need a few.

Ah I understand better now what you meant: the concepts that come built into Mint are ones you don't have to worry about getting an external dependency for.
I know a software developer who has an unrelated degree but is very good at his job.

And yes SAP is bad but it is also something that will do most stuff you need to do and follow the right laws when you do it.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22235756 (9to5google.com) : 135 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22232598 (twitter.com) : 6 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22233785 (twitter.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22238156 (theguardian.com)

Unsurprisingly, there were many more.
Extortion would be threatening to reveal bad acts, in order to gain something from those threatened. If they always reveal bad acts, and don't even try to gain anything from the bad actors -- well, that's just plainly not extortion, nor even criminal in any way.
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Council are the victims here. They are forced to debase themselves because central government, in the Tory era since 2010, simply offloads competencies to local authorities, without allocating extra funds or even slashing existing ones. So the priority has become to keep the lights on and find every way possible to monetize anything remotely monetizable, from parking to this (as well as cutting tons of jobs, closing libraries and so on). Councils are literally going bankrupt, but voters can’t make the link and keep voting for “low taxes” in Westminster and “the Council should do everything” at home, then complain when pigs can’t manage to lift off and fly.
On the one hand I feel bad that my first thought upon loading that page was "oooh, an FJ-40 Landcruiser." On the other, it just brought back memories of pulling out my hair getting custom marshalling to work over an authenticated DCOM connection.

Definitely not fun times remembered :-(
> Hello BRexit?

I was curious about this and searched a bit. According to this website [1] the GDPR is still in force until the end of the year, and in addition there is a UK-GDPR law, very similar to the EU GDPR, which took effect on Feb 1st. So there are two regulations now, not zero.

[1] https://www.cookiebot.com/en/uk-gdpr/
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It was the one after that. But fair enough that a lot of people show up for the opening keynotes to start out. That said, the event was very crowded generally and you really did need some sort of strategy that took that into account. I was a lot more organized this year than I've been in some years past and was able to better use my time and minimize frustration as a result.
> but I would think these kinds of party line attachments mean that not everyone ends-up with the most capable developers

This is a real phenomenon, but not in the way you think. Democrats have historically had a tech edge, because the real talent leans left politically. Obama kind of killed that, but for a good cause - he diverted a lot of those politically-driven types into working directly for the federal government under the umbrella of USDS and 18F.
They do have influence. For example, the Iowa caucus process from the messy 2016 results were hashed out with the DNC involved.

That mainly focused on increasing transparency. Thanks to the activists, we got transparency on initial and final vote count before SDE%. Activists in 2016 pushed for financial transparency but that didn't pass.

And here we are.... with a firm called Shadow that borked an otherwise very well run caucus process.

The app is an excuse/trojan horse. They could have counted and reconfirmed it all by Tuesday with a strong phone bank, paper records alone.
I mean this makes sense, right? Fedora Silverblue exists. Or are they totally separate products?
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leCun hit big when neural networks got a boost from Moore's Law and he was one of the few remaining working on them. Now he's the toast of the town.

Is LeCon a genius, a drudge or does he just lack inventiveness? My guess is he's the man with a broken watch: right once b/c he was standing still. In any case le Con is unequivocally and unabashedly a one-trick (deep neural nets) pony:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608911/is-ai-riding-a-one...

Does le Con really believe that NN are the be-all and end-all of AI?

How many here seriously believe that NNs will be the last, or even most important, hurdle towards AI?
How ya figure? It's same in type. Pervasive monitoring/metadata collection is an attack.

PRISM/CALEA/ubiquitous surveillance via facial recognition, social credit scoring don't just magically stop being linguistically addressable because we've tossed another specific example into the generic bucket. It just means that we're getting better at identifying exploitative forms of unnecessary data collection.

Unless I'm reading your statement wrong, I'm just not seeing a here your worry comes into play. There's no Orwellian language leak there, and I'm usually pretty sensitive to that just because it does drive me nutswhen people try to do that intentionally.
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> it seems the consensus is that it really does suck

It sucks to the people who has to use it and maintain it. It doesn't suck for the people who sign the checks that pay for the licenses and the hardware to run it.
If you have 400-1000 hours to reinvent the wheel, sure!
What is interesting is the fact that none of the revenue / income from advertising if any, is showing in the accounts of the council. Checked a few at random and none of the account statements mention income from ads. Begs the question then not just of moral bankruptcy but of accounting this. If it's not implemented for income to the council then why ?
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I think Elm has two major things that make it such a pleasant detour from what most of us have experienced building web clients:

1. It comes with an opinionated architecture for building apps (model, view, update loop): https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/. This constraint is a breath of fresh air if you've ever installed React and then been stuck wondering how you should deal with state. Mobx? Event emitters? Redux? And your app increasingly niches itself into a novel constellation of dependencies. Meanwhile, Elm apps are basically all the same from an architectural standpoint.

2. Strict type system, great compiler errors, no runtime errors. I think the best illustration of this is refactoring power. I've come back to old projects where I certainly don't remember how the code works. I start writing the code that my feature needs (like changing the html to rely on variables I haven't yet defined) and I basically just follow the compiler errors until it works. Or I've made massive refactors like added an archer class to my game that was previously just melee classes which introduced daunting modeling changes to my system, and the compiler essentially gave me a TODO list of all the code sites I needed to update.

Elm certainly involves learning new things, but there's also a lot of work in stitching together a similar concoction of React, Typescript, immutability, etc. In many ways Elm is a vast simplification.
People absolutely do want Free Markets or Single Payer or other things from a pure brief in the virtue of some of tse things as ends as opposed to a means to achieve another end like wanting good health. And wanting material things is absolutely not something that can be taken for granted - look at the Amish. Luckily, instead of living in a World where those in power just assume they know what people want and know better than everyone else, viewing themselves as the pilot of an airplane and everyone else the passengers, we live in a democracy where we theoretically vest sovereignty in the individual.

I'm always amazed by articles like this one that just take for granted that the author knows the people better than they know themselves, and that people like them are naturally the ones who should be vested with decision making power. "Lean on the strengths of institutions" - and who gets to run those institutions exactly?
"In some ways it feels unfair to single out Wacom." - Uh no, it is completely fair to single them out and put them in the spotlight for doing this kind of tracking.
I agree that it is. Looking at the page, I can't see how far this goes.

Was my earlier comment completely wrong? Does ZZ allow the programmer to express a formal specification, e.g. to verify a sort function? If so, their examples are selling their language very short.
Yes, Iowa impacts everything so that makes complete sense.
Wow, you all are really taking this fact hard. It's ok -- I know was shocked when I first heard this back in high school.

Reading thru the comments, it sounds like New Jersey has great parental benefits, but you will be sharing them with a few more million people than Denmark, so ymmv.

It comes down to this: you sound like a complete idiot comparing social programs of these small Countries to <any> large Country. Stop.
> Except when it comes to building somewhat large systems (I am talking ~5 mil LOC here)

I think most Perl developers would agree that if you expect you code base to reach in the millions of lines of code (at least if it's all one code base and not an ecosystem using an API), Perl (or any dynamic language) may be stretched to the point where its benefits are outweighed by its drawbacks, similar (on the other side of the spectrum) as if you used C/C++ to build a simple web app.
What about Evernote? It has a +$1b valuation, and 80% of its functionality could be recreated by a single programmer in a weekend.
I wonder if there's any indirect way way to get mortality rates... Say number of social media accounts active, or number of webpage requests from an IP range...
And they change them at such convenient times! I recall pieces in the same publication as to why we have the electoral college, why it is a good idea, and so forth. That suddenly changed. The timing is coincidental, and at times I think that charitability requires too much suspension of disbelief.

Most of this looks like the twenty-four hour news cycle wanting a lock on credibility and deciding who gets to sit at the table. It's a shame, because that would have been a good discussion to have, but they've made their reputations so ... poor.
Former FOSDEM volunteer here. They've been doing this for 20 years. Most of the processes get better every iteration, so by now it's sort of a well-oiled machine.

Except for crowd control. That will never improve ;-)
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The primary source for anyone interested in L-Systems. I can also recommend looking into Gielis superformula [1] for e.g. generating realistic petals and leaves on the trees.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258238188_Inventing...
Do you mean employees of the federal government? How long is the leave? Is it paid?
It seems you feel very strongly about this, I believe you're trying to do the right thing. Management and cultures can be bad at workplaces.

I view situations on an individualized basis - full stop. I am not a fan of being placed to judge situations I don't know based on vague allegations. I prefer view group dynamics as cooperative rather than competitive as much as I can.

My issue is the communication style. The labeling and categorization that leaves people out, and even implies wrongdoing and malice by totally unrelated parties.

Just to take this comment as an example:

Gaslighting implies an intent to psychologically manipulate, as mentioned above, I view things on a case by case basis, and didn't witness the person in the reviews situation (to the affirmative or negative, what if there's actually shades of gray or they are actually at fault in the end?). Ivory tower denotes some semblance of power and advantage.

What if I were to say, the way this is coming across creates a difficult environment for someone who disagrees to express their observations?

I'm not a manager. I'm not part of an ivory tower. I'm not part of the aforementioned aggrieved categories. It doesn't mean my emotions and needs are less important. Disagreeing doesn't imply advantage or malice.

I think the main thing culture needs in SV is better communication. There's other employees who'd potentially be sympathetic, but are probably fearful to offer insights due to belief they'd be belittled.
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Hello, I'm "Iwan Danilo Krüger" I made the Whisteblow which got around 5 billion views after around 5 hours a few months ago. Secret agency services tried killing me since then, but I'm still alive. How do I get a new smartphone/PC without CIA people installing a hardware keylogger on it?

This is a serious question
You can't really insure against going to jail. As others have said, I think she was off the mark with regards to calling out "shareholders" vs. "managers" / "those actually responsible for making the criminal decisions", but if you made the call and gave orders to negligently cut your safety standards, and then your oil company has a spill, you should go to jail.
No, but I did need tabs.

The really odd thing is I updated _the description_ of the extension and even that took a few days.
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Maybe there is a document somewhere that enforces certain practices when making websites for public institutions?
> supports all SAP features?

Out of the box, probably nothing. Something that supports all features you will actually want to use? That depends on who you are and what you actually need to do but, then, you'll need to figure out what you want, what you need and what is available on the market. This assessment is, in itself, quite costly.
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It's not just the tone - there are plenty of religious people who flatly disagree with the moral claim above.

"The baby is going to die, so this isn't murder, and it's going to suffer, so this is mercy" is not necessarily a background assumption. For some people, those claims are the debate. Deontologists actually exist, and some of them sincerely believe in souls, and eternal damnation or paradise. To them, the doctor is committing a mortal sin, and for the infant any life long enough for baptism can mean the difference between limbo and heaven. Whatever Northam's intent, they would genuinely find his position morally similar to any other infanticide.

I don't intend to argue for that position, but I think it's important to realize how quickly "simple" rulings on misinformation or malice can become judgements on entire ideologies. If Bentham, Kant, and the Pope would all disagree on whether a choice is ethical and humane, perhaps it's not a matter to be settled by Twitter moderation rules?