skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can imagine this happens due to malicious-ness, but it seems unlikely.

Individual contributions are necessarily easier to measure and easier to attribute than force-multiplication or communication, so it's going to be easier / less work for managers to pull them out at review time.

Sadly, that means that you need to highlight your own work (in a vaguely PR/Marketing) way that you don't have to for individual contributions.

That means that you both have to communicate well to other engineers "look at this easy way to save 10% of your time", but also communicate the effects of that to management so they'll a) reward you for it and b) invest in making it happen.

None of that is "easy".
The ferries to Stockholm is right around the corner. There are 13 software jobs to the dozen, you don't need any paperwork to work there, and €4k per month would be considered "bad" there. If I was in Latvia and spoke english I'd do it in a heartbeat. Even if I couldn't physically move, I'd definitely try to get a remote job from there even if it meant a slighly lower pay than an on-site one.

Obviously, you'd have much higher living costs and the weather would be slighty worse, but lets face it no one lives in Latvia for the weather either!
Politicians consistently misinform and lie. So does the government in general. If anyone has something to gain from it it's the government.

I don't need someone telling me what is and what isn't "good" information, I can do that myself.
Entirely possible if an infinite number of monkeys type along on an infinite number of keyboards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Exactly. A company I know well had to lay off people in France and in the US. People in France keep almost their full wages for a whole year, and the medical insurance for free for a year. I hope the ones in the US find a job quicky and that their higher salary can cover any (medical) cost in the meantime. I would not be so sure.

Lower wages for this amount of security seems a great deal to me.
We only have a whole system of evidence-finding and scientific discovery to solve that question, but ok, let's ignore all progress of the last 200 years.
I know, it's amazing, isn't it? Just think of the amazing possibilities this new "general-purpose computing" could unlock!
I've got a toolkit of pure CSS widgets I privately call "You might not need Javascript". Dropdowns, modal/lightbox, concertina, slideovers, toggles, popover, transitions, no problem.

Hacks with :checked are well known, but you can do a ton of stuff with :focus-within, :invalid, :target, :hover, <details>/<summary>/[open], grids/flexbox/visibility, and the adjacent-sibling selector. <dialog> is almost there, although it still needs a JS activation hook.

It feels really good to have a complete application UI that works with JS disabled, and I can still progressively enhance it with JS for necessary perversions of HTML like ARIA etc.
To everyone who uses the phrase "Shouting fire in a crowded theater". An important historical note.

This phrase comes from a judgment in the case Schenck vs. United States [0], where the judges found that U.S had the right to punish a pacifist for spreading leaflets that induced young men to resist WWI draft.

This is a pretty sordid case from today's point of view and has been partially overturned half a century later by Brandenburg vs. Ohio, which established a much more restrictive "likely to incite imminent lawless action" test for punishability of speech.

I wish people were more aware of the context of this phrase when uttering it. It sounds innocent and reasonable, but so do "states rights", which were a code word for slavery. Only in case of "states rights", most people know the history of the phrase.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
Before that ES2015 allowed you to do Array.from(nodeList, mapFunc?) which I still use due to the optional mapping function e.g. Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a'), a => a.href)
History is written by the victors. The fact that the winning side can say "this is what happened, and any discussion about it shall land you in jail" should raise a few eyebrows.
> The devil is in the detail here, though. Who is going to decide what is misinformation and not?

I think that it is separate question - should the government have power to censor misinformation? Is it good or bad for this company to censor that misinformation?

However, that does not mean that misinformation campaign itself can not be considered "an assault on free speech" or whatever else.
I don't think it will replace React, honestly.

WebComponents can do just a fraction of what React/Vue do, and it's just the least interesting parts. The encapsulation is great, of course, but it was already possible to have "reusable components" back in the jQuery days and before.

All the WebComponents usage I've seen professionally lately were wrapping React/Vue or using some other lightweight framework that does something similar.

Not saying WCs are bad tech: just saying I think there are some great ideas in Vue/React that still don't have a native API. Would LOVE to see a new version of WebComponents adopting some of those ideas (only the good ones though haha)!
Some people are worth censoring. For example, the 1st president of Stanford University, David Starr Jordan. He was one of the most prominent eugenicists in the US, and his ideas served as the basis for the eugenics programs in Nazi Germany.

Would not it have been better for everyone if he never published this book? https://archive.org/details/bloodofnationstu00jorduoft/page/...

That book is responsible for the loss of many innocent lives.
Looking for a privacy-focused eCommerce solution, any ideas?
Heya All,
I'm currently in the process of setting up a small eCommerce store to sell a book about Big Data. I would love to have no 3rd party cookies (or at least none from FB or Google) but every solution I can afford has built-in analytics and FB pixels. So far I have tried many "buy buttons" and wasted a lot of time experimenting with Gumroad and Payhip. Surely there is a system like Gumroad, that doesn't force my customers to be tracked.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated,
ThanKs
Breaking things is far easier than making things. While this type of poking around might feel fun, it will mostly result in low value work to fix something very few (if any) actual users would experience.
Aw, input is broken on mobile (Android + of course Chrome).

I'm getting a keyboard popup, and I appear to be typing somewhere offscreen (I can see a typing suggestion containing exactly what I've typed, which wouldn't happen if input wasn't going anywhere), but the text isn't appearing onscreen, then when I press Enter, I get an "OK" as though I'd hit Enter on a blank line... and the input I'd typed isn't cleared. So, "words <Enter> words <Enter>" shows "wordswords" in my keyboard's suggestion, and "OK\nOK\n" on the display.

Looks really cool though :D
Can't help to apply that model in my mind to our industry, ie to the phenomenon of "The Cloud" brainwash during most of the last decade, driven by an unholy alliance of Big Tech and Big Media, and amplified by a generation of freshman hungry for tech news and SV capital.
In common speech, "love" is expected to last eternal, not just to the end of the quarter. I'm not really a romantic, but using the word "love" in a corporate context defiles it.
> > There might be a c64 IP stack but at that point its getting technicality again; how much access and function counts?

> Being able to talk at least IP and TCP without external help.

Contiki (https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Contiki) runs on a stock C64 (plus an Ethernet adapter) and implements a full TCP/IP stack. It has IRC, FTP, e-mail, a web browser, etc. No tricks -- it runs on the hardware with no external help.
I'm sure amd could make a monster arm chip but without an oem who would put it in a laptop or desktop and without killer arm apps for windows whats the point?
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We went through that last time with their sad attempts at UEFI compliance.

So long as they allow the possibility it will happen.

In other news, they allow firewalls to work as designed in this release. So some kind of sanity may be taking hold.
Philosophy, logic and science are all applied by persons and the results tend to vary depending on who is applying it. I suppose logic could be a bit more on the objective impersonal side of things but philosophy and science are definitely not. That is, only if logic is actually logic in the sense of logic. If one start talking about tings like 'logical falacies' (e.g. ad homininem, argument from authority and so on) as often is done on forums like these one is already very far from anything objective. For one thing, one is probably inclined to be much more severe in pointing out 'logical falacies' in statements that one disagrees with rather than in statement that one agrees with.
The people often do. But at the root are people who knowingly create misinformation and spread it.
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> I got here by taking no risk at all.
> This is the most European thing I've ever heard. Most people would not like to take risks and would not even think about stepping outside of their comfort zone.

In some sense this is true, but lets not get carried away. The American Startupism is all about the flash, big growth, big impact, big IPO.
In EU you have companies slowly grinding a hard problem for 20 years that also have huge impact but no flashy news. Look at things like vertical farming, ASLR, fintech. Thats all thanks to low risk and stability.
This piece takes as a given that speech is actively limited, and then begins to discuss when and how much.

I disagree. The mechanisms for censoring and shutting people up are often problematic and unacceptable, rather than the extent of their use. Once the mechanisms are in place, it is easy for the extent of their use to expand.
Thanks - the Reduceron looks really interesting.
So people post it on Parlor themselves, it is publicly available, but it would be illegal to download for me? That does not make much sense.
We already have, its called QED and is the most preise physical theory ever created and tested. Theoretical predictions agree with experiment inside the statistical uncertainties which are now at the 15th or so decimal digit.

The problem is, people still want to map the mathematical description of how light and particles behave of QED to common sense analogies and that just does not work.

There is no commonly known and understood thing that lends itself as a working analogy.
Except that you are
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I call bullshit on the tax rate in Austria.

"Capital gains" through GmbH is 25% KÖSt (Körperschaftssteuer) and then 27,25% KESt on Profit. The highest VAT rate is 20%, there are also lower ones. This results in 56.35% percent including VAT (1-((1-25%)(1-27.25%)(1-20%)).

If you go through income tax as a freelancer this is even lower when you claim the default deductibles (Pauschalierung), which is common in IT jobs, because you have very low expenses. The later is also cheaper if you factor in health insurance.
Not sure what you mean by "success"? In Finland at least so many people (especially from the south) regularly (pre-COVID at least) take the ferry to Estonia to buy alcohol in bulk because of the insanely high alcohol taxes. If that option didn't exist I'd expect moonshine (and/or illegal exports) to become much more common.
> No one said there is a quick formula for this, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be attempted.

If you can't tell truth from lies how are you sure something is misinformation?

What's the point of the term misinformation then? Most people agree upon the shape of earth anyway, but questionable topics are questionable due to, you know, lack of persuading argument which would persuade the bulk of people.
"optimization - an act, process, or methodology of making something (such as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible"

If you optimize process of delivering feature to the end user then using JQuery is optimization and not premature. It does not have to be optimization of runtime/load time.
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Right, they only own one Porsche here and a few houses.
> It's hard to believe a job on the same company can be fulfilling for 20+ years.

In my experience, the only companies I’ve been in where all my coworkers were first class was in the Netherlands.

I cannot see myself working 20 years in the same company in the US or Japan, but I think I can see myself doing it in the Netherlands.
We have been attempting our best to come towards the most correct answers for everything, since forever. To suggest all of a sudden that this method is irrelevant is odd. It is to suggest that we should no longer pursue truth and instead lay everything on the table and say it's all correct and you should just pick whatever makes you feel the best.
> is the final arbiter of truth

That's a strawman argument. Judges are are not final arbiters of truth either, yet they can take away certain constitutional protections from people. It is perfectly possible to have non-final and fallible arbiters of truth - or something more modest like the interpretation of laws - to decide on such matters, as long as there is enough democratic division of power, due process, and appeals mechanisms.
I don't think so. It would be great though to encourage dabbling.

I am glad that my customers and company pays the bills because they can fluctuate very noticeably.

For private use I still host my own server just because the costs are fixed an I know what I am getting.
And more nit picking, some countries in Europe don't charge at all for higher education
Yes. If they were as widely available, you would be able to know what you're buying, how much and hopefully how to apply it as safely as possible. Having drugs being illegal make them stronger, as they have to be transported in secret, and create derivative drugs to fill lower price ranges for long term addicts, such as crack and oxy.
>This sentence assumes that the state, however it is made up, or perhaps the scientific elite or even clergy, is the final arbiter of truth.

Not really; it could easily be the case that when such an issue comes to trial, you can present your evidence and arguments. The issue you point out only arises in the case where undue priority is given to the scientific elite or clergy.

But I think the sentence isn't implying what you think it is. It's only highlighting that the goal of seeking truth isn't sufficient to justify the principle of free speech. This is for two reasons: it's not clear that all speech does lead to truth (even in the long run), and it's not clear that all truths should be revealed.

The sentence only argues against people who justify free speech on the basis of truth. It does not propose that lies or discussion to find truth should be prohibited. "Free speech is good because it leads to truth/revealing the truth is a good in all contexts" does not stand up as an argument - at least according to this refutation of Mill.
> If your code can execute 10x faster without jQuery then the optimization is not premature.

One could argue that it is premature if the code doesn't _need_ to run 10x faster.
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I think the crux here is that decriminalising/legalising the use of drugs such as heroin would not make them more widespread and ubiquitous. Despite being illegal they are still so very easy to access in almost all countries, and most people are well aware of the high risks associated with them. Legalising them would bring users/abusers into a more public sphere where it is far easier to access harm reduction and the state can provide it without legal complications
>Pornography could also not be made legal by it, as it expresses no opinion.

Pornography is very opinionated. By deciding on what acts are shown, what actors are shown, where the camera is placed, what zoom level is chosen, etc. the creators exhibit no less opinion than any other author.

Viewed via a historical lens, the kind of pornography being created and consumed in a society can be very indicative of that society's values and morals, and possibly quite influential in its turn.
Looks and feels great! How did you create the artefacts and all the other stuff in the initial breaching sequence?
I bought into this a few years ago and ended up regretting it. My code has become much harder to maintain and read due to all the extra boilerplate code, and it probably has hidden bugs and compatibility issues that I'm not even aware of. And for some things I still ended up requiring jQuery, because they just weren't feasible to do in vanilla JS.

I have actually gone back to making heavier use of jQuery again these days.
"I know we asserted a principled stance against smoking, but we now live above a tobacconist!"

You could also say that when rumors did spread back in Mill's day (or before), they were harder to correct as quickly. As an example Cervantes spends a whole chapter in Don Quixote Part II arguing against the inauthenticity of a false sequel.

Times have changed, but the bar must remain high to dismiss centuries of political synthesis and struggle, based on a few new conditions.
Imo, the US dollar will remain the world reserve currency and the safest thing as long as the US military remain the most powerful. Sure, EU politics could be more stable but they can't defend against threats (Russia).

Also, I don't think many people, countries and businesses are going to trust China. They have a bad track record especially in crypto (detaining CEOs, freezing money, etc...). Everybody else is too small to matter (ie: New Zealand, Emirates, etc...).
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I've worked with quite a few people who had "15 years of experience" which would be better described as "one year of experience practiced 15 times".

The main thing that such an internship-apprenticeship system guarantees is that the newer generation is well-versed in the ways of the old generation, and will likely have a similar record.

In a conservative industry, such as civil engineers building bridges, roads and buildings, and electrical engineers building high-voltage electrical distribution systems, this is what you want -- those industries have converged on good safety records. You want a few people who innovate, but otherwise much prefer to delay the future by 10-20 years than to the potential risks of bringing it sooner.

If the same was prevalent in software, we'd likely still be coding in COBOL on IBM mainframes.

Tesla is a very interesting case study - actually managing to bring the future sooner (with relatively small accumulated damage so far) in a field where being conservative is considered a virtue.

If you'd rather work with the apprenticed person, this model still exists in banks, who are willing to pay big bucks to maintain their cobol backends.
What do you mean with it? The quantum state of a two particle system? In that case I am pretty sure - even though I am not a physicist - that you are wrong. The quantum state of a two particle system can not be decomposed into two states, one state for each particle, in the general case. You can find the density matrix for each particle which will tell you how each corresponding particle will behave in isolation but you will lose information about the system by doing so in the general case.
How do you know it's "by design"? By default macOS was always using this encryption scheme, but there was always possibility to have an optional FDE. Now this is broken and I can't even manage to get macOS installed when any encrypted partition is present since it's also cause installer to fail.

I obviously find it being absolutely terrible "design" decision since there no way on earth anyone can count disk encryption key that is unlockable by user password or faceid secure.

PS: If someone have any idea how having separate boot password can be hacked aroud I'll really appreciate the advice.
> Same in Germany. E.g. you cannot publicly state that the Holocaust was an invention because that it happened is a fact. So it cannot be an opinion.

Of course, some falsehoods are easily spoken and unpunished, such as the claims by many a religion.

It does not solve the issue that sensitive falsehoods are more easily censored that those the public has no particular emotional investment in.

Even on the subject of genocides, denying that the Armenian genocide happened, or even denying that the genocides of the Third Reich against the Slavs and the Gypsies happened seems to be quite legal in Germany.
Yes, it is a misunderstanding of Mill. He wasn't arguing that all things spoken freely are true and therefor valuable. He was arguing that censoring speech will stop the propagation of both true and false ideas, and that better to allow the ideas to fight it out in the open than to squash any hope of discovering many truths.
> Today hate speech can piped into eyes and ears by our mobile phones, turbocharged by algorithms which are funded by billions in advertising dollars.
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> Back in John Stuart-Mill's day the most anyone could achieve would be to write a book or a newspaper article, which are quite easy to ignore.

Turning off Twitter and Facebook are quite easy to do, apart from their addictive designs. (I permanently disconnected from Facebook two years ago, and today only occasionally check Twitter a few times a month.) There are a few things I miss out on not being on Facebook (mostly some groups that would be helpful for my actual, real-life networks); I miss absolutely nothing by being off of Twitter (and HN is like a quality filter for the tech industry Twitter crap).

So, indeed, even if someone could define an objective criteria for "hate speech," everyone is still offended by their own consent.