skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no company is going to assign budget to something that's clearly useless

That would be true only if leadership was 100% omniscient and knowledgeable in all topics. The problem is that ultimately only leadership and shareholders are incentivized by company profits.

People on a salary care more about their personal salary and benefits, and while those should theoretically correlate with company profits, the feedback loop is extremely long and can be affected by external factors, potentially concealing inefficiencies, ultimately allowing people on a flat salary to prioritize their personal gains at the detriment of the company's gains.

And the above still assumes good faith and mere lack of skill. When you include fraud or mis-selling into the mix (such as big consulting companies charging insane sums for unkept promises then outsourcing the actual work to incompetent people) the problem becomes so much bigger.
I was willing to cut some slack because I'm sure some operations actually take time on the back end (eg. create a VM) but even browsing read only pages make my laptop fan spin up like no other web site does.
I just wanted to show how silly is sounds that some ally countries think they can enforce actions on other countries
Kudos to Nigeria. The government, and governmental policies of any country are for their citizens to decide, not for Silicon Valley elites to dictate. Any other time period elites trying to control other countries political affairs would be called for what it is -- imperialism.
This anxiety about being able to join the club is the key to keeping the 99% imprisoned. We are all just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Who do you consider to be responsible for CHAZ?
>However, those that are not bullshit are relatively straightforward, they don't need an army of salespeople. They wouldn't support an industry of the size that it is now.

What are some examples? Maybe with adblock I'm missing all the complex derivatives being peddled to people these days, but the financial products I know of are pretty straightforward.
The Disaster Meeting
Wait, so is your argument that it should be okay to pay people dirt-poor wages because Amazon used to get away with it? I get that it's a classic tactic to avoid a loophole in legislation and then build a regulatory moat afterwards, but I don't really feel paying people more is a good example.
Shopify uses tens of thousands of Ruby classes
1) the woke ones.
2) see the comment up thread about the disabled person expected to to fall in line because they’re part of a minority group.
3) see kafkatrap.
4) unsure what you’re asking.
5) see latinx conversation up thread.
Look at the bright side, Google at least discusses some stuff with other companies rather than doing ActiveX or other crap like Microsoft when they had 80%+ of the market.
I saw 2069 yesterday when reading about the plan to do a fly-by of the nearest star system (Alpha Centauri), so technically yep, 2070 is the longest-ahead plan I've seen so far! And more concrete, too (literally, hah).

(In case anyone wants to read more, there isn't much info yet but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri#Future_explorat... )
I'd ask some economists if thus is net negative or net positive for developing economies.
Right, Blink and WebKit are no longer reliably similar, which is why when devs don’t test on WebKit (to say nothing of Gecko), rendering stuff can reliably break.

They share a ton of history but the split happened eight years ago and A LOT of code has changed. In fairness, WebKit (and thus, Safari) has later adopted some of the same changes, but they really aren’t synonymous anymore.
...and even in the Iliad Achilles' bravery is attributed to the gods and in Exodus Pharaoh's heart is hardened by God.
The fallacy of placing confidence in confidence intervals
One of the examples of the distinction was a guy who worked at a post production company that:

A) Made cool explosions and aliens for movies, etc. which he loved and thought counted as socially useful coz audiences did too.

B) Made hair shinier and teeth whiter and other visual trickery to give false impressions of branded products. These things served only to take market share from other similar companies that made products that weren't markedly different to theirs.

B made up the majority of what he did, hence "mainly bullshit".

Graeber's claim is that this class of job (dubbed "goons"), according to those ppolled/interviewed only exist because other people employ them too. I.e. if there were an armistice on toothpaste ads that showed white teeth nothing would really change for consumers but if one company stopped the mindshare arms race they would lose market share.
>There is no authentication, but does that mean you are authorized? //

Not being "not authorised" is not the same as being authorised. Authorisation is a positive action.
People are falling over themselves in this thread to blame "Woke" people, but there are barely any concrete examples here at all. It should be easy to provide if this is so blatantly fundamentalist?
Singapore has Common Law inherited from the British. Hong Kong also used to have British-style laws, until, as you said, it was "swallowed by China" (and even then, it's fairly Western on paper).
I had casually assumed climate change would only really impact animals high up the food chain. But to see this amount of species loss in animals at the very bottom of the food chain frightens me
> The agency demanded the newspaper USA Today hand over records on who had read an article about the killing of two FBI agents.

Seems as though they are at least asking USA Today.
Ah. Political satire / sarcasm.

Got it.
Yup, and yet here they are kowtowing to the world's authoritarian governments, just for a few dollars.

They're happy to sellout their users, and everyone's freedoms for a few more dollars this quarter.

We need to stop respecting that like it is an accomplishment.

Yet the downvotes show that people even hear fail to see the paradox of intolerance.

There is one thing that a tolerant society cannot tolerate - intolerance. If intolerance is allowed, it will drive out all tolerance. So it must be stamped out.

Since China is clearly not tolerating free speech on the Internet, it should lose it's access to the internet. Short of that step, we will soon see that the Internet is run by CCP's rules.

(&ya, I hear all the arguments about 'engagement', avoiding balkanization of the internet, etc. - they've all been proven false - tolerating authoritarianism is the worst failure)
They pretend they don't.
Where is the money made?

Take Apple selling phones in the UK. Is the money made in the UK, where the phones are sold? Maybe part of it (selling phones), but Apple enjoys a large premium over Android, and that's more debatable. Was the money made in Taiwan, where iPhones are made? Or in California, where iPhone was invented? Personally, I don't really see why UK would tax Apple more than Android makers, simply because Apple (from California) was more inventive... while the profits were realized in the UK, they weren't created in the UK.
Blink and Webkit have become separate enough that you can't call them the same in good faith: layout engine is completely different, style engine is different and many other parts have been rewritten in both Blink and Webkit independently of each other.
You've got some weird comparisons here. Aside from not seeming relevant, of the three two are ones we definitely pay other people to do sometimes (ever got on a bus?). The last, breathing - you mean I could pay someone to breathe instead of me doing it? And go diving with no tank? Sounds incredible.
I think you are misinformed about the level of corp tax in most poor countries. Twenty countries have corp tax less than 15%, of which about half are poor. 15 have no corporate tax and are either rich or are just unambiguous tax havens.

Average corp tax in Africa and South America is 28%, Europe and Asia are 20%.

https://taxfoundation.org/publications/corporate-tax-rates-a...
Are the citizens deciding this, or is their government deciding for them? It seems like a lot of people are trying to circumvent the ban.
Great - now ad-blockers / anti-data-harvester extensions are going to be further crippled in the name of "security" on all browsers at one go.

This isn't far fetched at all - It is already the most crippled in Google's and Microsoft's browsers and partially crippled in Apple's Safari. And note that all three tech giants browser harvest your personal browsing data as all three of them also run an advertising network.

Mozilla would easily be outvoted by these three on any decision making. (This is ofcourse disregarding the fact that Mozilla already does Google's bidding). The decision that Mozilla makes here will dictate their future - if they cripple their extension api any further, Firefox will be done for as many users will abandon them in huge droves.

As someone on slashdot commented, "There's enough evil here to really do some damage and screw us all over.".
Write articles and post them on LinkedIn, Medium, or a personal website.
Create a personal website to showcase your portfolio.
Print business cards with a tagline that highlights the thing you’re known for.
Incorporate your tagline into your elevator pitch.
Seek out small speaking engagements.
> The article says the ransomware message appeared on a computer in the control room. That seems strange

That computer was probably their "office" computer, which they would use for things like email. From what I understood from the article ("[...] an employee in Colonial’s control room saw a ransom note demanding cryptocurrency appear on a computer just before 5 a.m. The employee notified an operations supervisor who immediately began to start the process of shutting down the pipeline, [...]. By 6:10 a.m., the entire pipeline had been shut down"), the supervisor made the sensible decision of immediately starting an orderly shutdown of the pipeline, before the thing propagated to their control computers; as can be seen by the timing, doing an orderly shutdown takes a while.
Iran's history for the past 200 years is nothing but an alternation of American, British, and Russian/Soviet installed governments, compounded by a foreign religion (Islam) which is actually worse than socialism in terms of destroying a country.
Small software companies with customers all over the world are not multinational companies. These small software companies are located in one country i.e. one physical presence, unlike tech companies where their presence is in multiple countries. So this tax change won't affect small software companies located in one country with international customers.

Edited to add...

The article states: "the rules will aim to make companies pay more tax in the countries where they are selling their products or services, rather than wherever they end up declaring their profits."

The following scenario is unclear to me: A software company based in a European country sell their SaaS product to primarily US customers. The majority of their profits are made with US customers, but the company has no office presence in the US. Does that mean the profit from US sales is subject to the rules of this new tax law? (I assume not, but I could be mistaken.) I assume this law only applies if the company has a physical presence in the US. (But now wondering if my interpretation is correct!)
The timeline of browser extensibility is quite fascinating. There's really not a single place that covers all of it, so I decided to research my own timeline/history:

- Consumer web browsers (1993-)
- Plug-ins (1995-2015ish)
- User Style Sheets (1998-2019)
- Bookmarklets (1998–)
- Browser Extensions (1999–)
- Mozilla XUL (1997–2017)
- Alternative Browser Distributions (2004–)
- Userscripts (2005–)
- Converging on the WebExtensions API (2017–)
- Manifest V3 (2021–)
- No/Low-Code Browser Extension Builders (2021–)

Here's a link to the blog post with my research: https://medium.com/brick-by-brick/a-brief-history-of-browser...

Also, if you care about browser extensibility, join the w3 group (it's free) and watch the GitHub repo!
Challenging myself to understand RISC-V
Straight out of the US/Soviet/Chinese/European surveillance state playbook. They should just ask the NSA for those details. The NSA and their colleagues at Israel and 5 eyes already scoop up information on American citizens.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/11/4719064/the-nsa-shares-ra...
Yeah it's actually the part of the pandemic the government handled the best as far as I can see, they got it up and running really quickly
And if they had not raised wages people would accuse them that they are using market power to push wages down.
This is corporate tax, not personal tax.
Meritocracy means to get jobs and positions based on your merits (i.e. objective skills and criteria), not birth or connections. Of course, luck will always be part of it but that's unavoidable.

It doesn't matter because the elite always have advantage. They have better access to tutors and education and can go very far.

If all that we care about is awarding the best for every position, then that's fine, but that's not entirely how we want to structure society.
The headline is what it is on the site but it should probably be clarified that it is extensions, not plug-ins. The author didn’t correctly distinguish but as other comments point out, it is more than a semantical difference.

This is a good move and something we’ve been moving towards for years, but it is still nice to see. Extensions are often one of the biggest barriers to browser lock-in on the desktop and making it easier for devs to build extensions that can reliably work across browsers, the better it will be for users.

Obviously, the individual browsers will stink have their own specific ways of doing things, but this is a positive development.
Is that meant to be a good thing?
As others have said, MFA would be a decent tool but not all attacks are against VPN so it wouldn't always be so useful. As everyone always teaches, security has to be in-depth and the one largely simple control that is very often missing is segmentation of the system.

Being able to attack a single department is annoying but unlikely to be considered fatal, however, I think that even savvy IT ops people do not really understand vlans, using switches and air-gaps to keep things apart and really concentrating on any single-points of ingress like Sharepoint sites or whatever although most problems seem to spread across the network layer rather than bridging machines over HTTP.

Also, even some simple controls like basic local backup, even to a crappy SAN box in your server room would at least enable you to stick your fingers up at ransomware.
Supreme Court affirms tribal police authority over non-Indians
And of which, one which 100%-ish of its revenues are coming from the other.
No, Stripe take their cut and the tax implications are down to the seller. However! They did recently acquire TaxJar (https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/taxjar) so I imagine things will become easier in this regard, reporting and filing, soon.
Now we just need a nice breakdown of how to implement the skiing from Tribes.
> This sounds like it will be hell for small software companies with customers all over the world.

Uh, no, this will bring required tax profits for rich governments from these predatory countries that will finally fix their budget deficits and insure equality between its citizens.

/just kidding, this will break small companies and make it almost impossible to sell/export to richer countries for small new comers. The big companies will find new loopholes while facing less competition. The EU governments will then just increase the VAT to 35% to fix their deficits. Everything is fine.
It's a true point albeit a delicate one. I have a colleague who is not the brightest (not a developer ;)) and what I've noticed with him is that there's something of a misunderstanding of social contexts in that he interpretes things others do as in bad faith when they're anything but and which is why in such social contexts he's constantly agitated. So he's simply missing the empathy or emotional intelligence to see things from the viewpoint of another person. He'd be one of the people being annoyed that others don't make room for him but also in the same vein he'd be one of those persons not watching out for others simply because he'd have his head full of thinking about himself and what he wants to buy, he simply wouldn't have the mental capability to think about other shoppers in that moment.
The real problem is the OS is fundamentally compromised and your data is at risk of leaking. If you work with data covered by the GDPR that's a no go. Also, I'd not risk logging into my banks website on such an OS.
Suppose we did eliminate the legacy advantages, social connections, admission based on ability to pay, that doesn't change the fact that the rich always have a leg up on the competition.
So the largest violence monopolists in the world are using the unique opportunity handed to them by the pandemic to create a cartel with two purposes:

- raise the protection tax they levy on their subjects

- prevent smaller violence monopolists from undercutting their protection fees through competition

Basically governments deciding competition is not good for them and everyone should just pay up.
For specific context: a tweet that was deemed threatening and inciteful to a segment of the country - the south east (where I'm from), was sent from the President's account.

After sustained uproar and outrage, Twitter deleted the Tweet.

Blocking Twitter is the response.

---

For background context: This government is very unpopular. Twitter has been the medium where the atrocities of the government has been publicized. Last year there was a very popular protest #ENDSARS (campaigning against police brutalization and killings) to which Jack Dorsey made a donation.

Earlier this year, Twitter opened their West African office in Ghana. It was seen as a massive snub and embarrassment to Nigeria. So the government has had a hurt ego brewing for a while.

PS: The great irony is that this government used the influence of social media to get into power. So this is them throwing down the ladder after using it.

AMA.
Eh, I'm going to have to vehemently disagree with anyone suggesting that Germany banning Nazis wasn't a good idea.
It does, because Mozilla recently put out a statement saying they were going to add Manifest V3 support to Firefox without removing MV2 support. Their stated reason is that MV3's architecture is not robust enough to handle all of MV2's use-cases, ad-blockers being the obvious example.

Firefox has little incentive to nerf ad-blockers, unlike Google. And Google can't flex their default search engine payments to Mozilla without walking into the anti-competitive arena.
A local union factory relatively recently started hiring like crazy a few years back. Their wages were higher than every other job in the area, and the same thing happened. Within a year a job that WAS offering $10.50 and saying that they were generous started offering #$12... then $13.50... then $14. Now they're also offering a few hundred dollar bonus as well.
This reminded me of something.
"New PM at the nuclear command centre"
https://youtu.be/1OitCT1KT4k
R is such a horrible language to learn. I gave up entirely and now just use rpy2 for the few things it can do that Python can't.
Countries competing with each other to offer attractive business environments with the lowest taxes is a race to the top, not the bottom.
If you're not noticing a department of your company is defunct, did you need it in the first place?
I specifically mentioned Iran because they have a very low fiscal pressure (around 7%) comparing to say Cuba (40%) or France (46%).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
> That is an interesting argument

It is a terrible argument. Amazon does not control wages, supply and demand curves do. Amazon having lower wages before is simply due to the market for labor at that time having more supply relative to demand (or less demand relative to supply).

They did not have any special laws or circumstances which did not apply to everyone else, regarding the wages they pay. And they still do not.
It's good if all competition can be taxed equal. Small biz cannot compete against Amazon that pays 0% tax in their international arrangements.
Not sure the quotes support the article's contention that is only a "reporting" issue. Hector Martin's quote calls it the "SSD thrashing issue" not a reporting issue, and says diffing the kernel source will be interesting to see what the issue was - would only really be "interesting" IMO if it were thrashing, not a simple reporting problem.
Construction of the Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and was not completed until 1880, with a generous break between 1560 and 1840. During the break, a medieval crane remained in place as a landmark of the Cologne skyline for 400 years. [0]

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Sch%C3%B6nscheidt,_J._H....
To a majority of the Facebook users it is a "foreign company" and trust in the U.S. government is not exactly high.
Absolutely NOT.

Stripe is ONLY a payment gateway, 'Stripe handling taxes' is a complete myth that is always brought up by uninformed US Stripe customers only to hype Stripe up.

Stripe customers in the EU have to deal with this VAT tax pain already which is why they either don't use Stripe and use Paddle instead.
At least two of them (Edge/Chrome) have extensions that are interchangable.
I mean sorry, but no amount of context to "all white people are racist" is going to make people see the nuance.

It's a stupid statement no matter the explanation.

And honestly even the intent at bwst is advocating purity over practice, her point will waste a lot of resources on people who are more or less on board with said idea of anti-racism but are flawed.
It’s odd that they aren’t already paying taxes where goods are sold.
The safety/stability issue comes from the fact that plug-ins (e.g., NPAPI) are native executables

Browsers started dropping support for plug-ins around 2015. However, plug-ins actually held on longer than you might think. Firefox didn't completely drop support for Flash until the beginning of this year
not even humans. what humans don't understand is that when you protect ecosystems, i.e. the planet you protect your own species. We are part of a biological "balance" a change creates risks for us.
This is all true, but I think I marginally prefer the dominion of politicians I can vote for to the feudal structure of multinational corporations, which we have even less power over.
Samuel Langley
Because that would lead to a trade war?
Why should we care about the plight of a startup that wants to use low wages as a competitive advantage?
I agree with your second statement, but your first statement doesn't necessarily follow, it depends on the proportion of jobs that are bullshit....

If a human is 1% likely to think a not-bullshit-job is bullshit, and 10% likely to think a bullshit-job is bullshit, but 99% of jobs are not-bullshit, then for every bullshit job that the worker thinks is bullshit, there are 9.9 not-bullshit jobs that the worker thinks are bullshit.

Edit: Repaired math (2 minutes after posting)
If you think it is a satire, you obviously do not get it.
Most of these are poorer than G7 (and especially the US who is the main beneficiary), so my statement is 100% correct. I didn't say that all poorer countries will get poorer by this specific action. There are many other actions to make everyone poorer than the US.
It’s where they’re sold.
Shod google not be taxed twice in this example? Once on the income made in the USA when they sold the actual thing, and once in Ireland when the Irish branch sold the thing to the USA branch? Not to mention sales tax....
I love the "rivers of value" visual, thank you.
I'm surprised paramedics would only make $22/hour.

Estheticians and hair stylists make more than that (including tips) at a senior level.