skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are unlikely to find a western labor union that is specifically pro immigration these days. Since labor has been in decline in the west for the last few decades. Before that I am sure you could find those who were pro labor immigration. The Nordic countries have for example had relatively large labor immigration under social democratic governments (which are usually associated with the labor unions).

Also it depends what you mean by pro immigration. No union is going to be pro liberal immigration rules, since they don't want to undermine their own members. For it make sense for a union it has to be employees who are lacking, either in numbers or skill, in the country and can therefor expand the country's share of the market.
The witcher wasn't outsourced to the cheapest devs available.
I understand you are frustrated, but I just dont understand the opinion that says that the EU is somehow punishing or making it hard for the UK during Brexit. I would really want to know what you would expect.

Generally if you(as a country) decide to leave a club, you cannot keep drinking the mojitos that are available inside.

There are a lot of things that came through EU membership to the UK, but these things cannot stay if the UK does not want to be inside the EU. The only way to keep some of the benefits is to negotiate with the EU. And some benefits are just not able to be separated from others. Like freedom of movement with the single market.

Im interested in seeing what the UK decides to do in the next two months. What kind of consensus between the MPs is going to be found? (or maybe none at all?)
I love how he nonchalantly throws in a 0-day x86 PoC in the end.
I'd go out on a limb and say, no, no its not.

I have relatives that play the European baroque music circle. They have a fine collection of various stringed instruments.

Most of them are older than the USA. to give a rough price just look at this page: http://www.contrabass.co.uk/cstopquality.htm

A "decent" baby grand piano (used) is about £10k. A "concert" baby grand is about £18k (you know, loud, acid, overly bright)

For the sort of music I want to play, the Una Corda, is perfect. If I was working at a recording studio again, I suspect there would be a large market for having this piano in.

In most of the studios I've been in, the piano is stripped bare and has all sorts of padding in. (and no, its not fun to vacuum.)
It's appropriate that a method of recourse is available for foreigners in this type of position. If the situation was swapped for an US citizen falsely accused of espionage in another country, I'm sure the US government would want the same. This would help some to prevent innocent people being used as bargaining pieces in geo-political disputes.
If you search for 'premenstrual syndrome' you'll find symptoms reported include things like anxiety, irritability and mood swings.
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For what it’s worth, it’s very common for close people to share their Deliveroo account, a bit like Netflix.

I would never but one of my two housemates was very confused why they couldn’t have my password so that they could look at the menu and each add their option to the order. (The third housemate was also a developer so he was surprised that I could remember it and I got sermoned about 1Pass over pizza.)

I also have heard of cases of close (female) friends who know each other’s password; when one had a health incident (miscarriage), the other took upon herself to order for the first one, to comfort her. She tried from her own account but failed (couldn’t remember the name of the restaurant), so connected to her grieving friend’s account, changed it to use her debit card. It was fully appreciated, but a surprise.

“Authorised” in that sense falls somewhere between:

- I know who those people are;

- we are part of the same household;

- I know that they can have access to my account;

- they made sure that I know they are on my account;

- I actively allowed them to be on my account right now;

- the device is shared.
Funny how people only ever use "entitled" to describe labor demanding better treatment from management, but never to describe management demanding that labor do more for less.
Only one data point but this [1] suggests otherwise. It invalidates the idea that the median is in the < 100k range however it does not speak to mobility, i.e. that you may be stuck with an entry level salary for a longtime because you are indentured to the company that facilitated your H1b.

[1]: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=GOOGLE+INC&job=SOFTWARE+EN...
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They are doing it. Outsourcing has a cost unto itself though, just like unionizing has a cost.
I agree that this makes Lee Sedol's one win against AlphaGo even more impressive. But deepmind also felt ready to host this event and it chose European pros to compete with not Asian pros, who arguably have better micro and innovate a lot of the new meta.
Amen. I buy old cars specifically because I can fix them myself. Newer cars are getting so ridiculous. Even if you can fix them, they're arranged in such a way as to be very difficult. It boggles my mind that we're currently driving disposable CARS, of all things.
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That article says that executives private jets because they
get "privacy" but in reality, this leaves them open to monitoring.
I think it exactly addresses your original topic, but you're in no way obligated to engage it further. Have a nice day!
Separate your 5% stake (i.e. your ownership in the company) from your salary as an employee of the company (the amount of money your labor is worth). Calculate how much that labor is worth on the market and see if the 5% stake is making up the gap. If not, then you are getting a raw deal. If so, then you are just fine and should work your normal hours.
Haha "far-left" that's hilarious. I'll need to take the 2A bumper stickers off my pickup... "Isolationist" that's pretty good too. That must be why I lived and worked overseas for years and why I'm married to an immigrant. "Isolationist" has been redefined in USA (with the popular news media's help, of course) as "reluctant to drop bombs in other hemispheres". In every other place on Earth, it would mean something like "reluctant to do business or socialize with those from other nations". (Hint: we're the ones who have this wrong.)

Really I'm just a pacifist. I've paid attention to lots of awful things going on around the world for a few decades, and I've noticed that many of them can be traced back to USA Wars On X, where X is "Communism" or "Terror" or "Drugs" or "Oil Pipelines" or whatever. Our nation continually commits and suffers myriad evils in order that armaments manufacturers may be further enriched. It would be difficult to respect anyone who isn't an "extremist", by the lights of the popular news media who support those evils.
And yet, is tech not about solving hard problems? Isn’t the supposed vision of this industry to make the world a better place?
Untrue.. if you take a look at what existing software unions are right now lobbying for in congress
Thank you for the detailed context.
Varies from state to state. Some states have union requirements for certain sectors, or as businesses are either unionized or not. Right to work states make it so that there can be no requirement to join a union.

Of course Arizona itself has a weird kind of reverse union of hospitals that covers nursing that afaik hasn't been challenged yet, which seems like it would be either a right to work or trust violation. Can't speak to a broader sense.
They really should have used BroodWar for deep mind. SCII is way too volatile. Way more gimmicks available that will make it difficult for AI to come close to a human player.
The idea that the American government will step up and legislate these protections is a hopeful one, but not even remotely realistic. It's a much better use of the time of game developers to unionize now, demand better working conditions now, and strike now.
Sure. Isn't this datacenter in London, though? Privacy and data retention and whatnot...FWIW, there seem to be some anecdota of data migrations to Ireland and Frankfurt, everywhere I bring this question up (except for some British companies moving their data the opposite way).
> The issue isn't with sample size.
The issue isn't with sample size.

The sample is almost certainly biased, we just don't necessarily know how much and in what direction.
Apple is telling themselves that at the same time they're saying that the prices are fine. They don't want to admit that they over-reached on the price, especially in countries like China.
This further reinforces the pattern of terminating TLS at the LB. While this is generally justifiable, it does decrease defense-in-depth.
Their feedback is desirable because again, they can help others build better unions. A 2.0 version, if you will.
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They limited the APM to 180 for AlphaStar's input I think. An average professional player consistently plays at 200-300 APM with peak levels generally going to 350-400 APM during engagements.

To me, it seems like AlphaStar is actually at a disadvantage in its ability to micro, and has to make up for this in its macro level strategy.
Most work, but about 1/4 of them don't :(
> I do not want my future in any way controlled by yet another external entity that I have little control over and promises nebulous results.

You mean like.... an employer?

> As an employer

Ahh.
Then what if the next wave of unions are designed to be voluntary instead of compulsory?
Yes, a company is a group of people organized with a central purpose. However, companies are not allowed to coordinate with each other to fix pricing or availability or other terms. Nor are they allowed to take actions that shut non-coordinating companies out of the market. I may be wrong, but it is my understanding that unions do not have these constraints and, in fact, the reason they are even legal is due to statutory exemptions from anti-trust law that makes that combination of "purpose" an option. So to me, it's not an apple to apple comparison. And that's the problem of principle that I have. I don't think a market operates well when the ability to fix it is granted to some parts but not others.

The comparison to me would be operating only within a single company. I don't think there's anything stopping a group of employees from using whatever bargaining value they have to move the company in one direction or another - whether it's pay, working conditions, product development, etc.
Depends on industry film has a high labour cost because you pay actors a lot - I suspect the % of film labour costs due to Bectu/ ISATSU members is not that big.
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For live sound and for people who don't have too much hearing loss, the hearing aid doesn't have to reproduce all the sound. Instead it supplements what's already there. Some of the sound goes through a vent directly to your ear. A hearing aid doesn't have to reproduce deep bass notes, for example.

And for a lot of live music, it's plenty loud enough and protection from (further) hearing loss would be more of an issue.

The main issue I have with my hearing aid when playing music is that the feedback cancelation isn't as good as I'd like for pure, higher pitched notes. (Feedback protection is needed because sound goes out the vent as well as in and that reaches the microphone.)
In the academia people prefer PyTorch over TensorFlow.
"Regarding threats, Western Europe gave a lot of promises and love to Czechoslovakia, annoyed the German Reich which now occupies a third of the country." No historical parallel there, noooosir.
Isn’t the whole point of the OP about how shitty the video game sector is
It doesn't matter that they can't do anything if they don't need to do anything. Things attackers can't do only matter if they'd need to do them.
High-paying offer in academia? Not likely.
Ahhh, yes. I really meant the "-" operator and not the "+" operator.
Per DeepMind's blog post[1], an agent was initially trained via supervised learning on pro matches. Then, the agent was forked repeatedly, as the population of agents learned via tournament-style self-play. So, while initial strategies could have been seeded by pro play styles, the final models were the result of models learning from games with other models.

[1] https://deepmind.com/blog/alphastar-mastering-real-time-stra...
There's no way this was just an acquire: Citus represents some truly impressive computer science.
I remember neighbourhood play at seven years old when my friend's older brothers donned us with boxing gloves and had us fight each other. Good memories.
Nah YAML is better because of diffing.

JSON uses commas `,` which will show multiple changes when the last item of a list changes.
SMB is a small or medium business.

Per the answer I gave to a separate answer, there's more than meets the eye when you're measuring an online ROI. Text/image only ads would prevent adequate ad fraud tracking. Take the naive scenario where you add some utm parameters to your PPC campaign and call it a day. The next thing you know you can have a bunch of bots crawling your site owing to click bots and referral spam, alongside fake user bots building profiles by replaying bits and pieces of actual traffic sessions, the two combining to messing up your traffic stats. And if you're large enough to have sophisticated fraudsters target your site, another cohort of bots might show up registering to your SaaS to test stolen CC numbers, messing up your sign up stats to boot.

And, don't get me wrong here. I'm an engineer too and I've been using ad blockers for longer than I've been neck deep into marketing and sales. I just get where you're coming from. But the sorrier realities on the ground are not as simple as one might think from afar.
The archive link preserves any formatting changes. Which i imagine is the interesting part about this (HN UI hasnt really changed)
TR was punted to the vice presidency to get him out of New York because he was too radical. Johnson and JFK pushed through some of the most progressive civil rights and anti poverty measures this country has ever seen. By today’s standards all three would 100% be considered radicals, and were considered so by their contemporaries.

Edit: I didn’t say what I want to happen, just what I thought was most likely. Strange reason to downvote

Edit 2: I think Vietnam weighs heavily on LBJ and JFK. I personally lay that on the feet of the military industrial complex coopting an inexperienced JFK, and LBJ doing everything he could to see through his predecessors policies.
As a consequence of people entering the program at different times, required classes and electives are a blood sport to schedule. Some courses are only offered in fall or spring with a prerequisite class to be completed to schedule, so you could have to literally wait and sit with a very light schedule for a semester because you were a half semester off the 4 year trajectory, or the class was full and you have to wait until it's offered again. This ultimately wastes a lot of your time at college. I bet if scheduling was completely painless and not constrained around classes with a waitlist double the size of the class, and you could take your required classes any semester you'd like, people could get the CSE degree in 3 years and save quite a lot on tuition.
TLO is to Starcraft* as Fan Hui is to Go. They are strong players but not the best. I am guessing that Deepmind knows that the strength of their bot isn't ready to take on the very top players, and wanted to show off against a well-known personality in the Starcraft II scene.

Incidentally, though, the strongest Starcraft II player currently is arguably Serral [1], who is Finnish. He beat the strongest Korean players to win the WCS World Championship last year.

[1] https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Serral

* at least TLO's skill level when offracing as Protoss. His main race, Zerg, is very strong, ranked around 70-80th in the world.
It's not about telling companies how to build products. It's literally about the right to tinker, hack, repair, etc -- which could be heavility discouraged with EULAs, ToSs, or even legal action.

And in many cases the OEMs have all the parts to fix things, will happily want to fix things, but won't sell them except through their overpriced 1st party service -- or even build into the hardware repair-detecting and disabling countermeasures (like Apple or John Deere does with some hardware iirc).

It seems like asking for the very basic right.

Even from the industrial side, reversible manufacturing is usually the best way to design a product -- it wouldn't surprise if some manufacturers (particular for products that don't have enough competition) go out of their way to make their hardware difficult to repair -- e.g. using glue instead of screws, complicating assembly, etc. An easy, reversible assembly process should be expected to cost less; using screws is much easier to automate, debug and qualify than glue; and so on.

Asking for the right to repair, and availability of parts/manuals when reasonable, seems like a very healthy, pro-efficiency, pro-competition move.
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When unions were first starting, people were literally putting their lives on the line to protest and strike. State troops (in various states) were called, protesters were killed. Frankly, today isn't that bad for most people. Personally, I don't have a problem with unions existing as a protected option. But insisting they exist is akin to Communism imho.
Is the source code available for this 2.0 preview? I'd like to look at whatever changes there are in the C++ API.
I love that the piano maker's name is Klavins. I know it means Maple Tree or something like that in Latvian(?), but it's also very close to "klavier", which means piano in various languages.
I think CSS is a very powerful language for designing both a document and a user interface. It will not go away soon, so learning CSS as a designer will be a good investment.
I think making these arguments at this point shows just how effective the decades long campaign of anti-union propaganda has been.

How great did those rockstar employees do when google and other massive companies engaged in anti-poaching agreements to drive salaries down? How good do they do when they end up divorced and miserable after putting in yet another 2 months of 100 hour work weeks?
Textile mills used to and still do in some low cost locales
This is simply a marketing line, not reality. EA, Activision, and Rockstar are making record profits, not struggling to meet budgets. The base price of a game as you point out, gets you less than a whole game, for which you need to buy a season pass (sometimes as many as three of them) they have product tie-ins (Pizza rolls, Dew), they have DLC om-disc and off, and a world of microtransactions abusing gambling mechanics, and the disgusting “Live Services” model.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pHSso2vufPM
Most human APM is wasted on "spam clicks". The effective APM, or EPM, is probably quite a bit higher for AlphaStar than for human pros.
Maybe that shows most clearly the firepower of the authors...
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Here is one incident where police accidentally ran into a parked car with a man in the passenger seat. They then arrested him for hitting and damaging their car. He was later exonerated by video from a security camera.

I’ve heard stories like this going back to the ‘60s. I suspect there are an order more incidents like this that never make a major news outlet, and probably an order beyond that which end up being citizens word against the cop’s because there is no video to back it up.

https://nypost.com/2014/02/21/cops-hit-my-car-then-arrested-...
Were the contracts user generated, or your own standard template?

If the latter, then embedding your own signature tags into a standard template seems like the simplest use of DS API.

Wondering why their tech support didn't share this solution. Or maybe it's no longer supported(?)

(Full disclosure: I helped design the DS REST API and their Salesforce AppExchange app many years ago)
Posted this here because most of the advice comes from training speakers at tech conferences like Web 2.0 and Lean Startup.
I would expect smaller game companies to be less well represented.
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Have used both, though granted React was the first SPA i learnt and i had to use Angular 1.x (shudders) and i absolutely hate working Angular 1.x.
This would be a problem if you crush the cans to save space. It makes transport of the empties a much bigger hassle if you can't crush them.
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Actually no, I didn't work in America, I worked in Switzerland, and worked for Google Switzerland, not that it matters. I was thinking of moving to US before I knew how much less people are payed there generally compared to Zurich, and how hard life is there compared to Switzerland in reality (it's very different compared to what I saw in American movies, but maybe that was my naivity :) ).

US ,,defense'' department is killing a lot of people that have done nothing bad. It didn't kill people in my country (I'm lucky that my country joined the EU), but it could have.

I'm generally against killing people, but I understand that it's part of the power play governments are doing. Still, I don't want to help it.

About the pay: yes, you're right, they payed a lot. When I joined Google the first time in my life, I loved it so much, I would have worked for free, just to be able to read the design docs that weren't available back then, and learn from great people.
How did they make those data visualizations? (specifically, the visually-skewed ridge plots). That's a nice approach for those types of plots since they can get cluttered without the perceptual skew.
This is the future and it's not just big companies doing it.

Virtually all of the companies that were built on open source products in the past few years stopped centering their focus as being the best place to run said open source program, but instead holding back performance and feature improvement as proprietary instead of pushing back upstream.
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Why? They won ten out of eleven matches. Seems like they got pretty close to human players...
I'm someone is and has had very senior roles in software development without any formal education past high school, for the past 24 years. I'd rather not have a program that requires such in this area of work. There are already enough businesses that won't hire me for a give role because of their internal requirements for certain positions, I'd rather not.
But you will do absolutely nothing to actually push the conversation that way, and will advocate against any movement until they pull a manifesto out of thin air?
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Lee Sedol "divine move" actually doesn't work, even human top players would have punished it.

It actually was just a really weird mistake in AlphaGo
Deliveroo isn’t real. Nothing is real. We are all just brains in vats attached to wires with simulations on the other end. The person in charge of maintaining you is a cruel god. Sometimes he injects your brain with an anxiety-inducing drug, just to make you suffer and think that perfectly good food is unacceptable because it was cooked an hour ago.

The rest of us don’t get injected with that drug, so we focus on the more positive aspects of the food and more generally enjoy our existence.
sample size is irrelevant if the selection criteria are poor.