skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer an analogy of "Nobody in NYC has been mugged in 3 months, let's fire all the policemen." because I think it's much more accurate from the angle that a union existing, but not doing anything other than sitting there, is still adding a pressure that management will keep in mind, a union being disbanded is saying "Welp, go ahead, do your worst." (and probably worse than a union never having existed, because a lack of a union can still retain the threat that a union may form, while a union dissolving is more demonstrative of collective bargaining just failing due to poor social cohesion which means the weaker actors can be picked on freely)
+1 for jOOQ. I prefer to Just Write Queries than muck about with quirky ORM magic that gets turned into queries. jOOQ lets me do that with safe query building and type checking through to the DB level (with code gen).
The default cost of a transaction is typically ~$.30 cents. Thats just payment processing. Not alot of margin there.

A web app could aggregate charges to me, and aggregate payments out to content creators. Obviously. That's what Patreon was doing. Others could do it too. (If the allegations of collusion with payment processing are true, this would explain why this isn't done more.)
This has happened often enough in the past that they probably have a procedure in place. It keeps the internet from blowing up in their face but it doesn't solve the underlying problem.
I agree with you, both on your ideas and your skepticism of ID-driven live-streams.

One major problem is that companies like FB are financially disincentived to do preemptive content moderation because it would dramatically reduce the rate at which content is generated, and thus the amount of content generated. Maintaining a high rate of content generation keeps engagement high, which in turn drives ad revenue.
I'm glad it shared. Just because you find it horrifies doesn't mean other will feel the same. I want to see it just for curiosity.
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Henry Ford invented the 40 hour work week.

Without Unions.
Amusing. I suggest France adapts or dies if they want to continue to play a leading role. Countries are only as strong as their economy and France's economic performance is uninspiring.
Sarkozy is pushing for a transfer of Northern European wealth to the South but the EU is not the US.
Oh, I didn't intend to do that. I just said that it seems irrational to me for the execs to leave their company because the engineering practices are not perfect. Fix the practices, keep on going.
The cost of processing is more or less constant, but the risk borne scales with the transaction size.
Homicides are down; should we loosen the laws?

If we can assume you're talking about USA, absolutely we should. We have more people in prison, in both absolute and percentage terms, than any society anywhere in the history of the human race. There is nothing about our situation that makes this a reasonable state of affairs. Reversion to the mean would contribute to justice.
>They didn't just find random GPUs under the table they forgot about, and now that they have a massive fleet of GPUs it's not suddenly going to start handling dremel queries.

This strikes me as rather amusing. Google was having such trouble getting their hands on enough GPUs that they decided to build custom hardware accelerators (TPUs) to fill the gaps.

I'm sure they'll find a use for these.
I think the payoff is for merging unrelated histories, that you can then rebase one history on the other, and present a new unified history.

Is the really only reason why people do this, so that you can rewrite your initial working commit in a rebase? I think that might be it. (You can't easily rewrite the initial commit with a rebase.)
I hear this a lot, and this is typically a network optimization problem. Networking is hard, and "a cable with enough bandwidth" is only part of the issue. How many hops between devices? Are any devices in the chain wireless? What router are you using? How many other devices are connected to it, and what kind of load are they putting on it?

FWIW, I frequently stream PS4 and PC games, wirelessly, over 802.11ac and it's more than playable. Dark Souls III, and even Overwatch, is playable over my network.
I regard it as a privilege because most people outside of programming work a lot harder and get paid a lot less.
My online annoyances mostly come from having too many open tabs. That's why i use a Chrome add-on (Great Suspender) to automatically kill inactive tabs, which killed my RAM in a long run.
Commission is always limited in some absolute sense, but that's not what I was suggesting. I was suggesting structuring differently than on % of sale price ... after all that is affected by a lot of things out of the agents control and does not lead to incentives necessarily matched with the principal.
You have to have a reason though.

"We're no longer bundling payments because we don't wanna, so now you get to pay more and it all goes to Visa" is the most ridiculous thing.
> Individual workers are powerless, only able to bring their own labor to the negotiation table.

What do you mean they are only able to bring their own labor to the table, what else is there that a laborer can bring to the table other than their own labor? If individual workers feel powerless that is probably not because of them possessing something other than their own labor while not being able to negotiate that something.
Thanks for jumping into the thread.

I took your app for a spin and was expecting to be asked to give it access to all my contacts, but was planning to click the fine-print option for "No thanks, I'll just invite people manually one at a time" .. but then there was no option, just a mandatory Enable Contacts button with no explanation other than, "Your parents are not on Basement".

I'm not gonna tell you how to keep your gate, and maybe I'm not the target demographic, but it would be nice for the app to explain what it was planning to do with that permission before requesting it.
"Membership was mandatory for employment"

Union membership is optional for Kroger employees in Mid-South. All employees get the union-negotiated benefits but dues are optional. They won't work hard to defend non-union members, though.

What location was this Kroger where union membership was mandatory? I didnt even know that was legal.
"Have the poor just considered not being poor?"
>It might increase income inequality in your country, but does it do so globally?

I think locality matters for income inequality. The poor kid in Bangladesh, really doesn't care that someone owns a $100 Million apartment in Manhattan. However, if you are the working poor in NYC struggling to make ends meet, you are likely to feel something viscerally (maybe a tiny amount) when you go past those apartments.

People tend to compare and judge locally. Who you see, who you interact with on a daily basis matter far more than some theoretical person 1000's of miles away.
It's legal in Canada and most of Europe
That was my understanding as well. Someone did an analysis when I was at Google and concluded that there was basically no way to optimize the rush-hour schedule further and pack further trains in, given reasonable acceleration/deceleration constraints and station boarding times. I've also had the experience of sitting at the Castro/Moffett/Central crossing for 20 minutes as 3 trains go by and block every opportunity for a green light.

"AIUI, Mountain View considered this (grade separation) w/ the Castro/Moffett/Central intersection, but decided against it, opting instead for simple removing the crossing."

Wait, are they getting rid of the Castro crossing? This seems...strange, given that that crossing is the primary highway access to downtown (via 85), one of the primary routes between the Googleplex and downtown/Castro, and also links a densifying residential neighborhood to downtown. Are they getting rid of the bus service between Caltrain and the Googleplex as well?
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Man. I like two things. Boring languages/frameworks, and minimalism.

Boring languages/frameworks Just Work, and are usually pretty secure.

Minimalist --which is to say, making something as simple as possible, but no simpler-- means fewer moving parts which can break in production.

90% of what my places of employment and clients need is the same old shit, and I like to build it so that when something breaks, I can jump in and hammer out the broken thing and get the process moving again without needing a ton of research.
The new switch feature looks nice, the way it previously used to work was so unwieldy.
Do you feel the same way about telephones and web browsers.

Because telephone companies cant pre-censor conversation...they dont have value.

Because web browsers dont block objectionable content from reaching other peoples comp...they dont have value.

I find it absurd to say that facebook has no value to people because it cant screen everything for worth before its posted. That said, sure why does something being posted have to be instantly visible without first meeting some criteria. What's wrong with a small buffer?
It's actually worse. In his examples, nobody profits from a disregard of the rules.

A more similar scenario would be "let's disband the IRS, as nobody does tax evasion anymore"
Once I'm in a "terminal" node what happens? I dying the only way out ;)
Redmond, Washington. This may be relevant, we've both moved away from the area and haven't kept up with local news: https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/supreme-court-un...
What you say here is correct. I learned a more generalized version of this with the first business I ever started:

if you are entirely dependent on a single supplier or a single customer, your business is very much at risk.
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> I learned a fair bit, but I also learned that in the college team project atmosphere, folks are gonna get carried and you’ll be graded on the total possible output of four people.

I think this is basically in keeping with non-college group project environments, broadly speaking. It’s easier for managers in an employment environment to judge output in group scenarios because feedback is often less structured than assigning grades in an academic environment, but the end consumer (whether internal or external) of a work product evaluates that product based on its result, not individual contribution. Ultimately, that all-up judgment ends up being more impactful than evaluation of individual contribution.
There's a lot of computer games I can't play at 60fps because my computer isn't good enough.

I would like if someone else handled all the hardware upgrades, so I don't have to spend so much money every year just to keep up.

One of the appealing aspects of South Korea gaming cafes is that all the computers can be rented for a few dollars and tend to be maxed out. That environment creates a great place for everyone to get into gaming.

I'm not sure how that fits into Google's long-term interests, but it definitely fits into mine.
I always forget them, so I have this bookmarked: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...

TL;DR:

Add ^ to search for matches in your browsing history.

Add * to search for matches in your bookmarks.

Add + to search for matches in pages you've tagged.

Add % to search for matches in your currently open tabs.

Add # to search for matches in page titles.

Add $ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).

Add ? to search for matches in suggestions.
Having competing unions is an interesting concept. It may be a hard sell because technically the primary legal ability of a union is prevent competition among the workers. If you are a rock star you can't get hired at a greater wage. If you are a nepotism cling on you can't get fired or demoted.
Congratulations Kickstarter! I hope this becomes a trend in the tech industry. A union is not only about getting better pay, or more vacation - it is about having a voice in the future of the company.
Uber #101: Everything is 'legal' until it's been tested in court and found not to be.
Please differentiate between "dissolving" and "scaling back" if the union is mostly just idle I'd be disappointed if it didn't lower the membership dues. There could be discussions about building up a bank for rainy days, but if the union isn't doing anything but has a steep monthly payroll for administration that's a legitimate criticism... so cut down those dues until it's needed at full force again.
More like sailing in to the sun :)
The headline doesn't seem to be correct. From the announcement:

>Teams in Trello can be free... free Teams in Trello can have up to 10 open boards, and can upgrade to Business Class or Enterprise for unlimited boards.
I wish them well, but having family members and friends work in unionized workplaces, it's not something I would ever do.

It always seems to degenerate into an "us vs them" sort of thing whenever I talk to them about where they work.

Even before this news, half a year ago, I pegged Kickstarter as a company ridden with "ideological possession." The clock is ticking, as far as I can tell.
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Most store-bought or restaurant kimchi has fish-sauce and/or bits of shrimp.

I can't find much support for B12 in these foods in online databases.

If these must be home-made or of similar quality, supplementation of B12 is still going to be important.
So far I'm seeing very few people using my app in Firefox... they're mostly chrome. By about 80%... and a ton are from Hacker News... Makes it hard to justify coding for Firefox but I'm trying.
I ate once a day for years. It was great, as long as I didn't do anything too strenuous, where I would need to catch up. The studies relating to fasting and longevity for other species, convinced me in the 90s and I started to try it out circa 2002 and it just stuck. My father experienced the same thing when he tried it for a month. Maybe there's a genetic predisposition of some sort, since it doesn't work well for everyone.
My impression buying a house was the entity holding the bag is the title company. Everyone else involved is just holding out their hand.
Since not everybody is playing at the same time, a single GPU will service multiple players (each of whom would require a console).
Oh, for sure, I feel exactly the same way. ITB is one of my favorite games in my steam library, and that's the same way I discovered it. The argument I was trying to make is that a lot of people wouldn't have had the opportunity to be hooked had it not been for the "new game from FTL dev"
I think this is true of pretty much any country. Most of the talent is there, but they just don't have an opportunity to compete against big companies like Google.

Just look at China; they blocked all US online monopolies and as a result they've quickly come up with their own alternative versions of every major service and the Chinese economy is still going strong. As unethical as it may seem for the government to control such things, there is no doubt that they're better off like this (strictly economically speaking).
Which email provider do I choose?

Email is a mature example of a federated system, and so if there is an answer to the general question, I'd expect we'll have figured it out in the context of email.

So... what's the "general strategy for picking an email provider?"
Yeah, if I for whatever reason stumbled on a live broadcast like this one, I would immediately go to the police, not Facebook. I wouldn't want to risk Facebook deleting potential evidence of the crime.
Yes, I was thinking along the same lines. It seems like the combined latency of bluetooth, passing that input through the OS, browser, then out to wifi could be considerable, especially if the machine's wifi and bluetooth chips are not optimized for low latency. Since Google makes the hardware of the controller, they can use all the lowest latency chips and drivers possible.

I'd be very interested to see some latency benchmarking of the stadia controller vs an xbox controller. I'd also be curious if a future version of this controller could connect directly to an even lower latency 5G connection, bypassing the wifi router and cable/fiber modem and removing yet another latency question mark. Even when playing locally, input lag can be considerable, so this might be a very smart hack to make this streaming service playable with a larger range of games.
No, he didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen#Eight-hour_day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day#United_States
There's nothing illegal about sharing this, unlike child pornography.
Not to mention that pretty much all unions have very strong pro-seniority rules.

I've not heard that about the UK's second largest union, Unite. I know people who work are part of that union (the people I'm thinking of work for BAE) and when they've talked about promotions and so on, they've never mentioned any kind of union-driven pro-seniority rule, and there is certainly no different vacation allowance for union members.
I have been a follower of stallmanism for many years, and I think his voice is a crucial antidote to the all-money, all-control centralized software culture that developed as the early computer revolution encountered mainstream capitalism, but I think you are completely spot-on in your analysis.
I think you need to examine niches carefully.
I was able to create an open source piece of software that allowed me to sell over $50,000 worth of ebooks (training manual) over the course of 5 years. Eventually I was able to sell the entire software for a small five figure sum.

The money involved was not huge but it was great to have. Users did not care that the software was OSS. They cared that is solved a problem and the ebook I sold made it even easier. That is how OSS makes money - by solving problems.

OSS is not a business strategy, it is just a software license. You do not "make money" by adopting a software license, whatever it's moral merits. You need a business that solves a problem and OSS can be part of that.
That's viable. You can also use any of several alternative app stores. There are lots of people like myself (although we're the minority, obviously) who don't use Google Play at all anyway.
That weird "us vs them" sort of thing is called class consciousness.

Both terms are just other ways of saying "groupthink."
Companies who see Amazon as a competitor are very often going to GCP instead of AWS.

There is also a growing trend of multi cloud deployments - using those that are best for your particular use case or increasing your fault tolerance.
What does the ‘circuit’ part mean?

I remember circuittoys.com for cool ‘rave’ toys, but I thought it had to do with electrical circuits.
The nice thing is that Mozilla makes this data easily available. You can see from the "Latest Version" graph on https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity that a) about 75% of Firefox users are getting updates to the latest version and b) that number did not appear to change with the release of Firefox 57. So there are approximately zero users staying on pre-Quantum versions of Firefox.

(Perhaps there are users of Pale Moon or other pre-Quantum forks?)
Many family businesses are "us", at least in the good times. Non-family employed by those businesses are seldom under any illusions about being included in that...
I always assumed they pocketed that extra revenue themselves (why not, it's the advantage of their platform and how I assumed they made money). I'm a little surprised to hear they handed it back, but I also thought they subsumed that cost within their own fees (like I assume the App/Play stores do). I imagine they probably spend a lot of time explaining why the fees don't line up exactly month to month because if this, since it can lead to different numbers month to month even if your patrons and what they've pledged to you doesn't change.

How many support requests about this, and arguments that have to get into very specific details on accounts which bring in $40 a month in donations does it take before any gains are lost? Or if not lost, highly variable and cause support personnel staff needs to fluctuate (which I imagine is harder to plan for and scale quickly than hardware/servers)?
[this thread is not for bug reports; sorry everyone]
Look up rubber rooming in NY schools. Basically, they can't fire teachers with tenure (which they get relatively quickly compared to eg college professor tenure) for even gross misconduct, so they end up paying them to sit in a room doing nothing. If there isn't enough budget, they have to lay off newer teachers, even if they're doing well.
We tried selling our first house ourselves. Ran ads in paper. Put up fliers. Etc. This was before the internet mind you. Tried this for 3 months and literally had no serious interest. We gave the listing to an agent and a week later had two full price offers. Sure, the internet has changed things a bit, but since then I always use a realtor. 6% is fair for the good ones. More challenging in some markets near me is where 6% isn't enough. Lots of $50K houses still. That's only $1500 for each agent.
Yet, Russia consistently dominates programming competitions, which strongly suggests that a multiple choice exam may not actually be representative of real world skills
https://www.salon.com/2017/06/18/russian-students-dominate-a...
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Thank you. I will say though, that as a shortcoming I think this is largely a consequence of the American labor movement being so small and neutered. If they encompassed a larger share of the workforce I think the pressure from the membership would push them towards being more representative of industrial interests as a whole. But they've been on the back foot over multiple generations of retrenchment now, so the leadership has kind of been captured by insular and reflexively change-averse factions.

The unions that have actually been successful at growing their membership during this era of reaction, such as the SEIU, tend to be a lot more progressive and forward looking.

There is also an aesthetic thing at play here and the older dudes just don't like the idea of tech workers, professional workers, and "pink collar" jobs unionizing because they're not "real" workers. If we made hard-hats and tool-belts part of the standard nurse's uniform we could probably make some real strides. . .
> Good grief, really? We're pivoting from unions directly to Soviet communism?

I'm just pointing out the extremes so we can set the framework of the discussion, the reality is most likely somewhere between the extremes.

> But if all us employees sat down and decided that we all wanted private offices

Agreed, I also believe individual responsibility is paramount. If you want something ask for it and try to achieve it, if you lived in a society where everyone did that instead of being silent observers waiting for handouts then private companies would not be able to get away with the things that you point out.
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