skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Norway, each employee freely chooses their union. It is common in some industries that people belong to several different unions, and that some are not part of union. And usually they are based on particular profession, like engineering or economics. Unions then have more a passive role, offering services like free legal representation, better insurance deals, and training.

Only some areas like teachers seem to have near-homogeneous membership and unions taking an active role. And this seems mostly to be because 90% have the same employeer - the state (public education). Because of standardized working terms (incl salary), they have to be negotiated centrally.
Ban all the popular toxic websites including facebook, instagram except maybe google and other actually useful sites.

If a website adds no value / negative value to people's lives yet is used by a significant number of people for a significant amount of time every day it should be banned or time limited in my opinion. A bit similar to cigarettes or sugary drinks.

Who decides? The government does based on recommendation by the judiciary. Its their job to legislate

No one is stopping you from registering a new website so please dont argue freedom of speech.
Everything that is standard recommended practice in modern web design is Very Bad From, whether or not it is sloth.
Location: Serbia

Remote: Yes

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Probably a better idea to use `firefox --ProfileManager` for that. That way you don't risk exposing your bookmarks, history, active logins, etc
What spouse?
I stumbled across a link to this page in a Chrome DevTools console warning. IMHO it's a concise, reasonable, actionable list of clueful suggestions, so I figured I'd share.
You're only rich if everyone else is poorer than you. At the point Golang, Javascript, Ruby, and Python (these are just the ones I use) have huge completely open source ecosystems. Java's ecosystem is no longer a convincing argument that we should ignore everything else about the language and it's place in the current line up.
>People who don't know any better will get the cheapest drive, and have horrible performance.

That's an unintended side-effect that is overshadowed by volume sales. All bulk orders for domains non related to performance (think libraries, hotels, basic desktops in enterprise), happen with a budget constraint without particular regard for price/performance ratio. So the lowest end model for all computers may have poor price/performance ratio but lower absolute price. That's also why thinkpads have poor screens, spinning rust drives, 4 GB memory, etc in the cheapest config. So that the procurement dept. can say in the spreadsheet that we replaced our inventory of n computers from 2012 to macs from 2019.
Another option is to fool the compiler. So-called sneaky throws. Something like

public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
sneakyThrow(new IOException("io"));
Test.<IOException>emulateThrows();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

static void sneakyThrow(Throwable e) {
Test.<RuntimeException>sneakyThrow2(e);
}

private static <E extends Throwable> void sneakyThrow2(Throwable e) throws E {
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") E e1 = (E) e;
throw e1;
}

static <E extends Exception> void emulateThrows() throws E {
}
> The purpose of a single button would be to put the plane in a known, easy to reason about state, even if it's not the most stable or the easier one to fly.

The "known" is the problem there. The pilots there were continuously misinformed about the plane speed due to that iced measurement devices. That is what plane "knew" and what the pilots "knew" in the storm.

The autopilot handed over control to human, but then human drove it too high (the "law" here means "mode of operation"):

"The pilot continued making nose-up inputs. The trimmable horizontal stabilizer (THS) moved from three to 13 degrees nose-up in about one minute, and remained in that latter position until the end of the flight."

"A second consequence of the reconfiguration into alternate law was that stall protection no longer operated. Whereas in normal law, the aircraft's flight management computers would have acted to prevent such a high angle of attack, in alternate law this did not happen. (Indeed, the switch into alternate law occurred precisely because the computers, denied reliable speed data, were no longer able to provide such protection—nor many of the other functions expected of normal law).[55] The wings lost lift and the aircraft stalled"

> one of them (the co-pilot, IIRC) didn't realize it

But the co-pilot definitely knew that the autopilot disengaged:

"The first officer, co-pilot in right seat, 32-year-old Pierre-Cédric Bonin"

"At 02:10:05 UTC the autopilot disengaged" ... "As pilot flying, Bonin took control of the aircraft via the side stick priority button and said, "I have the controls.""
None of that is relevant to the employer-employee relationship. My employer's competition is not my competition. Even if there were no hiring competitors, they would still not be my competition. I would still want equitable bargaining power with my employer.

And regardless of that, if my employer is willing to pay our CEO over 20x what they pay their average employee, they are not in a position to niggle over the kinds of systemic inefficiencies they would suffer under a union.
The people paying the money are always the customers. Creators get to use Patreon as a tool for showcasing and delivering content and reward. This is a core part of the platform and why both sides use Patreon in the first place. In fact this whole story is about them raising rates to provide more "services" on top like selling merchandise.

If all they're doing is collecting and forwarding money then they're one of the most poorly run businesses and massively overbuilt even with their subpar product.
There are a ton of jobs in San Jose & the South Bay. Ebay, PayPal, Intel, Google, and Adobe are the first companies that come to mind.
I wont disagree.

But the OS was also full of holes (pre-XP: 95, 98, ME), programs would take down the whole system, updates required tons of restarts, and several other issues (BSOD, etc). People use to make memes against Windows, without even being Linux users: regular Windows users were frustrated.

Linux desktop efforts never managed to get a coherent vision, as every 3-4 years somebody had the idea to remake everything and screw compatibility (Gnome 1 to 2, 2 to 3, KDE 1 to 2 to 3 to 4, etc, lots of critical desktop apps changing for no reason, others abandoned, etc. And don't get me started on the audio drivers situation back then, or how it took until 2019 and we still don't have a solid X replacement thats adopted by everybody).
You have completely sidestepped the most important part of the debate. There are very nice people who are doing the majority of the work to clean the street out of the goodness of their heart. Then the garbage company, who does a minority of the cleaning, is getting paid for both its work and the volunteers' work.

The volunteers will be happy if either no one ever gets paid for their work, or they do. In no scenario is it acceptable that someone else gets paid for their work, especially at the level of a significant percentage of the world GDP. This is just basic human psychology - no one will ever be okay with someone else getting the recognition for their work. Nothing much to do with open source particularly.
Carbon-capture group gets some serious lobbying muscle
Well I wish predicting future is this easy , as of now the place where I work we use lot of spring (Spring cloud) completly microservice and it is only reason I believe java is still alive. Spring makes things lot more easy for us atleast. But I have to agree with you regarding Oracle
May be you will be interested in this article https://spring.io/blog/2019/03/07/has-there-ever-been-a-bett...
Why Are Weakmaps in JavaScript Not Enumerable?
> and it's unfortunate you screwed this agent out of that.

This makes absolutely no sense to me. Why on earth would I be obligated to pay the buyer's agent? What has the agent done for me? When did I establish a relationship with this person and agree to pay them anything?

I would feel absolutely fine paying this person zero. If they want to get paid, they should take it up with the buyer because the buyer is the one who engaged their services.

Note: I am not American.
Ding Ding Ding we have a winner.

The only way to solve the inherent adversity in the employer/employee relationship is to eliminate the employer/employee distinction.

Expecting owners to be fair by default is to be at the whim of their charity. "Friendly work environment" and other anti-union canards are merely an attempt to paper over exploitative behavior with flowery words. Unions are a stopgap at best.

The only business that can reliably be expected to run ethically is one that is owned by the workers.
The GP is referring to all the other Linux distributions who really give you <y> (or <z> or <Þ>), not to implementing <y> on your own.

There are distributions (e.g. Linux from Scratch) for when the option you want is the NULL option—i.e., doing things yourself. But there are N other managed options, not just one managed option and NULL.
This delusional trope keeps coming up in threads. FB and Google for all their faults aren't 4chan or 8chan. They don't want to be in the business of distributing snuff films regardless of where the snuff film was made. Note how they started removing it long before it was classified as objectionable in NZ.

> Failing to take a stand means that ultimately the most intolerant place gets to censor the internet. You may remember that the Taliban banned all photos of humans, even if clothed and male.

Also note how they haven't removed all photos of humans just because the Taliban banned those.
> Latency matters because of all of those round-trip requests.

Well then, since it's a physical impossibility to do away with them, we'd better start working on improving the speed of light.
Video seems to be broken on mobile. YouTube link: https://youtu.be/goQ-yjN7WAc
> So... what's the "general strategy for picking an email provider?"

Pick Gmail unless you have a good reason not to. And if you don't know any reasons pick Gmail.

Federation sounds nice until you realize that most people don't have particularly unique needs and a 'best for most people' will eventually emerge and dominate the market.
It’s an art to craft a bug report convincing enough to address the issue.
Absolutely. My laptop travels across a lot of networks, wifi and ethernet, with and without OpenVPN and Mobile IPSEC. I tether to my phone. I have some IPv6 networks to worry about. Firewalld is expected to do the right thing as well. I have loads of NM profiles, one of which has several RFC1918 addresses for covering most bases when starting out with routers and switches.
I'd disagree on one thing - the NZ censor hasn't always done a decent job - the 60s/70s/80s were a time when there was a lot of tension in NZ society between the censor and some of the more liberal members of society, student capping mags used to be bulk confiscated.

That balance does seem to have mostly been made in a way that most people are comfortable with these days (the proctor of Otago University being a gross exception)
J.T. Hutt and Aunt May Intern at the White House Council of Economic Advisors
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/marthagimbel/status/1108086527236530176

Page 624 of the report: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ERP-2019.pdf

Last year's included J.T. Kirk and J-L. Picard! https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/ERP_2018_Final-FINAL.pdf (page 526)
As a New Yorker, this comment is hilarious. Madison is about a third of the size of SF. As a polite reminder, SF is a little more than a third of the size of Queens, and fundamentally still kind of a small town compared to real cities. It's about the same size as Hempstead, NY which is certainly a small town. Hell, I bet more people bike to work as a % in Madison than in SF.

Lake Nebagamon WI is a small town.
There is a difference here because you need to draw on your funds.

The math works out well for someone willing to buy and hold for a long time, because if there's a crash you wait to sell until the market has recovered. However, if you need to sell, you need to actualize the losses. Even if your portfolio later recovers, you've lost out on the growth that you would have had.
`ssh -X` generally disagrees with you.
If you're in tech at the moment and somewhat competent, you can basically name your price and benefits.

In some regions of some countries.
There's definitely alot of 'enterprisey' java code out there but that has more to do with the way people code than the language is now. Functional programming(.sort, .map etc) introduced in Java 8 allows more concise code and less boilerplate.

Even with Rust, Go, and .Net core out there it's really hard to beat Java's battletested libraries/frameworks and excellent tooling. Java is still very relevent today and will probably still be for a very long time.
> with no build step during development

and then what do you do for production, webpack?
It's possible, he did make a couple of presaging posts in the days before the terrorist act ... however the charge he's being held on at the moment is publishing the terrorist's snuff film
Before everyone brings their torch and pitchfork, do we know how much harm is being done on open sharing platforms vs the value they bring to society?

I see people quickly jumping on the "stop the internet open sharing platforms" bandwagon when events like these happen, because the platform may be associated with the current "cultural villain" but just as we don't ban knives when they are used to murder people and are being produced by despicable companies I don't think we should ban the possibility of having open sharing platforms until we have determined they do more bad than good.

Food for thought: in administrative decisions on improving car infrastructure/safety of intersections there is an actual value assigned human life. If the cost to build the improvements is less than the human life valuation of the lives that would be saved by the improvements then the project is not done. It's terrible to think of human lives as numbers but it is a requirement to do so for deciding policy in a world of inherent costs to anything being done. So before we think about advancing policy changes with far ranging impact, we should perform such an analysis. We may also realize at that point that alternative solutions may prove far cheaper than banning open sharing platforms or regulating them to the point where business is so expensive nobody cares to do so.
The mind behind Minority Report is giving PowerPoint a sci-fi overhaul
> I’d say programming is a job where you spend most of your time working and little of your time idle

I have to vehemently disagree with this. I have observed that most programmers work something like 3-6 hours a day and the rest of that time is spent browsing reddit/hn or playing ping-pong or some other distraction. Also, every single place I've worked that pays engineers well also has a culture where engineers take 1-2 hour lunches regularly, not to mention full time or part time work-from-home schedules and unlimited bathroom breaks. Of course, at every organization there are those workhorse developers who drink Soylent and coffee instead of breaking for lunch and leave after the whole office is empty, but they are relatively rare.

> Many entry level jobs have workers spending significant time doing nothing.

Do you have any examples? I'd argue that your average waiter works harder than your average programmer. Programming jobs require much more specialized expertise but the work itself is about as easy as it gets; and it's also much more forgiving compared to just about every other profession. Certainly, if you're "spending significant time doing nothing" while working at a restaurant, you will be fired very quickly.
What happens if a huge object becomes unreferenced and a new one of the same size is then allocated before the older one is GC'd (and you don't have enough memory to hold both simultaneously)? Does it just crash or does it pause to collect the older objects first?
Someone once told me that the authorities in China are a bit hypersensitive to organized woo, mostly as a reaction to the boxer rebellion. I don't know what to believe.
PSCore isn't bad so long as you don't load it down with Powershell modules. It only takes two or three beyond the built-ins to make it start crawling.
Why on earth would it be pay per hour or per MB? Does Netflix charge that way? How about Spotify?

Time has shown that the best revenue model for these kinds of services is finding a monthly price, or multiple tiers of a monthly price, that adequately cover the costs incurred from heavy users and light users alike.
There's a reason services like Venmo are so popular in the US - they make what are effectively bank to bank transfers easy and free. The only issue is that they aren't quick (2-3 days), which isn't really an issue if you aren't living paycheck to paycheck.
> The enthusiasm for psychedelics seems to drop significantly for anyone who has had one of those.

Plenty of people on reddit think they are very worthwhile and say tehy learn the most from bad trips.
Because there is zero indication of it in this statement.
It seems like the guy was arrested for more than just posting the video, potentially a lot more. Particularly this part:

> A second charge alleges that between the 8th and the 15th of March, he showed a photograph of the Deans Avenue mosque with the message “target acquired” and further chat messaging around inciting extreme violence constituting one of the offences.[1]

The 15th is the day of the attack, so as the grandparent comment said, it's unclear if he posted the image in advance of the attack, but it all sounds pretty dodgy.

[1] https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/03/18yo-in-c...
You really want to do this if you use Spectrum Cable. You are locked out of configuring the DNS settings via their cable modems (even if you supply your own). These force a DNS search suffix that leaks all DNS requests to their server, even if you are using another public DNS. I noticed network manager kept forcing the DNS search suffix, even after I manually disabled it. I did the config change to disable it messing with the resolv.conf
That's a state law though.
> It should be used to create fair workplaces.

You can't get good results through bad means. Unions are fundamentally a destructive endeavor. Their use is practical but limited: the best thing unions ever fought was the state, not employers.
I much prefer the Web to that on a slow network connection.
Do it. Please.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Free in software is not about getting paid. Money is not the problem. You can expect getting paid as much as you want, you just have to let other people access code, change and distribute it as they wish.

Thinking it is "free as in free beer" is shallow. I don't need any of those crap android apps even if they are free, I want to have ability to see those apps code so I can see if they are sending my private data somewhere, and I have to have ability to remove that code. I can even pay license fee if I find some app useful, if price is to high I find alternative or just don't use it.
'Angry Birds AR' on iOS lets you fling fowl in the real world
I mean I use it for personal stuff at work, for disposable browser environments for testing frontend content and bugs and for quickly handling AWS environments ... By far my use of incognito for mundane tasks outstrips its use for porn.
What are good, non-cultish Chinese dance productions in New York or the Bay Area?
"Unfortunately most of the wealth created by OSS is being reaped by the large cloud vendors"

I think you're forgetting the end users of the applications running on the open source regardless of cloud provider. The value they are reaping is near limitless.
The JVM powers Kotlin, Scala, and Clojure, which are all as sexy as golang.
Why use a meaty framework like Swing

I'd suggest updating your misconceptions regarding Java before posting Yet Another Tirade about it.

E.g. the Javascript module/npm ecosystem is an absolute mess compared to any sane package/project description system, yet few people would disqualify JS for it.
I'm using Java every day to deliver software that works to people who want solutions to their problems. It's interesting and enjoyable. No need to feel bad for me or any of the other folks happily solving real world problems in Java!
“Unfortunately most of the wealth created by OSS is being reaped by the large cloud vendors because relatively no-one pays for OSS but they do to host their production systems on it”

Why is it unfortunate. OSS developers are volunteering and donating their talent.

Is it unfortunate that homeless people reap the benefit from patrons who sponsor charitable homeless shelters?

Or is it unfortunate that students realize wealth from the nonprofit university?

There’s lots of charities. I thought the whole point is for people to donate what others get value from.
Chrome profiles don't require you to log into them. They pop up a login prompt on the welcome screen, but you don't have to use it.

I would recommend actually using it, though—with a dedicated porn-browsing Google Account, that you created once upon a time in an internet cafe, using Mailinator or the like as the recovery email. After all, nothing gets people to keep digging more than a layer of anonymity; and nothing gets people to stop digging more than finding what seems to be a real person who "uses" a bunch of services like Google, Facebook, etc. all with the same email.
I was just back looking at pgtune after being distracted for a number of years and felt a twinge concerned on upkeep and fragmentation. I also noticed postgresql documentation talking about using https://github.com/jfcoz/postgresqltuner

Any compares and contrasts available?

I'm not running a production instance so tuning is gratuitous but nice.
Goodbye Medium
Core-JS 3, babel and a look into the future
Technical point. "They" in this case is not the NZ government, it's assorted ISPs in NZ who quickly and independently decided to do this after the event.
> She was the single most qualified candidate for President, from a policy viewpoint, the nation has ever had.

She wasn't even close. She had a fair amount of NGO issue advocacy experience (mostly in the human services domain), less than two full terms in the Senate, and a brief (and arguably none too impressive) stint as the weakest-incoming-foreign-policy-resume Secretary of State we’d had in a long time (but Rex Tillerson displaced her for that “honor”.)

You can make the case that she edges out Obama and certainly W in terms of initial policy qualifications, but not her own husband or Ronald Reagan (unless you focus only on foreign policy), not George H. W. Bush (unless you focus only on domestic policy), maybe Carter, probably Nixon, not even close to Johnson, ...
What's the author's handle? I'd be interested in following to see what's happening.
These sites are usually only blocked via DNS and still accessible via their IP.
It doesn't directly compete with HN, but I'm really starting to like https://pinboard.in, especially with archiving enabled.
Even if you do go viral there's no guarantee :-/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803568

It's 7 years later and my company is still banned from Adsense and to this day they've never told us why.

On the bright side, I should be seeing some of the class action settlement money any day now.. http://www.adsensepublishersettlement.com