skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that the same with any collection of libraries? If you don't use a framework and just pick your libraries, you'll still need to ensure that their versions work fine together.
I have to say that I agree with you - this makes no sense.
Why would you trust email? I have a few service providers who refuse to send a paper bill. I have nearly perfect credit because I always pay everything off on time, for literally decades. I have missed 2 or 3 email bills in the past year because they didn't get to me. While it's certainly possible for regular mail to go missing, my experience is that it happens orders of magnitude less frequently than losing emails. I now have to set up my own reminders to pay the companies that refuse to send me a paper bill because it's too risky to rely on them actually getting the bill to me electronically. (And I'm not giving anyone permission to withdraw money directly from my account.)
I suspect not. My family hosted a couple aspiring actors in LA as boarders. They left because they couldn't get enough work. There's a lot of people out there trying to break in to Hollywood.
In the US, it is illegal federally to mandate that an employee join a union as part of their employment, and it's illegal to force them to pay dues.

Some of our states go a step further and have introduced measures that seek to directly attack the ability of employees to collectively bargain, to remove the power organized labor has against management. These are called "right to work states".

Generally speaking, RTW states have lower pay on average, they are less educated on average, and their workers have less benefits from their businesses (parental leave, vacation time, healthcare benefits, etc), they have less recourses against employer bad behavior (both as a function of RTW attacking collective bargaining, and from the reality that the same politics that are against unions also are very anti-labor, anti-minimum wage, anti-regulation of labor marketplace all together, so there are far less public resources and regulators to assist with claims). If you're an employer, this probably sounds great. Labor is cheaper and you can fire them whenever you want for no reason at all on the drop of a dime AND there is no pesky government regulator to come waste your time and money investigating. "Easy come easy go" is one of the most common management philosophies from small and medium business owners in my RTW state, from my experience.

From the perspective of an American: you choose a liberal/blue/union state when you want good infrastructure, highly educated and competent staff, and little turnover. You choose a conservative/red/anti-union state when you're planning to take advantage of your staff, you don't care about higher turnover, you want to pay below-national-market rates as a rule, and you don't care as much about the individual quality of each employee. There's a reason why tech companies don't pick the South and when they do they require billions in literal free cash to do so.

It is what it is, but the slow death of the union in the United States correlates quite perfectly with the slow death of the American middle class in terms of wealth and income gains per year.
>I see folks outside the Bay asking why shouldn't they get paid the same as Bay area folks

Pay has nothing to do with cost of living. That's a lie told by companies as a negotiating tactic. You don't magically make the company more money by being in the bay area.
Union will help. Unions usually have probationary times before they start representing a new employee. For a year of probationary time, it's plenty to know if the employee is a good fit. If not, the employee can be let go and doesn't get the help of the union.

And union is by the employees, for the employees. If the person is truly disruptive and slipped through the 1 year mark, unions don't just back you up regardless.
> The fact that you would even state such a fallacious comment makes me question YOUR educational background.

I'd advise you avoid resorting to personal attacks when you disagree with a non-personal statement, as it really does lead to people ignoring your the premise of your point. Personal attacks when calling out fallacious arguments are particularly off-putting.

That said, you failed to understand the premise because you took one sentence out of context. The point I was making was that Cambridge and Oxford both have top CS programs which can result in jobs outside the UK and EU. Major tech companies routinely nab graduates from those two universities on work visa's in the US.

The importing of UK CS graduates plummets beyond top-tier universities, while China, Russia and India all see massive work visa imports into the US. The UK, outside of Cambridge and Oxford, simply doesn't export a lot of CS graduates, indicating an educational gap (or at the very least, an "interview gap") between those countries and countries with massive work visa exports.

> In fact (I live in California) from all I've seen of the US CS market, US grads are by far the worst in terms of all the nationalities I work with.

Your anecdata isn't interesting or useful.
From my anecdotal experience working 2 months in construction one summer.. there is nothing you or management can do about a toxic coworker.
So you are saying they should do it for the “exposure”.
It's considerably worse when you see bizarre password restrictions because they usually mean the password is stored in plaintext. For example, your bank definitely is doing that.

Don't use that same password for anything else!
I was wanted to have a good gaming experience, but also wanted the extra memory for machine learning. However, I didn't end up doing much ML with it.
The biggest challenge we have with unions is game-theoretic.

Specifically, the issue of defection.

The company can make it very easy for users to defect or FORCE them to defect.

They can give bonuses to people not in the union (with plausible reasons for the bonuses so it's not illegal) or do what Walmart does and simply shut down the entire store in that location to prevent the union forming.

We need some way to solve this problem ...
Right partially because OnLive couldn't spend the money required to put servers close enough to give users a good experience. It would have taken a monumental amount of money for them to expand in a way that would facilitate that, and custom make servers that had consumer grade GPUs in them.

Furthermore, there are other technological advances that have come even in the past 2 years that help facilitate this, like Secure Reliable Transport protocol (https://www.srtalliance.org/).

Things were just too stacked against OnLive at the time to make it work, but most of those barriers have since been removed after they had gone under.
I don't understand how the union isn't basically holding the company hostage.

A company can't fire all their union employees, so if the union decides they'll only accept a deal that includes a 50% raise, what do you do?

I'm being serious here, from what I can tell it's not legal to fire your union employees. So what do you do?
The commission shouldn't be based on the full price though. When a car salesman sells a car, their commission is based on the profit, not the total price. Selling a Honda can get you more commission than a BMW if you are good at what you do.

To make the same for a house, the seller should say "this is how much I want" and then the agent gets to keep say 50% of whatever they get over that price. Then the incentives are aligned.
> The min-content and max-content keywords are now available unprefixed

very good, thanks for the hard work!
"organizations with employees feeling compelled to unionize should be hiring better managers."

This is a fantastic observation - and I believe it holds true. I've been in some very demanding technology roles, long hours, with competitive peers. A great leader is worth much more than some Union would have been (anecdotally).
I live in the Boston area and they are very, very persistent when it comes to promoting the event. It seems like every local business has a Shen Yun poster in the window, and they go to door-to-door with flyers. There are TV ads on local broadcasters. And of course they are all over Facebook with ads. This reflects not only the zeal of the volunteers but a very large budget to do the broadcast ads.

The local media and most of the public seems to have no clue that it's a propaganda gambit.
Are you saying that if San Francisco has more people, it will become more sustainable and affordable and people will be happier?

Paint that picture for me, please.
I wish they would talk more about "well, what then?" where is meaning in life, where is purpose? what is there beyond "I can afford it"? Even old retirees struggle with this: what to do with all of this time? Not judging, just want to hear more.
>It always seems to degenerate into an "us vs them" sort of thing whenever I talk to them about where they work. Why would I ever work some place where things are so adversarial?

Every workplace is adversarial, it's you versus the C-suite who profit from the surplus value created by your labor. A union just evens out the bargaining power between you and them.
The anti-union rhetoric in America is staggering. You like weekends? Then stop ragging on unions.
So no, you were not there. You have sources you trust more than the official reports, reason to believe those reports are bogus based on those sources, and you're using your beliefs about German process in a German autopsy to evaluate practices in an American case.

I don't think we have any more to discuss. I don't trust your unnamed sources. And I have a sinking suspicion they're exactly the sort Australian telco would find it necessary to de-list from DNS.
>It always seems to degenerate into an "us vs them" sort of thing whenever I talk to them about where they work. Why would I ever work some place where things are so adversarial?

Have you considered that the adversarial workplace is the reason for unionizing in the first place?
HAProxy 1.9.5 rleased, multiple bugfixes
The amount of variable cost to stream music or video to a user is significantly less than the the variable cost to render high end graphics. The high end hardware costs money and depreciates. Why would it cost less to rent a gpu hour for generic purposes than it would to rent a gpu hour to play video games?
Right, but not every SFH will not be replaced. You're going to start actually satisfying demand, and then prices will fall across the board.
The "Stadia store" suggested games would likely be sold or subscribed to. But I definitely have to imagine some sort of trial model being available for the launch-from-YouTube options. Perhaps a time-limited option, that won't stop you from joining a streamer with Crowd Play, but would cut you off after a while if you hadn't already purchased it?

I'm very curious about the expenses game developers will face too, which definitely wasn't brought up. Id Software bragged about just using one Stadia instance, but then later demonstrations showing split screen gaming "without compromise" was shown running each screen on a different Stadia instance. While Google suggests this makes split screen gaming possible again, my guess is that split screen gaming costs the developers twice as much to implement as a service cost, since it uses twice as much hardware. Making it probably mostly a nonstarter anyways.
You're absolutely right. The recent calls issue happens way too often. Nothing worse than calling your boss at 2am when you meant to call your wife or vice-versa...
This is superficial, but good lord is the box itself ugly.
You mean Cloud Companies are using the wealth created from hosting other's OSS to finance their own OSS efforts.

By no means are their OSS investments altruistic, Cloud companies by far benefit the most from OSS and no OSS developers aren't winning. Being able to hire OSS developers using funds generated from hosting their OSS efforts is some weird definition of winning, which they're using towards strengthening the software ecosystem around their cloud infrastructure - increasing its value.

The power and value of OSS is swinging sharply away from Indie OSS developers towards the major tech cloud monopolies - where they can now afford to outspend, out compete, out reach and out last any competing Indie OSS efforts.
Depends on the state. For instance, in PA yes, they cover the legal side of things (at least to the extent that there isn't usually another lawyer involved in the process).

The other piece to this is that this 6% is split between the buyers agent and sellers agent. Typically, as a buyer, the person showing the house to you is _your_ agent (versus the UK where it is the seller's agent). Put another way, there's effectively a whole extra person involved who (at least legally) has a specific fiduciary responsibility to the buyer, and who takes on _some_ of the tasks that otherwise might fall to a selling agent.

It's also worth noting that there _do_ exist "discount agents". For instance, Redfin will charge sellers 1-1.5%, and if you use them as a buyer's agent, they will still charge 3% (since it is effectively baked into all prices) but then rebate you 1.5%. But this is less common.

So yes, overall, realtors here are doing more overall, but honestly it's largely (I think) just that they make more here because they've been effective at establishing norms, and also because small percentage point differences are easy to discount away. For instance, I'm currently buying using a traditional agent, because honestly the 1.5% fee difference is outweighed by the savings you can get with someone who can work better on offer price and post-inspection negotiations, and who is going to be someone the listing agent _wants_ to work with (which they will pitch to their clients as "this person is reliable and will ensure we close, whereas Redfin are useless and the deal might fall apart").

Not saying it's good, just giving more of the landscape.
Why wouldn’t they unless you agreed to pay the buyer’s agent commission? It’s how they make their living.

Edit: oops meant buyers agent - corrected.
Something like Plex might help with the HDMI cable issue.
You get to do that, too. If you want to benefit from open source software, you can. That's the whole point. What's your dream?
I'm up in Canada where the teaching unions are actually pretty strong and the teachers are well compensated, but in the US teacher salaries are legendarily poor given the expectations placed on them and the importance of their job.

In fact, due to the extremely low salaries in either private or public schools many people who would consider teaching end up in different fields... _that_ is what is driving down the quality.
"The Eternal Mainframe"

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...
I'm not sure why this would be desirable. Sure, bundlers are slow, but that's what projects like pax [1] are for. Bundlers create one single file instead of the browser having to download your entire possibly huge dependency tree. Sure, with HTTP/2.0 and the upcoming QUIC or HTTP/3.0 overhead of this is minimized, but it's still not zero. There is also a cognitive overhead of having to configure the server to push all the deps to clients otherwise you have constant back & forth where the client is fetching a file, then the server is answering, then the client is finding out it needs those other files, etc etc. Unless you are using global CDNs, expect latencies to be > 50ms for each such step, if not hundreds of ms, and this times the depth of your dependency graph. Bundlers also do dead code analysis.

There are really two solutions to this: either avoid using js dependencies, at which point you won't need npm or pika or whatever, or use bundlers.

[1]: https://github.com/nathan/pax
License activation stage is negligible, and doesn't need to be done for several days+. The actual activation of windows doesn't really enter in to the story here.
I'm curious why you need 5K@27 for 3 columns.

I have 2x27" 4K LG's and they comfortably fit.

The effective DPI may be higher on 5K at 27" than 4K at 27" but at a reasonable distance I fail to see any difference (approx 220ppi vs 170ppi at 3 feet).
The CD Is 40, the CD Is Dead
In some circumstances it is legal to hire based on sex/gender. Say changing room assistant. Proving a job can only realistically be done by 1 gender is a high bar though.

I doubt VanGo can do that. But they are not big enough to get sued yet. Also as another poster pointed out they cater to women but don't specifically screen out male drivers?
I’m not really pro-union (though I used to be unabashedly anti-union), but wanted to let you know that I appreciate your courage to fight for what you believe is right.

I’m a little annoyed that using the word courage made me twitch for a second because of how much “bravery” and “courage” everyone is getting commended for these days, but I think you’re an example of what every day courage can look like.

You knew what the repercussions could be, I doubt you were so independently wealthy that losing your salary meant little, and you publicly stood for what you believe in for the greater good of those around you.

Even after all the crap you’ve probably had to deal with, I hope you feel positively about your efforts.

Time and perspective are a funny thing... Coming up as young adult and professional engineer I saw unions as a relic that definitely served for positive change (way back in dinosaur times), grew fat and complacent (if not even complicit), and did more harm to the market in general than they did to benefit their members today.

Now I site here (still relatively young, thank you) at 37 with young family, having co-founded a company that employs dozens, losing sleep over how much things like health insurance cost for my employees, and my stance on unions has softened up quite a bit.

Markets and investors have perverted corporate incentives to a degree that moral leadership can be considered downright mismanagement. I’ve heard managers and other founders complain that “if I pay to train them, they’re just going to walk out the door”, etc. My little sister is in year 3 of her software development career and I can’t believe some of the crap I have had to tell her to watch out for, or worse, how to handle as it’s happening to her.

I read about things like the IBM layoffs of “old” workers, then see people I used to work with struggle to get hired (totally not because of their age, of course!) when I know how capable they are and my blood boils.

I still don’t know if unions are the answer. Maybe they’re part of it, but I believe we’ve got a generation (or two) of spineless and/or immoral corporate leadership to survive before things get back on the right track.
Just make free (paid in pizza) overtime illegal at the federal level and most of the work-life-balance issues would go away.

Add federal minimum vacation time too, 20 days at least.

"but but my margins!!!"
Most of these companies have paid, closed source products as well so it's not a given their revenue is attributable to open source.

Is there a list of companies that are actually, completely, open source and still have revenue > 100M? I think that is the list OP would be interested in.
I know a German SE who was senior and had a good job in Germany. He moved to the US and his total comp went up something like 5x (at a company with good benefits, work life balance, etc).
> It always seems to degenerate into an "us vs them"

That's the point, "us vs them" is pretty good upgrade from "me vs them"
> (thanks to unions)

Is there additional information about how unions lower the quality of public education inside the United States?
Kickstarter's in the US, no? Did you check out that WP link? I don't mean this as a "did you even read the article" jab, but you mention Labour, but this is about the US and the laws in the US mandate that those working under union labor agreements may be required to pay dues, yes, but may also be allowed to (effectively) specify that their funds may not go toward (most forms of) political spending, but only bargaining and member services.
Thanks for the suggestion, I like that it's open source.
And on the rare occasions they do recognize an above-average contributor, they're likley to overburden them with all the stressful and difficult work until they burn out.
Blowing millions of dollars on an investment that will take decades to pay off isn't good business. Google decided, rightfully, that the answer was webpass. It's a better revenue generator, and has considerably lower barrier to entry.
Hmm, I think I like those design choices. A dropped frame or two isn't a big deal in my experience, while a delayed input is a far bigger detriment to the gaming experience. QUIC (and UDP in general) seems about right for the technology backend.

I'm still of the opinion that Google shot themselves in the foot here by having a bunch of wireless controllers in one room. Its like they've never talked to a Super Smash Bros Brawl tournament organizer before: Wii Nunchuks over 2.4GHz Bluetooth have dropped packets / dropped input issues when you get to ~20+ participants.

Don't do mass wireless in one room. It always ends poorly. I'd expect that local wireless in a typical living-room setting would be a better experience actually. After all: the major issue is whether or not the wired-connection / fiber backbone of the typical city is up to spec for this kind of thing. (A typical living room user probably doesn't have to worry about clogged 2.4GHz connections unless they're in an apartment I guess...)
There is a wide deployment in Norway I believe, but indeed, I've not heard of big deployments elsewhere.
>If, as a top performer, I get penalized by joining the union then obviously Kickstarter looks less attractive to me.

Then go work elsewhere. I'm sure your co-workers won't miss the "what about mine???" attitude.
> If, as a top performer, I get penalized by joining the union then obviously Kickstarter looks less attractive to me.

I think this statement is used as an anti-union argument here a lot, and it speaks to the ego that many engineers/developers have. "Top performers" are single-digits in a lot of even medium sized organizations, and chances are that an individual employee falls outside of this "top performer" category even if they think they are one. The unions work for the majority. This means that the unions probably work for you.

Everyone wants to say they hire the top 1% of top 1% but in reality that's not possible, and most of them are sucked up in some pretty strange places or by big companies with lots and lots of incentives to throw at them.
That sounds more like a guild, which became effectively a system of maintaining price levels and scarcity of a particular skill.
How much notice does the landlord need to give? It would suck to get evicted mid-semester.
Most Advanced Resume CV Builder App (Pro Version Is Free Until 31 March)
How is this any better than GeForce Now from Nvidia?

It seems odd that Google chose to create its own gaming studio. Doesn't that make them a competitor to the folks they support from?
So what you're saying is, the people currently using the software don't have control over the purse strings?
Huntington's Disease gene is found (1993)
I've had first-hand experience of people defending the PRC's treatment of Uighurs, so I'll take the perception in China with a few grains of salt.
Please stop contributing to my impostor syndrome.

You're absolutely right though, it can be very difficult to have enough self knowledge and awareness to even place one's self sometimes.
I have a friend who worked at a grocery store for a few months while waiting for his teacher's certification to get processed and sent to the state he'd moved to. It was a minimum-wage job, yet mandatory union membership at this grocery store chain meant that a cut of each of his minimum-wage paychecks was taken from him without anything he could do about it.

The idea that unions are inherently, universally good is just as silly as the idea that unions are inherently, universally bad.