skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two questions:
Why are tech company staff wanting to unionize? For the most part, aren't tech staff reasonably to well paid - with good working conditions and moderate hour expectations (say 40-50)?

Management has the right at a workplace to make any decisions, whether someone in non-management sees fit. Can't people who are frustrated with the company just go pursue a position elsewhere?
What does your token issuer do
when the purchase of a token is revoked?

Nothing. The token issuer is not involved in that. He just sells and buys tokens.

When Joe buys an apple from you with a dollar note and you bring that note to your bank - what does the bank do when Joe returns the apple to you? Nothing.
> plus they're very good at both running hardware with low overhead and packing it efficiently.

You can't really pack the hardware here since it's latency sensitive. It's straight dedicated resources to an array of VMs. Dedicated CPU cache, even, hence the odd 9.5MB L2+L3 number.

Bulk pricing only gets you so far here. You're still talking gear that's categorically way more expensive than similar performance consumer parts. Not to mention all the other costs in play - data center, power, IT staff, etc...

Making this price-competitive is a big problem
I don't deny that ISP's make it far harder than it needs to be. They make it impossible for small upstarts. But Google, of all companies, had plenty of resources to make it happen if they really wanted to.
That was a great read.

Certainly removes any romantic notions about the Legion and its place in French society.
It does solve some problems for game developers, like with style transfer. And gamers go where the content is.
> The 15 former employees of Lanetix comprised the firm’s entire non-management programming staff.

Doesn't this kill a company?
I really don't understand why people here aren't talking about the real underlying principle of this service.
Google has captured the education and cheap laptop space with chromebooks. This is the logical extension of that software. Sure they will eventually combine chromeos and android but this is one more step in the direction of everything happening inside of your web browser.

The entire reason this is happening is because Google has successfully captured what once was the holy grail of markets, education, and is doing things like this to keep people on chromebooks.

ChromeOS could be as important than Android. Especially with the Windows 7 extended life support coming up, Google has less than 4 years to convince people to transfer to their platform instead of Windows 10. I know it seems heretical to imply that it will happen but I think this is a good example that Google considers it not only a real possibility but something that they might actually have a good chance of being able to pull off.

The most important thing to realize is that they are focusing on gamers as a trial, the people who are price sensitive and who have to move first off of Windows 7 since they can't pay for extended support even if they wanted it. They can then continue this into the workplace. This is a brilliant move by Google.
The EU has about the same GDP as the USA, despite half of it being former Soviet Union. Several member states beat the US by GDP/capita, despite (because?) 28 days minimum holiday.
Yeah but do you really think you're gonna be like, "You could hand build YouTube at home!" and anyone is going to be like, "Oh okay, WTF Google why even try?"
That doesn't solve public goods funding dilemmas, that only works if you do the non-free/libre/open license option and you're making some upstream thing for use in proprietary products.

Copyleft is only a business model if you tie it to non-FLO products, which defeats the point.
control video/audio playback. At least thats what I do in Safari with it
Salaries aren't the only thing unions are good for. I'd be very interested in a job that had cast-iron guarantees about working hours, on-duty overtime, no open offices, stuff like that.
>I dont understand how these middleman services can charge even 1%. What is the value added?

We live in a middleman economy. This forum is a middleman, since HN doesn't actually put out their own content. Uber, Facebook, Google, ... all middlemen.

> Also, why is it always a percentage?

More payouts more risk. Looking at it another way, because people are fine with paying a fee based on percentage.
OK, following that logic then there isn't much money in anything besides business.
Toyota.

They spent decades researching hydrogen fuel cells and finally brought a car to market with the technology. Their Mirai is essentially a fuel-cell hybrid, where the ICE component has been replaced with a fuel-cell equivalent and the only waste product from the hydrogen fuel is water. All told it is actually pretty cool, and it is nice to see an alternative to pure electric battery-driven drive trains. Ripping up the crust for Lithium isn’t much of an improvement over ripping it up for hydrocarbons, but it might be a century before we collectively agree.

“Mirai” by the way, means “future” in Japanese.
Typing fail—sorry!

The submitted title was "iMac gets a 2x performance boost" but I changed that about 15 minutes before you posted, because we try to avoid press-release language on HN.
Unless or until Apple bans your account, at which point you can't even deploy to your own phone anymore.
Microsoft has formed a coalition to promote quantum computing
If more companies would let people work at home 3 or 4 days a week, there would be a lot more housing options.

There are plenty of affordable homes in the San Joaquin valley, close enough to San Francisco to do a round trip on one Tesla charge. Every time I check Redfin, for example, Merced has plenty of 3 or 4 bedroom houses in the 1700 sq ft range for under $300k. Modesto also has plenty under $300k, and is even closer to San Francisco.

Merced or Modesto doesn't have anywhere near the cultural offerings San Francisco has for your off work time, but again, San Francisco is close enough that a weekend trip is not a big deal.
As the owner you wouldn't be part of the union so there would be no "overhead" for you anyway. Do you understand how unions work?
They're probably mostly referring to Bernie Sanders, who ran a campaign very focused on wealth inequality. The union link is that when people become more aware of inequality and by extension class, they become more likely to participate in class-based politics and organizations such as unions, in theory at least.
Yeah, there's quite a few companies that are working on a similar product, including PlayStation Now (Sony) [0], GeForce Now (NVIDIA) [1], and Shadow [2].

[0] https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstation-now/ps...

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/

[2] https://shadow.tech/int
That is a bit annoying for my usecase (playing a sound whenever a team scores a goal) where the users enable it manually but it is remembered with a cookie. Right now we just do not remember their sound preferences in Safari, which just like Firefox requires user interaction.

So some responsible users are affected by this change, but it is also a necessary change due to too many abusers. This is why we cannot have nice things.
people don't know this but LA is surprisingly fine without a car if you live in the right areas.

There are many people who live in west hollywood, downtown, santa monica who don't have cars! lyft/uber are also relatively cheap here.
Meaning the C language, or system languages derived from it?
It's right..

Keep in mind in Europe, health is publicly funded.

So anyone who smokes is subsidized by those who don't.

This way demand exceeds supply, and everyone receives bad healthcare.

In US, this will never be acceptable as you never subsidize anyone.
Obamacare isn't a bad deal (ie. free) if you can keep your taxable income below 4x the poverty level.
Never understood the desire for unions in the tech industry. Thankfully the USA has plenty of right-to-work states.
Fernando here from Basement. This is pretty spot on. The greater level of intimacy leads to far more interaction since you're pretty free to be yourself and post content that is meant for your actual friends to see instead of random people viewing your perfect life. The intuition is naturally that fewer friends would limit usage, but in fact, it's responsible for the high levels of interaction.

As for the revenue – there are certainly cool opportunities to run relevant ads when you have high levels of attention from someone and their close friends (think group experiences, people buying things at the same time that their friends, etc). That said, we don't like what ads have done to current social platforms. They misalign incentives where the more money the product makes, the worse the product tends to get for users. Snapchat was pretty fun until it went from only seeing friends to seeing celebrity gossip and repetitive ads. Because of that, we're planning on doing a subscription model down the road, similar to what WhatsApp tried out before it got acquired (first year free, then a small fee.) Certainly a new model for a social app, but we think it's the best direction for us long-term.
I'd like to recommend this talk by Daniel Sigg about LIGO [1]. It's technical and explains the design choices that went into building the detector. I found it to be very interesting.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4gE-hSQm68
kinda ironic, a platform that relies on a community of people and donors and leans on the socialist side of the spectrum is hit by a socialist leaning ideology.
I'm highly skeptical of US style unions, but if any tech industry seems to need unions... it's the game industry.
I did a quick check on Macbook Pros:

* 10.8 (2012) dropped support for original Core 2 Duo (2006) — 6 years

* 10.12 (2016) dropped support for 2009 MacBook Pro — 7 years

* 10.14 (2018) dropped support for 2011 MacBook Pro — 7 years

The releases in between didn't drop support for any (mbp) hardware.

The longest support I found with a spot-check was:

* 10.12 (2016) dropped support for 2007 MacBook Pro — 9 years

Apple tends to release updates for about 3 years for each OS. 10.11 (2015) got its last patch in 2018. 10.12 (2016) got an update in January and is expected to receive updates through September.

I should have looked up desktops, since that's what most of the discussion is in this thread, but I don't have much firsthand experience with them. So assuming you buy the hardware the day its released, you can expect to have the newest software support for 6-9 years and have security updates for 9-12 years.
Second SpaceX Falcon Heavy Flight Gets April 7 Launch Date: Sources
living in LA without a car is the biggest lifestyle hack I've ever done. Best of all worlds.
The RATIONAL Street Performer Protocol is even better http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp

And that's the closest of the various older theoretical models to the proposed solution of Crowdmatching being worked on at https://snowdrift.coop
I'm tempted just to say dual AGPL-Commercial dual-licensing, and granting MIT-style licenses for non-profit/academic use on request... although I know that's not workable for all cases
from pixelfed site:

Supported Fediverse Projects

This is a partial list of well known supported projects

Anfora – Self-hosted photo gallery social network.
Pleroma – A federated microblogging alternative.
Mastodon – A federated microblogging alternative.
Misskey – A federated microblogging alternative.
That's a bold statement, and it goes against my anecdotal experience. Do you have evidence for this?
it's pre-ANSI C function definition
That was probably actually an nbome (e.g. 25-c-nbome)sold as 2-ce.
We had this book in Laos in the late 70's. (Parents were US Diplomats, nearest real medical care was a plane flight to Bangkok.) The knowledge contained within 100% saved lives while we were there.
From my own experience I'd consider a development environment that lets you cross-compile. c or c++ work and, old hat though it is, I've had good success writing cross-platform utilities in Lazarus (Object Pascal) and compiling for MacOS, Linux and Windows. The only issues in all cases has been the need for platform-specific libraries to manage GUI components like rich text editing.
It also destroys good paying software jobs. Previously corporations paid big bucks to IBM, Oracle, Sun, Borland, etc for operating systems, databases etc, and those companies paid a lot of good technical people to write software. Now they get all that for free. Nice work guys!
Yeah, there are major methodology issues here.

A much more reputable study with actual controls: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/20/muslim-terro...
Behind the Scenes with Stadia’s Style Transfer ML
I guess every name is already taken for just about everything these days, but might as well note Pika CMS:

https://pikasoftware.com
It appears so, because I remember thinking the same thing when https://www.gosafr.com/ launched (uber for women).

I recognize there are different safety concerns for men and women, but I do have a problem with companies like these. At least with safr, their advertised safety benefits for women come down to:

1) App/Tech features that would be beneficial for either gender (like extra monitoring by safr through the phone app, and "thorough" vetting/background checks of drivers).

2) Marketing relies heavily on "It's safer because your driver is a woman." which seems to be part of van go's pitch as well, and as a man i find particularly offensive that i'm being deemed unsafe around children/women simply because i'm a man.

That being said, I'm obviously not the target audience. And I believe it's legal because they don't discriminate against men who apply to be drivers/riders, they simply only target women in their marketing, so the people end up being almost entirely women. I would guess this is what vango will end up doing/saying about the gender split as well.
Of course people don't want their investment to decrease in value, that's why they have to invent bullshit arguments to bolster their case and discourage development.

But it is important to call it what it is and not be distracted by their nonsensical reasoning. They want less development because they want their housing values to increase. And in this process, they don't care about the lives of other people who'd want to move here or about the long term negative consequences of reduced growth and economic activity as a result of their greed.

Think of all of the companies that don't get started or the things that don't get invented because they simply can't get the workers they need -- It is a sort of 'negative externality', little different from pollution or lung cancer, of the reliance on housing equity to fuel savings that we've come to rely on.
I am a creator who is using Patreon and I am so damn worried about the fact that 5% of the revenue they crow about processing every year apparently isn't enough. If there's anything that ought to be a "lifestyle business" it's Patreon.
I also participated in the beta and was quite impressed. In my case, there was no lag and instead, when connection was poorer, the stream quality would get lowered (i.e like Youtube - 1080p to 460p). I think this can be completely resolved with a solid connection.

Speaking on Google leveraging Youtube for Strada, I also think this could be an amazing affiliate opportunity for game developers and content creators. Imagine watching your favorite streamer (or I guess game reviewer) and with a click of a button, without having to download, play the game right from your browser (demo or full game). Great source of income for content creators, great frictionless experience for viewers/consumers, and great tool for developers.
Maybe not at Kickstarter and mature startups specifically, but tech is notorious for having bad hours during crunch time, weekend work and all-nighters. Plus even the best-funded of startups there can be corruption and abuse that HR will not help employees with, see the experience of Susan Fowler. A union serves to provide individual workers with leverage with collective protection.
Not a lot of German startups crushing it. Unions sound great on paper but would make it hard to build a big startup.

If that’s the route people think things should go it’d be a big cultural shift from the status quo.
> but also has spaced repetition support like Anki

Oh wow, this is fantastic. Could you highlight this a bit more on your splash page? I missed it completely the last time I visited getpolarized.io.
That's not typical in the western US. Most western states have a public recording of the sale price and often the amount financed held at the county recorder. There can be a small tax (on the order of 0.1%) levied by the county that is a percentage of sale price.
Harvard Law professor agrees to represent Weinstein, students traumatized
…and designing it to make money necessarily undermines the free/libre/open public-goods values. There's NO WAY OUT of this dilemma.

The best we can do is to work within the dilemma. That's what https://snowdrift.coop is aiming to promote and support.
if it's a sandal, then the sock could have ads on it
You don't seem to understand how businesses work. It's not the U.S. tech companies providing us some kind of 'favor'. The EU is a large market and a significant driver of their profits. They're guests here and WANT to be here, so should follow local laws as a result. If they don't like it, they're absolutely free to leave. They're just not willing to take the hit.
Because work conditions are not as you describe universally, and management’s rights are what we grant them through regulation. Management has excessive power in the US, hence efforts to rein it in.

Historically, management (factory owners) was dragged into the streets and beaten to death (yikes) when excessive inequality was reached. This is an improvement (and hopefully management would see the benefit of treating labor as a partner, not a resource to be consumed).
Sounds great on paper but I'm skeptical.

Not only you will need a really good internet connection and wifi, but also being close to a Stadia data center. The best possible case scenario will probably be a latency of around 50 ms, but I'm guessing the average will be closer to 100 ms which is too much for many types of games (specially competitive games the streamers play).

Heck, even streaming in your local network isn't such a great experience these days.

I love the idea, but realistically we are still very far away from streaming games replacing consoles or PCs. Many companies have tried (Nvidia, Sony, etc) but no one has succeeded for the simple reason that latency is not there yet.
I've signed up for Pixelfed. It's nice enough. It doesn't seem like actual federation between Mastodon or other Pixelfed instances is up and running though. You can follow a Pixelfed account in Mastodon but not vice versa. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong.

Anyways. It's fun... I post silly inconsequential pictures because I know only a half-dozen people will ever see them. The public timeline is not very lively so I hope w/ better federation and more attention it can be a little more active.

I'm pretty sick of Instagram though, so Pixelfed and the fediverse in general seems fun.

The web app is fine and works fine on mobile. A little clunky, but that's how I likes my indieweb. :)
Game performance and compilation time improvements in Visual Studio 2019
This one might seem like a minor shift for the consumer experience, but a key difference with other services is that it's actually a sustainable business model. Because they do batched deliveries with hub-and-spoke distribution, the cost for deliveries is lower, so they'll have way higher profit margins than something like Postmates. Uber eats will be able to hold out since profits realistically don't matter to them, but I think the main stronghold something like Bento Club could have is the fact that the current courier model doesn't really work in the long-run.
I'm not claiming to be any sort of expert, but I would guess the tax system (not taxing the ultra-wealthy as much as you could/should, and corporations not carrying as much of the tax burden as they used to, once again arguably not as much as they should).

There is also a lot of structure around consumerism, debt, and the like, though this is split between societal/cultural structures and government/business structures.
Incoming screed in libertarianese about why unions are bad by Paul Graham on twitter in 5..4..3..2..
Ooooh, I like that idea a lot, especially since I can assign it a tablespace on a different drive.
Yeah but presumably with a union you can also take it easy, not worry about getting laid off and spend time on personal projects.
What is ailing southern Europe and partially France is the currency union, in which Germany pretty much consolidated all the economic gains.

This is not about Capitalism, this is about sovereignty and financial determinism of a state.
Depends on where you're at, I've heard at some big companies you're going to work 70 - 80 hours and be on call.
Funny you say this, because I moved, I've been out of my SNRI, and only took two in the last seven days. Last night I felt like a drug addict, I need to take it or I'll have withdrawals.

The sucky part is the withdrawals won't go away for several days at least....
> For the most part, aren't tech staff reasonably to well paid - with good working conditions and moderate hour expectations (say 40-50)?

That can vary wildly. And just like other industries, there can be management abuses - like demanding regular, unpaid overtime, substandard wages, sexism, unreasonable behavior, etc. Think about all the basically permanent contractors working for tech companies that might not have healthcare or other benefits, etc.

Allowing company management to organize and act as a collective while not doing so as an employee puts you at a disadvantage in every negotiation and conflict.
>Publish it with lower-res versions of the pictures, perhaps clickable if someone really wants the higher-res version.

Already doing that
Jia Tolentino's pieces often resonate, in that particular way of things that are at the right distance to what they are talking about: close enough to understand them but far enough to show their place in time and space, culturally.
For now I am still on Reddit but another open source alternative to Reddit that I learned about earlier today is https://tildes.net/. Judging from the amount of votes and comments they have very few users as of yet. Will be interesting to see how Tildes develops over time.
that's not how my firefox on android behaves, I can search just fine from the new tab page
It will fail because developers will think twice before willing to depend on another evil ecosystem from Google.