skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My humble take is that unionization is valuable as a counter-balance in a company and can benefit it and all within.
Let's take extreme examples:
1) CEO sees a blip coming in the quarterly income results. CEO disposes of enough people to reduce costs, hit profit target and claim their bonus.
CEO is better off, company is worse off.
Repeats each quarter until the CEO retires.
2) CEO tries to focus company by laying off unionized employees in legacy area. Union blindly prevents this, company is stuck on legacy path, company suffers and so ultimately do the employees when it all implodes.

The problem in both cases is simply due to a misalignment of personal goals/compensation within the company.

When it's "working right"
The CEO can defend their "not randomly firing employees" as being too expensive due to their unionized status.
Converse is that the union can accept that some employees need to go to be replaced with other employees in another field to reflect the world changing (and help relocate/pay off/re-train as needed).

In summary - plans rarely work out and ideally there's an internal buffer/slush-fund to cover this.
When you're publicly traded, there's always going to be somebody demanding you cash in this buffer to the shareholders in the short term.
Unionization provides a nice external buffer.
I think the core problem is still tab clutter. Every time I hop onto my iPad to do some light browsing, I have less anxiety. I don't keep many tabs open on mobile/tablet, but I'm already counting 8 opened here as I'm typing on my laptop.

Sure, almost everything mentioned in the article is problematic. Then again, maybe it's just us programmed to hit Ctrl-T too much over a decade...
What? I missed that in the release notes.
Most seem to be selling their homes (or the kids are selling their homes). A majority of the open houses I've been to have been older parents selling their homes & moving to cheaper regions now that the kids are grown, or dead parents passing their homes to adult kids who sell them. Few people want to be absentee landlords in California, where tenants have all sorts of rights & protections.

Don't really blame them, $2.4M for the house that your parents paid $200K for isn't bad when you can still buy that $200K house in much of the rest of the country.
This means very little until we have all the research available, and until we've run a good meta-analysis.

When Prozac was introduced we had claims that it was a miracle drug, and made people "better than well", and that current drug licencing laws were unjust because you could only get prozac if you had depression and this was denying access to it for the general population.

Now we know that it's a somewhat useful medication for some people, especially when provided with therapy and other psycho-social interventions, but it is very far from the miraculous claims.

tldr claims of efficacy for depression treatment are either outright bullshit or oversold.
I think you'd have to ask the Jamatto people to get a definitive answer, but just fiddling with an HTML page on my local disk I was able to get the donate button to show a donation amount as low as 0.1¢, that is, $0.001.
It's interesting that NZ and Australia share their censorship process, movie ratings from one country apply in the other (avoiding the cost of having a movie rated more than once), I wonder if this applies here to?
Imo mongo tried to change the rules of the game to be in their favor and AWS reacted in their best long term interests. And whether or not you like it that's fair, AWS were not in breach of the original software contract.
I don’t think so, no. They probably would have said so if it was.

I wonder if they are open to patches that would make it federated.
Still nothing to handle checked exceptions in streams properly... sigh.
Denial of service in Facebook Fizz due to integer overflow (CVE-2019-3560)
RIP IE6
Oh crap, wrong thread. Sorry about the off-topic.
Do exactly what you ENJOY doing.

Don't like PHP? Don't do it. Simple.

Honestly, if there is ONE thing I've learned in my professional life.. It would be enjoying what you do. It makes literally everything else better in life if you enjoy it.

Don't go for the hot stack, the hot language, etc. If you enjoy what you do, your skill ceiling is going to be much higher in the long run, you'll be less likely to burn out (which is very common, especially if you're trying to push yourself already at age 14... theres 50 years left til retirement). You'll also be a more enjoyable person at work.

Just my 2c.
“You were in the top 10% of startups we saw” -YC, is this sent to everyone?
Still does not block autoplay on cnn.com, which is my acid test for this.

UPDATE: Yes it does, but it's not enabled by default. (?)
I'm wondering if there's any way to know how many people are involved in uploading this millions of times. (Apparently this also happened on YouTube.)

Is this like a denial-of-service attack where a few people have lots of automation? Are there "booter" services? Maybe Krebs will write about it someday.
please add 'pull down to reload' feature on android browser
Yeah - wasn't a scratch was a deep bite in my forearm

Even if it's a bite, it's still called "cat scratch" because that's the name of the disease. See the linked Wikipedia article.
I disagree with their beliefs, but to me, committing genocide is a few steps above teaching that homosexuality is immoral. But that could just be because I grew up in a country where freedom of speech is stressed in society, maybe in China murdering thousands of people who follow a "weird" ideology is not considered "bad".

Mostly I was responding to using "injustice" instead of e.g. "violent persecution" and implying that having "their assets frozen" was the worst thing that happened. And implying that a lack of sympathy is somehow relevant in considering the morality of their persecution.

Consider this despicable statement: "Although a lot of injustice was done to followers of Judaism, and most of their assets were frozen, there wasn't much sympathy for the Jewish people in Nazi Germany and they were typically regarded as a bit weird."

These are not at all at the same scale or level of persecution, but nevertheless if you condemn the statement above then logically you ought to condemn the other.
The difference between a function that depends only on its arguments, and a method which depends only on its aruments and the object is trivial, which is why the distinction bothers me.

Another often overlooked difference between the two is that many discussions compare a function with immutable arguments, with a method operating an a mutable object. And then the method is said to be not a function because of the object's mutability. But there is no need for the object to be mutable or for any arguments to be immutable.

Perhaps the most substantial difference is a method's dispatch on the object type. But if we're going with Kay's definition, then that is not an essential part of OO, and again, you can imagine dispatch in function invocation too.

To summarize: When I start taking apart the different aspects of function invocation and method invocation, I have a very hard time seeing the difference.
Free software is about freedoms, but also tends to be available for free. Consider this: if I sold a piece of free software for $1000 and the buyer was free to share its source code, wouldn't they? Even if no actual user shared the code, a trader could buy the software and sell it onward for $500 to as many people as possible. The next trader would buy for $500 and sell copies for $100, etc.

Now, the software might be difficult to build or run or use, and the vendor might be actually selling binaries, or the software as a service, or documentation, or consultation, etc. Those can be valid business models even if the source code is freely available.

So theoretically, yes, free software could cost money. But its source code tends to be free as in beer, too. Freedom is much more valuable than the saved money, and that's why free beer gets scoffed at.
Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
> Or you can go work for a normal company that treats its employees well.

If a union is in the best interest of the employees, then it's in the best interest of any company that respects their employees. Companies which employ union-busting practices don't treat their employees well by definition. And promises of good will from management hardly compare to having a dedicated infrastructure in place to support employees' needs and rights, which is exactly what a union is. Management can change and promises can be broken. Unions on the other hand are intentionally structured to place employees' needs above all else.
I'm using the Mini PCI for development, but I really need something that is a bit smaller for the final product. I haven't yet determined if this means that I'll need to use a different chipset.

> Will it do voice/SMS?

Yes, it does.
Sorry, I don't think I mean to imply YC is having an existential crisis, but rather that I am having the existential crisis.

I worded my original comment poorly.
The only reason they had 12k applications this time was because they incentivized every Startup School company to apply in order to potentially get $10k. I would be pretty shocked if there won't be significantly less applications for S19.

Not sure why they did that to be honest, giving someone $10k to apply is probably the best way to decrease application quality and have more work to sort through. Maybe for more data?
> Pinch and double tap gestures to zoom are not available. Scrolling does not follow system conventions like overflow kinetic scrolling.

I find this hugely annoying as well on MacOS when using the touchpad. This is also the reason why I stick to iOS instead of going for Android. All of these details are great on my laptop and phone, though they're not what I really need on my desktop.
> this one person who is being charged allegedly mirrored the live stream during the event, cheered it on in his comments, and may have posted inciting materials prior to the attack

Why does that factor in? New Zealand has (or had?) pretty strong protection for freedom of expression and freedom of speech.
Please don't. Otherwise I'm going to end up accidentally reloading many pages. :)
You know the other modifiers for history (^), favourites (*), and tag search (+), page title (#), url($), and suggestions (?) too.

I use the first 3, they compound too (in a slightly strange way, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire..., see last few paras.).
> Not to mention that pretty much all unions have very strong pro-seniority rules. Work harder than others? Produce more value than others? Doesn't matter, the guy that has been 5 years longer gets paid more, gets more vacation time etc. How is that fair?

As a tech worker in a union, about the only union negotiated pro-seniority rules apply to layoffs; my employer does have tenure-based rules that apply to vacation, etc., but those apply equally to non-union employees, and tenure-based vacation formulas are common in non-union shops, too.
employees who think their competition is against Kickstarter leadership rather than Indiegogo are at risk to seriously suboptimize

Suboptimize what? By what metrics? And why are those the primary metrics I should be using to make extremely important life choices?
I never said anything about a phone charger.

Are you confused who you are replying to?
Patreon somehow has 90 engineers and product managers[1]. This is a ridiculously bloated payroll for a simple website serving ~1 million active users. In a sane universe, they would be fine with a core engineering team of 3-5 and a couple of dozen staff to handle support, compliance, and stock the office vending machine with snacks.

I conjecture the reason for the ridiculous headcount is that outside investment requires it, in order to be able to continue to sell a story of explosive growth.

I've seen this dynamic with rivals in the bookmarking space, where a project that would have killed Pinboard dead with 3-5 engineers safely bloats itself into failure by taking ambitious outside funding. Patreon is a good example of an excellent mid-sized idea crippled by grandiosity, a recurring dynamic in computerland.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/12/patreon-product/
Colonoscopy Alternatives – Screening Tests for Colon Cancer
Don't worry, you can still move/reorder/detach tabs.
from Bill Hicks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr7QgOSmco4&t=87s
React seems to be the most popular framework right now, so Mongo Express React Node (MERN) would be a great thing to study. I think you're not going to go wrong no matter what you study because you're 14 years old and asking this question. Many people 10 or 20 years older than you aren't asking these kinds of questions.

And since you're obviously not the average person, you should check out https://elm-lang.org. It's a purely functional language and it will improve the way you write code in any language.
It's probably referring to this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1089326
They have left, but been explicitly clear about there being no real alternative, and that there’s no immediate cure coming from them any time soon.

In effect, they’ve stopped accepting donations on purely ideological ground.

While that’s certainly admirable, they are well off enough to be able to afford it.

Most patreon-based content creators probably aren’t.
For those interested in China, serpentza's youtube channel recently did a video about this. The youtube channel China Uncensored is also funded by people associated with Falun Gong. It is ridiculous anti-China propaganda, though some of it is warranted.
> "whatever, we can hire someone worse than you who won't make these demands."

So even by your argument the companies are forced to hire someone worse than you? This seems to me like capitalism working as intended, you are not ready to pay for employees you can afford therefore you get worse employees and your competitor wins and can pay even more for better employees and their demands.
Probably works with Python3 in WSL (let's say Ubuntu). That's good enough for Windows support right? ;)

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft on Python, linux and container things. This however is just my personal opinion and I'm not affiliated with this project.
I have one of the recent Mac Mini's and upgraded the RAM and hooked up an external eGPU that's working flawlessly. (But for an easy experience you're limited to AMD cards and apple approved enclosures...) For an apple product, it was quite user upgradable.

(Technically Apple says the RAM isn't user upgradable, but it's still relatively easy.)
Heh, I've got the exact opposite problem. On the desktop I manage to have "only" 10-40 tabs open at the same time, but on mobile it's usually 200-300.

I just open new tabs whenever I think something might be worth reading, but only have time every now and then to actually read part of the stack.
Illinois? Everything they ever sent was wrong.
Just a bug for me, it's not on purpose.
This isn't true on a normal install. Do you have any addons which alter the tab behaviour?
> would it be reasonable for you to benefit from the work the union does for all employees without also contributing to that union?

If I never asked for the union or their collective bargaining, then yes. It's like cleaning my windows when I never asked you to and then demanding cash for it.
I'm working on it professionally, but not with huge datasets in a FAANG kind of place, like the MOOCs would have you wish for.

Once the ML promises hit the real world, where the demand for recognising cats is less acute, and datasets are much smaller (since they're so expensive to curate), it does get less sexy and glitzy. Specifically, I currently work on fraud detection at a government agency, using ML and graph databases.

We have some people who do the ML stuff full time, where I'm the back-up and sounding board (as in I'm the senior/mentor)

So, I wouldn't have been working there, doing that, if it weren't for my drive to learn on the side, I guess. ML is not my primary extracurricular interest anymore, but it feels good to know that I can code up a neural net, or discuss the tactics of building a model pipeline with (mostly) anyone.
Which doesn't mean Facebook couldn't ban them anyway.
You underestimate how much Google tries to squeeze out of all the machines in its fleet. That includes old ones, sometimes to comical effect.
A colleague at my current job told me about utilization targets at Amazon, where he used to work. At Google you could choose to be that wasteful if you really wanted to, but you'd lose headcount. Be more efficient and you'd get more engineers. I.e. you decide if you'd rather get machines or people.

There's also an old paper by Murray Stokely and co. about the fake market that was created to make the most use of all hardware planetwide.
So go work for another company. My company treats me like an adult and pays me well to boot. There's way more to tech than the valley sweat shops...
Gravitational waves are disturbances in a background spacetime,
i.e. you linearize the Einstein equations around a given solution.
The analogy is less bad as one might initially think
Many workers putting their labor on the table is a much, much stronger negotiating position than a single worker putting their labor on the table. This is the entire thesis of unions.
I kinda see, the value is in efficiency of delegation but IMO there are drawbacks that this 'efficient' perspective hides, namely people believe you can't do anything without the market.
>In my experience, the best ideas compete easily to change management priorities.

I don't want to deny you your experiences, but this has not been mine. Not by a long-shot. Tons of time and effort get spent at my company trying to work around the idiosyncrasies of our capricious and out of touch management. And we're in a fast growing industry and our management seems to become more out-of-touch about the state of the technology and the market every year.

Their cognitive biases, pickled in their experiences from 8-10 years ago when they were last in touch with the real work, have a much bigger role in their priorities than any rational or dispassionate evaluation of what the "best ideas" are. The one saving grace they have is hiring subordinates who are good at manipulating them for their own benefit. Very VERY few tech companies can find that many people with the necessary soft skills to do it.
Honestly, Reader Mode, in built ad blocker, tree tabs, and containers make Firefox so streamlined for me.

I think that Google sites must not be thoroughly tested on firefox though! Vanilla Gmail (no add-ons or theme, but not the basic HTML version) isn't too fast. Not as fast as it used to be a year ago on Chrome either, but not as bad as FF.
Here is an example using TLS:

forward-zone:
name: "."
forward-ssl-upstream: yes
forward-addr: 208.67.222.222@853
forward-addr: 1.1.1.1@853
forward-addr: 8.8.4.4@853
forward-addr: 9.9.9.9@853
forward-first: no

unbound-control dump_infra|cut -c 1-60|column -t
9.9.9.9@853 . ttl 851 ping 6 var 84 rtt 342 rto 342 tA 0 tAA
8.8.4.4@853 . ttl 851 ping 13 var 79 rtt 329 rto 329 tA 0 tA
208.67.222.222@853 . ttl 844 ping 876 var 1823 rtt 8168 rto

And here [1] [2] are a small list of public servers that support DoT

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_recursive_name_server

[2] - https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+Public+Re...
There used to be a vegan restaurant in Austin that was overtly Falun Gong. It had religious icons on the wall and the Epoch Times available. Of course it also had the ubiquitous Shen Yun advertisements. Great food!
The Cloud is Just Another Sun [video]
> If they can ban this video, could they also ban videos of police or military abuses of power produced by a private citizen?

In theory no. The censor operates independently under strict legislation and decisions can (I believe based on memory of previous instances) be challenged in court.

So such an example as above wouldn't be censored because it wouldn't be injurious to the public good. Quite the opposite, such a video would be for the public good.

Banning it would require some kind of authoritarian capture of both the censor's office and the the judicial system to enforce. Certainly if somehow NZ became an authoritarian state then the censor could be used to those ends, but by that point authoritarian states don't exactly care about law or process or political interference when it comes to censorship anyway.
I think it's sexy
Yeah that’s the general idea - except that in this case, re-use of the same public URLs means browsers can cache the dependencies. (So we finally won’t have to download 400kb of the same React library code on site we visit!)
What's still unclear to me from the article is what problems employees at Kickstarter is facing for lack of a union and how, precisely, organizing a union will address those problems.

Maybe I'm being presumptuous but being a tech company and all aren't the employees are already relatively pampered?
I would love a browser, or extension that would prevent sites from hijacking or munging my clipboard.

It's infuriating that a page can dictate what gets placed in my clipboard against my will.
It's hard to get another mortgage if you've previously been foreclosed upon. If you can save enough to buy a house for cash this could work (and screws the banks in a wonderfully ironic way), but housing prices would have to fall a lot without incomes falling much for the money saved in foreclosure to be enough to purchase another house for cash.
If you have a problem for which relational is a good fit then Postgresql is definitely a better choice. I've yet to actually encounter such a problem though.
>It's not hostile, it's professional.

I feel like this is just your experience. As a counter-anecdote I spent a bit of time in the Teamsters in the 90's and it got very hostile and extremely unprofessional. There was zero material communication with management and any influence on the part of the union as a $9/hr entry level employee was equally zero. The scab situation was super dicey as well, and while there was clearly no official support for 'extracurricular' enforcement, there was enough of a question about what would happen that you didn't really want to test it.

It doesn't seem like a lot of folks commenting here have direct experience with working in unions in the US. They have done great things in the past and I feel like they are a necessity in industries where individual employees regularly face decisions that affect the physical safety of others or themselves. However, in my experience and in the experience of family members (CWA/NEA), unions in practice fall far short of the promise they hold in theory. User
naravara has some pretty insightful comments elsewhere in this thread that i feel get to the meat of the matter and why there might be a disconnect on opinions between those in the US and those elsewhere.

All that said I do applaud the folks working at Kickstarter for trying this out. Maybe they will figure out a way to make a functional apparatus that ensures a positive work environment while minimizing the coddling of parasites and negative impact on Kickstarter's ability to execute, but it's going to be a struggle.
Michaelson-Morley was about a medium in which electromagnetic waves traveled (and in fact proved that it didn't exist). We're dealing with gravitational waves here, which travel... on... space-time itself? But it's not a medium in the sense that the aether was supposed to be.)

At any rate, even the simile doesn't contradict either SR or GR. It's just hard to describe what the waves are traveling on.

In particular, the problem with aether is that it was a non-relativistically-invariant medium (that is, by moving, you could change your speed with respect to the medium). Whatever light and gravity travel in is relativistically invariant, but the waves-in-water analogy for how waves spread is still perfectly appropriate.