skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying I disagree but for a lot of businesses (even one with relatively high traffic) it is not unheard of to deploy with almost no tuning of the GC (aside from setting a heap min / max of 2,4,8GB) and have no issues.
> that extra money would be going to medical bills, housing, e

Because they assume that you are smart, and the $700 is after those bills.
How do they compare with regards to injury rate? I like having a handlebar.
Not that it excuses Delta's terrible behavior but other companies also put out anti-union propaganda [1] [2] [3] and it's also terrible behavior.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/how-wal...

2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2018/09/27/amazons-...

3: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/target-anti...
booo. Moved to /r/fakenews
Sorry, dang. I didn't mean to attack them. I got really offended at their hateful comment but next time I'll just flag and move on.
An update on our examination of the research of Dr. Nicolas Guéguen
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From my perspective, it would be awesome if this could (in the future) be used to properly-host Debian and RHEL packages (extending of course to their derivatives, like Ubuntu and CentOS).

I wouldn't expect that to compete with platforms like EPEL, but I think it would be great for easy distribution of programs that aren't in those wider places.
This is fantastic! No more `npm link`!
The rule is anything with 2 wheels will get stolen.
I'm guessing their investors had them over hot coals and this was a negotiated number.
Irrational? Not at all. Delta can be reasonably well priced and you're avoiding a known risk that hopefully is fixed. If you're paying substantially more for Delta to avoid that plane while also not having the income to support that luxury it might then be irrational.
Yeah, that maybe a trend, but is not a rule, if even a trend. In my experience, it's entirely random.
I think there probably are people that want to enfranchise mere residents.

It doesn't seem to be catastrophic for New Zealand, for instance.

There's a strong argument to be made that people participating in the economy and other parts of civic life deserve to have a voice in politics. It's convenient and popular to exclude them, that doesn't make it just.

(I phrase my first paragraph the way I do because I haven't thought about it much and don't have a real clear opinion 'bout it)
Xfce is great, and by far my favourite. But it's harder to sell to the average user because it looks so much older than windows and Mac. At least by default
Why is no-one talking about the Dissenter ban? Isn't that what prompted this whole fiasco? [0][1][2]

0. https://elgan.com/blog/why-mozilla-and-google-are-wrong-to-b...

1. https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-removal-of-the-dissenter...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Cc8RpqH1g
I bought a Xiaomi Mi scooter on Amazon last year for $499. This is the same scooter Bird started with.

So far it’s been great. There’s a “Mi Home” app that shows you remaining charge and an estimate of miles left, plus total miles driven. It’s also got a charge indicator on the scooter itself.

The owned scooters go a bit faster than the rental ones, and the battery lasts about 15 miles total.

So far it’s been useful to eliminate short drives or Lyfts (coming back from dropping off the car to get new tires is one example; going to local restaurants is another.) It folds up easily and can lock to a bike rack or stow under a table at a restaurant.

We’ve put 110 miles on it so far, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but considering most of our trips on it are far less than a mile, it’s been worth the money.

At $1299, though, I can’t see why this Bird scooter would be worth so much more than the Xiaomi. This landing page doesn’t help; it seems to assume the people reading don’t know about $500 scooters. Perhaps that is their target market, but in that case, I don’t think this will sell that well.
Makes sense, though, right? They want a Q&A site where you can get definitive answers. This sort of discussion-oriented thing is better suited to a forum with threaded replies and whatnot.
You're ignoring the huge transaction costs (and employer criminal behavior) involved in starting up a union. You are right that unions need accountability to their members, but dissolving the union is not the way. We don't dismantle the national government every time the government solves a problem.
I'm not sure what happened but this website versus two years ago is filled with shills. Posting on twitter that your employees should buy an Xbox instead of join the union is fucked up
I wanted to say that while I would like to live in such a world, I can't think of an example.
Does it come with official Docker image? :)
Some people make new accounts frequently for privacy reasons.
I see it as a double-edged sword.

On the one hand, reified generics means that it's .NET's object model or the highway.

On the other hand, .NET maintains a much higher standard of inter-language interoperability. When I was on .NET, I didn't have to worry much about the folks working in F# accidentally rendering their module unusable from C#. Now that I'm on the JVM, I've accepted that it's just a given that the dependency arrows between the Java and Scala modules should only ever point in one direction.
Url changed from http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/05/10/delta-union-busting.htm..., which points to this.
Selling out a citizen's responsibility to engage in government in exchange for a bit of cash has a sordid history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_machine
I've been reading so much about the death of symbolic AI and the complete victory of statistical approaches lately, that I suspect that a new symbolic hype-cycle is about to start.

I know this sounds counter-intuitive, but if you've been following such trends for a while, you might agree with me.
This is fantastic news!! I wish they will extend the offering to pypi hosting in the future.

Is this available on the Enterprise offering?
> Posting on twitter that your employees should buy an Xbox instead of join the union is fucked up

Did they post it on Twitter? I’m not sure that’s what happened in this story.

But anyway the argument they’re making is ‘your union is not worth $700 to you so spend that on something that is instead’ I don’t know if that’s true but it’s a reasonable and plausible argument.
Your opinion is your opinion.

My opinion of the company and its products is more consistently negative than any other large company. And while you think that the non-Java world is suffering, I think you have some tunnel vision.

Let's just say that I am personally happy with my decision to stay away from Java. And the brief periods where I had to work with Java were misery. Languages have personalities as well as companies, and there is a reason that the startup world stays away from Java in droves.
According to Github: https://github.blog/2018-11-15-state-of-the-octoverse-top-pr...

As it happens, among the statically typed languages, C++, Java, and C# are the top three, with C and TypeScript filling out the top 10 lineup.

That's not saying "more than half", but if you include C onto that list, I would definitely bet against your statement.
> 2007

12 years ago.

> A spike in fuel prices can quickly put them in the red.

I have a hard time believing these claims when I read that their CEO got ~13M in compensation last year [1].

But even if it is: if they are so on the verge of destruction, they may as well treat their employees with decency. After all, they might as well disappear next year.

https://www1.salary.com/Edward-H-Bastian-Salary-Bonus-Stock-...
Comments like this make me wonder what the economic philosophies of the average HN commenter is. I see a lot of things that seem pretty pro-capitalist, neo-liberal, etcetera. But I've always viewed the bulk of who's visiting and viewing to be mostly working, middle, or upper middle class. There's remarkably few people who benefit from the no-union position (even if Delta's messaging was legal). Of course your company is going to protect its own interests, but I'm surprised how frequently I see pro-employer comments at the top, rather than pro-worker.

Personally, I dis-like Delta's messaging because it equates one of the last vestiges we have of worker's rights -- the union -- to a video game console. It's absolutely insulting to the worker, to suggest the people that work for you are dumb enough to believe that argument. It's fine for the employer to have an opinion on unions, but this is tasteless.
I don't buy this. There's significantly more work involved in organizing a new union vs. improving an existing one. For one thing, the channels of communication in a non-unionized workforce simply do not exist. Companies like Amazon have specific guidelines for identifying organizing behavior, including gathering employee contact information, and they take action accordingly. Under your strategy, you shouldn't start a union until it's too late to start a union.
It's a practical joke and the punchline hits when you find yourself $1299 and tax lighter struggling to maintain 10mph with buses and rideshare cars whizzing past you and the curb.
Ah, I understand.

So what you're asking isn't information that could be used as part of a cost/benefit calculation, but more of a "this is happening, how do we make the best of it" question?

Oracle Linux is based on RHEL, and to the best of my knowledge isn't that different. I suspect that since you're a RHEL shop, you probably won't see as many problems as you may fear.
docs.microsoft.com PM here - thanks for the feedback! It takes some time to update all our search results across the two major search engines. Given that some pages have less traction than others, the more obscure content sometimes still is indexed as if it's coming from MSDN.

We have moved most of the library to docs, with redirects in place, so hopefully you won't get too many 404s. If you do - feel free to report them here: https://aka.ms/sitefeedback, and we'll address them.
>What's truly offensive, and downright nefarious here,...

From context I don't think that definition works.

What's truly aggressive and evil vs What's truly unpleasant and evil. I think the second works better.

Either way it was an offensive attack on the union which this person found offensive and nefarious.

I think if your union can't hold up to a simple attack like this then you have no business unionizing. The union poster should read something like, our union got you an extra $1 an hour. That's about $2,080 a year. In which case your dues are well worth it.
Exactly. It’s nice to have competition in the Java package space aside from Maven, Jfrog Artifactory and Nexus. It will take time to build up network effects for Github but if they make a good product I could see it happening eventually. We use Artifactory where I work and the generic aspect of it plus the ecosystem integrations are super nice. I can publish docker images, regular zip files, jar files, Python packages etc and use the same tooling for all of that. GitHub should really push for the one-stop-shop approach here because I feel like that’s going to be their major competitive advantage. That’s where Gitlab has been playing too so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a similar product from them in the near future.
Understanding the uncertainty of a decision is important to make good decisions however, software massively benefits from first mover advantage so there is a reason why absolutism (even when usually wrong) is actually beneficial. For every conversation you have where you debate the nuanced merits of a direction you give your competitor that many more minutes of time to beat you to the punch. Facebook isn't doing bad because zuckerberg decided to use PHP. Most technology companies have the luxury of being wrong, what should be elaborated on here is how this theory doesn't apply to new areas people from tech want to apply it to (see: anything that has risk you have to actually consider).
Marketing copy for scooter company selling a scooter: "This isn't a scooter"

Insert eye-roll here. Honestly this is so bad it feels like an April fools joke or something.
You don't sound very pro-union You're ignoring the risks and difficulty in forming unions in the US, and, even if we accept that there are people who don't "need" unions, unions should be formed when they're least needed because that's when employees have the most power.
We have an ant script that does almost exactly this
My impression is that it is often a series of random companies. A "factory" doing some part, or assembly, might not be larger than a class room. These days you can pretty much just search for something like "tablet factory shenzhen" and see how it is [0]. Of course then there will be larger ones like Strange Parts visits [1], and sketchier ones [2]. And then on top of that will be all kinds of companies doing design, distribution, sales and whatnot.

[0] e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfyAjkPIYyc
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8DQrSp5yEP937qNqTooOw
[2] e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZh7VfxBmcw
I first went to Maker Faire in 2012 or so, and it was incredible - the variety I saw was unreal, with so many smaller and interesting projects. I've gone three more times since then, and each time it's been less and less inspiring.

More uniformity, more emphasis on unrelated consumer products like pre-prepared food offerings, less emphasis on interesting electronics kits. Maybe I became jaded, but maybe Maker Faire has tried to target a lower and lower common denominator in an effort to boost revenues.
> Prolog's lack of popularity suggests that viewing a computer program as a pure (first order predicate) logic construct isn't a powerful way of thinking in general.

No... it doesn't suggest that. If there's one thing I've learned all these years I've learned about various different softwares and languages, it's that popularity does not correlate with power.

I'll take Linux over Windows, Archlinux over Ubuntu, Haskell over Java, i3 over Gnome, CLI over GUI, vim and shell over IDEs like Eclipse. I've seen "modern" popular languages adopt features from "obsolete" unpopular languages in ways that pale with the originals, like Python's lambdas and assignment unpacking, which suck.

The rest of your post notwithstanding, I disagree with the logic of your first sentence.
Corporations large and small are mostly owned by the upper middle class, not the ultra rich. Given that people generally move up through income levels over the course of their life, this includes a pretty large fraction of Americans, although probably not a majority. Hurting mega-corps, in general, will mostly hurt the old and decently well off, not just the rarefied ultra rich.
>Why would I care as an investor? I still want the stock to go up quickly.

What you want to do is reinvest profit from short term gains into long term securities that beat inflation to leverage risk.

>Executives own stock and without a cash bonus wouldn't this incentive trying to get quick increases in stock value.

Equity is worthless without liquidity, and that's more important than massive growth down the road for the rank-and-file that hold options. Frankly equity isn't the motivator it used to be. If you don't plan on staying in one gig for more than 18-24 months, there is very little reason to sacrifice time and money for equity.

That said, executives' focus on short term growth to cash out is a problem in and of itself - notice how companies like Disney and Apple have skyrocketed under CEOs focused on long term stability and growth over cashing out 18-24 months after their hiring. And everyone made way more money because of it.

>As a minor stock holder I have no interest in voting power

And minor stockholders don't make a difference in the day-to-day operation of a business. The activist investors that hold board seats do, however, and their focus on short term growth has caused many mid sized shops to collapse under pressure to grow, sacrificing long term stability for their employees for the profits of vultures.
Frankly it's none of their business, just as the company shouldn't lobby their employees on who to vote for.

> It's against the company's interests.

The fact that it's a baseline assumption that a company's interests is opposed to the interests of the employees who create the company's value is exactly why employees and their unions need political protection.
> and there is a reason that the startup world stays away from Java in droves.

You may have your own case of tunnel vision. I mean, sure, there are "droves" of startups that stay away from Java (many only to turn to it later), but there are also "droves" that adopt it from the get-go.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19881673.
Well I want people who are thinking about the problem they have in front of them, not about whether they can afford taking Sally to the doctor to have that weird lump on her shoulder checked.
The Sheep Look Up is fantastic. It's a very dark novel, but at the same time it has a great sense of irony. In particular, it keeps setting up characters and then throwing them to the wolves faster than you can say "Game of Thrones". For example, the plot is ostensibly about a legendary environmental activist who is about to come out of hiding — he's sought for inciting his followers to violence — at a pivotal time as the world is being thrown into a series of political wars/crises caused, indirectly, by environmental disasters (think Syria) and squabbling for resources, but the moment the hero emerges for his triumphant appeal to the American people, everything blows up in his face.

The article doesn't mention The Jagged Orbit, which Brunner considered to form a trilogy together with Stand on Zanzibar and The Sheep Look Up. Anyone read it?
> Imagine the savings on having a beard!

Not everyone can grow a full beard.
This kind of stuff should be on the stdlib if it's meant to be idiomatic.
All 3 are going to be far worse than a 2-stroke powered scooter that costs 1/6 the price.
probably not bankrupt, but they will basically become a small ride hailing company with high prices. This will result in their stock falling dramatically.
> The union poster should read something like, our union got you an extra $1 an hour. That's about $2,080 a year. In which case your dues are well worth it.

Great idea... as long as the union did actually manage to achieve something as concrete as that. If not then maybe the Delta poster has a point.
You're implying that unions and companies have equal power over the employees, when this is pretty obviously not the case.
I think that's a problem with the law not with the process.

Some unions are awesome and have done great things, others have really slowed down innovation and made working harder for the people they represent.

>Companies like Amazon have specific guidelines for identifying organizing behavior, including gathering employee contact information, and they take action accordingly.

That should be illegal. And so should being forced to join a union against your will (which the teachers unions can do).

>Under your strategy, you shouldn't start a union until it's too late to start a union.

Then how do we have unions in the first place? They were started because of the need for them, but I don't see the back pressure on unions. Maybe we need to give workers freedom to pick which union they want to be part of but I see things as broken in two parts right now. Unions have tremendous staying power, which hurts them in the long run. And it's hard to form a union. I think both things should be fixed.
Has Apple's assembly quality declined? Feels more like design issues to me (e.g. keyboard, flexgate, overheating).
A lot has happened since IE6..
I think it might be time to move on.

Eg their main focus for .net Core has been multi platform - ie the last 3-4 years!

Visual Studio Code.

And on browsers they are building what will probably be a better Chromium than Google's Chrome, in the new Edge.
Makemigrations detects if the type is the same and asks you if you renamed it.

So, when changing columns do the type change and name change in separate migrations and you won't have to do it by hand.
In that case my comment was off target. I made it because you didn't state you had read the piece, but I guess I shouldn't have assumed that.

I have not read Lucretius, but I assumed the author was correct because his overall views fit well with what I do know about the history of metaphysics. But perhaps he is mistaken in this particular case.
That's true. Most large-scale MySQL shops, including Facebook, discourage or outright forbid foreign key constraints. This is sacrilege to many relational db purists, but there are a number of solid reasons:

Foreign keys aren't shard-aware, greatly reducing their utility.

They introduce performance bottlenecks due to extra locking. In an insanely-high-write-volume OLTP environment, such as a social network, this really matters.

They don't play nice with online schema change tools in general -- not just fb-osc. These tools all involve creating shadow tables and propagating changes to them, which is problematic with foreign keys.
Even if true, that's not an inherent property of HFT, that's just standard corruption: some traders get unfair access to private information about other traders' future plans.

Getting rid of HFT wouldn't get rid of that kind of corruption, and getting rid of that corruption wouldn't get rid of HFT.
An useful intermediate step, but ultimately, a wrong move.

Packages will keep having the essential problem that there's no guarantee whatsoever that the package was derived from the advertised source. Plenty of chance for delivering malicious code.
> What I really want is to get a "lite" Java project like this up and running with all of the smart people's opinions in place that I can develop entirely in a lite editor (preferably without XML anywhere).

That's pretty much the original value proposition for Spring Boot. "I just want to get to work".

I used Spring Boot before encountering a Spring 3 project. The difference is phenomenal.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, which sponsors Spring.
Why not use dead projects ? I like TurboBadger for example.

It is pretty feature complete and the code base is well developed. so changes and/or fixes can be done quite easily.
I agree with your reasoning, but I think that's not really necessary to ride both Lyft and Uber to justify "independent contractor" status. The fact that Lyft riders use their own cars and choose their own working hours (i.e no direct supervision from Lyft side) should be enough to justify that.
How does this compare to boost:Fiber (other than the obvious "it's in C, not C++")?
when you are google, unilaterally releasing and pushing a major new feature for “the web” has an entirely different meaning and implication to it compared to, sadly, mozilla, or some other player (even apple to some extent) because of their huge market/mind share.

in that scenario “wouldn’t it be cool” is not a good enough reason, and for a major feature such as this, skepticism is healthy and warranted... the “web browser” is slowly being transformed into “the google browser” and we have no one to blame but ourselves
header photo: blindingly bright tree, woe betide those who look directly upon it

first paragraph: trees will someday light our highways

halfway down the article: okay, a book being lit by a plant, cool

near the end: "The light generated [...] is currently about one-thousandth of the amount needed to properly read by"
This was used as a lame excuse.

Uber had actually something to win as you said because of all the free cash floating around and the fact that Uber is completely out of China.
It’s the first time I see someone willing to trade Nexus/Maven for NPM. There’s even no standard way to build and package a TypeScript library, to start with. For small projects, maybe, it can work, but for enterprise needs JS/TS is not even close.