skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To characterize unions-- especially contemporary unions in the United States-- as limited strictly to collective action functions, is factually incomplete and wrong. That unions perform other functions and aim to protect workers in other ways beyond collective action should be a totally uncontroversial statement.

Although unions proximately came into existence for the purpose of taking collective action against oppressive employers, it's equally true, and at least as important, to understand that they came into existence in order to fill a regulatory vacuum in labor law.

This should prompt some important questions:

1. Should the job of protecting workers from employers properly belong to any entity other than the government?

2. Is filling the regulatory vacuum with regulation theoretically or empirically insufficient to protect workers?

3. Are unions the only means of collective action?

4. Are the functions that unions serve beyond coordinating collective action actually necessary in order to protect workers? Would they still be necessary even if labor law was sufficiently well regulated?

My position is this: We should dramatically expand and increase labor regulation and enforcement actions, and we should allow employees to take collective action. Then we should ask ourselves whether unions are still necessary.
Characteristics we are born with have much more influence on our personality
Well, when the above statement speaks of characteristics one was born with, it is alluding to the idea of us inheriting a certain set of traits from our parents. As advanced as our science and genetics may appear, thus far we have only genotyped a very small proportion of our genetic make-up. While the semantics of relating our character to our family are cute, when people state you are just like your father and mother, it is far from a scientifically proven fact. The whole nature VS nurture argument and ‘we are what happens to us’ is still very much an active debate. According to many tests made on new born humans all over the world, babies are apparently born with two common fears, one is the fear of falling, the other is fear of a loud sound and the rest are supposedly all learnt fears and behaviors.
I feel that what happens to us, how and where we are raised has far more impact on our character, mental capabilities, value system and principles than ‘what we happen to be born with’. I also want to point out that there is a massive difference between just growing up and actually being raised, the latter being less and less common these days. I attribute it to increasingly split family models, parents working too much and controlling kids by giving them a phone or a tablet, which is sadly seen as an easy solution by most modern parents.
It's because saving children's lives by providing misquito netting far outweighs bullying his competitors building the earliest web browsers.
As we know, two most complex problems on software development are caching and choosing right names. Well, here we have an example of combination of both)
first is italian :) hn will bash me for saying but the name reminds me of a pasta brand or name
Yeah, it's pretty toxic stuff. However, it's not typically used as an insecticide.

Other things with insecticidal properties: gasoline, bleach, car windshields, and bricks.
For the last time, journalists reporting on retraining programs for coal miners != journalists personally claiming learning to code solves everything. This is a dumb myth that needs to die.
If I ask you if you're American and you say yes, then guess what? You're a Real American.
Even if what you say is true, transferring money from taxpayers to other taxpayers to take a year off doesn't fix it.
That is rather cynical.
My problem with the documentary series is that they gave Bill Gates credit for inventing DOS.
This starts at 34:00 in episode two.

There was no mention at all that Microsoft bought it.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-bought-ms-dos-os-ea...

This happens frequently in business and tech. CEOs look like geniuses when they can
take credit for the work of others.
I'd say it's mainly just the US, from my experience (UK outside of london) developer salaries in Europe are much lower than the US.

For one example https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Software_Developer/...
> When people have been inculcated all their lives with the idea that labor organizing is bad, they’re all just temporarily embarrassed corporate execs, it doesn’t take too much to push them back towards this baseline.

Okay, everyone, think carefully about what the trite "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" quote implies. The underlying meaning is "These people are too ignorant/foolish/some other pejorative to recognize that they are not, in fact, 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires', LOL." It also has a implication of "I, however, do recognize this because I am wiser/smarter/etc. than them and I know what's good for them better than they do themselves."

If the people who repeat these kinds of things think that ordinary folk are not bright enough to pick up on these subtexts and resent the hell out of them for it, maybe they are not a tenth as smart as they think they are. Maybe it's time to stop parroting Wright's stupid quote and stop looking down on these people if you all actually want to, like, win elections or something.
The horrible headline somewhat contradicts part of the article. Does the editor even read it? In the article it says:

"In the coin flip test, the four least honest countries were China, Japan, South Korea and India. However, Asian countries were not significantly more dishonest than others in the quiz, with Japan having the lowest level of dishonesty."
1. That doesn't seem right to me? http://web.mta.info/news/pdf/MTA-2019-Prelim-Budget-July-Fin... says the MTA budget is $16.6B, of which $8.7B is to NYCT (subway + bus + Staten Island Railroad). http://content.tfl.gov.uk/transport-for-london-budget-2018-1... says the TfL budget is £9.8B (about $12.2B), of which the Underground alone has a budget of £2.5B (about $3.1B), buses are almost as much, and then there's the Overground and a few others. I don't think the distinction in budget is anywhere near 5 to 1.

2. My argument is not so much whether it has massive funding or not, my argument is that riders have the impression that it has insufficient funding - i.e., riders do not have the impression that the problem with the subway is union salaries and benefits. I'm (obviously) happy to get into transit geekery, but this discussion is about whether people have a positive or negative view of unions.
I think from a structural engineering perspective, yurts are strong for their weight/materials but most construction failures don’t involve a structure falling, it’s matrierials/joint failure from water/UV exposure and penetrations. Yurts were developed to be semi-permanent structures for nomadic peoples. I would not expect them to last more than 15-20 years because of the toll the water and sun will take on their “cheap” materials and simple construction methods.
Cannyls: An embedded persistent key-value storage for Rust
Idk about you, but I don’t work hard out of fear of losing my job. I do it for the respect of my coworkers more than anything. It’s totally viable to be lazy in a non-union job too.
I’m on mobile, and from what I could tell, this is all online - i.e. no desktop client.

If I sign up for this service and use it, where is my data stored? How safe is it? What will you do with all this deeply personal information? Do you plan to monetize it somehow?

Again - this is deeply personal information. I applaud your effort, but personally I would never use this, given the information on the website. I would also advise my friends and family to steer clear. Do you plan to monetize off the personal information? Is it fully encrypted in storage and transit? It would certainly help if you called out this information. Maybe you do - I just don’t see it on mobile.
This does the same thing, only with SQLite. The main point of this tool is to concisely join the steps of 1) starting your SQL client, 2) loading the CSV, 3) running the query, in a single step.

You can also join those steps in a single command with Postgres, something like:

psql << EOF
create table ...
copy tablename from filename csv ...
copy (select ...) to stdout csv ...
drop table ...
EOF

However, this tool is more concise to do the above and facilitates combining with brace-expansion, file tab-completion, and <() process substitution.
Synthesis and Verification for All (Emina Torlak, 2017)
Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA Sierpinski Triangles[2004]
"Journalism" has undergone a clear shift from offering a neutral, informative perspective on a topic to blatantly telling readers what to think. Every article is now an opinion piece.
Interestingly, it's fully possible to disable the automatic garbage collection in Go to achieve this.

Disable the garbage collector:

debug.SetGCPercent(-1)

Trigger garbage collection:

runtime.GC()

It is also possible to allocate a large block of memory and then manage it yourself.
On average unions work better for the most people. People on the upper end will not stop contributing or trying, people on the lower end don't matter much anyway. It's the middle that provides most of the advancement.
Considering one of the reasons I got into computers was that it was easier to write closer to the speed my brain thinks at.... nope.

In fact, I’m still waiting for that sweet neural interface that cyberpunk authors promised us 30 years ago.

Handwriting is alright for studying (as you’re forcing the brain to re-evaluate what you read, helping memorization), but for everything else it’s a complete drag.
Do you have an unspoken premise that this nation belongs to the government? If so, I would say that this nation belongs to the citizens instead.
This seems like a self-defeating argument - why didn't the American revolutionaries just hug it out with King George? You take the fact of their going to war as a given, like the weather, then turn around and pour scorn on grandparent posters' firm opposition to autocracy and level of knowledge ('the handful of dictators and “strongmen” you know off hand').

You seem to be characterizing ideologies as fight everything out vs talk everything out, and then saying that centrism is the 'muck in the middle' where compromises are brokered. Why, then would you invalidate the whole concept of opposition and dismiss them as ignorant?
I suppose I shouldn't have said "they are not worthless" after listing reasons why the point system could be compromised (emotional voting or the vote dilution of agenda-driven automated bots).

I think it is because you said the word "earn" which I thought may have reflected the outlook of most digital forum participants (earn implies value).

In a physical space we may evaluate reception of our ideas through nodding, verbal affirmation, or during our turn of the conversation. I would think it would be more difficult for a malicious actor to manipulate public opinion with these classical communication methods.

Perhaps now it is more difficult for quality content to be injected into society (or for society to think for itself) when most folks may naturally feel more comfortable consuming content with the largest (potentially artificial) view, vote, stream, or click count.

Maybe there are entire divisions of allocated cognitive labor designed exclusively to determine authenticity of traffic, which is unfortunate but necessary (and will likely not be thorough).

Maybe there are not.
Or when some right-wing pastry cooker will discover than the wedding cake he's making will be used in a same-sex marriage ?
France, even with massive exports and imports it still needed to curtail nuclear production on the weekends which raised prices. Most countries are wise enough not to instal significant Nuclear for this very reason.
If everyone is happier, less stressed, and as a result less productive, then isn’t that a good trade off? Shouldn’t we all strive to work less hours if it means better mental health? That’s what I would wonder.
No, I did not. Thanks.
> Wouldn't you get lazy after a couple of years? Doesn't this create incentives to deliberately work more slowly?

Maybe without unpaid overtime and burnout, developers will finally have the chance to contribute to open source and side projects that recruiters are always looking for.
Is something keeping you back from working for USPS IT?
The fact that that polygraph tests don't work was well known certainly by the 90's (if not much much earlier). I struggle to believe anyone at all interested in the field wouldn't have some awareness of that, especially if they knew in advance they were going to be tested.

And I'd dispute that they "work" even if the subject is unaware of the flaws. Studies have shown innocent people regularly react to assertions of criminality. It's basically left up to the individual tester to "interpret" whether or not they find the person to be lying.

Sure sometimes it may inspire someone to admit to something they otherwise wouldn't. But these people are more likely to be largely honest people who made a mistake then hardened criminals or people actively working against the state.
We've been hearing this same argument for twenty years.

It scared me away from the industry, back when I was in college and the scaremongers claimed that all the software jobs would move to India and the U.S. programmers would be laid off en masse. It never happened, and in fact, many programmers got quite rich shortly thereafter. The tech companies play a significant enough role in the U.S. economy that I can't see the money disappearing "soon," short of Elizabeth Warren dismantling them.

Also, having worked for an old-school tech company that refused to pay its engineers competitively, I've seen firsthand how a strong engineering culture can crumble overnight. The good engineers migrated to better paying jobs and couldn't be replaced. The company dug its heels into the ground, and put more arrows behind marketing and middle management and low-cost contract engineering labor. And that went as well as you might expect. I'd be surprised if they're still around in a few years.
> The Klansman doesn't have friends.

The Klansman is a Klansman because his friends are Klansmen. If left to their own devices, they'll just get more used to living that way.

Daryl doesn't win because he's on a crusade, he wins because he's a good friend.
Here here. Even though they use the same browser engine as Chrome, the Brave team have chosen not to include the blocker limitation introduced by Google[0].

[0]https://brave.com/improved-ad-blocker-performance/
I really don't understand this line of reasoning unless you're shilling for Google.

"Nothing stop you from using..."

"Chromium is open source..."

"Nothing stop Mozilla and Apple.."

There is a behemoth in the room that makes all these arguments NULL and VOID. It's called Google and it's ruling its domain with an iron fist. We saw what these sort of arguments lead to in practice, the recent ad-blocking debacle being the icing on the cake. Open source means nothing if you have a colossal gate keeper that is not only in full control but has the power to _dictate future evolution_. All Open Source provides in this case, is an easy excuse, a shield to deflect criticism and this is exactly what you're doing here.

Did we really learn nothing from Microsoft's past that we are willing to overlook an entity that's orders of magnitude more powerful?
Few if any are trying to eliminate the ability to have ballot initiatives, whereas plenty of moneyed individuals are trying to eliminate unions.

I don't think it's a fair comparison.
I'm not sure I understand. If everybody can bypass the 50k limit, what's the point of the limit?

If the 50k limit isn't sufficiently high, I don't think, "they're trying to restrict blockers, but don't worry they're bad at it" is a great defense. And if the 50k limit is high enough, and it's a reasonable tradeoff between privacy and performance, then why are content blockers putting in extra work to bypass it?

Should we expect that Apple will block the limit workaround in the future?
OOP is such a nebulous thing. Just because the word 'class' is used doesn't mean something is OOP. Those smart pointers don't use inheritance, they don't implement any interfaces, no virtual methods...
Ask HN: Registrar won't honor premium status domain incorrectly listed
I purchased a domain through a reseller. The domain was listed as non-premium in the WHOIS DB. The registrar is now saying that they listed a premium domain by mistake, and do not want to honor the sale. The reseller is in negotiations with them. The registrar is stalling as its been almost a month now.

Does anyone know what the rules/law is surrounding this situation? How can I ensure I get the domain I purchased?
The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)
Makes some really great points, similar to why C++ is not favored for embedded. C++ compilers are just too unpredictable and when trying to meet code limits in 128K, 32K or even 2K of flash, C++ is a nightmare. All of the major embedded SDKs (STM, Microchip, SiLabs, TI, NXP, I could go on) are written in C... and C only. MBED is C++, but I've never encountered or heard of an OEM or integrator using MBED in a real product.
Sure, politicians can become wealthy after holding office. I'm more talking about where people were situated before they entered politics, and in particular the people who are not politicians - donors, influencers (for lack of a better term), etc.

And I think my politics are more accurately represented by normal people vs. career politicians than by donkey mascot vs. elephant mascot. I vote Democrat as a matter of lesser-of-two-evils, but I yearn desperately for a world in which no one who's involved in any way with DCCC can have influence in politics ever again. If you find me someone who votes Republican who says the like AOC and hate Trump, I'd probably agree with them on a lot of things.
Make a Command-Line Based Image Re-Sizer in Python 3 Using Pillow
is this not just survivorship bias? What about the countless of people who did not make it into a successful startup, or all those people who bought lottery tickets without winning anything?

becoming a millionaire is statistically highly unlikely, and why would such an unlikely event warrant anti-union sentiment?
I noticed this for the first time this morning - I hadn't heard about any changes ahead of time.

I accidentally used the web for about three minutes a few weeks ago without Ghostery installed, and the experience was quite miserable. It actually led me to finally buy a Raspberry Pi and put PiHole on my home network.

If Safari doesn't continue to support ad blocking for when I'm outside my home network ("Ghostery Lite" is in the App Store, but I haven't fully evaluated it yet), I will switch away from Safari as a primary browser - probably to Firefox.

I'm not sure I view this in the same light as a Google, however. There is a content-blocking API which seems to work OK, and Apple do not rely on privacy invasion for a substantial portion of their income.
Even being aware that something is fake doesn’t necessarily mean that you believe it.

There are placebo effectiveness studies where the participants know they are taking a placebo pill, for instance, and yet still feel better than a control group who isn’t offered any treatment. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-kn...
Surprisingly, the MS stuff (the way he got as rich as he is now) is mostly illegal in the way he took advantage of his business... He does not seem to acknowledge this anywhere...
> You need very good practices to make C++ compile fast.

I would reframe this as the design of C++ makes it hard to write code that compiles fast.
> Because content blockers are fine for the majority of users, IMO.

This seems like putting the cart before the horse, no? Apple is in a good position to change this and chose not to. Personally it changed the internet for me when I could right click → block content forever. Meanwhile I haven’t found any content blocker on ios or safari that successfully blocks all ads. Even firefox focus lets some through.

There’s a reason they’re focusing on “privacy” and not “ad blocking”.
Citation not needed. I'm a pilot. Inertial systems provide attitude and heading information, but is only a backup for navigation. INS cannot deliver the required navigational performance and is only used to cross-check GPS and to provide a backup in case GPS fails.
>I never understand why the sorts of people who engage in geek posturing even bother with iOS.

I think selective geekery has become a thing as technology now pervades all aspects of our lives. There's just not enough time to tinker with everything all the time.
> It is also possible to allocate a large block of memory and then manage it yourself.

At which point you're mostly just writing C in Go.
how old are you ? :-)
Can't do it. Flammable material is readily available so they won't play the game if it means they'll starve (which is how I'd do it). I can't impose that on these people and it is an outcome that is absurd so I'm sure we can make something work here.
Sir Antony Gormley’s art explores an interior realm
They didn't dwell on why they chose C over C++, in much detail. In my view the conveniences and quality of life features provided by c++ makes it a better choice than C for large programs.

Also there are many kind of games that do not require a real time user interaction including many turn based games, card games, etc, so the type of game could be a factor in the selection of the tool. Some time s I guess game design can incorporate pauses and delays that might be required for technical reasons.
Making drugs is cheap. Making alcohol is cheap. Recreational drugs are expensive at the retail level due to the black market price premium. That's why there is the stereotype of the thieving junkie rather than the thieving alcoholic. Both are addicted but only one of them pays black market prices.

For $15 a day a person can spend every hour of it inebriated. $15 a day is barely a down payment on a black market opioid dependency.
Just because I know how to mess with all that shit doesn't mean I want to.
Actually, per the article, the lack of redundancy was central to hiding the feature from the FAA, keeping it out of the FOM, and ensuring the avoidance of any scenario that would entail extra pilot training. Whether two or three sensors, any disagreement among them would have involved a more complex system, and would risk necessitating an in-cockpit notification of that disagreement, and the ensuing training so the pilots understand the exact consequences of the disagreement and a procedure for mitigating it.

And the article explicitly dings Southwest Airlines as having provided Boeing a financial incentive to avoiding them needing additional simulator training.
Yeah, I don't dispute that. I just don't know that your plan would help with that much beyond simply injecting more money into the system. Instead of money going to the top < 1% of founders who figure out how to effectively pitch investors, it would go to the top < 1% who figure out how to effectively pitch a government agency. Determining who is and isn't "great" is extremely difficult and I don't see any reason why the government would be any better at it than investors are currently, so you'll still have truly great people getting passed over and others who don't deserve it getting the money.
why do cops interrogate people instead of just investigating them?
is this not the result of there being very little ideological differences between MBA graduates? I would even attribute this to a lack of ideological differences in (US) society as a whole.

Economic and managerial schools only seem to teach one ideological viewpoint, which in term results in there being very little recourse on what would be the right way to tackle a situation, philosophically and ideologically speaking.