skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes it's not all about money. People in the bay area may not understand that most people working at Kickstarter truly believe in the company's mission. The money is not great and we've been willing to accept that to feel like we're making a positive change in the world. Unfortunately upper management has used this (as well as Kickstarter's reputation) as a bargaining chip to treat employees poorly.

Source: I work at Kickstarter
True enough. In those cases I see the LifeStraw as more of a "last ditch" solution. Think drinking out of clogged gutters or rain puddles with it as a last resort.
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Before the actors union stars were made by a studio and forced to work for that studio for long hours and little pay. If you spoke up you were out. Lucy Ball was smart enough to start her own studio only to see it get sold a few years later.

If they didn't have a union movies would look different. Maybe better for the customer because you get to see your favorite star in 10x more movies.
> Just in terms of salary isn’t an union somewhat contradictory to the engineering ethos of meritocracy?

I've seen that other commenters have already pointed out that the two are not incompatible.

However, with the risk of getting some downvotes, I would like to challenge the primacy of meritocracy itself.

I don't mean to say that people shouldn't do a good job at work or that they shouldn't try to continuously improve. But I think that an environment and a mentality of continuous competition between individuals is not necessarily beneficial. For one it can cause tensions, frustration, anger, alienation at an individual level, but I think in the long run it can actually harm the company itself.

I'm curious what you guys think about this point of view.
Indeed. I have found Excel to be surprisingly fast at running this.

I can also draw parallels to literate programming in this: The code and visualization of what the code is doing are very tightly integrated.
This is false. Most offerings are done under 506b which only requires a self-declaration by the investor that he is accredited.
It is worth mentioning that if the Senate bill version of Medicare for All becomes the law of the land, then previously employer-funded healthcare becomes one less thing for union leaders to have to negotiate with employers.
Two examples of actor union rules that come to mind are employers paying for journey to location of its more than a couple of miles, and the (very strict) rules about filming nude scenes (only essential people on set, people standing by with bathrobes etc)
JWT works well. Securing API is one of its main use cases.

That being said. Please do NOT use basic auth for anything in 2020. This is the worst anti-pattern one could do for authentication.

Basic auth simply transmits the username and passwords in clear text with every request. No application should be receiving username and password in clear text besides a single auth service. The passwords will get leaked all over the place between developers debugging, verbose logs, exceptions, etc... And unlike tokens that are meaningless and expire, textual passwords last forever and are extensively re-used by user across websites.
From (non-technical) management's perspective it isn't that cheap, though. It's more features still not getting delivered. It's less velocity.

It's only seen as cheaper than a bad hire because technical management already has a big say in setting the hiring bar.

If you had corporate management who didn't listen to engineering and didn't think they needed to, who view it as replacable cogs, you wouldn't get away with that hiring bar. (And indeed, non-tech-driven companies tend to have more "traditional" engineer hiring processes.)

Sometimes they may look similar, but there's a big difference here between processes that filter down a big mass of seen-as-interchangable-pieces to one hire and ones that often result in no hire.
I built something like this for my own texting needs, though it was app-based. The biggest killer is that Twilio doesn't yet support group texting.

Unsure how many people will attempt to group text a company founder, but that part ends badly. It's surprisingly good for MMS/etc handling.
How many are there? Kickstater looks like something quite a small team can do and I always imagined a union to mean thousands of employees.
Was the German claim walked back? What about the folks in Japan right now?

Doubt is good, but asymmetric doubt is foolish.
There are many businesses that, if I were to try to undercut them, would send tax payer paid police to harm me. They wouldn't even give so much as a warning before I would find myself significantly harmed and likely enslaved for a number of years.

Should we do away with businesses because of these bad actors?
This may be a more appropriate source, from the source:

https://labs.spotify.com/2019/11/12/spotifys-event-delivery-...
I have a set of scripts that extend my screen to the right at max resolutions and reflows the workspaces in numeric order. It is generic enough to work with any number of displays.

You might need X11 python bindings and other dependencies that in general should be available on most distros.

See if it works for you, enjoy:

https://github.com/riccardomc/rcs/blob/master/scripts/.scrip...
> nous nous verrons demain or il l'aura fait avant

I am a french speaker from Québec and hear both of those often.
Truly remarkable result from the Sia core team after 5+ years of work!

It will be really interesting to see how the whole JAMStack "static is the new dynamic" movement (NextJS, Gatsby), and the immutable deploy URL pattern can benefit from being built on top of something like this![1]

[1] https://rauchg.com/2020/2019-in-review
My connection goes:

MacBook >
Thunderbolt dock >
USB-C to Dual DisplayPort >
2x DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort >
2x Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI >
2x Cinema Displays

Ridiculous but effective.
If it helps, I'll say it for you.

From the article:

But in 2018, a heated disagreement broke out between employees and management about whether to leave a project called “Always Punch Nazis” on the platform, according to reporting in Slate. When Breitbart said the project violated Kickstarter’s terms of service by inciting violence, management initially planned to remove the project, but then reversed its decision after protest from employees.

Following the controversy, employees announced their intentions to unionize with OPEIU Local 153 in March 2019.

If this story is accurate Kickstarter employees aren't unionising because of bad treatment by management but because management wanted to stop them badly treating other people. If this story isn't accurate then Kickstarter and this new union need to loudly sue Vox right now because this story makes them look like hateful extremists.

This is especially true because Kickstarter management gave in to their employees demands. Now they're unionising anyway. For what? To protect the right for the hard left to encourage violent extremism against their political opponents? What kind of union is this?

In case anyone is in any doubt what "punching Nazis" means the project is here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/282505033/always-punch-...

It says very explicitly their definition of "Nazi" includes anyone with "anti-immigrant ideologies" or really anyone who isn't woke.

Kickstarter's management look like utter fools. How did they not crush this right at the start? They have every right to fire every single one of their employees who objected to the original decision.
Ask HN: Best place to find ex-pats?
I need to hire in the sales realm and have had good success with ex-pats looking for remote work. Can anyone recommend good job boards for locating ex-Pats, particularly those located in the western hemisphere?
Same reason that when you and your friends reserve dinner at Hakkasan you don't all go and call Hakkasan - it's better for everyone if the group manifests as one. Your rep is your designated guy in charge of following up on your requests.

I'm not pro-union but the use case is meaningful.
>WWE 2K20, a professional wrestling video game, also stopped working at midnight on 1 January 2020. Within 24 hours, the game’s developers, 2K, issued a downloadable fix.

An almost poetic irony
> such a failure to protect consumer data and privacy would be in serious breach of legislation

I imagine this is true in the US also (which may be why the OP asked about reporting this).

> result in significant fines

This part I have less confidence in. :(
Thinking about your question I just scratch my head and keep returning to the answer "no I don't." I can't think of a single test of Amazon's consumer behavior model better than search results and product recommendations. If you want to know whether you understand my consumer habits you need to interact with me and get me to buy your predictions.

Not to mention, content predictions across the board are awful. Amazon, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Spotify, Soundcloud, you name it they all try to predict what I'm looking for and none of them have figured it out. If one of them was remotely close I might be concerned that there's a formula for how to get me to buy things but so far Im stuck digging through garbage piles for the things I want.
The opposite.

AMD spent less money on TSMC's research. Apple has been bankrolling TSMC to get the latest and greatest process tech.

AMD reached 7nm not because AMD put the R&D research into it... but because they can ride on the coattails of Apple and TSMC's investments.

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TSMC and Apple simultaneously benefit: TSMC can spread the risk of the 7nm process to more companies. Apple still gets first-dibs on the technology (but they only need ~6months worth of factory time to build all the chips they need).

Its more surprising that Intel managed to stay ahead of TSMC / Apple for so long. The economics are kind of against Intel here. The more people working together on process tech, the more efficient the results get.
Why is the result of a negotiation only the fault of one party if both sides had equivalent bargaining power?
And I thought everyone wanted 4:3 except for the Macbook users...
It's incorrect, not new
We have been using it to run e2e tests by creating multiple VMs that need to talk to each other and load some kernel modules. It works so much faster than relying on cloud providers or alternatives like Docker in Docker. Very good impressions so far :)
Git isn't considered to be a blockchain actually.
Is it possible that disease density increases chances of fatality for a particular person? The fatality rate seems so low outside of China, compared to China.
Psychic Cannibal Vampires
I could argue either side of that. On the one hand, I can easily believe that that is the real cost of software. On the other hand, it's harder to justify spending money on something when virtually all of the competition is free, unless it's got compelling features or something else that justifies the extra expense.
How so? I have yet to find a cheaper system with that many Thunderbolt 3 ports.

If I didn't need macOS and Thunderbolt 3 then no, the Mac Mini makes no sense at all.
Doesn't seem that scathing of a criticism.

I'd consider Beaker Browser (https://beakerbrowser.com/) to be its own browser even though it's "just" an Electron app. Brave is another example: it's "just" Chromium. Or Firefox and Chrome on iOS: just Webkit wrappers.

You can come up with your own completely novel UI on top of a browser that is indistinguishable from "your own browser" to the end-user. Mincing words with implementation detail just seems like a tired "well actually" HN gotcha.
I highly recommend Turing's biography “Alan Turing: The Enigma” from which this story is taken. It's a great book. Very detailed and well researched. Author dives into many topics related to Turing's work like math, ai, cryptography.
> they still offer comically bad 1366x768 options for a base model.

Believe it or not, there are still corporate legacy apps that run on DOS and looks great on 1366x768 and look like crap in 4k.
In fact, Linux still look like crap in 4K today.
What tablet do you have? My wife had a nearly top-spec X1 3rd gen tablet and the stylus lag is terrible compared to something like an iPad Pro with the pencil.
If that was true, Kickstarter wouldn't have fought it as hard as they did. The workers just gained additional leverage. What's the evidence that these workers have zero additional leverage?
Actors don't die on set any more, so that's nice. From the SAG-AFTRA site:

"SAG-AFTRA members are entitled to a variety of benefits, including contracts/collective bargaining, eligibility for the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan, SAG-Producers Pension Plan, the AFTRA Retirement Fund, the iActor online casting database, and much more."

https://www.sagaftra.org/membership-benefits/member-benefits
If you like these caps: https://kono.store/collections/all-products-list/products/he...

I asked them about the caps and they said:

> Please contact support@kono.store — we can probably sell you used keycaps from a returned keyboard

sadly non-us shipping is expensive too :/

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Maybe also other switches' caps might work. Similar switches I found:

- kailh low profile (aka kailh choc)

- logitech GL

- Gateron low profile

- Fraly (choc brown clones?)

- Cherry ML (size difference of 0.2mm or something)

Caps I found:

- Logitech GL (laser etched I think): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000576425713.html?spm=a2g0o...

- Kailh choc transparent and default blank coated https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33063214508.html?spm=a2g0o.p...

- Kailh choc "default" double shot https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32915900901.html?spm=a2g0o.p...

- Kailh choc blank "raw" (yellowish)https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33026798318.html?spm=a2g0o.d...

- and a goup buy: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/eq6vzs...

- coming soon by @Adron: https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/eh9vdj...
Funny enough that's actually the one I normally carry but couldn't think of the name!

You are right the Sawyer is better in general.
> the problem with MVC as given is that you end up stuffing too much code into your controllers

> [Under MOVE, e]vents are used to join all these components together safely.

The problem with events is that you put all interactions into events, creating a labyrinth of ad-hoc protocols.

Events are messages, and messages are just methods in disguise: worse ones, that don't have a call stack you can inspect.

Under this MOVE, someone will sooner or later hit the problem of wanting the V to manipulate the M in some way that O doesn't support, and will just end up creating some hack whereby a whole chunk of the M state (perhaps all of it) is downloaded via some stream of events, edited, and sent back via another stream of events.
Well, I agree with you. I think that pursuing our interests in mathematics, music, literature or whatever strikes our fancy is admirable. And I think it makes us happier, wiser and more humble as you say.

At the same time, I maintain that we shouldn't feel guilty if we aren't doing it that, for whatever reason. Sure, sometimes we actually want to pursuit some of these things, but don't. Maybe it's because we have a messy schedule, we can't organize ourselves to prioritize passions.

Feeling guilty does little to actually make you pursue your passions. You're better off learning about habits and how to pick ones that serve you.
It doesn't really count unless you're writing your own rendering engine.

It's like saying you built your own operating system than in reality is just another Linux distribution.
USB4 will definitely be high definition video compatible, that much we know.

From reading this[0] it looks like USB4 and TB3 will be broadly compatible, modulo the usual sort of tiresome licensing and compatibility BS our industry loves to burden us with. Pity.

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-4-faq,38766.html
Yikes. Only 42% going 5/5 from the already rarefied pool of people who would bother to go through the TripleByte quiz is a little scary.
To add to this, even if someone knows a video is fake, if it’s realistic enough then the image will persist.

But perhaps the most damaging aspect of all this is the erosion of truth, in people’s general feeling that nothing can be trusted.
This is assuming they were already based on merit and not on nepotism and favoritism. In comparison to those, seniority might be a reasonable alternative.
A useful next step, https://superuser.com/questions/30087/remove-key-from-known-...
I did NOT code a collaborative writing app
They should shut their ACs off.
Rembrandt and Mughal India
A very similar product: iframe
what??

You can deposit without a pin bit to withdraw you need photo id and a verbal password or pin in every bank I've ever been in
Help the Graphics team track down an interesting WebRender bug
In the UK fraud barely gets noticed by police. In USA there's serious jail time for check fraud
What do you mean by effectively challenge the government? Corporations challenge the government all the time. The power of the government is constrained by the constitution, and corporations have been recognized as having certain rights. The government does have the nuclear option though. Alphabet only exists because it was granted a corporate charter by the government in whatever state they incorporated in. The state can revoke its charter and the government can force them to liquidate their assets. It used to be a fairly common practice and still happens quite a bit too smaller corporations.
Yeah I would go with a Mac Pro.\s
Chart to data would be awesome. It takes a lot of time to adjust a png into an image possible to redistribute with custom branding. It's only surface detection so must be possible.
Is the article's description of why the union was created accurate?
I appreciate this detailed response, but I'm afraid if it takes an essay to respond to a simple question of "why break out if more than 5 lines", and the reader with 15 years of programming experience who's well-versed in half a dozen general purpose prog langs still haven't got a clue after reading it, it suggests to me that this is cargo-cult programming.

Ruby is not the first language that has OOPish constructs, but no one else tells devs they are probably writing bad code if they need more than 5 lines of code in a method. I mean, what's wrong with a controller methods that just splits into 2 branches based on the existence of a param, and creates a model and save it to the DB? The entire method will consist of around 20 lines of code. There's no instance variable, no cache and no error handling whatsoever. Do Rubyist get a headache after reading 5?

I'm all for OOP but there seems to be quite some amount of OOP BS around, especially in the Ruby community.
> Just in terms of salary isn’t an union somewhat contradictory to the engineering ethos of meritocracy? I mean we’d like to think that the good ideas win and impact and outcome matters. We hold up the 10x engineers and those that make an outsized contribution to the industry / company / product right?

Not necessarily. I'd imagine that a union could negotiate its pay-scales any way it likes, which could take into account "meritocracy" in many different ways. That could include ideas that are totally foreign to existing for-profit company practices, such as a peer-controlled meritocratic bonus implemented via the union itself.

> Shouldn’t they get higher compensation compared to the rest of the work force? How do we square that with collective bargaining that has set salaries and annual increases?

Here's a hypothetical: In a non-union shop, regular engineers get paid $100k, while 10x engineers get paid 120k. In a union shop all engineers get paid $150k. Should the engineers reject a union so the 10x engineers can get paid more than regular engineers, even though that means everyone makes less?

Also: Are the 10x engineers the people management chooses to pay more? Is management good at recognizing merit? When they recognize it, do they choose to compensate it accordingly? Or do they make the good business decision, and pay the meritorious employees the minimum amount of money they'll be happy with. For some 10x engineers, that could be 2x salary. For other 10x engineers, that could be 1.05x salary. For some 10x engineers, that could be 0.75x salary.
They’re asking for this to make it harder for the competition. Simple. Happens in many industries too.
Any company has a problem, which they size the value that it has to be tackled for, so they set budget, measure options, raise possible trade-offs, eventually succeed at dealing with it or get bitten due to lack of proper future-proofing, not evaluating environment/requirements properly, rinse and repeat. Once you've got several problems that require this kind of approach, carefully handpicking the possibly-but-not-proven best solution is not only time consuming but might lead to potentially awfully impactful consequences. When the decision to switch cloud provider services to one that may get you offline for half an hour leading to a million-dollar revenue impact, that's when we're talking enterprise.
(A) Yes.

(B) Replace $10 mill with any figure up to 30% of your actual income. The figures are illustrative, not binding.

(C) Consider not doing the fraud vs the fraud. If you and your buddy both do the fraud, you only expend the purchase price but deduct the higher price. As a result you have generated a deduction from thin air. As long as the higher price multiplied by your marginal tax rate is greater than the lower purchase price, you've made money. So at, say, a hypothetical 50% bracket, you need to inflate it by 100% to break even. At a 25% bracket, you'd need to inflate it by 300% to break even.

It's a profit, but it's definitely fraud and seems pretty obvious. It's essentially a pump and dump scheme, but instead of selling the inflated asset, you donate it while it's still inflated and deduct the difference against income.
The reason I took the standard display, the graphic card is power hungry enough. Thankfully the machine charges really quick! And what do I have a second screen on my desk for anyway? But I'm either playing games or working, so I have no idea how graphic design would be affected by the display.
because not everyone knows.

Most lisps can handle fractional numbers as actual fractional numbers without the BS floating point rounding. 1/3 of 100 For example, is 33.333 repeating. Most languages and databases will round this off at some point. Most lisps are perfectly happy with the idea of fractions and thus circumvent this problem entirely, at least, until you need to interface with some other brain damaged system or need to give someone physical cash money.

If you're dealing with money, you should seriously consider using a lisp.
For those who criticize for not creating an own rendering engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browser...
What I meant to say is that UI-wise I prefer macOS with macOS keybindings over anything I tried on Linux. That being said, Gnome is pretty good. I can't get used to KDE, but if I were new to this whole thing (or were coming from Windows), I'd try it, too. Tiling window manager is powerful, but not very necessary on macOS IMO.

With regards to keybindings, one thing you can do is get ctrl/meta/alt in the same order as your Mac. Personally, I've swapped ctrl and meta on my MBP while I am using VirtualBox (with Kali) because that way when I'm in the VM I get local consistency. I usually SSH into the Kali machine from the MBP anyway.
Partially. It will take basic medical care off the table, allowing unions to focus their negotiations on better wages and working conditions. M4A entitles everyone to a common set of benefits, but doesn't preclude extended benefits (medical or otherwise) outside that set.
Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection