skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is not the best platform to from anti-capitalism sentiments. There's a lot of privilege here and it makes people pretty blind to how awful capitalism is (and the things it creates, like anti-union sentiment).
Maybe because a lot of people on HN are small business owners, and unions take power away from business owners and can and will force you to do things to the detriment of your business if they deem it in the best interests of the union members.
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Another apocryphal story: A new ATC was working in Houston and got a call from a SR71 coming back to the states through the Gulf of Mexico.

The SR71 requested flight level 800.

The ATC, thinking someone was joking, said, "If you can get up there, FL800 is yours."

The SR71 replied, "Maam, we're coming down to 800."
Typical. Im done with Amazon. Not going to use their AWS products either anymore. His contempt for the populace just adds to the issues facing Americans today.
For what it's worth, I'm regularly using it between Arch Linux current and CentOS 7.5 (presumably older versions as well, I can't check right now, but I've been doing so for at least two years). I never thought backwards compatibility was an issue.
Really well done.

AFAIK there is no events for brightness change so this is why polling for main monitor brightness?

What are you using for analytics at "https://log.lunar.fyi?

I have been using [1] before, your app seems much more slick

[1]: https://github.com/KAMIKAZEUA/NativeDisplayBrightness
I know first-hand that this is not how pricing decisions work at regional private colleges/universities. The process regional private colleges go through is as follows:

1. List a set of "peer institutions", usually with the primary input coming from admissions. Here, "peer" means "competes for the same set of students we're after". Almost always the region's public colleges and universities will be on this list.

2. Set prices relative to these "peer institutions".

If Local State College charges $X, then most (read: non-elite) regional private colleges can get away with charging after-discount-factor $(X+Y) for some relatively modest Y < X.

Increasing $X also increases $(X+Y).

Cutting state subsidies will lead to higher prices and private institutions. 100% probability. I've seen the exact process by which it happens.
It also significantly decreases negotiating power. The point of unions is that someone small (an individual) has a hard time fairly negotiating with an organization (a company). Multiple small single-site unions would be just as ineffective negotiating with one large multi-site company.
I think it holds the market position previously known as xx80Ti
A pretty boring one: My first name with anglicised umlaut in addition to both middle and last initial of my full name.

I'm not exactly sure where I first used it but I've been doing so consistently for several years now. It even is the domain name for my business.
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> One thing I'm curious about is the RTX IO feature.

Me too, but for a different reason: I wonder if it can work with BitLocker if you're using software encryption (as hardware encryption is transparent enough that the drive basically locks and unlocks).

It would still save the CPU cost of decompression but it'd have to go through RAM for (AES-NI accelerated) CPU decryption either way. Maybe at that point RAM speed and latencies start to matter more. Or the feature turns off altogether. Definitely something to test.
IMHO it looks fake. The lighting is way off, it quite literally looks like they're standing directly below a big diffuser - which they are. The background looks like a poster with one of these diffraction parallax effects.

It's very cool tech. But it doesn't look real.
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It's less about education, and more about "fuck you got mine" for a website full of engineers whose average salary is probably 6x that of the average American
My favorite response to "in vitro" trials is that a 12ga shotgun is often 100% effective in vitro.
> They would need to explain how TicTok brainwashes americans to vote(or not vote) but Facebook and Twitter categorically does not do the same thing.

The easiest answer is: because ByteDance said so.

ByteDance has a internal board staffed by the CCP, and their CEO Zhang Yiming has even:

> promised that the firm would in the future “Further deepen cooperation with authoritative [official party] media, elevating distribution of authoritative media content, ensuring that authoritative [official party] media voices are broadcast to strength.” [0]

> If "brainwashing" on social media exists then all should be made illegal not only the a small subset.

The US, like almost every other country, regulates international commerce differently than domestic commerce. The US intentionally makes it harder to regulate domestic matters in order to protect the rights of the people the government is tasked with protecting. They even go so far as having separate agencies responsible for domestic matters vs foreign matters.

[0]: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/16/bytedance-cant-outrun-b...
> Once you've paid off your property do you stop having a need for fire and police services? roads and transport infrastructure? trash collection?

Of course not, but those should be shifted to the taxes and fees for corresponding services. In some places, fire protection is already paid directly to the fire department. Roads and transport should be automobile and gas taxes. Trash collection goes to the trash service.
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There's a new term for this type of software distribution. Sponsorware. Wherein, the maintainer only open sources the project if they get enough people to pay them a monthly sponsor fee.
All of the performance claims are extremely hand-wavey.
They are using the deep learning and compute features to equivocate about resolutions and framerates. 8K@60 isn't real, but with DLSS activated it is.
Too many people are enrolling in College, and this is a problem. The end result in many cases has been lower the standards to get students to graduate. More people need to be geared towards trades and manufacturing jobs. The Covid Pandemic has shown us what happens when you put all your manufacturing in one country.
Is there a way to know how my monitor does this?
Who supports these pro-worker politicians and holds them accountable? In the US, both parties are very cozy with corporate interests, because that's where the money (and thus ability to mobilize voters) is. Historically, unions played a major role in holding politicians accountable, and supporting those who were more pro-worker. The parties have become more corporatized as union membership has declined. Without the base of support from organized labor, this is a likely outcome.
BazQux is unfortunately not entirely open source, but it is my favorite RSS reader, is a profitable user-facing application, and is written partly in Haskell: https://bazqux.com/faq

https://github.com/bazqux/bazqux-urweb/tree/master/crawler

Off the top of my head I also know of Freckle (https://www.freckle.com/) and Co-Star (https://www.costarastrology.com/).

More importantly, this is not a Haskell book! I'm sure the author would be happy to see these ideas applied using Javascript or Scala or Java 14 or anything else.

> Haskell is considered a difficult language to learn, which is certainly true if you come from traditional procedural languages. But rest assured, this is not a Haskell book. You won’t need more than a passing understanding of the language’s syntax and a few high-level idioms. Everything you’ll need to know will be shown later in this section. The ideas present in these pages are adaptable to any piece of technology you’d like, though they might require strictly more discipline to maintain than is necessary in Haskell.

- Chapter 1.3.1, page 6

I'm not going to try to list all the user-facing applications written in any functional language, but I'm sure we can agree it is a much longer list.
The article suggests one person runs the set of phones, and sells their service to drivers. So I'd imagine that person has tuned the number of phones to be profitable. You can get older used cell phones for dirt cheap.
I believe they're talking about Challenger.
I am thinking of the Challenger disaster (obviously Columbia had no SRBs at that point)
I love the incredulity in the pilot's voice as he says jetpack.

Someone please hurry up and make these sound bytes into an EDM song, thanks.
The D language foundation is beefing up
The type of union business owners are terrified of aren't small local unions, but massive NEA-esque mega-unions.
Heh. Yeah, they're clearly confused with Challenger.

A ne'er-do-well kid ran into my elementary school classroom and exclaimed, "The space shuttle exploded!" and the teacher turned on the TV.

For Columbia, I was driving to get bagels for breakfast. I was on the I-80 to I-5 interchange in Sacramento, CA when I first heard on the radio there was something wrong.
This is actually something I am very interested in. There are certain categories of items, I am worried about buying from Amazon due to counterfeits. I don't want to have to worry if my phone charger is actually UL certified or not and if it will electrocute me or burn my house down. If I can get free delivery from Walmart, and not have to worry about counterfeits, it would be huge for me.
Other sled drivers have noted how fast & loose Shul can be with the facts.
What the OP is talking about? Nobody is publishing TypeScript to npm. Maybe they need to understand how things work before writing a lengthy blog post. Those packages have types built in because of the emitted .d.ts files.
do you think jeff poorly practices a penny whistle in private?

god does that man suck
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Better money would be spent on a police informant that could tell you a raid was being planned. Even if you have 24/7 monitored by humans video feeds, by the time the raid was visible in the video feed, they are already there. That's my point
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A 10-bit ADC chip and a Raspi zero together cost under $10 on Adafruit. You would sidestep the audio card altogether.
Which monitor? I was looking at the Samsung G9.
> My context is that I've not looked into TypeScript yet. That means I have no idea how it works.

The problem lies in the author, since knowing TypeScript is an essential skill if you are doing anything browser-related or JavaScript-related.

Also TypeScript produces readable JavaScript, and anyway it's trivial to mentally strip the types when reading TypeScript, and also very easy to learn enough to fully understand most TypeScript code.
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Universities in Europe are generally high quality and low cost. It does have it's problems but it is not one or the other.

You do not need a degree 30 years ago to do lots of jobs that now require one. Higher education for a lot of organizations is just an easy way to cut the application stack down
Look at the quickly expanding credential requirements for nursing staff. Over the last decade or so in my state, the requirement has gone from no degree, to associates degree, to bachelors degree, and now there is talk of requiring a masters degree or a 5 year degree.
police unions are basically the singular example of where they shouldn't exist
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My understanding is that the DMCA contains specific provisions requiring hosts to remove content upon request, and stripping them of their protections if they do not do so.
Exactly which part of “Download → Right-click → Open → Confirm” is user-unfriendly?

Those steps are literally all it takes. It’s barely 40 keystrokes to list them.

As a user and the resident tech support for people young and old, I am glad that there’s such a barrier against the execution of arbitrary software and it’s easily skippable if one so explicitly chooses.

In any case, how is it any worse than the Windows nag prompts that people accepted more than a decade ago?
I think it was a pretty watershed moment in union relations in the UK. It's what a lot of people think of when they think of unions in the UK. They're pretty unpopular here. I was explaining why a British person might call them goons.
How about the time officers of the Lethbridge, Alberta, police department stalked a member of the (minority, NDP) political party while on-duty? [1]

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...
How does this compare to a blue light adjuster like the built in macOS one or f.lux [1]?

I think they would complement each other. Anyone tried both? (Lunar and f.lux)

* [1] https://justgetflux.com/
The author admits to not using Typescript and not knowing how it works but is quick to point out that it’s polluting the JavaScript community?

He does state that typescript is a subset of JavaScript and this compiles to JS so I largely don’t see the problem. TS is making complex projects in JS more tenable and I believe we should encourage TS.

A separate repo for TS doesn’t make sense, Microsoft owns npm now by extension of github and is doing fantastic work supporting TS and by extension JS.

My hope is the opposite, at some point TS is the gold standard for a package, it is self documenting and again the types can be stripped out (and usually are for distribution).
What does the choice of "High Quality, Low Cost" look like in practice? (Because I'm not seeing how to make that happen, other than "burying the actually high cost someplace where it's spread out and hard to see, so it looks like low cost".)
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A sidenote that this interestingly showcases (to me) how people lived and ate before giant grocery store chains. Folks were a lot more decentralized and trade/bartered/bought with their farm from those nearby in the community. Why did we reach a point where one dangerously relies on solely a just-in-time commercial grocery outfit just to live?

And I agree, the internet monopoly is a huge issue. The internet should become widely available to all. I would say as a utility, but that then points out the fact that I have one giant power company that could also, censor me and cut me off from my only main source of power... hmmm...
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My mom doesn't care about Prime music, video, reading, twitch, grocery delivery, etc.

And my mom shops at Wal-mart NON-STOP. There are a lot of people like here. This is for them.
Please take a look at the latest Alberta government 2020-2021 budget update [1], the resource revenue has collapsed to a mere $1.5 billion which is 2% of government expenditures. Also, the government is running a pre-Covid deficit of $8 Billion which has ballooned to $24 Billion due to Covid. The government must raise taxes or reduce expenditures or face more indebtedness than Quebec per capita.

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I think worker-owned cooperatives do make a ton of sense and bridge the interest gap between employers and employees. When the interests of the unions align with the interest of society at large in that we want to promote productivity, it fixes a lot of things.
Or shortwave between the US and Europe https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/shortwave-tr...

(I recommend reading the whole series, it's fascinating!)
It's always interesting to see the anti-union arguments on threads like these. Half the people say that unions are anarchist thugs who beat people up and bash their heads in with bricks, and half say they're gray bureaucratic paper pushing middlemen.

Different unions are different, just as different companies are different. Plenty of companies have positive, constructive relationships with unions; you have no particular reason to say that the union is what made the relationship antagonistic and not the employer, except for an implicit assumption that companies have a right to exist and push for their interests while unions don't.
I disagree wholeheartedly with this idea that adversaries create instability. Stability is the result of all forces acting on an object summing to zero, to abuse metaphor. You can't have that if all of the forces are pointing in the same direction. There is a reason Nash equilibrium is called "equilibrium"; it is stable.

Unions fail primarily because they are a very shoddy bandaid. When you have commodity labor, in which each worker is the same, a union has the capacity to plausibly represent them as a group. That cooperation gives the workers negotiating power. There is A) no reason to suspect that that negotiating power cannot or will not be abused, and B) the premise is usually false. Police are the obvious target here on both counts, as a police union is nothing more than a private army, and policing is far from commodity labor. It matters a lot who my police are. I think that teacher's unions are probably a better example of the problems though because people tend to think of the police as an outlier.