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The government will never be as in tune with the needs of the workers as the workers themselves.

I think organized labor is a very good idea. We can see in the US how workers have been put in ever more precarious situations since the labor unions were significantly weakened 30-40 years ago.

But actually I don’t think having a normal corporation with a board of directors and then a union at odds with that board really makes sense. To me, worker owned cooperatives make a lot of sense.

I am coming to appreciate that there is however no one size fits all solution. So I look at this like “more of X would help Y”. And I do think more organized labor as unions or coops would help workers (in the USA where this is an issue). In the USA workers generally need better health care, maternity and paternity leave, predictable working hours and better pay.

I did however recently learn that in Germany apparently the big companies have representatives from labor in the board, and then they have another board that supervises them which is half labor. I’m fuzzy on the details but it was described in the linked lecture below which is pretty good!

https://youtu.be/8iHeh0iRykw
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This is a great example of why I like the Touch Bar on my Macbook Pro. When it is connected to an external monitor, I tap the brightness icon in the Touch Bar and get two sliders: one to control brightness on my laptop, and one to control brightness on my external monitor. This seems to be a native feature; I did not install anything to do it.
They treat part timers the worst. You get to pay dues but get little of the benefits.

As a professional interacting with with unions has been frustrating too. No, sorry, I can’t turn that screw for you. The union guy left and won’t be back till Monday, sorry. Yes, yes, I know it’s only turning a screw, but I’m not allowed to do it. It will have to wait till Monday.
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Morrowind was complicated. The characters were ugly, and animations especially horrible. But the landscapes were considered very beautiful by the standards of the day.
Upvoted, this took me years to do myself. However, the config file annoys me now because every time I do something like toggling tree view with T or changing sort between CPU and memory with P and U it pops up in my dotfile repo’s list of modified files. I wish it only stored the stuff that’s buried down in the setup menu like what meters are at the top.
It's just amazingly interesting to see our own societal evolution in action, rapidly spurred on by technology.

A company or event or technology changes something, and an evolutionary/behavioral niche newly forms to take advantage of it. People are smart and infinitely adaptable...
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This is clearly anecdotal, but nearly every dev/engineer from every company I have ever worked for has had an MBP as their work laptop.
> As part of the transaction, Gogo will enter into a 10-year network services agreement under which Intelsat will have exclusive access to Gogo ATG services for the CA market in North America, subject to minimum revenue guarantees of $177.5 million.

Interesting approach here, seems to just be offloading the service to Intelsat only to have a rev guarantee which would make the sale profitable with a pretty quick turnaround.
They share branding and sometimes ownership, but the entities are separated. ICA Gruppen has ICA Banken as a bank subsidiary. COOP outsourced banking to EnterCard, etc.
To paint the American landscape a bit more, the majority of what are called "union avoidance" activities are legal: since employers are employing the workers, they have a captive audience, and use that to the full extent of their ability, usually with the help of outside legal consultants. A lot of what goes on is surveys, videos, forced informational sessions, etc. Much of it can be compared to targeted public relations. Even when an employer stays within the full bounds of the law, they're usually substantially advantaged over the labor organizer: full information about the workforce and a captive audience goes really far.

So where do the violations of law come in? A lot of it comes from very murky, subjective boundaries: employers can't threaten to shut down a plant or time wage increases in a way to interfere with a union organizing campaign. But a lot of what union avoidance specialists' work involves is consulting at exactly how to do the above in a legal way. It will end up in court, and if the consultants did their job right, the employer will win.

Beyond that, you get into activities like firing workers purely because they're involved in union activities: here the labor avoidance consultants will sometimes help with building a paper trail to target workers viewed as problematic. Another illegal activity is spying, either on union meetings or workers and organizers when they're off premises. Oftentimes, employers want to do this on their own volition, and union busting consultants actively work to curtail this (or at least make sure any firings happen in a legal, documented way).
Why is this needed in the first place? I was shocked when I could no longer control brightness after upgrading from my old 23" Apple Cinema Display.
Maybe. Hopefully. Getting approval to run a Phase 1 does not mean we have a cure. We will have more confidence after this study finishes.
I get the impression that Twitter has become a much smarter organization through really painful growing pains like this. I still wonder how I would play it if I became knowledgable. How long does this go on, do you just keep moving the person along on their career ladder? It seems like you'd need help from the FBI in how to maintain the charade if it were to go on for too long. But fascinating, I'm sure it comes up.
> What are these "terms"?

Let me highlight some history from the article above:

> In 2014, Warner got an email from Google asking if he would be interested in giving the company access to his data in order to scrape it for Knowledge Graph, for free.

> At the end of it, we just said ‘look, we’re not comfortable with this.’”

> “But then they went ahead and took the data anyway.”

The sole way to opt out that Google offered was to delist the site from Google Search, which is effectively deleting your site from the Internet.

So the terms of your employer are basically "let Google do what it wants or else". And that's what they've been doing to news companies for years. There's nothing "objectively bad" about forcing a bad actor to finally pay up for it's conduct. Allowing Google or Facebook to decline to participate would be simply allowing the robbers to leave with all of the loot.

To better explain: Google and Facebook are monopolies. One common monopoly practice is called predatory pricing: Where you price so low, you are losing money, temporarily, in order to kill competing businesses. For Google and Facebook, refusing to negotiate here, removing service from a given country, is similar: They're aware if they decline to participate, a given country's news organizations will suffer, and eventually relent.

Google and Facebook, as global monopolies, are large enough and profitable enough that this doesn't hurt them much, so they have no reason to negotiate fairly and honestly. Hence why Google and Facebook argue the price they should pay is $0: They currently don't bear a significant enough loss from simply refusing to play. They must be forced to participate so that honest negotiation can happen. Realistically, the long term answer is to break these companies up, but in the interim, we need to use regulation to force them to pay up in areas where they would have to if they weren't monopolies.
> average salaries of $70-$80k USD

> ruthless wageslavery at BigLaw

Big law associates start at $190k, straight out of law school. Big law associates are, however, the top graduates from the top law schools. Most new law graduates don’t make that much, just like most new CS grads don’t make FAANG starting salaries.
> Even in Vancouver, I see cops treating white arrestees with dignity and respect whereas I see them pinning black and indigenous people to the ground as their first move -- almost every single interaction that I've witnessed.

This is nothing but an anecdote; you don't know the whole situation in these cases, you're probably just walking by, you don't know what happened beforehand, you don't know what level of threat these individuals posed. It's also almost certainly a case of bias confirmation, you're paying attention to the demographics during an arrest and chalking up datapoints when you see what you're looking for. Are you everywhere in the city? Do you have a representative sample of policing? Not even close.

You're just looking to see this happening, and nowhere in your mind does it possibly occur to you that these perps might have been disrespectful, might have fought back, might be "known to police" already as a troublemaker that's causing yet again another incident despite living in a city with nothing but programs and handouts and tolerance for the antics of the homeless.

> nonviolent oil protests

Illegal trespassing, in many cases, and the show of force is to make it clear that there will be no violence, because none will be tolerated. If anything, it should help make it far more clear cut that there cannot be any pushback on these issues. It doesn't matter what your opinion is on the subject, it matters what has been decided by the government, and it's probably better that a protestor realizes that they have no hope of violent resistance rather than giving it a try.

> The main difference is that the genocide in canada was largely effective

Is this really how my fellow citizens view their own history? What an incredibly biased, anti-White narrative. No wonder folks like you want to deconstruct everything that is well-built, predictable, and good about our nation as we have it today: you view it all as an evil inheritance that was stolen, rather than a beautiful workable system hewn out of cruel nature.

> We need to remove a bunch of duties from police, and hand them to social services, mental health care workers, and unarmed bylaws enforcement.

I'll give you this: it might actually have a chance of working here, to some extent, because of how nonviolent people generally are and because we don't have a massively armed population.

Still, there will be incidents where these unarmed support officers are going to be physically overpowered, abused, beaten, even raped; there will be incidents when people get away who should be caught; and when it happens, we'll all just have to remember that that wouldn't have happened if sufficient force had been present.

> work to improve the lives of people who are shat on by our society.

One of the big dichotomies between people like you and people like me is that it never seems like your side is willing to admit to the large numbers of people in this position who themselves shit on society rather than the other way around. Again, we have as many opportunities for a leg up here as there have ever been, anywhere in the world.
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"God damnit Elon, this is not an appropriate way to celebrate jumping to #1 on the Richest People list."

Seriously though, pissing off the FAA would be, I think, the last thing a board member of SpaceX would want to do.
https://youtu.be/cnSizWZVyD4?t=387 at 6:50ish in this one at responds. "You said there is a hole and someone went out? It doesn't matter, we'll work it out. The airport is just off your right." I guess it's not as "shocked" or "in disbelief" as I remember it being the first time I listened to it. (I vividly remember the first time I heard this, hence why I had to go look for it or figure out what I was remembering.)
I guess it's a bit like https://www.blinkist.com/ ? There's probably pretty great site idea in summarising popular YouTube videos and doing the same. Embed the video, pull out all the salient points and let me read them in 60 seconds as opposed to watching something for 35 minutes.
No need to apologize, this stuff isn't always easy to find. In docker, it's done by passing --pid=container:$TARGETCONTAINER to docker run

Here's the docs on it: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#pid-settings--...
Yeah, just curious what they actually want to do with it that requires these properties.
Check the backlink profile for pages ranking for spam-dominated queries such as "buy CBD oil" or "buy viagra" and you'll see an incredible amount of spam and fraud.

Sucks that despite this being a 20+ year old problem, Google hasn't been able to fix it.
Pinkertons!!
I'm fairly lay but imo GPT-3 demonstrates pretty soundly that huge models are no magic bullet- it's got >2x as many parameters as the human brain has neurons and it can't do long division. Dogs and other animals get by just fine having less than 1% as many neurons as humans.

Even a billion parameters is a huge model, and a factor of 2.4x increase is not going to make a tremendous difference in your performance. In particular the data-heavy nature of vision stuff means that you'll be bottlenecked by training more than memory, AFAIK (again, lay).
Fascinating! To save others a search:

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Maybe I should mention that I was responsible for the testing of different ATC radar systems.
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This doesn’t exclude the very possible possibility that the death rate spiked for another reason
That's about what Rose-Hulman quoted me before aid. I would have had to borrow or work for about $12k/year if I had gone there.
Open source it, or else it is just a marketing stunt.
You're truly a shining example of tolerance, inclusion, and, magnanimity.
US law does not protect employees' right to unionize? I'm from Brazil where we have some strict (too strict IMHO) labor laws and this type of hunt (and punishment) for union makers is wildly illegal here.
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It's an interesting device but the reviews I've seen have been pretty mixed. I think fundamentally the problem is that it is very hard for a small company to compete with the extremely advanced image processing now in smartphones. People are used to absolutely flawless HDR blending, for example.
I'm not sure the Haskell community really wants the language to become more popular as a primary goal. Sure, it would be great if more people appreciated its power and adopted it, but not if it requires compromising on its core strength: rigorous correctness. And that's fine! Not every language needs to focus world domination. It's probably better that we have a lot of niche languages that are uncompromising and highly optimized for specific types of problems (or rather highly optimized for certain types of programmers).
Also, you don't need to be mathematician or really be grounded in math at all to understand the abstractions favored in Haskell. I think https://www.scalawithcats.com/dist/scala-with-cats.html is a really good example of explaining abstractions that are grounded in Category Theory without ever even trying to connect them to their mathematical origins. The abstractions can be explained and applied on their own terms.
"This type of always-on mentality is something that many companies are learning to combat because it is unhealthy and a leading indicator of bigger issues down the road."

This is something I've struggled with on and off during my career. I like my work and want to help things move along where I can, but being always-on impacts on my family life long-term.
The presumption that the ideas we came up with in during the industrial revolutions are the best is preposterous. They might be the best (old idea aren't necessarily bad), but there are also probably modern options.

I find it frustrating to discuss the failure of unions without being labeled anti-labor. But it seems to me, the fundamental failure of unions, even when they seem to work, is setting up an adversarial system. I would posit for any social institution to be stable you need an alignment of incentives.
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The problem is that the needle for "particularly bad" gets moved every year if there's no countervailing force. Short (<3hr) shifts and JiT scheduling were "particularly bad" a few years ago. Now they're probably the norm in the service/retail industry. The new innovation(s) thanks to Amazon seem to be unpaid security screenings and hidden performance metrics. How long until these are just SOP for all large retail companies?
Off-topic - US should hire lots of intelligence analysts and AI experts to track social network driven threats to our nation.
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The average is a lot closer to 25KB IIRC, gzipped
Sure, if the bold 2x performance increase claim is to be believed. I'd wait for benchmarks to validate that.

Plus for me, Nvidia is simply DOA on Linux, due them refusing to upstream their driver and hindering Nouveau to reclock properly. So even if AMD won't outdo them, I still won't touch Nvidia.
I bet nearly everyone in the thread has $200 to speed. Whether they choose to spend it on this is completely tangential.
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Similar situation to Calgary, Alberta. When the oil sector was booming the private sector was being paid the highest salaries in North America and public employees complained massively and received the highest public sector salaries in the country. Now, oil and gas has cratered and the salaries in the private sector have collapsed (and thousands of job losses) the public sector is refusing to have any salary reduction even though the province of Alberta is completely broke and heading towards fiscal collapse.
Well yeah, that's just how it is because of progress. It's still more expensive than last year's XX102 chip. That said, it's only about 50% faster than a 2080Ti at everything except ray-tracing. 50% faster, 40% more expensive.

Back in Kepler, a 780Ti was 800$, and it had the GK110 chip, which was the full-fat chip. Now, the cut-down chip costs twice as much.
That is FP16 (rounding up to FP32). It is not sufficient for most HPC compute. Good for ML/AI, at least.
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I’m not a windows guy, so this is an honest question: is your tone sarcastic?
Prop 13 is the strongest argument against the entire proposition system. If you give voters direct democracy power, they love to vote in their own self-interest, future problems be damned. I guess it's a system that perfectly matches the "Generation Me" voters that have driven it for decades.
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I remember when Top Gear drove that ridiculously fast Bugatti on the Ring, they pointed out that at top speed the lifetime for the tires was something like 500 miles, which was just a couple hours. And the tires cost as much as a decent used sedan.

I suspect the Nomex pants might be on a par with that Bugatti. 2 hours per pair.
Wow, I wasn't planning on upgrading from a 1080 (non-Ti) but the 3080 is so good and priced so well, I probably will. I just ordered a 240 Hz 1440p IPS monitor and I wasn't planning to hit 240 Hz, but this makes it so easy I might as well.

My day job is primarily ML as well, so I might just go for the 3090. 24 GB of memory is a game changer for what I can do locally. I really just wish Nvidia would get its shit together with Linux drivers. Ubuntu has done some great work making things easier and just work, but having them directly in the kernel would be so much nicer.

One thing I'm curious about is the RTX IO feature. The slide said it supports DirectStorage for Windows, but is there an equivalent to this for Linux? I'm hoping someone with a little more insight or an Nvidia employee may have some more information.
More and more I want to find ways for us to do un profitable things that we agree are good ideas. Yes we have patreon etc which is super good, but I also want ways to better organize groups. Patreon backers are not organized in the traditional sense. They do not hold meetings or have a simple way to talk to one another.
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