skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your argument relies on the abstract notion that something created can be weaponized against you, then you can extend that argument to any form of human creation or even human self-perpetuation. In which case then your own defense against something being used against you might as well be existential suicide, because in your view the game is so inherently stacked against you, the only winning move is not to play.

Why do I say your argument relies on an abstract notion? Because you've not provided any evidence that any of the efforts to unionize in the U.S. tech industry- whether the Kickstarter union, or the TWC, or any other fledgling efforts to organize- constitute an actual threat to immigration. Sure, you've provided evidence that there are anti-immigrant voices in the industry, and that is definitely a cause for concern. That said, you haven't established any material link that the two distinct phenomena are connected. There's no evidence that anti-H-1B nativists are agitating for unionizing in tech. And no, the US Tech Workers Trojan horse [0] does not count. The only comment you cite is yourself making the case for them and one commentator agreeing with you. Hardly an entire Know-Nothing movement.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24536273

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24536757
> I don't fully understand how tech became so opposed to unions

I suspect it's due to the fact that while unions help the whole, they can remove the individual leverage during negotiations for salary and working conditions that many, especially seniors, want to preserve. Unions are often seen as a step towards developer commoditization which, like hour tracking, puzzle-based interviews, and other practices that de-individualize devs, is frowned upon by many. Some people just don't want to have to bargain collectively.

Granted, while some unions allow all sorts of single-employee exceptions, one can bet a company would choose to treat the goose and the gander the same when given guidelines on what the lowest common denominator is.

> Many in our industry are quite jaded about the poor behavior of large corporations

Yeah, but not _their_ organization, or they'd go elsewhere (jobs are not currently very constrained).
We'll see. They ought to get the power increase, just from using something more conductive. The energy density increase looks like more of a maybe.

This isn't the first company to claim carbon nanotube batteries.[1]

[1] https://www.chasmtek.com/solutions/carbon-nanotube-lithium-i...
Haha nice to see this isn't just me!

Maybe it is a specifically German thing.
Reinventing the Reader Monad
I don't know if this means anything but now, at 30, I have sooo many more things going through my mind than when I was a child, and I think it makes it harder to learn anything.

Did I turn off the stove? Have I fed my dogs today? Oh fuck I gotta do my taxes. Can't sit down too long or my hemorrhoids will flare up. Am I really going to be hunching over a computer for the rest of my life?
A new tool for developers to share daily challenges and solutions in CODE
yeah, I think you're right

Little kids are studying hard in a total immersion environment for 12+ hours a day, with no other language to fall back to

I think an adult who puts the same incredible amount of effort into it can learn another language and get to a native level
> why not

Because free time is finite. If they read it three times and still decided it verbosely failed to make its case, why not read it two or three times more?

Can you cite a point or two where you think Penrose makes a strong case above and beyond "consciousness and quantum theory are both mysterious and are therefore probably connected?"
I’m getting some crackpot vibes from Sir Penrose lately... I hope he won’t go down the same path as the late Michael Atiyah.
Whenever I see "meritocracy" used like this, my hair stands on end. From Wikipedia:

"Although the concept has existed for centuries, the term "meritocracy" is relatively new. It was used pejoratively by British politician and sociologist Michael Dunlop Young in his 1958 satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy, which pictured the United Kingdom under the rule of a government favouring intelligence and aptitude (merit) above all else, being the combination of the root of Latin origin "merit" (from "mereō" meaning "earn") and the Ancient Greek suffix "-cracy" (meaning "power", "rule")... In this book the term had distinctly negative connotations as Young questioned both the legitimacy of the selection process used to become a member of this elite and the outcomes of being ruled by such a narrowly defined group."
> they plan to make most of their money back from sales of games and services(ala Apple)

I thought Apple seems to do the opposite: they constantly raise iPhone prices while cutting features that increase manufacturing cost (eg. replacing the headphone jack with an empty hole large enough to fit a lightning→3.5mm dongle), and I’ve heard Apple fans argue here, I think more than once, that Apple is able to offer less profiteering (more privacy friendly) software because they make so much on hardware.
The market's network effects will negatively effect this new tax.

There is cost-benefit analysis to everything one spends from their limited resources. The "just shift" in the market is painful like you said before.. to the weakest Americans the most.

the US companies and individuals are economically so fragile they do have enough operating expenses to absorb a month loss of revenue. When the consumption and stimulus doesn't rise as much as needed within the time, shops close because of inflation.

Lowering H1B only solves the problem when hiring local person does not increase budgets. And there is shortage of Americans applying to these jobs or studying for these jobs.

And US companies operate on lean culture. A food, insurance company does not want to maintain in-house technology team for every project. Again it has to do with complex net of financial entanglements..

So it really has to be a consulting partner, whether American or not, but definitely meeting their current budget constraints.

It is a worthy goal to aspire white collar jobs. Especially when the country specializes in production of high-technology. Something government should provide more to its people..

But I don't see a policy on the horizon in this direction.

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When the forest is on the fire, arial firefighting does not stop it, rain doesn't stop it...

Solutions designed for small-scale problems do not work when those problems become large-scale.
I'm in a relationship with a native speaker too (I'm American, she's Chinese), and am actively learning. I talked to a lot of couples and some people have patience to teach and some don't. It's nice though that couples are close enough to correct each other and help each other out.

I had a friend learning French that was French teacher, and she gave up after two sessions, not having the patience.

Actually, I just started working on an app to help couples improve each other's languages. You're pretty fluent already, I wonder in what other capacity's your girlfriend who is an English teacher helps you!
I mean, I agree with the sentiment, but also you're assuming you'd similarly waste half a day for a Tesla repair, and that's usually not the way things work. Tesla will frequently send a technician to a customer's home or place of work and fix issues on the spot. Even when I've had to go to a service center in person, they've included free rideshare credits for quick repairs so that I don't have to wait around, or free loaner cars for longer repairs.

Back in the old days when I lived far away from a service center, they once drove hundreds of miles with a flatbed to come pick up my car, and dropped off a free loaner at my house while my car was in the shop, then came back and returned my car and picked up the loaner a few days later. (The loaner was also a nicer Tesla than the one I owned.) They really do go above and beyond to resolve issues as pleasantly and conveniently as possible.
The first person to manage to mass produce CNTs with any reliability around size, shape, resultant properties, alignment, distribution or really any quality will be a trillionaire...
Can you provide a high-level example of how Vapor could be used to facilitate censor-proof content ? (ie- permanent content address by making a transaction on the blockchain plus some other layer/tech you might suggest to ensure said content's immutability & availability)
Also, manufacturing engineering and mass production was just getting started. hell, Ford was famous for adopting scientific management and the assembly line to cranck out a massive amount of cars at that time.

I would even argue ford's model of manufacturing turned the last remnats of workshop based work into the mass producing factory.
A little sugar goes a long way in controlling urges.
Self-driving mail robot tested in public in Tokyo (video and article)
Subaru is slow to move on industry trends. They were some of the last to get USB ports in their cars, Bluetooth, modern power steering (the wheel in my 2013 Impreza is shockingly heavy for a new car), better fuel economy, etc, etc.

They do one thing - they make solidly reliable 4-wheel-drive cars - and they do it quite well. But I've never seen them be the first on any new thing the industry is doing, no matter how good it is.
I correct my father all the time and yet he keeps making the same mistakes
> The current 40 hour workweek we enjoy and the weekends we have off are because of the organized labor movement in the US.

Arguably it was achieved first and foremost because increase in productivity caused by capital investments actually made it economically possible.

I mean, I don't deny that 19th century capitalists required a little bit of a "push" for it to actually happen, but it's debatable if it was actually necessary and wouldn't just happen naturally.

> class consciousness

That's a part of political opinion, that I just don't share. I was born in family of a blue collar family of a coal miner and school janitor, now I'm a intellectual worker, and in a way I already joined "evil capitalist class" and hope to entrench myself in it even more with time.

Thinking in people having assigned "classes" is just so a low-resolution way to look at complex reality, that it is just not helpful.

> If your choices are between working for one of several capital-owned tech conglomerates, or accepting their money for the runway to compete in the current business climate, can you really call that an even playing field?

I just don't think labor organizations help with anything. What helps is having more options (competition), better social mobility (access to education and knowledge) and general economic prosperity that allow entrepreneurship (taking risks). Labor unions typically work against all of it.

I do know that field is not level, but I just think naive ways to trying to level it make more harm than good.
Given the presence of Rust, I was hoping for actually calculating the tides based on the rotation of the Earth, orbit of the Moon, etc. But reading the article and comments, I realize how much more complicated that process would be than "just" modeling orbital mechanics, gravity, and fluid dynamics.

Cool DIY project nonetheless. Makes me want to dust off one of the Pis I have sitting around. I've never used the GPIO for anything, and it sounds like I'm missing out.
Most services can fallback to HTTP1.1 gracefully. You should be able to configure a proxy which hard drops HTTP2, HTTP3 and DNS tunnelling. You’re up to the mercy of the server to actually respect HTTP1.1 but I’ve not yet herd of a 2+ only service.

You will lose performance, but you’ll gain control.
My Camry won't let you turn off the radio or adjust its volume for about 30 seconds after you start the car. Evidently the radio UI is still booting.
Most of it is garbage that doesn't need to be there and is shoved in people's faces because it makes other people money/power.

Ex: Why does clicking on a location link in google search load a big slow SPA to display a list of "cards" instead of just having a maps/web link in the search results?
If I corrected all of the incorrect grammar I hear on a daily basis I'd be exhausted. I'm not too polite to correct, I'm too busy...
I very much doubt that anyone in big tech wants to open the can of worms that is GPL enforcement.
You can check out https://github.com/Uzay-G/archivy/. It's quite similar except uses a web interface. We're building it out and are working on adding a login system so people can host instances publicly with multiple users.
One issue is that often it takes someone who has had language instruction experience to properly explain nuances. I've often asked my spouse questions about grammar usage, and since it is instinctive for her and not a premeditated decision like it is for me, she is unable to clearly delineate the proper context and edge cases where a certain grammar would apply. Same with vocabulary. When you have a dozen synonyms, each with a different nuance, it's often tedious and difficult for a non-language instructor to provide clear explanations.
I have been following this technology for ages, and find it really impressive.

They have a real problem in trying to convey how interesting it is, and what a big deal it is, at least in my view.

This is quite a good video about it, albeit a bit dated now since Danfoss seem to have taken a lead role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDSXR0UhRY
> don't join the union.

This isn't an option in USA unless you live in a right to work state. The US left pushes hard against right to work, meaning everyone will be forced to join workplace unions when/if they are formed. This includes basically all tech hotspots including California and New York, if your colleagues organizes a union there you will be forced to join. This include this Kickstarter union btw, likely a lot of its members don't actually want to be a part of the union.
"Valuation isn't a short thesis" as they say. Totally fraudulent companies can trade for decades and price corrections don't happen without a trigger. IMHO only enter a short position when you have identified the cause of a correction and you know it is happening now.
Can partial classes help? I always thought it was a great feature to have, and as far as I know only C# implements something like it.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3601918/855105
I think someone else has mentioned this, but regular writing is a big help.

Secondly, as uncomfortable as it is, replay conversations where you know you did poorly in your head, and perhaps write the better version out.
would be cool to discuss what (if) invariants occur no matter what initial condition a universe starts on
Love your German username which I would loosely translate as petrol head Hugo.
Mortgage interest on a primary residence is treated differently than mortgage interest on that same house being used as a rental property.
Facebook widens ban on political ads as alarm rises over election
How does it works, compensation-wise, for returning Canadians? I was under the impression it almost never happened.
I'll never understand why Netflix was originally included and Microsoft wasn't.
>> It’s important that Monty looked behind the doors before choosing which to open.

> This is often not explicitly stated when the problem is given, which imho is the whole reason this problem has the reputation of being hard to understand.

If that were the only difficulty, why have so many people continued to have trouble accepting it even after this misunderstanding has been cleared up, and even after the correct answer has been explained to them? According to Wikipedia, even Paul Erdős remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulation.

I recall mention of an analysis of the responses to Vos Savant's Parade article, concluding that a majority disputing the result were aware of this constraint, and I will post a link if I can find it again (though if a majority did not explain their reasoning, it may not be possible to figure out what assumptions they made. Nevertheless, the question in my first paragraph still stands.)
> the 13th dimensional being was your theory

Yes. So?

> I just didn’t believe the person in the scenario you described,

Why not?

> the same way you are doubting my sincerity in this little conversation.

Not quite the same way, because I can answer the "why not" question, and I'm pretty sure you can't.

But let's leave that aside and try a different experiment. I presume you have a mobile phone? If not, substitute some other common object. For the next week, for everyone you encounter, show them your cell phone (or whatever common object you choose) and ask them, "Do you see this? What is it?" and see if you don't observe a certain consistency in their answers. How do you account for that consistency?
I have to say some of the comments are really good and I wouldn't be able to tell if it was a bot. I have already seen many bot-like real users on reddit and HN. They are frequent so I will end up false labelling and calling someone bot isn't very nice.

I guess, social media will soon start requiring identification and any other place will be full of bots talking to each other. Maybe we will transition to video-based social media.
Most sites that “require” Chrome will render and run fine on Firefox. It’s just a matter of setting your user agent to say you’re running Chrome.
musk seems to be suffering from the "not invented here" syndrome.

Which is stupid in a world where you can drawn on 150+ years of manufacturing experience.

Sure, in IT and tech it might work, but those fields are relatively young.
I was thinking the same. Doing a turn in a plane like this seens like hard work.
The Importance of Urban Trees
> The user agent will still be able to choose what to display,

Will it? Even on Mozilla Firefox (which fewer and fewer sites are tested against) you're pretty limited in controlling this. I have zero faith that google will keep that working in chrome
Niagra?
Our newer Bosch unit is the best-performing unit we've ever owned. We do follow their instructions to always use rinse aid (it has an automatic dispenser that needs to be refilled every couple dozen cycles), as well as the recommended detergent (Finish Powerball tablets, which we happened to be using already). We scrape off as much food as we can into the compost, but we only rinse things when we know they'll be problematic if they dry out before we run it (such as bread dough, eggs. etc.).

Yeah, it takes a few hours to run, but it's so quiet for most of the cycle we need to rely on the status LED to know it's running. We usually start it right before we go to bed (or better yet, set the timer after dinner so that we don't forget but can still load in dishes from a late snack or whatever).
To your point, this interesting podcast discusses the psychology of how we perceive our success/position/wealth - esp. in relation to others.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/14/912749547/why-nobody-feels-ri...
Genuine question. What makes the model Y desirable?
To me it’s just a funny looking , awkwardly proportioned minivan with a weird interior.
It’s not hyper aggressive like a German car or cheap and handsome like a Mazda. It’s just an egg with a load of seats.
Nvuti - https://nvuti.games
To be fair you're rolling in the luxury of hindsight. It wasn't that log ago that a supercomputers had only a few MB of memory.

Price US$7.9 million in 1977 (equivalent to $33.3 million in 2019)
Weight 5.5 tons (Cray-1A)
Memory 8.39 Megabytes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1#Cray-1M in the 1970s.

Dig up the spec of the PDP and be, well, something'd. Not sure what. Glad you were born now, I guess.
Meanwhile the /r/teslamotors subreddit (home to the so-called cultists) top comments are all calling Tesla out on this one.
I didn't really believe this back when I was driving a BMW and Honda daily running CarPlay, but now that I'm on the Model 3 I'm hitting lots of software bugs on the Tesla head unit that would've never passed even the most basic of software QA at my previous job.

The Tesla head unit makes the current automaker's head units look super reliable and as solid as a rock. OTA software updates do have their benefits, but it seems like it leads to compromising quality for pushing features of questionable utility out the door.

I get really disappointed when I see Tesla implementing really unnecessary features like Rainbow Road (the over-done SNL "more cowbell" skit) and fart mode. Focus on the reliability before making these features.
Or it might not be so relevant to future games either: https://gamingbolt.com/why-ps5s-ssd-speed-might-not-have-as-...

I think Sony may have chosen these specs partially so they could get away with having less RAM. Also, some of this speed isn't that the SSD components are necessarily that much faster, but rather that they're soldered directly onto the main board and located closely to the components that will use them. Modular, detachable storage located farther from the CPU is just gonna be slower, period.

So I'm not so optimistic that this alone will prove to be a significant differentiator. And it could easily be the case that by the time it does, PC components have pulled ahead again. It takes several years before developers have gotten really good at using a given console to its full potential.
This is true, but it doesn't stem from union organisers opportunistically seizing the best moment to negotiate. Rather, some people are always trying to organise collective action, management usually calls their bluff, and the striking employees end up coming back to work or being replaced. When they can't be replaced easily or they have alternatives to coming back to work, management is forced to the negotiating table.

There's an alternative narrative where the government steps in and says hey, you have to allow unions. In practice, while some government support is necessary, this doesn't seem to lead to powerful unions in the same way.
>[...] the problem that killed Concorde: Civilian sonic booms over populations are illegal

Did this killed the Concorde? I don't know the story well, but I always though it was because it was never a profitable venture but it was kept because it was good PR. Then the accident happened and it was just not worth it anymore ...
All that effort to get a tiny improvement.

The real motivation is probably to merge ads into the same stream as the content, so they can't be blocked by anything outside the browser.
More Items That McDonald’s Canceled That People Still Talk About to Today
Google vs. Oracle – Oral Arguments Transcript [pdf]
I kind of wonder about how they're measuring durability. If it's by time, 5x is really good. If it's by number of charging cycles and it hold 3x as much power that's great.
I would say that kids are more dependent on the adults that correct them, hence they can’t act as offended as an independent adult can.
UK comedian Dave Gorman did a section on this: he claims that his coffee shop, I assume Starbucks, stopped doing a particular drink he liked - maybe caramel macchiato? - so he heard someone in front ask for that drink, then said his name was "caramel macchiato" just to mess with them. They'd call the order as "caramel macchiato" and, he seemingly hoped, get trouble from the other customers who had been refused that drink ... cute.

Aside: I always assumed the whole 'spell your name wrong' thing that Starbucks did was a marketing thing - they certainly got a lot of social media posts out of it!
I'm surprised Google is embedding Glitch here. Besides being an odd choice, I couldn't get it to view source the first time and it took more than 5 seconds to view source the second time.