skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the gentrification cycle, and it's been going on for decades (perhaps centuries.) It's just now getting to smaller mid-sized cities in the US.

- Some part of $City is a dirty, smelly, claustrophobic place, no one wants to live there so rents are low.

-> Low wage service workers, underserved/oppressed communities, and other "undesirables" move there because they have no where else to go, and form their own community.

-> Artists, actors, students, and others with no money move there because of low rents, and the area become "quirky" and "authentic" (ignoring, of course, the community culture that already lives there.)

-> Patrons of artists and actors like to live among artists and actors so also move to the area (or adjacent surroundings.)

-> Some of those patrons start up businesses to serve the low-rent community (the ubiquitous "coffee shop", bookstore, or gallery.)

-> The area becomes a center for art and creativity, and new amenities draw more people.

-> Middle income people start to move in, bringing demand for services and more amenities, but specifically the ones they are used to from elsewhere, not the unique "quirky" ones that made the area interesting to begin with. (Right around here is the part of the cycle where the city council and police start receiving more complaints than in the past, and usually complaints directed at the community which was there first.)

-> Developers start to take notice, buying land and increasing property values, building cheaply constructed luxury "slums" but charging sky high prices due to desirable location and access to amenities.

-> As property values go up, so does rent, forcing out first the low wage service workers, underserved/oppressed communities, and other "undesirables", and then the artists/actors/students/etc.

-> The area starts to lose what made it "quirky" and "authentic" to begin with, as the coffee shops are replaced with Starbucks, ethnic restaurants are replaced with chain restaurants, and little theaters and galleries can't afford rent anymore. It become sterile and Disney-fied.

And while all this is happening, newcomer residents are demanding that the city & police do something about all the growing homeless and addiction problems brought on by the people who can no longer afford to live there being forced out of their homes.
It’s pretty embarrassing for their 45 minute update to be “not sure what’s wrong!”
Ask HN: What do you think of changelogs?
There was a discussion on HN recently about changelogs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25612176

A lot of people seem to be OK with less detailed changelogs. I'm interested in actual numbers.
So I would really appreciate if you participate in this form
https://forms.gle/nKqdqybZajFFaE8y5
I think this changes from country to country. For instance, Gleen Greenwald published illegally obtained conversation in Brazil and had any investigation on how he obtained the data suspended by supreme court. Later was found out that his source was a politician that had interest in the leak, and she also claimed was doing "jornalism work" to avoid legal repercussions. As long you claim to be journalist you have carte blanche.

Not sure if this would play the same in America.
Is this in response to reports the US is considering cutting dosing requirements? The Reuters story is pretty bare (the title of this HN post essentially covers it), so without added context, this really feels like the cause.

In re: dosing - https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vac...
Of course wealthy Hollywood celebrities support unions: they make it harder for outside talent to compete with them.

And they absolutely do limit the work that union members are carrying out. To name a fairly recent example, that's how Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog came into existence, making it a web series allowed Joss Whedon to still make something without running afoul of the Writer's Guild strike rules.
As for democracy - because companies are somebody's property. Do you demand democracy in your home? That is, can I decide on a new wall color in your kitchen? I vote for you to paint your kitchen pink, how about that?

Employees can also vote with their feet, if they don't like their bosses, they can leave.
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Password management already is to basically that extent and the tools to copy that information around, backup, etc. also have come into existence to support usage beyond a single browser install.
That's the water we swim in, but can you actually make an argument for why things should be that way?

We allow infinite returns to "shareholders" long after their risk has been reasonably rewarded. Why should we?
A lot of organizations essentially took the last two weeks off from work, which is long enough for a 10-day autoscale window to spin down servers, and then get confronted by a load spike that wasn't pre-spun for.
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Why Grothendieck would say machine learning is mostly overfitting
Slack makes ~61% of its revenue from US customers which only has 4 time zones compared to the remainder of their revenue being spread out across ~20 time zones. It's not an unreasonable hypothesis.

See page 12 of the document (which is page 14 of the PDF) https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001764925/70df834...
I wonder if this is something that cloud password managers like 1Password could tackle.
You also can’t live or work anywhere that would be hit by the strobing shadow cast by the blades.
I guess that's the best option for compatibility. But it's not journaled and single fat, very prone to corruption right and fixing errors could take a while for lager disk like external hdd. There's not really any good option in terms of reliability and compatibility I guess.

I have had issues with ntfs getting corrupted and losing file both in mac and linux at times so there's that risk with implementation too.
It's not, honestly.

I worked at a huge corp which employed many non-technical people and had global offices and all sorts of contractors / full-time employees at various levels.

But they invested in organizational / business software early (think SAP-type stuff) and so at any moment every employee / hired hand is accounted for, has a number, has a position in the org chart, has access to a wiki-type platform where they can be trained and informed of any changes to the workplace software suite and guided through any migrations.

I've seen the company migrate off Slack onto Microsoft Teams. I've seen the company migrate to MS Sharepoint from Box. I've seen them migrate everyone onto a platform called SuccessFactors (still don't really know what it does, it's for tracking your career progress I think).

There's work involved. Someone has to write a guide to get users to sign up with the new service (even with SSO linked to your corporate account it's not easy for most non-technical people). In the case of Slack, any hooks or bots created for any teams need to be turned off and people need to be informed well in advance of the shift and multiple times. Optional in-person trainings need to be provided. Some employees may have issues with the change (a missing feature in the new software that they rely on) and they need a forum (or even just someone to contact) where they can lay out these issues and get them resolved.

But that's not that bad honestly. If moving from a platform gives you serious gains in uptime, it's not that bad. I think Slack's downtime problems are not so bad that most people will move yet, but they may soon get there.
I'm honestly expressing no opinion on Assange's actions.

"I'll help" is not a problem, if they are not helping someone to commit a crime (clarification: when I say "it's a problem" I mean it's a problem for whoever says "I'll help" because they are being accessory to a crime).

What routinely escapes from the prosecution of the law is irrelevant.

The fact that I have downloaded copyrighted material without any consequence doesn't make it legal.

A crime is a crime by the law, the court has to decide if you either committed it or not (regardless if you did it for real, if the court can prove you did it, you did it).

That doesn't mean that killing a baby and downloading an episode of a TV show illegally is the same thing, it means that if I helped you to download the content and you are accused of downloading that content and the court can prove it, I am accessory to the crime even if people routinely get by.

> unauthorized possession's of classified information is a crime

Are you referring to this?

> Whoever, being an officer, employee, contractor, or consultant of the United States, and, by virtue of his office, employment, position, or contract, becomes possessed of documents or materials containing classified information of the United States, knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.

What journalists do is not retain them, it's publish them, which AFAIK is not illegal.
Same, I still see my colleagues typing but that's it.
Encouraging fraud, nice.
Perhaps it's because all the {insert word}'s are taken, often squatted!
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Unless they're counting both doses as a single "dose" in their announcement, I doubt it.
I think he/she is saying labor rates are a supply/demand calculation, not a value one. The I-beam in your house might be the most valuable thing to the structural integrity, but it's probably not the most expensive thing in your home. Scarcity dictates that something else less valuable to your existence may cost more. You may not value that scarcity enough to pay that premium, but value alone does not set price. Air is the most valuable thing to my life, and I pay nothing for it.

So, a nurse or teacher provides a very valuable service, no doubt. Salaries won't naturally go up until availability goes down.
According to a tweet by Bank Security (https://twitter.com/Bank_Security/status/1343646616490815493) a database dump has been circulating containing PII, Phone Numbers and ICCID of 2.5M sim cards. As a response, Ho-Mobile will replace SIM cards for free if requested.
Does this mean zig is not ready for production?
> Screen Actors Guild,

The SAG isn't a typical union. The SAG constitution [1] contains a special provision requiring a supermajority to ask for a pay cap or to call a strike. Acting, like tech, is largely meritocratic with a huge talent dispersion. A prohibition on pay caps is necessary.

I somehow doubt the Google tech activists will be copying the SAG's meritocratic philosophy. Every single thing I've seen from Google activists and their ilk is about prioritizing technical excellence way behind having the correct ideology. The people behind the Google unionization effort are not genuinely concerned about working conditions. They really want two things:

- to be gatekeepers that keep their ideological opponents out of big tech companies (even moreso than now), and

- to gain power to pressure big tech companies into punishing their ideological opponents (for example, banning advertising from certain websites, refusing cloud services to oil and gas industries, censorship intensification, and large donations to their favored organizations).

If you'd been at Google and watched all this unfold over the past few years, it'd be obvious to you what these people are really about.

[1] https://www.sagaftra.org/files/sa_documents/2019%20Constitut...
Write a book, go on long bike rides, become a master at cooking, drawing, painting, and meditation.
Show HN: Get the tldr of any YouTube video in seconds
There's a lot of pressure when scheduling events to try to maximize the number of sessions accepted and given. But, yeah, the last time I was at FOSDEM, I decided to pretty much hang out in specific devrooms and it was a much better experience than trying to run from session to session.
This is definitely going to catalyze a nascent move over to Discord for my team. (~80 person consulting agency, distributed)
Funny. I filed a patent for this same thing in 2015 and it was rejected for not being novel. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160332079A1/en
>This is, of course, why Germany is famously an engineering wasteland with no notable impact on the global economy.

I suppose you're only referring to _software engineering_?

Because in traditional engineering Germany is a powerhouse, with countless market leaders in their individual niches, plus the ubiquitous car and machinery industries.
Don't you guys have e-mail filters?

"Hey, our site has been down for 2 hours, why aren't you doing anything"

Looks at 850 unread messages in ops-notifications folder

ooh yeah, that's right..
I'll concede that it's possible to not know what the problem is by now, but I won't concede that this should not be called an "outage" at this point.
I think comparing the squatters to Ammon Bundys family and supporters is completely ignorant. I'm not hoping to insult you but I do wish you would go and do a bit more research, my friend. I cannot agree with Ammon on several things but this is a grossly misguided comparison.
Can’t view pages with iPad :( doesn’t recognize touch events, only mouse. But looks awesome!
Right; to be pedantic, he is being held in custody until such point that the High Court decide to grant leave to appeal.

I would be frankly _amazed_ if in this case the High Court doesn't allow an appeal. And I'd be surprised if the Supreme Court didn't too. It's such a high profile and politicised case that it's incredibly likely to be viewed to be in the public interest.
The "they will work harder" argument is bullshit. If that would apply, companies giving their employees more say and shares would be more successful, and drive away the others, all without the need to form unions.

I mean it is possible that shareholders will work harder. But that is not an argument for unions.

Also, some employees are people like cooks or janitors. Will they really work harder, and what would that even mean? What if they just do their jobs? Does a janitor at Google really deserve more money than a janitor somewhere else? What makes them the "chosen ones"? Just lucky to work for a successful company?
I think Unions could go a long way to ensuring engineers get a fair (meaning transparent) equity deal.

I've certainly been taken for a ride before, with one Series C+ company's board delaying all equity grants for a year because they didn't want to pay for 409A valuation until they raised more money ( they never raised more money, everyone got screwed).
> 1% of 100K people making over $100K/yr is an insanely huge amount of money for a union.

Well, think about it this way. 1% of 200k people making >$50k is the same amount.

There are 775k members of the IBEW, for reference, which charges 2% of base wages in additional to fixed overheads. The SAG charges dues of 1.575% on the first $500k. Writer's Guild charges 1.5% with no cap. So 1% is actually low.

> (But that 1% is perhaps/likely only salary not equity.)

The article stated "compensation", which I suppose could go either way, but I lean toward "total compensation" in my reading. But either way, I'm sure the majority of Google employees do make over $100k in base salary (between those in the Bay Area, New York, Seattle, Boston, London, and more).

> A big question to ask is whether Googlers need to pay for union or if they should donate to politicians who would regulate Google.

How many of those regulations would impact the profitability of Google (e.g. through antitrust enforcement) versus encourage better working conditions?
It's a wild combination, everything from bored Estonian teens getting money from clickbait to state-sponsored disinformation campaigns with specific intentions.

The best writing about this IMHO is from Renee Diresta. She has papers, articles, talks, testified before congress, and founded the Internet Observatory project.

Diresta co-wrote a very comprehensive report on the activities of the Russian "Internet Research Agency": http://www.reneediresta.com/ira-report-4e8d0ff684.pdf It explains in gory detail how this "stuff" works when there are state actors involved.
Let’s hope this is also going to be the case for all the other companies producing Covid-19 vaccine. Hopefully we will have enough vaccine manufactured in 2021 to significantly slow the spread of this virus around the world.
http://archive.is/pjGNk
Many reasons, almost none of them technical. Off the top of my head, a few:

* Getting out of the Enterprise Contract, or waiting for the year to end.
* Training people on new software.
* Loss of productivity. (1) Learning a new UI, processes, workflows -- both individually and organizationally. A feature or concept in "Tool A" may exist in a completely different form in "Tool B". Or not exist, and then people need to adapt to and work around the missing feature. (2) Missing out on needed information due to the above. Ultimately, software exists to move and transform data, and when you change the software people have to adjust. Sometimes that doesn't go great. "Oh, I didn't realize I needed to check this checkbox".

Another way to say this is "organizational inertia", which is a fancy term that means "it's hard for people to adjust to change".

And you might think developers and other technical people would have an easier time of it. They (we) do, but not to the extent you may expect. I've been on the front lines of a handful of migrations that affected only the IT staff, and it was a long and arduous process each time.
> We are capable of creating a new type of union...

Can you give examples of such new types of unions that have been established the last 1-2 decades, and how they differ from the "legacy" versions?
Yeah, I feel like this is my entire early career. Back when I was at the bottom of the totem pole. I would point out poor designs ahead of time and offer a solid simpler designs. Always on projects I was ether fully or partly coding.

I would try to get agreement on the people it would effect and nearly always rejected. Then everything I pointed out would go wrong but:

"This was completely unexpected"

"really interesting problem..."

At one point our ($100 million USD) security monitor product was down for a month until a customer noticed on our behalf and flipped out. Due to a several problems I had repeatedly pointed out (and fixing any one of them would of prevent it).

If I full sailed ahead then I would get alot of grudges. Culminating in "I found this bug and its your fault" (which was nearly always end up being because that very persons regression) or some other baseless attacks during meetings. It was tiring.

My managers always liked me however. shrug

In turns out almost every time my peers and betters actually never understood our discussions (but of course it would look bad if they actually asked questions). As my career went on I would start forcefully asking questions to confirm their understanding. And indeed this was nearly always the case. So I started making really nice layouts and explanations. And this got me a bit further. But if someone is missing years of required background you can't teach them in a realistic amount of time.

I am careful about who I work with now. I establish during interviews that your future team (or teammate) has the needed technical capacity for the problem set they have relative to their position. I think about the problem set the day before and discuss with them how they are solving it and it has saved me many a time. People are often critical of domain specific problems when given in an interview but I always start there and work my way down to the applicable fundamentals. The higher up they can answer the more senior. It also avoids the problem of asking out of scope questions/coding problems.

The structure (who is doing what, seniority, and how both are established) should always be crystal clear and changeable. Something to be aware of are non-formal structure in an org. Like a junior dev. on random team x has the CEO's ear. These are much harder to find and deal with. The worst problems an org can have IMO.
It's the way Spanish government webapps work with the citizens but it's a bit confusing to be honest. When it works it's perfect but the setup is complicated, so they're introducing an optional user/password login also.
> "no asking for donations for running their own instead" OSM asks for donations already and entire infrastructure was run by two volunteer sysadmins.

They did? How come I've never noticed during any visit to the map website? That's a pity, I'd probably have donated.

> Tile serving infrastructure was basically on fire.

I also did not know that! I never felt any too long lag or anything.
Thanks! Removed. What I meant by that is "maybe we will add donate button in the future"
It is, it's similar to Private Eye in the UK or
Le Canard enchaîné in France.
$60 millions for 25 million fans? Gosh that seems like an abysmal ROI, unless your levels of engagement are through the roof.
I'm of two minds of this. On one hand I do agree with you that it has the potential to be an important safety valve (not least because I think the US prison system is immoral and unjust...). On the other hand, historically it has a history of severe abuse, e.g. to let people go free for lynchings and the like.
Where is Jack Ma? Tech tycoon silent as China gets tough with his business
That is a serious amount of money. Are Facebook ads really that effective?

The final paragraph makes me sad - this company is entirely at the mercy of Facebook.
> This is just a mis-conception, look at Germany where every industry has unions, regardless of size, and unions has a say in how companies are run, and what direction they head in. They make sure that shareholders and employees get input into the highest levels of leadership, ensuring that shareholders can't force decisions that benefit shareholders at the detriment of employees.

Well, well... Germany it's far from being true unions working. They are more like "labor rights consultant company".
Building a runtime reflection system for Rust (Part 3)
Caveat: SIM will be replaced only by visiting a participating store in person. This is not always easy / possible, especially with ongoing COVID-19 transit restrictions.
I'd love it if you'd reply here with a link to some inspirational photos when you're done!!
Why is that relevant though? You could also write a version of (for example) Prolog or Forth or Lisp using OCaml that would compile to OCaml for execution. Doesn't mean any of those are OCaml. Coq isn't OCaml. Haxe isn't OCaml. The fact that F* is written in, uses a subset of the syntax of and can be compiled to F# (or OCaml) is an implementation detail, the language and the purpose of the language aren't to be OCaml/F#.
When I was at Uber, we noticed that most incidents are directly caused by human actions that modify the state of the system. Therefore, a large "backlog" of human actions that modify the system state have a much higher chance of causing an incident.

My bet is that this incident is caused by a big release after a post-holiday "code freeze".
Isn't this the problem? Companies like Slack set SLA's that they only meet by lying about their uptime. It's as good as having no SLA, except you're likely paying a premium based on the SLA they set.
macOS 11.1 leaking data between profiles on the same Mac
I can only agree with the recommendation. One fun fact I wanted to add is that in one of his writings Eco told the story of a letter he received because of said book.

In the book there is the description of a fire in Paris on a specific date. The reader wrote to Eco, that he must have gotten the date wrong, as he was at that place that night and that there was no fire.

Eco uses this as an example, that some readers do not understand the signifiers of fictionality and that authors sometimes have to deal with readers taking their fictional work literally.