skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an example that is fundamentally different from tech work, specifically google. It's a gig based industry with massively high income inequality. Not to mention it's an industry level/dominate union vs a company level union.

Yes, the idea for health benefits was great. But now we see that the SAG is just like corporation - cutting benefits because the highly paid big wigs don't want to pay for them.
Twitter Verified Accounts Hijacked for Elon Musk Scam
I am posting this here in the hope a twitter employee will see this and lock the hacked accounts:

https://twitter.com/hollywilliams1/with_replies

https://twitter.com/DannerForNE/with_replies

This has been going on too long, since 2018, tons of $ stolen. You would think given that hack in 2002 that twitter would have systems in place to prevent this from happening so often.

Somehow they are also able to hack hundreds of accounts for fake likes:

https://twitter.com/DannerForNE/status/1346055619279790080/likes

This suggest weak password hashing or insufficient rate limiting on the part of twitter to be able to steal so many accounts over and over
I don't remember the exact details either but I believe this is it. Thanks for digging it up.

Now, wouldn't that constitute prior art wrt. the patent application?
> and could trade them like slaves under the "retain-and-transfer"

Don't you see a little bit of an issue with this wording? Namely that said players were paid for their labor and could quit playing football at any time?
It's significant in the sense that it shows google's sucesses in been fighting attempts to unionise. In addition for straight up prohibiting employees to gather in larger groups (no more than 100 per event or 10 rooms at once) they've been reading employee communications and firing people: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/02/google-spied-on-employees-il...
In the UK we hear horror stories about French unions going so far as to literally kidnap management and hold them hostage, and in one case strip them naked and assault them with bed pans (?!).
Not-so-coincidentally, so is the capitalism-uber-alles political landscape that requires it for service jobs to be in any way sustainable.
A friend of mine launched a product using indiegogo, but before the campaign began they used Facebook ads to drive traffic to the launch signup page.

From my understanding they initially targeted several specific demographics that might be interested in the product.

They then used that knowledge to see which groups they should increase as spend on based on how they responded and whether they signed up to get notified of the campaign launch.
Historically Google has targeted people that advocate for unions.
Likewise capital punishment.
I'm hearing that since the COVID, many Google workers are being deprived of their 3 free meals a day and access to the gym, being forced to WFH.

Clearly unacceptable, time to unionize to get things back to a more righteous state.

/s
The original video this article is referencing is here if anyone wants to just watch it instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bikbJPI-7Kg
I was surprised by the seemingly low price of this car:
"Estimate $175,000 - $300,000"

Jay Leno owns a replica of the Back to the Future DeLorean valued at $750,000.

I think anyone would agree the DeLorean is way sexier than the Trans Am, but I would argue its place among pop culture is pretty high, probably higher than the auction asking price.
It seems that Hacker News is rather anti union. I am not sure I fully understand what peoples opposition towards a union is.

I've honestly never heard of a negative thing about unions beyond silly unproven things like "unions don't innovate" or other nonsense.
A caveman may well find that while he was hiding there the outside world no longer dumps in random places.
Such choices sound lovely until those that choose not to realize too late that the 100% of their ancestors that made the opposite one might've been on to something. If it's a lie sold to the public, the entity doing the lying is the selective pressure of evolution. Dispositions that reduce to evolutionary dead ends don't get far.
Not a game developer, but I believe that game mechanics, lighting and "AI" are all handled by the CPU.
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Your post reminded me of my recent encounter with the phrase "damning with faint praise". It is interesting how applicable it is in authoritarian governments; you can't simply praise, you must give enthusiastic encomiums. That is particularly interesting in business, where it may be obvious to business leaders that something is wrong, but anything lackluster brings about government condemnation, which is part of the problem the business people can see. Startup founders are usually sharp, rebellious individuals trying to upend current business practices, so the condemnations damper the business spirit to some degree.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damning_with_faint_praise)
I've rarely found an employee directory that would contain people's personal email addresses. They might be stuck with calling people on the phone or something.

Which might be for the best: Google controls probably nearly every employee's personal email address too!
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Yeah that doesn't look like any union I've ever seen.
people get used to syntaxes, by avoiding languages that don’t immediately appeal to your current syntactic preferences you are missing out on actual important and interesting ideas over triviality that would go away with familiarity
> It's also illegal.

Then you find another pretense for firing many of them.

Addendum: There exist so many oblique "performance metrics" you can apply on the employee to find such a pretense.
Well Obama like Trump is a celeb more than a leader. Celebs spend all day pandering to their fan clubs to survive. Leaders dont. And the US is celeb obsessed. So thats a big bug in the code.
Show HN: An IP Lookup Database of VPN/DC/Blacklisted IPs
In one of my projects I really needed to restrict access from VPNs, proxies and other potentially shady traffic.
I do respect the right of anonymity but in this particular case 99% of the illegal actions were performed by the VPN/TOR IPs, so this seemed like a low-hanging fruit.

This ended up being a tough task, though. Existing IP ranking solutions were way expensive, slow or not portable, so I rolled my own. I used open solutions and data I could find on Github and the Internet. It took a lot of digging, compiling, manual reviews and investigations of IPs, companies, ASNs, but eventually I compiled a quite sizable dump and I'm pretty happy with the result. This ended up being an SQLite3 database containing all of the information needed to quickly rank/describe an IP address (datacenter, blacklisted flag, country, ASN). The data is also doubled as plain text files, in case the database format is not portable enough.

Resulted database is updated daily (from public sources) and currently used in production for half a year already.

Even though I learned a lot, I'm still not extremely knowledgeable in the IP/networking department.
And of course, there are rare false positives and there are cases that are not caught yet.

Please feel free to join the effort!
>You simply worked for a shitty German company and a great American one.

I worked for two shitty German companies that, ironically, are well reviewed on Kununu and well respected in the tech field (hardware engineering). I also interviewed at many more established Mittlestand tech(hardware) companies and I saw the same shitty patterns(butts in seats culture, micromanagement, no work from home allowed, outdated tech, poor pay, "flat culture and family atmosphere") so I feel safe to generalize at this point.

>I worked for quite a few young(!) small- to medium-sized tech companies in Germany

Well the ones I worked at were part of established hardware tech Mittlestand that keeps getting positively exemplified as why Germany is so successful vs other countries, not the hip new software startup.

>Of course, the opposite also exists, especially with old-school managers in well-established companies. Family-owned businesses are often the worst. The butt-in-seat mentality is very prevalent. During the Corona pandemic, they had to be dragged into the 20th century, kicking and screaming.

Well, yes, that's exactly my experience. The experience made me give up for good on ever working for the Mittlestand business, especially the family owned ones.

Out of curiosity, in which city are you located and wich field of tech are you in? I'm open for moving once covid blows over and scouting for spots already.
He is currently imprisoned pending a USA appeal (which they have stated, to the court, they will make); his lawyer told the court that he would submit an application for bail on Wednesday (and not to the court today).
This is exactly the point, I really don't know what is the parent arguing for here. Companies try to maximize the profit they can extract from employees. Why does parent try to paint employees doing the same in a negative light? We see that big corporations will not shy away from outright law breaking behavior if the payoff is likely to be greater than the fine. When the employees exercise wholly lawful means to maximize their payoff that somehow becomes icky?

This mindset in the US that workforce empowerment is bad has to stop. It feels like the middle class in the US is fighting ferociously alongside the mega-corporations in obliterating the middle class. Corporations are not your friends. The C-suite at corporations, and the shareholders are not your friends. They are not enemies, but because they are more like an amoral hivemind than a single benevolent entity, they'll naturally gravitate towards maximizing their payoff, even if this is at the expense of the workforce. Again, I'm not saying there is outright malice there, it's just the natural optimum state for the a group of entities who currently hold most of the power.

The US is basically a feudal society in everything but the name. If the Google employees manage to get traction and their efforts spread to the other parts of the industry, and perhaps even other industries, and the balance of power tips even just slightly back towards equality, that's already a win in my book.
Awesome to see you here. I've been using the paid app for years and I'm more than happy to support you forever.
This is the elephant in the room. Unions make it much harder to fire low performers. I think they have great benefits, but this terrible side effect.

For another example look at police unions.
The European arrest warrant, as other extradition agreements have a clause that they only work in cases where the offence is a criminal act in both countries. A famous recent case is Carles Puigdemont who was arrested in Germany by request on the Spanish government for "rebellion" but a German court decided that what he did (fight for Catalan independence) isn't a criminal offence in Germany and that he only could be indighted for misuse of public funds.

"""On 12 July 2018 the higher court in Schleswig-Holstein [Germany] confirmed that Puigdemont could not be extradited by the crime of rebellion, but may still be extradited based on charges of misuse of public funds. Puigdemont's legal team said they would appeal any decision to extradite him. Ultimately, though, Spain dropped its European arrest warrant, ending the extradition attempt. Puigdemont was once again free to travel, and chose to return to Belgium."""
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Puigdemont
> It was the first time white-collar employees in the tech industry had unionized.

What? CWA, mentioned in the article, isn’t a new thing, and that’s just one example.
It's also possible that this has actually helped us. Software builds on software, and this increases the productivity of software engineers, and makes whole new applications possible.
How about scan QR code on login screen by authenticated APP on phone.

Many companies in China use this way. does there have any possible exploit/disadvantage of this method?
It’s hard for me to fathom the mind of an authoritarian.

Imagine being so mad at a speech you want to imprison someone. Isn’t this a sign of mental illness?

I denigrate myself all the time with humor. This is my strategy to keeping an open mind on self improvement.
"Administrative tools" is the name of the game at most or many universities now.
> there's a reason PyPy trails CPython language features on the scale of literal years.

the reason is under-funding, and the lack of developers to the cause as a consequence, not the portability complexities of jit.
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I recall Iraq being more of an invasion than a civil war.
nvm, misread your post
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>I'm a licensed professional, and in my experience it takes 1-2 hours to set up a conda virtualenv with all the packages I need.

Yes, there are problems where Python is an easy solution. And many where it is not. And some where it cannot solve the problem without extreme effort.

Having been in dev a long time, this is the simplest, naive works best case path. If this were how setting up Python worked for everyone, there would not be an incredible amount of forum posts, github issues, setup help and problems, easily found on the internet. If you've not had to change underlying code in some python package or even worse recompile underlying C libraries, then you have not faced the kids of problems many (me included) have.

Ever solve a problem like the one I listed? That is not a simple conda install (and I use conda stuff vastly more than matlab/mathematica, so I'm pretty aware of it's use and features). Many problems I can solve in Mathematica (my preferred tool for certain work) cannot be approached by Python at all (or any open source tools I am aware of, and I have tried pretty much all of the things listed as MMA replacements).

>find the right number of seats to purchase (other departments might decide to get in on the purchase

So you're no longer making an apples to apples comparison - you just solved a bigger problem with the Matlab side.
> The idea behind unions is that an employer is not willing to lay off all the employees that are unionized

I think this is a slight perversion of the truth. A union that relies entirely on industrial action (a.k.a. strikes) to get a company to change, isn't a good union. If a union walks into every negotiation with just an ultimatum, then very quickly the otherside is going to get fed up of their bullshit.

Ideally a union should be working closely with senior leaders to find win-win situations for both employer and employee. An an obvious example would be preventing Andy Rubin from getting a $90mil payday for sexually harassing people. Clearly that's not only a serious injustice, but was ultimately always going to end up public and damaging Google brand.

A union could help senior leaders find a better solution, part of that would be providing representation to those sexually harassed so they could bring a stronger case, and make it much easier for other senior leaders to throw Andy Rubin to the wolves.
It reminds me of org-roam https://www.orgroam.com
> The unions require a certain amount of work experience to join and some have different levels of membership depending on how much work you do after joining.

To users who are following along who aren't familiar, this is not how all unions works. Presumably the commenter is talking about "trade unions" which is one of many types of unions.
This is my first time thinking through this deeply, so I'm open to changing my mind.

> If a citizen of A commits murder in B and there is credible evidence, but the person has fled to C, should C not be able to extradite the person to B under any circumstances?

Perhaps in certain circumstances. But in general, this is a dispute between A and B. C should let those two countries handle it. I.e., deport the citizen back to A, their home country. [edited: s/extradite/deport]

Consider: in many countries, certain forms of speech are illegal. I shouldn't need to worry that I may have said something illegal in China in order to visit South Korea. It's hard enough to learn all the laws in the country I am visiting, let alone every country that directly or indirectly has an extraction treaty.

The one scenario where I could see this being reasonable is within a bloc of countries that have free travel between and a somewhat unified set of laws, and only for breaking one of those bloc-level laws.
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> Modern JVMs are capable of running languages as diverse as Haskell, JavaScript, Kotlin, Ruby, WebAssembly, LLVM bitcode etc.

As long as you don't mind either poor performance, or paying Oracle a bunch of money for good performance.

What all the fancy marketing takes pains not to say directly is that GraalVM is shareware. The open source version is just a basic version with some teaser features to get you interested, and, in classic Oracle fashion, the price of the full version is, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

I have no real objection to that model for other products, like BerkeleyDB. But I wouldn't want to build an entire open source ecosystem on a foundation like that.
How is that in any way relevant to what I wrote?
Google wanted a leftist culture, there you have a cultist culture. May this serve as a word of warning to fangless executives all around the country.
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Realize how I oriented my question around how it might affect building an OSS community.

A MIT or Apache license might detract contributors, because essentially these licenses say "your contribution is OSS today, but it might end up resulting as unintended free labor that helps build a commercial product of which you won't be part of".

However some see GPL licenses as a guarantee that external contributions are actually contributions to the overall Open-Source community as a whole, because they cannot be turned into other non-OSS product without explicit permission of all people who built it.

So yes, copyleft is more restrictive than non-copyleft. But only in the subtle sense of ensuring that no further restrictions will get added by any third party, ever. Which is a strong promise that should encourage contributions.

Ultimately, my objective is to learn if this theory matches the practice.
> working at Alphabet is no longer a choice they can make in good conscience.

Sorry to say so, but it has always been a moral failure to work in the surveillance industry.
I think it's the exact opposite problem the tech industry has.

The film industry has way more talent supply than the employment demands, which naturally suppresses pay. The guilds/unions are a way to increase scarcity to maintain pay and ease hiring.

The tech industry has much less talent supply and much much much more employment demand. Tech might be better modeled after high skilled trade unions (which have a labor shortage) than the comparatively lower skilled film/auto/factory unions (which have a labor surplus).
I wish we hadn’t left behind latin as an international language that everyone has to learn as a second language (to keep things equal).

Fairly or not, English is the international language of science, technology, and culture.

There are some major benefits of learning a second language, so I wouldn’t say it’s completely ‘fair’ to English speakers who have no incentive at all to learn a second language and receive the health benefits it offers.
C++ still seems to be the fastest.
Hundreds of signups is thousands or tens of thousands of impressions, depending on the audience. There are only three ways to get traffic:

1. Pay for it (ads)

2. Borrow it (distribution agreement with a third party, who has an audience)

3. Build it (organic/SEO, use your own audience that you started building years ago)

That's it. Every other way is either a hybrid of two of those (e.g. paying someone to email their big list) or is one of them deeper down. So it sounds like you don't have an audience, which makes #3 impossible. At this point you can either talk to a friend or business associate who has a good-sized list, and see if you can come to some sort of an agreement with them, you can pay for ads on a relevant platform or blog, or you can start building your list now.

Is your landing page for a [free] lead magnet, or a purchase? Purchases in the impulse buy range ($27-47, but for developers maybe up to $97) get you qualified traffic, and for really good sales copy can be more-or-less self-liquidation, e.g. you are earning in net revenue basically what you're spending on ads. But often times it's just to take the edge off the ad spend and make sure your list is super-qualified people, since they've already paid you money they're more likely to pay you more.

My email is in my profile and I'm happy to give you an unbiased opinion of your landing page - I have nothing to sell you, it would just be what I think of the copy, offer, design, etc.
They really aren't. Sufficiently slow traffic (or none at all) will render streets walkable. Prioritizing pedestrian use over vehicle use is what creates walkability.

In the US you tend to find this in places that were built before cars but with sufficiently high property values that rearranging the buildings to widen the streets doesn't make sense. See parts of Boston for example. The places that are both old and wealthy tend to have streets that are pretty much local access only through size alone.
Did you read a PhD is not enough! I found the level of cynicism in that book to be much more relevant to being a scientist today.
>Her bedroom was exactly the size of her mattress since the partition walls had been installed for maximum efficiency. The bedroom door opened outward toward the corridor and she would just fall in on the bed and hang her possessions on hooks like a boat. This was the version of urban loft living that never made it to the pages of Architectural Digest.

My own experience living in a pre-renovation light industrial warehouse: damp, mildew with a side of asbestos roofing, constantly leaking and flooding when there was a storm, illegal heavy metal dumping and illegally wired off the three phase substation, water someone had forgotten to turn off and an electric boiler that would heat water faster than you could use it. The most interesting night was scaring off some skinheads with a crow bar that had a rag set on fire on the end, and a lot of screaming.

It was Victorian brick that sold for $1.3m 15 years later.
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Speculations such as these should be taken with a huge grain of salt. Consider that:

* Jack Ma is himself a CCP member.

* Before regulators stopped Ant's IPO, people were worrying about how Ant is a CCP ploy to take over the world, and a national security threat.

Speculations about China have a tendency to view everything through the "CCP is evil and the only thing that's constantly on their minds is how to kill/jail/invade more" lens. As if all behavior in China is solely attributable to the CCP. This lens distorts things so much that a lot of the time you end up with nonsense.
My only take-away from this article is also something I deeply believe in: Use boring technology(1) if you're doing it for business.

(1) http://boringtechnology.club/
The Western political institutions have short-term incentives for their constituents.