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The article is quite clear: they don't intend to unite to strengthen their bargaining power.

"Arranged as a members-only union, the new organization won’t seek collective bargaining rights to negotiate a new contract with the company"

It's not really a union. It's a political faction that calls itself a union to benefit from laws protecting union members from being fired for "organising". The assumption was that unions would "organise" to benefit their workers via better pay or conditions, but that isn't the case here.
The problem is that these witch hunts are often not proportional to the alleged "crime", take the offense completely out of context and in some cases even ruin the lives of people who were innocent. The problem with the lynch mob is you don't get a fair trial. You get punished for whatever the mob says you did, regardless of what the truth actually is. Often what actually happened is blown out of proportion and sometimes its fabricated. Even when true, the "crime" often does not fit the punishment of harassment and "cancel culture".

If I make a dumb racist or sexist joke, I should be told "hey dude, fuck off, that's not cool", not have people calling my employer to tell them how terrible I am, harassing my friends and family or sending me death threats.

> My wife wouldn't divorce me if a random stranger on the internet accused me of something terrible. ...
My employer wouldn't dismiss me if a random stranger accused me of something terrible.

What if a thousand random strangers harassed you, her, your employer, your family and your friends with all kinds of accusations and death threats? Its not even that your wife or employer believes the mob, but that the stress and pressure becomes too much for them.

What if you made a single distasteful joke on twitter and instead of a few people telling you hey, that wasn't cool at all, instead you find tens of thousands of people harassing you and everyone you know? This happened to Justine Sacco. She made a very stupid and distasteful joke on twitter, to her 170 twitter followers. It got picked up by a journalist and thousands of people piled on to her. She lost her job because her employer didn't want to be associated with the press caused by the mob. According to interviews she suffered from anxiety and mental health issues for a long time after. Yes her comment on twitter was distasteful and racist, but it wasn't so bad as to warrant everything that happened to her. I've heard of such bully campaigns that lead to the targets suicide and it wasn't even clear if they were guilty of what they were accused of or not (but even if they were, their death is entirely too far!)

That doesn't seem reasonable to me at all. Quite frankly, I find it shocking how many people are not just ok with but also in support of these modern day witch hunts.
I my one experience, they were more than happy to let us breakdown the booths at the end of the show rather than stick around after 5pm on a Friday.

But setting up or carrying things things during the day had to use union people.
I mean, I think it is always the case that organizing efforts start with a small number of very activist employees and escalate from there. That has at least been my understanding of organizing MO, so sort of an odd standard to hold.

Huge difference between signing on and voting in a secret ballot - esp. in the context of in a company.
Firstly, unions prevent abuse. This includes unjust termination (for a million different reasons), handles disputes with supervisors where the individual employee otherwise has no power, such as the HN post the other day about the extremely abusive Apple team, or the many things we hear about sexism and racism. On HN and reddit, every time we talk about these issues the comments are always "find a new job", "don't bother with hr", "hr is not your friend". With a union, the union IS your friend and they make it so you DON'T have to find a new job. For devs, with our extremely painful and broken interviewing process, this is great.

Second, they negotiate for higher wages and benefits. Given that tech is churning out billionaire ceos, we certainly could be paid more. I have never met a dev who said "I don't want to be paid more". Yes, we make decent wages, but we still produce far more value than what we're paid for.

Thirdly, they negotiate for better working conditions. Examples from the past were things like the 8 hour workday, safety measures, etc. I suspect there's a lot of opportunity for growth here in the tech industry, through I haven't had enough coffee to come up with a list. The 8 hour workday is certainly one of them, as I've heard endless nightmares of people being forced to working extremely long hours. The lack of overtime in our industry is a big deal, and "get a new job" is a crappy answer and hard to do in practice, especially if you're being worked to death.
you need something that can decrypt the kernel from the encrypted image and then load it. OVMF + the efi stub can't do that whereas grub can read the luks format.
I wouldn't, since my personal theory is that the outage is due to AWS and GCP autoscale capacity exhaustion. We'll find out soon enough!

EDIT: And down goes Notion, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25634159
Believe it or not, people used to physically borrow movies from shops and return them 2 days later!!! That doesn't mean that I can still walk to my newsagents and borrow a copy of Pulp Fiction on VHS.

Things change, and Facebook and Google are now the big players in online advertising, accounting for a large majority of the ad market. Other platforms exist, of course, but by cutting out Google Ads and Facebook you're going to be targetting a very different user base and are cutting out a significant share of the market.
What’s the pay for a software engineer in Germany? Compared to the US?

Citing German unionization as support for unions doesn’t help your case.
The article doesn't claim it is, submission has just changed the title from:

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I hope you understand the fault lies completely in you.

Facebook is know to do or say whatever is needed to further their business. It not a new thing, it is a pattern of deception well documented here on HN.

By choosing to build your business on FB platform you should have understanding, that you are not really building your own business but rather you are building business for FB which lets you build business on their platform until such time they decide it is not worth it and kick you out.

You chose an ally that has no morals and you let yourself be completely dependent on their willingness to keep you.

Every business owner is responsible for thinking for themselves and investigating their partners. If this was your only partner, on which you were completely reliant for your business, it means you have catastrophically neglected your responsibility. Have you done your job you would realize that there is a risk and you would try to save or diversify in case the worst comes. Instead you were just focused on reaping benefits rather than thinking long term.

Pass the message to other people as widely as possible so that public is aware of how FB conducts business so that less people will face the same tragedy in the future.
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yes, except its up a layer. remote desktop moves pixels, and X is a protocol that distributes the rendering api.

so you start up your app, and query what kind of display you're connected to - there is all kind of cruft about color models and bitplane depths. choose fonts, register for events (mouse, resize, etc), draw your elements and wait for the user to interact with you.

it makes absolute sense in the context of the early 90s 'lets make this a network api' - and almost none from a modern perspective

as bloated as the browser model is, i think shipping code to run on the users machine is a much more powerful model... if you can keep it small and deal with the security issues.
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edit: I agree with you though. This should have been a blog post.
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>A union doesn't have to imply

As there's no set definition that would capture every union/guild to have ever existed...a "union" doesn't imply a thing other than some collective decision making apparatus.

However, turning from Plato to my good friend Aristotle, history shows that unions tend to not notice non-members or - even worse - actively work against them. It's not FUD; it's a pattern.
Another option is that the experiment design was wrong for every single one of those experiments. Sounds unlikely right? Running the same broken experiment any number of times won't change that it's broken. So if these "100 million+" ad experiments are more or less copies of each other they could all be wrong. How likely is that? I don't know, but I do know that at a big Silicon Valley tech company that you've definitely heard of I was involved in an exercise where we were told to create an experiment. The type A take charge person in our group did what they do, which in this case was talking over and shutting down the Los Alamos trained particle physicist who was trying to explain to her why her "experiment" could never show anything.
That's a lot; yet it's still nowhere near enough. We've got ~over 9~ around 8 billion who need vaccinations.

EDIT: Even with 5+ different vaccines hitting 600M (some of which require multiple doses per person), we're still talking years to achieve herd immunity. Years of continuing our current conditions.
I got into the short position after writing this article, someone happened to post this and make the front page of HN and now my site is down because WP caching was misconfigured.

I'll edit the TLDR box when I physically can
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> Don't think we've ever seen Hollywood in the modern era without unions, so not sure how you can claim it's "undeniable" the industry is better off. We basically have no clue if it's better off or not.

> Unions are intended for industries where a worker doesn't have a marketplace of options as there is a single or just a few employers (e.g. Hollywood, teachers, coal mining towns, hospital staff, etc.).

Unions are for all workers in all industries and sectors. Unions protect workers rights through collective action and ensure the work force isn't marginalized, mismanaged or abused.

A worker has a right to a voice. Unions are the body of that voice.
A good argument, but it happens on Amazon when the search, research, and purchase were all on Amazon.
Canonical and SUSE are still around and have millions in revenue.

Turns out that Linux is a good product that needs a lot of stewardship and support that's worth paying for.

There's also hundreds of thousands of software developers and consultancies offering their services that make use of GPL'd (and other OSS-licensed) code. Probably 90% of this board is selling their services/labor of GPL'd projects. It's been my whole career.

No, what it sounds like is we're talking about people who want to write OSS but also want ownership and exclusive rights to make money off of it. My argument there is pound sand.
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and meanwhile people are losing this businesses, their livelihoods, their mental health and absolutely everything. A women in California invested heavily in outdoor dining equipment, only to be shut down, and then she sees a movie production company setup a full catering set right next to her restaurant.

The top infection dresses experts can be wrong. Don't appeal to authority. There are literally thousands of other doctors and scientists who say further lockdowns are not helping. The WHO is saying lockdowns should not be used except as a last resort!

Don't listen to just one person. Look at all the options. Lockdowns don't work.
You mean 8 billion?
I did it on the rare snow day in Seattle a few times. I’m not one to be particular about my workspace, but what few things I am particular about went out the window in bed. It’s fun for an occasional break, but not for productive output. But TFA is rife with counterexamples, so what do I know versus Marcel Proust?
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Maybe.

There is a point of view framed in things being equitable too. The motivations are more broad, balance of society, etc...

Then again, the members may simply need more too.

Costs and risks relative to income can change, or are not well balanced. This is a standard of living, needs argument.

What differentiates it from greed is the fact than an answer can come from either side of the equation. Lower costs and risks can work the same as more compensation does.

None of this, nor my earlier comment speaks to whether greed is good or bad. It can be, or not and context matters.
It's one of 5 vaccines currently in use, with at least a couple more expected to be approved in various countries this and next month. So it does not need to be enough.
> Loss of productivity. (1) Learning a new UI

Man it bothers me so much when applications change their UIs on updates for no apparent reason other than "it looks better".

IntelliJ changed the way build and debug buttons looked in some update and it took me days to get used to it and I could find them in a snap again. Slack did a couple of no-reason changes as well.
That article was written almost a month before Trump's recent pardons, and only tallies through FY2020, ending Sept 30. In the meantime, trump has pardoned war criminals and several people who have done crimes on his behalf. In pretty much everything I've read on the subject, that is not the average sort of offender who is granted leniency.

A lack of a large number of pardons is no surprise, really. By all appearances, he's pardoning his partners in crime and war criminals. Traditionally, pardons are granted to folks who haven't gotten a fair shake, or whose sentences are disproportionate to their crimes. Contrast the number of pardons with the recent spree of executions -- this is all in line with the "tough on crime" narrative. Forget about justice, the goal is brutality and death to the enemy.
Don't know why this is down voted, because it's spot on.

It's what gives us advantages in areas like medical/technical research, powerful mega corporations that can effect global markets, and schooling. All at the cost of the lives of people that crank the cogs forward to maintain it all.
This could be wishful thinking, but it would not surprise me if these numbers will go up for many or all of the vaccines. If the numbers of doses we've heard so far are contractually agreed upon, I would make sense that the manufacturers erred on the safe side regarding the number of doses they promise to deliver.
This seems like a common tactic with many of these employee activist campaigns. They partner with a sympathetic news media outlet that will amplify their story (examples: Vox, Geekwire, etc.) but leave out details and perspectives that undermine their push - like how few employees are behind it. If you look at past activist campaigns (for example people trying to stop AWS from working with the US government), it's the same story of trying to paint a picture of widespread support where there isn't any.
And why not? What makes you think it will improve? Specialty distribution is not something you can easily scale in a short period of time.
In my experience, this dogmatic advice is often counterproductive.

If this is a switch that is reasonably defended (internal API, etc.) then leaving off a default in a fixed enumeration type switch (where you want to hit _every_ switch case value possible) is ideal.

Most modern processors will warn (or -Werror, as everyone should be using these days) if one of the enum constants is missing, reducing the surface area for logic bugs.

If you are really paranoid about out-of-bounds values in a switch statement, then insert an assert() after the statement itself with a negated string literal, e.g. assert(!"invalid switch value");

This is a pretty reasonable approach for code that, again, is reasonably defended against faulty inputs or working with some degree of guarantee. If I'm not mistaken, often times such switch statements are even optimized to jump tables at compile time, too - namely if there are small/few/no gaps in the case values.
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> If a person asks a computer for a "week number 23 of 2021", the only sensible solution in any culture I think would be to use the ISO system.

No, because it wouldn't match american the expectations of people not using ISO calendars, despite and regardless of weeknumbers not being routinely used by them.

It is an argument that maybe weeknumbers should not be a thing / available in all locales, but not that they should be renumbered to match an other locale, regardless of that other locale making more sense.
I've read that it happens to a lot more people... not sure what the conditions need to be, but yes, it is really weird. It almost looks like some kind of censoring.
Online Facebook + Google take something like 50% of all ad revenue. Since the product being advertised is a website, offline advertising is probably a lot less effective than online.
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> There aren't really any businesses which have sovereign territory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City
Yeah, but they don't all need it at the same time. Plus there are multiple companies producing vaccines. There's Moderna, Pfizer/Biontech, Astra Zeneca/Oxford, the Russian one, the Chinese one.
I don't think anyone is talking about 100% eradicating the virus.

Getting old people and people at risk vaccinated basically means 99% of death would be avoided and hospital would go back to pre covid numbers. Once people over 40-50 are vaccinated it's game over for covid and most of things will go back to normal.

Of course the virus won't totally disappear and people will still die of it.

> Humanity has a new virus and we need to learn to live with that.

The lockdowns / travel restrictions are part of the "learn to live with that", you can't just ignore it and run major hospitals at 110% capacity forever.
Walter, can you elaborate on this, are D's slices functionally equivalent to C++'s string_view? I.e. no copying as long no 'ASCIIZ-dependent' code is involved?
Skylines is far more flexible than the author gives it credit for. At this point it’s more of a platform for community content than a game, it would be very common to see almost no vanilla resources used (maybe besides roads) in a build. The vanilla assets are often both ugly and poorly optimized, something from Steam can look more realistic while also having fewer triangles! See the “low poly trees” collection for an example.

It’s also very common for the player to use place every building manually, contrary to to the author’s table. If you check out /r/CitiesSkylines or YouTube, anything that looks really good is likely done this way.

The game also doesn’t force you to prefer transit vs. cars, it’s very flexible and you can build an Asian, European, or American (NYC or “sprawl”) styles easily. YouTube examples I can think of:

- Nydal - European
– Marble Mountain – American (California)
– Kobyashi Island – Japanese
> run it in a beta environment

Every Uber/ex-Uber engineer is nervously chuckling at this comment right now
> And a law like that would not work

The parent meant a law as in "a law of physics", not a piece of legislation.
Graph NNs are widely used in the chemical domain -- molecules are easily modeled as graphs, so it's a natural fit.
Yes they were kicked off for ad violations, but the violations were not explained.
Why would Trump consider Edward Snowden's opinion on pardoning Assange, and where is this chatter? Trump has never been supportive of Snowden in the past, as far as I have read.
"Entitled" has nothing to do with it. Workers get paid based on how much they can negotiate. Forming a union improves bargaining power.
Sure, but why does that indicate the issue probably wasn’t related to a code push, like the person I responded to said?
What part of hospital over-crowding are you having difficulty understanding? I am sure someone here can explain it to you.
2 doses per person... No need for 100% vaccination (some will die before being vaccinated, some immunity from already being infected, some too poor to buy it, etc.)