skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate the political bs side of these things. A bit turn off for me here in the UK is when unions spend capital (political or cash) on issues that don't help or even hurt their members. Teachers unions here supported more work and less money for them because "think of the children". Asking people to collectively bargain is very different to asking them to collectively sign up and forgo their wages over some weird political point of principle. The a two should be separate.
And not only that. Once the last block is mined, the only revenue for the miners will be transaction fees. If anyone insists on a large future valuation of BTC, it follows there will be massive future transaction fees. Massive transaction fees dissolve any advantages stemming from network effects.
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How can the FAQ not include "clearly explain how this differs from GPL and BSD?" Does anyone know?
"Wishing them away won't have any effect."

Laws and social constructs can be changed.

As for health insurance (as an example), how do you justify giving health insurance to employees, but not to other people, like self-employed people?
Well, now the outage is marked as resolved. And the uptime is still "100%".
> it's the U.S. government's fault

Even if the US government is at fault, that still doesn't mean Wikileaks can't also be at fault. Two wrongs don't make a right.

> Names as such are vital. It lets you know WHO needs to be held accountable.

Names of US government officials who made decisions that are being questioned, perhaps.

Names of people in other countries with oppressive regimes, who passed on information on the understanding that their names would be kept confidential, no.
I use Hacker News as a quick benchmark for "how fast is the Internet here?" because the speed is so consistently good. Typically slow Hacker News load = slow Internet.
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You are correct, I used the wrong term. I have fixed it in my original comment.

In the US, outside of states with right-to-work laws, a union shop can still require workers to pay dues even if they aren't members of the union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_shop#United_States
Oh I wouldn't worry, they'll find a way. It's only 7 tx/sec lol, that's literally nothing. Not that hard to put 2 and 2 together.
No. Actually it doesn't matter at all, but China would rather not lose face of it being on the agenda to discuss at all. And that does matter, at least to China.

If they can sew up the whole thing inside of the month, I think it's a move they'll definitely make.

Plus the rest of the world is preoccupied with this virus.
Sure thing here is Netflix
https://cln.sh/JeBMco as seen if someone is logged in
> if you don't like it, yeah, leave the union, you're no worse off than you were before.

Completely false. With the ways that union laws work, if the majority of workers at a company unionize, then I have no choice but to be subject to their contract and fees.

Most tech companies are not in right to work states, so I'd have to go along with the contract.

That is how I would be worse off.
it is available, but it's a knock off with fake reviews
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There's a difference between "crap content" shared by users on the platform, and crap content promoted via ads.
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Capital and labor is a fake distinction. Your body/capability to work is capital.
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> A lot of posters here say they just set it to a single color and leave it. Why the hell do they chose components with RGB LEDs integrated and software to control them [0] instead of just buying some stand alone LED lights in the color they want?

Even if you only set it to one color (a perceived static aesthetic) it's nice to have choice for that one color: a) find exactly the color you want and b) alter it later if your taste changes.
I'm struggling to follow the actual narrative presented in the chopped up Twitter style. It sounds like there were was a third party ad network involved?

One thing we learned a long time ago is never to trust "engagement" data from platforms (be it Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, whatever). There are enough random user behaviors that you generate a ton of noise. You need to build larger, more robust attribution models that tie ad spending directly to revenue sources - new leads, new accounts, purchases, etc. Patting yourself on the back for how many shares or clicks you get is not great.
The key for me is noise that I'm not trying to listen to. The weather channel can be on and I have no need to try to focus on it.

If I put music on, it needs to be pretty consistent tempo with no words so that it's "there" but I'm not listening to it. The original Ironman soundtrack was my goto for this for years.
> Still not quite sure why "Matz's ruby" is separate…

As a marker of where Ruby used to be.
Complex systems require constant probing. You always probe. If you stop probing to look for errors because you assumed ECC fixed it for you, then you're probably at more risk of corruption vs accepting the fact there will be an infinite risk of error and being defensive against all types.
Good question! NASA's Artemis missions may be experiencing some COVID related delays. But that shouldn't mean the end of exploration. 100% of human colonization will be simulated beforehand. Access as many Martian public datasets as possible. Begin answering the big questions. What resources can be utilized in situ? What will have to be transported from Earth?

I was really piqued by the news of ESA's BioAsteroid. Using genetically enhanced microbes for the biomining of precious metals in space. Has to be one of the most fascinating space science experiments in human history. And if successful, takes "The Genesis Project" out of the realm of speculative sci-fi, and into the abode of the possible ;)

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What can't be ignored is the ludicrous energy waste that goes into bitcoin and its speculative nature. The energy cost may go down over time as the block reward decays, but the economics of transaction fees taking over isn't totally clear yet. Block difficulty still hasn't reached stability.

The speculative bubbles are a bigger problem. Bitcoin looks like at best a $5K-$10K thing in the long term (just look at the 2018 bubble). The argument was always "with limited supply bitcoin price will go to infinity!" but there isn't limited supply because bitcoin isn't the only cryptocurrency. The Bitcoin-cash split doubled the supply. Every new cryptocurrency product increases the available supply. Smart investors will diversify cryptocurrency holdings and bitcoin will eventually be priced accordingly; the cryptocurrencies that can grow appropriately with the economy will have the most stable prices. At least difficulty adjusts more frequently than the block reward decays so that it's very unlikely to have a giant crash where over-invested miners all go bankrupt on a downturn and no one bothers to mine the next block.
> I was confused by the image CV on the homepage. It expected it to be clickable, and it took me a minute to find the View Demo button.

Another option is to have the "view example" button visible even before the user scrolls.
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Don’t add restrictions, period. You shouldn’t even have such an option. It’s an evil thing. It also shows a profound ignorance of how little your work adds vs builds on the contributions of others.
Are you claiming that if instead of sending millions of dollars to ISIS (currency) I send them millions of dollars worth of food (property), the government has no business telling me that I can't do that?

I mean, maybe you're claiming that I can't transfer the property, but that I have the right to own the property as long as the government approves of where it's going. Sure. That certainly reduces people's willingness to assign a large fiat currency value to my pantry.
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At the very least, local and federal authorities were aware that the perp in this case was making bombs in his RV as long ago as August 2019 [0]. This should've helped predict the who.

0 - https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/29/nashv...
Another likely scenario is that they a deployment that was risky that they waited to push until after the holidays.
Well, you wouldn't buy Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic: The Gathering cards if you hadn't at least spent some time playing. Those are games which have had, at least at some point in their lifespan, large communities of players. I kinda doubt rich people are randomly buying mint alpha Black Lotus cards with no knowledge of the game?

Side note: you can still fail with this type of monetization even if the game is huge (see: Diablo 3 auction house). Once you screw up the economy or drive away the player base, it's hard to recover.
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> I find navigating it atrocious and I have spent quite a bit time reverse engineering some applications.

I could say the same thing about Apple.
I think your concern is valid, but I think it's the general case with any powerful tool: it can be abused, or shoot you in the foot, and requires discipline to apply.

I don't have REPL-driven development experience, but I think we are all familiar with StackOverflow. This is a great, great resource, but it lead scores of programmers to the "style" of development, where they mindlessly copy solutions from SO, without understanding of how and why they work.

I guess one can extend the old maxim "there is not now, nor ever will be a programming language that makes it easier to write a good program than a bad one"...

(edited grammar)
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Since we're talking about monochromatic art... anyone else here a fan of the Atari ST game Bolo?

https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/bolo

Probably the best monochromatic aesthetics I've ever seen in a game. The screen shots don't do it justice.
Perhaps you would also consider book publishers as colluding since they too have a "tax" to publish books.

Even with ePubs book publishers are likely to take 50—75%. Print books the publishers still take 85% and higher.

Now that is a tax. But I would not call it collusion.
Author here! I don’t think many people have researched or optimized on this, but I also work on https://squoosh.app, and from that experience I know that dithering makes compression _worse_ most of the time (unless you use PNG and use a super small palette of colors). Interesting idea tho!
Adam Curtis also explored this topic:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6f1bj

It seems to me that what is "normal" is mostly defined by the political system.
This is what I'd consider the "traditional" answer to the function of a union. I think it makes plenty of sense.

The parent comment seemed to me to suggest that a union would both keep the door open and the price high, and I don't see any clear way a union would do that.
You can do better than that, but I suppose I don't expect more than an insubstantial pithy quip from you.

Add analysis to each benchmark. Require submissions to come with analysis. Or more minimally, make the existing disclaimers on the web site more discoverable through one of any number of means, up to taste.
> How many JSON validators have you seen in python and javascript? Why can't the static type checkers like mypy and pyright do this for us?

Because JSON is external data, mypy and pyright operate on Python code.

> They can tell you if you're assigning a string to an int, but not if you're assigning 200 to an int whose type allows only numbers in [10, 100].

Mypy can, in fact, do that (via a union of literal types), though the UX is horrible for that specific case and it only handles simple literals, but that's actually enough for JSON semantics. Of course, to validate JSON with it, you'd have to turn the JSON into Python code with type annotations and validate that.
WFH during a pandemic is different than WFH when everything isn’t locked down.

I’d encourage you to avoid conflating the two as the experience is vastly different.
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As long as they get no special rights to form their unions, fine. In my country, unions get special protections by law, which is not OK.

If workers simply choose to monopolize, of course they can do that. Of course laws against monopolies in general should then also be abolished, though.

You can not be in favor of unions, but opposed to monopolies, as unions are also monopolies.

In that sense, no, I don't care what they feel entitled to - there should just be no obligation to give them what they feel they are entitled to.
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Our working conditions are inclusive and fair

How does one define "inclusive and fair". Who decides what is inclusive? The Union? I don't want to apply the fallacy of inclusion, but if someone wears a crucifix and that makes an atheist feel excluded, who is right? I know "the Union will decide" but tyranny of the majority is a real thing. See the ban on burkas/hijabs in many "inclusive" countries.

Also, if you are appealing to the public, saying that the working conditions at Google, where you are paid near the top 1% of the all workers and have free food etc, "working conditions" might not be the right term.

We have the freedom to decline to work on projects that don’t align with our values

When do you declare your values? Is it always a moving target? To be a conscientious objector in the United States, there needs to be a demonstrable history of your objection. You can't get drafted and then suddenly find religion. How do you stop the inevitable abuse of this exclusion?
Most people in film and TV unions aren't actors.
Thank you for, at least, hypothesizing the benefits, so we can have a proper discussion.

The top two seem fine, but Google is one of the best places to work at on the planet. But I don't mind it being improved.

The fourth one is really just a compensation package. I don't agree that every job should have the same compensation/benefits.

The third one is what I oppose. If you don't want to work on a project, then don't. I don't want to work in a trash dump (oh the pay is great too), so I don't.

I'm also certain that the fourth one will be weaponized and use for deplatforming people.
There was a brief stint in college when I thought I wanted to be a psychiatrist. I think in retrospect it was an attempt to turn my philosophical inclinations to a practical purpose. But it quickly became clear, in my opinion, that the field does not fully understand itself; it is based on more unproven premises than probably any other field of science, or even 'social science'. With the exception of some kinds of disease (possibly schizophrenia), a psychiatrist's ability seems to vary independently of his education. Success comes from being wise and understanding human nature, knowing how to talk to people.

Psychiatry doesn't understand that people have been caring about mental health for millennia, even if it wasn't called mental health, and so the field is not lindy at all. This sounds crazy but they should really be looking back to the roles/practices of priests, even shamans, just to try and get some semblance of an idea of what works and what doesn't...because they currently have absolutely no idea.

I would except CBT from this critique...it does actually seem to be a remarkable treatment (it is also lindy).
If we're going to edit the title, can we at least change it to the more honest "EU company temporarily suspends exports to UK after Brexit"?
Why would you even want to try it? Have you personally been abused in some way that you think a union would have prevented?
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Essentially we are running down all of the classical uses of foam and trying to use fungi grown to order as a replacement.

Packing materials were tried early on, and while they could get the shape and the strength right, getting the weight competetive proved to be a daunting task. One company whose name I can't recall put out a couple press releases about advances in weight savings with their materials, then quietly disappeared.

Like batteries, there are plenty of stationary uses for heavy solutions to the same problems. In fact I'm sort of surprised none of those packing people pivoted to sound or thermal insulation.
> how misinformed they were to think anything else could have happened.

How exactly am I misinformed? What facts am I wrong on? What inconsistency is there if I believe that Obama's DOJ genuinely never intended to charge Assange with anything?

> The Obama administration prosecuted Manning, and would have had an equal amount of reason to prosecute Assange

No, because Manning and Assange did different things. A key claim in Assange's defense in this case is that Manning did all the illegal things!

> The only possible situation for me to believe that they were not prospecting Assange would have been if Obama simply pardoned Assange, which did not happen.

Obama repeatedly stated he would not pardon anyone not convicted of a crime (e.g. in the context of Snowden) and as far as I know held true to this for all 1927 of his pardons.[0] So why would he pardon Assange, who was not even accused of a crime?

[0] https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons
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