skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then go find a non-union workplace, then?

Or, instead of that, I could sabotage any efforts to create unions, thereby making it so I cannot be forced to join a union. That sounds way more productive.

> that tech unions shouldn't exist at all

I don't have any problem with a union existing, as long as they are not using labor laws to require people at a certain company to join that union, or require them to pay fees.

You can form whatever social club that you want, but the moment that you try to use the law to require me to pay your fees, or accept your contract, under penalty of losing my job, as per labor laws, then we have a problem, and I will fight your efforts to unionize.

> It's not like they're going to get banned or anything

A union shop would ban me from working at a company, if I don't join that union, or pay their fee. That is how it negatively impacts me.

> they currently consist of about 100% of software engineering workplaces in the US.

Yep! Anti union efforts are winning. And as long as union advocates are attempting to creation union shops, which use labor laws in this way, I hope that anti-union efforts continue to win.

> There are a lot of "other unions," which ones are you thinking about?

Yep! And there are problems with most of the ones that you brought up.

Any union that takes into account seniority, and negotiated based on that, is a union that I have a problem with.

Any union that puts up barrier to entry into the industry, by required certain standards, or doing the things that for example the film industry does, is a union that I have a problem with.

The film industry union, for example, has very serious barriers to entry, that make it difficult for new actors to join certain film productions.

Other examples of bad unions would be things like the pilots union. It might be fine for the piloting industry, but the problem with the pilot's union model is that it is literally entirely based on senority. If you leave Fedex, for example, and join Delta, then you start at the bottom, and lose all of your pay raises and benefits that are strictly determined by the union.

(And please don't even try to argue with me about this, regarding piloting unions. Both my parents work for fedex, and are in the pilot's union. I know how they work.)

This situation might be fine for the piloting industry, but I would absolutely hate it if I were defacto required to work at the same company for my entire career, in the tech industry.
iOS & iPadOS can disable Background app refresh. I’ve never verified with Charles Proxy, but assume disabled Background apps don’t communicate.
While I agree pihole is a great tool, if someone is trying to simply block pinterest it's one line in your hosts file on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Any loss of functionality would be immediately noticeable.
Yes, XMPP has had push notification support for years. It's the only way can work on mobile these days.
Same in Romania:

1Gbps is 10$ per month.
2.45$ per month gets you 50GB mobile data (100mbps download/10 Upload). 5G is capped at 80GB though

(I wrote all that correctly)
Interesting article, but has anyone actually analysed the traffic properly to see what's going on, or confirmed this guys findings?
With "Work experience" I was referring to the field in the Show HN app
Show HN: The future of medicine administration (dominated by big techs)
I think AMD is stuck. When a fab costs 10-20 billion and you're faced with companies as entrenched as TSMC and Samsung, it's going to take an entity fully backed by government money to be able to compete on the same level. The most likely candidate is China, since no other government is interested in investing money for long-term benefits other than them. Haven't they been buying up a lot of talent out of Taiwan in recent years? It's just a matter of time, imo.
Wait, is this a mobile (cell) phone number? Why is this tied to where you live?

In the UK you can take your mobile number with you between network providers and they're not tied to your location.
> one that doesn't hijack 50% of search results that are hidden behind a forced login

Recently Medium started to do the same thing. Google should start penalizing such results.
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Systems and Stories
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I do resume work and sometimes other kinds of editing work. I charge $50/page. I get paid upfront. I take PayPal, Venmo and Zelle.

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Right on time, sjhgvr can't allow his rep to be (rightly) blemished on any corner of the internet.
Quad-input. Luxury. All we had was a BC108
What?

I think if people bothered to read beyond blind hatred, they'd see Apple users _do_ tend to care - and are often very critical of Apple, which is what you'd want. Hell, read any of Sneak's comments on here - they might be the perfect example.

Ultimately, until another ecosystem can match what Apple provides (Windows & Linux do not), I don't see a particular point in attempting to switch. I'd rather be critical of Apple, disable the things I don't like or trust, and then do actual things with my life.
I can't seem to find the original comment but this at least removes those images from the results for me in uBlock Origin:

google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest."])
google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1)

duckduckgo.*##.tile:has(a[href*=".pinterest."])
yup needs it, otherwise quite nice!
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Understanding approximate location permissions in iOS 14
I always take screenshots of Pinterest images. They want to make it hard to save the pinterest image that you see on google search results. They want you to sign up. Haha. Well I guess they haven’t heard of screenshots before.
You are missing the forest for the the trees.
And here I thought the article was going to be like this parody manga about Alien Mahjong...... https://mangadex.org/chapter/56995/1
I saw it more as a critique of any area of science where the development of a statistical model of the behaviour of a system is treated as though it yielded any meaningful understanding of the system.

Quantum Mechanics, sure, but you could also apply this to Climate Science if you wanted to start a fight...
Women like pinterest more often than not
If there is a way to log this at router level, then we already have it. No need to talk to ISP.
Pinterest has been declining for 5 years: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

MAUs they report are drive-by temporary users (rather than engaged real users, like LinkedIn of Facebook), that get funneled to Pinterest by Google Image Search.

Here is some background:

Recently, it has been revealed that Pinterest reverse-image searches Google for uploaded images and adds the Google query result to the Pinterest image page for SEO:
https://www.rankscience.com/blog/pinterest-image-seo-growth-...

This degrades quality of Google image search, for example this Reddit post on removing Pinterest got 77k upvotes:

Reddit r/LifeProTips to remove Pinterest from Google searches:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/hejbl0/lpt_whe...

Earlier Reddit petition to Google to remove Pinterest from search results (66k upvotes):
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/85atho/pinterest_ne...

Hacker News discussion of Pinterest's Google scraping:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701998

A very recent HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538586

Earlier discussion on HackerNews (1.1k upvotes):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613996

"Unpinterested" Chrome extension to combat Pinterest spam (10k+ downloads):
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
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Location: Europe / Poland
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Kotlin + Android (mvvm, coroutines, flow, multi-module, dagger, hilt, arch components) | also Flutter and Swift (native iOS) | I love mobile :-)

Design: Sketch

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The Rust vs C Clang comparison [1] has Rust winning on every benchmark except pidigits, and that's only by .01 seconds. Memory usage and binary size is competitive as well.

[1]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Maybe I should have posted this when I first submitted, but...

The history of writing is in ink. The static page encloses the writer to his audience. But what if his audience is broader, wittier, funnier, smarter, or sexier than its central mass? Alas they are sacrificed to the writer's stomach.

But by nested writing, now he can write for all. Those who want to delve can click the end of his paragraph; those who don't can just continue.

Especially in technical writing this has use. For example, about 50% of Github readme information goes right over my head; another 40% is boring slog that I already know. It's the same for you. In a knowledge community we only actively learn from a sliver of the enlightening rays, and to find that sliver we bumble through a spectrum we can't see. Yet, by nesting paragraphs, a single writer can communicate on each wavelength: from specific to lay.
Yeah, my father built me a RAM pack ("I'm not paying that much when I can make one myself!" - he did a lot of embedded work with Z80s back then) and used a ribbon cable for the connector to avoid the wobble.
That might depend on your country of residence, but in Europe we have the right to all non-confidential data associated with us from any company that isn't "prohibitively expensive" to obtain, such as "all video footage with me in it from 2010 to today".

In this case though, it shouldn't be prohibitively expensive to obtain, as it forms the foundation for tracking the use of your data plan. If it was prohibitively expensive to obtain, they wouldn't be able to tell you, when you hit your data cap.
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> The problem now is that a lot of cryptocurrencies are prime targets for money laundering

The issue is that you can't actually solve this. It's already over.

The premise of money laundering rules is that you have two conspiring parties transferring illicit gains between one another and the regulations have the bank as an intermediary informing on them to the government.

The existence of cryptocurrency makes it possible to do this without an intermediary party. It has already happened and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. It doesn't matter how you regulate above-board exchanges and transactions in the US because the illicit transaction can occur digitally outside of the sphere of influence of a given country without using any of the intermediaries being subjected to the regulations.

What it means is that all the costs of AML and KYC regulations are no longer buying you anything because actual criminals now have an end-run around them, but they're still costing you something, as the law abiding people trying to comply with the rules, for as long as they remain on the books.
Network interface speeds are usually specified in Mbits, so it's not just the ISPs.
Which is far cry from "major change smokers notice".
It's a pretty strong signal.
Here in Fiji, I can get 100GB/month of 4G (LTE) mobile data for USD$8.
I actually want to switch to O365/outlook for my family domain name but refuse on principle because even with O365 Premium they require you to transfer your domain to GoDaddy...

At the moment I'm with Fastmail, but the pricing isn't so competitive
> Bitcoin is disruptive by design.

Sounds cool, means nothing.
A business idea that no one thought would work but ended up being successful
Eternal life would also almost certainly kill any class mobility.
What exactly is this scary crime that is supposively happening with money? They didn't need much money to do 9/11 besides some airline tickets and box cutters, I'm sure it wouldn't trip any bank report flag that would have allowed them to stop it from happening. Organized crime, is that even a thing? If no one is even going after obvious ico scams that have defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and other similar things operating out in the open then what exactly are they so scared of that they want to track every transaction? It's just money, what's wrong with someone buying something?
Virtually all ISPs collect and sell this data.
British scientists worried vaccines may not work on South African virus variant
You can, even on the M1. It's more annoying now, sure, but still possible. Apple's been very clear that kernel extensions are going the way of the dodo, eventually, though - developers should be moving to DriverKit/etc.

In truth, it's actually a better system. Slowly becoming more of a hybrid/micro kernel.
Hi! I built something similar: https://fergonco.org/MusicJargon/. I think you will find it interesting. It compiles to midi, though. Your browser support is quite a feature, indeed.

Had long discussions with my brother (the family musician) on how to encode chords. At some point I even used the actual UTF characters for sharp and bemol and was a total nightmare to write :D

My effort is mostly abandoned (I switched to teach my kids to actually play!). Courage!
Many 'long Covid' sufferers unable to fully work six months later
This is also key. China used converted stadiums, convention centers, etc for this after a few weeks. According to them, this reduced R from about 0.8 to about 0.3. People were actually being rounded up and taken to these places forcefully.

With the number of now empty hotel rooms we have, this could easily have been provided on a voluntary/strongly encouraged basis. Instead what we got in SF for example was hotel rooms for the homeless (that hypothetically could have COVID) and no hotel rooms for people that actually tested positive for COVID.
Real innovators care about the journey not the money. Some money is needed sometimes to get or keep going, we have this money, we have plenty of money.

We can also chose to reward innovators both for the effort and the result. It should be in proportion tho, an invention that makes you the owner of the world is not desirable for anyone else.

And finally, the most ironic, you don't have innovation if you are renting it. (they don't even have to let you rent it) Its a well crafted con that turns you into a subject to be exploited in any way the ~~innovator~~ owner chooses.
I haven’t made any arguments. You may be confusing me with someone else on the thread? In any case, the outrageously paid developers are probably less than 10% of all software engineers, especially if you consider that foreign engineers are part of the labor pool in a way foreign teachers are not.
> unless you can provide something with better with more predictive power than the existing/widely accepted ones, it’s a good idea to hold the critique.

Part of the authors premise is that a more correct theory could have less predictive power out thr gate and might not be pursued as a result.
Learn by Doing – Active Learning
In this ever-changing world of technology, where new things emerge each day, it becomes significant for one to keep themselves updates to the latest trends. And if you are a developer, it would be languages, frameworks or methodologies that you will need to learn and understand.

https://apvarun.com/newsletter/learn-by-doing
If you ask your ISP for a breakdown of your data, it's very likely they'll give you a sanitised account. Are you sure they've simply aggregated data usage from porn sites under the pinterest label?
This comment is downvoted but as a person in the EU I can wholly agree with it. It's not that I never use american made/hosted products but it is definitely a consideration when making a choice. It's not that I don't like Americans, but your government and government agencies have verifiably proven that they don't care about the things I care about.
Thought the blue noise looked the best.
Amazing. I'm in a part of the UK using copper laid in the 1950s, my maximum speed with VDSL is about 30mbit. Upload struggles to beat 5mbit. For that I pay £30/month.

4G is a little better, I recently got a contract for £37/month and can get 35/10mbit down/up.

Incredible to think that I pay quadruple what you do for an inferior service.
s/not because it easy/not beucase it's easy/g
s/that ISO want 198/that ISO wants 198/g

Other than that 10/10. As readable as hacker news on my setup.

The only way that can be better if is you wrote it as pure text.

If you follow basic formatting like double new lines after headings and punctuation most screen readers do a better job of giving you the semantic information by breaks and tones than the always broken 'semantic tags'.

Put it another way, would you want to read raw html to make sure that what you thought was a <p> was actually a <pre>? That's what I get whenever I try and use those. Again a solution by people who don't need to eat their dog food.
Looks very nice to get the first impression over a person. There is usually a lot of hints and information in the Internet about how to build such first-impression CV. However, EU companies (maybe elsewhere too?) often ask about second-impression CV with more technical details.

I search for a tool helping you to build your coding experience matrix. Imagine a chart looking similar to Github activity tiles or a spreadsheet, where on the x-axis you present time, and on the y-axis you place the coding languages or technologies that you have used in that time.

Such thing would help telling the interviewer, that you have 3 years of C++ experience, but your last project on this was in 2013. Anyone seen something like this?

edit: grammar & typos
Show HN: Invented the Word Sender Supremacy
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Sorry. Ran out of comments. Wasn’t trying to engage with you though so much as flesh out my argument. Good Luck!
Lessons from sudden death of a Pinduoduo employee
I looked a bit into this code and here's a short summary:

- The API supports GET/PUT/DELETE (no range queries).

- It uses 1 master server and N volume servers.

- The master server keeps track of all keys and all requests need to go through this server. The values are stored in one or more volume servers using rendezvous hashing.

- The volume servers are just Nginx + DAV which stores data on disk.

- There's no live support for rebalancing. If you change the backend volumes, then you need to take the master server down, run a re-balancing job and then bring it up again.

- Objects are locked in the master server during modification. This means that while a server is processing PUT/DELETE all GET requests for that key will be blocked.

- There's no handling of errors from the volume servers. E.g. if one volume server fails to store data, then it won't rollback the changes done to the other volume servers nor do anything in the master server.

- The benchmarking tool (thrasher.go) does "10000 write/read/delete" in 16 threads/goroutines. This means that it generates 10k random keys (i.e. no contention at all), and for each key it does a PUT, then a GET and then a DELETE. Their result show that it's capable of handling 3815.40 keys/sec (i.e. multiply this by 3 to get the request count).
Sounds vulnerable to a 51% attack. ;)
Upgrading to Terraform 0.14 Experience -WARNING
Yet the number of loc to be maintained is less than 1k. Following this logic we should then add standard libraries and the whole os into account.
Ok let me break apart your claims:

1. Christie has an interest in fighting child trafficking.

2. Christie used bridge closure to fight child trafficking.

3. Ft. Lee mayor defends child traffickers.

4. Ft. Lee mayor wanted to escape from a NJ police raid and bridge was the only path out.

5. Escaping via the bridge would have ensured Ft. Lee mayor's protection.

6. NJ state police were conducting a raid at GWB during bridge incident.

7. Bunkers at GWB involve child trafficking.

8. Ft. Lee mayor knew about child trafficking at GWB.

All claims can be viewed independently. Some claims have dependencies on earlier claims. If earlier claims turn out to be false (or extremely unlikely), any subsequent claims that have dependencies on those prior claims must be dismissed.

You apply some heuristic in your own mind like this all the time in the real world. You just probably never take a fully analytic and logical approach to it.

But that's roughly the system I use to evaluate the world. I don't dismiss things automatically but I won't buy into a claim without some evidence. But I will look at each claim independently because sometimes there is signal in the noise.