skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do this while botting MUDs. Immortals (administrators) would check up on you occasionally, so first my script would send a "mis-channel" communication to make it look like I was actively talking to someone else, then a quick "Ack, sorry" followed by a pause and a "one second". All while simultaneously sending me an SMS so I can take over the communication stream in person.
> I think it shows in how negatively tipping is seen in Japan

To be fair, obligatory tipping is pretty rare outside of America.
former resident of your property could have been mixed up with organised crime.

its common enough, you move into a house and random gangs show up looking for money etc that the previous resident owed them. They aren't going to take no for an answer because they'll get punished for not extracting wealth when they report back to el jefe
The unions (edit: film industry) 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.

Because everyone prefers union workers, it creates a situation where the non-union worker has to get noticed somehow (nepotism or exceptional work) to convince someone to take a risk and hire them to earn enough work to gain union membership.
>"Why would you care about having unlimited access to an app that doesn't necessarily do what you need it to do?"

This is completely empty and made up argument. For every piece of software with perpetual license you can normally get evaluation version. Download and evaluate to your heart's content. Normally it is 30 days but I have not had one case in my live when vendor refused to extend eval period when asked.
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Any good sources about that?
> 1. Email delivery latency

This is particularly true when the recipient has enabled Greylisting[0] and delivery has to be attempted multiple times (which is perfectly fine from the point of view of the RFC standards). In view of this, email delivery rather resembles real-world postal package delivery (and not so much the instantaneous delivery of, say, phone calls).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting_(email)
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I find really, really baffling the general position in the US regarding unions. It is like there's a general discourse that they are a bad thing, just like with "that other" thing (cough socialism cough).

This is even more strange when you find out about police unions - that are widespread -, and what their power is. From my point of view actions of police union are usually borderline "mob-like" (as in, I mostly hear about them when they save the necks of abusing and / or corrupted officers). It's like people think unions are generally bad, but then they have police unions everywhere and nobody bats an eye... even when their actions are on the shadowy side of things.

I didn't know about the film industry, thought (Even thought I remember about the writer's guild strike of a few years back).

Just like democracy, unions might be the worst solution, except for all the others.
Happens all the time. Indiegogo is IMHO even worse than Kickstarter at policing obvious bad cases. Don't think about it as buying.

Things like books/art prints/music releases are typically quite safe, tech products are not (my one failed KS: new iteration of a tech product from a company with previous successes, which now is saying "sorry, corona, didn't work out, we'll send you one of the old ones instead" instead of offering a refund....)
It sounds like you're both criticising market-rate compensation and lauding it?

But also, companies overpay in SF because if they don't someone else will pay better and pick up the experienced technical labor. So it's an employee's market there, sort of, versus in perhaps Poland where there's less valley-level insane demand for technical labor and so companies aren't so competitive to snag that one extra person.
I think they think unions would drag down productivity and cost money. I don't know if anyone actually believes unions do nothing at all, neither good nor bad
> For example, I've had people tell me that they don't support unions in tech because they'll be "paid less", or less competent engineers will be promoted faster.

Yeah, a bizarre line of reasoning. Footballers first unionized in 1907 and haven't looked back since. Today, your average footballer (plying their trade in the upper tiers of English football) makes more in a month than most tech engineers make in a year (granted careers are short and there are many more elite engineers than there are elite football players, but still, I don't think unionization had any effect on their salaries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Footballers%27_As...

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Tennis_Professi...
I know a guy who as a matter of course sets his passwords to long random strings. When he wants to log into something, he then uses the sites’ “forgot password” as his “OTP” to assign a new one, log in with it. He does not store the random string, so his password is random, he doesn’t know it. Sounds like a lot of trouble, but my point is “forgot password” can kinda be otp for those paranoid enough.
I wouldn't look to SAG as a good example. The format of that industry is very different from most "typical" jobs, specifically tech work. I would also suggest looking at the the recent SAG healthcare fiasco.
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I'm pretty sure you can do that in AmazingMarvin.com, they have trial version so you can check that if you care.
LOL good riddance Google
I usually prefer the terms "sign up" and "log in" as they are different enough to avoid confusion.
It's that pretty normal? That's what unions generally are, or am I misunderstanding your question. Denmark have/had unions for "office workers", engineers in general, steel workers and more. They are in the same industry, mostly, but they don't work for the same company.

The members of these unions are generally unrelated, they just have jobs in the same sector of industry or very similar education.

I think the weird part is when a union just represent the people working for one particular company.
Okay, but how do you think this works? Boris Johnson having a word with the judge? The judiciary haven’t exactly shown much interest in pandering to Boris; see Brexit judgements over the last couple of years.
Just wondering but what companies are comparable to google to work at (with similar pay and culture)?

I can only think of a handful that pay as well and even less if you consider corporate mission and culture.
The negative implication is suggesting they'll be fired
So these are really good examples, but I still don't understand what unions can do for 1% of someone's pay. They kind of look like subscription services, or worse places you have to join or else there are unintended consequences from other examples where they mention looking at union membership as an indicator of some experience (so kind of like a tax).

The screen actors guild and all the movie-related guilds seem interesting, but aren't those kind of like freelancers more than closer to fully employed people? I guess it would be beneficial for salary negotiation for non-software engineers and maybe contractos, but I don't really see the incentive to join one as a fulltime software engineer.

Maybe I have a bad opinion on unions due to how they operated in my country that's not US :D.
whataboutism is a logical fallacy.
You forgot Obama https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/01/18/commentary/w...
Not such a big deal in embedded, where the compiler and hardware is always the same, which means that the behavior is still predictable even if undefined
Hi. It’s difficult to answer this question objectively, however I will offer my approach as an investor (please don’t shoot me for trying to answer the question).

Priorities and weights:
1. (.25) Team (commitment, experience and expertise)

2. (.25) Market (size, accessibility, approach)

3. (.15) Product status (a. Concept b. Lab prototype c. Demonstrable prototype (alpha) d. Testable proto-product (beta) e. Market-ready (MVP)

4. (.15) Traction (a. No users b. 10-100 users/customers and/or award(s) c. 100-1000 users/customers d. More than 1000 users/customers

5. (.1) Revenue (a. No revenue b. Grant, SBIR or other c. Product revenue < $100k d. Product revenue $100k - $250k e. Product revenue > $250k

6. (.1) Gut instinct

A = a multiple on revenue (depends on industry)

0-12 months: $0 to $2.5 million. ($2.5MM * weight)

12-18 months: $0 to ~$3.5MM (A + $2.5MM * weight)

18-24 months: $0 to ~$5MM (A + $3.5MM * weight)

24-36 months: $0 to ~$10MM (A + $5MM * weight)

This is just my rough approach, and it’s not always appropriate. Based on some experience and where I invest, I would say it probably applies for most of the US other than Sili Valley or other Western US startup hubs where investors are more “optimistic.”
I don't think you are "missing" anything. It is just a way of working with minimal overhead/setup and yet full-featured tools.

For example, for my work environment i have standardized on GNU Screen + dvtm + vim (few plugins) + cscope + ctags; thats it. Depending upon available hardware and need, i may add more tools but the above is what i try to carry everywhere.
> Hard to believe there was a day that you had to pay cold hard cash to receive world class university instruction.

In a way, only we in IT/CS are "dumb" enough to give away education for nearly free.

Go ahead and try and find equivalent learning materials for other subjects (for example: medicine, law, chemistry) and you'll realize there's not much content of comparable quality.

I wonder what could we all do if we suddenly had free access to education in other topics, especially law.
> the university get to publicize that they wanted to release the information but the scientist blocked it (thus casting suspicion on the scientist)?

The situation without this rule, is that the university can and will release information that is in its interest and fail to release information that is not. This status quo is worse than what you are describing.

The point is that this biased information about a private individual shouldn't be public information. If the private individual is lying or misrepresenting the situation, then take it to court: don't use their private information against them for public spectacle.
I just always assumed it didn't happen because as soon as anything useful comes along in the FPGA space someone will just add it in normal silicon?
It's a 20 year old website about semiconductor phyics with pictures of Britney spears. It was considered a hilarious concept at the time.
There’s an overview of the end of the ZPM story here, with a link to a reddit thread filled with both angry “purchasers” as well as disappointed “dreamers” like me:

https://sprudge.com/kickstarters-infamous-zpm-espresso-machi...

(I’d got some number wrong in my memory. They were asking for $20k for about 100 machines , and ended up with $370k and orders for about 1500 machines. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zpmespresso/pid-control... )
>but the hardware is exactly as fast after 10 years as Apple hardware is.

Capacitor, DRAM, Heat Sink, etc.... There are quality difference in hardware. Although the two / three years remarks were definitely exaggerated.
In my mind, what distinguishes the Snowden case from the Assange/Manning cases is the distinction between whistleblowing [1] and a fishing expedition [2]:

> A fishing expedition is an informal, pejorative term for a non-specific search for information, especially incriminating information. It is most frequently organized by policing authorities.

The question is whether it is lawful for any group to mine a corpus of private documents searching for a crime or misdeed. Individuals or small activist organizations now have this ability and it is not exactly the same as a whistleblower leaking documents associated with a known crime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_expedition
Very interesting question, I have my own take on an answer.

I would say yes, @mentions make a chat product like slack minimally viable. It is a baseline expectation of a modern chat solution to be able to ping others by name.

However, the minimally viable form of the @mention feature is where you stop. Skip all things that are not “the @mentioned user received a notification when I send the message”

If you disagree with me, please explain why. I don’t at all believe that a Slack MVP that is nothing more than a WebRTC chat demo would be a sellable MVP in 2020. MVP and prototyping seems to be very conflated.
> People don't want to leave a cushy job for one where they would have to work harder for their money, so instead, they are trying other means to have their cake and eat it too.

You're saying this like it's a bad thing. Why shouldn't employees expect, and get, better working conditions?

> engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better"

How is individuals leaving "collectively bargain", it's the complete opposite, it's individual bargaining, with all the perils that entails.

> 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.).

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.

Finally Google looks like the perfect place for a union. Any company that rewards senior leadership for sexual harassment clearly doesn't consider it's employees important, and those employees should absolutely make it clear who generates most of the value in a company, and ensure they're treated fairly.
I think it’s fine if it starts off ideologically. A union is only as good as the total membership count. Get everyone in with whatever pretense, then you have bargaining power.
> The world is filled with people who regret rewriting the persistence layer for an MVP under pressure.

I think this may be true for people that switch from noSQL to NoSQL or from RDB to NoSQL, but very few that switch from NoSQL to RDB.
Because there is little to no benefit to the EU or USA to challenging the CCP, be it because of their treatment of a few billionaires or millions of Uighers. Unlike the Soviet Union China doesn't represent an existential threat to the USA or EU, largely as a matter of geography. The promotion of human rights, liberal democracy, the rule of law etc. has always been fairly low on the priority list of most western states in actuality and has usually played second fiddle to national interests.
There is a great line of research that part of labor's downfall in the postwar era was due to becoming to legalized/instituionalized, creating a hysteresis trap were the unions official power (laws and norms) lagged behind the underlying conditions that give it real power (labor scarcity + worker radicalization). Workers got complacent and depoliticized starting with the red scare, and edges along by shitty union leadership, and the whole Regan era turnabout was less a right-wing conspiracy and more the hysteresis delay coming to an an end.

Members-only unions and whatnot that forgo the NRLB are "riskier" in some sense, but that vary precarity / forgoing of intertia can avoid the lag and help keep the union vigilant.

See a popular exposition in https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/uaw-academic-workers-coll..., which is a better piece than much Jacobin stuff I might add.
Crashes. HARD crashes. Random, frequent, mysterious. Worthless crash dumps.

Removing the utility immediately stopped them.

I tried the utility several times, over the last few years. Every time, as soon as I started using it, the crashes began.

I really wanted it to work, but it wasn't worth it.
I've seen the theory floated that people return so much stuff that shortly after buying a thing you are indeed most likely to buy another, slightly different one of the same kind, and that explains the weird categories where it happens. (and for lots of things Amazon sells recommending similar items does make some sense, although I would expect a bigger spacing in time sometimes.
>In this beautiful part of the world you would even sometimes pressured to pay and join as if you're not a union member can have consequences that are unwanted.

This is to address the free rider problem inherent in unions. How do you ensure workers who get the benefits also share in the costs/work - especially when management are trying to encourage free riders?

Pretty much all free rider problems are dealt with with the group pressuring the free rider in some way.
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I highly recommend Ferdinand Gregorovius: 'Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter' (1859–1872). It is a fascinating read. Translations into English under the title: 'History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages' are available here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=History+of+the+city+of+...
It's also funny because blue collar work is / can be ridiculously well-paid, in part thanks to the union's efforts.
The union's official website: https://alphabetworkersunion.org/
Exactly - people don't want to sacrifice their paycheck for their principles, so instead they are forming a union so they can try and change the company and have it both ways.
"Remote app" instead of remote desktop would be a better analogy.

You run code on multiple machines (which might not even have any graphics devices or the concept of a "desktop" there) where each program might display graphical results in windows on your machine.
That seems incorrect, you can be prosecuted in your country of origin just fine for stealing from or hacking foreigners
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How come you think this union is imbued with "ideological fervor" but not the myriads of investors, executes, and other people who already controls Google?

Perhaps Google already is a tool of the cancel culture (cue the X-files intro music)?
China has a much longer history of "re-education" which if I recall correctly started since cultural revolution. There was even something called "Struggle Session" which was only abolished by Deng Xiaoping. Re-education through labor was officially abolished in 2013 but many suspect that it was only renamed because of international spotlight.
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I'm making music for a few years, and for at least two years my Windows workstation has been the main piece of gear.

I totally get what you mean by productive setting. I achieve that with two user profiles - one for music (dark colors, only DAW and GuitarPro, no social networks or messengers), another for fun (brighter colors, steam and battlenet). It is a much cheaper - free! - than $500, and I get to save some space at home.

In the end different strokes for different folks I guess. If your setup works for you - keep it up!
> None of these unions are limiting the work their members are carrying out.

I don't believe that this is a truthful statement. Does Global Rule One in the SAG not limit the work that members can carry out? If they union doesn't want you to work on a production then you are not allowed to work on that production.
Bin Laden had no court hearing. He was killed by a special commando. It really surprises me that anyone thinks that this has something todo with justice.

BTW: No saying it's right or wrong, but it's definitely something else than justice or a Curt-order.
Given how few sources of information on the CCP there are, I'll listen to all Guo's claims and make up my own mind.
The charges the US attempted to extradite him for were based primarily on things he did or allegedly did or which came to light after the rape charges.

Ockham's razor also applies. If you want Assange charged in the US on 'espionage' or similar and you have a choice of notifying the Swedish authorities that he is wanted for serious crimes in the US or instead relying upon separate local allegations that are so vague the Swedish legal system has to work its way through an appeals process to even decide to whether to pursue the case or not whilst leaving him at liberty to leave the country, you're unlikely to choose the latter.
Simple. These other people never made such claims in an article.
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> Google contractors have long complained about their unequal treatment compared to full-time staff. While they make up the majority of Google’s workforce, they often lack the benefits of salaried employees

I don't know how it works in the US, but in the UK contractors benefit from tax advantages compared to salaried employees, although HMRC is actively trying to kill the contractor market by tightening IR35 rules. That said, if contractors end up getting the same benefits as salaried employees then their contractor status is on dodgy legal ground. This may be a phyrric victory for them.
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Some of the most highly paid, privileged and marketable individuals in our industry, easily in the top 5% of income in the economy... what’s the point of this? Google employees are a far cry from the romanticized proletariat fighting against the bourgeoisie.
That depends on a number of things. Theoretically the leverage is infinite, as companies can not get anything done without workers. However in practice, strike funds won't last forever, people won't be willing to strike forever, it's in your interest to keep a relatively good relationship with the company, etc.
I agree there a valid cases for such a rule: In a world that has global communication and logistics available for practically everyone, you can potentially cause a lot of harm in a country without ever stepping foot in it.

On the other hand, this is also a very obvious slippery slope if now the jurisdiction of any country were to be applied globally.

What if a country abuses this to get rid of political opponents, to gain an economic advantage or to cover up its own crimes? (See e.g. the recent threats from China about showing solidarity with the Hong Kong movement even outside of China. See the US covering up war crimes.)

What happens if two countries have mutually exclusive laws? (e.g. at least for some time, it was a crime in Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian genocide while in France it was a crime to not acknowledge it)

If we don't want this to devolve simply to "rule of the strongest", more detailed rules are needed.
> Unions are intended for industries where a worker doesn't have a marketplace of options...

I'm not sure the cause and effect work that way, at least not entirely.

Unions do restrain roles of workers and structure compensation to particular patterns. It seems plausible to me that those sorts of restrictions are in some ways detrimental to companies that wish to (or need to) disrupt incumbents. It's plausible that they function as a sort of regulatory capture. In some cases, as with unions of government workers, literal regulator capture enters the picture too.
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