skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gaming industry drove this. Most gamers build their boxes, and they do like RGB (for whatever reason).
As a bit of a conspiracy theorist myself I thank you for your more thoughtful stance toward myself and my tribe, and can confirm that your concerns (that slurs like "stupid", which are themselves stupid ironically, do indeed magnify the problem) are valid, at least to some degree.

But then on the other hand, I believe that the conversations and "thinking" on display in threads like this (and the many others that pop up from time to time) are beneficial to our cause, as it plausibly results in a kind of effort free recruiting. Of course we'll never be popular in intellectual forums like HN, but if one pays attention to comments on more "super-mainstream" (ie: non-HN, non-Reddit social media, like online newspaper comment sections or in YouTube comments from local TV stations), I sense distinct growth in average sentiments in our favour. To what degree this can be attributed to studies like this and the subsequent forum meme wars is obviously purely speculative, but I suspect "there's no such thing as bad publicity" is applicable here.
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This union appears to have formed primarily as a means for political activism. This is just the worst type of union, because members are implicitly assumed to agree with the union’s political ideals (can you imagine conservatives joining this union in large numbers?) and also because if it grows large enough, it may make moves to become certified. That will put paid to Googles chances of doing business as it sees fit without any regard to the politics of what they do. How would collective bargaining work at Google? What would be the demands of such a bargaining group, aside from purely political items?
I remember reading https://marginalrevolution.com/ back around the time of the 2008 financial crisis. Tyler Cowen was emphasizing the futility of trying to regulate the financial system. The banks paid big money to hire the smartest guys; the regulators had to make do with who they could get. The Collateralized Debt Obligation genie was out of the bottle and you couldn't get it back in.

One has to wonder how that looks from China. The government of the USA looks impressively powerful, yet it lost control of the financial sector. Some players in the American financial sector believed in CDOs and lost their own money. Others saw it as just another scam, with private profits and socialized losses.

To Chinese eyes that probably looks like corruption with extra steps. In particular, the US government could retain some legitimacy with a "Wall Street" versus "Main Street" narrative. Sure, Uncle Sam got ripped off by bankers, but what can you do?

The Chinese government is worried that corruption will cause it to lose its legitimacy with the Chinese people. But the Chinese people won't let the Chinese government away with the "It is the Banksters not the Officials." line. They don't see the top people as two warring clans, with Bankers beyond the reach of discipline by Officials.

So the Chinese government has to look several moves ahead. First come the CDOs. As the bubble builds the government finds that it is trapped: too many people are dependent on easy money for the government to pop the bubble. As the bubble inflates, the government tries to regulate its way out of trouble by deflating the CDO bubble. Here the Chinese government has second-mover advantage. It can see that the US government lost control and could not do anything, not even close. Eventually the bubble pops, leading to a financial crisis and the Chinese government gets the blame. It must have noticed that the US government didn't manage to shift the blame with long prison sentences for bankers, the US government had somehow lost control.

So I don't think that "absolutely allergic to unsecured debt." is quite it. My guess is that the Chinese government sees the US government losing control of the financial sector, years (ten? twenty?) ahead of the financial sector misbehaving and causing a government-shaking crisis. The Chinese government don't want finance building itself up as a separate (and irresponsible) power center. The American experience is that this happens slowly, little by little, but on a ratchet. A ratchet with a magic pawl that the government cannot lift. So the Chinese government has to nip it in the bud.
Lol reckless marketing man aha

(edit: ok I thought you were promoting your own service here, I found it a bit spicy but fun nonetheless aha)
I can and did download an app and started trading.

I think these days robinhood is similar.
Somebody posted a link to the YouTube video that showed a Dutch turbine exploding. In the description it said pieces went 500 meters. So there probably needs to be a physical safety zone of 1km or more, not that turbines seem to explode very often.

Also noise has been mentioned by some people as a consideration. https://www.ramblingsdc.net/wtnoise.html has an interesting page on it (and a 2012 vibe).
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My thoughts exactly. (HN is slow here too, from the UK)
> What terms improve things for everyone? How should work be?

There is no such thing as "improving things for everyone" because different people have different preferences. Some people want job stability, some people want work life balance, some people just want to get paid, fuck everything else. If a union tries to pursue some priorities over others they are screwing over all the employees who have different preferences.
That would be a very bearish take on Bitcoin, since any investment that is only speculative has an eventual future price of $0
Author is mad he didn't buy Bitcoin sooner.
Paper cited in article [1]:

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background power spectra at 98 and 150 GHz

- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12...
Reminds me of Tula, the Russian city where a huge number of accordions were made. I'm not sure if it was dictated by the Soviet government or whether it happened organically, but I'm not sure it was due to a free market.
I've had some applications down today. The initial reports are date related issues with the New Year. I suspect that's incorrect given it's Jan 4, but an anecdote nonetheless.
Like human beings, can we all imagine that every single service can have a couple of off days a year.
What issues are you seeing on AWS?

The dashboards are all green. (which doesn't mean that much ... I'm aware...)
... by changing the BTC offline into fiat currency. Doesn't change anything, using the same mechanisms you could create a similar card backed by any commodity. A coinbase card transaction is not actually a BTC transaction.
With common cold coronaviruses we see that reinfection is possible for many people after a year, though they don't seem to develop symptoms if they get it again so quickly. I'm sure if you look at enough people you'll see a wide variation in response though.
That is subject to a severe anti-trust litigation
My business coworkers are freaking out over Slack being down. But all my technical coworkers are nonplussed. It's interesting how those of us with a technical background are not too disturbed by things breaking.
> why shouldn't I exercise the power I have?

Absolutely correct.

This is an IS/OUGHT distinction. Who cares what labor "should" do under the employer's ideology. Not too surprising they want us to think of ourselves as equal players making fair contracts with each other, while one side holds the entire world in their hands.

Since we're not out in the streets starving we're supposed to shut up and be thankful, no matter what, because the ruling ideology says they've given us enough (money as a wage, though little other power). All the crying about "contracts," "greed," "entitlement," etc is just pure ideological smokescreen trying to get you not to notice the obvious, fundamental conflict between worker and owner. They want us to look at a long running historic power struggle and see something other than a power struggle so we won't fight for ourselves. Ridiculous.
Noticed this as well.

Edit: 7+ seconds to add a comment.
> "employees having a voice in corporate decisions than compensation"

Should your waiter, your dentist, your auto mechanic, your daycare worker, your landscaper, etc. have a say in your decisions? They're your employees, albeit temporarily, so why not?

The shareholders are the owners of the company, not employees. The right to set the direction of the company belongs to its owners. The profits belong its owners, just as your paycheck and what to do with it belongs solely to you.

(As an aside on shareholders and compensation, considering how many FAANG people have huge chunks of their compensation in stock, people are well aware unionizing at a FAANG is basically people attempting to pick their own pockets since increasing employee compensation (themselves) is taken from shareholders (themselves).)
> Unions could fix [tech interviews]

Is the problem really “we know how to fix tech interviews, but the upper management don’t like it”?

Going by HN discussion I thought that the problem was “There are tens of totally different interview methods, everybody thinks one method is obviously the best and all the others suck, but nobody can agree on which one method that is”, and I’m not sure how a union would fix that :P
Serendipitous but of anecdata... was curious where you were located (ah, CA), so googled :) aaaand my keyboard decided I wanted, uhhh, "ozometel" (???).

Did you mean: ozonetel?

Nice.

(Gboard bit me again while typing it out here too lol)
The existing Outlook works pretty well in FF.

In fact, I used it there right until I discovered that in new Edge I can have it as a standalone app on my taskbar - exactly the feature FF announced last week that they have no intention of implementing[1].

FF is still my main browser. But for something like Outlook, that is an essential feature. And obviously, any links in emails now open in Edge so FF loses that usage too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25589177
good eye. That’s a typo on my part
One nation is currently operating concentration camps and arrests and seizes the property of prominent citizens who criticize the government. Are you sure that's an equivalence you want to draw.
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It would be really nice if everyone in this thread would stop trying to turn their personal feelings about this into universal truth. How many times to we have to hear about the negative effects of this from someone who misses going into an office?
It weirdly is!
Lol. Circle-K indeed.

I also had some craziness on LinkedIn earlier. I’m not saying it is related, just correlated maybe.
Yeah the amount of airgapped uptime dashboard in SV currently is insane.

Even the major clouds...hn is going wild about it yet the dashboard says all good.
At least an idea of what they are trying to bargain for would be nice.
In Fortran, Hello World is just

print*,"Hello, World"
end

This is shorter than the way a Hello World program in Java, C, or C++ would be written.
From my read of the situation (based on past union experience), this is not a normal union. They do not seek exclusive bargaining power for a contract.

It seems more like an association of employees who seek to influence leadership on specific topics. There influence comes not from the threat of a strike, but rather just numbers (eg we have X% of workers, all willing to put up 1% of pay, you should really listen to us).
There were also some follow-up games with Egyptian and Greek themes (called Pharaoh and Zeus) which I recall being similarly fun. And looking it up just now, there's also one I missed, called "Emperor" and set in ancient China.
I don't really understand your comment, but to restate my own: the Epstein stuff was basically all a matter of public record. I don't claim to have insight into why certain news stories and court cases become more popular than others.
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Hollywood unions work because they force an artificial monopoly. SAG requires productions to hire a certain percentage of union actors, which screws over non-union members. Without this market manipulation, unions are largely useless because the market will always have room for non-union members.

This doesn't matter too much for Hollywood because plenty of people are willing to write/act for peanuts, but I don't want to see these in-group/out-group in tech.
> those will try to accelerate with XRender if that's available

The XRender extension does all the rendering client-side. The one exception are glyphs which are rendered by the client only once and than stored in the server.

XRender also does not solve the problem that a line from A to B will/should look completely different on displays with different dpi / color space / subpixel arrangement.

> if you have any GL/Vulkan usage in your application

The original implementation of OpenGL on X11 was GLX by Sgi which serialized all the OpenGL commands and was completely network transparent as a result. Considering the fact that all the communication with the GPU is serialized via PCIe anyways there is no reason this shouldn't work with reasonable performance today when done right.
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Maybe B) will lead to fewer poorly-run projects that lead to unnecessary overtime.
The first sentence of the bitcoin whitepaper is literally "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."
I'm definitely betting on the slack outage factoring in here. HN is my go-to to see if I'm the only one having an issue, and slack being down is distracting enough, and disruptive enough, that I'm definitely guilty of browsing HN more than I normally would, even for the first day back after a holiday break.
"If you really look across the board at all countries, there is ZERO corroboration between any of these arbitrary measures and the results. "

Care to link a published study or a report from a reputable agency? Because it sounds like this is just your hunch.
One of the most common things I see among tech workers is that they think companies are “anti-union”, which is a total lie. They love unions, just not when workers make them. They call them “associations”, “councils”, “chambers of commerce”, etc. They serve on each other’s boards, they form cabals to limit employee pay, and they lobby the government to make it easier to get rid of you whenever they please.

Corporations and the rich love socialism. They need it. It’s socialism for them, brutal capitalism and rugged individualism for everyone else. The fools of tech listen to their words and ignore their actions.
The Sputnik adenovirus vaccine is easier to manufacture and they are allowing some countries to install their own capacity. I don't know if they improved the accuracy of their tests, they were kinda sketchy when they announced it.

The PR and marketing is not targeting the US for some reason, maybe because they think no one will want a "Russian" vaccine in the US or maybe because it's more expensive... but in other countries it's going to be "the" vaccine, so I hope it works.
All those references and that stuff still isn't true for everyone. How can this be?
Creating lab hybrids of coronavirus raises pandemic potential risks (2015)
Why Relaxed Alertness Provides the Optimum Emotional Climate for Learning
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> don’t own any real estate

You never really own real estate (almost never the land since it remains the property of the government so it's a lease at best, you own buildings and that's it) - and ownership of real estate means being taxed on it forever for the privilege of having it (with increased levels of taxes over time, of course) which is not really compatible with the concept of 'property' - when you buy an object you don't keep paying for it forever.

And don't even get me started on the fact that most countries will steal that property back at death with outrageous taxation levels. That's some kind of a property all right.
Focusing on the technical steps and what might be technically feasible or not versus the existing world and artists workflows. Also speaking as an authority that knows best patronizing who actually works in the industry.
The total amount of Bitcoin in circulation is an unknown as lost wallets are a huge thing. At most you can say Bitcoin is less than X, but that’s true of many many other man made things.

Aka any movement of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoins would have a huge impact on the number of Bitcoins estimated to be in circulation.
Most people in cities don't have cars at all. They use public transportation or ride sharing. Parking a car in a city is expensive, especially since you need to park it both at home and at your destination.

Cities are full of cars during the day, but the parking lots empty out at night. They live in less-dense suburbs, where it's comparatively easy to park and comparatively easy to have a charger installed. In the city, many of those who are willing to afford a car at all will also find ways to charge it (including sharing a few charging stations at their garage).
The change is that now there is an exFAT driver included in the Linux kernel.

Therefore, if you have a recent Linux kernel, you no longer need to install a user-mode driver for exFAT and the kernel driver has better performance.
I'd say thats one big advantage to unionization and the political leverage that it can bring. Not sure it helps in California where you have a blue state. Getting rid of the cheap exploitative labor that H1's bring in and restoring the H1's original design which was to bring in the best and the brightest or the most skilled.
Potentially an AWS issue?

Slack, notion and AWS all at same time seems unlikely

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
I don't think they are in fact seeking a contract.
And I don't see how it will become one without stability, which leaves it the nominal role of "currency" but a defacto role of "security" or "commodity" that doesn't happen to be backed by assets as such things tend to be.

I suppose if it remains consistently deflationary over medium-long term periods, that could still be useful, but doesn't really fulfill the role most crypto advocates envision.
What do you use for your small server for forwarding bytes?
Why do you only ask about fallible unions?

Why not fallible corporations?

My point is simple. These are all human institutions. They're not "problems" with "solutions".

And, to answer your second question, I believe the scenario you idealize creates externalities like environmental pollutions which kills citizens, and creates conditions where companies exploit workers (consider what the food industry, meatpacking plants, etc, would look like without OHSA).
You could take a long and wide but short pathway of water with a tilted glass top and a black floor. The light is absorbed by the black floor, heating the floor then the water. Water evaporates to a vapor which leaves the salt behind. It then will condense on the tilted class ceiling and run down to a storage tank for consumption (You can also get a warm shower using this lowtech solar method.
Client cert - not server.
World of Warcraft pandemic in 2005. That experience may help researchers
We don't need to go too far for examples of unions, look at the unions SF has. Health staff, Police, Bart and Teachers.
Unabated disasters.

The best a union can achieve is being irrelevant. It will surprise me how obvious it is in the populace that if companies all agree on something it is a terrible monopoly but if all workers agree on something it is liberating. The mechanics of anti-competition are always the same, even if different markets produce different results.
This is probably for legal reasons, i.e. Service Level Agreements. "May" leaves the door open to other interpretations and reporting from other systems.
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Enterprise contracts have SLA's about uptime, so it's definitely relevant.
> there is no such thing. not in bitcoin, not in usd, not in gold. all value is extrinsic and assigned by market.

Exactly! It also is interesting how people were berating USDT for not having their coins backed in USD. Does it matter? As long as people are amicably agreeing to trade it at 1 USD, it's working as designed.
Excellent article posted on HN that explains why what we saw in 2020 is different than 2011:

https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/

Basically, after 2011 it was mostly for recapitalizing banks when in 2020 it's to support government budget deficit
I can't buy my groceries with AMZN shares, and they're not intended to be able to do that. No one is pretending AMZN shares are going to be a peer to peer currency.

I can't buy my groceries with BTC either, but that's because no store will trust a payment method where within an hour the value of what I've paid them declines 10%.
Yep, HN is certainly running slow from the separate country that is New Jersey. ;-)
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Late response over the holidays, but honestly thank you. In years of Excel usage, I've never stumbled on that or had anyone mention it.

I will look into that as Excel 2016 is one of my current required work apps.
> In fact, it's far from clear

Seems clear from my perspective. Two doses are recommend by manufacturers. Anything more or less is pure speculation at best. Why speculate in absence of a way to test your hypothesis?
> I’m curious that people want to pay more to get less.

Actually a fairly old adage when it comes to lots of things, not just TVs. Sometimes it's for creativity (limiting yourself to only using specific set of hardware for music production) and sometimes for better user experience (like in industrial design, Dieter Rams' (Braun) simpler radios with less functionality is a famous example, ~1960). Dieter Ram also had a large influence on design in general, and states one of the principles for "Good design" is "Good design is minimal – Less is more. Simple as possible but not simpler. Good design elevates the essential functions of a product."
You can use Common Lisp with VSCode pretty easily now with the Alive plugin. It uses SWANK under the hood, but you don't NEED emacs anymore for Common Lisp. You can also use Calva with Clojure and vscode. The emacs requirement is slowly going away. You get all the perks of hacking live running systems, no emacs required.