skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on your personality. I went to MIT, and found interactions with other students much more useful than the coursework itself. If you've spent 18 years with tons of people telling you that you're the smartest person they've met, it's really good to meet (1) a few people who put you in your place and (2) lots of people who are genuine peers and push you and encourage you for the first time in your life, instead of just telling you that you're smart (or giving you a hard time for being smart).

My freshman year at MIT, I roomed with a guy who was a highly ranked chess player, and one of the smartest people I've met. However, 18 years of having the rules never really apply to him and never being forced to actually focus really hurt his work ethic. He was plenty smart enough to graduate from MIT, but failed out due to a lack of focus.

There were about 1,000 people per grade in my high school, and people occasionally asked me if I was as smart as the girl a year ahead of me who went to Harvard. There was really no question that by most measures of intelligence, I was the smartest person in my grade. I was getting strait As in honors-level math classes at the state university while in high school. I got 800 in both the SAT I Math and SAT II Math sections, and 790 in the Chemistry SAT II. My chemistry teacher just started marking my scantron sheet as the answer key, and the day after every exam, the whole class would go over my exam answers on the board to see if I had made any mistakes. I ended the year with 9 points above 100% in Chemistry because on the first exam, the second highest score in the class was 90/100, so the teacher just added 10 points to everyone's scores. I made one mistake (at least mistakes that got caught) later in the year in chemistry. In my university honors-level math classes, I would bring a newspaper and read, until one day where the TA asked a question that nobody else in the class could answer, so I folded up my newspaper, figured out what was going on and answered the question. The professor (standing off to the side) got red in the face and pulled me out into the hallway and said "I don't care who you are. I don't care what kind of grades you're getting. If you bring a newspaper to class one more time, I'll get you thrown out of the honors program." It was good for me to interact with others with similar experiences growing up and get a drop or two of humility.

Your mileage may vary.
I work at Google, and when I started, I thought the idea of unionizing there is ridiculous.

They already have a very well defined leveling system. The promotion and hiring system - people hate - but it is as un-nepotistic as possible and (I think) fairer than pretty much anywhere else.

The compensation is already higher than basically everywhere - as you mentioned - ESPECIALLY considering expectations for your work.

And, sure, I think no one in America gets enough time off. We could maybe squeeze out 5 weeks of PTO for all employees.

Originally, I thought, is that worth unionizing for? I didn't think so.

HOWEVER, Googlers have since convinced me that this is more about employees having a voice in corporate decisions than compensation. For example (and I don't really agree with this) - most Googlers are VERY much against Google working with the DoD. They want to be able to use unions to block that. Others want to use unions to force Google to be more transparent about what it's doing with data and so on. Others want a better way for employees to speak up when we do things that seem illegal (breaking GDPR rules) or extremely unethical (hypnotizing babies on YouTube for ad-money). Currently, as with most companies, Google is a company that really cares only about maximizing shareholder value. Most Googlers were hired when the Google slogan was "Do no evil" and they really took that to heart. And for a long time, that WAS true. Now, a lot of them (and current employees) feel differently. And they think unions can bring "Do no evil" back to our main corporate guideline.

I'm not sure I'm convinced this is worth it or possible, but (to me) it's DEFINITELY more convincing than the compensation / working conditions argument.

If we unionizing and employees get a stronger corporate voice AND 5+ weeks PTO, I'll be very happy. But it seems like a pipe dream to me.
Hollywood is in the content business. As an informative precedent in context of a professional union’s unintended consequences (or misused powers), we should look at what role (if any) has the AGU played in censorship, uniformity of views propagated, negative ethnic stereotypes that persist in Hollywood product content, etc.
Turns out that company doesn't exist because apple doesn't exist in these general purpose editor wars and i haven't heard much good about the editors they do use to begin with.

Additionally guess what. Most humans wouldn't prefer something like emacs even if it had sane defaults that would bring all it's users and the vim people and the like togheter.
It's why a lot of it's features aren't a thing in popular ide's and such.
Yet this niche still exists. Because some like a keyboard centric layout and don't mind learning a bunch of of keybindings to work faster down the line
Actually there is. There is a certain chance that you're unhappy with your fridge and you'll return it. So the assumption is that you are more likely to buy a different fridge than any other item. That's why they show you other fridges.
It's meant to be absurd. It was never intended to be "laugh out loud" funny.

The point was the juxtaposition of semiconductor physics and a pop star who made music for tweens. Remember that she was the most popular search query on the internet for a long time, and a lot of those queries were a lot more explicit than "britney spears cleavage." Look at it as a joke attempt at SEO at making basic semi-conductor physics rank higher.
Down here too. No updates on Twitter either: https://twitter.com/SlackStatus
Unions control supply. It takes over 10 years to get into the longshoremans union, but once you do, you'll make $220k a year. It's because the union puts most of the work on the people trying to get into the union earning $14/hr so they can pay huge sums to the unionized worker. It's a cartel, like OPEC.
Especially when they abuse internal systems to promote it.
> Pitchforks and pile are the excesses of a generally good movement to excise mean spirited or just unintentionally demeaning stuff from our culture

...just gonna point out this isn’t a universally accepted notion. Were the Salem Witch Trials governed by this “righteous” fury?
So when the mlb & mlbpa negotiated stricter covid protocols (which both allowed them to complete the season and improved player safety), you're saying that provided the players no benefits?

This is a statement made in ignorance.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-mlbpa-reportedly-agre...
Ask HN: Is Slack Down?
Getting 408 Request Down.
> cheaper/more RAM

It's faster too.
Slack Is Down?
Slow for some actions. Example: It changed my status with like 10 sec delay
The article mentions that the union membership will be entirely voluntary. I don't think there's much reason to be concerned about this changing; they'd need a majority of employees to establish a mandatory union, and their initial organizing efforts didn't get very close to that.
Tell that to the brewing and cheese industries.
That stretches the definition of "a single file" when it is basically a filesystem itself.
It's super obvious if the unionized employees have a much higher firing rate than the non-unionized employees.
Strangers on the internet can't ruin marriages and careers alone. They can, however, shine light on things that might end a marriage, or a career.

My wife wouldn't divorce me if a random stranger on the internet accused me of something terrible. If I did do something terrible, then she might want to divorce me.

My employer wouldn't dismiss me if a random stranger accused me of something terrible. If I did do something terrible, then they might no longer want to be associated with me.

That seems entirely reasonable.
I made this point on HN before but I think it applies here.

The world breaks out into two types of employers: those who try to hire outstanding people and go above and beyond for them, with the expectation that one of the attributes of these outstanding employees is that they likewise go above and beyond for the company. The alternative is employees who treat their employees like cattle and the employees treat the employer as a slaughterhouse.

The first path is much preferable for everyone. The ideal situation (think marriage) is where either partner willingly goes above and beyond for the other.

I am not sure the impact of this particular action, but it's movement in the direction of employees asserting they don't want to participate in such a relationship, instead resorting to the more common power struggle rather than a partnership.

That's OK but taken to the extreme, there's no reason for them to expect the extraordinary treatment google has given them to continue, either.
You would assume wrong
Down for me on work + personal accounts.

I guess their holiday deploy freeze is lifted? :-)
This game single handedly justifies my phone's stylus. Without it playing on android is a bit fiddly. Works great on a chromebook with keyboard and mouse though.
dead for me
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And I'll add that you don't need to limit yourself to just one. I do most of my text editing and development in Emacs, but when I'm working in Java, I'll use IntelliJ. I miss out on some of the key bindings and workflow I'm used to in Emacs, but for me the other features IntelliJ affords me when working with Java are worth it.
> That doesn't clarify as "customizing my environment" is more like "fixing fundamentally broken shit".

I mean, sure, if you define any config change that tangibly results in higher productivity and better performance as a fundamental bugfix instead of a customization, then customizations don't matter.

But that seems to be a kind of arbitrary distinction. Just as an analogy:

----

"I lost 30 pounds and fixed a sleep apnea problem when I started paying attention to my diet."

"That isn't paying attention to your diet, it's fixing a fundamental health problem. In general, most dieting falls into the category of fads and micromanaging."

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Aside from your specific definitions about what does and doesn't count as customization, what do you and the OP actually disagree on?

Do both of you agree that when changing an Emacs config, I should take into account the ratio of time they'll save and the time I'll lose making them?

Do both of you agree that there are changes I can make to an Emacs config that would eventually provide a net benefit in terms of time saved?

Is it good that I can make those changes that save me time in the long run?

Is it bad if I ignore the cost/benefit analysis of a customization and spend more time messing with configs than actually programming?

I don't understand what you're actually arguing about.
> Each day Julian is ... x-rayed

Wait, what? This can't be true - daily x-rays would guarantee cell/DNA damage.
Is mass surveillance a conspiracy theory?
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Twitter [0] is much more useful than status.slack.com.

[0] - Search, not @SlackStatus or @SlackHQ
Welp timed this submission perfectly; Slack went down within a minute of posting it.
Ugh, we really need to reform the H1B. It's basically indentured servitude and helps perpetuate shitty behavior in our industry.
I think Trump is a pretty good president, but the fact that he doesnt pardon Assange... hmmm, is kinda dissapointing. Maybe he isnt that great after all =/
So nefarious people could potentially DDoS artists they don’t like using bot plays to get their tracks removed. I can’t think of a real economic reason to do that besides perhaps offering the only cover version of a popular on Spotify that gets removed, which would juice your own plays.
Yes and no mention on status.slack.com
In tech, there are more people with degrees than old people. It’s basic math of an expanding industry.

It’s definitely not the case that there are more “boomer” software engineers than younger engineers. One look at charts of CS degrees issued by year will clearly show why.
Hasura supports or will support MySQL soon (but is not 1 for 1 with PG in terms of features).
Oh, in that case, I have an even shorter "program":

Hello world

Run it with `cat`. ;)
>there's really nothing wrong with burying them in a landfill

And with one comment, 100 circular economists screamed out in pain.
Discussed here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632048
is it that different than the scene in the big short where margot robbie explains subprime loans (presumably) naked in a bathtub? that was in 2015.

I guess margot robbie consented to that depiction at least, but the punchline is essentially the same.
They probably scaled down their infrastructure over the holidays, but now that everyone is back at work they're underprovisioned.
Wow, you are excluding a LOT of workers in your statements here. Most people who work at Google, even the tech-focused ones, are not the type of full-time high-demand engineers who can get a new job at the drop of a hat.

But I'm not sure what that has to do with the question anyway. Unions aren't "intended" only for certain industries or market conditions. They are a means of balancing the power difference between workers and employers. And we see evidence every day that Google and most other large tech employers in the area are abusing the power they have over their workers on a regular basis. "Just get a new job" is not a solution for the vast majority of people who work at Google et al.
yes, messages dropped, can't join channel
Funny that SMS second factor auth took off. I remember that the sometimes hour long delays in SMS
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I actual was astonished by the simplicity of sign in links when for the first time using gather.town . I have seen then also in banking (revolute) with IP address pinning which proved to be annoying because this randomly switched depending on network availability.
Conspiracy theories fill holes in peoples’ lives (lack of belonging, lack of achievement, lack of recognition). Help them fill those holes with something else.
That's what I was wondering. Its shows all green.
EDIT: Finally some update.
https://status.slack.com/2021-01/9ecc1bc75347b6d1
Some people are still into the idea of "national unity" and "collective insult" things.
I wonder how's the performance of LuaJIT compared to V8, is there a benchmark?
Cache-Key Normalization DoS
https://status.slack.com/ also lying
Yes, visiting the web-app throws a server-error in response.
Not really - it's basically two sets of authoritarians deciding.

For example, if we take this to it's logical conclusion and look a work culture where your co-workers decide how much you get paid, go look at Valve and see how that works out for them:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2013/07/wireduk-v...

There's really no great solution to this problem as everyone wants more money. Either it's workers vs. management or workers vs. each other.
Down. Desktop app doesn't load, webapp hangs
I don't think that's universally true? E.g. reading the judgement here, when evaluating the charges regarding the conspiracy to obtain national security documents, does not ask "is stealing US national security documents against UK law", but rather "if Manning had been a UK army member, targeting the UK, would this have been against UK law", finding that would be the case and thus accepting the conspiracy charges as fulfilling dual criminality.

But you couldn't prosecute Assange in the UK for conspiracy to steal documents from the US and damage done to US national security, but at best for damage done to UK national security through that.

(It's possible I am misunderstanding something?)
For folks who have this outage. How much does this downtime coat you? Or your team? Or, since Slack is down can focus w/o interruption?
Appears to be global, people at my company in North America and Europe have said it's inaccessible.

Starting to become a regular occurrence!
Only 5.3 days procrastinating ???

I would call this fake news, but then again, you did just create an activity tracker so.. I'm jealous.
The comparison is silly. While the Boer War concentration camps were brutal, they were nothing on par with the Nazis.

In fact “concentration camp” is largely a misnomer. The sizable majority of Holocaust victims were killed in extermination camps, like Treblinka. These never even purported to hold any prisoner population, and simply murdered all prisoners immediately upon arrival.

The British have no shortage of problems. But nothing in their history is even remotely comparable to Hitler.
Unfortunately I basically accept this as the current state of all electron apps?
If you won the auction you could ask KITT exactly that...
So I have a few thoughts on Assange:

1. I think the US has pretty much succeeded in their goal of essentially canceling Julian Assange. Being holed up for years in the Ecuadorian Embassy had to have taken a toll mentally. As much as some might say it's not prison, it effectively is.

2. There's an interesting question of where the line is between journalist and not journalist. As much as some might argue otherwise, being a "journalist" doesn't mean you can break the law. And yes there's a difference between publishing classified material that comes to you vs actively engaging in, supporting and enabling the behaviour that led to obtaining that material. Assange clearly had prior knowledge of Manning's actions and was more of an accomplice. Being a "journalist" isn't a defense here, at least not a legal one;

3. Here's my other issue with treating Assange as a journalist: he was clearly playing politics. You saw this in the Democratic email hacking and publication. This undermines the whole theory that Wikileaks was somehow different, impartial or open. It is and always was another tool to further a political end. At some point you aren't a journalist anymore;

4. The UK court upheld all the prosecution's points of law so it really was simply a matter of health grounds. I honestly don't know how an appeals court will treat that. I guess we'll see.

5. Interestingly I think Brexit works against Assange here. I don't believe this case can be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (or Justice?). Obviously the UK isn't in the EU anymore but I don't know the law well enough here. Like it might be that the case was brought while the UK was an EU member so it's possible the ECHR/ECJ has jurisdiction? Probably not but it's not impossible.

6. It's unlikely the incoming Biden administration is going to be sympathetic towards Assange. There's probably no will to spend political capital on that and the Democrats are probably still made about Assange's (active) role in the email hacking and the 2016 election.
I am in the UK, and Slack is very slow indeed. I can see message notifications popping up, but I struggle to read them as Slack is hanging. No official outage reported as of yet.
The point is it was ordered by name, not by number. So you can't jump to an arbitrary number.
Ironic, how do you think better conditions and pay were earned historically?
Feature Stores will revolutionize Enterprise AI
How did you go from "manual upload to file server" to Docker+Gitlab?

We've been shipping MVPs long before those were a thing.

./deploy.sh runs the commands you used to run manually.

What problem are you solving now with containers?

Listen to what you are saying: "It will take little time" and "it will be worth it down the line". These are bets. People get this wrong all the time.

Don't take the bet. That's happy path thinking. Take the shell script and 0 dependencies on external services and complex software.
Send them to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EzSbI-zOk
It is from the INSIDE of the Truth movement, and will convince them to stop talking to everyone about conspiracies - as that's useless and damages human relationships. Also helps them to find meaning in their life.
Yeah it’s not great depending on who your neighbours are. I think better transportation and better VR will be necessary if you want the option of living anywhere. Until then finding a town that has a thriving scene that you’re into is the only option.
I would say that anyone who followed the story can easily deduce that the judge is indeed corrupt.
> For me, "freedom" doesn't mean "restricting what users can do."

> GPL restricts what users can do, and thus restricts freedom in my eyes.

A few sibling commenters have already rebutted, but to add to that, a way of looking at this is that all licences necessarily restrict users (with the possible/arguable exception of things like CC0).

The difference with GPL vs MIT is that MIT gives users the "freedom" to further restrict other users in future, whereas GPL restricts users from ever further restricting other users
I thought 2020 was behind us...
This is the detail that most people miss:

Unions don’t protect the general public against a company. They protect the ranking members of a company.

That means the union also protects members of the company from the general public who might be looking to take their job by offering to work harder or better or cheaper.

If you’re a young person getting started in this industry it might be fun to imagine working in a unionized environment, but remember that the union would be working to protect its members from you breaking into the company and entering the senior ranks.
>Reduce is better than re-use...

I'm not so sure, reducing often does involve carbon release. In this case half the carbon in the styrofoam is released by the mealworms as CO2. If we can delay that a few decades why wouldn't we? Also re-use doesn't preclude eventual reduction, and by delaying it we may also be able to take advantage of more advanced reduction options. I think we need to look at these things on a case by case basis.
Nor is a union the economic or legal definition of a cartel. A union is closer to creating a company that acts as a negotiating and protective apparatus for its employees as they do contractual work for other companies.

That isn’t a cartel and there can be multiple, competing unions working for the same type of workers in the same industry.
I mean, they probably show up organically, but clearly sometimes people who should know better stoke the flames and spread them.
What if paying their employees who work in their warehouses as little as possible and tracking them to maximize productivity is actually what maximizes their profits?

What if they don't have a shortage of labor but do employ a large number of people in a town?

Should the company continue to provide awful working conditions?

What should motivate the company to treat their employees better, if not the employees getting together collectively to say "we're not going to take this anymore"?

Are the employees dependent on their plight becoming a national scandal that shames their employer? Or should they be able to cause the change they need themselves?

See, for example, https://revealnews.org/article/how-amazon-hid-its-safety-cri...
As ever, a fine demonstration of the disconnect between uptime and status pages. For any fairly large service HN and twitter are a far more reliable source.

Which begs the question, how are these things checked?