skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: "simple lack of foresight combined with the age-old problem of the temporary solution becoming de-facto permanent"
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They have these in the U.S. Chambers of Commerce and industry organizations, especially lobbying groups, are numerous.
Maybe not trade deals but the Anne Sacoolas[0] case of using diplomatic immunity of dubious legality to flee from justice probably tends to irritate the British judiciary.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-52630...
Yiannimize is the business of a well known British Youtuber. The business is mostly known for car wrapping.

See below a video Yianni made with this car back in 2016:

https://youtu.be/FFgJT9H9z0o

Edit: It looks like this may be the current/previous owner:

https://www.instagram.com/knightriderlondon/?hl=en
True, that Country can make a Penalty application and your getting prosecuted in your country.
Agree. Another issue, when discussing this topic, is that Romans are believed to have adopted the Greek culture after the conquest of Greece. This is indeed mostly true, but not when it comes to the attitude towards foreigners, which could not be more dissimilar.

Greek culture was much more insular. Greek poleis really considered themselves to be superior to anyone who did not speak their language (which is what "barbarian" actually means). And, while they did invest in colonies, they were never really interested in conquering territories where other cultures were already present.
Needless to say, this kind of attitude does not lead to burgeoning territorial acquisition.

Romans were much more aggressive and warmongering, but they also showed some degree of acceptance of the cultures they assimilated. They allowed provinces to keep some of their pre-existing laws. They were fine with people worshipping their non-Roman gods, as long as they also recognized the divinity of the emperor. And, as I said, they routinely employed barbarians at all levels of their society (not just for slavery, as it is sometimes assumed).
It's pretty good. For example, initially the company was reluctant to transition to remote work for COVID-19 pandemic, but workers' concern was well represented.

My impression is that among South Korean digital companies, unionized companies transitioned to remote work earlier.
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I am also pro-MIT. For me, "freedom" doesn't mean "restricting what users can do."

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

Not sure why anyone would care but it seemed like a good time to explain my thoughts on that while agreeing with you.

This kind of thing has been needed for some time, so thank you for creating it.
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More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25627043
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Look up the story of Jimmy Hoffa sometime. Its really fascinating.
European colonial empires killed millions as well and faced no prosecution. Never forget what Hitler said; he said that concentration camps were not his idea instead he learnt about it from reading about British concentration camps during the Second Boer War in which thousands of Boers died.
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>Because everyone prefers union workers

Everyone? What union are you talking about?
Apple used to have easter eggs in its software, crediting individual engineers. Steve Jobs banned them, saying it would be unfair to give credit to individuals instead of the whole company, would make it easier for competitors to poach key engineers, etc.

At the time, Jobs was also running Pixar, which never seemed to have problems in its movies to credit everybody down to the hairstylist of the second unit's caterer by name. Hmm… could it be that… they were unionized and we were not?
That's what happens when you control supply. Your politics determines whether it's to maintain standards or the wages of its members.
> If your level of mathematical competence is low, plan on raising it, [...]

This makes me think for how many people basic math competence remains an obstacle for getting into science.

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This seems like a bizarre argument, surely it's an "and". Sidewalks are a necessary but not sufficient condition for walkability.
Just only watch the intro lecture and I can confidently confirm that this course would be fantastic. However, the professor mentioned that this course is only about processor. Anyone know similar courses/books about filesystem, network, RAM, ....?
> Leaving changes nothing

Leaving improves conditions for the worker and that’s the biggest thing for me, the worker.
TFA is terribly irresponsible advice due to how many calls are spoofed. I don't need someone tracking me down and raining hellfire down on me over a spoofed number that happened to be mine.
Funny how biases work. It is "Philly" when positive. "Immigrant" when negative.
If you read the article, you would see content about contract workers.
Alphabet Workers Union
In addition, I know union workers labor will cost more and be less efficient
Not necessarily in this area. Wikileaks has exposed a number of US war crimes that went completely unpunished, while a person who was working on behalf of Wikileaks is being prosecuted on grounds that are fairly constructed and far-fetched even by US standards. Morally speaking, even if some of Assange's actions were immoral they might be considered excusable because the perils were outweighed by the benefits of these actions. It's not uncommon to reason that way. The same kind of reasoning is used to justify the means by the ends, e.g. purporters of the US drone strike program argue that the many civilian bystanders that are killed by those strikes are justifiable by the end, which is the extrajudicial killing of the alleged terrorist targets.

It's called a balance of consideration argument, sometimes also "conductive argument".

Obviously, the legal question is different from this, IANAL and I don't even know if lawyers use conductive arguments in this way. The judge in this extradition case certainly didn't, but that's not surprising since her job wasn't to judge Assange's actions.
> You have vocally supportive multi-millionaire card-carrying members of the Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild, and the Directors Guild to name a few.

I'm not familiar with that industry (nor the US) but those sound more like professional bodies than unions? I am a Member of the IET; I wouldn't join a union.
> How do european (or perhaps just the UK's) legal system(s) work in that regard?

It's actually European law that's binding here, and extradition / deportation denials based on human rights concerns are nothing new - there have been bans on deportations even to EU members such as Greece (https://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/Y-300-Z-BECKR...) or Hungary (https://www.keienborg.de/2018/02/19/die-12-kammer-des-vg-due...).
I somewhat agree. Most tech workers are above the median salary in the US ($35k). I don't make nearly as much as a Google employee, but I would like a union for a couple reasons (they could mostly fix this through legislation and avoid the unions) like removing forced arbitration, or having an actual contract rather than a one pager that says they make the rules and can change them anytime without notice.

And speaking of income. It seems like 1% of that group's income is a high number for supporting the union.
Not sure who told you that. Most employees with either have options (which can become shares, but aren't) or Restricted Stock Units (RSU's) which are useless till vested.

Either way their holding will be miniscule, even in aggregate, compared to other shareholders. Even if it wasn't miniscule, they would still need to organise, maybe form some sort of coalition, or "union", in order to leverage their collective voting power against other large, unified, shareholders.
Why would I want to piss off the company I choose to work for?
Ah, then it's likely that by chance someone just never got around to talking to you about it. It's a big company! Hopefully you'll soon get to talk to an organizer about your specific doubts.
Of course. Which can be evidenced by the working conditions in the film industry for the typical staff and the lack of diversity at the top.
Uyghurs are about half of the population of Xinjiang, they aren't a minority there.

So we know that likely around a few thousand terrorists from Xinjiang [1] radicalised by Saudi Wahhabists [2] went to Syria to fight alongside ISIS. It's also very likely the US helped fund them (just like with the Mujahideen in Afganistan), the NED pretty much admitted as much [3]. We later found out more about the terrorist campaign within Xinjiang itself [4]. The justice system's response to this small number of people included, among other things, attempts at rehabilitation for them and an intensification of the anti-poverty efforts in the region.

Then, anti-Chinese groups (often using Adrian Zenz as a source) attempt to conflate the treatment of a few criminals with the experience of the vast majority of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. That is where the problem lies with using satellite pictures which could be of anything: just because some prisons exist in a region doesn't mean everything there is a prison.

1. https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/185086/299_Lin.pdf

2. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-02-10/The-irony-of-the-U-S-s...

3. https://www.ned.org/uyghur-human-rights-policy-act-builds-on...

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4cYE6E27_g
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Unions are about locking in a minimum standard of work on something that doesn't change, stifling innovation, covering for underperforming colleagues, rewarding people based on how long they've been around, making things cost more than they should be, and worse.

Why would I ever want to support such a system, in an industry that has brought innovative technology and material improvement in living standards and knowledge to billions of people?
I live in Berlin and I can explain the problem quite clearly. The issue purely is that there isn't sufficient capital here (still) to sustain the supply of art. Compared to a city like London or NYC where there is a really healthy market of art patrons.

There is a very clear divide between creatives (artist, musician, videographer, photographer, etc.) who are at the beginning of their career, and those that have achieved some success. The beginners are still trying to make their money in Berlin. The somewhat established creatives make their money outside Berlin, but use Berlin as their home base because of the cultural connections and creativity it generates.
A lot of silly ifs you are throwing out.

Maybe ask them yourself and get involved?
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> It seems clear to me that these are people who are unwilling to sacrifice some of the money they earn to follow their ideals and principles, so they are trying this instead.

This phrasing is disingenuous. If you don't like what's going on you can stay and fight rather than giving up and leaving. The people unionizing are of the "stay and fight" variety. Where does this false dichotomy come from that your only options are to stay and shut up or leave and be vocal?
Interactivity with viewers.

The best streaming experience for both streamer and viewers is when they can interact, and any latency over 500ms or so makes that a true challenge if you're trying to have a conversation where context is important.

Being an introvert that doesn't like it when people pay attention to them at all for any reason, I haven't really experienced this, but that's what everyone says.
> That link's about the Euro which is a separate (but

> related) debate from the wider EU point.

Good point, but almost every (or now every?) Country in the EU uses the Euro? I don't know how you could separate the effect of the currency and Union itself?
The datasets and observation techniques must have improved a lot in the meantime, so it as a win-win scenario.
Unlike corporations like Google, who would never fire (sorry, "quit voluntarily") someone for criticizing the stance of the company on social issues.
After watching "Union Time"[1], I'm not finding it that hard to believe. It was really shocking to see shit like that fly in a civilised society.

[1]: https://www.uniontimefilm.org
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I used to work on Jira and it frustrates me seeing people say we don't dogfood our products when internally we do everything on a staging instance. jira.atlassian.com is not something developers use, and is a public facing instance.
I used to add this functionality to all my projects, as it’s much better not to have a password. Now I don’t like it at all. It’s very inconvenient to have to switch to your email when you could just auto-fill with your password manager.
Google gives out Class C stock options to (most) employees, so even when they vest they can't vote. They're certainly not alone in that. So, no, probably not?

Even were they, the voting capability of such a share is ineffectually small; this is the "why you can just not spend money at MegaMart if you care so much" [because singular action doesn't work but we can make it sound just viable enough that you go away] argument tilted a little.
A crime is a crime, justice doesn't care.

A journalist should not be accessory to a crime when receiving infornations.

I made that example to make it clearer, but if you don't like it I can make another one: to get the documents she needed to open the door, so she Asked Assange if he had a crowbar.

The simple fact that he didn't say "no, I can't help you with that" is the problem.
Everyone in the US film industry for these unions: https://castifi.com/2020/03/24/list-of-film-industry-unions/

There's way more union members than there is work. So if the pay's the same for union or non-union (not much either way), why wouldn't you go with union labor?
> I'm not sure what more you are entitled to.

You're entitled to as much as you can negotiate. Isn't this a founding principle of capitalism?

If collective bargaining allows employees to negotiate more, then shouldn't they negotiate more?
Most union power comes from solidarity. If the Google people feel they don’t need unions, then all other lower unions are weaker. The power comes from the industry wide union. People at small startups can stand up for something because even the Google people stand up for it. Otherwise we’re divided and carry out the dog eat dog world.

Edit:

To all the skeptics, look, out of all the thousands of tech companies, how but one of you just try it. Can we just try it? Like, all of you join it, and just try it out, so we can actually have one real world example to discuss in this fantasy ‘to union or not to union’ debate.

I’d like to at least see one attempt, one example, that way we can all point to and say ‘oh shit, google sucks now’, or ‘oh wait, it’s still a multi billion dollar company and the world didn’t end, here are the pros and cons and the overall conclusion’.

We can’t even do that because the damn thing doesn’t even really exist for any of us. This actually working out means it spreads industry wide, the implications are bigger. So could we try it? Just try, nothing more. Please? Pretty please?
Unions have ideologies and goals above increasing pay and holidays. Holding management to account is common.
I saw that it was mostly that the contract workers don't get the same benefits. But how is this different than other places? In some cases, benefits need to restricted or you risk them becoming shadow employees (ie hands are tied by law).
Then moving to the next city series, Treme, and the same issues are there with New Orleans. Though the series puts much more focus on music and musicians, that somehow can be momentarily outside of this system just to get sucked in again.

The Deuce sees the system operating in New York from 70's to the late 80's. Similarities with The Wire and Treme are in that series too regarding institutions, but the focus is on porn and gentrification.
Unions create artificial scarcity. This is good for themselves but bad for everyone else. If I'm not a member of SAG then I cannot offer my services at competing rates because SAG has cut me out, regardless of my skill level. This creates a moat between the poor and working class. They contractually protect themselves from being undercut by the lower classes, perpetuating wealth inequality.
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It's almost as if they claim to be pro-union :D
Basically, you've got to reproduce the factors within China making them such strong trading partners outside of them in a way they cannot diminish unilaterally. This could be done with political will or reproduction of their capacity.

Personally, I wonder whether a UBI in a developed country could work to essentially lower their external 'trading costs'. Try to change their thought processes at the margin. i.e. Make the local goods and services out compete the foreign goods/services through moving local costs not observed in foreign goods/services to localized costs. i.e. Maybe a person making a UBI would be willing to do a job for (X+U) - where (X+U) is their reservation price, X is the foreign price, and U the UBI.

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>> Frankly I don't understand why the UK continues to maintain an extradition treaty with a country which clearly has a poor record on human rights and fails to maintain a justice system that meets the UN's Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners.

It's because the US is a powerful ally and the UK does not want to displease them. The British call this their "special relation" to the Americans. I don't know what the Americans call it.
Some ambassadors are career diplomats. The current ambassador to the UK is not one, and he's not going to stay in his job.

Let's just say that his ownership of the NY Jets is one of the less embarrassing points on his resume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Johnson
> No. Unions protect workers, not the business.

To protect the workers, they also have to protect the jobs, which means they have to also protect the company.

Finding the right balance there is tough and one of the greatest challenges.
That's why you should just make extradition contracts with country's that have a fair and ~humane justice system.
Part of the reason for this may be because Google in fact pushed the NLRB to disallow organizing activity on internal emails! https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/18/21028033/google-labor-bo...
In the UK, being a member of a trade union usually includes a contribution to the Labour party.

Trade union membership and ideological politics are intertwined. This is a good thing and by design.
TIL: In 2019, Microsoft released the exFAT [1] specs to a large group of vendors [2], including prominent Linux vendors. I.e. exFAT should now be preferred over FAT/NTFS for media used across different operating systems.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Invention_Network
The union seeks out what the membership wants. Teachers want seniority to be protected and rewarded, so that's what they fight for.
'It is then not the place of a judge to decide otherwise'

It is precisely role of the Judge to uphold the law and rights, they take precedence over any agreements
Funny thing is now I started liking season 5 after my last watch.
That requires that viewers use Discord, which may cause problems for some, even though Discord is huge anymore.

The posted solution requires only a web browser for the viewer, and OBS for the streamer.
That famous saying known to those of us in scientific computing: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
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This reads more as an ideologically motivated pressure group, than a traditional trade union. I have a feeling that unions are most successful when they focus on non-divisive universal issues affecting the broadest section of workers possible, rather than culture war talking points.
You can have two watchers watching each other's integrity.
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That sounds more like a cooperative. Outside those situations stock ownership means very little for rank and file employees.
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I think it depends on what the sits is for and how cookies are handled.

If your login mechanism sets a cookie after they verify the link then they can continue to be logged in for 3 months or however long you want. This is similar to what you would do with a password.

Also the site type and your audience makes a big difference. I wouldn't do it on a site where folks aren't technical.

But for example what about an ecommerce site where customers need to register an account + put in credit card details to place an order and then they get access to digital goods?

In the above case the lack of password is a benefit because it simplifies the payment form. Now they only need to put in an email address + card details.

And for getting access to what they purchased a slight delay isn't the end of the world. You could even give them access to it immediately in some type of unverified way (limited features until they verify). Also it's a slight deterrent for account sharing.
> ideological fervor

"Don't be evil".

(Of course, that ended up being the opposite of ideological fervor, being both ill-defined and tepid)

It's also quite remarkable that people regard being "cancelled" (complained about on the internet) as more serious than fired, which comes with actual costs.
For a recent example on why tech needs unions, look up N26 (German modern Bank) and their employees attempts at creating a Works Council. The way management handled it was nothing less than despicable, including filing 2 restraining orders against 2 of their organizers, and reporting them to the police because of health (covid) concerns (the police came, everything was safe and in order, then left). https://www.worker26.com/
Because now you have numbers :p

Check out how the collective bargaining agreement works with the NBA Player’s union and NBA. They get pretty fair terms, led by Chris Paul/LeBron James (who have it the best but they lead the union).

https://cosmic-s3.imgix.net/3c7a0a50-8e11-11e9-875d-3d44e94a...

^^ I can promise you the list of things negotiated in that could never be done well enough by the company itself. Oh, and that’s a union for multi millionaires.
> I would not even be surprised if white males don't get to vote in that union or are excluded from influential positions.

Good point. Traditionally white men are massively underrepresented and we should be making more of an effort to make sure they're represented at every level of tech. /s
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IEX had a lot of free stuff but I think costs got to them and they charge a little now, you might also be able to use Alpaca
The entire post talks about effects on the company. If we’re trying to be unreasonably obtuse, it doesn’t change conditions for a worker either because a person not working is not a worker.