skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This shows how deeply ingrained right-wing ideology has become in America.

Outside America it is obvious that billionaires, oligarchs and CEOs wield power in their own self-interest, and that workers benefit from collective action in their own self-interest.

But inside America the billionaires, oligarchs and CEOs are mythologized as benevolent actors, and workers should be thankful for the gifts graciously bestowed upon them.

No compensation is too high for billionaires, but if some workers make a good salary, that's seen as extravagant, and the workers should be extra grateful and stop asking for better working conditions, too.

It's bizarre how Americans celebrate ruthlessly competitive markets when workers compete against each other for food, shelter and medical care. But it's a cultural taboo to use those same competitive market forces for the benefit of workers.
You'd think at their size of their team they'd understand that they would need to scale back up in anticipation of the post holiday return to work.

Slack has the most outages of any major company.
Yeah. In theory it’s a neat idea—in practice I hate it.

There’s one service that I literally can’t log in to because the link has always expired by the time I receive it.
The Iraq invasion was well planned? What the hell kind of revisionist are you?

Check out the Rumsfeld "war by PowerPoint" if you want to see how that sausage eas made.
It is immoral but do you think that is something Assange cares about?
We have history books. Scab.
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Moderna raises 2021 vaccine output forecast to at least 600M doses
I feel a little good every time Slack has an issue - it has brought social media communications to my otherwise social media free (excluding hn) life.
I am sure both sides of the spectrum (Marxists and the likes of Rockefeller) are laughing.

How come you can claim you are a communist while at the same time trying to accumulate as much wealth as much as possible? (Yes, I know the whole Chinese communist party is like that, but still)
I was seeing issues about 10 minutes before their system status page was updated. I'm surprised they don't have automatic monitoring of some kind.
There's a southpark episode about this specific scenario. The USA does a ton of awful shit, but as long as there is an outraged group, it's fine in the eyes of the world. They keep doing it though.
> There is one caveat: looks like "agreeing on how to do video" is not a Matrix standard; it's in the UI configuration or "widgets", which means only matrix/element combo is "properly" supported (with caveats).

Sounds like XMPP all over again.
Not all - many workflows these days rely on Slack or its ilk. Benderbot, Jira/etc. connectors, calendar connectors, remote communication/standups, alerting…
I was a sound editor on “The Wire” – every episode (2013)
EFnet was always splitting every few hours. I don't really miss IRC compared to modern chat systems.
You're getting downvoted, but it's true. Obama ushered in the age of the political personality cult. Pretty much every election from here on out is going to hinge on how well you can sell the politician's personality, and brushing aside his platform, all his shady connections and people he's aligned with. This is very much a byproduct of all the private money in election campaigning.
that may well happen as the East becomes more Euro-fied
I suspect many of those values are not shared by a large proportion of the US population and likely by a non trivial percentage of Google workers. They are liberal values and not universal values. You, and me, seem to share those values which is fine but please don't claim they are universally shared. As such they are the personal values of the organizers which they are trying to make company values applicable to all workers.
At that point it’s so outside of what everyone uses MVP for, it’s likely best to just call it something else. Almost everyone who uses MVP uses it in context of lean, and it’s useful to do so.

Building a really refined product that outclasses on features or experience just isn’t the common usage of MVP. It requires dramatically different framing, strategy. Sloppy code and quick iteration don’t make sense.

In reality “viable” does all the work, it’s definition literally means whatever works best, so it’s almost just a poor term to use in the first place as it basically can stretch to mean anything.
ECHR is not an EU institution but a Council of Europe institution (not to be confused with the European Council, of course)

The ECHR still has jurisdiction over the UK, at least until the UK cancels the relevant treaties which it now can do outside the EU
cool name i've never seen before... currently struggling to come with a new baby girl name. might bring this one up. :)
That's both reductive and false. The employees benefit when the company does well. A union just fights to have the employees share more in that success.
The crazy thing is that Trump hasn't even come close to previous administrations in number of pardons or clemency, nor even the types of offenders who were granted leniency.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/24/so-far-trum...

However, I would like to see Assange pardoned. I'm sure he has some interesting information he hasn't yet released.
We're actually doing a Rust application that downloads the image snopes is displaying for that particular conspiracy theory in order to feed them into a tensor flow model and predict the validity of future conspiracies.
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You can have a thousand investors all chip in to build a factory, but without workers in that factory you have nothing. I'm not sure what this comment is trying to accomplish other than pointing out that the value of initial investment ultimately hinges on the ability to hire and retain workers, and ultimately the value of the labor produced by those workers. The workers have the power.
With a single bit flip on 8% of the dimms you only need 12.5 dimms in your workstation to have one bit flip every year. Not everyone has that much dimms, but at least 4 is pretty normal. So in average every 3 years for every workstation.

But i don‘t know how relevant these metrics from 2009 are. Did memory got better or worse compared to 2009 for bit flips?
Presumably in their case a union offers a better way to voice their concerns over eg. objectionable business practices, or just affecting the role out of more routine policies - eg. around time tracking, remote working, childcare, etc.
Exactly. And as far as I understand the closest thing to US "to unionize" is a to set up a "worker's council", which is actually mandatory for companies above a certain size.

From a European view it is strange that this is a big deal.
Element looks and feels more like a replacement for Discord or Slack than WhatsApp or Messenger. My intention is to build an alternative to the latter two in terms of UI/UX. Something your grandma could use, like Signal, but decentralized and with features like quote replies and message editing.

The goal would be to build a beautiful, private, secure, delightful instant messaging app that happens to run on Matrix, rather than building a Matrix client period. It’d still allow power users to do stuff like federation, but would by default abstract techie/Matrix concepts like homeservers, rooms, and encryption keys.
I guess it will be first FOSDEM where everyone can fit on the rooms without missing the last 10 minutes of the previous talk.
Why I'm Lukewarm on Graph Neural Networks
It's the first page I try when I think I'm having connection issues at least, to verify it's some service that's broken rather than my local network
There are more boomers in power than other demographics
I'm Australian. I call my mates "cunt" and cunts "mate". I know what you mean ;)
Latin isn’t some neutral communication protocol the entire would or could easily adopt. Why not Classical Chinese? More people spoke that and it also underpins numerous modern languages.
She's dead Jim
Is Slack Going through a DDoS attack?
Got connected like 5 times, then the messages wouldn't go and returned a 502 error which often happens when server is getting too many requests (DDoS incident?). After refreshing it showed the error screen.

Or, is it a tech glitch?
A bit late in the day, or early for next Christmas
Because they are workers. If they want to “capture” some of that profit, to start their own company, or work at a different company. Unions today are more about punishing the owners for making too much profit than it is about keeping anyone safe or fair. Just because you work at a company does not give you “ownership.”
This is like buying a house that is built close to an airport and then suing to have it shut down because you don’t like the noise of planes taking off.
Google did not have a union when you asked them to hire you - which you happily accepted. Now your plan is to collectively mutiny against your employer to extort additional control or compensation.
I’ve always believed that you treat your employer with the respect they garner by supporting you and your family. If you are not satisfied with you income or relationship with your employer go seek other avenues. Just my 2 cents.
Is this a sincere question?

It’s a mistrial to have a juror voting based on ideology rather than the facts of the trial.

A juror who wouldn’t convict under any conditions is a bad juror and subverts defendant protections like requiring high juror consensus by making such measure impractical.
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> Assange did (leak state secrets)

Assange is a journalist and an Australian. He has no ties or obligations to the US. His organization also rededicated almost all published documents to prevent doxing. He is no different than the New York Post.

Snowden was an NSA contractor. Personally I still think he's a disinformation campaign similar to Operation Mockingbird or COINTELPRO and likely still works for either the CIA or State Dept (look up "Limited Hangouts")

Manning swore and oath as a soldier and broke it; releasing information that was not filtered or screened.

Three entirely different cases.
I hear a lot of misconceptions, seemingly based in stereotypes about what unions are for and who they serve

Unfortunately, through my own experience being in one & observing other unions, they often end up serving the organization of the union itself. They may still work for the workers, but also end up making decisions that are better for the union than for the workers.

Right now, my kids are learning remotely. However, the school district has encouraged teachers themselves to still report to their classroom to teach from there because seeing that environment lends at least a little bit more normalcy to the experience. You might agree or disagree, but the teachers have the choice. However, teachers are being told & subtly bullied by the union into not doing this for some vague justification that it weakens the union. At least one member I know of has said they're teaching like this, but they hope the union doesn't find out because they would "get in trouble".

I think unions can be a good & important tool in equalizing the power imbalance between an individual worker and their larger employers. Unfortunately, those who seek & rise to position of authority within the union structure are often those who end up seeing the union are a "good" unto itself rather than serving the members & their wishes.
They updated the system status page. Its not escalated to "error" yet but they are investigating
Status pages are probably manually updated. You don't want a false positive/bug in your monitoring to affect your public metrics.
What is the practical difference between exFAT and FAT32 when you can format FAT32 up to many GB?

Is it just that they are different formats, and exFAT has taken over, in terms of pre-formatted USB media?
Yep.

If you are not curating your own training data, your AI project will not succeed. A feature store is necessary, but any particular algorithm is optional.

I would say though to give up on "MLOps" and just have "OpsOps"; that is, build the system that breaks a task into decisions and make it possible for people to do it 100% manually, get the AI system to make decisions when it can.
Whose bug is this anyway?
If I recall correctly you loose 10% of your axones every ten years, same for testosterone btw
Yes everybody should eat testosterone pills to offset the natural loss but people do not have sufficient mental health to do it
it is true that that profit/loss point exists, but it may be impossible to measure. But it's very clear that 75+ years of Coca Cola marketing strategy has produced the situation where any human on earth immediately associates "Coca Cola" with soft drink.

If Coca Cola cut advertising 90% this afternoon, they likely wouldn't see the consequences until a new generation or two grew up.
Because it's up 300%?
> But migrating everything is _so painful_

This is a key point is the popularity amongst VCs in investing in B2B SaaS. I take their (and your) word for it. But honestly, I don't actually understand this.

Why is migration so hard?
> It just didn't have enough movement data where you tried it

That maybe the reason, main roads have it, side-roads not so much. GMaps now have offline destination finder, I guess it doesn't even consider the movement data. The dependence on internet service for better route calculation is a bummer for travelling here.
No. A parked turbine has its blades furled and is locked in place. A freely spinning but disengaged turbine is super dangerous because there is nothing to stop it from overspeeding and that can happen quite quickly with the right gust of wind. So you always want to have drag on a spinning turbine.
Is that why in Ford's recent deal struck with UAW, one of the sticking points for UAW was that there be a "Guaranteed path to permanent full-time employment for temporary employees"?

That would seem to be entirely contrary to the idea that union's goal is to make it harder for people to join these companies.
> “They called the site’s lawyer and said if he continued to protect me they would kill him, along with me, and bury us five metres below the ground,” said Shady, 73. “Then they killed our dog as a warning. They poisoned her, as if to say, look at what will happen to you,” she said.

> In July, squatters using a heavy digger knocked down adobe walls and tore up the ground destroying ancient ceramics, tombs containing mummies, textiles and household remains, before police and the site’s staff were able to stop them.

> The squatters are believed to belong to a single extended family, and claim the land was given to them in the 1970s during Peru’s controversial agrarian land reform which was pushed through by a leftist military dictatorship.

What a mess...
I live in an appartment (still counts as a home) and consumed 6.6 kWh/day on average. The very large turbines don't do 1 rotation per second (wiki [0] says 5-20 rpm). So, totally doable with a 14MW wind turbine

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_design
America Is Pumping Out Too Many PhDs
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No one is suggesting that women just played with their kids all day. The idea that women in the past never raised children is just absurd. Sure mothers were workers - my grandmother was. But she did all of her work with her daughters - teaching them to cook, sew, etc.

Spending time with children isn't playing video games with your son. It's hunting, playing sports, teaching, cooking, fighting, fixing things, fishing, etc. Raising a child isn't all about having fun all day with toys.

> Time surveys indicate that even working parents now spend at least twice as much time with their children now as in 1965 [1].

Which is obviously expected. For middle class people in the baby boomer era with large economic benefits, they spent more time with kids. The survey excluded those that wouldn't be able to (e.g. poor people in poor countries.) Selection bias doesn't really tell us anything at all.
https://status.slack.com/
They hope to increase offshore wind power threefold to 40GW by 2030 creating 27,000 new jobs.... that's 1MW of energy output per job!
The problem comes when their misconceptions have consequences to those around them. If somebody consistently swaps "left" and "right", that is fairly harmless until they start driving on the wrong side of the road. If somebody believes that there is a child sex ring operating out of a pizza parlor, that belief is fairly harmless until they take a gun to that pizza parlor.
New proposed rule: All patents must be accompanied by a working prototype that encompasses all claims. Anything not implemented in the prototype is not in the patent.
That's one obscure reference, I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPkSU8DNfY

GILORA: Starfleet code requires a second backup?
O'BRIEN: In case the first backup fails.
GILORA: What are the chances that both a primary system and its backup would fail at the same time?
O'BRIEN: It's very unlikely, but in a crunch I wouldn't like to be caught without a second backup.
I do this for teaching. But I don't use a public url shortener because I trust none of them. I have a shortener built into my teaching site.
That smiley after "currently" makes me really uneasy...
I think you're correct, but I doubt it will be as far left as you say. Any union at Google will be dominated by "workers" with economic interests and social and educational backgrounds virtually identical to management. They're the same educated meritocratic progressive technical/managerial class who dominate the Democratic Party. They don't believe anything different from what most of the country believes; they just take pride in being further ahead because they're smarter and work harder.
>Unions are intended for industries where a worker doesn't have a marketplace of options... engineers can "collectively bargain" with Google by simply leaving and working somewhere "better".

I don’t know that you’ve put forth a convincing argument here. There is no defining union industry in principle, only in past embodiment. The intent of a union is to balance the leverage of workers compared to management via collective bargaining. So a union is valid anywhere there is a real or perceived imbalance of leverage.

Claiming one can go get a job anywhere else only balances the leverage when certain assumptions are met (e.g., symmetry of information, no conspiracies to suppress wages or prevent hiring etc.) Considering the tech industry hasn’t always met these assumptions, I don’t know that your claim proves true
> I suspect many of those values are not shared by a large proportion of the US population

That's not really relevant, the union will focus on Google and it's workplace, not the US as a whole. Maybe in the future they'll have impact in US politics, but that's not how unions start out.

> likely by a non trivial percentage of Google workers

I guess that's why they announced this, to see how many agree with it. We already know by fact that Google try to prevent internal discussions about unions, hence the people wanting to unionize, have to communicate in other ways (press releases to reach more people).

> As such they are the personal values of the organizers

They might also be the personal value of the organizers, but the explicit goal of setting up a organization (or more specifically a union) is to setup an organization that reflects those views. Once the organization is setup, it's the organizations values, not their personal values.
I mean we did have a pretty brutal occupation of many other countries and were directly responsible for the deaths of millions of people in the process. We even had our own fair share of racist leaders - take a look at what Churchill had to say about Indian people for example. The timescales were different - Britain committed its crimes over the course of centuries rather than a decade or so - but it's not accurate to say "nothing in their history is even remotely comparable" to Nazi Germany.

The main visible difference nowadays is that Germans of today are hyper-aware of the atrocities committed in the past by their ancestors. Britons are often either ignorant of theirs or are proud of them.
I got a bit of humility, and challenge, and met a lot of people who showed me what passion and drive can really do. Most importantly, I got friends who really pushed me to make the best use of my abilities instead of blind praise.

You don't get to MIT without a combination of ability and internal drive, but for most of us, the external drive was also very beneficial. The comradery also really helped me push myself harder.

I'm in the middle of the Standford introductory compilers MOOC right now, but with a self-paced online course, the atmosphere is just very different from being surrounded by really bright and passionate people trying their best. Not everyone needs or benefits from that sort of environment, but I found it very helpful.

IHTFP
Yup (UK)
Fair enough. Though I'm not sure how I'd feel about the whole world knowing about my service's outage before I do.
Why do you think they are called "boomers"? There was a population boom.
Uh, people playing games with the court by pretending they don’t understand a basic question scares me.

I hope you’re never on a jury: you don’t seem like you take it seriously and you should when it impacts other people’s lives.

“Would” is a form of “will”, and haggling tense to “avoid” perjury is deeply dishonest — and probably still perjury.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/would
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We're looking for thoughtful people who don't give up easily and who strive to be kind in their words and actions. As product designers, we are always looking for ways to simplify complex things and we take security very seriously. As a financial institution, we believe that our customers' trust is our single most valuable asset and we will go above and beyond to earn and keep it. We are heavily transparent and share everything from executive committee meeting minutes to financials openly within the company.

We have cultivated our culture deliberately and are very protective of it. We won't hire someone if they're not a good fit for our culture, even if they tick all the other boxes.

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It's snarky - snarky comments are against the guidelines here.
Matt Hancock worried about South African coronavirus 'which could beat vaccines'
I too am in this same boat.
they haven't mentioned if an API (or, endpoint) is being DDoSed, just an incident update?
I'm sitting here not sure if I should deploy code since most communication with the rest of my team has been cut off.
I have stopped using Down Detector as an accurate measure because a lot of "outages" are just people having issues with a service unrelated to the service they are reporting as down. Ex: AT&T outage in Nashville caused people to report Xbox Live as down, when it wasn't actually down, etc.
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Or a black guy should have debated with him instead, because apparently skin colour has something to do with language.