skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you not realize that judging based on skin color was the same reason the idea of 'representation' exists? A vote should hold equal weight regardless of who you are or what you look like.
You're entitled to nothing. Given that it's 2021 and the entire workplace is in play, it's foolish to assume that the status quo is the status quo.

The smart move is to have a contract that addresses various aspects of work.
Diving into Hotwire
Good for them. I find it strange that we have this org setup at all. A union illustrates the clear divide between capital owners and workers. It sounds so 19th century, but it's just as valid today, unfortunately.
I think a lot of the back and forth in this thread is dancing around the edges of a couple questions. Who really owns a company? I know legally who owns it. But a company is nothing without the people that work in it and who generate the ideas who keep it going. Shouldn't the majority of people in that company benefit and have a say how its run? Why should a handful of people who don't run the day to day operation or generate the majority of ideas, big and small get to own everyone else's ideas and benefit from them in perpetuity?
It's the same sort of person that gets offended by being compared to a children's cartoon and therefore has it and any mention of it banned from the entire country. So because this "Emperor" has seemingly lost "face" therefore the whole country must suffer.
Isn't the moral right of every (software) author that his name is mentioned next to the authored intellectual property (software)? This is even written in copyright laws of some countries...
FWIW Edward Snowden is slightly guilty of fishing in a way.

He didn't just collect relevant documents, he collected a massive cache of documents and instead of vetting them himself (someone who is at least vaguely cleared to read the documents) he turned all of it over to the press to review instead.
> (formerly "Google Apps For Your Domain")

And now formerly G Suite, as it's become Google Workspace. Gotta keep that "products rebranded per decade" quota up, it seems!
This is complicated, because public schools (and police departments, mentioned by another replier) are not for-profit entities. I don't think we can treat public employee unions and private employee unions the same.

Public schools, police departments, etc., are usually "political" entities, run by elected officials such as school boards and city councils. I would say there's no guarantee whatsoever in these cases that the leadership of those entities are even interested in compensating/promoting the "top performers" among teachers, or police. There's no direct financial incentive. The "outcomes" of a school — student education — don't provide much of a feedback mechanism to the financial performance or governance of the school. Likewise with police departments, etc. If anything, poor performance by these public entities may lead to calls for increased funding, standing the incentives on their heads.

Part of the reason for public employee unions is to protect the members specifically from political interference. The alternative is not necessarily "merit" based compensation but rather political favoritism and retribution.
Museum of UI
Why does it have to be different? If under representation/abuse is prevalent in an industry nothing should be done about it?
Corrosion on the submerged parts is quite simple to mitigate with sacrificial as also used on ships. The hard part is the splash zone which is only intermittently submerged.
If a company defers a merit increase of their own employees for “other company investments” then I as a worker would absolutely want a union to call them out on it. A company wouldn’t even have money for those investments without the merit of the employees.
The traitorous eight leaving Shockley because they didn't like their boss is foundational to the valley.
> For example, could a union stop the payout of that high-level exec that was eventually shown the door for harrasment with a good bonus?

Yes. As unions represent workers and carry barganing power, they ask (or demand) companies to change their policies around all sort of topics.

For example, tech workers can push for ethical considerations around AI/ML, or to stay out of military contracts especially around weapons, cut the bonuses to questionable execs...
Keeping something secret amongst 230 people is not an easy task. At some point the campaign has to become public, and it's better to do that in a planned, coordinated manner, than have it get leaked to the press.
Elon Musk’s Awful,Batshit-Crazy,Completely Bonkers, Most Excellent Year
As long as someone is tracking crash times/locations, the data is definitely there. Working tech support for major ISPs, there were some “surprising” large-queue days that correlated with solar flares.
Standford: Slicing Pie – Fair Equity Split in Early or Bootstrapped Startups
Also from the Telepgraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/04/julian-assange-c...
It would seem more logical for the person to be extradited from C to A, and then A to B.
Careful there buddy!

Take a look at the actual time when wind power contributed little or nothing. It's mostly night hours between 23:00 and 5:00.

Contrary to conventional power sources, wind power can be regulated basically "on-the-spot" by turning turbines on and off.

Living next to a small on-shore wind farm, I can tell you from first hand observation that most of the time turbines are turned off deliberately, because production simply exceeds demand.

A chart like the one you've linked to doesn't tell the whole story and can be very misleading indeed. You'd need to plot the actual load on the grid versus production to get a better picture.
Looking Onwards
Denmark has a permanent opt-out and Sweden, Poland etc haven't adopted yet and no timetable.

I'm not an economist but I think at the highest level the impact of the Euro (devaluing their currency helps big exporters like Germany) are reasonably well understood and predicted.

The impact of being in the EU (ex Euro) is a bit more difficult to quantify (see UK referendum) apart from the net payments (Germany pays in, UK paid in, Poland, Czech Rep etc receives). I don't think these payments are linked in any way to the Euro.
> I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled.

I certainly do! I am sure that I am very unusual, but to this day I very much prefer not to grant execute permissions to ever page I read. JavaScript is a huge security/privacy/performance hole, and is simply not needed for displaying lines of text and images, nor for accepting forms data.

It has some pros, too, but on the whole I really miss the mid-2000s Web and am not fond of all the web applications out there.
I think the article is pretty accurate, the title looks pretty spot on

> Google workers announce plans to unionize

I agree that the number involved is quite small at the moment, but given how hostile Google has been to any unisation effort, the fact the 230 people have organised anyway, and now put their jobs on the line, is quite a big thing.

I suspect that there are many at Google that would happily join a union, just look at how high the attendance of Google's walk outs have been. This announcement clearly indicates that union organisers believe they have enough support to come out of the woodwork, and start some serious campaigning.
We had a wonderful all-free-software NixCon 2020 a few months ago (with live talks via Jitsi for talker but not audience for better networking topology). All the code is in https://github.com/nixcon/nixcon-video-infra.

It's probably too close to FOSDOM for the Element crew to hop on the Nix bandwagon for this project, alas, but I look forward to seeing the FOSDEM effort and and ours cross-pollinate in the future!
And with the lack of this union's formal status, Google probably could get away with behaviors which interfere with the use of Gmail, Fi, Voice, and Meet services used to organize this union without significant penalty.
What exactly are you disputing about Hunter's laptop?

Or just mentioning that he helped bring this activity to light?
I love all these Roam Research style tools--always felt this was a really cool idea.

If anyone is interested in open source options, I'd recommend:

Foam - A Roam-inspired tool for markdown note taking--ahem, personal knowledge management (same features as Organizedly)--that runs on VSCode/Codium. I personally use and love it. Syncs across all my devices with Git, and deploys easily on free-tier Vercel, which is a nice way to check my agenda or read a note on my phone. https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

org-roam, for those emacs/org-mode people. I always wish I had the fortitude to become productive in emacs, but it seems it never will happen. https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
The current winner seems to be HTML at 23 bytes, though I would argue it doesn't meet the requirements of the question, which call for a "full program".
Ask HN: What can you do with free running water?
This may be a down-vote poop post, but, here's trying.

I live in a building in a city where water is free. On its own merit, this is of course fantastic.

Is there anything interesting to do with free water? Small hydro-power generator to mine crypto?

Looking for fun ideas.
The long thinking aspect of the Chinese government is Chinese propaganda.

You see them announcing long term goals and going on giant infrastructure projects, which go on to be under used, poorly built e&.

China has serious structural issues that the CCP is trying to hide. Massive food, drug and alcohol fraud hurting people (fake alcohol is a HUGE issue). Riots, mass stabbings/attacks, economic slowdown/hardship. All of which the CCP covers up because foreign media can't easily penetrate, and the CCP control the domestic media/narrative.

China is a house of lies, they're essentially trying to fake it until they make it.
> The interpretation of US law by a GB judge seems extraneous.

For the extradition treaty to apply, it must be alleged that the defendant has committed actions which amount to a criminal offence in both countries. If his alleged actions are not a criminal offence in both countries, then the extradition treaty does not apply.

Therefore, you can challenge extradition on dual criminality by arguing that the act is not a crime in one or both countries.
A few minutes ago I posted the Ars Technica piece about this, but that was before I'd noticed this one referencing the study directly. I duly deleted the Ars piece, but if anyone wants to read it it is at:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/study-folklore-struc...

Edited to add: I remembered a piece posted six months ago, referencing UCLA, along the same/similar lines and have just found it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681232
Arguably, unions are the best judge of someone's competency, because its supposed to be a group of peers. It's already how it works in tech, software engineers evaluate the skill of prospective software engineers, not management.

But yes, there are gatekeeping effects, as the union is incentivized to prevent increases in membership or decrease in collective skill. It typically works out great for those in the union (and things like the Bar or Medical Association), not so great for those kept out.
I look forward to a future where bright young engineers spend their twenties bussing tables while trying to get into the software guild.
May not be a popular opinion, but Jack Ma owes his entire success to the CCP for creating the single most effective moat.
The US wants to extradite Assange.
AWS Fargate for Running Serverless Applications on Kubernetes
Unions are just a way to have some kind of collective voice; what the union does and how it achieves it's goals are up to the members. There are many, many models you can follow, from union-shops to more insurance/mutual aid society models.
I don’t see anything in the post that convinces me this isn’t replica as well (albeit one ostensibly owned by Hasselhoff).
Here in Germany unions (in tech) will for example make sure that older employees can't be fired, so the younger employees will be fired instead. So I don't think you can simply claim they are beneficial for everybody.
This is so confusing, "workers rights" is political by definition.

Aligning to a party can be argued, I'd say it's best to break things up into policies more than "teams" but still.
>> The only valid reasons to choose non-relational databases are scalability and performance.

Agree 200%. And people seem to get a wrong idea of where this argument starts making sense. With the right indexes, I can easily handle 200req/s on my last SaaS running on a $50/m PostgeSQL.

It's also significantly easier to move from a standardized relational model to a document DB than the opposite.
You want to judge people by the content of their character instead of their skin color? That's racist.

/s
Time for some truth you probably dont want to hear
Yeah, they should have taken her punch right to the face with a smile, without flinching, then apologized to her. Instead they said 'yes, right now' when she said 'here are my terms, you got to accept them or I leave'. Who would do that?
> "Brilliant news, but be in no doubt. This ruling is utterly chilling for investigative journalism. Baraitser sided with US prosecutors on pretty much all of their arguments. It was the barbaric nature of the US penal system that saved Assange."

A barbarical nature of US penal system it is, but they did not even note a prima fascie political nature of the prosecution when the defence was slashing it left, and right.

They omitted it very deliberately.
>We show how the Pizzagate framework relies on the conspiracy theorists’ interpretation of “hidden knowledge” to link otherwise unlinked domains of human interaction, and hypothesize that this multi-domain focus is an important feature of conspiracy theories. We contrast this to the single domain focus of an actual conspiracy. While Pizzagate relies on the alignment of multiple domains, Bridgegate remains firmly rooted in the single domain of New Jersey politics

This study is interesting work to be sure, but the cause behind their hypothesis might be rooted in how journalism works, rather than whether it's truthful/factual or not.

Papers have a NJ politics "beat", with an editor and reporters who are experts in that single domain and are expected to produce work rooted in that specific domain.

Or worse, the "single domain" in some instances might be appearing because it was a story fed to the paper by a three-letter agency.

Citizen journalists (or whatever less charitable term you want to use) don't really have that. They can focus on whatever they want, and it's much easier to build a narrative that spans multiple domains.
Hlang in 30 Seconds
Thats a valid point!

I'm actually still validating the MVP version and I have a lot of ideas on how to improve. I'm think about adding a feature to connect your github repo with SidePage and adding a "changelog" feature where you docs on SidePage also show your latest changelog entries. Still need to work this out. Also would be cool if you could just import your poject and generate some pages from the project's readme, but again I haven't worked out the details yet. I will investigate this further to see what options are available to improve the workflow of updating docs.
What I meant is that it does change conditions for the worker as they leave for better conditions. I think working in tech, it’s been a luxury to line up a new job and go to that job with zero down time. I’m not suggesting people do brash stuff like walk out without new employment lined up.

This is a huge change, the biggest I think, as I can change all of my conditions by finding a company that gives me what I want.

I think to a lesser extent since I’ve frequently seen that smart people leaving for specific reasons changes company policy.

I was just trying to show a simple contra to parent’s comment saying that leaving changes nothing as that seems simply false to me.
Playing Mozart can help you focus on something other than music. Skyrim isn't a good background enhancer for a different foreground task, at least for most people, presumably.
Here's a movie about some of the issues with Hollywood unions

https://youtu.be/j5a_00YVVkQ?t=1018

https://youtu.be/j5a_00YVVkQ?t=935
Exactly.

Except, that isn't what happens right now. Most people aren't intending to make decisions based on skin colour, yet it happens.
> 17 chars

> //^H^HHello, World!

> After the forward-slashes for the comment, there are two backspace characters which erase them from the output.

Coolest solution in my opinion.
Sure, but will these salad days continue forever? I feel like most of HN is too young to remember the dot-com crash.

Seems far better to unionise and try to institutionalise and lock-in better pay and working conditions then to count on always having a hypercompetitive labor market and obscenely profitable employers.
Remember that correlation does not imply causation - even if it's true that innovative companies tend to not have unions, it might be (for example) because younger, smaller industries tend to be innovating faster and also haven't developed to the point of unionization yet.
Not MailGun, but we have 3 dedicated IPs with SendGrid and one problem is that there are spamlists and ISPs that block or mark down IP blocks owned by SendGrid so you get no real advantage from the dedicated IP. I wish you could "bring your own IP" to these services.
Oh boy, had forgotten about this little gem. Thanks for sharing, or I would have likely never gotten to see Dr. Gene Ray's infamous lecture at Georgia Tech. [1]

Quite sad to find out he suffered from schizophrenia. It will certainly make you view the video in a wholly different light.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMZdNyRIATo&ab_channel=badic...
No, not yet. But I will investigate to see if I could add an export feature.
> How unprofessional is it to have so many typos and punctuation mistakes in one short blurb?

The blurry picture of Hasselhoff about to step out of the car and not ready for a pic is the cherry on top...
EasyCwmp – open-source TR-069 CPE WAN Management
Wasting drinkable water to run a generation plant seems particularly immoral. Why not buy a fish tank and see what you can keep alive?
Python Pickle Is Notoriously Insecure
The jokes fall flat because it's no longer taboo, it feels derivative even if it was original, and the context is gone.

This is why Bob Hope is lame to us. He may have popularized the "tight 5" standup format but everyone copied him and many do it better.

This is also why Amos & Andy is just a fairly uninteresting half hour of blackface racism or why Mr Yunioshi in breakfast at tiffany's just looks stupid now. Sure these are racist but when you look past that, they're also not funny any more.

They're pointing at some, bringing focus to it, but it has no more symbolic resonance.

It's also why if someone made say mrs doubtfire today it'd look like an outdated flop.

There's a societal context that gave these things a dynamic which no longer exists.

It's actually the same reason Monica lewinsky and draft card jokes wouldn't work today. There's no longer a supportive scaffolding to give it the context.

Race and sex based comedy can still be done, it just needs to live in the 2021 context.

It's still racist and sexist, which are both morally objectionable, but unlike this site, it could probably still also be funny.

For instance, you could do a black Mr. Magoo who gets treated with constant dangerous racial prejudice but in the magoo character, always assumes good intentions and miraculously survives everything. Runs into klansman, thinks it's a costume party, etc..

You might also be able to pull off the 3s company dynamic (in the original, straight guy needed to convince everyone he was gay so the premise was "straight man in the closet") but using a different spectrum that's more relevant to today's conflicts.
Right, that's why the GP said that only those who were understood to already support the idea would have been approached about it.

You're an unknown, and they didn't risk telling you and have it leak early.

At least, that's the idea. Who knows how true any of this is yet.
>Organized workers at the company forced executives to drop Project Maven, the company’s artificial-intelligence program with the Pentagon, and Project Dragonfly, its plan to launch a censored search engine in China.

It's expected but annoying that they'd advertise this. We've already seen that googlers' voiced ethics aren't humanitarian, just against the things bad enough to make them personally uncomfortable. And a union is explicitly for the benefit of it's members, not humanity writ large.

They're going to continue happily building the world's largest private surveillance system. The most honest googlers I know are the ones that will admit they're just there for the money and have real issues with google's dealings. I doubt we'll get that level of candor from their union. The union will be for everything that makes money but doesn't get google bad publicity (just like google itself).
Can confirm that ‘initial-scale=1.0’ is still meaningfully important. Mostly for mobile devices (including Safari on still in-use versions of iOS)
> Everyone in big tech has job mobility,

Except for immigrants pending green card/citizenship...
I’m not sure what you mean. I’ve worked in management and staff roles and in both there’s tons of externalities that I don’t control, but maybe can influence.
These were government documents leaked to a service designed to protect whistleblowers.
Why is it bad for unions to support political parties, but fine for shareholders?
I could provide a list of European tech innovations over the last decade, but I sense you're not looking to engage in good faith.
It seems like this is just an instance of a more general pattern observable in newspaper and TV coverage of a lot of things: given a lack of other sources of information (because of language barriers and lack of free press in this case) and widespread lack of skepticism when it comes to some things (here related to longstanding political issues, propaganda, etc.), journalists will embrace any available source of information without due care. They need the business, and verifying would require actual effort, possibly even investigation. At least I suppose that's how it goes.

That's why I trust very little of what is written about, e.g., North Korea: it doesn't mean that everything that sucks and supposedly happened there is true just because the system there indeed sucks. I think everybody is maybe predisposed to believe whatever they read about a topic they don't know about themselves as long as it fits in their worldview, so journalists get a free pass doing less checking than Wikipedia editors as long as the "news" is believable.
This is an oversimplification but accurate - I don't think it's credible to stay in the EU while not having the ECHR implemented in statute.
Thanks! Sorry, not yet. I'm going to add a delete account feature soon. If you want your account delete right now please email me on jake@raterfox.com.
Right ruling for the wrong person. I hope Assange can be brought to justices before he flees to Russia.
whats the expected lifetime on one of those?
does it grow or diminish with size,i.e. do bigger ones last longer?

it does seem that maintenance on the bigger ones is more complicated and requires more sophisticated gear ,not to mention difficulties of operating in North Sea